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  “Are these really my people?” asked Don Raimondo.

  The Cardinal told him yes.

  “And I can do anything I like with them?”

  “Some day,” said the Cardinal. “Some day.” And did not know why he felt so sad, or whose presence it was he missed in the crowd below him.

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