Part
33.
The Padrone and Dada were not mistaken. The man seen from
the shop window was indeed Ugo. That very day, Ugo unexpectedly appeared before
the man with the dangerous eyes. The car was about to pull away when Ugo jumped
in.
The dangerous man broke out in a cold sweat; he had
thought Ugo was dead for a long time and had already been working on a new plan
for a long time, but now his appearance and eyes filled with threats struck him
with terror.
***
One evening, the man with the dangerous eyes let the
robbers who had broken into his house escape; in return, he received such
necessary information that his heart almost burst with joy.
He had already called the police when the robbers managed
to break into the office and even tie him up. A second more and they would have
taken his life, but as luck would have it, he noticed that the robbers were
gypsies, so he immediately used the Padrone's name to save himself. The robbers
first looked at him with suspicion, then began to mock him. The man with the
dangerous eyes, as more solid proof of his friendship with the Padrone, even
mentioned several houses that had been raided thanks to him. The man was sure
that they would spare him out of respect for the Padrone, but the gypsies did
not even find it funny. On the contrary, they began beating him even more
furiously. In exchange for his life, they demanded to know the Padrone's
whereabouts.
The man with the dangerous eyes told them, "He lives
with his daughter," and when he himself learned that it was not his
daughter, but the girl found just those days, he became anxious himself. By
this time, the house was already surrounded by the police. The robbers had
nowhere left to run, and now they were the ones who had to beg for their
freedom.
The man with the dangerous eyes took advantage of this
and made a deal with the gypsies. He apologized to the police for the false
alarm:
- Forgive me, I bothered you for nothing. I thought they
were robbers, but it was just a neighbor's cat; in chasing it, I rolled down
the stairs!
He was applying a cold cloth to his broken nose, although
he could no longer feel the pain; he was in such euphoria, looking on with such
happy and joyful eyes, that the police immediately retreated, truly convinced
that there was nothing dangerous. The man with the dangerous eyes could barely
catch his breath from happiness; Dada's face kept spinning in his head.
So that's why that girl was so attractive to him. Why
there was some familiar, mysterious ray in her eyes. The girl herself even
looked at him in a certain way and did not hide the fact that she was afraid of
this man, although the man treated her warmly and never visited them without
sweets, yet the girl always avoided him and was afraid of him, which always
surprised him—and now, it turns out, he knew why.
"He knows everything! Everything!"
That night, he remembered many things. How he stood in
front of his brother's house and mumbled,
"Just wait, I will slaughter you all. I will kill
all your descendants right on top of you!"
Then he froze in surprise when he noticed a little girl
standing behind his back, listening to everything.
The man reached out toward the girl, but the frightened
child ran away and dashed into the very house he was threatening. That is why
he categorically demanded that no one be left alive in that house.
A living witness, even a child, was always dangerous.
"So that's who it was."
The Padrone had deceived him, betrayed him. He had only
half-fulfilled the order.
"He got rich thanks to me and is showing off! The
scoundrel!
And who knows when he will use Dada against me again!
Who knows how much they whisper and what kind of trap
they are setting for me together! Who knows when they will grab me by the
throat!"
First of all, he had to get rid of Dada somehow, and
later, her Padrone, because he wanted to make him suffer greatly. He wanted to
show him the consequences of "dishonestly" carrying out an order and
betraying or deceiving the client.
At first, he wanted to use the gypsies who had become
"friends" with him, but for a more cunning plan, he needed a much
more experienced man.
As for the gypsies turned enemies, he would set them upon
him at any time, most likely at the end, to complete his revenge.
***
"What kind of magic does that cursed girl
have?!"
The man with the dangerous eyes was furious.
The Padrone had deceived him bitterly back in the day,
and later, the hired assassin had not worked out either.
"What the hell happened? Perhaps that cunning
bandit Padrone figured it out and offered Ugo twice as much?"
He had sent back a categorical refusal, for which he
punished him and took his life at the hands of those same gypsies. But fate
failed him here too, and Ugo appeared from the afterlife.
He appeared, and as if nothing had happened, he demanded
to carry out the task again. He cited his own personal revenge as the reason.
"Perhaps he doesn't even know that I gave the
order to kill him?
Or maybe he came to kill me?
Could it be that the reward was too small for him?
He should have told me, and I would have added
more."
The man with the dangerous eyes thought, breaking into a
cold sweat from fear. He chose to negotiate with Ugo again, and instead of
rage, he appeased him:
"You don't seem like such a stupid man. It is
true you did not fulfill the task, but perhaps you really have something
personal? And if you are indeed driven by personal interests, then why not! It
is your task to start, and you finish it!"
The man with the dangerous eyes pretended. He acted as if
the story of Ugo being wounded had nothing to do with him and that he knew
nothing about it. Although he did not trust Ugo, he agreed to his proposal, but
only on the condition that he would no longer act alone and would have the
gypsies by his side in the matter.
Ugo was not very pleased with this; he knew perfectly
well what a trickster he was, but he had no other choice. Otherwise, this man
would not let him in on the matter and would not reveal his new plan.
LEX. Monday, March 21, 2016.
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