The woman sat down, and told him to be seated as well. Then she took both of his hands in hers, and began quietly to pray.
It sounded like a Gypsy prayer. The boy had already had experience on the road with Gypsies;
they also traveled, but they had no flocks of sheep. People said that Gypsies spent their lives tricking others.
It was also said that they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children
and, taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves.
As a child, the boy had always been frightened to death that he would be captured by Gypsies,
and this childhood fear returned when the old woman took his hands in hers.
But she has the Sacred Heart of Jesus there, he thought, trying to reassure himself.
He didn’t want his hand to begin trembling, showing the old woman that he was fearful.
He recited an Our Father silently. “Very interesting,” said the woman, never taking her eyes from the boy’s hands,
and then she fell silent. The boy was becoming nervous. His hands began to tremble, and the woman sensed it.
He quickly pulled his hands away. “I didn’t come here to have you read my palm,” he said, already regretting having come.
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