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About half a mile above Lecco, and nearly on the borders of the

other territory, called Castello, is Canterelli. This was a spot

where two roads cross. Near the point of junction there is a

small eminence, an artificial hill, surmounted by a cross. This

was a heap of bodies, dead of this epidemic. It is true,

tradition simply says, _the dead of the epidemic_; but it must

have been this one, as it was the last, and most severe within

the memory of man: and we know that tradition says very little of

itself, unless we render it some assistance.

On their return, no other inconvenience was felt, than the weight

of the money which Renzo had to sustain. However, he did not look

upon this as one of the greatest hardships he had had to

encounter. There was, however, one matter which perplexed him not

a little. How should he employ it? Should it be in agriculture?

Should it be in business? Or why choose at all? Were not both in

turn, like one's legs, better than either singly?