Chapter 44 Chapter Thirty-Nine

morning class New administrators come in, but librarians are still vacant Is it already time for morning classes?Is it not here yet, or has it already passed?Since then, I have lost my sense of time.Maybe hours had passed, maybe not that long.Malachi's body was carried to the coffin in the chapel, and the brothers formed a semicircle around it.The superintendent ordered the burial as soon as possible.I heard him calling Benno and Nicholas of Morimondo.In just one day, he said, the monastery lost its caretaker and then its librarian. "You," he said to Nicolas, "you will take over Remigio's duties. In the monastery, you know the work of many people. Find someone to take your place in charge of the foundry, and go quickly. Distribute the necessities of the kitchen and dining room, and you don't have to attend the church service. Go." Then he said to Benno, "It was only yesterday evening, you were appointed as Malachi's assistant. Go open the office, and don't let anyone Go to the library."

Benno said timidly that he hadn't been taught the secrets of the place. The dean glared at him sternly: "No one said you would know the secrets there. You go to supervise the progress of the construction site, and pray for our dead brothers... and for the brothers who have not yet died. Every monk can only watch The books they have at hand. If they want to borrow another book, go to the catalog first. Nothing else. You don't have to go to evening prayers, because then you will be responsible for locking all the doors." "Then how do I get out?" Benno asked. "Good question. I'll come and lock the door below after dinner. You go."

He avoided William, who wanted to talk to him, and went out with them.A small group remained in the chapel, Alinardo, Pacificus, Emaro, and Peter of Santabino.Emaro was taunting again. "We have to thank God," he said, "if that German is dead, I'm afraid we'll have a new librarian who's even barbaric." "Who do you think will be appointed to take his place?" William asked. Peter smiled mysteriously: "After everything that happened in the past few days, the problem is no longer the librarian, but the dean..." "Shh!" Ficifeka signaled him not to speak.

Alinardo mused: "They will be injustice again... Just as I was then, they must be stopped." "Who is it?" William asked. Ficifeka secretly grabbed his shoulders and pulled him to the door. "Alinardo...you know...we all adore him. To us he represents the good old traditions of the monastery...but sometimes he says things that don't make any sense. We're all the new librarians. Worry about that, he has to be a respectable, mature, sensible guy... that's it." "Must he know Greek?" asked William. "According to tradition, he also needs to know Arabic, which is useful for his position. But there are many of us who have these talents. I am one of them-please don't laugh-and Peter, Emaro... ..."

"Benno knows Greek too." "Benno is too young. I can't figure out why Malachi chose him as his assistant yesterday, but..." "Does Adelmo know Greek too?" "Doesn't he seem to understand? Yes, I'm sure he doesn't know Greek." "But Venantius is the translator of Greek. Berengar understands Greek, of course. Very well, thank you." We left and went to the kitchen to get something to eat. "Why do you want to find out who knows Greek?" I asked. "Because everyone who dies with black fingers knows Greek. So it follows that the next person to die must be one of the people who knows Greek, including me. You're safe."

"What do you think of Malachi's last words?" "You heard that too, scorpion. After the fifth trumpet sounded, among other omens, there appeared, among other omens, noxious locusts, and they had a sting like a scorpion. Malachi was informing us that one of us had forewarned him .” "The sixth trumpet," I said, "proclaims a horse with a head like a lion, and from its mouth will breathe smoke, fire, and brimstone, and its rider has armor like fire, and amethyst, and brimstone on his breast." "Too many. But the next crime may be near the stables. We'll keep an eye on that. We must also prepare for the Seventh Trumpet. There are two more victims, who is the likeliest?" If the target is the secret of the 'End of Africa', it is the person who knows the secret. As far as I know, there is only the dean alone. Unless there is another conspiracy. You heard what they said just now, planning to abolish the hospital long, but Alinardo says 'they'..."

"We must warn the dean," I said. "Warning of what? Saying they're going to kill him? I don't have strong evidence. I'm assuming that the murderer had the same thoughts as I did. But what if he had other ideas? Especially, if there was more than one murderer? " "I don't understand you." "I don't know for sure. But as I told you, we have to imagine all the states and chaos."