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 cast a ballot. Brother Agnello took a short sword from the soldier who stood beside him on the scaffold, and cried out:

"O God! accept my life unworthy for the lives of these!" He drove the sword through his heart and thus he died. Then from all that great congregation of people went up a cry to heaven, and all sank upon their knees, while Mazzaleone arose and said to me:

"The ballots have been cast."