Sleepless Night Page #5

- No, we moved.

Do you remember when

that vagabond, Leone, ate a dog ?

A lot of other awful things happened

to animals around that time.

Just before the murders began.

Cats drowned, dogs burned...

- Sometimes we did things like that.

- Yes, but we were just naughty kids.

- You weren't a kid anymore.

You were almost eighteen. - Ok.

- But you were right behind me.

You too, Gloria. - No. - Take it easy.

lt's the Dwarf's curse.

We used to play dirty tricks on him.

We made fun of him.

One day he got really pissed off.

''You bastards ! l put a curse on you !''

''You're all going to be tormented

by me or by one of your own dead !''

There was a whole in the hedge

back then.

We used to get into the garden,

me and the other kids.

Sometimes Vincenzo

would read us his novels.

Then our parents found out

and put a stop to it.

Hey, it's still here !

Look !

- l just saw Vincenzo. - lmpossible !

- lf it wasn't it looked like him.

- Come on.

- l know it was him !

- Who are you ?

- Leone !

l don't remember you...

but him yes, he was the Chief Cop.

Do you remember me ?

- Do you remember me ?

- Vaguely. The smell, anyway.

They let me sleep in the garden shed.

Nobody lives here anyway.

- A few minutes ago l saw someone

at the window. - Who? - Vincenzo.

Oh, yes, he comes to see me sometimes

and we talk.

- Especially when l've had a glass

or two. - He was there. - Yes.

- He comes to see me... - Where's

his study ? - Where it always was.

l never go in there.

John McKenzie:
''The Dark Room'',

John McKenzie:
''Murder in Asylum'',

John McKenzie:

''The Hachet Murders''.

There's no dust.

Someone's been here.

- Drink ?

- No, thanks.

- You leaving ?

- Ciao, Leone.

Thanks for the visit.

lt's now midnight

and in my bed l toss and fight.

And this is how my war began

with the beasts across the land.

- Where did you learn that ?

- Mr. Vincenzo used to sing it.

- How does it go on? Do you know it?

- No.

l don't know anymore.

Murders like these

are premeditated.

And more than that, they're staged.

He likes to hurt...

he wants everyone to know it.

He likes to hurt human beings.

Women.

- How's the pasta ? - Great.

- There's more.

Now... it's all in those papers.

They did a ton of studies

with psychiatrists.

But l had already figured it out

on my own.

All you had to do was to study

his modus operandi.

lt's the same today

as it was then.

- lt could be an imitator,

a copy-cat ? - True.

But is there one murder or two ?

And if there's one, who the hell is it ?

- Someone who went to sleep

for 1 7 years. - That's impossible.

His is not an illness you can cure.

- Wine ?

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