Singularly enough, not one of those on the other side was injured.
All had felt the certainty that a dynamite bomb had been exploded somewhere in the building with the intention of blowing up the hospital.

As they fell out of their ranks and scattered in twos and threes, hastening to the different parts of the establishment where each did her accustomed work, Sister Giovanna naturally found herself beside the Mother Superior.

As one of the supervising nurses, she was, of course, needed in the hospital itself with her superior.
'What do you think it was, Mother ?' she asked in a low tone.
'Nothing but dynamite could have done such damage----' She was still speaking, when a lay sister rushed out of the door they were about to enter, with a broom in her hand, which she had evidently forgotten to put down.
'The powder magazine at Monteverde!' she cried excitedly.

'I saw it from the window! It was like fireworks! It has blown up with everybody in it, I am sure!'.