ten minutes past ten
I looked above them to the tall campanile of the church which filled one side of the square . I receded a step and adjusted my gun on the ledge of the window to my satisfaction . I then looked down the street in which the prison was situated , and which debouched on the square , and awaited events . At ten minutes past ten I saw the soldiers at the door of the prison form up , and then I knew that the twenty prisoners of whom they formed the escort were starting ; but the moment they began to move I fired at the big bell in the campanile , which responded with a loud clang . All the people in the square looked up . As the prisoners entered the square , which they had begun to cross in its whole breadth , I fired again and again . The bell banged twice , and the people began to buzz about .