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T H E STOBT TH CS FAM: The Amerl-
ra a troops arrives at Adaao, a seaport
la Ita ly , with M ajor Victor Joppolo,
the Amgot ofltcer la c h a rt« . Sergeaat
Borth. aa M .F .. was la c h a rt« of serart-
ty. The M ajor set out Im m ediately to
« la the trleadshlp aad roaBdeaea ol the
cltlaeas aad vowed to replace (he towa
hell, which the G trm a a s had tahea. M a
jor Joppolo talked with Father Pease-
vecchlo. local priest. He promised the
priest to attend mass the following morn-
lag. When tim e tor mass arrived, the
M ajo r was hasy la h i t o n e « aad over
looked the appoiatmeat. until church hell
awoke him to the (act that he was late.
He arrived before mass was over, much
to the relict of the priest.
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CHAPTER V
A t this an g ry m om ent, G argano,
C h ie f of the C a ra b in ie ri, cam e up
to the line. This m an was called
by the people T h e M an W ith Tw o
Hands, because of his continuous
and d ra m a tic gesturing.
H e was.
he seemed to think, an actor, and
he could not say tw o words w ithout
gesturing w ith both hands. H e pos
sessed and exercised a ll the essen
tia lly Ita lia n gesture«: the tw o fore
fingers laid side by side, the circ le
of thum b and forefinger, the hands
up in stop position, the salute to the
forehead w ith p alm fo rw a rd , the
fingertips of the two hands placed
tip to tip, fee fingers linked, the
hands flat and d ow n w ard as if p at
tin g sand, the hands up heel to heel
and pulled to w ard the chest, the
a ttitu d e of p ra y e r, the pointing fo re
finger of accusation, the V as if for
v ic to ry o r sm oking cig arettes , the
fo refin ger on the chin, the ro llin g of
the hands. A ll, he used th em all.
«A H. U. r t » T U * l *
M a jo r Joppolo said:
“ Y o ur au
th o rity to do w hat. G arg a n o ? "
C a rm e lin a shouted: “ To push his
w ay to the head of the line in front
of Z ap u lla's b read shop.”
G arg a n o said: “ It is a p rivile g e
the officials of the town have a l
w ays en jo y ed .”
M a jo r Joppolo said: " Is that so?”
G arg a n o said:
“ I charge this
w om an w ith disturbing the peace
and questioning a u th o rity ." G arg ano
was shrew d in saying this, for he
saw that things w ere going against
h im , and now he had put the m a tte r
on an official ra th e r than a perscfiial
basis.
T h e M a jo r would have to
decide the case officially-
T h e M a jo r decided w ith a speed
which dazzled G argano. H e d ecid
ed th at the w om an was rig h t but
that he could not say so, because if
he did the C h ief would n ever regain
his au th o rity , and the M a jo r w anted
to keep him in office. T h e refo re he
said: “ I sentence this w om an to one
day in ja il, suspended sentence. L e t
h er go, G arg ano , and g ath er a ll
the officials of Adano for m e at
once.”
When C a rm e lin a got outside, she
ra n s tra ig h t back to the bread shop.
The bread was not read y yet, and
the people gave her back her place
at the head of the lin e and shouted
to her: "W h a t happened. C a rm e li
na? W hat did they do to you?”
C a rm e lin a told w hat had happened
and she said: " D id you ev er h ear of
such a lig h t sentence in Adano? I
believe in m y h e a rt th a t the M is te r
M a jo r thought I was rig ht. And w hat
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C a rm e lin a , who was annoyed by
h avin g had wood-coke throw n a t her,
said tru cu len tly: " M is te r G arg ano ,
you w ere C h ie f of the C a ra b in ie ri
under the old re g im e , and th a t en
title d you to stand a t the head of
the line. I am not sure th a t you
a re still C h ief of the C a ra b in ie ri.”
it*
G arg a n o said: ‘ See m y u n ifo rm .”
and he ran his tw o forefingers from
his shoulders to his knees.
C a rm e lin a said: “T h a t is no proof.
T h e A m eric an s do not care how we
dress.
I could dress as a ra b b it
and the A m eric an s would not a r
rest m e .”
G arg a n o said: ‘ ‘W om an, stop your
shouting, or I w ill a rre s t yo u ," and
he gripped his own le ft w rist w ith
his own rig h t hand, signifying a r
rest.
C a rm e lin a said: ‘ W here is your
a u th o rity ? ”
M a rg h e rita the fo rm id a b le w ife of
C ra x i said: “ I believe th at this m an
is s till Chief, since the M is te r M a
jo r is keeping m any F ascist scoun
drels in office u ntil they prove th e m
selves bad. B ut I do not believe
th at under A m e ric a n la w he has the
rig h t to go to the head of the line.
T h a t is w here I think you a re rig ht,
C a rm e lin a .”
G arg a n o stepped out of the line.
"W ho questions m y rig h t? ”
he
ro ared , and he pounded one clenched
fist on the other clenched fist.
C a rm e lin a , w ife of the lazy F a tta ,
standing rig h t beside h im , startled
h im by w hispering in his e a r: " I
question it, T w o -H a n d s.”
U p to this tim e Z ap u lla the b aker,
standing in the fro n t of his shop,
had been torn between the two au
th o ritie s , the old and the new. But
he was so annoyed w ith C a rm e lin a
fo r h avin g prodded h im th a t he now
said: ‘ ‘A rre s t her. M is te r C hief, if
you h ave any co u rag e.”
U p to this tim e G arg a n o the C hief,
so m ew hat unsure of his ground, had
been try in g to think of a w ay of re
tirin g g ra c e fu lly . B u t now his m a n
hood, as w ell as his au th ority, was
challenged. H e m oved tow ard C a r
m e lin a and said: “ W om an, you are
u nd er a r re s t.”
C a rm e lin a shouted: ‘ ‘K eep your
tw o a c tiv e hands off m e, G a rg a n o .”
Z a p u lla said: “ W ill you let this
w om an shriek down yo u r courage?”
G arg a n o clapped his hands on
C a rm e lin a . She scream ed. A ll up
and down the lin e w om en shouted:
"O u t w ith the F ascist C h ief of C a ra
b in ie ri. O ut w ith Tw o-Hands. Out
w ith m en who push them selves to
the head of a line ahead of women
who h ave been w aitin g three hours.”
G a rg a n o dragged C a rm e lin a off
sc re am in g and kicking , and the an ti-
G arg a n o , an ti-F a sc is t scream s in the
lin e g rew louder and louder. Even
M e rc u rio Salvato re, although as c r i
e r he was m o re or less an official
and should have re m a in ed n eu tral
o r even taken the side of G argano,
ra is e d his huge voice in a careful
shout: “ Dow n w ith in ju s tic e !”
W hen G a rg a n o pulled C a rm e lin a
in to M a jo r Joppolo’ s office, she was
s till sc re am in g . B u t the M a jo r
ju m p e d to his feet and said sh arply:
“ Silence, sh re w ,” and she fe ll quiet
a t once.
“ W h a t is this a ll about?” the M a
j o r asked.
G a rg a n o said: “ T his w om an ques
tioned m y a u th o rity ,” and he p oin t
ed a t h e r w ith both forefingers.
C a rm e lin a said: “ T h e re is m o re
to It than th a t.”
As they passed each c a rt, Gen
e ra l M a rv in w aved his rid in g crop
in such a w ay as to in d icate th at
the c a rt should m ove over. Since
there was nothing to m ove o ver into
except the ditch, w hich a t In te rva ls
along the road expanded into tank
traps, the carts never did m ove
over.
T he G e n e ra l grew an g rie r
and an g rier.
T h e d riv e r, a nice boy fro m M a s
sachusetts. put the heel of his hand
on the horn button ag ain st his own
w ish.
H e w as in no h u rry , and
knew th at no m a tte r how fast they
w ent, he would only h ave to w ait
when they got w h e re v e r they w ere
going.
T his sense was going to be the
undoing of his m u le ju s t now, be
cause G e n e ra l M a rv in 's face was
beginning to grow d a rk , and some
veins w hich h ave n e v e r been de
scribed in the supplem ents began to
w rig g le and pound on his forehead.
“ I ’ ve had enough o f these c a rts ."
the G en eral shouted. H e was stand
ing up in the ca r, w av in g his r id
ing crop around. “ Do they think
th e y 're going to stop the invasion
w ith c a rts ? "
“ G et off the ro a d .”
was the m ean ing of assem bling the
officials? I b elieve th a t he was for
m e .”
In the M a jo r's office, the officials
g ra d u a lly assembled.
Some w ere
held-over Fascists, some w ere new
appointm ents to tak e the place of
Fascists who had fled to the h ills.
In w hispers, and w ith am p le ges
tures, G a rg a n o -d e s c rib e d to them
the h u m ilia tio n he had suffered, un
til M a jo r Joppolo said: “ Silence,
please.”
T h e officials d rew up in a circ le
around the M a jo r's desk. T h e M a
jo r stood up.
“ I w an t you to be m y frien d s,”
he said.
“ As m y friends. I w ill
consider it m y duty to te ll you ev
eryth in g I th in k, fo r w e do not w ant
Adano to be a town o f m ysteries and
a place o f suspicion.
“ Adano has been a F ascist town.
T h a t is n a tu ra l, because the country
was F ascist, th ere fo re the town was
also. B ut now th at the A m erican s
have com e, we a re going to run the
town as a dem ocracy.
“ Perhaps you do not know w hat
a dem o cracy is. I w ilf tell you.
“ D e m o cracy is this: dem o cracy
is th at the men of the governm ent
a re no longer the m asters of the
people. T h e y a re the servants of
the people. W hat m akes a m an m as
te r of another m an? I t is th at he
pays him for his w ork. Who pays
the m en in the governm ent? The
people do, fo r they pay the taxes
out of w hich you a re paid.
“ T h e re fo re you a re now the serv
ants of the people of Adano. I too
am th e ir servant.
W hen I go to
buy b read, I shall take m y place
at the end of the line, and I w ill w ait
m y tu rn .
You too m ust behave
now as servants, not as m asters.
You m ust behave as the servan t of
the m an w ithout shoes ju s t as m uch
as of the baron. I f I find that any
of you a rc not givin g the type of
service th a t I desire, I shall have
to re m o ve you fro m office.
" R e m e m b e r: you a re servants
now. You a re servants of the peo
ple of Adano. And w atch: this thing
w ill m a k e you h ap pier than you
have e v e r been in yo u r liv e s .”
On the ninth m orning, G en eral
M a rv in was d riv in g along the road
to w ard V ic in a m a re and cam e to the
town of Adano. F ro m tim e to tim e
along the road his d r iv e r had had to
alow down behind the little Ita lia n
E rr a n te slept b eau tifu lly. H e was
com ing to the g ra y p a rt of the fish
ju s t under the ribs.
I t m elted in
the m outh of bis d re a m .
T h e re
was, how ever, a sound of thunder
in the distance w hich m ade him
th in k perhaps he had b etter cover
the fish and finish eatin g the nice
parts a fte r the ra in .
in d u s try m ill not apply m itboul ito lo -
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nautical.
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tern 90a has a transfer pattern o( 2 bibs,
pockets, necessary pattern pieces tor suits
in sizes I, 2. 3 and 4.
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A soap shatter may be made by
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This homemade gadget makes it
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JO lY i Oee, Mom! I almost had to
fight to ke*p the Filled Buns you put
In my lunch box!
MOM: W ell, Joey, w e ll Just have to
tell their Moms how easy It Is to
make those buna and other wonder
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G e n e ra l M a rv in roared: “ Com e
on, get it o ver w ith . W hat a bunch
of softies. G e t it o ver w ith .”
Colonel M idd leto n gave the signal.
The five m en lifted.
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T h e six m en surrounded the cart.
Colonel M idd leto n reached up to
w aken E rra n te , but the G en eral's
roars g rew louder. "W h a t a re you
doing?” he bellowed.
“ I told you
to th ro w the thing off the ro a d .”
In his d re a m , E rra n te rose up
above the nine-foot fish and soared
off into space. T h e sensation was
e x tre m e ly pleasant.
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B K C O N D -H A N D P T O B B F O B S A L K . I a
r e lia n t lo c u tio n . 3 to w n « , no o p p o a ltlo n . W ill
tr a d e fo r ra n c h H r s I1SS, M e r r i l l . O r r g e a .
E rr a n te stirred in his sleep. The
thunder of his d re a m was the most
b eau tifu l and m ost continuous thun
d er he had ev er heard.
Colonel M idd leto n w ent to the head
of the m u le and guided it to the
side of the road.
H e d irected the
o ther five m en to tak e positions on
the le ft side of the c a rt and to lift
together when he gave the signal.
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L. F. WHEELER
B e« 111«. B . H .
G en eral M a rv in
th a t c a rt off the
“ S erve h im rig h t. T h ro w h im too.
Just tu rn the w hole thing o v e r."
T h e re was no protest fro m any of
the six m en. T h e only thing which
was said was m u ttered by L ie u te n
an t B y rd : “ T h e old m an hasn’t been
g etting enough sleep la te ly .”
c o in
W ANTED TO T R A D E
Send your order to:
any bunch of tanks. T h e only thing
he could see th at was being held
up besides the G e n e ra l’s arm o red
c a r was one seep, or am phibious
jeep, w hich did not seem to be in
a h u rry.
“ W e w ere just going to w ake this
fello w up and g et h im off firs t,”
Colonel M idd leto n shouted back, but
the shout was w eak because he knew
w hat the answ er would be.
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gift hoard BOc. I.uat w ill und tratam ent
ef Adolf ll l t l c r ; every line a laugh; dated
Limburg April l i t . 29c; 9. 41. No «tamp«.
O e y e a e w n s f e a th e r b r d f W e a r e p a v
in g u p to 40c lb fo r good u»ed gooae or
du ck I r . i t h n a
n r w fin e g o m e 41
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C h e c k « m a ile d th e s am a d k a f y / t r k r l l . S. O.
F A K M F H S RTOHK
Due to aji unusually large demand and
current w ar conditions, slightly more time
is required In filling ordeis for a few of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Dusting with talcum or corn
starch w ill help keep rubber
Colonel M idd leto n, the G en eral's gloves from sticking together on
C h ief of Staff, and L ieutenant B yrd , the inside. The powder is dusted
his aide, could see the violence com both on the inside and on the out
ing. L ie u te n a n t B y rd looked back side. This snould be done to any
along the road, but he couldn't see rubber m aterial that lies folded.
H e re it cam e.
shouted: “ T h ro w
ro a d .”
•
Illghrst wugrs. plenty u( overtime fia tu r»
duva. Sunduys and holiday« off. Laundry
furnished. warm clean shop, modern equip
ment. atradv w o rk
Squeeze a little lemon juice
through the meat grinder before
grinding dates, figs, prunes or rais
ins and they w ill leave the chop
G e n e ra l M a rv in ro ared : “ Do these per more readily.
Ita lia n s think th e y 're going to stop
a bunch of tanks w ith a bunch of
wooden ca rts ? ”
E N T
OOL — comfortable — guily em
T he G en eral stood up in his ca r
and shouted in his deep bass voice
(yo u 'v e read about th at voice in the
supplem ents; i t ’s fam ous; one w r it
e r said it was lik e “ a foghorn gone
a rtic u la te ” ) : "G e t off the ro a d !”
U n fo rtu n a te ly the d riv e r of the
c a rt was one E rra n te G aetan o, who
e a rlie r that m o rn ing had sold th ree
dozen eggs to A m e ric a n soldiers at
fourteen tim es the p ro per p rice, had
im m e d ia te ly sunk m ost of his p ro f
its in the w ine of his frien d M a t-
talian o , and was now sleeping a deep
and happy sleep on the seat of his
c a rt.
A t this p a rtic u la r m om ent,
he was d re a m in g about eatin g the
n ic er p arts of a fish nine feet long.
N a tu r a lly he did not pay m uch a t
tention to the voice o f G e n e ra l M a r
vin, no m a tte r how fam ous the
voice, because he could not h ear it.
D E P A R T M
broidered and mude of but 1
C
yard of m ateriali The applique
N ow it happened that ju s t as he
cam e to the F iu m e Rosso, or Red
R iv e r, just before Adano, .he G en
e ra l's arm o re d c a r was obliged to
slow down fo r a c a rt which m e a n
dered along rig h t in the center of
the road.
T h e m in d of E rr a n te did not re a c t
to the horn, even though the horn
was som ething u rg en t called a k la x
on. T h e c a rt kept rig h t down the
m id d le of the ro ad , inasm uch as
E rra n te 's m u le was a cautious crea
tu re, ju s t as w a ry o f ditches on
the rig h t as of ditches on the left.
T h is was a q u a lity in his m u le of
whiqh E rr a n te G ae ta n o often boast
ed to his friends. “ G iv e m e none of
yo u r lop-sided m u le s ," he would say,
“ give m e a m u le w ith a sense of
the m id d le .”
G arg a n o said: “ I am the C h ie f.”
and he m ade a kin d of F ascist sa
lu te w ith both hands.
doubt
tw o-w heeled carts of the country
side u n til tra ffic fro m the opposite
d irec tio n had gone by.
T hen he
passed the carts.
G e n e ra l M a r v in ro ared a t his d riv
e r: “ B lo w yo u r horn. Blow h im off
the ro a d .”
H e did not m a k e any arrests. H e
m e re ly w ent up to C a rm e lin a , w ife
of the lazy F a tta . and squeezed be
tw een h er and the door of Z a p u lla 's
shop, and stood there. T h e people
could see th at he was m e re ly ta k
ing his place a t the head o f the line
to w a it fo r bread.
C a rm e lin a
said:
“I
W here is the proof?”
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compound
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That Namin'?
Backache
M ay W arn o f Disordered
K idney A ction
M odern Ilf« with Its hurry and worry.
Irregular habit«, Improper eating and
drinking— Its rlak of exposure and Infoe-
tlo«—throw« heavy «train on the work
ef the kldneya. They are apt to become
aver-taitd and fail to Bitar eaoeee acid
and ether Impurities Irom the 'lie-giving
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
haadarh*. dlailneea, getting up nlghta,
lag pain«, swelling— fael constantly
tlrod, narvous, all worn out. Other signs
ef kidney or htaddsr disorder are some
times burning, scanty or too fraquaat
urination.
Try Doan'a Pill«. Doon’a help tha
k'doeys to past off harmful exeaaa body
• aata. They have had more than halt a
eenlury of publio approval. Are reoom-
manded by grateful uaora everywhere.
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