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THE STORY THUS FAR: The Ameri
can troops arrived at Adano, a seaport
In Italy, with Major Victor Joppolo,
the Anigot officer In charge. Sergeant
Borth, an M.P., was In charge of securl*
ty. The Major set out Immediately to
win the friendship and confidence of the
citizens and vowed to replace the town
bell, which the Germans had taken. Ma
jor Joppolo talked with Father Pcnso
vecchlo, local priest. He promised the
priest to attend mass the following morn
ing. When time for mass arrived, the
Major was busy In his office and over
looked the appointment, until church bell
awoke him to the fact that he was late.
He arrived before mass was over, much
to the relief of the priest.
CHAPTER V
At this angry moment, Gnrgano,
Chief of the Carabinieri, came up
to the line. This man was called
by the people The Man With Two
Hands, because of his continuous
and dramatic gesturing. He was,
he seemed to think, an actor, and
he could not say two words without
gesturing with both hands. He pos
sessed and exercised all the essen
tially Italian gestures: the two fore
fingers laid side by side, the circle
of thumb and forefinger, the hands
up in stop position, the salute to the
forehead with palm forward, the
fingertips of the two hands placed
tip to tip, the fingers linked, the
hands flat and downward as if pat
ting sand, the hands up heel to heel
and pulled toward the chest, the
attitude of prayer, the pointing fore
finger of accusation, the V as If for
victory or smoking cigarettes, the
forefinger on the chin, the rolling of
the hands. All, he used them all.
He did not make any arrests. He
merely went up to Carmelina, wife
of the lazy Fatta, and squeezed be
tween her and the door of Zapulla's
shop, and stood there. The people
could see that he was merely tak
ing his place at the head of the line
to wait for bread.
Carmelina, who was annoyed by
having had wood-coke thrown at her,
said truculently: "Mister Gargano,
you were Chief of the Carabinieri
under the old regime, and that en
titled you to stand at the head of
the line. I am not sure that you
are still Chief of the Carabinieri."
Gargano said: "I am the Chief,"
and he made a kind of Fascist sa
lute with both hands.
Carmelina said: "I doubt it.
Where is the proof?"
Gargano said: "See my uniform,"
and he ran his two forefingers from
his shoulders to his knees.
Carmelina said: "That is no proof.
The Americans do not care how we
dress. I could dress as a rabbit
and the Americans would not ar
rest me."
Gargano said: "Woman, stop your
shouting, or I will arrest you," and
he gripped his own left wrist with
his own right hand, signifying ar
rest.
Carmelina said: "Where is your
authority?"
Margherita the formidable wife of
Craxi said: "I believe that this man
is still Chief, since the Mister Ma
jor is keeping many Fascist scoun
drels in office until they prove them
selves bad. But I do not believe
that under American law he has the
right to go to the head of the line.
That is where I think you are right,
Carmelina."
Gargano stepped out of the line.
"Who questions my right?" he
roared, and he pounded one clenched
fist on the other clenched fist.
Carmelina, wife of the lazy Fatta,
standing right beside him, startled
him by whispering in his ear: "I
question it, Two-Hands."
Up to this time Zapulla the baker,
standing in the front of his shop,
had been torn between the two au
thorities, the old and the new. But
he was so annoyed with Carmelina
for having prodded him that he now
said: "Arrest her, Mister Chief, if
you have any courage."
Up to this time Gargano the Chief,
somewhat unsure of his ground, had
been trying to think of a way of re
tiring gracefully. But now his man
hood, as well as his authority, was
challenged. He moved toward Car
melina and said: "Woman, you are
under arrest."
Carmelina shouted: "Keep your
two active hands off me, Gargano."
Zapulla said: "Will you let this
woman shriek down your courage?"
Gargano clapped his hands on
Carmelina. She screamed. All up
and down the line women shouted:
"Out with the Fascist Chief of Cara
binieri. Out with Two-Hands. Out
with men who push themselves to
the head of a line ahead of women
who have been waiting three hours."
Gargano dragged Carmelina off
screaming and kicking, and the anti-
Gargano, anti-Fascist screams in the
line grew louder and louder. Even
Mercurio Salvatore, although as cri
er he was more or less an official
and should have remained neutral
or even taken the side of Gargano,
raised his huge voice in a careful
shout: "Down with injustice!"
When Gargano pulled Carmelina
into Major Joppolo's office, she was
still screaming. But the Major
jumped to his feet and said sharply:
"Silence, shrew," and she fell quiet
at once.
"What is this all about?" the Ma
jor asked.
Gargano said: "This woman ques
tioned my authority," and he point
ed at her with both forefingers.
Carmelina said: "There is more
to it than that."
Major Joppolo said: "Your au
thority to do what, Gargano?"
Carmelina shouted: "To push his
way to the head of the line in front
of Zapulla's bread shop."
Gargano said: "It is a privilege
the officials of the town have al
ways enjoyed."
Major Jnppolo said: "Is that so?"
Gargano said: "I charge this
1 woman with disturbing the peace
and questioning authority." Gargano
was shrewd in saying this, for he
saw that tilings were going against
him, and now he had put the matter
on an ollicial rather than a personal
basis. The Major would have to
decide the case officially.
The Major decided with a speed
which dazzled Gargano. He decid
ed that the woman was right but
that he could not say so, because if
he did the Chief would never regain
his authority, and the Major wanted
to keep him in office. Therefore he
said: "I sentence this woman to one
day in jail, suspended sentence. Let
her go, Gargano, and gather all
the officials of Adano for me at
once."
When Carmelina got outside, she
ran straight back to the bread shop.
The bread was not ready yet, and
the people gave her back her place
at the head of the line and shouted
to her: "What happened, Carmeli
na? What did they do to you?"
Carmelina told what had happened
and she said: "Did you ever hear of
such a light sentence in Adano? I
believe in my heart that the Mister
Major thought I was right. And what
"Get of! the road."
was the meaning of assembling the
officials? I believe that he was for
me."
In the Major's office, the officials
gradually assembled. Some were
held-over Fascists, some were new
appointments to take the place of
Fascists who had fled to the hills.
In whispers, and with ample ges
tures, Gargano described to them
the humiliation he had suffered, un
til Major Joppolo said: "Silence,
please."
The officials drew up in a circle
around the Major's desk. The Ma
jor stood up.
"I want you to be my friends,"
he said. "As my friends, I will
consider it my duty to tell you ev
erything I think, for we do not want
Adano to be a town of mysteries and
a place of suspicion.
"Adano has been a Fascist town.
That is natural, because the country
was Fascist, therefore the town was
also. But now that the Americans
have come, we are going to run the
town as a democracy.
"Perhaps you do not know what
a democracy is. I will tell you.
"Democracy is this: democracy
is that the men of the government
are no longer the masters of the
people. They are the servants of
the people. What makes a man mas
ter of another man? It is that he
pays him for his work. Who pays
the men in the government? The
people do, for they pay the taxes
out of which you are paid.
"Therefore you are now the serv
ants of the people of Adano. I too
am their servant. When I go to
buy bread, I shall take my place
at the end of the line, and I will wait
my turn. You too must behave
now as servants, not as masters.
You must behave as the servant of
the man without shoes just as much
as of the baron. If I find that any
of you are not giving the type of
service that I desire, I shall have
to remove you from office.
"Remember: you are servants
now. You are servants of the peo
ple of Adano. And watch: this thing
will make you happier than you
have ever been In your lives."
On the ninth morning, General
Marvin was driving along the road
toward Vicinamare and came to the
town of Adano. From time to time
along the road his driver had had to
slow down behind the little Italian
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two-wheeled carts of the country
side until traffic from the opposite
direction had gone by. Then he
passed the carts.
As they passed each cart, Gen
eral Marvin waved his riding crop
in such a way as to indicate that
the cart should move over. Since
there was nothing to move over into
except the ditch, which at intervals
along the road expanded into tank
traps, the carts never did move
over. The General grew angrier
and angrier.
Now it happened that just as he
canie to the Fiume Rosso, or Red
River, just before Adano, the Gen
eral's armored car was obliged to
slow down for a cart which mean
dered along right in the center of
the road.
The General stood up in his car
and shouted in his deep bass voice
(you've read about that voice in the
supplements; it's famous; one writ
er said it was like "a foghorn gone
articulate"): "Get of! the road!"
Unfortunately the driver of the
cart was one Errante Gaetano, who
earlier that morning had sold three
dozen eggs to American soldiers at
fourteen times the proper price, had
immediately sunk most of his prof
its in the wine of his friend Mat
taliano, and was now sleeping a deep
and happy sleep on the seat of his
cart. At this particular moment,
he was dreaming about eating the
nicer parts of a fish nine feet long.
Naturally he did not pay much at
tention to the voice of General Mar
vin, no matter how famous the
voice, because he could not hear it.
General Marvin roared at his driv
er: "Blow your horn. Blow him off
the road."
The driver, a nice boy from Mas
sachusetts, put the heel of his hand
on the horn button against his own
wish. He was in no hurry, and
knew that no matter how fast they
went, he would only have to wait
when they got wherever they were
going.
The mind of Errante did not react
to the horn, even though the horn
was something urgent called a klax
on. The cart kept right down the
middle of the road, inasmuch as
Errante's mule was a cautious crea
ture, just as wary of ditches on
the right as of ditches on the left.
This was a quality in his mule of
which Errante Gaetano often boast
ed to his friends. "Give me none of
your lop-sided mules," he would say,
"give me a mule with a sense of
the middle."
This sense was going to be the
undoing of his mule just now, be
cause General Marvin's face was
beginning to grow dark, and some
veins which have never been de
scribed in the supplements began to
wriggle and pound on his forehead.
"I've had enough of these carts,"
the General shouted. He was stand
ing up in the car, waving his rid
ing crop around. "Do they think
they're going to stop the invasion
with carts?"
Errante slept beautifully. He was
coming to the gray part of the fish
just under the ribs. It melted in
the mouth of his dream. There
was, however, a sound of thunder
in the distance which made him
think perhaps he had better cover
the fish and finish eating the nice
parts after the rain.
General Marvin roared: "Do these
Italians think they're going to stop
a bunch of tanks with a bunch of
wooden carts?"
Colonel Middleton, the General's
Chief of Staff, and Lieutenant Byrd,
his aide, could see the violence com
ing. Lieutenant Byrd looked back
along the road, but he couldn't see
any bunch of tanks. The only thing
he could see that was being held
up besides the General's armored
car was one seep, or amphibious
jeep, which did not seem to be in
a hurry.
Here it came. General Marvin
shouted: "Throw that cart oft the
road."
Errante stirred in his sleep. The
thunder of his dream was the most
beautiful and most continuous thun
der he had ever heard.
The six men surrounded the cart.
Colonel Middleton reached up to
waken Errante, but the General's
roars grew louder. "What are you
doing?" he bellowed. "I told you
to throw the thing off the road."
"We were just going to wake this
fellow up and get him off first,"
Colonel Middleton shouted back, but
the shout was weak because he knew
what the answer would be.
"Serve him right. Throw him too.
Just turn the whole thing over."
There was no protest from any of
the six men. The only thing which
was said was muttered by Lieuten
ant Byrd: "The old man hasn't been
getting enough sleep lately."
Colonel Middleton went to the head
of the mule and guided it to the
side'of the road. He directed the
other five men to take positions on
the left side of the cart and to lift
together when he gave the signal.
General Marvin roared: "Come
on, get it over with. What a bunch
of softies. Get it over with."
Colonel Middleton gaye the signal.
The five men lifted.
In his dream, Errante rose up
above the nine-foot fish and soared
off into space. The sensation was
extremely pleasant,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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SUNDAY I
CHOOL Lesson
BY HAROLD L. LUKDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 4
Lesson subjects and Scripture textf se
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JESUS TEACHES FORGIVENESS
LESSON TEXT—Matthew 18:21-35.
GOLDEN TEXT—If ye forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their
trespasses, neither will your Father forgiv*
your trespasses.—Matthew 6:14, 15.
Forgiveness is the very essence of
Christianity. In Christianity only do
we find an adequate and proper deal
ing with sin, leading to forgiveness.
In Christ alone do we find that for
giveness, cleansing and regenera
tion.
Since God has so willingly and
wonderfully provided for our for
giveness, it would seem that we
would need no urging to make us
forgiving in spirit toward one an
other.
Yet it is indeed "a melancholy
fact that there are few Christian
duties so little practiced as that of
forgiveness. It is sad to see how
much bitterness, unmercifulness,
spite, harshness and unkindness
there is among men" (J. C. Ryle).
I. The Extent of Forgiveness (vv.
21, 22).
"How long do I have to stand it?"
is the question of the human heart,
especially if untouched by the spirit
of Christ. The injustices of life, the
offenses of our fellow men against
us, all seem to pile up until the bur
den is about to crush us. What is
the answer to man's question?
The Jews had an answer. He said
three times is enough. Forgive once,
yes. Again, yes. But the third time,
no. Peter was bighearted enough
to more than double that allowance
of mercy. He was willing to forgive
not just two or three times, but sev
en times.
The spirit of Christ swept all of
that aside. He said that one should
forgive 70 times seven. In other
words, Christian forgiveness is to be
untiring, unlimited, to know no
weariness and have no boundaries.
If one really forgives, it is because
he has a forgiving spirit, and that
spirit is not exhausted by use, but
rather grows by exercise.
A word of caution is in order at
this point. Let no one suppose that
our Lord's instruction means that
offenses against the law of the land
or against the good order of society
are to be overlooked and condoned.
It relates rather to the cultiva
tion of a personal spirit of forgive
ness, the laying aside of revenge,
of malice, of retaliation which do
not become the Christian.
11. The Motive of Forgiveness (vv.
23-34).
Two motives are given. The first
is that since we ourselves are daily
and hourly in need of forgiveness at
the merciful hand of God, we should
in turn be merciful toward those who
sin against us. Compared with our
offenses against the law of God, we
know that the misdeeds of our
neighbors against us are usually
mere trifles. Remember what God
has done for you, when you are
tempted to be hard and ungracious
with your brother.
The second motive is the remem
brance that a day of judgment is to
come. There is always a time of
reckoning ahead, even as was the
case with these servants. Remem
ber not only what God has done for
you and is doing for you, but what
you must yet expect Him to do in
that day of judgment. It will make
you merciful and gracious in your
judgment of others.
Forgiveness has a fine quality
which commends itself to others.
Note the sorrow of the fellow serv
ants (v. 31). There is, then, a so
cial value in true forgiveness.
111. The Importance of Forgive
ness (v. 35).
A man dealing with his fellow
man is apt to think that it is merely
a matter between man and man. We
are not dealing with a straight line
between ourselves and our brother
(that was Peter's error), but with
a triangle at whose apex is God
Himself.
If I expect God to forgive me, I
must let my forgiveness flow out
to my brother. If I deal with him
as though God had nothing to do
with the matter, then I must not
try to count God's forgiveness into
the picture when I stand indebted
before Him.
God does not play favorites. He
Is no respecter of persons. He is
as interested in the other man as
He is in me. The Christian should
have the same spirit.
Here we need a word of explana
tion. Let no one suppose that our
redemption in Christ is contingent
upon what we do toward our breth
ren. "For by grace are ye saved
through faith: and that not of your
selves: it is the gift of God; not of
works, lest any man should boast"
(Eph. 2:8, 9).
Nor does the truth of our lesson
mean that we are somehow going
to bargain with God, trading a bit
of our forgiveness toward others for
His forgiveness of us. God is not
interested in such transactions.
But It do«.a mean that If you can
not or will not forgive, you may
well consider whether you are a
Christian at all, for it is Christlike
to forgive.
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