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Show t THE LEHI SUN. LEIII, UTAH back to awing it Hi lion on of the the milk the tunc. ve k ngs: In) E STORY THUS FAR: The Ameri-roops Ameri-roops arrived In Adano, with Major lo, the A ingot officer In charge. ,-ant Borth was In charge o( securl-The securl-The Major wai determined to bold onfidence of the people and to re-l re-l their bell stolen by the Nazis. De-orders De-orders Issued by General Marvin, old hati of vases. splendid Ing carts from the city, Joppolo re- d the orders, to permit food and wa- x enter the city. The Major found Jiat the American generosity was re-sibie re-sibie for a troublesome black mar-American mar-American To slP thl condition he placed a ;es make ng on u Plce, Mavor Nasta was ie foresli !d tne Pr,soner ol war cage He tb."t he would get even and that Ami. vis would suffer. some pro. . America'i i foods. CHAPTER XVIII ie in the p.w.i ' pleasant for cage was not Mayor Nasta. e unusual- nf tha men had hlankets. and rouble tietnights were pretty coid. so they lers- t in close rows, keeping each r warm with their bodies. But J ne would sleep next to the Fas-s Fas-s laundrj Pig -jey Bai(j he had a pecu-;o pecu-;o approxi- smeI1 As a matter of fact, he have a peculiar smell for sev-hours sev-hours each morning; it came 1 i being a mistake, tept befoit iast Mayor Nasta found a man to insure -would talk with him. This was jrman who spoke Italian. - iyor Nasta told him that he r i . . - AJ i . -i. AJ 4V.oi Via buu mayur oi nuauu, ui i a conie;been treacherously arrested by tunnel toAmericans that he was trying . aU he could to help the Ger- s win and that, in short, he a pretty important person who t to be helped. The Italian-fytulk Italian-fytulk king German told his friends bout Mayor Nasta, and they de- 1 they ought to help him escape. r a couple of days Mayor Nas- "' 7 ""tfaioved over and lived with the nans. They made plans for the ?e. There was nothing elabo-; elabo-; about the plans. They just Sled to lift the Mayor up over wall. They asked him if he the courage to sit on barbed for a few minutes. He said Yo of cass " anything to escape. They clinical io- j him if he had the courage to !nt after only, down twelve feet on the other j treatment .. )BETONii "e sala yes" , , . ial scies. In the middle of a dark, cloud- ght, the Germans made a pyra- their bodies and let Mayor climb up it to the top of the 'A He sat on the barbed wire on 1 friz moll niiiat Q o not until rt IIU sure that the sentry outsiae J-liW-S-: ..... . . , Then he turned facing the let himself down as far as he "le; it hit the wall as he landed ie ground. But he was able yrvg w?-'t up and run off silently. Top Sergeant at the p.w. called up Sergeant Borth at y-miTij me next morning ana ( lim that Nasta had escaped. I frpant Rnrth hnrrnwH Cnrnnral i bchuitz and a jeep irom tne s and went hunting. By this Sergeant Borth had so many tary informers and informers-ormers informers-ormers that the job of tracing ir Nasta was not too hard. soon found out that Mayor had been sheltered for a few in a house on Via Faveml. '! "Sad then left town by the Via HJ. He had stopped in a a C ir's house near the Casa Zam- I to change into peasant dress. vas one of the easiest things to .. because the peasant turned aring Mayor Nasta's loud pow-lne pow-lne suit which was rlnstv from al nights on the ground. j,yor Nasta had then been seen ssJ-Veral points along the Vicina-road. Vicina-road. One farmer had given t lift in his cart. Mayor Nasta . evidently had enough of the and was trying now to get to OVCr amare, where friends would be to hide him. geant Borth picked him up miles short of Vicinamare, at . ten-thirty. ps had been passing Mayor ,t all morning, so that he was well U Particularly alarmed when Ser-tust Ser-tust coop' Borth's jeep drove up along-Ti along-Ti "riim, and even when it stopped, jona. ;?aved crudeiy and shoute(i: , have m;a day, good day," in what he b, one wo'' was a thick peasant ac- lOS getti;geant Borth mimicked the ac-;es ac-;es whose If "Good day, good day, farm- (Urs.Itfflf Qr Nastai who stm did not iare tos-nize Borth, shouted again: 5 making1 day." .JH:rafl(3ttb shouted: "Good day. You iael rfhe first farmer I have ever must aw with pince.nez giasses on- ! making n Mayor Nasta knew Borth. work. r asta's spirit, which had strained by the arrest and by lys in the cage and by the es-,tU es-,tU suddenly broke. He turned ' J00?,. fin out acrss the fields, squeal-specijtc squeal-specijtc P razily, just like a soldier who internatJoken under shellflre. are no eant Borth got out of the Jeep vent out onto the fields. He t hurry, because Mayor Nasta jur fneno raning fa circleSi jshg t0 Et theffl ftway from himself more than 5 whicb Ting else. By the time Ser- Borth caught him, he was ex- . . !d and limp, and his eyes were you thin wjth fear ind Seots Borth half walked, half car- DeclareIct'im to the jeep. Mayor Nasta ed and mouthed his fear. "If re going to shoot me, tell me Don't shoot me in the back. EITISIH ;,e yu are E0'ng to kill me. t to know, I want to know . ." John Hersetj Sergeant Borth slapped him sharply sharp-ly in the face, and for a few seconds sec-onds he was silent. But when he was seated in the jeep, and the jeep began to move, Mayor Nasta began again. "Don't shoot me. in the back. I will do anything any-thing to be shot from "the front, where I can see the gun. I will tell you everything I know. I can give you names. Don't do it from behind." . Borth said: "How can I shoot you from behind when I am in the front seat and you are in the back seat?" Since it was the noon hour, scores of people had drifted to the Doppo Lavoro clubs along the street near the Albergo del Pescatori to listen to the radio and wait for lunch. When they saw Borth's jeep, with a man tied up in the back seat, they clustered around, and called for their friends. And when they saw that Borth's cargo was Mayor Nasta, Nas-ta, and that after all these years the Mayor had a gag in his mouth, they cheered and laughed at the man. These noises increased Mayor Nasta's terrors, and he kept twisting twist-ing and trying to look behind him. Borth went into the restaurant and found Major Joppolo and brought him out. Major Joppolo held up his hand to silence the crowd. "I want to speak He let himself down as far as he could and let go. to Nasta," he said to Borth. "Can he hear me with that thing on his face?" ' ' ,"Yeah," Borth said; "you've got the rare pleasure of being able to speak to Nasta and he can't talk back." Major Joppolo said: "Nasta, you are a disgrace to your people. There is goodness in your people, but not in you, not a bit. The world has" had enough of your kind of selfishness." selfish-ness." It was one of Major Joppolo's greatest attributes in his job that he could speak pompous sentences with a sincerity and passion so real that his Italian listeners were always al-ways moved by what he said. Now all the listeners except Nasta were moved by his words to shout: "Kill him! Kill himl Kill him!" Here was one time when Major Joppolo's sincerity and passion bounced back on him, because the people's shouts frightened Mayor Nasta so badly that he fainted, and Major Joppolo was the first to see the ridiculousness of trying to spellbind spell-bind an unconscious man. There was nothing left to say except ex-cept one sentence to Borth: "We'fl have to send him to Africa." And to the music of Adano's delighted de-lighted cheers, Borth and his limp companion drove down the street There was no better index to the state of mind of Adano than the activities ac-tivities of the painter Lojacono. If one had made a graph of the spirits of the town and then put beside it a graph of the number of commissions Lojacono received, the two would have exactly corresponded. Whenever When-ever the town was optimistic, Lojacono Loja-cono worked. When the town was blue, Lojacono was idle. Lojacono could paint anything. He could paint a house or he could paint a saint. He was the one who painted paint-ed panels in the churches. He was the one who painted the fat and holy people on the fat Basile's two-wheeled two-wheeled cart. ' The white-haired Lojacono suffered suf-fered when he painted. First he suffered suf-fered the pangs of creation, then he suffered when the people of Adano criticized his work. His work was beautiful and everyone in the town loved it, but for some reason they always criticized it first Major Joppolo had not been in Adano very long before Lojacono was busy. His first efforts were a little crude, because the town had been depressed, and his right band ft 1 J W. Ni U. rtTUSS idle, for so very long. But soon he warmed to the town's happiness, he did things he had never been able to do In his life, which had not been short. The same morning that the crowd stood around Borth's jeep in front of the Albergo del Pescatori, another, anoth-er, smaller crowd stood on the Molo Ponente in the harbor and watched Lojacono work. He was painting new names and little figures on the bow surfaces of the fishing boats, and the crowd consisted of fishermen fisher-men and their families. ' Except for Lojacono's work, the boats were all ready to go. Their seams were calked, and they were tight as wine-bottles. The barnacles and the whiskers, were off, and the bottoms had been given a little lead paint The rigging was smart, for Major Joppolo had persuaded the Navy to give the fishermen some bright cable and some unsoaked hemp rope. The fishermen were impatient to have Lojacono finish. Lojacono stopped working and looked at the , fishermen standing there. He pointed at his work and said angrily: "Have you ever seen a porpoise less messy than that one?" Agnello said: "The porpoise is not bad, but he will die of loneliness unless you hurry and give him some company. Porpoises like company, you know that, Lojacono. Have you ever seen a porpoise play alone?" "He will have company," Lojacono Loja-cono said impatiently. "The Mister Major is going to be riding on his back. If you would be silent, I could get on with my work." Merendino said: "Work then, old man, do not be so slow." The old man went back to his work. Tomasino, sitting with his head in his hands on the afterdeck of his boat, which was moored next to Agnello' s, said gloomily: "I cannot can-not see the point of all this painting. It is frivolous. My boat has been named Tina since the girl was born. It will remain Tina. The leaves and the fruit which dangle from the name are good enough for me, even if they are not new." Agnello shouted to Tomasino: ; "What is the matter with you, sour one, this morning? Cheer up, we are going fishing again." "In the next century," said Tomasino Toma-sino glumly, "after all this painting is finished." Lojacono stuck his head up over the side of Agnello's boat and shouted: shout-ed: "Be quiet, Tomasino, you know that the only reason you are so impatient im-patient is that you like what I did twenty years ago and you have no desire for anything new." Tomasino said: "If I have to wait another day for the slow painter I will blot out the name Tina and the leaves and fruit with some lead paint I have, and I will go fishing alone in a nameless boat." Lojacono started painting the Mis-' ter Major, and the little crowd came in closer to see the details. He re-, solved a difficult point by making the Major's hat rather big and by tilting it so that it covered most of his face. At least the hat was definitely American. "His leg is too short. The leg of the Mister Major is longer," Agnello Agnel-lo said. "I was about to say that the leg is , too long," Merendino said. ; "In other words," Lojacono said, "the leg is precisely right." "He does not have a hunch-back like that," said Sconzo, another of Agnello's helpers. "He is bending forward because of the speed of the porpoise,." Lojacono Loja-cono said. "The color of his skin is too white," said the wife of Agnello. "His skin is more Italian-colored." "You are dull," Lojacono said, "you do not see the symbolism of the white skin." This is what the criticism was al ways like. And this shows the pur pose of the criticism: it was not so much that the people did not like what Lojacono was doing, as they wanted to know exactly what was in his mind. In future, showing off his boat Agnello would be able to say: You can see how fast the por poise is going by the way the Mister Major Is leaning forward. And do you see how white his skin is? That is because of the symbolism in the Mister Major's skin." In due course Lojacono finished his work, and everyone pronounced it quite good, although, one said, it would be hard for a porpoise to jump that high out of the water with a man on his back, and, another said, should not the name of the boat, which was now Americano, be a lit tle lower? Lojacono attributed the former highness to good spirits and the latter highness to the way the name American had been raised in everyone's esteem by the Mister Ma jor; and everyone went away satis fied. The next morning the boats went out Major Joppolo went down to the harbor to see them off, and the people in town were all excited at the prospect of eating fish. The catch that day was excellent When the boats were all in and the fish all weighed, it was estimated by Agnello that a total of three thousand two hundred pounds had been taken in. Better than that, the fish were mostly of good grades. (TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: Blessed Arc the Meek Bell Syndlcate.-WNU Features. "I adore my Bill, but that doesn't whole." By KATHLEEN NORRIS TODAY'S letter comes from a bride of only a few months; Marjorie mar-ried mar-ried her flier when he came home, honorably discharged, after 22 months of hard service. serv-ice. They were engaged for a year, but in that year saw each other only twice, for a few days interval. Bill is handsome, clever, devoted and rich. Marjorie didn't know how rich until now, when they are going to his home city, Philadelphia, to live. "This is my trouble," she writes. "My people are poor, but we come of good stock. My mother for many years supported my grandmother grand-mother and myself by teaching. She is not strong now, lives with my grandmother, and there is almost no money, but for fineness and goodness good-ness there never were two more genuine gen-uine saints. "Bill and I are to have 'one of the family houses' to live in. We are to have Uncle Phil's house,' which he says is filled with old revolutionary revo-lutionary junk, or 'Grandpa's house.' which is handsomer but smaller. His mother writes me that 'old Emma' will come to us at once as cook, and bring two granddaughters to "make themselves useful' Aunts and cousins of Bill's write him that they want to know when 'dear Marjorie' Mar-jorie' would like to be entertained would I like a tea or a formal reception? re-ception? Too Much 'Class.' "All this appalls and annoys me. I hate that sort of thing. Bill takes It all serlqusly; he has, three brothers, broth-ers, one sister, and countless cousins cous-ins and other relatives. He hopes his grandmother will give us the Revere porringers, and wants me to be painted by 'the feller that has painted us alL' "I begin to feel that no wealth or position will make up for the Independence Inde-pendence I have enjoyed for years as a newspaper woman, and am sure already that I want my mother and grandmother to go East with me. I will be lost and strange in that tig family, obliged to grin and bear all sorts of things that are absolutely absolute-ly unnatural to me, and I'll need supportand sup-portand confidantes. I adore my Bill, but that doesn't mean that I want to swallow his family whole. This business of having a house picked out for me, and servants, too, is a little thick. Bill says we'll have plenty of room for Mother and Gran, but is afraid they won't like it Mother is dubious, but Gran says she'll do anything I want They both love our San Diego cottage, and their life here, but neither is young, and I simply can't bear to leave them. Bill won't promise to come back, and altogether I don't know what to do." My dear Marjorie, I say in answer, an-swer, you are trying to pour old wine into new bottles, and it won't succeed. suc-ceed. More than most young wives, your place is to follow Bill's lead now, and accept the situation in Philadelphia wholeheartedly. Go on there determined to be good-natured, good-natured, adaptable, friendly in every way. Don't have much to say, "Be good-natured, adaptable, friendly. -1 mean that I want to swallow hi family WEALTHY FAMILY PINS HER DOWN Most girls would envy Mar jorie's position. She is married mar-ried to a man she "adores." He is handsome, clever, rich. He loves Marjorie devotedly. After two years of service in the air corps, he is coming home for good. The trouble is, Bill has too much'. Marjorie, who is accus-tomed accus-tomed to a simple life, is not willing to adapt herself to the customs and traditions of a proud old Philadelphia family. fam-ily. Every detail of Mar jorie's affairs is taken care of before hand a house, furnishings, servants, all are provided. What Marjorie doesn't like is this paternalistic system she is just expected to fit into her place and like it. Nobody seems to think she might not care for the social mold in which BilTs family exists. listen and watch and make them like you by sweetness and amiability. amiabil-ity. Give this experiment a year, in which you criticize nobody, agree to all arrangements; take this new sort of life as If it were a book you are reading, with yourself as heroine. hero-ine. Lucky in Many Ways. Heroine you are, of course. The young western wife of a person whose wealth and family connections connec-tions make him important, beloved and lovely, rich and socially secure there is a position many girls would envy you. That you are smarter, quicker, more amusing, more independent than the men and women you are going to meet, I am taking for granted. Those fine old long-established families have wonderful characteristics, but they can be dull! Only, if you'll be patient enough to endure the sur face dullness for awhile, you'll find under it a wonderful dignity and in tegrity, characteristics that you'll be glad someday to hand on to your children. As for taking your mother and grandmother with you, that would be a fatal mistake. To move from the fresh sea air and riotous gar dens of San Diego, where the climate cli-mate is the most equable in the whole world, to eastern snows and summer storms, might seriously af fect the health of them both. They would both feel intrudersin fact, they would actually be intruders, and in attempting to reconcile their claims and those of the big family you would jeopardize your married happiness, perhaps irretrievably. Play your part with dignity and patience, always remembering that blessed are the meek, and you'll find yourself most enviably placed one oi these days, in the heart of the very finest of our American culture. 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