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The
Bocchicchios
had
been
rash
enough
to
resort
to
force
against
this
unlimited
power
.
Half
of
the
men
were
killed
in
armed
combat
,
the
other
half
deported
to
penal
island
colonies
.
There
were
only
a
handful
left
when
arrangements
were
made
for
them
to
emigrate
to
America
via
the
clandestine
underground
route
of
jumping
ship
through
Canada
.
There
were
almost
twenty
immigrants
and
they
settled
in
a
small
town
not
far
from
New
York
City
,
in
the
Hudson
Valley
,
where
by
starting
at
the
very
bottom
they
worked
their
way
up
to
owning
a
garbage
hauling
firm
and
their
own
trucks
.
They
became
prosperous
because
they
had
no
competition
.
They
had
no
competition
because
competitors
found
their
trucks
burned
and
sabotaged
.
One
persistent
fellow
who
undercut
prices
was
found
buried
in
the
garbage
he
had
picked
up
during
the
day
,
smothered
to
death
.
But
as
the
men
married
,
to
Sicilian
girls
,
needless
to
say
,
children
came
,
and
the
garbage
business
though
providing
a
living
,
was
not
really
enough
to
pay
for
the
finer
things
America
had
to
offer
.
And
so
,
as
a
diversification
,
the
Bocchicchio
Family
became
negotiators
and
hostages
in
the
peace
efforts
of
warring
Mafia
families
.
A
strain
of
stupidity
ran
through
the
Bocchicchio
clan
,
or
perhaps
they
were
just
primitive
.
In
any
case
they
recognized
their
limitations
and
knew
they
could
not
compete
with
other
Mafia
families
in
the
struggle
to
organize
and
control
more
sophisticated
business
structures
like
prostitution
,
gambling
,
dope
and
public
fraud
.
They
were
straight-from-the-shoulder
people
who
could
offer
a
gift
to
an
ordinary
patrolman
but
did
not
know
how
to
approach
a
political
bagman
.
They
had
only
two
assets
.
Their
honor
and
their
ferocity
.
A
Bocchicchio
never
lied
,
never
committed
an
act
of
treachery
.
Such
behavior
was
too
complicated
.
Also
,
a
Bocchicchio
never
forgot
an
injury
and
never
left
it
unavenged
no
matter
what
the
cost
.
And
so
by
accident
they
stumbled
into
what
would
prove
to
be
their
most
lucrative
profession
.
When
warring
families
wanted
to
make
peace
and
arrange
a
parley
,
the
Bocchicchio
clan
was
contacted
.
The
head
of
the
clan
would
handle
the
initial
negotiations
and
arrange
for
the
necessary
hostages
.
For
instance
,
when
Michael
had
gone
to
meet
Sollozzo
,
a
Bocchicchio
had
been
left
with
the
Corleone
Family
as
surety
for
Michael
's
safety
,
the
service
paid
for
by
Sollozzo
.
If
Michael
were
killed
by
Sollozzo
,
then
the
Bocchicchio
male
hostage
held
by
the
Corleone
Family
would
be
killed
by
the
Corleones
.
In
this
case
the
Bocchicchios
would
take
their
vengeance
on
Sollozzo
as
the
source
of
their
clansman
's
death
.
Since
the
Bocchicchios
were
so
primitive
,
they
never
let
anything
,
any
kind
of
punishment
,
stand
in
their
way
of
vengeance
.
They
would
give
up
their
own
lives
and
there
was
no
protection
against
them
if
they
were
betrayed
.
A
Bocchicchio
hostage
was
gilt-edged
insurance
.
And
so
now
when
Don
Corleone
employed
the
Bocchicchios
as
negotiators
and
arranged
for
them
to
supply
hostages
for
all
the
Families
to
come
to
the
peace
meeting
,
there
could
be
no
question
as
to
his
sincerity
.
There
could
be
no
question
of
treachery
.
The
meeting
would
be
safe
as
wedding
.
Hostages
given
,
the
meeting
took
place
in
the
director
's
conference
room
of
a
small
commercial
bank
whose
president
was
indebted
to
Don
Corleone
and
indeed
some
of
whose
stock
belonged
to
Don
Corleone
though
it
was
in
the
president
's
name
.
The
president
always
treasured
that
moment
when
he
had
offered
to
give
Don
Corleone
a
written
document
proving
his
ownership
of
the
shares
,
to
preclude
any
treachery
.
Don
Corleone
had
been
horrified
.
"
I
would
trust
you
with
my
whole
fortune
,
"
he
told
the
president
.
"
I
would
trust
you
with
my
life
and
the
welfare
of
my
children
.
It
is
inconceivable
to
me
that
you
would
ever
trick
me
or
otherwise
betray
me
.
My
whole
world
,
all
my
faith
in
my
judgment
of
human
character
would
collapse
.
Of
course
I
have
my
own
written
records
so
that
if
something
should
happen
to
me
my
heirs
would
know
that
you
hold
something
in
trust
for
them
.
But
I
know
that
even
if
I
were
not
here
in
this
world
to
guard
the
interests
of
my
children
,
you
would
be
faithful
to
their
needs
.
"
The
president
of
the
bank
,
though
not
Sicilian
,
was
a
man
of
tender
sensibilities
.
He
understood
the
Don
perfectly
.
Now
the
Godfather
's
request
was
the
president
's
command
and
so
on
a
Saturday
afternoon
,
the
executive
suite
of
the
bank
,
the
inference
room
with
its
deep
leather
chairs
,
its
absolute
privacy
,
was
made
available
to
the
Families
.
