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Dressed
in
old
clothes
and
a
billed
cap
,
Michael
had
been
transported
from
the
ship
docked
at
Palermo
to
the
interior
of
the
Sicilian
island
,
to
the
very
heart
of
a
province
controlled
by
the
Mafia
,
where
the
local
capo-mafioso
was
greatly
indebted
to
his
father
for
some
past
service
.
The
province
held
the
town
of
Corleone
,
whose
name
the
Don
had
taken
when
he
emigrated
to
America
so
long
ago
.
But
there
were
no
longer
any
of
the
Don
's
relatives
alive
.
The
women
had
died
of
old
age
.
All
the
men
had
been
killed
in
vendettas
or
had
also
emigrated
,
either
to
America
,
Brazil
or
to
some
other
province
on
the
Italian
mainland
.
He
was
to
learn
later
that
this
small
poverty-stricken
town
had
the
highest
murder
rate
of
any
place
in
the
world
.
Michael
was
installed
as
a
guest
in
the
home
of
a
bachelor
uncle
of
the
capo-mafioso
.
The
uncle
,
in
his
seventies
,
was
also
the
doctor
for
the
district
.
The
capo-mafioso
was
a
man
in
his
late
fifties
named
Don
Tommasino
and
he
operated
as
the
gabbellotto
for
a
huge
estate
belonging
to
one
of
Sicily
's
most
noble
families
.
The
gabbellotto
,
a
sort
of
overseer
to
the
estates
of
the
rich
,
also
guaranteed
that
the
poor
would
not
try
to
claim
land
not
being
cultivated
,
would
not
try
to
encroach
in
any
way
on
the
estate
,
by
poaching
or
trying
to
farm
it
as
squatters
.
In
short
,
the
gabbellotto
was
a
mafioso
who
for
a
certain
sum
of
money
protected
the
real
estate
of
the
rich
from
all
claims
made
on
it
by
the
poor
,
legal
or
illegal
.
When
any
poor
peasant
tried
to
implement
the
law
which
permitted
him
to
buy
uncultivated
land
,
the
gabbellotto
frightened
him
off
with
threats
of
bodily
harm
or
death
.
It
was
that
simple
.
Don
Tommasino
also
controlled
the
water
rights
in
the
area
and
vetoed
the
local
building
of
any
new
dams
by
the
Roman
government
.
Such
dams
would
ruin
the
lucrative
business
of
selling
water
from
the
artesian
wells
he
controlled
,
make
water
too
cheap
,
ruin
the
whole
important
water
economy
so
laboriously
built
up
over
hundreds
of
years
.
However
,
Don
Tommasino
was
an
old-fashioned
Mafia
chief
and
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
dope
traffic
or
prostitution
.
In
this
Don
Tommasino
was
at
odds
with
the
new
breed
of
Mafia
leaders
springing
up
in
big
cities
like
Palermo
,
new
men
who
,
influenced
by
American
gangsters
deported
to
Italy
,
had
no
such
scruples
.
The
Mafia
chief
was
an
extremely
portly
man
,
a
"
man
with
a
belly
,
"
literally
as
well
as
is
the
figurative
sense
that
meant
a
man
able
to
inspire
fear
in
his
fellow
men
.
Under
his
protection
,
Michael
had
nothing
to
fear
,
yet
it
was
considered
necessary
to
keep
the
fugitive
's
identity
a
secret
.
And
so
Michael
was
restricted
to
the
walled
estate
of
Dr.
Taza
,
the
Don
's
uncle
.
Dr.
Taza
was
tall
for
a
Sicilian
,
almost
six
feet
,
and
had
ruddy
cheeks
and
snow-white
hair
.
Though
in
his
seventies
,
he
went
every
week
to
Palermo
to
pay
his
respects
to
the
younger
prostitutes
of
that
city
,
the
younger
the
better
.
Dr.
Taza
's
other
vice
was
reading
.
He
read
everything
and
talked
about
what
he
read
to
his
fellow
townsmen
,
patients
who
were
illiterate
peasants
,
the
estate
shepherds
,
and
this
gave
him
a
local
reputation
for
foolishness
.
What
did
books
have
to
do
with
them
?
In
the
evenings
Dr.
Taza
,
Don
Tommasino
and
Michael
sat
in
the
huge
garden
populated
with
these
marble
statues
that
on
this
island
seemed
to
grow
out
of
the
garden
as
magically
as
the
black
heady
grapes
.
Dr.
Taza
loved
to
tell
stories
about
the
Mafia
and
its
exploits
over
the
centuries
and
in
Michael
Corleone
he
had
a
fascinated
listener
.
There
were
times
when
even
Don
Tommasino
would
be
carried
away
by
the
balmy
air
,
the
fruity
,
intoxicating
wine
,
the
elegant
and
quiet
comfort
of
the
garden
,
and
tell
a
story
from
his
own
practical
experience
.
The
doctor
was
the
legend
,
the
Don
the
reality
.
In
this
antique
garden
,
Michael
Corleone
learned
about
the
roots
from
which
his
father
grew
.
That
the
word
"
Mafia
"
had
originally
meant
place
of
refuge
.
Then
it
became
the
name
for
the
secret
organization
that
sprang
up
to
fight
against
the
rulers
who
had
crushed
the
country
and
its
people
for
centuries
.
Sicily
was
a
land
that
had
been
more
cruelly
raped
than
any
other
in
history
.
The
Inquisition
had
tortured
rich
and
poor
alike
.
The
landowning
barons
and
the
princes
of
the
Catholic
Church
exercised
absolute
power
over
the
shepherds
and
farmers
.
The
police
were
the
instruments
of
their
power
and
so
identified
with
them
that
to
be
called
a
policeman
is
the
foulest
insult
one
Sicilian
can
hurl
at
another
.
