XXXIV
Vincenzo Musumeci was sixty years old and had always worked. The old mill Buhler started up by the Baron at the dawn of the century, in his hands was still alive. It was a miracle of intelligence, hard work, and iron wire. The machines snorted, sometimes they stopped, but they always produced good durum wheat for the pasta factory. Certainly, however, they could not last for long.
Then, in April of '45, the war had ended, the Officine Reggiane had reopened and Vincenzo had asked for the shipping of the machinery he had ordered almost ten years before that had ended up in a walled warehouse in Reggio Emilia. The reply had arrived. He was reading it, worried.
Milan, July 25, 1945
Respectable Company
The late VINCENZO MUSUMECI SALVATORE,
GRANATA (Palermo)
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