Before the Bar
Notice:
This is a Copyrighted Fictional Story; any resemblance, to any person, alive or deceased, whether implied or imagined, is both accidental and unintended. The story is about an ongoing incestual relationship between a brother, his sister and their cousins occurring in New Jersey in the 1940's. This story will eventually have 6 chapters. If you are looking for a masturbatory experience, this is not it. If adult fiction of this nature disturbs you, you are strongly encouraged to leave these pages now.
Ch ~ 1: Tragedy Creates Strange Bedfellows
Who We Are~
My name is Silvio Mercanti, Esq., J.D. (MB: DE, NJ, NY, and PA), I'd been twenty-six since March and it was a 'good to be alive' spring day, at 2:30 Post Meridian, on Monday, the 6
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of May 1946 when my war buddies Edward J. Cantu, Esq. (MB: NJ, NY, and PA), and Antonia Silvero de Esperanza, Esq., (Translator, Legal, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German (MB: NJ, NY, and PA)) filed our Legally Licensed Corporation papers in Mount Holly, the County of Burlington, in the State of New Jersey.
We were two Majors in the USAAF's 15
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Air Force's Legal Office in the Foggia Air Force Offices on the Adriatic Coast of Italy, 300 miles south of Venice. Antonia was a Captain in the USWAAF/WASP, an aid to M.G. Jacqueline Cochran. When we left Italy in September of 1945, where we'd been acquaintances, we were thrown together and in spite of our Military Occupational Skills, put in charge of a Troop Transport full of 'Operation Homeward Bound' soldiers, sailors, WAAF's, WAC's, and WASP's bound for Philadelphia. The kindest descriptions would have called it 'Unruly' and being lawyers helped, because we could tell the various miscreants, of both genders, exactly how high their respective Services Branches would hang them if they were charged with their crimes, and that served as an affective inhibitor to noxious behavior. The Merchant Mariners only had to lock one miscreant in the brig.
Arriving in the Port of Philadelphia they put into the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines docks in Camden, New Jersey. After an all too brief 'Kiss and Cry' on the Docks with relatives and friends we were loaded onto a train for the hour long ride to the huge USA/USAAF Camp Dix. Over the following three weeks we were all poked, prodded, passed and demobilized with our final 'stabilization pay,' and given train tickets home.
Over the eight weeks in transit we three 'commander' became the best, and fastest of friends, and plans were made that led to our filing that May Day.
Just two months later on Thursday, the 4
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of July 1946 we held a small barbeque and party at the new Fort Dix to celebrate the opening of our new Mount Holly Offices on the previous Monday, and for the Fireworks.
My mother, attended with her new husband, Don Vito Scarfo the Consigliore to Don Nicodemo Scarfo and my sister Claire who had just turned twenty-one, was there too, she was down from Brown College in Providence Rhode Island.
As an attorney I knew well of Vito's ties to the Mob, of his toughness, and of the dangers attendant with those associations, but I disregarded them because Vito was a genuinely nice guy and he made Mom happy.
A Shooting in Little Italy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania~
The phone was dancing all over the desk when I came in from a late run, anyone who knows autumn in Southwest Jersey, knows why I was out running when the clock was wending toward midnight. Tomorrow, Monday was Columbus Day, a court holiday in Burlington County and I had planned to read a bit, having just acquired Warren's "All the King's Men." I answered the phone, eyeing my watch, it was just 11:21 PM.
Because I am an attorney, becoming known for some criminal and pro-bono work I keep good contacts with law enforcement people, and it's good that I do, I get all sorts of information from them.
It was James O'Conner, one of J. Edgar's minions from their Philadelphia Office,
"You need to get down to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Philly." before I could ask why he continued, "A rival gang, the NY Genovese Mob blew up Nina's Trattoria on 9
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Street. Vito and Claire Scarfo were among the injured, and I can't tell you any more, cause Hoover would have me counting KKK peach pits in Georgia if he found out. Just get here, their hurt bad."
I couldn't call Edward, he was in DC on a case, so I called Antonia, asking her,
"Vito and Claire have been shot, can you meet the Broadway at Philly for me? I'm going to have Claire come down cause the FBI said it's serious."
"Yes," she answered, "They're at the Naval Hospital?"
"Unh huh." I answered, "I've got to make reservations for her, and then get down there."
"I'll make the reservations and call her, you just go to the hospital. I'll handle the calendar till you're back."
"Thank you." I started to say. Then Antonia interrupted,
"That what friendship is all about, now get you're ass in gear!" She said, hanging up.
U.S. Naval Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania~