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The Mafia is said to have worked all the more effectively for being thus Iecsely organized or voluntarily united for specific operations. The Mafia | presented in effect a2 “many-linked chain of human connection” and of secrecy, 1 the viclation of which was punishable by death. It was this contaminating _ a connection that gave it an Invi sible strength. It penetrated into every sphere of | social life in Sietly, “from the peasant working In the flelds to the government offtcic] in his bureau, from the criminal {a the dock to the magistrate on the ST ae aH 45 bench." (45) ae . | | f - ' -31- oo \ I 4 mG Beet