It was Clemenza. The fat man's voice came wheezing over the phone in
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- Their lives or until they accepted defeat and returned to their home towns.
- Jack Woltz was a tall, powerfully built man with a heavy paunch almost
- A personal friend of mine. If I let him know I'm being pressured, you guys will
- Hagen listened patiently. He had expected better from a man of Woltz's stature.
- Than he had appeared this morning.
- Going to race him, I'm going to put him to stud. I'm going to build the greatest
- Much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the
- Make me ridiculous. A man in my position, Mr. Hagen, can't afford to look
- For the first time, Woltz succeeded in astounding Hagen. He found it
- Naturally, anxious to show their gratitude.
- Were one hundred thousand black Chevy sedans in New York City.
- Tom Hagen went to his law office in the city on Thursday morning. He planned
- Threat against Don Corleone himself. Genius had its rewards.
- Be made to tell who had done the buying.
- Producer of the film telling him to report for work the following Monday.
- For any rap as long as he knows that they will be well taken care of for living
- Notoriously straitlaced in matters of sex.
- Legal protection is a must. I hear, Don Corleone, that you have as many judges in
- His leather armchair and motioned brusquely for a drink. Hagen poured him a
- Without a shred of trust Hagen got into the car.
- Michael Corleone had lied to Hagen. He was already in New York, and he had
- Worrying Sonny Corleone out in Long Beach.
- At a quarter to five that afternoon, Don Corleone had finished checking the
- Passed. They disappeared around the corner, leaving Freddie alone in the street
- In the half hour after the shooting of his father, Sonny Corleone received five
- It was Clemenza. The fat man's voice came wheezing over the phone in
- His mother looked at him steadily for a moment and then asked in Italian,
- Could be but one outcome. But again the nagging worry. Where was Luca Brasi?
- Counting the driver, there were four men in the car with Hagen. They put him
- And suddenly Hagen knew that he was no longer going to be set free. That
- When Michael Corleone arrived at his father's house in Long Beach he found
- Young to know about it and then things got pretty smooth while you were
- Want it to be Paulie either.
- Don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York. The Tattaglia Family
- It was nearly four o'clock in the morning as they all sat in the corner room
- Brasi's number and kept the receiver to his ear as it rang and rang.
- Peter Clemenza slept badly that night. In the morning he got up early and
- Impressive apprenticeship in the Family. During the war he had been wounded in
- If displeased with him. With a man so sensitive and suspicious as Gatto this
- Talk about that later. You understand the Family now is occupied with more
- Bronx to his home in Manhattan.
- On the night before the shooting of Don Corleone, his strongest and most
- Meeting was not as outlandish as it seemed.
- Humanity remaining to him. He was dead.
- The day after the shooting of Don Corleone was a busy time for the Family.
- Could be. I think though that Sollozzo gave him a little surprise. That fits in with
- Bulletproof vest in his hands. Wrapped In the vest was a huge dead fish.
- When Michael Corleone went into the city that night it was with a depressed
- Years passed, she would not have been able to bear the anguish of it.
- When Michael got out of the cab in front of the French Hospital he was
gruntlike gasps. "You hear about your father?" he asked.
14 "Yeah," Sonny said. "But he's not dead." There was a long pause over the
phone and then Clemenza's voice came packed with emotion, "Thank God, thank
God." Then anxiously, "You sure? I got word he was dead in the street."
15 "He's alive," Sonny said. He was listening intently to every intonation in
Clemenza's voice. The emotion had seemed genuine but it was part of the fat
Man's profession to be a good actor.
16 "You'll have to carry the ball, Sonny," Clemenza said. "What do you want me
to do?"
17 "Get over to my father's house," Sonny said. "Bring Paulie Gatto."
18 "That's all?" Clemenza asked. "Don't you want me to send some people to the
hospital and your place?"
19 "No, I just want you and Paulie Gatto," Sonny said. There was a long pause.
Clemenza was getting the message. To make it a little more natural, Sonny asked,
"Where the hell was Paulie anyway? What the hell was he doing?"
There was no longer any wheezing on the other end of the line. Clemenza's
voice was guarded. "Paulie was sick, he had a cold, so he stayed home. He's
been a little sick all winter."
21 Sonny was instantly alert. "How many times did he stay home the last couple
of months?"
22 "Maybe three or four times," Clemenza said. "I always asked Freddie if he
Wanted another guy but he said no. There's been no cause, the last ten years
things been smooth, you know."
23 "Yeah," Sonny said. "I'll see you at my father's house. Be sure you bring
Paulie. Pick him up on your way over. I don't care how sick he is. You got that?"
He slammed down the phone without waiting for an answer.
His wife was weeping silently. He stared at her for a moment, then said in a
harsh voice, "Any of our people call, tell them to get me in my father's house on
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His special phone. Anybody else call, you don't know nothing. If Tom's wife calls,
Tell her that Tom won't be home for a while, he's on business.
25 He pondered for a moment. "A couple of our people will come to stay here."
He saw her look of fright and said impatiently, "You don't have to be scared, I just
Want them here. Do whatever they tell you to do. If you wanta talk to me, get me
On Pop's special phone but don't call me unless it's really important. And don't
worry." He went out of the house.
Darkness had fallen and the December wind whipped through the mall. Sonny
Had no fear about stepping out into the night. All eight houses were owned by
Don Corleone. At the mouth of the mall the two houses on either side were rented
By family retainers with their own families and star boarders, single men who
Lived in the basement apartments. Of the remaining six houses that formed the
Rest of the half circle, one was inhabited by Tom Hagen and his family, his own,
And the smallest and least ostentatious by the Don himself. The other three
Houses were given rent-free to retired friends of the Don with the understanding
That they would be vacated whenever he requested. The harmless-looking mall
Was an impregnable fortress.
All eight houses were equipped with floodlights which bathed the grounds
Around them and made the mall impossible to lurk in. Sonny went across the
Street to his father's house and let himself inside with his own key. He yelled out,
"Ma, where are you?" and his mother came out of the kitchen. Behind her rose
The smell of frying peppers. Before she could say anything, Sonny took her by the
arm and made her sit down. "I just got a call," he said. "Now don't get worried.
Pop's in the hospital, he's hurt. Get dressed and get ready to get down there. I'll
have a car and a driver for you in a little while. OK?"
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