His mother looked at him steadily for a moment and then asked in Italian,
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- 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
- Before, in terrible pain, yet smiled benevolently on his youngest son, wanting to
"Have they shot him?"
Sonny nodded. His mother bowed her head for a moment. Then she went
Back into the kitchen. Sonny followed her. He watched her turn off the gas under
The panful of peppers and then go out and up to the bedroom. He took peppers
From the pan and bread from the basket on the table and made a sloppy sandwich
With hot olive oil dripping from his fingers. He went into the huge corner room
That was his father's office and took the special phone from a locked cabinet box.
The phone had been especially installed and was listed under a phony name and
A phony address. The first person he called was Luca Brasi. There was no answer.
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Then he called the safety-valve caporegime in Brooklyn, a man of unquestioned
Loyalty to the Don. This man's name was Tessio. Sonny told him what had
Happened and what he wanted. Tessio was to recruit fifty absolutely reliable men.
He was to send guards to the hospital, he was to send men out to Long Beach to
work here. Tessio asked, "Did they get Clemenza too?" Sonny said, "I don't want
to use Clemenza's people right now." Tessio understood immediately, there was
a pause, and then he said, "Excuse me, Sonny, I say this as your father would say
it. Don't move too fast. I can't believe Clemenza would betray us."
30 "Thanks," Sonny said. "I don't think so but I have to be careful. Right?"
31 "Right," Tessio said.
32 "Another thing," Sonny said. "My kid brother Mike goes to college in Hanover,
New Hampshire. Get some people we know in Boston to go up and get him and
Bring him down here to the house until this blow’s over. I'll call him up so he'll
expect them. Again I'm just playing the percentages, just to make sure."
33 "OK," Tessio said, "I'll be over your father's house as soon as I get things
rolling. OK? You know my boys, right?"
34 "Yeah," Sonny said. He hung up. He went over to a small wall safe and
Unlocked it. From it he took an indexed book bound in blue leather. He opened it
to the T's until he found the entry he was looking for. It read, "Ray Farrell $5,000
Christmas Eve." This was followed by a telephone number. Sonny dialed the
number and said, "Farrell?" The man on the other end answered, "Yes." Sonny
said, "This is Santino Corleone. I want you to do me a favor and I want you to do
It right away. I want you to check two phone numbers and give me all the calls
they got and all the calls they made for the last three months." He gave Farrell the
number of Paulie Gatto's home and Clemenza's home. Then he said, "This is
Important. Get it to me before midnight and you'll have an extra very Merry
Christmas."
Before he settled back to think things out he gave Luca Brasi's number one
More call. Again there was no answer. This worried him but he put it out of his
Mind. Luca would come to the house as soon as he heard the news. Sonny
Leaned back in the swivel chair. In an hour the house would be swarming with
Family people and he would have to tell them all what to do, and now that he
Finally had time to think he realized how serious the situation was. It was the first
Challenge to the Corleone Family and their power in ten years. There was no
Doubt that Sollozzo was behind it, but he would never have dared attempt such a
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Stroke unless he had support from at least one of the five great New York families.
And that support must have come from the Tattaglias. Which meant a full-scale
War or an immediate settlement on Sollozzo's terms. Sonny smiled grimly. The
Wily Turk had planned well but he had been unlucky. The old man was alive and
So it was war. With Luca Brasi and the resources of the Corleone Family there
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