Counting the driver, there were four men in the car with Hagen. They put him
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- 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
- Too tight for them. They sat leaning forward, their elbows on the counter.
- George opened the slit that opened back into the kitchen. “Sam,” he called.
In the back seat, in the middle of the two men who had come up behind him in the
Street. Sollozzo sat up front. The man on Hagen's right reached over across his
body and tilted Hagen's hat over his eyes so that he could not see. "Don't even
move your pinkie," he said.
It was a short ride, not more than twenty minutes and when they got out of the
Car Hagen could not recognize the neighborhood because darkness had fallen.
They led him into a basement apartment and made him sit on a straight-backed
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Kitchen chair. Sollozzo sat across the kitchen table from him. His dark face had a
Peculiarly vulterine look.
3 "I don't want you to be afraid," he said. "I know you're not in the muscle end of
the Family. I want you to help the Corleones and I want you to help me."
Hagen's hands were shaking as he put a cigarette in his mouth. One of the
Men brought a bottle of rye to the table and gave him a slug of it in a china coffee
Cup. Hagen drank the fiery liquid gratefully. It steadied his hands and took the
Weakness out of his legs.
5 "Your boss is dead," Sollozzo said. He paused, surprised at the tears that
sprang to Hagen's eyes. Then he went on. "We got him outside his office, in the
Street. As soon as I got the word, I picked you up. You have to make the peace
between me and Sonny."
Hagen didn't answer. He was surprised at his own grief. And the feeling of
desolation mixed with his fear of death. Sollozzo was speaking again. "Sonny
Was hot for my deal. Right? You know it's the smart thing to do too. Narcotics is
The coming thing. There's so much money in it that everybody can get rich just in
A couple of years. The Don was an old 'Moustache Pete,' his day was over but he
Didn't know it. Now he's dead, nothing can bring him back. I'm ready to make a
new deal, I want you to talk Sonny into taking it."
7 Hagen said, "You haven't got a chance. Sonny will come after you with
everything he's got."
8 Sollozzo said impatiently, "That's gonna be his first reaction. You have to talk
Some sense to him. The Tattaglia Family stands behind me with all their people.
The other New York families will go along with anything that will stop a full-scale
War between us. Our war has to hurt them and their businesses. If Sonny goes
Along with the deal, the other Families in the country will consider it none of their
affair, even the Don's oldest friends."
Hagen stared down at his hands, not answering. Sollozzo went on
persuasively. "The Don was slipping. In the old days I could never have gotten to
him. The other Families distrust him because he made you his Consigliori and
You're not even Italian, much less Sicilian. If it goes to all-out war the Corleone
Family will be smashed and everybody loses, me included. I need the Family
Political contacts more than I need the money even. So talk to Sonny, talk to the
caporegimes; you'll save a lot of bloodshed."
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10 Hagen held out his china cup for more whiskey. "I'll try," he said. "But Sonny
Is strong-headed. And even Sonny won't be able to call off Luca. You have to
worry about Luca. I'll have to worry about Luca if I go for your deal."
11 Sollozzo said quietly, "I'll take care of Luca. You take care of Sonny and the
Other two kids. Listen, you can tell them that Freddie would have gotten it today
With his old man but my people had strict orders not to gun him. I didn't want any
More hard feelings than necessary. You can tell them that, Freddie is alive
because of me."
Finally Hagen's mind was working. For the first time he really believed that
Sollozzo did not mean to kill him or hold him as a hostage. The sudden relief from
Fear that flooded his body made him flush with shame. Sollozzo watched him with
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