If displeased with him. With a man so sensitive and suspicious as Gatto this
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- 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.
- Door into the kitchen and untied Nick and the cook.
- Outside the arc-light shone through the bare branches of a tree. Nick walked up
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Would throw him off the track or at least leave him uncertain. Undue friendliness
Would make him wary. But of course the curtness must not be too angry. It had to
Be rather an absentminded sort of irritation. And why Lampone? Paulie would
Find that most alarming, especially since Lampone had to be in the rear seat.
Paulie wouldn't like being helpless at the wheel with Lampone behind his head.
Clemenza rubbed and polished the metal of his Cadillac furiously. It was going to
Be tricky. Very tricky. For a moment he debated whether to recruit another man
But decided against it. Here he followed basic reasoning. In years to come a
Situation might arise where it might be profitable for one of his partners to testify
Against him. If there were just one accomplice it was one's word against the other.
But the word of a second accomplice could swing the balance. No, they would
Stick to procedure.
15 What annoyed Clemenza was that the execution had to be "public." That is,
The body was to be found. He would have much preferred having it disappear.
(Usual burying grounds were the nearby ocean or the swamplands of New Jersey
On land owned by friends of the Family or by other more complicated methods.)
But it had to be public so that embryo traitors would be frightened and the enemy
Warned that the Corleone Family had by no means gone stupid or soft. Sollozzo
Would be made wary by this quick discovery of his spy. The Corleone Family
Would win back some of its prestige. It had been made to look foolish by the
Shooting of the old man.
Clemenza sighed. The Cadillac gleamed like a huge blue steel egg, and he
Was nowhere near the solving of his problem. Then the solution hit him, logical
And to the point. It would explain Rocco Lampone, himself and Paulie being
Together and give them a mission of sufficient secrecy and importance.
He would tell Paulie that their job today was to find an apartment in case the
Family decided to "go to the mattresses."
Whenever a war between the Families became bitterly intense, the opponents
would set up headquarters in secret apartments where the "soldiers" could sleep
On mattresses scattered through the rooms. This was not so much to keep their
Families out of danger, their wives and little children, since any attack on
Noncombatants was undreamed of. All parties were too vulnerable to similar
Retaliation. But it was always smarter to live in some secret place where your
Everyday movements could not be charted either by your opponents or by some
Police who might arbitrarily decide to meddle.
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19 And so usually a trusted caporegime would be sent out to rent a secret
Apartment and fill it with mattresses. That apartment would be used as a sally
Port into the city when an offensive was mounted. It was natural for Clemenza to
Be sent on such an errand. It was natural for him to take Gatto and Lampone with
Him to arrange all the details, including the furnishing of the apartment. Also,
Clemenza thought with a grin, Paulie Gatto had proved he was greedy and the
First thought that would pop into his head was how much he could get from
Sollozzo for this valuable intelligence.
Rocco Lampone arrived early and Clemenza explained what had to be done
And what their roles would be. Lampone's face lit up with surprised gratitude and
He thanked Clemenza respectfully for the promotion allowing him to serve the
Family. Clemenza was sure he had done well. He clapped Lampone on the
shoulder and said, "You'll get something better for your living after today. We'll
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