Meeting was not as outlandish as it seemed.
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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
15 "Sure, sure," he said. "I'll be back at four." He left the club and caught a cab
To his furnished room on Tenth Avenue. He boarded with an Italian family to
Which he was distantly related. His two rooms were separated from the rest of
Their railroad flat by a special door. He liked the arrangement because it gave him
Some family life and also protection against surprise where he was most
Vulnerable.
The sly Turkish fox was going to show his bushy tail, Luca thought. If things
Went far enough, if Sollozzo committed himself tonight, maybe the whole thing
Could be wound up as a Christmas present for the Don. In his room, Luca
Unlocked the trunk beneath the bed and took out a bulletproof vest. It was heavy.
He undressed and put it on over his woolen underwear, then put his shirt and
Jacket over it. He thought for a moment of calling the Don's house at Long Beach
To tell him of this new development but he knew the Don never talked over the
Phone, to anyone, and the Don had given him this assignment in secret and so
Did not want anyone, not even Hagen or his eldest son, to know about it.
Luca always carried a gun. He had a license to carry a gun, probably the most
Expensive gun license ever issued anyplace, anytime. It had cost a total of ten
Thousand dollars but it would keep him out of jail if he was frisked by the cops.
As a top executive operating official of the Family he rated the license. But
tonight, just in case he could finish off the job, he wanted a "safe" gun. One that
Could not possibly be traced. But then thinking the matter over, he decided that
He would just listen to the proposition tonight and report back to the Godfather,
Don Corleone.
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He made his way back to the club but he did not drink any more. Instead he
Wandered out to 48th Street, where he had a leisurely late supper at Patsy's, his
Favorite Italian restaurant. When it was time for his appointment he drifted uptown
To the club entrance. The doorman was no longer there when he went in. The
Hatcheck girl was gone. Only Bruno Tattaglia waited to greet him and lead him to
The deserted bar at the side of the room. Before him he could see the desert of
Small tables with the polished yellow wood dance floor gleaming like a small
Diamond in the middle of them. In the shadows was the empty bandstand, out of
It grew the skeleton metal stalk of a microphone.
Luca sat at the bar and Bruno Tattaglia went behind it. Luca refused the drink
Offered to him and lit a cigarette. It was possible that this would turn out to be
Something else, not the Turk. But then he saw Sollozzo emerge out of the
Shadows at the far end of the room.
Sollozzo shook his hand and sat at the bar next to him. Tattaglia put a glass
in front of the Turk, who nodded his thanks. "Do you know who I am?" asked
Sollozzo.
Luca nodded. He smiled grimly. The rats were being flushed out of their holes.
It would be his pleasure to take care of this renegade Sicilian.
22 "Do you know what I am going to ask of you?" Sollozzo asked.
Luca shook his head.
24 "There's big business to be made," Sollozzo said. "I mean millions for
Everybody at the top level. On the first shipment I can guarantee you fifty
thousand dollars. I'm talking about drugs. It's the coming thing."
25 Luca said, "Why come to me? You want me to talk to my Don?"
26 Sollozzo grimaced. "I've already talked to the Don. He wants no part of it. All
Right, I can do without him. But I need somebody strong to protect the operation
Physically. I understand you're not happy with your Family, you might make a
switch."
27 Luca shrugged. "If the offer is good enough."
Sollozzo had been watching him intently and seemed to have come to a
decision. "Think about my offer for a few days and then we'll talk again," he said.
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