When Michael got out of the cab in front of the French Hospital he was
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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
Surprised to see that the street was completely deserted. When he entered the
Hospital he was even more surprised to find the lobby empty. Damn it, what the
Hell were Clemenza and Tessio doing? Sure, they never went to West Point but
They knew enough about tactics to have outposts. A couple of their men should
Have been in the lobby at least.
Even the latest visitors had departed, it was almost ten-thirty at night. Michael
Was tense and alert now. He didn't bother to stop at the information desk, he
Already knew his father's room number up on the fourth floor. He took the self-
service elevator. Oddly enough nobody stopped him until he reached the nurses'
Station on the fourth floor. But he strode right past her query and on to his
Father's room. There was no one outside the door. Where the hell were the two
Detectives who were supposed to be waiting around to guard and question the
Old man? Where the hell were Tessio and Clemenza's people? Could there be
Someone inside the room? But the door was open. Michael went in. There was a
Figure in the bed and by the December moonlight straining through the window
Michael could see his father's face. Even now it was impassive, the chest heaved
Shallowly with his uneven breath. Tubes hung from steel gallows beside the bed
And ran into his nose. On the floor was a glass jar receiving the poisons emptied
From his stomach by other tubes. Michael stayed there for a few moments to
Make sure his father was all right, then backed out of the room.
3 He told the nurse, "My name is Michael Corleone, I just want to sit with my
Father. What happened to the detectives who were supposed to be guarding
him?"
The nurse was a pretty young thing with a great deal of confidence in the
power of her office. "Oh, your father just had too many visitors, it interfered with
the hospital service," she said. "The police came and made them all leave about
Ten minutes ago. And then just five minutes ago I had to call the detectives to the
Phone for an emergency alarm from their headquarters, and then they left too.
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But don't worry, I look in on your father often and I can hear any sound from his
room. That's why we leave the doors open."
5 "Thank you," Michael said. "I'll sit with him for a little while. OK?"
6 She smiled at him. "Just for a little bit and then I'm afraid you'll have to leave.
It's the rules, you know."
Michael went back into his father's room. He took the phone from its cradle
And got the hospital operator to give him the house in Long Beach, the phone in
the comer office room. Sonny answered. Michael whispered, "Sonny, I'm down at
The hospital, I came down late. Sonny, there's nobody here. None of Tessio's
people. No detectives at the door. The old man was completely unprotected." His
Voice was trembling.
There was a long silence and then Sonny's voice came, low and impressed,
"This is Sollozzo's move you were talking about."
9 Michael said, "That's what I figured too. But how did he get the cops to clear
Everybody out and where did they go? What happened to Tessio's men? Jesus
Christ, has that bastard Sollozzo got the New York Police Department in his
pocket too?"
10"Take it easy, kid." Sonny's voice was soothing. "We got lucky again with you
Going to visit the hospital so late. Stay in the old man's room. Lock the door from
The inside. I'll have some men there inside of fifteen minutes, soon as I make
some calls. Just sit tight and don't panic. OK, kid?"
11 "I won't panic," Michael said. For the first time since it had all started he felt a
Furious anger rising in him, a cold hatred for his father's enemies.
He hung up the phone and rang the buzzer for the nurse. He decided to use
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