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?Buy Anthony a present and send me the billAt fifteen, maybe a broadHe?s ready for
manhood
?Lou, you?re too muchThere are other things??
?There?s only one thing now, Mario, and I want the truth from your lips or I?ll carve them out of
your face!?
There was a brief pause from New Rochelle before the pleasant-sounding executioner spoke?I
don?t deserve to be talked to that way, cuginoThere was a book taken from that general?s place in Manassas, a very
valuable book
?They found out it was missing, huh??
?Holy shit! You got it??
?I had it, LouIt was going to be a present to you, but I lost it
?You lost it? What the fuck did you do, leave it in a ?taxi???
?No, I was running for my life, that maniac with the flares, what?s his name, Webb, unloading at
me in the drivewayHe grazed me and I fell and the lousy book flew out of my hand?just as the
police car arrivedHe picked it up and I ran like hell for the fence
?Webb?s got it??
?I guess so
?Christ on a trampoline !?
?Anything else, Lou? We?re about to light the candles on the cake
?Yeah, Mario, I may need you in Washington?a big cannoli without a foot but with a book
?Hey, wait a minute, cugino, you know my rulesAlways a month between business tripsWhat
did Manassas take? Six weeks? And last May in Key West, three, almost four weeks? I can?t call, I
can?t write a postcard?no, Lou, always a monthI got responsibilities to Angie and the children
I?m not going to be an absentee parent; they?ve got to have a role model, you know what I mean??
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?I got Ozzie Nelson for a fuckin? cousin!? Louis slammed down the phone, and instantly
grabbed it as it crashed over on the desk, its delicate ivory stem displaying a crack?The best hit
man in the business and he?s a freak,? mumbled the capo supremo as he dialed franticallyWhen
the line was picked up, the anxiety and the anger disappeared from his voice; it was not apparent
but it had not gone away?Hello, Frankie baby, how?s my closest friend??
?Oh, hi, Lou,? came the floating, but hesitant, languorous tones from an expensive apartment in
Greenwich Village?Can I call you back in two minutes? I?m just putting my mother into a cab to
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