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26. Write hin en interview slip and ask hin.” "Well, maybe later,” 1 condescends. "Seo that old guy playing tennis over there? Well, hets the best tenis player here, O1d Man Pennfield. Doing twenty years for robbing widows and orphans, He's about sixty now, and aint been here so lang." “ge, hell. I could beat hin playing.” Capone's remark 4a tinged with derision, "Who's the little fellow playing with him?! He's good." "That's Chip Robinsen. He's Dinty Colbeck's lieutenant. Boy, ean he use @ machine gun! He's doing 25, too. Hackethal, down in the Officer's Mess - - be's doing 25 on the sams rap. So is Dietemeyer, his brother~in-lew. Ha‘'s in the kitchen, They all came together. You know them!” "Yos,I kmow Dinty and Chippy. But 1 don't know the other two.” “Look, see that fat blonde guy standing about twenty feet be- Rind ua, looking et uaf Don't turn now -= he's looking. Well, that's Hackethal, He's the bird you want to get next to, He tas charge of the Officer's Mess, under Fenters, the civilian, Hackethal can get you anything you want to eat. . . pro- viding you pay, of course. You'll learn that anything you get done in here, which is against rules and regulations, is gotts be paid for. But it's worth it.” "Loak! See these pants? See the crease in themf Well, ONE CARTON A MONTE! That's what I pay to have them pressed by a ‘jig’ (negro) in the laundry. You gotte oe careful, though, for you can't pay anything to a guy in front of a guard. Bring it on the yard, and give it to someone w give to whoever it is for, That's tho best way. “Say, 41," examining the extra large shirt and tight pants on Capone, "you oughta get acme decent raga, Theat stuff's baloney! Weit « minute, «+ I'll get a guy who'll fix you up. aw, Hell. . . there's Head watching m,. Captein Hoad. . - I'm gonns scram. See you later!” The talkative, willing abettor walks off and is lost in the group watching the ball game. His eyes seerch out and find Captain Head stili etandirg on the spot where he Inst saw him. Maybe, he regrets, he wasn't watching him efter ali. Well, better not take a chance. No use going to the “hole” for nothing,