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Al Capone — Part 14
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Knowing Doc as we do, We poalize the fruitleseess of following
Captain Head to listen to the crose-examination. We Jeok at each other and
Ne are confident Doc will have & perfect alibi. He oan't be
g got the goods on hin, ao fer os delivering
a heluva lot smarter
smile wanly.
frightened inte believing Head’
Fead catch mot Say, it'd take
I've beon in more joints than Bead oan
“dope” is concerned.
guy thon Read to get anything on m-
Like to take a sock at him aoetine! Just my sire, tool Lose Good
‘an on the road to
counts
Time, though. And I can't do that. Fot now, anyhow.
plenty.
vet, to satisfy our curiosity we eavesdrop on the conversation.
"put T tell you, Captain, I've pot even geen any, least of all
Fandled it, You got no proof. You're surmising, timt'e all. Well, you're
wasting tine, Capteir, if you think I'm handiin’ it. That's straight fron
tre shoulder.”
“and you deny that Capone doesn't buy it for the men beret"
"7 don't know whet Capone buys 3 don't fool with him. He's
thot'!, and I know dt. 411 I got to do with him is ‘tend his foot. That's
cv duty. I do that for any convict. He don't mean & damn' thing to me,
acd I don't have a damn’ thing to do with him. That's ny words"
"Your word!” sneere Captain Head. “#hat is your word against
the word of five others?”
“pire others!” gasps Doc. For it is exactly five to whon he
pad delivered drugs. “Five wnot” he demands, recovering his poise,
"Se you do know something!" exclaims Captain Head. "Well,
out with dite . 0"
"T don't now anything. and I teld you you can't prove anything,
voc retaliates, realizing now that Head was balling him into a confession.
“you can put me in the hole from now till my short time date, but I still
won't know anything!”
“Pretty amart, aren't yout" Head is sarcastic. "But I'm
t you yet, Dunlap. Tin not warning you, mind! I'm telling youl”
going te ge
an oxit. Doo climbs into the patient's
“ath these parting words Head makes
chair --- similer toe barber's chair --- and miles « wnile of victory as
sushion head-rest and exhales cigarette smoke.
an the
a
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