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7. Doc returns to 'A' basement. What next? he asks himself. Ignorant of the fact thet Cohen had written Washington, but pearing 2 malicious hatred towards Dr, Lynn -- borne of envy, of course -= Doo conveya to Capone the diastrous result of the shakedown. Gone! Gone is the little cubbyhole where big business was transacted! Where thousands of dollers massed, at Capone's instructions, from his po jen into ciroulation among the convicts: Ended is the foot treatments so essential (7) to Capone's health. Ended is the daily contact with Nospital attaches! What next? Capone asks himself. “Lynn aid it. 1°11 bet anything!" Doc tells Capone as they sit on the slope overlooking the tennis courts. "Fingering me before he left!" Capone, this day, could not lift a tennis racket, His stomach, he moons, is already suffering. “Ahet makes you say that?" Capone asks, unbelieving. "Be's always beon jealous of how mich you give me. That quack @int satisfied with a hundred a month. He wants more. He firures if Itm out of the way be can handle things better?” "That's fool's talk, Doc. I wonder if I'l] get my pie today?” “Pie? Why worry about your ple?" Doc snaps, his eyes blinking. “There's other things to worry about. Look at mel Suppose Schnozele puts me in the TaSlor Shop. With then real convicts! Sure as Hell one of then guys is gonna cetme!" “christ, and I was figurin' on chicken today for a change. Dam it! Why did you talk mo outa it when J wanted to have them put it dow in the electric therapy roam? You thought you knew best! Sure! Now I'l) have to eat that garbage on the main line. Beans! Stew] spinacht I osen't do it, that's alll" He rises, anger and grief overcoming him, “Let's find sanebody3" Mot mentioning whom he was looking for, except “somebody”, Capone struts off with Doo at his side. A mountain and a molehilll They wend their way in and out of groups, down the track and back to the tennis courts, Capone's bodyguard shadow ever hehind and to the side. The man he searches for, evidently, is not on stockade today.