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*uowtd he get it out?" Shavings asks. "Waller, the librarian, I supposo. Kaybe he wrote it after he left, I don't know. ' “I gee!" Shavings exclains. "Soe what?" Doc asks. “Jashington asked for Killer's resignation, I wondered why. Thet's it, then. KMoodey evidently talked.” “g1"11 burn up when he reads this, And listen, don't worry adout the money, You get it if I have to steal it for you. And I'l] stand - there with Al while he reads it, and make bin burn it up wher he's through. Take my word for it!" . Shavings didn't take Doc's word, And Shavings wasn't eurprised the next day when he heard fron half a doren Capone's cronies that they had read the story efter it was passed on to then by Capone. . Trust Capone? Shavings said he wouldn't again. . » money or no money. But Shavings, after all, is # convict, and a convict's vows are silly prattle. . Then Capone heard of Shavings ultimatum, he vehemently denied having shown the article to anyone. Doc substehtiated Capone's statement dn this respect. But it was evident, since Capone's own henchmen admitted 4t, thet he had shown them the article to give them an ides just how matters stood. "We need that guy on the pay roll," Capone tells Dec. “Hots 4n & position to do good, that the Hell's the matter with him that he wont come inf” “Says ho doesn't want anything to do with you. Cleims you let a guy down when he needs yous. & smart kid, I guarantee, 41, All then bankers and lawyers use hin. He even does work for the guards. « « writes letters and things for them, I can't make him out, though. Think he might be a D, J. man? He once said he used to work for the governnent.” "D. Je or S. B., I gotta talk to him! I been hearing a lot about him, and I know he knows a lot that I want to learn. He's got access to my file, haen't he? * "Yeah, al. Has charge of then. Writes the letters and sces the answers. I can't got mich out of him, though. Pretty olose-mouthed ———— NT LT Se