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225. "Holl, If11 do thats" Capone protests. "Oh, no you wont! You'll have plenty else to talk about and think of. You'll ses clenty nex faces when I's: cone. then you £0 to ---' Shaviccs halts. Almost! he condemns himself! almo-t told idiot and if he knew he'd write about it; ad if hr wrote, iashington vould investigate and learn where he cot his infcr.ution! "That were you coin; to say?" Capone asks, a strance catch fn nie votes. }o : | | swes you go to vec, don't tel] hin whut I told you," shavinge 7 quickly alibis. . Capone is not convinces, but boing no rind reader “s unavle ‘ ; to learn what Chavinss was about to ca:. ‘le wondersd, afterwards, 4f Capone had peid Shavings the two hundred dollars ho was promised, would Shavings have bee grateful enough at tict tice to have posted hin? Or, was Slavincs hesitancy in then trforn« Ang Capo:e of the impending transfer due to fear of tho conreguence, becauze of Capons's inability to respect oner conftdnce? Shavinis, it noel sot be explained, produced the desire! teleprars and record for Capone. True enough, there were no telecras notifying Doc of his thildren's denice.” “and now," Capone cends back tho mssege, “to2] Shavings i got to huve @ cozy of Doc's handuriting. any piece cf paper at all will do. It mst be Doc's writing, thou. Shavings did not then know, but learned later, that Doc's “Ruth” letters were losing their powor to convince. And Capone, whon informed that there vms no available writing of Doc's, demanded that the @ane ce obtained AT a’ COST. Evory department in the dnetitution was called upon, by Shavings, with the request thet an intorview slip with Doc's writing be found. There was not oxe procurables Doc, it seemed, wa: curoful with hio writings