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Al Capone — Part 16
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“gave it fron me, Buddy. If he goes to the jungles of Africa. . «
If he goes to the arth Pole -- I'11 get hix} 1°11 get hic! uaybe I wont
nytelf, but he'lt kno: who 1t 4s when ths tice comes. He can't go no
place in this vorld that I oan't find hiz. And when I do, . . J aint gonpe
be here al the tino, you imow.- and if I don't have the plessurs of putting
my hands around his neck, like that" (Capone rakes a gesture as if he were
strezgling soueonc) “the guy that will will got as uch pleasure out of it
es I would!” :
"Ee'}1 be dead before you ever see frvedoa azain,” umisoly
irfor.is Shavings»
“inet Capone excitedly acks.
"You aixt out yet!"
»" dojectedly. "I aint. And here I thought even until the
last cocext that aaybe -~ you know how it is, how you hope? -~ nayoe after
he ight havo been on ths level about that judge, and you were wrong.
“hen I pot that tettor thous: hat lerdvriting, and scme of the
things he said in it, I know then it was a frane-up. Can you deat that?
A guy I'd steke sy Life cn. . . Iwo-tinin' no after a1 I done for hin!”
"He's just a little nore clever thar you, Al. This prison- -
ever; prison -- is *illed with en who have but one thoucht whe: they're
backed azainst the wll: Themselves! Svery nan for himself; the Hell with
tke others, Svon you. . .:Mo, 1" not trying to be cuart, Al. . » even you
sacrifice your Lest frierd w.o= the critical moment arrives. I've seen
it. I've read it on the reports. I've been amzed at it. . . at what
one friend will do to another
for another. “Mothing for hin, whe: he
needs hin most. Everything to him, if ke can gain anything by eo doing.
"Take that pry Couboy. Perla paid xe 350,00 a month to write
his letters. Love lotters and business letters. I couldn't have it sent
in, so had it sent to Cowboy. te tries to bleod Perlats brother for two
grand, and keeps =y money in the bargain, That's the kind of lice a guy
nests here!
“There's only one hun being in this joint --- a guy that's
been through the mil} and found it doesn't pay. It's made a real guy of
hin, That's the one friend in all I know here. . . for whom I would
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