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147. Doc returns to ‘A’ basement. hat next? he asks himself, Ignorant of the fact thet Cohen had written Washington, but bearing &@ malicious hatred towards Dr, Lynn -- borne of envy, of course == Doc conveys to Capone the diastrous result of the shakedown, Gone! Gone is the little cubbyhole where big business was transacted! Where thousands of dollars cassed, at Capone's instructions, from his possession into cirovlation among the convicts? Ended is the foot treatmente so essential (1) to Capone's health. Ended is the daily contact with hospital attaches! What next? Capone asks himsslf. “Lynn did it. Il] bet anything!" Doc tells Capone as they sit on the slope overlooking the tennis courts. "Fincpering me before he left!" Capons, this day, could not lift a tennia racket, His stomach, he moans, is already suffering. "Whet mkos you way that?" Capone asks, unbelierinc. "He's always beon jenlouse of how mich you give me. That quack eint satisfied with a hundred a month. He wants more. He firures if I'm out of the way he can handle things better?” "That's fool's talk, Doc. I wonder if I'1] get my pie today?” "Pie? Why worry about your plef" Doc anaps, his eyes blinking, “There's other things to worry about. Look at mel Suppose Schnozzle puts we in the Tailor Shop. With then real convicts! Sure as Hell one of them guys is gonna petme!" “Christ, end I was figurin' on chicken today for « change. Dam it! Why did you talk mo outa it when ZI wanted to have them put it dom in the electric therapy roan? You thought you knew best! Sure! Now I'l) have to eat that garbage an the main line, Beans! Stewl Spinach! I can't do it, that's 111" He rises, anger and grief overcoming him, “Let's find sanebody!" Not mentioning whom he was looking for, except "somebody", Capone struts off with Doo at his side. A mountain and a mdlehilll They wend their way in and out of groups, down the track and back to the tennis courte, Capone's bodyguard shadow ever hehind and to the side. The man he searches for, evidently, is not on stockade today.