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Al Capone — Part 16
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"Yell, If11 do that!" Capone protests.
"Oh, no vou wont! You'll have plenty olse to talk about ana
_ think ote You'll ses clent, new feces when I%:: cone. hen you go to ---
Shavin-s halts. Almost: he condemns himself! almost told tic! and if
he knew he'd write about it; and if ho wrote, sashington would investigate and
learn where he cot his inferution!
“that were ;ou coing to say!" Capone asks, a strance catch
tn his voice.
‘ \ “Wher you zo to voc, don't tell him wit I told you," Shavings
. quickly alibis.
. Gapone is not convinced, but boing no nind reader “s unable
to learn what Shavings was about to ca:.
‘ie wondersd, afterwards, if Capone had peid Shavings the two
fmndred dollars he was promised, would Shavings have bios grateful enough
at thst tice to have posted hin? Or, was Shavings hesitancy in then 4rforn+
ing Capo:.e of the impending tranefer due to fear of the conrequence, becauze
of Capone's inability to respect oner confidence?
Shavinis, it nee] sot be explained, produced the desire!
telecrars and record for Capone. True enough, there were no telesras
metifying Dec of his thildren's denice.”
“and now," Capone conde back tho msseze, “toll Shavings I
pot to huve a copy of Doc's handwriting. amy piece cf paper at all will
do. It mst be Doc's writing, thouzh."
Shavings did not then know, but learned later, that Doc's
"Bush" letters were losincs their powor to conviree. And Capone, when
informed that there ws no available writing of Doc's, demanded that the
@ane ce obtained AT al COST
Every department in the dnetitution was called upon, by
Shavings, with the request that an interview slip with Doc's writing be
found. There wae not ore procurable! Doc, it seemed, wat careful with
hig writing}
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