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It
was
too
direct
,
too
lacking
in
Sicilian
subtleness
.
He
was
the
Club
,
not
the
Rapier
.
For
as
soon
as
Sonny
heard
the
leader
's
demand
he
held
the
three
men
at
gunpoint
and
had
them
thoroughly
bastinadoed
by
the
bodyguards
.
Then
he
made
them
put
the
furnace
together
again
and
tidy
up
the
basement
.
He
searched
them
and
found
that
they
actually
were
employed
by
a
house-improvement
firm
with
headquarters
in
Suffolk
County
.
He
learned
the
name
of
the
man
who
owned
the
firm
.
Then
he
kicked
the
three
men
to
their
truck
.
"
Do
n't
let
me
see
you
in
Long
Beach
again
,
"
he
told
them
.
"
I
'll
have
your
balls
hanging
from
your
ears
.
"
It
was
typical
of
the
young
Santino
,
before
he
became
older
and
crueler
,
that
he
extended
his
protection
to
the
community
he
lived
in
.
Sonny
paid
a
personal
call
to
the
home-improvement
firm
owner
and
told
him
not
to
send
any
of
his
men
into
the
Long
Beach
area
ever
again
.
As
soon
as
the
Corleone
Family
set
up
their
usual
business
liaison
with
the
local
police
force
they
were
informed
of
all
such
complaints
and
all
crimes
by
professional
criminals
.
In
less
than
a
year
Long
Beach
became
the
most
crime-free
town
of
its
size
in
the
United
States
.
Professional
stickup
artists
and
strong-arms
received
one
warning
not
to
ply
their
trade
in
the
town
.
They
were
allowed
one
offense
.
When
they
committed
a
second
they
simply
disappeared
.
The
flimflam
home-improvement
gyp
artists
,
the
door-to-door
con
men
were
politely
warned
that
they
were
not
welcome
in
Long
Beach
Those
confident
con
men
who
disregarded
the
warning
were
beaten
within
an
inch
of
their
lives
.
Resident
young
punks
who
had
no
respect
for
law
and
proper
authority
were
advised
in
the
most
fatherly
fashion
to
run
away
from
home
.
Long
Beach
became
a
model
city
.
What
impressed
the
Don
was
the
legal
validity
of
these
sales
swindles
.
Clearly
there
was
a
place
for
a
man
of
his
talents
in
that
other
world
which
had
been
closed
to
him
as
an
honest
youth
.
He
took
appropriate
steps
to
enter
that
world
.
And
so
he
lived
happily
on
the
mall
in
Long
Beach
,
consolidating
and
enlarging
his
empire
,
until
after
the
war
was
over
,
the
Turk
Sollozzo
broke
the
peace
and
plunged
the
Don
's
world
into
its
own
war
,
and
brought
him
to
his
hospital
bed
.
In
the
New
Hampshire
village
,
every
foreign
phenomenon
was
properly
noticed
by
housewives
peering
from
windows
,
storekeepers
lounging
behind
their
doors
.
And
so
when
the
black
automobile
bearing
New
York
license
plates
stopped
in
front
of
the
Adams
'
home
,
every
citizen
knew
about
it
in
a
matter
of
minutes
.
Kay
Adams
,
really
a
small-town
girl
despite
her
college
education
,
was
also
peering
from
her
bedroom
window
.
She
had
been
studying
for
her
exams
and
preparing
to
go
downstairs
for
lunch
when
she
spotted
the
car
coming
up
the
street
,
and
for
some
reason
she
was
not
surprised
when
it
rolled
to
a
halt
in
front
of
her
lawn
.
Two
men
got
out
,
big
burly
men
who
looked
like
gangsters
in
the
movies
to
her
eyes
,
and
she
flew
down
the
stairs
to
be
the
first
at
the
door
.
She
was
sure
they
came
from
Michael
or
his
family
and
she
did
n't
want
them
talking
to
her
father
and
mother
without
any
introduction
.
It
was
n't
that
she
was
ashamed
of
any
of
Mike
's
friends
,
she
thought
;
it
was
just
that
her
mother
and
father
were
old-fashioned
New
England
Yankees
and
would
n't
understand
her
even
knowing
such
people
.
She
got
to
the
door
just
as
the
bell
rang
and
she
called
to
her
mother
,
"
I
'll
get
it
.
"
She
opened
the
door
and
the
two
big
men
stood
there
.
One
reached
inside
his
breast
pocket
like
a
gangster
reaching
for
a
gun
and
the
move
so
surprised
Kay
that
she
let
out
a
little
gasp
but
the
man
had
taken
out
a
small
leather
case
which
he
flapped
open
to
show
an
identification
card
.
"
I
'm
Detective
John
Phillips
from
the
New
York
Police
Department
,
"
he
said
.
He
motioned
to
the
other
man
,
a
dark-complexioned
man
with
very
thick
,
very
black
eyebrows
.
"
This
is
my
partner
,
Detective
Siriani
.
Are
you
Miss
Kay
Adams
?
"
Kay
nodded
.
Phillips
said
,
"
May
we
come
in
and
talk
to
you
for
a
few
minutes
.
It
's
about
Michael
Corleone
.
"
