off during the night and put it in his bed while he was sleeping. It was stuck to the bed in a thick cake of blood, its mouth open, its huge round eyes staring at him like pieces of half eaten fruit Jack Woltz's screams woke a the s Six hours later, Johnny Fontane received a phone call telling him that he had the part that he wanted in the film. Chapter 3 Virgil Sollozzo Virgil Sollozzo was excellent at killing people w a knife. He was a strongly-built man with dark eyes and a wida, crue mouth, but today he was trying to be polite and friendly. He had an important favour to ask, which was why he had asked for this meeting with Don Corleone. "Don Corleone, he smiled warmlyn t need money to help me start a new business in arugs he said. If you give me one million dollars, l can promise you between three and four million dollars in your first year After that, you'll get even more. Don Corleone said nothing at first. He seemed to be thinking. He looked around the room, at Sonny and Tom Hagen, and at Clemenza and Tessio, his two oldest friends, They were all watching him quietly with serious faces, waiting to hear his reply. Finally, he turned back to Sollozzo. "Why do you come to me?' he asked in his usual rough whisper "I need a man who has important friends, Sollozzo said, lowering his eyes respectfully towards the Don. And what about the Tattaglia family? How much will they get? Sollozzo looked surprised. He didn't know that Don Corleone had discovered that he worked with the Tattaglias. He nodded his congratulations in the direction of Tom Hagen, who had obviously done his homework, and turned back to Don