A Season for Violence by Thomas B. Dewey
Author:Thomas B. Dewey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime, noir, murder, gangster, mystery
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2016-05-05T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 10
From the terrace of Steve Carollaâs Mediterranean style home you could look out over the city toward the river and over the rolling green hills and valleys of the West Hills Golf Course and Country Club. It was the same club Dick Kramer belonged to, along with the Foresters and the Farrells and the Dexters and all the old-line families in town (Richard Kramer had married into it), and Steve Carolla had made it the hard way. Born in Crudsville to an alcoholic foundry worker and his deaf-mute wife, Steve had climbed to the country club eminence on steel cleats, using his fingernails when necessary, and at times on his hands and knees. He had made it by physical strength and stubbornness, by a certain amount of luck, and by a shrewdness in picking the sure winners among uncertain losers. He had been with the organized unions when they were winning and had left them when they began to lose, and he had managed to land on his feet with the Italians and most other downstate minorities in his pocket. He had been able to keep them there by using the steel cleats when called for and by gentler means, including the distribution of largesse, and the stronger his political power grew, the more securely he could claim the allegiance of the underprivileged. He could do a lot for them, but he would never be able to do as much for them as they had done for him. But they would never know this. He was myth to them, myth and legend, and at the same time he was an actual, living man. To the members of the West Hills Country Club and their associates in business and politics he was nearly all mythâand thus fearful. He had been made a member of the club because most members either were obligated to him in some substantial way or were afraid to vote against him. Those who had voted him in were fond of saying, âBut he never has abused the privilege, you have to admit that.â
He had a kind of native sense of tasteâor a canniness in imitating the tastes of those among whom he chose to liveâand the house, though large and prominent on the high knoll above the country club, was well designed and carefully furnished and in no way ornate. The broad terrace was nearly bare of furnishings, contained no statuary, and was therefore a comfortable and relaxing place to entertain men. As far as anyone knew, Carolla never entertained mixed parties. His wife, Rose, a plump Italian girl from Chicago, was never in evidence during one of Steveâs frequent cocktail gatherings. Few of the men present this Sunday afternoon had ever set eyes on her.
Half a dozen were gathered on the terrace when Dick Kramer arrived a little after four-thirty. Senator Morris was not among them, and this was a disappointment. The Senator was the only one of the âcourthouse gangâ he felt secure about at the moment.
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