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He had to have planned it because when we drove onto the dock the boat was there and the engine was running and you could see the water churning up phosphorescence in the river, which was the only light there was because there was no moon, nor no electric light either in the shack where the dockmaster should have been sitting, nor on the boat itself, and certainly not from the car, yet everyone knew where everything was, and when the big Packard came down the ramp Mickey the driver braked it so that the wheels hardly rattled the boards, and when he pulled up alongside the gangway the doors were already open and they hustled Bo and the girl upside before they even made a shadow in all that darkness.
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- Title Billy Bathgate
- Author E. L. Doctorow
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Publisher Pan, London
- Date 1990
- ISBN 9780330316491
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by E. L. Doctorow
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