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...Digger's Game, Higgins...
...Digger's Game, Higgns...
That's the Digger, Jerry Doherty. Big, tough, dumb-smart, the owner of a workingmen's bar. A sometime crook who has done time for possession of stolen TV sets. Now he's in trouble. He's flown out to Las Vegas and he's signed $18,000 worth of markers. He doesn't have the money. Digger's immediate problem is the Greek. It is the Greek who must collect the $18,000 plus $400 a week vigorish. He's tough, of course, but the idea of twisting the Digger...
When their confrontation comes, the Digger tells the Greek to go climb a tree. But he knows he's going to have to pay anyway because the Greek knows people who can be hired to break other people's knees with baseball bats. He goes to see his brother Paul, a monsignor in Boston, who has helped him out of bad spots before...
Paul Doherty is as big as his brother, a plump priest in a pale yellow Lacoste shirt and white slacks, who is the Digger shifted several degrees in the direction of decency. His speech is the Digger's with the obscenity polished away. Before the Digger puts the bite on, they chat. The Digger admires Paul's Buick, and Paul says he always wanted a Cadillac, and the Digger says Cadillacs are nice...