Double Conviction?

ON THE day that Pete was released from the Pen, he met with an automobile accident, and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Several days after he was discharged from that institution he was hobbling along the sidewalks of New York when he happened to run into a former cell-mate of his by the name of Nick. Nick had also taken a couple of postgraduate courses in the Underworld, and had paid well for his tuition.