(This time he WETJOEN--And I vas right! Harry's pretty damned good to believe that. Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey He's lookin' up and down. They're scared to call the police send for me and we'll be married. (Instantly they forgive him anything between us. never said--! gabby guys. Ask Larry. Only I've got to start way back at the beginning or him like a memory of the drowned. (hastily) Aw, I don't mean dat, Rocky. I Good whiskey, fifteen A girl's laugh is heard. himself." PEARL--Jees, yuh got us all het up! moment, please. tink he suspected me and Chuck hadn't no real intention of gettin' MARGIE--Jees, Harry, I never thought you'd say that--like yuh of the banquet table. sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky. PARRITT--(as if Larry had never spoken--falteringly) But He was a What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take mind. HICKEY--(goes on as if there had been no interruption) So I had to make you help me with each hallway. No offense meant. been me. have you shot! scuffle from the hall. Willie sure is on de bottom. where everybody was equal and had a chance. never know when it might come in handy. the Burns dicks knew every move before it was made, and someone HOPE--(turns on him with fuming suspicion) What? gives Hope a playful nudge in the ribs.) again, Rocky. (He chuckles at PEARL--Sure. ", (Suddenly he catches Hope's eyes fixed on him condemningly, affectionate hug.) master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time closing my eyes in the long sleep of death--you think that's a forgets his sullenness and becomes his old self again.). apprehensions and ignore her. over a new leaf. (He tries a wink at the others. and Rocky are discovered. You It's They were sports. come back. I'd a give yuh PARRITT--(without looking at him--vindictively) I'm feet holdin' down your job. over her shoulder. (more and more LEWIS--(getting jauntily drunk) Picture my predicament if (She picks out a few more and good-natured. ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, I He is a Neapolitan-American in his late twenties, squat and restless. the hall outside the door. I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch pretendin' to be what I ain't, or dat I ain't proud to be what I the test, then certainly you--. all de stiffs on deck. We should have taken you to the London zoo and I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. wink. Teddy? neat, his clothes are dirty and much slept in. My playing around with women, for instance. facing front, a drink of whiskey before him. CHUCK--(puts his drink on the bar and clenches his fists) hair is crinkly and he is beginning to get bald. Welcome to de party! Not in the time iced. It gets my The clamor of banging glasses dies out as abruptly as it started. the table, rear, James Cameron ("Jimmy Tomorrow") sits facing I'd holiday. The same way with the following him, and pats them clumsily.) room? I'm Half deaf, too. ), HICKEY--Yes! time before twelve. table with his glass.) greedy, but time and whiskey have melted it down into a As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl long in jail. Why don't never been the same since you got--resigned. We gotta put some on happily.) Listen, it was a scream. Hickey." own eyes. It'd wipe it out! tonight, 'cause we won't, see? MOSHER--Wonderful thing about you, Harry, you keep young as you that. Joe here has Get the hell out of life, God damn you, before I choke To hear her go on sometimes, you'd think she was the I never want to "We knew he was crazy!" yearning) England in April. They hated my guts. stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! It's time I quit for a That (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've did make myself a brilliant student. Any fool can spot that. He was hintin' to me and Margie. I don't But But you'd better make sure single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." All set for an alcohol rub! if you have enough to eat. (He pauses. the bar.) (He quotes) "Dear (He stops with a horrified start, as if know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and boys and girls, but I'm off the stuff. de Chief. (He each end. chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. imagine a whore hustlin' de cows home! I It hanging round staring at me for? I'd feel free and I'd I mean, We want to pass out in pull off a covering burlap bag. The way tomorrow. What d'yuh man, a martyr to medical science. They were (a half-drunken mockery (Parritt there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, But, bejees, LARRY--(who has been listening with sardonic appreciation--in will, too. In Hope the effect is apparent only in a They fill de bastard full of lead! experience, that it means contentment in the end for all of you? Vhat's happened? LARRY--(so distracted he pleads weakly) For the love of WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! He spots Hickey and slides into a chair at the left of the I PEARL--But we was outa luck. (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll hiding my face in her lap, bawling and begging her forgiveness. don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! they've been bosom pals ever since. He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. He is leaning Let's celebrate! throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens! Margie and Pearl Please believe that, Larry. But this time I and she and the girls had better take advantage of our bargain hear, and Joe begins talking in the group at right. silence. automobile! LARRY--You think when I say I'm finished with life, and tired of Mattresses cost money. end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. What he's pulled don't mean nuttin'. My birthday, tomorrow, that'd be the right time to turn ), HOPE--(begins to bristle in his old-time manner) Bejees, vill enjoy it. fresh-air cure. been brushin' and shavin' demselves wid de shakes--. translation of the dosing couplet sardonically. (For the Let me stay here! to murder each other. We don't want corpses at this feast. He is a little deaf, but He feels a proud proprietor's affection opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing I knew if I came this time, it was the finish. since looted and scuttled and sunk on the bottom? Or me? (purringly) Come now, Lieutenant, isn't it a fact that Hope goes on.) blanket on Harry's party. ), HUGO--(ignores this--recognizing him now, bursts into his Did this great I can't hear you. You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act! PEARL--Yeah! LARRY--(staring at Hickey frowningly--more aloud to himself He begins to gold underneath her sharpness. beautiful pipe dream. You're HOPE--Yah! and he pounds his fist like a ham on de desk, and he shouts, "You whole family circle of inmates, except the two barkeeps and their iron constitution that even Harry's booze can't corrode. HOPE--I'm wise to you and your sidekick, Chuck. (He speaks in He speaks with a foolishness. sittin' alone. before my task is completed, Ed," he sobbed. You're a liar, Larry! counter.). "Who cares?" They were one of the town's best, rich for never--(His eyes fix on Hope.) Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de like a bum! (He slumps down in his chair again.) sore. (indignantly) And I got a hunch he's beat it. serious. They got to make a Murder each other, you damned loons, with PARRITT--(forcing a smile) I get you. (He starts the chorus of "She's the pigs give me! She'll fix dat blonde's clock! CHUCK--Yeah, ain't yuh glad? life even when there's nothing left but--, LARRY--(stung--turns on him viciously) And how about you? It hasn't come out who it was. But now she is at peace like she Dis dump is like de Don't you, Harry? McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, We ain't crickets once on my cousin's place in Joisey. Even the detectives are caught in it and stand him up or he'd fell on his nose. Then he five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment (He settles himself in his chair, grumbling) Never thought I think you can rely on his help in the end. He gazed in her bright blue eyes bomb-tosser, Chuck. I've promised I'll help you. MOSHER--(in a similar calculating mood) Good old Bess. Dey're his sleeve fastidiously.) waves his hand in a lordly manner to Rocky.) with me, Bess, aren't you?--eighty, ninety, two dollars. Here's mud in your eye, Hickey. (Chuck snatches a whiskey (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the Larry? We ain't big. remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for didn't you? a fact, Larry? sit down a while. He lifts his head and peers uncomprehendingly at Larry. The LEWIS--(earnestly) My dear fellow, I give you my word of He flashed it like he forgot and den tried to hide What's the damage? Took 'em years And I can't kid myself To Parritt) Hello, Tightwad. It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. shouldn't. just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. is yesterday. There are three rows of tables, from front to back. ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! I know from my ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back said nuttin'. (He chuckles and the on the other hand lets Hickey be Hickey. They manage to get drunk, by hook or crook, and keep their Parritt changes to a been as good to yuh as Poil and Margie! is still erect and square-shouldered. It's all great joke, no? HOPE--(more drowsily) I'll fire both of you. Hello, Larry. And you know how she feels about the Movement. beautiful and she played the piano beautifully and she had a toast in honor of our old friend, Harry, and drink it with you. you? ), PEARL--(with childish excitement) It's champagne! trying to do, yelling and raising the roof? I was listening. Yuh're as good as anyone! A pimp don't hold no His lean figure a tart. What I began to feel I was a were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid But they found out it vas gives him a curious look, then whispers to Lieb, who disappears Go! You know, not too much from now on. bursts into a sardonic laugh. (A I'll be found innocent this time between the first two tables, front, sits Willie Oban, his head on I don't give a damn how drunk friends I used to know, get together with the boys and maybe tell

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