Brother Orchid Page #9

I wanna knockdown to them.

You wait here a minute.

Boys, I want you to shake hands

with Mr. Sarto.

- This is Tex Pearson. Curley Matthews.

- Howdy.

- This here is Buffalo Burns.

- How do you do?

- Glad to know you.

- Mr. Sarto's a good friend of mine.

- Him and Florence...

- Let me do the talking.

- I wanna proposition these mugs.

Proposition?

It's like this, see?

I just come from a monastery.

I'm only in there on a rain check

and I want to take a powder. But I can't.

They're in trouble. I don't wanna

leave them that way.

- What particular brand of trouble, Mr. Sarto?

- It's like this, see?

These guys at the monastery sell flowers.

The dough they make,

they give away to the poor.

That's mighty handsome.

- Mighty.

- Well, I just found out...

...that some mugs are gonna

make it tough for them.

They ain't gonna let them sell

their flowers unless they shell out.

- Maybe not even then.

- Why don't the fellas in the monastery...

...do something?

- Well, they can't, see.

They're quiet, peaceful little guys

that wouldn't hurt a bug.

They can't fight.

And they ain't got the dough

to pull strings.

Too bad we ain't got

these hombres to home.

We'd sure know what to do with them.

Yeah. We wouldn't even

bother the sheriff.

We'd ride them out of town.

We don't waste much time

with bad men, Mr. Sarto.

Takes almost half a day to bring a man

into court. That's a powerful waste of time.

Powerful.

Well, cheer up then.

I'll give you guys a chance

to settle this in your own way.

You mean we can run

those tough boys out of town?

You hit it right on the button, pal.

I know where they're hiding out

and I'm going there.

Are you guys with me?

- I got a little something to attend to.

- I know. I heard you talking inside.

You're headed for trouble. And I'm scared.

What kind of malarkey is this?

It ain't no malarkey.

It's that I don't want nothing to spoil

what's coming true after all these years.

That's why I'm scared, Johnny.

Because I'm awful stuck on you.

When you speak like that you're knocking

at Johnny Sarto's heart with a sledgehammer.

Don't you worry.

I'll be back before you know it.

- How does that make you feel?

- I'll tell you on the train.

Here's the elevator, Mr. Sarto.

Johnny, wait a minute.

I want you to carry this with you.

- What is it?

- It's a rabbit's foot, a lucky charm.

My uncle wore it for 32 years.

It's good luck, huh?

- Where'd you get it?

- My mother.

With her hands she took it off my uncle

after they hung him.

- Come on, Mr. Sarto! Time's a-wasting.

All right.

- Who is it?

- Mr. Clarence Fletcher.

Clarence Fletcher? Anybody know him?

Not me.

We're closed. Come back in the morning.

I've got an important message.

I reckon you'd like to have it tonight.

- What do you say?

- Let him in.

What have we got to be afraid of?

- Howdy.

- Well, well, well.

Look who's here.

Remember him? Pattonsville Sanitarium.

Why, certainly.

Certainly, I remember him.

- You fellows look kind of familiar, at that.

- Sure we do.

Come right in, Mr. Fletcher.

Boy, are we glad to see you.

Yeah.

Remember what you did to us last time?

Yipeee!

Keep punching them, cowboy.

- Okay, Buck, come on out.

Get them up.

You knew just where I was hiding.

You made a mistake.

Not as big as you're liable to make.

You were lucky last time

but you ain't gonna be now.

Right in there, boss.

- All right. Break it up, pal.

- Hey, come on.

- Come on.

- Hold it, now. Break it up!

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

Mr. Sarto, he went in there.

- You said someone came in here?

- Mr. Sarto did. He was after Jack Buck.

- Are you sure?

- Why, I saw him.

- He came right through...

- Hey, wait, look.

If you want Jack Buck,

go in and get him.

Are you all right, Mr. Sarto?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right.

You and me gotta go and talk to Flo.

L... I don't think I better go up there,

Mr. Sarto.

After all, there isn't very much

that I can say to Florence anymore.

Now, wait a minute, Clarence.

You know, coming up here in the cab

I been thinking a lot.

You're the guy going up to see Flo.

- I'm breezing along.

- Yeah?

Sure.

Look, pal. You turned out to be a real guy

in my book, so I'm gonna let down my hair.

I ain't been on the level with Flo. Never.

What are you saying, Mr. Sarto?

Oh, she's a good dame, and all that.

All the love I got for her,

you could stick in your eye.

- I don't get you at all.

- Oh, I'm on the level.

All this talk about me wanting

to marry her is a lot of canal water.

Man alive.

You know, to such a guy like me...

...love is like a scratch on the back.

Sometimes feels good.

But a guy can't go along

all his life with an itch.

Florence is gonna take this awful hard.

No, she ain't.

Because you're gonna be

the guy to tell her.

You know, between us...

...I was gonna take her to Kansas,

get a grand out of her, then ditch her.

That'd be a pretty cheap thing to do,

wouldn't it?

Yeah, sure.

That's why I changed my mind.

I'm gonna hop a freight and go away by myself.

I got a friend there. I'll do all right.

If it's a question of money,

maybe I can help out.

Yeah, you sure could, pal.

- Lf you could let me have a couple of Cs.

- Sure. You bet

How much is a couple of Cs?

Two hu... Three hundred dollars.

- Here you are.

- Thanks, pal.

- Now go on up and do your stuff.

- Oh.

It might be easier on her

if you sent some little message.

Something nice about her

I could say you said.

What are you trying to do,

coax me to be a hypocrite?

Now, go on up there quick before I change my

mind. Still clip her for a couple of grand.

Twelfth floor.

Look, mum. Got any kids?

No.

I ain't got nothing.

Well, you got something now.

Brothers...

...there is good cause

to be thankful this morning.

I have just received the good news that

there is no longer a Protective Association...

...and that we may again

sell our flowers in the city.

How this was accomplished,

I cannot tell you.

All I know is that Brother Orchid

gave me his word it would be done...

...and it was done.

As you know, Brother Orchid

is no longer among us.

He has chosen the outside world.

And none of us is wise enough to say

that we are right and he is wrong.

All we can do in our humble way...

...is to wish him the utmost of health...

...and the happiness and throughout our...

Brother Orchid.

Have you changed your mind?

Yeah.

Brother Superior...

...all my life I'm such a guy

that was looking for class.

I went halfway around the world

trying to find it...

...I thought that class came in dough

and nice clothes and society.

Well, I was wrong.

I sure traveled a long way

to find out one thing:

This...

...this is the real class.

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