Johnny Stool Pigeon Page #3

The only time I've ever been warm was once

I went to sleep with a cigarette

and I set the bed on fire.

When are you going back?

Depends.

Is your friend going with you?

Listen, sister, if you figure

I'm making a fast switch, count him out.

I'm telling you for your own good.

I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have done that.

Lately I've been...

I'm just nervous.

Forget it.

You wanna go back to that drink now?

It wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Hello, Mac.

Hiya, baby.

This is my partner, Ray Dallas.

Johnny Evans.

Hi.

Hello.

Sit down. Sit down.

Not you.

I'll keep quiet, Mac. I just want to...

Go on, go on, beat it.

I just want to talk...

Sorry I'm late.

I was held up at the office.

Well, happy days.

Well, fellas, what's your proposition?

I told you.

Will buy or will sell.

Anybody can do that

if they got it to sell.

What's so special about your push?

How much can you handle?

All I can get.

So you're not getting any.

Why didn't you say so?

For a couple of guys that are new

in this racket you know an awful lot.

I know the border.

How much can you give us?

More than Pete Carter ever did.

Aw, that guy.

Where are you gonna get it?

Same place he did.

You got the connections?

No. You're gonna give it to us.

How do you like that?

These two guys come up here

with a lot of big talk about buying and selling

and what are they gonna do it with?

Our connections.

What do you think we are? A couple of marks?

Shut up, Mac.

Come on.

Wait a minute, Doyle.

What do you think,

you're the only outfit in the country?

Sit down, sit down.

What's the matter with you guys? Can't you

talk a little business without getting sore?

We just wanna know

who's gonna get what out of this, that's all.

Do I have to spell it for you?

We bank the deal with our own dough.

We take the chances.

If there's a rumble, we do the time.

And we got the fix.

You get the fix in at the border?

How else do you think we're gonna get it over?

Dig a tunnel?

Well, where do we go frim here?

We'll let you know.

But it might take a little time.

Don't let it take too much time.

Let's go.

Mike.

Mike, keep me with you.

What do you mean?

Take me out of here.

Back to the States.

Wherever you're going.

I can't do it by myself.

He'd stop me.

I gotta get out of here,

right away.

I can't stand it anymore.

Mike, I'm sick or something.

Look, I can't take you where I'm going.

Be a good kid.

Go on back to your party.

Mike.

Mike, please.

Plea...

All cop, aren't you?

Right to the heart.

Planning any stopovers, Miss?

No, I'm going straight through to Tucson.

How did she know where we were going?

Why don't you ask her?

Gee, Mike. What a nice surprise.

I'll bet.

Where are you going?

Tucson.

That's my hometown, you know.

I finally got my own consent to give

that big ape the brushoff

and go on back to the hashhouse.

It may not be much of a life but at least

it's an honest...

Save it!

I've heard it from experts.

McCandles put you up to this, didn't he?

Didn't he?

All right, Mike.

But this is on the level.

I've been trying

to break with McCandles for months.

Only, I didn't have any place to go.

No one to turn to...

Then, when you came along,

you seemed different

from the rest of the mugs I've always known.

Like you might give somebody a break. And then

when I heard you were going to Tucson

Honest, Mike. I won't be any trouble.

I won't ask for anything special.

Maybe after a while we might even make a go of it.

I only want a chance, that's all.

You don't believe me, do you?

No.

Look, Mike...

There are some things

that it isn't easy for a girl to say.

Even a girl like me.

But maybe now is the time to say'em.

I've had a pretty rugged life.

I learned one lesson.

There's only one thing in the whole world

you can count on.

The only one thing I ever have wanted.

That's money.

I don't care how I get it.

You may not think so, but...

I'll always land on my feet. I'm pretty smart.

I know what I got on the ball.

If you can't use it, okay.

Where you're going

there'll be somebody who can.

I'm not going back to that hashhouse, Mike.

Not me.

Not ever.

Now you listen to me.

When this train comes into Seattle,

You're gonna get off and go right back

to Vancouver where you belong.

Because if you don't, you're gonna get in the biggest

trouble you ever had in your life.

You understand?

No, she won't.

Because unless she goes along

I don't either.

You mean that?

You know I do.

It just doesn't figure.

That crazy fool has actually fallen for her.

It's a cross, can't you see that?

Can't you see it coming a mile away?

Yeah, but the angle.

The angle, what's the angle?

A guy like Johnny Evans wants to do a job

he doesn't need a dame to tell him how.

Look, Mort.

The only thing you've got on this guy

the only thing that's keeping him in line

is a girl, a dead girl, a memory.

So he gets a new girl.

What do you think is gonna happen?

I don't know.

All I know is this looks like the biggest thing

we've run across in years.

Any chance you could play it alone

from here on?

No, I haven't got the in.

All McCandles would give us

was the name of a dude ranch in Tucson.

We'll be contacted there.

No. If we're gonna go through with it

I gotta have him with me.

I'll let the Tucson boys

know you're in the neighborhood.

Just one thing.

If you do get in a jam, don't play the grandstand.

Pick up and get out of there.

Good agents are too hard to train.

And I don't like to lose them.

Oh, Mike isn't it wonderful?

Johnny get a cab.

I'll take care of the bags.

Hey, fellas. You know what kind of joint

this is we're going to?

Swimming pools, tennis courts,

riding stables, private bungalows.

Oh, yeah, it's the B-Bar-M.

You folks going there?

Hm-hm.

Oh, say, you'll have a swell time.

People from all over the country go there.

Bigshots from the East.

Society people.

I guess I finally hit the big time, huh?

Only it's a little bigger than I figured on.

I can't go to a place like that, Johnny.

Why not?

Something no girl can ever quite get across

to a man.

I never travel with company like that.

Look.

I'll give you a ring when I get a room.

Then maybe we'll get together

some time later, huh?

Get in.

No, Johnny.

I said get in.

The old place sure has changed.

There's the hashhouse I used to work at.

What a dump.

Driver.

Pull up over there a minute, will you?

Couple of things I wanna pick up.

Do you mind?

There you are, kid.

See anything you like?

Oh, Johnny, I couldn't.

Don't be a sucker.

He's got more dough than the United States Treasury.

Come on.

Call for Mr Clark.

Do you have anything for three?

Do you have a reservation, sir?

Why, er... no.

I'm sorry, sir. We're booked up for nearly

a year in advance.

There could be some cancellations, of course,

but I'm afraid I couldn't possibly

give you anything for at least a month.

I might have known it couldn't be real.

You sure you're not expecting us?

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