Just Around the Corner Page #6

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doing right now and will pay well.

- I could surely use it.

- Eh, you're not married, are you?

- No, not yet.

- That's good.

We don't send family men out in that country.

You'll have to leave right away.

How long should the job take?

You'd have to sign up

for two years.

Borneo.

Jeff, you can't go. You simply can't go to the end

of the world and leave us here.

Do you think for a moment

I want to go?

Oh, it's a grand job,

a wonderful chance...

but if I had anything half as good here,

l-- I wouldn't even consider it.

But you'll have something here if you wait.

Uncle promised to do something.

I don't want that sort of job.

I told you before.

- Jeff, I'm going with you.

- Now, that's the spirit.

You can't go, but--

but just the same, that's the spirit.

You see, they--they won't

take a married man on the job.

Oh, but, Jeff, think how long it is,

how desperately long.

Two whole years to wait.

I know.

I wanted to tell you.

I'm not asking you

to wait for me, Lola. It's not fair.

Now, look here,

Jeff Hale.

- I can't stop you from going, but you just

try to stop me from waiting for you.

- Mmm.

Good morning,

Miss Penny.

Corporal,

where's Borneo?

Uh, Borneo?

[Clears Throat] Borneo?

Oh. Uh, he's moved up

into Harlem.

Borneo isn't a man.

It's a place. Where is it?

Borneo-- Oh, sure.

That's where that big light

come from in the sky... nights.

- What light?

- The aurora, uh, "borenalis."

- Everybody's heard of that.

- I haven't.

Well, it's sorta north--

way up north near the North Pole.

- That's where Borneo is.

- Full of icebergs and polar bears?

Yes, ma'am.

Just stick your little nose outside of the door,

and you'll freeze to death.

And if the "polo" bears

don't eat you, the Eskimos do.

Oh.

- Gus.

- Yeah?

Gus, this is important.

I want a man's angle on it.

- On what?

- Borneo.

Bo-- Now, listen, beautiful.

I'm in a hurry.

So am I.

I've only got a few days.

- Where's Borneo?

- B-- Uh--

It's, um--

It's near Gibraltar.

- Where's Gibraltar?

- Well, I just told ya. It's, uhIt's near Borneo.

Didn't you ever hear

of The Wild Man of Borneo?

That's it.

Wild men, lions, tigers,

swamps, fevers, uh--

Well, I gotta get to work.

- The Corporal said it was

full of icebergs and polar bears.

- Aw, that's in winter.

If anyone had lived there for two years,

could they ever come back alive?

Not a chance.

Now, you stay right here in little old

New York and let Borneo take care of itself.

But please, you'll do everything

you can think of, won't you?

I--I mean, if one thing doesn't work,

you won't stop.

- You'll go right on.

- Count on me, darling.

I want him to stay here

just as much as you do.

Not quite as much,

because, after all...

you've got Milton and--

and all, and I'll be alone.

But, Miss Lola...

even if he says no a hundred

thousand times, you just insist.

If you insist long enough

with my daddy, he always gives in...

sometimes.

Hey, what are you doing

with those shirts?

I have to look them over. You can't go

to Borneo without buttons on your shirts.

My socks.

But you've looked them over.

Oh, sure, once,

but I have to double-check.

I wouldn't think of letting you go

without double-checking.

That's the second time

you've rated those socks.

Aren't they

double-checked enough?

Well, after all these are socks.

You can't check them too much.

You might find a hole

in a sock anytime...

and then what would

those "Borneonians" say?

They'd say, "Now, what kind of a woman

is taking care of this poor man?"

There! Just look at that.

And this is a triple-check.

[Chuckles Quietly]

What you would do a way off in Borneo

without me to look after you...

I hardly can imagine.

I don't think I'll pack

any more today.

After all, there's no hurry.

We still have two more full days.

- And you might not go.

- What's that?

Anything can happen

in two days.

What if somebody did something for Uncle Sam,

and Uncle Sam did something for business?

Then you wouldn't have to go

to Borneo, would you?

No, I wouldn't

have to go, Penny.

But don't you count on it, partner,

because it won't happen.

There's no use of

our fooling ourselves, is there?

[Sighs]

[Banging]

- [ Banging In Distance]

- Mr. Waters...

I've heard nothing but tap,

tap, tap for the last hour.

- I wonder what it is?

- [ Banging Continues]

- Could it be woodpeckers?

- Oh, no, not at the Riverview.

No, no, no, no. Of course not. Well, I, for one,

intend to find out just what it is.

If I'm not back in 15 minutes--

[Clears Throat] call the police.

- [ Banging Continues]

- [Mouth Full] THIS IS A HAPPY LITTLE DITTY

[ Banging Continues ]

[ Continues, Mouth Full ]

- [ Knocking]

- Let me in.

It's Mr. Waters.

- It's Mr. Waters.

- It's Mr. Waters.

- It's Mr. Waters.

- Yeah.

- [ Knocks]

- What?

- [ Knocks]

- [Waters] Let me in this moment.

- I knew it.

I knew it wasn't rheumatism

I felt in my bones.

Well? Open up!

Who's in there?

Don't let him in. If he catches me,

I'll be flat on my social security.

- Be calm, everybody. Be calm. Take it easy. Shh.

- [ Knocks]

- Be calm.

- [Whispers] Sure.

- Shh.

- [ Knocks Loudly]

[Whimpering]

- Don't let him in now. He'll spoil everything.

- [ Knocks]

Well, I guess it's up to me.

It's up to me, all right.

Old Gus is gonna

save the day.

- [ Knocks]

- I demand entrance!

- [ Knocking]

- Let me in this moment.

Oh!

- Who's in there?

- Uh, th-the Rotary Club.

The Rot--That's ridiculous.

There's something wrong going on in there.

- Well, sure. Sure. They're rotating.

- Uh--Oh, that's insane.

- Now, you tell me this instant what's wrong.

- All right. All right.

- Do you really have to know?

- I certainly do.

It's termites--

giant termites.

Why, the building is lo--

full of 'em.

- Ya hear 'em?

- [Tapping]

- Yes.

Why hasn't somebody

told me about this before?

- I'll have the exterminators here in five minutes.

- Uh-huh. W--

- Well, of course, you know, l-- I may be mistaken.

- Yes.

I-- I very seldom am, but there's always

that off chance, you know. [Chuckles]

Uh, probably, ya better listen in here

for yourself. Hmm.

- Do you hear anything?

- No.

- Hmm. You will in a minute.

- [Yelps]

Oh!

[Grunts]

Oh!

[Yelping,

Whimpering]

Pardon me,

my little lamb's lettuce.

- Help. Help. Help.

- [Chuckles]

THIS IS A CHEERFUL LITTLE DITTY

- I-- [Sputtering] I KNOW THE--

- [Chuckles]

i THIS IS A CHEERFUL LITTLE

DITTY, I KNOW THE--

- You'll hear something from me!

- Help.

- [Stops Singing]

[In Affected Accent]: Thank you very much.

- Drop your nickels. Now, come on.

- [Dinging Bicycle Bell]

Don't crowd. Come on.

Drop your nickels.

- That's it.

- [Dog Barks]

- [All Chattering]

- [Kids Chattering Loudly]

- [Dogs Barking]

- Drop your nickels. Drop your nickels.

- [Continues Dinging]

I'm getting tired of hanging around

this neighborhood waiting for

a statement from Henshaw.

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