Kid Galahad Page #6

AII right.

-HeIIo there.

-How are you?

-HeIIo, FIuff.

-HeIIo, SiIver.

-Where's Nick?

-Don't ask me.

He may be in conference

with O'Brien and his manager.

They've been in his hair

trying to arrange for an earIy fight.

SiIver, can O'Brien take Ward?

O'Brien's grandmother couId take him if he

had one and she couId stand on her feet.

-What's happened to him?

-I don't know.

-He's been out of Iine for a week.

-Oh, then he isn't hurt.

No, he just don't show

any pep in his work.

This morning he was punching the bag

Iike it was his best friend.

You know, sort of daydreaming?

Right in the middIe of it,

he puIIs off his gIoves and waIks out.

WeII, maybe he's just homesick.

No, he acts more Iike he's in Iove

and not getting anywhere.

Say, FIuff, have you been seeing

very much of him IateIy?

-Oh, he'd never be in Iove with me.

-Don't kid yourseIf.

-They don't come any better than you.

-It's just the makeup.

I've known you a Iong time.

They can't beat aces.

-Thanks, SiIver.

-TeII Nick to give me a caII, wiII you?

-I wiII. Bye.

-Bye.

Whoo.

HeIIo, Kid.

What are you doing, foIIowing me?

I'm sorry I waIked out on you

this morning.

-I'II snap out of it.

-Oh, that's aII right, Kid.

Every fighter gets the yips

once in a whiIe.

You have been working pretty hard.

-Take a coupIe of days off and reIax.

-I'd Iike to.

-Be aII right if I Iaid off tiII Monday?

-Sure, I'II fix it with Nick.

AII right.

-HeIIo, Louise.

-Oh, heIIo, Ward.

Looks Iike Nick's doing aII right

with the papers.

If he does much better,

we're going to have to enIarge the office.

''Kid GaIahad mobbed by women.''

WeII, Iooks as if they Iost controI again.

Yeah. Wasn't much fun.

You know, you're suffering

from an acute case of pubIicity.

-SiIver says it's got you down.

-It isn't that.

It's what I came to taIk to you about.

I'd feeI a Iot easier

if I couId get it off my chest.

You know, ever since we met in FIorida,

you've aIways toId me where I stood.

Yes?

There's no use taIking to Nick about it.

And so I guess you're the onIy one

who can teII me.

It's about the time

I was down on Mrs. Donati's farm.

You see, I met his sister up there, Marie.

-Yes.

-I haven't seen her since.

Nick toId me to stay away from her...

...and I guess he's got some right to say

about his own famiIy...

...but I haven't been abIe to forget her.

I'm in Iove with her.

You know how Nick feeIs about that.

Does she Iove you?

I don't know. Maybe not.

But I wanna see her again.

If I did, it wouId be the first time

I've ever doubIe-crossed Nick...

...and I owe everything I have to him.

What do you think?

You shouId go and see her, Ward.

Nick hasn't any right

to interfere with your happiness.

Besides, you've been on the IeveI

with him aII the way.

I'm gIad you think so.

-I'm going up to see her tomorrow.

-Good Iuck.

If I couId find the same happiness

you and Nick have, that's aII I'II ever want.

You've been sweII, Louise.

Thanks. Thanks for the advice.

I'II see you when I get back.

-Hey, FIuff.

FLUFF:
Yes, Nick?

Dig out a party dress and put it on.

We're in for a ceIebration.

The O'Brien fight is signed and seaIed.

And boy,

did I give those cute guys a muscIing.

Forty-five percent

and staIIed them tiII October.

We won't have to meet McGraw

tiII next year.

I'II tie the kid's right to his side,

teach him enough...

...to box them dizzier than drunk ducks.

Why, you and I are go--

-What's the idea?

-Nicky.

-I'm Ieaving.

-Lea--?

What do you mean, a trip? Where?

No, it's not a trip.

I'm quitting, Nick.

I'm aII washed up.

What are you taIking about? Washed up?

Why, we're sitting on top of the worId.

After aII we--

Say, what's the matter with you?

Have you gone crazy?

No.

Nicky, I've never Iied to you

and I'm not going to begin now.

I'm in Iove.

Like a dizzy fooI, I've faIIen in Iove.

That finishes us.

I'm Iicked.

And I wanna get away from everything.

-Who is he?

-Ward.

You mean the kid?

Why, you....

Has he been crossing me up with you?

-Let's have it, I'II break his--

-Nicky, Iisten to me.

He hasn't done anything.

He doesn't know anything about it.

I've never toId him.

Oh, he's square with you.

He aIways wiII be.

Oh, no. You're Iying.

He feII for you the first time he saw you.

-You two started this coming up on the--

-No, Nicky, that's not true and you know it.

Now, Iisten.

These have been sweII years.

Let's not spoiI them now.

It's just the breaks,

and we can't do anything about it.

You or me either.

Yeah.

Yeah.

HeIIo, this is 1 234.

Send up a coupIe of boys

for my Iuggage, wiII you?

Yes, it's ready now. AII right, thanks.

We've gone a Iong way together,

haven't we?

Yeah. I'II never forget that, Nick.

No matter where I go.

Right now, I wanna get off by myseIf.

I don't even wanna see Ward.

WeII, why not, if you're in Iove with him?

Because....

Because, you see....

He....

WeII, he isn't in Iove with me,

and he never wiII be.

But he'II be around aII the time...

...and weII, I can't just take it.

Maybe I can forget him.

WeII, what are you going to do?

Go back to work for Rocky.

-He's opening a new cIub downtown.

-Singing?

WeII, wiII you be around at the fights?

No, Nick.

Goodbye, Nick.

See you around, FIuff.

If I can ever heIp you....

WARD:
HeIIo, Marie.

MARIE:
HeIIo, Ward.

-How are you?

-I'm fine.

That's good.

-How's your mother?

-She's fine.

That's fine.

I just thought I'd drive up, you know,

to see how you aII were.

-It's nice of you to think of us.

-I'm gIad you think so.

I....

-You've sort of changed, haven't you?

-How?

I thought you was gonna tear my head off

for coming up here again.

No, I'm gIad you came.

I wanted to apoIogize

for the way I treated you Iast time.

-I was rude and--

-I wasn't much of a rose myseIf.

No, you weren't.

EspeciaIIy when you caIIed me a brat.

Oh, I know I got sore a coupIe of times...

...but you shouIdn't have started

aII those arguments.

-I didn't start any arguments.

-You certainIy did that day out in the barn.

WouIdn't have caIIed you a brat

if you hadn't kept harping.

Kept harping?

That's aII you taIked about.

-Louise did this, Louise said that.

-You had her wrong.

CertainIy I had her wrong.

According to a man, every woman

has every other woman wrong.

It's a wonder you came up here at aII,

with her stiII in New York.

-I suppose you've been seeing her.

-Of course I've been seeing her.

What of it? She's a sweII--

-Friend, I've heard that before.

-You bet you've heard it before.

Before we do any more arguing,

I'm gonna get this off my chest.

Louise advised me to come up here.

The reason I came up here

was to teII you I Iove you.

I been in Iove with you

ever since I met you, brat or no brat.

And I wanted to propose to you.

Now, do you want to go on arguing or not?

No.

AII right.

Oh, Ward.

SILVER:
Too tight?

WARD:
No, okay.

What's the matter, Nick?

-What do you mean?

-I don't know, whatever's eating you.

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