Million Dollar Mermaid Page #9

Her own recuperative power,

her health, her will.

Thank you, Doctor.

I know we're in capable hands.

Will check with you

later in the day.

Very well.

Well I...

Perhaps you would like to

sleep for a while.

Hello, baby.

I was just passing the hospital

and thought I'd look in.

Jimmy.

I've been here everyday

for the past two weeks.

That nurse downstairs is a clam.

She wouldn't tell me anything.

You're looking swell.

I feel fine.

A little rocky, maybe.

I'm going to be up

and around in no time at all.

That's great.

It's just a sprain,

it's stuff like this.

How's Doc? Fine.

And your picture?

Wrapped them. It's all finished.

We're taking the print

to New York tonight.

I've heard nothing

but good things about it.

Imagine, starring a dog.

What's his name?

Rintintin.

What funny name. Chinese?

French.

Annette, darling.

Jimmy.

Baby, don't let it

get you, please.

That doctor, he may know medicine

but there's lot of things

about people he doesn't know.

He doesn't know

about a little girl

that lived back in Australia.

They told her

the same thing, too.

He doesn't know how she hopped

every day to the water.

Learning to swim

before she could walk.

How she became the greatest

aquatic star in the world.

There's lot of things

that doctors don't know,

including what I once told you.

Wet, you're terrific.

Dry, you'll marry some guy

and settle down.

Jimmy.

I have more to tell you.

It ain't going to be the same,

baby, you and Harper.

He's a terrific guy.

Unlucky is the better word.

Alfred.

What Sullivan says

is right, darling.

You'll beat this thing

the same way

you have beaten everything else.

As for you, I don't know

why you should

get this kind of a break.

You don't rate it.

You've struck gold and never

have the sense to make a claim.

You're a crazy,

vagabond Irish man

with both feet

planted in mid-air.

I'm not sure

what the doctor ordered.

Just see that you make her happy.

Alfred.

Good bye, darling.

She'll be up and around

soon rehearsing a new act.

And when you do, remember,

I'm holding your contract

at the Hippodrome.

Yes.

This doesn't belong to me.

It doesn't belong to you either.

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