Pinky Page #2

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Bank's closed today. Saturday.

Very well. You can give me

whatever you have on hand...

and I'll tell my grandmother

you'll pay her the rest on Monday.

- Of course, I never keep

much money around the house.

- Mind giving me what you have?

just a minute. I'll look around.

(Jake) This every bit of money I got

in the house. A ten and a five makes $ 1 5.

(Pinky) I'll tell my grandmother

you'll give her the rest on Monday.

- (Jake) Monday. Sure.

- You be sure and come by Monday.

- I'll be there, all right.

- Jake, what's she doin' with my money?

- Rozelia, you know I didn't...

- What you doin' with my money?

- Rozelia, you know

who that is? Miss Pinky.

- I don't care.

- Miss Pinky,

that happens to be my money.

- Let go of me!

Come high, don't you? Drop that.

Why, you... I'll split you open

if you don't give me my money.

(Offcer)

Hey there. What's up?

- What's goin' on here?

- Nothin' at all, Captain.

- Everything's all right now.

- They been botherin' you, ma'am?

Pull your dress up, girl.

- Got a knife, Chief.

- (Chief) Okay. Get it.

Well, I reckon it's just as well

we come up when we did.

Uh, just what

was the trouble, ma'am?

- I don't care to make any charges.

- Just a minute, if you please.

I reckon you're a stranger in this part

of the country, but this fella Jake...

- Did he molest you in any way, ma'am?

- No. No.

And the girl.

What about her, ma'am?

She even so much

as thought of threatening you,

we wanna know about it...

- Or if she give you any

of her impudence.

- (Cackles)

- Shut up, girl.

- Excuse me, sir, but why are you

two white men "ma'am-ing" her?

She's nothin' but

a low-down colored gal.

- Tried to steal my man.

- Make him stop! Make him stop!

You heard what she said. He's got

to slap her down, unless it's true.

Yes, it's true. I'm colored.

My grandmother's Mrs. DiceyJohnson.

Mrs. DiceyJohnson!

I oughta slap 'em both down, Chief.

Nah. Hold it.

- Why, I think I'll be going now.

- Go?

- You ain't goin' anywhere till

I tell you. Get in that car.

- I'm under arrest?

- What do you think?

- On what charges are you holding me?

You heard what I said.

Get in that car.

Don't worry.

I'll fx it. I know the judge.

Let me handle this.

(Horn Honking)

It looked like there was gonna

be some trouble, and I searched her.

Then I took this knife off her,

judge Walker. It was in her garter.

So I just brought 'em all in.

- Is this your knife?

- She's the one started trouble,

comin' takin' my money.

- That'll do. Find anything

on the other one?

- Didn't search her.

- Nothin' there, Judge.

- She had plenty time to throw it away.

- Rozelia, I could send you up

for this knife business.

- Yes, sir.

And I will if I hear one more

word about this matter... about

a knife or razor or any trouble.

- Is that clear?

- Yes.

- Now, go.

- Thank you, sir.

- As for you, Jake...

- Yes, sir. I was just...

You've been in this kind of

trouble before.

- After this, keep your hands

off other people's money.

- No, sir.

Never touch a nickel

that ain't mine, sir.

- I'm going to let you off this time.

- Thank you. Much obliged, Judge.

- But next time will be the last.

- Yes, sir. Thank you.

Now it's to you, Pinky.

lfJake owes you money

and doesn't pay it, let me know.

- I'll see that he does.

- Thank you.

I remember years ago,

after your mother died.

I remember when Dicey sent you away

to school. Aunt Dicey's a good woman.

I've always thought highly of her,

and I'd like to be able to think well

of her grandchildren.

I've done nothing, Judge Walker,

and I'm telling you the truth.

- I'm not saying you aren't, but...

- But because I'm colored,

you don't believe me.

You're not sure.

That's it, isn't it?

How'd you make out up yonder?

I graduated, then I took

three years' training as a nurse.

Oh, I didn't know. You managed to do

all that on what Dicey could send?

- Yes.

- Hmm.

I won scholarships. I worked,

waited tables. I got along.

Oh, that's good. That's very good.

All the more reason...

you should keep on being a credit

and comfort to your grandmother.

You've had advantages which are

denied to most members of your race...

people likeJake

and Rozelia, for example.

just try to keep out of trouble.

That's all.

Thank you, sir.

- Pinky.

- Yes, Granny?

Why don't you try and...

- Going somewhere, honey?

- Just for a walk.

- Evenin', SisterJohnson.

- Come in, Jake.

Stop sneakin' in here

behind me like that too.

I told Miss Pinky I'd drop around,

so here I is, man of my word.

Good. Pinky give me the $1 5

you give her, said you'd be here

to give me the rest.

I guess she was kind of riled

after that little run-in.

- Run-in? What you mean, run-in?

- Oh, nothing.

- You workin' mighty late, SisterJohnson.

- Oh, I reckon I'll die...

with the shoes on my feet

and that old smoothin' iron

in my hand, good Lord willing.

You're a worker

from way back yonder. Yes, sir.

- I always admire a good worker.

- Look who's talkin'.

Well, there's work and then

there's work. My biggest work,

I do with my brain.

Liable to get top-heavy

overworking that brain, eh, Jake?

That's the way to rise up

in the world. No more

being the skim milk forJake.

- He's gonna be the cream on top.

- Cream gotta be cream frst

before it rise.

- Where you goin', Sister?

- I gotta take this wash

back to Miss Em's.

Oh.

- Give me that.

- Don't you want me to read it for ya?

- Give it back, I say. It's mine.

- I can see... I can see that.

Give me that letter!

Not gonna read this letter

to nobody.

Well, you burned it up, didn't you?

That ain't gonna stop nothin'.

I got a feeling that

a fast letter coming like that

is a shadow moving before.

- Think so, Jake?

- Folks is coming, they come

treadin' on their shadows.

Course, I can stop him. Got his

name and address right here in my head.

Didn't I tell you I worked with

my brain? I can write a letter to him.

Say, I never seen

no colored man write like that.

Two stamps on the letter

and his name and address in

the corner with "M.D." after it.

- That means doctor.

- You think you'd be doing right?

You wanna keep Miss Pinky, don't you?

I'll send him a telegram.

That'll stop him just like that.

Don't you worry, Sister.

jake's gonna take care of everything.

Course, telegrams cost money, and I like

to do everything business-like.

That'll be a deductible item

from what I owe you.

(Train Whistle Blows, Distant)

- Evenin', ma'am.

Can we give you a lift?

- No, thank you.

Excuse me, ma'am. You must

be a stranger around here.

We can't let no white girl...

walk by herself through

this here n*gger section.

- I live in this section.

- You what?

- I said I live here.

Now, just let me alone.

- Lives here? What do you know?

Who'd ever fgure that?

- That's the whitest dinge I ever saw.

- Look at that swamp rabbit go.

- What do you say, let's go get her?

- Boy, let's go now.

We ain't gonna hurt you, baby.

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