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their state leader in Frisco.

Don't run before you learn to walk.

Come on back. Have the fun you used to.

The good times you and Hattie

started out at.

Get this, get this once and for all.

I ain't comin' back!

You gotta, Dutch.

Ain't it time you forgot your conceit and stopped

thinking you're bigger than anybody else?

You're no leader,

you never was and never will be.

Dutch.

Now will you get out of here

and quit telling me what to do?

I watched you grow up, Dutch.

Ever since you was a little kid.

And I thought as much of you

as if you were my own boy.

I figured you'd forget your conceit

when you got older

but I guess you'll never be anything

but a swell-headed fool.

I give you up.

Can't you see, Hat, can't you understand?

I gotta make good.

I know everything rotten happened

to you today

the scabs came in and then turned against you

and the furniture was moved out

But don't let it throw you.

We'll start all over again, having fun.

We'll both get back to work and before we know it

we'll have back the furniture back.

No, Hat, I can't do that.

I can't let you go back to work for me.

Everybody'd be laughing at me.

They'd say I flopped.

I can't go back to that union.

I gotta show them I was right.

Dutch, look at me.

I love you, honey,

I'd do anything in the world for you.

I want you to be happy,

and I wanna be happy with you.

I don't care whether they think

you're right or wrong.

But I care.

Can't you swallow your pride? Just for me?

No, Hat, I can't.

That's just it, I can't do it,

not even for you.

When I just think about going back

with the men...

I can't stay here, I tell you,

I can't.

But what can you do if you go away,

honey?

Plenty.

Look...

I love you...

but I gotta make good,

and if I make good I'll send for you.

And if I don't you'll never see me again.

Never, Hattie.

Dutch!

Is that your idea of love?

Don't you want a home like other folks,

and kids?

Kids? What are you talking about?

You're not...

No, honest, Dutch, I ain't...

'Cause that couldn't make no difference neither.

I can't let nothing stop the big things

I gotta do.

Nothing knowing how much I love you,

knowing how I'd be willing to work for you

even to starve with you,

you're still gonna walk out on me?

I gotta, Hat, I gotta, don't you see...

Oh, you gotta, huh?

Well if you walk out on me now,

you can keep going and never come back.

All right.

If that's the way you feel about it.

Swell party, Nick, Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas... I mean, they're coming.

Hattie, they're here.

They're here!

Merry Christmas!

Hey, baby, so you're late.

We had to make a few changes

on Hat's old wedding dress.

Why, look, some class, eh?

Guaranteed to kill at 20 yards,

you wanna take a chance?

Where can a thirsty man get a drink?

Of water.

It's right over there, Mr. Tuttle,

help yourself.

Don't mind if I do.

Will you excuse us while we rest

our wraps?

Sure, in there, go ahead,

make yourself comfortable.

Gosh, ain't it wonderful, Hat?

I ain't never seen nothin' like it.

I guess nobody has.

What's that?

Gee, I don't know.

You suppose Nick knows what it is?

Naw.

Wow!

Hattie, is all that perfume real?

Well, it sure smells like it.

Here, give me some.

He's got so much he'll never miss it.

We should've brang an empty bottle.

What do you care?

It's all gonna be yours anyhow.

Aw, gee, I know, honey,

but he's nice and kind.

Aw, don't be like me, I married Pete for love

and look at what I got.

Two kids and a lumbago.

Now you're gonna be smart

and forget all about Dutch, ain't you, Hat?

Aw, take the crape off your chin.

I forgot him a long time ago.

You a pretty smart lawyer, huh?

You think you can fix up this divorce,

eh, my firend?

Oh, sure, sure, but first we must review

the grounds.

Now, you say the treatment of Mr. Muller

to his wife was shameless?

Oh, my God, yes, the poor helpless thing.

He scorched her, he blackened her eye,

he hurt her arm, he gets drunk...

give her nothing for to eat something.

Now he's gone away,

she don't hear from him 3 or 4 months.

Isn't that terrible?

Oh, that's enough.

We don't want to send him to the electric chair.

As your attorney, Mr. Louis,

I have to ask you these answers.

Are you are give due considmeration

to your marriage to Mrs. Muller?

Due comsiderations? I give three comsiderations.

She marry me this time or I finish with her.

No more, no more.

Ah, but this Mrs. Muller, how is she's feel?

She's grand, she's marvelous.

Ah, cromprose yourself, my friend,

I'm don't be solicitation about her

personal healthy.

I am refer to the divorce action.

How is she's feels against it?

You leave me for to handle that, Mr. Markis.

I speak with her.

What do you use for your hair,

olive oil?

Oh, no. Plain goose grease.

Oh, that's very much nice.

Well, you wait here.

Make yourself comfortable.

I apprissmeate that.

We need to get alimony for you,

of course.

No, I don't want nothing from him.

Hattie don't need money from nobody.

If your ex-husband try to make

trouble for you,

don't you worry.

I can send him to prison on Section A, paragraph 8

for inciting riots unfit and undesirable.

You lay off of Dutch.

There's no need running him down.

Please, Mr. Markis, just give her the papers

for the signature.

Your James Hamcock right here,

please.

Come on, honey, you sign and everything's

gonna be hunky dory.

There, now get the divorce.

Shoot away, bust the whole thing wide open.

Ain't that just great, Hattie.

Congratulations, Nick.

I propose we drink to the bride

and groom.

Wait a minute.

I'm getting a divorce but that don't mean

I'm gonna marry Nick nor nobody else.

How do you like that?

Well, why you have me to...

That's all right. She's just a little bashful.

I am not bashful. You just take it easy.

Why, Hat!

Well, let's drink anyhow.

Ahhh, calm yourself.

Always try to use a little restrength.

Mr. Markis.

What for is the matter with me?

I don't know, Mr. Louis.

Maybe is the goose grease.

It's a waste, my boy.

I should own that Louis house.

I was on my way when I was young.

But you forgot to go to work everyday.

Never mind, Pops, you're kinda cute

at that.

I'd have had much more fun

if you'd let me bring my cornet.

Hey, what you got there, Pete?

Give me that.

Hm, ain't that nice?

Good night, children.

Good night, Pa.

Lew. Where did you come from?

What's up?

Nothing, I just come ashore.

I've been workin' on a swell yacht.

Thought I'd drop in and say hello.

Yeah, what's that yacht carrying,

a load of coal?

Oh, that er...

I fell down as I was coming off the waterfront.

I must have got a little dirty.

Where's Dutch? What's he done now?

He's fine.

Saw him a couple of weeks ago.

Hey, Hattie...

Could you lend me $5.?

Quit stalling, Lew. I got to know about Dutch.

Is he working?

Well, he's been kind of laying off

since he was sick.

Sick?

Oh, I spilled it.

Tell me, Lew.

All right, Hat.

But he'll kill me if he finds out

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