Riffraff Page #8

Come on, Dutch, let's get outta here.

Look, Dutch, I got a date

with a swell mama tonight.

Here's the address.

You go on and keep it, will ya.

She'll be crazy about you.

No thanks.

You're a swell kid, Lew.

They ain't told him about the kid,

have they?

No, it's entirely up to you.

Never thought I'd see him again.

Hello, Hat.

I'll let you see Mr. Muller alone, Hattie.

Thanks, Mrs. Morgan.

Well?

Well., here I am.

Right in the nick of time.

What are you gonna do, stand there

and wisecrack to everything I say?

When I come to see you nice like this.

Oh, excuse me,

I hadn't thought about that.

Aw, don't rub it in, Hat.

You don't know how I've been thinking

about you.

I ain't slept nights with thinking.

Yeah? I don't sleep so good neither.

I didn't know till a couple of weeks ago

about you taking the rap for me.

And ever since that,

I've been planning and thinking...

trying to dope some way

to get you out of here.

And I got it, Hat. It's a cinch.

You ain't gonna be in here

very much longer.

And then you and me will be together again.

Just like we was.

Yeah?

No kiddin'?

I guess I sort of blew my top

the last time I saw you but...

I'm gonna make it up to you, Hat, honest.

I've been working my head off for you.

You're working? You're back in the union?

They give you a boat?

In the union? No, nothing like that.

I figured out a way

for you to get out of here.

I got in with a guy in the construction gang

who's fixin' the drain pipe in the prison yard.

It runs clean outside the prison wall.

There's nothin' to it.

The first night it rains, all you do

is sneak into that culvert...

I see. And if I get out, then what?

I'll swipe a car and be waitin' for ya

at the bottom of the hill, It's a cinch.

That's swell, Dutch.

Simply swell.

Sure, sure.

Then we'll go to Mexico, we'll live in the soft.

There's nothin' to it.

All you have to do down there

is grab the stuff off the trees.

A couple of gypsies bumming our way.

You don't trust me. That's been the trouble

between you and me from the start.

Trust you? When did you ever do anything

to make me trust you?

You wouldn't come up here

with a sensible idea, would you?

You wouldn't go to the union

and try and get your card back

so you could get a responsible job

and get me out on parole.

Breakin' out of the pen, getting caught,

losing all my good behavior.

Pipe down, will ya.

Take your hands off of me.

I'm not going with you.

I don't ever wanna see you again.

I'd rather stay here the rest of my life

and rot.

Mrs. Morgan!

Pipe down...

Mrs. Morgan...

Get him out of here and don't ever

let him come back.

Gee, I didn't mean to make her sore.

I guess I said something she didn't like.

Could you get her? I'd like to tell her...

Well...

over the river, lady.

He gonna take you out?

Sure, he's got a 14-room house

waiting for me with 3 automobiles.

What did he come up for then?

Aw, nothing, he just wanted to help me

break out of jail.

What?

Break out, kid? How?

Through that drainpipe in the yard

on the first rainy night.

He'd taken time planning for me, he said.

The dizzy dope.

What's the use of kidding myself.

I'll never get over it.

What a sap I was sending him away.

Maybe coconuts wouldn't have been so bad

after all.

Oh, why do I keep on thinking about him?

What do you do to forget a guy like that?

I cut his throat. That didn't do no good.

Brains will be down.

He's washing his hands for supper.

Thanks, Mrs. McCall,

I'll only keep him a minute.

Hello, Dutch.

Hello, Brains.

Sit down.

Thanks.

Have something. Have a piece of fruit.

Oh, no, thanks. I just had a big sirloin

over at Towman Tony's.

Well, what's on your mind?

Well, I'll tell you, Brains...

The more I think about it

I guess there's a lot of things

that ain't exactly like I thought they was.

And uh... and uh...

So I decided that uh...

for the time being, anyway,

maybe it would be better if I come back

to work here.

That's why I showed up at the union.

The men weren't really serious, I know...

What do you think?

I'm sorry, Dutch.

The men...

that's the way they feel about it.

But, Brains, I gotta go to work.

I don't care what it is. If it's the lowest,

rottenest job on the waterfront...

It's for Hat, Brains.

I gotta get her out.

It's my fault that she's up there.

It's me that done that to her.

Me, the fathead.

Don't you see, Brains? I gotta make it good.

I love her.

Even if she don't love me no more.

There's an oil tanker coming in tomorrow.

And they need a watchman

to tie it up to the dock, you know.

It ain't much. But it don't call for a union card.

I could put in a word for you.

Oh, gosh, would you do that for me, Brains?

Would you?

I'd be glad to.

I'll be glad to do some little thing

for you sometime.

That's all right.

I think I can swing it.

I'll get on it first thing in the morning

Well, I guess I'll run along now, Brains.

I don't wanna keep you from your supper.

Sure you won't stay and have some supper?

Sure, Dutch, we got plenty.

No, no, thanks, honest,

I couldn't eat a thing.

Wel, then, have an apple.

Go on.

Okay, I don't mind if I do.

Brains,

it's been stickin' in my crawl, but...

about that time when I...

well, I've always been sorry.

That's all right, Dutch. Forget it.

Sure is raining.

It's gonna rain till morning...

Stop intriguing.

On your toes, girls,

the animal's getting nervous.

Watch your stuff, kid,

don't lose your nerve.

Look out! A rat!

Get goin'.

Bring the clothes?

Yeah, here they are.

Okay, Dutch, take her over.

It's been tryin' to rain all evening.

Bet it's pouring up north.

Looks like they'll be teachin' them rats

to swim tonight.

So long, Smokey.

Stay away from them wild women, now.

Who's that?

What kind of a puss is that?

If you think this puss is funny

you should'a saw your puss.

Go on, get outta here.

Say, you're a swell nightwatchman.

I coulda set the tanker on fire...

and burn up the whole waterfront.

Where did you get that?

I borrowed it from the guy that sells them.

Yeah, you borrowed it.

You'll borrow yourself right in to reform school

one of these days.

So am I.

Say, don't you get tired of doin' this?

You've been doing it for the past two nights.

Why don't you get yourself a good job?

Hey, what are you trying to do?

Make a mug out of me?

Go on, get out of here. Go on home.

I ain't going home.

I'm gonna catch me a sanddab.

Do sanddabs run at night?

Yeah, sanddabs and fresh kids like you.

If I catch one I'll fry it on you.

I got you hot enough.

Rudolph.

Who's that?

Hiya, Dutch. How's everything?

Where did you think you were going?

Now, don't get excited, Dutch.

Just thought you might be a little bit lonesome

around a job like this,

I was just gonna come over

and talk to you.

We got nothing to talk about.

I hear they gave you a pretty raw deal.

I was talkin' to some of the boys about it

they say those guys oughta get down

on their knees

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