The Big House Page #5

Oh, you'll

come back someday.

I don't think so.

The minute that dick

walked into that place where i was working,

i knew there was

no chance for me to continue on here.

Wouldn't it be better

if you went ba to prison

and served out

your time?

No. They'd give me

seven more years of it.

I've got

a pretty good grip on myself, anne,

and i'd like to make

a new start,

and my only hope

is in some other country where they can't get me.

Well, i suppose

you're right,

but i'll-

we'll miss you.

Will you really?

You know i will.

Anne, i have no right

to tell you this,

but, you know, i get

sort of a choky feeling

every time i think

i'm never going to see you again.

Oh, don't be angry at me

for saying that, will you?

I'm not angry.

You see, it's the only way

i have of telling you

how much your friendship

has done for me.

Thanks.

What are you

going to do?

Work. Does that

please you?

Mm-hmm.

You know,

as soon as i get to the islands,

i'm going to get

a little plantation.

I've heard of a chap

who made a fortune out there.

Oh, that sounds

marvelous.

Doesn't it?

You know, if it

weren't for you,

i wouldn't mind

going,

and yet, if it

weren't for you, i wouldn't be going.

Gosh, how are you

going to figure that one out?

I don't know.

Hello, morgan.

Let's see what you've got on you.

I guess

you didn't know

who this fellow

really was, miss marlowe.

That's too bad.

Sergeant, please.

Wait a minute.

I'm sorry this had

to happen here, anne.

But i...

now, let's get going.

Oh, mother!

I love him!

Oh, if they'd

only give him another chance!

You're going

to find things

tougher

than ever here.

The state has

closed the mill.

You know

what idleness does to a man,

so you better

watch your step.

Yes, sir.

All right, morgan. Let's go.

Yes, sir.

We're going to have

a lot more trouble with that bird.

You'll see.

I think you're wrong,

wallace.

I believe he wants

to go straight.

Straight?

Two weeks

with the old gang,

and he'll be

right back where he was.

Maybe.

I hope not.

Hello, morg.

Get back over

that deadline,

or i'll knock

your block off.

Who, me?

Yes, you.

Pop's getting

tough.

How's all

the dames outside?

See my initials

carved on many

bedposts, morg?

How have you been,

butch, huh?

Oh, o.k. You know,

the food's getting worse here, too.

Hello, morg.

How are you?

Well, what's the gang

been up to, butch?

Planning.

Six of us is going

right out

through that gate.

You aren't

kidding me, are you?

No. I'm giving it

to you straight.

Me and the gopher

framed it.

The gopher?

Why, he's been

the prison gardener for seven years.

Sure.

He's had an idea

in the back of his bean, though.

There he goes now.

For three months,

every day,

he's been going

to that gate.

The screw's

used to it,

don't pay no

attention to him.

Yeah?

Every once

in a while,

why, he has

an extra big bunch of flowers,

and the screw opens

the gate, savvy?

I see.

And you six guys go through, is that it?

Sure.

Simple, ain't it?

Sure. What happens

when you get through the inner gate?

We crash

that outer gate,

and there's a car

waiting outside.

When does it

come off?

Thanksgiving day

at noon.

Most of the screws

go home to turkey dinner.

We'll give them

a bellyful.

You know it means

the rope, butch, if they catch you.

Who's in on it?

Well, me

and olsen and joe and the hawk.

The hawk?

That means blood.

No. He promised me

he wouldn't bump nobody off.

Why, he croaked

his own mother.

Sure, he did.

He cut her throat.

He was sorry for it.

He's all right.

Anybody else

in on it?

Well, there's that

big swede and kent.

Kent?

Say, listen,

you're all wrong about that kent guy.

It was a russian

that planted that knife on you,

not kent.

We caught him doing

the same thing to another guy.

Yeah?

Sure.

I was sure

it was kent.

No. After you

made your getaway,

they put the gopher

in the same cell with me and kent,

see?

Kent ain't

in on the plans,

but he's got to go

out with us.

We ain't

tellin' nobody

till we get ready

to make the break- outside of you.

Not for me, butch.

I'm going straight.

You wouldn't

kid an old friend, would you?

Hello, morgan.

You got me all wrong, butch,

but i just don't play

a sucker's game, that's all.

How are you?

Hey, listen. Don't

let that gang know

that you're going

straight.

They used to have

a lot of respect for you.

Hello, morg.

Welcome b-b-back home.

Hello, morg.

Hey, listen,

don't gang up here.

Come on.

Take a powder. Take a powder.

See you later, butch.

Hey, you.

Come here, you.

Let's see that book.

Where is

that bride's confession

i told you to get me?

Well-well, you see,

it's wor-worn out.

Well, you get me

sappho.

Say, you don't mind

if i take a powder, do you, mr. Bu-utch?

No. Go on.

Scram. Scram.

Hey, kent.

I want to talk

to you.

Morgan, i want to

explain to you about that knife-

yeah, butch told me

all about it.

What you've done

doesn't interest me.

It's what you're

going to do.

Are you in

on this break?

Yeah. They took me

in on it.

I know.

It's dynamite.

They haven't told me

all their plans yet.

You keep out of it,

do you hear?

Not that i care

about you,

but i met that family

of yours, kent.

They think

the world of you.

Now, you've caused them

enough trouble,

and if anything more

happens to you, they'd never get over it,

so you keep out

of this break.

It's murder,

and you'll hang for it.

Hey, you.

Morgan trying

to turn you against the gang?

Yeah, that's what

he was doing, all right.

You wouldn't think it

of him, would you?

Aw, he's a rat.

I wonder

what butch will say.

Think i'd better go

and tell him.

All right.

You tell him.

This guy could catch

fish with his hands.

He'd reach

under the rocks

and get ahold

of a fish...

say, butch,

you take morgan in?

Morg? Sure.

You sure

he's going with us?

Sure, he is.

He can't wait.

Don't lie

to me.

Who, me?

Why, i never told a lie in my life.

You know

he's not going with us.

I just heard him

telling kent to keep out of it.

Yeah?

Yeah. Said it looked like

a trap to him. Get me?

You suppose morgan

will go yellow?

Who, morg?

Well,

something's changed him.

Yeah, something's

changed him.

You don't suppose

he'd rat on us?

What's that

you said?

You don't think

he'd squeal?

Say, listen,

he wouldn't squeal on nobody.

He's changed,

that's all right,

but i'll croak

the first guy

that says he's

a double-crosser.

So kent's got

his ear to the ground,

and he'll soon have

plenty to tell us.

He thinks the gang

have guns,

but he doesn't know

where they're hidden.

I promised him we'd

cut his time in half

if he brought us

this information.

Stool pigeons.

I wish we could

run this place without them.

Yeah, well,

we can't.

Who's in on it?

All of butch's gang.

How about giving them

solitary?

That would only

keep them quiet for a few weeks.

It isn't

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