The Doctor and the Devils Page #6

More like seven pence.

I'll give you two bob, take it or leave it.

Two shillings?

For a family diamond

with a band of gold?

Diamond and a band of gold?

Brass and glass, my dear,

brass and glass. Two bob.

- It's a diamond, I tell ya.

- Wanna bet?

If it's a diamond, it won't break.

Wanna give it a try?

Ah, give us our money.

- Aren't you a thieving old cow.

- Now who's calling the kettle black?

And don't think I believe

all that malarkey

about you and your mother

and her mother before her.

You wouldn't know a diamond

from a sheep's eye.

Here, make that four, Fallon, and you can

have the pleasure of our company.

Oh, make that four!

Get them in, Fallon.

Come on, give us another.

Ah, girls, you'll have a grand night

with Fallon and Broom now, eh?

Slow night tonight, girls, eh?

Date.

Anyone here?

I've come for my little girl's things.

Let's be goin' back there then.

No, no. Let's stay here.

It's more fun. It's pissing out.

Ah, we'll go to our little room,

where you'll be as warm

and as snug and

as happy as a kitten, huh?

Come on, Jen, a little spit of rain

between friends, eh?

Let's do it. We got gin there.

We got gin like the morning dew.

Make you forget about the rain.

Come on, Jennie.

All right, all right.

I'll believe it when I see it.

I hope you're telling the truth, woman.

It's an offense to lie to the constabulary,

punishable by...

Well, bless my soul.

Come on, Jennie.

We'll soon have you warmer.

Come on. Hey, come on.

Come on, Jennie.

I forgot there's, uh, new lodgers

up there. Children screaming.

- Let's go to the cock pit, eh?

- No, it's cold there.

It's all right, me love. Come on.

Come on, quick.

They're filthy, disgusting.

Thomas! Thomas!

Thomas!

It's all right, Annabella.

It's only a dream.

This'll help you sleep.

I can't sleep. I don't sleep.

I have these awful dreams.

They're vile.

I'm frightened, Thomas.

They're bringing you bodies,

aren't they, from the graveyard?

Consecrated ground.

- It's just street gossip.

Wherever I go, people stare at me.

They whisper things about you.

Are they true?

It's rumors, Annabella.

You mustn't pay any attention to them.

We'll be disgraced. You'll be ruined.

Our name will be dragged in the mud.

Come on, drink it all up.

Do you know what it is to be lonely?

I feel lonely.

I wanted to be mistress

in my brother's house.

I wanted to give dinner parties

and dances.

I wanted to be

admired and charming.

I wanted to marry,

but nobody would come

because of your stupid philosophy.

Nobody'll come now.

Fallon...

Fallon?

Listen, Fallon,

I've been thinking.

There's nothing for us

but to get the hell outta here.

We've gotta make a run for it.

Now, when there's time.

What do you mean run for it?

There's work to be done,

money to be made.

For them two girls,

twice seven sovereigns.

Forget them girls, Fallon.

There's no more money in it for us.

There's only trouble.

They're just lying there, waiting for it.

Forget them, Fallon,

for Christ's sake.

And use your gin brain.

There were coppers back there

at the lodging house.

We were seen with them two whores.

- Who seen us, who?

- People in the tavern, the landlord.

God knows.

- The hell with that.

- They saw us going out with them.

All right, we'll do just one then, eh?

Can I, just one?

Just think of them young and fresh, huh?

You're not listening to me, Fallon.

The game's up.

Not for me, it isn't.

Oh, God, no, not for me.

No. Find me a pillow, Broom, eh.

Find me something soft

to put on her face.

Come on, I'll do it. I always do it.

Come on, just stay with me, Broom.

- Get your hands off me.

- What's the matter with ya?

- You'd do me if you had the chance, Fallon.

Broom, no, not you, just...

just one of the girls, eh?

Just one of them. Come on.

Look, I'll do it right this time.

I'll leave no marks

on their neck, eh, eh?

Trust me, Broom, trust me.

Give me the money, eh?

You're not in it for the money, Fallon.

There's a madness in you. You can't wait

to get your hands on them.

No, no, no, Broom.

It's the money, it's the money.

No, not for you, Fallon, not anymore.

What you love is the feeling when

you're stopping a life. You mad bastard!

Broom, come back here. Broom.

Broom, come back here!

Broom! Come...

Fresh bodies, fresh bodies,

fresh bodies, fresh bodies, fresh bodies.

Gentlemen,

what is there to dissect...

...the human conscience.

Quick, let's have the money.

How did you come by this one?

Just give me the money. I'll be gone.

She's still warm.

How'd you come by it?

Oh, it's a strange story, but, uh...

I'll tell ya, but it's just

between the two of us, eh?

This, uh, this whore and me, we was together,

you know what I mean, eh?

When then she made this sudden noise

in her throat and passed away onto me.

I couldn't believe it.

I mean, there she was one moment,

you know, young and healthy,

the next...

in me arms, under me.

You mean while you were in the...

In the middle of it.

Strange piece of luck. No mistake.

- No mistake.

- You're a rotten, lying murderer.

And if I wasn't told to pay you

and keep me mouth shut,

I'd have the law on you immediately.

Now get out!

Don't you tell me what to do.

You're scum like me,

and I don't take orders from scum.

Now, I'll be back with this one's friend,

so you just have your money ready

and your mouth shut.

There is right and wrong, gentlemen...

...just as there is right and left.

Mine is the right direction.

The fact that the majority would

consider it to be the wrong direction

only substantiates my opinion

that I am right.

Stay out.

I see, sir, that in order to keep you out,

I should have said to come in.

- They brought another body, sir.

- I didn't expect they'd bring a soul.

This one's fresh, sir, too fresh.

They're corpse diviners, Tom.

Some have green fingers for gardening,

so they have black fingers for death.

Do you expect the dead

to walk here, Tom?

They need assistance.

Fallon and Broom

provide that assistance.

Jennie.

My God! Tom!

Tom! Tom!

- Sir?

- Who brought her in?

- Fallon.

- Where is he now?

- He said he'd come back with another one.

- Oh, God. Jennie!

Open up, for God's sake!

Where's Jennie? Jennie!

Ask Alice.

They're always together.

Where's Jennie? Where is she?

Get out of here!

What do you think you're doing?

- Where's Jennie?

- I don't know where she is.

She was in the Black Boar,

drinking with Fallon and Broom last night.

Alice?

Alice?

Alice.

Where you going?

- Where's Alice?

- She went for a walk.

Ah, she wouldn't go without me.

Where is she?

Ah, you can never

trust your friends, Jennie.

You've made closest brothers,

you look around, they've gone, huh?

You never know when

they're gonna turn on ya, eh?

No, no.

I've gotta go, Fallon.

I've got me living to earn!

Don't you like my company now?

Hey, look, look, look.

Look. I'll give you money enough

to keep you off the streets

for a month, eh?

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