The Long Goodbye Page #9

- Nothing will come between...

- Hi, girls. You seen my cat?

The other day he ran away,

and I'm leaving town for a couple of days.

I'd appreciate it, if he shows up, if you

could look after him or give him milk.

They're not even there. It's OK with me.

A melon convention.

Our breasts are full, our bodies warm.

We hear music and dance to the music...

Seor Marlowe,

I want to show you our town.

It's a beautiful town but I don't think

I wanna go sightseeing right now.

- There are things I'd like to get straight.

- It's better if we talk inside.

This is the largest

police car I've ever seen.

- It's like a gold chariot.

- Very nice, Seor Marlowe.

But I think I have to change it this year.

Look, Seor Marlowe. We're fixing

the roads and all those things, the streets.

I know how civic-minded

you are, but I've come for the truth.

- The truth about Terry Lennox.

- He's dead. You saw the...

You told me a good story and I saw some

good pictures of a guy who looked dead,

but the truth

is coming together now, boys.

I'm prepared to make a donation

to the people of this town.

Since you're their representatives,

I can tell you that I'm prepared, right now,

to give you a James Madison.

James Madison?

A grand president. Five grand.

- You think you can bribe us?

- Bribe? Oh, no!

Bribe? This is charity I'm talking about.

You can buy a lot of cobblestones

for a little light shown on the matter.

I'll tell you what happened

to Terry Lennox.

The suicide was a fake, of course.

I put the injection so it looked like

he was dead, but he wasn't dead.

Put a gun to his head but the wound was

harmless. Then we took him in a coffin.

Took the pictures, with the ice.

It looked perfect.

We buried the coffin loaded with stones.

Mr Lennox

is also charitable. What did he...

- Just a Madison.

- So you know James Madison?

- We met him for the first time, yes.

- Lennox is still alive and well, seor.

How you doin', Terry?

Marlowe?

I guess if anybody was gonna

track me down, it would be you.

- Want a drink or something?

- No, I don't want no drink.

You get a kick

out of that Madison I sent you?

Yeah, I got a big kick out of it.

So you murdered your wife, Terry?

I killed her, but you can't call it murder.

Wade told her about Eileen and me,

she started screaming.

She was gonna tell the cops.

She knew I was carrying money for

Augustine. She was gonna turn me in.

I hit her. I didn't try to kill her.

I hit her. I didn't mean it.

I saw the photographs.

You bashed her face in.

She didn't give me any choice.

You didn't have much choice, huh?

So you used me.

That's what friends are for. I was in a jam.

Come on, have a drink.

I had a dead wife,

$350,000 that doesn't belong to me.

- I had to get out. It's as simple as that.

- Simple as that.

Goddamn simple. Cops have me

legally dead, Augustine's got his money.

I got a girl that loves me. She's got

more money than Sylvia and Augustine.

- What the hell? Nobody cares.

- Yeah. Nobody cares but me.

That's you, Marlowe.

You'll never learn. You're a born loser.

Yeah. I even lost my cat.

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you may be Donald Duck

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# Hooray for Hollywood

ENHOH:

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