They Live by Night Page #4

I could fix it

so you'd have a real nice time.

We know where we're going.

That's fine.

Of course, I'm partial to Mexico myself.

I spent a good many years there once.

I made a lot of good friends.

She said we know where we're going.

Uh...

Yeah.

Oh, them old jalopies,

they make the accidents.

Ought to be a law.

- What's so funny?

- Oh, Bowie.

What did I say funny?

I like you so much.

I don't know much about kissing.

You're gonna have to show me.

- I don't know too much about it myself.

- We'll learn together.

- Yeah?

- You got a place for us?

Alvin! Well, that depends.

How long do you aim to stay?

A month or two.

Maybe more.

You didn't have to do that.

Yeah, I got a couple of places.

Not fancy, but comfortable.

I just aim to keep out the fly-by-nights.

My name's Lambert.

This is my boy, Alvin.

I'm learning him the business.

- What'd you say your name was?

- Vines.

Well, let's see

what you and Mrs. Vines like now.

Right up this way.

- What's your business, son?

- Ballplayer.

Well, now,

that's an honorable enough calling.

We got a schoolteacher, two salesmen

and now we got a ballplayer.

Here we are. Here we are.

This Bella Vista cabin's

one of our nicest.

Well, what is it, folks?

Well, don't you have a place

a little away from the others?

- Ah-ha. Just married, ain't you?

- Yeah.

Learn that, Alvin.

Just married people like to be alone.

I should think so.

Well, follow me.

This place I'm going to show you

is clean away from everything

but the sky and the trees.

- Did you travel far?

- Pretty far.

- How'd you happen to come here?

- Friends told us about it.

You see, Alvin, a satisfied customer

is your best advertisement.

This is it. Turn right in here.

Well, here we are.

Uh, mind the second step.

Not fancy, but it's comfortable.

We got a lot of blankets.

It gets kind of chilly up here.

It freezes, but it never snows.

- How much is it?

- Thirty-five a week, in advance.

The light and water's included.

Think that'll bust us?

Thanks. Hope you folks enjoy yourselves.

If there's anything I can do for you,

just give me a holler.

Come on, Alvin.

You see,

everybody has their own ideas.

I remembered everything all different.

It seemed like such a nice place.

We'll manage, honey.

Bowie.

Keechie, this is our honeymoon.

It don't make any difference

where we are.

We'll get some paint.

Keechie, what kind of paint

do people use in homes?

I'll get some things in town tomorrow.

Soon as the heat cools,

I'll take you to all the fine places.

We'll have a real honeymoon.

I'll buy you everything you want.

What do you want?

What can I buy you?

It's all for you.

Just tell me what you want.

If there's anything I can do for you,

just give me a holler.

Let's get the things from the car.

- Is anything wrong?

- No.

- What, are you mad?

- No.

Bowie, hold me.

Hold me tight.

After it was in every paper in the state,

then you remembered.

Well, try remembering a little more.

- I tell you, I just saw the boy once.

- You're sure of that?

I saw him the first time.

I didn't see him the second time,

but I knew that he was there.

Can the girl handle a gun?

Now, look, mister,

this man of yours don't understand me.

I wouldn't try to cover up for that boy.

Not after what he did to me,

taking my daughter.

That boy belongs in the electric chair.

That's where I'd like to see him.

Yes, and I'd like to be the one

to pull the switch.

I tell you,

if I could get my hands on that boy--

- That's all.

- I'd wring his neck like a chicken.

- Goodbye, Mobley.

- Yes, sir, I'd wring his neck--

- Like a chicken, we know.

- Yes.

Just wanna say I'm proud to help you

any way I can.

Just call me anytime and I'll-- I'll--

Between him and a chicken,

I'd bet on the chicken.

Yes, sir.

Wanna put somebody else

on the case, sir?

Relax. Remember what Bowers and the girl

are going through.

A hundred and forty million people

around them.

Any one of them might trip them up.

Money to spend

and no chance to spend it.

All the time knowing one thing,

sooner or later they'll be caught.

Every time they hear...

...on a door,

their hearts jump a foot.

A heart can take just so much.

What would you do if something came up

and I had to leave you,

and maybe we wouldn't be able

to see each other again?

Didn't you hear me?

There wouldn't be anything for me

if you were gone. No use thinking about it.

What about those other women

I was talking about?

Pop got back,

and there's some packages.

Packages?

- I'll be right down.

- I'll go.

Nuh-uh.

What about those women

who don't wait for their men?

Those women don't love.

A woman only loves once.

I guess a woman is sort of like a dog.

A bad dog will take things from anybody.

But you just take a good dog.

His master dies,

he won't take food from anybody.

He'll bite anybody

that tries to pet him.

There was a man back up home,

and after he died,

his dog wouldn't eat or drink.

Then he just died too.

- Just goes to show you, don't it?

- I guess it does.

You better start finishing the tree.

I wish we could go in town and

take a chance on seeing a movie together.

I've always wanted

to hold hands with a girl in a movie.

We will someday.

Keechie?

How's the headline, kid?

Chickamaw.

- Are you alone?

- I'm alone, aren't I?

Well, ain't you shacked up

nice and cozy, huh?

- Got a drink, kid?

- No, I'm sorry.

- Got some candy?

- Sure. Here.

Man, you're doing all right for yourself.

You can't pick up a paper

without seeing you plastered all over it.

Every time some dingbat

robs a filling station,

they say it's Bowie the Kid,

the Zelton Bandit.

You'd have to have wings

to be everyplace they say you been.

- Where's the girl?

- Keechie?

How many of them you got?

Just one.

Yeah, kind of figured she'd head back

for these old hills.

We're married.

Hey.

Hey, we should have learned you

the facts of life.

"We're married," he says.

How do you like that?

Hey, ready to get back to work?

No time like the present.

Between them aces and kings I didn't

draw and the Denver queens I did draw,

I got no money left.

- No drink, huh?

- What about T-Dub?

What happened to his?

He didn't get Mattie's man out of jail.

The parole board said no.

That T-Dub, he's crazy.

You know what he did?

No.

He bought both of them a tourist camp

in McMasters

for when his brother gets out of jail.

He's in Gusherton now.

He's waiting for us.

- Sure there's nothing to drink here, huh?

- Mm-mmm.

Kid, we got us a little bank in Cedar

that's just itching to be charged.

It's all cased proper.

It's just itching, I tell you.

Count me out, Chickamaw.

I still got most of my Zelton money.

You and T-Dub can have half of that.

You know, that's real friendly.

Real friendly.

Yeah, I'll split with you and old T-Dub.

You ain't gonna be handling me out

two bits at a time for ice-cream cones.

That dough you got, where'd you get it,

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