To Have and Have Not Page #2

to get mixed up in local politics.

I would not speak if it weren't important.

Please, can I go with you to your room?

Sure. Come ahead.

Anybody got a match?

Thanks.

Who's that?

She came in this afternoon.

The plane from the south.

Now look, Frenchy, about that other thing.

I know where you stand

and what your sympathies are.

It's all right for you,

but I don't want any part of it.

If I'm caught fooling with you fellas,

my goose'll be cooked.

Probably lose my boat, too.

I ain't that interested.

But they are coming to see you tonight.

You better get word to them.

They'll just be wasting their time.

Sorry. I'll see you later.

Take over.

Bravo!

I tried to reach those fellows,

but I can't get in contact with them.

Who? The ones who wanted

to hire my boat?

It's dangerous enough for them

to come at all, but to come for nothing...

I didn't ask to see them.

You better head them off.

- Hello.

- Let's have it.

- What do you want?

- Johnson's wallet.

- What?

- Come on.

What are you talking about?

Mister, what's got into you?

What do you think you're gonna do?

I'm gonna get that wallet, Slim.

I'd rather you wouldn't call me Slim.

I'm a little too skinny to take it kindly.

Quit the baby talk.

Which is it?

You know, Steve,

I wouldn't put it past you.

I didn't know you were a hotel detective.

Johnson's my client.

He doesn't speak so well of you.

He's still my client.

Pick on somebody to steal from

that doesn't owe me money.

He dropped it and I picked it up.

You were gonna give it back to him,

of course?

No, I wasn't.

- I don't like him.

- That's a pretty good reason.

Besides, I need boat fare

to get out of Martinique.

Another good reason...

but you'll have to get it

from somebody else.

- How do you like that?

- Find anything?

About $60 in cash

and about $1,400 in travelers checks.

Do you expect more?

That bird owed me $825.

"I haven't got that much on me," he says.

"I'll have to go to the bank

and pay you off tomorrow," he says.

And all the time he's got a reservation

on a plane leaving tomorrow at daylight.

So he was gonna skip out on you.

Your client.

- Good thing you didn't give it back to him.

- Then I did you a favor.

That's right. But if I hadn't stopped you...

you'd have gotten away

with the whole works.

After all, I am entitled to something.

Don't you think so, Slim?

What do you think is fair?

I'll leave that to you.

What would you say to...

Please, Harry.

I told them, but they insisted...

It is not Gerard's fault, Mr. Morgan.

Come in and close the door.

You know,

I told Frenchy I wasn't interested.

I know. But close the door, please.

I'm very sorry to intrude this way...

- but this is of great importance and we...

- One moment.

I'd better go.

- See you later.

- Stick around. We're not through yet.

It's all right to talk in front of her, isn't it?

- Go ahead.

- But it's no good.

- If you'd listen...

- No use.

- You're taking a chance coming here.

- We're not afraid.

I am. I'm sorry, I can't and won't do it.

We'll give you 2,500 francs.

- That's only $50 in American money.

- It is more to us.

It is only a little voyage

to a place about 40 kilometers from here.

- We'd give you more money, but we can't.

- It's all we have.

Don't make me feel bad.

I tell you true, I can't do it.

Afterwards, when things are changed,

it would mean a good deal to you.

Yes, I know.

Mr. Morgan, I thought all Americans

were friendly to our side.

They are. But there's a rumor

that they put fellas on Devil's Island...

for doing what you're doing.

I'm not that friendly to anybody.

But they wouldn't do that to an American.

Do you really think that?

- Who's that?

- It's me, Harry.

It's all right.

- Hi, Harry? How you been keeping?

- Hello, Eddie.

- I wanted to talk to you about...

- Could we continue...

Who are you? Who are these guys, Harry?

Eddie's a friend of mine.

He was hanging around the dock

after you left.

You have a good memory

for one who drinks.

Drinking don't bother my memory.

If it did I wouldn't drink.

I couldn't. You see...

I'd forget how good it was.

Then where would I be?

- I'd start drinking water again.

- Maybe you'd forget about water, too.

No, I wouldn't. I see too much of it.

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

I've no memory of ever being bit

by any kind of bee.

Were you?

You're all right.

You and Harry's the only ones that...

- Don't forget Frenchy.

- Right. You, Harry and Frenchy.

You got to be careful of dead bees

if you go around barefooted.

If you step on them, they can sting

just as bad as if they was alive.

Especially if they was kind of mad

when they got killed.

- I bet I've been bit 100 times that way.

- You have? Why don't you bite them back?

That's what Harry always says.

But I ain't got no stinger.

- Does he always talk so much?

- Always.

- What do you want to see me about?

- Oh, yeah, Harry...

I guess I forgot.

That's all right.

I'll see you down at the dock later tonight.

Say, Harry, could you...

Thanks. You're all right. So long.

Sorry. We could stay at this all night

and the answer would still be the same.

I don't care who runs France

or Martinique, or who wants to run it.

You'll have to get somebody else.

Come on, Slim.

We still got some unfinished business.

Good night.

Make yourselves at home, boys.

Cigarettes are on the table over there.

I want to see Johnson's face

when you give it back to him.

All right.

Where've you been?

I've been looking all over for you.

You're a fine one, running off with my girl.

She's got something

she wants to give you. Go ahead, Slim.

Here's your wallet.

- How did you get it?

- I stole it.

That's a fine thing.

What are you gonna do about it?

The question is,

what are you going to do about it?

You'd better look it over

and see if it's all there.

It's all right, I'm sure.

No, you check it over.

She might want a receipt for it.

- It's all right. There's nothing missing.

- You sure?

Yeah. Now, young lady, I...

You better count those travelers checks.

- I know. There's $1,400.

- But you had to go to the bank tomorrow.

What's the time on that plane ticket

you got there?

In the morning.

And the bank opens at 10:00.

- I don't like him any better than you do.

- I was going to...

You were going to sign some

of those traveler's checks, weren't you?

- Yeah. Sure.

- Emil, you got a pen handy?

- $825.

- Yeah.

Stay where you are!

- Stay where you are.

- I think I'm sitting on someone's cigarette.

- This is awful.

- Did they get them all?

One got away, at least.

I think it was Beauclere.

Look, Harry, this is bad.

But no one but me knows

that you two saw them.

And Eddie, but he won't remember.

When the police come, you know nothing.

Do you realize, mademoiselle?

Don't be a fool. Stay inside.

Monsieur Gerard!

Cut it out, Cricket.

He couldn't write any faster

than he could duck.

Another minute

and these checks would have been good.

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