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Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Victor Mature in Momentum, a suspense

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play produced and edited by William Spear. Say, Hap. Yes Harlow. This morning I was

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telling a cantankerous cartoon of a car it would run better with auto light

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you think I'm waiting for? A talking car. Well, every bright buggy knows that

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auto light resistor spark plugs mean a smoother idle and better engine

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performance on leaner gas mixtures. Why, that's common knowledge among cars. Right,

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you are Hap. Auto light resistor spark plugs have 200% longer electrode life

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with auto light. And now with Momentum and with the performance of Victor

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Matur, auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense.

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I look just like any other guy standing on a platform waiting for a train at

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night. The other people walking up and down here waiting for their train, they

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might look and they might not. Just a guy waiting for a train, waiting to say

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goodbye to New York. They don't know I'm different. It's starting to snow. They

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think the way I'm putting my coat collar together is because I'm cold. They don't

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know I've got a bullet in my neck.

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Yeah, this is some of that bad trouble my wife always telling me I'm going to get

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myself in. Bad trouble. All those people dying on account of it. Like a snowball

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when it starts rolling itself up gathering. What is it? Momentum. Well, in

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another 20 minutes her train will be here and I'll meet her and we'll be on our

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way to San Francisco and things will be different. Things will be a lot different.

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I never thought today was going to be like this. Since noon today it's already

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lasted a couple million years. A couple of million years. Dick, Dick, Dick, get up.

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Hmm? What's the idea? Oh, Dick, get up. It's noon. Twelve o'clock and you haven't even gotten out

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of bed yet. What? Twelve noon? Hey, you're gonna be late for work. I'm home on my

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lunch hour. I thought you'd do something like this. Sleeping all day. I was up late

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last night. Shooting pool. All right, all right, a guy's got to have some relaxation.

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Been relaxing for six months. You haven't even tried to get a job. Nuts. Nobody's out of work these

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days. Look, I told you it's got to be the right thing. That's all. I don't want to

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take the first think of job that comes along. What do you want me to go on

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supporting you? You didn't have to say that. Well, everybody's saying. The people

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downstairs, the landlord, everybody. I didn't have my little job. How could we eat? So

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everybody's saying you're supporting me. Is that it? Well, isn't it? I'll show them. I'll show

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them all. We're there with the cheap little ideas and two-bit jobs. You don't

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have to work like a slave to make a living. Oh, Dick. When you talk, I... Sometimes I'm afraid

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you're gonna get in trouble. The guy's a little down on his luck and all of a

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sudden little wifey's a martyr. She has to go out and work. Dick, please. That's it,

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isn't it? You're a martyr. No, darling. I didn't say that at all. Oh, yes you did. Yes

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you did. Dick, when I get home from work tonight, we're gonna have to find a place

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to live. Now this place isn't good enough for you. No, darling. This is our last day.

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We're being evicted. Hmm? Says who? The landlord stopped me this morning. We owe him

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three months rent. I simply haven't got it. Well, we have until tomorrow morning.

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Well, listen. Nobody throws Dick Payne out of his own place. I'll try to get home

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early. Find a hotel, maybe. Wait a minute. Don't bother. I'll get some dough. I know

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just where. Mr. Burroughs. Oh, Dick. You're not going to Mr. Burroughs. Why not? He owes it to me.

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He's making money out of my invention, isn't he? Oh, Dick, you know that when you work for Mr. Burroughs,

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you were paid for everything you did. Yeah, if you call a couple of bucks a week pay.

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Burroughs is making a lot of dough in that stinking shop just because of my invention.

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But he's not that way. I worked for him too, remember? Then you ought to know how he cheated me.

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Yeah, that's what he did. He cheated me. You know Mr. Burroughs isn't that kind of man.

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The firm isn't run that way. If you had anything coming... Go ahead, go ahead. That's right. Stick

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up for that shyster who robbed your own husband. I'm going over and see him today for a showdown.

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Oh, Dick, please don't go over there. Don't make any trouble. We know you dough, don't we? We're

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being evicted, aren't we? Well, I'm going to show you a little action. I'm going out and get us some dough.

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You know Mr. Burroughs won't listen to anything. So foolish. He'll listen to me and he'll pay too

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plenty. Oh, darling, no, no. What are you crying about? Look, when I get that dough, you won't have to support me anymore.

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Cut it out. Go on, back to work. I'll go lie here a couple of minutes and figure this out. Go on, go on.

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I guess I was pretty sore when I talked to her like that. But it made me mad. You know,

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like one of those things leads to another and the whole thing gets going like momentum.

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By the time I cool off, I was up in the Bronx where Burroughs has his little office and machine

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shoppin' back. I phoned from a drug store on 192nd Street. The girl said there'd be a lot of people

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there all afternoon. So I killed time with a double feature. But I was back there at 630 just after

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dark. And I was mad again thinking about the eviction and all. There was a light in his office,

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so I got around the side street and I tried to see what was going on. The blinds were down over the

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window, but there was enough space for me to see the part of the room. Someone was in there with

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me. I couldn't see who it was. They were just shaking hands. Well, good night. Don't you worry

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about it anymore. Good night. I waited right there by the window until whoever it was had gone.

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Then I walked around and up to the door. But I didn't have to knock. Oh. Good evening, Mr. Burroughs.

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I was just leaving you. You want to see me about something? Yeah. Yes, sir, I do. Well,

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all right. Come in, come in. It's chilly out tonight. Feels like snow, maybe. Sit down,

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sit down. Thanks. Now what? Well, I used to work here in the shop once. I quit six months ago

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remember me Dick Payne? Well, certainly do remember you, Payne. Married the best secretary

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I ever had. Yeah, Pauline, a wonderful girl. I think so. I'm sure you appreciate that. She's a

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very fine girl. Yeah, she's all right. How are things with you and Pauline? Good. Good. Want to

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come back to work, Payne? No, no, that isn't what I came to see you about. It's about that lug wrench

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you're still using in the shops, the one with the long side screw. Yeah, what about it? I invented

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it, Mr. Burroughs. Really? I thought Tim Riley worked that out. Well, Tim worked on it, but it

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was me who figured out how to set that thumb screw. Hasn't the thumb screw always been set that way?

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Not high on the wrench, no. Oh, I see. And since I figured it out while I was here and since you're

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using it, well, I think I ought to be paid for it. I worked on it a long time. Payne, I just don't

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believe this, frankly. Tim Riley's been my foreman for 12 years. I know him pretty well. He'd have

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been the first to tell me if he'd contributed anything to perfecting that wrench. Well, he wanted

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all the credit himself. No, no, no, Payne. It's not a matter of credit or money or anything else.

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Now, look here, Mr. Burroughs. Look here, Burroughs. I'm not going to be cheated out of anything. Oh, stop it, Payne. I'm not obligated to

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you in any way. Look, you're still using the wrench, aren't you? I don't want to argue with you and I don't

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want to be bothered with you. If it weren't for Pauline and the respect I have for her, I wouldn't even

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listen to you. I told her just the other... Let's leave her out of this, huh? She's my wife, unfortunately, for her.

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You know, Payne, I expected you to try something like this and I'm ready for you. Yeah, well, where's my dough?

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I want you to sign this. Here. What is it? A release. Although I don't owe you anything,

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for Mrs. Payne's sake, I'm giving you some money today. I know you both need it. This release will be

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my receipt. It'll insure me against you bothering me about this again. Yeah. Go ahead, sign it.

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Where's the dough? Where's the dough? How much? Two hundred dollars. Well, why didn't you say so? I...

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Oh, no, you don't, wise guy. I want more than that. Look, if it's big enough to make me sign a release,

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it's big enough to bring in a lot more dough. Get out of here, Payne. Get out of here. And who's

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gonna make me? I'm smaller than you, Payne, but so help me. I'll throw you out myself. You're a no

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good... Cut that!... without Pauline could ever have seen anything. But I told you to leave her out of this,

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didn't I? Now get out of here before I really lose my... Give me my dough. Get out of here. Oh, no, you don't, you...

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You don't like that, huh? Well, try this.

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All right now. All right now, Mr. Burroughs.

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Come on, Mr. Burroughs. I didn't mean to... Mr. Burroughs!

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You see, it was just one of those days he said something and I said something and it all piles up like a snowball.

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The first thing somebody gets hurt. If he'd listened to reason and...

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Well, if he'd just listened to reason, he'd be alive now.

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When I felt his pulse, there was nothing. I opened his coat to feel his heart.

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And that's when a black shanty billfold fell out. It was crammed with money. My money.

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Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Victor Mature in momentum. Tonight's production in Radio's outstanding

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Theatre of Thrills, Suspense.

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Hey, you have what's the book you have there? Just a story I'm reading, Harlow.

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Ruggles of Red Gap. Really? Say, maybe you'd be interested in my life story, Wilcox of Wide Gap.

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Wilcox of Wide Gap? It's all about my sterling and sensational success selling Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor

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with Auto Light. And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Victor Mature in Momentum,

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a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Eleven fifty. The train will just be pulling out of Grand Central now. It'll be here in ten minutes.

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Twelve o'clock. It won't be long now. Another ten minutes and I'll be safe on that train with Paulie.

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And all of this will be over. I'll make it. Nothing's going to stop me. Nothing. Not even this bullet.

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He started it all, Mr. Burroughs. And then the whole thing got going, Momentum. I didn't mean to kill him.

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I just went there to get my money. The money he owed me for using my invention. But nobody saw me do it.

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And I got out of it.

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All I wanted to do was get home to Paulie. But first I had to stop somewhere and get a drink.

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I needed it bad. I found a little place on Third Avenue, sixty something. It was empty except for the bartender.

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Hello. Hello. Business is kind of slow tonight, huh? Big television shows don't start until eight.

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Well, it'll be. I'd like some whiskey. Just whiskey. Just whiskey and whiskey it is, mister. Yeah.

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Chase it? No.

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Give me another one. Sure.

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Kind of dry, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Another one? No, no, no. That's enough. Thanks.

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That's a dollar twenty. One twenty? That's no problem. Just take it out of...

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Something wrong, buddy? No, no, no. I changed my mind.

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What about? I think I'll have another drink. Yeah. Give me another one. Only make it a double this time.

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Sure. Want to pay me for the other two first? I'll pay you when I'm finished.

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House rule. Huh? Every two drinks we always collect in this place.

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We don't do it that way in case anybody tries to run out on a tab, which they don't generally do, class.

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I don't like things like that. We don't lose much if they make it.

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Just a minute. You don't think that I'm trying to... Which they don't generally do.

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Look, I'm not trying to beach out anything. I got money. Sure you have.

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You know, there's some guys around this town you just can't tell about.

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What's the matter? I feel a little sick. Where's the watch?

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Oh, right back there, behind the cigarette machine. Want to pay me now?

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I'll be right back.

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Just my luck. The drinks were more than the change I had in my pocket.

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That meant I had to break one of those bills I took from Burroughs.

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They were all 50s and 100s. I couldn't take a chance on that bartender.

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He might think it was funny and remember and tell the police.

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I could panic. It was another one of those snowballing things.

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I had to get out of that place. In the washroom there was a window that led off to the alley.

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I just raised it and it was climbing up on the sill when the bartender walked in and it was carrying a gun.

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All right, wise guy. I thought you'd try something like this. Come on, get off of that leg.

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Look, I was only opening the window to get some air in here. Yeah, sure. Tell it to the cops.

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I'll pay you. Look, I'll pay you anything you want.

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That's a deadbeat. I spotted you the minute you walked in that joint. I can spot him a mile off.

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Now come on, get moving. No.

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Let go of my arm, you crazy fool. This gun's loaded. You might get it.

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Let go of me. You...

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crazy.

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I stood there with the gun in my hand.

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I didn't mean to hurt him either, but he tried to turn me over to the police for nothing.

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I hit him in the leg, but he was out cold.

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I didn't know what to do. I didn't dare leave the gun. I just didn't know what to do.

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Finally I thought I heard somebody coming in the front.

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I found a back door and ran until I was out of breath.

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I went up the stairs of my apartment house two at a time, and by the time I got inside my door, I thought my knees were going to buckle.

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But I had the safe feeling that a guy's own place gives him, you know, no matter how stinking it is.

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Pauline was cooking supper.

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Dick? Oh, Dick, whoa.

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Liver and onions again? I heard you come in, Dick. I'm glad you're home.

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Liver and onions. Well, I know it isn't one of your favorites, but liver was on sale.

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Turn it off.

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All right, but I'm going to eat it.

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You're not. Neither one of us are.

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Dick, what is it now? You've been drinking.

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Two drinks and I'm drunk, huh? I didn't say that.

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But when you drink, it means something's happened.

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What is it this time?

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I made up my mind.

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Oh, you mean you're going to take a job?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, God.

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Well, you haven't heard it all yet.

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I don't need to hear it anymore.

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Listen, I know I haven't been a model American husband.

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Nobody ever voted me the guy most likely to become a millionaire, but...

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Honey, well, I didn't always get the breaks, you know.

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You need to get a certain amount of momentum to...

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Ah, why kill anybody? It's been my fault.

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No, it hasn't, darling.

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You've tried in your own way.

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Don't keep it up. Everybody thinks I'm a sponge or a deadbeat. You told me they did.

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They don't know you like I do.

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Nobody believes in me. There's no reason why they're sure.

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I believe in you.

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Do you really?

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Yes, darling, yes.

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Say it again.

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I believe in you.

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How much?

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As much as anybody could. More.

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Would you believe in me in Chicago, in Milwaukee, or in San Francisco?

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Anywhere. Anywhere in the world.

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All right, then. We're going.

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Going where?

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San Francisco.

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But...my dog.

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From now on, I'm doing the work for this family.

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How can we pick that up?

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Look at it.

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Dick, how much is this you have? What you getting?

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Never mind, never mind. Look, I got it. It belongs to me.

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Take half of it.

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Go ahead, take it.

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All right, but I already...

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Go down to Grand Central and buy two Pullman tickets to San Francisco on the 9 o'clock train.

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Well, I'll have to pack. Did you rob a bank?

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Don't bother. Don't bother. Buy what you need downtown. It'll give you something to do.

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From now on, we forget this stinking place and start over from the bottom up.

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New clothes, new landlords, jobs, new friends and new enemies.

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Dick Payne will show them.

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Yeah, I'll show them all what I can do.

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Well, why do you want me to go along to the station?

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Why aren't you coming?

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I got business to do first.

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I'm going to pay off all my debts, everybody I owe. How do you like that?

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Oh, it's wonderful, Dick.

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Honestly, now, where did you get that money?

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Skip the questions. It's my dough. I work for it.

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Satisfying?

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Well...

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Now, listen. You get reservations at Grand Central and get on the train.

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It stops at 125th Street.

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I'll be busy uptown, so I'll get on at 125th. You got it?

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125th Street Station.

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Right.

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And when that train pulls out of that station,

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the guy sitting next to you is going to be me.

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And we'll be heading for a new life, baby.

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A new life.

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If she knew what was really on my mind, she'd never have left.

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I couldn't risk hanging around 42nd Street showing up at Grand Central

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with all its bright lights and its cops.

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I had to hide in some uptown dive where nobody would find me

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and then sneak on the train to 125th Street.

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What if you got only about three bulbs and no cops?

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I stood at the window and watched across the street.

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That's when I noticed this guy.

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A guy standing on the other side of the street looking up right at the apartment.

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Big, bulky, with policeman-type shoes.

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I jumped back from the window as he started to cross the street.

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I pulled my gun out to see if it was loaded.

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I heard him. I heard him coming up the stairs.

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There was nothing to do but wait for him.

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What do you want?

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You're Richard Payne?

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No, Anderson's money.

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Isn't this apartment 12?

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Yeah, it is. I moved in this morning. Payne moved out yesterday.

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Oh, now, wait a minute. You fit the description I got.

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Until I find out better, you're the man I want.

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Look, I tell you that...

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We've got a little business, you and I, and I don't...

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I reached out and I jerked him off his feet to the roof.

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I knew they'd find me, but I didn't think it would be this quick.

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He was big and I...

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He knew how to handle himself, but I swung the butt of my gun against the side of his head and he went limp.

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I held him up against the door. I didn't want to touch him, but I thought maybe I could find something in his pockets that would tell me how they knew about me.

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He didn't have a gun or a badge, only a piece of paper.

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He was a bailer from the city hall.

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He's come to evict us.

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Evict us and I'd killed him. I wasn't a killer.

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It was this momentum.

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Every body I met.

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Three people in three hours.

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Hello, Mr. Payne.

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Out of my way.

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What are you doing with a gun in your hand?

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Out of my way!

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You're crazy!

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This place is a regular fuckhouse!

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What baby's being...

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Why, Mr. Payne, what's the matter?

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Move that baby, Carrie. It's got to get out of my way.

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Don't point that gun at me!

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Move it!

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Don't!

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I said move it!

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Mr. Payne's got a gun over his head!

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I'll shoot you when you're not shot!

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Oh, no, you don't, copper!

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The second bullet hit me.

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It hit me somewhere in my back, up high.

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I don't know where exactly the pain was.

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Everything was everywhere at once, and for a moment everything stopped working.

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I grabbed the edge of a building and saw a long alley wavering in front of my eyes.

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It was a long, dark alley. There was a light at the other end.

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I got my breath and started towards that bright spot.

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I knew the whole neighborhood would be after me.

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Besides everything else, now I'd been shooting at cops.

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The light at the other end turned out to be a milk truck without a driver.

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All of a sudden, nobody had to tell me what to do.

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I got in, I drove off.

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I left the truck somewhere on 127th Street or some place I don't know where I've blocked it to from here.

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The toughest thing of all was climbing the stairs to get up here to the top of the hill.

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Climbing the stairs to get up here to the station.

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Three flights of stairs a step at a time, and like my head would fall off from pain every time I took this step.

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Just a minute.

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Oh, alo. You sick, Mr. Loo?

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Where did the pullman stop?

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The pullman always stop up front by the second light.

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What time does the Chicago train come in?

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Oh, they just arrive. Leave Grand Central at 11.50 o'clock.

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Arriving here at 12 midnight under the hot.

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Eight years I sweep up the platform, always on time.

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You gonna catch?

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Yeah.

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Where's your bags?

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My wife got on at Grand Central with the luggage.

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I'm meeting her.

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We're going places, boy.

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That's nice. Where you going? Chicago? Kansas City?

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As far as it'll take me west.

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Oh, San Francisco. That's a nice town.

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When you get there, what are you going to do?

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I got a job there.

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That's good. Maybe someday I take a train to San Francisco.

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Now I got a job here. Sweep, sweep.

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Listen, she just come out of the tunnel. It's on time.

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Good.

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That's pretty, huh?

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Except when a train comes at night, when I work, it's always quiet up here.

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I used to brush the dirt off of the side, down the shit-goes,

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45 feet down to the street where the dots belong.

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Mr.

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Huh?

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Please move the foot so I sweep where you stand.

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Sure, sure.

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Thanks a lot.

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Hey, what's this?

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Huh?

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You know it's gonna bleed. There's a fresh blood drip on the platform.

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Blood?

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Hey, what's your name?

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None of your business.

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More blood. I don't like this.

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Now I know why you don't tell me your name. You're a shame.

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Maybe you're the same fellow who shoot the policemen tonight.

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All right, turn around.

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Turn around, I said.

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What are you gonna do?

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Don't you worry. What do you think?

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Please, no!

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Oh, God!

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Good!

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The Broadway Limited.

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Help me up the steps, please.

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Thank you.

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Thanks.

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There you go.

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Oh.

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What's the matter with that fellow? He looks so funny.

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Dick, here I am. You were going right past me.

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Pauline, the lights were flickering. I couldn't see.

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What's wrong?

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I'm just tired terribly. I kept my word and met you, but I'm so tired.

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Dick, you're hurt.

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Take care of me, Pauline. Don't let them get to me. Don't let them...

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Who? What is it, dearest? Who are they?

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Hold me. Hold me, Pauline.

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Oh, darling! What did you do?

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It wasn't my fault. I went to get the money from Burroughs. The money he owed me, I killed him.

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Oh, no!

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And everything got wrong.

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Oh, no, no!

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Everything. All those people. But I had to get that money. I had to get that money for us.

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Oh, Dick, no, no, no!

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Yeah, I do.

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What? I got off work early and went to see Mr. Burroughs. He gave me $200.

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He said when you came by, he'd have you sign a lease for us.

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Pauline...

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Dick...

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Oh, Dick!

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Oh, Dick!

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Pauline!

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Suspense presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star, Victor Mature.

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Mr. Mature, that was a top performance.

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Oh, thanks a lot.

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Victimature appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers of the Technicolor production Oh, You Beautiful Doll.

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In the coming weeks, you will hear such stars as Van Heflin, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz.

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By the way, the reentuttle tonight was Pauline.

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