Bad Girl Page #3

ahold of yourself.

There's things to be done.

Good-bye.

Your mother, Mrs. Gardner?

- Yes.

- Oh, I'm so sorry for you.

Thanks, Miss Haley.

Still stays hot out, don't it?

Do you want me to

go up with you, ma'am?

Thank you very kindly.

I'm all right.

I'm just a little tired, I guess.

Good night.

- Good night.

- Good nlght.

You know, a tenement house

like this is awful funny.

Here her mother's dead

on the fifth floor.

And only this morning...

on the second floor...

Mrs. Mills had a new baby.

Yeah? Well, she didn't do

that kid no favor.

- What do you mean?

- I mean bringing it into the world...

where she ain't got money enough

to take care of it.

Oh,Joe, that's

a terrible thing to say.

What's the kid

got to look forward to?

Starvin' himself to death

in some tenement.

Born on the second floor and...

probably die on the fifth.

His whole life spent in climbin'

three flights of stairs.

- Oh,Joe, you're terrible hard.

- Yeah?

Well, here's one guy's

gonna beat this game, see?

No poverty, no pinchin',

no scrimpin' for me.

I got $580 saved up, see?

In a couple of months,

I'm gonna have my own radio shop.

Yeah. Gee, there are a lot of things

in life besides just money.

Yeah. Sure there's a lot of things

in life beside money.

But you gotta have money

to find them.

Well...

I gotta go now.

My brother will

lay me out in lavender.

I went to Coney Island once

and didn't get in till midnight.

Was he sore.

He hit me in the eye.

- He did?

- Yeah.

- Say, do you want me to go up with you?

- Oh, no.

- That'd only make it worse.

- Yeah?

Well, no guy's gonna hit any jane

I go out with, brother or no brother.

Oh, he just wants to see

that I keep straight.

- But as Edna says-

- Ah, who cares what Edna says?

Well...

I gotta go now.

I told you not to

brlng any Llmburger cheese In here.

I won't have the flat

all stunk up!

Well, It don't smell after It's eaten.

There's a tenement for ya.

A woman dies, a baby's born...

and a guy's wife

won't let him eat Limburger.

Gee, you're a funny fella,Joe.

In fact, you're the first guy I ever went

out with that didn't try to get fresh.

Well, I gotta go now.

Say,Joe, you know,

I like you an awful lot.

Okay.

You'll probably be just nutty enough

to call me up at the shop.

The number's Schuyler 4...

6-5-8-3.

Four, 65, 83.

That's the way I always remember numbers.

Well, good night.

So long.

Hey. Walt a mlnute.

My name ain'tJoe.

It's Eddie Collins.

Just a moment.

Oh, Eddie.

Oh, Eddie, uh, will you have this gentleman's

set finished by tomorrow morning?

Yes, sir. I'll work on it tonight.

You've got a great set.

- Mmm. Your wife will enjoy that.

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