Edge of the City Page #2

You want this lousy job or don't you?

You don't have to get rough about it,

that's all.

All right, I'll be real nice.

Now, you get the Williams'

automotive lot. Six pieces.

Then find a hand truck and put it

on the hand truck and you move.

Okay, stupid?

Okay, knock off.

Let's play some rummy, huh?

- Hey, Arab, you got the cards?

- You okay?

- Yeah.

- You look beat.

- Yeah, well, I'm all right.

Why don't you come down

to the waterfront and get some salt air?

- It'll rejuvenate you.

- I'll stay here for a while.

- So who's dealing the cards?

- I am, Charlie.

So deal them, will you?

We get a lousy 45 minutes

for a lousy lunch.

You still got those crummy cards too,

haven't you?

- I thought I told you to get new cards.

- Tomorrow.

Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow.

Everything's tomorrow with this guy.

Hey, North.

- Wanna play some rummy?

Uh, no, thanks.

Exclusive.

So deal them.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Join me.

- Is it okay?

This is Freedomsville, man.

The guy who usually reserves this spot

is out on the links today.

Boy, you look beat.

Have some soup, it's hot.

Give you that strength.

No, I think if I ate anything,

I'd get sick.

Well, a couple or three days,

you'll be over that.

- Hey, we never introduced ourselves.

- My name is Tyler. Tommy Tyler.

Everybody calls me Tee Tee.

Tommy Tyler, Tee Tee, you dig?

What's your name?

Axel North.

Axel. Axle grease. Ha-ha-ha.

Grease job.

Anybody ever call you grease job?

Hey, where are you from?

- Man, I ask a lot of questions, don't I?

- Yeah.

And you don't answer them, do you?

- No.

- Well, I'll keep asking them.

You know why?

I'll tell you. You'd think I was a guy just

trying to make a living, wouldn't you?

Well, it ain't so.

Actually, I'm a rich millionaire

doing this for kicks.

I mean, really, I own from 23rd Street

all the way down to Canal.

I just do this to spy on the help.

You see, last year,

I only made $4 billion profit.

And I got this gimmick figured

to pay me 6 billion.

So I gotta find out who's stealing

from me, you know what I mean?

Hey, you can laugh, can't you?

Six billion bucks. That's...

- That's funny.

- Isn't that something for you?

I tell you, boy, the funniest thing.

Now, you take that Charlie,

you gotta laugh.

With a guy like him, you gotta laugh

at him or beat his brains in.

- Why?

- Because.

- That's the lowest form of animal life.

- Yeah, maybe.

No maybes.

The thing is,

a man's gotta make a choice.

You know, I mean, there are the men,

and then there are the lower forms.

And a guy's gotta make a choice.

You go with the men

and you're 10 feet tall.

You go with the lower forms

and you are down in the slime.

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