Fire Down Below Page #2

over from Europe in a bomber.

Naturally, they caught up with him.

She moved on.

Speaks awful good English.

Shes been around Americans

for 10 years.

This stuff is kI'lling me.

Look, this is the picture.

She came originally from Lithuania...

...or Estonia or someplace.

The story changes.

The Germans

transported her to Berlin.

mother, father, brothers, the usual.

She got mixed up

in the black market.

There was a holdup.

The police say she had a gun.

She swears she didnt.

It was a frame-up, she says.

And so far, shes always managed

to find somebody to take care of her.

I dont doubt that.

Look, I want to do all I can for her,

but Ive got to get back to Detroit.

Twelve hundred bucks,

take it or leave it, thats all.

Actually, I dont...

I dont like it.

What have we got to lose?

Now, you know, I do not make

Immigration officers very happy.

An Immigration officer presumes

that a woman who looks like me...

...should be kept.

And they prefer citizens

of other countries to do the keeping.

You understand, Irena,

that this is not the Queen Mary?

There wI'll be no steward aboard

to bring you your morning tea.

Ive put up with worse.

Youll be alone on a not very

large boat with three men...

...with low, brutish manners.

- One man with low, brutish manners.

- All right.

Twelve hundred dollars.

A thousand for us, 200 for him.

You know No. 3 Pier

by San Antonio?

- I can find it.

- Okay.

Be there at sunup.

Come on, lets go.

Im sorry, Irena.

Sometimes you wonder

what God had in mind...

...when he invented the male sex.

Well...

...hello there.

If I knew you were wearing

your Paris clothes...

...Id have had the bridal suite

cleaned up.

Sun lounge is on A-deck.

What happened

to your gentleman friend?

I left him in the hotel.

Any other questions?

I might think of some

from time to time.

WI'll you do me a favor?

Occupy yourself

with your own business.

I dont think I'mm going to care

for your attitude very much.

All right. I dont think I even care

for my attitude very much.

Yeah, well, I'll...

...show you where you can keep

your things.

Well, its nothing much...

- ... but if theres anything you want...

- I don't want anything.

That port engine again.

Its that port engine again.

Lets see what we can do with it.

You know, when I get rich,

Im going to buy myself a crowbar...

...and come aboard this boat

and beat that port engine to scrap.

I hung around the house

for three months...

...after I got back from Korea,

doing nothing.

And my father read me

the riot act.

Hes a big man in the community,

my father.

Said it gave him a bad name, having

a son who was turning into a bum.

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