House Of Strangers Page #2

- The bank will open when I get there.

- The depositors will be waiting.

Who else will pay

my kind of interest?

With my kind of interest,

they can wait. Here.

Scrub my back.

There.

Harder, harder.

Higher, higher, higher.

Oh, that's good.

A little lower now. A little lower.

Harder. Harder.

Go on and scrub

and scrub hard.

Buongiorno, Signor Monetti.

Buongiorno.

Grazie,

Signor Monetti.

- Buongiorno, Signor Monetti.

- Buongiorno.

The import people are calling again

about their loan.

Now the shipment

is on the dock.

Not now, after a little while.

First I take care of my friends. Oh, Lucca.

How many times I tell you?

Speak English. You gotta learn sometime.

I'm gonna need some money

to buy one horse.

- What for you need a horse?

- The old one, she die.

- She cannot pick up junk.

- How much it cost, one horse?

$150.

All right.

Sign here, Lucca.

- Did you okay $80,000

on the housing projects?

- Si.

That fella from Chicago

is on the telephone.

Wants to know

if you'll renew on the brewery.

Hello?

Gino Monetti.

No.

But, Gino, this is only $120.

Lucca, interest.

I take him out in advance.

Doctors say I gotta

send him to Denver...

- or he'll die.

- Denver?

That's a long trip.

That's in Kansas. Uh, how much?

Train cost $62.

Hey, Tony, Pietro.

You know what is

banking hours?

- 9:
00 to 3:00, Pa.

- But you're never open on time.

Never you mind when I open.

You open on time.

- What's the matter your nose?

- I won last night.

- By a knockout in the second round.

- How much you get?

I can't take money.

It would hurt my amateur standing.

No money?

Then why you fight?

- It's sport, Pa.

- You fight too?

- I'm his manager.

- Is also a sport, huh?

Ah, go to work.

Two sports I got.

- Here.

- But this is too much.

Well, so I make a mistake.

- Oh, grazie. Grazie.

- Oh, no, no, no.

Pa, will you

come here a minute?

I wanna show you something.

You gotta make Max

get an office somewhere else.

Look at those characters hanging around.

They're getting worse and worse all the time.

- They give the bank a black eye.

- Max bring good business.

Bail bonds for criminals.

After all, we're running a bank, Pa.

What do you mean we?

I am the bank.

Go on, go back to your cage.

Momento.

No free ink here.

You wanna fill the fountain pen,

you go to post office.

Post office.

- Oh, uh, Pietro.

- Yeah, Pa.

- Go see what the lady wants.

- Yeah, Pa.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Where will I find Mr. Monetti?

We got lots of Monettis here.

My father, my brother Joe-

Which one is the attorney?

Oh, the lawyer. Max.

Thank you.

That son of a gun.

Come on.

Come on in.

Yes, go ahead. You told me that.

Did he have a gun?

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