Ladies They Talk About Page #3

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for that bank holdup.

We can't prove it yet. But if I find you guilty,

which I believe you are, I'll see that you get yours.

Meanwhile, Dave Slade's interested in you.

He's a powerful man in this town

and he wants me to set you loose.

I'm going to take a chance and parole you to him.

They're drawing the release papers out there now.

Oh, Mr. Simpson, you don't know what this means to me,

this chance to prove I'm straight.

Stop kidding and be yourself.

I've known Dave Slade around this town

for the last ten years.

And you're the first skirt I ever saw him go for.

What do you mean, go for?

Just what I said.

I've seen him deal with a thousand women...

and this is the first time he's ever gone overboard

for one of them.

He's fallen for you and he's fallen hard.

He shot straight with you, Nan, and if you've got it in you,

you'll shoot straight with him.

He still thinks of you as the sweet, innocent little girl

he knew in Benicia a long time ago.

Live up to it, Nan.

Mr. Slade is here.

Show him in.

Come right in, Dave.

Hello, Walter.

Hello, Nan

I'll see if those papers are ready.

I suppose the District Attorney has told you.

Yes, and it's wonderful.

Oh, I don't mean just getting out of jail.

But it's the fact that you have faith in me.

That you've gone to all this trouble

because you believe in me.

Of course I have faith in you, Nan.

I... I don't suppose I should have done that.

I guess it was just something neither one of us

could help.

I'm gonna take yuo home until I can find

something suitable for you to do.

Maybe you could help me in my work.

Your own home?

Yes.

You remember my older sister Stella from up in Benicia.

She keeps house for me.

Benicia. Gee, that sounds a long way off.

We've both walked down funny roads since then,

haven't we?

None of us has come through life altogether clean.

I find it wise to let bygones be bygones.

Let the past take care of the past.

That's sweet of you.

What you you've just said gives me courage

to tell you something

you should know before we go any further.

Up to now I haven't been on the level with you.

When I saw you were trying to get me off

and that you were a powerful man

I played up to you.

Some of the things I said

during your visits to jail I meant.

But most of them weren't on the level.

Yes?

I was in on that bank stick-up.

I was everything the District Attorney said.

I...

What's the matter?

But Dave, what difference does it make?

You yourself said just a moment ago

to let bygones be bygones...

and that we're starting a new future together.

This is different.

I don't know what to say.

Here they are, all ready to sign.

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