To Please a Lady Page #2

- I've gotta watch him all the time.

Do you want to talk to him now

or after the race?

That'll cost you 10 bucks, Brannan.

- Are you all right?

- Yeah, I'm all right.

I'll talk to him now.

- What went on out there?

- Sock you 10 smackers.

- Were you trying to get a look at that dame?

- What dame? I was finding something out.

The track's heavier.

We gotta go lower in gears.

- Five-eighty?

- That'll do it.

- Take a look at that chassis.

- Nice-looking gal.

Hey, some dish.

- Looking for me, lady?

- Check these wheels.

Mike. Mike.

Somebody wants to talk to you.

This is the lady I told you was coming.

Mike Brannan, Regina Forbes.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

What were you trying to do out there

just now, mow us down?

Well, I'm sorry. I didn't see you.

I'll be around when you're through,

Miss Forbes.

Well, what can we do for you

that hasn't already been done?

You can give your eyes a rest

and answer a few questions.

- I thought I'd do a feature on you.

- What's in it for me?

Nationwide publicity.

It's better than money in the bank.

Maybe it is to you.

Anything else to offer?

I suppose you have to be tough

to do this sort of thing.

You do if you want to win races.

You mean, somebody's got to lose,

but it isn't going to be you.

- That's how you used to fight your tank.

- That's how.

- Isn't that how you got where you are?

- Mike, you wanna take a look at this?

But where does all this get you?

Indianapolis again. Big car.

Okay, button it up.

After Indianapolis, then what?

Answer that yourself.

After you've put that column of yours

in every paper it'll go in, then what?

Well, we're talking about you.

For instance, what will you do

after the races tonight?

- What do you suggest?

- Watch it, lady.

Well, you know what I mean.

This is a tense business.

Dangerous.

How do you get your mind off it?

- You've had quite a few crackups.

- Everybody has them.

But you've had more than your share.

What about the one at Trenton?

We'll skip that.

Why skip it? Is that something

you don't wanna talk about?

Isn't that when the crowd

started hating you?

- What do they know?

- I don't know, I'm asking you.

All right, Number 17.

On the track for the main event.

- Let's get rolling.

- What happened at Trenton?

- I can't talk now. My race is coming up.

- Let's see what you can do.

- I'll come back afterwards.

- Suit yourself. I won't be here.

And in the same row,

on the outside in Car Number 15...

...that good-looking, fast-moving

boy from Rockaway, Red Jones.

On the pole, in the fifth row

in Car Number 6...

...that daredevil from virginia,

Crackerjack Wally Beeler.

Also in the fifth row

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