While the City Sleeps Page #3

Loving:
well, there's no

room for love around here now.

What's he doing with Gerald Meade?

Mildred:
well, darling, solving

the murder's the big thing.

He'd naturally want the

crime-Beat man on his team.

So why don't you try

and get him on yours?

Griffith's probably

sewing him up right now.

Mildred:
Gerald would sell

his mother and deliver.

Loving:
well, then, how

can I be sure of him?

Do I sleep with him?

You go to work on Meade,

And if it will ease your

mind, love, in a little while

I'll drop down to the dell

and, uh, feel out Griffith.

Griffith:
hello.

Yes, sir?

Better have another, Carlo.

I've been upstairs with Walter Kyne.

A fine man.

He's a weak-spined,

blue-Eyed fish, you ask me!

I don't know him too well.

Well, I

- Make it 2.

No, make it 3.

Ed:
hello, Jon.

Hi. Nancy:
hi!

Let Nancy sit between us.

You and I can

Indian-Wrestle under the bar.

Rye and soda for me, and

I'll have it with music.

Yes, ma'am.

Old man upstairs is roaring like a lion.

"Get me the killer," he yells.

"Use all your best men:

"Reporters, editors, feature men,

"Photographers, wire service men,

But get me the killer!"

And the man who gets

the killer lands the job.

Uh-Huh.

Who do you bet on, Ed-

On loving? Loving's smart,

Loving's fast,

Loving knows a lot of the right people,

But loving doesn't get the job.

No?

No. I'm going to get it,

Because I spent my youth and $30,000

On whiskey and devotion to the job,

Because I have a long-Suffering

wife and two swell kids,

And because you and I together are

going to crack this murder thing.

Mr. Loving wants Ed on his team.

Yeah? Well, he's not going to have him,

Because Ed's going to help me!

And let me get one thing clear-

I don't promise you

a thing for yourself.

Not a thing!

Well, let me make myself clear, Jon.

I don't care who gets the job.

For one thing, I've been

off a crime beat for 5 years,

And for another, I'm not going to get

My throat torn open in any dogfight.

Now, Ed, I've been real nice to you.

Nancy, tell Ed I've

been real nice to him.

Mildred:
I knew it all along...

just knew I was going to find

a friendly face down here.

Well, my face is friendly.

Hi.

Hello, you lovely people.

I always see you two together, don't I?

You could do a column about it.

Oh, I'd love to, darling.

I'm all for romance.

Have a rum on the rocks or something.

Well, now, thank you, Jon.

That's right friendly of you.

And I do think we should

all be very friendly

During these trying times.

How is mark?

Oh, he's driving

home you-Know-Who.

Who is

you-Know-Who?

Jon, Walter

- Walter Kyne.

I understand honest Harry

Kritzer's having dinner there.

One afternoon at the sands

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