Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken Page #2

Thanks for spitting on me.

- That's the last thing I want to do.

- I got a show to run, Al.

- So I missed a couple.

- Couple? You missed three.

Chasing women and gambling

are more important than your job?

No, but it's a lot more fun.

Here, Dad,

add that to your profits.

Get out of here, son.

Load the truck.

Dr. Carver?

This is your lucky day.

You don't need this anymore.

I'm here to answer your ad.

Who are you?

Your new diving girl.

No, you're not.

- Why not?

- For one thing, I don't like you.

That's because

you don't know me.

Secondly,

you're interrupting my business.

Third and most important,

you're too young

and too puny to be a diving girl.

Well, sir, I don't know what

a diving girl does exactly,

but I can do it,

'cause I can do anything.

Good. You can

get out of here.

I am a very busy man.

I do not have time

to play with children.

Now, will you get off that chair?

Not until you give me a chance.

I only want a chance.

Let me explain something to you.

A diving girl has to be strong.

A diving girl

has to be brave, fearless,

a showman.

Now, there...

...is a diving girl.

You gotta have more...

You gotta have more

than what you got.

Well, I'll get it.

What's your name?

Sonora. Sonora Webster.

Let me tell you something.

Tell you what you do.

You go out that door,

cross the fairgrounds,

turn left at the gate,

keep walking

until you get

to the bus station.

I'm not gonna leave

until you give me a job.

Have a good trip.

Al?

- Dr. Carver sent me to see you.

- Oh, he did?

Yeah, I just had

a really nice talk with him,

and he thinks I'd make

a perfect diving girl.

- That's what he said, huh?

- Uh-huh.

And he said you're supposed

to explain the show to me.

Sure. Come on.

The show is real exciting.

And that's the tower.

Okay. Fine.

Thank you very much. Oh.

You dropped this.

So, now I'm a baby-sitter.

You're not afraid

of heights, are ya?

Who, me? No.

- How do you get the horses to jump?

- We train 'em.

- Don't they get scared?

- Nope.

If they show any fear,

we don't let them near the tower.

What do you do,

push them off?

No, they jump on their own.

And we don't use

any kind of devices, either.

- Do the horses ever get hurt?

- Nope, just the riders.

It's rough. You travel from

town to town, barely getting by.

The old man, he's tough.

He'll push you till you break.

Go back to wherever you came from.

You don't want to be a diving girl.

I have a glorious idea

for a new poster.

Full-length shot of me,

standing next to the horse,

and in the corner,

inside an oval frame,

a picture of my face.

- Smiling.

- I'll think about it, Marie.

I know it'd sell lots of tickets.

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