A Hatful of Rain Page #2

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Pop!

Pop, congratulations.

Listen, I stayed up

nights plenty

before I put that

option money down.

Look, the bar

is practically on the water.

All good hardwood.

The dining room, it's got

oak beams 2 feet thick.

I'm going to put in glass walls

so's you can see the ocean.

That just sounds wonderful.

I started the

renovations already.

The carpenter's been working

down there a week.

Oh-ho, cost me an arm and a leg.

The bank loaned me 5,000,

but that won't be enough,

so now I'll need that 2,500

you promised me, Polo.

Uh, 2,500?

Yeah. That's what I

come up here for.

I mean, naturally, I wanted to

see you two at the same time.

Yeah, well, uh,

I haven't got it, Pop.

You haven't got it?

No, I haven't got it anymore.

It's gone.

What do you mean, gone?

Gone where?

Well, Pop, I--

I need that money, Polo.

- Listen, Pop--

- Now just--

just keep out of this.

I was counting on you.

I got men working down there.

You promised me, any time

I wanted the money, I could have it.

I-- I know I promised you, Pop.

I quit my job at the club!

How do you--

- Hello, Ralph.

- Hi, Polo.

A hundred times you wrote me.

"Pop, I got 2,500 stashed away.

Any time you want it,

it's yours."

What did you have

to quit your job for?

You could have made

a 2-buck phone call.

For what?

He promised me!

The bank didn't promise me.

My son promised me.

Now he says it's gone.

Gone where?

- You know?

- Now, look, Pop, listen.

No, no, no!

No, you listen.

I want to know.

Where did it go?

- Oh, what's the use?

- Oh, you can't tell me, huh?

I won't. I can't.

Take it any way you want.

Polo, you're a bum.

You always were,

and you always will be.

I'm a bum?

Now, listen, Pop.

Now, you stop calling me names.

I'll call you

all the names I can!

Pop, Pop, come on.

Let's forget about it.

I might as well be

talking to a mule.

Let me get out of here and get

a drink before I get sick.

I thought I did a good job bringing up

you kids without a mother.

I certainly missed

on that brother of yours.

Pop, I'm not going to stand

around here while you knock Polo.

I'll wait for you out front.

Don't knock my brother to me.

Come on, Polo, let's go home, huh?

Celia's waiting for us.

Get him out of here, Johnny.

Get him out of here.

If I didn't love him, I'd kill him.

Get him out of here.

- Polo, I'm sorry.

- Yeah.

Wait for me, son.

Hey, you got yourself

a good cook, Johnny.

Oh, how would you know?

You didn't eat anything.

I lost my appetite when I

saw your brother-in-law.

Anyway, I'm fat enough.

Oh, this coffee

is awful strong.

What is it, Turkish?

It is not Turkish.

It's plain ordinary coffee.

Oh, I don't understand.

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