Blood and Sand Page #5

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Who's this one for, Juanillo?

It's a secret. It's for someone

who isn't here just now.

[All Clamoring]

Hermano.

Excuse me, but things have been going

rather badly with me lately.

- I thought maybe you could help a little.

- Garabato.

Yes, I regret to say I am still alive.

But I thought you'd retired and gone

to the country and bought a ranch.

[Chuckles]

Oh, no, no.

No, I left the ring just as I came into it

without a peseta.

Oh, thank you so much.

Oh, thank you. This will

Oh! Juan Gallardo!

Things have been going great

for you lately, haven't they?

Yes, I had a good season.

I look forward to a better one.

Oh, that is good.

- I suppose your cuadrilla

- It's full up just now.

Oh. Oh, well,

I've had a lot of experience.

I've spent most of my life

in the bull ring.

I know all the critics.

Maybe you could use a sword handler...

or a-a servant in the house, anything.

Why not?

Come and, uh

Come and see me tomorrow.

Thanks.

[Coins Rattling]

##[Guitars]

Good evening, senor.

- Is there anything I can get you?

- Yes. I want your band.

- My band?

- Yes, the whole band.

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Juanillo.

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And all the way on the train from Madrid,

I kept worrying and thinking...

"Perhaps she's tired of waiting.

Perhaps she's gone away.

Perhaps she's even forgotten me."

Oh, you couldn't possibly think that.

You know, I even thoughtYou know the first

thing I asked my mother when I got home?

"Pedro Espinosa's little girl the one

with the skinny legs and the funny face

has she, by any chance,

gotten married yet?"

Oh!

I can't get over it.

I never thought

that you'd grow up to be so

so very nice to look at.

Juan, why did you never write to me?

Write? Well, you see

This may sound silly to you,

but I didn't wanna write...

until I could sign

my first letter to you...

"Juan Gallardo, Matador de Toros."

- You haven't had your alternativa yet?

- No, but I haven't done badly.

Do you know

what I cleared last season...

over and above traveling expenses,

renting costumes and all that?

4,000 pesetas.

- 4,000?

- Yeah.

And that's nothing to what I'll make

later on once I've been recognized.

Of course, I'm not entirely

overlooked now, mind you. Not at all.

They're beginning to find out who I am.

Take a look at that.

My first press notice,

and by Curro himself.

Pretty nice, don't you think?

Have you read it?

- Of course.

- And you like it?

I think it's wonderful.

- No, read it.

- I have read it.

- Read it aloud.

- Juan, I know why you never wrote to me.

It's because you haven't learned

how to write or read.

- Is that it?

- Read what it says.

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