Going My Way Page #6

Let me tell you that that man

hasn't been to Mass in the last 10 years.

That may be, but I think

McCarthy's right about those kids.

They're terrorising

the whole neighbourhood.

No use talking like that.

To hear the police talk, you'd think

that every lad in the parish was a criminal.

I'll have you know

that the very food there before us...

is brought to us by two of those very lads

the police are so maliciously slandering.

Is that so?

Tony Scaponi was one of them.

I gave them both my blessing.

O'MALLEY:
And they gave you the bird.

FITZGIBBON:
Yeah.

[O'Malley laughs heartily]

[Doorbell buzzing]

I'll get it.

O'MALLEY:
Hello, McCarthy.

MCCARTHY:
Good evening, Father.

Well, I brung them.

Tony Scaponi, Herman Langerhanke.

O'MALLEY:
Hi, fellows.

I don't think you have to wait, McCarthy.

Okay, Father.

O'MALLEY:
Say, I understand that

you fellows like baseball pretty well.

TONY:
Yeah.

O'MALLEY:
I was thinking, Saturday...

the Yanks are playing the St. Louis Browns,

a doubleheader.

Would you like to go out

and see the games with me?

St. Louis is my old hometown, you know.

I'll get all the passes I want.

- What do you say?

- Well, I guess so.

Yeah, sure, I guess

the fellas would like that.

It's a date then.

I'll meet you here Saturday at noon?

That'd be good.

You run along and have your dinner.

I'll go finish my turkey.

Let me see now, where was I?

Oh, yeah, I know.

I was going to ask you something.

- What made me become a priest?

- No.

About young Tony.

What was it the police accused him of?

Stealing.

- Stealing what?

- Turkeys.

Seems the boys hijacked a poultry truck

down the street here.

There was quite a bit of excitement.

The driver reported them to the police.

Did the poor man get his turkeys back?

All but one, Father.

[O'Malley clears throat]

Thank you.

[Playing sombre music]

O'MALLEY:
McCarthy, how are you?

Good morning, Father.

You open for business?

Always open for business, McCarthy.

Come on in.

MCCARTHY:
Come on.

Come right in, Pat.

- I got a problem, Father.

- Yeah?

Seems like it's more yours than mine.

It's her. Well, Father, it's this way.

Last night I'm walking me beat, see?

Who do you think I runs into?

- Her?

- Mrs. Quimp.

[Lmitating Hattie] "Officer McCarthy,"

she says.

- You know how the old stool pigeon talks.

- Yes, I do.

"If you'll go around the corner,

you'll find a girl.

"I've been watching her

and she ain't up to no good."

Well, Father, I goes around the corner

and there, like the Quimp says, I finds her.

MCCARTHY:
Do you follow me, Father?

O'MALLEY:
Yes.

Well, I looks at her and sizes her up.

One of those things, I think.

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