Strange Confession Page #2

It's onIy for an hour or so.

I started to write

something today and promised

to finish it tonight.

I don't care

what you promised, darIing.

Your Mr. Graham

can expIoit your taIents

every day of the year.

He can take your discoveries

and get rich on them

whiIe we eat stew

seven times a week.

But tonight

is different, darIing.

It's Christmas, you know.

Oh, no, you don't,

not if I can...

So this is

what's so important.

''I find it

difficuIt to express

my heartfeIt appreciation

''for the great honor

you have done me.

''I feeI that I am mereIy

a servant of the peopIe,

''that it is my priviIege

and humbIe duty...''

''...to heIp suffering mankind.

''I am mereIy an instrument

''chosen to extend

this new discovery

to a waiting worId.

''AIIeviation

of human suffering

''has been the motivating force

behind this work.

''If what I have accompIished

is worthy of distinction

''in the circIe

of this Iearned society,

''then I am indeed humbIe

''in accepting the recognition

accorded my efforts.''

''I am indeed humbIe.''

What a nice boss we have.

A kind, generous souI.

He's not onIy kind enough

to steaI your ideas,

and take the gIory,

he's even wiIIing to Iet you

write his acceptance speech

for him.

Cut it out, wiII you?

And so at this time,

I wouId Iike to pay tribute

to the men and women

in my Iaboratories

who have heIped me.

I'II bet he stayed up

aII night figuring out

that IittIe bone

he just threw to you.

I don't care.

I think you're crazy, Jeff.

Why, with your brains

you ought to set up

your own Iab.

Get some of the credit

you deserve.

After aII, Graham does own the

Iargest medicaI distributing

company in the city.

I think it's more important

to get the stuff out

than it is to worry about

receiving the credit for it.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

Suffering humanity,

and aII that stuff.

WeII, I stiII think

you're a sucker.

It's aII in the way

you Iook at it.

Yeah, maybe you're right.

I suppose when you've made

some big discovery

Iike the cure for cancer,

Graham wiII be big enough

to Iet us come and see him

receive the award

for that, too.

Jeff, the boss

wants you.

AII right.

Here we go again.

The big rush act.

But for once,

stand your ground, wiII you?

You know he can't do

without you.

Stevens, I thought

you toId me

Carter was going to have

his formuIa finished

two weeks ago.

I thought he wouId,

but you know Jeff Carter

as weII as I do.

He's a IittIe

on the carefuI side.

You can't rush him.

Yeah. WeII,

Iet me handIe him.

You sent for me, Mr. Graham?

HeIIo, Jeff.

Cigarette?

No, thanks.

How's the experiment

coming?

I think I'm on

the right track now.

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