The Gambler Page #4

chain America had ever seen.

But no matter where he went...

or what he did...

he always found a place for every

person bound to him by blood.

Your families and

your families' families...

to say nothing of his own children,

my Uncle Hy here...

my dear mother Naomi...

whose rare intelligence

he nurtured...

and to whom he gave

an extra measure of support...

when she was widowed early

by my father's death.

But I'm the one

most deeply in his debt.

Because every time I think

my reach has stretched too far...

I remember the moves

that he has dared.

So...

I drink this toast

on his 80th birthday.

This man that seized what he wanted

with nothing there to back him up...

but wit and balls...

and will.

This killer, this king.

Beautiful!

"I drink to the general joy...

of the whole table."

Shakespeare.

Are you out of trouble

or are you just playing a game?

- I'm dancing with you.

- Don't take that tone with me!

I'm not playing any games.

Do you still need the money?

- Truthfully?

- Truthfully.

I don't know whether

to believe you or not anymore.

Look at my grandson and my daughter

cavorting around like Gypsies.

Hy, go on, dance.

You can dance. Go ahead, dance.

- Any objections if I cut in?

- In a minute, Hy.

That's all right. Go ahead.

I'll take you swimming later.

Thank you.

Hy, be careful with all

that weight you're carrying.

The water's warmer than the air.

Thanks.

That feels good.

- How's that?

- Oh, it's nice.

What's that?

It's what I owe.

How is that possible?

Well, I gambled and I lost.

You gambled and you lost.

Is that all you have to say?

$44,000?

Are you so naive,

you don't know...

what those monsters do

with the money you give them?

They shoot it right in the arms

of ten-year-old schoolchildren.

I see them every day

at the clinic.

My God, Axel!

Have I been such a failure...

that I've raised a son

to have the morals of a snail?

You gonna help me or not?

Axel, what will they do to you?

Axel, I asked you a question.

What will those people do to you?

For ten thousand,

they break your arms.

For 20, your legs.

For 50, you get a whole new face.

- Axel, what will they do?

- I don't know.

Threaten me. Kill me.

Five thousand, fifteen thousand,

twenty-five thousand.

May I have an envelope, please?

You know you're responsible

if you don't count it.

Yes, I know.

Here, here, here.

Can you help me, please?

Let me call you back.

Bye.

You have identification?

- Do you have anything else?

- What for? What's wrong with that?

This is $ 15,000

you want to withdraw.

I know how much it is.

Will you give me your okay, please?

I'm sorry. You need

two pieces of identification.

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