The Great McGinty Page #4

Hey. You.

What?

Jump in. I'll take you for a ride.

Come on.

That's quite a suit.

You collected, huh?

250, 400 and 500.

1150 bucks. Count it.

I guess you think you're kind of hot stuff,

huh?

Keep the change.

Keep what change? I got 20% coming.

I said keep the whole wad.

I never expected to collect it.

Then what's the idea of sending me out?

I'm glad you didn't disappoint me.

For a minute I was afraid

you were gonna say thank you.

You're a card, you are.

Yesterday you was a hobo on the breadline,

today you got a thousand berries

and a new suit.

I wonder where you'll be tomorrow.

This is a land of great opportunity.

Take me, for instance.

Where I come from is very poor, see?

All the richness has gone...

What makes this bus so quiet?

You don't hear nothing in here.

It's armour. All the richness has gone

a long time ago,

- so everybody lives...

- Armoured for what?

Some people shouldn't interrupt me!

So everybody lives

by chiselling everybody else.

It comes to me very natural.

If I live 500 years ago,

I guess I be a baron, maybe.

A robber baron.

I live on a rock, chisel the city down below,

and everybody call me Baron.

Now I live in a penthouse

and everybody call me Boss.

Everybody except you.

- I got it. Bulletproof, huh?

- That's right.

And if you think I'm not the boss,

you try and cross me up sometime.

You got me all a-tremble.

I bet you're scared to death of yourself.

All right. You asked for it.

Then she says, "You and who else?"

And I says, "Oh, yeah?"

And she says, "Yeah's right. "

So I says, "You and me both. "

She says, "That goes double for me. "

I says, "Oh, yeah?" Then the operator says,

"Deposit 25 cents for three minutes. "

So I hang up on her. You let them

get an angle on you, you're a goner.

- You said it.

- Are you telling me?

He was always a little muscle-bound.

I could beat him to the punch.

Boy, we had some brannigans.

I thought you said

you were the governor of a state.

Yes. You was just a cheap crook.

You gotta crawl before you creep, don't you?

I collected chicken feed for a while, see.

Then the guy makes me an alderman

and I move in on the second floor.

Bus franchises, garbage disposal, nice stuff.

- 100,000 dollars!

- That's what they tell me.

Well, that's a confounded outrage.

Even in the days of Bart Herman,

we didn't pay that price for franchises.

Even in the days of Bathhouse Jake.

Those boys were pikers

compared to this mob.

Ah, you don't mean that, Mr Maxwell.

You gotta remember

that everything's gone up.

Living expenses is higher.

There's an income tax now.

You're dealing with a better class of man.

I will not pay graft. Millions for defence,

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