The Sniper Page #3

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and I went back into the kitchen

to take a pill, and I heard this backfire,

and I waited a minute

and I thought to myself

it's a funny kind of a backfire.

I never heard a backfire like that before.

So I went back to the window

and looked and she was laying there,

- and this fellow was bending over her.

- What fellow?

Pete, there. The fellow that owns the bar.

He come running out, I guess.

Look. They're going to take another picture.

- Okay.

- Where's Lieutenant Kafka?

- Inside, him and Ferris both.

- Ask him if he's all through out here.

- We'd like to take off.

- Okay.

They want to know

if they can remove the body, Lieutenant.

Did you get your pictures?

- Yes, sir.

- All right.

How about one with

the sheet off, Lieutenant?

- Just one, that's all.

- Not a chance.

Why not? What's the matter?

Listen, food's too expensive to spoil

people's appetite for breakfast.

I wouldn't want a dead girl on my front page.

You've got one anyway.

I don't like dead girls on the front page

or anywhere else.

Should have been with me last night.

You wouldn't have liked

a couple of live ones.

I had a lot of trouble last night.

You're gonna have a lot of trouble tonight,

too. Get over there to that building.

Start from the roof and check

every apartment that fronts on the street.

I'll be inside seeing what they got to say.

- Right.

- Okay. Break it up. Show's over.

Yes, sir. All right, let's go, boys. Break it up.

All right. Go home. Go home!

Well, you see,

I live across the street over there.

Go across the street.

That little girl shouldn't be out

this time of night.

- I'm her mother.

- Well, that makes her a lucky kid.

Come on, home, please. Go home. Go home!

- I still say we were cheated in that game.

- It's just a game.

- I don't care how it came out.

- Fill her up.

Well, I care how it came out.

I had some money bet on the game.

Hey, Mac, you seen that play

on the television tonight, didn't you?

Twenty-five.

The one at second

that all that rhubarb was about?

You know, in the fourth

where they thumbed Parsons out.

- It's what he deserved.

- Are you smiling at me?

- No, I'm smiling at everybody.

- Business good today?

- I'm not a businessman.

- This is what businessmen carry around.

- I'm an engineer.

- On the railroads?

No. I build things.

You know, bridges and things.

I just got back from Hawaii today.

I was building a bridge in Hawaii.

That's why I'm smiling at everybody.

I'm glad to be home.

It sure is great to be stateside again.

What do you want? A drink?

No, no. I got one back there. That how

you hurt your hand, building the bridge?

Oh, that. No, that was on the boat coming

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