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Good evening.

This is not to symbolize my expulsion from an exclusive club.

It is a mode of transportation.

This is just the vehicle for those of you who have always longed to see

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This is the first two -passenger model for that couple that enjoys

living dangerously, even on the honeymoon.

It is also attractively decorated.

I don't understand why we don't sell more of them.

And speaking of sell, we have had complaints that our sponsor's sell is so

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For them, here is the uncensored, uncouth version.

it out, Larry.

I said cut it out.

You want to wrestle, why don't you go down to the gym?

You kill me, Larry.

You really kill me. Listen, Angie, don't play games with me.

I'm not fooling around about this.

I want to marry you.

I'm not fooling either.

I'm no kid anymore.

It's about time I settled down. I told you that.

Oh, yeah, you told me that.

Only money comes first, right?

So what's so wrong about that?

A girl's got to think about money. It's a lesson I learned from Mama.

Your Mama never had the price of a beer.

That was the lesson.

Well, that's what I come over to tell you, Angie. The money's going to come.

Plenty of it. Oh, yeah?

Where from?

I quit Patsy's this morning.

I ain't taking no more bets for him.

He can find himself another boy. You quit Patsy's?

What for?

You gonna get him some competition, maybe?

No. Nothing like that.

I don't like horses.

They make me sneeze.

Besides, they got smarter ideas than bookmaking.

Big ideas.

I'll get the money, Angie.

I've been thinking about it a long time. How?

How?

I made an appointment this afternoon.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to meet with a guy named Stefan Bogornik.

He runs a big importing company. Head man.

He's going to give me a job.

What makes you so sure?

Because I know it.

Him and my pop were buddies when they come over from the old country.

So?

So it's like a debt.

Long before my pop died, Bregonik used to tell him to send me around.

Why didn't he then?

Because my pop didn't like the way he did his business.

Bregonik wasn't too careful about what he imported or where it came from.

You know my pop, Angie.

He was the original on his job.

All right.

So he gives you a job.

What'll it pay?

Not much, I guess.

Sixty, seventy bucks a week.

What?

I'm making 150 with Patsy right now.

I got my reasons, Angie.

What kind of reasons?

There's money in that operation.

Big money.

If I stick it out long enough, some of it's coming my way. You think I'm going

to sit around for 25 years until you get a gold watch?

Uh -uh.

It won't be that way, Angie.

It won't be that way, sweetheart.

Do you have any faith in me at all?

Money, Larry.

That's what I got faith in.

Money.

Hello?

I'm Larry Chetnick. Is Mr. Borgornick in?

What do you want to see Mr.

Borgornick about?

It's about a job.

He's expecting me. Would you tell him I'm here?

Mr. Begornik, there's a Larry Chetnik here to see you.

Send him in. Yes, sir.

You can go right in there.

Sit down.

So you're Young's boy.

I suppose you want something.

No, sir. I just thought I'd look you up like I was to my pop. I should. Your pop

was a fool.

You know that?

Him and me, we came to this country the same day.

For 27 years, he broke his back on the construction gangs.

So what happens?

He starves.

He raises his family in a lousy neighborhood.

He gets hit with a steel beam and he dies.

Am I describing a fool or what?

He was a nice old guy.

Nice guys are stupid.

Are you stupid, Larry?

No, Mr. Pagonik, I'm not stupid.

But I try to be a nice guy, too.

You speak any other languages?

No, sir.

You go to high school?

I quit just before graduation.

You know how to write out orders, keep neat records, files, that kind of stuff?

I had a year of business administration.

Can you handle yourself?

I mean... What do you do if a guy pushes you around?

I push back.

You dress pretty good.

Got more than that one suit?

Got another one just like it.

You willing to work any hours?

Nights sometimes?

Sure. You know anything about the importing business?

No. Good.

I know that lousy neighborhood you come from.

Patsy and those cheap punks.

You mixed up with them?

I used to work for Patsy, but that's all.

75 bucks a week.

It may be a bonus at Christmas, if I like your style.

Only remember, I do a lot of business out of my apartment.

That's where my customers come.

You'll be there when I tell you to be there.

Right? Sure thing, Mr. Bergonik.

Thanks a lot.

All set, Larry?

Yes, sir.

It's good to be with you again, my friend. Please come in.

Miklos, I wish you to meet Larry, my cousin.

My pleasure.

And this is my cousin.

Please, let us sit down. Thank you.

Larry, a drink for the gentleman. No, no, no. No drink for me.

Ah, but a little wine, try. Wine is good.

Anything for you?

My cousin doesn't drink.

Well?

And how is the importing business, my friend?

Business is like always.

The market is only people.

If people want something, the market is good.

If not... You are right as usual, my old friend. Thank you.

Tell me, my friend, is it true that the wine business is much improved?

What do you think the market would be for 900 cases of Romani

Conti?

49 vintage.

I think it would not be bad, Miklos.

Depending, of course, on the suggested price.

Well, my partners abroad suggest $7 ,000.

is a fair amount.

What would your company say to that?

Do you like the wine, my friend?

It is very good.

Do you like the price, my friend?

The company accepts the terms.

Four months.

I'm four months older.

You think that doesn't mean anything to a girl? What do you want from me?

I want some action, that's what I want.

Oh, you're the guy with the big plans.

The big money man.

Seventy -five bucks a week.

All right, you want to know about the deal, I'll tell you.

Go ahead, I'd love to hear it.

Then sit down and shut up.

I told you about this guy Begonic. He's an operator, a big -timer. He makes more

quick imports than anybody on the East Coast.

You know why?

Because he deals in cash.

No papers, no books, no nothing. I figure he must keep 100, 200 grand in

apartment of his.

So what are you going to do?

Swipe it?

No, it won't be that easy.

Begonic's no dope.

I figure I'll make it one big haul and I'm taking my time about it.

Then we'll have enough dough to skip the country.

Live in a big someplace.

South America, Rio.

Rio? Yeah.

Any place you like.

Oh, but when's it gonna be?

When's it going to happen?

I don't know. I can't be sure. It might be six months from now.

Might even be this week.

There's been a rumor around the office about some foreign typewriters.

Typewriters?

Yeah.

Stolen goods.

I don't know how true it is, but I heard her old friend Miklos is in on a deal.

And if it clicks, the price could be big.

How big?

I don't know.

I'll have to see.

And you really think you could get the money?

I ain't been thinking of anything else.

For months.

You sent for me, Mr. Pagonik?

Yes.

You and me, we got a date tonight.

The apartment?

That's right.

Big stuff tonight, Larry.

Wear your best suit and keep your eyes open.

Yes, sir.

Will Miklos be there?

Yeah, that's right.

Our good friend Miklos and his cousin.

I don't know what time they're coming. Pretty late, maybe.

You come to my place, 10, 10 .30.

I'll be there, Mr. McGonagall.

Well?

There's been a rumor going around about some typewriters.

Is that the deal, Mr. McGonagall? I don't like rumors.

Sometimes they're true. Now, get out of here.

Mr. Bergornik, please.

Just a minute, please.

Bergornik.

Stefan.

Who is this? Miklos?

Yes.

Jest is very bad today.

I think maybe I cannot leave the house tonight.

That's too bad.

We will make it some other night then, Miklos, when you feel better.

No, no.

business.

Perhaps if someone could bring the money over to my house tonight, about eight.

Someone?

Yes, your cousin, Larry.

He's trustworthy, no?

Yes, but we haven't yet agreed on the price.

Is the 30 ,000 agreeable to your partners?

Yes, yes, it's agreeable.

I'll send Larry with the money.

Hello, Mr. McGonagall. I got your message to come here early.

Yes, our plans for the evening have changed.

Come in, Larry.

My good friend Miklos called me this afternoon.

He can't make the meeting tonight, but he wants to complete the transaction.

So I'm sending you over to his house.

With the money.

Did I have his address, sir?

It's on the envelope.

Should I go now, Mr.

Pagonik?

In a minute.

Sit down.

I've been thinking about... Ava.

Your mother.

My mother?

Yeah.

To you, she was just a nice old lady.

Cooked your meals and sent you to school and junk like that, right?

My mother died before I was 12, Mr. Bogornik.

Yeah, sure, I remember.

Only maybe you didn't know something about your mother.

Her and me, we were engaged to be married once, back in the old country.

A family thing, an arrangement, you know.

Only then she met your pop.

And that made things different.

You ever know about that, Larry?

No, sir.

I could have been your father.

I wouldn't have minded that, Mr. Pagonik.

You were better off the way you were.

Don't get any wrong ideas.

Your pop was the best guy on earth.

Stupid, but the best.

Sure, Mr. Pagonik.

Don't you ever forget it.

Come in, Angie.

I was doing my hair. I look a mess.

You shouldn't walk in on a girl like that.

Sit down.

Say what's with you. Sit down.

You always thought I was a nothing, huh?

That's what you thought, didn't you?

This little Larry from around the corner running errands for the big boys.

Take them bets.

What's the matter? You drunk or something?

How much?

How much is it? 30 ,000 bucks.

30 ,000 dollars?

I never spent so much money in my life.

30 ,000 bucks.

Oh, I never thought you could do it.

I never thought you had it in you.

Oh, you sweet babies.

You beautiful things, you... Mama's going to take good care of you.

I want a hundred pair of shoes, Larry.

I'm crazy about shoes.

Good shoes.

$30 ,000.

Oh, think what we can do with it.

I'll pack tonight.

Oh, it won't take me long. I'm not going to take much. We can buy new clothes

when we get there. Summer clothes, right?

It's always summer in Rio, ain't it?

Give it back, Angie.

All of it.

Oh, come on, honey. Let me keep just a little.

A little for pocket money? I said all of it.

Well, I can pack in 15 minutes. There won't be any packing. You wait right

until I call you.

Understand? Where are you going?

You ain't leaving me, are you?

Oh, no. You couldn't walk out on me just like that.

Let go of me, Angie.

I know what I'm doing.

Larry, please.

Hey, you are coming back.

You are coming back.

Hello,

cousin.

Tell your cousin to lay off, huh?

What have you done with the money?

I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused you.

Here it is, mister.

Gornick, it's all there. It's 30 ,000 bucks.

You see?

He was the one who called you.

Not I, Stefan.

The boy is a thief.

He's right.

From a no -good crook.

I was the one who called you, told you the meeting was off.

I thought it was going to be easy. I was so set to hop aboard to South America.

Then why didn't you?

Why did you come back?

Because I forgot something.

I thought I was being real smart getting all I do.

But I forgot about my old man.

I tried to rob you, Mr. Pagonik, so you can do whatever you want to me.

But I began thinking about what you said about my father.

I began to remember things about him.

He was a pretty dumb guy, all right, just like you said.

But I loved him.

I couldn't do this to him. That's why I come back.

Reggie. Reggie.

Larry.

You came back.

I never thought you would. I never thought I'd see you again.

I told you, didn't I?

Where you been?

I've been to Begonic's place.

Begonic? Mm -hmm.

They gave him back the money.

You gave him back the money?

Every nickel.

Why, Larry?

Why?

What's so funny?

What's so funny?

Don't you get it?

Don't you get it, you dope?

30 grand's okay.

But it's no fortune.

I got something better than that.

Much better.

Something that'll pay off in a hundred grand someday soon.

That guy has trust.

Well, I was so glad to see Larry get over his preoccupation with money.

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