Original subtitles

"Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity.

I have trusted also in the Lord,

therefore I shall not slide.

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me.

Try my reins and my heart.

For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes

and I have walked in thy truth.

I have not sat with evil persons,

neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I will wash mine hands in innocency.

So will I compass thine altar, O Lord.

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving

- and tell of all thy wondrous works..." - Howdy.

- Loggins' funeral? - Yes, ma'am.

- You ain't related, are you? - Related, ma'am?

We're looking for the child's kin. Thought I saw some resemblance.

No kin, huh?

None we know of, except out in Missouri someplace.

- Missouri. - Seems you got the child's jaw.

No, ma'am, just a friend of her mama's, just passing through town.

If ever a child needed a friend...

"...will I bless the Lord. Amen."

Amen.

Amen, Essie Mae. I just know your ass is still warm.

Would you like some water, Addie? We'll get the child some water.

Bless you, child.

I just wanted to pay my respects to your mama.

Well, I'm gonna have to be going. It's a long way to St. Louis.

- St. Louis? You mean in Missouri? - Yes, ma'am.

I sell the Good Book, ma'am.

Moving through the country with the Lord's good news.

Addie, child, don't you have your Aunt Billie living in St. Joseph?

St. Joseph, Missouri?

It's her poor mother's sister.

- The child's only known relative. - That so?

If you're driving your chariot to Missouri, sir,

you could deliver this child to her kinfolk.

I wouldn't exactly call it a chariot.

- I'll write the woman a letter tonight. - No, hold it.

I have to think upon this, you know.

I mean, I may have to make a few stops along the way.

I never traveled with no child before.

- But you're going that way. - The child's got no place to go!

Well...

In the eyes of the Lord, I suspect I have no choice, do I?

- Hallelujah! - God works in mysterious ways.

Don't he, now?

Come on, Addie, better get your things together.

This nice man's gonna take you to your aunt.

How come you're taking me?

How come you're taking me?

Because I'm going that way, honey.

Although I do wanna make just one stop before we leave town.

Got a little business to take care of.

- You know my mama real good? - Oh, pretty good.

You just stay out here till I call for you.

Don't you say a word unless I ask you to.

- Mr. Robertson? - That's right.

I'd like a minute of your time.

- Not buying today. - Oh, not selling.

Just want you to meet somebody, Mr. Robertson. Only take a second.

So what?

- Tell him your name, honey. - Addie.

- Addie what, honey? - Addie Loggins.

You done real fine. I'll be out in a minute.

Ain't she a sweet child?

No, she ain't a sweet child.

Maybe she don't seem sweet right now, that's because she's sad,

with her mama being dead,

what with your brother getting drunk and driving into that tree.

What are you trying to pull? Get out of here.

- Get out of here! - All right.

- But I'll tell you where I'm gonna go. - I don't care.

I'm gonna see Mr. J. T. Faraday.

Now, you know who Mr. J. T. Faraday is? He's one of the biggest lawyers in Kansas.

He don't favor the man with the money. He favors the man without it.

Know what's gonna happen to your brother?

Gonna be a lawsuit against him. Know what happens then?

Everything's gonna be tied up in knots, just sitting there.

That's his banking money, his house, everything he owns.

Including half this plant.

Now, don't think that poor child ain't entitled 'cause she is.

Now, I was thinking...

couple of thousand dollars would be acceptable.

Couple of thou? I'll give you 200.

- Two hundred dollars? - Two hundred dollars.

It's a deal.

There you are.

That'll be, uh, $67.54.

You sure these tires are new?

Sixty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents.

Now, we'll have you to St. Joe in no time.

What time's the next train to St. Joseph?

St. Joseph? Let's see here.

That'll be the 4:14.

Change trains in Kansas City,

and that'll put you into St. Joe at 9:52 a.m.

I want one child's price ticket.

That will be $11.45.

I want you to send this telegram

to Mrs. Billie Roy Griggs, Cosmo Row, St. Joseph.

"Train arriving 9:52 a.m.

and bringing love, affection, and $20 cash."

Make that $25 cash, and sign it just Addie Loggins.

Ten words, that will be 85 cents more.

That will be 12 and 30.

Twelve and 30, huh?

You'd better say in that message there, "Love, affection, and $20 cash."

Love, affection, and $20 cash.

Now, here's your ticket, and here's $20 for your Aunt Billie.

Oh, we got till 4:15.

I don't suppose you can wait here by yourself, can you?

You hungry? You want a Nehi and a Coney Island?

- Ain't you gonna eat it? - I ain't hungry.

Don't you worry about going on the train. You're gonna like it.

Before you know it, you'll be at your aunt's.

All your troubles will be over, so eat your Coney Island.

- She don't know me. - She's gonna know you now.

- She ain't gonna want me. - What? She hasn't even seen you yet.

- She never even cared for my mama. - Nobody didn't care for your mama.

And she was her sister.

- Your mama was a fine woman. - Everybody says she weren't.

Well, everybody don't know your mama, do they?

How good you know my mama?

Good enough to know you can be proud of the happiness she gave to people.

Now eat your Coney Island.

You meet my mama in a barroom?

Where would you get a question like that?

I hear Ms. Ollie talk,

and the neighbor lady says one of you was my pa.

Well, don't the world have a wild imagination?

Eat your Coney Island.

You my pa?

Of course I ain't your pa.

I'll get you some relish.

Coney Island ain't no good without relish.

Look, I know how you feel. I lost my ma too. I even lost my pa.

I don't even know where my sister is.

I wish I could tell you I'm your pa, but it just ain't like that.

You met her in a barroom.

Just because a man meets a woman in a barroom

don't mean he's your pa. Eat your Coney Island.

Well, then, if you ain't my pa, I want my $200.

What's that?

I want my $200.

I heard you through the door, talking to that man.

It's my money you got and I want it.

Now you just hold on a second.

I want my money. You took my $200!

- Will you quiet down, you hear? - I want my $200!

Hold on, now. Just hold on. Let me explain something to you.

It ain't as if you was my pa, that'd be different.

I ain't your pa, so get that out of your head.

Don't care what those neighbors said.

- I look like-- - You don't.

You don't look any more like me than you do that Coney Island.

Eat that damn thing, you hear?

- We got the same jaw. - Lots of people got the same jaw.

- It's possible-- - No, no. It ain't possible.

- Then I want my $200! - All right!

Maybe we got the same jaw, that don't mean same blood.

I know a woman who looks like a bullfrog, but she isn't its mother.

You met my mom in a barroom.

For God's sakes, child.

You think everybody gets met in a barroom gets a baby?

- It's possible. - Anything is possible,

but possible don't make it true.

Then I want my money!

Will you quiet down?

You know what the trouble is with you? You got no appreciation.

All right. Maybe I did get a little money from that man,

and you're entitled to that.

But I'm entitled to my share for getting it for you, ain't I?

Where do you think you'd be without me?

To think them folks would spend a penny to send you east? No, sir.

Who got you a ticket to St. Joe? Who got you a Nehi and a Coney Island?

And threw in $20 extra, not to mention 85 cents for that telegram.

You wouldn't have had any of that without me.

Now, I didn't have to take you, but I took you, didn't I?

All right, I think that's fair enough.

We're both a little better off.

You get to St. Joe. I get myself a little better car.

Fair is fair.

Now, drink your Nehi and eat your Coney Island.

I want my $200.

I don't have your $200 no more and you know it.

If you don't give me my $200, I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it,

and he'll make you give it to me 'cause it's mine.

But I don't have it.

Then get it.

How we doing, angel pie?

We gonna have a little dessert when we finish up our hot dog?

I don't know.

What do you say, Daddy?

Why don't we get Precious a little dessert if she eats her dog?

Her name ain't Precious.

I want my money back on this ticket,

and I want you to send this here telegram, "Trip delayed, but I'm coming real soon!"

Just lie down the seat and be quiet.

Folks don't take to children when they're doing business.

- Yes? - Good afternoon, ma'am.

- Is Mr. Rudolph Morgan at home, please? - Mr. Morgan?

Yes, ma'am. My name is Pray. Moses Pray. Kansas Bible Company. He'll know.

I'm sorry. Mr. Morgan has passed on.

Oh, ma'am, I just... I don't know what to say.

What was it you were seeing him about?

- Well, he ordered this here Bible from me. - Bible? Rudolph ordered a Bible?

He ordered the deluxe edition with a lady's name--

Lady's name?

Oh, I expect some special gift to a family friend,

but under the circumstances,

I'll just give you back Mr. Morgan's dollar deposit

and there won't be no further obligation.

I just don't know how to put into words the sense of sorrow that I feel.

What name is in the corner?

I don't really know what name Mr. Morgan had put in the corner, ma'am.

Let's see, now. It's here somewhere. I've got it, uh...

Here. Here it is.

- Pearl. - "Pearl."

I'm Pearl.

Well, he must have got this here Good Book for you, ma'am.

Yes. Yes. He bought it for me.

Of course. Now, you're not obliged to take it.

Of course I'll take it.

There's just one thing. I told him that I could sell him a cheaper Bible,

but, no, he wanted the best, the best, of course,

being the deluxe edition with the lady's name printed

in child-in-the-manger gold letters.

- Oh, he would. - Bringing a balance due of, uh...

Eight dollars? Eight dollars.

Eight dollars?

Well, that's $8 minus the dollar deposit, making it $7.

- Um, I'll go get my purse. - You're not obliged to take it.

Of course I'm obliged. He ordered the deluxe.

But cold or no cold, it's good to be back in old Manhattan.

Well, tell me, Jack, you've been in town now since Thursday.

- What have you been doing? - I've had a lot of fun, Don.

I saw some shows, went to a couple of nightclubs,

and last night, I was invited over to Fred Allen's apartment for dinner.

- Oh, Fred Allen, eh? - He and I are pretty good friends now.

Well, I'm glad to hear it. Has Fred got a nice apartment?

Oh, how could I tell, Don, with all that laundry hanging in the living room?

Ain't you gonna go to sleep?

Don't you wanna hear Jack Benny?

No.

I don't wanna sound catty...

You're too young to smoke.

You're gonna set this whole place on fire.

I now owe you $103.72.

Seventy-four.

Frank D. Roosevelt said we're all feeling a lot better.

He did, did he?

Made me feel good when he said that. Better than I've felt in a long time.

Bet old Frank sure does wish he was 21.

You don't like me, do ya?

No, I don't like ya.

- Yes? - Afternoon, ma'am.

I was wondering if Mr. Bates might be at home.

Mr. Bates is dead. He died over a week ago.

You mean, he passed over?

Why, I was talking to him not less than a month ago.

- What was it you wanted? - My name is Pray, Kansas Bible Company.

I'm here to deliver this Bible that Mr. Bates ordered.

- Bible? - Who is it?

- What's the trouble? - Something about Benjamin buying a Bible.

Bible? What kind of Bible?

He said he talked to Benjamin, less than a month ago.

Well, I'm not exactly sure of the dates, ma'am.

Well, I don't see how.

Benjamin didn't go nowheres near that shop for more than a month before he died.

Well, I may be a little mixed up on the dates.

What company you say you'se from?

The Kansas Bible Company, out of Wichita.

Kansas Bible Company?

I ain't never heard of no Kansas Bible Company.

Daddy?

Can't we go now? I wanna get to church and pray for Mama.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Sure we can, honey.

Daddy was just fixing to leave.

This here is my little girl. It's just the two of us now.

- My mama's gone to the Lord. - Oh, so has poor Mr. Bates.

I'll just give you back his dollar deposit,

and you let us know if there's anything we can do.

Hold on there. Wait one damn minute.

- He actually done ordered a Bible, huh? - He sure did.

Here it is, right here in gold for somebody named "Marie."

- That's her. She's Marie. - Oh, she sure did mean a lot to him.

He especially had me get the deluxe edition.

- How much to keep this here book? - That one is the--

It's the $12 one, Daddy.

- Twelve dollars? - Twelve dollars?

Honey, we have to have a little goodness in our hearts,

- considering the circumstances. - Never mind the circumstances.

And if it'll make that woman happy, I'll take it.

You owe me $85.74.

I mean, we're going to Washington on the QT.

Molly, she says we can't go on the QT, we've got to take the Pennsylvania.

I'd better get going.

Molly, where's my suitcase? Do you know?

I'm sure I don't know, McGee. You had it--

I know where it is. It's right here in the hall...

He's gonna open the closet.

Now he's gonna say how he's gotta straighten the closet out.

Got to straighten out that closet one of these days.

How'd you like to do business with me?

- Instead of paying me back? - Don't get nervous. I'll pay you back.

I'm just saying, while we're heading east, how'd you like to do a little business?

You're looking at me like I'm out to cheat you.

I am offering a proposition. Take it or leave it.

Turn off that radio. You're like to drive us all deaf with that radio.

...in an average way, of course.

Okay, I want you to remember one thing, I decide on the price.

Maybe you don't know French, but there's something called "finesse."

Twelve dollars. I never sold no Bible for $12.

That man was a law officer. You could've had me put me in jail.

We got it, didn't we?

I don't care if we got it. Don't you go making the decisions.

I make the decisions. All you gotta do is look like a pretty girl.

You ain't got something like a ribbon in that cigar box, do you?

Got my mom's kimono in my suitcase, Chinamen with umbrellas.

That ain't quite what I had in mind.

You look real nice in that ribbon.

First off, I didn't know was she a boy or a girl?

I'm a girl.

Well, it makes all the difference.

Ain't she got a sweet little face, somehow.

Seeing how I got paid today, we'll take a ribbon in each color.

- How much that going to set me back? - Well, that'll be 15 cents.

Bought my grandchildren ribbons just like this last holiday time.

Grandchildren? I don't believe it.

- You break a five? - Well, you can believe it, all right.

I'm just as old as I look.

Well, now, here you be.

That's one, two, three, four, five.

This wallet of mine is about to bust.

I'll give you five ones back, you give me that $5 bill.

How many grandchildren you got?

Well, I got two little granddaughters, a 9-year-old, a 10-year-old,

two grandsons near 16, and I got a grandson 35 years old.

Come on, you're pulling my leg.

Why don't you just give me a $10 bill? Here's the 5, and five ones, there.

That way I won't see it break apart.

- Six children, huh? My, my, my. - I've got a daughter, 51.

I don't mean to be handing you no line,

but that's just pretty hard to believe you got a 51-year-old child.

You can believe it, all right.

Well, I'm afraid I'd have to see it to believe it. Much obliged.

- See you again. - Y'all come back.

That just don't seem quite right, somehow.

- Yes? - I'm looking for Mr. Stanley, ma'am.

Mr. Stanley's dead.

Oh, well, I'm looking for Mr. Warren M. Stanley, ma'am.

- Warren's passed on, sir. - Oh, that's hard to believe.

I was just talking to Warren two weeks back.

He ordered this here Bible.

Warren spent money on a Bible?

Yes, ma'am, with the name Elvira in the corner.

Why would Warren spend money on a Bible?

He took fast to the idea, ma'am. Only thing is, he left a balance due of--

Not counting the dollar deposit--

Daddy, this one's already paid for.

Mr. Stanley paid for the whole thing, don't you remember?

Afternoon, ma'am. Mr. Huff at home?

Mr. Huff passed away, young man, a week ago.

I'm sorry. I was talking to Mr. Huff not more than a month ago.

What was it you wanted?

Oh, well, my name is Pray, Kansas Bible Company. I--

Mr. Huff ordered this Bible as a gift for someone named Edna.

Oh, that's my name.

You don't have to take it.

I'll just give you back Amos's dollar deposit--

Of course I wanna keep it.

He bought me a Bible.

Now, I told Amos I could sell him a cheaper one,

but, no, naturally, he wanted the best,

the best, of course, being the deluxe edition

with the name printed in child-in-the-manger gold letters,

- bringing up a balance due of-- - Of $24.

Twenty-four dollars. I'll get my purse.

What's your name, honey?

- Addie. - Addie. What a sweet little name.

Addie Pray, ma'am.

Well, Addie Pray, I'm gonna give you $24

and an extra 5 for just coming to my door.

- Praise the Lord. - Praise the Lord.

- Moze, let's give 'em some money. - No.

Just a little bit. We got $305.16.

Whole 'nother business giving it away.

- It's bad enough you give away Bibles. - But they're poorly.

The country's poorly, I told you before.

Frank D. Roosevelt says we gotta look out for one another.

I don't care.

- But he says it. - That so?

Ask Frank about taking care of himself. You think he don't eat off silver trays?

He could eat off tabletops, but he don't. You know why?

Because that would make him look common.

Frank D. Roosevelt ain't running this thing, I'm running it.

So don't you make up no rules.

It's my money too, you know. $200 belongs to me.

- Don't forget that. - You want it?

Put my share in my pocket and I'll take you to a station.

How do you like that?

Get the map. Find out where the nearest depot is.

Nothing but trouble, anyway.

First you charge too much, then you give it away.

- Where are we now? - We just left Plainville.

$12 for a Bible, then it's up to twenty-four.

If I stay with you, I'll spend the rest of my life in jail.

There's a depot in Lincoln. You can take me to Lincoln.

You bet I will.

- Where's Lincoln? - Clear over there.

You think I'm gonna take you there just to get you to some depot?

Go east. We'll hit one in Sylvan Grove.

- Where's Sylvan Grove? - Right here.

That'll take us down through Lucas.

We gotta go through something.

Not complaining. I'm saying that'll take you through Lucas.

Through Paradox and Waldo

and Lorraine and Lucas if you wanna get to Sylvan Grove.

Good towns. We could do some business.

It won't matter. We're near out of Bibles anyway.

What do you mean, we're out? Why didn't you tell me?

- You look in the box too. - You've got an excuse for everything.

'Cause you blame me.

If we were running out of Bibles, you should have told me.

- We're running out of Bibles. - We gotta get new ones!

- Then let's get new ones. - In Great Bend.

- Great Bend's the other way. - Well, we gotta have Bibles, don't we?

We can veer down to Lucas, and we'll veer over to Wilson.

Veer off to Lorraine and Bushton.

And we could veer off to Hoisington.

We'll just have to keep on veering, that's all.

- I'm getting hungry. You getting hungry? - Uh-huh.

You sweet thing. Don't you tell me that.

Sometimes I just don't know, with all the old doodly-doo.

Doodly-doo, doodly-doo.

Okay, now, you go on back now. I'll see you another time.

- Don't send me back. - Oh, you got to go on back.

- Another time. - I wanna go in your place.

No, no.

What you trying to keep secret from me? You got diamonds and rubies in there?

Go on, go on, go on.

Oh, Fido. Night-night, old Fido.

- Woof. - Woof, woof.

Woof, woof.

There it is.

- Much obliged. - Thank you, sir.

All right, boy, you're next.

I ain't a boy.

- Oh, don't let it bother you. - It ain't funny.

No reason to get that sore.

He called me a boy, didn't he?

He just got mixed up, that's all.

He did not. He looked me straight in the eye!

I'm looking you straight in the eye and I think you're beautiful.

Oh, you're just saying that.

Would I? You're as beautiful as your mama,

and she put all the flowers in the world to shame.

They wouldn't let her come to Holland for fear she'd droop the tulips,

and you got all the good looks she had.

- How come that man called me a boy? - I don't know.

Maybe it's 'cause of what you got on.

What's wrong with what I got on?

Nothing. Just don't exactly make you look feminine.

It wouldn't be a bad idea we get you fixed up a bit.

Get you a new dress, a fancy new hat.

Come to think of it, it wouldn't exactly hurt business either.

You really think I'm as pretty as my mama?

Of course I do.

- How much money we got? - $405.16.

- Give me a 20. - What for?

Give me a 20.

- Come on. - Where are we going?

We'll get us some fancy new outfits

with this money you got from your Aunt Helen.

I don't have no Aunt Helen.

Oh, sure you do, honey. Let me explain it to you.

Yes, sir?

I'd like an Ipana toothpaste and a pack of Sen-Sen.

- Uh, 20 and five. - Twenty-five.

- Yes, sir. - Here you go.

Seventy-five makes one, four makes five and 15 makes 20.

Thank you very much. I don't need a bag.

- Thank you very much. - Thank you. Bye now!

- Hello. How much is this? - That'd be 35 cents.

Sixty-five cents makes a dollar. Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes?

May I have a bottle of purple toilet water, please?

That'll be 25 cents.

There you go.

Lady, you made a mistake.

Huh? I gave you 4 dollars and 75 cents.

But I gave you a $20 bill.

Uh-uh. You gave me a 5.

No, ma'am, it was a $20 bill.

You give me a 5 and I give you $4.75.

- It was a $20 bill. - What's happening?

Got no 20s in with no 5s.

What's all the turmoil? What's going on here?

This little girl give me a $5 bill and I give her change.

I gave her a $20 bill, I know I did.

It was a birthday present from my Aunt Helen in Wichita,

and she wrote "Happy Birthday, Addie" on the end of it.

You just go look and see!

That's it! That's my $20 bill I got from my Aunt Helen in Wichita.

- Give the child her $20 bill. - I'm giving it.

Give the child her $20 bill, Miss Brownwell.

Yes, sir!

- And a piece of candy. - Yes, sir!

- Pay attention to things. - Yes, sir!

Come on and get your cotton candy.

Sweetheart cotton candy!

Five cents.

- Do you have change for this 5? - There you are, little girl.

Cotton candy, get your cotton candy.

Mister, this purse is sure full.

If you give me the 5 back, I'll give you five ones.

Get your cotton candy right here.

Mister, if you've got a $10 bill, I'll give you the 5 back,

along with the five ones you have. Would you give me a $10 bill?

There, now don't bother me any more, you understand?

Cotton candy! Step up and get your cotton candy!

Come and get it.

Three cotton candies and two Nehis.

Get your tickets. Only one-fourth of a dollar.

The show goes on in five minutes!

Six unusual little ladies unveiling the secrets of passion,

found only a few years back

in the actual Egyptian tomb of Queen Neferetti,

and featuring the luscious Miss Trixie Delight!

- I had my photo took, Moze! - You did, huh? Ain't that fine?

Can you come have your photo took with me?

- Can't right now. - It'll only take a minute!

Not now, you hear me?

It's closing tonight. I won't be here after...

I can't help that. Now excuse me.

How many times you gonna see it?

As many times as I like, that's how many times.

- You've seen it half a dozen. - I might see it a half dozen more.

- Why don't you go play bingo? - I don't wanna play bingo.

Why don't you write another love note to St. Roosevelt?

- Maybe I will! - And stop checking on me.

I ain't about to leave some child stranded in the middle of nowhere.

I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is?

No, I don't know what it is.

But if you've got them, I sure bet they belong to somebody else.

And his name ain't Frank! It's Franklin!

Hey there, my little turtle-dee.

I wondered where you got to. Where's your pa?

- Is my picture ready? - Sure, it's... Excuse me, folks.

Sit back in the moon there. I'll be right with you. Let's see.

Here it is. Here.

I thought you were gonna sit in the moon with your pa?

He ain't my pa.

Hi, folks. Get ready! Smile! Hold it, hold it!

Beautiful.

I don't want you smoking in the car tomorrow.

What?

I didn't say nothing. I'm just listening to you.

There will be extra people riding with us,

and this person don't like cigarette smoke.

- What extra person? - What?

I said, what extra person?

A lady and her maid. I'm giving them a ride to Topeka.

- I didn't know we was going to Topeka. - Because you don't know everything.

What's the lady's name?

Miss Delight. Miss Trixie Delight.

She's a real lady! She comes from a good family

and I'm just giving her a ride.

That's what you always talk about, ain't it? Helping other people.

Now, don't you drop nothing, Imogene.

Take care of those breakables. Understand?

Yes, Miss Trixie.

Morning! Car is right over here.

You better ride in the back seat a while.

Come on, you don't wanna keep these nice people waiting.

Yes, Miss Trixie.

And then I danced in Tuscaloosa,

and the mayor was there and he just said the nicest things about me.

The newspaper ran a whole big photo on me.

I got a scrapbook telling stories on me from towns all over.

Tell him about the time that man tried to crack your head open with a bottle.

Why, Imogene, you silly old thing. You know that's not true.

That old boy wasn't gonna hit me over the head with no bottle.

He was just horsing around.

Ask me real nice, maybe I'll tell you about that sometime.

Tell him about the time you almost got thrown in jail, Miss Trixie.

I just don't understand it, Daddy.

But this little baby has to go winky-tinky all the time.

Don't you worry none, we're stopping here for dinner.

But we just stopped for her to winky-tink at lunch.

That's right. Now we're stopping for dinner. Come on.

I ain't hungry.

- Want one? - Okay.

- How old are you? - I don't know, 15. Why?

Just asking. That's all.

- Where are you from? - Nowhere.

Well, you gotta be from somewheres.

Down by Troy, I guess.

How long you work for her?

I ain't kept count. A year, maybe. How old you be?

Nine. She really do all that dancing?

Well, if you want to call it dancing.

All she do is waggle her hips and shake her old behind a little.

How come she leave that job back there?

'Cause the boss-man try and make her put out for his friends.

She don't believe in putting out for free.

- She put out much? - Just like a gum machine.

You drop something in and she'll put something out.

How much she charge?

Most she can get.

But she always asks for $5. She ain't putting out for your pa, though.

Says she'll wait and get all she can before she put out for him.

He tell her he was my pa?

Well, not exactly.

I heard him mumbling something like he didn't want to talk about it.

- Ain't he? - I'm with him, ain't I?

And how you come to be with her?

'Cause she promised to give me $4 every week.

She ain't gave me nothing.

Except a nickel or dime sometime.

Why don't you quit?

Quit? How I'm gonna quit?

And what if I do quit? I ain't got no money to get home to Mama.

And what if I do get home? They got hard times as it is.

My mama say:

"You go work for a white lady, she'll take good care of you."

- You wanna know what I think? - Yeah.

You know that white speck on top of chicken doodle?

Yeah.

That's the kind of white I think Miss Trixie is.

She's just like that little white speck on top of old chicken shit!

I just love it, love it, love it! All this white.

It is absolutely the proper thing for my particular kind of appearance.

It wouldn't be bad for you to have a new dress too.

The right kind of dress makes all the difference in the face,

especially since you got the right kind of bone structure.

Oh!

Oh, my, oh, my, Daddy, but wouldn't you look handsome

sitting behind the wheel of a thing like that?

Everything is in the bone structure.

A person can tell his whole life on what his bone structure is.

I tried pushing her out a window once in Little Rock.

Ooh.

Oh, I think there are bugs all over. I just hope there's no snakes round here.

I think we ought to go now, you know what I mean?

Thank you so much. Ooh.

Now, hurry-- Oh.

Come on, hurry up, get those things in there now.

Don't break anything either.

Let's go!

Hurry up, doctor, this baby's got to go winky-tinky.

Don't worry.

Hey!

Come on, we're ready.

- Come on, now. - I ain't ready!

You don't look busy with nothing. So come on down.

- I ain't coming! - Now, you listen here, child...

- No, I won't listen here! - What the heck's up with you then?

I want to sit in front.

And how come we ain't working no more?

'Cause we're on vacation, that's why.

Miss Delight and me are sitting in front

because we are two grown-ups.

And that's where grown-ups do the sitting.

Children do not tell grown-ups what to do with their lives.

- You understand that? - Well, she ain't my grown-up

and I ain't planning no more to sit in the back.

Not for no cow!

Will you keep your voice down? And Miss Delight ain't no cow.

She's a proper woman. She has a high school diploma!

And right now she's got to go to the bathroom,

so just get to the car!

She always has to go the bathroom!

She must have a bladder the size of a peanut.

I ain't getting back in that car, not till she gets out of it!

Hey, what's up, kiddo? Daddy says you're wearing a sad face.

Ain't good to have a sad face.

How would you like a coloring book?

Would you like that? You like Mickey the Mouse?

Oh, son of a bitch!

Whew!

Now, come on down to the car and let's all be friends.

You see me smile?

Let's see you smile like Aunt Trixie. Now, come on.

Come on down to the car with mademoiselle.

Kiddo, I understand how you feel.

But you don't have to worry.

One of these days you'll be just as pretty as mademoiselle, maybe prettier.

You already got bone structure.

When I was your age, I didn't have no bone structure.

Took me years to get bone structure.

And don't think bone structure's not important.

Nobody started to call me mademoiselle

till I was 17 and getting a little bone structure.

When I was your age, I was skinnier than a pole.

I never thought I'd have nothing up here.

You're gonna have them up there too.

Want me to show you how to use cosmetics?

I'll let you put on my earrings.

You're gonna see how pretty you're gonna be.

And I'll show you how to make up your eyes and your lips.

And I'll see to it you get a little bra or something.

But right now, you'll pick your little ass up,

you'll drop it in the back seat and cut out the crap, you understand?

You're gonna ruin it, ain't you?

Look, I don't wanna wipe you out, and I don't want you wiping me out.

So I'm gonna level with you, okay?

Now, with me, it's just a matter of time.

I don't know why, but somehow I just don't manage to hold on real long.

So if you wait it out a little, it'll be over, you know?

Even if I want a fella,

somehow or other I manage to get it screwed up.

Maybe I'll get a new pair of shoes, a nice dress, a few laughs.

Times are hard.

Now, if you fool around on the hill up here,

then you don't get nothing,

I don't get nothing, he don't get nothing.

So how about it, honey? Just for a little while?

Let old Trixie sit up front with her big tits.

Hey, come on!

We're coming, baby doll.

And if you don't find me some old gas station soon,

this little old snowflake's going to wet her pantaloons!

Oh, my, I almost fell down!

Yoo-hoo! Look what we got!

Ain't she the sweetest little thing?

And don't he look like a prince behind that wheel?

Now, come on, Imogene, get everything in here.

We got more room than the whole state of Kansas!

And listen to the horn! Blow the horn, Daddy!

Do it again!

I was trying to get a drink of water,

and there was an alligator in the river...

The man says, "Very funny."

This girl's sitting on the trolley, and she reaches in her bag,

takes out this magazine and starts to read it.

She ain't read more than couple of pages, and real slow and careful,

she takes her stockings down and takes off her shoes.

She turns the stockings wrong side out and puts them back on.

She puts her shoes back on.

All the passengers are watching, wondering what's going on.

This old guy, he leans over to her and he asks her, he said:

"I saw you indulge in a strange procedure, ma'am.

What were you doing?"

She said, "I was reading this magazine and found it to be such hot stuff, and...

Well, I felt compelled to turn the hose on myself."

They wouldn't have a room with a canopy bed, would they?

You wouldn't have a room with a canopy bed, would you?

Uh, no, but I got one with a fireplace.

Oh, I'd like that one, Daddy.

It ain't no canopy bed,

but it sure do open up a whole new can of peas, don't it?

"Can of peas."

- Ain't that cute? - Huh? How's that?

Come on, Imogene.

Now, help the boy with these things.

Give them 234, 235, and 236.

They're working on the elevator right now.

It's the first flight up, if you don't mind.

- It's all right. Thank you. - Thank you.

Can of peas.

Yeah, what was that all about?

Well, you know, "canopy," "can of pea," they rhyme.

Oh, I see. Can of peas, canopy. Oh, I get it now.

I knew you'd get it if I explained it to you.

There's a rip in the seam of that dress, Imogene.

Get it sewed up good, you hear? And wash these hose.

- Yes, Miss Trixie. - Got my bath ready?

- Yes, Miss Trixie. - Hope the water's not too hot.

You've been making it awful hot lately.

- I knows you like it hot, Miss Trixie. - Well, not that hot.

Now finish up all these, and come back in an hour and dry me off.

Yes, Miss Trixie.

- What you doing up there? - I got us an idea. Come on.

- What kind of idea? - Come on in here. I'll tell you.

Go on.

Imogene, what do you suppose Miss Trixie would do

if somebody offered her $25 to put out?

Oh, you crazy.

For that much money, that woman would drop her pants in the middle of the road.

- That's what I figured. - What you got in mind?

You want to get away from Miss Trixie, don't you?

If you help me, I'll give you money to get home to your mama.

- How much money? - $30.

- When do we start? - Tomorrow morning.

Miss Trixie, you know that man down at the desk

who checked us in yesterday?

Yeah, I know him. What about him?

He tell me he'd pay $25 just to have a good time with you.

What?

Well, that little two-bit bum, the nerve of that guy!

$25? I'll bet that John don't make that much in a week.

Where'd he get 25 bucks?

I don't know. All I know is what he told me.

Twenty-five bucks, huh?

I'd sure have to see the money to believe it.

Here you go. You come back, see us again real soon.

I'll have a Juicy Fruit gum, please.

Here you go, my little beauty. Want I should chew it for you?

You know that redheaded lady that comes down here named Miss Trixie Delight?

- Yeah. - Well, she thinks you're real cute.

- Oh, yeah? Says you and who else? - No. Honest.

She says you're better looking than Dick Powell.

She did, eh? The lady's got good taste, don't she?

- Just thought you'd like to know. - Hey, just a minute.

Give these to the lady, and tell her they're with Floyd's compliments.

Oh. She'll like that.

Maybe you should write her a note.

- Yeah. What kind of note? - Oh, I don't know.

I thought men always wrote ladies notes when they send them presents.

Maybe you should ask for a date.

That will sure tickle her.

Yeah, maybe I ought to.

Say, she's not married up or anything like that, is she?

Of course not.

She don't even have a regular boyfriend.

That man who come in here yesterday with her is my daddy.

He's her manager. She's a dancer.

A dancer?

You know, I figured she was something like that.

- Whereabouts does she dance? - Oh, lots of big places. She's a star.

- Well, how about that? - Why don't you print it?

She likes men who prints.

Print it, huh?

"Some sweets for the sweet. Ha-ha.

Some girls say I'm a pretty smooth dancer myself.

How about trying me out sometime?"

- You sure this gonna work? - I don't know.

But we're sure gonna give it a try.

Throw this in the drawer, will you?

And keep your fingers crossed.

- Who is it? - It's me, Addie.

Oh. What do you want?

I got a message from Moze.

He asked me to tell you he had to run over to Haynesville today.

He won't be back until suppertime.

I think he had to get something fixed on his car.

He'll be gone all day.

Oh. Well, okay.

Okay!

- Howdy. - Howdy.

- What you having? - Waffles.

I already ate. I had waffles too.

They sure are good, ain't they?

They ain't bad for waffles.

Mr. Moze, Miss Trixie don't feel so good.

She says she gonna stay in bed today. She said she'll see you around suppertime.

She's sick? Sick in bed? I'd better get up there.

She ain't real sick. Ain't nothing to worry about.

She's just having her lady's time.

Oh.

You tell her I'll see her this evening.

Well, just wanted to say good morning.

I think I'll go upstairs and polish my shoes.

- Somebody at the door, Imogene. - Yes, Miss Trixie.

Something for you, Miss Trixie.

- Oh? What is it? - It was outside the door.

What is it?

Imogene, let all that go now. You can run along.

- I'll call you when I need you. - Yes, Miss Trixie.

- Well, hello, Cupid. - Miss Trixie wants to see you.

She says it's real important. Room 235.

Oh, she does, does she? When?

- Right now. - Well, I can't get off right now.

But she says it's real important.

Well, you tell her I'll come up later tonight,

when the moon is full.

But you can't come tonight.

She won't even be here after tonight.

Matter of fact, she won't even be here after today.

She won't, huh? Well...

You won't be sorry.

I guess I could go up for a few minutes.

What's that room number again?

Room 235. She's waiting for you.

Okay. You tell her I'm on my way up, sweetheart.

He's coming, he's coming.

Who is it?

Sheik of Araby.

Well, now, don't you look pretty?

Well, come on in, honey.

Come on.

Say, you're some fast worker, aren't you?

- You don't give a girl much time. - I manage to get around.

You're not one of these fellas goes around babbling, are you?

- What do you mean? - Most of the time, I don't mind.

But it's important to me right now not to get talked about.

Hey, now, do I look like that kind of fella?

Say-- You are a wild one, aren't you?

Hold it, hold it. Now wait a minute. You're gonna tear it!

Now, now, just let me slip it off.

Hey there. Well, now, ain't you a show dog?

Ooh. Ooh!

I'm going.

The key. Give me the key.

Mr. Moze's gonna kill that man. He gonna kill us both, I just knows it.

- Wait for me here! - Okay.

- Moze! - What's the trouble?

Better go up to Trixie's room right away.

Why? What? Is she sick?

No, she's not sick. Just do what I tell you.

And take the elevator.

Don't knock. Use a key!

Your daddy going to kill that man, I reckon.

I expect he'll cut him up pretty bad.

Moze wouldn't do a thing like that.

Well, down home, when a man come in from work

and hear a man inside the house in bed with his wife,

he just walk around to the wood pile and get his double-blade ax,

and go inside and chop them both up into little pieces.

Folks say he cut them up just like kindling wood.

Get your things, Addie. We're leaving.

- Now? - Right this minute.

I swear, I don't know why that girl did such a thing to me.

I'd have done almost anything for that girl. It just ain't fair.

I reckon she's been carrying on a long time.

- From the start. - You mean, there were other men?

Lots of 'em.

Well, dadblammit, why didn't you tell me?

I just knew you wouldn't believe me.

I want you to promise me just one thing.

What, Moze?

When you grow up, don't you be the kind of woman

who goes around deceiving men.

Promise me that.

I promise, Moze.

Moze?

Moze, pay attention.

- What's the trouble? - I seen something peculiar.

- What's that? - That man in there.

- What man? - Standing by the door.

What's peculiar about him?

He's got a roll of money could choke us both to death.

I'm not up to anything right now.

But he's got a black book for making notes in it and all that money.

And he keeps going outside and coming back in again.

- Bootlegger. - Bootlegger?

No question about it.

You think we might do some business with him?

Maybe drop a wad or something?

We ain't done nothing for two months, ever since Trixie.

And we only have $212 left.

Better way of doing business with bootleggers.

- What ways? - Oh, heaps of ways.

Look, he's going out again!

- Follow him. - Should I, Moze?

I told you, didn't I? Follow him. Find out where he goes.

Thank you.

What'd you find out?

He's got a lot of bottles he keeps in a bin out back.

- How big's the bin? - As big as our car trunk.

- What you planning to do? - Find out where he keeps his goods.

There was a shack out there too, but he didn't go in it.

Mm-hmm.

Well, honey, how about a little walk before Daddy puts you into bed?

Oh, goody.

Our friend's name is Jess Hardin. He's a bootlegger.

Wholesales everybody in the county.

His brother's a big shot too, but the girl couldn't tell me about him.

Some Romeo walked up and I had to beat it. Now, where is it?

- Right over there. - Okay, come on.

You watch the hotel. You see anybody come in, cough real low.

- I'm going inside. - It may be locked.

Honey, folks in the country never lock anything.

Don't you know that?

- Your name's Hardin? - That's right.

Conrad's the name. Jack said I ought to look you up.

- Jack who? - Oh, just Jack's good enough, I reckon.

- Don't know no Jack. - Maybe you ought to get acquainted.

He runs the biggest wholesale business in the state.

- You selling? - That's right.

Ain't interested in no shiney.

I ain't selling no shiney. I deal in bonded goods.

What kind?

All kinds. I'll let you have a good deal on some Three Feathers.

How much?

Well, it depends. You take 20 cases, I'd let them go for $25 per.

That's too much.

Ain't too much. You can't get it that cheap where they sell it legal.

Ain't legal here.

All the more reason you're getting a bargain.

Give you just 20.

Can't do it. Price is set down in Wichita.

How long before delivery?

Oh. How's early in the morning?

You got it in the county?

That's right.

Where do I pick it up?

That'll do it.

- Did you leave some? - Plenty. He'll never miss it.

Moze? Moze, we'd better get!

- Here. - It's all filled up! I told you.

Them's for me.

Get going!

Hurry!

Get up there!

Now, hold on. And make sure nothing spills off.

Well, you'd better go slow. And hurry.

- Easy! - Well, I gotta turn corners, don't I?

- Ain't he gonna miss his whiskey? - Oh, maybe in about a week.

But when he's figured it out, we'll be in Missouri,

and he can't do nothing once we're there.

Come on.

Where is it?

Scoot over!

- How much you get? - Six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Six hundred and twenty-five dollars, and he bought his own whiskey!

That's $625, plus the $212 we already got.

If we drop some wallets and do some 20's...

- What's that? - Where?

Behind us.

I don't see nothing.

- There's something back there. - Nothing but pitch-black.

- I thought I seen something flicker. - Nothing there.

You put the money in the box?

I'll be glad to get out of this town, I'll tell you that.

There it is again. Dadblammit!

Something flickered, sure as hell.

Nothing behind us, Moze.

Uh-oh.

I told you!

Who could it be?

Christ!

Don't stop, keep going!

I can't keep going. The damn car's in front of me.

Everything's gonna be all right. You just let me do the talking.

Playing games with us, mister?

I didn't know who was back there.

It's a risky thing to do.

Might get your tires shot off. Where you heading?

Me and my little girl are going to St. Joe.

- Oh. Live there? - Nearby.

What's your business?

Uh, livestock mostly. Mules and horses, some cattle.

That's funny. I heard you was a bootlegger.

No. No, sir. Not me, friend. Must be some mistake.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Way I hear it...

you just had a transaction by the old barn.

Where'd you hear a thing like that?

Oh, a friend of the family.

I'm sorry. I don't know what you're talking about.

I'm talking about bootlegging. I'm talking about $625.

And where might that be?

I don't have no $625. I don't know what you talking about.

I don't even know where the old barn is.

Well, I reckon we'll just have to explain a little more thoroughly, won't we?

Come on, Beau, you ride with these nice people.

We're all going back to town.

Damn.

Just when you think you got it made.

Just ain't made, is it?

- You pretty good at this little thing? - Not too good.

Not too good?

Old bootlegger's sitting there with his own little game

and he ain't even good at his own little game.

Yes, sir, that is some good joke.

Found these under the front seat.

Wasn't any money in the car. I gone all through it. Inside and out.

Livestock business, huh?

That whiskey's for a friend.

Hold out your hands.

I said hold out your hands. You heard me.

I didn't say put them down, did I?

Mighty clean hands for livestock.

They don't look like they do much except play the casino every now and then.

That whiskey's for a friend. I didn't see no harm...

Didn't see no harm? Hear that, Beau?

Big bootlegger claims he don't know the law.

Well, I don't need no couple of bottles to make a case against you.

The law says all I need is just one little old drop.

And law says you use a vehicle to transport alcoholic beverages,

the said vehicle is confiscated to be sold at public auction.

So you can just kiss that pretty, little old car of yours goodbye.

Hold on! That seems pretty rough--

I didn't tell you to lower your hands.

When I tell you to lower your hands, you do.

You don't do nothing till I tell you to, understand?

Answer me, you understand?

Yes, sir.

I already done that.

Ain't nothing in his clothes except him, and he ain't worth 5 cents.

No, she ain't got nothing on her either.

You don't know what kind of real bad trouble you're in.

Better start thinking on it.

I got a case against you for possessing and transporting whiskey,

and I reckon, if I try, I can think of a few other things.

Better face it. You'll be up in these parts for quite a while,

working on the county roads.

Maybe you're lucky, you'll get out in six months.

Six more months for influencing a child. Maybe you get six years for that.

- Maybe we could work something out. - What's there to work out?

I sure don't like to send a man to the road gang, never have.

Always felt sorry for them poor devils.

But I can't overlook the fact that you've been paid $625,

and you ain't telling me where it is.

I know you're a bootlegger, so what's there for me to work out?

All right, let's cut this ring around the rosie.

Where's that...

money?

You think I'm fooling around?

I ain't fooling around.

Maybe you'll come around in time. Get a little thirsty, get a little hungry.

Time sure does have a way with criminals. Don't it, Beau?

Sure do.

Well, it's getting on to 5:00. Somebody ought to be stirring at the cafe.

Think I'll step over there a while. See if that friend of the family is there.

I'll be on back before long.

I got all day, you know. Got all the time in the world.

Sir, may I get my things, please?

Okay.

Daddy, I need to go to the shithouse.

Well, uh, there's a place down the hall.

Daddy, I'm scared. I want you to come stand by the door.

All right if I go with her?

Down there.

Run!

You crazy?

Hey!

Where are we running? Oh, my God.

Stop them people! They're bootleggers!

Jesus Christ, this is the craziest--

- Hurry! - I'm hurrying!

Them's bootleggers!

Oh, Jesus!

- I'm gonna hit him! - He can jump!

Don't slow down!

I could have killed him! They could have had me up for murder!

- They're shooting at us! - They're missing! Keep going!

- We ain't gonna make it! - Yes, we will!

Not in this car. Every lawman in Kansas will be looking for this car.

We gotta cross the river to Missouri.

- Where's the bridge? - Oh, Jesus!

- What's the matter? - Damn bridge is the other way.

- What? - Hang on!

Ah, this ain't no good. We'll make it too easy for them.

We gotta get off this road! Hang on!

Holy smoke!

Blow your horn!

Won't do no good. He can't pull off the road.

Ain't we got all the luck, selling whiskey to a sheriff's brother?

- Hang on to your hat! - My what?

- Hold on, I said. - Oh, God!

You all right?

We threw a hobble on them for a while,

but we gotta get off this road or we'll end up in a town.

And take that money out of there. You'll give me heart failure.

We made it, didn't we?

Anybody to home?

Howdy. Need to get rid of my car here.

I need to get rid of my car.

Sheriff wants to take away my little girl, put her in an orphanage.

You know anybody might want to swap?

How about that truck over there?

Well, we'll just let him chew on it a while.

Well, the rear tires look new, anyway.

The radio looks okay.

- Think this thing runs? - It better.

- We gotta have some way of traveling. - Where we gonna go?

Out of Kansas, across the river to St. Joe, that's where.

Here he comes.

Look at 'em all.

All I'm looking for is a swap and three days' head start

before you take it out on the highway.

It's all legal. Got the papers here to prove it.

Just have to fill out that form on the back and you own it.

Ain't gonna swap.

Well, it's brand-new.

- That car ain't no good! - What's the matter with it?

Can't haul nothing in it.

If that's all that's bothering you,

sell the car and get two trucks to do your hauling in.

I ain't gonna swap.

Wrastle you for it.

- You crazy? - If I win, we swap.

You win, you can keep the car and the truck both.

- Moze? - Quiet down.

- What kind of wrastling? - You name it.

- Catch as can? - Shoes or barefoot?

Makes no never mind to me.

Barefoot.

You're gonna get killed just to give something away.

I ain't got no choice.

- Get that city boy! - Get the city boy!

Let's go.

Make him say "calf rope," Leroy.

Come on, Leroy. Get him, Leroy. Get him!

It ain't fair! You stop that! You make him fight fair!

Look out for that rake, Leroy.

Watch out, Leroy.

Let's get the car. Come on.

- Are you pushing? - Of course I'm pushing!

Okay, it'll go now. Put your foot on the brake.

- The brake! The brake! - It don't work!

The brake, goddamn it, the brake!

Don't you even know where the damn brake is?

It don't work.

Oh. Well, it figures.

Well, we're in Missouri, anyway.

What'll we do now? Drop some 20s?

How much money we got?

$837 and some change.

Forty-two cents, I think.

Well, we're just outside of St. Joe, ain't we?

- So what? - So...

It's a big town, ain't it? We can do better than 20s.

Y'all know that one. Let's have another cup of coffee.

Let's have another piece of pie.

It's 10:30 on Sunday morning in St. Joe, and y'all get to church now, okay?

Here's the news.

In Omaha, President Roosevelt told the nation...

- Moze? - Yeah?

What if that old man don't believe you?

He'll believe me. He's in the market for making a killing, just like we are.

Maybe he don't even have a silver mine.

I had him checked out real thorough. Where's the money?

And he's just what people say he is. Rich and greedy.

Pull up your socks.

Moze, if we get a silver mine,

we could get a house and everything, couldn't we?

Everything, just everything.

Got it straight? Corner of East Waring and Burlington, 11:00.

Just show up with tears in your eyes, that's all.

Moze, don't forget the money.

Of course I won't forget the money.

- I'll see you in 30 minutes. - Moze,

could we get a piano too?

A piano? We'll have a whole factory.

I guess you just didn't make a good enough swap.

My brother's real sore at you.

Seems you sold him some of his own whiskey.

You can't arrest me now. We're in Missouri.

And your damn brother's a bootlegger.

You got an awful big mouth, mister.

Maybe I can't arrest you in Missouri and maybe I don't want to.

But I sure can make sure you ain't gonna feel real good

while you're here.

Let's go!

Addie.

Addie.

Moze.

Moze.

I sw--

- I swallowed my gold tooth. - Aw, Moze.

- They took it all. - Aw, Moze, you're all beat up.

Ain't nothing left.

Don't worry, I've been keeping $10 for emergencies.

Ten dollars? What the hell we do with $10?

We could buy some Bibles.

Do a little widow business.

Must be lots of good towns around here.

Do some 20s, drop some wallets.

Before you know it, we'll be good again.

I'll bet in no time, we could have a whole new car and everything.

You're gonna take me to Aunt Billie's now, ain't you?

Aw, Moze...

- Don't start crying. - I won't.

It's where we set out for, ain't it?

Looks nice.

Yeah, looks real fine.

- That must be your Uncle Daniel. - He looks nice too, don't he?

Yep, real nice.

Maybe if Frank D. Roosevelt comes through town,

they'll take me to the station to see him.

Maybe you write Frankie, he'll have a place to write you back now.

- Yeah, he might at that. - Course he will. Ain't no question.

All this talk's just wasting time.

There's your... Here's your skates, your radio.

Where you gonna go?

Don't worry about me. I got plans.

New ideas coming in every day. Get going.

You know, if I knew for sure you wasn't my pa...

It's for sure, I ain't your pa.

Although sometimes I used to figure Mr. Connors could've been my pa.

The way he touched my shoulder.

Get me things from the candy counter for free.

And Mr. Pritchard, he smiled at me once, real nice.

Except they don't have my jaw or nothing.

So long.

Ain't you coming to the door with me?

There it is. How much closer am I supposed to bring you?

They'll wonder how I got here.

Tell them a family friend brung you.

You had a little trouble on the way with your car and with finances.

Now, get going.

Yes?

Yes?

I'm Addie.

Addie.

Addie.

I've been worried sick about you.

Addie. Come on in, child.

I've been writing letters,

and your Uncle Daniel's been trying to call those people down there

to see where you've been.

You're just the spitting image of your mother.

Pretty as a picture.

I don't know why I go on like this.

What you need is some ice-cold lemonade.

Now, you sit right there and I'll be right back.

Everybody's gonna be so happy to see you.

We're gonna get those clothes off of you,

and you're going to get into a nice fresh bath,

and then you're gonna sleep in your own little bed

alongside your cousin Edna.

I just near give up on you, child.

I bet you're starving to death.

I'm gonna cut you a big piece of pie.

We got those telegrams.

Then we never did hear from you.

I told you, I don't want you riding with me no more.

You still owe me $200.

Moze, look!