:11:15
Hi, neighbor.
Can you spare a cup of booze?
:11:18
Hello, Kit. I'm all out.
:11:22
Oh, sorry.
I didn't know you had company.
:11:25
- Miss Conger, Mr. Ryan.
- How are you?
:11:27
Kit's a librarian downtown.
We were just going out to mail this.
:11:30
- I'll bring you back some booze.
- Okay, let me give you the money.
:11:39
So where are you from, Mr. Ryan?
:11:40
Baltimore, Birmingham, Butte,
you name it.
:11:43
- Any place that begins with a B.
- I left out Biloxi.
:11:46
Your new story
set in any of those places, Sam?
:11:48
- Yeah, maybe, maybe not.
- Sounded like Baltimore to me.
:11:52
- Did you make a carbon?
- No.
:11:54
One of these days...
:11:58
Is that what you wear to the library?
:11:59
That's what I wear underneath
what I wear to the library.
:12:02
- You've never seen any before?
- Couple of times, maybe three.
:12:06
Four, counting the redheaded
contortionist from Yakima.
:12:08
- Cute dish.
- Yeah, very.
:12:11
- I hear you left Pinkerton's.
- Yeah, three or four years ago.
:12:14
Long hours, short dough.
Any money in the writing racket?
:12:18
- Penny a word.
- Write a million words, you'd be set.
:12:20
- Like War and Peace.
- Bring you back some gin.
:12:23
Gin's for old ladies. Make it Scotch.
:12:30
Christ, you're sure looking flush.
:12:32
Somewhere between
a bootlegger and a banker.
:12:34
I've got my own little agency
up in Tacoma now.
:12:36
A lot of divorces in Tacoma.
:12:38
No wonder.
Hell, it rains 350 days of the year.
:12:41
What's your town like, anyway,
free and easy?
:12:43
- Yeah, more so than most.
- Who runs things?
:12:46
Same people
who run things everywhere.
:12:52
The cops, the crooks
and the big rich, huh?
:12:55
Who else?