:10:01
They now added up to exactly zero.
:10:03
Apparently,
I just didn't have what it takes.
:10:07
The time had come to wrap up
the Hollywood deal and go home.
:10:11
Maybe if I hocked all my junk, there'd
be enough for a ticket back to Ohio,
:10:15
to that $35-a-week job at the copy
desk of the "Dayton Evening Post",
:10:20
if it was still open, back
to the smirking delight of the office.
:10:25
All right, why don't you
take a crack at Hollywood?
:10:29
Maybe you think you could...
:10:32
Uh-oh!
:11:27
I'd landed in the driveway
of some big mansion
:11:30
that looked rundown and deserted.
:11:33
At the end of the drive
was a lovely sight.
:11:36
A great big empty garage,
just standing there going to waste.
:11:41
If ever there was a place to stash
a car with a hot licence number.
:11:55
There was another
occupant in that garage.
:11:58
An enormous
foreign-built automobile.