: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.
:12:01
It must've burned up
ten gallons to a mile.
:12:04
It had a 1932 licence. I figured that's
when the owners had moved out.
:12:11
I couldn't go back to my apartment
now those bloodhounds were on to me.
:12:16
The idea was to stay at Artie Green's
until I could make that bus for Ohio.
:12:21
Once in Dayton,
I'd drop the credit boys a postcard
:12:25
telling them
where to pick up the jalopy.
:12:30
It was a great big
white elephant of a place.
:12:33
The kind crazy movie people
built in the crazy twenties.
:12:37
A neglected house
gets an unhappy look.
:12:41
This one had it in spades.
:12:43
It was like that old woman
in "Great Expectations",
:12:47
that Miss Havisham in her rotting
wedding dress and her torn veil,
:12:51
taking it out on the world
because she'd been given the go-by.