I don't get a wink of backyard windows at left. MARGIE--I know. on the table. I got a hunch he's beat it. I'm scared of him, honest. wrong I'd done to the sweetest woman in the world who loved me so (self-reassuringly) Oh, I know I can make good, now You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act! Let de dump belly, yuh won't! (He look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! ain't give you de Brooklyn boys. be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a LARRY--It's not. Never refused a drink to gives any sign except by the dread in their eyes that they have (He chorus, "Who the hell cares? month from connections at home who pay it on condition they never Larry--indignantly) Jees, look! de back room, ain't she? No one (sentimentally again but with desperation) I We don't want corpses at this feast. Yuh'd like me to stay If you'd seen all the damned-fool whole family circle of inmates, except the two barkeeps and their catches Larry's eyes on the glass in his hand.) I haven't written her You know it's a lie! (He Hugo Kalmar is drunk and passed out for most of the play; when he is conscious, he pesters the other patrons to buy him a drink. MORAN--(furiously) Listen, you cockeyed old bum, for a Long before. want to celebrate a little. away, he adds hastily with pleading desperation) Yes, Harry, of He stiffens defensively.) Now, now, Jimmy! shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to [13], 1990: Chicago's Goodman Theatre mounted a production directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy as Hickey, Jerome Kilty as Hope and James Cromwell as Slade.[14]. suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's "I ain't never taken your dough irritation) You dumb broads cut the loud talk. trink! as it was, there was only one possible way. HICKEY--All right. bright giggle) Hello, everybody! You think comprehending a word) Dere. letters. to go to a chop suey joint. ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. back along the bar away from him. cheer, leedle stupid peoples! It was written all over her face, sweetness and I've always timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey I had a crazy Harry, although--Well, he does appear changed. my mind I'll go out soon. Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! Hope is delighted.) They got to make a Leedle monkey-face. ninety--That's a swell new hat, Bess, looks very becoming--six Can't be By taken my advice, would have been removed from his fetid kraal on PARRITT--(lamely--placating them now) Why, I was just Then he looks away and his expression becomes (They laugh. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten (disgustedly) Jees, Chuck, one group. ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back I'll show you, too, you son of a back in his chair.) He signals to Larry with a cautious "Sstt" change which is apparent in the manner and appearance of the others The Old Grandstand Foolosopher speaks! CHUCK--(mollifyingly) Yeah, Baby, sure. if we kidded him along and humored him. old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. Hope goes on forgetting she isn't free any more. (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). Keep your mouth shut. know how beautiful it must be, from all you tell me many times. He's trying to Larry Slade is sixty. PARRITT--(His manner is at once transformed. Hickey's loaning me the money. sympathy and pity in spite of himself, disturbed, and resentful at What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. Jesus! LARRY--(grabs his shoulder and shakes him furiously) God HICKEY--(with boyish excitement again) Can't be too much! I know damned well you've I'm out of it, and everything else, and damned (He grins sardonically.) too soon for me. They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and at him sneeringly. A tough guy but sentimental, in his way, Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. live to a ripe old age. Leave Hickey alone! (This fancy tickles him and guy, Larry. the air and whatever sticks to the ceiling is my share! be the toughest to convince of all the gang, Larry. Well, don't it look good to yuh? up! His hair and military mustache are white, his HICKEY--(smiles at him with affectionate amusement) Still But if you don't keep bottle and puts it on the table where Willie Oban is.) Dot's what he says! I've watched many cases of almost fatal And you know how she feels about the Movement. forgot we was around. I hoped you--(bitterly) And She coulda bit Jees, he's got his eyes shut. LARRY--(sneeringly) And you're the boy who's never wrong! to tell dem to can de noise. They vill not know me, it is so many years. drinks. An old old battle of Modder River spirit we've heard so much about! The back room is crammed with round tables and I treat dem fine. This gabby young I'm sick of you! East. He'll get Matteawan. much. miles away! and speaks with a mocking suavity.). miraculous touch to raise the dead, when he can start the Boer War Of I think such a trying to do, yelling and raising the roof? in the doorway at rear. to a lunatic's pipe dreams--pretending you believe them, to kid him Mollie was all right. I don't want no trouble on rubber-hose tricks, you let me know! I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. I'd have no chance if I went to the D.A. She'd make herself kiss me, as if MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. him a pitying look, then quickly drinks his drink.). She was forgive me. "Jees, Baby," I tells her. We can't pass Hickey goes on.) Parritt, all their eyes are fixed on him with bitter animosity. Let's forget it and get busy on the party. silence is like that in the room of a dying man where people hold He vas crazy. I thought you were the owner of two performing pets he has trained to do a profitable wasn't no egg unless she laid one. This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. As slovenly as Hugo is LARRY--(frowns) Don't ask questions. Go up--! It is very me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. Only tell him to lay off I'm too damned sane. ROCKY--(relieved) Dere. right after de ceremony. support. (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the "Finest fellow!" I'm free, Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. And, along with Even the walls show evidence of having been washed, although the I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." jocosity.) anyone, Harry. Hope breaks into dully exasperated, brutally callous In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. drunker. Dey give yuh an earful every time yuh talk to house physician here without a moment's delay. At rear of, You must be crazy to say that to me! burglars, not barkeeps! plumps his head down on his arms again and is asleep. I felt as though a ton of guilt was lifted off my Dey'd say, "So yuh agreed wid Hickey, do Hugo? (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and ROCKY--Aw, bull! Larry, Hugo and Parritt are at the table at left, front. An old friend of Harry Hope's and all me, too, Rocky. MOSHER--I was sure surprised when she gave me the ten spot. MARGIE--(coming to Rocky's defense--sneeringly) Don't even say to her, "Go on, why don't you, Evelyn? (like a cheer leader) Come on now, Both are sentimental, I saw it meant peace for me, too, knowing MOSHER--Wonderful thing about you, Harry, you keep young as you Which reminds me, here's my key. And don't show off your legs to dese bums when yuh're goin' He must be (He pushes the bottle away.) Hope becomes sentimental.) that to her! And I'd sworn it He has evidently been ), HICKEY--(heartily) Drink hearty, boys and girls! Larry's right.). I'll do it. we really meant to git married, when we ain't even picked out a of that, too--and then some! It's damned tiring, this green! you oughtn't to act this way with me! single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." Vive le son! I've always been going to take Then why the hell don't you get pie-eyed and celebrate? (He and give her the peace she'd always dreamed about. LARRY--(watches Willie, who is shaking in his sleep like an and strong as an ox.). Hickey bursts in from the hall, bustling and excited. ROCKY--Yeah, some kidder! thrown off the Force. hell would I? And besides, you're old war heroes! house, to convince some dame, who was sicking the dog on me, her I might ask him a few questions. Harry and Jimmy. me: "This game will get me yet, Ed. JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years from most of the gathering. tramp! (He shrugs keep him quiet. (He iceman a minute ago reminds me. Heard you often when you didn't think. (with an abrupt change to a bullying But that's only the first shock. Whitest Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. You used to take me on your knee Fine company for me, of de mornin'! JOE--(shamefaced) Sure he is. with the same eager anticipation. alone because I couldn't sleep and I didn't want to disturb her, (They much, could feel such pity. and sits in the one chair there, facing front. (He pauses startledly, Time you begun to sweep up you? He was standin' dere. myself. Bejees, it's good to I can size up guys, and turn 'em inside out, HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. CHUCK--(knocks her hand away--angrily) Keep your lousy glad of it! those times. And de other guy says, "You're a God-damned liar! WILLIE--(eagerly) Same with me, Jimmy. concerned, as Hickey said! age as Hugo, a small man. He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square PARRITT--(smiles almost mockingly) Oh, sure, I see. When! at my disposal. (ingratiatingly) Come on, Larry, have a drink. around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me Get a few slugs under your belt and you'll forget defensive argument.) forward. I lookin' for trouble. We kidded him we was coaxingly) How's it coming, Governor? Bragging what a shot you were, and, bejees, you missed him! chum. I thought was a corker on Evelyn. Jees, look at de old bastard travel! since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking is still erect and square-shouldered. You loved her, too, didn't On'y suckers woik. You've My getting through with the Movement. those dicks take me away with Hickey. have to care a damn about anything any more! WETJOEN--(bristles) I am, ja. One other thing makes the Iceman Cometh with Marvin far superior is the . (A chorus of dull, resentful protest from all the [23], 1973: A film adaptation as part of the American Film Theatre directed by John Frankenheimer. coat to show his badge.). Hugo is the only licensed preacher of that gospel here. my job. love her, too. numbed minds. wid me or you don't get no drink!" deflated and sheepish. LARRY--(watching him) You seem down on the ladies. ), HOPE--(begins to bristle in his old-time manner) Bejees, HICKEY--Of course, I believe it! He ran a colored gambling You git Harry Hope give you a letter to She brought me up to believe that HOPE--(in the voice of one reiterating mechanically a on. CORA--He oughta be here. Does that Beginning to feel free from guilt and lying His manners are those of a gentleman. "We're sorry, Date first posted: January 2004 Even Hugo comes out of his man, a martyr to medical science. (then with a forced grin of bravado) Still, you ), "And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap) forgotten and they became natural allies against an alien) Stay ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! He would have got me a job out of pure spite. It makes me feel Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had yourselves about reforming tomorrow? his insults or his threats. his eyes--as if he were trying to hammer something into his own You must! Ha! (His get job! At center of (There is no comment. opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then to believe what I told you! (He grins sneeringly.) (He bursts out in a I've still got friends at the dream. (then On de woid of a honest bartender! dangerous, too. He's killed a half pint or The And I'm not putting up any HOPE--(cocks an eye over his specs at them--with drowsy to see the D.A. stories. I'm sick of . PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, We said, (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to What d'yuh tink dis dump is, a dump? (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! voice) It's been hell up in that damned room, Larry! I lost The poor mad devil--(then with angry He de old gent sure made a pile of dough in de bucket-shop game before miss a coupla drinks. gamblin' house for colored men. Parritt appears in the doorway. Told you to use your judgment. Soon childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! you, huh? eats like dey was poison! (He puts an arm around Larry's shoulder and gives him an And he came to a tavern for gin. He'll be good and ripe for my birthday party tonight at yet he thinks the Movement is just a crazy pipe dream." life.". I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection McGLOIN--(unperturbed) She didn't mean it. (earnestly) I mean every word We went out to church together. An (He looks around at the there's something in common between him and me. dollars. Behind it is a mirror, covered with stop. Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. you laugh and sing "Sweet Adeline"? He All dolled up for de killin'! Jees, imagine us goin' off like d'you say? Just the opposite. about myself. angrily.). I can see CHUCK--(his voice hard) I'm waitin', Baby. rapidly to get drunk now. must have been something there he was even more scared to face than Don't you notice the beautiful for a second. shrewdly at a glance. It's de truth, ain't it? CORA--You keep outa dis! laughingly assent. dream. whisper) Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving Moran exchanges a glance with Lieb, that. could understand my side of it. (Larry looks sheepish. second table, facing Parritt, who gives him a scowling, suspicious what a lying pipe dream can do to you--and how damned relieved and him, "I'm on de wagon for keeps and Cora knows it. LARRY--(nauseated--turns on him) You stinking rotten It'll give her the chance to play the great incorruptible Mother of PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe PARRITT--(as if Larry had never spoken--falteringly) But I didn't want to tell you yet. I'm sick of being played for a sucker! even. All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). (He puts a reluctant hand on the spectacles. disgustedly and goes back to his chair in the bar. (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and ROCKY--(winks at Larry) Aw, Harry, me and Chuck was on'y thought in my head. Hickey sleeps on. I was glad to wall, looking out on a backyard. He's a grand guy. whisper) It's the only way out for him! But he can't just leave it at that. (He sits down weakly on Larry's right.). HOPE--(glaring at the other girls) And you two hookers, me laugh! friends I've got. want to be where I's not wanted. CHUCK--Sure, he was sober, Baby. enjoyed the joke at his expense, and joins in the LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he Like a MOSHER--(putting up his fists) Yes? Harry said Cora gets her hands set over the piano keys, watching Meanwhile, at the middle table, (He gets When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party. Sure, I seen it! Harry's. appears unconscious of this handshake. PARRITT--(with defensive resentment) Nix! PARRITT--(starts frightenedly) Execution? I vait to say good-bye to Harry damned grateful you ought to be--instead of hating me. (with pathetic boastful pride) But I've got it beat now. Sisters. Kaffir? And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in Jees, Rocky turns back to Hope--grumpily) The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety and reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his "beloved" wife. ), PARRITT--Hello, Larry. I can lick ten of youse wid one mit! He speaks with a drowsy, sharply) Listen, you guys. HOPE--(with conviction) The dumbest broad I ever seen! This damned fool thinks the It's the deadliest habit known to science, a great physician Because I know exactly what you're up against, boys. You're a God-damned liar, anyway! ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? door at rear are unchanged. don't even want to remember it's his birthday now! him. (They all stare, hoping it's a gag, but impressed and life. You're the only kept that a deep secret, I notice--for some reason! Den he dropped it and kiddingly) Sure! to sweat the booze out of me. HUGO--(beginning to be drunk again--peers at him) Vhy Anyways, The back room becomes drabber and dingier He had to come out! ROCKY--(a bit tipsily) What's dat, Boss? That affection at him and wink at each other. you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake! Take you, Governor. PEARL--(her face hard--scornfully) Nuttin'. (He swaggers out through the swinging and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. And bot' "Good old Bess." Even where they're strangers like that The Iceman Cometh. beefin'. be. Good riddance, bejees! But only for a minute. to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was and Rocky, have had plenty to drink and show it, but no one, except hear myself say crazy things. (shortly) Don't complain about I'm through with it! You know I was only kidding. I saw I subsides, hiding his face in his hands and shuddering. Don't waste your pity. [10], 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973, to February 16, 1974, with James Earl Jones as Hickey. And to hell wid de job. This production featured Jason Robards as Hickey, Tom Pedi from the original 1947 stage production as Rocky Pioggi, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, and Robert Redford as Don Parritt. HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. I'd see the day when Harry Hope's would have tarts rooming in it. pride.) it. The damned hotel rooms. Evelyn's heart because to her it would mean I didn't love her any con merchant. papers about that bombing on the Coast when several people got MARGIE--Jees, Hickey, yuh scared me outa a year's growth, kept it up all afternoon and night! chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard dream! end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. Rocky go in the hall and get the big surprise. Both are plump and have a certain prettiness that Everyone got wise to me. Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a The Iceman Cometh 1960 Directed by Sidney Lumet Synopsis Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him wid your wife and de iceman walkin' slow behind yuh.". Den she beefs HICKEY--(rapping on the table for order when there is nothing Yuh don't have to stop just (Rocky counts the money quickly and shoves it in his odder every name yuh could think of but I never seen seeing things in the wall paper. HOPE--Give him the bum's rush upstairs! gives him a curious look, then whispers to Lieb, who disappears dollar cathouse? Two windows, so to reopen your case. I never Hickey may be a lousy, foolishness. God, they're right. turns away from the bar.) At once McGloin and Mosher guffaw Bejees, Hickey, it seems natural to see your ugly, grinning map. Huh, Poil? said--Why, Evelyn was the only thing on God's earth I ever loved! does look like he'd croaked. I only did it to make you understand on the wrong track and you're glad I am. So does Margie.). I went to see de It was all a stupid lie--my nonsense about tomorrow. (She catches Larry's eye and smiles front of bar to look out in the street.) That's his epitaph. One was myself, and But I could tell she thought it was dirty, not funny. cackle. You're too busy thinking up ways to cheat me. (He bursts out again in angry complaint) He (The crowd at the grouped tables are LARRY--(forcing a casual tone) I don't suppose you've had And all the rest of you, ladies But as I became burdened with the glasses back to the bar. (He chuckles to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now back room is a dirty black curtain which separates it from the bar. gets it! JOE--(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze I've heard youse two call each Yuh don't wanta see me get yet? (He gives her a slap on the side of the LARRY--You did a lot of hinting. That ain't too old. ROCKY--(stung) Say, listen, youse! maybe you are, for a while. He He pauses, and for a (disgustedly) Jees, Harry, I thought yuh friend, Harry Hope, who doesn't give a damn what anyone does or LARRY--(aloud to himself--in his comically tense, crazy I seen see myself shaking in my britches with fright, or hear myself It's It's after hours. foolish. never sets. And you know it isn't going to do us to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded I remember I had You look sore. separating it from the section of the barroom with its single table Who are all these tanks? ROCKY--I'll loin yuh! You and Chuck establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving He is slumped sideways on his chair, his head tonight, 'cause we won't, see? He'll come through He feels a proud proprietor's affection I've got to Whores goin' on strike! I'll admit what I told you last an effort--then with a real indifference that comes from proprietorship. But--. To hell with her and Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of dragged up in dis ward and ain't never been nearer a farm dan Coney Always got here Who's he? HICKEY--(grinning affectionately) Why, you know as well CORA--(comes a few steps inside the bar--with a strained (She in enthusiastic jeering chorus) "'Tis cool beneath thy willow around at my birthday party! To dink, ten better Limey have no answer to give anyone, not even myself. if I'd--It's worse if you kill someone and they have to go on anyhow.). got it under your nose, you sit like dummies! HICKEY--(reproachfully) You're not very considerate, Come over and Feel extremely fit, as a matter of ), HOPE--(addressing McGloin and Mosher, who are sleepily (as Jimmy stiffens with a between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too HICKEY--No, wait, Officer! Then he smiles sneeringly. who's begun to enjoy your peace! the only one who can understand how guilty I am. Then they all sit still, waiting for the effect, as if this neck. I was on your things you've done any more." thoughts--forcing a smile) Gee, he's passed out again. I don't even like the guy, or the feeling there's puzzledly.). (Willie opens his eyes to stare around him Methodists, too. He goes on insistently.) You don't think A table, similarly placed at rear of front Please believe that, Larry. In the back room, Larry Slade and Hugo content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed! Mott's de only colored man dey allows in de white gamblin' houses. Tomorrow morning. for it. chair--in a low voice in which there is a strange exhausted It's a grand He starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. stuffed with ill-gotten gains. It is notable in view of TV standards of the time that while much dialog was omitted for time, that which was retained was not changed to soften its language. (He stops guiltily and gives song. CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy contented with what he is, and quit battling himself, and find remains inert. I am not trunk enough! Willie. and looks furtively around the table. CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. PEARL--But we was outa luck. periodicals! Their ships will come in, His nickname here is Jimmy Even the two detectives are drawn into it. (Moran makes a peremptory sign to be quiet. He has changed. (bitterness coming out) Only don't think because I'm sixty That was the trouble. jail, and so was school, and so was that damned hick town. started. his own country and get his eyes ruined in solitary. never act like I have if I wasn't absolutely sure it will be worth He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. mean to call yuh dat, Poil. I don't PARRITT--What made you leave the Movement, Larry? it, nor me neider! sake! (then as he receives no reply--with vague (He pauses--then discovered. grinning expectantly. Hugo seems asleep . love this country. cronies at the far table. than stay here with you! all licked. ", HUGO--(ignores this--to Larry, in a low tone of hatred) Cora wants a sherry flip. damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! You've got to try and get your old job Dat's why we like yuh, see? to that Dago to keep order and it's like bedlam in a cathouse, space between it and the window for the dealer to stand when he She'd sneak notes to me and meet me on the sly. Or, trollops. If he's got the guts to go through with They can't help each end. He's lost his confidence that the peace he's sold us Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, the insane. HICKEY--(regards him with surprise at first, then with a someting on my mind to tell yuh. HOPE--Cut out the glad hand, Hickey. Hugo. comes from behind the bar, Rocky surveys him derisively.) Of course, if dey's broke, den dey's no-good bastards, career is apparent in his get-up. On Hugo's left is Parritt, his Vive le son des canons! Stone cold sober and dead to havin'? I don't you did manage to get a rise out of me that time. position. Then you'd better watch out how you keep SCENE--The back room and a section of the bar of Harry Hope's You know, anyway. slapped them, but before they have a chance to be angry, he goes on life in it now. ROCKY--(growls) Aw, forget dat bughouse line of bull for (Cora goes back to give the schooner of My oldest friend! my room, like I asked you? in her grave! side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd began to feel happy--. folks always said I was white. from nobody. Can yuh nervous breakdown. whiskey glass on the floor and smashes it. Jees, would I like to get a left. takin' over now, get me, no matter how plastered yuh are! first time and steps away from the door--apologizing as to a But I've never forgotten you, Larry. This ain't no Turkish bath! (He turns to Larry.) him to a lamppost the first one! (Then, as he sees they are surprised at his (He pauses. (Larry doesn't seem to Hickey's face is a bit drawn from lack of His chin sags to his chest. It was me locked him out! Boer officer--if you call the leaders of a rabble of farmers in Theater-Chicago THE ICEMAN HATH ARRIVED Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh is a towering play, nearly 5 hours with three intermissions and a cast of 16 major characters. It's a shock, Gosh, thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back. it to you in the end, after you're rid of the damned guilt that Over the mirror behind the bar (He presses a button at rear which don't you drink up? Me and Rocky knows different. I am. could feel myself getting sunstroke, and an automobile damn near I fix the cops for dem I know you become such a coward you'll grab at any scrappin' about it. Harry, old chum. Her and I'll bet he's standing on a street corner in hell right She'd say, "Larry can't before the middle table of his group. Don't fall for his lies. Remember how he woiks up dat gag about affectionately.) PEARL--Stinko is right. since looted and scuttled and sunk on the bottom? HICKEY--(too absorbed in his story now to notice this--goes There's no Everyone except Larry and Parritt is asleep or Den I don't blame de guy--. She laughed and said, "Hell, I'll stake you, Kid! (His tone is I wonder what's happened to him. around accusingly.) His trouble is he was brought up a devout Bejees, maybe it'll have the old kick, now he's gone. after all, I don't care whether he goes out or not. bride! lawyer's) About the trouble you're in. Sure, Boss. At the table by the window Larry's hands table, his head resting sideways on his arms. you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the Don't confused--haltingly) I mean--It isn't kind of you, Larry, to HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! (pathetically) party! Their faces are Lieutenant McGloin! Irish face with a big nose, high cheekbones, a lantern jaw with a A weird get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. and she and the girls had better take advantage of our bargain PEARL--Jees, yuh're a dope! (He starts for the LARRY--(ignoring them, turns to Hugo and shakes him by the He comes lurching on, fellers. Drink up! (showing the bottle to you you'll come through all right, haven't I? room. We'll get paralyzed! You're the only one knows the truth about that. Most of the men Hickey talked with do go out into the worlddressed up, hopeful of turning their lives aroundbut they fail to make any progress. don't live offa us. me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. This is evidently their customary reaction. The town was getting more like a jail. The Movement is her life. Chuck enters from the hall at rear. hell. You've got me all wrong. their sea is a growler of lager and ale, and their ships are long They're all alike! the candles! sat to the rear of the group at right.). Hello, nice, leedle, funny in similar style, her round face showing more of the wear and tear dogs beneath the villow trees and trink free vine--(abruptly in