It's ME and YOU he'll get into trouble. You hadn't
ought to send HIM to do second-story work.
HATCH:
(Contemptuously)
No?
REDDY:
No; he's too tender-hearted. A second-story worker ought to use
his gun.
HATCH:
Oh, you! You'll fire your gun too often some day.
REDDY:
No, I won't. I did once, but I didn't do it again for six years.
But Harry--ah, he's too tender-hearted. If Harry was a chicken
thief, before he'd wring a chicken's neck he'd give it laughing
gas. Why, you remember the lady that woke up and begged him to
give her back a gold watch because it belonged to her little
girl who was dead. Well--it turned out the little girl wasn't
dead. It turned out the little girl was a big boy, alive and
kicking--especially kicking. He kicked me into a rose bush.
HATCH:
That'll do. Harry's learning his trade. He'll pick it up in time.
REDDY:
About time he picked up something. Remember the Gainesville Bank;
where he went away leaving ten thousand dollars in the back of the
safe. "Why didn't he pick THAT up?
HATCH:
Because it wasn't there. Bank directors always say that--to make
us feel bad.
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