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I got nothing to worry about. That's what I'm telling you something's happened to me Just like old man Marsley said it doesn't happen often but when it does Well, it's happened to me Something's happened to me that doesn't happen once in a hundred years and it all happened in one day Yeah It began this morning Leonard Don't try to kid me. You're not asleep. Get up Okay, I cook your breakfast I come home and cook your dinner in between I work behind that counter all day until I'm so tired I can't hardly stand up the least you can do is get up and drive me to work You're all right. Well, and what do you do nothing now listen you don't call what you do work I hope when did you last sell an insurance policy when I bet you can't even remember. I'm sure I can all right all right When you do get up enough energy to sell one once in a while I never see the money horses we take tickets and numbers anything just so long as you can gamble it away But do you ever bring a dollar home? Not that I ever hear a shot up Don't you tell me to shut up Leonard smells I pay the rent when it gets paid. I pay the grocery bills I pay for everything you think it's Lisa. I get a little appreciation once in a while I appreciate it. I hear about it enough. Well, why don't you do something about it then? I don't feel so good today. Sure. That's what you said yesterday and the day before That's what you always say every time anybody talks about work. Well, I'm sick and tired of it You promised you were gonna get a job this week and you're gonna do it Yeah, there's something I gotta tell you I suppose you want to weed with some money out of me again Well, if you can't even keep a little lunch money in your pocket. No, see you listen. It's more than that Oh, it is. I suppose you got another hop tip on the races. Well, if you think I'm gonna where you shut up Celia I've sold quite a few insurance policies in the last six months Well, where's the money? Oh, don't pull that on me. You're gonna get a job. All right, I spent the money on the races Yeah, it wasn't all my money. What do you mean? I mean, I'm $1,800 short And this is the last day to settle up my accounts with a company. You stole it No, I thought I was gonna get it back and make it killing. I had some tips. It was supposed to be sure things I get it $1,800 quite a coincidence, isn't it? Well, seventeen hundred and three. What's the difference? And it just so happens that I have $1,800 in a safe deposit box that aunt may let me this spring Quite a coincidence. Celia, I gotta get that money back to them today Well, I don't believe a word of it and you're not gonna get that money if I don't they can send me to jail And if I did believe you you wouldn't get it. Maybe a few months in jail would teach you a little consideration You know, I gotta have an operation sometime this fall you think I want to go into a charity ward Celia They can give me five years. You've had your eye on that money ever since you heard I got it, but you're not gonna get it Why do you think I wear the key to that safety positive box around my neck Celia? I suppose you think I have a notice. I suppose you think I don't know all those times You tried to get that chain off my neck when you thought I was asleep Celia Well, I wasn't quite as sleepy as you thought all right and don't think you can wheel it out of me Like get away from me. I have to do that to you someday. I've been over She was dead. All right, but he was on that little chain around the neck just like it had always been I Yanked in the chain and it snapped and he came away in my hand. I shaved and got dressed and then I went through a purse Was $9 and some change in the usual junk and that Irish sweepstake ticket made out in the name of I'm a winner I put the money in my pocket and the ticket in my wallet. I was all set to go now except for writing the letter All of a sudden I realized that what I was doing didn't seem strange to me at all It was like one of those dreams where you think it's all happened before some time. I wrote To the police. I've killed my wife and a fit of anger. I can't go on living anymore after doing a thing like that to Celia I'm sure it in my accounts too. So there's only one thing for me to do Don't bother looking for me by the time you get this letter. You can find me in the city more Yours truly Good morning, mr. Marsman. I just had some great news. I knew you'd want to hear about it right away Well, I'm in sort of a hurry this morning. All right. All right. When you hear this, you know that picric acid dye formula I've been working on the government just bought an option on it They're going to try it out under factory conditions when they do my boy. It'll be worth a million dollars Well, what do you know? That's really great. Well, I guess I've decided to take out that annuity You've been trying to sell me got an application with you Come on in Just sold a policy you don't sell them like that every day to you my boy What's that first premium about that $3,400 isn't it? Yeah, there's a nice commission in that element about $1,800. Yeah Yeah Well, then it certainly deserves it he works very hard I see him coming home every evening with that briefcase and all those papers under his arm Most of those papers are the racing forms. I'll say Lenin Watch out for those bottles pick the gasses, you know, I've been watching you Lenin You've had a hard time, but you're a gambler. You believe a lot in luck. No, I've got a theory about luck Yeah, now when we are born March 1st 1878 yes, sir luck is something that can come in big doses sometimes almost as though they had planted out ahead of time Who's the beneficiary? There's a perfectly good mathematical explanation for it Of course a number of unrelated events converge and they all add up to the good fortune of a single man happens once in a century Perhaps but it does happen You can make the check out there. Oh, well, of course Why don't I make it out to you personally then I can collect that three months rent you owe me, huh? Well, why sure sure that that'll be $35 You know Leonard I was saying to Sam just this morning. I'm almost as glad for your sake as far as my Move senior be surprised. I said would see you be surprised. Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah She usually needs to work long before this now always here I well she's oh Leonard. Don't tell me there's anything wrong. I know she hasn't been feeling well lately Oh, oh, no, no, she's got a little headache, you know poor thing. Why didn't you tell me? I'll go right upstairs. Oh, no, no, you better not. She told me she wanted to sleep. She's asleep now Well, then I will bother her Well, my boy, here's your check. Thanks now. Don't play that on the races. Don't worry But you keep playing your luck just the same Luck is a funny thing. You've had a lucky start today. Maybe your luck has changed. Yeah Yeah, maybe it had Why couldn't he assigned it yesterday, that's all I could think of her a couple of minutes Why couldn't he sign it yesterday? That was done now Oh, I got in the car and drove downtown First I went to see this bank and got that 1800 out of the deposit box Nobody said a word and I went to Marsley's bank and cashed his check. I had over five grand now. I drove over towards the park Clock in the jewelry store said 1015. That was plenty of time Park I stopped and gave them once over to the bomb sitting around on the benches and the sun There's always a bunch of them there Pretty soon I see a guy that looks about right Hey, hey you me. Yeah, you want to make five bucks me not job Oh, you won't have to strain yourself. I just hurt my wrist. I can't drive. I gotta go uptown to meet a guy Want to drive me? Oh Okay, you got a license. Yeah. Yeah, I got a license. Let's see it. Okay here Floyd Eustis You're a kind of a long ways from home, aren't you? Yeah, but it's okay to drive within this thing if you've got a license driver with you Okay, Floyd Eustis We get in the car and head uptown My luck is holding all right. This guy couldn't have been better if I looked a week. I see another clock It's only a little past 10 30 now. I still got lots of time. So I decided to clean up the details now How am I doing? Okay, but turn right at the next block Floyd I want to go by the 43rd Street post office and mail a letter. Sure You could mail it at a letterbox though. Yeah, but well, I don't want to mail it a letterbox. Oh, okay I go into the post office and get a stamp and mail a letter The letter I tell about killing to see just addressed to the police commissioner 21 Center Street Somehow I just don't trust the letter box because if the police don't get that letter right on time and start looking It's not so good. I go out and get in the car and tell Floyd Eustis where to go We head uptown and after a while we get to Fort Tryon Park right up above Riverside Drive looking over the river It's hardly ever anybody up there this time of year. So I feel pretty safe sure enough there was I Got the monkey wrench out. I had it in my hand This right Yeah, just pull over there up against the rail. I never been up here Must be quite a drop down there a couple hundred feet, huh? Uh-huh. This way you're supposed to meet the guy. Yeah, right here Drag him into the back seat and took off all his clothes and then all mine I changed clothes with the mice down at the underwear and socks I put all my papers in his pockets my license old man Marthory's application my wallet towards Then I drag him up front again behind a wheel There was something else I had to do that. I didn't like much either, but I couldn't take any chances I held his head back against the seat and raised the monkey wrench again. I Hit him in the face. I Hit him a lot. I Tell you officer it didn't land more than three feet from me not more than three feet What happened this car just rolled off the palisades up there somehow landed smack in the middle of the street Hey, look at his face. He must have gone right through the windshield poor fella. I named snow Leonard snow I Was free I was free of seal you know that bellyache, you know, it's free to do anything. I want I five random my pocket in the cops had let it snows body down in the more just like I told them they wouldn't let it I went over to 181st Street bus station was a bus leaving for Boston 20 minutes I bought a ticket then I got a paper in the corner and went into the cafeteria there and sat down at the counter I was pretty hungry What's yours? scrambled eggs with bacon French fries on juice and coffee and I gotta catch a bus it won't take long Well, it's no longer and it takes an egg It was me well, that's all right Mac. I I like to read a newspaper while I eat myself Kind of aids a digestion I find yeah Thanks Some guys have all the luck don't I said some guys have all the luck I would just noticing in your paper there about those Irish sweeps take winners. Oh, oh, yeah. Yes, I'm No, what's the matter you feel bad? When I came to somebody was swabbing my head with water Paid my check and got out of there somehow and looked at the paper again. That's what it said. All right I'm a winner draws favorite and Irish sweeps my ticket And I went on to say how it was worth at least 40,000 and maybe a hundred and fifty thousand for horse one And all of a sudden I was standing there cursing and swearing at Celia right out loud. Just as though she was alive People were staring at me and I stopped Hadn't been for her. I'd have $40,000 $40,000 Now that 40,000 is just a one-way ticket to the hot seat because that 40,000 belong to let it smell and that Irish sweep ticket was in Let it smells wallet and let it smells wallet was in the pocket of that bum that was supposed to be me Why now the cops that have it along with the rest of it smells stuffed out of headquarters after they put the body in the Ward I still had my five grand and a bus ticket to Boston You can't get all the breaks all the time was what I figured then So I got in the bus plenty of Satan This seat taken no not at all sit right down. Thanks Somebody must be feeling pretty good this afternoon. Oh, you kind of cut that there. I'm a winner that ticket on the sweep I see it says that it's paying $40,000 worth right now Yeah, I'd you like to be in his shoes, wouldn't you? Yeah, and I see it. Yeah, do you want to read it? Well, you don't need to get sore Holy I don't have to make up my mind brother Right then that I got the idea what was happening. It was just like old man Marsley said It may only happen once in a hundred years, but it was happening to me My luck was riding high when your luck is like that. You just can't lose Because there it was right in the paper again on page three Freak explosion in Brooklyn kills three and it was my house and the people killed were Marsley and his wife and the They thought it was caused by old Marsley's chemicals or something I didn't know I didn't care all I knew was they thought see you'd been killed by the explosion in the fire And I was in the clear Walking at the police station get my sweepstake ticket collect that 40,000 be set for life Oh, I knew just what I was gonna tell him it was a lift I was walking on air all the way to the police station. I was going up the steps Then I stopped Because I just remembered something terrible and if I remembered a 10 seconds later I'd have walked right into the electric I remembered the letter I was but I'm warning the cops that have that Telling how I killed see that letter that I'd taken all the trouble of mail at the 43rd Street Polk's office So I'd be sure to get off all right I'll even worse this time I had before because it seemed like I'd almost had that money right my hands I was pretty shaky. I went into a bar to get a drink Double rye Post office removing eight sacks of mayo the entire morning collection of the post office after a shipment of currency Dustin for the Federal Reserve Bank, but according to officials the joke is on the gangsters All they got was the regular male Station Here I couldn't lose I simply couldn't lose Because those mugs had stuck up that meal truck got my letter nothing in the world could stop me officer Officer I I just been held up held up, huh? Yeah. Well, what happened? Well, I Picked up a guy who asked me for a lift about 225th Street and Broadway Driving along by van Cortland Parkland suddenly grabbed me Hit me with something and all I remember until I woke up lying in the park My car was gone, and then I found how to take my wallet Money will everything I see what's your name when it's now Leonard snow. Yeah, that's right Say lieutenant this gentleman is mr. Leonard snow. He was held up this morning in his car was stolen sure I Got some news for you mr. Now. Did you find my car? Haven't seen the papers today Morning I Got some good news. It's a bad news boy. No, maybe I better tell you the bad news first Pretty bad Go ahead Your wife was killed this morning with the snow and a fire at your home My wife killed Probably won't interest you much under the circumstances mr. Now, but you've drawn a ticket worth $40,000 in the area Some people sure have all the hard luck in the world Like within about 15 minutes more things were happening to me that can happen to most guys in a dozen lifetimes And then comes a jackpot. I've been waiting Hold it If you care to make a statement mr. Now, would you mind telling the public how you feel? I know it's pretty tough But if you just make a statement, please follow us, please I hate to probably use this time mr. Snell, but the the banking syndicate. I represent is prepared to offer you $40,000 in cash for your sweepstakes ticket. I have the money All right, but I I don't care much about the money now By six I have $45,000 in my pocket And I'm registered at the Waldorf sitting down. I'll take the plank steak. Please meet. Yes, sir. I'll have you Hello pal Money wasted in oh, oh you a reporter not exactly. I'm sort of a collector You owe me 40 grand tell me come to collect now 40. Why I don't know. Yes, you do pal Remember that a little letter you wrote to the police commissioner this morning that you mailed at the 43rd Street post office remember that Some friends of mine found it. They figure it's worth just about 40 grand You you one of the guys I stuck up that you want to make something of it. There's a big reward. There's a cop right outside the hotel Kind of figured you play ball. Where's the letter my friend's got a right outside my car They still got that door in your cash like the paper said. Yeah, come on All right, you're a pretty lucky guy at that film both somebody else who got that letter. Don't worry. How do you see what it's made with me? Yeah, there's a cop. That's a guy Frankie. Yeah, and he's acting real reasonable, too Get up the cash now. You recognize the letter don't you? Yeah, here's your money And here's your letter only don't try anything funny because we still know what that letter says And the cops could always dig up the body and find out how well how you're already really kicked off Couldn't I think he gets the idea so long Hello looks like he paralyzed or something you yeah, you go call an ambulance. I'll stand by this man here Just had a little shoot match with those male robbers the other boys got him down the street But this poor man was shot when they fired back. Hey This letter here in the street the rest of the police commissioner No, the shot had no hand before he fell better open it might be evidence. No, no Leonard Snell again Better put a guard on Snell at the hospital Jerry the looks of this letter. He's gonna stand trial for murder What's the difference what's the difference how much I talked that's what I wanted to tell him Because I got luck don't you see it comes once in a hundred years and I got it I got that kind of Yeah, I got a guard that's the most know as long as he's here in the hospital But the devil's even like it I don't suppose one man ever had so much luck in one day in the whole wide world Well, I guess his luck is played out now. All right, though He said You can't lose well, he's wrong there. Look at that lad is gonna fry That's the truth. My name is Jerry Malone. No, you're wrong Jerry. His luck is still good. 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