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62 down your stories——now you can write them down three times as fast! MR. PARKER But I don't know how to type! THEO With the money we're gonna be having. I can hire somebody to teach you! ADELE What money you going to have? THEO We're going into business, baby——right here in the barbershop! MR. PARKER Theo—— THEO (Paying no attention.) We're going to sell bootleg whiskey, numbers, and—— ADELE You're what!? MR. PARKER Theo—— THEO You heard me, and if you don't like it you can pack your bags and leave! ADELE Leave? I pay rent here! THEO No more! I pay it now! MR. PARKER Shut up, Theo! THEO We're going to show you something, girl. You think—— 63 MR. PARKER I said shut up! ADELE Is he telling the truth? MR. PARKER Yes, he is telling the truth. ADELE You mean to tell me you're just going to turn this shop into a bootleg joint? MR. PARKER I'll turn it into anything I want to! ADELE Not while I'm still here! MR. PARKER The lease on this house has my signature, not yours! ADELE I'm not going to let you do this! MR. PARKER You got not choice, Adele. You don't have a damn thing to say! ADELE (Turns sharply to THEO.) You put him up to this! MR. PARKER Nobody puts me up to anything I don't want to do! These two boys have made it up in their minds they're not going to work for nobody but themselves, and the thought in my mind is why should they! I did like you said, I went downtown, and it's been a long time since I did that but you're down there every day and you oughta know by now that I am too old a man to ever dream I...could overcome the dirt and filth they got waiting for me down there. I'm surprised at you, that you would have so little care in you to shove me into the middle of that mob. ADELE You can talk about caring? What about Mama? She died working for you! Did you ever stop to think about that!
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