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106 GIRL Home! MR. PARKER Hold it now, honey! GIRL I never should have come here in the first place! MR. PARKER No, you're not going anywhere. This is my place and you don't have to run off because of this Peeping Tom! THEO Pop, it's time to give us our money. MR. PARKER You'll get your share tomorrow and not before! THEO I want it now before you give it all to that girl. Pop, cut that broad loose! MR. PARKER What was that? THEO I said, cut her loose! She don't need an old man like you, she's just pumping you for information, that bitch is a hustler! MR. PARKER (Slaps THEO with the back of his hand.) Bite your tongue! GIRL I think I better go, Russell. (Heads for the front door.) MR. PARKER (Following her.) Okay, but I'll be right with you as soon as I get things straight here. You will be waiting for me, won't you? GIRL Sure! MR. PARKER You run along now and I'll be right over there. (GIRL 107 exits. PARKER whirls back into shop.) What do you think 107 you're doing, boy? THEO Just be careful, Pop. Please be careful. MR. PARKER If there's anybody I got to be careful of, it's you! You lying selfish sonofabitch! You think I don't know about you and Blue running that gang of thieves—about you sending your own brother out there with them? THEO I didn't do that! MR. PARKER If Bobby gets hurt out on them streets, I'm gonna kill you, boy! I'm gonna kill you. (Hurriedly collects hat and coat.) THEO You're not worried about Bobby! All you can think of is the money you're rolling in. The clothes. And that stupid outfit you've got on. (ADELE comes in from the street, obviously distraught.) MR. PARKER What's wrong with you? Are you drunk? (Moves in, ADELE doesn't answer, so he moves off.) THEO Of course she's drunk. What did you expect—did you think everything would stop and stand still while you were being reborn again! MR. PARKER What do you want from me? Call this whole thing off? It was your idea, not mine! But now that I've got myself something——I'm going to throw it away for nobody! THEO But can't you see what's happening here? MR. PARKER If she wants to be a drunken wench, let her! I'm not going to take the blame. And as for your——(Fumbles in his
