Kit Carson (thoughtfully, smiling, and amazed) You’re the first man I’ve ever met who believes me.

Joe (seriously) Have another beer.

Tom comes in with the Rand-McNally book, the revolver and the box of cartridges. Kit Carson goes to bar.

Joe (to Tom) Did you give her the toys?

Tom Yeah, I gave them to her.

Joe Did she stop crying?

Tom No. She started crying harder than ever.

Joe That’s funny. I wonder why.

Tom Joe, if I was a minute earlier, Frankie would have taken the bet and now we’d have about a thousand five hundred dollars. How much of it would you have given me, Joe?

Joe If she’d marry you – all of it.

Tom Would you, Joe?

Joe (opening packages, examining book first, and revolver next) Sure. In this realm there’s only one subject, and you’re it. It’s my duty to see that my subject is happy.

Tom Joe, do you think we’ll ever have eighty dollars for a race sometime again when there’s a fifteen-to-one shot that we like, weather good, track fast, they get off to a good start, our horse doesn’t get a call till the stretch, we think we’re going to lose all that money, and then it wins, by a nose?

Joe I didn’t quite get that.

Tom You know what I mean.

Joe You mean the impossible. No, Tom, we won’t. We were just a little late, that’s all.

Tom We might, Joe.

Joe It’s not likely.

Tom Then how am I ever going to make enough money to marry her?

Joe I don’t know, Tom. Maybe you aren’t.

Tom Joe, I got to marry Kitty. (Shaking his head.) You ought to see the crazy room she lives in.

Joe What kind of a room is it?

Tom It’s little. It crowds you in. It’s bad, Joe. Kitty don’t belong in a place like that.

Joe You want to take her away from there?

Tom Yeah. I want her to live in a house where there’s room enough to live. Kitty ought to have a garden, or something.

Joe You want to take care of her?

Tom Yeah, sure, Joe. I ought to take care of somebody good that makes me feel like I’m somebody.

Joe That means you’ll have to get a job. What can you do?

Tom I finished high school, but I don’t know what I can do.

Joe Sometimes when you think about it, what do you think you’d like to do?

Tom Just sit around like you, Joe, and have somebody run errands for me and drink champagne and take things easy and never be broke and never worry about money.

Joe That’s a noble ambition.

Nick (to Joe) How do you do it?

Joe I really don’t know, but I think you’ve got to have the full cooperation of the Good Lord.

Nick I can’t understand the way you talk.

Tom Joe, shall I go back and see if I can get her to stop crying?