And I'm going to dike you out. That's my idea.
Pink! That's the color for you. A pink sash and slippers, and one of
them hats that show your yellow hair right through it, and a lace
umbrella and--"
"And streamers on the hat! I've always been just crazy for streamers on
a hat."
"Red-white-and-blue ones!"
"No, just pink. Wide ones to dangle it like a basket."
"And slippers with real diamond buckles."
"What do you mean, Getaway? How can you give me real diamond shoe
buckles--"
"There you go again. Didn't you promise to trust me and my new business
proposition?"
"I do, only you've had so many--"
"You do--_only!_ Yah, you do, only you don't!"
"I--You see--Getaway--I know how desperate you can be--when you're
cornered. I'll never forget how you--you nearly killed a cop--once! Oh,
Getaway, when I think back, that time you got into such trouble with--"
"Leave it to a woman, by Jove! to spoil a fellow's good name, if she has
to rub her fingers in old soot to do it.
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