Act II-5

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Complete Works 2678 words 2020-12-31 09:04:49

Cheering up a little, Jerry goes to the telephone. Jerry. Give me the Treasury Department … Say, this is President Frost speaking. I just wanted to ask you if you couldn’t strike off a little currency, see? About—about five million dollars, see? And if you didn’t know whose picture to put on ‘em you could put my picture on ‘em, see? I got a good picture I just had taken … You can’t strike any off?… Well, I just asked you … Well, I just thought I’d ask you … Well, no harm done—I just asked you—it didn’t hurt to ask, did it? [He rings off despondently.] It didn’t hurt ‘em to ask.

Snooks . Nothin’ doin’, eh?

In comes Mr. Jones.

Jones . It’s all over, Mr. President. I’ve just received word that Chief Justice Fossile of the Supreme Court, accompanied by the Senate Committee on Inefficiency, is on ……

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