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Nicholas 'Nick' Charles: The fact that the boy's dead doesn't seem to have made very much of an impression on you.
Bill Burns: Why should it? Death hasn't endowed him with any new virtues, has it?
Nicholas 'Nick' Charles: That's a little brutal, but honest. Do you, eh... You know of anyone who might have had cause to kill him?
Bill Burns: The way he was cutting throats at the plant, it might have been a number of people.
Nicholas 'Nick' Charles: What about you?
Bill Burns: Mr. Charles, when you've got anything on me, you can serve your papers. But until that time, I figure my time is my own.
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[Hap Felsch has run into the outfield wall to make a catch]
Billy Maharg: He's gonna knock his brains out doin' that!
Bill Burns: What brains? Shoeless Joe is ignorant; Hap Felsch is just dumb.
-- Bill Burns -
[Burns and Maharg are discussing Eddie Cicotte]
Bill Burns: Eddie's gettin' too old for this. I know what it's like. You walk out there with your arm hangin.
Billy Maharg: You couldn't pitch when you was young, Burnsie.
Bill Burns: Eddie's the key. If we don't get him, we can forget about it.
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Billy Maharg: [while scouting potential players for the fix] Eddie Collins?
Bill Burns: Nah. Collins is the only one on the club getting paid what he's worth. Had it in his contract when he got traded.
Billy Maharg: What about Chick Gandil?
[Gandil fouls a pitch back]
Bill Burns: He might do business. Chickie's a sport.
Billy Maharg: Buck Weaver?
Bill Burns: Bucky's one of the boys, but the thing about Bucky is he don't like to lose.
[Weaver grounds out and kicks the ground in disgust]
Bill Burns: Can't stand to lose. Put him on the "maybe" list.
Billy Maharg: What about Ray Schalk?
Bill Burns: Not a prayer.
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[Burns and Maharg approach Abe Attell at the racetrack]
Abe Atell: They don't take nickle bets down here, fellas.
[to Burns]
Abe Atell: You, you were a ball player.
Bill Burns: Bill Burns.
Abe Atell: 'Sleepy' Bill Burns! Strictly bench material.
Bill Burns: I won a few games.
Abe Atell: You lost a few more.
[to Maharg]
Abe Atell: And you my friend did not get that nose bobbing for apples.
Billy Maharg: I was a fighter; sort of.
Abe Atell: Sort of. Let's see... Philly? Billy Maharg!
Billy Maharg: You seen me fight?
Abe Atell: Yeah, I seen you. You're a bum!
-- Bill Burns
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