Eastman""s large office - executive leather chair, richly-appointed wall paneling, and a check on the desk from Eastman Industries to he Collector of Internal Revenue for $100,000." He akes her to a restaurant and sizes her up.Clyde instinctively appeals o her wanderlust to leave the dead-end cafe waitress job she has and join him for adventure and a career in crime, when he took her o a restaurant and sized her up:Clyde: You were born somewhere around East Texas, right?." After the Little Tramp unsuccessfully tried to find a home for the child, he assumed responsibility, raised him for five years, and taught his sidekick kid (Jackie Coogan in a star-making role) to survive on the streets as a con artist.The subject of his "morbid," artistic work will be the confessional, whiskey-soaked story of a "booze addict" - he only tale he knows - as he points to his head: "I""ve got it all here in my mind":That""s my novel, Nat.