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Suspense!

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Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Miss Myrna Loy, a star of Library Book, a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear.

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Suspense!

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Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Miss Myrna Loy in Library Book.

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A remarkable tale of...

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Suspense!

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I'll get it, Maggie. Public Library, Hillcrest Branch, Miss Roberts speaking.

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Miss Roberts speaking. I bet... No, I'm sorry, we do not carry the racing form. We do not carry even the current racing form, much less those published in 1925.

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I know nothing whatever of Man of War's activities. Well, you'll have to consult another source to win your wager. Goodbye.

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Yes?

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Miss, do I give my book back here?

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Yes, this is the return desk. Let me see, that's two days overdue. You owe four cents, Mrs. Rudnick.

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It's a lot of reading. My daughter read it to me nights. Here's the four cents, Miss.

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Thank you.

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Oh, it was a grand book though, really grand.

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Gone with the wind, I suppose. I personally very seldom read bestsellers.

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It surely is romantic. I wonder, Miss, do you know what happens on page 931?

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Page 931?

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Yes, we don't know to this day whether Scarlett, she goes to Melon's party for Ashley, or page 931 and 932 are missing. So we were wondering if...

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Missing? Good heavens, let me see.

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You just give anything to know if Scarlett went to the party.

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One moment, Mrs. Rudnick. The pages are missing. One leaf has been torn or cut from this book. This is vandalism.

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It's what?

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A page has been deliberately ripped out. I'll have to ask you for your reader's card.

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But we didn't do it.

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One moment, please. Miss Hughes.

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Yes?

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Miss Hughes, will you please look up the list price of this book, Gone with the Wind.

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Yes, sure. Just a second.

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You see, Mrs. Rudnick, you will have to pay the cost of the book or lose all library privileges until you do.

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Oh, but please, Miss V didn't do it.

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It's a dollar forty-nine, Prudence.

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I don't pay no dollar forty-nine because I didn't do it.

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How did you find out about the damage, Prudence?

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Mrs. Rudnick called my attention to it, fortunately.

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Well, if she tore out the page, she wouldn't have told you.

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No. You see, Miss, but the rule...

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Oh, relax, relax, Prudence.

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Well, very well, Mrs. Rudnick. I'll investigate further. In the meantime, you may continue to use your card.

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Oh, thank you, Miss. Thank you so much, and good-bye.

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Good-bye. Maggie, why must you interfere like that? You know the rules perfectly well.

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Yeah, sure, but they don't make sense.

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That's not for us to say. She should have reported before she took the book out.

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Oh, now that's silly. How could you report the page was torn out before she read the book?

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Well, maybe you're right.

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I don't know why you raise such a dust about it anyhow.

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Because if I don't find out who did tear the book, I'll have to pay.

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And I don't want to spend a dollar and forty-nine cents on a bestseller.

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Hey!

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Take care of that boy, Maggie.

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Okay. What'll it be?

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These here.

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You want to take these out? All of them?

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Sure. Here's my card.

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Oh. Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan Triumphant, Tarzan and the Leopard Men, Tarzan and the Forbidden City, Tarzan the Invincible, Tarzan...

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Morning Becomes Electra.

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Yeah, I'm making a radio. A walkie-talkie.

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Oh, look, I haven't read this myself, but I don't think it's going to help you.

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No, it says Electra.

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Yeah, well, anyway, you got one too many books.

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Okay, I'll take the electric book out when I bring these back. I'll bring them back tomorrow, so save it.

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Five books and he'll bring them back tomorrow. Did you get that, Prudence? Five books and the kids...

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Prudence, what are you doing?

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It's very strange. It's really very strange.

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Are you still mooning over that missing page? In Gone with the Wind?

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Yes. You know, whoever ripped that page out also underlined words on the following page, page 933.

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Yeah? What kind of words?

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Oh, they don't seem to mean anything. Words like, anyone, merrily, hardly. They've been underlined by little scratches in the paper.

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Oh, well, maybe somebody was cutting out cookies on top of the book. Come on, huh? It's past closing time.

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I've got to find out what's on page 931. Well, I can buy a copy of this book on my way home, and I will.

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Buy it? I thought you wouldn't spend dough on a bestseller.

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Well, I shouldn't, but this annoys me. It's vandalism. And besides, I have an odd feeling, a feeling that something's wrong.

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Guess I have a definite premonition. Prudence, prudence. Will you put that book away and come to bed?

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All right, Maggie. I guess you win. Oh, was cookies?

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No, it was words. I fastened the two pages together and made the marks back through. But these words don't mean anything either.

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Cure, wait, poor. I think they were cut out of the book, because the marks are above and below each word.

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Sure, that's kid stuff. You know, cut out words and paste them to write a letter.

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Cut them up? Well, of course. Let's see. There's poor, your, fifty, instructions, her, Melanie, Melanie.

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Oh, Melanie. That was Olivia de Havilland in the picture.

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Really? I wouldn't know. Now, I'll start with the word fifty. It's an adjective and must modify something.

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Oh, natch, natch.

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Fifty health. No. Fifty instructions. Could be, but it's awkward. Fifty grand. Well, it's slang, but it does mean something.

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Tell the world fifty grand means something.

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Now, a noun must be followed by a verb. Fifty grand to wait or to cure. I'll try that. Fifty grand to cure.

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That's a plenty expensive cure, that.

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Now, her. Fifty grand to cure her, her.

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Melanie, a girl's name.

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Melanie, why yes. All the other words pair off perfectly now. Your Melanie, poor health, wait instructions.

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Fifty grand to cure her.

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That's it, Maggie. The words couldn't possibly go in any other order.

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Yeah. So, now you've solved the puzzle, let's get to bed.

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Well, all right. I suppose I have to wait until the morning to call the police.

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The police? Just because a book was torn?

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No, because it's a ransom note.

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Oh, prudence.

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Can't you see? That's what it says. Some poor girl named Melanie has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. For fifty grand.

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It's our duty as citizens to help her.

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And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Myrna Loy as Prudence Roberts in Library Book, a play well calculated to keep you in Suspense.

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Suspense.

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Miss Roberts, I'm sorry I couldn't get here till this late. I'm Lieutenant Murphy from Headquarters.

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Oh, you're a detective?

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Well, that's what my paycheck says, ma'am.

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Oh, well, of course, you're not in uniform. But come over here behind my desk. I want to show you something.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Has anyone been kidnapped lately?

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Huh, what?

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Anyone named Melanie? Do you know?

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Why?

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Well, this book came back to the Library damaged, and I deciphered a kidnapped message from the damaged page. See? Read it.

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You deciphered this note?

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You're laughing at me. I want to do my duty, and you laugh.

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Oh, no, ma'am, no, ma'am. We'll check on... Well, say, what do you know?

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Yes, what is it?

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Oh, nothing, nothing, miss. You took your glasses off, that's all. What did you say your name was again, miss?

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My name is Miss Prudence Roberts. What has that got to do with this?

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Well, we have to know the source of our information. Yeah, yeah, this does look like a ransom note now that I look at it.

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Of course it does.

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But we haven't any case on deck right now that this could possibly fit into. I never heard of a ransom note without a kidnapped case.

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Oh, you haven't? Very well. I'm sorry I bothered you. We have to close the Library now, so good evening.

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Just a minute, miss. What are you going to do?

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I'm going to find out who damaged this book. Do you see this card? These are all the people who have taken the book out. Six altogether.

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Lucille Baumgarten, August Beasley, Walter Evans, Jeanette Fren.

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Well, that's fine, miss. Look, maybe I could drop around and see how you're making out. Tomorrow?

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No, I wouldn't inconvenience you. You needn't bother.

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Gee, miss, you talk such good English. I try to.

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Well, look, could I see you home? It's pretty late, you know.

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I feel quite safe, thank you. The worst that ever happened to me was one night when a vulgar masher spoke to me. He said, Hi, toots. Imagine.

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Oh, did you have your glasses on?

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Why, come to think of it, that was the time I'd left them to be repaired. How very peculiar.

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Yeah, yeah. Say, miss, how would you like to see a picture tonight with me, huh?

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I wouldn't think of going out with someone I've met only once, Lieutenant.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. I guess you wouldn't.

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And besides, because the police of this city are obviously so inefficient, I have a great deal of work to do.

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Yes, Lieutenant Murphy, I'm going to be very busy tonight.

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Miss Baumgarten, I only wanted to make sure. You're sure the page was missing when you read it?

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Oh, it was missing all right, I remember, because it took me quite a while to figure out what happened, but I finally did so it didn't worry me.

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Say, I'm not going to be in any trouble over this, am I?

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No, it was damaged by someone before you.

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But miss, I didn't even read the book. I saw the name on it, see, Gone with the Wind, so I thought it was about airplanes.

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I'm building a glider, but when I started to read it, criminally. I think they ought to name books so you know what you're getting. It'd save a lot of trouble.

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My dear young lady, a man of my age and education is aware of the value of books and cares for them properly, even novels.

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Yes, yes, I remember that page was missing, obviously ripped out, an act of wanton destruction. Shocking, shocking.

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Yes, what do you want?

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Does Miss Jeanette Craig live here?

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What's that?

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Does Miss Jeanette Craig live here?

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She did, she moved.

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When did she move?

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About two weeks ago Monday, I think. Yes, on the seventeenth.

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But she returned this book on the eighteenth.

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That book? Oh no, I was the one that returned that for her. I was cleaning out a room and I found it.

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Well, I work in the public library and this book was damaged. I wanted to speak to Miss Craig about it.

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Well, all I know is that she didn't expect to go when she did. Her room still paid for her and she left most of her things.

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Ah. Someone took sick and sent for her, they said. They called for her late one night and off she went in a rush with two men.

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But if she left her belongings, she'll be coming back for them.

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Well, I guess she will or she'll send for them.

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Uh, uh, when did you say her room would be available?

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Her room? Yes, I'm thinking of moving and I like this neighborhood and I thought...

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Oh well, come right in and I'll show it to you. Now it's real nice, first floor.

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Careful, it's dark in these halls. I'm used to it and I can roam around with my eyes shut and still...

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Still, find my way. Now this was her room. Come in, it's real nice in the daytime.

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Is the closet good and deep?

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Well, go ahead and look. That's her things in there and some real nice things too. I don't see how they do it in the nightclub, Dancer.

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Yes, lovely things. Funny, this monogram is M.S. and on this bag too. Those aren't her initials.

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Oh, you know how it is. These girls lend each other their clothes, probably belongs to a friend of hers.

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Uh, did you ever hear her mention Melanie?

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Oh no, we don't allow any eating in the rooms.

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Well, I'll take it, but I have a roommate.

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That's all right with me.

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Fine, I'll get her and we'll move in tonight.

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Tonight? Well, all right, I'll move Miss Craig's things into my room then.

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Oh no, no, no, leave them right here. I mean, you don't have to bother. We'll have plenty of space. The closet is so large.

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No, just as you say.

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And anyway, I want to know when someone comes for her things because I do want to find out where Miss Craig is.

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You see, I'm terribly anxious about the book. I really am.

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Oh, Prudence, you and your mystery. We move out of a perfectly good apartment into a room next door to a pool hall.

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But I have to find out where Jeanette Craig is.

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Even when the lights are out, we have that darn neon sign. Chop Suey, Chop Suey.

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But don't you think it's strange, Maggie, all her things initialed M-S instead of J-C. M could stand for...

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Hey, hey listen, what's that? Someone's unlocking the door. Holy smoke. Someone's come for her clothes, I know it.

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Yes? What do you want?

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Well, I didn't expect to see...

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We rented this room today. Wait, I'll turn on the light. Now, what do you want?

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Well, you see, I was sent to get something...

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How'd you get a key?

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I know. You've come for Miss Craig's things, is that it?

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Yeah, Miss, that's right. It's a good thing you rented a room because I come to pay up and settle everything. This way it's going to be a lot easier.

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This way you can just take the things. They're right here in the closet. I'll help you.

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Yes? Well, thanks.

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Here. It's quite a load, isn't it?

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Well, it's like more than a dozen times.

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You'll have to make two trips. There are so many things.

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Well, I'll be right back as soon as I get these in the car.

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Quick, Maggie, I have to dress. Help me.

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Why didn't you ask him where this girl...

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I can't ask him. Now, look, Maggie, I'm going to slip out now. While he's in here, I'm going downstairs.

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Why are you messing in this?

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And I want you to cover up for me and delay him as long as possible.

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Oh, Jeepers, what are you going to do?

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Come here. Look out the window. See his car down there, the long black one?

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Yeah, yeah, I see it. Well, I'm going to get in that taxi and follow him.

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Driver, he's awfully far ahead.

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Lady, I know this game backwards. It's been 20 miles and I haven't lost him yet.

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Keep close watch. He may turn off in an effort to evade us.

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I'll see him. Hey, what's the matter? He move out on you, huh?

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Well, I don't blame you for being sore. But, lady, there's all kinds of angles.

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I beg your pardon.

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For instance, I notice you wear glasses. Now, there's a saying, men never make passes at girls who wear...

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Please, will you confine yourself to your driving?

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Okay, okay. Hey, look, he turned.

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Oh, hurry. Why? We're way out in the country.

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Oh, you said it. He's turning off again, up ahead. Probably a driveway.

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Pull up at the entrance.

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Okay. Well, this must be it.

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There's a house and there's the car.

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Oh, what a lonely looking place.

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Yeah. Now what?

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Well, you wait here, driver.

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One minute, lady. The time has come to tell you I got you clocked at seven bucks and 85 cents.

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That much? And I forgot my pocketbook.

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I thought so, the old game.

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But I have money at home.

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Outside. You heard me? Outside.

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Outside. That's right. Now, if you was a man, I'd take it out of your jaw.

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As it is.

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Oh, please. You aren't going to leave me.

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Yeah. You're gonna walk.

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But you can't leave me here.

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Lady, I can. Anyway, I might have a phone in the house.

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Huh. I don't even know where I am.

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I'll tell you where you are, baby. You're on your own.

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Oh. Oh. To think anyone could be so...

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I'll report you.

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Hey. Hey, you.

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Huh? Oh, good heavens.

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Quick. Quick. Come closer, please.

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All right. Oh, please. Take me away from here. Please help me get away from here.

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Who are you? Melanie Stephenson. They won't let me go.

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I think they're gonna kill me.

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Melanie? Ah. But where is Miss Craig?

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I'm Miss Craig. Oh, please. I'll tell you later. But get me out of here.

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Well, can you climb through and drop from the sill?

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No, no. I'm chained to the bed. Oh, please. Hurry. Bring someone back with you.

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That's the only way I can get out of here.

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All right. All right. I'll run back and phone Lieutenant Murphy and the police will...

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Oh, no, they won't. Come in, toots, and stay a while.

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But I... You see, I...

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Oh, hello. So we meet again. So you had a nice long ride following me, huh?

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Get in. Oh. But you can't...

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No, no, no. Don't be bashful. You ain't going nowhere else from here.

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Not even to phone your friend, Lieutenant Murphy. You've reached the end of the road, babe.

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Positively the end of the road.

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Oh, Murphy. Close the door and sit down. This is important.

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Okay, Captain. Why, what's up?

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Kidnapping case, Murphy. I only hope we're not too late.

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That man who just left my office was Martin Stevenson. Yeah, who's been kidnapped?

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His daughter. This is the story. She ran away from home a few months ago to work in a nightclub.

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Took another name. Didn't even let her family know where she was living.

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That's why they didn't know when she disappeared, so it wasn't reported until now.

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How'd she disappear? Well, her father doesn't know.

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But it looks like someone recognized her in the club, knew that Stevenson's had dough, and grabbed her.

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Well, first thing the old man knows, he gets a ransom note.

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You know, the usual kind, words cut out of something and pasted on paper to look like a telegram.

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Words pasted on... Captain, what was the daughter's name?

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Melani, I think. Melani.

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Chief, you know, you should have had her order read more, like me.

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It's Melanie. Like, yeah, like in Gone with the Wind.

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She has the same note. The same note.

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What are you raving about? The note that librarian Miss Roberts called us about. Remember, I told you.

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Remember what a laugh it handed us? Yeah, say that's right.

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She must be a pretty smart girl. Maybe we ought to talk to her.

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Yeah, just a minute. I got her phone number. I'll call her up.

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Oh, so you got her phone number. Huh? I thought you said she wears glasses.

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Well, I got it, Cap, just in case I turned up any information.

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That's funny, she don't answer.

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Well, she might know one or two people besides you, Merlin.

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Yeah, but she's got a roommate.

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Oh, well, I guess I can see her in the morning. That's soon enough.

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Oh, prudent, they're going to kill us. I know it.

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They're sure you already went to the police. They're desperate. Maybe tonight they'll do it.

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I guess they could kill us and still collect the ransom.

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But I don't think... No, they won't dare.

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What are you doing?

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Still trying to get this chain off my wrist. If I could open the padlock...

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Oh, if you could only move it away from the window sooner.

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Hey, look at that. Someone on the stairs. They're carrying something up. Listen.

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Have you got enough, Duke? We want to pour a lot on the stairs.

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A lot of what? Plenty. I got plenty.

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What's that smell, prudence? It's like... gasoline.

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Oh, no. No, they couldn't do that.

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Come on, Duke. Get in the car. I've got to start it.

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Oh, they're going to burn us alive.

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Shh. I want to hear.

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Be right with you as soon as I get mecha clipping ahead.

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Why worry? The smoke will get them. Come on.

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No, I'm soft-hearted. It won't take a minute.

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Oh, prudent. Prudent. Shh. Get under bed, quick. That's right. Way back. Now don't make a sound.

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Okay, Duke. Step on it.

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All right, ladies. Where are you?

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Oh, I don't need to like to find you. You're so attached to that bed.

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Come on, come on, come on. Where are you?

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So you're being cute. Well, that ain't going to help any because...

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Oh, trip me up, you little...

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Mully, you unutterable mully. This is a good strong shoe and I'm going to...

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Trying to hit two helpless girls.

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Oh, no.

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Prudent, the fire. Look.

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Oh, I'm getting out of here. Just have it your way, baby. Just have it your way.

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Help. Help.

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Prudent.

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Melanie, will you stop that awful noise?

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I don't want to die like this. I don't want to die like this.

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Well, neither do I, but I have my dignity.

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Help. Help.

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Hush. Please, hush. I want to see what they do.

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What difference does it make they're leaving?

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Yes, they're in the car, but the car is pulling up in front.

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Melanie, two cars. They've come. They found us.

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The police. Lieutenant Murphy and two carlers.

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Oh, listen.

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Oh, wait. I know.

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That's it, Lieutenant. That's the way.

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Jump. Jump.

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They've caught both of them, Eddie and Duke. It's wonderful.

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Lieutenant Murphy and Maggie's with him. That's how we knew.

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Come on. Jump, Miss Roberts.

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We can't jump, Lieutenant. We're chained to the bed.

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He's coming up.

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Oh, but can he get through? The stairs are full of smoke.

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Can he get through, Lieutenant Murphy?

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Listen, fire won't stop him.

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We're in here.

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Where?

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Over here in the corner.

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Where's the padlock?

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Right here. Between us.

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Okay. Now, look. I'm going to smash you with this flashlight, I hope.

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Turn your face.

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There, there. That does it. It's open.

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Are you Melanie Stevenson?

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Yes.

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Now, look. You're going to have to jump. They'll break your fall. They're going to net down.

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Oh, I can't. I'm afraid.

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Your father's down there.

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Father?

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Yeah, yeah. Now, come on. That's the barrel. Up on the ledge.

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I'm afraid.

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That's right. Now, don't let the fire confuse you. Just push off.

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That's it. Okay.

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Did it? Did they catch him?

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Yeah, sure. Now, next.

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All right.

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I'm going to go see why we ought. Why, could I?

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Miss Roberts, prudence.

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Well, what do you know? After all this, she faints.

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It's awfully nice of you to drive me home, Lieutenant.

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Oh, forget it. Forget it. I'm just thankful I had enough sense to try and find you tonight.

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How did you find me?

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Well, first I went to your apartment, and from there I found where you moved to.

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And Maggie knew which cab you took tonight, and well, after that it was pi.

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It was so melodramatic the way you got there just in time.

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Yeah? Oh, you know, I can't get over the way you talk, Miss Roberts.

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Every word so clear, just like a poem.

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Poem.

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Yeah, that's what I said. Poem.

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I certainly hope I'm going to see you some now that the excitement's over.

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Well, um...

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Look, look, there's a real highbrow picture showing right near your place.

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I'd sure like to take you to.

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No, I'm sorry.

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Well, I just thought I'd ask.

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But if you know of a good, fast murder picture with a lot of shooting...

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Miss Roberts?

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Can that Miss Roberts?

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Prudence. Hey, hey, wait, what are you doing?

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I'm throwing my glasses out of the window. From now on, call me Toots.

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The Toots.

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