 I'll say three days is a plenty I'll say the same say This is a slow town. That's what I say a Slow town. Yeah, there's more doing at home at the corner of Maine and Elv So I'll say this I thought it would be different too with all the wickedness and sin you hear tell-of and take this here Hotel now why it's like an old folks home Nothing happens. That's a lot of hooey, but nothing could happen Well, I'm going home where I can get some real excitement. I'll say nothing doing here. Well, I'll be seeing you See, you know, he's right. I think we ought to be Now come sit down I'll tell me all about I lost my purse all my money's in it my trunk check and everything I Don't know a soul in the city and if you don't help me. I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do Well, we'll see what we can do Where do you come from? Chicago I just got in tonight. Oh, uh, what did you do in Chicago? I was just in a Nursery governance. What do you think you can get work for me anywhere? Maybe What's your name? Martha Martha hunter Just a moment. Hello Yes, this is the neighborhood house on Rivington. Who's calling? Oh Police headquarters Yes, we have an employment bureau. What's the name? Mary Hadfield a Stenographer just a moment till I look through the files No, there's no such girl on our list You're welcome right Here's a card you sign here miss Hunter Your name age and residence Why are your hand trembles you look like you're ready to pass out Beaumont hotel this way boy here you are lady Imagine a thing like this with the Beaumont of all places James Morton Importer killed at 5 30 this afternoon a woman suspected of the crime why I Oh you poor child why I was forgetting all about you come now I'm going to take you right into my room. I'm going to give you a good cup of hot tea You know if you get something in your stomach. I'm sure you'll feel much better Oh, thank you, and then we'll find a place for you Everything is going to be perfectly all right, and now I'm going to take you right here into my room And you'll make yourself perfectly comfortable in this hole Good evening Good evening sir, and what can we do for you? My name's how old John howl of the evening journal. I'm a sobbing a sob sister, you know Hardening to stories Pull it in the peasants the curse of an aching heart till the sands of the desert grow cold and Where oh where is my wandering boy tonight? You'll excuse me. You'd better talk to miss rose. She She speaks two or three different languages Good evening miss town. How do you do? My name's howl John howl. I'm a your reporter Hunting a human interest story in the neighborhood house. How did you get it? I know the breed Used to be a sob sister myself. You did until I decided to be something useful They're sending a man on this kind of assignment generally use women. I guess they figured I could handle it you see Half my ancestors were women So you've come cruising for a story to this harbor of disappointed hopes Gee that's a good line. Do you mind if I use it? Not at all. It was always a good line. I used to use it myself Harbour of disappointed hopes This isn't so hot You want a job taking dictation? What an awful-looking hand How did you get it? I was coming out of Snyder's about three hours ago You know right next door to the cafe Ross Amato and in front of the Ross Amato was a girl who seemed to want to get into a taxi Pieces of that gangsters glasses if you don't believe me What did the girl look like? She had the kind of eyes you could look into and get a moving picture of paradise That's for this hand. Well, I'll wear it to my grave a souvenir of her I'll pardon me. I beg your pardon Couldn't you let me have a quarter sir. I need more Ink to finish mr. Claverings work By sure here Get yourself a bucket full. Oh Thanks, thanks awfully sir. Thank you There's your human interest That old fellow used to be a professor of languages in one of our big universities Until drink got him down Now he makes a living translating for mr. Clevering Clevering with the Clevering You mean little Nemo I Mean the man that writes the famous crime stories. Yes. Yes. I know our paper runs his stuff We call him little Nemo. He's full of theories about catching criminals, but they're all the wrong thing He always connects when it comes to helping people and your little Nemo Just about supports the neighborhood house. Well, well, well, where's that stenographer you promised me? Where's that snogger for you said you'd have her here. Oh, mr. Christopher Where's that stenographer you promised me to take my stories from dictation? This girl's got to live in my house be ready when the inspiration moves me sometimes she won't get out for a week and do it myself that hand That I bad liver fresh I Think our miss Taylor would suit you. She's been with us on and off for a year Huh, I'll go see if she feels strong enough to see you strong enough. Has she been sick? I Don't want a nailing woman. I had one Every time I'd come to an exciting place in my dictation. She'd have to stop take a pill. Well, I'll let her know you're here There looks hard work no time off very little sleep I never sleep My mother never slept my father never slept. How could they with you on their minds? Maybe you're right. Yeah, sweet Very sweet. Are you fond of flowers? Not in the least But I am interested in all odors a well-trained nose is an absolute essential to a criminologist I can smell a reporter a mile off free Or do this every hour keeps the blood in circulation Merch is the brain the next act on the bill will be wild willy-clavering weaned on a pickle You know what I'm gonna do with you I'm gonna make you the comic relief and my new story the one I'm writing about the Morton Margaret You're in one paragraph He ain't funny, so we throw you out. Well, well Do you mean you've already got a theory on the Morton murder? Morton my eye Morton's American name But did you ever hear of an American wearing earrings? I examined the lobes of his ears and there So faint you could hardly see them for the marks of old earring holes What do you think of that your first cup? Nothing that man was a South European traveling under an alias that importing business of his is a blind Who's racketeer of some sort? gangster Listen in my new story I'm going to make him the head of schemer Marko's gang. I Tell you the Marko gang was mixed up in this Morton murder and the key to it all Lies in the cafe Rosamano Cappy Rosamano, that's the very place where say what's the Rosamano got to do with a Morton murder? Yeah There were two phones in Morton's room a house phone on the wall And the private phone on the desk The private phone was found on the floor Why I ask you why I'll bite why Because Morton Dropped it there and he dropped it because he was stabbed in the act of using it took me to think of that me Little Nemo Great little Nemo. I checked with Central. I found that at 5 30 the very hour of his death Morton called the Rosamano on that private phone That message to the Rosamano was the cause of Morton's death Well, I'll be a that's not all you'll be my half you deserve to be What's the matter with your hand? Begins to look like a bunch of bananas doesn't it? Hey Christopher Do something for this poor boy take him into the dispensary Put him in on a key Give him a dose of salt What are you here for anyway? Come on sir this way Thanks pop. Don't thank me. I wouldn't let even a worm suffer Miss Taylor will see you mr. Clevering. She's across the hall in the latest reception room. Oh, she's a lady. Is she too bad too bad? No, not really. I don't think I'm gonna like her Chelsea 6 8 8 7 Hello. Hello. Is that you uncle Mark? Is the Margaret any word from Victor? A letter addressed to me. How did the letter come by messenger? Well, get it to me at once. I'm at the neighborhood house on Revingdon Street Better bring it yourself Have you read the evening world? Yes, it's true. I can't explain to you now. I'll tell you when you get here. Who are you? I? Think I'm your friend, but I'm not quite sure yet. What do you mean? I don't understand you Oh, yes, you do You're the girl that killed that man at the Beaumont. Oh, how crazily absurd Why just get in from from Chicago this evening? Oh, no, you didn't you were outside the Rossumano at 545. Oh Well, I have a little souvenir of our meeting. I helped you once and I want to keep on helping you I've got a hunch that you need help pretty bad hadn't you better trust me I Never was inside the Beaumont. I never killed anybody I'm not the stenographer there. You've said it yourself. You're Morton's missing stenographer. Oh I didn't do it. I didn't do it The police would like to find you wouldn't they the police? Oh What are you going to do? What are you going to do? I want to tip the police off. Oh, unless you'll tell me all about it Will you? Well, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Oh, well. Hello Oh No, no, no, don't don't get me up. I'll I'll tell you go here here here. Come now come sit down and tell me all about it I didn't mean to kill him Don't lose your nerve. You'll need it. I Believe I can trust you about the best thing you can do Now tell me who was that man that grabbed you outside the Rossumano? Well, one of the gang Marcos gang are you one of them? I want of them I've been fighting them for four years You find them? Yes with every bit of our strength my brother and I my brother Victor Holt The assistant district attorney at the stage in the vice crusade I'm his sister Margaret Holt Say what does he mean by letting a girl like you mix in a fight of this kind? Oh, he couldn't keep me out His fight isn't my fight We've got to get scheme of Marcos gang because it's narcotics they pedal and I've seen them working to that gang with my own eyes I've seen little girls drugged in filthy joints Boy to beat their own mothers to get money to buy the stuff the men and women that do things Or even savages couldn't do I couldn't speak of Things I don't want to remember Well there there I've seen the agony in the delirium of when the stuff has stopped and the last days of all when When the poor body's broken And nothing's left but this Poor aching brain suffers Can't sleep That's what that gang stands for. That's why I made my brothers. Let me join in the fight Somebody had to get close to Marco himself After months and months I finally got in as his personal secretary his private sonographer You mean that Morton was schema Marco himself the head of the dope gang. Oh sure that important business was just a blind You plucky little kid Gee you'd have been safer than that's a rattlesnake. Well, no matter. I cut the evidence on him But there was a list a complete list of all the members of that gang and I had to have that list I Couldn't find out where it kept it hidden not until the day when Why mr. Morton you came back. I had a hunch miss Hatfield I Felt I should find you here always so Busy with my affairs why I stayed behind to finish those letters. Mm-hmm You're such a good little worker. I think I shall never be able to let you go Thank You mr. Morton Well good night Wait miss Hatfield. Are you handy with tools? tools Yes, I see that the edge of the carpet has become untact Now if you have a screwdriver a hammer, I'll speak of the made about it first thing in the morning, please Yes, sir. Good night. Just a minute. Why are you in such a hurry? Why not? I'm not at all. Good Will you look up a number for me? The name is previous love Stanley P Yes, sir Will you please open that door? I'm afraid that Victor Holt will have to wait for my little envelope that you stole for him But who's Victor Holt? Will your employer miss Hatfield our famous assistant district attorney? Wait just a minute There's a great deal. You'll have to tell me later when we really get the talking First I'll tell you something about Victor Holt Just now. He's at the cafe Rosamano. Oh, so you know that name, huh? Well, I guess we'll call the Rosamano Hello, give me Grammys is seven nine eight oh please Victor Holt thinks he's trailing my friends, but it's my friends that are trailing him. I don't know any Victor Holt No Hello Rosamano Will you kindly ask mr. Miller to take this call? Oh So you know my good friend Miller When he comes to the phone I'll tell him that poor dear Aunt Louisa is failing fast It means that my friends will take Victor Holt for a ride. Oh, no But why you don't know any Victor Holt? He is nothing to you You should worry with my brother my very own brother. You do what you like with me, but you shan't touch him. I Shall not forget you Presently and this thing is settled Hello. Hello. Is that you Miller? No Shut up. Hello Miller. Oh No, everything is Jake only I just had a little bit of sad news Yeah, you know poor Aunt Louisa Aunt Louisa, I can't hear you. Hello Hello bird I'm dying She got me. Oh, I had to do it. I had to do it. It was his life or my brother's and your life kid You haven't thought of that maybe. Oh, I had to get to my brother. That's all I could think of I Went down the fire escape got a taxi to the Rosamano and then And then you came. Oh, are you going to give me up? Give you up See, I've been looking for you all my life Well, I guess I can trust you Don't look at me with those eyes Was this oh a friend of Victor's the friend of mine the easiest thing I do have you got the letter That's right here Dear Miss Holt you took a sealed envelope away from Morton's room Put that envelope with a seal on broken in the book on the last seat right-hand side St. Anne's church before 10 tonight if you do as told your brother is saying so long as you don't open your mouth But if you bring the police into this Victor Holt goes for a ride. What are we to do? Well, here's their envelope do just as they say and don't try to trap or trace them Will you what's to prevent those crooks from bumping your brother off as soon as they get back their list? Because I know too much about them and they know I go straight to the police But weren't for the hope of saving Victor. How are you going to save him without police help or anything? We have to find out first what they've taken him or the winebergs most likely wherever that is Who's Weinberg the man I grabbed hold of the one with the glasses glasses Hold everything. I've got a clue Look here all this left of mr. Winey's glasses You ever see any as thick as that it's a freak prescription I'll call on all the optician shops when I find a prescription I may find an address that has mr. Winey at the other end of it and when I do that's where we'll find your Brother Victor that's a mighty slim clue and it'll take days well until we can get a better one it'll have to do Hello Yes, yes, this is the neighborhood house Sure, come on over and bring your knitting You know about that police captain McLeod Yes coming over nice and friendly to he has a hunch that the neighborhood house may know something about Mary Hatfield They get so many girls in here. Oh, please get hold of me I'll have to tell all I know about Morton and Victor's life won't be worth a whisper Yes, and if the Marco gang get a hold of you, it'll be all over with you both It'll finish you and your brother and do away with all the evidence against themselves now come on and get on your bonnet and don't walk run We'll have to keep that girl in a safe by the box so we can get our hands on Victor. Where in the world can she hide? Come on have hysterics. Yeah, I'll send you to the old woman's home Have hysterics have more of it when they tried to hand me took one peek at me and throw a fit Oh you just born unlucky got an inspiration got to get to work must have a stenographer need some help oh So you want a stenographer You're not meant for the giant You haven't answered my question. What question? Who are you? Who are you? I won't tell you Hey, all First-class stenographer never wants to sleep never wants to leave the house just wants to work 10 hours 12 hours 16 hours 24 hours 30 hours a day mind you shut up. I'll do my own talking. Do you want this job? Yes, sir. Yeah, well come on. Come on. I'll make the wages right. I'll make the wages, right It's all Jake he lives like a hermit nobody level finds you in his house. I'll keep in touch with you. I'm calm Hurry up. Oh say something. I forgot. Have you got a fella? Oh, what a fella a sweetheart Some poor sapper want to come calling on you and interrupt my dictation. Oh, no, I haven't any sweetheart. Good good It's great. How do you know? Don't stop me McLeod heaven. I've been telling you these ten years my time is important. Oh wait. No, man. Dear we get for once How if I said I got the woman that killed Morton? No, here's your gloves miss Yes, I got that woman right under my hands All I want now is to locate that headfield girl the stenographer so she can identify her identify who? Hello Jack Howell We want the headfield girl to identify the foreign woman that called on Morton. We've got her under arrest She's the one that did the murder that foreign woman never touched him I hope she shows you for defamation of character. There you go little Nemo the crime detector always hands me a lap That's not all I could hand you if I chose you big gorilla I could hand you the true story of the Kong at the top of your voice Couldn't worry Donna might have food. Oh run out and get the air moon two weeks You've been here sticking in the house the whole in doing time that old devil's are working you too hard Lordy, who is that now? I can't let that young man in the pole marker and out of the dark came a ghostly sweet Don't you go calling me out of my name buckry boy and don't you just remember this when master clavin come You tell him you don't force your way in here over my dead body. Take me away from this place I can't go on I can't go on steady steady. Oh that awful old man. He's making me write down my own story He gets everything so far. Oh, he's just a good guess of that soul I know but now he's down to the actual murder. He'll find me out. No, he won't know he won't Find me out. No, I don't do that. Don't do that. I've located your brother. You mean you've located Weinberg Yep, I found the shop where those thick glasses were made up just this afternoon. I ran across that freak prescription But it wasn't under the name of Weinberg There wasn't an overjack for you in an old house up a court not a half a mile from here And you think they've got Victor hidden in that house. That's what I've got to find out Well, how would you manage when you see it just happened to happen that the water main that serves that house Went on a blink about an hour ago. Oh Jack you did that. Oh, you're wonderful. Why should I contradict you? Your uncle Mark and I are going into that house as men from the water department. You're going to get Victor out We've got to locate him first and you keep your pretty little fingers crossed. You may have some good news in an hour or so Oh, Jack, are you going into that house now? Right this red hot second. Oh Jack. Don't go into that house Don't try it. I can't let you I won't let you Gee, do I mean that much to you? I guess you do Well, don't you worry if I mean all that to you I'll come out of that house and the whole Marco gang can't stop me I'll come back to you and your brother with me. Oh come back to me Well, that's mr. Clevering. I'm scared to death. I'll keep your nerves. It won't be long now. Oh, I hate the cold I hate the cold Oh you how'd you get my house? I told that black assassin not to let anyone in now Don't get excited old timer. I'll get out or I send for the dog catcher Goodbye my dear. Oh, be careful. Oh, do be careful if you shouldn't come back. No, no, it'll be all right Lily gagging a I tell you I won't have any Lily gagging at my house You get to work You get out. I just stopped in to ask you whether you'd have another installment of your story ready for our paper tomorrow fix I won't if you keep on interrupting me this way 23 26 28 30 How can I finish my story with all these interruptions? Got a new train of thought on my walk That pup knocked it out of my head Martha Martha come in and get here You call me sir. No, you're wet. I was doing vocal exercises Now listen that pin-handed reporter. What did you let him in here for? Well, I surely didn't let him in boss. He just come in Fabricator for honey. You done spring you can cut it out. Get the king cut of it Higher higher. You're not dead now. Oh, yeah, that's it. That's it. Yeah. No, that's it They're not honey rest your pole back You better honey say who told you to come rubbing my back to turn the fishes Where's my pipe? Gotta get the word where's my pipe? I don't see that old pipe stop scratching your head. You couldn't reach your brain with a steam shovel Now where have you gone and hit that pipe? Smell a little bit of the shame with skunk Smoking in the park and all the little boys gonna drop the deal Stop mumbling if you have anything to say speak up like a man. Yeah, sir Don't shout at me you squid that jibbering jabbering reporter in here Sonographer I just found the paper hidden under the carpet Mr. Clevering whatever made you think of such a thing. I discovered that three tax has been pulled out of the carpet in Martin's room And the dust no Lee disturbed Something had been hidden there and taken out. Oh, but why a paper? They couldn't have hidden the limousine there. Could they now we come to chapter 10 Head it the murder for one tense moment They faced each other You were sent here to spy on me. He said who sent you Let's see you find out. She defied him That's what I mean to do. He threatened he will talk my lady when the gang get there He caught up a telephone on the desk to summon but it wasn't a summon. How do you know? Are you writing this story or am I? Well, I get so interested. I keep trying to figure out the plot I suppose so He caught up a telephone on the desk to summon his henchman Quick he cried Give me the cafe Rosameno kept and desperate the girl looked about her and There on a table. She saw the gleam of a stiletto look of murderous purpose came into her brown eyes What makes you think their eyes were brown had to be brown Black eyed and grey eyed people are nervous. This girl was as cool as a cucumber Blue eyed people are slow thinkers This girl's mind was as smart as a trap is just like yours like mine much like you Same eyes same height Well, how did you ever figure that out? Why she had to be the same height in order to strike the mortal blow from the angle she did Morton was standing near the phone He was stabbed in the left side He must have been standing with his right side to the table like this. Oh, yes. Where were we? Oh, come here Take this paper knife. Go on take it. Now you're the girl and I'm Morton. Now. Where would you stab me? Go on stab me Why don't now what is it now? What's the matter now? Will you make it all so real? Of course I do. That's why my books sell now. Don't go fainting on me I won't stand for it. I haven't got time to waste. Now get this down Without a moment's hesitation She sees the stiletto punch it into his villainous heart Oh thank heaven. Now. What's the matter? The doorbell rang Bell rang it deep into his villainous heart Shall I go see who it is sit down shut up. How is it I must be interrupted this way? She plunged it into his villainous heart That's not his heart Where was I? Yeah, it's it into his villainous heart No, I can't dictate with this rowing. I can't even think What is it you want you saber-toed chimpanzee my whole day choke you what is it? When you read the office show yeah You go to your room and rest I have a little chore to do you can get ten minutes sleep here quick about it When we come back We do two more chapters, huh two little chapters open the window fresh air won't hurt you believe James Morton I wonder what she wants No, sir. Sorry. Oh, well sit down sit down. No time to waste. Let's get down to brass tacks It is a great honor that you receive me in your house. Mr. Clevering quite so now tell me What relation was the murdered man of you my uncle? my good kind uncle Oh, mr. Clevering. I have read in the paper your story of the murder You could not write like that unless you know something You say so many things that are true. How do you know? Because I am the woman that call on mr. Morton just before he is murdered Well, you're the foreign woman the police arrest today They had to let me go and outrage was it not When it was the stenographer she killed him Got any proof? Listen Listen, I leave my uncle a little before five that afternoon and I leave that had feel girl alone with him I come back to meet my uncle about 5 30 I'm standing across the street from the hotel and I see that stenographer come down the fire escape. That's it. That's it That's why I'm going in my first chapter But then she jump in the taxi. I jump in another and follow she get out at Cafe Rosamano. Of course. Of course When she gets out she drop this purse. Yeah, I miss it little money negative Keep these maybe useful But then pretty soon. I hear the news boys calling about murder at the boom on Then I know this girl. She has killed my uncle Why come to all great nuts with your story? You know so much. I Am sure you find that stenographer very soon and when you do you tell us where she is and we give you $5,000 If I get some information, where can I reach you? Well Gramercy nine two six eight Ask for mr. Miller if I get some information I may call you in the meantime. I haven't done a stroke of work today come come It has been such a pleasure to meet such a man. Don't I know it? I come again when you send Then I thank you myself Goodbye Goodbye my dear you almost make me feel young again Almost almost Glad that young of the myth that boy got run me crazy yet blood hair brown eyes Medium height ready for you now wasted a lot of time already right new chapter Edit chapter 11 where escape she fled great next speed with no thought of Danger to herself with one purpose to get to the cafe cross a man. Oh Ready taxi Presently the Garris lights of the cafe. She had just missed him Like a frightened animal she fled up one street down another into the subway at last when she got out far downtown The boys were already crying extra all about the murder at the Beaumont at that moment. She saw a sign And neighborhood house Oh, you can't keep me here Murder James Martin. I'm gonna turn you over the police. Oh wait Yes, it's true. I did it. Of course you did it. Oh, but you don't know why I did it You don't know who I am. It doesn't matter Do you think I'll let you give me up now ruin everything now you listen to me. It is the last thing you do My name is Margaret Holt. I'm Victor Holt's sister Victor Holt sister You mean you're the sister of the missing district attorney. Yes, we've been fighting that Marco gang Quick Martha, let me in for the love of Pete. Oh, you go away here boy I can't let you in know how it's a matter of life and death. Oh that just it Old devil going to kill me for sure if I let you in here again. Oh Glory be to goodness woman. You've ruined my foot for life. Oh, how cool man Spice to a pulp All right, but to the best one The one I always put forward jail for this you jumping Jezebel look. I can't stand and I can't walk You fooling master how I'm wrecked for life. I can't walk and I can't work I've been sitting the gutter and bang take that bad, honey. I never did you any harm Let old Martha see your full foot Old woman, I'll catch you on my bus your head not your foot devil limp you Mr. Clevering now that you know the whole story you'll help me. Won't you you'll help me save my brother? Mix up in it. No, I won't I won't talk to this girl. Oh, it's all right. Mr. Clevering knows everything He's going to help us. I never said I would I'm gonna help you. I'll turn you over to the police proper ending to my story You seem to forget me in my story Listen, we'll give you a better ending to your story You'll leave the police out of this and stick with us and you'll be the white-haired boy that rescued Victor Holt Oh, have you found him? Have you found him? Yes, you're awful and I got into that house I told you we would and Victor's there we talked to him morse code tapping on those water pipes in the cellar Is the poor dear boy in any immediate danger? Yes, there are three men and a woman on guard if we can get rid of three of them. He can take care of himself You're right got to lure them out of the house. I can lower them watch me watch me. I'll lower them Where's my notebook? Where's my notebook? We have brains enough to find out if I had a telephone in that house. Sure. It's Grammarcy 9268 That's it. That's it the very number. She gave me that mealy mouth foreign. How's it now? I got an excuse to call them. I'll lower them all great not to lower them I'm gonna take you to get back to that house five minutes general when you see three of them come out three of them remember You go in you don't know what to do Okay, cut the slash. This is no love nest Bemos get out. Good at all. Call me spring three one hundred ask for that dummy Captain McLeod Well, don't stand there like an any spring three one hundred remember when you see three of them come out You go in hand them a jolt make his eyes pop out like grapes so you can hang your head on them Hello Captain McLeod just a minute. Oh you flat-footed bad boon your little playmate old grape nuts. Yeah, thank you clever Don't you how would you like the Marco gang delivered to you all wrapped up for me? Prop your ears open and listen And exactly Five minutes to nine house with four men Now understand no sooner. No later. He'll spell the bane You'll find my front door on lock Plant your men in the hall and you keep watch from the street when you're all set throw some pebbles at the window second floor front I mean pebbles not rocks When you see the lights go out brush the room If you're late, you'll have the pleasure of attending my funeral Goodbye you bad boon Where's my notebook? Where's my notebook now? Where's my notebook? What do you mean hiding my notebook that way sit down now? Don't don't fuss me Grammarcy nine two six eight regular's clockwork Just a little neem off the police don't gum it up. They will is this Grammarcy nine two six eight This is went through a play ring speaking and I want to speak to Miller. Oh, that's you Miller Well now listen, it's exactly 840 and you're here at my house in 10 minutes. I'll hand this to nog for over to you Listen bring me to strong with you I want her to identify the girl and bring another man. This girl's a dangerous character. You will have to take her by force Can't risk any slip up if you're not here in seven minutes the three of you You don't get the girl and the police do that's all. Goodbye What do you think of little Nemo now? Now, don't you worry little fella old El Fidel that won't let them get you No, sir. Now the shades on that window put them up way up way up. I'll get this into your cranium my way Your brain box woman this vacuum expecting some visitors in just six minutes When they come show them right up here and you go downstairs and unlock the front door and if you forget it I'm a dead man. Hallelujah Yes, and I'll come back and hit you till your bones stick through your skin. Yeah, I won't that claim now Don't forget this one too. I Think of everything That's why I'm good Well, what shall I do when they come you go to your room and keep quiet no matter what happened? Oh Mr. Clevering you will be careful, won't you you know, you're not young anymore, and you're up against a hard-boiled gang Don't I know it. Don't I know it all the more glory Headlines I can see him now Winthrop Clevering crime detector Sherlock Holmes post just a boy scout Watch me now watch what's that? They couldn't get here so soon They couldn't if they have I'm a cook goose Don't do that. We know they mustn't see you Let me look they've come in a racing car with the way ahead of time. What do we do? I'll recite gunga din at him be all right. McLeod doesn't feel me. How you going there? Oh Now you will be careful, won't you? Yes. Yes. I don't make any noise I'll stay here in stone for McLeod gets you of course what cloud couldn't be ahead of time No such luck sit down sit down be with you in a minute just looking for a book Excuse me, mr. Clevering We have only a little time Here it is Johnson's Anatomy did you ever study anatomy my dear you should? You'd make a very handsome skeleton my dear You know you have to know everything to be an author all sorts of queer books all kinds of queer people This is mr. Miller. How do you do? How do you do? I can see by your face What a good man you are and this is mr. Weinberg Weinberg oh I had a character by that name once in one of my stories. I Had him hang I like having him hang Mr. Clevering. We are in a very great hurry. Oh, yes, where are the stenographer isn't she here? Oh Good gracious. No, but you don't suppose I keep her here. Do you why I just soon have a wildcat She's a dangerous woman. Well, but you can take us to her of course of course Now what's in the world is the matter with mr. Weinberg You know you remind me of a character in one of my stories. He was a burglar He had cracking knuckle bones, too But they betrayed him in the end He was hanged And what did I do with that story? Let me see but interest you Be patient Some other time we hear the story. Yes. Yes, of course now you take us to that woman, please Oh, you know, I'd almost forgotten Yes, yes, well, I need an overcoat. Is it cold outside? Where's my thermometer? What did I do with my thermometer? Not as young as I used to be I Seem to grow older every year. What did I do with my galoshes? I Should have my galoshes. You're such a clever man. Give me pleasure to help you. Oh, thank you. Thank you my dear good girl nice good girl Well, well Already now That's it go right along now Oh one minute one minute something I forgot What is it now listen the money the money I have it. Let me see it. Let me see it Perhaps you want to count it right boy, right boy. That's what I mean to do one four five Six seven eight Nine are there any nine here ten No, it's all the seven eight nine Ten you're right. You're right Now what you are waiting for I want to be sure my dear there are no counterfeits. Oh the money is all right Look here you I have wasted all the time. I'm going to waste get me you take me to that girl or You got a gun in your pocket you will find out what I have got all right go on shoot me shoot me You can't find it without me the police will get her first. Then what do you do? What's that in the street brush? Lying beans against my window with my cane Cane say what you like gotta go down give them a good thrashing Clevering this is my brother mr. Hose can't help it and I want to thank you mr. Clevering don't bother I need your sister to finish my story. Come on. Let's work. Let's work. This will be the biggest chapter ever written Take your place from the home Turn on the lights in the hall get them down to hand