The Bat Page #2
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Why not murder?
Too messy.
Dr. hynes:
Too great a risk?For half a million?
Yes.
I pinched a million
from the bank.
I'm not kidding.
I embezzled it.
Not that I think
you wouldn't do it
if you thought you
could get away with it.
I got away with it.
I'm not talking about currency.
I took negotiable
securities that
could be converted into cash.
I have the cash, in tens,
twenties, and hundreds.
I'm your doctor,
not your lawyer.
Why tell me this?
You'll find out why.
Who's going to take the
blame for the robbery?
Bailey, the cashier,l
I like Bailey.
Well, so do i. I love the guy.
I gave him his first chance.
Charming girl, I
was the best man.
Where's the million?
In my family's tomb in Zenith,
in the crypt with my father's
casket.
I don't buy that, John.
No?
No, you forget that
I had you in charge
when you were a very sick man,
when you raved in delirium.
And I heard you talk
about a hidden room.
Now, where else could
you put a hidden room
except in that
mansion you built,
that white elephant
you call the Oaks?
Look, everyone knows
I have a bad heart.
wired the bank directors
that my heart had failed, that
I had fallen from a great height
here in the woods, and that
You could ship the
body back for burial,
and instruct them not to open
the casket due to the condition
of its contents.
Well, you realize,
of course, that we'd
have to have a body to
put in that casket, which
means that we'd have to deal
with an undertaker at this end.
Of course.
But where do we get a body?
Couldn't we provide
one of our own?
How about Sam?
Sam?
Our guide?
Sam weighs about
as much as I do.
He's practically a hermit.
He wouldn't be missed
for a long time.
The local undertaker
would know him.
Dr. hynes:
Not if wemade him look as if he'd
been in a serious accident.
But if Bailey's going
to take the blame, why
do you have to do this?
In that case, I'd be
a logical suspect.
I could disappear, of course.
But it's safer if
they think I'm dead.
What if I don't
go for this deal?
In that case, it
would be two bad.
You mean you'd kill me?
What else could I do?
Now that I've told
you about the million.
I'd say you were shot
in a hunting accident.
Now, look, doctor, it you
can find another body instead
of Sam's, it's
all right with me.
There's half a
million in it for you.
I'll do my best.
I smell smoke.
So do i. What's that noise?
Look, doctor!
The woods are on fire!
It's coming this way!
We've got to get out of here!
Out the back way!
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