Another Thin Man Page #4

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- Yes.

Yes. He got out a month ago.

Been living down the road for 10 days.

- You think he really means to kill you?

- No.

I don't think he means to kill me. I know it.

Please, Father. He's only trying

to get it straight in his mind.

There's nothing to get straight.

The man means to kill me,

I'm asking Mr. Charles not to let him do it.

That's simple enough, isn't it?

- Even for Mr. Charles.

- No.

Col. MacFay? The swimming pool's on fire.

- What?

- Nickie.

Stay where you are!

One move out of you

and I'll blow your head right off your neck.

Kill him if he even bats an eye.

Tom, take that gun out of Mr. Charles' face

and stop bellowing.

Awfully glad to see you, Mr. Horn.

Ain't the right guy.

- What is it?

- It's the dog.

- Jesse?

- Yep.

- Dead?

- Yes. His throat's cut.

He was a swell dog.

This is gonna be tough on Lois.

- Find anything?

- Only them.

They don't look like nothing,

don't lead nowhere.

They're footprints, all right.

Our man had rags

wrapped around his feet.

You know a lot about them things, mister?

Yes. Back home I'm a Boy Scout.

- What's happened, Dudley? What is it?

- It's Jesse.

- He's been killed.

- No.

You'd better go back to the house.

- Why did they do an awful thing like that?

- Freddie, take her back.

Is this the kind of thing

that's been going on?

More or less.

Some of it's silly, but it's nasty, too.

What do you think is behind these tricks?

What's he up to?

Trying to scare the Colonel

into coming across with some money.

Could any of the people on the inside

be working with him?

I don't think so.

Servants aren't much good

but I imagine they're honest.

- Does MacFay really owe him anything?

- Not the way we look at it. You see...

his job was to get results...

without bothering the Colonel

with too many details.

We were trying to put over... Well,

call it a public utilities enterprise...

and some details were pretty illegal,

were traced as far Church.

- But not as far as the Colonel.

- Right.

In other words, if everything goes okay,

he gets the profits.

- lf not, Church goes to jail.

- That's about it.

And that's your job with the Colonel now?

Something like that.

How could they do

a horrible thing like that?

I've had him ever since he was puppy.

How do they get in here?

That's what I want to know.

How do they get in? Well?

I'm afraid the bathhouse

is badly damaged.

I don't care about bathhouses or dogs.

What are you going to do to protect me?

If they can get in here to do this,

they can do anything.

You've got to help me, Charles.

- Have you tried talking to Church?

- Yes, didn't do any good.

I used to work under him.

He thinks I had a hand in sending him up.

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