Appointment with Danger Page #4

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Oh, no please.

You're going to be busy

with those men.

We can get a cab.

It's no trouble at all.

But I don't think we should...

oh, yes.

Taxi, taxi.

Sister.

Goodnight sister.

Goodnight, and thank you.

Hello Earl.

I think we're in trouble.

That nun's here in Gary.

Two minutes ago and

it's no accident.

Naples yes, Gary no.

She's here for a reason Earl.

Get a hold of Soderquist and

keep him undercover.

In the meantime, I'm gonna cut

this town open and find her.

I'm gonna find her Earl

before she finds me.

You know this town pretty well.

Why would a couple of gunsters

knock off Harry Gruber?

Say robbery.

For dough?

If you're a government cop, you

have to marry money to buy

a stick of gum.

And why did they strangle him?

Usually if you're a hood and

you knock somebody over you

beat it out town yourself.

You don't send a corpse.

But they did.

Why?

Could be because they

wanted to stay here.

Be interesting to have

Soderquist tell us.

Yes.

Yeah sharkey?

Where?

All right, all right. Shake

down the district and send some

men over to his apartment.

I want him in here.

You don't have to tell me.

Soderquist jumped the tail.

Any other time it's a cinch.

This time we draw a

near-sighted cop.

Now we gotta head him on.

How tight can you

seal this town?

Pretty tight.

O.K., lock it up.

Notify the state police and

check all the highways.

Without Soderquist we

haven't got a lead.

We'll have him hear in an hour.

If you want me I'll be

at the post office...

if it hasn't been stolen.

I've been postmaster

here 10 years.

And all that time I've never

known Gruber to do anything

but hit town and make

a routine check.

This time he suddenly became

interested in these three

truck drivers?

He sat here and brooded over

those files all afternoon.

You know, I think it has

something to do with a

transfer of money between

the two stations.

What two stations?

Here in town we have two

railroad stations.

On true shipments we have to

transfer stuff from one

station to another

by a mail truck.

Big shipments?

The one from Cleveland's

a Lulu.

One of these three men

always handle the run

between the two stations.

That's the last question

Gruber asked me.

He left here and six hours later

he was dead in Laporte.

I'll bet he called on this

guy first, Paul Ferrar.

Uh, one of the three drivers?

Says here he was offered a

better job but turned it down.

Now why would our friend Ferrar

turn down a $500 a year

raise to drive a truck.

I think he said he liked

to be outside.

For $500 worth?

Ha!

You know, I'd like to take

a look at this Ferrar.

Well, uh, he's on duty now.

Uh, I can get him up.

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