Chicago Deadline Page #3

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No, I'm just checking out what you know.

Are you?

Are you, really?

Your face is flushed, baby.

All right. I guess I had it coming to me.

I'm a little dizzy.

I don't get along very well with champagne.

And you shouldn't have looked at me like that.

Well, wait a minute.

Hi!

Have fun, kiddies. Don't mind me.

What's the matter?

That was Marcia Grantland.

Your girlfriend, remember?

Do you mind?

Who are you, Ed?

I'm a reporter.

Do you want to tell me about it?

You could come along with me.

Where?

Why not see where it takes you?

Hi-ho!

Come on, now, drink your coffee.

Don't you think a dash of brandy would make it

a bit more piquant?

Don't you think you'd better get sober first?

I have been misinformed about newspapermen.

Look, I want you with a clear head

and a working memory.

But I've told you everything I know.

I only met Rosita twice or three times at parties

a couple of years ago.

Come on, drink your coffee.

Well, anyway, as a reporter you're a dud.

Why, I could have gotten much more out of me.

The guy you asked for just came in.

Where?

At the end of the bar.

As a matter of fact you should be plying me with liquor

and roosting me up.

Spingler?

Yeah.

Did you hear about Rosita?

What about her?

She's dead.

Something?

No, thanks.

That's too bad. How?

T.B.

I'm from The Journal. We're trying to find somebody

who can tell us something about her.

Why?

So we can notify her family. They want to bury her.

I don't know her. But I'll take her to her funeral

if you keep me quiet.

I'll pick you up between nine and ten.

Ed, are all reporters this busy?

Or is it just those interested in dead people?

Ten thirty at the latest.

Then we'll try a little of that roosting up.

See you later, baby.

Yeah?

I wanna see Solly Wellman.

Who are you?

Why don't you stop?

Hello, Solly. I'm Adams from The Journal.

What do you want?

I want to find out where Rosita Jean D'Ur came from.

We'd like to send her home.

What have I got to do with that?

Well, you know her.

Who says so?

She does.

What did she say?

She said:
If anything happens to me,

get a hold of Solly. He'll know what to do.

Who did she say it to?

Me.

You're a liar.

How do you know?

Try again.

Okay, Solly, I'll level with you.

Rosita's dead. If you give us a lead and identify her...

she'll be buried and sent out of town.

The cops will forget about everything.

Otherwise, if she isn't identified and the body isn't claimed...

they're gonna keep looking.

What killed her?

Hemorrhage. T.B.

All alone?

Sure. There's no trouble about it there.

We'd just like to notify her folks.

She hasn't any folks.

If we were sure of that we'd quit.

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