In a Lonely Place Page #5

I have, at that.

- Usually pay attention to neighbours?

- No.

Were you interested

because he's a celebrity?

Not at all. I noticed him

because he looked interesting.

I like his face.

I guess that will be all for now.

Goodbye, Miss Gray.

Goodbye, Capt. Lochner.

Oh, Barton?

Do attractive young women

often admire your face, Mr. Steele?

If they do, they aren't usually as

outspoken as Miss Gray. We finished?

Yes, for the time being.

Try to make it later next time.

Good luck. I'll call you, Brub.

No, I'll call you.

I'll see that Miss Gray gets home.

Thank you, but I always go home with

the man who brought me.

- I'll drive you back too.

- No, thanks. I'll walk.

I haven't been up this early in years.

How would you feel if you were brought

in for questioning at 5:00 a.m.?

Not good.

How would you feel if you were told

the girl you took home was murdered?

- I'd come apart at the seams.

- Yes, and people usually do.

Would you say Steele was

especially perturbed?

It's hard to tell how Dix feels about

anything. We never figured him out.

But he was a good officer

and his men liked him.

I like him too. I don't think

he killed Mildred Atkinson.

He's hiding something. I doubt if it's

the proverbial heart of gold.

- Say, do me a favour, will you, pal?

- Yes, sir?

I want to send two dozen white roses

to a girl.

- Yes, sir. Do you want to write a card?

- No, there's no card.

- The name's Mildred Atkinson.

- Yes, sir. What's her address?

I don't know.

Look it up in the papers.

She was murdered last night.

Yes, sir.

I shouldn't have left you last night.

I knew something was going to happen.

- You were in one of those moods.

- Yeah, you look awful.

- There's nothing wrong.

- Nothing wrong?

You should've heard

the 7:
00 news:

" Checkroom Beauty Murdered...

...Distinguished Screenwriter Takes

Hatcheck Girl Home to Tell Him Story."

- Dix!

- Could have happened to anybody.

But somehow

it always happens to you.

What did you tell the police?

- You know a girl named Laurel Gray?

- Dix, what did you tell the police?

Let's make a deal. Look her up

in the casting directory...

...l'll tell you

what I told the police.

Laurel Gray? Oh, that's the girl that's

been going around with Baker.

- She lives across the patio.

- The real estate Baker.

She also likes my face.

She wants a part.

I know a part she'd be good for.

Call Brody and tell him

I didn't read his book.

What for? When he finds out what's

happened he'll call it off anyway.

Asking a checkroom girl

to tell you the story.

You couldn't have insulted him more.

Tell him it was an ex cuse

for the police.

That's not bad.

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