London After Midnight Page #6

TITLE:

"The signatures are the same!"

BACK TO SCENE:
Burke nods solemnly. "Yes."

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INT. MUSIC ROOM NIGHT MED. SHOT

The room is dark, except for a shaft of moonlight from the

window. In this moonlight, Lucy, pale and beautiful in a

white dress, stands looking out into the garden. Hibbs

enters to her. She does not turn for a moment. Hibbs stands

looking at her for a moment, worried. Then he speaks to her,

softly. She turns, startled. Then, seeing it is Hibbs, she

says:

TITLE:

"I thought I heard a voice calling

to me from the garden -- ever so

softly:
'Lucy--'"

BACK TO SCENE:
Hibbs stares at her for a moment, then turns

and looks out into the garden. He turns back to her,

closing the casement window and tells her:

TITLE:

"There s no one there --

You're nervous, dear--"

BACK TO SCENE:
He finishes title. She smiles wanly. "Yes,

I'm nervous." He turns and starts to close the windows.

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INT. LIBRARY NIGHT CLOSE SHOT

Sir James and Burke, as Sir James talks to him, earnestly.

Burke, with a cynical smile, interrupts, saying:

TITLE:

"You mean a ghost, Sir James?"

BACK TO SCENE:
Sir James shakes his head, solemnly. They

look at each other for a moment, then Sir James answers:

TITLE:

"Not a ghost, no! Worse than

that--"

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INT. LIBRARY NIGHT MED. SHOT

Sir James, finishes title, rises and takes down two or three

ancient looking books from the bookcases that line the

walls. He puts these on the desk, opens one of them, finds

a passage and shows it to Burke.

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INT. MUSIC ROOM NIGHT MED. SHOT

Hibbs and Lucy, as Hibbs turns on a light switch by the

door to hall and the room is flooded with light. They go

over and sit down on a settee, as he talks to her seriously.

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INT. LIBRARY NIGHT CLOSE SHOT

Sir James and Burke at desk, as Burke looks up from passage

he was reading and says:

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