Star of Midnight Page #3

of $65,000.

What's that to you?

But you were given one check

alone for $120,000.

Actual total-gross income...

$970,000.

How many pennies

am I off the exact figure?

Radio is awfully loud.

I want it that way.

Oh.

Where did you pick up

that tax deal?

From the man

who paid you the $120,000.

The canceled check

is in my safety-deposit vault,

Where the police will find it

if anything happens to me.

That check

is six years old.

Why'd you hold out

till now?

I'm not a federal man.

How much do you want?

The letters.

There's lots of things we

don't like that we have to take.

The reason I'm alive today

Is because I'm smart enough

to know when to take it.

Here you are.

Thank you.

Good night.

Oh, wait a minute.

What about the check?

Oh, I'll keep that,

if you don't mind.

You can trust me.

It ain't exactly business,

is it?

Strictly business.

That check is the lock

That keeps the mantin matter

a closed book.

And we closed it

just in time.

I have to stop tennant

From printing a story

about you and the lady.

He's too nosy, that guy.

Maybe he ought to be

rubbed out.

Isn't that sort of thing,

uh, against the law?

Flash

from the news-radio bureau.

The prince theater tonight

was thrown into confusion

At the end of the first act

When Mary Smith,

the star of "midnight,"

Suddenly disappeared.

We will now return you to

Nick price and his orchestra.

Well, there's a story

for tennant.

The mysterious Mary Smith

disappeared,

Or kidnapped, maybe. What

do you know about that?

I don't know anything

about it!

Now, I was here all night,

and I can prove it!

My friend, the question

was purely academic.

Good night.

Sleep tight.

Swayne.

Swayne, I want a drink.

Swayne...

There's someone at the door.

"I'm very sorry, Mr. dalzell.

I'll attend to it immediately. "

Dal, I found her!

I found her!

Good.

But it's a worse mess than ever.

She's disappeared again.

My boy, you're not in love

with a girl.

You've fallen

for a card trick.

But you don't understand.

Alice is Mary Smith.

And you're mahatma Gandhi,

and there's the Brandy.

How's that? But she is, dal! She is!

I realized it the moment

she stood on the stage.

The minute I saw her,

I shouted, "Alice!"

That must have helped

the show along. She see you?

Well, she must have.

She got all upset.

She had to start her number

over again. No, thanks.

I waited till after the act was over,

and then I rushed backstage to see her.

She'd already gone, huh?

Yes. People were chasing

each other around...

Detectives, newspaperman.

Then someone spotted me

As the fella that had shouted,

"Alice," so I beat it.

Timothy, I can't work out

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