The Big Sleep Page #4

Little things like that make an...

Hello!

I hate to tell you, but that's

Geiger's car driving up.

Who's the man getting out?

Geiger's shadow.

His name's Carol Lundgren.

Thanks.

- If you ever want to buy a book...

- A Ben Hur, 1860?

With duplications.

So long.

So long, pal.

You're cute.

And you're higher than a kite.

Come on, wake up.

I know you. Doghouse Reilly.

You're cute.

What do you know about this?

Mr. Geiger, here on the floor.

He's cute too.

You got a dead man at your feet.

How did it happen?

You talk a lot, Reilly.

Come on!

Lie down there and be quiet.

All right, Reilly.

Come on, we're going.

- Good evening, sir.

- Good evening, Norris.

- I'd like to see General Sternwood.

- He's asleep.

What about Mrs. Rutledge?

Is she...?

Good evening, Mrs. Rutledge.

I've got your sister outside.

She's all right.

But she's not walking very well.

I'll need some help.

Are you sure...?

Yes, she'll be all right

in the morning.

Did you do this?

That? Oh, yes, that's

a little special service...

...I always provide all my clients.

Including being insolent.

Where did you find her?

- I didn't find her.

- Then how...?

I haven't been here, and

she hasn't been out all evening.

That bad?

Just what did happen?

- You're fond of your sister.

- Yes, I am.

- Do anything for her, wouldn't you?

- Anything.

Then drop this.

I still think I should know...

Don't even ask her.

She never remembers, anyway.

Just what did she forget

about Shawn Regan?

What'd she tell you?

Not half as much as you did.

Take it easy.

I don't slap so good around

this time of the evening.

You go too far, Marlowe.

Harsh words to throw at a man...

...when he's walking out

of your bedroom.

Good night, Mrs. Rutledge.

Thanks, Norris.

I've put her car away.

If anybody asks,

she's been in all evening.

- Forget about my being here.

- I understand.

May I call a cab?

It'd be better if you didn't.

Good night.

- Hello, Bernie. Come in.

- Hello, Phil.

Don't you go to bed?

What you been doing?

Just sitting around.

All evening?

What is it?

Does it have to be something?

You're a friend, but when

a man from Homicide...

...just drops in at 2 A.M.,

I kind of...

Working on cipher, huh?

Just fooling around.

You're working for

the Sternwoods, aren't you?

Thanks to you.

Done anything for them yet?

I started today.

Then the rain came.

All right. They seem to be

a family that things happen to.

There's a Packard

belonging to them...

...washing around in the surf

off Lido Pier.

And there's a guy in it.

- Could it be Regan?

- Who?

Shawn Regan.

That Irish ex-legger

old Sternwood hired...

...to do his drinking for him?

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