The Monster of Piedras Blancas Page #3

I don't know Doc. There aren't

any leads from Winswept.

I haven't got one

thing to go on,

except two mangled corpses

and a busted up boat.

I wish I could say I thought it was an

accident, George, so you could close

the books, but it just doesn't add up.

You know,

there was something I didn't

mention to you in front of Kochek.

Oh, what was that?

Do you remember when I told you that

the heads were severed from the trunks,

almost as if by a surgeon's scalpel?

And yet the main arteries were

distended several inches.

It appeared as if something had been

attached to pump out the blood!

I don't understand

what you mean, Sam.

Generally, when a

person is killed

the heart stops pumping

almost immediately.

There's always some

blood left in the body.

You mean that there wasn't

any blood left in them?

Essentially none.

Sam, you don't think we've got a

monster on our hands, now do you?

No, no no, I don't.

I...I think that there's a logical

explanation that we just

haven't found yet.

But if I were you, I'd

ride herd on Kochek.

Rumors won't help now.

If you take my advice,

you'll lock the doors and

stay in the house tonight.

Thanks, Mrs. Wilson.

Don't forget what I said.

What can I do for

you, Constable?

You can do what

I asked you to.

I was only telling Mrs. Wilson

what I thought.

That's the trouble

with you,

you're always telling

people what you think.

No crime in that!

In the past no,

maybe not.

But this time you got

the whole town upset.

They got reason to be!

About the Rinaldi brothers, yes,

but not about some monster.

You know as

well as I do,

those two were not murdered

by any ordinary human.

I didn't say anything

about murder.

You giving out that bunk

about an accident?

Until I'm sure, that's

the official theory.

And you better

remember it.

Any 2 yr. old can tell

that was no accident!

You should look up the

history of this village.

Look, Kochek, I'm not

gonna argue with you.

Now, I'm ordering you

to stop the rumors.

And if you don't

stop spreading them

I'm going to lock you up

for attempting to incite riot.

You can't do that!

You try me.

What's the trouble?

Oh, I don't know why people

don't mind their own business.

- Who, Kochek?

- Yeah.

He's got the whole town

in a state of nerves.

He's a great talker.

I told him if he didn't quit it, I was

gonna have him thrown in jail.

You can't do that.

Oh, I know that, but I

don't think he does.

Come inside

for a minute

I want to talk to you.

Come on, have a cup of coffee.

That Kochek's an idiot!

If he'd spend half as much time

tending to business as he does

gossiping we'd be better off.

I ordered that cleaner

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