A Cry in the Night Page #3

Give me Ogalty on communications!

Right!

Communications to Ogalty!

Vince!

Bates!

The whole nurgent on that new convertible.

What do you got?

Vince!

That guys got my kid!

Dont let him get away.

Were throwing a bock on all the exits out of the city as for as 101 and 395.

Both north and south!

Now we can handle those ourselves.

But on US 80 and State 94 the only checkpoints are in the county.

Is the sheriff cooperating? 100 %!

Dont worry Dan!

Theres no loophole on this one.

Thanks Vince!

Thanks!

Dan! Go home!

Im Staying!

This is the only thing rolling tonight!

If anything breaks Ill give you a yell.

And if I can only get my hands on him just once.

Will you go home?

Helen shouldnt be alone!

She isnt alone! Shes got Madge!

Dan! Maybe Madge isnt enough tonight!

Im staying!

What is that!

What is it?

Nothing!

Its just a dog!

A little dog!

Its dead!

It was crying!

It wouldnt stop crying!

It cried all last night I.

I had to make it stop crying!

Youre crying!

Why are you crying!

Stay away form me!

Dont come near me!

I wont hurt you!

You hurt Owen!

I uh!

I didnt mean to hurt him.

I dont mean to hurt anybody!

What did you call what you did to that dog.

But it was crying!

It was making all kind of noise.

Id.didnt want it to make trouble for me!

LET ME GO!

LET ME GO!

Dont scream!

I dont like people who scream.

If I take my hand away, will you promise nod to scream?

Thats better isnt it?

Youre nice!

Ill get rid of the dog and it wont bother you anymore.

Alright!

And now..Now you can let me go!

I cant let you go!

Youll tell the police what I did to that boy.

Youll get me in trouble.

No!

No I wont!

I promise I wont!

Ill take the dog away! It wont be so bad if I take the dog away!

Poor little puppy!

Captain Bates!

Ogalty captain!

We found the car!

Where?

In galley at the bottom of the of loop about a dozen feet off the road.

What about the girl!

There was another set of tire tracks.

The guy mustve had a car stashed away in the bushes.

You know what!

Tell the boys Vince!

Hands off until we get there.

This is it!

This is your car!

Yeah!

Pretty thin tracks!

Yeah!

He mustve been driving a pretty war wreck with those narrow tires!

Hey Dan!

Look at this!

Yeah!

It looks like one wheel had an oversized tire!

Yeah!

Well get the lad to work on that and get a plaster impression!

The lab wont be opened by tomorrow morning by then.

Well stick with it Dan!

Well find him!

Yeah!

Sure!

I got rid of the dog!

You dont have cry anymore.

Theyll never find us!

Im the only one who knows about this place.

Wait!

I have something for you!

Something I think youll like.

Now dont you try anything!

Owen! Owen!

Daddy!

Daddy!

Daddy!

HELP!!!

Youre screaming no one will here you!

HEEEEELLLLP!

I told you not to try anything!

Stay away form me!

Dont come near me!

Look!

I brought you something, a little present.

Dont you even want to see what it is?

No I dont!

I dont care!

All I want is for you to let me go!

Youre nice! So soft and nice!

Here!

Look what I brought you!

Go on!

See whats inside!

SEE WHATS INSIDE!

Look!

Whats the matter!

Do you think its going to hurt you?

That I dont want to have anything to do with it.

Its pretty!

Its pretty!

Dont you think its pretty, and its just your size.

Maybe its a little too long.

I always wanted to give a girl a present.

Something nice!

Something shed really like!

My mother!

She must know about this!

Youre mother!

She doesnt want me to give presents to anyone.

She wants everything for herself.

Youre Crazy!

YOURE CRAZY!

Dont you call me that!

I dont like anyone to call me that.

Look!

Wake up will you?

I didnt do anything.

I didnt shot now wake up.

I dont want any trouble.

That boy gave me trouble.

The little dog, I dont want more trouble.

Wake up will you?

Come on Wake up!

WAKE UP!!!

Will you wake up?

Operator can you connect me to the police department?

Jenson Central pricing!

Oh Im so worried officer.

I hope Im doing the right thing.

Well, whats your trouble lady?

My son Harold isnt home yet and hes always home at this hour of the night.

You think somethings happened to him. Well I dont know!

I worry about him all the time and trey very hard to make him a good home for him.

Well what do you wanna do lady, file a missing persons report?

Well Im not sure officer, its just that there isnt any cake or pie in the house and is such a good boy the sweetest darling in the world.

Do wanna give us a physical description on baby?

Physical description!

Well, I think hes a very nice handsome boy.

But thats because Im his mother and Im very devoted to him.

Just his name, height, weight and color of his eyes lady.

Well baby has brown eyes.

The deepest softest eyes youve ever seen.

Height and Weight!

Well hes very tall; hes over 6 feet and he weighs at least 200 pounds.

Over 6 feet 200 pounds?!

Wait a minute!

How old is this baby?

Hell be 32 on the 19th.

32?!

What did you say his name is?

Harold!

Harold Loftus!

Harold Loftus!

Phone number!

Adams-3-1-7-6!

Officer, its just that I cant get to sleep without a piece of that apricot pie and Harold is always home by this hour.

Sure lady!

Now look!

If baby doesnt show pretty soon, why call us again huh!

Hes probably just spending a little extra time saying goodbye to his girlfriend.

Not my Harold!

Hes not that kind!

Sam Patrick here yet?

Yeah!

Hes inside waiting!

Any luck captain?

Hows the call feed coming?

Ah the usual!

Fathers calling them about their runaway daughters, old ladies getting from bingo parties.

Same as very night!

Communications!

Hi Vince, Jensen!

Gotta new entry for your M.P. roster.

A real big one!

Over 6 feet 200 pounds named Loftus.

Uh yeah Vince!

Harold Loftus!

Ah this is no schoolboy this baby is 32 years old.

Nuhuh!

No not his wife!

His mother!

Dan Im sorry!

Thank you for coming Sam!

But were in big trouble.

Nothing definite is going huh!

Not yet No!

Sam do you think this guy could be one of the boys in your file?

What?

Grab a cops kid?

What would be the percentage?

Well maybe he didnt that it was a cops kid.

My boys would know!

Are you the one that was with her?

Yeah! Hes the one he got slugged!

Sam here has a history of every hood and thief and psycho in town.

Lived with the vice squad for 20 years.

Just a job!

At nights I run electric trains with my grand children.

Sam show him the pictures.

Maybe he can spot something!

Dan!

Not one of my boys, not up on the loop.

Thats strictly for amateurs!

We havent had anything to go with on, show him the pictures.

Okay!

Here you are pick a winner!

Well, it happened so quickly, Im not.Im not certain on what he looked like!

Cmon!

Cmon!

Havent you caused enough trouble for one night?

Keep looking!

Captain!

I dont know if this means anything.

But this last missing persons report, I cant figure it.

Look!

What do you mean?

Well it was a dame,

and they way she kept going on about not getting her apricot pie on the way, her sonny boy always brought it home when he came home from work.

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