Appointment with Danger Page #2

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I have children to teach.

Sister, it's your job

to go down there.

Isn't there someone

else you could get?

Even if there were you

should know better.

Letting someone else do your job

is a design of the devil.

All right, I'll see

mother Joseph.

You're right about letting

someone else do your job.

It's not original sister,

merely a quote.

Well, whoever said it,

it was very true.

It's from the writings

of Martin Luther.

Oh.

From his earlier writings

I imagine.

I'll be there Mr. Goddard.

My, there's an ugly one.

Most of them are sister.

I suppose so.

But you wonder how when you

see them as small boys.

You wonder how they can

ever do anything bad.

But they usually do.

Here you are sister.

All right Joe.

I had a laugh a while ago.

She was looking at a picture

of that hammer murderer and

said, maybe he didn't get

the proper training.

Well maybe he didn't.

In a pig's eye, he

was a carpenter.

Mr. Goddard.

I think that's the man

I saw in the alley.

You're not quite sure?

Almost. If I could

see him in person.

George Soderquist.

The helpful one.

How's he read?

Hmm, nice pedigree.

Armed robbery 1938, armed

robbery 1939,

armed robbery 1941.

1940 must have

been a slow year.

Invasion of national service

act, 1942 convicted, released

April 1947.

Arrested drunk driving 1948.

Last known to be in

Gary, Indiana.

That turns into a big town.

I'll, uh I'll notify your boss.

While you're on the phone

call homicide at Gary.

Tell them to put a tail

on Soderquist.

Anything else?

Yeah, brief them on the

case until I get there.

Oh, and tell them I'm arranging

to have sister

Augustine report to Gary as

an identifying witness.

Oh, I don't know Mr. Goddard.

I'm afraid the church

authorities would frown on

such a thing.

Not if the matter's

murder sister.

I'll have Washington contact

the chancellery.

Very well.

But I don't think that I'm

going to be much help.

You identify him and I'll see

that he gets the chair.

Thank you.

Good evening, I'm

mother Ambrose.

My name's Goddard.

I have a letter from the bishop.

Sit down sister.

Is this Soderquist a friend

of yours sister?

No.

I picked him out of the mug book.

Mug book?

It's a phrase she picked up.

Will you be here long sister?

Until we can proffer charges

against Soderquist for murder.

Are you sure he's the murderer?

That's the way I'd vote.

He'll get a trail and everything

the law allows.

But not one drop of charity.

I'll have them set us up

a place for you sister.

You don't think very much

of me, do you sister?

I think much of everything

Mr. Goddard.

But I feel sorry for you.

I don't think you have a heart.

Call it muscle.

That's the way it is with a cop.

I don't believe it.

When a cop dies, they don't

list it as heart failure.

It's Charlie horse of the chest.

Thank you.

You Goddard?

Yeah.

I'm Dave Goodman,

local homicide.

Oh, how do you do?

Sister Augustine

I'm glad I caught you.

We got your boy Soderquist

staked out

at a downtown pool room.

It's fine.

We can't move until sister

Augustine identifies him.

Would you like to come

down and have a look?

How about it?

All right then.

Oh, mother Ambrose?

May we borrow sister Augustine

for a while?

Where will you be?

If the bishop or someone

should call.

Say I'll be back shortly.

I mean specifically, what

shall I tell them?

Just tell them I'm

down at the pool.

Sister.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That's the man.

The man with the coat on.

He's the one that spoke

to me in the alley.

George Soderquist. What

about the other one?

No, I've never seen him before.

It's a hoodlum hang out.

He may have a record.

Let's find out.

Have you got a tail

on Soderquist?

Sure.

Is that all.

For now.

I'll have to take you back

to St. Michael's.

Oh, no please.

You're going to be busy

with those men.

We can get a cab.

It's no trouble at all.

But I don't think we should...

oh, yes.

Taxi, taxi.

Sister.

Goodnight sister.

Goodnight, and thank you.

Hello Earl.

I think we're in trouble.

That nun's here in Gary.

Two minutes ago and

it's no accident.

Naples yes, Gary no.

She's here for a reason Earl.

Get a hold of Soderquist and

keep him undercover.

In the meantime, I'm gonna cut

this town open and find her.

I'm gonna find her Earl

before she finds me.

You know this town pretty well.

Why would a couple of gunsters

knock off Harry Gruber?

Say robbery.

For dough?

If you're a government cop, you

have to marry money to buy

a stick of gum.

And why did they strangle him?

Usually if you're a hood and

you knock somebody over you

beat it out town yourself.

You don't send a corpse.

But they did.

Why?

Could be because they

wanted to stay here.

Be interesting to have

Soderquist tell us.

Yes.

Yeah sharkey?

Where?

All right, all right. Shake

down the district and send some

men over to his apartment.

I want him in here.

You don't have to tell me.

Soderquist jumped the tail.

Any other time it's a cinch.

This time we draw a

near-sighted cop.

Now we gotta head him on.

How tight can you

seal this town?

Pretty tight.

O.K., lock it up.

Notify the state police and

check all the highways.

Without Soderquist we

haven't got a lead.

We'll have him hear in an hour.

If you want me I'll be

at the post office...

if it hasn't been stolen.

I've been postmaster

here 10 years.

And all that time I've never

known Gruber to do anything

but hit town and make

a routine check.

This time he suddenly became

interested in these three

truck drivers?

He sat here and brooded over

those files all afternoon.

You know, I think it has

something to do with a

transfer of money between

the two stations.

What two stations?

Here in town we have two

railroad stations.

On true shipments we have to

transfer stuff from one

station to another

by a mail truck.

Big shipments?

The one from Cleveland's

a Lulu.

One of these three men

always handle the run

between the two stations.

That's the last question

Gruber asked me.

He left here and six hours later

he was dead in Laporte.

I'll bet he called on this

guy first, Paul Ferrar.

Uh, one of the three drivers?

Says here he was offered a

better job but turned it down.

Now why would our friend Ferrar

turn down a $500 a year

raise to drive a truck.

I think he said he liked

to be outside.

For $500 worth?

Ha!

You know, I'd like to take

a look at this Ferrar.

Well, uh, he's on duty now.

Uh, I can get him up.

No, don't do that.

I just want a quick glimpse.

The next one

well, well.

Our first break.

That is the boy who walked out

of the pool room with George

Soderquist. That puts

Paul Ferrar in the act.

I better get Ahearn

back in town.

In the meantime, give

me a list of

all your money transfers.

Well there's nothing missing.

So Gruber wasn't killed because

he found some guy

stealing money.

Look, a cheat kills his wife

for one of two reasons.

Either she's caught him cheating

or she hasn't given

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