Lady Killer Page #2

a few new wrinkles.

Cut me in on the profits. I'll guarantee

a thousand dollars a week for your take.

What do you say?

Smart little guy, ain't you?

I've been around.

Okay. It's a deal.

Swell.

Brother-in-law.

Who was that at the door, sis?

Oh, I beg your pardon.

I didn't know you had company.

Oh, that's all right.

I lost my purse

and this gentleman returned it to me.

- Oh, what did you say your name was?

- Rowland. J.B. Rowland.

- Mr. Rowland, my brother...

- Pleased to know you, sir.

How do you do? I'm glad to know you.

I've just been playing

nickel ante with friends.

More laughs than a barrel of monkeys.

All right, Pete, Smiley, Duke and Myra.

Pick it up. It's all yours.

Open one month

and we're doing all right.

Yeah, not a bad racket.

And we got a perfect cover-up too.

Lucky day for you

when you dropped that purse.

It was lucky for all of us.

Well, kept my promise, didn't I?

Promised you a thousand

and got you 10. That's not bad.

It's all in knowing your stuff.

Gotta have ideas.

Think you could learn?

Right here.

Hey, Dan, you ought to see the dame

I just let in here.

She's covered with rocks

from head to foot.

- What's her name?

- Mrs. Wilbur Marley.

Marley? Marley?

Seems to me I read something about her.

You probably did.

Her husband died about a year ago...

...and left her six or seven skyscrapers

and a steamship company.

Yeah? Come here, take a gander at her.

Did you say gander?

I wonder how she'd go for a goose.

George, see about that young man.

I think he's hurt.

I saw the accident from down the street.

I'm Dr. Crane. Can I be of any assistance?

Well, I'm quite all right,

but that young man.

Oh, surely.

Don't touch him. Don't move him.

Let me see what we have here.

If there was only someplace

I could take him...

...where I could make

a more complete examination.

Well, this is my home. I'm Mrs. Marley.

- You can take him in there.

- Oh, that's fine. Thank you.

Will you help me? There. Come on.

Quiet, now. Easy.

Doctor, you're sure he'll be all right?

Well, he's pretty badly shaken up.

If he could remain here for a while

and rest, I'm sure he'll be all right.

I'll have him removed to a hospital later.

By all means.

Anything you think necessary.

This young man should be very grateful

to you, Mrs. Marley.

Not at all. It was very fortunate for him

that you came along.

Come, George.

And for goodness' sake, do be careful.

- Well, how did it go?

- Duck soup.

Dan's in the house

and Mrs. Marley's gone out.

- Great work, doc.

- Give us a cigarette, Myra.

- Okay, driver, step on it.

- Oh, boy.

I'll get it.

Hello.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I get you.

Okay. In 15 minutes.

Come on.

You tell Mrs. Marley

that everything's all right.

We're taking this man

to the hospital for an x-ray.

Yes, sir.

- Thank you for your trouble.

- Not at all, sir.

- Will you take these, sir?

- Oh, yes. Thank you.

Thanks.

- What's the dope? Let's have it.

- Here it is.

Right here's the living room.

There's the library.

A door here, and three windows here.

On the right side of the library

is a fireplace.

Over the fireplace is an oil painting of

some ape in a costume holding a sword.

And behind the oil painting

is the wall safe.

It couldn't be helped. The dame

started to yell. I had to knock her cold.

Sure, those things happen.

Nothing to worry about.

Plenty to worry about.

If that maid croaks, we're all sunk.

- Who knows about us?

- I suppose every cop is a dumbbell.

Nobody ever did a rap for murder.

Answer that, will you?

Oh, hello.

Go on with your game.

We're just looking around.

Say, isn't your name, uh, Quigley?

- Dan Quigley?

- Yeah.

Weren't you mixed up

in an auto accident...

...over in Roslyn, Long Island,

a few days ago?

- Uh-huh. But it didn't amount to much. -

The butler said they took you to a hospital.

No, I couldn't afford it.

Had the doctor take me home instead.

Is that so?

What was the doctor's name?

Oh...

I don't know, I never saw him before.

All I know was he charged me 10 bucks.

- Well, how do you feel now?

- All right.

Hmm. Funny thing, that house they carried

you into was robbed the same day...

...and the maid has a fractured skull.

- Oh, that's a shame.

A swell-looking gal too.

Well, uh, how about a little drink?

No, we just dropped in

to see how you were getting on.

- Don't get in any more accidents.

- Ha-ha.

I'll try not to.

Goodbye.

They don't know anything about us, huh?

They're getting ready to knock us off.

Easy. If they had anything on us,

they'd have made the pinch.

What's the matter,

are you getting yellow?

No...

...getting smart.

Well, what are you squawking about?

Pete, Smiley and I take the chances

while you wait...

...for something to happen, ladyfingers.

- Dan.

- Stop it, Dan. We've no time for that.

Hold it, Duke.

Let go.

Go to work on that guy. We need him.

Hot stuff is hard to get rid of.

Seventy-five hundred is the best I can do.

Oh, come on, Charlie, open up.

That ring alone's worth 10 grand.

- Sure, the paper said it was 12 carats.

- I'm taking an awful chance.

If the bulls hook me up

with you, I'm sunk.

- Ah...

Oh, come on, come on.

Take the 7500 and call it a deal.

Get rid of that stuff.

You're robbing us at that price,

but wrap it up.

All right.

There's your dough.

- Give me a buzz when you get more stuff.

- Yeah.

- Pete get back yet?

- No.

What's the matter?

You're shaking like a hophead.

- We gotta work fast. We're in a jam.

- What?

The district attorney's office

is bearing down on us.

- What for?

- Well, that butler we slugged...

...on the Crosby job croaked.

Murder, huh? You were warned before

to lay off that rough stuff.

- Now you put us all in a spot.

- Ah, lay off.

What's the use of arguing about it?

The DA's office has been sweating Pete.

Suppose he cracks?

Suppose he can't take it? Then what?

Then somebody goes to the electric chair,

and it won't be me.

Putting the finger on jewelry is one

thing, but bumping people off is another.

And I don't want any part of it.

I warned you before, and now I'm through.

This is the finish.

You gonna start crying again?

Every time anybody gets a tap on the head,

you wanna play Red Cross nurse.

Oh, shut up.

Say, maybe we all better

take a powder out of town.

Scram up to Montreal

and hide out in the woods for a while.

Hi.

What happened at the DA's office?

- Did you spill anything?

- No.

They didn't have a thing on me.

Asked me a few questions and let me go.

What do you mean, let you go?

Come on, spill it.

What questions did they ask you?

Well, you know, they said:

"What do you know about

knocking over that joint...

...and what do you know about

knocking over this joint?"

And I said, "I don't know a thing. "

- You're a liar, Pete. You're lying.

- No.

Honest, Duke, you got me wrong.

You rat.

They broke you.

You squealed to save your own neck.

- You put the rap on me.

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