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and Diedrich yelling at each other

all the way upstairs.

They couldn't have.

I was in the next room

and I didn't hear anything.

Dan, if only you hadn't run away.

But that was my fault. It was the worst

possible advice.

But I thought...

That I did it?

Dan, it doesn't matter.

I don't care whether you killed him

or not.

Then you will help me?

You don't have to ask me that.

I love you.

I'll help you get away if it's

the last thing I ever do.

You really mean that?

With all my heart.

Danny.

Yes?

Could you hear what Marucci was saying

to me out in the hall?

Yes, some of it.

Why do you look at me like that?

Virginia.

Who? Virginia, yes, I heard that.

Whose apartment were you hiding in?

A friend of mine, I mean a girlfriend of

a friend of mine.

Her name's Virginia.

Oh.

She wasn't there. She was out of town.

He let me use her place.

That's that name over

the doorbell, Virginia Morrison.

Is that all she is to you? Just a

name over a doorbell?

That's all.

All right, Danny.

You ought to have

a good sock in the jaw.

Go ahead, sock me.

Danny, I'd go through

anything for you but...

Never lie to me.

Ruth.

I didn't kill Diedrich.

I couldn't have. I'm not a murderer.

The me that's inside

wouldn't let me kill anyone.

I gotta find out.

How?

I'm going up to New Jericho.

What?

Danny, you're crazy.

Sooner or later the police

are going to catch up with me.

I've got to find out what I can

before they do.

No, I won't let you.

-You're going to help me.

You said a minute ago,

you'd go through anything for me.

All right, prove it.

-But.

But Bill and Alma...

Don't you see they're trying to

pin this on you?

Why?

Well, you know why. Because

they'll inherit everything

if they can keep suspicion

away from themselves.

You mean one of them did it?

I don't know but...

Who else could it have been?

It was only you and me and the cook.

We'll find out whether

they did it or not.

Somewhere in that house

is the right answer.

And I'm going to find it.

We've got to find it.

I've just come from there and tomorrow

is my day off. What'll they say?

You'll have to think up something good.

What trains are there?

One at 9:
25 I think but...

9:
25

Danny.

That's the one we'll be on.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

OF:

JERICHO COUNTY:

I don't think I should answer that

question unless my attorney is present.

That's your privilege, Mr. Diedrich.

Bill, don't talk like a ninny.

After all, this is just an

informal little get together

to help me, as district attorney

of Jericho County,

tie up the loose ends of my report

to the grand jury.

I have nothing to add

to what I've already told you.

You ain't told us

very much, Mr. Diedrich.

For example, I'm still not quite sure

where you all were when

the crime occurred.

I was getting ready for bed.

Brushing your teeth and what not?

Exactly.

How long has it been your habit

to brush your teeth

in Mrs. Diedrich's private sitting room?

Look here, Stillwell!

-Bill!

Deposition of Ruth Dillon made

in part

Young Mr. Bill was with Mrs. Diedrich

in her upstairs sitting room.

They told me to go down to the bar

and mix two bourbon highballs as usual.

They also asked me to look and see

if Mr. Harry Diedrich was still

in the living room.

Now surely, Mr. Diedrich, in the light

of what you've just told me...

She's lying.

-That would be perjury, Mr. Diedrich.

That there is a sworn statement.

She'd do anything to protect Nearing.

She's crazy about him.

We've ample proof of that.

At the moment , though,

let us confine ourselves

to the situation in your home

as it existed

prior to you brother's murder.

The situation?

He means you and me, Bill.

Alma, you don't know what you're saying.

Oh, yes I do.

Bill and I have been in love with each

other for a long time, Mr. Stillwell.

Of course, it's all been

perfectly proper.

I was on the point of

discussing a divorce

arrangement with my husband when he...

He didn't know then.

Oh, no.

No, we've always been extremely careful

not to hurt him, I mean.

And yet, the day before he was killed,

he'd instructed his lawyer to draw up

a new will cutting you off

with a dollar.

I wonder why.

Of course he was dead before

the new will could be executed.

Poor Harry.

You're familiar, I suppose,

with the amount of the estate.

More or less.

More or less about $250,000.

Really!

Money, money, money.

The root of all evil.

Especially if you ain't got none.

What's that?

Oh, nothin', not a dern thing. I was

just phlosiphisin' at myself.

Tell me, Mrs. Diedrich, have you ever

discussed this matter with

your late husband's brother?

You don't have to answer

that question, Alma.

I don't intend to.

I think you're rather exceeding your

authority at this point, Mr. Stillwell.

We're not in court, please remember.

You misinterpret my question,

Mrs. Diedrich.

Do I?

Perhaps from now on, you better

address your questions to our attorney.

Definitely.

As you wish.

And thank you so much for coming.

Hello, Joe. I thought you were staying

down at the city tonight.

They're just the people I want to see.

It's very late and I'm very tired.

There's a couple of questions I want to

ask you about your maid, Ruth Dillon.

Mrs. Diedrich and her brother-in-law

have just declined

to answer any further questions.

Except through their lawyer.

This is her night off, isn't it?

She's supposed to be in town?

I just saw her down at the station

getting off the 9:25.

Any idea why she'd be coming back?

Not in the least.

-Good night, Mr. Marucci.

I still say that dame ought to be picked

up and held as a material witness.

No.

Mrs. Diedrich maintains that if we allow

the girl to move about freely,

she might accidentally tip us off to

where Nearing is hiding out.

There's some logic in that.

You're the boss.

Got a gun up at the house?

-Yes.

Keep it handy.

And lock your bedroom door.

You mean there's apt to be trouble?

I hope so. Quick and plentiful.

I'm getting sick and tired

of the way this case is being run.

If that will be all.

Yes, until I can get in touch

with your lawyer.

Good night.

-Good night.

When the Dillon dame got off the train,

she caught a ride to the Diedrich house

on a truck.

So what?

So I'd like to find out if she finished

the ride alone or

if she picked up somebody further on.

It's all right. They're out.

Where do you think they are?

You know them when they go out.

The country club or just park somewhere.

Having a little talk about life.

We've got lots of time.

-Let me see that light.

What now?

I just want to look around.

Now that we're here, what do you think

you're going to find for heaven's sake?

I don't know.

Now this would be

the living room, of course.

You ought to know

after all the months you worked here.

I get a little confused in the dark.

That doesn't make any more sense

than some of the other things

you've been saying.

Is this the front door?

-Yes.

That's where it's been

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