The Gnome-Mobile Page #5

- He thinks that I'm nuts!

- Not "nuts, '"Mr. Mulroney

Just, shall we say, over fatigued

What is this, Ramsey?

Who are these fellas?

Uh, my assistants

- Would you come with me, please?

- Yarby, what have you done?

Yarby, you double-crosser I ought to

break you in a dozen pieces!

Let go of me, you thugs

Let go of me Yarby, you're fired!

Why are you doing this to me?

[Shouting, Indistinct]

[TV:
Gunshots, Shouting]

Don't you think it's about time

for bed, children?

We'll wait up for grandfather

Well, he's liable to be tied up

for a long time

[Phone Rings]

Hello Grandfather?

Oh It's for you

Thank you, Rodney

I'll take it in the bedroom

Wait just a minute

You can hang up now, Rodney

Thank you

[Whispering]

Rodney, that is not nice

Mr. Yarby, am I glad

to hear from you

- How are the children?

- Fine Only...

Well, I'm sure

they suspect something

Oh, I was afraid they might

Are you free to talk?

- Yes

- Well, uh

here's the way things

shape up from here

It's much worse

than we thought

D.J. got violent

- Oh, how awful

- He's going to be here for quite some time

Dr. Ramsey's fixed up a room

for me next to D.J.'s

So, if you want me for anything,

at least for the next couple of days

you can call me

at this number

Uh, Ramsey's Five Oaks

Klondike-5-3-1-1-1

Room 302 Got it?

- Got it

- Fine

Thank you, Mr. Yarby

Good-bye

Gee, it must be getting late

- I'm bushed

- Me too

Guess we might just

as well get to bed

That does sound like

a good idea, doesn't it?

- Good night

- Good night, Rodney

- Good night

- Good night, Elizabeth

They've got Grandfather locked up

They think he's nuts

But they can't Not grandfather

What are you doing?

We're going to rescue him

But we don't know

where this Five Oaks is

It's down the road

I saw it as we came in

Come on

- Do you really think we should?

- Sure Why not?

But you haven't got a license

Of course not

I'm too young to have a license

And what if you get caught?

Look, it's Grandfather's car,

isn't it?

And we're taking it

to him, aren't we?

And it is an emergency, isn't it?

[Engine Starts]

You'll have to help

Get down by the pedals

Push that one down

Now, let it up

Well, let's try another gear

[Gear Grinding]

Get ready to stop

Now

What are you taking those for?

To make sure that

I'm ready for anything

You stay here

Grandfather and I'll be back soon

How will you be able

to find Grandfather's room?

- I mean, you cant just ask

- I won't have to

I know it's on the third floor

I'll just listen

No one's got a snore like Grandfather

[Snoring Loudly]

[Mumbling]

How is he?

Is he all right?

Relax, Mr. Yarby

He's sleeping like a baby Listen

[Snoring]

[Door Opens, Shuts]

[Barking]

[Barking]

- Quiet, boy It's nothing

- [Barking]

[Snoring]

[Snoring]

[Snoring]

[Whispering]

Grandfather Psst

Grandfather

Grandfather

Rodney

Why, you little rascal

[Door Rattling]

[Snoring]

[Snoring Loudly]

[Snoring Continues]

I don't sound that bad, do I?

- Well, let's start snoring off this bar

- [Both Snoring]

[Snoring, Saw Grinding]

[Snoring, Grinding Continue]

There

[Snoring]

Now, then, in the old days

I used to bend a bar

twice this size

[Snoring]

I'll get it on the next exhale

It's not scary as long

as you don't look down

Young man, I was climbing trees and

topping them out before you were born

- This is the difficult part

- Won't worry an old high-climber like me

You just be very careful

Oh, sure

Timber!

[Crash]

Grandfather, you hurt?

Nope, son

It's the old Mulroney luck

Fall in a glasshouse and come up

smelling like a petunia

Let's get out of here

- [Alarm Blaring]

- What happened? What's wrong?

- He's gone

- D.J.! Oh, no!

- [Alarm Continues]

- Faster, Grandfather Faster

I'm going as fast as I can

There he is!

Come on!

After him, Duke

Up here in the tree!

Watch out, Grandfather!

Hurry, Grandfather

D.J., come back!

Come back!

Help me

You shouldn't have done it, D.J.

- Anybody on our tail?

- Nobody in sight, Grandfather

- [Elizabeth] What do we do now?

- Can't say, darling'

But one thing's for sure

Whatever it is, we do it alone

Sure can't count on

that Mulroney team

Next question is,

who could've seen the gnomes?

The desk clerk?

- I doubt it

- Maybe the bellboy

I know The fellow with

the fantastic freaks

Fantastic freaks?

He was in the lobby putting up posters

and he gave me these

Uh-huh

"Quaxton's Fantastic Freaks"

Highway 175

South of Homerville, huh?

Rodney, my boy, you've just hit on

a very possible possibility

[D. J]

Here it is

[Rodney]

It sure is a crummy-looking place

[Elizabeth]

Oh, I do hope they're all right

You two wait here

This shouldn't take long

Quaxton!

- Hold it, you

- What's happening', Char...

Breaking' and entering',

it looks like to me

- Breaking and entering?

- Look Five Oaks

Five Oaks? Ain't that some kind of

a nuthouse or something?

Mister, I'm perfectly sane,

and I can explain all this

Get on the phone, Etta Call the cops

I'll keep the loony covered

Wait a minute You tell me where I can

find this fella Quaxton, I'll be on my way

- Go on, Etta Call the cops

- Grab 'em, men!

Reach, mister

All right, you two I don't care

whether you believe me or not

- I want to know where this Quaxton is

- He's getting' violent

You doggone right I am

And there's no time to argue

- Two lives are at stake

- Two lives?

And I'm warning you, if you hold anything

back and anything happens to those two...

to those two lives... I'll see to it that

both of you are arrested as accomplices

Look, mister,

we only work for Quaxton

Oh, Etta,

you don't believe this loony?

Well, I don't know whether I do or not

But I'd believe almost anything

about Horatio Quaxton

- And that phone call

- Be quiet

- Quaxton's up to something, and you know it

- Be quiet

- What phone call?

- Oh, five, six hours ago

- He said to run things till he got back

- Etta!

- Got back from where?

- Well, his mountain cabin, probably

- I told you to keep quiet

- Mountain cabin? Where is it?

Oh, somewhere around Homerville

A little road called, uh, Old Willow

But-But we arent sure he's there,

mind you But he could be

Well, in case

we don't find him there

and you hear from him again

there's double that in it for you

[Car Starts]

Oh, Charlie, look!

"I owe you $5,000 D.J. Mulroney"

Huh! Told you he was tetched

[Chuckling]

Fill 'er up

Hold it a minute

How much money you kids got?

[Coins Jangling]

Thirty-five, thirty-six thirty-seven...

Thirty-nine cents

- How about you, Elizabeth?

- [Coins Jangling]

Um, a quarter and two nickels

Better make it two gallons

A man named Quaxton

has a cabin around here

- Do you know where it is?

- Nope

- Do you know him?

- Nope

Well, I know he has a place here

Well, that puts you one up on me,

don't it?

Well, how about the Old Willow Road?

Do you know where that is?

- Yep

- Well, where?

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