Wedding Present Page #10

awfully near.

Right on this block.

Excuse me!

Come on, let's see.

Are you out of your mind?

Rusty. Rusty, come back.

I insist.

Get back there.

What's happening?

I'll get you

a souvenir program.

But what's happening?

Get back.

Somebody threw an epileptic

fit, set fire to a house.

It's Fingy Costello. He set

fire to a house and shot a man.

They're surrounding him.

Get back

outside the fire lines.

Where's the fire?

There's no fire in 622.

But there must be a fire

somewhere.

Hey, where's the fire?

Search me.

Some other time.

What's the trouble?

I don't know yet.

You wanna come down

and help me find it?

Everybody is here.

No, no.

Hillview Hospital is late.

Here they come!

Good old Hillview.

Where's the emergency?

I don't know.

Hey, where's the wedding?

Rusty. Rusty, come back here

at once!

What's the idea? Don't you know

you're inside the fire lines?

Well, can't a citizen stand

in front of his own house?

You live here?

What's your name?

I'm Roger Dodacker.

Dodacker?

Yes.

Captain. Captain,

I've got Dodacker.

What do you know

about Fingy Costello?

He is Fingy Costello.

That's Dodacker,

the guy that was shot.

No, epileptic fit.

Look here, you can't do this!

Let me up.

Lie still.

Let me up.

Mr. Dodacker?

I am Turnbull.

Turnbull the undertaker.

Let me up.

There's Rusty!

Yoo-hoo!

Gotta see Rusty.

Charlie!

Hey, what are you

doing down there?

Hey, you.

Get back here.

This is an outrage.

Do I look like a friend

of Fingy Costello?

Charlie Mason of the Star

said you were hiding Fingy.

Well, then, I suggest

you arrest Charlie Mason.

Charlie Mason.

Mr. Dodacker.

Charlie Mason? Why, that's the

guy that turned in the alarm.

Rusty.

Like your wedding present,

Rusty?

What do you mean?

This! I did it all for you.

What?

Oh, you nut.

Get out of here, quick.

The police department

won't like it.

The police department isn't being

married. You're being married.

Maybe you'd rather

had a dog.

Would you, Rusty?

I'll get you a dog, too.

How you doing there?

Swell number, that dress.

Hiya, Squinty!

Hey, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

That ain't the guy

that turned in the alarm.

No? What do you know

about it?

It was this guy right here.

He phones and gives

Mason's name. He admits it.

What? Is that true?

Boss, do I have to?

Yeah, you have to.

Okay. I'll come clean.

I done it!

Thanks, Smiles.

Rusty. Rusty, really,

this is disgraceful.

Mr. Dodacker...

Go away, please.

Rusty, come down here at once.

Don't be unreasonable,

Mr. Dodacker.

Hours of bereavement

come to us all.

Oh, please go away. Rusty,

this is most embarrassing.

False alarm.

Come on. Come on, boys, let's

get out of here. Come on.

All right, come on,

clear out of here.

Rusty, that dress.

I can't take it off here.

I'll have it cleaned

and send it back.

Oh, no, don't do that.

No, they'll ruin it.

They'll wash it in turpentine.

Weren't they nice, Rusty?

They all came!

Uh-huh. Thanks, Charlie.

You sure you wouldn't have

rather had a dog? You aren't sore?

I love you, you fool!

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