1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: The triple murder in Mulberry Bend, you will find three 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:09,080 dead men in Moulspiny's cellar in Mulberry Bend. The single 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,800 typewritten line was undated and unsigned, but on the lower 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,320 right hand corner of the paper were three distinct fingerprints, 5 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:20,879 made with such precision that obviously they were placed there 6 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:26,039 with a purpose. Silent Cass, Lieutenant of Detectives, read the 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,519 note without visible excitement or interest. Looks like the real thing, 8 00:00:30,839 --> 00:00:34,679 he grunted, tossing it across the desk. What do you think, Gaddie? 9 00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:39,200 Sergeant Gaddy glanced stolidly at the writing, arose slowly, and 10 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,799 put on his hat. Cass also stood up, shifting a 11 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:46,079 small automatic from his hip to an outside coat pocket. 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,840 Let's walk, he said. Mulberry Bend was only ten minutes 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:56,039 from headquarters. Anonymous letters belonged to the routine, but they 14 00:00:56,119 --> 00:00:59,960 rarely yielded anything worthwhile. Sometimes they came from a revel 15 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:04,159 ungeful crooks bent on getting even. Often they were of 16 00:01:04,159 --> 00:01:07,719 the poison pen variety, written out of sheer malice, and 17 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:12,040 more frequently they could readily be identified as the fulminations 18 00:01:12,079 --> 00:01:17,280 of half cracked persons moved by morbid obsessions. But this letter, 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,159 which had been left at the outside rail at headquarters, 20 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,719 addressed to the police, did not fall within any of 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,879 these categories, not that it appealed to a trained sixth 22 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:31,680 sense or any such nonsense. The simple fact was that 23 00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:35,280 Mike Mulspieny's place was known to both men in the 24 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,359 shadowy past, when as lusty young cops on the Lower 25 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:41,400 East Side, they had pounded the pave together. It had 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,680 been the resort of such picturesque criminals as the Wolf 27 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:48,439 and the Ox, and had achieved a molodorous celebrity as 28 00:01:48,439 --> 00:01:52,159 the scene of a barrel murder. Latterly, however, its evil 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,599 repute had waned, and Moulspieney was conducting the place as 30 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:59,519 a provision shop, falling in line with the growing respectability 31 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:03,439 of the quarter. As the detectives turned into the bend 32 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:07,439 from Center Street, a policeman placidly saluted them with one 33 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:09,960 hand while he jingled a handful of coins in the other. 34 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:15,159 Anything do on, O'Hara asked, cass. Bunch of crabshooters took 35 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:17,439 it on the run when they saw me coming, chuckled 36 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:22,080 the uniformed man exhibiting the spoils. Sergeant Gaddy looked appraisingly 37 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,120 into the open palm. Hardly the price of a drink 38 00:02:25,159 --> 00:02:30,319 these days, he sighed, get busy, thrust in Cass Curtly O'Hara, 39 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,680 you just mope along behind us and keep an eye 40 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,879 almost Spieney's place while we go inside. A bronzed, sturdy 41 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:39,840 man of about thirty, with a suggestion of the military 42 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,240 in his garbing carriage, sauntered past them, halting for an 43 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,960 instant as the lieutenant spoke. While Spiiney was standing in 44 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,759 the door of his shop, He greeted the detectives with 45 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,120 an over cordial grin. What you got in the cellar? 46 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:57,439 Mike Cass asked the question casually. Not a drop, Chief, 47 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,800 not a drop. The revenue men got me a month 48 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,319 of AGD with ten gallons of claret. I was let 49 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,159 off with a fine, but the next time who Cassngaddy 50 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,719 left with him The revenue men enjoyed no great popularity 51 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:12,599 with the local detectives. You don't mind if we go 52 00:03:12,719 --> 00:03:16,800 downstairs and look, do you, asked caskod naturedly. Hell no, 53 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,080 come right in. As the detectives followed Mulspiny into the store, 54 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,080 O'Hara slouched past the front door, his eyes roving over 55 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,840 the cinder covered playground that lay directly in front of 56 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,080 the bend. Any show of interest in the shop would 57 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,879 have collected a crowd in no time. If there is 58 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,039 anything that a good policeman hates, it is an assemblage 59 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,919 of curious citizens mixed with the inevitable small boys and 60 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,199 peering old ladies, whom one cannot very well wallop with 61 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,360 a night stick. The bronze young man, who overheard the 62 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,719 lieutenant's orders to the patrolman, had crossed the street and 63 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,360 was standing at the curb directly opposite the shop. As 64 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,800 O'Hara eyed him. The man drew the makins from a pocket, 65 00:03:58,319 --> 00:04:01,599 rolled a cigarette, and walked lazily away in the direction 66 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,719 of Worth Street. With care free alacrity, Moulspiiny led the 67 00:04:05,759 --> 00:04:08,719 detectives into the rear room and lifted a trap door. 68 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,639 A faint flood of light came up from the cellar. 69 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,639 Must have left that lamp burn and all night, muttered 70 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:19,639 the shopkeeper fretfully, as though estimating the cost of his carelessness. 71 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,399 Silent casts walked half way down the steps. Gaddy started 72 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:27,560 to follow, but His superior jerked a thumb over his shoulder, 73 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,519 and the sergeant remained upstairs. If you find any booze 74 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,439 down there, save a drink for me, called Mulspieny jocularly. 75 00:04:35,959 --> 00:04:39,680 As Cass reached the bottom of the stairs, the detective 76 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:42,800 looked around the dimly lit cellar, a vault like chamber 77 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,079 of masonry extending the full length and width of the building. 78 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,439 Two small windows closed now afforded the only means of ventilation. 79 00:04:51,199 --> 00:04:54,600 The place was stuffy to a point of suffocation. The 80 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,639 rear half was filled with provision cases and the usual 81 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,079 litter of a grocery store room. In a clear space 82 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,439 well forward, three men were seated at a large round table, 83 00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:09,360 over which hung a single, dust covered electric lamp. Tips 84 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,480 half true anyway, muttered the detective whimsically. Three men are here, 85 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:16,439 all right, but they're not dead. Kicking over an empty 86 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:19,680 egg crate, he yelled, hey, you fellows, stir your stumps. 87 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,720 What are you doing here? The men at the table 88 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:26,120 did not move or utter a sound. Silent casts walked 89 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,279 over and jarred roughly against the one nearest him. The 90 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:31,680 man rolled from the chair, fell to his back, and 91 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:35,920 remained motionless. One arm covering his face with a grotesque crook. 92 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:39,800 The detective reached down and grasped the upturned wrist. It 93 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,800 felt like a piece of damp rubber hose. He released 94 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,720 it quickly, and the arm oscillated stiffly, without alteration of 95 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:51,199 its original position. Dead, The word followed in the wake 96 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,920 of the detective's surprised whistle. The two men remaining at 97 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,600 the table showed no interest. Cass gripped his automatic and 98 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:01,439 glared at them, jerking the hat off the second man. 99 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,720 The head swayed slightly, and a wavering glint came from 100 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:10,120 the staring, apalescent eyes. Dead. This time, the word was 101 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:13,240 uttered in a tense, staccato. An echo seemed to come 102 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,000 from the dim recesses in the rear Silent casts wheeled 103 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:20,759 and backed slowly against the masonry, his eyes darting about 104 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:23,879 the cellar. The third man was seated in the most 105 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:27,800 natural position possible. His chin rested within his hands, and 106 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,199 he seemed to be asleep. Cass moved toward him cautiously, 107 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:33,800 and with the broad side of his left arm, swept 108 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,079 the hands from under the chin. The man lurched forward, 109 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,319 his head, striking the table with a bang. A couple 110 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,920 of playing cards fluttered from under him and fell to 111 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:46,839 the floor, face up dead, the three of them. Cask 112 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,839 glanced down at the cards buried aces Eh, gunner, knife 113 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,839 play I suppose again Mulspiiny's laugh sounded through the open hatch. 114 00:06:56,199 --> 00:06:59,959 The detective wheeled in sudden wrath. Hey Gaddy, he shouted, 115 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:02,800 trust that fellow up and throw him under the pool table. 116 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:06,680 A swift scuffle, snarl on a thud, as from the 117 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,959 impact of a billie on a skull, came to the 118 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,800 ears of the listener below. Then a bleeding protest from Mulspini. Don't, sergeant, don't, 119 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:18,160 I'll be quiet. Cass heard the snap of handcuffs and 120 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:20,600 a heavy sound as though a sack of potatoes had 121 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,000 been tossed to the floor. A moment later, Gaddie's head 122 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,240 appeared at the top of the stairs. What's up, chief, 123 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,639 he asked, eagerly, Lock the door and fetch the wop down, 124 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:34,160 answered Cass. Somewhere in the back of his head lurked 125 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,160 to the thought that the presence of the three men 126 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,839 in the cellar would be a surprise to Mulspiiny, Spanish, 127 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,879 Jel and Louis. The lawyer, he muttered, gazing into the 128 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:45,839 faces of two of the dead men. He was about 129 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:48,480 to lift the head of the third when Mulspieny stepped 130 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,079 gingerly down the steps, followed by Gaddie. The shopkeeper gazed 131 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,319 in stupid bewilderment at the three inanimate figures. Cass watched 132 00:07:57,399 --> 00:08:00,279 him keenly. If the man was acting, he certainly was 133 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:04,639 a master of dissimulation. Lifting his manacled hands above his head, 134 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,000 he yelled, arrest those guys. They ain't got no business 135 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,160 in my place. He had started toward the table when 136 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:13,759 Gaddie seized him and threw him back into a pile 137 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,519 of crates under the steps. Stay there till your numbers called, 138 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:21,560 snarled the sergeant. Leaping toward the table like his superior, 139 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,800 he instantly recognized the two whose faces were revealed. There 140 00:08:25,879 --> 00:08:27,560 must have been a hell of a time in hell 141 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:32,039 when those birds flew in, he said, grimly. Silent. Cass 142 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,799 laid his hands on the third man's shoulders. As he 143 00:08:34,879 --> 00:08:37,879 drew back the head. The light reflected from the oilcloth 144 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,679 on the table cast a ghastly green shadow across his face. 145 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:45,279 Both men looked long and earnestly at the rigid features. 146 00:08:45,919 --> 00:08:48,919 And I don't get that bird, do you, said Gaddie. Finally, 147 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,080 Cass shook his head and beckoned to Mulspiny. The shopkeeper 148 00:08:53,159 --> 00:08:56,200 sprang to his feet and ran to the table. For 149 00:08:56,279 --> 00:08:59,399 a single instant, his frightened eyes rested upon the dead 150 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,759 face of the man at the table. A shriek, womanish 151 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:06,960 in its intensity and shrillness, broke from him. He strained 152 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:11,360 vainly for a moment at the irons, then, with incoherent gibberings, 153 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,360 slithered around the table and kissed the dead man's forehead. 154 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,720 A look of loathing passed between the detectives. Neither made 155 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,960 any effort to sustain the man as he swayed for 156 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,840 a moment and then crashed through the floor. Without uttering 157 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,559 a word. Cass drew the anonymous note from his pocket, 158 00:09:27,799 --> 00:09:31,080 gazed at the fingerprints, and then at Gaddie. The sergeant 159 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,240 seized the right hand of the man on the floor 160 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:37,240 and examined the index finger. A faint smudge appeared upon it. 161 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:41,320 Similar smudges were discernible on the corresponding fingers of the 162 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:47,200 other two sign their own death warrants. Surmised Gaddie silent cash, 163 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,879 shook his head sailed him after death. More likely, he said, 164 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,799 the person who left the note at headquarters probably did 165 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,159 the job. The lieutenant had taken the pendant lamp from 166 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,720 the hook, uncoiled the loops, and was holding the light 167 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,639 clob to the face of Spanish Joe. The countenance wore 168 00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:06,279 a look such as might be possible to one which 169 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:09,000 in life bore the marks of all the evil passions. 170 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,399 The black patent leathery hair was banked smoothly down over 171 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,960 the forehead. The clothing was undisturbed, and the whole attitude 172 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,399 of the body that of some poisonous thing suddenly bereft 173 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,600 of life by being sealed in a vacuum. In whatever 174 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,000 guise death had come to him, it had borne no 175 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,600 message of terror to Spanish Joe. With deft fingers, Gaddie 176 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:32,720 ran over the upper part of the body, and under 177 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:35,720 the clothing there was no sign of blood. From a 178 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:38,519 secret pocket in the vest. Under the left armpit, he 179 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,399 drew a ponyard. It glinted in the light as he 180 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,039 held it up, clean as a hound's tooth, said Cass. 181 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,159 Gaddy turned to examine the other two. The surager revealed, 182 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,840 no outward sign of physical violence, nothing in fact, but 183 00:10:52,879 --> 00:10:56,960 the usual pocket miscellane. A billfold taken from the body 184 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,320 of Louis the Lawyer contained nearly five hundred dollars, nothing unusual, 185 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:04,159 as Louis's wealth was a matter of common knowledge on 186 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,039 the lower east side. If the source thereof was not silent. 187 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:13,600 Cass stooped and moved the lamp slowly along the floor. Gaddie, 188 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,600 with face close to the cement, followed the light until 189 00:11:16,639 --> 00:11:21,399 he came to the cards buried. Aces, explained Cass, they 190 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,279 fell out from under one of these fellows when I 191 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,759 shook em. This didn't happen in a crooked game, said Gaddie, sagely, 192 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,399 not if the cards were still buried when he died. 193 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,879 He picked up a broken Chianti flask near the table. Frah, 194 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:38,480 he sputtered, thrusting it out at arm's length. Whatever was 195 00:11:38,519 --> 00:11:41,600 in that bottle had an awful kick to it. Kass 196 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:44,720 also thrust his nose into the broken flask, then set 197 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:48,519 it gingerly down on the table. Kick He echoed, why 198 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,120 this bottle seems to be dry inside, yet it's got 199 00:11:51,159 --> 00:11:54,240 a kick like a South African jackass One whiff made 200 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,399 me dizzy. Wonder if it's wood alcohol. The detectives were 201 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:01,799 erecked now and gazing at more Spieney's silent figure, so 202 00:12:01,919 --> 00:12:05,799 much like the others that he too seems dead. Gaddie 203 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:07,840 went to the rear, drew a bucket of water from 204 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,440 the specket, and returning, threw it over the prostrate man's face. 205 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,399 Molspieny spluttered and sat up. Gaddie dragged him to his 206 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,120 feet and faced him toward the dead man, whom the 207 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,240 shopkeeper had kissed on the forehead. Who is he demanded 208 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,039 the sergeant. Molspieny gave a frightened whimper, but did not answer. 209 00:12:26,639 --> 00:12:31,840 Who is he repeated Gaddie, relentlessly, drawing back his billy cass, 210 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,440 thrust out an intervening hand man was handcuffed. Besides, the 211 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,919 Lieutenant Well knew the futility of confessions made under duress 212 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,559 when a case came to trial. Gaddie dropped the billy 213 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:45,559 back into his coat pocket with a snarling laugh. He'll 214 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:47,679 change his mind after a night in the old slip. 215 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,200 We'll give him the best room in the house, nice 216 00:12:50,279 --> 00:12:52,720 quiet place where nobody can hear him squawk. When we 217 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:56,000 throw the boots into him. Cass turned away to conceal 218 00:12:56,039 --> 00:12:58,720 a grin from the prisoner. He did not like Gaddie's 219 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,399 coarse third degree work. There were grits in it. Wheeling 220 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,720 suddenly upon the shopkeeper, he demanded, when did your brother 221 00:13:05,759 --> 00:13:09,159 come from Italy? Mike? The long finger of conjecture touched 222 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:13,639 the point. It's my brother, Tony, he admitted brokenly. But 223 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:16,200 I don't know these other fellows or how they came 224 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,840 by their death. Tony has a key to the shop. 225 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,240 He was a deserter from the other side and had 226 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,320 to keep under cover, so I let him use the 227 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,440 cellar once in a while for card games with his friends. Why, 228 00:13:27,919 --> 00:13:31,720 snorted Gaddy. Nevertheless, he turned to Cass and said, gleefully. 229 00:13:32,159 --> 00:13:35,840 We cleared up that point anyway, did we. There was 230 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:39,440 a sarcastic note in the lieutenant's voice. Take this fellow 231 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,480 over to headquarters. Better remove the irons and slip out 232 00:13:42,519 --> 00:13:44,240 the back way if you don't want to play drum 233 00:13:44,279 --> 00:13:48,279 major in front of an east side procession. Gaddy and Mulspiny, 234 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,480 both trying to look unconcerned, walked rapidly across the playgrounds 235 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:56,480 toward headquarters, just as three police wagons came clanging into 236 00:13:56,519 --> 00:13:59,960 the bend by way of Worth Street. The bronzed young man, 237 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,360 who had observed the detectives entered the provision shop, jumped 238 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,399 from a bench as the two men passed him. What's 239 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,759 the matter over there pulling a raid, he asked, beat it, 240 00:14:10,039 --> 00:14:14,480 snapped Gaddie, pushing Mulspeiny roughly ahead. The young man smiled 241 00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:17,360 but did not resume his seat. Gaddy moved along a 242 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,799 few yards, then paused uneasily, wonder if I overlooked a 243 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,799 bet and not putting the basket over that guy? He muttered, 244 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,960 He's the same fellow who passed us on our way 245 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,440 into the shop. When he turned, however, the bronzed young 246 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,320 man had disappeared in the crowd that was flocking toward 247 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,519 the police wagons. O'Hara, in the meantime, had relinquished the 248 00:14:36,559 --> 00:14:39,519 task of handling the mob to the reserves and resumed 249 00:14:39,559 --> 00:14:42,519 his post. The young man, who had been rebuffed by 250 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:46,200 Gaddie paused at his elbow. The policeman looked into the open, 251 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,120 smiling face, and relieved his chest of a weight that 252 00:14:49,159 --> 00:14:51,279 had been lying there since. The meaning of the whole 253 00:14:51,279 --> 00:14:54,720 affair began to dawn upon him. What chance has a 254 00:14:54,759 --> 00:14:57,759 harness bull got in a case like this, he asked bitterly, 255 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,320 you might as well hang a red lander on and 256 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,000 send him out with a fife and drum corps. The 257 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:08,320 bronze young man smiled as O'Hara moved disconsolately away stone 258 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,039 blind both of them. He chuckled. The right way to 259 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:13,440 escape the cops is to keep on their heels or 260 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:16,720 hide in the grill room of a Waldorf. Little that 261 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:20,039 was new was discovered at headquarters. The finger prints of 262 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,960 Spanish Joe and Louis the Lawyer tallied with those in 263 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,360 the archives, which also contained the records of both men. 264 00:15:27,039 --> 00:15:29,440 They were no prince or history of the third man, 265 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:34,159 whom Mulspieny had admitted to be his brother. Spanish Joe's 266 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,559 record was such as must have assured him a warm 267 00:15:36,639 --> 00:15:40,919 welcome beyond the sticks. Listed as an agent for burlesque shows, 268 00:15:41,159 --> 00:15:44,080 he had been twice convicted as a white slaver, and 269 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,279 once for felonious assault. It was noteworthy, however, that he 270 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,799 had never served a full term in prison. His birthplace 271 00:15:51,879 --> 00:15:55,320 was given as Havana, Cuba, and his origin mixed Spanish 272 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,360 and carib Indian. The record and antecedents of Louis the 273 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,960 Lawyer were hardly more savory. From a shyster practice in 274 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,279 Essex Market Court, he had branched out to the dubious 275 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,639 distinction of being considered the chief lawyer and go between 276 00:16:09,679 --> 00:16:12,519 in the nether world. It was his dark and secret 277 00:16:12,519 --> 00:16:16,000 operations that were responsible for the immunity from prison that 278 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:19,679 Spanish Joe had so long enjoyed. Although he had a 279 00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:22,759 fine home in Riverside Drive, it was in the purlieus 280 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:25,480 of the Lower east Side that he found his true atmosphere, 281 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:29,200 his horizon. Not having widened a pace with his increasing wealth. 282 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,200 In that stifling, dirty cellar and mulberry bend, the hog 283 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,360 had returned to his wallow and had been smothered in it. 284 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,279 One thing was evident from the beginning. The triple murder, 285 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,039 if such it was, did not have its origins in 286 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,960 a vendetta. All the fantastic earmarks usual to a Southern 287 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,720 European feud were absent. There was no hideous marring of 288 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:53,679 the bodies. Indeed, no mark of any kind was found 289 00:16:53,759 --> 00:16:57,159 upon them, nor did the coroner find a trace of poison. 290 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,639 After the autopsies, a chemical analysis of the organs revealed nothing. 291 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,519 The men apparently had died of natural causes and simultaneously 292 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,799 brooding like three black crows over the sinister mystery. The 293 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,119 finger prints on the mysterious note to the police seemed 294 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,160 to afford the only clue who had placed them with 295 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,160 such care upon the clean white paper. What practiced hand 296 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,079 had written the note itself? It was not the work 297 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,680 of a bunglesome amateur. The nicety of spacing and general 298 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,920 evenness of the work precluded such a conclusion. Silent casts 299 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,279 and Sergeant Gaddy went over the back trails of the 300 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:38,000 three dead men, encountering nothing but blank walls everywhere, and 301 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:41,920 emerging from blind alleys with empty hands. From the very 302 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,559 first cass had been satisfied that Mulspieny had told the truth. 303 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,599 When he came out of his faint in the cellar, Gaddy, 304 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,279 though he did not admit it to his superior, had 305 00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:54,599 beaten the shopkeeper almost to a pulp, avoiding only bruising 306 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:59,000 of his face, without getting any additional information. Nor did 307 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,160 the sergeant say a word word about his encounter with 308 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,599 the bronzed young man in the playground. Somehow, through his 309 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,720 turgid reasoning, the thought persisted that this smiling, open faced 310 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,000 stranger had not thrust himself into the case by accident. 311 00:18:12,559 --> 00:18:15,359 The hope grew in him that some subtle influence would 312 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,119 draw this man to the tombs, or perhaps into the 313 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,240 court room when Moulspieney was arraigned. But in this he 314 00:18:21,319 --> 00:18:25,519 was disappointed. Although the cooperation of the entire detective and 315 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,599 uniformed forces of the city was enlisted, the case technically 316 00:18:29,759 --> 00:18:33,240 was in the hands of silent casts. Eager reporters sought 317 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:36,359 him for news of the latest developments, But as one 318 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,160 star remarked in his story, Lieutenant Cass continues to have 319 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,440 brilliant flashes of silence. Another, in the unharnessed freedom of 320 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,400 the editorial rooms, complained gloomily that he could get nothing 321 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,039 out of cast but silence, and damn little of that. 322 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,640 In view of all this, it is not strange that 323 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,400 the record of the Lieutenant should have become an object 324 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,440 of curious inquiry. Nothing of outstand brilliance was found in it. 325 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:03,720 From the day he had joined the force. He had 326 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:06,960 been taciturned to a point of eccentricity. It was his 327 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:10,240 own fellows in the clubhouse under the Green Lamp, who 328 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:13,799 first dubbed him silent casts. In the days of the 329 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:16,480 old Red Light District on the Lower East Side, he 330 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:19,680 had been known as a relentless pursuer of cadets, but 331 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:22,160 he had never shared in the public glory of having 332 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,880 cleaned out these worst of human vermin. His private life 333 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,359 was found to be equally drab and uninteresting. He owned 334 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,480 a little home in the far reaches of the Bronx. 335 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,400 His wife was dead, and his daughter, now about eighteen, 336 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,279 kept house for him. All this was water on Gaddy's wheel. 337 00:19:38,599 --> 00:19:42,079 While Cass had been silent and colorless, the sergeant had 338 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,119 always been garrulous and spectacular. Now he was playing true 339 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,839 to form. Hardly a day passed without some new development 340 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,039 from this energetic and ambitious officer. He combed the underworld 341 00:19:54,039 --> 00:19:58,039 for suspects and dragged bloodied intosheveled prisoners into headquarters for 342 00:19:58,079 --> 00:20:00,680 the line up. He was always on the eve of 343 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:05,279 an important arrest. The Commissioner looked with tolerant, if skeptical 344 00:20:05,319 --> 00:20:08,799 eye upon these activities, and with growing impatience at the 345 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:12,960 lieutenant's failure to produce results. In the midst of all this, 346 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,119 a reporter journeyed to the Bronx with the dimly burning 347 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,559 hope that he might be able to smoke casts out 348 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:21,359 right in his own home. He found the lieutenant in 349 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,759 overalls spading the garden, and young miscasts pruning the fines 350 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:29,599 around the porch. An ironic description of this bucolic scene 351 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,759 was duly printed the next morning, coupled with the news 352 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:37,240 of another important arrest by Sergeant gaddy. Then things began 353 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:41,200 to happen around headquarters. In a special order by the Commissioner, 354 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:44,640 Lieutenant Cass was reduced to the rank of patrolman and 355 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,240 assigned to duty in the Bronx with a post at 356 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,799 the Zoological Park. This play to the gallery met with 357 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,440 instant applause. One smart paragrapher remarked the cast would find 358 00:20:55,519 --> 00:20:59,440 congenial companionship among his Simian brethren in the zoo. A 359 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,920 few days later, later, the promotion of Sergeant Gaddie to 360 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,599 the rank of lieutenant was announced. Molspini and a few 361 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,000 other mysterious prisoners were transferred to the detention house as 362 00:21:09,079 --> 00:21:13,599 material witnesses, and the triple murder in Mulberry Bend began 363 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,920 to wear down in public interest. Cass accepted his reduction 364 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,640 without protest. The day he had been caught in the 365 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,720 garden was the first one he had taken off in 366 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:26,079 a month, but he did not urge the point. Instead, 367 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,599 he left his measure for a new uniform, and soon 368 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,480 was pounding the pavement around the buffalo entrance of the zoo. 369 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,960 The larger measure of leisure he enjoyed in his humbler 370 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,160 task was spent in the garden with his daughter. So 371 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,079 things went on for another week. One morning, when silent 372 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,480 Cass was putting down his radishes, a bronze young man 373 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:48,400 swung from the rear platform of a trolley car directly 374 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,920 in front of the house and walked briskly over to 375 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,759 the fence. Cass looked up and nodded pleasantly. Is this, lieutenant, 376 00:21:55,759 --> 00:22:01,720 Cass asked the stranger abruptly. Patrolman casts the gardener. I 377 00:22:01,759 --> 00:22:05,559 want to give myself up, said the stranger. Cass made 378 00:22:05,559 --> 00:22:07,880 a trench with his stick and sewed a handful of seed. 379 00:22:08,799 --> 00:22:12,039 Come in, he said, standing erect and looking squarely at 380 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:15,240 the newcomer, What have you been up to? I'm the 381 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,359 man who killed those three rats in Mulberry Bent explained 382 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,000 the bronzed young man. Coolly. Cass bent down on one knee, 383 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:24,920 made another shallow little trench and sprinkled it with seed. 384 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,079 Oh yeah, the mulberry bend case, he said, reflectively. I've 385 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:32,680 been expecting you. Turning to his daughter, he continued, you 386 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:35,279 don't mind leaving us alone for a few minutes, do you, Nelly? 387 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,279 The girl smiled at the stranger and walked to the porch. 388 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,000 The policeman nodded toward a bench under a magnolia that 389 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,880 was just bursting into blossom. Tell me about it, he said, 390 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,319 as the two were seated. If the newcomer found anything 391 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,119 strange in this reception, he made no sign. I read 392 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,119 in the papers that you have been broken for not 393 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,079 finding the murderer, he said quietly, And I've been off 394 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,599 my feet and sleep since then. I didn't stand it 395 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,079 any longer. I want you to lock me up. Silent 396 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,720 Cass glanced at him. Swiftly. The newcomer spoke up quickly. Now, 397 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,839 the ghosts of the dead men were not roosting on 398 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,359 my pillow. Damn them. They were not the kind that 399 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,559 come back to haunt honest men. Although they seemed to 400 00:23:16,559 --> 00:23:18,480 have done it to you that is in a way, 401 00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:22,720 casts nodded. I knew them. They're snug at home in hell. 402 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:26,240 He looked toward the porch, and Nelly smiled back at him. 403 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,680 I'm a serviceman myself, resumed the stranger medical corps. I 404 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,920 was on the other side for two years, and it 405 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,200 was during that time these three dogs are in their 406 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,920 death over here. The record of Spanish Louis the White 407 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,480 Slaver flashed through the mind of the listener. Girl. He 408 00:23:42,599 --> 00:23:46,839 queried casually, Yes, said girl. The words snapped brokenly from 409 00:23:46,839 --> 00:23:49,640 the stranger's lips. It was the first sign of emotion 410 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:54,319 that he had shown, sweetheart, I suppose, murmured cass pityingly. 411 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,200 The young man's face had dropped into his hands, and 412 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,160 he was shaking violently. Worse than that, he groaned a sister. 413 00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:04,920 Cas looked again toward the porch and laid his hand 414 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,839 gently on the men's shoulder. Go On, he said. The 415 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,880 tale came out in a torrent of anguished, broken words. 416 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,759 The girl was an only sister, and both had been 417 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,279 orphaned since childhood. Out of his earnings as a chemist, 418 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:20,920 he had been able to support and educate her until 419 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,079 he entered the service and went abroad. She was pretty, 420 00:24:24,279 --> 00:24:27,599 had a sweet soprano voice and a turn for the stage. 421 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,400 She had smothered his misgivings with the assurance that she 422 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:33,000 was able to care for herself, and so they parted 423 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,079 after he had been in France six months, her letters 424 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,519 always regular. Theretofore ceased abruptly again, Cass's mind reverted to 425 00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:44,880 Spanish Joe. The men on the bench had grown calm. 426 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,960 A gentle breeze swept through the tree overhead, and a 427 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,680 few blossoms fluttered downward. If she had only died before 428 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,759 it happened, he said, gazing at the broken petals. Cas 429 00:24:55,799 --> 00:24:58,599 patted him on the shoulder, and he resumed. It was 430 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,640 a long time after I came back before I was 431 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,359 able to trace her. It was down in New Orleans, 432 00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:06,000 in a place that was worse than the deepest gulf 433 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:09,759 of hell. Her mind and soul were gone, gone completely 434 00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:13,839 with whiskey and cocaine. That and he pressed his hands 435 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,160 over his eyes. Dad called the girl in the porch, 436 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:20,319 it's time for you to go on post. Cass stood 437 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,519 up mechanically and pulled off his overalls. Wait here till 438 00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:26,359 I get into uniform, he said, walking into the house. 439 00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:29,759 He was gone fully five minutes, but when he returned, 440 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:32,720 the young man was still seated on the bench. The 441 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,279 policeman dropped to a place beside him, with a trace 442 00:25:35,319 --> 00:25:38,200 of disappointment in his manner. The young man had not 443 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,519 seemed to notice the long absence. I was able to 444 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:43,599 get the story out of her before she finally broke 445 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,880 away from me, He continued. Then she ran upstairs and 446 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,240 drank poison. It was the only thing left. I brought 447 00:25:50,279 --> 00:25:53,000 her back here and buried her beside her mother. There 448 00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:56,160 was a postcard picture taken its Coney Island in her trunk. 449 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,319 She was sitting in an automobile with Spanish Joe and 450 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,759 Tony Beanie. She was smiling, and all the innocence that 451 00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:05,640 I had known before I left her. His jaws came 452 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,119 together with a snap. It was on that day she 453 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,759 got the theatrical engagement with Louis the lawyer, posing as 454 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:14,839 a producer of musical comedy. How did you get him 455 00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:16,799 into the cellar and what did you use to kill them? 456 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,640 Asked cass Prosily. Enough, I paddle around with them for 457 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,759 a month and let them win a month's salary from me. 458 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:25,240 One night, right down there, in that hole. They had 459 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:28,440 it all ranged to trim me again when he paused, 460 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,680 and there was a sudden ferocity in his tone when 461 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,160 he burst forth again. The death I gave them was 462 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,759 too easy. I was watching across the street when they 463 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,160 entered the store together. When I saw a light in 464 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,359 the cellar, I knew I had them. It was just 465 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,240 a matter of walking in, lifting the trap door, and 466 00:26:43,279 --> 00:26:48,160 tossing down the flask of gas. Gas, shouted Kass, jumping 467 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,839 to his feet. There was no trace of gas poisoning 468 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,880 found in the examination of the organs. It was a 469 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,400 formula of my own. The answer came with a touch 470 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,920 of pride. I had been working on it in France, 471 00:26:59,079 --> 00:27:02,079 but the Armistice before the use of it became necessary. 472 00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:05,440 The action is negative, absorbs the oxygen from the air, 473 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,160 you know, he chuckled grimly. I simply sealed the three 474 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,799 of them up with it. A horn toad, a centipede 475 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:14,880 and a tarantula all in one bottle. Why did you 476 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,799 make the fingerprints? The question seemed natural enough, but the 477 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:21,759 answer came in a tone of surprise. I wanted to 478 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:24,039 let the authorities know I had done the world a favor. 479 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,720 Why not Cass smiled approvingly and stood up. The bronze 480 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,960 young man also got to his feet. I'm ready, he said. 481 00:27:32,599 --> 00:27:34,440 On the way to the gate, he drew an envelope 482 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,640 from his pocket and handed it to the policeman. Cass 483 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,720 read the contents curiously. Under the caption Army orders appeared 484 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:46,279 a brief paragraph Captain Franklin Hines's Medical Corps is hereby 485 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,960 relieved from duty at Camp Merit and transferred to Panama. Silent. 486 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:54,079 Cass carefully folded the official order, put it back in 487 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,000 the envelope, and handed it to the army man. As 488 00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:00,279 Simon in the Yellow Fever squat eh, he remarked, what 489 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,799 are you gonna sail? Captain Hines stared at him. Aren't 490 00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:07,000 you going to arrest me? He demanded stupidly. Don't you 491 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,880 want to make good and get your old job back? 492 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,920 Cass shook his head. Not at that price, he said. 493 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,160 His hand was on the gate latch and his eyes 494 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,720 roaming down the street toward an approaching trolley car. Wait 495 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:22,039 father called Nellie from the porch. She ran down into 496 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:24,400 the garden, plucked a white crocus and pinned it to 497 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,279 his coat against regulations, he laughed, but I've earned the 498 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,640 right to wear it today. In a moment, he had 499 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,640 bounded across the pavement and boarded the car, leaving the 500 00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:37,359 army man and the girl together. Captain Hines glanced down 501 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,680 the street. Another car was coming. Won't you have a 502 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,559 flower too, asked the girl, stooping to pick a red 503 00:28:43,599 --> 00:28:47,319 blossom from the garden. Yes, thank you, he said huskily. 504 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,480 Won't you give me a white one, the same as 505 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:52,279 you gave to your dad. She fastened a white flower 506 00:28:52,279 --> 00:28:54,519 in his coat, and in a moment he was scrambling 507 00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:58,039 aboard the second car. As the rear door slammed on him. 508 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:00,319 Gaddy swung off from the front and walked over to 509 00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:04,759 the fence. Nellie greeted him familiarly. He just missed Dad, 510 00:29:04,839 --> 00:29:08,640 she said. He's gone out on post. Oh has, he said, Gaddie, 511 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,160 I just came out here to tell him I got 512 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,680 another promotion to day. I'm Captain Gaddie now. And of 513 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,519 the Triple Murder in Mulberry Bend by Christopher Hawkins