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00:00:00The End
00:00:36THE END
00:01:07Well, Johnson, there's the banter.
00:01:09It's Miss Bennet, I suppose.
00:01:11No, it isn't. It's Miss Lydia.
00:01:12What?
00:01:12My goodness, so it is.
00:01:14Isn't Evans with Miss Lydia?
00:01:15You can see for yourself it's her room that's running.
00:01:41Yes, Miss Lydia?
00:01:43Where is Evans?
00:01:44I thought Evans was with you, Miss.
00:01:47Lydia, darling?
00:01:48Yes?
00:01:49Evans has been called to the telephone.
00:01:51Well, I have to be warned her.
00:01:53Don't let her assume I'm calling her mother, child.
00:01:59I can't come now, dearie.
00:02:01No, I can't.
00:02:03Miss Lydia is yelling for me this minute.
00:02:05You want me to get discharged?
00:02:08Yes.
00:02:09As soon as she goes, I'll meet you.
00:02:11You'll be out back.
00:02:20Why don't you attend to your duties, Ev?
00:02:31Well, Evans.
00:02:32Evans, where the devil have you been?
00:02:34I'm sorry.
00:02:35Well, that doesn't help me a particle.
00:02:37Now, get me a hat, any hat.
00:02:39Are my bags ready?
00:02:40Yes, I sent Mawson down with him, Lydia,
00:02:41and I told him that the car brought around.
00:02:43I want the roadster.
00:02:44Yes, I know.
00:02:45Yes, now my jewels.
00:02:46My jewels.
00:02:47Benny, will you unlock my safe, please?
00:02:53Oh, that hat is terrible.
00:02:55What one do you want, Miss?
00:02:56Well, any one.
00:02:56Any one.
00:02:57That's what I told you.
00:02:58Yes, Miss.
00:03:09Oh, I have a million gloves here that don't match.
00:03:11Evans, will you please throw some of them away?
00:03:14Yes, Miss.
00:03:18Well, Benny, darling, you didn't have to bring the whole trade.
00:03:21I only wanted something.
00:03:23I didn't care what.
00:03:24Oh.
00:03:26Oh, so that bracelet isn't bad, is it?
00:03:28I'd forgotten I had that.
00:03:29It ought to be re-set, Miss.
00:03:31The gold foils the diamonds.
00:03:33Yes, you do keep my things beautifully, Evans.
00:03:35Well, here, I guess I have everything now.
00:03:38Finish your phoning.
00:03:39Thank you, Miss.
00:03:43Oh, Benny, you're not still cross, are you?
00:03:46No, I'm not cross, Lydia, but I have some pride.
00:03:49And I'm just trying to make up my mind if we haven't lived together long enough.
00:03:52Of course we haven't.
00:03:54Now, I'm going away for the weekend.
00:03:55Let's not spoil it with quarrels.
00:03:58I apologize for insulting your noble friend,
00:04:00but I'm not interested in prison reform,
00:04:03and I don't see any reason why I should pretend I am.
00:04:05I'm afraid you're interested in nothing but yourself and having your own way.
00:04:09Yes, I suppose I am.
00:04:10But I won't be bored by my own friend,
00:04:12so I'm certainly not going to be bored by yours.
00:04:15She's a very noble woman.
00:04:16I know she's noble, darling,
00:04:18but she's a bore, and it makes me sick to be bored.
00:04:20Literally sick.
00:04:21No, because.
00:04:22Sick here in my summer.
00:04:24Oh.
00:04:25Oh, Benny.
00:04:27Benny, you're a darling, and I do love you.
00:04:30No, not just because you're my aunt or because you brought me up.
00:04:33That's a new thing.
00:04:34Because you're one of the real swell people in the swell.
00:04:38I know you're the best friend I've got.
00:04:40I always try to do my duty.
00:04:42Oh, Benny, don't be morrowed.
00:04:44You'll make me sick again.
00:04:45You know where.
00:04:45Oh, Lydia, I'm worried about you.
00:04:47Yes, I am.
00:04:48You'll make yourself terribly unhappy one of these days.
00:04:51You can't go on all through life trampling on people so ruthlessly.
00:04:55Why not?
00:04:56Because it isn't right.
00:04:56Oh, it's right if you can get away with it.
00:04:58We have to be useful in this world, Lydia.
00:05:01Oh, Benny, useful people are dull.
00:05:03And when you begin to reform me, so are you.
00:05:06Now, come on.
00:05:07I have to get started.
00:05:08Come on.
00:05:13Alec.
00:05:14Oh, there you are.
00:05:15Yes.
00:05:16She's going now.
00:05:17It's all right.
00:05:20All right, darling.
00:05:21I'll try to be a lady for your sake.
00:05:23And while I'm gone, you write it all out for me.
00:05:26How to be useful in ten lessons.
00:05:28You won't drive too fast, will you, dear?
00:05:31Not over 60.
00:05:32Oh, someday.
00:05:33Oh, someday.
00:05:34You ought to write a song for a dad, Benny.
00:05:37Someday you'll get what's coming to you.
00:05:40Bye-bye.
00:05:41I'll see you on Monday.
00:05:49Bye.
00:05:53Bye, Benny.
00:05:59How much have you got?
00:06:00I only got $14, Alec.
00:06:03I don't get paid till tomorrow.
00:06:04Well, let me have it.
00:06:06Yes, darling.
00:06:07Of course.
00:06:09Why do you have to go away, dear?
00:06:11The police haven't bothered you.
00:06:13No.
00:06:14But Peters is going to reform.
00:06:16He won't tell about you.
00:06:17Maybe he won't.
00:06:18But it's time to get out of town
00:06:20when your pal goes down to the district attorney's office
00:06:23to confess.
00:06:29Oh, Mr. Banner.
00:06:32Yes?
00:06:35That fellow Peters is here again.
00:06:37He wanted to know if he couldn't say just one word to you
00:06:39before he went.
00:06:39Doesn't look as if I'll ever get away, does it?
00:06:42All right.
00:06:42I suppose I ought to talk to him.
00:06:44I'll bring him out here.
00:06:45Yeah.
00:07:01Oh, hello, Peters.
00:07:03I was thinking on what you were talking to me about, Mr. O'Bannon.
00:07:05And I'm willing to confess that robbery and do my stretch
00:07:08and try starting over again.
00:07:09Well, that takes a lot of courage, Peters.
00:07:11But you won't regret it.
00:07:12Well, I decided to do it.
00:07:13But I don't want to squeal on my pal.
00:07:15Oh, no, no, no.
00:07:15I wouldn't ask you to.
00:07:17Yes, sir.
00:07:18What should I do?
00:07:19Well, I'll tell you.
00:07:20You go down to the police station and give yourself up.
00:07:23Tell them what house it was you robbed.
00:07:25And then next week I'll prosecute you.
00:07:27But you'll see that I get a break, won't you, Mr. O'Bannon?
00:07:29I'll try to.
00:07:30Yes, sir.
00:07:32See you in court.
00:07:33Yeah.
00:07:37I don't know how you do it, Chief.
00:07:39I don't know how you do it.
00:07:40What's that, Mr. O'Bannon?
00:07:41Getting these bad babies to confess and take their medals.
00:07:44You're a wonder.
00:07:45As long as you're going to yes me like this, Foster,
00:07:47I'll have to give you a ride.
00:07:48Come on, you're in.
00:07:49I'll take it out of your court.
00:08:06I'll take it out of your court.
00:08:20No one, eh?
00:08:21I never saw her before.
00:08:22If you meet her at this party, give her a summons.
00:08:26She's the best looking thing I've ever seen.
00:08:28Maybe she doesn't know.
00:08:29What do you mean?
00:08:30There's nothing she won't do.
00:08:32If she thought it would liven things up,
00:08:34she'd come down here and burn the courthouse.
00:08:36Well, we'd argue with her, though, wouldn't we, Foster?
00:08:39I guess you would.
00:08:48Have a good time.
00:08:50So long, so long.
00:09:23Give her turn a hail.
00:09:28Let's go.
00:09:32Good luck.
00:09:48This looks like the
00:10:16What do you think this is, a race track?
00:10:19You're a new one, aren't you?
00:10:20What, ma'am?
00:10:22It's a nuisance where they keep changing you about.
00:10:24What's your name?
00:10:25I don't want my name in your book.
00:10:28Then you should be more careful how you drive.
00:10:30All the boys along here know me. I'm quite all right.
00:10:33I don't know anything about that, miss.
00:11:01You dropped your bracelet.
00:11:03That's not mine.
00:11:05What?
00:11:06It's not mine.
00:11:09Well, whose is it then?
00:11:11I don't know, I'm sure.
00:11:34Mmm, doesn't the water look lovely?
00:11:37I'd like to go for a swim. Wouldn't you, afternoon?
00:11:40Well, maybe we'd better wait.
00:11:42I think Ellen's gonna take us someplace to dance.
00:11:55Oh, Lee, I can't do it to that music!
00:11:57Well, she should sometimes.
00:12:02Have you seen it, Lydia?
00:12:04Uh-uh.
00:12:05No, I haven't been to the theater in a week.
00:12:06Oh, I don't know.
00:12:07I get so bored hearing people call me.
00:12:10But, Lydia, darling, you're bored with everything.
00:12:13Even me.
00:12:14Oh, how true, Bobby, how true!
00:12:18Oh, look, who's that man?
00:12:22I don't know, I think you're wrong.
00:12:28Have you ever seen him before?
00:12:30Yes, I've seen him, but who is he?
00:12:32That's my latest find.
00:12:33The one I was telling you about.
00:12:35The district attorney.
00:12:36It's Dan O'Banner.
00:12:37Do you know him, Bobby?
00:12:38My brother used to know him in college.
00:12:40Oh, what a wild man.
00:12:41Well, is he a wild man?
00:12:43Oh, Lydia wants to pay me.
00:12:44Well, he may not be so wild now,
00:12:47but when he was in college,
00:12:48oh, man, he'd go on a bat that lasted for months.
00:12:50When he went on a tarot, it was a real one.
00:12:53I think I'd like to meet him.
00:12:55You will.
00:12:57Are you planning anything, darling?
00:12:59Dinner's service.
00:13:00Let's go in.
00:13:01All right.
00:13:03I don't care for office.
00:13:04They're such a little sympathy, you know.
00:13:07Oh, that big hands wouldn't fight.
00:13:09Oh, that big hands wouldn't lick me.
00:13:11I don't believe he'd lick you.
00:13:12He's got the police, so we've got the end of the deal.
00:13:16Oh, lovely.
00:13:17Perfectly, lovely.
00:13:18He's got the luck with his teeth.
00:13:19He's got to be beneath the right.
00:13:21But you must have the police, my boy.
00:13:23He's the best man there is.
00:13:25Yes.
00:13:26What the heck is that?
00:13:28Good luck.
00:13:29Good luck.
00:13:30Good luck.
00:13:32Good luck.
00:13:32Good luck.
00:13:32Good luck.
00:13:33Good luck.
00:13:35Good luck.
00:13:37Good luck.
00:13:39Good luck.
00:13:41Good luck.
00:13:41Good luck.
00:13:45Hello, brother.
00:13:50Can I introduce myself?
00:13:57Yes, Miss Robannon.
00:13:59I had had the pleasure of seeing you arrested, though never of meeting you formally.
00:14:04Arrested? You let your eyes deceive you.
00:14:06It looked very promising when I passed you back there.
00:14:10I've never been arrested in my life, Mr. O'Barrant.
00:14:12You should have been.
00:14:13Yes, I know, but I never am.
00:14:17I suppose I shouldn't confess this to the District Attorney.
00:14:20Well, Miss Throne, I'm not a very important District Attorney.
00:14:23My jurisdiction is pretty much limited to our little township here.
00:14:26So don't let it cramp your style too much.
00:14:30I wasn't thinking of making my life over.
00:14:33I...
00:14:45Now, he's going to be my partner in the race tomorrow,
00:14:47so I don't want you to pick on him.
00:14:49But he really is a very dangerous character.
00:14:51You can't get my vote, Mr. O'Barrant,
00:14:53if you're going to champion these soapbox auditors.
00:14:56No, no, no.
00:14:57All I say is that the police ought to treat a meeting of poor men
00:15:00just as fairly as they would a meeting of rich people.
00:15:02I've never heard of such an idea.
00:15:05That's ridiculous, you know.
00:15:07Exactly what you stand for, Mr. O'Barrant.
00:15:10I believe in the equal administration of the present law.
00:15:12Oh, nobody really believes in equality who's on top.
00:15:16I'm in favor of special privilege.
00:15:18Hear, hear.
00:15:19Mr. O'Barrant doesn't really believe it himself.
00:15:21Now, take the customs.
00:15:23Suppose a friend of yours got caught smuggling.
00:15:25Me, for instance.
00:15:26Would you be as ruthless as you would with my dressmaker?
00:15:28I only wish I had charge of the federal customs.
00:15:31Oh, it would turn out just the same.
00:15:34Even if you are a superman, what about your subordinates?
00:15:37After all, it's perfectly natural.
00:15:39They need the money, I need the freedom.
00:15:41Don't you ever try to bribe me, will you?
00:15:43I suppose you never broke the law.
00:15:45I'd like to break it right now.
00:15:47I'd like to steal you.
00:16:18Say, he's crazy.
00:16:19He's going to hurt Lydia.
00:16:27That's too sharp an angle.
00:16:28He ought not to do that.
00:16:29Lydia seems to be enjoying it.
00:16:31You suppose she's going to fall for that roughneck?
00:16:34Oh, it's J.B.
00:16:35Hello, children.
00:16:37Hello, Mr. O'Barrant.
00:16:38How are you?
00:16:38Hello there, O'Barrant.
00:16:39Hello, Piers.
00:16:40Hi.
00:16:40You've been out of town, haven't you?
00:16:42Yes, I've been away for a few days.
00:16:43Had to argue a case out in Detroit.
00:16:45But it's nice to be back and see all the pretty girls once again.
00:16:49Make your bow, Eleanor.
00:16:50He's not talking to me.
00:16:52Who else I'd like to know?
00:16:55The lady has just won the race.
00:16:58Oh, so that's what's going on.
00:17:01Well, it looks like my precious Lydia.
00:17:10Yes, sir, in the flesh.
00:17:12You might know she'd win.
00:17:13Don't be too sure she's yours, J.B.
00:17:15Now, now, Bobby.
00:17:16Don't make me unhappy.
00:17:18I know you're a dangerous rival.
00:17:20But I'm an obstinate old son of a gun.
00:17:22Well, I'm not talking about myself.
00:17:24One of your brother lawyers is taking her time today.
00:17:26What do you mean?
00:17:27Lydia's gone slummy.
00:17:28And now, she told her, I gotta get your way.
00:17:35Lights!
00:17:52I know you've got a good night.
00:17:54I'm throwing out my adventurer!
00:17:55Little iceberg.
00:17:55You know?
00:17:55Come on!
00:17:56You know, you've got a kickstand all the way.
00:18:01Well, if it isn't my old day, please.
00:18:03You were splendid. Congratulations.
00:18:05How's the great trade, huh? I'm awfully glad to see you.
00:18:08Well, you'd better be, because you're the reason I'm here.
00:18:10Uh-oh. That's right.
00:18:12For seven long years, I've been pursuing you, young lady.
00:18:15And every time I go out of town for three days,
00:18:17I come back and find you with a different man.
00:18:18Isn't it disgusting? And you know, the worst of it is,
00:18:20I encourage them.
00:18:22Triumph of every lady.
00:18:24You were wonderful.
00:18:25Were you, though?
00:18:27Come along, child.
00:18:27Well, there. Sit down and take a rest.
00:18:29Oh, no. It's more fun to walk about and be complimented.
00:18:31Where's my partner?
00:18:35Well, why don't you jump around and brag a little?
00:18:38Or maybe you don't think we were any good.
00:18:40Just luck, huh?
00:18:40No, no, no. We were good. You were.
00:18:43Oh, good man.
00:18:44Well, you're used to it.
00:18:46Oh, not for you.
00:18:47Well, give me a chance. I only met you yesterday.
00:18:49Let me break in gradually.
00:18:51Oh, you've done very well.
00:18:53In fact, I'm so impressed,
00:18:54I'm going to make you take the first dance with me tonight.
00:18:56Oh, that's awfully sweet of you, but I can't stay for the dance.
00:19:00You can't?
00:19:01Oh, well, now, I'm heartbroken.
00:19:02See, I have some very important business appointments early in the morning.
00:19:05Business?
00:19:06Are you going to let business interfere with your weekend?
00:19:09Oh, such a man.
00:19:12You have more complexes than anyone I ever knew in my life.
00:19:16You know what should happen to you?
00:19:17You ought to be psychoanalyzed.
00:19:20Would you like to take the job?
00:19:21Oh, well...
00:19:32Oh, and we are...
00:19:37Aye, aye, aye.
00:19:40Oh, I see.
00:19:44Oh!
00:19:45Oh, I see.
00:19:45Oh, oh.
00:19:46Oh, oh, oh.
00:19:47Oh, oh.
00:19:49Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:19:55Do you want me to tell Miss Paul that she...
00:19:57Oh, no, thanks.
00:19:58Just have my car brought her up.
00:20:00Yeah.
00:20:22Well, at last I have you alone.
00:20:25Look out for this fellow, Lydia.
00:20:27I think he has designs on you.
00:20:30You bet I have, and I don't need any help from you either.
00:20:33I want to consult you on a very vital matter
00:20:36concerning the welfare of the world.
00:20:38Well, if it's as important as all that, you don't mind it.
00:20:40No, I don't.
00:20:41Now, here's the problem.
00:20:43If you held an old Trump hand,
00:20:45you're talking to him.
00:20:58Well, you're really going.
00:21:00I told you I had to.
00:21:01Oh, I never knew such a stubborn man.
00:21:03Oh, I'd love to stay.
00:21:04You know that.
00:21:05Well, how do I know that?
00:21:06Because I'd like to be near you.
00:21:08Then why don't you?
00:21:09I promised to be in my office at 8 o'clock.
00:21:12If you really want to stay, you would.
00:21:15Don't you understand?
00:21:17People do what they really want to.
00:21:19I know that.
00:21:20Isn't it odd?
00:21:22We differ in almost every conceivable thing in this world.
00:21:26And yet we're attracted to each other.
00:21:29Are we?
00:21:31Yes.
00:21:32How do you know?
00:21:35Well, I think so.
00:21:38Maybe we're repelled.
00:21:40They say the two things are very close.
00:21:43Maybe that's it.
00:21:46How are we going to find out?
00:21:53What is it?
00:21:57What is it?
00:22:05Dan.
00:22:07Yes.
00:22:08I want to tell you something that sounds awfully silly.
00:22:11What?
00:22:13You think I'm a pretty terrible person, I imagine.
00:22:16Oh, no, I don't.
00:22:18Yes.
00:22:18You think I'm just a flirt.
00:22:20And I am.
00:22:22Because I've never liked anyone before well enough to even kiss me.
00:22:31Well, you're getting to your evening clothes.
00:22:34We'll dance every dance together all the rest of the night.
00:22:36Oh, I can't.
00:22:38But you're going to.
00:22:40You're going to have to do it.
00:22:41I know it.
00:23:00But I want to know who did it.
00:23:02You'll have to give me a little time, madam.
00:23:04We can't do these things in a minute, you know.
00:23:06Lydia.
00:23:07What's the matter?
00:23:07The most shocking thing we've been robbed.
00:23:09Your jewels.
00:23:09All of them.
00:23:10And whatever money you had in there, too, is gone.
00:23:13Mawson thought he heard someone prowling around in the night.
00:23:15So he came down with a flashlight and found the safe door ajar.
00:23:19Then he awakened me.
00:23:20We searched the whole house.
00:23:22But there wasn't a broken lock or a sign of how anyone could have gotten in.
00:23:26Looks to me strictly like an inside job.
00:23:28Oh, Lydia.
00:23:29This is the sheriff.
00:23:30How do you do, miss?
00:23:30This is Miss Thorne.
00:23:31Mawson, will you please get my bags out of the car?
00:23:34Very good, miss.
00:23:34I feel dreadful it should have happened while you were gone, darling.
00:23:38I do hope everything was insured.
00:23:39I don't care about having the whole house upset over a few jewels.
00:23:56Will you tell Miss Thorne I'd like to speak to her?
00:23:59What name should I say, sir?
00:24:00Dan O'Bannon.
00:24:01Very good, sir.
00:24:07The thing for me to do is to get all the servants here and question them.
00:24:11Oh, my servants have all been with me for years.
00:24:13Well, that ain't no proof of anything.
00:24:15The sheriff thinks it might be Evans.
00:24:17What?
00:24:18There must be some mistake.
00:24:19I can't believe it.
00:24:20She's in your room now taking care of your things just as if nothing had happened.
00:24:23Of course.
00:24:24Mr. O'Bannon to see you, miss.
00:24:26Mr. O'Bannon?
00:24:27Yes.
00:24:29I'll be right down.
00:24:30Who is it, Lydia?
00:24:32A friend I met at Eleanor's.
00:24:34You'd approve of him, Benny.
00:24:36A real man for a change.
00:24:40Hello.
00:24:43How are you?
00:24:45I don't suppose you expected a call from me quite so soon.
00:24:48Did you hear about our robbery?
00:24:50The what?
00:24:51Well, I thought that's why you came.
00:24:53No, I don't know anything about it.
00:24:54My jewels have all been stolen.
00:24:56No, really?
00:24:57Mm-hmm.
00:24:57I found the house all upside down when I got home.
00:24:59I've only been here a few minutes.
00:25:00I found Benny all upset, and sheriffs and police have been running all over the place.
00:25:04Come on, sit down.
00:25:07I hope for the Dickens they get them back for me before the Van Cleef party.
00:25:10I had a dress made especially to match my emerald, and now somebody's gone and stolen the emerald.
00:25:16Then maybe you could help.
00:25:17Do you want to go upstairs and see where they unlocked the safe?
00:25:19Well, not just now, please, Lydia.
00:25:20I want to talk to you.
00:25:22You must be dead.
00:25:24You didn't get a bit of sleep, did you?
00:25:25No.
00:25:26You look tired.
00:25:28Hey, Lydia.
00:25:28Yes?
00:25:30It's about your jewels, so to speak, that I've come.
00:25:33My jewels?
00:25:34Well, not the ones that were stolen.
00:25:36The ones you give away.
00:25:39What do you mean?
00:25:42Well, there's a young man on the police force that I've taken rather an interest in.
00:25:45He comes to me for advice occasionally.
00:25:46As a matter of fact, I got him his job.
00:25:48Drummond, his name is.
00:25:50And he came to see me this morning to get something off his conscience.
00:25:55And I suppose he was a bigger and better man when he got through.
00:25:59I think so.
00:26:01Oh, then really, you're a creep.
00:26:03You know, if you ever slip one more degree in the wrong direction, you'll be a reformer.
00:26:08I wouldn't like that because you'd grow a long black beard.
00:26:11I'm really serious.
00:26:12Well, so am I.
00:26:14And I'm delighted that your protege has improved his conscience.
00:26:18But now, after all, what's that got to do with me?
00:26:27He wanted to know what to do with this.
00:26:37I'd suggest he take it to a pawn shop.
00:26:40I believe that's the custom.
00:26:45He's very sorry that he accepted it in the first place.
00:26:47The whole affair's been bothering him ever since.
00:26:50And he wants to get rid of it and clear the thing up.
00:26:53Well, I'm sure I can't be anybody help to him.
00:26:55Unless you'd like me to furnish soft music or burst into tears or something of that kind.
00:27:00I told him I'd give it back to him.
00:27:06It's not mine.
00:27:08You don't deny that it was yours.
00:27:09Deny?
00:27:10I don't deny anything.
00:27:13This is the most ridiculous performance I ever saw in my life.
00:27:17Now.
00:27:19Dan, you will admit you've been very silly, won't you?
00:27:22On the contrary.
00:27:23I'll have to tell you very frankly that if you continue to offer bribes, you're going to get in trouble.
00:27:27I think you've said just about enough.
00:27:30Do you understand the harm you're doing?
00:27:32I can't believe you'd be so cruel, so heartless.
00:27:35How dare you talk to me this way?
00:27:37Well, it's a presumption.
00:27:38Because I've said a kind word to you, you've come up here to straighten out my morals for me.
00:27:43Why, I wasted any time with you in the first place will always be one of life's mysteries.
00:27:47I must have been out of my mind.
00:27:49It won't happen again.
00:27:52As long as Mr. O'Bannon's here, he'd be the one to help you out as far as that girl's
00:27:57concerned.
00:27:58Lydia?
00:28:00Oh, Mr. O'Bannon.
00:28:01I'm Miss Bennett, Lydia's aunt.
00:28:03Oh, yeah.
00:28:04The sheriff's just been telling me it was Evan.
00:28:07I beg your pardon?
00:28:08It was Evan that stole the jewels Lydia's maid.
00:28:10It isn't that terrible.
00:28:11I don't know what Lydia will say when she finds out.
00:28:14I just can't believe it.
00:28:15I feel there must be some mistakes.
00:28:17I didn't ring for you.
00:28:18You don't know where my things are.
00:28:20Oh, I'm not going to stand for such a stupidity very much longer.
00:28:24Yes?
00:28:27Well, Evan, it's about time you gave me some attention.
00:28:30Yes, don't stand there like a gawk now.
00:28:32Get my thing.
00:28:34The sheriff told me I might come in and see you, Miss.
00:28:37Well, what do you mean?
00:28:40I took the jewels, Miss.
00:28:43Evans.
00:28:45Evans, you took them?
00:28:46Yes, Miss.
00:28:48I feel better now I told about it.
00:28:51Why did you do such a thing?
00:28:54I don't know.
00:28:56Well, if you needed anything, why didn't you come to me?
00:28:59Haven't I always treated you?
00:29:00Well, haven't I always given you anything reasonable?
00:29:04Yes, Miss.
00:29:06I was crazy, I guess.
00:29:08Yes, I should think you were.
00:29:10Because he didn't wait for me anyhow.
00:29:12What?
00:29:13He went off and left me after he promised not to.
00:29:17But you took them for some man, is that it?
00:29:21He said if I'd get him the money, he'd stay.
00:29:24And then you were throwing your jewelry around
00:29:27and saying you didn't even remember about that bracelet.
00:29:30It all just seemed to mean so little to you that
00:29:34I just thought I'd take it.
00:29:37And then he left me anyhow.
00:29:39So I guess it's better to find out what kind he is.
00:29:43Even if I have to go to jail for it.
00:29:46I can't understand how you do this to me.
00:29:49It don't seem right for you to have everything
00:29:51and mean nothing.
00:29:54She'll have to come now.
00:30:02Well, good-bye, Miss.
00:30:12Oh, dear.
00:30:16Now, Miss Evans, this here is the district attorney.
00:30:19Says he's going to see that you get a square deal.
00:30:21So he can be sure you've done the right thing
00:30:23and come and clean.
00:30:27Mister?
00:30:28Yes?
00:30:30How long will they lock me up?
00:30:32Well, that all depends.
00:30:34If I could get out soon,
00:30:36I wouldn't do anything like that again.
00:30:37No, I don't think you would.
00:30:40How long will it be?
00:30:42I'll see what I can do.
00:30:45Thank you, sir.
00:30:50Well, Dan, we'll see you down there.
00:30:51Yeah.
00:30:52Wish everything went as smooth as this day's work.
00:30:57Oh, uh,
00:30:59ask Miss Thorne if I may see her for a moment.
00:31:02Very good, sir.
00:31:11The case is clear against her, Miss Bennett.
00:31:17Miss Thorne is not in, sir.
00:31:18I'm sure that anything Miss Thorne says
00:31:20will be taken into consideration by the judge.
00:31:26There, uh...
00:31:27There have been extenuating circumstances, of course.
00:31:30And, uh,
00:31:31Miss Thorne can help the girl
00:31:32if she wants to tell the judge
00:31:34that she's been, uh,
00:31:36careless about her valuables.
00:31:39Miss Thorne is not in, sir.
00:31:43Did she, uh,
00:31:46give you any message?
00:31:47Only that she's
00:31:48not in, sir.
00:31:50I see.
00:32:00Lydia!
00:32:07That's Thorne.
00:32:09Lydia!
00:32:13What in the world has come over you?
00:32:14Oh, do you think I want to waste
00:32:15any more time on that person?
00:32:17He seems very nice.
00:32:19Well, having that drunken attorney
00:32:21prowling around my house.
00:32:22He wasn't drunk at all.
00:32:23Well, he used to be when he was at college.
00:32:25Bobby said so.
00:32:26He wants to help Evans.
00:32:28Oh, he'll be a great help.
00:32:30What a chic way to do it,
00:32:32sending her to jail.
00:32:33He wants to get her off
00:32:34with a life sentence.
00:32:35He said that you'll tell the judge
00:32:36that you were careless with your jewels.
00:32:38I...
00:32:39I should tell the judge.
00:32:41If he's going to champion Evans,
00:32:43she won't need any help from me.
00:32:45After all,
00:32:46Evans stole the jewels,
00:32:47didn't she?
00:32:58Oh, she's there now.
00:33:00Bridge.
00:33:01Well, only last week
00:33:02she promised me through her aunt
00:33:03that she'd come to the trial.
00:33:05So you might tell her the result.
00:33:07All right.
00:33:08I will.
00:33:09Goodbye.
00:33:19Lydia, did you know
00:33:20when your maid was to go on trial?
00:33:22Evans?
00:33:24No, I've forgotten the exact...
00:33:26When does she?
00:33:27I thought you had decided
00:33:28to testify for her.
00:33:29Well, yes.
00:33:30When's the trial?
00:33:31It's all over.
00:33:33What?
00:33:34Somebody just called me
00:33:35and told me about it.
00:33:37Well, what happened?
00:33:38They sentenced her to not
00:33:39less than three and a half years
00:33:40and not more than 15 years.
00:33:43Evans was sentenced
00:33:44to 15 years?
00:33:46Yes.
00:33:47Oh, that's a little too much.
00:33:48Why, those men must be mad.
00:33:50She was a fool to come south.
00:33:52Now, what do I care about my jewels?
00:33:5415 years?
00:33:55They're crazy.
00:33:56Perhaps if you had attended the trial...
00:33:58Oh, now, don't say that, Eleanor.
00:34:00Don't say that.
00:34:00How was I to know what it was?
00:34:02I'm not a mind reader.
00:34:04I forgot.
00:34:05Didn't you promise Mr. O'Bannon?
00:34:08I wouldn't promise him anything.
00:34:10But I'll make him do something about this.
00:34:11You see if I do.
00:34:12I'm going back to Charlie.
00:34:16Darling, I don't want you to...
00:34:17I'm going to his office right now.
00:34:19I'll see your friend, Mr. O'Bannon.
00:34:21You know in your heart
00:34:22you don't really dislike him
00:34:23as much as you pretend.
00:34:24I despise him.
00:34:25The very fact that you feel so strongly about him
00:34:27implies quite an interest.
00:34:29Oh, don't talk about him, Eleanor.
00:34:30He's the most disagreeable person
00:34:31I ever met in my life.
00:34:33I hate him.
00:35:18I hate him.
00:35:43I hate him.
00:36:00My gosh, but they're traveling.
00:36:04My gosh, but they're traveling.
00:36:31He's hurt.
00:36:32He's hurt.
00:36:32He's hurt bad, man.
00:36:33He can get with him.
00:36:33Get him over.
00:36:34Get him over.
00:36:34Somebody do something.
00:36:37We've got to get him to a hospital quick.
00:36:38I saw him.
00:36:39Somebody do something.
00:36:44Come on.
00:36:44Here's the picture.
00:36:46Here's the car over here, boys.
00:36:49Take it easy.
00:36:50Get the traffic out of the way.
00:36:53Get those cars out of there.
00:36:55Come on, move those cars.
00:37:00Head up to the hospital.
00:37:01They can't get them on it.
00:37:04Oh, yeah.
00:37:08All right.
00:37:11Come around over there.
00:37:12Hold on a minute.
00:37:15Did you see him come around over the place?
00:37:17Come on in.
00:37:17Move right there.
00:37:36I've seen her do it.
00:37:37I've seen her do it.
00:37:40I've seen her do it.
00:37:43I've seen her do it.
00:37:44I've seen her do it.
00:38:27I've seen her do it.
00:38:27I've seen her do it.
00:38:28I've seen her do it.
00:38:30I've seen her do it.
00:38:32I've seen her do it.
00:38:33I've seen her do it.
00:38:34I've seen her do it.
00:38:36I've seen her do it.
00:38:37I've seen her do it.
00:38:40I've seen her do it.
00:38:44Maybe you'd better lie down for a while.
00:38:48Well, no.
00:38:50No, I'm quite all right.
00:38:52A fracture of the base.
00:38:55If he gets through the next 24 hours, he'll have a 50% chance.
00:39:00I want the best surgeon that can be obtained.
00:39:03Yes, we understand. We're doing everything possible.
00:39:05Yes.
00:39:07I'll leave you my address and my telephone number.
00:39:10You'll let me know in case of any change.
00:39:12Very well.
00:39:19I'll never drive another car again as long as I live.
00:39:39My dear Mr. Albee, this is wonderful of you to come to us at this time.
00:39:43For what I do is nothing.
00:39:45How is Lydia?
00:39:46Oh, it's a shock. She'll never get over. Never.
00:39:48Is she taking it very badly?
00:39:50She didn't sleep all night. She's kept to her room today. She won't talk.
00:39:53The only time she speaks is to ask if we've heard anything from the hospital.
00:39:57Doesn't she know?
00:39:58What?
00:39:59He's dead. He died at 9.30 this morning. The newspapers are headlining it. I'm afraid it's
00:40:05going to be rather embarrassing. He was quite a popular young fellow.
00:40:09You mean it's serious?
00:40:10Serious? To kill a man while violating the law?
00:40:13Oh, but it can be arraigned.
00:40:15I don't want it arraigned.
00:40:16Lydia.
00:40:16My dear. My dear child.
00:40:20Why didn't you call me?
00:40:21Oh, I knew he wouldn't live. Now, why doesn't somebody tell me?
00:40:25Now, you mustn't pay any attention to anything that we said. My dear Lydia. Sit down.
00:40:37Now, I've come to help you. And I want you to behave. We've got to make a fight for it.
00:40:43And the sooner we realize it, the better.
00:40:45The coroner will have to hold you.
00:40:47What's that mean?
00:40:48Of course, we can furnish bail.
00:40:49That he will be arrested. Is that what you mean?
00:40:51I'm afraid it is.
00:40:53Is that necessary?
00:40:55It's a mere technicality. All we have to do is to sign a few papers and she'll be free immediately.
00:41:00I've killed a man. Why shouldn't I go to prison?
00:41:02My dear Lydia, you must not take that attitude.
00:41:05I don't care much one way or the other.
00:41:07But you must care. You must fight.
00:41:10Well, I did it. There's no argument about that.
00:41:12There's a great deal of argument about it, my dear.
00:41:15Now, I'm going to push all my business out of the way, cast everything else aside, and go into court
00:41:21and defend you myself.
00:41:22But you've got to help.
00:41:23O'Bannon is going to make it hot for us.
00:41:26O'Bannon?
00:41:27You don't know him as I do.
00:41:28Dan O'Bannon?
00:41:29Yes.
00:41:31Will he be? He'll try the case against me?
00:41:34Of course it would come under his jurisdiction.
00:41:37Oh, I see.
00:41:39He's an absolute fanatic. The whole cover of his campaign has been law enforcement equally for the rich and poor.
00:41:45Do you think he wants to convict me?
00:41:46Well, it will look pretty bad for him from a political point of view if he doesn't.
00:41:51And he'll have his eye on...
00:41:52There would be publicity. Political advantage for him in sending me to prison.
00:41:55It would be a great feather in his cap.
00:41:57Well, he'll never have that feather in his cap.
00:42:01Well, that's better. That's more like it.
00:42:03Dan O'Bannon used me to make a Roman circus for himself.
00:42:06Of course, we'll bring pressure to bear.
00:42:08And after I've had a personal talk with him, I think he'll listen to reason.
00:42:11He doesn't have to listen to reason.
00:42:12I don't care how much money we spend. We'll beat him.
00:42:15Don't think it hasn't got my goat, Foster, because it has.
00:42:19And I won't let them know it.
00:42:20It seems like a fairly clear case to me.
00:42:23It is a clear case.
00:42:26But you see, Foster, I...
00:42:29I love the girl.
00:42:33Yeah.
00:42:35You don't need to tell that to the world, are there?
00:42:37No, sir.
00:42:43My insides are being torn apart by this thing.
00:42:46I know it's a clear case.
00:42:47First she bribed this boy, and then she killed him.
00:42:49She thinks herself above law. She should be punished.
00:42:53But if she were to come to me and ask me to drop the case...
00:43:00I don't know what I'm going to do.
00:43:03Honest, Foster, I don't know what I'm going to do.
00:43:05Well, I'm with you, Chief, whatever you do.
00:43:15Mr. Albee, to see Mr. O'Bannon.
00:43:30Well, O'Bannon, glad to see you.
00:43:32Sit down, Mr. O'Bannon.
00:43:33Thanks.
00:43:36The last time we had a good talk, as I remember it, was out at the Chicago Convention.
00:43:43You said some things at the time that pleased me a great deal.
00:43:46Anyhow, we won.
00:43:48Yes, we certainly did.
00:43:49To tell you the truth, I've watched you very carefully ever since.
00:43:52You know, when we find a man of unusual ability, we'd like to give him something to do.
00:43:56And, of course, you've been watched in the way you handle this office, O'Bannon.
00:43:59And I want to say that you've pleased me, and you've pleased others who have a certain amount of power.
00:44:06In fact, there's going to be an opening soon that will require the services of a young man and a
00:44:12capable one.
00:44:13And it's something that may interest you.
00:44:16Financially, it will pay about ten times your present earning capacity.
00:44:21But, however, that's something for the future.
00:44:23I came, as you may have guessed, about this unfortunate affair of poor Miss Thorne.
00:44:30Yes.
00:44:30You know her, I believe, as we've met.
00:44:32This whole thing is about killing her.
00:44:35Really, I don't believe she'll be able to go into court.
00:44:38Oh, I see.
00:44:38Well, then she'll have to, poor child, and he'll have it all gone over before a jury.
00:44:44Oh, but it's a terrible thing for her to kill a man, and her with a woman's natural sensitiveness.
00:44:50I've sat with her for hours, and it's pitiful.
00:44:54Simply pitiful.
00:44:56Anything you can do to make it easier for her, O'Bannon, I will take as a personal favor.
00:45:03A favor I shan't forget, believe me.
00:45:06The case against Miss Thorne is very strong.
00:45:09Yes, in the newspaper.
00:45:11But I make it a rule never to be influenced by them.
00:45:14I make it a rule never to be influenced by anything except the facts in the case.
00:45:18Well, we have to be practical.
00:45:20There are times when every sensible man is willing to make a compromise.
00:45:24Just what is your interest in this case, Mr. O'Bannon?
00:45:27Well, that's a rather intimate question, Mr. District Attorney.
00:45:34But I don't mind telling you that I have every hope of making her my wife.
00:45:43And is that supposed to influence me?
00:45:46I beg your pardon?
00:46:03There's nothing I can do for you.
00:46:04You mean you don't mind making enemies?
00:46:07I sometimes like it.
00:46:09I prefer it to taking bribes, especially political ones.
00:46:13I think you're going to get yourself in a great deal of trouble for nothing.
00:46:17You mean that no jury will convict her?
00:46:19Yes.
00:46:20That's what I mean.
00:46:21Well, I think that the grand jury will hold her.
00:46:24That when she's brought to trial, a conviction can be had and that I shall get it.
00:46:40All right.
00:46:41All right.
00:46:42All right.
00:46:52Step right in.
00:46:53Step right inside.
00:46:55Witness right inside.
00:46:56Right up.
00:46:57Where's the press?
00:46:58I'm a witness.
00:46:59All right.
00:47:00Step right inside.
00:47:02Don't block the door, please.
00:47:03Step right inside, please.
00:47:08From the press.
00:47:09Right up.
00:47:10Right up the press table.
00:47:11Step right inside, please.
00:47:12Don't block the aisle.
00:47:13Don't block the aisle.
00:47:14Step right inside, please.
00:47:15Step right inside.
00:47:16If you'll pass.
00:47:18Step right inside, please.
00:47:19Don't block the aisle.
00:47:20Just take seats inside, please.
00:47:23Forget anything, Chief?
00:47:27Oh.
00:47:28Oh, I just thought I'd have a drag before we go in.
00:47:32All right.
00:47:32Step right inside, please.
00:47:33Watch your business, please.
00:47:34Right up the press table.
00:47:36Just a moment, please.
00:47:37Just a moment.
00:48:00Order.
00:48:01The court.
00:48:17The indictment in this case is manslaughter.
00:48:21People will show that the defendant, while operating an automobile on the highway of this county in a reckless and
00:48:26lawless manner, killed John Drummond.
00:48:28The defendant rounded a corner in the road by a device known as skidding the car.
00:48:33That is to say, still going at a high rate of speed, she turned her wheel sharply to the right
00:48:38and set the brakes.
00:48:40This procedure, which is always somewhat of a reckless performance, was, in this case, criminal.
00:48:46With the officer known to be overlapping her car, she might as well have picked it up and struck him
00:48:50with it.
00:48:51Her car did strike him, smashing his motorcycle and causing injury from which he died within a few hours.
00:49:22Look at the jury, please, not at me.
00:49:26Miss Thorne, at what hour did you leave Miss Pellington's?
00:49:30About 2.35.
00:49:32And how far is it from there to the scene of the accident?
00:49:3615 miles.
00:49:39And you calculate that as Drummond's watch was stopped at 3.12, you drove 15 miles in 37 minutes.
00:49:46That is at the rate of 24 miles an hour, is that right?
00:49:49Yes.
00:49:50And you never ran faster than 35 miles an hour?
00:49:53No.
00:49:54Don't look at me.
00:49:55Look at the jury, please.
00:49:59While you were at Miss Pellington's, did she receive a phone call?
00:50:03I don't know.
00:50:04You were playing bridge?
00:50:06Yes.
00:50:07Don't you remember that the butler called her to the telephone?
00:50:11Yes, perhaps he did.
00:50:12And Miss Pellington left the table.
00:50:19You can remember, can't you, that Miss Pellington went inside to answer the phone?
00:50:23Yes.
00:50:24And when she returned, she told you something that caused you to get up abruptly and drive back to town?
00:50:30Yes.
00:50:30Then if that telephone call came at 8 minutes to 3, you couldn't have left Miss Pellington's at 2.35,
00:50:37you must have left at 2.52, or even later.
00:50:40And as the accident took place at 3.12, you ran the distance in 20 minutes.
00:50:46That is to say, at the rate of 40 miles an hour.
00:50:48I object.
00:50:49Your Honor, we have no evidence of such a phone call.
00:50:52Your Honor, I offer the records of the telephone company.
00:50:54Only one call was received between 2 and 3, and that came 8 minutes to 3.
00:51:05And finally, gentlemen of the jury, I ask you not to be led away by the emotional appeals of our
00:51:13ambitious young prosecutor.
00:51:14Not to convict an innocent young girl whose only crime seems to be that she is the custodian of wealth.
00:51:22Wealth that her father, an American workman, won from American industry.
00:51:28I ask you, gentlemen, for a verdict of not guilty.
00:51:38So, gentlemen of the jury, the only question is, has the defendant committed the crime for which she has been
00:51:46indicted?
00:51:48The counsel for the defense seems to assume that the rich are not so well off in our courts as
00:51:53the poor.
00:51:53However, that has not been my experience.
00:51:57Only last week, the driver of a delivery truck was sentenced to 3 years in prison on much less evidence.
00:52:05I ask you to face the facts with courage and honesty, and to bring in a verdict of guilty.
00:52:45Defendant rise, face the jury.
00:52:53We find the defendant guilty of manslaughter.
00:53:00Order in the court.
00:53:24Yes, yes, they'll appeal, they'll appeal, sure.
00:53:26That'll take about six months.
00:53:28But they'll lose.
00:53:32Case is too tight.
00:53:35She can't get out of it.
00:53:36Well, it's been a wonderful thing for you, Chief.
00:53:38I should say.
00:53:39Has it?
00:53:40Can you imagine what the papers are going to say tomorrow?
00:53:42You'll be in line for something pretty slick, do you know it?
00:53:45Nope.
00:53:46I'm resigning.
00:53:47You're what?
00:53:49I'm resigning.
00:53:49I'm going to quit.
00:53:52Guess I haven't got the stomach to be a district attorney.
00:53:56Anyhow, I don't seem to like the job anymore.
00:54:06You don't suppose he really meant it, do you?
00:54:08Yes, I'm afraid he did.
00:54:13They tell me he's checking out of the club.
00:54:16Who, Dan?
00:54:17Is he going to move to the city?
00:54:18That's what the boy said.
00:54:21Next here he is.
00:54:24Hello there, Dan.
00:54:25Hello, Ed.
00:54:26Hello.
00:54:27Hey, what's this about your leaving?
00:54:29Yeah, I'm going to town for a while.
00:54:31Sit down.
00:54:32I want to talk to you.
00:54:33I want to congratulate you on that thorn case.
00:54:36It was a great piece of work, fella.
00:54:39Took a lot of courage.
00:54:40Yeah, all right.
00:54:42I guess there's no use offering you a drink.
00:54:45Why not?
00:54:46Well, I thought you were on the wagon.
00:54:49Well, I have been for six years, but I guess I'll get off.
00:54:53I feel like celebrating.
00:55:11Hello, Jim.
00:55:12Hello, Irving.
00:55:30All right, Miss Thorne.
00:55:31You'll have to come along now.
00:55:32Goodbye, Lydia.
00:55:39Lydia!
00:55:40Lydia!
00:55:43Goodbye, darling.
00:55:45Goodbye.
00:55:46Goodbye.
00:55:46shaking.
00:56:15Bye.
00:56:16Here you are again.
00:56:17Yes, Mrs. Smith. Here I am again.
00:56:21I suppose this is Lydia Thorne.
00:56:23Yes.
00:56:25All right.
00:56:31Just fill in this blank.
00:56:34Elsie, you attend to this.
00:56:40Train a little bit late, eh, James?
00:56:42Not so bad as last time.
00:56:44There's kind of a heavy storm down the river.
00:56:45Well, I guess this will be about the last one we'll have.
00:56:49Yeah, the snow is going out.
00:56:52The marbons will be coming in, first thing you know.
00:56:59Pardon me.
00:57:01Crime?
00:57:02Yes.
00:57:02What you were sentenced for.
00:57:05Oh, manslaughter.
00:57:07Yes.
00:57:07Just write it in.
00:57:12All right, Mrs. Dorgan.
00:57:17That's all right.
00:57:27Go along with Mrs. Dorgan.
00:57:32Well, goodbye, Mrs. Dorgan.
00:57:35Goodbye.
00:57:37Goodbye.
00:57:39Goodbye.
00:57:45Goodbye, Mrs. Dorgan.
00:57:52Goodbye.
00:57:54Goodbye.
00:57:58Goodbye.
00:57:58Goodbye.
00:58:07Goodbye.
00:58:20Watch your peelings, girls.
00:58:33Now you can take off your things.
00:58:35What?
00:58:36Your clothes have got to be disinfected.
00:58:38Well, I assure you they don't need it.
00:58:40Just undress, miss, and don't argue about it.
00:58:46Louisa!
00:58:48Get an outfit from Mrs. Allen and bring it in here.
00:58:50See if the new girl takes it back and puts it on.
00:59:05Why, Evan!
00:59:07Why, Thorne!
00:59:11Yes.
00:59:13I suppose you hate me.
00:59:15Do you?
00:59:17I ought to love you.
00:59:19You were the mean for getting me all this free board.
00:59:24All right.
00:59:25Hurry up with your shower and get into these things.
00:59:49let us do it.
00:59:54Brother.
00:59:55Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:00:43Is that new dame still walking around?
01:00:46Hey, you, beautiful.
01:00:48What's the matter with you?
01:00:49Got hot feet?
01:00:50I told you once to lay down.
01:00:52Don't you suppose nobody wants to get any sleep
01:00:55in this whole house?
01:00:56Oh, shut up, Maggie. You make more noise than she does.
01:01:00Leave a walk, Maggie. You was once young yourself.
01:01:06Maybe that ain't her. Maybe she brought her boyfriend in with her.
01:01:10So's your old man.
01:01:12Well, we got her quiet, anyhow.
01:01:29Oh, my God.
01:01:57Oh, my God.
01:02:21Hold on.
01:02:25This is Mr. O'Bannon.
01:02:27Oh, hello there, Peters.
01:02:29Ain't seen you in a long while.
01:02:31Oh, that's right.
01:02:32I read about you the other day in the paper.
01:02:34Some case you went a long while back was upheld by the high court.
01:02:37And they sent the day in the jail, ain't that right?
01:02:40Yeah, yeah, that's right.
01:02:43I just want to take this chance to thank you, Mr. O'Bannon.
01:02:46For what, sending you to prison?
01:02:48For getting some sense into me.
01:02:51I'm paroled now, and I got a good job.
01:02:53Glad you're getting along so well.
01:02:56How's things by you?
01:02:59All right.
01:03:00Listen, Mr. O'Bannon, I hope you won't think I'm fresh.
01:03:04But I'd be glad to do you any favor, if I could.
01:03:06Oh, I guess I'm saying it all in the wrong words.
01:03:09But you did plenty for me.
01:03:10And if there's anything I can do, I mean, if you need anything.
01:03:13That's pretty nice of you to want to come through for me, Peters.
01:03:17I suppose I do look kind of down and out.
01:03:20No, no. Gee, you look swell.
01:03:23Of course, I knew you didn't have your job any longer.
01:03:25But, gee, everybody gets broke sometimes.
01:03:28I've been on a bender, Peters.
01:03:31A good long one.
01:03:34I guess it's about time I followed your example and got back to work.
01:03:38Well, anything good that came off with me was all you were doing, Mr. O'Bannon.
01:03:41I'll tell you that.
01:03:43All right.
01:03:44Supposing I get off this bat and go get myself a job.
01:03:48And that'll be all you're doing.
01:03:50Well, I guess you're giving me the laugh now.
01:03:53No.
01:03:54I'm serious.
01:03:56This has been just what I needed to snap me out of.
01:03:59That's all right.
01:04:02I'll take a bow.
01:04:02...
01:04:10...
01:04:15...
01:04:17...
01:04:18...
01:04:19...
01:04:20...
01:04:40Let's go.
01:04:42That's enough of this squad.
01:04:43All right, Mrs. Allen.
01:04:47Now girls, be just as particular
01:04:49as though you were in your own home.
01:04:50I'll come back and see how well you've done.
01:04:52Hurry up now and get busy.
01:04:58Get back in line.
01:04:59Oh, you're on my foot, you big son.
01:05:01Well, I'll get it.
01:05:02Well, you're better.
01:05:03Well, you don't have to squawk about us.
01:05:05Even a rotten lot of equipment will give you this.
01:05:07Take it anywhere, my poor heart.
01:05:19Weary, weary, my poor soul.
01:05:31Never, ever.
01:05:34Say, I was in jail in California.
01:05:37I'll give you a chance about that in California.
01:05:41Ain't no other thing.
01:05:45Always get busy.
01:05:47All right, Princess.
01:05:48Get yourself some water.
01:05:49It won't come to find you, you know.
01:06:04Can't see no hope, no light.
01:06:11Right here, Duchess.
01:06:16Right here, Duchess.
01:06:17Every morning, my home.
01:06:22Oh, I'm losing.
01:06:24I do believe you've drawn the Duchess too hot.
01:06:28Come on, Hanson.
01:06:29Stick your head in there.
01:06:31You might as well get used to it.
01:06:32I can.
01:06:33Oh, yes, you can.
01:06:34I'll show you how it's done.
01:06:36Oh, no!
01:06:38Hang, listen, you.
01:06:39You took your hands off me.
01:06:40I'll take you to put on air.
01:06:42You let go of me.
01:06:45Hang.
01:06:46Oh!
01:06:48Oh!
01:06:51What are you doing, Hanson?
01:06:53Not living!
01:06:58Not living!
01:07:02That's the people that were there!
01:07:03Doing that!심cotters!
01:07:08Get up! Get
01:07:11Get off me!
01:07:18Get off me!
01:07:21Get off my books!
01:07:22Get off me! Get
01:07:23No!
01:07:25No!
01:07:32No!
01:07:33No!
01:07:36No!
01:07:38No!
01:07:39No!
01:07:41No!
01:07:42Quiet now!
01:07:42Quiet, I say!
01:07:43Line up against the wall!
01:07:45Line up there!
01:07:47Woo!
01:07:48That's my famous Trimmon!
01:07:49Fuzzle.
01:08:01What's the trouble?
01:08:02I didn't do nothing.
01:08:04Yeah, she butted into the fight.
01:08:05Well, that wasn't none of your business.
01:08:07All right, one at a time.
01:08:08Unless no one thinks she's so good to be scrubbing floors.
01:08:10I didn't say that.
01:08:12Oh, how you gonna scrub them if you don't stick your hands in the water?
01:08:15Yeah, she wouldn't scrub. That's what's the matter with her.
01:08:17I think she's too good for the rest of us, I suppose.
01:08:18I only said I couldn't put my hands in the water.
01:08:21I'll talk to you alone.
01:08:22Step forward to faces.
01:08:24Director, get back to yourself and stay there.
01:08:26All right, Mrs. Dalvin. This way.
01:08:44No matter whose fault this was,
01:08:46one of the first things you've got to learn is to work.
01:08:49You're here to be disciplined.
01:08:51We'll treat you fair if you do your part.
01:08:53I'll investigate this thing later,
01:08:55but for the present, you learn to scrub.
01:08:57So get to work and clean up this room.
01:10:29What are you doing?
01:10:32I'll help you a bit, miss.
01:10:40Ellen, what's your first name?
01:10:43Louisa.
01:10:46Thank you, Louisa.
01:11:05Bring them again, please.
01:11:07Good morning.
01:11:08Good morning, Mr. Vannis.
01:11:10Good morning, Mr. Cuddy.
01:11:11Say, Dan.
01:11:12Yes?
01:11:13I found the rest of those papers on the Blanding case.
01:11:15They're on your desk.
01:11:16Oh, thanks.
01:11:18I think they're going to settle out of court.
01:11:20So much the better.
01:11:21Yeah.
01:11:41Hello, Chief.
01:11:44Forster.
01:11:45Well, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
01:11:46Glad to see you, old boy.
01:11:48Why, George, sit down there, will you?
01:11:50You old son of a gun.
01:11:51I haven't seen you in a dog's age.
01:11:53How are you?
01:11:54I had some business here in the office,
01:11:56so I thought I'd wait and see you.
01:11:58Well, I'd have murdered you if you hadn't.
01:11:59How do you like it here, Chief?
01:12:01Oh, and happy as a bird.
01:12:03Getting along swell, too, aren't you?
01:12:05Well, they haven't kicked me out so far.
01:12:08Well, I hear they're going to take you in.
01:12:11Where'd you hear that?
01:12:12I was talking to your boss,
01:12:14and he said they were going to offer you a partnership.
01:12:17Oh, boy.
01:12:19Wouldn't that be wonderful?
01:12:23Well, how much longer will I have to wait?
01:12:25I'm sure I don't know.
01:12:27Should I see Mr. Curtis, please?
01:12:29Oh, hello there, Miss Bennett.
01:12:31How do you do, Mr. Curtis?
01:12:32I just want you to sign the petition.
01:12:34Of course I will.
01:12:35Come on in.
01:12:38Mr. Curtis never made any such promise.
01:12:40Well, he certainly...
01:12:41The old office isn't the same without you,
01:12:43even if you do like this better.
01:12:45Well, I wish you were here, too, Foster.
01:12:47He's in conference.
01:12:49No, I said he's in conference.
01:12:50I'll drop in again when I'm down.
01:12:52And when I do, I expect to see another name on that door.
01:12:56So long.
01:12:57So long.
01:13:08Good-bye.
01:13:09And thank you very much, Mr. Curtis.
01:13:11Not at all.
01:13:13Step in, gentlemen.
01:13:16Why, it's Miss Bennett, isn't it?
01:13:18How do you do, Mr. Bennett?
01:13:19How do you do?
01:13:21I, uh...
01:13:22I hope Miss Thorne is well.
01:13:24Oh, yes, she's well.
01:13:26And bearing up beautifully.
01:13:29We hope to get a pardon for her, Mr. Bannon.
01:13:31I've been working on it for a month.
01:13:33Mr. Curtis just signed the petition.
01:13:35Would you let me sign it?
01:13:36You?
01:13:37Yes.
01:13:38How could you?
01:13:40Well, what I did as an official
01:13:43has nothing to do with my personal feelings about the matter.
01:13:46Well, your name would help a great deal, I'm sure.
01:13:51You know, I've been up there every week to see her.
01:13:54Her courage is a lovely thing, Mr. Bannon.
01:13:57A beautiful thing.
01:13:59She suffered.
01:14:01If you could see those beautiful hands,
01:14:03all ruffled with hard work,
01:14:06and yet she smiles through it all.
01:14:09And somehow, of late, it seems,
01:14:11in a way, happy.
01:14:15I'd give anything to be able to
01:14:17help in some way.
01:14:20Anyway.
01:14:34If it takes four men 12 hours
01:14:37to dig a dish 100 feet long,
01:14:39how long will it take one man
01:14:41to dig the same dish?
01:14:42I'll take a look at it.
01:14:53Jeanette,
01:14:54you and Daisy may collect the papers.
01:14:56Yes, ma'am.
01:15:00Wait a minute.
01:15:01I ain't done yet.
01:15:02Give me time, won't you?
01:15:04All papers are immediately.
01:15:06That shouldn't take long.
01:15:07Did you have to come to me first, your tramp?
01:15:09I'll go lay a nail.
01:15:12I'll go lay a nail.
01:15:13Now, we've only got 15 minutes left, girls.
01:15:15I'm going to let you have a spell down.
01:15:16Oh!
01:15:17Oh, my God.
01:15:18Rose, you're saving me too fast.
01:15:20I take Lydia.
01:15:21I take Lydia.
01:15:22Where do you come off to get that first choice?
01:15:24I was called for you.
01:15:25Quiet, girls.
01:15:27Now, we'll go enough to see who gets the first choice.
01:15:30Yes, of course I remember you.
01:15:32I guess your connection with the case
01:15:34would invite you to see Miss Thorne all right.
01:15:36It may take a few minutes together here,
01:15:38so make yourself comfortable.
01:15:39Now, girls, if you pay strict attention,
01:15:42you won't make any more mistakes.
01:15:45Believe.
01:15:45B-E-L-I-E-F
01:15:53Married.
01:15:55Married?
01:15:57She's been married four times already.
01:16:00Oh, shit.
01:16:02No, married, as in Merry Christmas.
01:16:05M-E-R-R-Y.
01:16:10Catalog.
01:16:11Me?
01:16:12No.
01:16:13Ella's next.
01:16:24C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E.
01:16:41Minute.
01:16:42M.
01:16:49M-A-M-Y.
01:16:52Now, Rose.
01:16:54Yes, ma'am.
01:16:55Don't go.
01:16:57Dice.
01:16:58Dice?
01:17:02D-I-S-E.
01:17:11There's a gentleman in the office to see you, Maria.
01:17:15I want to check out those supplies with you, Mrs. Thorne.
01:17:25You.
01:17:27You.
01:17:29I had to see you.
01:17:31What do you want?
01:17:33To help you.
01:17:34Yes?
01:17:35Well, how sweet of you.
01:17:37When I think of you in here...
01:17:39No, don't.
01:17:41I felt if I could only talk to you...
01:17:43I know what you felt, and I know why you're here.
01:17:45To gloat over me.
01:17:46Oh, no.
01:17:47To see me in my prison clothes where you put me.
01:17:50Well, that's all right.
01:17:52I'll be out of here someday.
01:17:54In nine years, I'll be free.
01:17:56I'll be 34, then.
01:17:59I'll have plenty of time to find some way to hurt you as much as you hurt me.
01:18:05Now, if that's clear, I think I'll go.
01:18:14Why, what's the matter?
01:18:16Oh, goodness.
01:18:17Yes.
01:18:53Oh, Benny, it's all too beautiful.
01:19:05Oh, Benny, look.
01:19:06Look at Mawson coming to meet me just as if nothing had happened.
01:19:10It's as if I'd been away for the weekend.
01:19:15I'm glad to see you back, Miss.
01:19:18Oh, I'm glad to see you, Mawson.
01:19:22You know, you're almost the oldest friend I have in the world.
01:19:27Thank you, Miss.
01:19:34Oh, Benny, isn't it awful the way I cry at almost anything now?
01:19:55Oh, Benny, this isn't half of them.
01:19:59The house is filled.
01:20:00And there's an everybody we know and hundreds of telegrams, darlings.
01:20:09Oh, Benny, you don't know what that means, to be able to open a closed door.
01:20:16Welcome home.
01:20:18Oh, J.B.
01:20:20Aren't you nice?
01:20:22Well, here I am.
01:20:23And if it hadn't been for you, you and Benny, I'd still be in there.
01:20:28How could I ever think?
01:20:29By giving me four minutes of your time right this instant.
01:20:32Four minutes?
01:20:33Oh, that's so easy.
01:20:35Four hours of it.
01:20:40Let me look at you.
01:20:43Hmm.
01:20:44You've changed.
01:20:45Yes, you've changed.
01:20:46I can see it.
01:20:47Perhaps you've grown kind-hearted.
01:20:48Yes, I think I have.
01:20:49Perhaps now you've grown so kind-hearted you'll marry me.
01:20:52Oh, no, no, don't answer now.
01:20:54I want you to think it over carefully.
01:20:55But I can offer you position, and I can offer you devotion.
01:20:59I think I've already proved that.
01:21:01And I'll come back tonight for my answer.
01:21:05Well, is there anything I can do for you?
01:21:07Yes.
01:21:08I want to get Evans out.
01:21:10Oh, yes, I've been working on that.
01:21:11And I think I can promise you in about three weeks she'll be free.
01:21:14Oh, thank you.
01:21:16And now, unless you've changed your mind since your last letter to me,
01:21:20you have a score with a certain gentleman you'd like to settle.
01:21:26Oh, yes.
01:21:27O'Bannon has set his heart on being taken in as partner by Curtis and Brown.
01:21:31But I happen to have a very strong hold on Mr. Curtis
01:21:34because of certain incidents that have happened in the past.
01:21:38And I have secured a letter from him demanding O'Bannon's resignation.
01:21:43You give it to me.
01:21:45I thought that would interest you.
01:21:47Oh, very much.
01:21:51Goodbye.
01:21:52Goodbye.
01:22:00I'm going to join us, darling.
01:22:03No, I have some telephoning to do first.
01:22:05I promised some of my friends I'd call up their family.
01:22:07Your friends?
01:22:09Yes, dear.
01:22:10Some of the other girls in jail.
01:22:12Oh.
01:22:13And I want to call Mr. O'Bannon.
01:22:16You do?
01:22:19Yes, I want him to come up here this evening.
01:22:21I want him to come up here.
01:22:24I want him to come up here this afternoon.
01:22:27Maybe.
01:22:34I want him to come up here this morning.
01:22:35I want him to come up here.
01:22:39He didn't come to them.
01:22:39Wait what way?
01:22:39I want him to come up here this morning.
01:22:51I want to see miss Thorne yes sir what name shall I say mr. O'Bannon I'm expected
01:23:18how do you do mr. O'Bannon how do you do miss Thorne
01:23:25you're late yes I walked up the lovely night I suppose you're wondering why I
01:23:32said for you of course I'm glad to see you back in your normal surroundings but
01:23:40you preferred to see me in prison where I was when you made your last visit oh no
01:23:44and why did you come there just blindly impulsively to see you to enjoy my
01:23:51humiliation and they say women have intuition you've hated me ever since
01:23:58that morning you brought back my bracelet the morning after the night you kissed
01:24:04me I don't remember
01:24:11I've been over that moment often enough to remember all my life and part of the next
01:24:19do you like your new position yes and you're happy there I'm happier than I've
01:24:24ever been and you think you have a pleasant future I hope so how would you
01:24:31feel to know that you had no position no future but I had taken it all away from
01:24:36you because I have I told you that I'd make yourself of what you did to me there's a letter
01:24:42demanding your
01:24:54resignation
01:24:55you think that this hurts me you think that after the things I've suffered from
01:25:00you that this matters loving you and being hated by you and a little thing
01:25:07like taking my work from me could make me any more miserable you never loved me I've
01:25:12always loved you and I always will
01:25:18heaven help me
01:25:20don't wait
01:25:22don't wait I never want to see you or think of you again as long as I live
01:25:35good evening mr. O'Bannon I trust you've had a pleasant evening
01:25:53lydia did you give him the letter yes he went out of here as groggy as though he's been hit
01:25:59over the head what did he say lydia is something the matter lydia my
01:26:08dear child what is the matter
01:26:10nothing but there is
01:26:12no I can't let him go like that what's come over you I can't bear to hurt him I thought
01:26:19you wanted to
01:26:20I didn't I didn't but he's so different I can't I don't know what's the matter with me I don't
01:26:29hate him anymore
01:26:31I'm sorry for him or something I'll call him back you don't realize what you're saying yes I do
01:26:37let me go
01:26:39I've got to do it
01:26:41is anything wrong sir put the girls out of a sentence we've got to stop her but
01:27:12don't go what I love you don't go no no I won't
01:27:25is anything wrong sir no no nothing's wrong
01:27:30mr. O'Bannon went round the other way sir that's good
01:27:36but miss lydia sir she's all right she's not hurt at all
01:27:40oh my goodness oh but tea I I I I I insist sir
01:27:47oh do go away Morton
01:27:49Come on.
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