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Fire! Fire

Get into the cellars everybody

Good Evening

Good Evening,Mr Prusty

Oh,it's you I thought it was Bill Warden

Of course it's me,I come to see the young lady,Miss Spurling

Hey,you ought to be coming there's a raid on

Someone told me,Mr Prusty, that I had a lucky birthmark

If this place been hit to find you and the two lodgers

Oh it's you

Wanted to see me,Mona, mustn't stay too long

Wife gets panicky when there is a blitz

I shouldn't worry about her

Hello,Louise

Hello

I'm going down to the shelter Mona,are you coming?

No,I want to talk to Pat

Shouldn't waste much time on him

What's the matter with her

It's just the way she talks

Scotland what lucky devil is up there

You felt a call going reading my private correspondence

You're a bit of high horse tonight, Mona,what's the matter with you?

What it is all about?

I need some money,Pat

A lot

Well I haven't got a lot of money

What do you want it for?

Because I think I'm going to have a child

That's what it is for

Ella

They dropped a fire-bomb down the road,a young lad

Hello,daddy

You know what he is like in the ??

-Two hours -What for?

I got worried about you it'll be much heavier tonight

That air raid was super

Henkel

Here's come the ??

Don't,now look at this,you never put soap on your hands when you wash them

I'll get a clean one,see that he washes himself

All right

Washing,that's all she ever thinks about

Now don't talk about your mother like that

That boat is too small,I'll make you a big one,a wonderful one

Now then

Yeah,that's it

See who it is will you,there's nobody in the house

All right

-I'm clean this side -No,you are not

Now do what your mother told you

Daddy is making me another boat

Good,the you'll have the whole fleet

Then I can think all it is in the navy

-Patrick Mathry -That's right

I'm Detective Inspector Dale, this is Sgt Swann

We are investigating the death of Miss Mona Spurling

What?

Do you mean?

She killed herself?

Our information is that you visited her this evening,Mr Mathry is that right?

Yes

I..I called on her

Perhaps you'll be able to help us

I dare say you prefer to answer questions down at the station

This maybe I was..

The guardian was ???

I won't be a minute

Paul will you please keep still

Who was it?

Some men

-Some men? -I'll tell you about it outside

Here your boat,son,Queen Mary

Oh,good,I will be able to torpedo her

I'll got to go out now,Paul

so be a good boy and go to bed, when your mother tell you

Good Night

Good Night,Dad

How does it look to you,Paul?

What?

Fine old city of Liverpool, how does it look to you now?

Twenty years later

I really don't remember

My mother never talked much about things that happened to us

before we were evacuated

Yeah,I guess that bombing must have changed things quite a bit

All right,you sure have got a problem finding your old man here in just four days

I don't know why is should be so critical to find your father

Me? I sail half way around the world getting away from mine

Yeah

I just want to clear things up

-Morning -Good Morning

I wonder if you could tell me

where I could find Mr Albert Prusty or if he is still alive

I think he is still alive

It's me

I'm sorry,excuse me,I didn't know Mr Prusty

My name is Paul Mathry

I hope you don't mind me asking you a lot of questions

but do you own this place, have you lived here long?

Forty years about I've had the shop and lived here too

You were here during the war then?

In the war? Yes

You see Mr Prusty,the reason I'm here is because of this letter

It mentions your address

My parents used to live in Liverpool at the beginning of the war

I was born over here

This letter is from Mr Enoch Oswald

Yes,do you know him?

Know of him? Of course,everyone has heard of Mr Oswald very important man

President of the Liverpool Welfare Association,does a lot of charity

Eagle ,my dear?

He owns the whole of the North Star Shipping Company too

you heard of that?

Oh yes

I hope the tragic events of 52 Ushaw place will soon be forgotten

Seems that this welfare association must have helped my mother

when we evacuated to the States

Your mother was it?

Is that what you said your name was,Mathry?

You remember now?

Yes

I can see it now

Patrick Mathry's son

You knew him then?

I'm not likely to forget him

So now you see why Mr Oswald wrote this letter to your mother

He organized the petition you know

What petition?

After the trial

That's why he wasn't hanged, you see,for murder

He saved your father's life really

Oh,Timmy,same as usual?

You're answer is in golden leaf

-That's funny -That American chap

-Seems in a hurry -Yes

That's why he was hanged you see

For murder,for murder

I don't know why it should be so critical to find your father

Find your father,find your father

The murder,the murder

Yes,I can see it now

Patrick Mathry's son,Mathry's son,Mathry's

Here you are,Sir

I think it's what your want a copy of the paper for everyday in 1941

Thank you

-Did you sign the reader's ticket? -Oh,no,sorry

Thank you,Sir,just leave it on the desk when you're finished

Right,thank you

I'm sorry,I'm afraid we're closing now,Sir

We got to close now

I'm sorry I didn't realize

I was kind of dizzy

I haven't eaten since breakfast, I guess I had too much reading

Sorry,we have to turn you out

Say,you wouldn't know where I could find a bed for tonight,would you?

I just sailed in from New York this morning

And I haven't had time to get fixed up yet it doesn't have to be the Rex either

-No -That wouldn't be too difficult

Lena,what about your landlady

doesn't she has a spare room?

No

Why don't you go home with this young lady now and see,Good Night,Lena

Good Night,Mr Fisher

-You'd better come with me -Thank you

This is it,this is where I live

I hope your landlady won't mind, you'd better explain the situation

And why didn't he get a meal all day to start with

I don't know,Mrs Hanley,he only sailed into Liverpool this morning

Oh,that ????difficult

Do you know I never had an American in this house before

Let's hope he likes steak food,no nonsense

Not like that Fallesey(?) we had once,remember?

Oh,I see Mrs Hanley,he was an Indian

He was a bit too particular about his food

Why don't you take it up to him,Lena?

I'm sure he'd rather see you than an old fogey like me

No,Mrs Hanley,I'd rather not

Oh,Lena, surely you are not still thinking

No

Lena,what happened to you is old and forgotten

You got to stop being frightened

Yes,I'm going to take it

That's a good girl,you take it up to him before it gets too cold

I'll get on with ours

Come in

Oh,Mrs Hanley made you some supper

Oh,that's very kind of her

I've could have gone out some place

Come in,please,come in

I haven't really thanked you enough for all you've done for me

-It's quite all right -Oh,please don't go

I'd like to talk to somebody

All right

I don't know if you understand but

Yes,I think I do

I saw what you were reading in the library

My father,a murderer

They didn't even hang him,you'd would have thought at least they could have done that

Are you sorry your father is still alive?

No

But all my mother ever told me about him was lies

I always thought my father died a hero fighting in the war

Today I find out that I am a murderer's son

You are somebody's son

Look,whatever he has done,he's certainly paid for it by now

I know how you feel, you keep telling yourself

why me? why did it have to happen to me?

So what's the answer?

Don't pity yourself,that's the first lesson,the very first

Then you have the right to object if somebody else starts to pity you

Right

You'd better eat your supper, it's getting cold

Where is your father now?

Wakefield Prison at least that's what they said they sent him,where is that?

In Yorkshire not far away

Why don't you go there?

-To the prison? -Yes..

Don't you see? It's your chance to talk to him

Maybe you could understand things better

That's an idea,I'll go there tomorrow and try to see him

-Paul Mathry -Yes,Sir,this way,Sir

How is my father,Sir,I think I ought to know before I see him

Your father has been a very difficult prisoner

A rebel

He never seems to have accepted even the fact of his sentence

With remission he could have been a free man by now

Maybe when he sees me, it'll be of some help to him

I'm afraid that won't be possible

Not possible?

Last week your father attacked a warder

It was ?? sort completely unjustified

I ordered 10 days solitary confinement

But I can't wait I am only in this country while my ship is turning around

-if I don't see my father -I'm afraid that is the rule

Prisoners in solitary confinement cannot have visitors

It's impossible to make an exception

Sir,I don't you think you realize..

I'm sorry I quite understand your feelings

Oh,no Sir

You understand the regulations

And the regulations are very important

When you take people,all right, you take murderers

And you shut them up

You put them in little boxes cold grey iceboxes and you shut them away

Then you have to remember the regulations

Because if you don't you get to remember before they were murderers they were people

Like my father and your father

And then you think what you've been doing to them all those years in those boxes

That's why you have to have the regulations

Come in

I suppose we all feel like that sometimes

But the prison rules most be observed,I'm sorry

I still don't understand

I got to find out more

No,no I don't mind showing you,non trouble at all

I'm glad you came again

I wouldn't have spoken like that,you know,I didn't realize

I know Mr Prusty

Of course I got the electricity now in the rest of the house

But up there it didn't seem worthwhile

Some people rented it now and then

but nobody stayed long,you know, until they found out

Wait a bit I just find the key

There were two girls using the apartment weren't there?

Two? Oh,yes two, there was the Spurling girl of course

Mona Spurling,she was murdered, the other one was..

I'm a little,would you mind finding me for me

my eyesight,you know,is not as good as it was

Sure

The other was Miss Burt,Louise Burt

We'd been to the air raid shelter, there was a raid on,you see

When we got back this man he pushed past me on the stairs

-It was dark -Oh,yes,very dark

Oh,we had a torch,you know, Miss Burt had a torch

I didn't see him properly

I said so at the trial

Have you ever been in a witness box?

No,Sir

They tie you in knots

half the time you don't know what you are saying

and on the other half they don't let you say what you want

Miss Burt,she was so positive it was your father

Me? With my eyes,I couldn't be sure

I couldn't swear

That naughty Donkin,where are you,you feared puss?

Here he is

It's the mice,you know,he's always after them up here

Let's light the lamp if there's any oil in it

Here,let me take him

He's a wonderful mouser

Caught a rat up here once as big as himself

So this is where you found her?

Yes,Louise found her of course

It was all very upsetting

She'd been strangled,you see

And you called the police?

Yes

Two men came

Dale was one,he's a Chief Superintendent now,very big man

The other one?

Now what was his name?

There was something about a post card

Yes,I thought your father said

A postcard on the mantelpiece with a picture on it

A sprig of heather

He said it had come from Edinburgh

He thought it was from another man

I remember the Prosecutor Sprott, Sir Matthew Sprott he is now

He was very sarcastic about that

A figment of Irish imagination,he called it

He said,"An Irishman and a Scotsman

there should be a Welshman too" made some of the jury laugh with them

Great sense of humour

Of course it was never found, the postcard I mean

What was his name now? I can't seem to remember it

Who?

The other man,the policeman, I only saw him once more afterwards

That was for letting him coming back by ??

How do you mean?

Well,it was one evening, it was long gone off now

I was just closing up the shop,he came in and stood there,looking around

Yes?

It seemed to me,he had a few too many

He said something about burning his boats

Burning your boats and landing in the drink

Then he looked at me in a funny sort of way

And said:"What's done can't be undone"you remember that

And then he went

Are you sure you can't remember his name?

Drake? No.It'll come to me in a minute my memory is not as good as it was

Have you seen all what you wanted up here?

Yes,we might as well going down now

Strange coming back like that, what's done can't be undone

Swann,that's it

He was called Swann

-Swann! -James Swann

He was a Sgt then,Detective Sgt Swann

I'd like to talk to him if I could find him

Kind of fits in what I've been thinking

All right,Donking

I'll give you your milk downstairs

Could you tell me which Court Swann is in?

-Swann? James Swann? -Yes

-Which court is Swann in? -Number 2

-Should be on now -Thank you

In your particular case there is no excuse for your behaviour

You of all people should know the rules

but for some reason best known to yourself

you slipped into this disgraceful way of life

I cannot accept your explanation

Which one is Swann?

And it seems obvious to me

that you are quite unprepared

to make the slightest effort to change your way of life

I warn you James Swann this is your last chance,40 shilling for 7 days

Time to pay

-Your honour -No

Next in

Does that mean that he doesn't have any money?

Either he pays his money or he goes to prison

Mr Swann you walked out of me

I paid your fine just now

Hard for you

I wanted to talk to you,you knew my father,Patrick Mathry

Your father?

I need a drink

-I need a lot of drink -I'll buy you some

Thank you

All right,Mr Swann,what else?

People make mistakes

Everyone knows that

Do you think it was a mistake in my father's case?

I have my doubts about it

A long time

Didn't stick out my neck until it was too late

That was the trouble

Were you the only one who had doubts?

What about Chief Detective Dale?

Dale?

Dale never had a doubt in his life

Used to boast that he could spot a criminal in miles

And right from the start he spotted your father

But why?

Everything was against him

That's why

He was the last person to be seen with the girl

And she was pregnant

He explained at the trial that he hadn't known her long enough

Denied,denied

By most important witness

Little Louise Burt

And the jury believed her

Son, jury believed what they are taught

The first counsel was a senile, half big,crumbling old windbag

His death was an act of mercy to him,they replaced him

What about the prosecutor? Sprott

Sprott

Oh,yes very smart lad,he was unknown then

This was his first big case

Meant to him his reputation with it

And he did

As soon as he stood up in that Court

I knew he meant to hang your father

The words sprawled out of his mouth

And cast the spell upon the court

I tell you he was masterly

The jury hung his every word

He's got a Knighthood now

Be running the country before long

No one catches up with him

There still have to be witnesses

Two.Only two that mattered

Prusty, nice old dodder, Sprott tied him in knots

That leaves little Louise Burt

Then it was her evidence that counted

Oh yes

Though she fell in the nest all right,look at her now

Over the river there

New Brighton

Runs a nice little drinking club

Grapevine they call it

There is real justice for you,son

Your father went down

Little Louise went up

You mean somebody fixed her,paid her to give evidence against my father

But who would have done a thing like that

Son,you got enough for loitering

I'll have another drink

Wait a minute

Same again Joe

What do I have got to learn?

You want to find the real murderer

The guy who paid her off and you know who he is

I don't know anything

Here,Jimmy

You had enough,you know

-That's the last -OK

I know better places

Trouble,that all that was meant to me

Troubles

All right,Mr Swann,if you won't tell me anymore,I can't force you to

What's this?

That's where you can find me for the next couple of days

in case you change your mind

Now I'm going to try find the man who prosecuted at my father's trial

Tell him exactly what you told me

-Sprott? -Yes

So now you Sprott,you try talk to him

It's just what I am going to do

I think he ought to know that his star witness Louise Burt committed perjury

Son,I wish you luck

I also thought my friend,I am not worried about the selection committee,not at all

They usually act on my advice Sir Matthew

I'm convinced in you,we have the next member of Parliament in this division

-He is liable to be much longer -I really can't say..

You made no appointment, Sir Matthew is still in conference

By elections are always unexpected

Well I'm ready for the adoption committee at any time,thank you

Who the devil are you?

I'm sorry to bust in on you like this but I haven't got much time

-My name is Mathry,Paul Mathry -I tried to stop him,Sir Matthew

All right,Miss Williams

I suppose as a politician,I may have to get used to all kinds of intrusion

Anyway we finished our talk, you can take it from me

-it's in the bag -Good,good

We must have dinner together sometime next week

-Delighted-Good Bye -Good Bye

Now tell me just what gives you the right to burst into my chambers

in the middle of the most important and private business

You know who I am

Your name has certain associations,yes

Sir Matthew,twenty years ago

you put the case against my father on a charge of murder

He was convicted

Yes

Please

The star witness at that trial was a girl named,Louise Burt

From what I've just been told

it seems to me quite possible that she committed perjury

From what you've just been told

I thought you realize you are making a serious accusations on hearsay

I think my informer knew what he was talking about

He was the other detective on the case,James Swann

Swann? Now I understand

Swann,a drunken dipsomatic with a chip on his shoulder as big as his says

He was kicked out of the police force and do you know why?

He'd been drunk on duty

There was since even a constant sort of trouble trashing in the court

So he's the one who's been feeding this nonsense

I believe this nonsense,Sir Matthew, my father told the truth

You listen to me

The case I made against your father was solid as rock

I'd staked my whole career on that

-I'm not a fool -No,you're not a fool

You put your case very well I read about it

But that case was built on flimsy evidence, a bribery of a perjured witness

-Fantastic -Fantastic or not..

You could have been wrong

Look at this thing again with an open mind,I know you'll be convinced

-But I'm not convinced -You won't even listen to me

I've listened quite enough

you burst in here making wild accusations like a child

you want to pull the whole building down

because it seems one brick in the foundation was badly laid

If the foundation is rotten the building falls

Where the devil is that woman

Miss Williams show Mr Mathry out

My advice,you my friend

is to stop meddling in things you don't understand and get back home

-Where do you come from BTW? -I'm an American

-Really -My ship is just turning around here

I haven't the time to argue with you

but I convinced the jury 20 years ago, and that's good enough for me

I'm going to see Mr Enoch Oswald now

he saved my father from the gallows maybe you didn't quite convince him

-Chief Superintendent here -Bill

Charge your mind back 20 years

The Mathry case

One of your most successful cases,Sir Matthew

Son?

Yes,yes of course,she was evacuated to the States during the war,wasn't she?

Did?

Swann!

No,I don't like the sound of that at all

I don't know what to think,I'm sure

I'm sorry to hear about your mother,she died very young

Yes, she worked hard all of her life to give me a good home

and a high school education

You must go and make good use of that

-You intend to? -Yes I do,Mr Oswald

-I'm studying electronics -Really?

The only reason I joined the ship was to see some of the world and to

Try to clear up this mystery about what happened to my father

Yes,when you landed in Liverpool, where you found you taken on ??

Yes,but that was kind of unexpected

Paul,are you familiar with the words used in British Law?

For the sentence of death

No,Sir

Like all good prayers they have a great simplicity

and in this case a fearful simplicity

If I remember it, it is the verdict..

No,no it is better than that it is the judgement of this court

that you'd be taken from this place to another place

And thence to a place of execution there to be hanged by the neck

until you are dead and may the Lord have mercy on your soul

Well,your father escaped all that

But the judgement of men can be harsh too,Mr Oswald

My father escaped from the gallows and I am grateful to you for that

When I saw that prison,where he is now, where he has been all these years

That's a terrible thing to do to any man

To an innocent man,it could be worse than death

Yes,acceptance of our destiny that's something we all have to learn

But my father never accepted that sentence and neither do I

I believe he is innocent,Mr Oswald

and I'm go on searching till I find somebody help me to prove that

Can't you hep me? There must be a way

Yes,but what way

Now you must know the machinery of the law are like the mills of God

grind exceedingly small and very slowly

That's what I mean,I haven't got much time

I must have help

-Perhaps a letter to the Home Secretary -The Home Secretary?

No,better still straight go to the fountain head

I have a couple of friends in the House of Commons

A question in the House to the Home Secretary I'll bring the matter up myself

That'll be great,you could get him released

I'd come back to England right away

I talk to him and we'll work in this thing together

I really will do my best

-Good Bye I hope very much to see you soon -I'm sure of that,Mr Oswald

Thanks a lot

Thanks

Mrs Hanley is Lena here, I want to talk to her

Yes, she's been here more than an hour

I called her down to speak to that man who came round for you

What man?

It's Swann,he wouldn't stay he just left a message

-Message? -Yes he said..

..tell him I changed my mind and I'll meet him in the usual place,that's all

It's wonderful maybe he's going to talk,Lena

Thanks a lot,I'll see you later

Oh,just like a man,and me,making a real Lancashire hotpot for him too

Never mind Mrs Hanley,this is very important to him

You did

You did that outcome(?)

You just tell me when you ??? face loafer

You just tell me when, Sammy Roach never washed on anyone

I'll pay you 100 to 1

Don't I?

You are a lousy welcher,I'll place my bet that you are here in this very room

-You know it -Stop bothering me

Mr Swann I got your message

Lousy welcher run him in once getting his own back that's all

Come on I'll buy a drink

That's you again?

-What is it now? -You know what I want

To get my father out he's been buried alive for 20 years

Son,once you're in that grave you'll never get out

But I can get him out

But just one word from you, the murder's name

Get my money,get my money out of that welcher,that's the last thing I do

-Here,you bloody welcher,her I've got it -All right Swann

You asked for this

Swann

Swann

"and in my view was not in full possession of his faculties"is that what you said?

More or less

-Mr Mathry -Yes

Chief Superintendent would like a word with you,the headquarters

With me? What for?

Yes?

They brought that man round from Howard Street Station,Sir,Paul Mathry

Send him in

Mr Mathry,Sir

Come in my boy

I wanted to see you and this seemed to be a good opportunity as any

Why are you interested in me,Superintendent?

We don't go into that

You know who I am

And I know a quite a bit about you

Ah,look here my lad

I've got a pretty fair idea what you must feel about me

A man who helped to put your father behind bars

But I was only doing my duty

Your father is just one of hundred that went through my hand

In fact I'd forgotten all about him until you came along

It wouldn't be quite so easy for my father to forget about you

You were with Swann tonight, I hear,when he was killed

Yes I was

I could have warned you about Swann

He's dead now and he can't do anyone more harm

-But if you take my advice -I don't want your advice..

-..about choosing my friends -Maybe you don't my lad

Maybe you don't

But I'm going to give you one bit of advice and I don't want you to forget it

My job is prevention of crime

Get that?

Seeing trouble before it comes

Now I've seen you but I am a good judge

And I reckon you are the sort that can give me trouble

Here is my advice to you in one word

Don't

Do I make myself clear?

You stick to your ship tight until she sails

Because I'm warning you if I have one complaint about you,I'll be sorry for you

And you'll be very sorry for yourself

-Is that all you had to say? -That's all

When does she sail BTW?

Day after tomorrow

Then make sure you sail with her

-Send Trevor in -Yes,Sir

-I've got a job for you,Trevor -Yes,Sir

I don't know,Lena

I just can't seem to put it into words

But I'm sure that Swann knew at least he had a theory

And you think that somehow this girl had something to do with it

Yeah,Louise Burt but she's not likely to help us any either

Unless

What?

She'd never recognize me

She doesn't know what I look like

It's an outside chance but I could be worth taking

Where did Swann say she was now, Brighton or some place across the river

-New Brighton? -That's it

The Grapewine club,she runs the joint or something

If I'd go over there and get her talking

It might pay off

Would you think?

Whenever you get an idea I couldn't stop you

I got lots of ideas,Lena

I hope they catch on

-You want some bread? -Please

You're sure you are safe for that thing?

Oh,what made me do it

Let me see then

You're not a hospital case, you know with to do with that?

I'll show you

No,please

What's the matter,I wasn't going to hurt you?

All right then tomorrow I go to New Brighton,right?

You can take a ferry boat

You know I just don't understand this

We seem to go along so funny and all of a sudden

-I'm sorry but -I don't understand,what is it?

I just don't like being touched that's all

-OK -I'm sorry

I'm sorry I can't explain

-Double whiskey,please -Are you a member,Sir

-No -This is a member's club,Sir

That'll be all right,you are Miss Louise's guest

Thanks

That's a nice dog you got there

I like poodle

Hi,you baby,what's your name?

What's yours?

-I meant your dog -I know

His name is Jackie,what yours?

Paul,Paul Shipman

Mine is Louise

Now we are all friends

I'm,I'm just over here from the States

I am newspaper man

getting an angle on this country from the point of view of American tourists

Low budget vacations, all that sort of things

It's a nice place ,you got here

I kind of go for these English pubs

It's not a Pub it's a Club

My club

They are all the same to me,you live here?

I got a bungalow

Not far,you want to come and see it sometime

I'd like to

but I'm afraid I haven't got much time, I'm sailing for home tomorrow

Too bad

I'd like to see your place

How come you own a place like this?

I work hard and I know the right people

You're a smart girl,Louise

-You know something? -What?

-I like Americans -No,really?

I like Louise

Too bad I have to leave tomorrow

Because I said

-I am a safe driver -Really

That's pretty hard to believe

Will you kid me just now abut that murder story

I found a body,I was a star witness at the trial

No kidding

Who got killed?

My girlfriend,she was strangled,I found her

That's quite a story

Excuse me

Where are you going?

Get another drink,mine too

You found the body,ah?

It was all in the newspapers

My picture too

I expect that jury really fell for you,ah?

You and those big beautiful eyes

-I share you if you like -What

Oh,I kept them all

Oh,that's about me anyway

You mean newspaper clipping?

Yeah,I got them all

I take a professional interest in them

Mind you,I wouldn't show everybody these

A lot of it is mixed up

This

A picture of me

I was only a youngster then

That's nearly all about me

18 year old sales girl,Louise Burt, gave evidence

that when she returned from the air raid shelter

she passed the accused on the stairs

They tried to pretend it was too dark for me to see him

But I stuck to my story they couldn't shake me

Yes,it says so here

I remember this one

Miss Burt was simply and smartly dressed

and gave her evidence with considerable conviction

She said she

Here what are you doing with that,you give me that

Sorry,I didn't know that it was private

It is private and personal

I'm sorry I didn't know

Fine time to come calling

Yeah,just when we were getting acquainted

You stay here

I'll see who it is,maybe I can get rid of him

Happy girl

Who was it anyway a boyfriend?

Don't make me laugh

Come out this way

Something I can tell you he doesn't like newspaper men

Here go out round the sideways, you'll come to the road

That's very foolish,Mr Mathry

-I'm afraid I have to arrest you -Who are you?

Det Sgt Trevor CID

Attempting to force an entry is what we call this

You'd better give me that knife

I recommend no violence could be most unfortunate

Patrol car around the corner, perhaps you come along with me

Wonderful feel of engineering there,three miles of tunnel under the river

Why did you knew where I was?

Records,Mr Mathry,your lady friend's Carnham(?) is on file

And her address

Loitering with intent,breaking an entry

I can smack you down with half a dozen charges

You are not forgetting,Superintendent, the American Consul

I'm forgetting nothing

But you forgotten plenty of things

I told you to stay in your ship

I warned you once and once wasn't enough

Now I'm putting you on your ship

I'm handing you over to your Capt with a short billet-doux

and I only wish I could be there to see what it happens when he gets it

You want to get rid of me I saw the evidence I tell you I saw it

Take him off,here's the letter

Tidy up that,put him aboard his ship

Get him out

Slow down a bit we're getting near it

Yes I think it is the second on the right,Sir

Here it is right here

This dock gate

Quick turn around

Hopeless, ??

Now you lost him,have you?

Well,now you're going to find him again,aren't you?

Trevor,maybe they didn't teach you this at your training college

but an officer who loses a prisoner under escort

is liable to some pretty nasty charges

so my advice to you is get him and get him quick

Good Evening,Mr Prusty

sorry to disturb you at this time but they sent me around from the station

Yes,yes,what is it?

We are looking for a man, an American seaman

-Name is Paul Mathry -Mathry? Mathry?

Oh yes he did come to see me a few days ago

When was it now? Come in

You haven't seen him since,Mr Prusty?

The CID seem to think he maybe trying to hide here

Oh,no,not since,he hasn't been here,when was it now?

I can't remember exactly

All right,Sir,well they want him on some pretty serious charges

So if he does turn up,let us know right away will you?

Yes,I will,yes of course

that is that,serious charges, he seemed such a nice young man

-Sorry to bother you,Mr Prusty,Good Night -Good Night Officer

Goodness me,all this excitement

I wonder,would you mind finding the key for me

my eyesight,you know, is not as good as it was

-Thanks a lot,Mr Prusty -Yes,shall we go up?

Yes,issue desk

Miss Anderson

Please hold the line

Thank you

Hello,Paul

-Where are you? -Everything is OK

I am at Prusty,Prusty,the tobacconist

The police was round Mrs Hanley last night,what happened?

Lena

I don't want to say to much like this but

I really on something now,I can't give up

Real evidence,Lena

How wonderful

I want to hear about it,when can I see you?

Oh,when are you free?

Tonight? Right and bring my shaving equipment will you?

Only be careful,don't let the police follow you

they may still be watching the house

Yes,I'll keep my eyes open,yes,let's go now,bye bye,take care of yourself

It's a ridiculous situation

Ridiculous

I can't see that you come out of it very well either,Dale

I took all possible precautions

-After all your suggestions -Yes,yes I know that

The problem is that the fellow is at large and seems to be violent

-Has the ship sailed BTW? -By this morning tide

That's something,now we can arrest him for illegal entry

And detain him ourselves

Got to find him yet

I know that,Super Intendant,that's your job

Any information you give to the press must be carefully worded

And it must be no hint of any connection with past history

No,just say he is wanted on various charges

and give a description

public can often help us quite a lot in these things,you know

It's most unfortunate,wrong kind of publicity can be very damaging to me

My chances of nomination as a parliamentary candidate

The man is violent

I think I should be afforded police protection under circumstances

Very good, Sir Matthew

But handle it with discretion

Tact isn't your strong point, is it,Super Intendant?

You are rather like a bull in a china shop

I do my duties,Sir Matthew,as well as I can

I had the evidence right in my hands just for that one moment

And then she grabbed it

Couldn't you see what it said or who it was from?

No,it wasn't signed and I didn't have time

I shouldn't had tried to break in,I should have waited

Louise wasn't bribed,Lena,she blackmailed the killer,that card was her weapon

To think I was in the same house with the man

with that man who sent my father to his living death

Oh,if only we had the card

Well,you can't leave here now, that will be much too dangerous

The police will be watching her house

There was something else about that card too

What?

I don't know,something familiar

I was trying taking in so many things at once,I didn't have time

-You,Paul -What?

I think we really should have some help now

We can't do anything more just by ourselves

Yes,but who?

I know someone I think who would, he's a journalist here on the Clarion

I know him quite well, I think we can trust him

-What's his name? -Dunn,Robert Dunn

He is a good man,Paul,he

He helped me once when I needed help quite badly

I didn't know there was anybody else,Lena,

I mean I just hadn't thought about it

No Paul

You don't understand he is

Lena,you know how I feel

No,don't

I'm sorry,Lena

You can send your friend over,if you still want to

Of course I still want to

My father was convicted of murder,wasn't he?

I guess that weights me pretty low

Oh,I am sorry,Paul

I am sorry for trying to say that

Who is it?

-Mr Mathry? -Yes

-Good Morning -Good Morning

Well,Mr Mathry,from what I hear

you have been having rather a lot of unwanted attention from our city police

Yes,you may call it that

Interesting,very interesting

As you see I am a journalist I like to hear other people talk

Can you talk whilst you shave?

Sure,sure,sit down

I'll tell you a story,Mr Dunn

That's what I like best of all Mr Mathry

A good story

My copy,McEvoy

I think you ought to read it

Great stuff,I won't print it

You're wrong,Mc,it's a big story, could make national headlines

It could also land us right in the dirt with Chief Super Intendant Dale

our crime reporter will love you for that

I'll try to put it in another way

Prosecutor in the Mathry trial was a bright young barrister

since knighted and with ambitions to stand for Parliament

Not Sprott was it?

Sir Matthew Sprott

Now

Wouldn't powers of being a credible newspaper

get some satisfaction from seeing Sir Matthew lose a little faith?

All right

Show it to the legal boys, if they say it is OK,we'll roll it

Thanks,Mc

Hey,the police is still looking for that young fellow

How the hell did you happened to find him anyway?

Let's call it an unexpected dividend from my golden heart,Mc

Obstruction,that's my point

obstruction of the police by withholding evidence and you knew it that way

But we all say these things,there's no point of use,Superintendent

-And mind you.. -I'm not interested in your view,Mr Dunn

I'm interested where you saw Paul Mathry

Perhaps I didn't see him

But it says here

Yes,it says there,but that's ???,Superintendent

Sure you're not going to tell us

that you still believe everything from reading a newspaper

Have a tea,Superintendent

I want to tell you,McEvoy

I had a call for the Home office today asking me for a full report

Now I've been to every scrap of evidence in this trial

And there's no doubt,in my mind, that Mathry was guilty

However

However

-Yes,Sir Matthew -Justice has been done

Mathry has served a long sentence,that's upset the court there

I intend to move to the Home Secretary this should now be released

That stinking little hypocrite

Of course,we'd be delighted if the release comes through,Sir Matthew

What about the enquiry?

No,I'm afraid we can't agree

That our campaign is unnecessary or it is just sentimental nonsense

We intend to press for an enquiry

Very well McEvoy,I'll speak plainly

I know what your people is trying to do

damage my reputation and prejudice my chances to election

I'm going to spike your guns

Mathry will be released but I shall oppose any enquiry

It is appalling what he wants to make

We're catching up on him

There was once in his life as my noble(?) man admit that he was wrong

This time,we're going make him

And to the Editor of the Clarion

Sir,I've information from sources very near to the Home Secretary

That by the time this letter appears in your column

all charges against the unfortunate Paul Mathry would have been dropped

You got that?

If,Sir,you still have information as with whereabouts

I would beg of you to give him news of this

and so bring a gleam of hope to a man, who has been so wickedly wronged

Can you hold it!

This could be it

Here it comes

In the case of Patrick Mathry

The Home Secretary stated in the House this evening

That he saw no reasons to set up

Court of Enquiry

In view of the length of time

Mathry has served in prison

It was intended

to release him

at an early date

Now,our boys are coming out

That's not the end of it,Mc

It's not the end by long chalk

Seems your friend,Mr Oswald

has been putting some pressure on the Home Office for you

Maybe can grant you a temporary permit of residence

which means you don't have to jump on the first ship that sails

All I want to do is to get my hands on that post card

and run it down Dale's throat

But don't jump the gun,Paul

The police is still keeping a watch on Miss Burt's bungalow across the water

But she can destroy that card any time

That's not very likely

That card is as good as an insurance policy to her

A bank balance

I guess you're right

Paul,there's something else I want to tell you before we get to Mrs Hanley's

What's that?

Lena asked me to explain

She thought I'd make a bit of job of it but

I don't think I will

We had a little argument the other night

and she hasn't been around to see me since

Yes,she told me

You see I first met Lena when she was a junior typist in a newspaper

That's was when she was 18

-In Toronto -Canada?

She never told me she met you there

No she wouldn't

I'll get over the next bit rather quickly if you don't mind

They say she was just 18

One night she'd been working late in the office

And she was on her way home

It was dark,there was nobody about

A street gang saw her

Three of them grabbed her

She'd never had a chance,Paul

I always remembered their faces when they appeared in court

There was be no?? until then,being a newspaper man

Until we published the whole story

Her name and picture

So I walked out of my job

-Came back home -And Lena?

I wanted to do what I could to help

She didn't have any family

So I arranged a job for her over here

When she arrived I moved her in with Mrs Hanley

Then I faded

Gracefully as I can fade

Right out of the picture

I'm sorry,Bob

I misunderstood,I had it all wrong

But there you are

Lena wanted me to tell you

Lena

I love you

I love you so much

I guess that's why I couldn't tell you

Oh,there's something I didn't tell you

It doesn't matter now

Bob,how was my father when you saw him at the prison this morning?

Fine,looked very fit

I should think you'll find he's changed a bit in 20 years

I was just a kid

I don't know what I'm going to say to him?

You'll manage

Would you say the name of this place where you've taken him?

It's not far now,a small hotel

They've given you and your father,what they are pleased to call,the private suit

Oh,you've seemed to have thought of everything

I wish I had

He's here

Here we are

Jack Hancock,the Clarion

-Mr Mathry's son -Come on in

Mr Mathry,this is your son

Paul

Hello

You've grown to be a big fir

Don't stare at me

Have they been looking after you all right,Mr Mathry?

I ordered some clothes for you

I can't get anything to drink here

What's your idea keeping me off the drink?

You can order now

Jack,ring the bell

Anything you like,Mr Mathry, it's on the house

Whisky,whisky that's my drink

Twenty years behind those walls

They actually,nothing changes inside

You've grown up,cross the Atlantic ocean be with the girls

While I've been in there,eating that muck

Watched by those stinking guards,year after year

But I'm going to make them pay now

They are going to have pay for what they did to me

Is it your girlfriend?

Yes,this is Lena

When I'm through with this

I'm going out

You got your girlfriend

I'm going to find me one

Don't go lout tonight,please

Stay here,we've so much to talk over

But I'm going out

Shocked at your old daddy?

Listen,son, I'm going out to get stinking drunk and find me that company for fun(?)

And I won't pick the first what I find

I want a young

And I want a good looking

Got any money?

Yes,I have money

That fellow Dunn isn't very generous with his money

You'll have plenty of money very soon

That's why we need more evidence to force an enquiry,some compensation

Compensation?

What sort of compensation do I get for that?

Six strokes counted by the Governor himself timed by the stop watch

They have adopted that tool just to make sure the warden doesn't kill you

You don't forget that sort of thing,I can tell you

Sometimes I dream about it

Dad,what you went through must have been horrible

but going out like this every night isn't the answer

Isn't it?

Well,I haven't finished yet, this is just wetting the appetite

OK,you go out again,I've got something important to do

Paul,where are you going?

I'm getting out of here, I've had all I can take

Wait and speak to Bob, he's only calling the Clarion

Paul,please understand your father

I understand everything,and I know who is responsible

She's sitting pretty there over in that little bungalow

with all that police protection

And I'm going to get that evidence

that shall show them all what's she has done to him

Paul

What are you doing?

You are Paul Mathry

Yeah,we are both learning fast

-This postal card -You give that to me

I knew there was something familiar about it,I recognized the handwriting

Now,Louise,this has been mistake for too many years,I need it now

Swine you damned swine,you need a warrant

Since when have you been human

Surprised to see me at home eh?

Nothing you do surprises me

I am sick and tired of that company

Dirty like a Spaniard

They take the last shilling and then laugh at me,do you know why?

Because I don't fit now

I'm a freak

Done for

You are not done for

Look,I got the evidence that will get you a pardon

Pardon?

What use is a pardon now

I'll tell you I had it

I never did the murder

What is (?) that murdered me

Coming by the canal so I can nearly throw myself in

Oh,that's great

That's a fine way you are paying me for what I've done for you

Yes

You've been good to me son,I'll give you that

Thanks,now you want to take the easy way out

Well,drown yourself if you want

But let me tell you something first

I'm ashamed of you

Why don't you stop feeling sorry for yourself

You're going to get some money pretty soon

You can make a fresh start

I've got got you out,didn't I?

Why can't you make the best of the years I've given you?

I couldn't do it,Paul,not now

Dad,you could

I'd help you,I stay over here,I'd help you

You do that?

-Would you do that? -Of course I would

I feel all in,I think I'll go to bed now

Good Night,son

Good Night

Lena

Didn't you tell me once that

Thank you

That you didn't think you'd ever want get married?

They (?) whole life for men

Remember?

Yes

How do you think about it now?

Do you feel the same way?

No,I think I've changed,Bob

Because when I asked the question before

I had a rather personal interest in the answer

Perhaps you realize

Yes I did

I hope it works out all right for you

There go a wild American

I love him,Bob

I love him very much

I'd like to see Mr Enoch Oswald please,is he still in the building?

-Your name,Sir -Mathry,Paul Mathry

Oh yes,Mr Mathry,Mr Oswald is expecting you

Would you take the private lift to the top floor please

Thank you

Come in

I've been waiting for you

She told you,I know

Yes

But why do you come to see me?

I wanted to find out about you

You killed that girl

Rather sadly(?)

Did you know

Her face was the face of the Madonna?

I thought she could be saved

I was wrong

Saved?

From the world,from the flesh, from the devil

A Mary Magdalene

That's how I saw her

I've never dreamt

That she would betray me

How did she betray you?

Look,I gave her money,tried to help her all through her way of life

I was a slave,a slave to the face of Madonna

She saw to me that she belonged to me

and to nobody else

As I found out that night

It was a lie

The night you killed her?

I'd ride back from Edinburgh, she'd written to me there

I arrived back in the middle of an air raid

I managed to reach the house just in time to see somebody hurrying away

Man

My father

She told me she was to bear a child,my child

And she,she just

I'd seen a shadow hurrying away

From her

I lifted up my hands

She looked so calm

Can't you see these hands?

That crashed the devil out of her

The face of a Madonna

But you sent my father to prison for your crime

No for his own,we are all sinners, vengeance is vine says the Lord

Your father and I ,we've both paid, the Lord ordained that we should

We've all paid

All excepting the woman taken in adultery

But God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform

He plans his footsteps ,and see right on the storm

You,Paul,you are the instrument of the Lord

You have brought her to the judgement seat

You are the avenging angel

She too must pay

What about you,Mr Oswald?

A great benefactor

A man of influence

how is your future going to look when I give my story to the police?

The Lord

takes mercy on the repentant sinner

I shall await his judgement in this place

or in some other place

Good Night,Paul

Paul

Bob just gone back to the paper

They got news of Mr Oswald

-He thinks he killed himself -I know

He wrote this card

Wait here

You are not to forget it

No one would have known

Dad it's all right,it's all right

Nobody is going to hurt you anymore

You're safe now,safe at home

It's going to be all right

Dreaming of something that happened to him

But it won't happen anymore

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