:07:21
- Mr Ellis, I presume.
- Yes.
:07:26
My name is Stanton.
:07:28
- Eric Stanton.
- Never heard of you.
:07:31
Professor Madley's an old friend.
:07:33
- When was that?
- The good old days.
:07:35
How old?
:07:36
Old enough to be good.
:07:38
Oh. Drink?
:07:40
My favourite brand.
:07:42
Oughta be, I got it
out of your bureau drawer.
:07:46
Help yourself to everything
:07:48
as long as you're a friend
of the Professor's.
:07:51
- From my cradle days.
- Then do the Professor a favour.
:07:53
Lend-lease him thirty dollars.
:07:55
- Thirty dollars?
- Do him half a favour. Fifteen.
:08:00
What's so funny?
Tell me, I'd like to laugh too.
:08:03
I came up to put the bite on you.
:08:05
Now let's hear how you laugh.
:08:07
- You can't sleep here.
- Wait a minute.
:08:09
Consult the spirit of my friend
the Professor. What's he say?
:08:12
I know what the manager says:
One more guest, one more dollar.
:08:16
I haven't got enough for my own bill.
:08:18
- Then the extra dollar won't matter.
- Don't take your shoes off.
:08:20
I've enough to aggravate me.
:08:23
Don't worry.
:08:25
- I'll get you out of it.
- What with? You're broke.
:08:28
I gotta have fifteen dollars
by noon tomorrow,
:08:31
or lose the hall downstairs
and my deposit,
:08:33
besides being kicked out of here.
:08:35
What about the Professor's spooks?
:08:37
Don't they come through
with an advance sale?
:08:40
Sure, if there's nobody to stop them,
:08:42
but a certain woman in this town
don't believe in spooks,
:08:45
and what she says goes
for the rest of the women.
:08:47
She's not only the daughter
of the former mayor,
:08:49
who donated a new organ
to the church,
:08:52
but the President
of the Ladies' Auxiliary.
:08:54
Against such a combination,
not even I could sell one ticket.
:08:57
Go charm her.
:08:59
Miss Mills will have no truck
with me, not even on the phone.