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There was a maharaja
who came all the way from India...
:25:04
to beg one of her silk stockings.
:25:07
Later he strangled himself
with it.
:25:10
Well, I sure turned in
to an interesting driveway.
:25:14
You did, sir.
:25:16
Good night, sir.
:25:23
I pegged him
as slightly cuckoo too.
:25:27
A stroke, maybe.
:25:30
Come to think of it, the whole
place seemed to be stricken...
:25:33
with a kind of creeping paralysis...
:25:36
out of beat with
the rest of the world...
:25:39
crumbling apart in slow motion.
:25:42
There was a tennis court-- or rather
the ghost of a tennis court...
:25:47
with faded markings
and a sagging net.
:25:55
And of course she had a pool.
:25:58
Who didn't then?
:25:59
Mabel Normand and John Gilbert must
have swum in it 1 0, 000 midnights ago.
:26:05
And Vilma Banky and Rod LaRoque.
:26:09
It was empty now.
:26:12
Or was it?
:26:20
There was something else
going on below.
:26:23
The last rites
for that hairy old chimp...
:26:27
performed
with the utmost seriousness...
:26:30
as if she were laying to rest
an only child.
:26:35
Was her life really as empty
as that?
:26:48
It was all very queer.
:26:51
But queerer things
were yet to come.