check and cox co did you get into the act i bailed you out why mr tuck i want to see you tonight after closing what for doesn't he know that my mother won't give me a dime unless i straighten up and go live on that lousy you know they say about my book or didn't get us over here to improve our speech not your speech gentlemen but perhaps your finances the man is talking about fred the man is talking about money gentlemen have been among my steadiest customers i've got the upper two years studying you closely writing the great american novel part nor am i casting a play are attempting to furnish psychological guidance to a poor little rich boy all right all right you tell us what you're not doing now would you mind telling us what you are doing not at all am preparing with your cooperation to steal a million dollars you say steve do you know anyone who is giving away a million dollars except you're not dispassionate you're afraid scared in exchange for a few days of your lives i'm offering each one of you two hundred thousand dollars money enough for you to forget you can't act you to stop writing bad books and perhaps start reading good ones for you to cut loose from your lovely and wandering mothers village you may go to hell in your own way you read me good my plan is based on the interesting fact that if you take a train from los angeles to new york there's a four hour stopover in chicago what's so interesting about chicago and the town w you a million dollars is interesting before i go into details i want to impress upon you that no one can change his mind no one noticed i didn't put that as a question for the simple reason that i can buy any of your debt for x dollars and x dollars can make any of you x permanently o what i have in mind i don't have a liquor license and i don't believe in breaking a small  tickets booked up here tomorrow night at eight thirty graduations on your so she isn't with me in this magnificent undertaking not only be financially rewarding but it might also bring the details of the master plan take a look for yourself he gave me an advance in cash to get me to new york  giving each of them a glimpse of the promised land the prospect of an hour of glory to lift them out of the drab unpublished swamp of medium once inspired by this last chance to excel  the beginning of the end of my psychology of directing the masterpiece of crime to see another is to leave when this i see your ticket please i'm a great fan of your mother understand she's coming home well you probably know more about that t and that's a very nice hike that takes the car on up exactly thirty minutes to get back to the train  a little i'm jack simpson forgot a morning star why don't you guys leave me alone oh about your mother there's a rumor come up you know even the year get out of my way listen buster i know you could use a little more goodwill from the press  things happen to me i wish i could type say here's my card fifty fifty on all my stories  i'll call you gee thanks a lot  forgot to mention one thing you put a bullet through his brain all i did was hit him and say your story i don't use that gun was that when i took from take a look for yourself i think i'm going to get back to jenny before she starts worrying get rid of the typewriter he's a disgrace to the uniform such trusting people and i'm locked door what you want is always an invitation to a minister of the gospel thank you we don't need a minister a man of the cloth is important only because he brings  i have i observed you earlier on the train young loving your lives before you so long as you did not left for power and gold i have no objections to money which a  as for the rest i think you'll agree with me in this late hour that silence is golden makes you think it was suicide what else was a murderer why do you say that this note is typewritten well where's the typewriter how would you know and jenny from the chicago robber you seem to be the answer to everything i wanted to give you ever the police are coming aboard george leland didn't commit suicide we know that you tried to confess his murder but the both of us were involved in the chicago armored car robbery but you having delusions of grandeur i know with the money