Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Jerry Manning hires leopard as publicity stunt for night-club performing girlfriend, Fact2: rival at club not wanting to be upstaged startles animal, Fact3: owner of leopard begins pestering Manning for money, Fact4: latest killing is work of man, Fact5: man has made death look like leopard attack
Output (English): The story, set in New Mexico, begins as Jerry Manning Dennis OKeefe hires a leopard as a publicity stunt for his nightclub performing girlfriend, Kiki Jean Brooks. Her rival at the club, CloClo Margo, not wanting to be upstaged, startles the animal and it escapes the club into the dark night. The owner of the leopard, a solo sideshow performer named Charlie HowCome—billed as The Leopard Man—begins pestering Manning for money for replacement of the leopard. Soon a girl is found mauled to death, and Manning and Kiki feel remorse for having unleashed the monster. After attending the girls funeral, Manning joins a posse that seeks to hunt down the giant cat. Presently another young woman is killed, and Manning begins to suspect that the latest killing is the work of a man who has made the death look like a leopard attack. The leopards owner, who admits to spells of drunkenness, is unnerved by Mannings theory and begins to doubt his own sanity. He asks the police to lock him up, but while he is in jail another killing occurs: the victim this time is CloClo. Afterward, the leopard is found dead in the countryside, and is judged to have died before at least one of the recent killings. When the human murderer in finally found, he confesses that his compulsion to kill was excited by the first leopard attack.