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Go on foot.
It's not for me. I'm literally and figuratively a tenderfoot.
That's why it just mauls and tears at them.
Something's wrong with this whole setup
Yes, there is something wrong. People who want publicity and don't mind how they get it what risks they make other people run what agony and sorrow they bring to other people
I know all that, chief, and I don't like it any better than you do, but there's something else
What are you getting at?
Nothing much just that it might not be a cat this time.
I've been trying to tell him, Sheriff. He won't listen to me.
Let me get one thing clear. Did Galbraith make a direct accusation?
No. He was kidding Charlie.
State hunters?
Professional hunters, who rid the state of cougars.
Yes. The lipstick.
Why?
Ask Kiki. Ask any woman. Girls don't put on lipstick in the middle of the night on a dark, lonely street unless they're with a man or expecting a man.
Chief, don't you understand what this means?
You think Galbraith found the leopard on the day you went out with the posse.
I'm sure of it!
Galbraith knows something. He as good as said so
I am not interested in what somebody else thinks. You being me facts and I'll act on them.
That's a fact, isn't it?
Yes. And I am taking it to headquarters for examination.
You won't go to Galbraith with me?
Offend a reputable citizen and involve the department in a slander suit? No. I'm in office to protect the taxpayers money not throw it way. Come on, Charlie.
Jerry told me you were an expert with animals, Mr. Galbraith. Couldn't you tell where it went?
To know where that leopard went I'm afraid you'd have to be a leopard and think like a leopard. I was a naturalist. That hardly qualifies me as an expert in hunting down lost leopards. I used to teach zoology in a little freshwater college back East. I gave that up.
What do you do now?
There's a little museum here in town. They've hired me to run it, We've some interesting exhibits of Indian arts and crafts. It's fun and I like living here in New Mexico.
Why did you give up teaching?
Various reasons. But I can't see why you'd be interested in the rather dusty career of William Galbraith teacher, naturalist, curator when you lead such a gay and exciting life yourself.
So you see meeting you is a real thrill for me.
Well, I'm hardly Mrs. Leslie Carter whoever she was. In fact, I'm not even much of a success around here particularly after the backfire on Jerry's little publicity stunt with the leopard.
That was unfortunate.
That was a calamity!
Well, I'm next. You won't hear anything like that, Mr. Galbraith. I'm not a popular favorite since I let the leopard loose.
I'm sure if you are as talented as you are charming, Miss Walker, you have nothing to worry about.
Thanks.
I've disturbed you. I'm sorry
Miss Walker I didn't expect anyone
Of course. Only I'm afraid you'll be cheated. There isn't much of a view of the procession here.
I thought they came right past here
They do, but there are no lights out there they'll just be shadows
Wait
No really, I can see them they're coming now turn off the lights
Show business?
Yes. It's always fascinated me. You know, once, when I was a youngster, I went to see Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Zaza." After the play I stood in the alley just to watch her come out.
Well, I'd best be off.
I want to ask you something.
It's about the leopard.
You're worrying about its killing someone else?
Yes. I want to go out and patrol the town be everywhere at once be sure nothing happens to anybody.
Of course. It's the way any decent man would feel in your position.
You know about animals their habits will it come back?
No. I'm quite sure.
There is no danger at all. It's a wild animal. Do you think a wild animal prefers walls, streets and people when it can get into open country?
That's right, of course.
Don't feel so concerned, Jerry.
Doc something you said the other day
Yes?
It doesn't jibe with this you told me the leopard would go out into the country it wouldn't stay in the city
Sure certainly but what's that got to do with this?
That's what I don't understand why should it come here and why didn't it stay here? It's got trees and bushes here outside nothing but cement and asphalt.
Jerry, I talked to you about the habits of an ordinary wild leopard. This leopard is another matter entirely a caged animal travelling around with Charlie How Come for years and years.. That's why it kills human beings.
Why?
It doesn't know how to hunt its natural prey.
But it doesn't eat what it kills.
Caged animals are unpredictable. They're like frustrated human beings. I can't answer your question.
Just a minute, Robles. Let him go on.
I can understand about the cat killing the first girl. Charlie How Come told me. All that noise and those lights scared crazy it would do anything. Last night there was nothing to disturb it. Just a little girl alone in a cemetery.
You know Charlie HowCome?
We're old friends.
Come to look around?
More or less.
I'll take you about. Got some nice things.
Charlie and I were talking. That's one reason I wanted to see you.
About Charlie's leopard?
Yes.
Charlie doesn't think the leopard killed the girl in the cemetery.
Charlie likes his leopard.
It could be a man.
It could be. Why would a man kill her? For what? It wasn't robbery. It wasn't a crime of jealousy or passion. She had no enemies.
There are all sorts of men. You get to see some funny ones as a reporter.
I can understand what you mean demented men, pathological cases. But what sort of man would kill like a leopard and leave the traces of a leopard?
Some crazy guy.
But he would have to know about leopards have access to leopard claws and hair.
We had given up digging in a certain barrow. I went back and I tried again. I just had a hunch.
A hunch that's all I've got about this leopard thing. It's just a hunch, yet I feel it deep in the stomach. It was a man!
Yes, but what sort of a man?
I don't know.
You, Charlie you know leopards. You might have had an old claw around somewhere, and perhaps a bit of hair from the cage eh?
Come on, Charlie. Let's go find another and better suspect.
Don't you want to see the rest of the exhibit?
Some other time.
You must admit it's possible that it might have been a man.
Just barely possible yes.
You know a lot. You've taken a lot of fancy courses in colleges and that kind of stuff what kind of a man would kill like that?
But all those fancy courses were about the dead, Jerry, not the living.
All right the dead, then. In history there must have been men like that men with kinks in their brains
Yes. There have been men who kill for pleasure strange pleasure. There was Blue Beard in France Jack The Ripper in London. It's not uncommon.