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- I brought a staff of servants from my city apartment, and my maid Lizzy Allen who had been with me nearly 20 years.
- Lizzy?
- Yes, Miss Cornelia?
- Is the car ready?
- It's at the door.
- Look. Miss Cornelia, them servants you brought from the apartment are talking about walking out on us.
- Really? Well, I know they don't like it here. But I didn't think it was that bad.
- Well, they've been hearing things about the killer that the police call the Bat, and the murders that he committed here this past winter. Now people are saying he's back again.
- Well, how can they be sure of that?
- Has he committed another crime?
- No, not yet, but that ain't saying that he won't.
- Here's something else. You've heard about the bats they have here. Animal bats, the kind that fly?
- Yes, yes.
- Look what it says in this magazine. This is a report from the state health department. And it says some of them bats is rabid.
- Well...
- And that ain't all. Now there's a rumor going around that it was the Bat himself, the killer I mean, that released the rabid bats in this neighborhood.
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