:02:02
- Won't you sit down, Miss Wonderly?
- Thank you.
:02:04
I inquired at the hotel
for a reliable private detective.
:02:07
They mentioned you.
:02:08
Suppose you tell me about it
from the very beginning.
:02:11
I'm from New York.
:02:14
I'm trying to find my sister.
:02:16
I believe she's here in San Francisco...
:02:18
...with a man by the name of Thursby,
Floyd Thursby.
:02:22
I don't know where she met him.
:02:24
We've never been as close
as sisters ought to be.
:02:27
If we had, Corinne would have told me
she was running away with him.
:02:30
Our parents are in Honolulu.
I must find her before they return.
:02:33
- They'll be back on the first.
- You've had word of your sister?
:02:36
A letter from her about two weeks ago.
:02:39
It said nothing except
that she was all right.
:02:41
I sent a telegram begging her
to come home.
:02:43
I sent it to a general delivery address,
the one she gave.
:02:46
I waited a week and no answer came
so I decided to come out here myself.
:02:50
I wrote her that I was coming.
I shouldn't have, should I?
:02:52
It's not always easy to know what to do.
:02:55
You haven't found her?
:02:56
No. I wrote in my letter that I'd be at
the St. Mark and for her to meet me there.
:03:00
I waited three days. She didn't come.
She didn't even send a message.
:03:04
It was horrible. Waiting.
:03:07
I sent her another letter.
:03:08
Yesterday afternoon
I went to the post office.
:03:11
Corinne didn't call for her mail,
but Floyd Thursby did.
:03:14
He wouldn't tell me where Corinne was.
:03:16
He said she didn't want to see me.
:03:18
I can't believe that.
:03:20
He promised to bring her to the hotel
if she'd come.
:03:23
He said he knew she wouldn't.
He promised to come if she didn't.
:03:27
Excuse me.
:03:28
It's all right, Miles. Come in.
:03:31
Miss Wonderly, my partner, Miles Archer.
:03:34
Miss Wonderly's sister ran away
with a fellow named Thursby.
:03:37
They're here in San Francisco.
:03:39
Miss Wonderly has a date
with Thursby tonight.
:03:41
Maybe he'll bring the sister.
The chances are he won't.
:03:44
Miss Wonderly wants us to find the sister,
get her away from him and back home.
:03:48
- Right?
- Yes.
:03:51
Now it's simply a matter of having a man
at the hotel tonight...
:03:54
...to shadow him when he leads us
to your sister.
:03:56
If, after we've found her,
she still won't leave him...
:03:59
...well, we have ways of managing that.