:13:03
...I think perhaps
I had better speak to you.
:13:06
Miss Trellis, it's rather a delicate matter,
so if you'll excuse us.
:13:10
- No, Mr. Skeffington, I'm staying.
- All right, then.
:13:14
I dropped in tonight on an impulse. I was
really on my way to see Arnold Hanlon.
:13:18
Arnold Hanlon?
Wasn't he the district attorney?
:13:21
He still is.
:13:26
I don't think I'm going to be able
to take this standing up.
:13:30
Maybe we'd all better sit down.
:13:33
- Won't you, Mr. Skeffington?
- Thank you.
:13:40
Has Trippy done something awful?
:13:42
Well, to begin with, your brother
has many good qualities.
:13:45
He's intelligent. He has imagination...
:13:47
Oh, this is gonna be even worse
than I thought.
:13:50
As a bond salesman,
he started out brilliantly.
:13:52
His orders piled in,
his commissions mounted.
:13:55
We gave him a larger desk,
put his name on the door.
:13:58
That he told me about.
:13:59
Then one day he handed in
a very large order...
:14:02
...from a Mr. Clarence Pruitt
of Big Falls, Rhode Island.
:14:06
So large an order, it required
an immediate confirmation.
:14:10
It turned out there was no
Mr. Clarence Pruitt of Rhode Island.
:14:13
It even turned out there was no such town
as Big Falls in Rhode Island.
:14:18
You mean he made them both up?
:14:21
He created everything but Rhode Island.
:14:25
Naturally, we started to investigate
other orders that hadn't been confirmed.
:14:30
We found he'd sold $50,000
worth of railroad bonds...
:14:32
...to a man whose address placed him
squarely in the middle of the Hudson River.
:14:37
Another block was sold to a man who
could have had only the mildest interest...
:14:41
...in stocks and bonds,
having been dead for 23 years.
:14:45
Good heavens.
How long was he doing this?
:14:47
For about three weeks.
:14:49
Weren't you suspicious at all?
:14:51
He threw in enough cancellations
to make the thing seem authentic.
:14:54
And here and there,
there was a legitimate sale.
:14:57
But you had to look for them.
:14:59
It wasn't very clever of him, was it?