1 Can you keep a secret? Don't reveal the identity of "The Bat". Future audiences will fully enjoy this mystery play if left to find out for themselves. 2 Gideon Bell, lover of rare jewels, owner of the famous Favre Emeralds. 3 "Send for Detective Moletti - quick! He'll get 'The Bat'!" 4 "I'll send 'The Bat' to the chair, if it's the last thing I do!" 5 The lonely mansion designed and built by Courtleigh Fleming, President of the Oakdale Bank. 6 Cornelia Van Gorder, of New York, has leased the Fleming place in search of peace and quiet. 7 "LIZ--ZIE!" 8 Lizzie Allen, Cornelia's maid - thinks the Man Without a Country isn't as bad off as the Woman Without a City. 9 "I see by the papers 'The Bat' is around. I'm settin' a bear-trap for him." 10 "Who put that ladder in the laundry-chute?" 11 "This is the happy home of the Heebee-Jeebees. Doors slam - loose feet roam around - lights go out -" 12 "The lights go out because they're having trouble at the power house." 13 "For twenty years I've stood by you through Socialism, Theosophism and Rheumatism - - but I draw the line at Spookism!" 14 "THE BAT!" 15 Richard Fleming, the banker's spendthrift nephew. 16 "You lost no time leasing your uncle's house. You'd grab money any old way - to square your gambling debts -" 17 "There are reasons why that house mustn't be occupied just now. We'll have to frighten that Van Gorder woman and her niece away." 18 "Keep them off, dear - you'll be recognized." 19 "I wonder why you're doing all this for me, Dale?" 20 "Because - I love you!" 21 "Maybe he's 'The Bat'!" 22 "That Jap butler gives me the Willies. The Flemings threw him in with the lease - - but I'd throw him out!" 23 "Auntie, I had the Employment Agency send you a new gardener." 24 "No use hirin' help. The house is haunted - we've sent for detectives." 25 "Man here - say name Brooks - - he new gardener." 26 "Let me look over your references, young man." 27 "Auntie, the Agency recommended Brooks very highly - -" 28 "Know anything about perennials?" 29 "Er - - perennials are the ones that keep their leaves during the winter - -" 30 "Any experience with Alopecia - -" 31 "- Urticaria -" 32 "- - or Rubeola?" 33 "Why - er - they - er - they lose their leaves in the summer!" 34 "Billy will show you to your room." 35 "Maybe he's 'The Bat'!" 36 "I know he's not a gardener. Alopecia, Urticaria and Rubeola mean Baldness, Hives and Measles!" 37 "Dr. Wells - - Fleming doctor - - see you." 38 "Someone is trying to scare me out of this house, doctor." 39 "Merchant - Lawyer -" 40 " - - Doctor - -" 41 "- - BAT!" 42 "Will you please fasten that window?" 43 "Doctor, you didn't fasten it." 44 "Man here - say name Moletti - detective." 45 "This house belonged to the late Courtleigh Fleming, president of the Oakdale Bank -" 46 "You may see strange things under this roof. If anything happens, phone me." 47 "I wouldn't look for it now, dear - there's a detective downstairs." 48 "What's your full name?" 49 "Lizzie Allen - whether I'm full or not." 50 "How old are you?" 51 "Twenty-two." 52 "She's forty!" 53 "When this house was built, I overheard the architect and Courtleigh Fleming discussing a hidden room." 54 "Could there be any connection between the goings-on here and the Oakdale Bank robbery?" 55 "I believe the Bank's money is in a hidden room in this house." 56 "A face with twenty eyes - I counted 'em - ran up that staircase!" 57 "A hidden room would show on the blueprints. You'll find them in the old chest in the dining-room." 58 "If that money's here - do you think I'm fool enough to turn it over to you?" 59 "It belongs to the Bank!" 60 "Bank, nothing! If there's any money here, it's mine!" 61 "I want that piece of blueprint." 62 "You go to H--l!" 63 "There's a detective here. If you go up those stairs, I'll call him!" 64 "Give me that blueprint!" 65 "It's Richard Fleming! Someone shot him from the stairs - -" 66 "He's the new gardener." 67 "One shot has been fired from this revolver." 68 "I fired that shot myself, last night." 69 "Quick thinking, Miss Van Gorder - but I must arrest your niece." 70 "You can't arrest her without a Coroner's verdict - - and you'll have to get Doctor Wells for that." 71 "What became of the rest of this?" 72 "Where's the torn piece?" 73 "The missing piece shows the hidden room - - and you shot Fleming to get it!" 74 "I didn't - I didn't - I tell you!" 75 "Who flung that piano?" 76 "Who are you?" 77 "Who am I? Bloodhound Anderson - Super-Sleuth of Oakdale County!" 78 "Did you hire this fellow?" 79 "I'm sorry to say I did - over the phone - from the Judkins Detective Agency." 80 "Did you look around outside?" 81 "My favorite method is to work outside from the inside." 82 "Dick Fleming? Who done it?" 83 "That's what you're being paid to find out!" 84 "Leave it to me. I'll find out all right, all right!" 85 "Horrible groans - - somebody's in terrible distress - -" 86 "It's the house phone to the garage!" 87 "Look! The shadow of a Bat!" 88 "Why don't you see who it is?" 89 "A lot of excitement over a moth-miller on a headlight!" 90 "Tell me exactly how Dick Fleming died." 91 "Have you a pocket flashlight?" 92 "Auntie, take this flash- light and go up the stairs." 93 "- but I managed to snatch part of the blueprint - -" 94 "I tucked it in a Parker House roll on the tray and - -" 95 "Don't worry because the detective suspects your niece. I'll attend to things." 96 "Come out of there!" 97 "Brooks Bailey - - the missing cashier of the Oakdale Bank!" 98 "I arrest you for robbery, murder, impersonation and - - and - -" 99 "You needn't arrest this young man. He's in my employ, and I'll be responsible for him." 100 "Brooks and I are engaged. They'd arrest him for the bank robbery - he's here to find the money and clear himself." 101 "When you want to fool Auntie, dear, don't bring a gardener with manicured fingernails." 102 "I'm in charge of this case, Doctor. I'll trouble you for that bit of blueprint." 103 "Wonder where that hidden room could be - -" 104 "I haven't the slightest idea." 105 "The rapping leads right into the haunted ballroom!" 106 "Candles won't stay lit in here - - something blows 'em out!" 107 "Have you seen Detective Moletti?" 108 "I haven't. Perhaps he's on the verandah - I'll look." 109 "Who are you? What are you doing here?" 110 "Ain't nothing in his pockets to identify him." 111 "You'd better look outside." 112 "You'd better go with him." 113 "No use taking unnecessary chances. One is enough to sacrifice!" 114 "Banker Fleming is alive - I just saw him cross the roof!" 115 "Stay here, Jappy. Watch that invalid in the other room." 116 "Try that window on the side of the roof." 117 "Don't get panicky, Bloodhound. I'll tie the other end around my waist!" 118 "I'm all right." 119 "Keep quiet - or I'll -" 120 "I want the combination of that safe!" 121 "What's he lookin' at?" 122 "Stop that man! He's 'The Bat'!" 123 "He ain't dazed - - he's just actin'!" 124 "When you handcuff a man - always take the key from his pocket." 125 "- You put out that candle and let 'The Bat' escape!" 126 "I'll settle with you - and I'll settle good and proper - later!" 127 "If he ain't 'The Bat', he's in cahoots with him!" 128 "- and he couldn't tell who he is or how he got here!" 129 "Know me?" 130 "Ever hear of Detective Moletti before?" 131 "Have you a gun?" 132 "If he makes one wrong move - shoot to kill!" 133 "You see - - there's nothing here. Your niece has been imagining things." 134 "Somebody's going across the skylight!" 135 "I just wanted to get rid of those dumb detectives." 136 "C. F. stands for Courtleigh Fleming!" 137 "I'm convinced that Dale is right. Courtleigh Fleming's been up here - and we'll find him." 138 "Don't open it - there may be a bomb inside!" 139 "Courtleigh Fleming - dead!" 140 "Open that satchel!" 141 "If that's the $200,000, Fleming robbed his own bank!" 142 "- - and Doctor Wells was in league with him - forging that Colorado death certificate." 143 "- they planned to split the money and put the blame on me - -" 144 "The garage is on fire!" 145 "If you value your lives, do just as I order!" 146 "'The Bat' set that garage afire - a trick to draw you away from the house - -" 147 "Put out the lights!" 148 "Remember - - he's a killer - -" 149 "He's coming back for that satchel with the money!" 150 "Search him!" 151 "Thought you were rid of me when you knocked me cold and tied me up in the garage!" 152 [in small type] "I arrest you for murder, robbery, arson - and - and -" 153 "I am Moletti. He locked me in the garage - - stole my papers - - and impersonated me." 154 "Hands up - - you!" 155 "Why should I? I removed the cartridges from that gun ten minutes ago!" 156 "My first lie in an otherwise stainless life!"Home