The Bat1959

Cornelia van Gorder:
[reading newspaper headline] Mr. Fleming will be laid to rest in his family's tomb on Monday.

Lizzie Allen:
And I hope he stays there.

Cornelia van Gorder:
Well why shouldn't he?

Lizzie Allen:
This is his house, and ever since he died, some funny things have happened here.

Cornelia van Gorder:
For instance?

Lizzie Allen:
The housekeeper, the cook and the butler said that they heard strange noises at night, and the upstairs maid swore she met a man without a face coming up the back stairs.

Cornelia van Gorder:
Oh so that's why they quit and left me to run this place without a staff.

Lizzie Allen:
They didn't tell you, Miss Gordy, but the truth is they were scared to stay.

Cornelia van Gorder:
But you're still here, Lizzie! Haven't you seen anything?

Lizzie Allen:
No... no and even if I had, I ain't afraid of ghosts. They're afraid of me! Honest, Miss Gordy, a spiritualist once told me that ghosts was allergic to me. [Cornelia Van Gorder laughs] But, but this bat fella they keep talking about in the paper - I - I think he'd be different.

Cornelia van Gorder:
No, I don't think you'd have the same effect on him. [thunder crashes] Oh dear!

Lizzie Allen:
What are they trying to do, drive people away from this part of the country?

Cornelia van Gorder:
Why? What does it say about the Bat?

Lizzie Allen:
His specialty seems to be killing women, my goodness, two of them in one night, all his victims died the same way, like their throats had been ripped open with steel claws.

Cornelia van Gorder:
That's charming, I'll have to try it some time. [Lizzie stares at her weird] In a book.