"A VELVET-TAILED FOX" "Hello." "Why did you come here?" "Well, don't you want me to come with you?" "How long do you think you'll be staying here?" "I don't know." "That's right." "Maybe we'd better be alone for a while better than to keep on meeting only to argue to do evil to each other." "But I'm sure you'll call me because, in spite of everything, you need me." "This time I won't be coming back." "I can't..." "It's over, realize it." "I've filed for divorce." "But one can always save a marriage." "Not ours, and you know it well." "Why?" "We overcame worse moments." "Perhaps, but this time is different." "I met another man." "It happened." "When?" "Who cares about when?" " Two months might have been elapsed." " Right while I was at London it's like that, isn't it?" "Now there's no more need you come back to the hotel, you may even stay here." "Well, I don't know, maybe I'll be staying in villa till October." "Keep the big car." "No, thanks." "Think it over." "Two months are not enough to know a person." "I'll be waiting for you and if you'll need me, call me." "That's Bernardone." "I'm sorry, did I make you wait?" "Hello." "I think he's very nice and even discreet, indeed." "Come on, here's it." "Come on!" "Go!" "Come." "Come on, look for Paul, come on, look for your master." "Come on!" "How unpleasant you're, come on." "Come on." "Give me back my jumper, come on!" "Jump." "Jump?" "I'm jumping!" "Phew!" "It's the most beautiful gift I've ever got." "Seriously." "But...how did it come to your mind?" "Bye." " Lunch be ready for 2 pm." " For 2.30 pm!" " Fine, sir and madam." "Reddish purple, ochre yellow it has been a while since you came here, do you think you'll be staying here for a long time?" "I think till the end of October." " Ah...please some cobalt blue." " Very well, cobalt blue." "50 grams of copper oxide, 25 of sulphate and grout, charcoal..." " What are you doing here?" " What you are doing here instead?" "!" "I'm along with a woman." "Good morning." "Who's him?" "He's almost a brother for me." "And you don't introduce him to me?" "Another time." "Bye." "I'm sorry..." "Think, I was given this as a gift when I was 7 years old." "When did you see me for the first time?" "While I was going to hairdressers?" "I saw you from a shop-window." "How should I have been gorgeous with that Martian-like drier!" "You were so gorgeous that I stopped." "Girls wanted me to let you enter." "And you?" "I didn't want you to look at me in that condition." "Do you often happen to spy from hairdressers' shop-windows'!" "When it's worth." "ALL OF THEM WOUND, THE LAST ONE KILLS." "What do you do with all of these potteries once completed?" " A collection?" " A collection?" "Not really." "I'm going to make a nice exhibition and I sell them." "So I'm entering into a partnership." "Do you accept me?" "It's a deal.Take this." "And what am I doing with it?" "I use to paint fishes." "It's wonderful." "I'm trying to paint a fish too, a red one, it'll be a masterpiece." "You know, I already see myself, white haired, in seclusion here a very old woman, my wrist trembling, while painting fishes sparrows, ﬂowers." " Why?" "I don't know." "But I've been always thinking I'll become old alone." "My love, you won't become old." "Can you see it?" "It's closed, as I told you." "Wrong." "Clarify a bit a thing..." "No questions." "Only for the two of us." "Would you like to dance?" "Good evening madam, good evening sir." " Hi." " Hi." "On the house!" " Long live life, long live love!" " Cheers." "The club is yours till tomorrow." "Have fun!" "How nice he's." "Is this his own club?" "I don't know." "He may have bought it thanks to proceeds from a robbery." "Come on." "Think I used to hate this place." "Why?" "We used to come here every evening." "He didn't like to stay at home." "You know, we had nothing to say to each other so we were looking for any excuse for not being alone occasional friends, even unknown." "Any excuse was good." "Why did you marry him?" "I don't know." "Maybe because he made me feel sure somehow...who knows..." " Was he very rich?" " No, Michel was penniless." "But he was good, kind, devoted it's so much, you know, in a man." "So he seemed to me the right partner." "But now everything is so far." "Do you know this is the first time we're dancing together?" "The first time in two months and 24 days." "No, two months, 24 days and 8 hours." "I'm afraid." "Of what?" "Of this happiness." "Hi!" "May I have a bath in the pool?" " Yeah." "Please do." " Thanks." "Where did you meet Paul?" "During the war." "Didn't he tell you that?" "But during a real war?" "Absolutely!" "With corpses, ambushes, napalm, in Vietnam." "No, this has nothing to do with war, it's due to a lion's leg during a safari." "I learned a lot of things that day." "Two lions were fighting for a prey, one died... and the other one survived in a sorry state." "I thought the prey was mine but it wasn't like that because near there was a third cunning lion, a very cunning one he was waiting the other two tore each other to shreds then he suddenly came out and slash!" "And did Paul take part in that safari too?" "Why?" "Hi." "Where were you?" "On the pool." "Roland wants to have a bath." "Yes." "He's always unpredictable." "Excuse me, sir, there's a call for you." "Excuse me, I'll be right back." " Lunch at half past two?" " No, we're dining out." "Fine, madam." "Ah, by the way, did someone rent the bungalow?" "Well, I think so." "I saw a lady on the terrace." "It's a reservation from Paris." "They told me I've to wait." " Go alone." "Do you mind?" " No, darling, of course not." "See you later, my dear, bye." " See you later, my love." " Bye." "Gosh!" "You lost almost all the brakes' oil." "You had really a lucky escape, get the picture?" "Don't go for a drive without me anymore, please." "How wonderful!" "Here's our dinner!" "It's fantastic!" "Thanks." " I saw an octopus." " Really?" " Would you like to capture him?" "Well, absolutely!" "That will be right!" "Look, he's on the other side of the corals' point 30 or 40 meters deep." "You've to go down till down there and enter a kind of tunnel but be careful, swim slowly, very slowly, please and, as soon as you see him, hit him in the middle of his eyes." "Rig ht." " Agreed?" " Yes, my dear." "Madam!" " Hello?" " Hi, it's me." " How are you, madam?" " ls there the gentleman at home?" "No, he has gone out this morning." "And he told he wasn't going to come back for lunch." "Ah...rig ht, thanks." "Would you like something, madam?" "No, please do." "Where's your husband?" "I don't know where he's." "There's no more air." "There would be some more yet, according to the second needle of manometer." "Who knows...these gadgets they don't take much to break down." "Thus was it an incident?" "Weren't you having a rest?" "I couldn't sleep." "You look like a bit worried." "Show..." "What's happening to you?" "Come on tell me!" "Nothing triﬂes." "It's unbelievable, two consecutive accidents..." "What does spring to your mind?" "Who can have a stake in hurting you?" "They might want to hurt you." " Me?" " Yes." "Ah, how nice." "Is it yours?" "Yes." "Michel wanted me to keep it when I was alone at home." "Tell me, do you think they were really incidents?" "Of course." "Don't torment yourself." "Who might be?" "I go and take a look." "It's Michel." "Welcome here, sir." "Thanks." "I'm beginning to find him unpleasant." "Then if I think how he acted towards you..." "For someone supposed to be a quiet man, he seems too skilled in guns to me." "Why are you here?" "To see you again." "Please listen to me carefully,"" "...whatever it happens, I won't be ever coming back together with you." "Whatever it happens..." "What do you mean?" "Ah, understood." "You're sure you love him by now." "I was going to stay here for a night, but, if you prefer, I leave." "No, you may stay, if you want." "I love you." "I'd like you to be my friend at least." "Right, maybe I'm asking you too much." "You're not mistaken about any shot, aren't you?" "Where did you get skilled in shooting?" "In a circus, I played Buffalo Bill and he played Crazy Horse." "Let's look how much you're skilled." "Hit!" " Your whisky." " Thanks." "How do you know I drink always martini?" "I didn't know that, but such a classy man like you drinks nothing but martini." "And I'm sure about another thing that you're very, very good." "You couldn't hurt a ﬂy, did you ever kill a man?" " Did you go off to war?" " Yes, but I never killed anyone." "I did it instead." "I didn't know he was a hero." "There're no heroes in a war, either you kill or you're killed." "Violence generates violence every time..." "What a magnificent sentence!" "In my opinion it was thought up by..." "Please!" "It's not appropriate..." "I just wanted to show you Michel cannot make an attempt on my life." "After all I'm jealous." "About me?" "Not about you, but about the opinion Ruth has about you." "Two incidents occurred fortuitously...and yet Ruth could think you wanted to kill me." "It's very nice she thinks such a thing about you..." "How could you think such a thing?" "I wasn't here, I couldn't put my hands on your car, I was one hundred..." "...kilometers far way from here..." "...and I did always check oxygen tanks." "Don't worry, I believe in you." "But it was needed also Ruth convinced herself about that." "Are you more serene now?" "Well, given that your hero made so many wars, maybe there's someone who wants to take revenge, right?" "I'd like to wake up early in the morning." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "Good bye." "I didn't heard you came in." "No, please." "What's up'!" "Come here." "Are you angry?" "I only prefer to be alone..." "Indeed." "Did Michel upset you?" "No more mention of Michel please." "Agreed!" "But it's clear." "Michel proved himself innocent." "And you're regretting you had suspected him." "And now you prefer to be alone for delicacy." "Rig ht." "Goodnight." "Excuse me." "Let's go." "Ruth must be asleep by now." "Not right now, Paul, come on." "I can't be alone all over the day, don't you think?" "It will be over soon, you'll see..." " I'm so used to you that I'm missing you..." " Darling..." "Didn't you tell it would take two weeks?" "This matter is starting to tire me by now." "Stop it!" "We were mistaken in renting this house, she had to stay in Paris." "You ruined everything!" "Moreover, a short time ago, in front of Ruth you acted like a pure moron!" "Why?" "You gave yourself away with the martini!" "And then all those stupid chats!" "Ruth suspected you and now she's crying instead penitent and humiliated...but it's not me who was mistaken!" " The fact is that she's blatantly lucky!" " And if she keeps on being so lucky, we'll achieve a divorce and I'll be penniless!" "But you won't cash!" "Don't worry." "Tomorrow your wife is dying by a pistol shot." "I don't want tracks of violence to remain." " Have you understood me?" " No track, Ruth is committing... a suicide tomorrow in her bedroom at siesta's time." "And servants will hear the shot." "What are you getting at?" "I don't understand." "It's very simple." "You've come and see hen you've found that I lived in this house and that she was unfaithful to you with me, you've discussed,"" "...you've threatened her with a scandal and as soon as you've gone away she, in a moment of blues, bang!" "In the meanwhile I'll be on the sea, fishing underwater." "So I'll need your help." "You'll have to replace me on the motorboat just for the time I need to reach the house and enter from a bath window." "Here's the police station." "Hello?" "Here's the police station..." "hello?" "What do you want?" "To see you." "Are you still in a bad mood?" "What kind of bad mood?" " Has Michel left?" " I don't think so." "He didn't come and say goodbye to me." "You know, I look up to him a bit in a sense." " Did you come here not to see him?" " Not at all." "I wanted to be alone." "But you called me." "Yes." "I need some things." "Do you mind going and buying them for me?" "Well, write down, cobalt blue carmine sienna, one jar for each color." " Well." "Anything else?" " I00 grams of copper oxide 50 grams of copper sulphate..." "".150 grams of Prussian lead oxide..." "".100 grams of iron oxide and 50 grams of manganese." "That's all." "Leave the list and tell to take it into my account." "Well." "Understood." "You want to be alone with him." "That's a pretext, isn't it?" "Well, please say goodbye to your husband." "Come on!" "But once and for all." "Don't be late, 0k?" "And thanks." "When will be able to go and talk with a lawyer?" "Whenever you like. ls the next week good?" "Next Thursday thus." "Is it good for you?" "Thursday...it's very good for me." "At what time?" "At 5 o'clock." "Well, at 5 o'clock." "Cobalt blue, carmine, sienna..." "It's pointless!" "On Thursday at 5 o'clock." "Didn't he leave yet?" "First he wants to say goodbye to you." "Be careful not to act like her!" "That idiot will end by ruining everything." "Don't worry." "At 5 o'clock everything is being sorted out." "I guarantee you that." "I'm calling at 5 o'clock." "And I hope it won't be Ruth to answer." "She won't answer, she will be dead." "I've brought something to drink for you." "Let me help you, I do take care of it." "Your whisky." "Michel and me have decided to make it up with each other." "It'd be stupid hold a grudge against each other." "No doubt." "It'd be stupid." "Your martini." "Now I've only to wish you much happiness." "Here's to you." "Thanks." "Thanks." "Good bye." "Good bye." "Do you come to my home or do you prefer we'll meet right at lawyer's office?" "I prefer at lawyer's, if you don't mind." "Rig ht." "Were you asleep?" "I go fishing." "What do you want for dinner?" "Groupers?" "Den tex?" "Sea bream?" "You may choose." "Michel left." "Wouldn't you like to eat out this evening?" "Sure." "As you please." "I'm changing water." "Have a good rest and sweet dreams." "Take!" " Here in a hour." " But will you be in time?" " Don't worry." " Be careful." "I know you're coming here to kill me but I won't prevent you from doing it." "Probably my decision will seem absurd to you." "If you think so, it will be only because you didn't understand you were the man I've been always looking for." "I had put all my trust in you." "I loved you infinitely." "You were all the world for me." "But now I know who you're." "Now I know why you approached me." "Your hoax has been atrocious." "I'm tired so tired, I'm aware that I was mistaken in everything." "I have neither a desire nor a strength to believe once more in someone or in something, I no longer want to live." "And I hope you'll be quick." "But I want you to know a thing." "My death will be useless for you at all." "Michel was rig ht." "Violence generates violence." "I hear you're here." "I'll tum my back and wait." "Yes"..." "Police?" "!" "What?" "Yes." "Yes, I'll be right there." "Thanks." "I wanted to lay down close to you without awaking you and the phone has rung." "What's up'!" "Michel is dead." "Yes." "Police motorbike no. 14 on the 17th national road." "The commissioner is here." "Over!" "It's him." "He's my husband." "I'm sorry, madam, but it was necessary." "It must have occurred around 2 o'clock about." "He had just got out of his home." "It was an accident really absurd, unexplainable." "It has been just half hour since we discovered him." "There's not a lot of traffic during this season, however, even if someone had seen him, he couldn't be...madam!" "Are you feeling ill?" "It's nothing I'm well..." "Leave me alone!" "Why don't you want to understand?" "Everything has changed." "I must stay close to her now." "It's better for us if I marry her, otherwise all our work will be lost." "To marry her!" "And I'd have to watch your honeymoon candidly?" "!" "Listen!" "Michel would have given us 40%, but she had to die, not him!" "Don't you understand that?" "I'm getting married in a month, so to say and I sneaking away with the whole nest-egg, it must be always more than we thought we could gain, get the picture?" "Why don't you make your brain work?" "Fuss!" "Do you want to stay with that stupid woman forever?" "I know you like her, was it you to kill him, wasn't it?" "You killed him to stay close to her." "He went off the road." "Trick of brakes didn't work with her but you were successful in him!" "That's why he turned upside down his car!" "You want to keep her and her money, but I'll go to the police..." "...and I'll denounce you, understood?" " That's enough now!" "My condolences..." "Thanks." " Madam, I..." " Thanks." "I'm sorry..." "What happened to him?" "When was the last time you saw him?" "I don't know...wait." "I think it must be the past day when poor Mr Michel went away from here." " Are you sure about that?" " Not really sure but I remember I haven't been seeing him again since that time." "But how could you do such a thing?" "Yes, ok, you dreaded, you thought Michel wanted to kill me I know it, you were convinced about it and you were so convinced that you didn't hesitated to kill him..." ""because you poisoned him." "It wasn't a car accident, wasn't it?" "Yes, it was me who prepared a martini, but it was you who put ice on!" "And the dog licked the ice." "Poor animal, he was thirsty and I gave him the remaining ice cubes." "Come on, answer!" "What did you put in the ice?" "Darling!" "It's even more beautiful than I expected." "Come." "Come...this way." "Which way, my love?" "On the top of stairs on the end of aisle..." "How about it?" "Nice." "Indeed." "You know what?" "We'll have a lot of fun here." "Do you forgive me for having mistrusted you?" "Here's her." "I introduce Danielle to you, she's stopping here for a while, if you don't mind." "She lived completely alone in the bungalow, she got so bored, poor her." "I felt just like being acquainted with you." "Paul uses to talk to me always about you, you know?" "I think we'll become good friends." "May I kiss you?" "Vile!" "Tell her to leave!" "I thought that my friends were also yours." "Darling, tell her I'm aware of that poor big dog dead too." "Indeed!" "She knows the matter about the ice." "You'd better behave well, my dear." "You'll see, I'm feeling it, we'll be just OK here." "Darling..." "Phase..." "How much?" "How much what?" "How much money do you want?" "I'm a gentleman, I should never blackmail you." " Anyway, if you really wants to be prodigal":" "Please!" "What do you want to leave me in peace?" "I want to hear you telling that you had poisoned your husband for me." "Come on!" "Tell!" "Darling, do you know she allowed herself to tear away this nice hat from my hands?" "So you must apologize to her." "Worm!" " Don't try it again, wretch!" " Calm down now!" "I'm vain and I want to hear you telling that!" "Everything would be easier." "All right, I'm not in a hurry." " Sooner o later you'll tell me that." " You'll be waiting some time!" "I'm sorry." "I'm terribly sorry." "Was it you who killed Michel, wasn't it?" "Did you kill him for Paul?" "Tell that you killed him for Paul." "Slop!" "Do you know a thing, my love?" "Everything is more exciting,"" "...beyond expectation." "It's stirring." "Darling, I've an impression we'll be staying here for a long time." "My love?" "Why did you lock?" "Come on, open." "It's me." "Danielle wants to kiss you goodnight." "Open the door." "You know, Ruth is a good girl, she'll end by opening, you'll see." "But it's strange, she never locked before she was eagerly waiting for me." "Be a good little girl!" "Open the door." "We'll have a nice talk together." "Right!" "Thus I must open!" "Poor Ruth!" "Are you scared?" "Why?" "Come on, don't be afraid." "Don't upset yourself, it's nothing." "Paul says we'll be together for a long time, so what?" "Why not!" "If we get organized a bit amongst us, things will go much better." "Do you see it?" "Paul is kissing you and yet I don't get angry." "Be good, Ruth, come on, calm down." "A bit of good will..." "It's my tum, darling." "It's my tum, darling." "Now you stay and watch, as I did when you were with him." "Now you stay and watch, as I did when you were with him." "No, Ruth, come here." "Here's the police station." "Hello?" "Michel Dubois was already dead..." ""before his car went off the road." "You may be looking forward that all these things will be over, I suppose." "I'm starting to get tired, do you know?" "How much are you willing to pay?" "How much are you willing to pay?" "I've a lot of influence on Paul." "I've a lot of influence on Paul." "Come on, answer." "After all I'm trying to help you." "Come on!" "How much money have you got?" "You'd better treat with me." "Women understand each other better." "You think I side for Paul no, you're wrong." "The fact is that I'm getting bored here and I'd do anything just to leave." "Instead Paul not." "Paul wants to bum you with a low fire, he says we'll get much more this way." "Come on, say an amount of money." "Isn't quiet more valuable?" "If you tell me how much you want to pay I can convince Paul to accept." "Hello?" "Yes." "Rig ht." "So what, my dear?" "How much?" "Ruth, the commissioner wants to talk with you." "Danielle, let's go?" "Maybe we're unwanted here." "No, you may stay." "Madam, your husband was poisoned." "We exhumed his corpse and result of autopsy left no doubt." "Legal medicine department informed us about that and poisoning happened here in your home just before your husband went out." "And are you suspecting of me?" "No, we're suspecting of this gentleman." "What?" "Even if he affirms the product poisoning your husband is used..." "by you for your pottery." "Prussian lead oxide." " Is it true, madam?" " Not at all!" "I never used it." "What are you getting at?" "What a stupid thing!" "It must be here!" "Look for it and I'm sure you'll find it out!" "What are you waiting for?" "Why don't you look for it?" "Because your police record contributed to complete the picture." "You were sentenced by several French courts." "But it was her!" "Tell him!" "It was her!" "A plan thought out down to the smallest details the car was destroyed, no chance to find out a clue and, after getting rid of husband, later, with no obstacle,"" "...you'd have been together with the lady and her money." "Isn't it like that?" " But I didn't..." " May I come in?" "Good morning sirs and ladies." "Yes, I sold it to him the same day of the accident." "It's true...but it was her to make me pick it up." "But it's impossible because 2 or 3 weeks ago the lady bought the products needed for all over the season." "Moreover lead oxide is not used for pottery." "I already told you, commissioner." "No, she made a list for me." "This one?" "That's not my handwriting." "We know that, we compared it with the previous orders on the other side he's a professional, we got information from Interpol, let's go!" "And you too, young lady!" "That's a misunderstanding!" "It was her!" "Paul, tell him about the dog!" "Explain that to him!" "May I say goodbye to the lady?" "Please." "When did you discover your husband had took me on?" "The night you planned my suicide." "I saw and heard everything." "Didn't you do anything to prevent me from killing you?" "!" "But you had to kill me." "I'd have wanted you to do that." 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