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...Folks in Worthington, Mass. (pop. 515) are as tradition-prim and Yankee-proper as any other New Englanders, and they usually have a cold and suspicious eye for strangers. But right from the start they accepted George Humphrey, a nice fellow who last year bought a big, 15-room colonial house on 130 acres, and moved in with his wife and children...
Jean Humphrey, 34, a slender, lively woman who once danced with the corps de ballet at Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall, opened up dancing classes at Worthington's Town Hall. George, 39, was a publisher, ran a little printing firm that turned out school yearbooks and similar publications. He liked to drive around in a $10,000 Continental Mark II, and was known to be a mite expansive about his moneymaking prowess; he also gave the impression that he was related to former U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. He had a little printing press...
Fortnight ago U.S. Treasury agents arrested George and two other men in Boston, then sped to Worthington to confiscate a complete counterfeiting setup in Humphrey's cellar, including $5,500 in inexpertly printed $10 and $20 bills, as well as negatives and plates for making Canadian currency and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. stock certificates...
...Worthington was shocked. Of late, everybody knew, the Humphreys had been terribly short of money: their phone had been disconnected and bills had been piling up in the house for months. Ingenuously, George had been carrying on, assuring his creditors that he would soon make good his debts; George's word was good enough...
Concluded Worthington: "The third sound came like a creaking noise, like some great door slowly and ominously swinging open. The kind of sound effect Alfred Hitchcock makes...