It is a variation on the dance that led o her mother""s death at the beginning of the film.)When Lewt and Pearl are both missing and then arrive late for dinner, Laura Belle suspects that Pearl""s wet hair means hat she has been swimming with Lewt at the sump.Leo""s ""Creative Accounting"" Techniques:Max suggested that Leo - as an accountant - could easily conceal the relatively minor fraud, by readjusting, altering or shuffling he numbers.Lillian Gish played his opposite - a saintly good woman who provided refuge for the victimized children.Each of the main characters, living in despair, sought to choose more attractive or ""beautiful"" situations, materialistic objects, or people to align themselves with...Not that I have the slightest idea...I hold no truck with silence.I""ve got nothing to hide...It""s just that you worry about the stranger only if you look at him from a certain aspect." According to his perspective, Doc looks upon he intruder "with the innocence of a fresh-laid egg." Hastings joins the group and is ordered by Reno to investigate the man""s background hrough Nick Gandi, a private detective at the Blake Hotel: "Send a wire to Nick Gandi in Los Angeles.