, the protagonist""s apartment at the Chateau Marmont, etc.The material forDouble Indemnitywas derived from ""hard-boiled"" James M.Cain""s 1943 melodramatic novellaThree of a Kindthat first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form inLibertyMagazine.However, Smaug was only scalded by the hot substance - he soon emerged from a pool of molten gold covered with a golden coating.She expressed how she wanted the war to end "one way or another" and also forecast: "I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading.Paine flatters her with promises of power and money and is willing to bribe her to stay, if she will keep Smith away from their Willet Creek Dam bill as it moves through Congress:Saunders: Look Senator, I wasn""t given a brain just o tell a Boy Ranger what time it is.I tell her Santa Claus is a myth, and you bring her down here, and she sees hundreds of gullible children, meets a very convincing old man with real whiskers.