They are promised: "Leave your luggage on the platform.Clearly label it...Do not bring your baggage with you.It will follow you later." Pfefferberg has summoned Schindler from a love-making session to the station to search for Stern - who has been mistakenly placed on one of the slatted livestock cars bound for liquidation.]The film""s elaborate script, adapted by June Mathis and Von Stroheim himself, was taken from Frank Norris"" naturalistic, best-selling epic novelMcTeague: A Story of San Francisco(written when Norris was twenty-three in 1895 and published in 1899).She hears distant church bells pealing, reminding her that she is late and must immediately return to the nunnery.Plot SynopsisThe credits wash down the screen over a view of the legendary Maltese Falcon - a black figurine that casts a dark shadow from an angular source of light.Phooey, Buljanoff."Having decided to stay in one of the nicest hotels in Paris, they ask where they can lock up their only piece of luggage - a large, double-handled suitcase.