![]() They accuse him of stabbing Eleanor eight times and he recalls Freddie telling him, "'You won't marry her.'" He realizes that Freddie has killed Eleanor and framed him, and he also understands the meaning of her statement, "'Some day you'll be glad.'": she was his alibi for the time of the murder and would have forced him to marry her with the threat of letting him be convicted of Eleanor's murder. It's from Eleanor, telling him that she hates him and can't marry him. ![]() The detectives show Brad a letter found half-burned in his fireplace. Accusing him of murder, they search his person and find the clasp knife, recently cleaned, and the extra key, which does not fit his apartment door. He drives home and finds three detectives waiting in his apartment. Back in the present, he exits the service station men's room, having cleaned the blood off of his hand and disposed of the hanky. He enters her car and uses his handkerchief to hold the wheel, since he has blood on his hand. Brad suggests they walk to a nearby spot to go dancing and, on the path, he hits Freddie in the head with a rock and throws her off the cliff into the river. She gives him back a key to his apartment and he gives her back her car keys. In a few hours the very thought will be repulsive.'" She gives him his clasp knife, saying she always forgets to return it.īrad pulls off the road near the spot where he hid her car and goes through the contents of her purse by making a friendly wager that she can't name everything inside it. As they drive to the Palisades, Freddie remarks that "'You won't marry Eleanor. Brad, always focused on himself, thinks that the blood will fit in well with his plan to murder her. ![]() Let's pretend I wasn't late.'" Freddie has spots of blood on her dress and blames them on a sudden nosebleed that developed while she was in the subway, on her way to meet Brad. She arrived, looking disheveled, and told him, "'Some day you'll be proud you were with me, glad to tell the world you were with your future wife, Freddie Lenox. He moved Freddie's car to a hidden spot in the Palisades, the steep cliffs in New Jersey overlooking the Hudson River, not far from the George Washington Bridge that leads into New York City.īrad covered his tracks by taking two buses and the subway to get home that evening, he parked uptown to wait for Freddie, who was late. Back in the present, as he drives home, Brad recalls carrying out his plan earlier that day. He quickly formulates a plan and asks her to meet him the next night for dinner. Freddie angrily declares that Brad cannot marry her and promises to make it impossible, snapping: "'you'll never marry anyone but me.'" Brad's thoughts immediately turn to murder. Life with her was exciting, but he never thought of marriage and did not suspect that she did until he told her that he was planning to marry Eleanor.īoth women are blonde and tall, with good figures, but Eleanor has money. He recalls the first time he met Freddie, a bold, passionate freelance writer. ![]() Engaged to be married to a woman named Eleanor Wraight, he has killed a woman named Winifred "Freddie" Lenox. He stops at a service station to wash blood from his hand and to burn and dispose of a stained handkerchief. Brad Buckley is driving back home to New York City and being careful not to attract attention. ![]() What would cause a man or a woman to take "The Last Dark Step" and murder another human being? In the story of that title by Margaret Manners, the answer seems to be greed and selfishness. ![]()
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