... house where Ole lives to warn him. But Ole appears to be resigned to his fate. Nick is so disturbed by the killers and by Ole's odd behaviour that he plans to leave town altogether and thereby escape the evil that has spilled over from Chicago. The theme for "The Killers" is that sometimes death isn't supposed to happen. Ole simply wasn't at the restaurant where he normally goes the night Al and Max planned to kill him. The story can be divided into four scenes; first, "The Killers" are introduced; second, Nick warns Ole; third, Nick speaks to Mrs. Bell (she looks after the rooming-house for the landlady at the time Nick visits Ole); fourth, Nick returns to the cafe. Back at the cafe his final statement to George, the counterman, is, "I can't stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing he's going to get it. ...

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