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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Ah, my dear, happy to see you. I was wondering
if perhaps the feasting had left you a bit tired,
perhaps you weren't able to join me tonight. But here
you are, as we're getting ready to ring in the yule. Well,

(00:32):
I don't mean to get ahead of myself. It's just
when I feel the cool air, it begins to look
a lot like well, you know what's that?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Why?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Of course the tea is steeping as we speak. I
wouldn't dream of being such a boorish host. The wind
is howling, and it's reminding me, reminding me of an
occurrence at Owl Creek.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Come in, Welcome, I meet g Marshall. Join me in
a journey over a strange terrain, a terrain filled with
terror and clouded by suspense, And ask ask yourself how long.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Is a minute?

Speaker 5 (01:47):
What is eternity?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
And learn perhaps that one can be as long as
the other. Our mystery drama, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,
was adapted from the story by Ambrose Bears, especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars William Prince.

(02:18):
They're going to hang Peyton Forester, hang him by the
neck until he is dead, Hang him high from the
top of the Owl Creek Bridge, fifty feet above the rushing.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Torrent, which is now raging in full flood.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Peyton Forester stands on a single, fragile plank. The rope
is already around his neck, thirty feet of slack neatly
coiled beside his boots. But this is not a lynching,
nor even an ordinary execution.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
This is a formal military ceremony.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Peyton Forester is a rebel, literally a Southern civilian, and
he has been captured by the Union Army in the
fall of this year of eighteen sixty three as he
tried to sabotage the Owl Creek railroad bridge, and now
he must pay the price. Actually, the only distress evident
in the entire scene seems to be manifested by a

(03:16):
young soldier who, with his corporal, is stationed some ten
feet from Peyton Forester, where they served solemnly as his guards.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
Corporal sh just stand steady, boy, because you stand steady,
I'm going.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
To be sick.

Speaker 8 (03:37):
Oh no, he ain't, woody boy, No you ain't.

Speaker 7 (03:41):
Now this thing will be over in less than a minute,
see corporal, See sorry, Hill Smith's getting the board ready.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

Speaker 7 (03:52):
Just you take some d breaths and you will be
all right. Like I said, he's position of the board
that's supporting the plank that Johnny Rebbits standing on.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
I said, I don't want to look.

Speaker 9 (04:06):
Now.

Speaker 8 (04:07):
Nobody says you gotta look.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
Wordy boy, only it's a pity to miss a good hanging.
How many you expect to see in your lifetime? I
don't want to see none this one here, this is
a prime hanging. So much of the time you get
to see cutthroats and riff rap and low lives, but

(04:29):
here he got a gentleman.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Corporal.

Speaker 8 (04:34):
Yeah, boy, the prisoner. What about the prisoner? Well, what.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Do you suppose the prisoner is is thinking about right now?

Speaker 10 (04:50):
What?

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Indeed, then, am I thinking about it? I'm thinking at
the water I see below the is and turned.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
To gold by dar my Son, gold golden, the same
golden tints I see in.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
The midicine's hair.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
I'm thinking of medicine, medicine, golden medicine.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
And I hear he's the very last words she spoke
to me.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
Seems ages centuries ago.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Is it true? Can it be true that it was
only last night, Peyton.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yes, Now, young Robin Taunton's is he hobby? I thought
he was raiding Yankee supply lines?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
He was.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
He's back, he's safe now, bless him when he needs
a horse, he can have anything he wants. Bring him
in here.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Why why do you keep him waiting? Now?

Speaker 11 (05:54):
You and I must talk first, Peyton.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Do you mean one of the true heroes of our
country must be kept his heels while you're.

Speaker 11 (06:01):
Not exactly cooling his heels?

Speaker 12 (06:03):
Peyton.

Speaker 11 (06:04):
He's busy having his first.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Decent meal and I want to see him this minute.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Oh, he has much time to spend here. He must
being a rush to get home see his folks. He's
not headed home, he's not. No, he's off on a mission.
What do you mean, Well, it has something.

Speaker 11 (06:21):
To do with blowing up a brave someplace.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Then he needs help, Peyton.

Speaker 11 (06:26):
I was afraid of sitting.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Here doing nothing for almost three years.

Speaker 13 (06:30):
Now that's not true. You've been raising food and you've
been growing cotton.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Well, better men have been getting killed.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Now what you're doing is more important and safer.

Speaker 11 (06:40):
In what your fault? The doctors say you're unfit.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
To serve, And I'm fit enough to help Robbie Tomkiss
blow up a bridge.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh, Peyton, don't no, no, no, honey.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
You know I can't shirk if there's a job to
be done.

Speaker 11 (06:53):
You've got your job.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
No, honey, it's not enough.

Speaker 11 (06:58):
Don't go.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
What are we arguing about. He hasn't even asked me.

Speaker 11 (07:02):
He'll ask your Peyton, he'll ask you.

Speaker 8 (07:05):
I've got no choice.

Speaker 11 (07:07):
Please please listen to me. You've always been a man
of honor. Now be a man of common sense.

Speaker 8 (07:14):
Now what's that supposed to mean?

Speaker 11 (07:17):
Peyton? The war is over?

Speaker 14 (07:21):
What are you saying?

Speaker 11 (07:23):
We have been bred white at Gettysburg.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
The war has just begun, Peyton, for.

Speaker 13 (07:29):
Six months, maybe a year. They'll be more laughtered, but
it will be for nothing.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
The war is over us say that, but it's the truth. Listen,
don't you believe anymore?

Speaker 11 (07:41):
I believe we need a miracle.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Then we'll have a miracle.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
We'll work harder, will fight harder, Well, pray harder. You'll
see you'll have that miracle. You your scoundrel. Oh you
come in here this minute, Peyton, Peyton, you are Cyphosa.
Tell me tell me how you outsmarted the Did you

(08:08):
tell me everything later?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Later? Right? Now I need all the.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Darkness he will. What's this about a bridge, the railroad
bridge at our creek? The Yankees said, our Greek already
that bridge must be destroyed. Peyton, one little barrel gunpowder
under the truss on this side of the river. I
figured you'd know the exact spot, and I got the
gunpowder too. Fuses all we need.

Speaker 11 (08:31):
Peyton, Sayton's chaff.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Stewart's cawarry is here, Darling.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
By the time we explained it to General Stuart, we
could turn the whole entire bridge into burnt matchsticks. Nah, now, Robbie, yes, sir,
you go run back to sub the horse. She'll leave
in five minutes.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yes, sir, Hey, honey, you know I have no choice.

Speaker 9 (08:49):
Honey.

Speaker 11 (08:49):
The Yankee General has issued in order any Sivilian coat.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Interfere with over the railroad.

Speaker 11 (08:55):
The bridge is the tunnels, the trains will be hanged.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
I know we do the same.

Speaker 11 (09:01):
I beg you're not learning.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
You know what I must do.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
You have children, am I the only father in the South.

Speaker 11 (09:11):
Now, won't let you?

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Milica?

Speaker 8 (09:15):
Please help me what.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Cannot do to Pray for me? Pray for the miracle.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Rubbing up yonder the bridge, you must be right in
the middle of the ACTI campaign.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
He go to the ground, they will see us.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
So I said to Mama, I promise I ain't going
to take off with any bad women.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
I hope Woody you kept your promise.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well, I ain't had a chance to text it one
way or the other so far, Corporal.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
To tell the truth, Woody, actually, there ain't no such
thing as a b water.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
I had to be a corporal maybe five six men.
Let's move to the right.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now, Hey, Corporal, you hear something out there?

Speaker 7 (10:13):
Sun you start seeing Johnny Revs behind every tree and
we won't get.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
A wink as lead. But I'm sure on her sense
is supposed to.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Be pulling guard dude out there, Polder Rubby, there's a
century between us and the bridge.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
N see him and it this way.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
Had to get rid of him.

Speaker 8 (10:31):
I'll do it.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
He doesn't know where here, I say, walks past our
jumping he's dad Peyton.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Alright, let's go set the Kibby in place like the
fuse will dive into the water, swim posts.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Hey, it's s tign to relieve Spencer. Hey, Spencer money
in where he'll stand Guard.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Curry rubbing, will I hear somebody out there.

Speaker 15 (11:03):
Everybody, grant your weapons on the double right? I mean
the view was Uby. Think here, Bobby, no, no run
for taking take him alive?

Speaker 4 (11:28):
What's he thinking about? Corporal waiting there for the rope
to snap? What must he be thinking?

Speaker 8 (11:36):
What would any man be thinking about? Woody? The wife,
your kids.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
I wish we hadn't caught him last night.

Speaker 8 (11:47):
It was our duty.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
It would have been so much better if we'd have
shot him like his pal.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
You hear that, Woodie?

Speaker 4 (11:57):
What I hear? Nothing?

Speaker 8 (12:00):
Nothing, that's exactly it. Nothing.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
Sergeant Smith has just finished position in his board. He
has got it in a state now where one more
blown releases the plank, taking forest or is standing on,
and then.

Speaker 8 (12:20):
Down he goes kill. The rope snaps.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
I don't want to hear it.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
Look, the captain knows Sergeant Smith is ready when he
raises then lowers his sword. Sergeant Smith is going to
give that board one whack and that's it.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
And Forrester knows it, he can see it. What must
that man be thinking about.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
We're no longer thinking, sun.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
I'm praying, praying for a miracle. I'm praying.

Speaker 16 (13:04):
The rope has been a snap and break, and I'll
get my hands free, and I'll fall into the river
and you'll carry me swiftly away from here to safety.

Speaker 6 (13:18):
That's what I'm doing. So I'm praying, praying for the miracle. Sister,
midicine is brain you're praying to.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
I can tell by your boys son, you don't want
me to die this way.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
With all of us praying.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
Has to be.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
A miracle has to be. Oh, dear Lord, the captain,
he's he's raising his saber.

Speaker 8 (13:46):
He what do you don't have to look?

Speaker 14 (13:49):
He's bring bringing it down.

Speaker 8 (13:53):
Goodbye, Johnny red Copper Up.

Speaker 15 (14:02):
She broke it, broke.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
Mira.

Speaker 15 (14:06):
A miracle.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Man's free now your humble him free to my prayer,
Dan Cord loose a tree free air.

Speaker 15 (14:21):
Yeah and yeah, there he is moving down screen.

Speaker 12 (14:30):
While how are you?

Speaker 15 (14:33):
How as farthing you've got it?

Speaker 11 (14:36):
You won't hit me, You can't hit me.

Speaker 15 (14:39):
A miracle, you skin a miracle.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
A miracle.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Perhaps if you want something strongly enough and pray hard enough,
the rope can break, the rifles can miss, and you
will not drown in the raging torrents.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
Miracles do happen?

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Have we had one here?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
And it is late in the year eighteen sixty three,
Peyton Forester, a Southern civilian, has attempted to sabotage the
railroad bridge high across Owl Creek. He's been caught by

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the Union Army and hanged from the bridge. No, not quite,
as his living body hurtled downward. The rope that was
supposed to snap and break his neck instead broke. Peyton
has fallen, unharmed, into the stream. A squad of soldiers

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is in rapid but futile pursuit.

Speaker 15 (15:56):
Miracle shoot a miracle, speak the alarm. He's escaped.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
I got to get to see Stewart, get to if
we if we destroy the bridge, the whole Yankee Army
and Disciple become of no surplies, no ammunition.

Speaker 15 (16:21):
I've got to get to Jeb Stewart.

Speaker 11 (16:30):
Get away, now, get away you please, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
I want you.

Speaker 15 (16:35):
I get a right rang At You're right, I mean you.

Speaker 7 (16:37):
No harm.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
I need your help.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
I'm Peyton Forester, Payton Forest, get the seven.

Speaker 11 (16:47):
I still got this guy named at Joy. God, Lord
it is mister, come in, come in. So I'm telling Watson.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
The gangster after me, just by the bread and address
the Lord.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
I have to keep Ovington for.

Speaker 11 (17:03):
The man the Yankees couldn't kid.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
I have to hurry.

Speaker 13 (17:06):
You have to wrest who has not time. But you're
going to drop, sit down, and so step for a minute,
just just for a minute. Now, I've got a piece
of meat here and I'll heat it with somebody.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
I don't have time.

Speaker 15 (17:18):
I just read there's a storm coming up.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Don't you You can hear the wind.

Speaker 11 (17:24):
I don't hear nothing.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Can't you hear the whistle of the wind with.

Speaker 11 (17:28):
The whole Yankee armies out looking for.

Speaker 13 (17:30):
You, mister for a central Jeb Steward, I reckon he's
a good ten miles south with I got to get
the Steward.

Speaker 11 (17:37):
Now, first you you have something to eat?

Speaker 6 (17:39):
How father Yankees comes its last night?

Speaker 9 (17:41):
I hear the past Tuckersburg.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
That that means they've already reached my place.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
I can't just sit here just have something to eat.

Speaker 11 (17:52):
You have to do enough traveling.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Look down the road, patrol and it's headed this way.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Be found here. Did you have to hide where?

Speaker 10 (18:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (18:03):
No, no, it's the first place they do.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
So it's say, if they find me here, you be
chopra shuttering the fugitive.

Speaker 11 (18:09):
They won't suit a woman.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
We still do is burn your house down?

Speaker 11 (18:13):
Are you just let him?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
My only chance is to run for it?

Speaker 11 (18:16):
Shut up the back week I'll hold him off for you.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Hurry.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I'll remember before this if bys watching me.

Speaker 15 (18:22):
Good bye, mister Forester.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
Let's search that house, man Carpo.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
Now you may out tell you that's fi er. You
stop while you all it's this private property.

Speaker 8 (18:31):
We mean you no harm. Lady, we're looking for a fugitive.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
Wh I ain't seeing nothing.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
We're obliged to search your house, ma'am.

Speaker 11 (18:39):
You just stand where you are. I know how to
use this rifle.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
That's another thing. Man. Civilians ain't supposed to have weapons.
You'll have to hand that over.

Speaker 11 (18:50):
You won't this rifle? You just come and get it.

Speaker 8 (18:54):
No, ma'am, be reasonable. Nobody has to get her.

Speaker 15 (18:58):
Take corporal way yonder in the field.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Is that someone running?

Speaker 11 (19:01):
Let's go, man, say what I said, stand sailed. I'll
shoot the first man that moved.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
Now, ma'am. You can't interfere with the United States Army.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Maybe I can, but I'm doing it, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
I never shot a woman.

Speaker 11 (19:17):
That makes us even. I never shot a man. Looks
like it's gonna be a first time for both of us.

Speaker 15 (19:24):
Man after him, move out, I'll shoot look out for.

Speaker 8 (19:32):
H I'm sorry, man, I'm awful.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
Sorry, mister first, don't really catch.

Speaker 11 (19:51):
Nobody can.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Catch you.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Rayberd John Rayburn?

Speaker 15 (20:07):
Whoa Rayburn? It's mister for The Yankees are after me.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Well, you don't have to worry about the Yankees, mister Forrester.
They can't kill you. Nobody, nothing can kill you. Let
me hide in your wagon underneath your load of hay.
Yankees are still down along the seas, but they're headed
this way soon. The stormer diving back to camp.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
What what storm?

Speaker 15 (20:33):
But can't you hear the storm?

Speaker 4 (20:35):
The wind?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
No?

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Sure, but they don't have to come this way. They
mustn't see any Raybord.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Get underneath the Hey, mister Forrester, get underneath quicker and lightning.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Hey you all set, mister Forrester.

Speaker 11 (20:48):
They just can't.

Speaker 15 (20:49):
I broke, John Van You're like a cold cant get up.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
It's just no sign of him.

Speaker 8 (21:00):
Corporal All right, rest of you, man, let's head back.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
I guess he got away her cruple.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
Well not for long.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
He's still a good ways from the rebel lines. We
got men sweeping every square into the ground.

Speaker 8 (21:17):
And what's that.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Well, since you come from the city, corporal, that's a
hay wagon.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
Yeah, we will see about that.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Hey you.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
Oh what you got on that wagon?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
A yesh?

Speaker 8 (21:34):
I got me a load of hay? What else? Well,
nothing else, nothing else?

Speaker 14 (21:39):
Huh?

Speaker 7 (21:40):
You sure you're sure there's nothing living in that load? Well,
there might be one or two field mice. Sometimes they
get pitched in with.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
The hay field mice. Eh, maybe not. Let's see.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Let's see about everything, you man fixed mannets. Now let
us ventilate that. Hey a little bit. Yeah, that's it,
up and down all across. Come on, now, put a
little muckeling. That's not how I taught to use a bayonet. Right,

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that's it. Everybody's doing this fine. Anybody got himself a
little red on his blade? No, well, maybe there's just
hay in there after all. All right, man, all right,
that's enough. See, bayonet's good for something else beside roast
some potatoes.

Speaker 14 (22:41):
What's your name?

Speaker 8 (22:42):
Rebel? Is he craver? Mister Raymond, go your way, go
in peace. You're a fortunate man.

Speaker 14 (22:52):
Indeed you are, mister Forrester, Mister Forrester.

Speaker 15 (23:06):
You all right, mister Forster. It's it's all right to.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
Come out now.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Ye, yes, I'm all right.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Had obeying it cuts through my cope, that was all. Oh,
the Lord be praised, mister Forrester, The Lord be praised.
You better get your loaded before the storm hits Rayburn?
What what storm, mister Forrester.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
But don't you hear it?

Speaker 17 (23:36):
Here?

Speaker 11 (23:37):
What the wind?

Speaker 15 (23:40):
Can't you hear it?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Whis who past you?

Speaker 18 (23:42):
Is?

Speaker 10 (23:43):
No?

Speaker 6 (23:44):
No, sir, that must be my imagination.

Speaker 17 (23:49):
We're lucky there was infantry. So just what do you
mean there was cavalry? Well, they might have decided to
take the hay for their own horses and then would have.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Been all over for you. Is how far is it?
It's our lines.

Speaker 17 (24:05):
It's no more than a mile and a half. But
is where we start running into patrols? You you'd be
better off on foot. At least you'd have trees and
bushes for cover.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Did You're right?

Speaker 15 (24:19):
Thank you, Ribbon.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I'm grateful.

Speaker 17 (24:22):
That's all of us who want to be grateful to you,
mister Forrester. Everybody's talking about it. It's like a miracle, yes.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
Ribbon, it is.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
Now you keep to the line of trees on your left.
You follow them into a little ravine and on the
other side is Jeb Stuart's cavalry. Goodbye Rabbon, good bye,
mister Forrester, aust Forrester.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
Don't be scared?

Speaker 9 (24:54):
Who?

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Who?

Speaker 6 (24:55):
Who are you? Lieutenant Barnes with Stewart's cavalry. W there's
a Yankee troop up ahead. You scared? One of the centrists.
Lie still just for a minute. What are you doing here?

Speaker 5 (25:08):
You know some of us come out to look for you.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
Figure you'd be headed this way?

Speaker 6 (25:12):
Would then I'm saved? Say well, we've got to get
home first, But that's nothing. I got a squad in
back of me. When I give the signal, they'll open fire.
And while everybody's shooting you and I'll sneak away.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Are you ready? Ready?

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Now, let's go for it, Peyton Forester, General Stewart, mister.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
Forester, let me shake your hand. Word of your exploit
has spread through the entire sound Sir, I can only
say I prayed for America and we needed it. It's
been a dark year for us, but now now men
women throughout the country are taking heart once more.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 8 (26:05):
You had to make your way through an entire union
Army to get you.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
I had help, sir. Loyal Southern has fed me, sheltered me,
and even fought for me.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
We're gonna win this war, Forester. I've never been as
convinced of it as I am now. I see new
spirit in all my men, and it's all due to you.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
I only did my.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Duty, sir, And well, no, no, I can't say I
did my duty.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I failed.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
You failed, Yes, sir, I didn't accomplish my mission. Robbie
Tompkins and I set out to destroy the Owl Creek Bridge.
Robbie's dead, and the bridge still stands. The explosion was
not strong enough. The bridge must be destroyed.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
But I don't have the man.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
You don't need men. Oh, it's strange.

Speaker 8 (27:07):
What's strange?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
The wind feels like a storm, and yet.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
And yet the trees are still.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Why do you say I don't need men to take
Owl Creek breeding the wind? Why is the wind howling
like that?

Speaker 8 (27:23):
Why don't I need men for us?

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Because I'm not talking about an assault. Just give me
one volunteer and we'll accomplish what Robbie and.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
I said out to do last time.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
You'll never get near the bridge. General, the Federals have
at least three divisions.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
This side of our creek.

Speaker 15 (27:41):
If we destroy the bridge, we cut their.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Only supply line. We have a minute trap.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
You think you can do it.

Speaker 15 (27:48):
It's part of the miracle.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
The bridge.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
It was meant to be destroyed. That's why I was saved,
so I could try.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
It again and this time succeed.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
One miracle evidently is not enough. What Peyton Forrester is
asking for is another? And why not if it's a
question of knowing how to ask? Certainly Peyton Forrester has
discovered the secret. However, it's also possible to run out
of miracles. The first time Peyton Forrester tried to destroy

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the Owl Creek bridge, the Union Army caught him and
tried to hang him, but Peyton prayed for a miracle,
and somehow the rope broke at just the right moment,
and he fell into the river unharmed. He has made
his way to General Jeb Stewart, who has given him
the gunbowder to try it again.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
I'm volunteer, mister Forester. Lieutenant Burns, you realize this mission
must be performed in civilian clothes. I'm aware of that,
and you know the penalty if we're caught, same penalty
we exact from the Union spies that are caught.

Speaker 8 (29:13):
Mister Forester will need.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
The powder and the fuses, and I'll need some hair
to make a false beard and mustache.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
What's that, sir?

Speaker 6 (29:21):
I should have a white shirt and sociid you Incidentally, why,
sir Burns, do you know anything about medicine? No, sir,
yes you do.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
Burns. You're a doctor me.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
We're both medical men. You see, my face is well known.
I need disguise. I need a way to march up
to that bridge as bold as brass house. I told
you we'll be a pair of medical doctors. But who's
going to believe us?

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Everybody?

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Why shouldn't they We'll even have the proper papers.

Speaker 11 (30:01):
Who were there?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Who wore you?

Speaker 10 (30:09):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (30:10):
Pang, Oh it's you.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
You think disguise can fool my own wife.

Speaker 13 (30:17):
Darling yank, You sold this patrol through here all the time.
I know you're alive, and I've prayed so hard.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
We prayed for the miracles.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Now I want to.

Speaker 13 (30:27):
See you more than anything in all the world. But
why are you back this way down in the whole Union?

Speaker 11 (30:32):
Are there after you? You should be hind.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
I haven't completed my mission, Peyton.

Speaker 11 (30:39):
The Yankees mustn't find you here, milic Honey, honey, what
is it, Peyton?

Speaker 4 (30:46):
My neck? Something seems to be rubbing against my neck.
It's something stiff, something sharp.

Speaker 11 (30:53):
You're not well. You're not well, darling. It was such
a horrid experience.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
You're a oh no, no, no no. I'm all right.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
I need strength.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
I came home, I saw you. I'm all right, am
I right now?

Speaker 11 (31:06):
Dayton? You're not listening to me, Payton?

Speaker 6 (31:10):
What is listened to the wind, Melicine, the wind with whistles,
who screams, Peyton.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
I'm frightened, and now I must.

Speaker 11 (31:25):
Go hide, hide, Peyton. I'll hide with you.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Your Greek bridge still stands.

Speaker 11 (31:30):
Everyone knows you've done.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Now must go back to the bridge.

Speaker 11 (31:34):
I won't let you.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
I won't let you Gooise.

Speaker 15 (31:37):
Listen to me, Melicin.

Speaker 11 (31:38):
No, no more that and the senseless kiln. What's the
good of me?

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Listen. We're fighting for our homes.

Speaker 11 (31:47):
We've lost, Peyton. We will long.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
I prayed, Melicine.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
I stood on that bridge and that they were plank
with a thick, rough rope around my neck.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
I can still feel it. Scratch and burn in my skin,
and I prayed.

Speaker 19 (32:02):
I prayed, let there be a miracle, save me this time,
save me so I can come back and do it right.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Destroy the bridge, the war.

Speaker 11 (32:16):
He's lost fate.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
Destroy the bridge and we can capture an entire Union Army.
Tell me with surplies, food, ammunition, Destroy the bridge.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
And we can win the war.

Speaker 11 (32:30):
That little place we have deep in the roots, no
one ever goes there. You can hide there and be
safe there.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
I was saved from the news so I could go
back and destroy the bridge.

Speaker 11 (32:41):
Why did you come back to talk to me?

Speaker 6 (32:43):
I had to come see you.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
I had to see you. Wait me. He loved me
because I love you and.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
The children and this house and our land and the country.
It's it's all tried together, darning.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
I never knew how truly golden the highlights are in
your hair.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Till I saw the water in the morning sunlight.

Speaker 11 (33:12):
Stay stay here.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
You don't ask me.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Don't ask me again. I may weaken. Please, don't ask
me again, milicen. I must get to the bridge before
the storm. Still, what stole the wind?

Speaker 14 (33:36):
Don't you hear the wind?

Speaker 4 (33:38):
How how it howls, shrieks?

Speaker 6 (33:43):
I must go now, mister parser, what is it? Shouldn't
we shop for war wrestler? No time with the horses,
say they could use a breather. They had to get
there before the storm, sir, there's no sign of a storm.

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Oh well, I can't feel it.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Didn't feel it coming.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Wind's getting stronger. The wind, sir, it's a gale.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
But I oh, look where up ahead?

Speaker 6 (34:21):
That's the yan can pick it all right, Well, sir,
let's turn off the road before they see us.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
But within the burns, we want them to see us.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Now, have we come ACKed?

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Come?

Speaker 8 (34:35):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Remember you're a doctor, Yes, sir, I'll try to remember.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
The casual that's room.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
But uh, but suppose suppose what don't suppose they decide
to search our bag for No, they will do that.
It's our medical supplies and equipment, remember, yes, sir, I hope.
So now it burns. It's tied to look dignified. Yes,
I didn't look wise. He was just like a doctor, yes, sir, Yes, sir,

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I'm tryumph.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Strange. What the wind?

Speaker 20 (35:17):
The gale?

Speaker 4 (35:18):
What happened to it?

Speaker 6 (35:20):
I don't know what you're talking about, sir.

Speaker 9 (35:24):
The wind.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
It sounded like a hurricane.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
And you can't be deaf, can you know? Sir?

Speaker 4 (35:31):
But I didn't hear anything now.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
For some reason suddenly died away gone, Yes, yes, sir,
so still calm, Yes it is, sir, It certainly is.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
It's except I I'm so nervous. Oh, there's nothing to
be afraid of, Burns, nothing except.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Some things scratching my neck?

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Did it biting at my filt?

Speaker 6 (36:02):
Well, it's too cold for mosquitoes.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
There's something starting to president press my fault? Sir? Are
you all right? I wonder what happened to that? Wins?

Speaker 14 (36:15):
All well?

Speaker 8 (36:21):
And who met you? Two gentlemen?

Speaker 6 (36:23):
Be corporal from doctor Jones. My friend here is doctor Burns.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
Your friend got a voice, of course, corporal? And why
don't he answer for himself? Oh he's my assistant. Is
that true? Are you doctor Burns?

Speaker 7 (36:40):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (36:40):
Yes, corporal. Well let's see what we got here.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
We got one gentleman who claims to be doctor Jones,
another who says he's doctor Burns.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Corporal.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
If you don't mind, we happen to be on an
errand of mercy.

Speaker 8 (36:55):
Is that's all? Well? Tell me about it now.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
We have permission from your general.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Grant to.

Speaker 8 (37:04):
Something wrong, Doctor.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
No, Corporal, I just seemed to have something in my throat.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
You were saying you had permission from the general to
to do what?

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Who to visit some of our wounded prisoners?

Speaker 2 (37:21):
You do?

Speaker 6 (37:21):
Huh? Yes, here's the safe conduct mine and doctor Burns.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
Yes, bring the lantern and all this. See what it says?
What are you're You're better at reading than I am.

Speaker 21 (37:42):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (37:43):
The bearer of this safe conduct is to be permitted
free passage within the lines controlled by Union forces in
order to perform medical errands of mercy signed U. S.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Grant Lieutenant General.

Speaker 8 (38:04):
That's what it says, Woody.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
That's what it says, Corporal.

Speaker 7 (38:09):
Handing back your papers, Woody, wood What is it?

Speaker 15 (38:15):
Cop?

Speaker 8 (38:16):
What are you looking at? Woody? What are you staring
as a doctor for?

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Well, I'm not that is?

Speaker 8 (38:28):
You know him from some place?

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Uh? No, I mean where would I know him from?

Speaker 6 (38:38):
Well?

Speaker 8 (38:39):
Doctors be on your way.

Speaker 6 (38:43):
Thank you, couple, magnificence. I can only say, sir that
you were magnific You have to get to the bridge quickly.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
High could never have handled it that way.

Speaker 23 (39:00):
Hurry the bridge is jentlefer man, Sir, beginning to feel
there's you, sir, My neck your your neck.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Sir, it's beginning to hurt.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
I can feel it.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
It's beginning to swell. Here here's the bridge, sir, easy,
poor little sore. Now, where where do you want to
plant the charge?

Speaker 6 (39:25):
Josh, where do you want to plant the powder?

Speaker 4 (39:29):
We have to plant the powder. We have to plant.

Speaker 6 (39:34):
Here here, right right along here. Yes, it's not it's
not the horse. Yes, sir, you're you're you're very ill. No,
we could do this.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Not there.

Speaker 15 (39:45):
Something's choking me.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
No, I just mon, it's hurt.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Look very intense. Walk our horses across the bridge, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
Now, oh my.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
Place your second against the support.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Yes, sir, quick, keep diffuses in this bag.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
I've got him, sir.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Why why is it so dark? What do you want
me to do?

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Late la confuse out? I know, sir, I know her.

Speaker 15 (40:22):
Something something with the life out of me.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
I've got him, sir, I've got him.

Speaker 15 (40:28):
Stake a match.

Speaker 9 (40:29):
Stike a match.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Well, I can't. We We're gonna do it, mister Forrester.
We're gonna bring it all my head. Nothing can stop us. Now,
something choking. This one's ready and now that won't thing choking?

Speaker 24 (40:45):
No light out of.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Whole gig is on fire. Everything so flame lit. Sir,
she's left this. Hey, he's gonna go.

Speaker 15 (41:01):
She's gonna go now, jump jumping the water, jump your last.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
I can't stand the pain.

Speaker 15 (41:08):
My head is gonna expo.

Speaker 24 (41:10):
There she goes, he said, over, it's over, Woody, it's
all over.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
I saw him drop. I closed my eyes. I God,
couldn't better see the rest.

Speaker 8 (41:41):
Well, it's all right, Woody, Corporal.

Speaker 17 (41:46):
That dropped through the air, That dropped her thirty feet
before the rope snap tight. What what do you suppose
he must have been thinking, you.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
Know, well, they took a couple of seconds. I don't
suppose he had time to think about muss Peyton Forrester
was dead.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
His body, the neck broken, was swinging gently from side
to side, suspended from a timber of the Owl Creek bridge,
swinging gently, swaying gently, turning and twisting gently in the fresh,
cool morning breeze above the gold tinted water of the

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river below. Our cast included William Prince, Notreed, Clinton, Jack Grimes,
Leon Janny, and William Redfield. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown, Missus E. G.

Speaker 8 (42:50):
Marshall.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another
adventure in the macabre until next time.

Speaker 6 (43:09):
The preceding Mystery Theater program is furnished by the CBS
Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
My dear, is the tea to your liking? I certainly
hope it is. It seems to be warming you, But
it is so very cold. What a chill that is?
What's that?

Speaker 6 (43:36):
Why?

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Of course? Of course, don't you worry one little bit
about who that may be? No, no, no, not one bit.
Times like these remind me that the best things in
life are free, but murder must be paid for.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
The Seal Book.

Speaker 25 (44:32):
Once again, the Keeper of the Book has opened the
ponderous door to the secret vault, wherein has kept the
Great Sealed Book, in which has recorded all the secrets
and mysteries of mankind through the ages. Here are tales
of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds,

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strange and terrible. Beyond all belief. Keeper of the Book,
I would know what tale we tell this time. Open
the great book and let us read. Slowly. The great
Book opens one by one.

Speaker 8 (45:18):
The Keeper of the book turns the pages and.

Speaker 25 (45:22):
Stops ah the strange story of a murder who found
that justice has an uncanny way of working itself out,
as in the tale titled Murder Must be Paid For.

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Here is the tale Murder Must be paid For, as
it is written in the pages of the sealed book.
Our story begins in the office of Judge Wallace, Lucy
Holden's legal adviser. Judge Wallace, an anxious expression on his face,
is pleading with the beautiful young woman, Lucy.

Speaker 26 (46:53):
Listen to me. You mustn't do this. Believe me, You're
making a terrible mistake.

Speaker 12 (46:58):
I don't think so, Judge Wallace. I love Tom and
I'm going to marry Lucy.

Speaker 26 (47:02):
I didn't want to tell you this because no one
can prove it. But Tom Barrow murdered your father.

Speaker 12 (47:08):
I know a lot of people think he murdered dad,
but I don't believe it.

Speaker 18 (47:12):
I wish I didn't listen, Lucy, Tom and your father
were on a hunting trip. Your father died with a
rifle bullet threw his heart from his own rifle. Tom said,
your father dropped the gun accidentally and it went off.

Speaker 12 (47:24):
Yes, I know all that.

Speaker 18 (47:25):
Do you know that Tom rubbed your own father on
a business deal and would have gone to jail if
your father had lived another week.

Speaker 12 (47:31):
I know people say so, but have you any proof?

Speaker 26 (47:35):
No, your father died.

Speaker 10 (47:38):
There's no case.

Speaker 12 (47:39):
Well, Judge, you've done your duty and warned me, so
the responsibility is mine, all right.

Speaker 8 (47:46):
Lucy?

Speaker 18 (47:48):
You know you've grown very pretty since he went away
to school four years. I'm sorry we haven't seen anything
of you, and all that time.

Speaker 12 (47:55):
I'm sorry too, but Dad wanted me to stage. You know,
Judge Wallace, I met my sister when I was in
New York last winter.

Speaker 26 (48:04):
Your sister, what sister.

Speaker 12 (48:06):
Lucy Doren?

Speaker 27 (48:09):
Don't you know about her, Dorene?

Speaker 28 (48:11):
No?

Speaker 26 (48:12):
I never knew you had a sister.

Speaker 12 (48:14):
I didn't either until Dad wrote me and told me
about it. But you knew Dad's first wife ran away
with an actor a year after she and Dad were married.

Speaker 26 (48:21):
Yes, I knew that, but that's all.

Speaker 12 (48:23):
Well, Doren was his first child. Her mother took her
along when she ran away. I I wondered if Dad
had mentioned Doren in his will.

Speaker 26 (48:32):
No he didn't.

Speaker 12 (48:33):
Well, I'm going to send us the money anyway, and
will that be all right?

Speaker 8 (48:37):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (48:37):
Of course it's your money now, the whole million dollars.

Speaker 12 (48:40):
Thank you, Judge Wallace. Well I have to go now.
Tom's waiting for me. We're going to be married right away.

Speaker 25 (48:57):
And Lucy married Tom battall big and blonde and arrogantly
self assured. Tongues wagged over the marriage, but ignoring the gossip,
the happy couple settled down at Barrow House, on the
edge of high cliffs looking out over the Pacific. There,
Lucy wrote many letters, especially to her half sister Dorin.

Speaker 12 (49:23):
Here, Doreen, I hope that at last you're going to
have a chance to visit Tom and me here at
Barrow House. I know you'd like Tom and he'd like you.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Hello.

Speaker 26 (49:35):
Oh, more letters to Doren.

Speaker 12 (49:37):
Oh, yes, Tom, I'm trying to persuade her to come
visit us. And since her show's going to be in
San Francisco all this week, I'm good.

Speaker 27 (49:45):
If she's half as pretty as you are, I'll welcome
her with open arms.

Speaker 12 (49:49):
Well, people in New York used to take us for twins,
but she's really much more sophisticated than I am. She's
an actress.

Speaker 27 (49:55):
Sounds more and more interesting. But how about coming for
a speedboat ride? Unh water's just right.

Speaker 12 (50:01):
Oh, I can't. This is the day I volunteered to
help the sisters at the Mission hospital.

Speaker 27 (50:05):
All for Pete's sake. That's a thirty mile drive, twenty
to town and ten more beyond. You won't get back
till after dark.

Speaker 12 (50:14):
I'm sorry, Tom, but I promise.

Speaker 25 (50:26):
And so A short time later, Lucy drove off to
her volunteer nursing work, so she was not present to
see the dusty taxi that drove up to the house
several hours later, leaving a visitor.

Speaker 12 (50:42):
Hmm, I wonder if anyone's home. Oh the house is
anyone in?

Speaker 26 (50:47):
Nobody but me?

Speaker 7 (50:48):
Who are you? Why?

Speaker 26 (50:50):
Lucy?

Speaker 7 (50:52):
Wrong?

Speaker 26 (50:52):
Guess?

Speaker 12 (50:52):
Mister try again?

Speaker 27 (50:54):
Holy smoke, I thought. No, your hair's done differently, you're taller.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
Say well, you.

Speaker 27 (51:04):
Can't be Doreen.

Speaker 12 (51:05):
Why not? Is there a log against it?

Speaker 26 (51:08):
The mystery sister? Here at last?

Speaker 27 (51:10):
And on the day Lucy's away.

Speaker 12 (51:13):
You mean I've missed it.

Speaker 27 (51:14):
Oh, she'll be back tonight and you're staying.

Speaker 10 (51:16):
Aren't you?

Speaker 4 (51:17):
Mm?

Speaker 12 (51:17):
Okay, I have to get back to town to catch
the seven o'clock train for Prisco.

Speaker 27 (51:21):
No, that's too bad. But now there's uh no reason
you and I shouldn't get acquainted before then?

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Is there none?

Speaker 12 (51:29):
I can think of? Off hand?

Speaker 27 (51:31):
Then come on in. I'll show you around and and
I'll mix us a couple of drinks. Okay, okay, ah,

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that tastes good. Well, how do you like our little place?
Now that you've seen it, I go for it.

Speaker 12 (51:59):
No, imagine sitting out here on the cliffs every evening
and watching the sun set into the Pacific.

Speaker 10 (52:04):
There's a visit, and you can do it.

Speaker 12 (52:06):
Maybe I will. How high are these cliffs anyway, tom eighty.

Speaker 27 (52:11):
Feet straight down to the Pacific. There's deep water at
the foot of 'em before.

Speaker 12 (52:16):
I'd hate to fall off. But as for the visit idea,
On second thought, I don't think I will.

Speaker 8 (52:23):
Why not.

Speaker 27 (52:23):
We'd love to have you, I know I wouldn't.

Speaker 12 (52:27):
That's just the trouble. I might find myself poaching on
Little Lucy's territory.

Speaker 10 (52:33):
You uh mean that?

Speaker 12 (52:36):
Yes? Now I can understand how little Lucy came to
pull for the guy who killed her father.

Speaker 27 (52:42):
So you've heard that gossiping, yes, but not from Lucy.

Speaker 12 (52:47):
You did kill him, didn't you?

Speaker 27 (52:48):
Of course not. It was an accident, a very regrettable accident,
oh of course.

Speaker 12 (52:54):
Now, Uh how about driving me back to town. I'll
just have time to catch my train.

Speaker 27 (52:58):
All right, but you're going to come again.

Speaker 9 (53:02):
I know it.

Speaker 12 (53:03):
Well, maybe you know.

Speaker 27 (53:06):
I think you and I can understand each other too,
that I didn't meet you first instead of.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
Lucy that evening.

Speaker 25 (53:23):
When Lucy returned, she was upset to learn that she
had missed Doren, but Tom said that Dorian had promised
to come again in a few weeks, and then, because
Lucy was tired, they retired early. But during the night,
Tom awoke to find Lucy shaking him.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Me, Tom, Tom, what's the matter?

Speaker 15 (53:47):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (53:47):
Tom?

Speaker 27 (53:48):
You were talking in your sleep, talking my sleep?

Speaker 12 (53:51):
Yes, I thought you might be having a nightmare.

Speaker 7 (53:54):
No, No, I'm all right.

Speaker 12 (53:57):
Oh I'm sorry, Tom. But when I heard you talking
in your sleep, I of what was I saying? Nothing
that I could understand?

Speaker 4 (54:04):
Why?

Speaker 27 (54:04):
Uh, no reason, Just curious, that's all. I've never talked
to my sleep before.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
That I know of.

Speaker 12 (54:09):
Oh, yes, you have, darling several times the last few weeks.

Speaker 27 (54:13):
Lucy, are you telling me the truth?

Speaker 4 (54:16):
Why?

Speaker 12 (54:16):
Of course? Why should I lie about such a silly
little thing?

Speaker 27 (54:20):
No, of course you wouldn't, m Lucy. Yes, Tom, I
suppose I sleep in the corner room.

Speaker 12 (54:29):
After this, in the corner room Why tell you aren't serious.

Speaker 27 (54:33):
I'm perfectly serious. The realization that I might be disturbing
you would make me more and more nervous, until I
wouldn't be able to.

Speaker 7 (54:40):
Sleep at all.

Speaker 12 (54:41):
Well, that's really the case, it.

Speaker 27 (54:43):
Is, And anyway, we'll try it for a while, shall we.

Speaker 25 (54:52):
After Tom moved to the corner room, there was an
atmosphere of strain between him and Lucy, however, pretended not
to notice it and went about as though everything was
just as it had been. She wrote many long letters
to her sister Doreen, but Tom noticed that whenever he
came close to her, she covered the letters so that

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he could not see what she was writing. His suspicions aroused.
He waited until she left one of them in the
mail box for the Royal delivery carrier to pick up.
As soon as she was out of sight, he swiftly
ripped it open and read it.

Speaker 27 (55:27):
And now, Lucille, you'll see what yourself carefully hiding from me.

Speaker 10 (55:33):
Dear Doreen, I have dreadful news for you.

Speaker 8 (55:37):
Now.

Speaker 27 (55:37):
I know that Tom did kill my father. Night after night,
I've been listening outside his door, becoming more and more certain.
Last night, he cried out distinctly.

Speaker 10 (55:47):
I killed him.

Speaker 27 (55:47):
I killed him, but they'll never prove it. Never, Doren,
how shall I do? If he killed father, he may
kill me.

Speaker 8 (55:55):
I go in fear of my life.

Speaker 27 (55:57):
I've taken one of his hunting knives and I carry
it around with me to protect myself in case he
attacks me. So that's how it is. That's what you've
been up to, Eh well, Lucy, I think that you
and I must have a little talk.

Speaker 25 (56:20):
But when Tom returned to the house, Lucy was not there.
At last, He located her standing at her favorite spot
on the cliffs near the house, a spot that overhung
the sea, which beat unceasingly against the rocks beneath. His
footsteps muffled, but the sound of the surf. Tom came

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quietly up behind her.

Speaker 27 (56:43):
Lucy, Tom, you frighten me, Lucy, I want to talk
to you. What about I just read the letter you
wrote your sister. You you opened it, yes, you little fool.
You know perfectly well such evidence means nothing in a court, nothing.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Now, why not be sensible?

Speaker 27 (57:02):
Come on, Lucy, let's forget the whole thing. It's over
and done.

Speaker 12 (57:06):
No, no, stay away from me, don't get nearby.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Lucy, put my knife down.

Speaker 27 (57:09):
I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just trying to
talk sense to you.

Speaker 12 (57:13):
No, don't get any girls, Lucy, be careful.

Speaker 15 (57:15):
You go with the clid you Lucy.

Speaker 25 (57:16):
Look and now to continue the story as it is

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written in the sealed book, Tom Barrow, a look of
horror on his face, stared over the edge of the
cliff from which Lucy had fallen. Lucy was gone, swallowed
up in the huge waves eighty feet below. Tom searched
desperately for her until darkness fell and forced him to

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return to the house. He strove to calm his nerves
and plan a course of action.

Speaker 27 (59:38):
That's very now. Maybe I can think I'll say I
am murdered her, but they won't be able to prove it.
No matter what they think, they'll be able to prove nothing.
Then the joke will beyond Lucy ill inherit the whole
estate her father left her, and that is a laugh.

Speaker 10 (01:00:00):
Hello, hello, brother in law?

Speaker 27 (01:00:03):
Uh Dorene, where are.

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
You in town?

Speaker 10 (01:00:07):
Is Lucy there?

Speaker 12 (01:00:08):
I thought i'd come out and visit you.

Speaker 7 (01:00:09):
To Uh no, uh n, No, she's not here.

Speaker 8 (01:00:12):
Just now?

Speaker 7 (01:00:13):
Oh what will she be back?

Speaker 12 (01:00:14):
Or don't you want me to come see you.

Speaker 27 (01:00:17):
Yes, but Dorene, listen, Yes, there's something I've got to
talk to you about privately.

Speaker 8 (01:00:25):
Where are you now?

Speaker 12 (01:00:26):
At the restaurant across from the railroad station.

Speaker 27 (01:00:28):
Stay there for half an hour. I'll meet you there.
I have a proposition for you, and I think you're
going to like it. So that's the whole story, Dorene.

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I just wanted to talk sense to her, and she
backed away from me and fell over the cliff.

Speaker 12 (01:00:53):
So you killed or did you tell?

Speaker 9 (01:00:55):
No?

Speaker 27 (01:00:55):
I tell you I didn't. It was an accident, all right, it.

Speaker 12 (01:00:58):
Was an accident. It's a matter of fact. I'm inclined
to believe you. Now, what did you want to talk
to me about it?

Speaker 27 (01:01:04):
Well, Dorian, it should have been you and me, not
me and Lucy.

Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
You and I belong together.

Speaker 12 (01:01:09):
Maybe go on, Tom.

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
Now here's my idea.

Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
You look like Lucy.

Speaker 27 (01:01:14):
I want you to take Lucy's place.

Speaker 12 (01:01:16):
Take Lucy's place.

Speaker 27 (01:01:18):
Yes, we'll be married secretly. You'll call yourself Lucy.

Speaker 7 (01:01:21):
No one will ever know the difference.

Speaker 27 (01:01:23):
And I'll give you half the estate that Lucy inherited
from her father, because now that she's dead, I'll inherit
it all from her father, think dorin half.

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
A million dollars.

Speaker 12 (01:01:33):
So you want me to take Lucy's place? Tom clever, Yes,
very clever. No public outcry, no investigation, no suspicion of you.

Speaker 27 (01:01:43):
Oh Dorian, I'm crazy about you, and we'll get along,
swell together. We'll travel, have fun, you'll be written.

Speaker 12 (01:01:49):
Yes, I'll be rich, Tom.

Speaker 27 (01:01:51):
Then you'll do it.

Speaker 12 (01:01:52):
No, what I have a better scheme than that. What
what do you mean if you are convicted of murdering
the Tom, you can't inherit her a saint that will
come to me as her next of kin.

Speaker 27 (01:02:04):
That way, I'll have it all, Doren.

Speaker 12 (01:02:06):
So I'm not going to fall in with your plan. Instead,
I'm going to work one of my own. I'm going
to see you convicted of murdering Lucy.

Speaker 25 (01:02:21):
And so, despite Tom's frantic arguments, Doreen insisted that he
go with her to Lucy's old friend, Judge Wallace. Judge
Wallace called in the prosecuting attorney, and they heard Tom's
story in silence.

Speaker 26 (01:02:36):
It won't wash Barrow.

Speaker 18 (01:02:37):
First the father, then the daughterter die in accidents, with
you the only witness.

Speaker 26 (01:02:42):
It's too much for anyone to believe.

Speaker 12 (01:02:43):
Judge Wallace, I have letters from Lucy proving that she'd
heard him admit in his sleep that he killed her father,
and that she was afraid of him.

Speaker 26 (01:02:50):
How about it, mister Rawdon, and we hold him for murder.

Speaker 29 (01:02:53):
I'm Fred, not Judge Wallace. The letters would help, but
they're not enough legally to win a conviction. And aice
lucy body can be found with some evidence of murder
about it, the low can do nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:03:05):
Lucy's body will be found sooner or later. I'm going
to offer a reward for it, and then we'll see
whether you can be convicted or not.

Speaker 25 (01:03:20):
But a week went by, and a second week and
Lucy's body was not recovered from the restless waters of
the Pacific. A third week and Tom Barrow began to
breathe easily again. Then one morning he received a call
from the prosecuting attorney to view the body of a
young woman that had been found on the beach by

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fishermen not far from barrow House.

Speaker 27 (01:03:46):
Well, here, I am, where's the body?

Speaker 12 (01:03:49):
Is it?

Speaker 10 (01:03:49):
Lucy?

Speaker 27 (01:03:49):
Mister Rodin, I prefer not to.

Speaker 29 (01:03:51):
Give an opinion till you've both seen her. Attendant open
number seventeen, Please I lift the sheet so you can
see the face. I'm afraid it's badly battered, probably by rocks.

Speaker 27 (01:04:04):
That's not Lucy, I'm positive of it.

Speaker 29 (01:04:07):
Well, Miss Holden, what do you say, er, I'm not sure.
I have everything that was on the body here in
this envelope. Two rings and a silver pin. Here they are,
mister BarreR. Do you recognize them?

Speaker 27 (01:04:20):
No, no, I don't.

Speaker 12 (01:04:22):
I can't be sure about the rings. But that pin
with Lucy's I sent it to her for a wedding present.
If you look on the back you will see engrave
to l from d with love.

Speaker 29 (01:04:32):
That would be to Lucy from Doreen, wouldn't it it would?
I think that settles the identification. But there's one more point,
as you'll see when I turned back the sheet further.

Speaker 26 (01:04:45):
A knife, A knife through her hut.

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
No, it can't be.

Speaker 29 (01:04:49):
You're knife, mister Barrow, with your name stamped on it.
Thomas Barr. You're under arrest for.

Speaker 30 (01:04:53):
Murder, Thomas Barrow. You have been found guilty of murder
as charged. The sentence of this court accordingly is that

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at four o'clock in the afternoon on the day of
June third, you shall suffer death in the lethal chamber
of the State Penitentiary. And may God have mercy on
your soul.

Speaker 31 (01:06:27):
Up dam dot As.

Speaker 25 (01:07:10):
And now to continue the story as it is written
in the sealed book. Tom Barrow's lawyer appealed the death verdict,
but his appeal was rejected. The evidence was far too overwhelming.
Tom kept protesting, but of course no one believed him,
except the visitor, whom the guard brought to his death

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cell one afternoon.

Speaker 30 (01:07:38):
Here you are, miss Lorene, Thank you God. You can
talk to him for ten minutes, that's all. I'll stand
back here, or I can keep an eye on him,
but I won't be listening.

Speaker 27 (01:07:47):
Hello, Tom, you devil.

Speaker 8 (01:07:50):
You did this.

Speaker 27 (01:07:51):
If it hadn't been for you, I wouldn't be here now.

Speaker 12 (01:07:53):
But you are here where you belong. You ought to
be amused at the way things turned.

Speaker 27 (01:07:58):
Out, Tom, hadn't been for you. Letters and that knife.
You know how that knife came to be in Lucy's body?

Speaker 11 (01:08:04):
Yes, I do know.

Speaker 12 (01:08:05):
Lucy put it there.

Speaker 8 (01:08:07):
Lucy put it there.

Speaker 12 (01:08:08):
Yes, Tom, you kill Lucy's father, but the law couldn't
touch you. So Lucy married you just so she could
see you punished. I don't believe you will first Lucy
made you think that you talked in your sleep, that
you'd admitted the truth.

Speaker 27 (01:08:23):
That way made me think I talked in myself.

Speaker 12 (01:08:25):
Yes, because you didn't ever. But when you got frightened
and insisted on having a separate room, she knew definitely
you were guilty. Then she carried out the plan she'd
made long before to see you punished.

Speaker 27 (01:08:38):
You're crazy. It was all an accident.

Speaker 12 (01:08:40):
She fell off the GISs tom that's right, she fell
off the cliff, but she's not dead. In college, Lucy
was a swimming champion. She'd die from that cliff many times.
When she fell, she simply swam under water until she
was out of sight behind some rocks, and then she
swam ashore. A few miles down the beach, she had
a motor boat hidden in an old boat house. She
reached it, changed her clothes, and got to a fishing

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village on the coast in the boat. Then she simply
took a bus to town. No one paid any attention
to her.

Speaker 27 (01:09:08):
The body her ring.

Speaker 12 (01:09:09):
That wasn't Lucy's body. It was the body of a
girl who happened to resemble her in size and coloring.

Speaker 7 (01:09:15):
I knew it.

Speaker 12 (01:09:16):
That girl had been killed in an automobile accident. Lucy
was able to secure her body, never mind how, and
conceal it in the water in the boat house only
a day or two before she put a plan into operation.
After she fell off the cliff. She put her rings
and pin on the body and thrust the knife into
the heart. And after three weeks in the water. Well
you understand, So that's it.

Speaker 27 (01:09:38):
Well, go on, what's the rest of it.

Speaker 12 (01:09:40):
When the time came, I saw to it that the
body was taken from the boat house and put on
the beach where it could be found. And then I
identified it.

Speaker 27 (01:09:48):
And here you are, you devils, both of you. But
you won't get away with it.

Speaker 26 (01:09:54):
I'll get my lawyers to find Lucy.

Speaker 12 (01:09:56):
I'm afraid that's impossible. No one can find Lucy.

Speaker 7 (01:09:59):
What you if?

Speaker 26 (01:10:00):
She's a lie alive?

Speaker 12 (01:10:01):
But no one will find her Tom, Because Tom, I'm
Lucy too. I'm both Doren and Lucy.

Speaker 27 (01:10:09):
I see you you can't, oh, but.

Speaker 12 (01:10:12):
I am think Tom. Did you ever see Doreen and
Lucy together?

Speaker 27 (01:10:17):
Of course that day you went to the missions.

Speaker 12 (01:10:20):
It was easy to stop in town, change my clothes,
fix my hair differently, put on lots of make up
and high heel shoes and come back as Doren the sister.
I'd been so carefully making you believe in.

Speaker 27 (01:10:30):
All along, I should have guessed.

Speaker 32 (01:10:31):
I should have guessed, should you?

Speaker 12 (01:10:32):
No one else did. There was a real Doren once
who died as a baby. But that gave me the idea,
And I made you think Doren had her own selfish
motive for seeing you convicted, so you wouldn't suspect we
were both the same girl, you devil. Perhaps some people
would say what I've done is wrong, but I don't
think so, because you killed my father, and murder must

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be paid for tom as you're going to pay.

Speaker 27 (01:10:59):
God, Are you call the warden?

Speaker 32 (01:11:03):
My wife isn't dead.

Speaker 27 (01:11:04):
This is heard you here. It's all a trick.

Speaker 12 (01:11:06):
I'm afraid his mind is given away under the strain guard.

Speaker 26 (01:11:09):
Yes, you'd better leave now, miss, We look at it. Yes,
thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:11:13):
I'm afraid his mind is gone completely.

Speaker 27 (01:11:15):
Don't let her get away.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
I tell you she's my wife.

Speaker 15 (01:11:17):
She's loosing my wife.

Speaker 26 (01:11:18):
I take it easy, Take it easy.

Speaker 30 (01:11:21):
The warden will be here in a minute, and you
can talk to him all you like on your way
to the lethal chamber.

Speaker 26 (01:11:27):
No, no, I'm innocent.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
I tell you I've been fraying.

Speaker 26 (01:11:30):
She's not dead.

Speaker 15 (01:11:30):
My wife's not dead.

Speaker 25 (01:11:41):
And so ends the tale. Murder must be paid for,
As it is written in the Sealed Book, Tom Barrow
paid the supreme penalty, though he protested his innocence to
the last. Strange indeed, or the ways of justice from
which no model can escape, be sure to be with

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Speaker 21 (01:16:17):
Oh after a while, after I lay there in the
long grass after the end, running for a while from death,
night came and.

Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
With it the fear.

Speaker 21 (01:16:37):
And later I said to myself who are you? And
I answered, you are a hunted man, and you are
going to die. Carlin will find you and he will
kill you. Then I got up and I ransom more.

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Then there was a house. There was a wall of
round it, of stone and separating the house from the woods.
And there was a flame of candle on the ledge
of one of the windows, and I thought I saw
inside a room a shadow move then stay dark and motionless.

Speaker 7 (01:17:14):
It was a house, and I was tired. It was
a shelter, and I was afraid. And outside here somewhere
there's car Ion.

Speaker 12 (01:17:30):
Get away.

Speaker 7 (01:17:31):
How kill you please?

Speaker 28 (01:17:32):
I wouldn't be afraid to do it. I've learned to
use this gun.

Speaker 7 (01:17:35):
I want a hiding place. I'm being followed.

Speaker 11 (01:17:37):
I can't stop here.

Speaker 28 (01:17:38):
You'd better go the way you came, but I can't
get me.

Speaker 7 (01:17:42):
Look here, I'm on the side of the law. It's
not the offices that are after me. Don't you see?

Speaker 28 (01:17:48):
You can't stay here and I turn around and go out.

Speaker 21 (01:17:50):
When I get you, I'll teach you, Charity, I told
you to. I'll teach you.

Speaker 12 (01:17:55):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:17:57):
Now I haven't miss you. See it isn't loaded, no, no, yes,
But I wasn't going to kill you. I pointed it
at the sky. He saw that.

Speaker 28 (01:18:08):
Yes, you're very frightened, aren't you.

Speaker 21 (01:18:11):
I don't want to die out there a man named
carl Anne.

Speaker 28 (01:18:22):
Oh, it's too much, it's too much. My father dead
in his coffin. He died this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:18:34):
Why I've never seen a dead man before like this,
face to face.

Speaker 28 (01:18:40):
Tomorrow morning the people will come, the villages and I
will bury him. My father must be terribly alone now
and I am. You can stay if you like. There's
no one I'll tell it's just that I need to hide.
There's a shed that door there, and you can hide.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
Now.

Speaker 28 (01:18:58):
Listen to me. You are my brother, do you see
Tomorrow at the funeral, everyone will come here and they
will see you, and you will tell them that you
are my brother.

Speaker 7 (01:19:08):
What should I call you? Your name, Elizabeth, I am Andrews, and.

Speaker 28 (01:19:12):
Tomorrow when they ask you heard of our father's illness,
and you came back this morning after years in the
city and watched him die. I don't know why. I
don't know why I have helped you as much as I.

Speaker 7 (01:19:23):
Have afraid of me.

Speaker 28 (01:19:25):
That's why it was not fear. It'd be a fool
would be afraid of you. I suppose I was tired
of being alone.

Speaker 21 (01:19:41):
Then she led me to a shed where I was
to sleep, and then she went away from me to
some upstairs room of the cottage, and in an instant
I slept. I and my awakening as swiftly running currental voices.

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The villagers gathered to the funeral, an undertaker's man shutting
the coffin lid, casual as a man shuts a book.
Then the nailing of it with no air of finality.
Then village men to carry it from the cottage, place
it in a farm cart, and with dark Elizabeth beside me, Elizabeth,
who was now a sister to me, walk into a

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wall of white mist that melted before me close behind me,
and our footsteps sounded no louder than the drip of
misty rain that fell from trees and bushes along our road,
then reached the burying place. Stand beside the dark Elizabeth
in the mystic graveyard, and be aware that yet somewhere

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outside my mind, but ready to keep within the fear,
the tempest of fear, the fear of Carlile, Holy.

Speaker 10 (01:20:56):
And merciful Savior.

Speaker 6 (01:20:58):
Almost were they Archi Eternal, suffer.

Speaker 34 (01:21:02):
Us not at our last star for any pains of
death to fall from the.

Speaker 10 (01:21:13):
Ah.

Speaker 21 (01:21:18):
The mist opened a little, and I could see the fields.
There was no Carlion, and I stood alone, wanting to
turn and run and put a wall of mist between
me and that gathering of strangers. Loneliness and fear were
like the emptiness of hunger. Only six steps away and
I would be lost to all the world in a
blanket of white wool.

Speaker 7 (01:21:37):
But then I would be lonely again.

Speaker 28 (01:21:41):
Take me away from here, Take me home, brother.

Speaker 21 (01:21:56):
Food February food. I haven't had any for fifteen hours.

Speaker 28 (01:22:00):
Tea and bread in the cupboard.

Speaker 11 (01:22:02):
I get it.

Speaker 8 (01:22:04):
That's good of you.

Speaker 28 (01:22:05):
There's no reason why I should.

Speaker 27 (01:22:07):
Shut you out.

Speaker 12 (01:22:08):
I've been alone.

Speaker 28 (01:22:09):
You're better than no one, even you. Tea bread, butter,
eat Andrews.

Speaker 7 (01:22:17):
The reason I came back with you and something else
I'll tell you, and you can laugh at me. I
was homesick for here. I'm not making love to you.

Speaker 21 (01:22:29):
It wasn't you.

Speaker 7 (01:22:29):
It was just the place I slept here, and I
hadn't slept before for three days.

Speaker 28 (01:22:37):
Elizabeth, I was wondering, what why?

Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
I like you?

Speaker 28 (01:22:41):
Of whom are you frightened?

Speaker 7 (01:22:43):
Elizabeth?

Speaker 28 (01:22:44):
Of whom are you frightened?

Speaker 7 (01:22:46):
Of death? And it is a man I know, a
man named Carlyon, another man you fright Carlyon, a man
with a voice was nailed to music as any voice
I've ever heard, except for you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
A man who? What's that?

Speaker 28 (01:23:04):
Your imagining things?

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
A whisper like of me?

Speaker 7 (01:23:07):
Do you want to do the whole world?

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
I'm here?

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:23:11):
Didn't you hear that?

Speaker 28 (01:23:12):
You can get the shade quick the place where you slept.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
There's no door, you fool.

Speaker 28 (01:23:17):
There are shadows and darkness. Find one to hide in
you and your fear.

Speaker 10 (01:23:21):
Well, forgive me, I'm completely lost in this part.

Speaker 28 (01:23:32):
Why didn't you knock?

Speaker 10 (01:23:34):
And can't be too careful around here? You're not alone.

Speaker 27 (01:23:39):
I'm alone.

Speaker 28 (01:23:40):
My brother has just gone out and he's not far
I can easily call to him.

Speaker 10 (01:23:44):
If you don't go, you mustn't be afraid of me.

Speaker 8 (01:23:48):
Yes, I know your brother.

Speaker 34 (01:23:50):
Is he a little over the middle height, slightly built, dark,
with frightened obstinate eyes.

Speaker 11 (01:23:56):
Not my brother.

Speaker 28 (01:23:57):
He's short and squat and very strong.

Speaker 34 (01:24:01):
And I'm not looking for your brother. He must have
been here very lately. Tea is hot, and he left
in a hurry with his tea unfinished. Curious if we
didn't meet.

Speaker 28 (01:24:13):
That's my cup you have, Will you allow me to
finish it?

Speaker 10 (01:24:17):
I'm sorry I didn't meet your brother.

Speaker 28 (01:24:19):
There's another door. That's the shed, and there are only
tools and with the plants. The man you described, the
frightened obstinate man, he is here. He slept here last night,
and now he went with the morning north. I think
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
He may return here then, I don't think so.

Speaker 28 (01:24:37):
The frightened man who's here.

Speaker 10 (01:24:39):
A sort of Judas he was afraid of you.

Speaker 34 (01:24:42):
He's an informer, and because of him, six men are
in jail on a childhood murder. There is a fight
in the customs guard which shot for a devil. This
man Andrews, Yes, he spoiled everything. Three of us escaped.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
Who is with me?

Speaker 34 (01:25:02):
And Andrews informed. He's made of us jailbirds and fugitives
and murderers. The man killed because of smuggled casks of
brand not a dull, dirty game. He's made it all
up here.

Speaker 28 (01:25:16):
And if you find him, I.

Speaker 34 (01:25:18):
Should talk with him, make sure I was right, and
then what I should kill him? And was laughing at
me the whole time he were friends. I told him
all the things I liked, shared what I loved with him.
I can only make him forget what I told him
by killing him.

Speaker 35 (01:25:40):
You say he went on, Yes, if he comes back,
do not shelter him or warning, stay with peace, stay alive, Andrews,
he's gone.

Speaker 7 (01:26:01):
That's knife.

Speaker 21 (01:26:02):
I would have killed him and you if you were told.

Speaker 28 (01:26:06):
Oh, coward, coward, coward, what he said?

Speaker 9 (01:26:10):
Is it true?

Speaker 8 (01:26:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
Colored and informer, you heard him, he would kill me.

Speaker 28 (01:26:16):
You informed, and whatever your reason, you were driven to
the side of the law. Will stay there, Go into
the open, bear witness against the men they've caught.

Speaker 7 (01:26:25):
Carlyon will kill me.

Speaker 5 (01:26:26):
Do you understand, do you, subar?

Speaker 28 (01:26:28):
Coward is cold?

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
I want to stay.

Speaker 28 (01:26:33):
Coward's hand on my cheek, and it is cold.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Elizabeth let go of me.

Speaker 26 (01:26:41):
The fog is.

Speaker 28 (01:26:42):
Gone and the sky is quite clear, and I can
see six.

Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Stars because I want to to love me.

Speaker 26 (01:26:51):
And you will go to.

Speaker 28 (01:26:52):
Town and bear witness and testify at the trial tomorrow,
A long walk.

Speaker 11 (01:26:58):
To the town.

Speaker 28 (01:26:59):
You must s where you slept last night. Good night, Andrews.

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Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
And bring up more whiskey for the lad I'd rather
have food, whiskey whiskey for the appetite. No Misstandrews. I
must tell you you're a veryvery man.

Speaker 21 (01:28:57):
No, no, I'm not a coward, she said.

Speaker 7 (01:29:00):
Oh who said such a ridiculous thing?

Speaker 21 (01:29:02):
Nobody. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (01:29:03):
It's in the viewpoint to me. You are brave to
come here to my rooms as.

Speaker 21 (01:29:08):
You did, because you told me to come.

Speaker 7 (01:29:11):
It seems it seems that it is necessary I change
somehow so that you can love me.

Speaker 21 (01:29:18):
To be a man.

Speaker 7 (01:29:19):
I see, I'll do my best for you. I've taken
a room for your share at.

Speaker 21 (01:29:25):
The end, but I won't go back to her. You
understand that.

Speaker 7 (01:29:27):
If she will love you now, then why the fear
Carlon is not caught? He will find me. After tomorrow
I must get away. You will have the whole of
England to drop into. But I must tell you this.
Forget smuggling when this is over, act honestly.

Speaker 8 (01:29:44):
In the future.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Don't treat to me.

Speaker 21 (01:29:46):
Don't talk to me of honesty. You're not risking your
life with this pile as I am.

Speaker 7 (01:29:50):
And don't you be impertinent. You're doing this to save
your own skin. Else you'd stand trial tomorrow like the rest. Ah,
go whiskey, go to bed. My name is Frances Andrews,

(01:30:15):
informer holder order in the court. Where were you on
the night of February ted on board the ship? Good chance?

Speaker 10 (01:30:24):
What were you doing there?

Speaker 7 (01:30:26):
I was engaged in smuggling. We better run a cargo
that night so as not to pay the duty. Tell
the court what happened that night.

Speaker 21 (01:30:34):
I helped load the dinghy with the casts of Brandy,
and I got in with them and helped road ashore.
When they began to unload the cargo, I slipped away.
There was no moon, it was very dark, and they
did not see me. They didn't see me go. I
got away among the dunes and hid.

Speaker 7 (01:30:51):
Then I ran again to where to a house on
the moor that I found there to a girl who
was in it. Elizabeth tell us about the letter, mister Andros.
Two days before I had sent an anonymous letter to
the officer in charge stating the time, in the exact place.

Speaker 15 (01:31:10):
And who judge of this court?

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
Hodder?

Speaker 8 (01:31:13):
Hodder?

Speaker 7 (01:31:15):
Another question, mister Andros, how long have you been in
your profession?

Speaker 8 (01:31:21):
Three years?

Speaker 7 (01:31:22):
And you hated what you were doing?

Speaker 8 (01:31:24):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:31:25):
Why didn't you leave them?

Speaker 21 (01:31:26):
I had nowhere to go and no money.

Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Did it ever curt you to work on us?

Speaker 10 (01:31:30):
Then? No?

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
Why did you first.

Speaker 7 (01:31:34):
Join friendship for a man, a man who you're not
caught Carrion, the man friend of these others in the dark,
who you betrayed?

Speaker 6 (01:31:43):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
Then what were your motives for laying information with the revenue?
The man hated me, all of them except Carrion go On,
and I was afraid of being hurt. And I hated
the sea and the noise and the danger. And I
wanted to show these men that I was someone to
be considered, that I had the power smash all their plans.
And your friend Carlon, did you do nothing to ward?

(01:32:06):
It was a case of him or me?

Speaker 8 (01:32:08):
That that is all mister Andrews.

Speaker 15 (01:32:10):
Any pains crossing them in.

Speaker 33 (01:32:13):
Yeah, you may step down, mister Andrews, you may continue
with the hendray.

Speaker 7 (01:32:18):
I call the prison out Jason Courier, so he was
called Jason Collier and sworn in.

Speaker 21 (01:32:29):
He refused to talk, as did the two who came
after him. Instead, they looked at me, and each in
his turn smiled, smiled. I could not understand why, And
the courtroom became very hot. The faces blobs, and time
became drone of voices, and accused and denied, accused again, ebbed,

(01:33:01):
They were found guilty. Then through streets filled with jeering,
an officer to escort me, through succession of back doors
and dirty lanes, through stables, then the white Hart and
the room I had in it light had startness with
candle and in the floating wisps of his rays, an
image in mirror, an image informer, brave, courageous informer, and

(01:33:29):
the mirror shadow coward, coward, still, coward, fear ridden man,
fear sick man, because Carlyon was free, Carlyon alive in
Carlyon's hands, still my death, coward, and no love from
Elizabeth for a coward room candle dancing with fear, shadow

(01:33:55):
drifting with fear. And so there you are, Harry, very
folly knife says, stay where you are unless you want
to squeak to a new tune.

Speaker 7 (01:34:13):
There are opposes in this hotel.

Speaker 21 (01:34:15):
What do you want, Harry?

Speaker 6 (01:34:16):
Why do you want to quarrel? I'm here to do
you a service. Straight I am You're out. You ain't
very grateful. Don't you want to hear my news?

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
What mule?

Speaker 6 (01:34:25):
You shouldn't have squealed, not on the others. It was
like your mother, you might say, when we was to
see and see storms and things made your wisp whimper
like a pudian baby.

Speaker 7 (01:34:36):
You were a squeaker. You said you had new Carlion.
I've finished with him. Ah that he ain't finished with you. Look,
don't interrupt squeaker now, I haven't got the role of it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
It's like this Carlon.

Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
He finished with you, nor with your ladybird? Are you
really your ladybird? One of the cottage in the mists?
Her dear caller, he lisible pity to shelter a squeaker,
and then to die pity pit.

Speaker 21 (01:35:10):
To Carlion wouldn't do anything to her. I know he
wouldn't have to give it to her tomorrow or the
next day.

Speaker 10 (01:35:16):
You're lying.

Speaker 21 (01:35:17):
It's a trap to get me to go back to her,
so Carlin will catch me.

Speaker 8 (01:35:20):
But I won't.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
I won't go back.

Speaker 6 (01:35:22):
I tell you how lion that has soon killed you
as a look at her. But he says killing's too
good for you. He says you ought to have some
fun with you first, he says, tell.

Speaker 7 (01:35:33):
You I'm not go back.

Speaker 21 (01:35:35):
Tell him it's no use laying that trap for me.

Speaker 7 (01:35:39):
I've brought you Carlon's news, and we're quits, papas.

Speaker 21 (01:35:52):
And sirens now and again alone, and the coward's image
to reach from mirror off of its embrace. It's only
a whisper, only a trap. Why set a trap for
a cow who was only repelled by danger? Carlyon would
not kill a woman. Carlyon snuff a candle and its images.

Speaker 7 (01:36:15):
Leave the hotel. Walk with no fear of death, but
a terror of life, without escape, without will, walk and
reached the downs as the first orange girl lifted above
the eastern horizon. Then run to stifle thought, Run fast
until there's no more breath, only the fringing down again
upon salt, tufts of grass, and cool and silver ski touched.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Now with green up and run again.

Speaker 7 (01:36:45):
Then the house and the wall around it, and an
opening door, and Elizabeth.

Speaker 28 (01:36:51):
Skew at last, I've come back. Oh yes, I can
see that. I get you tea.

Speaker 7 (01:36:58):
From that cup. That was the cup we both rang
from me.

Speaker 28 (01:37:02):
Not that one I remember the one he hit a
chip out of the room, this one? Come bread tea here?
Or tell me what are you doing here?

Speaker 21 (01:37:16):
Has anything happened since I've been away?

Speaker 28 (01:37:18):
No, nothing ever happens here.

Speaker 21 (01:37:21):
The door was unbolted. Do you think that's safe?

Speaker 28 (01:37:24):
It was unbolted when you first came. I didn't want
a less warm welcome for you.

Speaker 7 (01:37:29):
When you came back, you knew I would come back.

Speaker 28 (01:37:32):
We are friends.

Speaker 7 (01:37:34):
You will laugh at me, you'll despise me.

Speaker 21 (01:37:36):
You know I'm a coward.

Speaker 7 (01:37:37):
I betrayed you.

Speaker 28 (01:37:38):
How you betrayed me.

Speaker 7 (01:37:39):
He came out in court that you sheltered me.

Speaker 12 (01:37:41):
In court?

Speaker 21 (01:37:42):
What you say I betrayed you? I told him you
sheltered me. And now Carlyon means to punish your fight.
You'll be here today or tomorrow with me.

Speaker 7 (01:37:51):
And I have no fear he will kill you and me,
No fool go from here, go away.

Speaker 28 (01:37:58):
I love you, and I will stay here in this
house where you came to me.

Speaker 7 (01:38:02):
Do you hear? I love you, Elizabeth?

Speaker 11 (01:38:07):
Why were you so long?

Speaker 7 (01:38:10):
I was afraid?

Speaker 28 (01:38:11):
Am I worse than death? You're not afraid of that.

Speaker 21 (01:38:15):
I don't fear it in a longer. You are filling
me with yourself. That means courage, peace, holiness.

Speaker 28 (01:38:25):
Love me so long alone, Love me?

Speaker 7 (01:38:30):
Andrews. Yes, what what?

Speaker 24 (01:38:33):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (01:38:34):
Have you seen something?

Speaker 28 (01:38:36):
Nothing? I remember? We shall need water before tonight. We
must go with the pail now before it's dangerous to
the well. The pails in the corner there.

Speaker 7 (01:38:46):
What are time to remember.

Speaker 21 (01:38:50):
My knife ticket?

Speaker 28 (01:38:51):
Half minute's walk no more the path behind the trees,
and half a minute.

Speaker 7 (01:38:55):
And no more a knife ticket? Yes, now kiss me.

Speaker 28 (01:39:00):
A farewell for a half minute's absence. I kiss you
when I come back. Go now now.

Speaker 34 (01:39:25):
She's dead, Andrews. She meant the knight for me. She
came for me, and she stumbled old to the floor
and the knife pierced her. I'm sorry, intensely, deeply sorry.
She was fine, finer than you or I. She knew
you were here, and she sends me away.

Speaker 10 (01:39:48):
I wanted you Andrews, not her, not the death.

Speaker 34 (01:39:53):
Of that lovely girl.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
You not her.

Speaker 10 (01:39:59):
With my knife, you will kill me. Andrews, You the coward.

Speaker 21 (01:40:04):
You brought death to what you loved because of her.
Of Elizabeth, no more Carlon. There is peace now and

(01:40:25):
the kind of happiness. Carlyon is dead.

Speaker 7 (01:40:31):
Carlon is dead of the wounding of my knife, the
knife that had tasted of Elizabeth.

Speaker 21 (01:40:39):
Carlon dead, and I killed him, and I am free.
And the coward who won't put in the darknesses of
fear is a man who waits for the coming of
the police, who waits in a cottage where fear.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
Is dead.

Speaker 21 (01:41:01):
And well love lies dead.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
Suspense.

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composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Luskin. Graham
Green's The Man Within was adapted for suspense by Morton
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Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
I suppose most fears, my dear, are never truly seen
coming to fruition. However, I wouldn't bet my life on that.

Speaker 10 (01:42:30):
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
The hour is getting later and later, and I suppose
we should consider calling it a night. But I just
I'm not quite ready for it. Maybe it's the cold
night air. Maybe it's the feeling inside, or perhaps it's

(01:42:58):
the creeper h.

Speaker 8 (01:43:08):
Min's mad.

Speaker 11 (01:43:15):
Let looking eyes like a madden. He wants to kill me?

Speaker 13 (01:43:19):
Someone does the other three flying on the floor and
pool of blood. Almost twelve o'clock, good night.

Speaker 11 (01:43:27):
Any minute now there'll be a ring or a knockt.

Speaker 7 (01:43:35):
Midnight, the witching hour, when the night is darkest, our
fears the strongest, and our strength that it's lowest ere midnight,
when the gravescape open and death strikes. How you learn
the answer in just a minute, and the creeper.

Speaker 8 (01:44:13):
And now murder at midnight.

Speaker 7 (01:44:16):
On this program we bring you the best and most
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tale which we consider a classic in terror and suspense.
The Creeper by Joseph Ruscall in the kitchenette to the
New York apartment, a man and his wife listened to

(01:44:38):
the evening news podcast New York.

Speaker 38 (01:44:40):
The unknown killer called the Creeper has struck again, adding
a third female corpse to his toe. Virginia Peters, a
comely waitress, was found strangled to death in her third
floor apartment early this morning while her radio plared. As
in the previous murders, a note was found scrolled on
the wall with the victim's lipstick and the plea, for
Heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot

(01:45:04):
control myself. Police insists, now want you turn it off?

Speaker 11 (01:45:08):
Oh how awful.

Speaker 6 (01:45:09):
And then this very neighborhoo, let's hear the rest. It's
very interesting.

Speaker 13 (01:45:12):
Oh, don't go turning that radio on against Steve Grant
with enough, I'll go out.

Speaker 28 (01:45:18):
Of my mind for hidden sake.

Speaker 6 (01:45:19):
That's it, a good solid clue. What is for heaven's sake?
How many men have you used that expression?

Speaker 4 (01:45:27):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:45:27):
Shut up, okay, missus Grant pass the biscuits, my little
pigeon pass.

Speaker 13 (01:45:30):
The biscuits edd three women in three days, murdered in
cold blood by a mad scene right here in Washington Heights.
I'm too sick to go out, too scared to stay
in the walk's broke. He sits there, eating, eating, eating,
past the biscuits.

Speaker 6 (01:45:43):
There's nothing wrong with my appetite, my love.

Speaker 13 (01:45:46):
Course, that's what costs you, you a job on the
police force.

Speaker 28 (01:45:50):
When I even think some.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Men drink to escape, I eat escape?

Speaker 6 (01:45:54):
What what an ugly tongue, beautiful face and a robing
eye and short a wife?

Speaker 28 (01:46:00):
So you're starting that again, you and your crazy jealousy.

Speaker 6 (01:46:03):
Yeah, maybe that's the creepert way of escaping to Georgia who.

Speaker 28 (01:46:06):
Knows no, go ahead and get a divorce?

Speaker 8 (01:46:08):
Go ahead?

Speaker 28 (01:46:10):
Can I help it? If man look at me?

Speaker 13 (01:46:12):
You know why you come home at all?

Speaker 11 (01:46:13):
Where do you go?

Speaker 13 (01:46:14):
What do you do with yourself?

Speaker 26 (01:46:17):
Ore?

Speaker 11 (01:46:17):
Were you this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:46:18):
Why'd you come back to eat?

Speaker 6 (01:46:19):
But someday I lose my appetite for that too, And
when I do, my dear, there'll be no escape. And
now I'm off again, still using stage lipstick, wipe it off?
How many times must I tell you you're married?

Speaker 4 (01:46:33):
Now? Remember, Steve.

Speaker 28 (01:46:35):
Wait, yeah, at least go buy my medicine.

Speaker 8 (01:46:38):
Sorry, I got no time.

Speaker 11 (01:46:40):
Don't leave me here alone, skate home this evening. Please,
I'm afraid.

Speaker 6 (01:46:43):
Oh, don't be silly, pet, Nothing will happen to you.
You got a doorman here, an elevator boy, missus strown
across the hall of phone.

Speaker 10 (01:46:49):
You're safe enough.

Speaker 28 (01:46:50):
But the night lock it doesn't work.

Speaker 6 (01:46:52):
Oh now you can't lock me out anymore.

Speaker 11 (01:46:54):
It doesn't catch.

Speaker 13 (01:46:55):
Something's happened to it since last night, Steve, get a
new one.

Speaker 11 (01:46:59):
I can't get along.

Speaker 13 (01:47:00):
I've tried all day.

Speaker 11 (01:47:01):
Steve.

Speaker 13 (01:47:01):
Please, if I would have told you, where would you be?

Speaker 6 (01:47:04):
Oh? Good bye?

Speaker 8 (01:47:06):
Take care of your coal, Steve.

Speaker 20 (01:47:16):
Well, if it isn't all pearly, Chase, how are you?

Speaker 9 (01:47:20):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
You got thrown off the force, Steve?

Speaker 6 (01:47:22):
Yeah, hey, you got thrown off the news.

Speaker 8 (01:47:24):
Pearly.

Speaker 2 (01:47:25):
You know I'd wrong. I wasn't fired.

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
I was just warm.

Speaker 6 (01:47:28):
I wasn't fired either, just suspended for three days eating
the lamb shop at Casey when I should have been
ringing in my box of one hundred and sixty second
with all that trouble up there on my way to headquarters.

Speaker 21 (01:47:37):
Now for reinstatement, I too much.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
My trouble is I drink too much.

Speaker 6 (01:47:42):
Hey, you're living up at the heights, Steve Man.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
That's funny me too.

Speaker 7 (01:47:46):
Eh.

Speaker 6 (01:47:47):
Are you married now to a beautiful and lovely young
with admiration? Say it again?

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
I think I knew her.

Speaker 6 (01:47:58):
Wasn't there stage name Georgia?

Speaker 10 (01:48:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
That's her. I love that Wenz. But the woman? How
does a guy handle him?

Speaker 7 (01:48:05):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Maybe the creeper has the right method.

Speaker 6 (01:48:10):
Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth.

Speaker 15 (01:48:13):
Who's the creeper?

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
Stave an? The angles?

Speaker 6 (01:48:16):
You tell me and I'll split the reward with you.
Say what do you think of Inspector Bradley's inside job?

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
And nuts?

Speaker 6 (01:48:25):
Every janet is a creeper. And as for that doorman
Jim ellis just because he worked the two of the
three murder apartments, pure coincidence. Anyway, they've released him one
thing though, And I don't think even Bradley's put it
together yet.

Speaker 10 (01:48:42):
Eh.

Speaker 6 (01:48:42):
In all three cases, just before the creeper struck, the
door locks had already been tampered with.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
You don't say you've got a theory?

Speaker 7 (01:48:51):
Well sure, I mean you take that note on the
wall for Heaven's sake, in every case, for Heaven's sake,
me before I kill more?

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
I cannot control myself? Right now? What man uses an
expression like that? You want the lowdown?

Speaker 8 (01:49:09):
It's just this.

Speaker 6 (01:49:11):
A creeper is a woman, a kimmicker, like the height
of the message from the floor is a trick six feet.
And yet I'll lay odds. The creeper is no more
than a guy. Your heights say, or mine five nine?

Speaker 15 (01:49:26):
Just like I?

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
You were me only crazy?

Speaker 30 (01:49:29):
How do you figure that?

Speaker 6 (01:49:30):
How do I figure lots of things? How do I
know where the creeper is going to strike next? You do?
Certainly the creeper is not so smart, he's just crazy.
You play along crazy, and you're one jump ahead of him.
That's the trouble with Inspector Bradley. Why he's out a tree.
You expect logical clues from a mad man. You play

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along crazy, make out you're.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
The creeper, and what do you get?

Speaker 6 (01:49:58):
Go ahead, let's see, all right, victims are all red heads.
Everyone you've noticed that? Of course three and three days, no,
what you mentioned all lived in the heights, right, Agnes Martin,
Jane Krutzky, Virginia Peters, Right, what was the number of
the apartment. In each case, Agnes lived in one A Jane,
two B Virginia three C. Don't ask me the wire

(01:50:21):
wear for don't ask me the logic. Just play along, crazies.

Speaker 10 (01:50:25):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
Where's he going to strike next? Huh?

Speaker 6 (01:50:28):
I don't catch you. The next victim of the creeper
also lives in the Heights. She's a redhead. Her night
lock's been tampered with, she's going to get hers today,
and her apartment numbers four day. Well, why are you
looking at me? Don't you like my arithmetic, parler? My
wife's a redhead, we live in the Heights, and our apartment.

Speaker 7 (01:50:50):
Number isn't.

Speaker 6 (01:50:55):
You're just a boozy reporter.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
Your apartment number for D?

Speaker 4 (01:51:05):
I told you for D.

Speaker 6 (01:51:06):
Of course it's pretty late, but I'll have it delivered.
I was busy admiring your lipstick, missus Grant. I have
nothing like it in stock four D.

Speaker 7 (01:51:13):
I should have guessed it anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:51:15):
Why, well, a face is a number, believe me, since
you moved into the neighborhood, missus grant, for me, it
has a special number like double Dandy Delicious dream for
d's you see go on.

Speaker 13 (01:51:28):
But you tell that to every customer.

Speaker 4 (01:51:30):
Man, I'm a ladies man, like the creeper. What did
I say?

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
What's going on in this block?

Speaker 39 (01:51:36):
Raw nerves?

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
You can't joke the creeper.

Speaker 26 (01:51:38):
The creeper.

Speaker 6 (01:51:39):
That's all I hear all day. It's mashysteria. There ain't
such an animal the youth. You don't think so, I
assure you, Missus Grant, it's a fairy tale for circulation
of the tabloids.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
I'll send you a prescription.

Speaker 8 (01:51:50):
Up with a boy.

Speaker 6 (01:51:51):
No, no, I'll just wait here for well, a little
take some time. You should go right home and stay there.
If you're just getting over the flu, I'll tell you what.
I'll deliver it myself.

Speaker 11 (01:52:00):
It'll be a no, no, no, no, I'll wait.

Speaker 13 (01:52:03):
I may not go right back.

Speaker 11 (01:52:05):
I don't want to.

Speaker 13 (01:52:06):
I don't want to be there alone.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
I'm afraid very well. Suit yourself.

Speaker 8 (01:52:10):
I have a seat.

Speaker 6 (01:52:12):
H for Heaven's sake, stop me before I killed him.

Speaker 8 (01:52:18):
I cannot control.

Speaker 26 (01:52:21):
I was only joking.

Speaker 32 (01:52:22):
Missus Brantons.

Speaker 11 (01:52:36):
Steal, Missus Stone, Yes, watch your hurry here.

Speaker 13 (01:52:39):
I just got put to scare since these awful.

Speaker 11 (01:52:42):
Murders in this neighborhood isn't it terrible? I'm the death myself.
You walking home? Yeah, I said, but I'll go with you.
It's good we live in the same house, least if
I had a double lot.

Speaker 12 (01:52:52):
But the night when doesn't work?

Speaker 11 (01:52:53):
Oh really, well, I have a chain off besides, and
steal it as.

Speaker 13 (01:52:56):
I sit and shiver when there's a sound at the door.
Can't get along? Smith tried all day, but they're all
so busy. Mister Frank on the corner promise too, but
didn't know when.

Speaker 11 (01:53:05):
Why are they all so busy.

Speaker 13 (01:53:06):
Him, my dear, because every woman in the neighborhood's changing
there too, simply a nightmare.

Speaker 4 (01:53:11):
But but don't you worry.

Speaker 28 (01:53:12):
You stay together this evening.

Speaker 11 (01:53:14):
Mister Stone's out too, to think of it. We've never
visited though we live right across the hall from each other.
Isn't that like a big city for heaven's sake? Or
would you rather I dropped in on you?

Speaker 28 (01:53:23):
Well, I don't make it your place then.

Speaker 12 (01:53:25):
Isn't that horrible?

Speaker 28 (01:53:26):
The ghastly things they're saying.

Speaker 13 (01:53:28):
The theory is one doesn't know what to think next.
You believe the latest, the latest that maybe it's a
woman the.

Speaker 11 (01:53:33):
Deeper, a woman can you beat it?

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
I just can't imagine how.

Speaker 26 (01:53:36):
In the world.

Speaker 11 (01:53:36):
Please figure that? For heaven's sake, can you, I say,
can you, miss Grant?

Speaker 13 (01:53:42):
Oh, I don't know. I was just thinking of something
like you know, I can see we're a married woman.
Now if her husband was feathless, well, I can understand
such a theory, because they take my husband.

Speaker 11 (01:53:54):
Now, you met mister Stone, hadn't.

Speaker 12 (01:53:55):
You, well, missus grandfather?

Speaker 24 (01:53:58):
You're staring at me like.

Speaker 11 (01:53:59):
That for him. I don't feel well.

Speaker 37 (01:54:02):
I'm lets get home, I stobbing with terror.

Speaker 7 (01:54:14):
The woman was ready here run up the dark street
back to her apartment and the door with the broken lock.
The hands of the clock move on towards twelve o'clock and.

Speaker 8 (01:54:24):
Murder me, and now back.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
To murder at midnight and the creeper.

Speaker 6 (01:54:52):
Back to Georgia. Grant hurrying hysterically to the dark streets
on the apartment with the broken.

Speaker 8 (01:54:58):
Lock on the door. Okay, evening, ma'am out late, aren't you?

Speaker 28 (01:55:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:55:11):
You're there?

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
You doing man, just relieving Charlie.

Speaker 38 (01:55:15):
Nice night.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
He sent me ring the elevator for you. No trouble,
ma'am ah.

Speaker 8 (01:55:25):
Rightment four?

Speaker 4 (01:55:25):
D huh.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
Hell, how did you know it doesn't take long.

Speaker 13 (01:55:32):
Will this elevator coming now?

Speaker 2 (01:55:36):
Terrible things, ma'am, the happenings.

Speaker 8 (01:55:39):
What the creeper?

Speaker 15 (01:55:41):
It's going up here?

Speaker 13 (01:55:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:55:49):
Up and down, up and down, up.

Speaker 6 (01:55:51):
And down the light that's me.

Speaker 4 (01:55:52):
I'm a living milkshake.

Speaker 21 (01:55:53):
Missus Grant? Uh huh?

Speaker 13 (01:55:56):
What tell?

Speaker 8 (01:55:57):
Can you stuck?

Speaker 2 (01:55:59):
Imagine getting stuck between the third and fourth with a
production like you.

Speaker 11 (01:56:03):
It's going sonny, want me to report you?

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
Okay, okay?

Speaker 6 (01:56:08):
Can't you take a joke? Maybe I misconstrued that smile
you always give me.

Speaker 32 (01:56:14):
Maybe you shouldn't order to.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
Smile that way?

Speaker 10 (01:56:17):
Work for.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
Let me out.

Speaker 35 (01:56:21):
If I dropping later?

Speaker 15 (01:56:22):
Will you be more acceptive?

Speaker 9 (01:56:25):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:56:27):
Oh, thank goodness, let's be going out of my mind?

Speaker 11 (01:56:34):
Gee, oh my gee? Done this lock?

Speaker 27 (01:56:41):
Turn the lock?

Speaker 6 (01:56:54):
Hello?

Speaker 13 (01:56:55):
Is a locksmith in you? I want to know how
soon I can get my lock changed? Yes, I know
it's late, but he promised. Listen, missus Graham, Yes for
did you? I know you just explained to me, but
I must Yes, yes, so, won't you?

Speaker 2 (01:57:12):
I've been waiting for you.

Speaker 15 (01:57:14):
Stretch a little fool with me?

Speaker 8 (01:57:16):
Do you want the whole house.

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
Much better?

Speaker 7 (01:57:22):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 8 (01:57:23):
I don't worry.

Speaker 6 (01:57:23):
You haven't got a thing to worry about. Now I've
come to protect you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Give me the phone. Hello, never mind about the lock.
Thank you shut down. Make yourself at home. Been waiting
here for.

Speaker 6 (01:57:38):
You long time.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
You will see John j What do you want me?

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
The headline?

Speaker 6 (01:57:48):
Your husband wants to he wants I should keep an
eye on you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
What's the sure You didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:57:54):
Think Stephen any were acquainted? Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Oh? Ysh from way back? This mad him and a boy.

Speaker 4 (01:58:01):
I don't believe you.

Speaker 11 (01:58:03):
What do you mean keep an eye on me?

Speaker 6 (01:58:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Just in case the creeper?

Speaker 8 (01:58:10):
You heard of the character?

Speaker 4 (01:58:12):
You're mad?

Speaker 11 (01:58:14):
You've always been mad. Pearly Chase, Where is Steve?

Speaker 13 (01:58:18):
Why should he send you here?

Speaker 11 (01:58:20):
Why should he think the creeper will come here? What
are you doing here?

Speaker 6 (01:58:24):
Told you playing along?

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
Crazy?

Speaker 8 (01:58:27):
Got a drink.

Speaker 13 (01:58:29):
You're a drunk now and you're getting right out of here.

Speaker 6 (01:58:33):
You're nothing but a no good rummy and you're nothing
but a no good.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
You finished.

Speaker 6 (01:58:40):
When I took the drink, it was to drown you out,
and you know it. I'm still a rum pot angel,
which means I haven't got rid of you yet. Get
out a little two time in a redhead. You're all
the same, You're redheads. Even a wedding ring can't change
your nison.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
My business is snooping. I make a living at it
between drinks. So your new mottos, love thy neighbor.

Speaker 6 (01:59:05):
Huh, mister Stone across the hall, poor dumb Steve.

Speaker 13 (01:59:11):
I'm warning you, get out or I'll call the police.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
Stay where you are.

Speaker 11 (01:59:16):
What are you doing with that gun?

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
I wouldn't pick up that phone if I were you.

Speaker 6 (01:59:20):
You see, there's a big reward for the creeper and
a heck of an exclusive, and I don't want to
share it. I'm riding a hunch. Now, sit down, darling,
Just play along with me while I play along. Crazy,
sit down, shit like we're expecting company.

Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
Let's have some music. Just sit Let's have some music.
I said, turn on the radio. That's shit, it's a
good girl.

Speaker 7 (01:59:59):
Ah then ah, let's dance.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
Give me you are wrong. Let's dance.

Speaker 6 (02:00:08):
Like old times, round and around like my brain. Why
you're trembling? I still love you, your little fool.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
That'sh me.

Speaker 8 (02:00:21):
Why I love you.

Speaker 6 (02:00:23):
I love you, your lovely redhead. I could can and
you'll deserve it. Put the radio on. You could scream
and no one at here. I could put my hand
on your throat like this, I could strangle you.

Speaker 4 (02:00:37):
Why you cry and stop it?

Speaker 15 (02:00:39):
I've had to protect it.

Speaker 6 (02:00:40):
Stop cun it, cut it, I said, cut it on.
I can't stand it. I never could.

Speaker 2 (02:00:46):
Okay, you want me to leave, all right?

Speaker 6 (02:00:50):
I will get you off.

Speaker 33 (02:00:51):
You don't know what am I saving you for?

Speaker 6 (02:00:54):
Anyway? Where's my hat? In a few minutes, I'll be
knocked ring, the door'll get open, and you'll be lying
in a pool.

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
Of blood like the other three. Don't buy my workless, get.

Speaker 8 (02:01:11):
My attached to the creeper.

Speaker 11 (02:01:18):
What if he comes back? He wants to kill me,
wants to kill me, somebody wants to kill me.

Speaker 2 (02:01:27):
Must lie down.

Speaker 13 (02:01:30):
And bleitting.

Speaker 11 (02:01:39):
Ended, frightened me, jealous Spike and the other three in
a pool of blood like the other tree, like the
other three. Almost almost twelve o'clock.

Speaker 13 (02:01:57):
Any minute now, there will be a knock mhm, burrying.

Speaker 12 (02:02:03):
M.

Speaker 4 (02:02:08):
Yes, this is the doorman, missus grand Yes.

Speaker 38 (02:02:12):
The druggist is here with a medicine.

Speaker 8 (02:02:15):
Shall I let him up?

Speaker 10 (02:02:18):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (02:02:18):
Let it?

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
No?

Speaker 11 (02:02:19):
No, no no, don't let that man up. No no, no, no,
I'm perfectly all right. I don't need any I don't
need it.

Speaker 12 (02:02:27):
Kid here, don't you dare come up?

Speaker 4 (02:02:29):
Don't?

Speaker 11 (02:02:40):
Oh please please, I must have it changed right away.

Speaker 25 (02:02:44):
My lock, my door locked?

Speaker 13 (02:02:46):
Yes, this is missus grant. Yes, I do want to
of course, anyone can get into anyone. They want to
murder me, but I don't know who. It's the creeper.
Oh you'll come right away, Thank you, thank you, thank
you so much for hurry please hurry her up, go
out of my mind, thank you, Lord.

Speaker 7 (02:03:09):
Thanks Lord.

Speaker 11 (02:03:11):
Like the other strain, a pool of blood?

Speaker 9 (02:03:16):
Now a knock or a ring?

Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
Who?

Speaker 8 (02:03:23):
Who's there?

Speaker 11 (02:03:24):
It's me here, missus Stone.

Speaker 13 (02:03:26):
Oh what do you want?

Speaker 24 (02:03:28):
I've been worried about you.

Speaker 22 (02:03:29):
Are you real?

Speaker 10 (02:03:30):
No?

Speaker 13 (02:03:30):
I'm all right, Missus Stone. I'm feeling fine.

Speaker 9 (02:03:33):
Oh who up?

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
Dear?

Speaker 11 (02:03:34):
Don't you want me you come?

Speaker 10 (02:03:36):
No?

Speaker 13 (02:03:36):
No, no, thank you, I would just stop that list No, no,
please go away. I'm going to sleep. Go away, you
hear me, go away?

Speaker 2 (02:03:46):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (02:03:48):
Hello?

Speaker 13 (02:03:50):
Oh Steve Dave, I've been frantic, so could hear your voice?

Speaker 7 (02:03:57):
Where are you?

Speaker 10 (02:04:01):
No?

Speaker 13 (02:04:02):
No, no, not no, not when I hear you, Steve.
I don't know what came over me all day I've
been imagine anything.

Speaker 11 (02:04:10):
So silly my nerves.

Speaker 13 (02:04:12):
Sorry, of course, forgive me, Steve. I've been bad, bad, wicked.
If you knew what I've gone through tonight, the most
dreadful state.

Speaker 28 (02:04:26):
And then let Steve, did.

Speaker 11 (02:04:29):
You send someone here today? And you did?

Speaker 10 (02:04:34):
No?

Speaker 11 (02:04:34):
I just got rid of him, all right, guys.

Speaker 20 (02:04:38):
Smart, I'm fairly serious, but I was kind of worried
when I got to thinking of you.

Speaker 11 (02:04:47):
Yes, don't let anyone in all No, No, I won't, Steve. Steve.

Speaker 13 (02:04:55):
Wait, wait, Steve, it's a thank goodness, a last. Now
I can breathe easy, Darling, just a minute, George, Hello, George.

Speaker 32 (02:05:06):
Mister franky.

Speaker 11 (02:05:10):
Goods you Tom please step in. It's the lock on
this door. I was just a moment like my husband
to see what happened.

Speaker 13 (02:05:20):
It's all right, Darling, everything's all right now, Steve. You
needn't worry. No, it's no one, dear, just mister frankly
lostnith got a load of George.

Speaker 4 (02:05:34):
What trail?

Speaker 40 (02:05:36):
Maybe a locksmith, Georgie, you're listening, think maybe.

Speaker 2 (02:05:41):
Get him nice lipstick. You're very nice.

Speaker 39 (02:05:49):
Let's Steve, George, Georgia, George, Hello shop it.

Speaker 6 (02:06:01):
Hurry catch me before I kill more for Heaven's sake.

Speaker 7 (02:06:13):
Sort puts it turneying down the corridor away from the
door with a broken lock. Now standing ajar the body
of a red headed woman. And still should she not
have known that her only visitor.

Speaker 8 (02:06:25):
Would be death?

Speaker 10 (02:06:27):
And the clocks struck twelve for.

Speaker 8 (02:06:31):
Murder me.

Speaker 40 (02:06:34):
I remember to be with us again when death knocked

(02:06:55):
in the door, wearing a familiar face, and the clocks.

Speaker 8 (02:06:59):
Strike well for murder.

Speaker 12 (02:07:04):
Me.

Speaker 6 (02:07:09):
The part of Georgia was played by Anne Shepherd, with
music by Charles Paul. Murder at Goodnight was directed by
Anton M.

Speaker 8 (02:07:18):
Leader.

Speaker 1 (02:08:02):
Well, my dear, it's awfully late now. I suppose you
should be heading home, and I should, well, I should
go back to wherever it is that I come from.
But please remember I'll be right here, same time, same
place as if there were a choice. Now you head home,

(02:08:30):
be safe. I do hope you'll visit me again, But
can you do me one small favor When you arrive
home and wash your face and say your prayers. Well
before you lay thee down to sleep, take one moment

(02:08:53):
and be thankful for what you have, and I'll be
sealing you.

Speaker 31 (02:09:00):
Lordy Emily, come along with me.

Speaker 7 (02:09:02):
In my family, that's your favors.

Speaker 31 (02:09:04):
When the dracome like into fall.

Speaker 27 (02:09:08):
Into coma, coma, come again.

Speaker 13 (02:09:13):
The wrong bringing.

Speaker 38 (02:09:20):
Mumbling, think of Breakrant

Speaker 6 (02:09:25):
For you

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