February 28, 2026 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
BS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome, I meet g Marshall. We are a nest of
singing birds, said mister Samuel Johnson.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
True, and probably all of.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Our chatter and clamor means no more than the scolding
of magpies, the rasping of ravens, and the jabbering of jays.
And whether our voices speak in the limpid melodies of
the nightingale or the horse croaking of the crow, a
little matters. All is soon swiftly borne away and lost
in the wind.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Creger, I accuse you, idiots, car while a murder.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Don't stop the car, Rodriguez. I want to listen to
this ad. Tata you, mister Carlyle, a murderer, and you,
my friend, belong in an asylum.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I warn you, mister Carlyle, change your ways or once
or tomorrow morning may find you in another world.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Our mystery drama Neatness Counts was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Joan Shay and
Ralph Bell. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and Contact the twelve hour Cold Capsule. I'll be
back shortly with Act one. Those who are merely rich
(01:57):
seem to have fallen by the wayside. Today only the
fabulously rich can maintain magnificent mansions, staffed, it would appear,
by an unlimited number of domestics. Yes, there are quite
a few people with money, but how many live?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
As if this were still a gilded age, when.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The men who gouged and hacked out their fortunes really
enjoyed their wealth and considered themselves an elite and didn't
feel ashamed of their riches. One such we're about to meet,
and his name is Aneas Carlyle. And what an unreconstructed
old sinner he is.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You wish to see me this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sir? Yes, missus fosse. Now what is that compounded noise outside?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Oh that, sir, I didn't wish to disturb you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, woman, what is it? My name is not woman,
I know what your name is. What's that noise it?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well, it seems someone is picketing the house, ekitting about what.
I believe it's the Colby's petrols.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What the juice are the Colby's petrels?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They're birds, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What have I got to do with them?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Will? It seems, sir that you are killing them, am
I yes, sir, it seems you are destroying their grounds.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
They're grounds, yes.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Sir, they're mating and nesting grounds.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
All this is news to me.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You see, mister Carlyle, up in Stuart's Islands.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What about Stuart's islen?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Will, sir?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You own it? Yes? I know I own it.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
You are conducting tests there. I think it's a chemical
reduction process. And there are.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Fume fumes, fumes, what kind of fumes?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Noxious fumes?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I've been there. You can't smell a thing.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I know that human beings can't smell the fumes. But
it seems they poison the birds. The birds just call
these petrels Biologically. Somehow the fumes and the accompanying vapor
which settles down on the habitat I believe they call it,
get to the points. Somehow it causes sterility that is
(03:59):
among the cold these petrels.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And that's why that idiot out there is all excited.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I believe so, yes, sir, it is Carlisle.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I accuse your murder the more senis and creatures. Who
has murder up close up window quite long, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
The cold of these petrel is.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
An endangered species meaning.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
What meaning nothing?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now? What did I want to see you about? Oh? Yes, yes,
I don't like the flower beds around the sides of
the house, sir.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's difficult to to to what to maintain flowers in
the city.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It is, yes, sir, But with.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
The sorts and the grind, the dust laden atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Those flowers have no life, no color. They're sorry, excuse
for blossoms. I want you to fire Judson.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Fire Judson.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He's the gardener. It's just w But he's an old man, sir,
which probably can'ts for it is no longer fit to
do a day's work.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
But Sir, Judson grew old in your service.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He's been paid for it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
He's only been getting He's been.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Getting what he's worth, and had he been able to
earn more elsewhere, he'd have gone there.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
You'll letting him.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Go, sir?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Well, does that mean you intend to pension him off?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why on earth should I do that?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
So he's worked here for almost fifty years, starting in
your father's time.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Was an agreement ever made that he would receive a pension?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, but it was understood understood by home.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
The man has very little money.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
He should have developed the habit of frift in.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
His family, Sir, to have been some very long and
expensive illness. He sent three children through college.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Let him go live with one of them.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I'm sure he's too proud.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Why are we having this discussion, missus.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Parson, because you just asked me to fire.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Judge Yes, and on that subject, why has it become
necessary for me to ask?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yes? Why your housekeeper here? You're in charge of all
the help. When you see that someone's work is no
longer up the snuff, it's your duty to terminate his
or her employment. Is it not well? And therefore, had
you been performing your own job satisfactorily, you would have
fired justson long ago?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Are you saying you're dissatisfied with my word?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Let me tell you something, woman, I've never sat you
twice called me woman? Damn it. I'll thank you not
to interrupted.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I'll thank you so not to use profanity in my friend.
I'll talk anyway I please, And if you don't like it,
you can quit very well.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Hi, quit. It is proper to give two weeks notice.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
This is the tenth day of the month. I shall
leave your employ on the twenty fourth. Is there anything
else mister Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, I must leave for the office. Is Rodriguez out
front of the car, Yes, sir, that'll be all certain.
Why you need me a car?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Isle?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
A murder? Now? Look here, young man, what a sort
of nonsense says this?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But there the destruction of an entire species?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
And you call it nonsense?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And don't start the car from moment, Rodriguez, I want
to talk to this agitator.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Agitator?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is that what you call me is what you are? Anjo?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Murder is being diader?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Who's being murdered? The Colby's petrol? You're talking about a bird.
It is created by God. Now it has its place
in the scheme and thing? What place? What good does
your Colby's petrol do?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It lives, it flies, it has its own way.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I understand that, But of what use is it? It
doesn't have to be of any use. What I am
doing on Stuart Island is of use to people. It
will save energy, it will lower the price of building materials.
People will have more better houses, and.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You will fill your pockets with gold.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You don't expect me to do it for nothing? Do
you own?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You must not have the awful power to sacrifice and
then this some creature. You just can't wipe out a
living creature because because it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Gets in your ways, the way of the world, then
it's the wrong way and something has to be done
about it. Why don't you get a job and earn
an honest living. Oh, maybe I have to take matters
in a way on it becomes somebody.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, become somebody by stopping this vicious, an obscene flaid.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, let us be on our way, robber, he gas.
Let it start with me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Let it begin with a Colby's petrol loot, This tiny
obscure bird.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Become the turning point.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I warn you, mister Carlyle, change your way.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I warn you, young fella, There's a difference between free
speech and making a public nuisance of yourself. Don't let
tomorrow find you here. Understand, For all your wealth and.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Power and influence, tomorrow may not.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Find you here either. Is that the fact the Colby's
petrol a rag, a little wisp of a bird.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But maybe he has friends who are more loving, more devoted,
and more daring than any of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Eh now's mister Bowers, Mister John Jacob Bows, eh he
doesn't need an appointment. Send him in. Well, well, the
early bird gets the worm. Where were you, mister John
Jacob Bowers the day the teacher taught that in school
playing hockey? Pity? Well, JJ, come in, Come in, have
(09:31):
a chair, Hold on is segam You know I don't smoke.
That's right, you don't I drink. I don't drink either.
You have absolutely no vices. What do you do with
all your time? Anyhow? I try to enjoy life in
is Why do you have to try? I do it
without any effort? Whatsoever? You don't enjoy life at all?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I have no appreciation of our literature, music. I enjoy
making money. That's the difference between us. Well, I'll tell
you another difference between us. I'm not in your office
with my hat in my hand.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I haven't come here to bag.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What have you come here for to see? If we
could have a reasonable discussion? Have you ever found me unreasonable?
You'll drive a hard bargain. It takes two to make
a bargain. If one party doesn't like it, why doesn't
he go elsewhere? And is your options fall duo? In
the thirtieth Yes, I have that noted on my calendar.
(10:32):
Bowers to deliver ten thousand shares of amalgamated at forty. Yes,
I know, I don't, So what is the problem? You
know full well what the problem is? Amalgamated selling at
nineteen and you have to go out and buy ten
thousand shares of it. Let's stock had no business going up, Ah,
but it did because it has been manipulated exploited. Now
(10:54):
the value isn't there, and you know it, that stock
is going to plummet down through the floor. If it
does that before the thirtieth you'll do very well in DEEDJJ.
But it won't. I know it won't. I decry to
know that you and then the whole syndicate would go
in there and inflate the price. That's the way of
the world, my friends, your world. Maybe nobody asked you
(11:17):
to come and play in it. What are you complaining about, JJ?
You gambled and lost, but the game was fixed. What's
your complaints? You'll have to buy your ten thousand at
ninety and deliver it at forty. You only stand and
lose half a minute? What's that to a man in
your position?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You AH know my position very well.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Oh, now, don't plead poverty. I simply can't raise that
much money all at once.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
If you want to ruin.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Me, I can. I have a right to, but I
don't want to. Still, you're going to do it the option.
I could tear it up right now, but you won't.
I might. You know that painting of yours?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I will never sell it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I want it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Why do you want it?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I like it? Let me have it and you're out
from under. But it isn't worth half million dollar, I know,
but I like it. It's valuable, it's it's okaine, but it'll
never be worth half a million. I like it. I
swore I would never let it go. Then I shall
expect you to deliver ten thousand shares of amalgamated on
(12:31):
the thirtieth. Incidentally, A buy some now it's going up
even more. My wife will never speak to me again
if I sell that portrait. You are not selling it,
You're giving it away. Why why are you doing this?
I am a rich man. I can afford to indulge
my whims, my fancies. What's the point in having money
(12:52):
if you can't enjoy it. Has it ever occurred to
you that your enjoyment is based on someone else's misery? Oh? Yeah,
quite often shall we draw up the papers, I will
release you from your obligation, and you shall present me
with the Aurora by Duquine. Well we both win. You've learned
(13:15):
a lesson on how not to sell short, and I've
been enriched by a great work of art there or
something in this.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
One day, somebody is going to put a stuff to you.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Really, you know something, my friend, that doesn't bother me
one bit.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And it doesn't because you get so many threats here
just in one morning alone. He has callously tossed a
faithful old retainer into the street. He has provoked an
extremely valuable housekeeper in a quitting her job. He has
infuriated a highly idealistic young man and tightened the screws
on a business associate. You must admit he has ruffled
(14:01):
a great many feathers. The question is will any of
these chickens come home to roost? I'll continue shortly for
that too. There are those people who have the gift,
(14:25):
or is it truly a gift, to live for themselves alone,
To place themselves in the center of the universe, to
respond to no one's needs but theirs, To constantly sing
a song that has but one note me.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
To be oblivious to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And unconscious of any one else's hope or want unless
it can serve their own purpose. Yes, all of us
are born alone and must die alone. But these are
people who choose to live alone.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Do you have your market list, Joanna? It's here somewhere now, Really, Joanna,
you must learn to be more efficient?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Why look at you, Harriet? Could any human being be more.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Efficient than you? And where did he get you?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I have to go over your bills while you're a.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Fool to quit your job over an old reprobate like
Jadson the gardener.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
That isn't the point.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well what are you going to do? Now?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Get another job?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
How many jobs like this do you think are left
in the world?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, come on, why.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Don't you talk with mister Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
He needs you, he doesn't need anybody.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Look, he'll want to go through the time and trouble
to break in a new housekeeper and all.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
So why do I could talk to him?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But I won't?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You won't.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You could get your job back?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I don't get it.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Tell me why?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Well, it's intensely personal, Joanna, and completely private. Oh yeah,
I've known mister Carlyle for twenty years. Hey, has it
been that long?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Sure, we came here the same week.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I knew he was a man who drove a hard bargain.
I knew he was street and demanding, But until this morning,
I never knew he was cruel. And the one thing
I cannot live with is cruelty. I can't accept that
in a man.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
So what's the man's personality to you? After all, you're
his housekeeper, you're not his wife. Oh oh, I see,
I see it all.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Now what do you see? You're in love with him?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh that's ridiculous. Sure, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
It's crazy, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It is true, isn't he? Oh you poor kid?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I am not a kid. I'm forty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Everybody who's in love is a kid. The whole thing
is a business for kids. Where do you come off
to be in love with aneas Carlyle?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh that's a stupid question, I read.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Well, when did it begin the.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Day I came to work here? Oh, you shall kept
it to yourself. I had no business falling in love
with him. Why would he even want to look at
me that way? Oh? Do you know, Johanna, I had
a dream. I still haven't. I do everything so well.
(17:32):
I take care of his house so expertly. I guess
that's the word.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well, it sure is, because you're sure you.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And in my dream? Huh listened? How foolish a woman
can be. I suddenly one day, when we're talking about anything,
some routine housekeeping matter, do you follow me? I might
even be ahead of you. For instance, I might be
saying that, mister Carlyle, we will have to spend a
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hundred and sixty dollars for a new vacuum cleaner. Will
get in a good part, will you? And suddenly he
you look at me, and you'll say, Harriet for the
first time, you say Harriet, Harriet, I love you. It
will suddenly have occurred to him. Oh some dream O,
(18:27):
her crazier dreams have come true. Can't you imagine him
falling in love with me?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I'm sure it makes say of how well you're the
kind of woman he wants.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Oh, these society built.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
They never had any attraction for him.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
How do you know why they've been after him all
his life?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Did he ever go for any No, you're the kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Girl he wants.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Well, I don't want him now, you don't know, not
when I realize he has this streak of cruelty.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Well, I heard that fight ahead with him.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Do you know why why you yelled at each other
like that?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
What are you trying to say with it? It was
the way you make love?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You're crazy?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Were you always having those arguments because you're a woman?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Why because he's arrogance insensitive?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:16):
No, because it gets a rise out of you.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
You're both so frustrated with you. You don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
You just can't admit he's in love with you, and
you don't have the courage to tell him you're in.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Love with him.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
This morning you just got out of.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Control, that's all.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Now, Look, Harry, look tonight, tonight you you talk to him.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Let him talk to me. But he can't. Oh yet,
he's a man without fear when it comes to rule
in the world.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Maybe what so many guys like him? They're just so
scared of women.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Will you believe it?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Now?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You talk to him to night, you see you see
I'm right? Oh, Oh, he'll be so happy. You'll just
take you in it all.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
No, No, it's crazy, crazy, Masia.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Do you want Nias Carlyle to destroy me? It is
just a painting, is it, JJ?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Is it just a painting?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, it's colors on canvas and that's all. Oh, he's
giving me a way out.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Who told you to gamble in the market?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Nobody, nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I was wrong. But that doesn't solve our.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Problem, your problem, JJ.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
If I have to liquidate now, I'll lose a fortune.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I will not give up the painting.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Please, Musha, is it possible you don't understand.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I understand more than you think. A Nia's Carlyle hates you.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Hates you for the same reason his father hated your father,
because your family always looked down on his as Auga Common,
New rich That.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Was fifty years ago. Now you think something like that
still bothers a man like Ania's Carlyle.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Something like that is the only thing that can bother
a man like Anias Carlyle. That painting is a family heirroom.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Would you rather we went broke? Yes? Do you know
what you're saying?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
I'm making a choice. If you have to deliver the stock,
we'll go broke. If you deliver the painting.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
You'll destroy our marriage.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I say, give him the stock.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Marsha, darling.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
You can't call me Marsha darling.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
If you give away the.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Painting, you are being unreasonable.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
That is how you will destroy our marriage. We will
no longer see the world.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
The same way, appreciate the same.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Things, agree on what's.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Important, Marsha, I don't know what there is to discuss.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Hey, look who's here? Oh, Papa, So do you get
a job?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, I want to question a job.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I see you still got that sign the Colby's Petrol,
Save the Colby's petrol.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Look, Papa, what does the Cooby's petrol ever do for you?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I bust my back. Send you through college for what?
For the birds? That's for what, Papa. I'm trying to eat,
even American birds. I figured you wanted to make something
by yourself. Become a somebody.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I will, I will become a somebody.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh you kidding?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Hector paulisar Junior.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I figured my kid could do something with that name.
Oh I will, Papa, Oh I will. Sure you become
a nut. Understand a nut? A creep. I have to
save the world. This is worse than I thought. No, no, no,
I'm not crazy. I know I can't single handedly save
the world. For a moment, you had me worried.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But I can take the first step, Papa. I could
be an example. I can inspire others to do. What
do stand up and be counted.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
We got a census Bureau does that every ten years, Papa, Papa,
you want me to be somebody? Huh? Well, do you
just wait for? What something I have to do tonight? Papa?
What's that?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Tomorrow morning?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The whole world will know about it. Hey, Hard, can
I come in?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Is something wrong, Joanna?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Well, I've just got mister Carlyle a cup of tea.
At this hour, he rade in the kitchen, Dott he
had already gone to bed, so I went myself.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Harriet.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
He's sitting there and he's cleaning his vow.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Do you know why?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Maybe it's thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh, this is no time for jokes.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Look a man gets into his fifties, he's never married.
You can never tell what can set him off. Now, Harry,
then you listen, Then you listen, you go to him.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Let me alone. No, if I go to see that man,
it will be the same as giving up every bit
of my pride.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Oh what good is pride?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
What good is it? I don't know, but it's the
only thing I have left in the world. It's the
only thing I can call my own. I can't lose it.
I can't, all right, But you say you love him,
Maybe that's an illusion.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well why don't you find out?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Go to please Joanna let me alone?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I will, But do you think about it?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Sometimes you'll have to seize the moment, otherwise it'll be
gone forever. Mister Carlyle, Yes, I know it's late, but
I saw the light from underneath the door of your study,
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and I well.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
What is it, missus Porson.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I if I might speak with you?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
We're speaking?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Oh this this morning? Yes, this morning? A great deal
was said in the heat of anger.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Indeed, well, you were wondering if we could reconsider the matter.
Will I answer, Missus Parson is no, under no conditions
or any circumstances. Is that what you wish to talk about?
If so, the discussion is over?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I don't think so. Look at me. I come crawling
in here on my hands and knees. I discard every
ounce of pride and self respect.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
No one forced you too, Do you know why? No?
And I don't believe I would be interested.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
What a fool. I want for twenty years, I've been
in love with you?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And I permitted myself to dream that you were in
love with me?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That was remarkably stupid on your part.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Is fair?
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Oh you can say.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
To me, no, I can say good night, missus Porson.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I've stripped myself there.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I've cried out to you in pain, and don't missus Porson.
If I were interested in listening to melodrama, which I'm not,
I would go into the theater.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
I am not asking you to do anything, all right,
I was a fool. I realize I can't work here anymore.
But isn't there one kind word you can give me?
Isn't there even an ounce of pity in you? Does
nothing reach you, does nothing touch your heart?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Nothing within your power?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh but you're wrong. There is there is right here.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Put that revolver down.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Now, I can touch your heart.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Put it down. You're a fool.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Won't move.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It won't help you, you moron. Look what you made
me do.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
A tear could help you, you idiots.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
You made me turn a over the spare a tear.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
If only you could shed the tears.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You make me spill water all over these papers.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Show me that you can shed a tear and I'll
spare your life.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You're crazy, you see it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You read your death in my eyes. Please save yourself.
Shed a tear, a single tear. You can't very well?
Let me touch your heart this way.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He who shows a woman's scorn may wish he never
had been born. And who will argue with the poet
on that one? A sympathetic character. Mister Eneas Cardisle may
not have been lovable, he.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Certainly never was.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
But did he really deserve the end fate had ordained
for him? Well, this is a judgment that I leave
for others to make. All I can do is return
here with Act three, at which time justice either will
or will not triumph.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
One thing should be obvious to everyone.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Death is the greatest democrat of all that is democrat
with a small d. Death has absolutely no prejudices, nor
does he or she play any favorites, even with the
Eneas Carlyles. Yes, Aeneus Carlyle has held the world, as
they say, in fear and trembling. And yet when his
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time came, death took him by the hand, just like
everyone else. I suppose that was a thing he found
hardest to accept. However, since he is gone, we are
no longer concerned with him. We must now consider the living.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Wakeup, Callia's dead. He's here.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I was going downstairs. I'm just start with first. I
passed by the study. The door was open. I could
see him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
His head was on the desk and he was dead.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
He was wearing his smoking jacket, and right over his
heart there was this big red stain.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
What was blood?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Harriet? What are we going to do?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Why?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
There's only one thing we can do.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Call the police. I'm Lieutenant Bienzo Homicide. Yes, lieutenant, you're
the housekeeper, Missus Paulson, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I'll lead your help. Now. Who found the body? I did?
Who were you?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Two hundred styles and the cooker?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
All right? Tell me about it.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Well, it was six in the morning. I was walking
past the study on my way to the kitchen, and
I saw him laying there.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Did you touch anything? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No, sir, you sure, Oh, absolutely sure, I know better
than that. Did you see or hear anything during the night,
did you, Missus Porson?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
No, sir, do either of you.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Know anyone who might have had a motive for killing him? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, sir, how about you, missus Polson, No, sir, a
shot was fired in this room and nobody in the
rest of the house.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Verdi Well, lieutenant, you see the carpet here is quite sick,
and the walls are heavy. The room is practically sound proof.
That's how mister Carlyle wanted it for his privacy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
So neither of you knows anyone who might have had
a motive for killing him. Oh how about you, missus Polson?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Will I'm sure a man in mister Carlyle's position must
have made enemies, but those would all be in the
outside world.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Nobody here in this inside world.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Huh No, not that I know of.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Jerry, roll up.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The rest of the servants. That's all right right now, missus. Yes,
missus Paulson, would.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You stick around for a minute. I want to ask
you a question.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yes, sir, we haven't had a chance to put it
through ballistics yet, but this gun that was lying on
the desk, this is the baby that did it, this
little twenty five caliber. Do you understand, Yes, sir, it's
already been dusted for prints, but there are none.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Do you know what that means?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Well, it could mean they were wiped off.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Right, So it also means it couldn't have been suicide. Furthermore,
if the wound was self inflicted, there'd have been powder burns.
There aren't any.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Do you follow all of this? I believe, so why
are you so nervous?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
But I don't think I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh I think I know why. It's because I'm smoking
a cigarette. You're scared I'll get ashes on this valuable
persian rug. Well, or maybe I'll set the butt down
on this expensive table.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I didn't say that, not in words.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I can see you keep this place like a pin.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
That's what my job was. Well, now that mister Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is dead, yeah, well you really kept the place neat.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I want to ask you a question, that is, if
I'm ay, well, certainly, is there a leak in the ceiling?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Oh? Well no, not that I know of.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I thought so, doesn't look like there's any dripping from
up there.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
But tell you what my problem.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Is, Everything on this desk is nice and neat. He's
got some papers lying there, and those papers.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Are wet, wet, Yeah, they're wet.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So what I want to know is how did those
papers get wet? You can see they're wet, can't you?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yes? Now, how did that happen?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And his sleeve you could see the stain on his sleeve,
his left sleeve around the elbow, that was wet too, Yes,
do you have any idea how that sleeve could have
gotten wet?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I'm afraid? What?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Oh? Excuse me? Yeah, Jack, bring him right in?
Speaker 5 (33:04):
What I didn't do it?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
You didn't? Uh? No, sir, I am innocent.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
You weren't ticketing the house, so yes I was. But
you didn't have a pretty good argument with him yesterday morning?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yes I did. You didn't threaten to kill him? No?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
No, I did.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
You did not say to him tomorrow morning? You may
not be here.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Why I may have said that witness has heard you
say that. But it doesn't mean I intended to kill him.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
It means, well, maybe a higher power would intervene to
save the Kolby's petrol.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Were you here last night? Well? What's the answer?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, Now, outside the window over there are some footprints shoeprints.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Would they happen to be yours? Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
But but but what I didn't kill him?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Then? Why did you come here?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I wanted to kill him.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yes, I was determined to kill him.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And I sneaked over the wall and I came around
to the rear of the house looking for an open window.
I saw a light and I peeked in and there
he was, were sitting at his desk. Suddenly, I said
to myself, what am I doing here?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Kill him? How with what? I don't know anything about? Killing?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Isn't that what I hold against him?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
That he's a killer?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I walked away and just walked away, and I went home. Here, yeah, Jack,
take him downtown and book him as a material witness.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Stick to that story, Kid and Lucie, how it comes.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But then Areenzo? Yeah? Is that so? Well? Sure? Sure,
bring him down here.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I'll tell you, missus Paulson it it never rains, but
it pours.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We got ourselves another.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Prime suspect, mister Bowers.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Isn't it true that.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You owed mister Carlisle a large sum of money? Technically no, well,
I'll put it this way. Wouldn't you have to raise
a large sum of money to satisfy an obligation to
mister Carlyle you're talking about amalgamated, Well, you'd have to
sell him ten thousand shares at forty Well, yes, the
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stock opened this morning at ninety that this is only eleven.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You don't have to make delivery until the thirtieth. Now
the stock could fall in.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That time fifty points in nineteen days.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is that likely? Where were you last night? At home?
Home all night? Yes, at about three in the morning.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Were you in an all night nerve called chippies?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Huh uh?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, let me see.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I thought you said you were home all night. Yes, yes,
the night, but three am technically is the morning. Wouldn't
you say you can have any what you want.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Were you in chippies? Now, let me help refresh your memory,
that is, if you want me to.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
You see, we've.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Had men out all through the neighborhood looking for witnesses.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Chippy told one of.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
My detectives that long, about three am, a very nervous
looking fellow came into his place, A fellow answering your description. Oh,
fellow was so nervous he spilled half his coffee. All right,
you were here, and I was in the neighborhood and
you were in I said, I was in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Why you know? Why do I But didn't you just
tell me he had me over a barrel, and let
me tell you something. I know. I don't have to
say a word. The detective who called on me read
me my rights, but I don't care. It was worse
than you think. Well now, no, yes, he was forcing
me to do something that would have broken up my marriage.
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He had offered me a way out that the came painting.
What's that?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
But I should have killed him? Should do? Yes, I
should have, and I was going to and I even
got a gun. My wife was asleep.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I sneaked out of the house.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I came down here when I was shaking all over
the thought of what I had to do, and I
needed a drink, but all the bars were closed. So
I went into that diner for a cup of coffee,
and it couldn't help. It kept getting worse. It's probably
why the fellow behind the counter noticed me. I was
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shaking so badly. He said, got a problem back? But
what could I tell him?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That I was frightening out at my wits, that I
couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
But I just couldn't commit murder. So I went back home. Yeah, well,
we'll have to take you downtown or I understand. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
No, no, don't they pleased? I didn't kill him, but
I wanted to. I should have, And so I really
don't care. Eddie vital Tenant, you care after a while,
I've seen it. It wears off, you know something, missus Pelson.
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What I've got here is what the man called an
embarrassment of riches.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Well, in the average case, it's all you can do
to get one suspect lined up. I've got two, wouldn't
you say, well, yes.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Either one of them could have done it. Which one
do you think is guilty? And I couldn't say each
has the motive, the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
We got both of them at the scene of the crime,
at just about the time of the murder. I think
they'll go for.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
The kid and mister pullis.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, it's not right, it isn't fair, but well that's
how it goes. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Ugh?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
No, he's a scruffy, wild eyed kid.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
He's got long hair.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Oh, so many nice young men have long hair these days.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, but on him, the dollar is so good. Now.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
A smart lawyer will build up the kid's instability maybe
prove insanity. No, one way or another, the kid won't
get hit too badly. But it's a shame he shouldn't
get hit at all.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You know why? No, because the kid didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Oh are you saying mister Bowers killed mister Carlyle Bowers?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Bowers was angry enough, but to see it must have
occurred to him. He really had nothing to gain. Killing
Carlyle would not have relieved him of his obligation to
deliver the stock.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
He would still owe it to the estate. M I
don't think he did it?
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Well, who did.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
You mean? You don't know, missus Polson? Why you did me?
I think I knew it the minute I walked into
the room. I know it bothered me. The papers on
his desk, the papers, they were wet. Now, how could
they get wet?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Where did the water come from? There was only one source.
There was water in the vase on his desk that
held the flowers.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
But how could the water get from the vase to
the desk? You know how?
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Don't you know what you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You came in here, you picked up the gun. He
stood up to try to defend himself. He must have
knocked over the vase. Am I right, well, you shot him,
and then, because you're an expert housekeeper, the habits of
a lifetime took over. You probably weren't even aware of it,
but you had to tidy things up. You knew he
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had to wipe the fingerprints off the gun, but I'm
sure you didn't realize that. You picked up the vase
and set it straight.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Am I right well, missus Paulson.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
You you you can't prove it.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Of course I can't prove it, but you're an honest woman.
You know you can't let one or the other of
them pay for a murder that belongs to you.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
You know that, don't you.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I I, missus Paulson, you know you won't be able
to live with it.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Sooner or later, you'll tell me what happened. Tell me now, all.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Right, Lieutenant, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
And she told him.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
You know exactly what she told him, because you were
there when it happened and you heard every word of it.
When she told it to the jury, they almost burst
into tears, and the judge gave her the lightest sentence
within his power. Maybe justice was done, after all. You
can't fool around with love.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Who killed Aneath Carlyle Hector Paulissard wanted to John Jacob
Bowers would have liked to. Harriet Paulson actually picked up
a gun and fired the fatal shot. But you know
who triggered the whole business, Joanna Styles to cook it.
You see, Harriet Paulsen lived with a fantasy and there
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was enough for her, but Joanna urged her to try
to make that fantasy come true.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Let this be a lesson to all of us.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Let sleeping dogs lie or never awaken a dreamer. Oar
cast included Joan Shay, Ralph bell E, v Jester, Earl
Hammond and Robert Maxwell. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our
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next tale. Please have a look around before we go
in Methan, just be a second.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Or two.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Where on earth these birds come from?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
You don't like you crazy creatures, But the Night and
Ashy have birds, hundreds of them. A takes like small
knives where actually size bombing right after as if they
didn't want me in mass they got.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
A boy eyes out. I don't hear any of them anymore.
Conn As suddenly as it came, What kind of birds, Matthew?
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Well, they look like those small birds on some of
our Mayan artifacts.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Must we go in there?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Well? I don't see why not, because.
Speaker 7 (43:56):
The idea of hundreds of birds in the cave, this
part it ground bothers me. I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
And why would they want to attack you?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, there's only one way we'll ever find an explanation.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Now, you coming with me? Or am I going in
there alone? Missus e g.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
In the macabre.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Until next time, pleasant
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome, I meet g Marshall. We are a nest of
singing birds, said mister Samuel Johnson.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
True, and probably all of.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Our chatter and clamor means no more than the scolding
of magpies, the rasping of ravens, and the jabbering of jays.
And whether our voices speak in the limpid melodies of
the nightingale or the horse croaking of the crow, a
little matters. All is soon swiftly borne away and lost
in the wind.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Creger, I accuse you, idiots, car while a murder.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Don't stop the car, Rodriguez. I want to listen to
this ad. Tata you, mister Carlyle, a murderer, and you,
my friend, belong in an asylum.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I warn you, mister Carlyle, change your ways or once
or tomorrow morning may find you in another world.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Our mystery drama Neatness Counts was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Joan Shay and
Ralph Bell. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and Contact the twelve hour Cold Capsule. I'll be
back shortly with Act one. Those who are merely rich
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seem to have fallen by the wayside. Today only the
fabulously rich can maintain magnificent mansions, staffed, it would appear,
by an unlimited number of domestics. Yes, there are quite
a few people with money, but how many live?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
As if this were still a gilded age, when.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The men who gouged and hacked out their fortunes really
enjoyed their wealth and considered themselves an elite and didn't
feel ashamed of their riches. One such we're about to meet,
and his name is Aneas Carlyle. And what an unreconstructed
old sinner he is.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You wish to see me this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sir? Yes, missus fosse. Now what is that compounded noise outside?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Oh that, sir, I didn't wish to disturb you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, woman, what is it? My name is not woman,
I know what your name is. What's that noise it?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well, it seems someone is picketing the house, ekitting about what.
I believe it's the Colby's petrols.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What the juice are the Colby's petrels?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They're birds, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What have I got to do with them?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Will? It seems, sir that you are killing them, am
I yes, sir, it seems you are destroying their grounds.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
They're grounds, yes.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Sir, they're mating and nesting grounds.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
All this is news to me.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You see, mister Carlyle, up in Stuart's Islands.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What about Stuart's islen?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Will, sir?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You own it? Yes? I know I own it.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
You are conducting tests there. I think it's a chemical
reduction process. And there are.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Fume fumes, fumes, what kind of fumes?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Noxious fumes?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I've been there. You can't smell a thing.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I know that human beings can't smell the fumes. But
it seems they poison the birds. The birds just call
these petrels Biologically. Somehow the fumes and the accompanying vapor
which settles down on the habitat I believe they call it,
get to the points. Somehow it causes sterility that is
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among the cold these petrels.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And that's why that idiot out there is all excited.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I believe so, yes, sir, it is Carlisle.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I accuse your murder the more senis and creatures. Who
has murder up close up window quite long, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
The cold of these petrel is.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
An endangered species meaning.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
What meaning nothing?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now? What did I want to see you about? Oh? Yes, yes,
I don't like the flower beds around the sides of
the house, sir.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's difficult to to to what to maintain flowers in
the city.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It is, yes, sir, But with.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
The sorts and the grind, the dust laden atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Those flowers have no life, no color. They're sorry, excuse
for blossoms. I want you to fire Judson.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Fire Judson.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He's the gardener. It's just w But he's an old man, sir,
which probably can'ts for it is no longer fit to
do a day's work.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
But Sir, Judson grew old in your service.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He's been paid for it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
He's only been getting He's been.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Getting what he's worth, and had he been able to
earn more elsewhere, he'd have gone there.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
You'll letting him.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Go, sir?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Well, does that mean you intend to pension him off?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why on earth should I do that?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
So he's worked here for almost fifty years, starting in
your father's time.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Was an agreement ever made that he would receive a pension?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, but it was understood understood by home.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
The man has very little money.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
He should have developed the habit of frift in.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
His family, Sir, to have been some very long and
expensive illness. He sent three children through college.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Let him go live with one of them.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I'm sure he's too proud.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Why are we having this discussion, missus.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Parson, because you just asked me to fire.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Judge Yes, and on that subject, why has it become
necessary for me to ask?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yes? Why your housekeeper here? You're in charge of all
the help. When you see that someone's work is no
longer up the snuff, it's your duty to terminate his
or her employment. Is it not well? And therefore, had
you been performing your own job satisfactorily, you would have
fired justson long ago?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Are you saying you're dissatisfied with my word?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Let me tell you something, woman, I've never sat you
twice called me woman? Damn it. I'll thank you not
to interrupted.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I'll thank you so not to use profanity in my friend.
I'll talk anyway I please, And if you don't like it,
you can quit very well.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Hi, quit. It is proper to give two weeks notice.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
This is the tenth day of the month. I shall
leave your employ on the twenty fourth. Is there anything
else mister Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, I must leave for the office. Is Rodriguez out
front of the car, Yes, sir, that'll be all certain.
Why you need me a car?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Isle?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
A murder? Now? Look here, young man, what a sort
of nonsense says this?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But there the destruction of an entire species?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
And you call it nonsense?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And don't start the car from moment, Rodriguez, I want
to talk to this agitator.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Agitator?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is that what you call me is what you are? Anjo?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Murder is being diader?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Who's being murdered? The Colby's petrol? You're talking about a bird.
It is created by God. Now it has its place
in the scheme and thing? What place? What good does
your Colby's petrol do?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It lives, it flies, it has its own way.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I understand that, But of what use is it? It
doesn't have to be of any use. What I am
doing on Stuart Island is of use to people. It
will save energy, it will lower the price of building materials.
People will have more better houses, and.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You will fill your pockets with gold.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You don't expect me to do it for nothing? Do
you own?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You must not have the awful power to sacrifice and
then this some creature. You just can't wipe out a
living creature because because it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Gets in your ways, the way of the world, then
it's the wrong way and something has to be done
about it. Why don't you get a job and earn
an honest living. Oh, maybe I have to take matters
in a way on it becomes somebody.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, become somebody by stopping this vicious, an obscene flaid.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, let us be on our way, robber, he gas.
Let it start with me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Let it begin with a Colby's petrol loot, This tiny
obscure bird.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Become the turning point.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I warn you, mister Carlyle, change your way.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I warn you, young fella, There's a difference between free
speech and making a public nuisance of yourself. Don't let
tomorrow find you here. Understand, For all your wealth and.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Power and influence, tomorrow may not.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Find you here either. Is that the fact the Colby's
petrol a rag, a little wisp of a bird.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But maybe he has friends who are more loving, more devoted,
and more daring than any of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Eh now's mister Bowers, Mister John Jacob Bows, eh he
doesn't need an appointment. Send him in. Well, well, the
early bird gets the worm. Where were you, mister John
Jacob Bowers the day the teacher taught that in school
playing hockey? Pity? Well, JJ, come in, Come in, have
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a chair, Hold on is segam You know I don't smoke.
That's right, you don't I drink. I don't drink either.
You have absolutely no vices. What do you do with
all your time? Anyhow? I try to enjoy life in
is Why do you have to try? I do it
without any effort? Whatsoever? You don't enjoy life at all?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I have no appreciation of our literature, music. I enjoy
making money. That's the difference between us. Well, I'll tell
you another difference between us. I'm not in your office
with my hat in my hand.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I haven't come here to bag.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What have you come here for to see? If we
could have a reasonable discussion? Have you ever found me unreasonable?
You'll drive a hard bargain. It takes two to make
a bargain. If one party doesn't like it, why doesn't
he go elsewhere? And is your options fall duo? In
the thirtieth Yes, I have that noted on my calendar.
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Bowers to deliver ten thousand shares of amalgamated at forty. Yes,
I know, I don't, So what is the problem? You
know full well what the problem is? Amalgamated selling at
nineteen and you have to go out and buy ten
thousand shares of it. Let's stock had no business going up, Ah,
but it did because it has been manipulated exploited. Now
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the value isn't there, and you know it, that stock
is going to plummet down through the floor. If it
does that before the thirtieth you'll do very well in DEEDJJ.
But it won't. I know it won't. I decry to
know that you and then the whole syndicate would go
in there and inflate the price. That's the way of
the world, my friends, your world. Maybe nobody asked you
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to come and play in it. What are you complaining about, JJ?
You gambled and lost, but the game was fixed. What's
your complaints? You'll have to buy your ten thousand at
ninety and deliver it at forty. You only stand and
lose half a minute? What's that to a man in
your position?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You AH know my position very well.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Oh, now, don't plead poverty. I simply can't raise that
much money all at once.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
If you want to ruin.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Me, I can. I have a right to, but I
don't want to. Still, you're going to do it the option.
I could tear it up right now, but you won't.
I might. You know that painting of yours?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I will never sell it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I want it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Why do you want it?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I like it? Let me have it and you're out
from under. But it isn't worth half million dollar, I know,
but I like it. It's valuable, it's it's okaine, but it'll
never be worth half a million. I like it. I
swore I would never let it go. Then I shall
expect you to deliver ten thousand shares of amalgamated on
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the thirtieth. Incidentally, A buy some now it's going up
even more. My wife will never speak to me again
if I sell that portrait. You are not selling it,
You're giving it away. Why why are you doing this?
I am a rich man. I can afford to indulge
my whims, my fancies. What's the point in having money
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if you can't enjoy it. Has it ever occurred to
you that your enjoyment is based on someone else's misery? Oh? Yeah,
quite often shall we draw up the papers, I will
release you from your obligation, and you shall present me
with the Aurora by Duquine. Well we both win. You've learned
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a lesson on how not to sell short, and I've
been enriched by a great work of art there or
something in this.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
One day, somebody is going to put a stuff to you.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Really, you know something, my friend, that doesn't bother me
one bit.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And it doesn't because you get so many threats here
just in one morning alone. He has callously tossed a
faithful old retainer into the street. He has provoked an
extremely valuable housekeeper in a quitting her job. He has
infuriated a highly idealistic young man and tightened the screws
on a business associate. You must admit he has ruffled
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a great many feathers. The question is will any of
these chickens come home to roost? I'll continue shortly for
that too. There are those people who have the gift,
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or is it truly a gift, to live for themselves alone,
To place themselves in the center of the universe, to
respond to no one's needs but theirs, To constantly sing
a song that has but one note me.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
To be oblivious to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And unconscious of any one else's hope or want unless
it can serve their own purpose. Yes, all of us
are born alone and must die alone. But these are
people who choose to live alone.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Do you have your market list, Joanna? It's here somewhere now, Really, Joanna,
you must learn to be more efficient?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Why look at you, Harriet? Could any human being be more.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Efficient than you? And where did he get you?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I have to go over your bills while you're a.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Fool to quit your job over an old reprobate like
Jadson the gardener.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
That isn't the point.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well what are you going to do? Now?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Get another job?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
How many jobs like this do you think are left
in the world?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, come on, why.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Don't you talk with mister Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
He needs you, he doesn't need anybody.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Look, he'll want to go through the time and trouble
to break in a new housekeeper and all.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
So why do I could talk to him?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But I won't?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You won't.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You could get your job back?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I don't get it.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Tell me why?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Well, it's intensely personal, Joanna, and completely private. Oh yeah,
I've known mister Carlyle for twenty years. Hey, has it
been that long?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Sure, we came here the same week.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I knew he was a man who drove a hard bargain.
I knew he was street and demanding, But until this morning,
I never knew he was cruel. And the one thing
I cannot live with is cruelty. I can't accept that
in a man.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
So what's the man's personality to you? After all, you're
his housekeeper, you're not his wife. Oh oh, I see,
I see it all.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Now what do you see? You're in love with him?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh that's ridiculous. Sure, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
It's crazy, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It is true, isn't he? Oh you poor kid?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I am not a kid. I'm forty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Everybody who's in love is a kid. The whole thing
is a business for kids. Where do you come off
to be in love with aneas Carlyle?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh that's a stupid question, I read.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Well, when did it begin the.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Day I came to work here? Oh, you shall kept
it to yourself. I had no business falling in love
with him. Why would he even want to look at
me that way? Oh? Do you know, Johanna, I had
a dream. I still haven't. I do everything so well.
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I take care of his house so expertly. I guess
that's the word.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well, it sure is, because you're sure you.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And in my dream? Huh listened? How foolish a woman
can be. I suddenly one day, when we're talking about anything,
some routine housekeeping matter, do you follow me? I might
even be ahead of you. For instance, I might be
saying that, mister Carlyle, we will have to spend a
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hundred and sixty dollars for a new vacuum cleaner. Will
get in a good part, will you? And suddenly he
you look at me, and you'll say, Harriet for the
first time, you say Harriet, Harriet, I love you. It
will suddenly have occurred to him. Oh some dream O,
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her crazier dreams have come true. Can't you imagine him
falling in love with me?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I'm sure it makes say of how well you're the
kind of woman he wants.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Oh, these society built.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
They never had any attraction for him.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
How do you know why they've been after him all
his life?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Did he ever go for any No, you're the kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Girl he wants.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Well, I don't want him now, you don't know, not
when I realize he has this streak of cruelty.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Well, I heard that fight ahead with him.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Do you know why why you yelled at each other
like that?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
What are you trying to say with it? It was
the way you make love?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You're crazy?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Were you always having those arguments because you're a woman?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Why because he's arrogance insensitive?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:16):
No, because it gets a rise out of you.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
You're both so frustrated with you. You don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
You just can't admit he's in love with you, and
you don't have the courage to tell him you're in.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Love with him.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
This morning you just got out of.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Control, that's all.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Now, Look, Harry, look tonight, tonight you you talk to him.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Let him talk to me. But he can't. Oh yet,
he's a man without fear when it comes to rule
in the world.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Maybe what so many guys like him? They're just so
scared of women.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Will you believe it?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Now?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You talk to him to night, you see you see
I'm right? Oh, Oh, he'll be so happy. You'll just
take you in it all.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
No, No, it's crazy, crazy, Masia.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Do you want Nias Carlyle to destroy me? It is
just a painting, is it, JJ?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Is it just a painting?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, it's colors on canvas and that's all. Oh, he's
giving me a way out.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Who told you to gamble in the market?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Nobody, nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I was wrong. But that doesn't solve our.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Problem, your problem, JJ.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
If I have to liquidate now, I'll lose a fortune.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I will not give up the painting.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Please, Musha, is it possible you don't understand.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I understand more than you think. A Nia's Carlyle hates you.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Hates you for the same reason his father hated your father,
because your family always looked down on his as Auga Common,
New rich That.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Was fifty years ago. Now you think something like that
still bothers a man like Ania's Carlyle.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Something like that is the only thing that can bother
a man like Anias Carlyle. That painting is a family heirroom.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Would you rather we went broke? Yes? Do you know
what you're saying?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
I'm making a choice. If you have to deliver the stock,
we'll go broke. If you deliver the painting.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
You'll destroy our marriage.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I say, give him the stock.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Marsha, darling.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
You can't call me Marsha darling.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
If you give away the.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Painting, you are being unreasonable.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
That is how you will destroy our marriage. We will
no longer see the world.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
The same way, appreciate the same.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Things, agree on what's.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Important, Marsha, I don't know what there is to discuss.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Hey, look who's here? Oh, Papa, So do you get
a job?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, I want to question a job.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I see you still got that sign the Colby's Petrol,
Save the Colby's petrol.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Look, Papa, what does the Cooby's petrol ever do for you?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I bust my back. Send you through college for what?
For the birds? That's for what, Papa. I'm trying to eat,
even American birds. I figured you wanted to make something
by yourself. Become a somebody.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I will, I will become a somebody.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh you kidding?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Hector paulisar Junior.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I figured my kid could do something with that name.
Oh I will, Papa, Oh I will. Sure you become
a nut. Understand a nut? A creep. I have to
save the world. This is worse than I thought. No, no, no,
I'm not crazy. I know I can't single handedly save
the world. For a moment, you had me worried.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But I can take the first step, Papa. I could
be an example. I can inspire others to do. What
do stand up and be counted.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
We got a census Bureau does that every ten years, Papa, Papa,
you want me to be somebody? Huh? Well, do you
just wait for? What something I have to do tonight? Papa?
What's that?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Tomorrow morning?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The whole world will know about it. Hey, Hard, can
I come in?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Is something wrong, Joanna?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Well, I've just got mister Carlyle a cup of tea.
At this hour, he rade in the kitchen, Dott he
had already gone to bed, so I went myself.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Harriet.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
He's sitting there and he's cleaning his vow.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Do you know why?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Maybe it's thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh, this is no time for jokes.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Look a man gets into his fifties, he's never married.
You can never tell what can set him off. Now, Harry,
then you listen, Then you listen, you go to him.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Let me alone. No, if I go to see that man,
it will be the same as giving up every bit
of my pride.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Oh what good is pride?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
What good is it? I don't know, but it's the
only thing I have left in the world. It's the
only thing I can call my own. I can't lose it.
I can't, all right, But you say you love him,
Maybe that's an illusion.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well why don't you find out?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Go to please Joanna let me alone?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I will, But do you think about it?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Sometimes you'll have to seize the moment, otherwise it'll be
gone forever. Mister Carlyle, Yes, I know it's late, but
I saw the light from underneath the door of your study,
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and I well.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
What is it, missus Porson.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I if I might speak with you?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
We're speaking?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Oh this this morning? Yes, this morning? A great deal
was said in the heat of anger.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Indeed, well, you were wondering if we could reconsider the matter.
Will I answer, Missus Parson is no, under no conditions
or any circumstances. Is that what you wish to talk about?
If so, the discussion is over?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I don't think so. Look at me. I come crawling
in here on my hands and knees. I discard every
ounce of pride and self respect.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
No one forced you too, Do you know why? No?
And I don't believe I would be interested.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
What a fool. I want for twenty years, I've been
in love with you?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And I permitted myself to dream that you were in
love with me?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That was remarkably stupid on your part.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Is fair?
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Oh you can say.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
To me, no, I can say good night, missus Porson.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I've stripped myself there.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I've cried out to you in pain, and don't missus Porson.
If I were interested in listening to melodrama, which I'm not,
I would go into the theater.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
I am not asking you to do anything, all right,
I was a fool. I realize I can't work here anymore.
But isn't there one kind word you can give me?
Isn't there even an ounce of pity in you? Does
nothing reach you, does nothing touch your heart?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Nothing within your power?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh but you're wrong. There is there is right here.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Put that revolver down.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Now, I can touch your heart.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Put it down. You're a fool.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Won't move.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It won't help you, you moron. Look what you made
me do.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
A tear could help you, you idiots.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
You made me turn a over the spare a tear.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
If only you could shed the tears.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You make me spill water all over these papers.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Show me that you can shed a tear and I'll
spare your life.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You're crazy, you see it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You read your death in my eyes. Please save yourself.
Shed a tear, a single tear. You can't very well?
Let me touch your heart this way.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He who shows a woman's scorn may wish he never
had been born. And who will argue with the poet
on that one? A sympathetic character. Mister Eneas Cardisle may
not have been lovable, he.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Certainly never was.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
But did he really deserve the end fate had ordained
for him? Well, this is a judgment that I leave
for others to make. All I can do is return
here with Act three, at which time justice either will
or will not triumph.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
One thing should be obvious to everyone.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Death is the greatest democrat of all that is democrat
with a small d. Death has absolutely no prejudices, nor
does he or she play any favorites, even with the
Eneas Carlyles. Yes, Aeneus Carlyle has held the world, as
they say, in fear and trembling. And yet when his
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time came, death took him by the hand, just like
everyone else. I suppose that was a thing he found
hardest to accept. However, since he is gone, we are
no longer concerned with him. We must now consider the living.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Wakeup, Callia's dead. He's here.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I was going downstairs. I'm just start with first. I
passed by the study. The door was open. I could
see him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
His head was on the desk and he was dead.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
He was wearing his smoking jacket, and right over his
heart there was this big red stain.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
What was blood?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Harriet? What are we going to do?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Why?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
There's only one thing we can do.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Call the police. I'm Lieutenant Bienzo Homicide. Yes, lieutenant, you're
the housekeeper, Missus Paulson, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I'll lead your help. Now. Who found the body? I did?
Who were you?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Two hundred styles and the cooker?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
All right? Tell me about it.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Well, it was six in the morning. I was walking
past the study on my way to the kitchen, and
I saw him laying there.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Did you touch anything? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No, sir, you sure, Oh, absolutely sure, I know better
than that. Did you see or hear anything during the night,
did you, Missus Porson?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
No, sir, do either of you.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Know anyone who might have had a motive for killing him? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, sir, how about you, missus Polson, No, sir, a
shot was fired in this room and nobody in the
rest of the house.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Verdi Well, lieutenant, you see the carpet here is quite sick,
and the walls are heavy. The room is practically sound proof.
That's how mister Carlyle wanted it for his privacy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
So neither of you knows anyone who might have had
a motive for killing him. Oh how about you, missus Polson?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Will I'm sure a man in mister Carlyle's position must
have made enemies, but those would all be in the
outside world.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Nobody here in this inside world.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Huh No, not that I know of.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Jerry, roll up.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The rest of the servants. That's all right right now, missus. Yes,
missus Paulson, would.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You stick around for a minute. I want to ask
you a question.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yes, sir, we haven't had a chance to put it
through ballistics yet, but this gun that was lying on
the desk, this is the baby that did it, this
little twenty five caliber. Do you understand, Yes, sir, it's
already been dusted for prints, but there are none.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Do you know what that means?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Well, it could mean they were wiped off.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Right, So it also means it couldn't have been suicide. Furthermore,
if the wound was self inflicted, there'd have been powder burns.
There aren't any.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Do you follow all of this? I believe, so why
are you so nervous?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
But I don't think I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh I think I know why. It's because I'm smoking
a cigarette. You're scared I'll get ashes on this valuable
persian rug. Well, or maybe I'll set the butt down
on this expensive table.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I didn't say that, not in words.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I can see you keep this place like a pin.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
That's what my job was. Well, now that mister Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is dead, yeah, well you really kept the place neat.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I want to ask you a question, that is, if
I'm ay, well, certainly, is there a leak in the ceiling?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Oh? Well no, not that I know of.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I thought so, doesn't look like there's any dripping from
up there.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
But tell you what my problem.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Is, Everything on this desk is nice and neat. He's
got some papers lying there, and those papers.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Are wet, wet, Yeah, they're wet.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So what I want to know is how did those
papers get wet? You can see they're wet, can't you?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yes? Now, how did that happen?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And his sleeve you could see the stain on his sleeve,
his left sleeve around the elbow, that was wet too, Yes,
do you have any idea how that sleeve could have
gotten wet?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I'm afraid? What?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Oh? Excuse me? Yeah, Jack, bring him right in?
Speaker 5 (33:04):
What I didn't do it?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
You didn't? Uh? No, sir, I am innocent.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
You weren't ticketing the house, so yes I was. But
you didn't have a pretty good argument with him yesterday morning?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yes I did. You didn't threaten to kill him? No?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
No, I did.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
You did not say to him tomorrow morning? You may
not be here.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Why I may have said that witness has heard you
say that. But it doesn't mean I intended to kill him.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
It means, well, maybe a higher power would intervene to
save the Kolby's petrol.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Were you here last night? Well? What's the answer?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, Now, outside the window over there are some footprints shoeprints.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Would they happen to be yours? Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
But but but what I didn't kill him?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Then? Why did you come here?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I wanted to kill him.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yes, I was determined to kill him.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And I sneaked over the wall and I came around
to the rear of the house looking for an open window.
I saw a light and I peeked in and there
he was, were sitting at his desk. Suddenly, I said
to myself, what am I doing here?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Kill him? How with what? I don't know anything about? Killing?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Isn't that what I hold against him?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
That he's a killer?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I walked away and just walked away, and I went home. Here, yeah, Jack,
take him downtown and book him as a material witness.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Stick to that story, Kid and Lucie, how it comes.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But then Areenzo? Yeah? Is that so? Well? Sure? Sure,
bring him down here.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I'll tell you, missus Paulson it it never rains, but
it pours.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We got ourselves another.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Prime suspect, mister Bowers.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Isn't it true that.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You owed mister Carlisle a large sum of money? Technically no, well,
I'll put it this way. Wouldn't you have to raise
a large sum of money to satisfy an obligation to
mister Carlyle you're talking about amalgamated, Well, you'd have to
sell him ten thousand shares at forty Well, yes, the
(35:37):
stock opened this morning at ninety that this is only eleven.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You don't have to make delivery until the thirtieth. Now
the stock could fall in.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That time fifty points in nineteen days.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is that likely? Where were you last night? At home?
Home all night? Yes, at about three in the morning.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Were you in an all night nerve called chippies?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Huh uh?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, let me see.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I thought you said you were home all night. Yes, yes,
the night, but three am technically is the morning. Wouldn't
you say you can have any what you want.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Were you in chippies? Now, let me help refresh your memory,
that is, if you want me to.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
You see, we've.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Had men out all through the neighborhood looking for witnesses.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Chippy told one of.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
My detectives that long, about three am, a very nervous
looking fellow came into his place, A fellow answering your description. Oh,
fellow was so nervous he spilled half his coffee. All right,
you were here, and I was in the neighborhood and
you were in I said, I was in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Why you know? Why do I But didn't you just
tell me he had me over a barrel, and let
me tell you something. I know. I don't have to
say a word. The detective who called on me read
me my rights, but I don't care. It was worse
than you think. Well now, no, yes, he was forcing
me to do something that would have broken up my marriage.
(37:09):
He had offered me a way out that the came painting.
What's that?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
But I should have killed him? Should do? Yes, I
should have, and I was going to and I even
got a gun. My wife was asleep.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I sneaked out of the house.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I came down here when I was shaking all over
the thought of what I had to do, and I
needed a drink, but all the bars were closed. So
I went into that diner for a cup of coffee,
and it couldn't help. It kept getting worse. It's probably
why the fellow behind the counter noticed me. I was
(37:48):
shaking so badly. He said, got a problem back? But
what could I tell him?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That I was frightening out at my wits, that I
couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
But I just couldn't commit murder. So I went back home. Yeah, well,
we'll have to take you downtown or I understand. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
No, no, don't they pleased? I didn't kill him, but
I wanted to. I should have, And so I really
don't care. Eddie vital Tenant, you care after a while,
I've seen it. It wears off, you know something, missus Pelson.
(38:31):
What I've got here is what the man called an
embarrassment of riches.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Well, in the average case, it's all you can do
to get one suspect lined up. I've got two, wouldn't
you say, well, yes.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Either one of them could have done it. Which one
do you think is guilty? And I couldn't say each
has the motive, the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
We got both of them at the scene of the crime,
at just about the time of the murder. I think
they'll go for.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
The kid and mister pullis.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, it's not right, it isn't fair, but well that's
how it goes. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Ugh?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
No, he's a scruffy, wild eyed kid.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
He's got long hair.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Oh, so many nice young men have long hair these days.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, but on him, the dollar is so good. Now.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
A smart lawyer will build up the kid's instability maybe
prove insanity. No, one way or another, the kid won't
get hit too badly. But it's a shame he shouldn't
get hit at all.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You know why? No, because the kid didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Oh are you saying mister Bowers killed mister Carlyle Bowers?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Bowers was angry enough, but to see it must have
occurred to him. He really had nothing to gain. Killing
Carlyle would not have relieved him of his obligation to
deliver the stock.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
He would still owe it to the estate. M I
don't think he did it?
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Well, who did.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
You mean? You don't know, missus Polson? Why you did me?
I think I knew it the minute I walked into
the room. I know it bothered me. The papers on
his desk, the papers, they were wet. Now, how could
they get wet?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Where did the water come from? There was only one source.
There was water in the vase on his desk that
held the flowers.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
But how could the water get from the vase to
the desk? You know how?
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Don't you know what you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You came in here, you picked up the gun. He
stood up to try to defend himself. He must have
knocked over the vase. Am I right, well, you shot him,
and then, because you're an expert housekeeper, the habits of
a lifetime took over. You probably weren't even aware of it,
but you had to tidy things up. You knew he
(40:58):
had to wipe the fingerprints off the gun, but I'm
sure you didn't realize that. You picked up the vase
and set it straight.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Am I right well, missus Paulson.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
You you you can't prove it.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Of course I can't prove it, but you're an honest woman.
You know you can't let one or the other of
them pay for a murder that belongs to you.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
You know that, don't you.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I I, missus Paulson, you know you won't be able
to live with it.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Sooner or later, you'll tell me what happened. Tell me now, all.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Right, Lieutenant, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
And she told him.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
You know exactly what she told him, because you were
there when it happened and you heard every word of it.
When she told it to the jury, they almost burst
into tears, and the judge gave her the lightest sentence
within his power. Maybe justice was done, after all. You
can't fool around with love.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Who killed Aneath Carlyle Hector Paulissard wanted to John Jacob
Bowers would have liked to. Harriet Paulson actually picked up
a gun and fired the fatal shot. But you know
who triggered the whole business, Joanna Styles to cook it.
You see, Harriet Paulsen lived with a fantasy and there
(42:47):
was enough for her, but Joanna urged her to try
to make that fantasy come true.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Let this be a lesson to all of us.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Let sleeping dogs lie or never awaken a dreamer. Oar
cast included Joan Shay, Ralph bell E, v Jester, Earl
Hammond and Robert Maxwell. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our
(43:18):
next tale. Please have a look around before we go
in Methan, just be a second.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Or two.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Where on earth these birds come from?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
You don't like you crazy creatures, But the Night and
Ashy have birds, hundreds of them. A takes like small
knives where actually size bombing right after as if they
didn't want me in mass they got.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
A boy eyes out. I don't hear any of them anymore.
Conn As suddenly as it came, What kind of birds, Matthew?
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Well, they look like those small birds on some of
our Mayan artifacts.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Must we go in there?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Well? I don't see why not, because.
Speaker 7 (43:56):
The idea of hundreds of birds in the cave, this
part it ground bothers me. I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
And why would they want to attack you?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, there's only one way we'll ever find an explanation.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Now, you coming with me? Or am I going in
there alone? Missus e g.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
In the macabre.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Until next time, pleasant
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