March 9, 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 (00:16):
Come in, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And forget because we must, and not because we will,
So the man wrote over a century ago. Are there
things that we forget because we're better off not remembering them?
Of course, life is far more pleasant if we choose
only to recall the happier moments. In fact, our very
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survival might depend on deliberately forgetting many things. I don't
know what you're talking about, but you do?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You do?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You obviously have me confused with someone else?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Do you think I could ever forget that face?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I've never even been to Europe?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Do you think I could ever forget that voice? What
are you doing with that gum? I am your executioner.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Our mystery drama, The Ghosts of Yesterday, was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Victoria Dan and stars Terry Keene.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Mortar Division. I'll
be back shortly with that one. America the melting pot
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for centuries, welcoming millions to both its shores. They come
here seeking a new life, and soon they become Americans. Accepted, absorbed,
assimilated is the word part of the whole, a part
of the American identity, and for those who wish to
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be lost in the anonymity that a huge, free country allows.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
May I help you, sir?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Just this magazine? Oh and uh yes, a pack of
Royal filters.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Royal Filter's just a movement. That'll be ninety five cents, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The smallest thing I have is a twenty What that's
a little embarrassing. You don't mind, really, do you?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Great?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Why are you staring at.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Me like that?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Can't be? But it is? You?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Beg your pardon.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'd know that face anywhere. What are you talking about?
Look at you? Thirty years later? Old?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Are graying?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well? Cut suit? You've become quite the American.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm afraid you're confusing me with someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Quite the American now.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But it is you who I swore i'd kill you now.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Hold on, I swore to myself I kill old man.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Caught on, I'll kill you now take it cheesy?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Will you kill you?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, my heart, not no, not before mother?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Are you all right? Old man?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What did you say your name was? Again?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Warren?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Harry, Warren, Saint Louis?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You say the old man? Just collapse?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's right, Sugan and we didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, it happened just as I walked in.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay, thanks, mister Warren.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Do you mean it's it?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, doctor says the old man had a heart attack,
and some nights we get half a dozen of these.
You know, I feel sorry for the wives for old wives.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All right? Sure what? I don't know, Caroen, It's up
to the entire committee. Yes, I know, I agree. Look,
can we discuss this later? Good, I'll see it one
bye bye. What was that all about, Marge? You know,
Carolyn meet me for launch downtown. I already promised to
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be at the meetings.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Steve, Marge, you spend too much time on that membership committee.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You're the one who wanted me to be active in
the club.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I know, I'm just beginning to wonder about what. Oh, darling,
don't take this the wrong way, but it seems to
me the entire membership thing is getting a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
How can you say that we'll take.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
That couple, you know, the doctor and his wife at
the Peterson's nominated last week?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What was their name, Vanelli.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Venetti or Natara whatever? Why was there quest for membership
turned down?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know why, Steve, I don't, Steve, you know the
club policy. I know one American? Right? Why are you
suddenly so concerned about my activities at the club.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It's just that in the past few months, I don't
know how to put it, you've you've changed.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What do you mean changed? And forgive me for saying this, dummy,
but you've become a snob? Me a snob? Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You can trace your ancestors back to the Mayflower, and
my family goes back to the French and Indian War.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And I'm proud of that fact.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I know you are too. But well, don't you think Peeve?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, yes, I know I'm doing it again, aren't I
fighting everybody else's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Battles but my own? Do you think I'm really a snob? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
If you are, then you're the most beautiful one. I know.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's no answer. I'm gonna miss my train. She's early again.
All right, all right, I'm coming John. I wish you
would Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Who are you, Missus Stefford? Yes, missus Marjorie Stefford.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I would like perhaps a moment of your time.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
If you're selling anything, If.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I sell nothing, I wish to thought.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm sorry, but I happen to be busy.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It is rather an urgent matter.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Really, I don't have the time, if you'll excuse me.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's rather called on these steps. Perhaps you would be
courteous enough to let me inside.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Perhaps you would prefer it if I called the police.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
The police. But this is a personal matter, Missus Stafford.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It concerns a place called Harmon Beer. Harmon Beer, Yes,
it is a small village in western Europe.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I I've never heard of it, are you sure, Missus Stepford?
Quite sure?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But certainly you have heard of herm and beer?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Why well, why should I you were born there? Won't
you come in? Okay? You?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Uh, you have a lovely home, Missus Steffand would you
come to the point.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
My name is Cryslo Valerius Croslo.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What is it you want?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But sure you know what I want?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Money?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Money? You think I am some sort of person who
uh what is the word extorts? Money?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
No one knows where I really come from, mister Caslo,
not even my husband, and I would like to keep
it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Are you ashamed?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I don't see where that's any of you are affair?
Mister Carstlo, Please, what do you want from me?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I am surprised you did not recognize my name.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Should I in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
My country or or should I say our country? I
do enjoy quite a reputation. What for you might say,
I am a kind of detective. I am retained by
the government, although I would gladly work with a fee.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What do you do, mister Caslo?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For example, it has taken me many years that I
have finally found you.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Why why have you been looking for me?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It has been over thirty years since the war? You
remember the war, missus Stafford No.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I was very young at the time.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Mm uh, I would say eight nine years old.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yes, because a most difficult in tragic time. I, for example,
work with the resistance. I recall a particular incident when
several American paratroopers had to be sheltered from the nazis
not very easy in occupied country.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Wouldn't you say, why are you telling me this?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The Americans were hidden in this town that was staunchly
loyal to their resistance.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Eventually they escaped. But you know the rest of the story,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Please, mister Casler.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The ending was not quite so happy for the inhabitants
of the town.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The military commander in that area a rather.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Vicious essays of Sir Captain Dietrich discovered what had occurred
and ordered suitable attribution. The entire town, all of its inhabitants, destroyed.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That is all, except for.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One little girl, one little girl with long gold braids,
who managed.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To hide in a cellar.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Why are you telling me this?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The little girl was you? No, you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I need your help, Missus Stafford. You are the only
person left alive who can positively identify him. Identify who
captain haunts Dietrich Dietrich MM.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
After the way he disappeared.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We have reason to believe he emigrated to the United
States with a falsified bass sport.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Dietrich is here in America.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
All our contact could confirm was that Dietrich had purchased
an interest in a cooperation called Northern Plastics.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Is that all you know?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We believe he is using the name of warn Why.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Oh yes, like you and Missus Stafford, he has become
totally Americanized.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I believe that's the way the expression goes.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now, what we need from you is a positive identification.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You mean, look at a picture. Not exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
We want to extradize him for trial, but your testimony
is crucial.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You want me to testify in court.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I realize the past is painful and miss no,
I won't do it. Do you realize how important this
is to us, to our gun through.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Your country, mister Coslow.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So that is all it is, mister.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Counselow, you don't know how it is. What I was
before I came here is nobody's business. If I were
to testify, everybody would know.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
If that's so important to you.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yes, the past is past, mister Casselow. I live for
the present.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I am talking about justice, missus steph or justice.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Please.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'd like you to leave anyone, but I will be
back when you worth changed your mind.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I won't change my mind.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Please, I beg you think about what you are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
We have nothing more to discuss.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I see you, how I see. Let me just remind
you of one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The boss I agree is fast, but don't let it
fool you. It has mysterious ways of catching up.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
With all of us. Not with me, mister Castler, not
with me. Forgive and forget.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That's the motto that the great humanitarians would have us
all live by.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
However, most people usually choose.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
One or the other there are those things that we
would prefer.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
To forgive but never forget.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But more painful, more destructive, must be the events our
minds choose to forget, but our hearts refuse to forgive.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I'll be back shortly for that too.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
To look at her, you wouldn't think that Marjorie Stafford
was anything other than what she appeared to be, an attractive,
potyish Midwestern matron who can trace her antecedents back to
the Plymouth Rock. It now develops, however, that she has
hidden from everyone a devastating past. The sole survivor of
a wartime tragedy, she fled to Amerthy and created this
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fictional family tree for herself, a fabric which threatens to
become unraveled if she cannot control her conscience.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
You are the only one who identifying Please missus, Sami.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I can't help you. I can't please.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Help us, Spring Dietrict to charl Don't.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Ask me, Please, don't as me, No, plea, don't honey, honey, honey, honey.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
What's the matter? Musti're you're having another nightmare?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
All right? Marge March? What's the matter? Nothing is nothing?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's it's me, isn't it, No, darling, No, of course,
not really. I I know I haven't been home as
much as I should.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Believe me. It's not you. It's just just what I
in a horror movie I saw a few nights ago
when you were out of town. I just can't get
it out of my mind.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Okay, March, turn off the light want you, honey, marche listen.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I just want you to know I'm your husband. You
can talk to me if there's something bothering you.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Marge. Did you hear me March? Just a minute?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh yes, missus Stepford.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Please, mister Couslo, why have you come back? I I
already told you I won't be a witness for your government.
I won't testify in public.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You think I am hounding your doctor.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Understand me, mister Costlow. I I appreciate what you feel,
but I have a life here, a new life. I
can't jeopardize it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I see you think that you tell the truth about
the past would make a lie of depression?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Mister Candlow, is that all you do with your time?
Hunt down ghosts of yesterday?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Someone nice? To remember?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Why there were people?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
How can you forget them? Your own family, your mother,
your father, don't.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You owe them some I have no family.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I will be staying at the Clopton Hotel, Missus Stafford.
I will be there until I receive your call.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't intend to call you.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
The ghosts of yesterday have circled your eyes and thought
you're your sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I would be seeing you soon. No, No, I have
no family.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Had you did have a family one, Yes, you had
a family Anti Lance Ditrick destroyed.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
No. I didn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
You owe your family justice.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Justice, mother, mother.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I had to forget.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Arstice, glean Dietrick.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
To just prop you understand. Don't you have to figure all?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
They do not understand.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
You have mosake in the heaven. I haven't Mama, Papa
believe me.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
You owe them justice, justice, justice.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, No, don't make me remember. No, Marge. I want
to talk to you in a minute, Honey, out, I
want to burn the eggs.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Look, I don't care about the eggs. I'm worried about you.
It happened again last night, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What happened? You had another nightmare?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Steve?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Are you going to start that again? Honey?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
It's nothing to be ashamed about it. I think I
know what you're going through. You do it happened to
me when I turned forty. It can be a very
upsetting time for a person.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I know. And that's what you think is well? Am
I wrong? Is it something else? March? No, No, you're
absolutely right, darling. That's just what it is. I'll tell
you what we'll do. We'll go out to dinner tonight.
What do you say? All right?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hello? Arch?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You'll never guess what happened this morningdeed?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
It's fantastic, honey, I think I got the account?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
What account that?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Look?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I know I promised you about dinner, But do you
mind if we meet you at the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We my client.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I want you to meet him.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh, we sure love your honey. I love you.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Over here, Marge, Honey, I want you to meet Harry
one Harry.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
This is my wife, Marge. Why am pleasure to meet you?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Marge.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Harry is executive vice president of Northern Plastics.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm Northern Plastics.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yes, see what about cocktails before we order dinner?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Marge?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Your usual?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'm sorry? What vodka? Collins? Donnie? Yes, that's fine, Harry?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Anything true? Oh, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
What I really would like right now would be a
nice tall glass of bed.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Domestic are important, and.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
He is fine with me.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Maje.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Though there is really one that is supposed to be
the best in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You can't get it in this part of the country.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's important. From the Rhyan Valley a stream at the
clearest purest water in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's called Fusty. Yes, well, isn't this delightful?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I thought no one else ever heard of it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You people have.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And then the girl said, but mister Warton, we canceled.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Your reservation a week ago.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Here say margin, remember what happened the time we took
the trip to Wisconsin. What It was a tiny resort
and the innkeeper could speak a word of English.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Really, can you believe it, Harry?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Some people can live in this country for years and
never learn the language.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
All this poor guy, I could speak with Zereman.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Can you imagine? In my heart of America?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I had to believe.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Uh? Do you speak German? Mister Warren? I mean that, Harry, No.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Not a word much.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Why do you ask? Uh? It's just that you seem
like the type of person who wh who what? Who? Mike?
Isn't that Jilly Carton Hotel? Uh? Yet. Do you have
a guest registered there by the name of Coslo Valarious Kaslo. Yes, please,
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mister Codlow, I'd like to talk to you, not over
the phone. Can we meet somewhere alright?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm glad that you finally decided to see me, Missus Defford.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I had to speak with you, so I assumed I
met Harry Warren last night.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, I know you know, But of course do you
believe it was such an incredible coincidence, Missus Stefford.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
But how could now?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Is not important then me that you will recognize him?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yes, sir Warren is Hans Dietrich. You are positive, Yes,
I'm quite positive. Excellent, Missus Stafford, I must admit to
you this is a satisfaction which I I seldom experience.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
In my line of endeavor.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What happens now my government contacts your government and we
go through some brief formalities which will enable me to
extrad Diditrich for trial?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And what about me?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Your testimony, of course, is essential to the case against him.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Mister Caslow, I thought you understood me when I said.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I owed you had changed your mind. Without you, there
is no case against d two.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I already told you mister Conslow, I am perfectly willing
to confirm Warren's identity in private, but I refuse to
become the object of worldwide publicity. But we need you.
Do you have any idea what it would do to me?
To the life I have here?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Why should it do anything?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Because people here in this town they care about who
a person is, where they come from, do they look?
I really don't want to discuss it. I have identified
the man for you, and that's all I'm going to do.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Missus stood, that is what your mind tells you. But
what does your heart value?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Why did you have to come here? Why did you
have to dig this thing up again? It was getting buried.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Of course you never thought about it until a week
ago and I ranger door.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Then you expect me.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
To believe that, Missus ste don't wanna talk about it anymore.
I've got to be going, Missus Stafford, Maria. What did
you call me?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Matriya? I have you also married your real name?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I won't do it, mister Caslow. I won't go back one.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Way or other. You will go back, no, but you
will marry it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Don't call me that.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Don't you want to see Dietrich brought to justice.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yes, but certainly he can hang without me. Hang. Did
you say now that's still the official method of execution
in your country, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
They do not have a death penalty any longer, Missus Stafford,
What I think survived the violence and barbarism of the
last war? I uh, when people realize the senselessness of killing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Distric was a murderer.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Murder must not.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Be permitted to perpetuate itself. To demand an eye for
an eye would place us on the same level as
those who would destroy us.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
This is unbelievable. You're asking me to bear my soul
to the entire world in return for.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
What justice, Missus Stephanie justice.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
A man cold bloodedly sends hundreds of people to their death,
and where is the justice?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He will spend the rest of his days in prison?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Prison. I've seen the new prisons, mister Coslo, A nice
comfortable bed, hot meals, the latest books to read, perhaps
the tennis court tooase, and that's what you call justice? Huh. Well,
I don't want to hear any more platitudes about what
great humanitarians we've all become. You listen to me, There
is nothing wrong with an eye for an eye, a
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tooth for a tooth. It's as old as the Bible,
and if it's endured for thousands of years, there's a
reason for us.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
There are other weapons against evil besides killing.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Why did you have to bring that man into my
life again? Why have you resurrected an old nightmare?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
There is only one way to end a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You right, but not the way you think.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Nor missus Stefford. You must not.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I must start what.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I know what you are thinking?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
And what am I thinking?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You? You intend to see Dietrich dead? Doure.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I recognize the look in your eyes. It is a
look I once said in my own.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You are thinking that Dietrict must be made to give
an eye for an eye, and shouldn't he be?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He must be killed? Isn't desired?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yes? Yes, it doesn't mean anything unless he pays, pays
in the only just way. Nor mister Stefforth, he must die.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Even if, even if, what even if you have to
kill him?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yourself? Business is Stifford?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, what kind of an assumption is that to make?
As if one could actually picture Marjorie.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Stafford killing anyone?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Nevertheless, she has just admitted that it is a deed
she would like to see done. And you know what
they say, if you want something done, you're better off
doing it yourself. But that is something we leave for act.
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What force is it that drives people to murder?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
There have always been those who kill for no logical
reason at all. There always will be but one of
those seemingly gentle, good natured souls who suddenly, with calmness,
with calculated coolness, perform an act of violence. It's said
that all of us are capable of such an act.
We all have a certain limit to which we could
be pushed. A man can only be driven so far,
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a woman too, for that matter.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Mister Cardler, that's ridiculous, is it. I hate Dietrich. I
want to see him dead, But to even contemplate killing
him myself, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You will testify for the persecution there.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
No, I haven't changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I warn you, missus Stafford. Some way or other, you
are deciding on your own method of justice for Dietrich.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I only hope you make.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The right choice, mister Cardle.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, this time I am the one who leaves first.
There is nothing else for me. To say.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Now, wait, you would not listen to anything I could say.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Right now, I.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Leave, mister Cardlo good buy.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
My Uh oh no, no, no more for me, honey.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I couldn't need another thing anyhow. I don't want to
be late from the golf state. Oh, I didn't know
you were going to the club this morning, asked Harry Warren.
The plag Oh well here let me that's all right,
So you're playing golf with Harry war In fact, i'd
better get going. See I suppose you really want to
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sew up his account. Oh this is in business, hun,
I really like the guy.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Why you like him?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well, you have to admit he's a pretty likable fellow.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh, by the.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Way, I agreed to put his name up from membership
this spring in the country club.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
What do you really know about him? Much? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Just as well as I do.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
He's just the type of person they want there, wealthy, cultured, sociable.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
That's not to like about him? What if I were
to tell you that the what? But Harry Wan isn't
who you believe he is.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
M Who is he?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Then?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But he's actually a former SFF officer Captain Hans Dietrich Marge.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Harry Warren an ex Nazi.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yes, Honey, now listen.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I I really don't think you should kid like that.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I mean, you really think it's in good taste, Stephen
trying to.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Tell you, by the way, I hope you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I took the liberty of inviting him over for dinner
tomorrow night. Why don't you make that wonderful chili of yours.
He's coming here for dinner, Honey. I get the feeling
you don't particularly like Harry.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I don't. I can't understand why.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You just wait till you get.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
To know him better, know him better.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Sure, you and I will be seeing a lot of him.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Well, thank you for this dinner. Margin was absolutely delicious.
Isn't she a great cub?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You are a lucky man, Steve.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh. Actually, Harry, my husband is very easy to please
at the kitchen table. After four years of army food,
anything beats those k ration What did you do during
the war, Harry?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Oh, I was in the army.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Really were you ever sees Honey?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I'm sure Harry doesn't want to talk about the war right.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Now, do you, Harry?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Actually, I do find it a bit depressing. I guess
it's because at hard I'm really a peace loving man.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Marge, you were deliberately rude at dinner, thief.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Come on, you're making a mountain out of a mole.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Harry was a guest in our house. I think you
could have acted a little more gracious.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Name one ungracious thing.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I said.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
No, it isn't anything you said.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It was just the way you will you were giving
him looks this ev that could have given anyone frost by.
Really really, I I can't tell you how embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I I am sure that he didn't notice any Maybe not,
but I did. And what have you got against the
poor guy? Could we just drop the whole thing? This
just isn't like you, Marge. For goodness sake, what did
Harry Warren ever do to you? Clapton hotel? Uh, I'd
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like to speak with mister Valerius Coslo please thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Uh? Well when will he be back?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
What?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well? He couldn't have checked out? Are you sure? I
see all right? Honey?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Who was on the phone?
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I was just talking to Carolyn. Jeez, I've been thinking
let's let's go away just the two of us. No,
it sounds great. We'll do it next weekend? Why not
now this weekend? Uh? I can't, Honey, I've gotta be
in Denver for that audit. You're flying to Denver. You
just came back. What could I do? My hands are tied.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Spangler Continental decides if this is the time to deplay
a bankruptcy?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Gee, take me with you? Well to tender what on
earth for? I just don't want to be here.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh but I.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Can't take you. I wouldn't have any time to see
you with me, Honey. Look, I know it hasn't been
easy for you with me away so much.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
But but I promise.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
When I get back, I'm gonna take the entire week off.
We can go anywhere you like.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And how about it?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
But I I want I wow?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Would you look at the time, I'm gonna miss my plane. Well,
I must say, muge, I was more than a little
surprised when I got your phone call.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Uh huh Who I was that? Well?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I was under the impression that, uh, you didn't particularly.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Care for me. Well, Harry, I'm really sorry if I
gave you that impression.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Frankly, I'm confused. Why why are you asking to see
me with uh?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Steve out of town.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well, now, what's so confusing about it? You are a
very attractive man, Harry, and I can tell you aren't
exactly indifferent to me.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
It's just that I never thought, I mean the way
you ask, Harry.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Let me tell you something. You have no idea what
it's like being married to Steve. Now, he's a sweet
person and I'm quite fond of him, But I mean,
he's never home. How are you telling me that you
what did? Yeah? Plenty of times? I mean what am
I supposed to do? Sit home and John Stockey?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I don't know what to say that you.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Thought I didn't like you? Didn't? You see? That's the
way I always have to play it when Steve's around,
to set him off the trap. It's just that I
can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I mean, you don't look like the type.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Why are you saying that you didn't feel it too?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Feel what?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
What do they call it? Kind of vibration? Chemistry? Of
course I felt it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I felt it from the first time we met.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
In that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
What are you doing tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I had no plans. Would you want to see me?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yes? I would where it? It can't be anywhere in town?
You know, people would talk somewhere out of the way
where nobody would recognize Marge.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I know a place. It's the cabin of an old
friend of mine. He's out of the country now, but
he gave me the key. Ah, and believe me, it
is so isolated no one would ever say it's no.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
One whatever it is good. I can follow you up
there in my car.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I still can't get over it.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I just one thing. Promise you won't mention this to anybody.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Of course I won't.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And uh, be sure it doesn't really bother you. Being
Steve's friend and everything. Well, Steve is my friend.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But you know what they say, all's fair and lovely
and what Yes, that is what they say.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Uh h, this is quite a little cabin in the woods.
Your friend must be very well off. M very certainly
is isolated. Your friend must like privacy.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
He does indeed, Oh, is is that a terrorist over there?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Would you like to take a look at the mule.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Let's go out on the terrace. Wow, that's quite a drop.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Isn't it forty feet at least? Hey, I didn't realize
how chilie it's got. Let's go back inside.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Now, let's stay out just a little longer. I say,
it's forty feet from here to the rocks. For like
that would kill a person, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Most probably?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Marge? What's going side? Not yet? March?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
What the devil?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
It's Steve's gun. He keeps running the house.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Why are you pointing it at me?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I want you to stand near the rail, March. What's
this all about? Do you really think I would ever
be unfaithful to my husband?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Marge?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Give me that gun, come.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Any closer, or I swear I'll use it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I don't understand. Is this some kind of joke.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
A joke? No, this is most certainly not a joke.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Well, then we don't move. I mean it, Marge, what's
going on?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
What have I ever done? Is that what you were
going to say? Harry Wan hasn't done anything. On the
other hand, Captain Hans Dietrich has who don't look so surprised.
I know who you really are. What are you talking about?
In some ways we have a lot in common. We're
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both survivors.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You aren't making any sense.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Borsius, escaping the past, clinging to new identities, working year
after year to remove every vestige of the old life,
even down to losing our accents.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
You are not an American.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I spent my early childhood in a village called Hammanvier,
Hammond Vier, surely you remember it. During the war we
were occupied by the Germans. I was little, only eight,
but I can remember. They were commanded by a very
young officer. His eyes a cold gray man who never laughed,
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never smiled. He was always posting pages of rules we
were to follow.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I think you've gone out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Let me finish. One day he was angry. I've never
seen any face so full of anger rage. I was young.
I didn't understand how things were, something about helping soldiers Americans.
I was afraid of that face, the anger, So.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I hid in a doorway, I said.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
When the captain made everyone gather on the village square
and made a long, hard speech about treason and how
he must make an example of our town. Why are
you telling me this? Because I want you to know
the reason you are to die. You think I'm Dietrich.
I know you are Dietrith. You're making a mistake.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I've never even been to Belgium.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
How would you know that hammondber was in Belgium. Now
you can lie to the rest of the world. But
you can't lie to me, Dietrich. Is if I could
ever forget those eyes and that voice, your voice giving
the final order to level my village. Admit, admit who
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you are.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I am Hans Dietrich, Captain s S Military number one
seventy two dashed nine three four eight one.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I have brought you here, Captain Dietrich, for the purpose
of administering justice. You have been found guilty of the
murder of the village of Hamenber, guilty of the murder
of two hundred and seventy one people, my mother, my father,
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my two sisters.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
These things are necessary in times of war. Treason is
punishable by death.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
I now sentence you to death. Get up on that ledge.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Now, I see you intend to make me jump.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
You yourself said the forward cure, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
What is the matter?
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Missus Stafford your face, you don't even look afraid.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I am not afraid.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Aren't you going to beg me for your life?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
No, it is almost a relief to no longer deny
who I truly am. I am Haunts Dietric, and I
am proud to join my friends, my fallen comrades. Go ahead, shoot, shoot,
I am not afraid to die like a soldier. There
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is no bread to glory than to die like a soldier.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
What are you waiting for, shirt? No, No, it's what
you want me to do, isn't it. It's the easy
way out for you. It's merciful, quick, almost glorious for you. No, No,
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this isn't justice. You are afraid. No, I'm not afraid,
not anymore. I'm taking you back back to my old country,
back to justice.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Than she did.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Captain Hans Dietrich is spending the rest of his life
in prison thanks to the testimony of Marge Stafford. Of course,
Marge and her husband found it necessary to quit the
country club, but somehow they have discovered it doesn't really matter.
One thing that does matter, however, is that you stay
with us until I return. With some final words, Ralph
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Waldo Emerson wrote the words, one man's justice is another's injustice.
One man's beauty another's ugliness, one man's wisdom another's folly.
How true the thought. But also it is true that
ultimately there is only one good and one evil, one
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right and one wrong. And if the human beings of
this world finally ever come to realize that there is
a universal ethic, mankind will have reached its golden age.
Our cast included Terry Keen, Russell Horton, Leon Johnny and
Mandel Kramer. The entire production was under the direction of
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Hymond Brown.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
In the macabre.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Until next time, pleasant,
Come in, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And forget because we must, and not because we will,
So the man wrote over a century ago. Are there
things that we forget because we're better off not remembering them?
Of course, life is far more pleasant if we choose
only to recall the happier moments. In fact, our very
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survival might depend on deliberately forgetting many things. I don't
know what you're talking about, but you do?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You do?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You obviously have me confused with someone else?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Do you think I could ever forget that face?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I've never even been to Europe?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Do you think I could ever forget that voice? What
are you doing with that gum? I am your executioner.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Our mystery drama, The Ghosts of Yesterday, was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Victoria Dan and stars Terry Keene.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Mortar Division. I'll
be back shortly with that one. America the melting pot
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for centuries, welcoming millions to both its shores. They come
here seeking a new life, and soon they become Americans. Accepted, absorbed,
assimilated is the word part of the whole, a part
of the American identity, and for those who wish to
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be lost in the anonymity that a huge, free country allows.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
May I help you, sir?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Just this magazine? Oh and uh yes, a pack of
Royal filters.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Royal Filter's just a movement. That'll be ninety five cents, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The smallest thing I have is a twenty What that's
a little embarrassing. You don't mind, really, do you?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Great?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Why are you staring at.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Me like that?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Can't be? But it is? You?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Beg your pardon.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'd know that face anywhere. What are you talking about?
Look at you? Thirty years later? Old?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Are graying?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well? Cut suit? You've become quite the American.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm afraid you're confusing me with someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Quite the American now.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But it is you who I swore i'd kill you now.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Hold on, I swore to myself I kill old man.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Caught on, I'll kill you now take it cheesy?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Will you kill you?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, my heart, not no, not before mother?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Are you all right? Old man?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What did you say your name was? Again?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Warren?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Harry, Warren, Saint Louis?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You say the old man? Just collapse?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's right, Sugan and we didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, it happened just as I walked in.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay, thanks, mister Warren.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Do you mean it's it?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, doctor says the old man had a heart attack,
and some nights we get half a dozen of these.
You know, I feel sorry for the wives for old wives.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All right? Sure what? I don't know, Caroen, It's up
to the entire committee. Yes, I know, I agree. Look,
can we discuss this later? Good, I'll see it one
bye bye. What was that all about, Marge? You know,
Carolyn meet me for launch downtown. I already promised to
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be at the meetings.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Steve, Marge, you spend too much time on that membership committee.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You're the one who wanted me to be active in
the club.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I know, I'm just beginning to wonder about what. Oh, darling,
don't take this the wrong way, but it seems to
me the entire membership thing is getting a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
How can you say that we'll take.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
That couple, you know, the doctor and his wife at
the Peterson's nominated last week?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What was their name, Vanelli.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Venetti or Natara whatever? Why was there quest for membership
turned down?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know why, Steve, I don't, Steve, you know the
club policy. I know one American? Right? Why are you
suddenly so concerned about my activities at the club.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It's just that in the past few months, I don't
know how to put it, you've you've changed.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What do you mean changed? And forgive me for saying this, dummy,
but you've become a snob? Me a snob? Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You can trace your ancestors back to the Mayflower, and
my family goes back to the French and Indian War.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And I'm proud of that fact.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I know you are too. But well, don't you think Peeve?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, yes, I know I'm doing it again, aren't I
fighting everybody else's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Battles but my own? Do you think I'm really a snob? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
If you are, then you're the most beautiful one. I know.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's no answer. I'm gonna miss my train. She's early again.
All right, all right, I'm coming John. I wish you
would Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Who are you, Missus Stefford? Yes, missus Marjorie Stefford.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I would like perhaps a moment of your time.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
If you're selling anything, If.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I sell nothing, I wish to thought.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm sorry, but I happen to be busy.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It is rather an urgent matter.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Really, I don't have the time, if you'll excuse me.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's rather called on these steps. Perhaps you would be
courteous enough to let me inside.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Perhaps you would prefer it if I called the police.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
The police. But this is a personal matter, Missus Stafford.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It concerns a place called Harmon Beer. Harmon Beer, Yes,
it is a small village in western Europe.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I I've never heard of it, are you sure, Missus Stepford?
Quite sure?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But certainly you have heard of herm and beer?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Why well, why should I you were born there? Won't
you come in? Okay? You?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Uh, you have a lovely home, Missus Steffand would you
come to the point.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
My name is Cryslo Valerius Croslo.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What is it you want?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But sure you know what I want?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Money?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Money? You think I am some sort of person who
uh what is the word extorts? Money?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
No one knows where I really come from, mister Caslo,
not even my husband, and I would like to keep
it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Are you ashamed?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I don't see where that's any of you are affair?
Mister Carstlo, Please, what do you want from me?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I am surprised you did not recognize my name.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Should I in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
My country or or should I say our country? I
do enjoy quite a reputation. What for you might say,
I am a kind of detective. I am retained by
the government, although I would gladly work with a fee.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What do you do, mister Caslo?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For example, it has taken me many years that I
have finally found you.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Why why have you been looking for me?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It has been over thirty years since the war? You
remember the war, missus Stafford No.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I was very young at the time.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Mm uh, I would say eight nine years old.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yes, because a most difficult in tragic time. I, for example,
work with the resistance. I recall a particular incident when
several American paratroopers had to be sheltered from the nazis
not very easy in occupied country.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Wouldn't you say, why are you telling me this?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The Americans were hidden in this town that was staunchly
loyal to their resistance.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Eventually they escaped. But you know the rest of the story,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Please, mister Casler.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The ending was not quite so happy for the inhabitants
of the town.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The military commander in that area a rather.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Vicious essays of Sir Captain Dietrich discovered what had occurred
and ordered suitable attribution. The entire town, all of its inhabitants, destroyed.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That is all, except for.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One little girl, one little girl with long gold braids,
who managed.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To hide in a cellar.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Why are you telling me this?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The little girl was you? No, you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I need your help, Missus Stafford. You are the only
person left alive who can positively identify him. Identify who
captain haunts Dietrich Dietrich MM.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
After the way he disappeared.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We have reason to believe he emigrated to the United
States with a falsified bass sport.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Dietrich is here in America.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
All our contact could confirm was that Dietrich had purchased
an interest in a cooperation called Northern Plastics.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Is that all you know?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We believe he is using the name of warn Why.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Oh yes, like you and Missus Stafford, he has become
totally Americanized.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I believe that's the way the expression goes.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now, what we need from you is a positive identification.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You mean, look at a picture. Not exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
We want to extradize him for trial, but your testimony
is crucial.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You want me to testify in court.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I realize the past is painful and miss no,
I won't do it. Do you realize how important this
is to us, to our gun through.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Your country, mister Coslow.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So that is all it is, mister.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Counselow, you don't know how it is. What I was
before I came here is nobody's business. If I were
to testify, everybody would know.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
If that's so important to you.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yes, the past is past, mister Casselow. I live for
the present.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I am talking about justice, missus steph or justice.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Please.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'd like you to leave anyone, but I will be
back when you worth changed your mind.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I won't change my mind.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Please, I beg you think about what you are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
We have nothing more to discuss.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I see you, how I see. Let me just remind
you of one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The boss I agree is fast, but don't let it
fool you. It has mysterious ways of catching up.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
With all of us. Not with me, mister Castler, not
with me. Forgive and forget.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That's the motto that the great humanitarians would have us
all live by.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
However, most people usually choose.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
One or the other there are those things that we
would prefer.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
To forgive but never forget.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But more painful, more destructive, must be the events our
minds choose to forget, but our hearts refuse to forgive.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I'll be back shortly for that too.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
To look at her, you wouldn't think that Marjorie Stafford
was anything other than what she appeared to be, an attractive,
potyish Midwestern matron who can trace her antecedents back to
the Plymouth Rock. It now develops, however, that she has
hidden from everyone a devastating past. The sole survivor of
a wartime tragedy, she fled to Amerthy and created this
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fictional family tree for herself, a fabric which threatens to
become unraveled if she cannot control her conscience.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
You are the only one who identifying Please missus, Sami.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I can't help you. I can't please.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Help us, Spring Dietrict to charl Don't.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Ask me, Please, don't as me, No, plea, don't honey, honey, honey, honey.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
What's the matter? Musti're you're having another nightmare?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
All right? Marge March? What's the matter? Nothing is nothing?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's it's me, isn't it, No, darling, No, of course,
not really. I I know I haven't been home as
much as I should.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Believe me. It's not you. It's just just what I
in a horror movie I saw a few nights ago
when you were out of town. I just can't get
it out of my mind.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Okay, March, turn off the light want you, honey, marche listen.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I just want you to know I'm your husband. You
can talk to me if there's something bothering you.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Marge. Did you hear me March? Just a minute?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh yes, missus Stepford.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Please, mister Couslo, why have you come back? I I
already told you I won't be a witness for your government.
I won't testify in public.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You think I am hounding your doctor.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Understand me, mister Costlow. I I appreciate what you feel,
but I have a life here, a new life. I
can't jeopardize it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I see you think that you tell the truth about
the past would make a lie of depression?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Mister Candlow, is that all you do with your time?
Hunt down ghosts of yesterday?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Someone nice? To remember?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Why there were people?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
How can you forget them? Your own family, your mother,
your father, don't.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You owe them some I have no family.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I will be staying at the Clopton Hotel, Missus Stafford.
I will be there until I receive your call.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't intend to call you.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
The ghosts of yesterday have circled your eyes and thought
you're your sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I would be seeing you soon. No, No, I have
no family.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Had you did have a family one, Yes, you had
a family Anti Lance Ditrick destroyed.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
No. I didn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
You owe your family justice.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Justice, mother, mother.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I had to forget.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Arstice, glean Dietrick.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
To just prop you understand. Don't you have to figure all?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
They do not understand.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
You have mosake in the heaven. I haven't Mama, Papa
believe me.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
You owe them justice, justice, justice.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, No, don't make me remember. No, Marge. I want
to talk to you in a minute, Honey, out, I
want to burn the eggs.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Look, I don't care about the eggs. I'm worried about you.
It happened again last night, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What happened? You had another nightmare?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Steve?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Are you going to start that again? Honey?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
It's nothing to be ashamed about it. I think I
know what you're going through. You do it happened to
me when I turned forty. It can be a very
upsetting time for a person.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I know. And that's what you think is well? Am
I wrong? Is it something else? March? No, No, you're
absolutely right, darling. That's just what it is. I'll tell
you what we'll do. We'll go out to dinner tonight.
What do you say? All right?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hello? Arch?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You'll never guess what happened this morningdeed?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
It's fantastic, honey, I think I got the account?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
What account that?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Look?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I know I promised you about dinner, But do you
mind if we meet you at the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We my client.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I want you to meet him.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh, we sure love your honey. I love you.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Over here, Marge, Honey, I want you to meet Harry
one Harry.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
This is my wife, Marge. Why am pleasure to meet you?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Marge.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Harry is executive vice president of Northern Plastics.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm Northern Plastics.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yes, see what about cocktails before we order dinner?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Marge?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Your usual?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'm sorry? What vodka? Collins? Donnie? Yes, that's fine, Harry?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Anything true? Oh, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
What I really would like right now would be a
nice tall glass of bed.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Domestic are important, and.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
He is fine with me.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Maje.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Though there is really one that is supposed to be
the best in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You can't get it in this part of the country.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's important. From the Rhyan Valley a stream at the
clearest purest water in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's called Fusty. Yes, well, isn't this delightful?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I thought no one else ever heard of it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You people have.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And then the girl said, but mister Warton, we canceled.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Your reservation a week ago.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Here say margin, remember what happened the time we took
the trip to Wisconsin. What It was a tiny resort
and the innkeeper could speak a word of English.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Really, can you believe it, Harry?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Some people can live in this country for years and
never learn the language.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
All this poor guy, I could speak with Zereman.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Can you imagine? In my heart of America?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I had to believe.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Uh? Do you speak German? Mister Warren? I mean that, Harry, No.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Not a word much.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Why do you ask? Uh? It's just that you seem
like the type of person who wh who what? Who? Mike?
Isn't that Jilly Carton Hotel? Uh? Yet. Do you have
a guest registered there by the name of Coslo Valarious Kaslo. Yes, please,
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mister Codlow, I'd like to talk to you, not over
the phone. Can we meet somewhere alright?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm glad that you finally decided to see me, Missus Defford.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I had to speak with you, so I assumed I
met Harry Warren last night.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, I know you know, But of course do you
believe it was such an incredible coincidence, Missus Stefford.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
But how could now?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Is not important then me that you will recognize him?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yes, sir Warren is Hans Dietrich. You are positive, Yes,
I'm quite positive. Excellent, Missus Stafford, I must admit to
you this is a satisfaction which I I seldom experience.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
In my line of endeavor.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What happens now my government contacts your government and we
go through some brief formalities which will enable me to
extrad Diditrich for trial?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And what about me?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Your testimony, of course, is essential to the case against him.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Mister Caslow, I thought you understood me when I said.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I owed you had changed your mind. Without you, there
is no case against d two.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I already told you mister Conslow, I am perfectly willing
to confirm Warren's identity in private, but I refuse to
become the object of worldwide publicity. But we need you.
Do you have any idea what it would do to me?
To the life I have here?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Why should it do anything?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Because people here in this town they care about who
a person is, where they come from, do they look?
I really don't want to discuss it. I have identified
the man for you, and that's all I'm going to do.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Missus stood, that is what your mind tells you. But
what does your heart value?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Why did you have to come here? Why did you
have to dig this thing up again? It was getting buried.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Of course you never thought about it until a week
ago and I ranger door.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Then you expect me.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
To believe that, Missus ste don't wanna talk about it anymore.
I've got to be going, Missus Stafford, Maria. What did
you call me?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Matriya? I have you also married your real name?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I won't do it, mister Caslow. I won't go back one.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Way or other. You will go back, no, but you
will marry it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Don't call me that.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Don't you want to see Dietrich brought to justice.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yes, but certainly he can hang without me. Hang. Did
you say now that's still the official method of execution
in your country, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
They do not have a death penalty any longer, Missus Stafford,
What I think survived the violence and barbarism of the
last war? I uh, when people realize the senselessness of killing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Distric was a murderer.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Murder must not.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Be permitted to perpetuate itself. To demand an eye for
an eye would place us on the same level as
those who would destroy us.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
This is unbelievable. You're asking me to bear my soul
to the entire world in return for.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
What justice, Missus Stephanie justice.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
A man cold bloodedly sends hundreds of people to their death,
and where is the justice?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He will spend the rest of his days in prison?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Prison. I've seen the new prisons, mister Coslo, A nice
comfortable bed, hot meals, the latest books to read, perhaps
the tennis court tooase, and that's what you call justice? Huh. Well,
I don't want to hear any more platitudes about what
great humanitarians we've all become. You listen to me, There
is nothing wrong with an eye for an eye, a
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tooth for a tooth. It's as old as the Bible,
and if it's endured for thousands of years, there's a
reason for us.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
There are other weapons against evil besides killing.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Why did you have to bring that man into my
life again? Why have you resurrected an old nightmare?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
There is only one way to end a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You right, but not the way you think.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Nor missus Stefford. You must not.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I must start what.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I know what you are thinking?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
And what am I thinking?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You? You intend to see Dietrich dead? Doure.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I recognize the look in your eyes. It is a
look I once said in my own.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You are thinking that Dietrict must be made to give
an eye for an eye, and shouldn't he be?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He must be killed? Isn't desired?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yes? Yes, it doesn't mean anything unless he pays, pays
in the only just way. Nor mister Stefforth, he must die.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Even if, even if, what even if you have to
kill him?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yourself? Business is Stifford?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, what kind of an assumption is that to make?
As if one could actually picture Marjorie.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Stafford killing anyone?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Nevertheless, she has just admitted that it is a deed
she would like to see done. And you know what
they say, if you want something done, you're better off
doing it yourself. But that is something we leave for act.
(26:38):
What force is it that drives people to murder?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
There have always been those who kill for no logical
reason at all. There always will be but one of
those seemingly gentle, good natured souls who suddenly, with calmness,
with calculated coolness, perform an act of violence. It's said
that all of us are capable of such an act.
We all have a certain limit to which we could
be pushed. A man can only be driven so far,
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a woman too, for that matter.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Mister Cardler, that's ridiculous, is it. I hate Dietrich. I
want to see him dead, But to even contemplate killing
him myself, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You will testify for the persecution there.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
No, I haven't changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I warn you, missus Stafford. Some way or other, you
are deciding on your own method of justice for Dietrich.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I only hope you make.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The right choice, mister Cardle.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, this time I am the one who leaves first.
There is nothing else for me. To say.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Now, wait, you would not listen to anything I could say.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Right now, I.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Leave, mister Cardlo good buy.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
My Uh oh no, no, no more for me, honey.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I couldn't need another thing anyhow. I don't want to
be late from the golf state. Oh, I didn't know
you were going to the club this morning, asked Harry Warren.
The plag Oh well here let me that's all right,
So you're playing golf with Harry war In fact, i'd
better get going. See I suppose you really want to
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sew up his account. Oh this is in business, hun,
I really like the guy.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Why you like him?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well, you have to admit he's a pretty likable fellow.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh, by the.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Way, I agreed to put his name up from membership
this spring in the country club.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
What do you really know about him? Much? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Just as well as I do.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
He's just the type of person they want there, wealthy, cultured, sociable.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
That's not to like about him? What if I were
to tell you that the what? But Harry Wan isn't
who you believe he is.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
M Who is he?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Then?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But he's actually a former SFF officer Captain Hans Dietrich Marge.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Harry Warren an ex Nazi.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yes, Honey, now listen.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I I really don't think you should kid like that.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I mean, you really think it's in good taste, Stephen
trying to.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Tell you, by the way, I hope you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I took the liberty of inviting him over for dinner
tomorrow night. Why don't you make that wonderful chili of yours.
He's coming here for dinner, Honey. I get the feeling
you don't particularly like Harry.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I don't. I can't understand why.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You just wait till you get.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
To know him better, know him better.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Sure, you and I will be seeing a lot of him.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Well, thank you for this dinner. Margin was absolutely delicious.
Isn't she a great cub?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You are a lucky man, Steve.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh. Actually, Harry, my husband is very easy to please
at the kitchen table. After four years of army food,
anything beats those k ration What did you do during
the war, Harry?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Oh, I was in the army.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Really were you ever sees Honey?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I'm sure Harry doesn't want to talk about the war right.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Now, do you, Harry?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Actually, I do find it a bit depressing. I guess
it's because at hard I'm really a peace loving man.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Marge, you were deliberately rude at dinner, thief.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Come on, you're making a mountain out of a mole.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Harry was a guest in our house. I think you
could have acted a little more gracious.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Name one ungracious thing.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I said.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
No, it isn't anything you said.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It was just the way you will you were giving
him looks this ev that could have given anyone frost by.
Really really, I I can't tell you how embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I I am sure that he didn't notice any Maybe not,
but I did. And what have you got against the
poor guy? Could we just drop the whole thing? This
just isn't like you, Marge. For goodness sake, what did
Harry Warren ever do to you? Clapton hotel? Uh, I'd
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like to speak with mister Valerius Coslo please thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Uh? Well when will he be back?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
What?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well? He couldn't have checked out? Are you sure? I
see all right? Honey?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Who was on the phone?
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I was just talking to Carolyn. Jeez, I've been thinking
let's let's go away just the two of us. No,
it sounds great. We'll do it next weekend? Why not
now this weekend? Uh? I can't, Honey, I've gotta be
in Denver for that audit. You're flying to Denver. You
just came back. What could I do? My hands are tied.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Spangler Continental decides if this is the time to deplay
a bankruptcy?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Gee, take me with you? Well to tender what on
earth for? I just don't want to be here.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh but I.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Can't take you. I wouldn't have any time to see
you with me, Honey. Look, I know it hasn't been
easy for you with me away so much.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
But but I promise.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
When I get back, I'm gonna take the entire week off.
We can go anywhere you like.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And how about it?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
But I I want I wow?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Would you look at the time, I'm gonna miss my plane. Well,
I must say, muge, I was more than a little
surprised when I got your phone call.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Uh huh Who I was that? Well?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I was under the impression that, uh, you didn't particularly.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Care for me. Well, Harry, I'm really sorry if I
gave you that impression.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Frankly, I'm confused. Why why are you asking to see
me with uh?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Steve out of town.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well, now, what's so confusing about it? You are a
very attractive man, Harry, and I can tell you aren't
exactly indifferent to me.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
It's just that I never thought, I mean the way
you ask, Harry.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Let me tell you something. You have no idea what
it's like being married to Steve. Now, he's a sweet
person and I'm quite fond of him, But I mean,
he's never home. How are you telling me that you
what did? Yeah? Plenty of times? I mean what am
I supposed to do? Sit home and John Stockey?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I don't know what to say that you.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Thought I didn't like you? Didn't? You see? That's the
way I always have to play it when Steve's around,
to set him off the trap. It's just that I
can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I mean, you don't look like the type.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Why are you saying that you didn't feel it too?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Feel what?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
What do they call it? Kind of vibration? Chemistry? Of
course I felt it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I felt it from the first time we met.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
In that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
What are you doing tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I had no plans. Would you want to see me?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yes? I would where it? It can't be anywhere in town?
You know, people would talk somewhere out of the way
where nobody would recognize Marge.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I know a place. It's the cabin of an old
friend of mine. He's out of the country now, but
he gave me the key. Ah, and believe me, it
is so isolated no one would ever say it's no.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
One whatever it is good. I can follow you up
there in my car.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I still can't get over it.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I just one thing. Promise you won't mention this to anybody.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Of course I won't.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And uh, be sure it doesn't really bother you. Being
Steve's friend and everything. Well, Steve is my friend.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But you know what they say, all's fair and lovely
and what Yes, that is what they say.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Uh h, this is quite a little cabin in the woods.
Your friend must be very well off. M very certainly
is isolated. Your friend must like privacy.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
He does indeed, Oh, is is that a terrorist over there?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Would you like to take a look at the mule.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Let's go out on the terrace. Wow, that's quite a drop.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Isn't it forty feet at least? Hey, I didn't realize
how chilie it's got. Let's go back inside.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Now, let's stay out just a little longer. I say,
it's forty feet from here to the rocks. For like
that would kill a person, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Most probably?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Marge? What's going side? Not yet? March?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
What the devil?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
It's Steve's gun. He keeps running the house.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Why are you pointing it at me?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I want you to stand near the rail, March. What's
this all about? Do you really think I would ever
be unfaithful to my husband?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Marge?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Give me that gun, come.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Any closer, or I swear I'll use it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I don't understand. Is this some kind of joke.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
A joke? No, this is most certainly not a joke.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Well, then we don't move. I mean it, Marge, what's
going on?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
What have I ever done? Is that what you were
going to say? Harry Wan hasn't done anything. On the
other hand, Captain Hans Dietrich has who don't look so surprised.
I know who you really are. What are you talking about?
In some ways we have a lot in common. We're
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both survivors.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You aren't making any sense.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Borsius, escaping the past, clinging to new identities, working year
after year to remove every vestige of the old life,
even down to losing our accents.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
You are not an American.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I spent my early childhood in a village called Hammanvier,
Hammond Vier, surely you remember it. During the war we
were occupied by the Germans. I was little, only eight,
but I can remember. They were commanded by a very
young officer. His eyes a cold gray man who never laughed,
(38:03):
never smiled. He was always posting pages of rules we
were to follow.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I think you've gone out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Let me finish. One day he was angry. I've never
seen any face so full of anger rage. I was young.
I didn't understand how things were, something about helping soldiers Americans.
I was afraid of that face, the anger, So.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I hid in a doorway, I said.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
When the captain made everyone gather on the village square
and made a long, hard speech about treason and how
he must make an example of our town. Why are
you telling me this? Because I want you to know
the reason you are to die. You think I'm Dietrich.
I know you are Dietrith. You're making a mistake.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I've never even been to Belgium.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
How would you know that hammondber was in Belgium. Now
you can lie to the rest of the world. But
you can't lie to me, Dietrich. Is if I could
ever forget those eyes and that voice, your voice giving
the final order to level my village. Admit, admit who
(39:24):
you are.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I am Hans Dietrich, Captain s S Military number one
seventy two dashed nine three four eight one.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I have brought you here, Captain Dietrich, for the purpose
of administering justice. You have been found guilty of the
murder of the village of Hamenber, guilty of the murder
of two hundred and seventy one people, my mother, my father,
(40:01):
my two sisters.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
These things are necessary in times of war. Treason is
punishable by death.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
I now sentence you to death. Get up on that ledge.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Now, I see you intend to make me jump.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
You yourself said the forward cure, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
What is the matter?
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Missus Stafford your face, you don't even look afraid.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I am not afraid.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Aren't you going to beg me for your life?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
No, it is almost a relief to no longer deny
who I truly am. I am Haunts Dietric, and I
am proud to join my friends, my fallen comrades. Go ahead, shoot, shoot,
I am not afraid to die like a soldier. There
(40:55):
is no bread to glory than to die like a soldier.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
What are you waiting for, shirt? No, No, it's what
you want me to do, isn't it. It's the easy
way out for you. It's merciful, quick, almost glorious for you. No, No,
(41:21):
this isn't justice. You are afraid. No, I'm not afraid,
not anymore. I'm taking you back back to my old country,
back to justice.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Than she did.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Captain Hans Dietrich is spending the rest of his life
in prison thanks to the testimony of Marge Stafford. Of course,
Marge and her husband found it necessary to quit the
country club, but somehow they have discovered it doesn't really matter.
One thing that does matter, however, is that you stay
with us until I return. With some final words, Ralph
(42:24):
Waldo Emerson wrote the words, one man's justice is another's injustice.
One man's beauty another's ugliness, one man's wisdom another's folly.
How true the thought. But also it is true that
ultimately there is only one good and one evil, one
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right and one wrong. And if the human beings of
this world finally ever come to realize that there is
a universal ethic, mankind will have reached its golden age.
Our cast included Terry Keen, Russell Horton, Leon Johnny and
Mandel Kramer. The entire production was under the direction of
(43:06):
Hymond Brown.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
In the macabre.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Until next time, pleasant,
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