The Future Quarter That Predicted a Murder

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
LATENSI Stations Present Escape.

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Speaker 6 (00:43):
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Speaker 7 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Come in. Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall.

Speaker 7 (01:57):
Consider if you will the earthworm, one of the lowliest
of creatures. If You're an average person. You probably never
have thought about an earthworm at all, except perhaps as
bait for a fish hook or breakfast for a robin.
And yet our lives would be impossible without.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Him or her.

Speaker 7 (02:17):
Or do earthworms have sex? See we're not even sure.
But unless you had earthworms constantly, ceaselessly boring their holes
in the ground, it would be virtually impossible for things
to grow. Why then, are not earthworms hailed and honored
by all mankind?

Speaker 8 (02:37):
Well?

Speaker 7 (02:37):
Whoever said you always get what you deserve in this world?

Speaker 9 (02:41):
I love you, darling, and I've never loved anyone as
much as I love you.

Speaker 10 (02:47):
I'm so happy. I only hope you're as happy as
I am. Are you really happy?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (02:56):
It doesn't sound very enthusiastic, Charlene, I'm happy, except what
is it, darling?

Speaker 8 (03:04):
Well?

Speaker 9 (03:04):
I uh, I have these terrible dreams. Dreams, yeah, dreams
in which I keep killing you.

Speaker 7 (03:27):
Our mystery drama, The Aurora Group was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Danken stars Larry Haynes. It
is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and General Electric.
I'll be back shortly with Act one. All cats are

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gray in the dark. So are most people. Most people
are very much like most other people. Work, eat, sleep,
have a little fun or have no fun at all,
get married, have children, get old, die.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
What a world?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Is this what it's all about.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Here's a young fellow, maybe thirty or so, works as
an office manager, names Zachary Taylor everhart, quiet, industrious. You
couldn't say a word against him. He has a nice,
quiet wife. They live in a nice quiet apartment. They
lead a nice, quiet life. Now, if you think this

(04:41):
story is going to be a little bit too nice
and quiet for you, wait, got you that?

Speaker 8 (04:48):
Yeah, I'm home.

Speaker 9 (04:49):
How did it go at the office?

Speaker 10 (04:51):
Say you're wearing the new suit?

Speaker 9 (04:53):
Yeah, I was leading the office. The store called said
it was ready to pick up. It looks great.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well that's what I decided to wear it home.

Speaker 9 (05:00):
What did you do with the old one?

Speaker 11 (05:01):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (05:02):
I just left it there. I couldn't stand the sight
of it anymore. Well, I'm glad.

Speaker 10 (05:06):
I hope you remember to transfer everything out of the pocket.

Speaker 9 (05:08):
Hey, hey, hey, not listen, I'm the one with the
memory in this house.

Speaker 10 (05:12):
Well, i'm short of change. I need another quarter for
the milk machine.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh really, I don't think I.

Speaker 9 (05:17):
Have any look in your pocket? Oh, like, I couldn't
have any change, darling, I remember I.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Rough? Way I do. There's a quarter, you see, That's
all I have.

Speaker 9 (05:27):
That's enough. I'll be back in a couple of seconds.

Speaker 10 (05:29):
Okay, hey, don't drape that new jacket over the chair,
hang it in the closet and start treating that new suit.

Speaker 9 (05:36):
Right, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Hey, how long till dinner?

Speaker 12 (05:39):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (05:40):
Half an hour? Okay, I'm gonna sit down, close my
eyes relaxed for a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, I had a rough day.

Speaker 10 (05:47):
It wasn't all peaches and cream around here.

Speaker 9 (05:50):
Look better not fall asleep. You'll wrinkle those new trousers. Okay.
That was the day began. That was the day of discovery.
That was the day that changed my life. Just an
ordinary day, a routine day. She went to the milk

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machine in the hallway of our apartment building, as she
had done so many times, countless times in the past.
And it was by a fluke, the merest chance that well, anyhow,
she was back in less than a minute. Sack, huh,
what's matter, emma? Machine out of milk? Sack.

Speaker 10 (06:34):
I was about to put this quarter you just gave
me into the machine when.

Speaker 9 (06:38):
I, well, look at it?

Speaker 1 (06:42):
What is account of it?

Speaker 9 (06:43):
I don't know, Emma, It's just a quarter.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
What's the problem.

Speaker 9 (06:48):
Look at it?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
It looks okay?

Speaker 9 (06:52):
Closely the date?

Speaker 8 (06:54):
What about the date? Oh?

Speaker 9 (06:55):
What does it say? Come on, Emma, read the date?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Nineteen eighty six?

Speaker 8 (07:03):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (07:04):
No, it is not okay?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Why not?

Speaker 10 (07:09):
How can it say nineteen eighty six? Well it does
very clearly, and that's not for cure. Well why should
it be pqure Hey wait a minute, yes, wait a minute.

Speaker 9 (07:20):
Well that it's got to be a mistake. Do they
make mistakes like that?

Speaker 8 (07:25):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 9 (07:26):
It's just an ordinary US quarter. Except for the date.
Why does it say nineteen eighty six? I can't understand that.

Speaker 10 (07:35):
After all, it's not going to be nineteen eighty six
for a long time.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
Yet, I just don't understand. I can't figure it out.
Can you remember where you got it?

Speaker 8 (07:45):
No?

Speaker 10 (07:46):
No, Well think you had to pick up change somewhere today?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
No I didn't.

Speaker 9 (07:50):
I can remember all the money I handled. I had
four quarters. Well was this one of them?

Speaker 13 (07:56):
No?

Speaker 9 (07:56):
No, no, no, I'll tell you why. I spent two
of them on the bus this morning. The other two
on the bus tonight, and those four quarters were all
a change I had. Well during the day coffee breaker
was Johnson's Street lunch. I ate at the cotter, came
to a buck sixty and I left two dollar bills. Well,

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you had to pick it up somewhere, Darning. I had
no other change. I knew it, don't you remember when
I came home. You asked me if I had a quarter?
I said no, And then I found this in my pocket.
Maybe it was in the suit when you got it.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, no, no, it couldn't have been.

Speaker 9 (08:30):
Well, how can you be sure? Well, I took it
out of the jacket pocket and the pocket was still
sewed up.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
The tailor had to slit it open.

Speaker 9 (08:37):
It was empty. Then how did the quarter get in there?

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I'm sure this got to be an explanation.

Speaker 9 (08:46):
It's kind of scary.

Speaker 10 (08:47):
Why, Well, you're holding a coin there that's got a
date almost ten years away. I suppose that coin was
really minted in nineteen eighty six, Darley.

Speaker 9 (08:59):
House, Well, it won't be nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 10 (09:02):
For at least I didn't ask you if it was possible.
I asked you, suppose it was?

Speaker 9 (09:09):
No, Emma, it wasn't it couldn't be. It's impossible. Why
don't we forget it? Forget it?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (09:21):
How do you forget a thing like that? And it's
just no way to explain it. After a couple of days,
I think she forgot about it. I mean, she got
all excited over it in the beginning, but that's em.
After a while, other things come up and she just
goes on to something else. But I kept bothering me.

(09:43):
So one day, how my lunch are? I noticed this
little shop or these old time coins? Yes, sir, I
have this coin here. I'd like you to look at it. Yes, well, interesting, yeah,
I thought so. This is a Washington twenty five cent piece.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
They were first.

Speaker 9 (10:07):
Struck in nineteen thirty two, the bicentennial of Washington's birth.
The obverse is the face of George Washington.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yes, I know that.

Speaker 9 (10:17):
The reverse is the spread eagle.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yes, yes, but tella.

Speaker 9 (10:21):
Originally and until nineteen sixty three, they were made of silk.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
What I want to know, sir? Now, however, they.

Speaker 9 (10:28):
Consist of a copper silver alloy.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, well is it kind of fit?

Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
No, no, never.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
This is from the then very.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Mint I can tell, But.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
The date for another day.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
We'll read it.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
I read it.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
That's all you can say.

Speaker 9 (10:48):
What do you want me to say? This coin was
meant it in nineteen eighty six? How can you say
it was minted in nineteen eighty six?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes? Interesting point?

Speaker 9 (10:57):
Should I say it will be minted in nineteen eighty six?
But it exists? What could there have been a mistake
a minner?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
No?

Speaker 9 (11:08):
Why not? We would know about it.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, then, what are you telling me?

Speaker 9 (11:13):
I'm telling you you have a coin from nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
How is that possible?

Speaker 9 (11:18):
That is not my field possibilities. I am an expert
only in numismatics.

Speaker 8 (11:25):
Now, then I.

Speaker 9 (11:27):
Suppose you wish to know the value of this twenty
five cent piece, I would imagine it would be worth
a fortune. I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (11:36):
Right now, all I.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Could offer is the face value.

Speaker 9 (11:39):
That's twenty percent, which is my normal commission. But a
coin from a future, a coin from the future, is
worthless only a coin from the past. We as answer
you see, value is based on variety. Since I do
not know how many twenty five cent pieces will be
struck in nineteen eighty six, I cannot sign. And he

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threw work.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
What would he seemed to me?

Speaker 10 (12:02):
That.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
How did you happen to come into possession? I uh,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Don't forgive me.

Speaker 9 (12:11):
I have no right to ask that question, unless, of course,
you wish there was in it.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
So it isn't that why you came in here?

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Well, I'm sorry you thought it might be worth a fortune.
If only you know how many bubbles it is my
misfortune to burst? He said, more, a great deal more.
But I wasn't listening. Where did that quarter come from?

(12:43):
How did it get into my pocket? I felt completely
up against the wall because there was no place to go,
nobody to ask.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
If it was.

Speaker 9 (12:52):
Something in my mind, I could see a doctor, a psychiatrist.
But here was the quarter, the quarter from almost ten
years in the future, the physical, actual quarter. Who could
get around that?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
How could I get around that?

Speaker 9 (13:14):
And then when I got home another problem? Zach, huh
what is it?

Speaker 10 (13:20):
Didn't you check through that new suit when you got us?

Speaker 9 (13:22):
Well, sure, no you didn't.

Speaker 10 (13:25):
I was hanging it away for you when I noticed
a stain on the sleeve.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
Look, oh, oh that's right.

Speaker 10 (13:32):
Oh you let them sell you a suit with a
stain on?

Speaker 9 (13:35):
Well, darling, I didn't notice that. It's because you never looked, Emma, Emma,
this is the first time I ever spent so much
money on a suit.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
You can bet I looked.

Speaker 9 (13:43):
Well, meanwhile, the stain is here. Well, I got off
the bus, I went into the store, I put on
the suit, and I walked home. It's only three blocks.
There's no way for that stain to get on there.
When I got home, I changed clothes before dinner. Or
are you going to let them get away with it?

Speaker 11 (13:56):
Get away with what?

Speaker 10 (13:57):
People can do anything to you and you just take it.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
Not just a minute. I'm bringing the suit back tomorrow.
It's a coffee stain. A coffee stain, no doubt about it.
Did you stop off on their way home for a
cup of coffee?

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Maybe?

Speaker 8 (14:14):
No?

Speaker 9 (14:14):
No, Are you sure a stain must have been in
the suit when I bought it?

Speaker 5 (14:17):
That may be.

Speaker 11 (14:19):
Anyway, we'll take it out.

Speaker 8 (14:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (14:20):
Well look, look, mister Plotts, it's just that when I
buy a brand new suit, I think know more about it.

Speaker 13 (14:26):
It's a very light stain.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, well, do the best you can. Huh. This is funny.
What's funny?

Speaker 13 (14:32):
It's an old stain?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Old? How can it be an old stain? It's a
new suit.

Speaker 9 (14:39):
See how the stain has set and faded.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
It just looks like a stain to me.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
It's black coffee alcer has picked up over the years.

Speaker 8 (14:49):
Other than years.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
But it's a new suit.

Speaker 9 (14:51):
The suit is new, the stain is old. How can
that be?

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
I'll take out the stain, I'll remove it. No a
state even exists, Well, how did it get there? That
must remain a mystery? Well yeah, but but life is
so full of mysteries. Well one more than anybody. And
now look, I'm entitled to know how mine. Believe me,
I would tell you.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Well, are you satisfied? Yes, I am satisfied. I left
the suit at the store.

Speaker 9 (15:23):
If I'd been feeling peculiar before, it was nothing, nothing
at all to the way I was feeling.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Now.

Speaker 9 (15:29):
Something was happening, something was taking place, and it was
inside my mind. For the life of me, I couldn't
understand what it was. When I got home, I got.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
The scare of my life the minute I saw Emma, Emma, emma.

Speaker 9 (15:44):
What is it? What is it? Your hair? What did
you do to your hair?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
My hair?

Speaker 9 (15:53):
Nothing? What would I do to my hair? Well, it's gray,
your hair is gray, and you and your face. What
are you talking? What just look look look in the mirror.
Come over here, come over here.

Speaker 10 (16:07):
Oh, Zack, what's the matter with you? There is nothing
different about my hair. Yeah, but just before my face?
What's different about my face? I don't know what made
you say my hair was great.

Speaker 9 (16:24):
Well, for a minute it looked maybe maybe it was
the way the light struck it. The light, yeah, the light,
the light. It can play tricks on your eyes. Zach,
Are you all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all right.

Speaker 10 (16:38):
I think you're working too hard. You you better see
a doctor.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
You're working too hard, You better see a doctor. How
often do wives say that if you had a dollar
for each time, you'd be rich beyond old dreams. But
even though you'd be fabulously wealthy, you would still be
curious to know what was going to happen and act
too well. Join the rest of us here in just

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a few minutes. We're dealing here with a set of circumstances,
a juxtaposition, as it were, of the old and the new.
We have a coin from a date that is still

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in the future. We have a stain that is years
old on a suit that is brand new.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
Ordinarily, we could say that the person to.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
Whom it is all happening is well hallucinating, But the
problem is he has witnesses.

Speaker 9 (17:57):
You can get an attack of fever, but what you
cannot do is lived at fever pitch indefinitely. Okay, the
coin from nineteen eighty six, the stain on the suit mysterious,
sits puzzling, it's even frustrating. But life has to go on.
So the weeks went by, the months, maybe even a year.

(18:19):
I forgot all about the coin, and as far as
the suit was concerned, well, by now it was the
suit that I wore without thinking about it. And then
one day sad, Yeah, an't you home early? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I guess.

Speaker 10 (18:33):
So anything happened at the office today?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah? I got fired?

Speaker 11 (18:38):
Oh LA's night.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
What what did you say?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I got fired?

Speaker 9 (18:43):
But out of a clear blue sky, of a.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Clear blue sky.

Speaker 9 (18:46):
What did you do? I didn't do a thing, but
you must have done something.

Speaker 14 (18:50):
No.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
I arrived at the office, hung up my hat and clothsacked.
Tell me what happened, and mister Abysty called me into
his office.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
What did he say?

Speaker 9 (18:56):
He said, you're fired without anything, And he said I'm
fired too.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
If it'll make you feel any better.

Speaker 9 (19:04):
Why was he fired? We're all fired, every last one.

Speaker 10 (19:06):
Why you can't fire everybody in the company.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
There is no longer a company.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
What do you mean it's no longer it's.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Finished and died over and done well?

Speaker 9 (19:16):
Will you please make sense?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Does any of it make sense?

Speaker 9 (19:19):
I gave this company nine years of my life, nine
of my best years. I thought I was building a future.
I thought I had some place to go. And where
was it?

Speaker 11 (19:26):
The scrappy?

Speaker 9 (19:27):
But what happened? Did you ever hear of the Aurora Group?
The Aurora Group? You never heard of it. It never
heard of you either, and yet it has altered the
entire course of your life.

Speaker 10 (19:38):
You still didn't tell me what happens?

Speaker 9 (19:40):
Somewhere in Chicago, Illinois, one thousand miles from here, there's
a group of men, maybe women too, and they play monopoly,
only it's with real money and for real business. And
they say, let's buy Taylor and Cornwell. That's your corp rate.
And then they say, Taylor and Cornwell have a marketing
division called Nola Research. Let's get rid of it.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Fly Look right here on this table is a fly fish.

Speaker 9 (20:08):
Don't make a sound, you'll frighten him. Now, just let
me roll up this newspaper. No watch fifu.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, I got him.

Speaker 10 (20:19):
You see, look, Zach, we were talking about something import I.

Speaker 9 (20:23):
Don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
This fly.

Speaker 9 (20:26):
He was minding his own business, right, he was doing
what he always does. And then that last split second,
when he felt that awful rush of wind, he knew
he was going to be killed, killed before he could
even make a move to save himself. Did he know
why he was going to be killed? Now you can
say he was killed because he was a pest? Zach,

(20:46):
I don't know what to say to all that.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
The fly he doesn't know he's a pest.

Speaker 9 (20:50):
You haven't answered my question.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh yes, I think I have.

Speaker 9 (20:54):
The Aurora Group got rid of Nola Marketing for the
same reason I slapped the fly.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
It's a pest.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Okay, what to do a thing like?

Speaker 9 (21:01):
Do you think business operates on generosity and kindness consideration
for other people? Know, every eye turns to the bottom line,
the almighty dollar.

Speaker 8 (21:11):
The basic buck.

Speaker 9 (21:12):
Nine years in nine years, I never missed the day,
first to arrive, last leave. You can get another job.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Is that how you dismiss my nine years back?

Speaker 9 (21:20):
Life goes on?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that's funny. You should put it that way.

Speaker 9 (21:26):
Now, what did I say?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's how you.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
Talk after a funeral about somebody who died.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
It says, if I.

Speaker 10 (21:34):
Died, But why don't we just go out tonight, have dinner,
see a show, go dinner.

Speaker 9 (21:39):
Oh sure, sure, look at what we've got to celebrate.

Speaker 10 (21:43):
Doc, You're only thirty four years old. It isn't the
end of the world. You get another job.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
You keep saying that.

Speaker 15 (21:49):
True.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know what I said just before?

Speaker 9 (21:51):
Well maybe I I did.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Just get back from a funeral, Zach.

Speaker 10 (21:57):
I think we just better stop this kind of talk.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
A part of me died, and a part of me
died with Nola marketing.

Speaker 10 (22:04):
The worst thing a wife can say at a time
like this is I.

Speaker 9 (22:09):
Told you, sir, why say it?

Speaker 10 (22:11):
Because maybe it'll teach you a lesson. I always said,
you just can't give so much of yourself.

Speaker 11 (22:17):
Do your work.

Speaker 9 (22:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, you said it, and I'll give you
full credit.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Now.

Speaker 9 (22:20):
Believe me, it will never happen again from now on.
I'm strictly a nine top five guy. I could tell
you more about how things went that day, but why I.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Was feeling sorry for myself and I was.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
Right, Helven, how much do you want to hear about
other people's troubles. Besides, I haven't even gotten too the
real troubles yet. I found another job after a while.
It didn't pay as much as my old one. But
as mister Stebbins said when he hired me, your salary

(22:57):
around here will depend on what you can show us,
mister River, advancement is quick and the money keeps up
with it provided a man has got the stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Sure i'd heard that before.

Speaker 9 (23:13):
Well, mister Stebbens for me, you get just what you
pay for it, and not another penny's worth more. Hi,
wanta bee?

Speaker 16 (23:25):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Tea?

Speaker 9 (23:26):
Okay for your cup of coffee? Wait a minute, I
said Teare you kidding? Did you say tea?

Speaker 11 (23:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's what I said.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
You know what that proves, It proves we just don't listen.

Speaker 17 (23:37):
I mean, the average person comes in here wants coffee,
so I try to beat him to the punch.

Speaker 9 (23:42):
Oh yeah, let me still that out.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, no, no, no, it's all right. Uh yeah, maybe I will.

Speaker 9 (23:47):
Have coffee today once every ten years.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I guess I can enjoy it.

Speaker 9 (23:52):
No, no, let me take it from you.

Speaker 18 (23:54):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Oh did you get any of that on you?

Speaker 19 (23:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
No, it's all right.

Speaker 17 (23:59):
Look when where we spill anything in this place, the
boss says, to tell the customer that dry cleaning is on.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
O Oh, it's okay. It's not very much of a stand.
It'll come out.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
I'm sorry, h I I never saw you in here before.
You work in the village, Yeah, I uh started yesterday.
Oh well, don't be a stranger.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Her name was Stella.

Speaker 9 (24:24):
She had that real dark jet black chair, black chair,
and black eyes, I mean shiny, sparkling black eyes.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Altogether, she was something to look at.

Speaker 9 (24:40):
So I looked at her, and I can honestly say
it was the first time in the nine years I was.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Married that I ever looked at another girl.

Speaker 9 (24:49):
I mean looked, and I could tell she liked me too,
But I wasn't the kind of fools around. That kind
of thing leads into more trouble than you can handle.

Speaker 20 (25:00):
Mmmm.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
Anyhow, That's what I told myself at the beginning. Meanwhile,
I was getting settled in on the new job.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Back.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
Yes, mister Stebbens, sit down the Anderson contract. You remember it, yes, sir,
and you checked it out. I did thoroughly. I pride
myself that I do my work thoroughly, mister Stebbins. The
figure was a hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Do you remember, Yes, didn't it strike you that a
hundred and thirty.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
Was rather low for all the services we would have
to provide?

Speaker 9 (25:31):
Yes, they're very low. You know why didn't you say so? Well,
it wasn't my job, mister Stepens. Simon was required only
to examine the basic research elements and requirements. I was
not asked to examine the budget. But surely it would
go without saying that budgetary considerations would come into it. Well,
the proposal was prepared by my immediate superior, George Wood.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
That was his figure.

Speaker 9 (25:51):
It may have been part of a strategic plan of
his own, and I wasn't gonna get into a battle
with him over it. So we don't battle with each
other in this outfit. We were together, yes, sir. As
it happens, the hundred thirty was a typographical error. It
should have been two hundred thirty. Now in the future, Zach,
don't be afraid to be independent, aren't you that type

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of guy? I used to be that type of guy,
mister Steppens, but I've learned. Sure I could have taken
that proposal home and burned hours of midnight oil over it.
I could have turned it into a real money maker
for this company, but why so it could be taken
over by the Aurora Group and I'd be out and

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the cold again. You know the old saying, mister Steppens,
fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, Shame
on me, Zach. What is it?

Speaker 10 (26:52):
Well, it's Stu, if you must know. That's about all
we're going to afford.

Speaker 9 (26:56):
Every night for supper and the meat.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
And it gets smaller and smaller and less and less.
You simply got to earn more money.

Speaker 9 (27:03):
Look, and I have no illusions about my job. They
promised me the moon when I took it. Those companies
that are all alike, Zach, Maybe it's me.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
What's the matter with me?

Speaker 9 (27:13):
Do you look as if you don't care anymore?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
How can you say that.

Speaker 10 (27:18):
Your appearance used to be so neat, so orderly. Now
you wear the same suit all the time. It's even
gotta stay on.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
What difference does it make?

Speaker 9 (27:29):
Well, I'll have to go out and get a job.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Go ahead.

Speaker 10 (27:32):
I'm not really trained to do anything. All I studied
in school was ourt.

Speaker 9 (27:37):
Look I don't feel too good. I think I'll lie
down and take a nap. Hi, how are estella?

Speaker 21 (27:46):
Oh me, I'm great.

Speaker 9 (27:48):
Oh, what's the matter is.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
That it's a long story?

Speaker 9 (27:52):
Well, I got all day.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
I guess that has a real corny cliche.

Speaker 9 (27:56):
Beginnea like once upon a time. Oh no, more like
my wife doesn't understand me.

Speaker 22 (28:04):
Oh, I hear those stories all the time.

Speaker 9 (28:07):
Well, then I won't bother you with mine to yours.

Speaker 11 (28:10):
I'd listen.

Speaker 22 (28:11):
Oh, I get off at five.

Speaker 9 (28:15):
So maybe we could go somewhere. Do you have to
understand I had to talk to somebody. I wasn't out
for love or sex or any of the rest of
that that came later, just to be with a girl
who didn't keep nagging at me, Who was who just

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was quiet and soft and understanding, especially understanding, who really
knew what I was talking about when I mentioned the
Aurora Group. Oh, yes, I know my aunt, my father's sister.
She's very old country, very.

Speaker 17 (28:51):
Superstitious, which doesn't mean she's wrong. Now, the Aurora Group
is methistaff the angel of evil. The angel of evil,
any man who wishes to succeed challenges him, and therefore
that person must be struck down.

Speaker 9 (29:07):
As you were. Oh you know something.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I believe you.

Speaker 11 (29:11):
Oh so do I.

Speaker 22 (29:12):
But we'd better not tell anybody. They think we're crazy.

Speaker 9 (29:15):
They're crazy, crazy to think they can beat what wat's
his name? But if you don't.

Speaker 22 (29:21):
Bother him, he won't bother you.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
You may ask if that's how things had progressed between
Stella and me? Why didn't I get a divorce? Well, religiously,
it was impossible. Emma didn't believe in it, and neither
did Stella's husband. He was a merchant sailor, and he
was away for months at a time. But Emma was around. Actually,

(29:52):
she was doing very well. She had gotten herself a
job with a large, important art and antiques gallery.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
She was doing very well.

Speaker 10 (30:00):
Oh, mister Penriss says, they've had eyes on me, and
I can go places.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Well, look out. You don't irritate men for stuff? Who'll
skip it?

Speaker 9 (30:08):
Are you still wearing that same suit?

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Well?

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I can't afford another one.

Speaker 9 (30:11):
Well I'm making more money now, No, thank you. Why
don't you ask for a rate? If I do, they'll
fire me. I'm stuck away in a neat, little cubbyhole.
Then get another job.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's the same thing everywhere.

Speaker 9 (30:22):
I don't want to start that thing all over again. Besides,
I have work to do. Oh bringing work home? I say,
you didn't learn. Look at this beautiful all right?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
What's it supposed to be?

Speaker 11 (30:33):
What does it look like?

Speaker 8 (30:34):
Well, it looks like a dagger.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
It's a fine damna scene Florentine dagger.

Speaker 23 (30:39):
Here.

Speaker 10 (30:40):
You can read the information on the tag. I brought
it home because there's some spots to be cleaned.

Speaker 9 (30:46):
What what kind of information is this? I'll read the tag.
It has all the history. Well, it says on this
tag Exhibit A.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Exhibit A.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
And see that's how the various things are marked for
a trial. Exhibit A, Exhibit B is on Exhibit A
is usually the murder weapon.

Speaker 15 (31:15):
Murder weapon?

Speaker 1 (31:16):
What murder weapon? What murder? Are you thinking? What I'm thinking?

Speaker 7 (31:23):
Well, I'm thinking we'd all better be here for Act
three in just a few minutes. We are looking at
a beautifully damascene Florentine dagger, the work of an outstanding

(31:44):
Renaissance craftsman. Emma Eberhart, who works for a large art
and antique scallery, has brought it home to be cleaned.
Zachary Everhart looks at the tag attached as a dagger,
and instead of reading the history of the weapon, all
he sees is a notation that says exhibit A.

Speaker 9 (32:04):
What do you mean exhibit A? I type that tag myself, Emma.

Speaker 11 (32:08):
Read it.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
It says exhibit A.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
It says nothing of the sort. Look, sixteenth century dagger
believed to be the work of Casarella. Emma, when I
looked at that tag just before, it distinctly said exhibit A.
What must have been your imagination? No, No, it was
printed in big letters. So where is it now?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't know. I don't know, but it was there then?

Speaker 10 (32:30):
What happened to it? Why should you see something like that?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Cross examinal?

Speaker 9 (32:34):
Why don't you see a doctor? Look, I'm not a knut.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Where are you going out?

Speaker 4 (32:38):
What's her name?

Speaker 9 (32:39):
Whose name? Whoever it is you're going to see.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
I'm just going for a walk.

Speaker 10 (32:44):
Why don't you see doctor Salmon? What for you're coming apart?
I'm all right, Well, Zach, it's been five years since
you lost that job with Norse.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
You mean, since that Aurora group destroyed.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Nollars is business.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
You've got to get hold of yourself. Look what happened
to that coin?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
What coin?

Speaker 10 (33:04):
Don't you remember five years ago you found a quarter.
It was dated nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 9 (33:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well nineteen.

Speaker 10 (33:11):
Eighty six is still years away.

Speaker 11 (33:14):
What did you do with it?

Speaker 9 (33:15):
Well, I spent it. You've spent it. I dropped it
in a slot somewhere. It wasn't worth anything. I took
it into a coin expert. Then it's gone.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yes, it's gone, Zach.

Speaker 10 (33:27):
Somehow I feel that everything that's happened to you since
then is tied up somehow of that court.

Speaker 9 (33:32):
What happened to me was I got sandbagged by the
Aurora Group.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
That's what happened to me.

Speaker 10 (33:37):
I made an appointment for you with doctor Salmon. Please, Zach,
please keep it.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Let's straighten this whole business out at the start. Doctor.

Speaker 9 (33:53):
I don't believe in this entire psychiatry thing. I think
it's a waste of time. Why did you come?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Well, otherwise, my wife would have made me miserable. You
know what I told me a problem? Yeah, I'll bet
she did.

Speaker 9 (34:04):
She said you had suffered a terrible disappointment.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
I don't really.

Speaker 9 (34:08):
You would have worked wholeheartedly for a certain company that
was suddenly taken over by some conglomerate, and that was
the end of it.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Is that true?

Speaker 9 (34:16):
Well, that part of it is true, and since then
you've gone completely to piece. No, no, I'm just playing
it smart, not getting anybody else a chance to use
me and throw me away.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
But don't you think, don't I think?

Speaker 23 (34:26):
What that?

Speaker 9 (34:27):
I ought to pull myself together and make a fresh start.
And now look I I get that lecture from her.
Do I have to get it from you too.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I won't lecture you at all.

Speaker 9 (34:38):
I would merely say you must choose, choose between a
vigorous life and a living death.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Stever, Hut, stever hut. Why why are you looking at.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
Me like that?

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Why was I looking at him like that?

Speaker 9 (34:58):
When I first walked into in the office he had
a mustache, and now he had a beard, and he
looked a great deal older.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
And we weren't in the office at all.

Speaker 9 (35:10):
We weren't in the office at all. Doctor Salmon, you
have seen the defendant in.

Speaker 17 (35:15):
The past as a patient, That is correct, And what
was your impression?

Speaker 9 (35:21):
A rightly disturbed person in front way To be as
brief as possible, there are those people who simply cannot
cope with the precires of society when they meet with
severe disappointment or defeat. It becomes a psychological blow from
which they never recover.

Speaker 22 (35:36):
But why should this have made the defendant kill his wife?

Speaker 9 (35:41):
Doctor Salmon, Doctor Salmon, mister Beerhart, Stephart, Well, it seemed
to be in another world, doctor Salmon. Do you intend
to grow a beard?

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Is?

Speaker 8 (36:02):
How did you know?

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well? You should because you look very good. Step out.

Speaker 9 (36:06):
I'm trying to help you. No, No, that can't be done.
Why I just saw it? So no one can help me.
What did you just see the future? How can a
person I don't waste time with that. I've seen it.
I just realized I've.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Been seeing it all along.

Speaker 8 (36:25):
What you're saying is an impossibility.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
Oh I'm sure, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
I see the future. It's revealed to me in little flashes,
tiny clues you can't look. I get a coin, a
twenty five cent piece with a date far in the future.
I get a brand new suit that has a stain
on it, a stain that it's not supposed to pick

(36:48):
up until years later. I see a dagger with the
words exhibit A on it. I see a flash of
my wife with white hair. I see you with a
Beard testifying at a murder trial.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
My trial.

Speaker 9 (37:00):
You're trying, Yes, I can see myself the prisoner in
the dock. Well, well, obviously hallucinations. That's what you were
gonna say, huh, And that's how you intend to help me,
by trying to prove it's all.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
In my imagination. Nowhere else can Well, that's.

Speaker 9 (37:20):
Great for you. You want to help me on your terms,
help me on mine. I'm headed for a future where
I'm murdered my wife and stand trial.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Can you stop that future?

Speaker 9 (37:30):
Why do you want to murder your wife?

Speaker 11 (37:32):
I don't. I don't.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Surely you must have a reason. No, not not a
lot of women.

Speaker 9 (37:36):
No, I can't marry her anyway, which means Emma isn't
in the way.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
But doesn't Emma object?

Speaker 9 (37:42):
No, No, Emma is holding hands with this fenerous guy
at the gallery.

Speaker 16 (37:46):
Maybe you'd want to kill her for that.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, No, I don't care to you.

Speaker 9 (37:49):
As he has success, she's rising in the world. She's
going to be made manager at the gallery. It doesn't
mean a thing to me. Yet you insist you're going
to kill No. I don't insist on anything. All I
know is when I saw it in the future, what
do you think you show it if your talk talk
to have it your way. All I know is I'm
gonna kill her. I haven't the faintest idea why. Well,

(38:09):
then let me say that I can't imagine why, because
against my entire grain, I'm not a killer. But I'm
gonna do it, and there's no way to stop it.
I've seen in the future. I decided to get out
of here. How could I kill Emma if I wasn't around,

(38:33):
And so I decided to drop out, just disappear, and
I did it. There was no point in saying good
bye to Emma, who probably wouldn't even notice it, and
I didn't feel strong enough to say goodbye to Stella.
So the next morning and I just got on the
bus and I kept riding. I went from town to town,

(38:56):
from job to job. Things went from bad to worse.
I just couldn't get set anywhere. And that went on
for almost six or seven years, not that I was
keeping track. But one day I looked at a calendar
and it was July nineteen eighty six, and I knew

(39:19):
I was going home to where she was. I just
couldn't fight it anymore. I didn't even know what I
was fighting, and I had absolutely no desire to kill her.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Well, what would be would be?

Speaker 9 (39:38):
Zack? Oh sack?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Hell love stell, Oh sick zack.

Speaker 9 (39:43):
What's happened to you?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Nothing?

Speaker 11 (39:45):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (39:45):
You look so seedy?

Speaker 9 (39:47):
Why did you disappear?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Oh that's a long story.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
But you won't do it again? How lonely? You'll stay
with me.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
If you'll have me?

Speaker 9 (39:54):
Oh, zack telling I never loved anyone but you.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
I can't understand what.

Speaker 9 (40:00):
I have absolutely no reason in the world to want
to kill it. Don't talk about chilling yet. If you
listen to the sun, don't listen to anybody like Einstein.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
You see, I.

Speaker 9 (40:12):
Studied about this semma. Didn't you know the future has
already happened?

Speaker 18 (40:18):
Honey?

Speaker 17 (40:19):
What you need is a lot of sleep. Come on,
how can the future have already happened?

Speaker 9 (40:23):
Einstein's theory says the past, present, and future are all
into mena.

Speaker 17 (40:28):
Honey, honey, you don't want to bother your head with that,
believe me. Look, look, I'll tell you what. I'll close early.
It's four now, see give it another fifteen minutes. I
own it now we'll do just great. Look you drink
this nice hot cup of tea, and I'll have to
check out the register and.

Speaker 9 (40:46):
Read the paper.

Speaker 17 (40:47):
Huh yeah, all right, there's news about your wife and
it Emma. Yeah yeah, section two, her picture and everything.
She's become pretty big since you've been gone.

Speaker 9 (40:58):
Well that's the way she she wants at the section two.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
Weird.

Speaker 9 (41:01):
Oh, the bottom of the page. Should see your picture.
I didn't read the story.

Speaker 11 (41:05):
What does it say?

Speaker 9 (41:06):
Oh, missus Emma Eberhart, managing director of the allenb Gallery,
is managing director.

Speaker 8 (41:15):
Oh that isn't best.

Speaker 9 (41:16):
It's just been named a vice president and member of
the board of the parent company, the Aurora Group. Missus
Eberhard is the first woman to become a top executive
of this fast conglomerate, the Aurora Group. The Aurora Group, Memphistoff,
who you should know Memphistoff. She is a member of Mephistoff,

(41:38):
the Aurora Group. She has become one with those who
destroyed meet it. I wonder if she's home. I'm gonna
call her. I want to congratulate her. Oh, I don't
have any money, Let me have a quarter? A quarter?
Huh shore Zach here than thank you. Hey, that's that's
a nice brand new shiny night he eighty six, nineteen

(42:02):
eighty six.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Quarter.

Speaker 9 (42:03):
Oh, my lord, my good lord.

Speaker 24 (42:14):
Ah Ah, she isn't home.

Speaker 9 (42:28):
Here's the quarter. That's why, that's that's why I needed
the quarter. Sack, Where are you going? I knew where
I was going? To the gallery, to the gallery that
was owned by the Aurora Group, the Aurora Group, which
slowly but surely was taking over everything and everybody. Sack,
what are you doing here? Where have you been? I tried,

(42:51):
I tried to stay away because I didn't wanna kill you.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
But you became one of them. You're a member of
the Aurora.

Speaker 9 (42:57):
I'll have to ask you. Leah. Here it is on
this tabletop, this beautifully damoscene Florentine dagger. Do you see
see how it was ordained?

Speaker 1 (43:06):
How it was meant to be?

Speaker 9 (43:08):
Zach?

Speaker 11 (43:08):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Nothing? Nothing can help you, no one.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
You joined them, you became a part of them. I
always wanted to kill them, and I can. I can
do it by killing your.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Your face.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
It's the face of Nephistun and and now nephis stuff
is dead.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I killed her.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
I killed the Aurora Group.

Speaker 7 (43:48):
Well he didn't, not really. The Aurora Group is still
around bigger, richer than ever. But just as every man
has his price, every man can have his motive.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
And if you think you're.

Speaker 7 (44:03):
Not the type who could kill, well, it all depends
on the game and mistakes. Doesn't it more about the
game in just a few minutes. There are those who

(44:28):
insist that society is also responsible for our crimes, and
there's a considerable body of evidence to prove it. After all,
we insist on winner take everything.

Speaker 20 (44:41):
We make it intolerable to be a loser.

Speaker 7 (44:45):
Our cast included Larry Haynes, Ann Williams, Briana Rayburn, Jo
DeSantis and Leon Jenny. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown and now a preview of our
next tale. We've thought of everything, everything except that we
won't be able to communicate with you.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
On the surface in case of trouble.

Speaker 7 (45:07):
Well, that is true. It's the one thing we'd like
to do, but we can't. I understand.

Speaker 25 (45:12):
Once we start down, we'll be free, floating entirely on
our own.

Speaker 9 (45:16):
For the next six months.

Speaker 7 (45:18):
You two will go through the most intensive training possible
in handling the sphere. I wish I were young enough
to see for myself firsthand the things you're going to see.

Speaker 8 (45:30):
Have you any idea like what?

Speaker 7 (45:33):
No, not exactly, but there have to be things down
there that no living man has ever experienced, Things that
go beyond the wildest dreams of our imagination, Sam Star,
the day has come when man through you is about
to prove some of the darkest mysteries of the universe.

(45:56):
Radio Mystery Theory were sponsored in Park by General Electric
and Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time, Pleasant Dream.

Speaker 26 (46:48):
William Gargan stars as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.

Speaker 9 (47:01):
Here a guy called the deep type. There might be
more a matter of geography than mentality, how deep it
is Greed.

Speaker 26 (47:17):
A National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan in another transcribed drama,
Mystery and Adventurer, with America's number one detective Barry Craig,
Confidential Investigator.

Speaker 9 (47:36):
Harry Craig speaking, work is where you find it. When
the case of Harry Jarvis fell into.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
My lap, I was nine hundred miles from.

Speaker 9 (47:43):
Only bordering south along the Florida Highway. My destination Miami.
I wanted to see how horses.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Were treating men at the Big Winter Track. My usual
annual staff over about one hundred miles. This side of
Miami was a mote.

Speaker 9 (48:02):
The Happy Traveler Motel a big knee on signs then
a sixteen cabin set up complete with hot showers and television,
run by.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Two partners, O Birch and Harry Jarvis. I knew the
two of them way back.

Speaker 9 (48:16):
They'd run a custom habitashery in New York once before
going south to change their luck. Inside I found Mo,
but missed Harry.

Speaker 8 (48:25):
The last I've.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Seen Harry said goodbye or keeps Mo?

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:29):
If you two being inseparable for ten years twelve?

Speaker 5 (48:33):
A business partnerships like a marriage, sooner.

Speaker 13 (48:35):
Or later it gets tired.

Speaker 16 (48:36):
There's a divorce.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
One way of looking at it. Who saw it first?

Speaker 9 (48:41):
You are Harry? Harry?

Speaker 27 (48:43):
You heard the words faithful under death.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Who hasn't let me?

Speaker 13 (48:46):
I'm a sentimental slob.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Craig to change the subject, how's business?

Speaker 27 (48:50):
You saw my vacancy signs? Vivian in yeah, can tell
yourself to answer?

Speaker 9 (48:54):
Business is loud? I thought the Happy Traveler Motel was
a going concern.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
It was, and Harry demanded his interest in tay Oh.

Speaker 9 (49:03):
The books couldn't liquidate Harry's claim and still balanced.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Huh.

Speaker 27 (49:07):
Harry put thirty thousand dollars in his pocket. There wasn't
even enough left to pay the towel and linen service.

Speaker 9 (49:12):
So where do you go from here?

Speaker 5 (49:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 27 (49:15):
We loved Harry, We knew ups and downs. Times were tough,
we shared a crust of bread. Times were goodly. Bud
each other diamond's tiff face.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Then what's really got you worried about Harry?

Speaker 5 (49:27):
Last ring?

Speaker 27 (49:28):
Harry married a cabaret girl like Keithy Adams, a singer
in a rhode. I didn't know that a homeless shrimp
like Harry, forty four years old, not a hair in
his bald head, taking a young cabaret chicken for a wife.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Forty four is the dangerous age for men. They say,
a crack opens in your head.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
Yeah, and other thing's craig the people.

Speaker 27 (49:48):
Harry began to go around with a bop musician, a
hornblower with a crazy named big Oel'bernie, and.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
A gangster in the silk suit.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Gangster in the silk suit.

Speaker 27 (49:58):
Tony Saxon. I ran Am out of New York. They
ran him out of Miami.

Speaker 9 (50:02):
They ran Tony Saxon out of San Francisco, Seattle, Nevada,
and Dubuke.

Speaker 27 (50:10):
It could only be my imagination, something out of my
nervousness for Harry.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
But the last days before we dissolved partnership to knee,
Harry had a frightened.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Look, like like he was scared for his life.

Speaker 9 (50:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
And another strange thing.

Speaker 27 (50:25):
Yeah, he took his money and he made he had
a bus ticket for Key West, he said.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
The bus at six o'clock that night.

Speaker 27 (50:31):
But I asked the driver the next day, Krogan the driver,
he stops over here to grab a bien worsh up.
How did Harry look to him on the bus, I asked,
But no, Harry, Crogan said, Harry never got on that bus.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
You find it mysterious.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
What I find more mysterious is that Harry's wife, Kiky Adams,
is still right here in town, in the same furnished
department they rented last spring.

Speaker 9 (50:52):
Maybe Harry ditchter.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Crazy the way he was over her.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
Impossible. Also, thinking from the angle of the wife, the
cash opportunity she grabbed when she married the poor fish Harry,
Harry's thirty thousand cash exactly.

Speaker 14 (51:09):
I asked, you would.

Speaker 27 (51:09):
Keeck you let a gold mine slip away on a bus?

Speaker 5 (51:12):
Craig, I need some help.

Speaker 9 (51:14):
Well, I figured only to stay over.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
Nice, stick around, Craig, find Harry for me, all right.

Speaker 9 (51:21):
I'll stay a few days, try to find out what
did happen to him?

Speaker 5 (51:26):
What cabin have I got cabin for the best.

Speaker 27 (51:28):
If you could wash up, Craig, then I'll broil your
steak free on the house.

Speaker 9 (51:38):
Two and a half pounds a quarterhouse steak. Later, with
my stomach to put in front of me, I went
calling on Kiky ad him to twelve l Street.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
I had directions on me.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
E it out by Moe Birch.

Speaker 9 (51:50):
Drive east across the railroad tracks and north one quarter
of a mile past the county jail. One quarter a
mile past the county.

Speaker 13 (51:57):
Jail, I stopped.

Speaker 9 (52:02):
Two twelve Elm Street was a two starry framed building
sandwich between an abandoned schoolhouse and a plumbing supply wholesaler,
A big front door with eyes and glass sweats on it,
and a brass knocker. I banged the knocker a little while,
and I tried the doorknob. I made less progress there.

(52:22):
The doorknob came off of my hand. A situation like
that can become embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
This one did.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Alright, drop it, Sam, it the doorknob.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
Sam, I saw your copy.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
You misjudge me, friend.

Speaker 5 (52:34):
I'm on the steps there beating my feet. I got
a cold eye on you, Sam. You low down, jelly belly.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
To the grass, jelly belly. Hey, what kind of giants?

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Biggle o' Bernie? Sam, And don't scratch your violin at me.

Speaker 9 (52:44):
Big al old Bernie. I've heard about you. You're the
butt musician.

Speaker 11 (52:48):
Hey man, who's been scattered?

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Scandal about big Ol'bernie?

Speaker 9 (52:51):
Never mind who has been scatting? Look, I'm a detective,
Harry Craig. I'm here to visit a lady missus Harry jobbitts.
Oh geeky, My eyes getting colder, Sam, Where can I
find Kiki Adams?

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Missus Harry jovis at the downby the down beat.

Speaker 9 (53:07):
That the club she works in. Dad is thanks, You
go back to beating your feet, and while you're mooning
over a blue Mamakiki, keep one fact in mind. I
don't shooting me, Sam.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Kiki is supposed to be another man's wife. Put that
in your horn and blow it music.

Speaker 9 (53:21):
Man. I caught up with Kiki a half hour before
a cabaret. I commend he was in addressing. Were doing
back there? Hey you're wasting calisthenics, Lady, strengthen your back.
Myles won't do a thing for your voice.

Speaker 28 (53:40):
I'm all the singing bit lover.

Speaker 11 (53:41):
Oh yeah, so many canaries around every kid.

Speaker 29 (53:46):
Out of high school.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
I see what you mean.

Speaker 29 (53:48):
So I get trampled in the mob.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
So it works out a specialty number acrobatics.

Speaker 9 (53:52):
Obviously more than that.

Speaker 30 (53:55):
I do it while footing on the sacks.

Speaker 31 (53:58):
See vividly while in the back ben.

Speaker 11 (54:01):
There's a glass of bubbling champagne on the floor.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
You get off the sacks and drink the champagne.

Speaker 29 (54:06):
Without still in the drop.

Speaker 11 (54:08):
Go the heck, get me to Miami.

Speaker 9 (54:09):
Unquestionably, who'd you say you were over?

Speaker 15 (54:13):
Barry Craig?

Speaker 29 (54:15):
Vegetarians, vegitari your astrology sign?

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Oh no, no, tourist the bull, I think? Would I do?

Speaker 9 (54:27):
Yeah? You can be favorable for me?

Speaker 29 (54:30):
Okay, lover today after my twelve o'clock turn.

Speaker 32 (54:32):
Whistle me over a low sweet whistle, lover.

Speaker 29 (54:35):
Last Grandma drinking practice.

Speaker 9 (54:40):
I got to drive Kiki home after her twelve midnight
turn was extended to.

Speaker 29 (54:44):
Upstairs, make yourself comfortable.

Speaker 9 (54:47):
Do that I'd have to take off my shoes, be
my gasee.

Speaker 11 (54:51):
Well you like my home, sweet home, chommy, the crummy dump.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
It could use a coat of paint.

Speaker 11 (54:59):
It could use a match.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
I know the answer.

Speaker 11 (55:02):
Well, ooh so that to my husband?

Speaker 9 (55:07):
Oh well, where is it?

Speaker 21 (55:09):
Harry's away on a trip?

Speaker 29 (55:10):
Oh lover, I want to set you straight.

Speaker 15 (55:15):
How you got he?

Speaker 8 (55:16):
Well, you invited me to pass.

Speaker 9 (55:18):
The time socially.

Speaker 29 (55:20):
I'm a night I will not a buttherfly.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Have I made a past doll?

Speaker 5 (55:25):
No?

Speaker 32 (55:26):
Not y?

Speaker 1 (55:27):
So why the sermon?

Speaker 30 (55:29):
I got a canned speech.

Speaker 11 (55:30):
I use the guys I.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Pick up with all right, finish it.

Speaker 21 (55:34):
I don't talking to myself when I get home after
the show.

Speaker 11 (55:38):
I tried being an introvert once.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
I don't like it.

Speaker 13 (55:41):
You're up here.

Speaker 30 (55:41):
Only for conversation, lover in the can't be.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
All right if I made a speech? Now speak exactly?

Speaker 9 (55:51):
Where is Harry Jarvis? Oh?

Speaker 11 (55:53):
Why should you care?

Speaker 1 (55:54):
I'm worried about him?

Speaker 33 (55:55):
Worry you know my husband?

Speaker 8 (55:58):
I do like him.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
This is news.

Speaker 9 (56:04):
You never asked me, why I popped into your life?

Speaker 29 (56:07):
No, I assumed she was just another job looking to
get acquainted.

Speaker 9 (56:11):
I looked you up on Harry's account. To put it simply,
I'm a detective.

Speaker 11 (56:17):
A detective with Harry on your mind.

Speaker 9 (56:19):
Yeah, why what's it? Harry?

Speaker 1 (56:22):
He isn't around.

Speaker 9 (56:23):
If I told you to wait on trip, you failed
to say where where?

Speaker 15 (56:28):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 29 (56:29):
Well your wife was sure, but you didn't say where
he was off to.

Speaker 9 (56:33):
I didn't see him when he left. I was at
the club.

Speaker 29 (56:36):
There was a note waiting for him when I got
home that night.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Well what did the note say?

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Say, call away for a few days, something like that?

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Well, when was there?

Speaker 9 (56:45):
We there's no way days ago?

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Where's the note?

Speaker 9 (56:51):
I got rid of him?

Speaker 18 (56:52):
What reason I have to save it?

Speaker 11 (56:54):
Well?

Speaker 9 (56:54):
In these eight days, has Harry contacted you?

Speaker 11 (56:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
And you didn't find that strange?

Speaker 9 (57:01):
Yes, I did a little. But and this may shock you,
I'm shockproof.

Speaker 29 (57:11):
It was the belief with Harry away, So I don't
worried too much about his silence.

Speaker 31 (57:16):
You see, Harry's in his middle age.

Speaker 8 (57:19):
But you married him.

Speaker 33 (57:21):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 9 (57:22):
Why why search me?

Speaker 1 (57:25):
I asked myself, I'm going to ask you a big question.

Speaker 9 (57:29):
Now get on record with an honest answer, and you'll
thank yourself sometimes.

Speaker 29 (57:34):
What's the big question?

Speaker 9 (57:36):
Did you know Harry had liquidated his half interest in
the Happy Traveler motel? Did honor about eight days ago?
Harry had thirty thousand dollars in cash on him.

Speaker 29 (57:45):
Well, he was selling out in the motel. I know
he'd already done it. About the case, I'm happy to.

Speaker 9 (57:56):
Harry until I know better. I'm proceeding on that premise,
Missus Jarvis.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
I left Keke to waste her fragrance on the four
walls of the plant downstairs. I ran into a familiar figure.

Speaker 9 (58:16):
Back sitting on the next door schoolhouse steps, busy quote
beating his time, the bop musician, Big old Bernie.

Speaker 25 (58:22):
You real low down, jelly belly to the grass, Sam.

Speaker 9 (58:27):
I don't rate the cold eye, Bernie. I did nothing
but converse with Keky upstairs. It's still you and her
husband in the field. I mean, if passion flower upstairs
still has a husband. Uh, what's your thought about that?

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Bernie?

Speaker 9 (58:42):
Harry will be home. Then why do you sit outside
here beating your time and mooning over Keiki? Another man's
wife and no chance for yourself. You can see I
got an answer for you, Sam, I'm dying to hear it.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
You see if they were on pointing that flat under Keiki's.

Speaker 25 (58:58):
Yes, I live there, Dam, I'm beating my time down
here because I live up there.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Bernie, Yes, sir.

Speaker 9 (59:05):
What if it turns out Harry Jarvis is never coming
home to Key he left her? Could be no?

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Uh never?

Speaker 8 (59:13):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (59:14):
So Kekey's one dish a man doesn't walk out on.
But suppose Harry doesn't ever come.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Home for a wholly different reason.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
Man, Only one reason would keep Harry from coming home.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Okay, anticipate me, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (59:25):
He'd have to be dead, Sam, real gone. And is
that what you mean by Harry not coming home?

Speaker 1 (59:32):
That's exactly what I mean. And Harry's dead, dead with
you out in front now in the grab for blue Mama,
you hitting around.

Speaker 9 (59:40):
Maybe I killed Harry.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
I'm asking you.

Speaker 8 (59:43):
Would you kill Harry Jarvis?

Speaker 34 (59:44):
No?

Speaker 9 (59:45):
And home man and finger somebody for me, somebody who
would kill Harry.

Speaker 5 (59:49):
Hey, you were supposing before, Now you're not.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
I give it up. Supposing Tom Bernie helped the law
and you helped yourself.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Oh man, If Harry is dead, there's only one man
I know.

Speaker 25 (01:00:03):
Who is this man sport and self suit Tony Saxon's man,
Tony Saxon.

Speaker 9 (01:00:09):
Why Wold Saxon want to kill Harry jovis money?

Speaker 11 (01:00:11):
Sam?

Speaker 9 (01:00:12):
Harry was into Tony Saxon.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
For money gambling. That's Tony Saxon is a gambler.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Why do I find Saxon in this town? Three acres?

Speaker 25 (01:00:20):
That's a Feldstone house on Chestnut and Rawleigh.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
Harry is dead.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
That's my morbid surmid say all right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
For me to go comfort the widow.

Speaker 9 (01:00:30):
I'd say it's more decent to wait until the coughs
confirms that fact.

Speaker 11 (01:00:34):
You know, I'm glad I had to talk with you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Sam, No more feeling low down jelly better the grass?

Speaker 27 (01:00:39):
Oh No, I'm hiring the stars, Sam on a happiness jag.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
You should go for Kiki.

Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
Oh she's under my skin, Sam, under my quiverine skin.

Speaker 35 (01:00:49):
Blue Mama bigel Ol'd Bernie's blowing a hind note tonight
swinging in.

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
The trees and went to look up Towny Saxons a Fieldstone.
The house split up like the people inside it were
afraid of the dog. Every room inside and bloodlights outside
on the big lawn to get in, and you had
to pass through a fence what looked like an electric fence.

(01:01:21):
He powers and police a bay. I looked for a buzzer,
but couldn't find one for the life of me. While
wondering how to get in, somebody saw the riddle for me.

Speaker 24 (01:01:33):
How do you do?

Speaker 9 (01:01:34):
From behind? That closed my eyes sink iwo was something
rattling in my ears, rattling a bone like teeth. When
I got my eyes open enough, I saw what it was,
chips ivory gambling chips on a green dice table. I

(01:01:56):
was stretched out on the dice table.

Speaker 13 (01:01:58):
He's up six and thirty two. You win, Mordy, pick
up your money, a sport and a.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Black silk suit. Tony saxon, Uh, what's this six and
thirty two? Mister?

Speaker 13 (01:02:10):
The time it took you to come too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
We made a bet on it.

Speaker 9 (01:02:13):
Here, me and Mordy and Fatso a bet on how
long I'd be out.

Speaker 13 (01:02:16):
I said ten minutes, fat So there, I said eight.
Morty's bet was six minutes. You were out six minutes
and thirty two seconds. On I stop watch Morty's bet.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Morning there owes me a cut for cooperating.

Speaker 9 (01:02:28):
Did it boys, but not too far, abe, It just
far enough to be able to keep me covered. Fellows,
we don't shoot fish and barrels of Craig, then give
me a running start. If you really want to be
sportsmanlike you get death on the brain. Craig, Craig, you
keep calling me Craig your name. You know you're well,

(01:02:49):
it says, so does your police license? Did you restore
everything back to my pockets in good order?

Speaker 13 (01:02:54):
Everything except your gun? You get that on your way out.
Ireen in the main for you. She has your head
and your gun. So tell me I wanted the boys.
Fatso there, so you're prowling outside. He figured you were alone,
someome stick up case in three acres.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
He tapped you.

Speaker 9 (01:03:10):
My head doesn't just feel tapped. What happened all the
night light?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
The place was all lit up six and thirty two ago?
He joined them all.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
What happened to all the players? You're pretty smart, smart
enough to know you had a few games going, eh.
Fatso didn't figure me a stick up. He figured me
a cop spelling a ray. He tapped me out. Until
you shoot your guests home. I won't admit it or
deny it. What can I do for you, hand over
the corpse of Harry Jarvis. Harry Jarvis is dead. I'll

(01:03:42):
make book dead, but no corpse, not yet. That's bad news.
If true, you lost a friend.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
A debtor. Harry owes me twenty thousand his paper.

Speaker 9 (01:03:56):
Maybe you always a state ten thousands isa that Harry
was seen, he had thirty thousand.

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
Dollars on him.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
Good night, Craig, Mardy show Craig.

Speaker 9 (01:04:06):
Out hold up here behind an electric fence. After being
thrown out of as many states as I can name,
who do you pay protection to? Sac Grandma Jones, Grandma Joan,
my landlady. I rent three acres from the Good night, Craig, Fine, Harry.
Let me know a client of mine dies.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
I like the wireflowers.

Speaker 9 (01:04:28):
Outside Saxon's Fortress wall. I have found fresh company. The
chap parked in my car, spawling on the rare seat.
He looked Gautill. He spoke, don't you be alarmed for him?

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
You better be alarmed. I'm pointing a gun at you.

Speaker 36 (01:04:48):
Well put it away. My name's Crawley, Bill Crawley. I'm
the law here in North Dagon.

Speaker 9 (01:04:53):
That is all the law.

Speaker 37 (01:04:54):
They got this out of the Kanvas City.

Speaker 9 (01:04:56):
Why don't you put.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Your gun away when I see the badge?

Speaker 9 (01:05:00):
Okay, here it is so.

Speaker 36 (01:05:02):
I was by a spruce across the street while before,
when that Saxoton Croupier.

Speaker 23 (01:05:06):
Came down on your head.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
You just watched the show for now.

Speaker 36 (01:05:10):
I'm the law, but I'm peacefully inclined when it comes
to Saxton's game.

Speaker 9 (01:05:14):
He's the kind of commissioner's problem.

Speaker 36 (01:05:16):
And I got my complaint about saxing up with the
Commissioner Hawkins right now.

Speaker 37 (01:05:20):
Besides, I was standing under that spruce with other.

Speaker 9 (01:05:22):
Things, cleaning my thoughts. What other things?

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Harry Jarvis as he dead? What's your answer to it?

Speaker 37 (01:05:30):
Did same conclusion you came to for him?

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
How do you know?

Speaker 37 (01:05:36):
I see I was talking to the big little Berney
after you had talked to him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Oh, I see, I got something down at the jail house.

Speaker 37 (01:05:42):
Now that kind of proves Harry Jarvis is dead.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Do you have to come see I do? The start of.

Speaker 9 (01:06:00):
The North Cape Jailhouse was a clapboard framed shack. A
march wind could blow off its foundation.

Speaker 11 (01:06:05):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:06:06):
He had an office with a cell that could accommodate
two overnight guess at the moment the robe.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Was a single one prisoner vast asleep on a cot.

Speaker 37 (01:06:14):
He's with a blush to see the prisoner him looks
like a hobo. That's the trade, he claims. Say his
name's Dusty Aims.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
What does he do besides sleep?

Speaker 36 (01:06:25):
Let's cush you out. He had to make now for
three days? Turned down chicken yesterday and today?

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
How come hunger stripe? He wants his constitutional rats, those being.

Speaker 37 (01:06:36):
Freedom Freedom put him back on the road.

Speaker 9 (01:06:40):
He says, three days you said, uh, what do you
do here in Northgate? Throw away the keys?

Speaker 37 (01:06:47):
But I'm waiting for the wagons to come take him
for the cantas stick.

Speaker 9 (01:06:50):
Now he'll get his here in there?

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
How does he connect with Hardy Johnny?

Speaker 37 (01:06:55):
Want to see the clothes on the striped and blue
fid those yellow shoes?

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Who can miss them?

Speaker 37 (01:07:01):
I know the suit and yellow shoes like they're my own.

Speaker 9 (01:07:04):
Harry's closed this.

Speaker 37 (01:07:06):
Dusty Ames was wearing Harry Jarvis's clothes when I picked
him up over and wrapped nine.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
When Dusty Eames came awake, he began to howl.

Speaker 13 (01:07:19):
I want my rights.

Speaker 7 (01:07:21):
I'm a federalist. President mc kinley. Here about this?

Speaker 9 (01:07:25):
He does you have a miracle on your hands. Look, Dussie,
if you've got any wits, collect them wits.

Speaker 7 (01:07:31):
Why, sir, I was professor of cosmological dialectics and catered
in college.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
But the road got into your blood, all of.

Speaker 7 (01:07:39):
The wild machin al aw Aw.

Speaker 9 (01:07:42):
So you turned in your cap and gown up to
the open highway and killed the man here in Northgate.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
That's all I.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
You're in his clothes.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
I found those clothes.

Speaker 9 (01:07:52):
Huh. We've been asking you where. I wouldn't tell the sheriff.
Why should I tell you, because when it comes down
to it, I'm going to beat it out of you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:02):
Civilized man always reverts to the beasts.

Speaker 9 (01:08:06):
Your predecessor in those clothes was a dear friend of mine, Dusty,
a dear friend.

Speaker 7 (01:08:12):
Ah, Man's greatest possession in a cold materialistic world, Sir,
I have a poem right here in my pocket, after
the fashion of Edgar guests Ah.

Speaker 15 (01:08:23):
I'll read it.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
No matter where the road may go, I'll always think
of dear friend.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Joe.

Speaker 9 (01:08:39):
The bullfinch of the open road finally showed us where
he found himself, a new wardrobe, a tree hollow in
the piny wood.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
The clothes were right in there, sir, wrapped in tar paper.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Set to burn. See the cinders, I see them.

Speaker 7 (01:08:55):
Oh, I had a time rushing suit off the bundle
O smelled of smoke when.

Speaker 11 (01:09:01):
I put them on.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Some clothes had been burned.

Speaker 9 (01:09:04):
I find bits of scharred fabric and these sheriff and
shirt buttons. H Some clothes had burned and something stifled
the fire win maybe or the fire simply choked too
much stuff on it, smothering it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
How did you come on it?

Speaker 9 (01:09:20):
Dusty?

Speaker 7 (01:09:21):
Had my repast to tend to caught me a stray chicken,
fat little thing six pounds.

Speaker 14 (01:09:27):
The crown for a tree hollowed to cook my supper.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
When you change into the new clothes, what did you
do with your own?

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
Ride?

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
Hung them to a tree?

Speaker 11 (01:09:34):
What for?

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
As a sign that Dusty Aims had come to a
sign that there were stray chickens in these parts?

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
A sign for other hobboes live and litly?

Speaker 37 (01:09:43):
Ray sure and Jarvis is buried here in Piney fourth?

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Yeah, looks like how big is Piney Forest?

Speaker 36 (01:09:51):
Bigger than Northgate Township close to four hundred acres, Meaning
we need a regiment to unearth the body here in
these more man power North gets we could appeal to
the state governor for national Guard.

Speaker 9 (01:10:04):
No, we may not need to.

Speaker 16 (01:10:08):
Need to turn up the body Harry John.

Speaker 9 (01:10:10):
A time and labor and agony. We might be able
to avoid all that. See if we can get the
murder to find a body of forest. Trick is exactly
what I have in mind. Yeah, we'll try to make
a trick to for manpower Sheriff.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
I brief Sheriff Frawley on what I wanted him to do,
and to.

Speaker 37 (01:10:34):
Let the word get out that we've got our sales.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Now, witness, that's your hobo prisoner.

Speaker 9 (01:10:39):
Let our need to see the actual murder and burial
in Piney Forest.

Speaker 37 (01:10:43):
Now, who do I let the word out to the.

Speaker 9 (01:10:46):
Town elder and the town idiot, just so the news percolates,
just so it reaches Kiki Adams, Tony Saxon and that
bot musician.

Speaker 37 (01:10:54):
Big little Bernie.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
I know what what, I'll.

Speaker 37 (01:10:58):
Step into that down before and have some beers. No,
it ain't nothing like a barroom for loosen in the
man's tongue.

Speaker 14 (01:11:04):
Yeah, you do that.

Speaker 37 (01:11:07):
Now, when the word does percolate, I steal exactly.

Speaker 9 (01:11:11):
A phony eyewitness right off becomes a marked man. A killer,
whoever he is, must puller a peat performance heal dust
the ames. Yes, yes, oh, well around your brain.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Well I still don't see.

Speaker 36 (01:11:26):
That's the aims is safe in the jail house safe.

Speaker 9 (01:11:31):
A nine year old boy can get into your jail house, sheriff,
just provide him with a dime can opener. Besides, you
won't make it tough for the killer to get in.
I won't No front door on latch, just the cell
door close with Dusty James or sitting duck in a cage.
Easiest target in the world. A dream pigeon get on
a sheriff. Sometimes it plays exactly according to script. Sometimes

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it doesn't. This time it did. I could hear the
village chimes when the silhouette appeared at the jail window,
head and shoulder, little face with no identity to it,
the pitch stock. I was in the office under the
desk you neat hunk with gymnastics. Considering my size, it
was more than two minutes before the killer bed to

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try the door. His feet was six inches from my nose.
When we stopped dead center in the office, I had
to imagine the rest. My line of vision was too low.
Now I imagined him estimating the sleeping figure of Dusty Game,

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estimating how to make his shots affective. I didn't wait
for the murder of the hobo. I just took aim
at a forty five degree angle from the floor and
shot my pigeon on a leg. That's your killer. It's
time for rejoicing. But I didn't feel that way this time.

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I felt like getting drunk.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
It kept me like a fox playing games with a rabbit.

Speaker 9 (01:13:05):
How's your leg?

Speaker 38 (01:13:06):
Mo?

Speaker 15 (01:13:07):
On fire?

Speaker 5 (01:13:09):
Why didn't Jamee hire.

Speaker 14 (01:13:12):
Mo?

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Why did you ask me to find Harry?

Speaker 27 (01:13:17):
I asked you to find Harry to demonstrate to me
how safe I was. I decided to make a test
with you, a smart New York detective. If you couldn't
catch me, nobody could.

Speaker 9 (01:13:29):
I could stop worrying.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
Getting a demonstration.

Speaker 9 (01:13:34):
You killed Harry for thirty thousand dollars. You've got it
stashed away.

Speaker 27 (01:13:38):
I killed Harry because I was too old to start
over again.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
We made a life together, and.

Speaker 27 (01:13:44):
Harry was condemning.

Speaker 14 (01:13:45):
Me to death.

Speaker 9 (01:13:46):
Bankruptcy isn't death, Moe. My age.

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
And my condition positively is your condition?

Speaker 27 (01:13:55):
Her deliver kidneys see inside him like a bombed up brilliant.

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
It was no time for me to start all over
being young and ambitious.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Oh, I thought, as you're a little off.

Speaker 5 (01:14:07):
No say, I'm one up in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
I'll just say that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
At fifty three I movebered. Got so confused. I thought,
a gun, Harry job.

Speaker 9 (01:14:20):
I want to know where you bury. The more.

Speaker 5 (01:14:24):
You want to know, and I'll tell you.

Speaker 39 (01:14:28):
All right now, I'm.

Speaker 9 (01:14:32):
Thanks. Sometimes you take no pleasure in the catch. Sometimes
all you want to do is get drunk.

Speaker 26 (01:15:00):
Yeah, you have been listening to William Gargan and another
exciting transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig,
Confidential Investigator. Tonight's story, The Sneak Assassin was written by
John Robert. Next week, it's the strange story of Sweet
Goddess of Murder, about which Barry Craig has this to say.

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starring as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator, directed by Arthur Jacobson.
Also heard were Parley Pair, herb Amice, Betty lou Gerson,
Bobin Miller and Joe Kranston Eddie King Speaking.

Speaker 11 (01:16:04):
And No.

Speaker 8 (01:16:09):
The All of Latasy.

Speaker 23 (01:16:16):
Welcome to All of Fantasy.

Speaker 25 (01:16:19):
Welcome to the series of radio bomns dedicated to the supernatural,
the unusual, and the unknown.

Speaker 15 (01:16:27):
Come with me, my friends.

Speaker 40 (01:16:29):
We shall descend with the world of the unknown and
forbid me down to the.

Speaker 13 (01:16:33):
Path with a veil of time is flipped and the
supernatural raise his pea.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
Come with me and listen to the tail of.

Speaker 9 (01:16:43):
The Shadow People.

Speaker 8 (01:16:46):
Elene, have you been?

Speaker 16 (01:16:47):
I mean, have you seen anything else since you spoke
to me last No, I haven't.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
Every since mother died, nothing's happened.

Speaker 16 (01:16:55):
I only hope.

Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
Came from upstairs.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Come on, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 13 (01:17:02):
I only hope we've seen him on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
The light is through Warelan.

Speaker 16 (01:17:10):
Where's the light left?

Speaker 9 (01:17:19):
Jesus, what's wrong?

Speaker 28 (01:17:21):
Why didn't you leave the light on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Your father's steady lane.

Speaker 25 (01:17:32):
In just a moment, the Hall of Fantasy will present
the Shadow People, and now for our story, an original
tale of fantasy by Richard Thorne entitled The Shadow People.
Somewhere along the line of your life, you've met them.

(01:17:54):
You have come in contact with the shadow People. Lendedly
first discuss you. Oh, yes, Brian and Elaine and I.

Speaker 16 (01:18:07):
It was in my apartment.

Speaker 13 (01:18:08):
There was only one light on in the entire place.
What's wrong, Elaine, what's the matter.

Speaker 9 (01:18:14):
It's hilly, I.

Speaker 22 (01:18:15):
Know, but I I thought I saw something in that
doorway over there over there, right over there where you going, David.

Speaker 16 (01:18:22):
Over to that archway, just to let you know that
nothing's here. Hey, you see laying. Nothing's wrong, nothing at all.

Speaker 8 (01:18:28):
Are you satisfied that there's no one else here with us?

Speaker 9 (01:18:31):
Yes, sir, Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 22 (01:18:33):
I just thought that I really over head lights on.

Speaker 9 (01:18:35):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 13 (01:18:36):
Put him back on, David, please, all right, Elaine, Look,
what's bothering you?

Speaker 9 (01:18:42):
Sis? I don't know, it's just.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:18:46):
Tell us about it, Elaine, tell us what's bothering you?

Speaker 22 (01:18:49):
You promise that you you won't laugh at me?

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
Of course not.

Speaker 13 (01:18:53):
Brian, he's Layne, I'm your brother. If something's troubling you,
I'd like to know about it, all right.

Speaker 22 (01:19:01):
The reason I was so upset was the fact that
I saw someone or something standing in that archway lane.

Speaker 13 (01:19:08):
David showed you that there was no one else in
here when the lights were put on, yourself, for yourself,
if we were alone.

Speaker 22 (01:19:13):
I'm not talking about something you can see in the light, Brian.
I'm not talking about a human being.

Speaker 16 (01:19:20):
And what's it all about, Elaine?

Speaker 22 (01:19:22):
In the darkness, I saw something that can't be seen
in the lighted area, and I've seen it several times before.
You're sure you're not imagining this, Helaine. Oh, I don't
have that good imagination, Brian.

Speaker 16 (01:19:33):
How long have you have you seen this thing?

Speaker 9 (01:19:35):
Elaine?

Speaker 22 (01:19:36):
Well, it started about six weeks ago. You were in
Detroit on business, Brian, Mom and Dad were on vacation.
I was in the house by myself, in the library.
There was only one light on. I sat in the
chair beneath it reading. Several times I thought that something

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was watching me. I felt there was someone in the
room with me, standing right in back of me. Every
so often I'd glanced back over my shoulder, but there.

Speaker 15 (01:20:09):
Seemed to be nothing there.

Speaker 9 (01:20:12):
And then then I thought I heard someone whispering.

Speaker 22 (01:20:17):
I wasn't sure, but when I heard it again, I
got up, and I looked all over the house.

Speaker 15 (01:20:23):
Oh I'm not easily frightened.

Speaker 9 (01:20:24):
You'll know that.

Speaker 15 (01:20:26):
Without in the hallway, it was almost entirely black.

Speaker 22 (01:20:31):
Luckily I was near a light switch. I looked back
over my shoulders, and I saw this huge, hawking shape.

Speaker 21 (01:20:39):
For the first time.

Speaker 22 (01:20:41):
And I heard a voice, but rather a whisper of
a boy. And I couldn't distinguish the words, but that
dark shape seemed to be moving towards me. My hand
was on the light switch, and I turned it off.

Speaker 9 (01:20:53):
The menu of the light flooded the whole way.

Speaker 15 (01:20:56):
The shape was gone.

Speaker 18 (01:20:59):
That was nothing there.

Speaker 22 (01:21:02):
I was a lone, a caid as lone as there's light.
I know it can't hurt me. I know it can't
reach me.

Speaker 15 (01:21:13):
You might have imagined it, you know, of course that's possible,
but I'm sure I didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:21:18):
It was so real, so real.

Speaker 15 (01:21:21):
That's shape in the darkness. It was the very essence
of evil itself.

Speaker 25 (01:21:32):
There was an old man I knew of, the doctor Hasselius.
I'd heard that he knew quite a good deal about.

Speaker 13 (01:21:38):
The supposed supernatural manifestations which had taken place in the world.
I went to him to see if he knew anything
that might explain the events of the story. Eline had
told us. Yes, my good sir, what do we I

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have an appointment with a doctor.

Speaker 22 (01:22:00):
Oh yes, if you mentioned something about it, you are,
mister Drake. Yes, if you come inside, thank you. Doctor
Silius is in the study. Please come with me. Doctor
a visitor for you.

Speaker 8 (01:22:19):
Oh yes, you.

Speaker 25 (01:22:20):
Mean we go now, mister Drake. Yes, sit down please
in the chair over there.

Speaker 16 (01:22:31):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Now what is the nature of their visit to me?

Speaker 13 (01:22:35):
And I understand doctor SIUs that you have a great
knowledge of the supernatural manifestations which have occurred on the earth?

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
Great knowledge is mister Drake, No, hardly.

Speaker 25 (01:22:44):
That I will miscretch the surface in my years of study.
Perhaps I can help you, Then again, perhaps I cannot.

Speaker 16 (01:22:51):
Well, may I tell you the story by what means?

Speaker 11 (01:22:53):
My good sir?

Speaker 16 (01:22:54):
All right now, this didn't happen to me, doctor, but
to my fiance.

Speaker 9 (01:22:59):
It seems that.

Speaker 25 (01:22:59):
About six weeks ago she was alone, when the light
was on, the dark form disappeared. That's the story, sir,
as much of it as I can remember.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
I see, it's a strange tale to tale.

Speaker 16 (01:23:16):
I'm fully aware of that.

Speaker 15 (01:23:17):
Doctor Decidius.

Speaker 9 (01:23:18):
You say she seemed to hear whispered voices.

Speaker 16 (01:23:21):
Yes, that's what she says.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
I see the moment, sez. I has a book in
my fire.

Speaker 15 (01:23:29):
Oh, yes, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:23:36):
Perhaps I may be able to help you all through.
Let me see.

Speaker 25 (01:23:40):
This is a very ancient book, mister Drake, I seem
to remember it. Yes, here is an account of a
happening such as you were to date.

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
And we shall.

Speaker 5 (01:23:50):
Live on the earth, and they will not see us.

Speaker 41 (01:23:54):
Yes, it has been foretold by the ruler of the darkness.

Speaker 24 (01:23:58):
They who live.

Speaker 41 (01:24:00):
Day retire to sleep by night, shall never know that
we walk with them, that we watch them, that we
wait for our chance. Only in the night will they
see us, or in the daylight we are not seen.

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Only in the night, when the darkness grows together, and
the forms of the.

Speaker 15 (01:24:25):
Shadow people are shaped from the.

Speaker 41 (01:24:27):
Blackness, they will know us.

Speaker 15 (01:24:31):
They will know that we all.

Speaker 25 (01:24:32):
Are contends, for we are the shadow people. I knew
I had read something similar to the story you have
told me, mister Drake.

Speaker 16 (01:24:43):
Doctor, are serious, What can we do?

Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
Well, give me a little time.

Speaker 27 (01:24:47):
Let me see if I can find any more references
to these people of the darkness.

Speaker 5 (01:24:52):
One more thing.

Speaker 15 (01:24:53):
Mister Drake, be sure that your.

Speaker 25 (01:24:55):
Fiancee is never left alone at night. Be sure that
there is some thing animal or human which accompanies her
every second of the night. For she is in danger,
mister Drake, a terrible danger. Back now to our story,

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an original tale of fantasy by Richard Thorne entitled The
Shadow People.

Speaker 9 (01:25:28):
That night, the night of the day I had seen Celia's,
Elaine's mother died. She died in her sleep when she
failed to appear for breakfast. Elaine's father went upstairs to
see what was wrong. When he enter her room, he
discovered that she was dead.

Speaker 13 (01:25:44):
The family doctor couldn't explain it, for Elaine's mother had
been in perfect health. A few weeks later, I was
out of the house spending a weekend with him. I
glanced the clock in the mantel and it eleven.

Speaker 25 (01:26:05):
I can't understand by Brian hasn't returned from town.

Speaker 18 (01:26:09):
He said he had the nextra work to catch up on.

Speaker 21 (01:26:11):
He told me this morning that he might.

Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
Be late eleven o'clock.

Speaker 16 (01:26:15):
I'm going upstairs, lad you came out, David.

Speaker 5 (01:26:18):
Good seeing you again.

Speaker 16 (01:26:19):
It's a pleasure to be here, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
We don't stay up too late, see you both in
the line.

Speaker 15 (01:26:24):
Glue to Davis, he isn't the same David. Ever since
mother died, he hasn't been the same.

Speaker 16 (01:26:33):
I didn't realize it until the nice it's changed.

Speaker 22 (01:26:37):
I only hope that he'll start living again. Every since
she died, it seems that the part of him died
with her.

Speaker 9 (01:26:44):
Helen.

Speaker 16 (01:26:45):
Have you been I mean, have you seen anything else
since you spoke to me last?

Speaker 7 (01:26:49):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:26:50):
I haven't.

Speaker 22 (01:26:51):
Ever since mother died, nothing's happened.

Speaker 15 (01:26:56):
Can't come upstairs, Come on, I don't know what to think.

Speaker 16 (01:27:04):
In a moment, Elaine, where's the lion?

Speaker 15 (01:27:09):
Left him?

Speaker 11 (01:27:19):
David?

Speaker 9 (01:27:20):
What's wrong? Why didn't you leave the light on.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
My father's dady thing?

Speaker 13 (01:27:34):
I had walked into the darkened bedroom on the bedwards
Elaine's father.

Speaker 16 (01:27:39):
It didn't take a second look for me to know
that he was dead.

Speaker 13 (01:27:42):
I switched off the light and walked back into the
hallway to tell Elaine what happened.

Speaker 16 (01:27:46):
And then from the room there had come a nearly
quiet laughter.

Speaker 13 (01:27:51):
In the darkness of that room was some unknown evil parlor.
The voice itself was unearthly. There was no substance to it.
It sounded as if as if it came from the
darkness itself.

Speaker 15 (01:28:07):
Do believes the truth?

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
Elaine?

Speaker 16 (01:28:09):
There's nothing more I can do. Well, that's another father place.

Speaker 15 (01:28:15):
Sorry, Elene, I wish I could the Father's dead.

Speaker 25 (01:28:25):
After the burial, doctor Cacilius got in touch with me.
He said that he wanted to meet both Elaine and Bryan,
that he wanted to talk to the three of us. Accordingly,
a few nights later he came out to their house. Stavis,
will you tell me just when you saw the first manifestation?

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
The night Bryan was in Detroit knowns Davis.

Speaker 15 (01:28:43):
You have even seen this apparition in the company of
other people? Is that correct?

Speaker 22 (01:28:48):
Yes, the night at David's apartment.

Speaker 25 (01:28:51):
All right, now, I'll tell you what I think you
are in deadly Djerms Davis. These beings want to blame you.
So far, they have had no success.

Speaker 11 (01:29:00):
Only in the.

Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
Darkness do they have power.

Speaker 25 (01:29:03):
Little by little, step by step, they have been removing
the obstacles in their way to reaching you. First your
mother and then your father, Miss Davis, both died in
the same fashion.

Speaker 5 (01:29:13):
In the darkness.

Speaker 9 (01:29:14):
Death struck at them.

Speaker 25 (01:29:16):
Now tell me do you feel their presence here in
this room as I talk to you.

Speaker 15 (01:29:22):
Yes, turn out the lights, Brian, turn.

Speaker 25 (01:29:25):
By the switch if you please, Brian. If anything happens,
turn the lights back on.

Speaker 27 (01:29:29):
All right, Doctor serious, I don't do you want me
to continue working with you?

Speaker 5 (01:29:35):
Yes, sir, all right, then Brian turn.

Speaker 15 (01:29:37):
Off the lights.

Speaker 25 (01:29:41):
The room now is in darkness, Miss Davis. Do you
feel or see anything?

Speaker 11 (01:29:49):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:29:52):
Yes, yes I do.

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
Do you see anything?

Speaker 9 (01:29:56):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
I will be quiet, you fool.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 15 (01:30:02):
The darkness gathering together into a huge.

Speaker 41 (01:30:08):
Terrible Not only do you see us, Miss Davis, but
everyone else in the room also will see the vague
shapes falling.

Speaker 15 (01:30:18):
Themselves in the blackness.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
We do not want you, doctor Asisius.

Speaker 16 (01:30:24):
The girl we want, We advise.

Speaker 9 (01:30:28):
You to drop this case.

Speaker 41 (01:30:30):
You're only bling down the rafts of the shadow people
upon your head.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
The girl we want.

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
The girls, do not stop us. Let us take her
life night.

Speaker 15 (01:30:43):
The god Davis. Are you all right?

Speaker 9 (01:30:47):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:30:49):
Yes, I yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:30:50):
Just as she said, the darkness, I saw it forming too,
something too, so did I.

Speaker 16 (01:30:56):
What are we going to do, doctor Sious At.

Speaker 15 (01:30:57):
The present moment, I don't know, but as much now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
You must leave this house immediately. You must try to
get out of their reach. I don't know if that
is possible.

Speaker 11 (01:31:05):
I hope it is.

Speaker 16 (01:31:06):
I should have to return to my home.

Speaker 5 (01:31:08):
I must learn.

Speaker 25 (01:31:09):
Is there are some men by which we can defeat
these creatures? For the moment, leave this house. Dispose of
it in any manner you may see fit.

Speaker 9 (01:31:16):
But leave this house.

Speaker 25 (01:31:26):
Back now to our story, an original Taylor fantasy by
Richard Thorne entitled The Shadow People. Ah, we spent the
night in my apartment for three of us. The following day,
Brian and he lay in.

Speaker 15 (01:31:47):
Maine arrangements to dispose of the house.

Speaker 25 (01:31:50):
In the afternoon, doctor Fasilius called me and asked that
I come to see him.

Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
Dear, I'm glad you're here.

Speaker 16 (01:31:55):
Anything new, doctor, Yes?

Speaker 13 (01:31:57):
And no.

Speaker 25 (01:31:58):
You realize, of course, that this spiritual manifestation is not new,
that it has gone on for centuries.

Speaker 16 (01:32:04):
No, I wasn't aware of that.

Speaker 11 (01:32:05):
It's true.

Speaker 25 (01:32:06):
David the Mupison wrote what was supposedly a fiction story
about the manifestation.

Speaker 16 (01:32:11):
David, he called it to all.

Speaker 25 (01:32:13):
However, according to the information here on my desk, it
was taken from an actual case history. Of course, he
embroidered the story added if he touches to something he
didn't realize actually existed.

Speaker 16 (01:32:25):
But have you found anything which we can fight them?

Speaker 27 (01:32:28):
Everything depends upon an answer. And received from a colleague
of mine in Paris, doctor are Reno, and dispatched a
telegram to him last night.

Speaker 16 (01:32:36):
Wisely answered Bynal, there are.

Speaker 25 (01:32:38):
Certain things that must be done. It will take a
few days. I'm afraid we have to wait, David, there's
nothing else we can do.

Speaker 16 (01:32:56):
In the next few days. The house was sold and
Brian and Elaine moved into a newer, more modern home
a few miles from my apartment. As Cilia said it
might take a few days for them to build up
their power. I spent the night at the new house.

Speaker 13 (01:33:10):
The lights were left down and I watched for any
unusual occurrence in the daytime. I return to my apartment
and get them asleep. About four days after I, Laine
and Bryan moved into the new house, and I was
at home when Hesselius phoned me.

Speaker 16 (01:33:29):
Hello, David, Yes, doctor seis what's the matter?

Speaker 13 (01:33:35):
What's wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
They were step ahead of me.

Speaker 25 (01:33:38):
David, I just received word that Renault died or was
killed at the very moment I sent the telegraph to him.
Step by step, they at outwit it us. But they
had anticipated every move we'd make. Even Doctor Hestilius, we
get a losses to what to do. He agreed to

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meet me at the David's house.

Speaker 15 (01:34:03):
What did you want to see us about that series?

Speaker 16 (01:34:05):
Did you find out anything more?

Speaker 27 (01:34:06):
I'm sorry to say that I haven't. At the moment,
I'm at a complete loss. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 16 (01:34:12):
But what did you want to see us about?

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
This evening?

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Merely to check to see if anything else has happened,
Miss Davis? Have you seen or heard anything?

Speaker 33 (01:34:19):
Not in the house?

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Only in my dreams, your dreams.

Speaker 22 (01:34:22):
Yes, when I go to sleep at night, in my dreams,
in the darkness, I see them.

Speaker 16 (01:34:27):
It's grown worse, much worse. I was hoping that it
would not have progressed.

Speaker 25 (01:34:31):
So far, there has been no disturbance in this house,
but now they disturb your sleep, Miss Davis. Now you
must stay a week, for as long.

Speaker 5 (01:34:41):
As you can.

Speaker 27 (01:34:41):
I want the three of you to move into my house.
Perhaps that will give you more protection.

Speaker 13 (01:34:58):
That night, we moved the over to a Cilia's house.
Perhaps Elaine would have more protection there. From there we
might be able to devise some plan of action, some
way to beat those beings. For a few days, things
were quiet.

Speaker 16 (01:35:13):
The shadow people seemed to have withdrawn.

Speaker 8 (01:35:16):
For a while, I thought that we.

Speaker 16 (01:35:18):
Might have succeeded in fording their purpose.

Speaker 25 (01:35:20):
Elaine no longer complained to troubled sleep, but that condition
lasted for a few days. Only about ten days later
they made themselves known and felt again. That night we
were in the study when suddenly he Celius whirled around.

Speaker 15 (01:35:36):
What are you looking at?

Speaker 42 (01:35:38):
Right to the light?

Speaker 18 (01:35:39):
Days off?

Speaker 21 (01:35:39):
I see them.

Speaker 16 (01:35:40):
She's right, doctor Celius, I can see them too. What
should we do, doctor?

Speaker 9 (01:35:44):
Nothing?

Speaker 16 (01:35:45):
What do you mean nothing?

Speaker 25 (01:35:46):
There's nothing we can do. We can't just we can't
do anything, Bryan, don't you understand that they have us
at their mercy. The greatest man in my field was
only Renault. He could do nothing against him. What do
you think we could do?

Speaker 21 (01:35:58):
He's right, Bryan, there's not thing we can do.

Speaker 25 (01:36:00):
As long as the house remains lighted, Just so long
will they remain outside?

Speaker 16 (01:36:05):
If the lights will.

Speaker 9 (01:36:09):
Kill the same song, we heard, the same sound.

Speaker 25 (01:36:12):
Light I thought of this emergency. That's right, Miss Davis.
As long as this burns this one candle, that will
be safe. Well, they cannot advance into the light they
are limited by the darkness.

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
As long as the.

Speaker 25 (01:36:32):
Candle burns, they will have to remain outside of this room.

Speaker 41 (01:36:39):
Around you, in every room of the house, in the
darkness outside, we are around you. This time you shall
not escape.

Speaker 4 (01:36:54):
This time we will blame you.

Speaker 16 (01:36:57):
Take anything, rhyme.

Speaker 9 (01:37:00):
Your lind come back.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
I'm going after him.

Speaker 8 (01:37:04):
They're here. We just can't.

Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
Don't have a chance.

Speaker 16 (01:37:06):
I doubt it, Davis.

Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
I'm afraid that.

Speaker 11 (01:37:21):
The wind.

Speaker 16 (01:37:21):
Doctor listen to the wind.

Speaker 15 (01:37:24):
I know, yes, Doctor, listen to the wind. You must
realize by.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Now that the three of you haven't a child.

Speaker 41 (01:37:37):
You must know in your minds that we can destroy
you at any moment we desire. But doctor sidious, you
may still save your own life. Let the other score
give them to us.

Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
No, you would have to take all of us.

Speaker 41 (01:37:56):
Shall we destroy your light?

Speaker 15 (01:38:00):
Shall we move in on you now.

Speaker 7 (01:38:05):
As you will do as you will try it?

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Candle it out.

Speaker 15 (01:38:16):
In the darkness. Let's take care again the darkness.

Speaker 41 (01:38:37):
We warn you as serious. You and the others are
dead now, and we shall live on the earth, and
man in the days.

Speaker 4 (01:38:51):
Shall not see us.

Speaker 15 (01:38:53):
They will know that we.

Speaker 41 (01:38:55):
Wait for our chance, that we walk with them only
in the night, when the darkness grows together the forms
of the shadow people are shaped from the blackness. Will
they see us then they will know that we are

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their companions.

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
Look next to you.

Speaker 41 (01:39:23):
There in the shadows.

Speaker 9 (01:39:36):
So on the night pale will be unusual but terrified.

Speaker 13 (01:39:40):
The un join us again.

Speaker 25 (01:39:42):
When next we going down the portor alcohol the platacy.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
You hear another grain pale of the supernatural.

Speaker 25 (01:39:53):
All characters of events portrayed in these programs are fictional,
and any similarity to actual events are persons living, or
it is purely coincidental.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
M h m hm.

Speaker 15 (01:40:08):
H m hm hm h m hm h.

Speaker 14 (01:40:21):
M.

Speaker 33 (01:40:54):
I've become dependent on the radio. I turn it on
as soon as I come home from work, and I
forgot to turn it off when I go to bed.
I depend on it to fill in a companion, constantly
talking to me, entertaining me.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
It's wrong.

Speaker 33 (01:41:18):
I must stop being afraid of silence. There's nothing to fear.
I'll just sit here and listened to it. That's what

(01:41:39):
it was coming for me. Oh, dear, I'm shaking. No,
manly stop it. Put yourself together.

Speaker 11 (01:41:50):
Still.

Speaker 33 (01:41:51):
It was like a warning, a warning of approaching death
coming coming for no. Oh, listen, Mary, listen to the silence.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (01:42:12):
Oh?

Speaker 33 (01:42:14):
How silly of me? My own heart beat? Quiet? Quiet? You?
Let me listen to the silence. Why am I doing this?

(01:42:39):
Why have I turned off the radio? Why am I
deliverately sitting here frightening myself? I must become mad. No,
don't say that, don't even think of it. You're not mad,
Mary Smith. You're perfectly saying why have I always been

(01:43:00):
so lonely, like a stranger in a strange land? All
my life in different parents, lovers, without the pretense of love?
Then solitary confinement is age inevitably conquer's looks. What will
happen to me when infirmity it takes all?

Speaker 43 (01:43:29):
No, that's the easy world.

Speaker 33 (01:43:35):
I will listen to the silence.

Speaker 9 (01:43:39):
I will.

Speaker 33 (01:43:43):
I know someone is there. I've always known. I was afraid,
That's true.

Speaker 11 (01:43:53):
But not now.

Speaker 33 (01:43:57):
Come into the silence and joy.

Speaker 9 (01:44:03):
Come in.

Speaker 33 (01:44:06):
I'll be brave. All listen.

Speaker 39 (01:44:16):
Here, I am at last.

Speaker 11 (01:44:21):
Who are you?

Speaker 39 (01:44:22):
The radio and your voice prevented me? Where are you here?

Speaker 33 (01:44:28):
I am here, but I can't see you.

Speaker 39 (01:44:33):
Can you see the voices that come from your radio?

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
Who are you?

Speaker 39 (01:44:38):
Your grandfather? My grandfather, A seaman, an explorer. Adventure was
my life still is and what a great adventure has been.

Speaker 33 (01:44:49):
Turning to you, well, you can't be either of my grandfather's.
You speak with a foreign accent. They were born in London. Besides,
they're dead.

Speaker 39 (01:45:03):
They were not your grandparents, and your so called parents
were not your parents at all.

Speaker 25 (01:45:10):
What are you saying, listener'ry, I have something to tell you.

Speaker 39 (01:45:16):
Your real father was my son, Stephan. He was Polish
like me. He didn't have the opportunity to marry the
girl he loved.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
He was a.

Speaker 39 (01:45:24):
Political activist and he was killed six months before you
were born. Natasha, my daughter in law, your real mother.

Speaker 44 (01:45:35):
Died giving birth to you, and you were taken to
an orphanage in Warsaw.

Speaker 45 (01:45:39):
You were one of the lucky ones a refugee family
brought to with them when they freed from Poland to England.
Here they did a secret deal with an English cup
mister and missus Smith, who adopted you. They were childless
and desperately wanted a girl, but afterwards they regretted it.

Speaker 44 (01:46:02):
They found you ungrateful, solitary and temperamental. Quietly they hated
you and was secretly delighted when you ran away. As
for you, without knowing it, you ached for your own country,
your own people, your poli is through and through. I

(01:46:24):
have been trying to reach you, but you never gave
me the silence, the deep silence I needed.

Speaker 45 (01:46:33):
And to night.

Speaker 39 (01:46:36):
A dreaming.

Speaker 33 (01:46:39):
Tell me I'm dreaming.

Speaker 39 (01:46:40):
No no, no, no, you're not dreaming, and tranced.

Speaker 12 (01:46:45):
Yes, for the first time had opened the door which
deep down inside you knew was always there, the door
between the two worlds.

Speaker 33 (01:46:57):
I am not psychic. I've never been to a sales
in my life.

Speaker 44 (01:47:02):
You have always possess psychic powers, but you have been
seekingly afraid of embracing them.

Speaker 39 (01:47:08):
Believe me, Mary, there is nothing to fear, nothing at all.

Speaker 33 (01:47:15):
I thought that hearing you like this, well, but I'd
be afraid.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
I am not.

Speaker 33 (01:47:23):
It seems ll natural to be sitting here.

Speaker 39 (01:47:26):
It is natural, Mary, Everything that happens is natural. How
could it be otherwise?

Speaker 33 (01:47:34):
You must keep our voices downe they might hear us downstairs.

Speaker 39 (01:47:38):
Only you can hear me. No one else can.

Speaker 33 (01:47:43):
Why have you come first to.

Speaker 39 (01:47:46):
Tell you who you are? If I have done suddenly?
And important to me is.

Speaker 44 (01:47:52):
To tell you stories, wonderful stories that make up my life,
but there is time for that.

Speaker 39 (01:48:00):
You have the rest of your life in whis to
hear them. All you needs to do is to open
the door of the silence, and I will come into it. Now,
go to bed and sleep, go to work to morrow
as usual in the evening. When you return, do not

(01:48:21):
switch on the radio, but listen to the silence. I'll
be waiting to come in.

Speaker 33 (01:48:28):
Good night, Maria, Maria, I've always been called Mary Maria.

Speaker 39 (01:48:37):
Is your real name, Maria?

Speaker 38 (01:48:43):
Yes, it's me.

Speaker 43 (01:48:47):
It's well me.

Speaker 46 (01:49:05):
Oh, good evening, miss meth.

Speaker 33 (01:49:06):
Hello, missus Maple.

Speaker 46 (01:49:08):
Had a good tailor?

Speaker 33 (01:49:09):
Yes, thank you?

Speaker 46 (01:49:10):
Everything all right?

Speaker 14 (01:49:11):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (01:49:13):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 46 (01:49:14):
Oh that's good. Had a visit to the other evening?

Speaker 9 (01:49:17):
Did we.

Speaker 33 (01:49:19):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:49:20):
Why do you ask?

Speaker 46 (01:49:22):
Nothing?

Speaker 5 (01:49:22):
Really?

Speaker 47 (01:49:22):
But well, it's just that Jenny thought she heard you
talking to someone. That's all I said. You must be
talking nonsense because I didn't hear you.

Speaker 46 (01:49:30):
Let anyone in.

Speaker 33 (01:49:31):
You're right, missus Maple. There was no one with me.
I was quite alone. Good evening, good evening.

Speaker 46 (01:49:38):
Dear, Oh.

Speaker 33 (01:49:56):
Premasy again, Oh wonderf and silence? Will it happened once more?

Speaker 11 (01:50:05):
I want?

Speaker 33 (01:50:07):
Or was it merely a dream?

Speaker 11 (01:50:10):
Oh?

Speaker 33 (01:50:10):
No, please tell me it wasn't a dream. I won't
turn on the radio. Just sit here quietly and listen.
Listen to the silence.

Speaker 39 (01:50:28):
Hello Maria, Oh hello.

Speaker 33 (01:50:33):
I've been thinking about you all day, have you?

Speaker 39 (01:50:36):
That's nice?

Speaker 33 (01:50:37):
Where do you live?

Speaker 39 (01:50:38):
There is no way in which I can describe where
I live. Your language does not contain the words.

Speaker 48 (01:50:45):
But I shall tell you tales of how I lived
when I was in your world.

Speaker 39 (01:50:52):
What's the matter?

Speaker 33 (01:50:53):
So you are dead?

Speaker 39 (01:50:54):
Then, only in your limited sense of the word. Do
I sound dead?

Speaker 33 (01:51:00):
No, not a bit, but yes, Tell me what is
it like to die?

Speaker 39 (01:51:08):
Do not fear dying, myriar.

Speaker 48 (01:51:11):
If you've enjoyed life as much as I have, you
will find dying bitterly disappointing. But in time that feeling
will pass, and you will discover that dying is another
form of birth, and you will be content at the prospect.

Speaker 33 (01:51:28):
Make it sound almost pleasant.

Speaker 39 (01:51:31):
Well, it's less of an ordeal than I thought.

Speaker 33 (01:51:35):
Tell me about when you were in my world. Tell
me about your adventures when you were here.

Speaker 44 (01:51:41):
Well, I was a captain of a ship and traded
in Malay Archipella, going along the seashes and the river
banks of Africa.

Speaker 39 (01:51:51):
Once I remember when I was trading.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
After all that, I had.

Speaker 39 (01:52:00):
Managed to survive and return to England with the hold
Layden and the ship and all It's cruel safe.

Speaker 33 (01:52:10):
That was wonderful. Tell me another story, grandfather, Please please,
I feel like a child again.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
Please.

Speaker 33 (01:52:20):
Except when I was a little girl and no one
ever told me stories.

Speaker 39 (01:52:23):
That's all in the past. Now I will tell you
more stories tomorrow when you come home from work, promise.

Speaker 48 (01:52:30):
Of course, and the evening after that, and every evening
of your life.

Speaker 39 (01:52:35):
Until all the tales are told. Good Night, a little Maria.

Speaker 33 (01:52:42):
Good night, grandfather. Oh Ma, to have something to look
forward to every evening for the rest of my life.
I'm so fortunate and so happy. I've never ever really
been happy before this. This can go on.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
You want to see me this, Robins.

Speaker 49 (01:53:40):
That's right, it's a time.

Speaker 23 (01:53:42):
Please, thank you.

Speaker 49 (01:53:46):
Oh maybe you've been working here for some years now,
and I think I can say this, say we know
one another well enough for you to tell me if
there was something worrying you. Isn't that, sir?

Speaker 9 (01:53:59):
Good?

Speaker 16 (01:53:59):
That's what I.

Speaker 33 (01:54:00):
Thought, except that I don't know what you mean. There
isn't anything troubling.

Speaker 49 (01:54:06):
Isn't there I'm not blind you know, simply because I
allow you to get on with your work quietly in
the corner of the office doesn't mean to say I'm
not interested in the welfare of my employees. For instance,
you've lost a lot of weight these past few weeks,
have I Eh? I was wondering if you have a
good meal when you get home from work each evening.

Speaker 33 (01:54:27):
Well, occasionally I may missa.

Speaker 49 (01:54:30):
Did exactly what do we did at lunchtime? Isn't enough
to keep a sparrow alive?

Speaker 33 (01:54:34):
All right, mister Robins, really I am.

Speaker 49 (01:54:39):
Then there's your work, my work. I hate to say,
but you've been growing well absent minded of late. Your
work is suffering little inaccuracy, spelling errors, nothing serious yet,
but enough to make me want to have this little
chapter with you. I'm wondering if something's happened in your

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private life.

Speaker 5 (01:55:04):
A bereavement.

Speaker 33 (01:55:05):
No, no, nothing like that, mister Robinson. On the contrary,
it's more a rebirth. I'm very happy at the moment.
In fact, I couldn't be happier.

Speaker 49 (01:55:16):
I see well, Mary, I suggest to take the opportunity
of keeping a check on your strange euphoria. Be as
happy as you like in your own time. But while
you're here, and I'd like you to take a little
more care with the work I'm paying you for.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
You understand, grandfather, grandfather?

Speaker 33 (01:55:44):
Are you there?

Speaker 39 (01:55:46):
I am here, my child.

Speaker 33 (01:55:50):
I didn't tell you this before. But two months ago
my employer, mister Robins, called me into his office and
told me that my work was deteriorating. Today he called
me into his office once more and gave me the sack.
He calls it making me redundant, But it remounts to
the same thing before. Before you came into my life,

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I would have been terrified, but I'm not now. In fact,
I'm glad I should get a unemployment pay and I
should be able to spend more time with you, listening
to your tails.

Speaker 39 (01:56:22):
Good good, Tell me.

Speaker 33 (01:56:25):
Something, Grandfather. Did you ever write them down?

Speaker 39 (01:56:28):
Never had the time. I was always to be living
my life and not writing about it. But you have time,
lots of it. Why don't you write them down for me?

Speaker 50 (01:56:41):
Write them in my voice, hear me in your mind's
ear as you write. My tales are true, not fiction,
true tales of a sea captain who lived nearly one
hundred years ago.

Speaker 39 (01:56:54):
But you must have a routine. You will write in
the morning, starting early in the afternoon, you will go
oh what you've written, And in the evenings I will
give you fresh material.

Speaker 33 (01:57:08):
I shall have to go out sometime. No, no, but Grandfather,
I have to eat.

Speaker 39 (01:57:13):
I'll provide you with food, food for the mind and spirit.
That is what matters. Spend your money on pens and
paper and exercise books with good stiff bindings.

Speaker 51 (01:57:25):
That's all you need. Believe me, Maria, that is all
you will need. That and the dreams you'll dream. Tomorrow
you start writing.

Speaker 33 (01:58:01):
The twentieth story you told me, Grandfather, and most marvelous taleble.

Speaker 39 (01:58:08):
Then you will write it down tomorrow morning, as you've
done all the others, rising at five as usual and
going on till midday.

Speaker 11 (01:58:17):
Grandfather, I.

Speaker 33 (01:58:21):
Think that tomorrow morning I I really should go out
for a little while and buy some food. It's not
that I'm hungry, though I do feel weak, and it
becomes so thin and so frail, and my hair's falling out.

Speaker 39 (01:58:38):
Listen, Maria, that does not matter.

Speaker 44 (01:58:43):
You must drive the story tomorrow morning while it is
still fresh in your mind.

Speaker 39 (01:58:48):
It is my best tale and my last, and it's written,
A life's work will be complete. You will be able
to close the last exercise and right the end.

Speaker 11 (01:59:04):
What do you say?

Speaker 45 (01:59:05):
It is the end, my child?

Speaker 46 (01:59:15):
This is the room. Doctor, she's here, Thank you.

Speaker 47 (01:59:19):
I rang as soon as I found her. I had
no idea she'd got herself into such a state. I
hadn't seen her for a long time, you see. I
got the feeling that since she left work she tried
to avoid me. She was always punctual with the rent
until this morning, when I didn't find the book and
the money in the usual place on the table in
the hall. I knew something must be wrong. Then I

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came up, knocked on the door, and when there was
no reply, I came in and found this. There's no
food in the cupboards.

Speaker 46 (01:59:47):
Nothing.

Speaker 47 (01:59:48):
She never drank milk, you see, so there was no
telling she wasn't getting any nourishment, you know, checking the
bottles the way you.

Speaker 43 (01:59:55):
Can with some people.

Speaker 47 (01:59:57):
There's nothing here except all these exercise bos.

Speaker 46 (02:00:00):
It was full of writing.

Speaker 47 (02:00:02):
It's as if she just went out of her mind,
sat up here in solitude and complete silence, and wrote
her heart out.

Speaker 52 (02:00:11):
Missus maeprole, Yes, would you like to go downstairs and
look after your daughter. I'll just examine her and me
down in a few moments.

Speaker 46 (02:00:17):
Of course. Sorry here I am jabbering.

Speaker 47 (02:00:20):
Away, and you want to get on with your work.
Would you like a cup of tea when you come down?

Speaker 46 (02:00:29):
You were a long time doctor. Tease ready, Oh thank
you missus.

Speaker 47 (02:00:33):
Maplele like you, I'm not shocked by death. I was
present when my mother and my father died, so death.

Speaker 46 (02:00:41):
Doesn't shock me.

Speaker 47 (02:00:43):
It was how she looked like something out of one
of those prison camps. She was like a little shriveled
old woman of about ninety instead of a fifty year old.
That's all she was, doctor, fifty years old.

Speaker 52 (02:00:55):
I've sent for an ambulance there.

Speaker 11 (02:00:57):
I'll have to be a post mortem.

Speaker 46 (02:00:59):
You're not sure how she died then.

Speaker 52 (02:01:01):
I believe it was starvation, which of course leads to
a natural self poisoning.

Speaker 13 (02:01:05):
Has she any relatives?

Speaker 47 (02:01:06):
She never spoke of any. She didn't receive any letters
to speak of, except tax forms and the like, so
I have no way of knowing whether there were any
relatives or not.

Speaker 28 (02:01:18):
Money is something outside all idea.

Speaker 47 (02:01:23):
I think it's a bit of excitement, don't they.

Speaker 52 (02:01:25):
I'll take care of the exercise books for the time being,
if that's all right.

Speaker 11 (02:01:28):
Missus Maple.

Speaker 39 (02:01:29):
Well, I don't know they'll be returned.

Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
When it's all over.

Speaker 52 (02:01:31):
They'll probably be needed by the coroner. Coroner, Oh, they'll
have to be an inquest, but that needn't distress you,
and they'll simply ask you to describe the circumstances in
which you found Miss Smith.

Speaker 13 (02:01:42):
I see, no one's.

Speaker 5 (02:01:43):
Going to blame you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:44):
Missus Maple.

Speaker 52 (02:01:46):
She wouldn't have welcomed any intrusion into her privacy on
your part.

Speaker 46 (02:01:50):
Well, that's how it seemed to me these last few months.

Speaker 11 (02:01:52):
Doctor.

Speaker 47 (02:01:52):
She changed, She really did change. It wasn't for me
to interfere. I probably feel as she felt. I like
to keep myself to myself.

Speaker 33 (02:02:06):
Hello Richard, what are you doing?

Speaker 8 (02:02:08):
Hello, Darlie.

Speaker 23 (02:02:09):
I was reading.

Speaker 33 (02:02:10):
Oh they look like exercise books.

Speaker 52 (02:02:13):
They are in them, Oh stories, It's just that it's
all a terrible waste.

Speaker 33 (02:02:20):
You mean they're no good?

Speaker 11 (02:02:21):
Oh no, the opposite.

Speaker 53 (02:02:24):
Look, Darling, I'm afraid you're not making sense.

Speaker 52 (02:02:27):
Well, Mary Smith, who apparently wrote these stories, was the
lodger one of my patients. I think she starved to death.

Speaker 46 (02:02:37):
My god, awful.

Speaker 52 (02:02:41):
I think she was possessed by the need to get
these stories down on paper.

Speaker 43 (02:02:46):
You mean she wrote herself to death?

Speaker 39 (02:02:49):
No, Darling, it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 52 (02:02:52):
There are twenty stories here said in Malaya and Africa
in the nineteenth century, and they have an extraordinarily authentic
ring about them. You must agree that it's more than
strange a woman writing that kind of story. You could
almost believe they were true. They're told in the first
person by the central character, a Polish sea captain trader
who she doesn't even reveal his name. The scene is Polish.

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The whole thing must be a figment of her imagination.

Speaker 46 (02:03:18):
But what an imagination.

Speaker 52 (02:03:22):
Then there's another thing. There's a terrible urgency about the writing.
I'm no expert, but although every word is clear in
the latest stories, where she must have been at her weakest,
the handwriting has a strength, a fortitude born of suffering,
as if she were determined to finish her task, and
when complete, calmly lay down and die. Do I see

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them here?

Speaker 30 (02:03:49):
Hmm?

Speaker 53 (02:03:50):
I see what you mean about the handwriting. It is
a bit wild and ragged, especially all the end. But
there's an exhilaration about it. Exhilaration, not fortitude, Darling. Exhilaration
is the word I do use. Look see how the
lines slanted upwards and the letters slant forward.

Speaker 33 (02:04:13):
It's well optimistic.

Speaker 11 (02:04:16):
Handwriting. Wasn't too bad, was he?

Speaker 46 (02:04:25):
Missus Maple, the coroner was quite nice.

Speaker 47 (02:04:27):
He was very kind and understanding.

Speaker 52 (02:04:29):
Well, it's all over and done with her.

Speaker 33 (02:04:31):
I was pleased with the verdict dead by misadventure.

Speaker 47 (02:04:34):
Yes, better than all that talk about the balance of
the mind being disturbed and all that.

Speaker 9 (02:04:39):
You know.

Speaker 47 (02:04:41):
What was in those exercise books you took away. They
were mentioned, but not in detail.

Speaker 52 (02:04:46):
They were through the stories, Missus Maple. Very good stories.
My wife's appartime teacher, as you know, and she's reading
them all out of the kids in her class.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
In love them.

Speaker 52 (02:04:56):
Reminiscent of Joseph Conrad in some ways. I think it's
possible that Miss Smith must have read Conrad when she
was a girl, absorbed the feeling and style, and then
when her life became empty, she somehow recalled Conrad and
produced their own similar creations.

Speaker 47 (02:05:12):
I don't understand all that, but I do know Jenny
enjoyed hearing them. Jenny heard them, not all of them,
snatches of them. She could hear Miss Smith reading them aloud.
Jenny told me she used to sit outside her door
and listen. She wouldn't make out something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:05:30):
No, no, no, of course not.

Speaker 15 (02:05:32):
Well.

Speaker 47 (02:05:34):
I'm glad missus Rogers is reading them to their school children. Least,
all that work Miss Smith put into them won't have
gone for nothing.

Speaker 43 (02:05:48):
Why didn't you tell me about what happened to Miss Smith?

Speaker 47 (02:05:52):
I suppose I should have told you, Jenny, but I
thought you'd be upset, especially about her dying in the
house upset.

Speaker 43 (02:06:01):
I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for anyone
who dies. Why did she die, Mommy?

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
She was old.

Speaker 47 (02:06:09):
I suppose her time had come.

Speaker 43 (02:06:12):
She wasn't all that old. I mean, she wasn't as
old as the man.

Speaker 9 (02:06:18):
Man.

Speaker 39 (02:06:19):
What man?

Speaker 43 (02:06:21):
Didn't you see him?

Speaker 46 (02:06:22):
What man are you talking about?

Speaker 43 (02:06:24):
The one that came here to see her? Of course
her visit her.

Speaker 46 (02:06:28):
I never knew she had a visit.

Speaker 43 (02:06:29):
A funny old man with a dark brown face and
funny hat and that great, big white vestage. And you
saw him lots of times. He was old, but he
was very clever. Do you know, mommy, he used to
walk right through this door, It's true, without even opening it.

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That is clever, don't you think, right through this door?
I wish I I could do that.

Speaker 54 (02:07:21):
Listen to The Silence by Rosemary Temperley starred Gwen Watford
as Mary, George Pravda as the Captain, and Patsy Rowlands
as Missus Maple. David Ashford was the doctor, and other
parts were played by Heather Bell and Alexander John.

Speaker 55 (02:07:48):
H No, No, stay where you are, Do not break
the stillness of this moment, for this is a time

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of mystery, a time when imagination is free and moves
forward swiftly, silently.

Speaker 9 (02:08:22):
This is.

Speaker 23 (02:08:24):
The haunting hour.

Speaker 14 (02:09:30):
The Uptown Express.

Speaker 28 (02:09:40):
That night didn't begin any differently from any other night,
at least it doesn't seem to me that it did.
I left work the same as usual, and I hurried
because I was late and we were having supper early
again so my brother Sid could get to law school
on time. I walked down to Broadway in forty second
Street and into the Uptown Subway, just way I always did.

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I got on, pushed my way in with a crowd.
There was an empty seat, and I took it. A
girl in front of me was hanging on to the strap.
In the other hand she held the evening paper. I
remember looking at it and reading the weather forecast fair
and somewhat milder, it said, And I thought, tomorrow I
can wear my light coat. I was tired. I was

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awfully tired. I leaned my head back for a minute
and closed my eyes, and then tired, baby, I sat
bolt upright.

Speaker 14 (02:10:37):
I'll make you some coffee when we get home. I'll
fix you up.

Speaker 28 (02:10:40):
What was he talking about when we get home? I
looked at him. There was something I was trying desperately
to remember, but I couldn't. He was in his early thirties,
dark and very good looking, but his eyes were hard,
and his lips were drawn back into a tight little smile.
The hand clinging to my my arm was large and powerful.

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The girl in front of me was still holding onto
the strap with that paper clutched tightly in one hand.
He leaned forward a little so he could see it better.

Speaker 14 (02:11:13):
Cloudy, with palpable thundershowers. I wouldn't you think we've had
enough rain for one week? Rain?

Speaker 28 (02:11:20):
But the paper had said fair, fair, and somewhat milder.
I looked at it again myself.

Speaker 9 (02:11:27):
And.

Speaker 28 (02:11:29):
He was right. Then I knew I was really frightened.

Speaker 9 (02:11:34):
The date.

Speaker 28 (02:11:35):
The date on that paper was Wuary twenty first, nineteen fifty.
Everything seemed to blur before my eyes for a minute,
and I felt a little sick. I looked down and
saw a wedding band on my left hand, a simple

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gold wedding band that hadn't been there five minutes before.
It was almost as if I half expected to see
it there. If the date on that paper was right,
if this really were in nineteen fifty. Then something told
me that this man, the stranger sitting beside me, was
my husband, and somewhere, somehow, on that uptown express, I'd

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lost five years of my life.

Speaker 14 (02:12:25):
Come on, Linny, we get off here.

Speaker 28 (02:12:28):
We walked up the stairs and not into the street.
It was raining. It hadn't been raining before.

Speaker 14 (02:12:34):
We'll have to make a run for it. It's raining
pretty hard.

Speaker 28 (02:12:36):
We started to run down a long, dark street I'd
never seen before. Then we turned into a narrow entrance
into a dingy apartment building. We shot the rain outside,
and we were alone.

Speaker 14 (02:12:49):
Never mind your key, I have mine right here. Oh
wait a minute, I think there's some mail.

Speaker 28 (02:12:53):
I looked at the name on the box. Vincent, mister
and missus John Vincent, Johnny, Johnny and Linda Vincent.

Speaker 14 (02:13:03):
That was us, Oh this is rich. Look what it is?
A political circular Sydney Damon for district attorney. Feelis courageous.
That's a laugh sending it to us.

Speaker 28 (02:13:13):
Seid for district Attorney. My brother Sidney, Yes.

Speaker 14 (02:13:17):
And it doesn't sound much better than it smells. Not
for my money. But come on, it's cold down here.
Let's get upstairs.

Speaker 28 (02:13:24):
We climbed the stairs to the second floor to a
small apartment way in the back. I kept thinking of
sid Less than an hour ago he was going to
City College night to study law. And now in my
hand was a circular that said he was running for
district attorney. But it wasn't an hour ago. That was

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in nineteen forty five, five years ago. This was nineteen fifty.

Speaker 14 (02:13:53):
There, turn on the light, it's near you.

Speaker 28 (02:13:55):
I felt along the wall and found the switch.

Speaker 14 (02:13:58):
That's better cold, and there's dun't never any heat when
we need it. Did you speak to that lousy janity
yet you said you were going to I will, Johnny.
I'm sorry, baby, I didn't mean to snap at you.
It's just that business of your smart Alec brother running
for DA.

Speaker 2 (02:14:13):
I don't like it.

Speaker 28 (02:14:14):
Why Johnny, why don't you like it?

Speaker 9 (02:14:15):
Cut it.

Speaker 14 (02:14:16):
Don't ask silly questions. Come here and kiss me instead, Johnny.
What's the matter?

Speaker 28 (02:14:22):
Nothing?

Speaker 14 (02:14:22):
Well, come here then you know what. Your hair's are
wet and your miscarriage run a little around the edges.
You look awful, honey, but to me you're still beautiful.

Speaker 28 (02:14:37):
Please please, Johnny, don't kiss me anymore.

Speaker 14 (02:14:40):
What's the idea?

Speaker 28 (02:14:41):
I'm cold and wet.

Speaker 14 (02:14:44):
I'll be all right, sure, I understand. Go in and
change and I'll fixure something hot.

Speaker 28 (02:14:54):
I went into the bedroom. Alma bureau was a picture
of the tour us Me, Linda, Damon, and this man
I'd never seen before. I picked it up. Across the
front of it was written Atlantic City, September nineteen forty six.
I looked at it for a few minutes. Then I
put it back on the bureau and walked over to

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the closet. On one side were his clothes and on
the other what I supposed were my things. I found
a light blue house dress and changed into it quickly.
It fit perfectly.

Speaker 2 (02:15:28):
Ready, Lyndy, come and get it.

Speaker 9 (02:15:29):
In a minute.

Speaker 7 (02:15:30):
Here.

Speaker 28 (02:15:32):
Oh thanks, aren't you going to put on some dry clothes?

Speaker 14 (02:15:35):
No, I'm okay. I'll hold out your cup and one
for me. Well, what do we drink too, Even if
it's only coffee, we have to drink to something.

Speaker 28 (02:15:45):
Well, what we always drink too? Johnny?

Speaker 14 (02:15:47):
All right, darling, you want to make the toaster?

Speaker 13 (02:15:50):
Shall I?

Speaker 14 (02:15:51):
You make it?

Speaker 9 (02:15:51):
Here?

Speaker 14 (02:15:52):
Goes then to our house, the one with the front porch,
the backyard and the attic. Okay, okay, do you think
we'll ever have it?

Speaker 28 (02:16:03):
I've walked, Johnny that house.

Speaker 14 (02:16:05):
All my life. I remember living in little box flats
with walls of paper thin you could hear the guy
next door yelling at his old lady or her nagging
at him, just as if they weren't enough of that
stuff in your own place. And the hallways always full
with dirty little kids with their faces needing washing and
their eyes too old for the rest of them. And
the garbage and big ugly cans in front of the

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buildings when it was so hot you could hardly breathe. Johnny,
I guess maybe you don't understand.

Speaker 28 (02:16:32):
Is that why you want the house? Johnny?

Speaker 1 (02:16:33):
Sure?

Speaker 14 (02:16:34):
Imagine Lindy, a house, not a flat, not a couple
of caged in little rooms, but a big house with
a front porch and a backyard and an attic all mine,
all hours.

Speaker 5 (02:16:46):
Lindy.

Speaker 14 (02:16:47):
Oh, Lindy, do you love me?

Speaker 33 (02:16:49):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (02:16:50):
Yes, Johnny, I do love you very much.

Speaker 14 (02:16:54):
Hey, what got me started?

Speaker 28 (02:16:56):
I did?

Speaker 14 (02:16:57):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 2 (02:16:57):
Oh, don't be.

Speaker 14 (02:16:59):
Don't ever be sorry for or anything. It couldn't be
bad if it comes from you, because you're good, Lindy.
I'm not and I know it. Look what I'm doing
to you, making you live in a hole like this,
not a decent dress to your name.

Speaker 28 (02:17:12):
I don't care, Johnny.

Speaker 14 (02:17:13):
Well, but you'll see it's going to be different, maybe
sooner than you expect. How would you like to move
out into the country to our house?

Speaker 2 (02:17:22):
Well?

Speaker 14 (02:17:22):
I wasn't going to tell you until everything was set,
but here here start on this. Go out tomorrow and
buy yourself some clothes. You know, real high class stuff, Johnny.
All that money and plenty more where that came from,
I'll get it. Stay away?

Speaker 19 (02:17:36):
Are Yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:17:41):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:17:41):
Jelly? Who? Oh?

Speaker 11 (02:17:45):
He was?

Speaker 5 (02:17:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:17:46):
What are they want?

Speaker 11 (02:17:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:17:50):
Well, just lay low until I get in touch with her.
I'll think of something so long.

Speaker 9 (02:17:55):
Who was that?

Speaker 14 (02:17:56):
Just a friend of mine? Business appointments? You wouldn't know him? Oh,
I'm telling you was nothing, nothing important.

Speaker 28 (02:18:03):
I didn't say anything.

Speaker 14 (02:18:04):
Well, don't stop looking as though I just finished beating you.

Speaker 28 (02:18:06):
Don't shot, Johnny.

Speaker 14 (02:18:09):
I didn't mean it, baby. My nerves are on age,
That's all.

Speaker 2 (02:18:14):
I wonder if it's stopped. Did it let up a little? Maybe?
Not much?

Speaker 28 (02:18:19):
Why are you standing at the window? Are you expecting someone?

Speaker 14 (02:18:23):
What do you mean by that? Who should I be expecting?
You've been talking to your brother, haven't you? You've been
seeing him again. I told you to keep away from
that family of ours.

Speaker 2 (02:18:31):
Didn't.

Speaker 14 (02:18:32):
If I'm not good enough for that's just too bad, Johnny,
my arm? Tell me the truth? Have you seen Sid?
What's he been telling you? It's a lie? You believe me,
don't you.

Speaker 28 (02:18:40):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 30 (02:18:41):
Please, please, Johnny, you're heard.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
Do forgive me?

Speaker 14 (02:18:45):
Oh, Lindy, You've got to promise me you'll stay with
me no matter what.

Speaker 28 (02:18:49):
What is it, Johnny? What have you done?

Speaker 14 (02:18:51):
I'm in an awful mess. I'm in deeper than I've
ever been in my life. This time I'm afraid.

Speaker 28 (02:18:56):
Will you tell me? Maybe I can help you. I'm
your Oh.

Speaker 14 (02:19:00):
I don't deserve you. I don't deserve ever to have
met you.

Speaker 28 (02:19:03):
Johnny? What tell me, tell me again how we met.
I like to hear it.

Speaker 14 (02:19:09):
You're just like a little kid, aren't you? Just a
funny little kid?

Speaker 11 (02:19:13):
Tell me?

Speaker 14 (02:19:15):
Okay, it was February twenty first, nineteen forty five, five
years ago. Yes, and there you were, and I saw
you where Johnny on the subway on the Uptown Express?
What what's the manna?

Speaker 11 (02:19:34):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (02:19:34):
Nothing, I I have a little headache.

Speaker 11 (02:19:36):
That's all.

Speaker 14 (02:19:37):
Go on, you're sure you're all right. I'm all right.

Speaker 28 (02:19:40):
Go ahead.

Speaker 14 (02:19:41):
And I saw you and I said to myself that
brother is for me. Then I made up my mind
I was going to meet you.

Speaker 28 (02:19:47):
And then what did you do?

Speaker 14 (02:19:49):
I said, pardon me, miss am, I on the right
train for eighty six streen And what did I say?
You said, no, you will have to change it to
the local at seventy second. Then we started to talk,
just as easy as it, Just as easy as that.
I think you wanted to meet me too, Who said.

Speaker 28 (02:20:09):
I don't know, I'll open it.

Speaker 14 (02:20:11):
What stay where you are? Don't answer that? Who is it?

Speaker 28 (02:20:16):
Johnny? What are you doing with that gun?

Speaker 14 (02:20:18):
Who is it? Wait a minute? Your big shot brother said, yeah,
I guess I won't need this gun here put it
on the table. Listen to me carefully. I was with
you last Monday night. That's all you know. That's your
story and you'd better stick to it.

Speaker 56 (02:20:40):
Remember, life is filled with mystery. And it was a

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strange afternoon when Linda Damon boarded the Uptown Express for
without warning, time jumped ahead and the newspaper datelines read
February twenty first, nineteen fifty.

Speaker 14 (02:21:33):
Then she heard the man sitting next to her say,
come on, Linne, we get off here.

Speaker 56 (02:21:37):
He was her husband and his name was Johnny. Mystified,
afraid to question, Linda followed him home. Johnny spoke of
how they had met five years before on the Uptown Express,
and Linda listened. Then came a knock on the door.
Johnny reached for his gun. The newcomer was Sid, Linda's brother,

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a candidate for the office District Attorney. Johnny turned to
Linda and said.

Speaker 14 (02:22:03):
Listen, Linda carefully. I was with you last Monday night.
That's all you know. That's your story and you'd better
stick to it. Remember.

Speaker 23 (02:22:14):
Yeah, yeah, just a minute, hello, Linda.

Speaker 14 (02:22:19):
Said, what do you want? Damon?

Speaker 28 (02:22:21):
So good to see you, see it. How's mom?

Speaker 23 (02:22:25):
You've got kind of a nerve, asking that, haven't.

Speaker 28 (02:22:27):
You please said, I don't understand.

Speaker 11 (02:22:29):
I get it.

Speaker 14 (02:22:30):
Let him speak his peace and get out. What's on
your mind, mister district attorney.

Speaker 23 (02:22:34):
You're a little premature. Thanks anyway, come on into.

Speaker 28 (02:22:37):
The living room, said, he'll let me take your coat.

Speaker 14 (02:22:40):
It's wet, Linda. He'll go into that living room over
my dead buddy.

Speaker 23 (02:22:44):
Which is just the way I'd like it.

Speaker 28 (02:22:45):
Vincent, why you, Johnny said, what's the matter? What is it?

Speaker 23 (02:22:49):
Linda? Haven't you had enough yet? Why don't you come
home where you belong? Mom's worse Every day since you left,
she gets worse. Doesn't it mean anything to you that
you're killing her?

Speaker 9 (02:22:59):
Mom?

Speaker 14 (02:23:00):
What are you trying to do? Ring blood out of
a liver alone?

Speaker 23 (02:23:02):
Don't you care?

Speaker 11 (02:23:02):
Linda?

Speaker 23 (02:23:03):
What's he done to you?

Speaker 14 (02:23:04):
Live her alone? That's what you came here to say.
You said it, and now get out. That's not quite all, Vincent, No,
well spill it. Then, last Monday night, a man by
the name of Bucky Stevens was murdered.

Speaker 28 (02:23:14):
So what Johnny, Johnny, what's he trying to say?

Speaker 14 (02:23:17):
Go on, big shot? What's it to me?

Speaker 23 (02:23:19):
That's just what I wanted Vincent Buck had been gambling.
But I suppose you know the story.

Speaker 14 (02:23:24):
Sorry, I don't know nothing.

Speaker 23 (02:23:25):
No, too bad, you missed it. It's been in all
the front pages too. Maybe you just forgot Vincent. I'll
refresh your memory. Bucky had been gambling heavily and he won.
He's pretty tight and made a lot of noise about it.
Things like that get around fast.

Speaker 14 (02:23:39):
I don't like your story. Maybe it's just the way
you till it.

Speaker 23 (02:23:42):
Oh, I'm sorry, but don't worry. It gets better as
it goes along. When Bucky left the club alone with
that nice fat wallet, three men got into another car
and followed him.

Speaker 4 (02:23:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (02:23:53):
See, I told you it got better. Gets better still.
They forced his car off the road, took his money,
murdered him, and then threw his body in the river.
Johnny then what then? Nothing? That's all it was to it.
The three men escaped in their car, and the next
morning Earl Marino and his two henchmen were picked up
and booked for the murder. The police thought they had
a case. As a matter of fact, they still do.

Speaker 14 (02:24:13):
Thanks for the bedtime story. Are you through in a minute?

Speaker 23 (02:24:18):
You see? Vincent? The police, the DA, everyone was convinced
it was Marino in his gang, everyone except me, that
is so. So, I said to myself, I wonder, I
wonder where Johnny Vincent was Monday night. Johnny knows two
playmates of his, Charlie Rossy and Joe Kagan. Just idle curiosity,
You understand.

Speaker 14 (02:24:37):
Get to the point. You take too much time.

Speaker 23 (02:24:38):
Okay, I will. I did a little private investigating, and
I've got proof that it was you, you and your pearls.
I've got enough proof to send the three of you
to the electric chair.

Speaker 28 (02:24:48):
There, don't say that why he couldn't of Johnny couldn't.

Speaker 23 (02:24:52):
Why won't you believe me, Linda? I tell you I
can prove it, and I intend to Tomorrow morning. I'm
going to the DA with my evidence. I'm giving you warning.
It's packed solid. They'll spring Marino and pick you up Ncent,
and the charge will be murdered.

Speaker 14 (02:25:05):
You think you're pretty smart, don't you.

Speaker 23 (02:25:08):
No, just smarter than you, that's all.

Speaker 14 (02:25:10):
I don't think you can get away with this.

Speaker 23 (02:25:12):
I know I can.

Speaker 14 (02:25:12):
And if you do, it won't hurt the election any
will it?

Speaker 11 (02:25:15):
Damon?

Speaker 14 (02:25:16):
Brilliant young prosecuting attorney salves case single handed that'll look
cute on campaign buttons not bad.

Speaker 23 (02:25:23):
But to tell you the truth, I wasn't thinking of
that so much. I've been out to get you for
a long time for what you've done to Lindy, and
this is once. You're not going to be able to
talk your way out of it.

Speaker 14 (02:25:32):
And just what do you think you've gained by coming here.

Speaker 23 (02:25:35):
I want Linda to be home where she belongs tomorrow
when the police come to get you.

Speaker 14 (02:25:40):
Thanks for the warning.

Speaker 23 (02:25:40):
We'll even skip if you're dumb enough. See how far
you'll get. By tomorrow night, every paper in the country
will have your picture plastered all over the front page.

Speaker 28 (02:25:47):
Johnny's not going anywhere, said, and neither am I. He'll
stay here and stand trial if he has two, and
I'll stand by him. Johnny was with me last Monday night.

Speaker 23 (02:25:57):
Linda, you don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 28 (02:26:00):
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you said Johnny couldn't
have murdered anybody.

Speaker 23 (02:26:06):
Nothing I can say will make you change your.

Speaker 28 (02:26:07):
Mind, No, nothing. Please go with you.

Speaker 23 (02:26:10):
Sure, Sorry I bothered you. When you need us, We'll
still be waiting for you. Come home, salom Vincent, see
you in court.

Speaker 28 (02:26:21):
Oh Johnny my own brother. How could he?

Speaker 14 (02:26:25):
Thanks for trying anyway, baby, but this time he means business.

Speaker 28 (02:26:29):
You don't have to be afraid, Johnny, if you're innocent.

Speaker 14 (02:26:31):
What do you mean if?

Speaker 28 (02:26:33):
Oh, I didn't mean that way? Johnny believed me?

Speaker 14 (02:26:35):
Are you trying the kid? He's got the goods on
me and I know it?

Speaker 28 (02:26:39):
Johnny? You mean he was right? He was telling you truth? Johnny?

Speaker 14 (02:26:45):
Did you don't be a little fool? Of course? I
killed him? No, No, cut out the dramatics. I've got
to think there must be something.

Speaker 28 (02:26:54):
You You murdered him and threw his body in the river.

Speaker 14 (02:26:57):
Where do you think that money came from? Use your head,
but murder, Johnny. I couldn't help it. He put up
a fight and we had to let him have it.
I didn't want to kill him. There was nothing else
I could do. You know I wouldn't have killed him
if I didn't have to. Don't chill, Lindy.

Speaker 28 (02:27:11):
I don't know anything anymore.

Speaker 11 (02:27:14):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 5 (02:27:15):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:27:16):
Do?

Speaker 14 (02:27:16):
What can I do? He made this investigation on his own,
That's what he said, didn't he Yes, But then he
probably hasn't told anyone yet. No one knows but him
at last, or at least, that's the chance I've got
to take. I can't be any worse off than I am.

Speaker 28 (02:27:31):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 14 (02:27:32):
He'll never live to turn in that evidence. I'll see
to that, Johnny. I'll get Charlie and Joe and we'll
make sure he doesn't.

Speaker 28 (02:27:38):
No, No, you can't do that to kid.

Speaker 14 (02:27:40):
I won't let you me or him, Linde. I don't
have to think twice to decide which one I'd rather
have it be.

Speaker 28 (02:27:45):
No, put down that phone, please, Johnny.

Speaker 2 (02:27:49):
Hello right, let me speak to Charlie. Would he?

Speaker 11 (02:27:52):
Is he there?

Speaker 8 (02:27:53):
Good?

Speaker 28 (02:27:54):
I said to hang up, Johnny, and I meant it.

Speaker 14 (02:27:57):
Lindy. Put that gun back on the day I said
to hang up, you won't shoot. Put it down like
a good girl. Hello, that's you, Jolly. Something's come up.
I want you to get Joe and help me on
a job.

Speaker 2 (02:28:09):
Yeah, right away.

Speaker 28 (02:28:10):
I'm wanting you, Johnny.

Speaker 14 (02:28:11):
Made me as soon as you can over.

Speaker 57 (02:28:14):
Me, me, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, I really didn't think you'd
shoot me.

Speaker 7 (02:28:26):
I had to.

Speaker 28 (02:28:27):
I couldn't help it.

Speaker 14 (02:28:29):
You know, you've got a lot of spunk for a
little thing.

Speaker 28 (02:28:33):
Oh Johnny, I'm sorry.

Speaker 14 (02:28:36):
But I told you not to be sorry for anything ever.
I told you anything you did would be all right,
and I meant it. No, it wouldn't have been it
good no matter what. I'd just as soon have it
this way, honest baby. But it wasn't all bad. Well,

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some of it was fun, tell me it was.

Speaker 28 (02:29:05):
Some of it was wonderful.

Speaker 14 (02:29:08):
Didn't know what what I guess Maybe I never was
meant to have a house with a shront porch, a
backyard and.

Speaker 9 (02:29:25):
Johnny.

Speaker 28 (02:29:34):
I don't know how long I sat there on the
floor beside him, holding him in my arms and rocking
back and forth as if he were a child. There
was blood trickling out of the corners of his mouth,
and I wiped it off with my handkerchief. I knew
he was dead, but I wiped it off just the
same and I sat there holding him. Maybe part of

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those years had been wonderful.

Speaker 11 (02:29:59):
Now I'd never know.

Speaker 28 (02:30:01):
After a while, I got up, took my purse and
left the apartment. The rain had stopped. I started to walk,
found myself running instead, running down that narrow little street.
I didn't know where I was going. I just ran.
The subway station was at the corner and I went
into that. I thought maybe i'd try and find my

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way home again, back to Mom and Sid, and then
I'd be all right. I tried not to think of Johnny,
Johnny lying dead where I left him, in a little
pool of blood. I doctor Nichol in the slot, and
a minute later the train came roaring out of the tunnel.
I'm sure I didn't know what I was doing. I
just got on and sat down. The car was almost empty.

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I was tired, tired all over. I leaned back and
closed my eyes, open them again. The train was crowded,
crowded with people, and I hadn't remembered stopping to let
them on. Suddenly I wasn't quite so tired anymore. I

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sat up straight and looked around. A girl in front
of me was hanging under the strap, and in the
other hand she held the evening paper. I remember looking
at it and reading a weather forecast fair and somewhat milder.
I owed my breath. Was it possible? It took every
bit of courage. I had to force myself to look

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at the date, and the date was February twenty first,
nineteen forty five. I can't explain how I felt then
I wanted to laugh, but a cry. I wanted to
turn to the stranger sitting beside me and say, listen, mister,
was a dream. I just imagined it. I didn't kill anybody.

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This is still nineteen forty five, and I'm going home
for supper. I did turn, and and then I froze.
I've prose with such terror as I've never.

Speaker 18 (02:32:03):
Known before and will never know again.

Speaker 14 (02:32:06):
So the man sitting next to me with pardon me,
miss am, I on the right train for eighty sixth Street.

Speaker 28 (02:32:12):
Well, no, you have to work, that is I'm sorry,
I don't know. I'm graid you have to ask someone else.
You see, this is nice stuff, and I'm getting.

Speaker 56 (02:32:22):
Off from shadows and stillness. Mystery weaves a spell of

(02:33:47):
strangest fascination, charging the mind with doubts and fear. For
mystery is a strange companion, a living memory in the
funding hour, the.

Speaker 13 (02:34:30):
Mummers in the little theater of the air.

Speaker 19 (02:34:48):
Oh stories, weird stories and murders too.

Speaker 4 (02:34:57):
The hermit knows of them all.

Speaker 19 (02:35:00):
Say about your life, ten them mouse ah. If you
heard the story the House with a past Eh, then
listen while the hermit tells you the story it's.

Speaker 11 (02:35:20):
Eight o'clock, Paul. You'll have to hurry if you're going
to get to the store on time this morning. I'm hurrying. Oh,
you know, Paul, I think I'm going to like this
little town, so I couldn't bear the thought of moving
here when you first told me you had bought out
the drug store in a little jerk watertown. I think
we'll be happy here, Honey. I imagine finding a dear
little house like this, all furnished. Oh, it's nicer than

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anything we could get in the city, and the rents
are reasonable. How did you ever happen to locate it?

Speaker 40 (02:35:44):
Oh, mister Rogers, a banker here in town owns it
belong to some member of his family. They've gone away
or something, so he rented it to me. Now I've
got to go, honey, All.

Speaker 11 (02:35:52):
Right, will you be home for lunch.

Speaker 40 (02:35:53):
I'll coy on the phone if I can get away.

Speaker 11 (02:35:55):
Okay, Oh listen here. You must be careful about leaving
lights down in the house. When you came to our
room after listening to the radio last night, you left
three lights on in the living room.

Speaker 40 (02:36:05):
What No, I didn't, Yes, you did, but I tell
you I didn't Margaret.

Speaker 11 (02:36:09):
Neighbors in small towns might think it very strange if
they saw lights burning at all hours of night. Besides,
we can't burn up money right now. Ball just getting
started in this new business night.

Speaker 40 (02:36:20):
I don't know what you're talking about. I know I
turned off a life before I came to bed last night.

Speaker 11 (02:36:25):
I'm afraid you were getting absent minded, honey, because three
lamps were burning when I got up this morning.

Speaker 8 (02:36:30):
I won't argue with you.

Speaker 16 (02:36:31):
I gotta go now.

Speaker 11 (02:36:33):
Don't get two ebbs in minded, dear, you might mix
the wrong prescriptions for people.

Speaker 58 (02:36:38):
What.

Speaker 11 (02:36:40):
Look, there goes the milkman right past the house. I
told him to leave, and the elk and cream every morning.
Must have forgotten calling.

Speaker 8 (02:36:47):
All right, I.

Speaker 11 (02:36:48):
Will let me see what should I do first this morning? Oh?

Speaker 34 (02:36:55):
I love this little house.

Speaker 11 (02:36:56):
It's going to be grand living here. That must be
an milk man. Good morning, Good morning, ma'am. Want to
come in? Thank you, ma'am. I guess you forgot about.

Speaker 5 (02:37:07):
Me this morning.

Speaker 11 (02:37:08):
I want milk and cream everywhere.

Speaker 59 (02:37:10):
Yes, ma'am, I didn't forget about you exactly. I thought
maybe you would be moving out already, so I didn't
stop moving out.

Speaker 11 (02:37:19):
Why we just moved in day before yesterday.

Speaker 59 (02:37:21):
Yes, ma'am, I know, but that's about as long as
anybody stays.

Speaker 11 (02:37:25):
In this house. I don't see what you mean.

Speaker 59 (02:37:28):
I just figured I wouldn't leave any milk for you
because you might move away in a hurry and I
might not get any paid.

Speaker 11 (02:37:35):
We aren't in the habit of moving out of places
in the nighttime. I still don't see.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
What you mean.

Speaker 59 (02:37:40):
I'm the last folks that moved into here about four
months ago.

Speaker 11 (02:37:44):
They got out in the night, and in a hurry too.
How strange. What for?

Speaker 59 (02:37:49):
Well, if you haven't found out yet, you soon will
found out. For this house, there's something in it. Queer
things go on here, things that frightened folks half out
of their wits.

Speaker 11 (02:38:00):
Yes, well what is it? What is it that's strange?

Speaker 59 (02:38:03):
No one knows, ma'am, but they say the house is haunted.

Speaker 11 (02:38:08):
Is it one of the superstitions of this little town.

Speaker 59 (02:38:11):
I don't know, ma'am, but most folks here in town
know it's true that should I leave a cord of milkman, yes.

Speaker 11 (02:38:19):
And a pint of cream every morning? Please, yes, ma'am. Here,
I'll pay you for the week. Then you won't be
afraid that I'll run off, and you will get your
money here you are? Is this the right amount?

Speaker 1 (02:38:32):
That's right, ma'am.

Speaker 11 (02:38:34):
Oh someone at the door, pardon, it's your next door neighbor.

Speaker 1 (02:38:37):
Ma'am.

Speaker 11 (02:38:37):
I've seen there coming across the backyard. Oh, thank you.
None of my neighbors have called it. Yes, good morning,
good morning. You live your lives to an't you? Yes,
I am. Won't you come here?

Speaker 9 (02:38:49):
Yes, although I can't stay long, I'll be going man.

Speaker 11 (02:38:52):
Oh yes, and don't forget to stop every morning, no, ma'am, Yes, ma'am,
I will goodbye. Goodbye, ma'am.

Speaker 58 (02:39:01):
So you've moved in here to stay ahead. You and
your husband brought out the drug store. Oh it's too
bad old mister Green had to die. He was such
a good druggist, and I depended on himself. He picked
up the most marvelous remedy for my rheumatism. And I
always say, these new doctors mean well, but they don't
know the old fashioned remedies.

Speaker 9 (02:39:17):
The old man did.

Speaker 11 (02:39:18):
Oh no, sir, won't you come.

Speaker 58 (02:39:20):
In the living room and said, no, if you don't mind,
I'll stay right here in the kitchen. Not that I'm
afraid in this house in the daytime, mind you, But well,
I like to be right near a door I can
get out in a hurry.

Speaker 11 (02:39:36):
Missus Dutton, will you please tell me what this mystery
is all about. The milkman was trying to tell me
something about him.

Speaker 9 (02:39:43):
Now, that's just what I thought. I said to my
man last night.

Speaker 58 (02:39:47):
I said, like, it's not just Rogers, he's the banker
who owns this. Oh yeah, I said, I'll bet you
dollars to donuts. He didn't tell you, folks, So think
about it now.

Speaker 9 (02:39:56):
Isn't that the limit?

Speaker 11 (02:39:57):
Oh? What is it?

Speaker 32 (02:39:59):
Tell all about it? There are no two ways about it.

Speaker 9 (02:40:04):
This house is haunted.

Speaker 11 (02:40:05):
Huh. You don't mean to tell me that a lovely
new house like this is branded with any old fashion.

Speaker 58 (02:40:14):
Sometimes I actually get so frightened right next door to
it that I threatened to move out of the neighborhood.

Speaker 32 (02:40:20):
I said only last week that if I heard.

Speaker 58 (02:40:22):
Any more stories about it, I'd.

Speaker 11 (02:40:23):
Have to get out for goodness sake. Tell me what
it is. I don't want to live in ignorance of
what's wrong with my own eyes.

Speaker 32 (02:40:30):
That's what it is. Oh, it's a tragic story.

Speaker 11 (02:40:33):
A very tragic story here.

Speaker 58 (02:40:36):
Well, tell me, well, this house was built for mister
Roger's daughter. He gave it to her for a wedding present.

Speaker 11 (02:40:43):
I remember as.

Speaker 58 (02:40:44):
Well as if it were yesterday. She was such a
beautiful girl, and her husband lie that.

Speaker 11 (02:40:49):
He was handsome. They live here in.

Speaker 58 (02:40:51):
This how he is, but only for four weeks, mind you,
just four weeks in this lovely little house.

Speaker 11 (02:40:58):
How long ago was it?

Speaker 9 (02:40:59):
Just three years ago?

Speaker 32 (02:41:00):
Last October?

Speaker 9 (02:41:02):
Ah my, was a terrible thing.

Speaker 11 (02:41:05):
What happened to them?

Speaker 9 (02:41:06):
Will?

Speaker 11 (02:41:06):
As I say?

Speaker 9 (02:41:07):
They'd only been married four weeks when one day he
went out hunting.

Speaker 32 (02:41:11):
Oh well, I remember that day.

Speaker 9 (02:41:14):
I was the first one over here when I heard
about the accident.

Speaker 32 (02:41:16):
Tell him you mean, yes, oh my, to think.

Speaker 58 (02:41:20):
That a couple so much in love should come to
such a tragic end. Well, as I say, I was
the first.

Speaker 32 (02:41:26):
One over here.

Speaker 58 (02:41:27):
I even got here before mister Rogers came to tell
his daughter about it. I had to break the news to.

Speaker 11 (02:41:32):
Her something had happened to her husband. To me, some
other hunters shott him, accidentally killed him. I'll right, Oh, oh,
how terrible, terrible?

Speaker 58 (02:41:42):
There is no word for it.

Speaker 9 (02:41:43):
And wait, you haven't heard the worst.

Speaker 11 (02:41:45):
Part of the story.

Speaker 9 (02:41:46):
Two weeks afterwards, that.

Speaker 32 (02:41:48):
Poor girl, that lovely bride, who was a bride no more,
killed herself. Oh no, yes, she did, threw herself in
the river drowned.

Speaker 11 (02:42:00):
Oh what a tragic thing, her poor little body.

Speaker 58 (02:42:04):
They never recovered it, though they dragged the river for
days and days.

Speaker 11 (02:42:08):
It's a terrible thing, missus Dunton. But I don't see
what it has to do with this house being hot weight.

Speaker 9 (02:42:13):
I'm coming to that.

Speaker 32 (02:42:14):
You see, for six months after they died, it was
closed out tight.

Speaker 9 (02:42:18):
Mister Rogers never came near it.

Speaker 58 (02:42:21):
I came over and sort it out her clothes and
personal things for him. He wouldn't step inside. Then, I
guess he decided to rend it. It was all furnished
and everything. It's all nice even now. Four different families
have tried to live in it since then, but they
all moved away in a hurry. They claimed they heard
things walking at night in this house, yes, walking all

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over it. Ah, tragedy struck it too soon, and the
ghosts of those young people come back to walk on
the earth.

Speaker 9 (02:42:51):
They were forced to leave.

Speaker 11 (02:42:53):
Have you ever heard them? Wrking? No, And I don't
want to. I heard nothing last night.

Speaker 9 (02:42:59):
But you will you mark my words.

Speaker 11 (02:43:03):
Oh heavens, that sounded like something in the living room.

Speaker 9 (02:43:07):
I'll go see something certainly did fall?

Speaker 15 (02:43:11):
What why?

Speaker 11 (02:43:13):
Look there's this beautiful face that sat on the man.
Who Oh, what a shame. It's broken in a thousand pieces.

Speaker 32 (02:43:20):
And not a car going by on the street to jarade.

Speaker 9 (02:43:24):
Not a thing.

Speaker 58 (02:43:27):
I tell you the beginning to walk in the daytime.

Speaker 11 (02:43:30):
Let me out of here.

Speaker 9 (02:43:31):
Let me out of here. They holds the house in
the daytime.

Speaker 32 (02:43:34):
Now, oh, let me out here?

Speaker 11 (02:43:39):
Fall pah, Wake up, turn on the lights.

Speaker 8 (02:43:44):
What is it you say?

Speaker 11 (02:43:46):
Wake up? Turn on the light right there beside you.

Speaker 1 (02:43:49):
What's the matter?

Speaker 11 (02:43:50):
Listen, there's someone walking.

Speaker 21 (02:43:53):
Up in the attic.

Speaker 11 (02:43:56):
I don't hear anything. Wake up and listen you will
you hear it? I hear a noise someone walking. I
can hear it, plain Steed, turn on the.

Speaker 9 (02:44:07):
Light, eh.

Speaker 11 (02:44:09):
Now do you feel better when you can see I
don't think I hear it.

Speaker 40 (02:44:13):
Now. I suppose whatever it was you, we turned on
the lights and scamp it away. Honey, I'm ashamed of you.
You let that neighbor of yours get you all upset.

Speaker 11 (02:44:22):
No, I haven't. I'm certain I heard someone walking upstairs. Stop, now,
what do you see? We go back to sleep? Well,
let's sleep with the light on.

Speaker 9 (02:44:31):
Nonsense, I'm back to sleep and forget it, all right,
I'll try.

Speaker 40 (02:44:36):
May I uh turn off the light?

Speaker 11 (02:44:38):
Then?

Speaker 40 (02:44:39):
Yes, go ahead there, now you calm your fears, go
back to sleep.

Speaker 11 (02:44:44):
I know you think it sounded silly, of course I do.
You can't scare me. There are such things as.

Speaker 9 (02:44:50):
Ghosts, you know where in books in light.

Speaker 1 (02:44:53):
You're silly, don't.

Speaker 11 (02:45:01):
You hear it? I do hear a noise. It's someone
walking right up over our heads. You've got to go
up in the attic and see.

Speaker 40 (02:45:09):
What it is, all right, all right, I will just
to satisfy you, But I know it isn't anything, just
the wind rattling something up there.

Speaker 11 (02:45:16):
Wind doesn't make the sound of footsteps or hurry. You
wanted to get me. I wanted to find out what
it is, beginning to see why people moved out of
this house. How could they stay here with this strange
walking over there?

Speaker 9 (02:45:30):
You want to come with me, No, I'll stay here.

Speaker 11 (02:45:37):
What's that?

Speaker 18 (02:45:38):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (02:45:39):
It's Paul walking up the attic? Status. Oh, I got
myself in a nice state of nurse now, if that's Paul,
it sounds exactly like the walking before he went up there. Margaret,

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that was not in the kitchen. I'm coming.

Speaker 9 (02:46:10):
Look what's happened here?

Speaker 40 (02:46:13):
My heaven, The very dish in the cupboard is smashed
on the floor.

Speaker 11 (02:46:18):
Things. Oh, these lovely dishes broken?

Speaker 9 (02:46:21):
What what could come?

Speaker 8 (02:46:23):
My golly?

Speaker 11 (02:46:24):
If this isn't the limit, what could cause it?

Speaker 40 (02:46:26):
Paul was at no, no, no, there wasn't. But Margaret, yes,
I don't want to get your frighten.

Speaker 11 (02:46:34):
No, tell me what did you see? Well it wasn't
exactly what I saw.

Speaker 8 (02:46:37):
Well, in the way it was.

Speaker 11 (02:46:37):
Too there was something wasn't there As I.

Speaker 40 (02:46:40):
Was climbing the stairs to the attica. I don't know
what it was, but I had the queerest sensation as
if something brushed my shoulder. I could feel it, almost
see it. It was as if I were blind and
you could send someone or something trying to move stealthily
past me.

Speaker 11 (02:46:53):
Oh dear, the house is haunted then I don't know.

Speaker 40 (02:46:57):
But if it is, then something did pass me on
the stairs, came down here in the kitchen and threw
all these dishes on the floor. I'm going to talk
to mister Rogers in the morning. I can't believe it yet,
but there certainly is something going on.

Speaker 11 (02:47:08):
When I know it. I heard them walking on before
you did, and the days on the mantel this.

Speaker 40 (02:47:13):
Morning it broke to keep calm, honey. We'll find out
what it is right now. If you can find a
cup that isn't broken, I'll have a gown of black coffee.

Speaker 19 (02:47:27):
What can the trouble in the house Paul and Margaret
have rented the who is moving about in their house
in the dark of night? The hermit will tell you before.

Speaker 9 (02:47:39):
The night is done.

Speaker 60 (02:47:42):
And now the hermit again.

Speaker 19 (02:47:49):
It is the next morning, and we find Paul.

Speaker 9 (02:47:53):
In the office of mister Rogers. Listen, Yeah, it's all right,
mister Liveston.

Speaker 8 (02:48:03):
You're welcome to move out.

Speaker 40 (02:48:05):
I'll refund your month's ring. I don't want to do that,
mister Rogers. You've stayed a night longer than any one
else who's rented the house.

Speaker 9 (02:48:12):
I don't blame you for going.

Speaker 11 (02:48:13):
You haven't ever stayed there, have you. No?

Speaker 9 (02:48:16):
I presume you know the story of my daughter and
my son in law.

Speaker 11 (02:48:20):
Yes I do.

Speaker 8 (02:48:21):
I don't want to bring it all up for you again.
All right, it's with me all the time.

Speaker 11 (02:48:25):
What I started to say was I can't bring myself
to go in the house.

Speaker 8 (02:48:30):
I built it for my little girl.

Speaker 1 (02:48:32):
I couldn't go into it.

Speaker 40 (02:48:33):
Ever, what I'd like to ask you is, do you
take any stock in the story about the house being hearted?

Speaker 11 (02:48:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 40 (02:48:41):
All I've heard is from the people who've rented it.
They say so, But you don't believe it, do you.

Speaker 11 (02:48:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (02:48:46):
There might be some truth in it yet you've never
investigated or I think you understand. I can't visit that house.

Speaker 40 (02:48:53):
But maybe if you came and stayed in it, we
could clear the matter up. Won't you come over to
the house and stay with.

Speaker 8 (02:48:58):
My wife and meet to night?

Speaker 11 (02:48:59):
Well? Please, we'll feel a lot better. We want to
live in the house if possible. Well, I'll tell you
what I'll do.

Speaker 9 (02:49:07):
I'll try and forget my sorrow.

Speaker 40 (02:49:09):
I'll go there to the house tonight.

Speaker 11 (02:49:10):
And stay with you.

Speaker 16 (02:49:12):
Thank you, mister Rogers.

Speaker 9 (02:49:13):
If there is.

Speaker 11 (02:49:13):
Anything, we'll find it.

Speaker 9 (02:49:15):
But I don't want the house all torn to peace.

Speaker 8 (02:49:18):
Oh no, sir, we.

Speaker 11 (02:49:18):
Won't do that. I hate to lose the property, but
if it's true that there is something wrong, I may
have to burn.

Speaker 40 (02:49:26):
The house down. That would be a shame. My wife
likes the house. We'd like to stay there. Well, I'll
be over tonight.

Speaker 9 (02:49:33):
Maybe we can straighten it out forever.

Speaker 11 (02:49:42):
Good evening, Oh, missus Duttan, come right in.

Speaker 58 (02:49:47):
I suppose you're surprised to see me. I didn't think
myself that I'd ever come into this.

Speaker 9 (02:49:52):
House at night.

Speaker 11 (02:49:52):
Well, now you're here, won't you take off your things
and sit down? I just wrote this shawl.

Speaker 9 (02:49:57):
I'll keep it over my shoulders.

Speaker 32 (02:49:59):
Isn't that mister Rogers's car out and from.

Speaker 11 (02:50:02):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 9 (02:50:03):
I don't think of that.

Speaker 58 (02:50:05):
I never expected he'd come to this house never. Is
it something wrong, something more than usual?

Speaker 11 (02:50:11):
I mean, well, not not exactly.

Speaker 58 (02:50:14):
This is something very strange that would bring to this house.
He never set foot inside it since the death of
his daughter.

Speaker 11 (02:50:20):
You know, so, I understand. But he very kindly consented
to do so after my husband went and talked to him.

Speaker 9 (02:50:26):
What about Well, we like the house very.

Speaker 11 (02:50:29):
Well and we'd like to stay here if we can.

Speaker 32 (02:50:31):
Has anything else happened since the day.

Speaker 11 (02:50:33):
I was over. We did hear some strange sounds. I
knew it.

Speaker 58 (02:50:37):
I knew it, And you've gone right on living here?
How can you do it?

Speaker 11 (02:50:41):
Why?

Speaker 32 (02:50:41):
I'm sure I where's mister Rogers gone?

Speaker 4 (02:50:44):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (02:50:45):
He and Paul are looking through the house. They've gone
down the basement. Now I think it's searching what for?
For nothing to happen?

Speaker 9 (02:50:52):
At what could they find?

Speaker 32 (02:50:55):
Things that hold houses couldn't be seen?

Speaker 11 (02:50:57):
You know how much better anyone feels after they've searched
all through a house, which brightens them.

Speaker 32 (02:51:03):
Oh my heavens, look.

Speaker 11 (02:51:08):
Look where? What do you mean can't you see?

Speaker 9 (02:51:12):
Look at that chair?

Speaker 8 (02:51:13):
What?

Speaker 9 (02:51:13):
Look at it?

Speaker 11 (02:51:15):
Why?

Speaker 9 (02:51:16):
It's rocking, of goose?

Speaker 32 (02:51:18):
It's rocking, Oh by itself.

Speaker 11 (02:51:22):
They must have darted while they were down.

Speaker 61 (02:51:24):
In the bank.

Speaker 11 (02:51:25):
Its spirits rocking that chair.

Speaker 9 (02:51:28):
I know it.

Speaker 58 (02:51:29):
Whatever it is in this house that haunts this place,
it's after someone, or it's wants something.

Speaker 32 (02:51:35):
I know it.

Speaker 38 (02:51:36):
Oh it's rocking again.

Speaker 11 (02:51:38):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (02:51:42):
Yes? What's happening?

Speaker 9 (02:51:44):
Hits you?

Speaker 32 (02:51:45):
I'm glad you've come, but now you may stop.

Speaker 9 (02:51:48):
Whatever it is in this house, what is it?

Speaker 11 (02:51:49):
Missus?

Speaker 9 (02:51:50):
See that chair there?

Speaker 11 (02:51:52):
It started to rock all by itself, did it, Margaret? Yes,
it did. I thought perhaps it was because if you
dried the floor while you were down on it with spirits.

Speaker 32 (02:52:03):
I know it.

Speaker 11 (02:52:07):
I've got to go home.

Speaker 9 (02:52:08):
I know, I don't.

Speaker 11 (02:52:11):
Well, she really was frightened, wasn't she.

Speaker 40 (02:52:13):
Of course, if it did really move of its own accord,
it would frighten anyone.

Speaker 9 (02:52:17):
I can't make it out. We haven't seen a thing.

Speaker 11 (02:52:20):
It isn't that there's anything in the house that hurt you,
mister Rogers. It's only this constant moving of things in
the house, and in the nighttime, someone or something moving
in the attic. We haven't seen anything either.

Speaker 40 (02:52:35):
I don't think we shall. I shall have to admit.
I'm still at a loss to account for it though.
Now if you will excuse me, I'll retire to my
room for the night, but I promise you I shall
stay awake, and if there is anything, we'll find it.

Speaker 14 (02:52:58):
Well.

Speaker 11 (02:52:58):
I can hear it tonight, all right, Margaret, Was that
the sound you heard? Yes, that's it. Should we call.

Speaker 40 (02:53:04):
Mister Rogers, No, let him hear of himself. Then we'll
be certain it isn't the product of our own minds.

Speaker 11 (02:53:08):
How could it be a product of our own minds?
There's certainly something moving about in the attic.

Speaker 40 (02:53:13):
Or someone something walking. You're right, it is, yes, just
a minute. I think I heard what you've been referring
to the sound of something moving in the attic.

Speaker 11 (02:53:28):
Yes, mister Rogers, we just heard it too. Shall we
go up there?

Speaker 9 (02:53:31):
Yes, I guess we better.

Speaker 11 (02:53:32):
I can't make it out.

Speaker 40 (02:53:33):
I'm going to all right with your ruby woman.

Speaker 11 (02:53:35):
Yes, I'm all right. Then let's go right away.

Speaker 40 (02:53:37):
Oh wait, there are any lights in the attic. I'll
take a flashlight.

Speaker 11 (02:53:40):
Why the attic was wired for electricity.

Speaker 40 (02:53:43):
I guess the bulbs have been taken out then, because
I couldn't get any light the other night when I
went up there.

Speaker 11 (02:53:50):
Listen, I heard it again. Do you It sounds as
if whatever it is was moving faster, walking more rapidly
already now, yes, I am. Of course, we won't see
a thing. All these weird things happen and we never
see a thing.

Speaker 8 (02:54:08):
Hear the stairs.

Speaker 11 (02:54:09):
Watch out now I'm falling in Oh, I hate to
admit it. I'm so scared. My heart is pounding like
a drip.

Speaker 40 (02:54:17):
Ever, I know I went cold all over when I
heard the sound of walking while I was in my room.

Speaker 9 (02:54:23):
The light should turn on right here.

Speaker 8 (02:54:27):
I guess they don't work.

Speaker 11 (02:54:29):
We can see pretty well with this flashlight.

Speaker 40 (02:54:33):
Yeah, you see enough, thing told me deserted.

Speaker 11 (02:54:36):
We can't tear into the corners very well. Wait, I'll
stand up in this chair.

Speaker 9 (02:54:41):
Maybe the light bulb has come loose.

Speaker 40 (02:54:43):
Maybe I can fix it. I can almost reach it here.
I'll give you a boost. Now I've got it. Yes,
it is loose there. Now I'll turn on the switch.

Speaker 11 (02:54:54):
Yes, oh there, that's fine. Now we can see there.

Speaker 40 (02:54:58):
But there isn't anything to see, isn't it the queerest thing?

Speaker 11 (02:55:02):
Did you feel anything past you on the stairs this time?

Speaker 22 (02:55:05):
Paul?

Speaker 9 (02:55:05):
No?

Speaker 11 (02:55:06):
Did you, mister.

Speaker 9 (02:55:06):
Rogers pass me on the stairs? No?

Speaker 11 (02:55:09):
Neither did I. And if there is anything in this house,
it should still be right here in this attice.

Speaker 40 (02:55:16):
Do you mind if we tear things to pieces up
here and search thoroughly, mister Rogers? And I don't know
what there is to search for, but go right ahead.
I hate to disturb my girl's things that were left
here in the.

Speaker 11 (02:55:24):
Attic, but we might as well.

Speaker 40 (02:55:26):
I guess I just thought it might be an animal
or that, or something living up here.

Speaker 13 (02:55:30):
We may fight.

Speaker 11 (02:55:31):
That wouldn't account for the dishes breaking, Paul, or the
chair rocking. This is just a pile of bedding isn't it. Yes,
I guess so. Oh, No, look at this big trunk.
What's in it, mister Rogers.

Speaker 15 (02:55:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:55:44):
That that trunk?

Speaker 40 (02:55:46):
Why it was one my wife and I.

Speaker 9 (02:55:48):
First took to Europe with us. My little girl used
it for her Truso. I guess.

Speaker 11 (02:55:53):
I think it's locked. Maybe I can open it, Stoc, Yes, Rusty, so.

Speaker 38 (02:56:03):
Me pooh, I'm here.

Speaker 8 (02:56:16):
Look at the body.

Speaker 1 (02:56:19):
What is it?

Speaker 9 (02:56:20):
It's a body, mister Rogers, a woman's body, and we
look at it. Great Heavens, it's the body of my daughter.

Speaker 40 (02:56:32):
The body of my daughter, Margaret is much better, mister Rogers,
and I'm glad to hear she's getting along all right.

Speaker 9 (02:56:42):
It was a terrible shock for her and for you,
mister Rogers.

Speaker 40 (02:56:45):
Yes, it was so much I can't even think or
reason it out.

Speaker 11 (02:56:50):
You know how it happened.

Speaker 40 (02:56:52):
Yes, we found the bottle of poison in the bottom
of the trunk.

Speaker 9 (02:56:56):
She crawled away in there and died. Believe me, on
My heart aches for you.

Speaker 40 (02:57:02):
But at least now I can give my little girl
a beacon burial. Mister Vestone, I am convinced there was
something that moved about in the house, aren't you, Yes,
I am either the spirit of my daughter walk in
that house or that of her husband trying to tell us.

Speaker 9 (02:57:18):
That the body of my little girl was there.

Speaker 40 (02:57:20):
We haven't heard or seen anything strange for the last
three nights.

Speaker 9 (02:57:24):
No, and you won't.

Speaker 62 (02:57:27):
The spirits will rest easy now, they'll rest easy.

Speaker 9 (02:57:54):
The wandering spirit was set free.

Speaker 19 (02:57:58):
It will walk no more.

Speaker 9 (02:58:04):
Cat on your life.

Speaker 63 (02:58:06):
Turn them on, I'll be back pleasant dreams.

Speaker 8 (02:58:22):
All characters, places, and occurrences mentioned in the Hermit's cave
are fictitious, and similarity to a person's places or occurrences
is purely accidental. Mystery is My hobby, Ladies and gentlemen,

(02:58:45):
Button Dreg speaking for the next Drammer, I selected case
history number one hundred and twelve from my book Mystery
is My Hobby. I call it two hours to live.

Speaker 13 (02:59:01):
When they got a half hour to get to the airport.
Planes don't wait, you know they don't wait.

Speaker 8 (02:59:05):
He's do in a minute, George, just want a final
word with this precious brother of your Look, Eddie, I
don't like your attitude. Can you're out there? You know
why I ever had deals with a scheister like you?
I ought I've had my head examined.

Speaker 1 (02:59:22):
Book I brought your skasee to court and we lost.

Speaker 11 (02:59:25):
That's all you mean?

Speaker 23 (02:59:26):
Eye low?

Speaker 13 (02:59:27):
Can I any of mister planes and mister plane with
mister shooting, mister shutting if you ask me, I last,
because the other side paid you are.

Speaker 8 (02:59:34):
I don't care what you say, and I'll expect my
feet it'll be five thousand dollars. Yeah, try and get it.
Look and LII sure there's a law that's bad.

Speaker 13 (02:59:43):
There isn't a law that allows a man to exterminate
rats like you. Come to think of it, one of
these das, I just might take the law into my
own hands.

Speaker 8 (02:59:52):
Fall to tarth we.

Speaker 11 (02:59:55):
Oh, oh my el.

Speaker 8 (03:00:00):
I have a bill, and that reminds me.

Speaker 13 (03:00:01):
Can I reseiled your prescriptions?

Speaker 8 (03:00:04):
I have it right here?

Speaker 2 (03:00:05):
Have it right here?

Speaker 8 (03:00:06):
Give me give me one quick play here, dear brother.
It's just scared that you are dift. What did you say?

Speaker 15 (03:00:18):
Ask?

Speaker 11 (03:00:19):
Ask?

Speaker 58 (03:00:21):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:00:21):
I see well? Quick swizzling with it ring here? Keep
your shirt on?

Speaker 11 (03:00:29):
Yes, but.

Speaker 8 (03:00:32):
Oh mention, I hope you have choke. Tell me inspector
what is all this about? But just tell me to
pack a few things, and I have to forget my
shotgun and now from all the signs. You're driving me
up to the airport. You're going, honey, yep, at the

(03:00:55):
expense of the city. Oh well, no, inspected. That's the
kind of a time that I like. But I know
you too well to think you're just packing me up
for fun. So give inspector, give lawyer. But the name
of Kennet float them dropstead today. Huh. Oh you've heard
of him. Well, I've got an idea he was poison

(03:01:17):
Oh what kind of person about? Well, we don't know what.
I haven't had the untrapt yet. Who did it? Might
have been any one of a million people, had a
lot of friends. Hu and a brother who didn't like
him either. Now this brother and a friend left this
morning for Pembrooke. Why that's a couple of hours northwest
of there by plane.

Speaker 11 (03:01:36):
I know.

Speaker 8 (03:01:37):
Now, I want you to go up there and those
around a bit, see what you can find out. How
do you do it? He's a footing good affairs. The
best thing I do it. What are you going to
be doing In the meantime, I'm going to have a
talk with a mister Elliott and his daughter. They were
whisplowed him when he kicked up like a sign inspect
a sign good hunt good hut Hey you're the one

(03:01:57):
who's going having And that's the way it all started.

Speaker 13 (03:02:08):
No one ever had to ask Barton Drake Twine if
he wanted to go hunting. So a few hours later
we find him standing deep in a wooded solitude. Suddenly
there's a thunder of beating wings with a whirring grouse
break cover, and a split second with perfect timing, Barton
breake gun is at his shoulder.

Speaker 4 (03:02:27):
Got him.

Speaker 8 (03:02:30):
Thank your friends, one shot wall.

Speaker 2 (03:02:35):
But which I could do?

Speaker 8 (03:02:36):
That?

Speaker 4 (03:02:36):
Put that five?

Speaker 8 (03:02:37):
Afraid if you don't off these fellows with the first shot,
you'll never get another chance.

Speaker 13 (03:02:41):
And he luck had only a tapper an otty tune too.
How long you've been half?

Speaker 8 (03:02:46):
I just flew in, i'n't been out about a half hour.
Start of looking the ground over. Well, if the shooting's
over for today, don will be down a few minutes. Yes,
I guess you're right where we better be starting back
to the lodge.

Speaker 13 (03:03:00):
We walk along with you walk along?

Speaker 8 (03:03:02):
Certainly not it'd be a pleasure.

Speaker 13 (03:03:03):
Yeah, you might as well know each other. My name
is George Lucam Druggist. To play Druggist my plan. Here's
Andy Fishers right to know you're gentleman.

Speaker 8 (03:03:13):
I'm Boughton Drake.

Speaker 11 (03:03:15):
Howdy.

Speaker 9 (03:03:16):
It's the bottom range, not the writing the test.

Speaker 8 (03:03:21):
Yes, I'm afraid I'm guilty. Happen we better be stutten back.

Speaker 13 (03:03:25):
Yeah, well this who is interesting? Yes, indeed he's interesting.

Speaker 8 (03:03:30):
Thanks to meeting you in persian Y today, I help
you nothing dissillusioned on the country.

Speaker 13 (03:03:36):
I'm fascinated. If he is to be I'm fascinating.

Speaker 8 (03:03:38):
Whoa Thanks, Yes, indeed thanks.

Speaker 13 (03:03:41):
It's scause I don't agree with the two fellows so
often make but they never works. That your thing is
a perfect crime.

Speaker 8 (03:03:47):
No, why don't you three?

Speaker 13 (03:03:48):
Because I have a plan for a prystic crime a
planet absh's the fool proof, he's sure.

Speaker 8 (03:03:54):
Well, no, I'm the one who's fascinated. Don musam me
that your brother Kean you is thinking you're bumping George.
Let me handle it will here. I'll be glad to help. Yes,
that would be a good example.

Speaker 13 (03:04:05):
And let's suppose that I did want to kill my
brother kid.

Speaker 8 (03:04:08):
It's just suppose you.

Speaker 13 (03:04:09):
Say you know how I go about it. I haven't
the faint sided where I would arrange a hunting ship,
just like a how you supersist? I bring them along
you go shooting together. I stop the time of shoe
or something and drop behind him.

Speaker 8 (03:04:23):
And then and he wasn't looking, I shoot him in
the back.

Speaker 13 (03:04:26):
Claim it wasn't act or what's ax?

Speaker 8 (03:04:29):
Ask you what, miss welcome? If a full of holes
as your foe brother with the if slats on slugs
were in his back, what, sister Sorge, it is for?
That sick is sried at least ten times every hunting
season and they never get away with it.

Speaker 13 (03:04:46):
Why couldn't I what's wrong with where?

Speaker 8 (03:04:48):
In your case? Mister Slolcolm, you just read and you
bet it in sort of two witnesses mister Fisher here
and myself that would be remembered must assuredly after the crime.
Also on such cases we always look for a motive.
A bit of investigation would turn one up. In your case,
I'm sure, mister Welcolm, if you're contemplating the murder of
your brother, I sincerely advise you against that method, because

(03:05:10):
in a sense, you've already made your sensation. I'm afraid
mister Great is right, George.

Speaker 60 (03:05:16):
We don't have to figure out some other way.

Speaker 8 (03:05:17):
To kill them.

Speaker 13 (03:05:28):
Like a good meal and a good stretch in front
of a warm fire after day in the wood.

Speaker 8 (03:05:32):
The German. Yeah, you're right, Rick, You're right.

Speaker 15 (03:05:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (03:05:38):
Now I'm gonna turn in early. Want to get at
those birds by counta Edrick, forget.

Speaker 13 (03:05:43):
About what I said? Did you do it is? I said,
I'd like you to get a man.

Speaker 8 (03:05:46):
Oh, yes, you need your plan for the perfect crime.

Speaker 13 (03:05:49):
Yes, I was talking to the hat, talking to that.

Speaker 8 (03:05:52):
You know you're interested me, great, dear mister Stocram. A
man doesn't think fimilarly without some good and sufficient reasons.
Civilization is gentle people over the ages, to the point
where murders the last result, except, of course, and the
climbs the type.

Speaker 13 (03:06:05):
I know, and I repeat, I was starting from minute
m you must.

Speaker 8 (03:06:10):
Take your brother tremendously, mister Slope.

Speaker 13 (03:06:13):
Nothing more than he does.

Speaker 8 (03:06:14):
And other people.

Speaker 13 (03:06:16):
Which I'm proud to be one, do you m I
telling me why? As long as we've gone this farmist
at Rake, you might as well known.

Speaker 8 (03:06:23):
The rest, that is, if you care to listen. I
believe I brought up the subject well. George's brother Kim
Slocum eat him out of his entire inherity.

Speaker 13 (03:06:33):
Every bottle of pills and every dollar kills. Yes, the dad,
he's throwing a drug store.

Speaker 8 (03:06:38):
He king.

Speaker 13 (03:06:39):
The older boy studied law while George here studied commonly.
You know they're carry on and the old man's footstack.

Speaker 8 (03:06:44):
Suppose you let George tell us George, sure.

Speaker 13 (03:06:47):
Well, my father was confined to's dead for the last
few years of his glass. Last year and Ken be
nailed and a lawyers given the control of his business.

Speaker 8 (03:06:55):
I carried on him store ife. I heard your father's
course had made will.

Speaker 13 (03:07:00):
Get ahead, and you're give me to understand it. In
the end the drug store was to remind well.

Speaker 8 (03:07:04):
That's quite understandable. But now I'm only getting But when
the auto, mister Slocomb, finally died, you discovered that a
new will had been made, this inheriting you completely. That's right, exactly,
the beneficiary naturally being your brother Ken, and.

Speaker 13 (03:07:18):
Leading me one dollar at a job as prescription clerk,
and the drugstore that rightly belongs to me.

Speaker 1 (03:07:25):
Yes, that's easy.

Speaker 8 (03:07:26):
Now you understand what I meant, don't you, mister slocom
When I said that if you killed your brother a bit,
if an investigation would turn up a motor many men
have been playing for less.

Speaker 11 (03:07:36):
Well.

Speaker 13 (03:07:37):
This has been an interesting discussion, gentlemen.

Speaker 8 (03:07:40):
Especially endure the fact that perhaps you don't already know
that your brother Ken mister Slocum died early this afternoon. Yes, well,
what do you know?

Speaker 56 (03:07:56):
It was ten.

Speaker 8 (03:08:00):
Pay o'clock. I suggested you both go to bed and
get a good night's sleep, because in the morning, mister
slocumbe I'm good ask you to go back to New
York with me. I'm quite certain that the good inspector
Dad and will want to arrest you for your brother's murders.

Speaker 60 (03:08:21):
And now back to Glenn langdon bather second act Don.

Speaker 5 (03:08:26):
Mystery is my hobby?

Speaker 8 (03:08:34):
Oh you Inspector?

Speaker 61 (03:08:36):
Then?

Speaker 8 (03:08:36):
Yes, asking him the elliots arrived yet, Yes, waiting in
mister Slocum's office. I medn't want to, thanks, That's why
I inspected. I know where it is, Riso, I tell you,
I know where it is.

Speaker 13 (03:08:52):
All right, yes, Helen, I see my daughter is very upset.

Speaker 2 (03:08:56):
Inspector.

Speaker 60 (03:08:58):
You are upset, aren't you, Helen?

Speaker 52 (03:09:00):
Yes, father, of course.

Speaker 9 (03:09:01):
Yeah, She's going to be a lot more upset before
I get through with you. All right, now, I want
to ask a few questions.

Speaker 2 (03:09:08):
Well you answered him.

Speaker 13 (03:09:09):
You'll answer some question, won't you, Helene?

Speaker 8 (03:09:12):
Yes, Father, you told us before that you too were
with mister Slocum when he died. Helene, yes, be.

Speaker 21 (03:09:20):
Careful for a man of a heart attack right before
eyes toppled over on the.

Speaker 14 (03:09:25):
Desk, end stock.

Speaker 8 (03:09:26):
What makes you so sure it was a heart attack?

Speaker 13 (03:09:29):
My CROSSI was a heart attack?

Speaker 11 (03:09:31):
Or else?

Speaker 8 (03:09:32):
Could it have been?

Speaker 13 (03:09:33):
That's right, isn't it, Helene?

Speaker 10 (03:09:35):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (03:09:36):
Father?

Speaker 11 (03:09:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (03:09:37):
Did either one of you say something that might have
brought on mister heart attack? Did Slocum fly into it?
Puzzy or something like that?

Speaker 13 (03:09:46):
Helene, Well, you might.

Speaker 21 (03:09:48):
Call it tack if the father had just the man
of an accounting.

Speaker 8 (03:09:51):
To mister an accounting accounting for what?

Speaker 21 (03:09:56):
An accounting of the trust fund which is left to mister.

Speaker 13 (03:09:58):
Slocan's cab on my mind?

Speaker 8 (03:10:00):
Oh, and you think maybe Slocum had been misappropriating the.

Speaker 13 (03:10:04):
Fun We have reason to believe that he has exhausted
them completely.

Speaker 8 (03:10:09):
Well, now, if i'd in the motor for murder, I
never heard one.

Speaker 58 (03:10:12):
However, you must remember that mister Slocumb wasn't use it
and settled that question himself by dying.

Speaker 13 (03:10:19):
Naster, It isn't.

Speaker 8 (03:10:20):
Quite as simple as that, Miss Elliott. You see, mister
Slocumb didn't die naturally, he was poisoned, poisoned?

Speaker 13 (03:10:28):
Why is that couldn't be?

Speaker 5 (03:10:29):
We were right here, We were right here with him
all the time.

Speaker 13 (03:10:33):
Why aren't we?

Speaker 8 (03:10:34):
Helly dear? And that's just as good as a concatious However,
I'm trying to be fair. I still got a few
more questions with Now, when did Slocumb have this attack?

Speaker 13 (03:10:45):
I can tell you to the minute.

Speaker 11 (03:10:47):
It was just two theater.

Speaker 8 (03:10:48):
Hey, how can you tell us close? Is that the
clock in the hall had just cut the heart power?
I'm mister Elliott. At any time while you were here
in the room with Slocum was anything third anything? The
week of a well, I tell how about him? Is
really Helen?

Speaker 9 (03:11:07):
Honestly not Inspector.

Speaker 13 (03:11:09):
Nothing is good.

Speaker 8 (03:11:10):
You didn't have any drinks.

Speaker 32 (03:11:12):
No inspect you not a thing, and even the strictly business.

Speaker 8 (03:11:15):
Did either of you want er Slocum a cigarette? Maybe
a little fresh cigar?

Speaker 21 (03:11:20):
The fact is, Inspector, I did often mister a cigarette.

Speaker 8 (03:11:23):
Sir, Now we're getting someone, but he refused it. He
said he didn't smooth. Yeah, now drink this over very carefully,
Miss over, your answer approved, whether it's a suicide or murder.

Speaker 13 (03:11:38):
Yes, the out of three shows that Slocum had also.
Now did he at any time in your presence, and
particularly just before he died, he put he's hand in
his mouth.

Speaker 8 (03:11:49):
Or take a kill of any kind?

Speaker 60 (03:11:51):
I'll answer that.

Speaker 8 (03:11:53):
No, you're absolutely sure.

Speaker 13 (03:11:56):
Helene father right expect he didn't.

Speaker 27 (03:12:00):
Sec Adamsons.

Speaker 8 (03:12:01):
Why all these signal panels? This just so comes out
of heart failure. That's what I think, and I'm glad
he did. And I think you're a lion, That's what
I think.

Speaker 13 (03:12:11):
Come on, I'm taking your boat down the headquarters and
sweat that throws out of here.

Speaker 8 (03:12:14):
I'm arrest of your boat from murder. Hm, just stay
the client, he states, the JITed appetite of a tired
and wary man. There's nothing like the place of good
old missus Muslasky's gulag, just like mother never used to raise. Now, Mary,

(03:12:38):
can I bring you up to data on all this happening?
Of course, inspectors, But before you started eating pose of wisdom,
I think you often know that I brought George welcome
back with me. Yes, well, what did you do that for?

Speaker 1 (03:12:51):
He wanted him?

Speaker 8 (03:12:53):
Well, I wanted for the mother. Of course he did
mothers brother.

Speaker 9 (03:12:56):
You know.

Speaker 16 (03:13:00):
What are you laughing?

Speaker 4 (03:13:01):
Put off?

Speaker 14 (03:13:02):
For?

Speaker 8 (03:13:02):
Once? I put it over on the great spot and
d yes and just how did you put it over?

Speaker 13 (03:13:07):
George Slocum didn't kill his brother. He couldn't have felt
because we held an out.

Speaker 11 (03:13:12):
See mister Grace and the Audi.

Speaker 13 (03:13:14):
He showed that Ken Slocum had enough cyanide inside him
to kill an out.

Speaker 8 (03:13:18):
WHOA, then the poisons with cyanods.

Speaker 13 (03:13:21):
Right, and cyanide is one poison that works instantaneous. Just
a little swallow.

Speaker 8 (03:13:28):
Luis the angel thing? It does work instantly? Joe, how
did your friend George give his brother sanaid when he
was three hundred miles away when it happened? If you're
a communion inspector, you've got a prince there.

Speaker 6 (03:13:41):
Will.

Speaker 8 (03:13:41):
I think you might as well have George turned loose.
And I thought I had a beautiful case. Oh, don't
feel sad about it. It's just the time drop guys,
who did it all safely locked up in the kling?

Speaker 1 (03:13:54):
Do you haven't such a true.

Speaker 8 (03:13:55):
Mister Elliott and his charming daughter Hilly, Oh, I suppose
you have a complete comptes. WHOA no, not Jane, And
just what MACHUSI says that they didn't because they had
to that way, it had to be somebody in the
room that gave it to him. They were it. Did
you possibly consider the theory that it's medic in suicide?

Speaker 11 (03:14:15):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:14:15):
You bet I did. I asked the elliots. They said
Slocum didn't take a pill of any kind. You say
that Slocum didn't take a pill? Right, and it was
the eliots who told you that he didn't. Right, Well, Inspector,
right goes your whole case right into an old cock.
Pat Right, what do you mean when you asked the
elliotsact question? You gave them a perfect ouse. And now, yes, Inspector,

(03:14:36):
all the elists would have had to do to clay
themselves completely at any charge of murder would have been
claimed that they had seen him take a pill. The
verdy would have been been suicide, and all the sweating
you could ever do would never proved difference. Yes, yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 13 (03:14:51):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (03:14:51):
Listen my suggestion, inspectors, that you turn the eliots loosen
immediately and save yourself a super false the rest. Yes,
well that's by what do we do now? I don't
know inspector would say, for once in our bright young
lives were completely and irrevocably stuck.

Speaker 60 (03:15:16):
And now back to glen Langon for the third act of.

Speaker 1 (03:15:21):
Mystery.

Speaker 8 (03:15:23):
Is my hobby?

Speaker 9 (03:15:30):
Is your change?

Speaker 13 (03:15:31):
For the astronmen?

Speaker 8 (03:15:34):
Thank you welcome.

Speaker 13 (03:15:36):
I hope your husb will be all right in the morning.

Speaker 8 (03:15:41):
Hello, mister day, Hello, and you're do inspect It didn't
be good?

Speaker 13 (03:15:45):
Ally, how are you progressing in your investigation of my
poor brother's death?

Speaker 9 (03:15:51):
We aren't.

Speaker 8 (03:15:52):
Oh, and I was gonna get today today. Well, the
friends used to be the murder of George.

Speaker 13 (03:15:57):
Hey, isna really? It's a good thing for me that
I was far far Wait when that happened? Now, isn't
he isn't?

Speaker 8 (03:16:02):
I'll say it is. By the way, George, when did
you last see your brother.

Speaker 13 (03:16:06):
In live right at eight thirty am yesterday? Yes, that's
when it was Andy Fisher and I dropped by his.

Speaker 8 (03:16:11):
House just before we left the airport at eight thirty
in the morning.

Speaker 13 (03:16:15):
That must have been about it. It just caught the
nine o'clock plane. My brother lives exactly a half hour
from the airport.

Speaker 9 (03:16:21):
Just happened.

Speaker 8 (03:16:22):
Just why did you calling your brother so early?

Speaker 1 (03:16:23):
George?

Speaker 13 (03:16:24):
But Andy wished to see you more busy, and I
wish to deliver a prescription you though fris ten had ulcers.

Speaker 8 (03:16:31):
Work by the suffern terrible. What was in that prescription,
Joran Well?

Speaker 13 (03:16:35):
A sodium by carbonate ten green tablets, a very common
used in testomer resort is a Excidentally.

Speaker 11 (03:16:40):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 8 (03:16:41):
Did you a brother, by any chance take one of
these tablets while you were there yesterday?

Speaker 13 (03:16:44):
Yes, yes, I believe it is. You haven't attacked. In fact,
I didn't want and Andy handed them blast ye, I
remember the speaker to that, M.

Speaker 60 (03:16:56):
I see what you're g Perhaps it was I who
slipped my idea brother.

Speaker 8 (03:17:00):
His literally goes could be oh.

Speaker 13 (03:17:03):
Now you know better than that. I left my brother's
house at eighth person and I was out shooting three
hundred miles away for my brother. Guys, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (03:17:12):
I'm good.

Speaker 60 (03:17:13):
You can't find this one on me?

Speaker 8 (03:17:14):
No need. You might have slipped the poison fill in
with the others and he didn't take it until later.
That might have been two inspector stept for the fact
that two witnesses of floor and the Kim felt them
positively did not take a pare of just before he
dined well at alibi is entirely too good. This shows
me agree. But still you can't break it down, Inspector.
So come on, let's be on our way. I don't

(03:17:35):
think we can accomplish anything further by saying here, Well,
i'd like to have an ice cream shoulder. You like
to go ahead? I wait for you in the car. Well,
sure you're sure you don't want one on top of
that glue lash, Inspector, what are you trying to do?

Speaker 9 (03:17:48):
Kill me? Well?

Speaker 11 (03:17:57):
What do we do now?

Speaker 8 (03:17:58):
I don't know, Inspector. Suppose we just driving around and think, oh,
what's the matter sny game? Oh how aut that Andy
Fisher bard?

Speaker 13 (03:18:10):
Maybe he slipped yea end of the glass. And why
if he gave slogan Inspector, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 8 (03:18:16):
Welcome didn't die until he was three hundred miles away too,
that's right. His alibi is just as good as Brother
Georgians too said you haven't some sloudagaan by convenant? Welcome
does it?

Speaker 13 (03:18:28):
It's an excellent for things like that I have.

Speaker 8 (03:18:31):
Or when I was having that ice cream soda, I
bought a bottle. Well, Inspector, I never knew you had
euss you know nothing, man, raven man. As long as
you have them, you matters. What thick one?

Speaker 19 (03:18:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (03:18:43):
Yeah, they go on. You introduce me one too, to
go first. He's flash wasn't just quite a department? Well,
I guess it matters. We'll turn in, Inspector. We've been
chasing around for four hours now. Ever since we left
the Dudstone, we are getting nearer to a solution than
we were before we started.

Speaker 13 (03:19:03):
Yeah, this is the worst case I ever tackled. The
corner must be wrong. He must have done and knocked
out Sea on the wrong corner.

Speaker 8 (03:19:10):
Which I could believe that, Inspector, because it just hasn't
been siinide something else to dit back so quickly, don't
Why what's your manner? You'll got a stomach? That's two
pilly engagement didn't do me much good? Well why didn't
you take another? And maybe it's better that goodness a
bottle here, big things early thirty in back Covener Kenny

(03:19:34):
Gray and oo oo, what's the matter anything wrong with him?
In Specter turned around, So we're going back and arrest
George Fluckem for murder. Mar Are you crazy?

Speaker 9 (03:19:45):
You said you don't turn.

Speaker 8 (03:19:48):
We'll send somebody else out to throw that. You better
get us down the headquarters as fast as you can
dry it therect but better inspect her hurry, all say,
or the dark in which I were. And if we
don't get a doctor in a stomach pump in the
next few minutes, we've got just two hours to live.

Speaker 60 (03:20:12):
And now back to glen Langan for the conclusion of.

Speaker 8 (03:20:18):
Mystery is my hobby.

Speaker 13 (03:20:25):
If you went all right now bark, tell about your inspector.
It's not much from tangling River's stomach pumps.

Speaker 8 (03:20:34):
Oh, I'm all right.

Speaker 13 (03:20:35):
That says you got the pills, all right, having a
cyanide and under killer horse.

Speaker 8 (03:20:38):
That's exactly whatever. The great but part that just isn't possible.
You said yourself.

Speaker 13 (03:20:42):
When any guys wall a cyanide, he dropped plump right now,
tak that we have all that cyanide inside us for
four hours and still be a lot.

Speaker 8 (03:20:50):
The science of medicine never stands to inspect her. There's
always a dancing on to newer and better things. I
take that in turreck Field, for instance. What's that that's
a set of those sodium bicarbonate tablets you brought from
Brother George were coated with that said so right on
the label. Yeah, well, I still want to know what
it's good for.

Speaker 22 (03:21:10):
You.

Speaker 8 (03:21:10):
See, Inspector, housers are not only found in the stomach,
they quite often found on and beyond. So in such cases,
I give the patient these n seal tablets they made
with a special coating called Enteric's Seal, which take exactly
six hours to dissolve the epoonomy. Yeah, I still don't
get it, Inspector, use your imagination now, a drudgist friend

(03:21:30):
simply took some cyanide, quoted it with Enteric's seal, gave
it to his brother, and went hunting. When the six
hours were up, the courting dissolved and Ken Slocum dropped dead,
leaving George with a perfect alibi. Yeah, but how did
we happen to get it?

Speaker 9 (03:21:44):
You asked me that.

Speaker 8 (03:21:45):
Well, I have a notion that friend George got a
bit tanicy when you started to question his alibi. Oh
and then when you're blundered right into his lap by
buying those tablets, he slipped through some of his very
special brands. He probably put something extra in your soda too,
so that you take the right away. Why that dirty
little skunky. Come to think of it, we should have
cracked that alibi long before this inspector. Yeah, why because

(03:22:09):
brother George was only told the Ken died of poison, Remember,
and most poisons works Robert slowly, So if he didn't know,
it was fine, And how could he be sure he
would see hundred miles away when his brother died. Hey,
how about your stummym catho. I'm gonna say that was
this cool incidence? And the goulash well yeah, yeah, I see.

Speaker 13 (03:22:28):
Well, you'll have to admit the little guy was clever
that he was, Inspector, that he was. He came the
closest I ever saw the committing the perfect quack, and.

Speaker 8 (03:22:37):
Betty would have succeeded too, Inspector. All but the one thing? Yeah,
what's that? What's that? Because mystery is my hobby, infector,
I say, a mystery is my Hobey.

Speaker 5 (03:22:55):
That three Wine brings you.

Speaker 25 (03:22:59):
And Bruce and the new Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the
Petrie family, the family that took time to bring you
good wine.

Speaker 40 (03:23:13):
Invite you to.

Speaker 25 (03:23:13):
Listen to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he
shared with his old friend that master Detective Sherlock.

Speaker 5 (03:23:19):
Holmes, and I want to ask you something you know.

Speaker 25 (03:23:23):
Every now and then, I've told you about the good
old American custom of serving a glass of sherry before dinner,
particularly Petrie California Chefy, and I wonder if you've tried
Petrie sherry. Really, a glass of Petrie sherry is the
best beginning a good meal ever had. Petrie sherry is clear, fragrant,
and truly delicious. It's a wonderful wine whose flavor is

(03:23:45):
the essence of luscious sun ripened grapes. And Petrie makes
two kinds of sherry wine, a regular sherry and Petree
pale dry. If you don't know which you prefer, try
them both. Don't buy one, buy two, but remember always
by Petrie, because Patree wine is always good wine.

Speaker 5 (03:24:17):
Well, I'm sure doctor Watson's ready for us. Let's go
in and join him, shall we?

Speaker 9 (03:24:24):
Evening?

Speaker 5 (03:24:24):
Mister bart que dogs said very pleased with himself to night.
Did they have a good day?

Speaker 4 (03:24:32):
There's the three of us. Hit my boy, they're going
the patio.

Speaker 64 (03:24:36):
I took a seven iron and some old coff poles
on the beach this afternoon, and I proved my game.
I'm thinking the dogs had a great time chasing the
cough poles. On the way home, the little rascals had
a furious battle with an elderly Pelican.

Speaker 4 (03:24:49):
So that they was complete.

Speaker 25 (03:24:51):
I'll have to join you on one of your afternoons, trollers,
Doctor and the dogs seem to have so much fun.

Speaker 15 (03:24:55):
Have you got your comfort, mister Bucke.

Speaker 4 (03:24:57):
Well go up your usual chair. I'll get on tonight.

Speaker 25 (03:25:00):
Sherlock Holmes Adventure from the Hens who gave us last week.
I guess the Frenchman played a prominent part in the story.

Speaker 4 (03:25:05):
Yes, indeed he did, mister Bartell.

Speaker 64 (03:25:07):
His name was France Fas la Villa. He was a
detective of some note in his own country the time
my story begins, it was in eighteen hundred and eighty nine,
to me exact, the Villa had come over to London
to discussed with Holmes the difficulties of translating some of
his monographs into.

Speaker 4 (03:25:23):
The French language. At this particular time, I was in
the early days of my marriage, mister Bartell, and this fact, combined.

Speaker 64 (03:25:30):
With the busy practice, meant that I saw very little
of my old friend. He must have met you, that,
oh you, Oh well, of course he'd.

Speaker 4 (03:25:38):
Admit the fact, but Herbert did to get on with
my story.

Speaker 64 (03:25:42):
One doubtless June afternoon, I found myself in the neighborhood
of Baker Street, and I couldn't persist paying.

Speaker 15 (03:25:47):
A visit to Holmes.

Speaker 4 (03:25:49):
Missus Hudson was out.

Speaker 64 (03:25:50):
But having retained my old latchka, I let myself in
and mounted the familiar stairs. It gave me a strange
feeling as I raised my hand and to knock on what.

Speaker 4 (03:26:01):
Once had been my own living room door.

Speaker 20 (03:26:08):
An aaren, Hello, Oh, I beg your pardoner Watson, my
dear fellow. How very nice.

Speaker 4 (03:26:15):
It's great to see you. I'm sorry I interrupted you.

Speaker 5 (03:26:19):
I didn't know that you had companies, not at all
idea lighted. Don't this is a how you do Michie.

Speaker 25 (03:26:27):
I wasn't wished to meet their chairman, doctor Watson. Holmes
has told me a great deal about you.

Speaker 20 (03:26:32):
It's nice that age s. Watson expended over gained him weight.

Speaker 4 (03:26:37):
Have you oh, a few pounds away?

Speaker 5 (03:26:40):
I'm sure said now. An't you.

Speaker 4 (03:26:43):
You sure that I'm not interrupting you in some important discuss?

Speaker 20 (03:26:47):
No, no, no, shall doctor.

Speaker 25 (03:26:48):
We were having a good natured argument on the relative
abilities of the French criminal compared to the English.

Speaker 20 (03:26:54):
He was lend me the four Watsons, Levi, I is
convinced that the English criminal is a very old dog
in deep Well.

Speaker 4 (03:27:01):
We've met some far from dall Ons in that time.

Speaker 25 (03:27:05):
I assure you, Miss Levia Ah, the exceptions rather than
the whole life here Moshallvin aunt Olivia. Believe me his idea, friend,
that I will yield to no one in my admiration
of your knowledge and skill. That is why I wish
I could persuade you to practice in Paris.

Speaker 13 (03:27:20):
Ah.

Speaker 25 (03:27:20):
There you would find opponents really worthy of your Still,
what can happen to interest you in this land of
grave folks, boy potatoes and pots of team.

Speaker 5 (03:27:31):
You're not the faulks, my friend?

Speaker 4 (03:27:36):
Will you say the English criminalist? Dao?

Speaker 64 (03:27:39):
Perhaps if you were to read a published story of
man called a Study in Scarlet, you think differently.

Speaker 4 (03:27:44):
It tells a very exciting adventure that Holmes and I head.

Speaker 25 (03:27:47):
I have read it, my friends, an extremely gripping story.
But surely you will admit that the crime was essentially
of America.

Speaker 5 (03:27:54):
Ha ha ha ha, He's right, He's pact a right, dearmy?

Speaker 20 (03:27:58):
What can I do to vindicate the dishonor of the
London criminal.

Speaker 5 (03:28:02):
Let me see.

Speaker 20 (03:28:03):
Oh yes, yes, of course a copy of Today's Times.

Speaker 5 (03:28:05):
That's fine.

Speaker 20 (03:28:06):
I shall introduce you to a section known as the
agony column.

Speaker 11 (03:28:10):
Man it now?

Speaker 5 (03:28:12):
Oh, yes, here we are.

Speaker 20 (03:28:13):
This should convince you of the color and variety English life.
The agony Column's most painful.

Speaker 1 (03:28:19):
What is it playing?

Speaker 64 (03:28:20):
The personal columns liable to contain anything from a lover's
frantic appeal to his.

Speaker 4 (03:28:25):
Lady love to a ransom note.

Speaker 20 (03:28:27):
In my profession, I've frequently found it an invaluable medium
for contacting the underworld. Yes here we are, person, Oh dear, No,
today's column seems rather uninspired than afraid?

Speaker 8 (03:28:40):
May I examine it?

Speaker 25 (03:28:44):
If the lady who helped my little boy across the
road at the corner of Threadwell Street and hi Obron
last Wednesday at four will get in touch with box
eight four five, she will learn of something to her advantage.

Speaker 5 (03:29:00):
And be more colorful than that embaries. My friend and
I think we can do better than that too. Yeah
we got this.

Speaker 64 (03:29:05):
William Printer must have been half asleep when he set
up the type for this advertisement.

Speaker 4 (03:29:09):
Will any gentlemen interested in discussing.

Speaker 64 (03:29:12):
Cryptography and cipher writing. Please communicate with box x QL
six nine six the time.

Speaker 25 (03:29:22):
Why I failed to find this message any more stelling
than because she didn't.

Speaker 20 (03:29:25):
Want to notice the execrable printing, Dunton died, I do
it is all.

Speaker 25 (03:29:29):
Mixed up the first world will it starts with the
capital W and the capital I the second world? Any
staff at a small A and then has a capital N.
And why it is a shocking example of typogram.

Speaker 20 (03:29:42):
And when it a curtain a paper noted for its
excellence in type setting, man realizes that this is no mistake,
this is undoubted their code message.

Speaker 5 (03:29:51):
How come now, my friend, I defy even you to
make a mystery out of the Prince's negative.

Speaker 20 (03:29:56):
Accept the challenge, my dear beyond. If you recall the
Baconian bilateral cipher depends upon the use of two sizes
of type. If we group the letters in units of five,
the arrangements of small and capital letters within the group should.

Speaker 5 (03:30:10):
Give us the message. Now, let's see, two capitals followed
by three small gives us the letter H, and then
two capitals one more two more that gives us eah.

Speaker 25 (03:30:20):
I still think you are trying to make adventure out
of a mere printing hand.

Speaker 20 (03:30:24):
No mere printing accident could so readily fall into one
of the great traditional ciber How let's see this message
REJH help.

Speaker 5 (03:30:33):
Q two small QUI quilta help culta.

Speaker 15 (03:30:39):
L L two small and large elms.

Speaker 5 (03:30:43):
Help quilta elms thirty is yes, help culter elms.

Speaker 20 (03:30:49):
Pent help quilter alms tent.

Speaker 1 (03:30:51):
What does that mean?

Speaker 64 (03:30:52):
Presumably a man named Quilta who lives at a house
called the Elms in the village of Penge needs help.

Speaker 25 (03:31:00):
I see it now, A helpless victim help prisoner. He
smuggles out this message as a as a harmless personnel,
with friction instructions that it'd be printed on.

Speaker 15 (03:31:10):
This art form.

Speaker 25 (03:31:11):
He knows that the amateurs of cryptography to whom it
is addressed will decipher this call for help.

Speaker 64 (03:31:16):
Aware, Monsieur Villa, you seem ready to grant the adventure
can exist in London.

Speaker 20 (03:31:21):
After all, the advantage madea Watson of a more mercurial
temperament than the Englishman possessed. Well, Avian, what about it?
So we set off for Pens and rescue the junior
ingenious mister Quota from one about dire fate awaits him
in the Elms. I am all in patience.

Speaker 5 (03:31:37):
Spend it, Watson.

Speaker 15 (03:31:38):
I suppose you're too busy to join us too.

Speaker 9 (03:31:40):
Business.

Speaker 20 (03:31:40):
Well, I'm in your practice. I'm sure that you have patience.

Speaker 1 (03:31:42):
Will.

Speaker 4 (03:31:44):
Matter of fact, I have two further visits to make today,
one to a.

Speaker 64 (03:31:47):
Pepri old miser who has gout, another to a wealthy
society woman who has a dute attack of heart.

Speaker 4 (03:31:53):
Hope, Condria, they call it, but the places with both.

Speaker 7 (03:31:57):
I'm coming with your homes if you want me, brival Watson,
grab your hat and coat.

Speaker 20 (03:32:01):
The games are poot.

Speaker 5 (03:32:18):
Hey are gents the Helms ping nice a field for
a drive, wasn't it?

Speaker 20 (03:32:22):
Brady for got you're fifteen, Bob, though there's a numbrun
for you.

Speaker 5 (03:32:24):
You can keep the change me.

Speaker 27 (03:32:26):
Thank you again, man.

Speaker 4 (03:32:30):
Somebody evening to your gents. So this is the Elms.

Speaker 25 (03:32:39):
Quite a bit of land for such a modest neighborhood
to call it the Elms. Seen remarkably Newport. I cannot
see an in sight.

Speaker 5 (03:32:48):
So you're still in the yard. The English have poor imagination,
and you give them credit for Are you.

Speaker 4 (03:32:52):
Just going to walk up to the front door and
knock home?

Speaker 2 (03:32:55):
Why not?

Speaker 20 (03:32:55):
The direct approaches of from the most satisfactory.

Speaker 5 (03:32:58):
Oh, you disappoint me.

Speaker 25 (03:32:59):
I hope that perhaps you would adopt one of the
disguises in which you have to adept.

Speaker 5 (03:33:03):
I am told.

Speaker 20 (03:33:04):
Well, since it's unlikely that these people know me by sight,
that's hardly necessary. However, I trust the physical problem may
reward you with some colorful highlights before we.

Speaker 4 (03:33:15):
It's got the volva shots. They came from the house.

Speaker 5 (03:33:18):
Have you are too late and she quilize murder? No,
I think not.

Speaker 20 (03:33:21):
You will observe that the next door neighbor to the
illness was mowing his front lawn as we drove up.

Speaker 5 (03:33:26):
He is still engaged in the same occupation.

Speaker 20 (03:33:29):
Obviously, revolver shots attract little attention.

Speaker 5 (03:33:31):
This my sense.

Speaker 25 (03:33:33):
You mean that violence in sudden death are so common
that they do not attract even passing interest.

Speaker 20 (03:33:37):
No, yeah, even the Britage are not as phlegmatic as that.

Speaker 4 (03:33:41):
Then what is the answer to those shots?

Speaker 20 (03:33:44):
Some member of this household is addicted to pistol practice.
The fact that a shooting target has nailed to the
back of that fence over there would.

Speaker 4 (03:33:50):
Further support the theory. That's rather ominous in my opinion.

Speaker 20 (03:33:55):
Well, give me out the front door. Let's keep our
wits about us anyway.

Speaker 15 (03:33:59):
I carry a doctor Wesson, no stethoscope.

Speaker 4 (03:34:02):
I'm afraid.

Speaker 64 (03:34:03):
I was prepared for sickness when I left the house today,
and not for crime.

Speaker 20 (03:34:08):
I two of my arms.

Speaker 9 (03:34:09):
How about you miss.

Speaker 20 (03:34:10):
Only a magnifying glass. I'm afraid, hardly a very deful weapon. Yes,
my friends and I were calling on mister quitter.

Speaker 9 (03:34:18):
Oh who are you?

Speaker 20 (03:34:20):
My name is Sheelrock Holmes, and these are my friends,
doctor Watson and Monsieur Levier.

Speaker 11 (03:34:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (03:34:27):
We read his advertisement to me a column of the
Times today and came down here at once. Are you
worth a relation of his?

Speaker 21 (03:34:34):
Are his niece? My name is dous Stavishim.

Speaker 4 (03:34:37):
Come in, won't you Misstavisham?

Speaker 21 (03:34:39):
I suppose it, yes, doctor Misstavis.

Speaker 4 (03:34:44):
Three revolver shots as we were walking up the driveway.

Speaker 25 (03:34:47):
They he is quite a start, Yes, mademoiselle, we were
afraid that we might have arrived at the time of tragedy.

Speaker 21 (03:34:54):
Tragedy. My hobby is revolver shooting. I was doing some
target practice in the back guard, and you arrive rather shooting.

Speaker 20 (03:35:03):
It's very interesting I've found of myself that I'm something
of a marksman myself.

Speaker 21 (03:35:08):
Perhaps we can have a match, won't you sit down?

Speaker 20 (03:35:10):
Your challenge intrigues me, Misstaviisham.

Speaker 1 (03:35:12):
But before I accepted that, I should like to see mister.

Speaker 21 (03:35:14):
Quitter where uncle George is paraloge. You know it's been
any time in a wheel chair. I'm not at all sure.

Speaker 11 (03:35:20):
He'll see you.

Speaker 4 (03:35:21):
At least you can ask you, don't you servis It
is his.

Speaker 21 (03:35:24):
Custom at this time of the day to take a
little nap. Perhaps tomorrow he's still awake. Some many have
come to see you uncle. Follow me, gentlemen, this is
mister Shellack, comes, doctor Watson and monsieur mess messieur da.

Speaker 9 (03:35:52):
Home day.

Speaker 42 (03:35:53):
Took you long enough to decipher my message and get here,
doesn't it your brother's.

Speaker 20 (03:35:57):
Are much faster work for his?

Speaker 5 (03:35:58):
Or what makes you say that's a quid?

Speaker 42 (03:36:00):
Receive this telegram from at eleven o'clock this morning?

Speaker 5 (03:36:02):
Read it for yourself.

Speaker 4 (03:36:06):
Well, what did you say?

Speaker 20 (03:36:07):
Suggest you can start my brother Sherlock and it's it's
signed Microft Holmes.

Speaker 15 (03:36:12):
Yes, mister Clilton, my brother is a much faster worker.

Speaker 20 (03:36:15):
Or shall we say that he suffers from the unfortunate
habit of Early Rising. He undoubtedly read the Agony con
three hours before I did today.

Speaker 42 (03:36:22):
I don't know about that, but I've been expecting you
all day. I imagine you know why I inserted that advertisement.

Speaker 20 (03:36:28):
Well, I had the impression that you were under some
form of restraint, that you were in need of a
rescue party. As it were, rubbish.

Speaker 42 (03:36:35):
My advertisement was a piece of subtle bait. The only
person that could decipher the message would obviously be someone
who knew the Bytonian cipher.

Speaker 5 (03:36:42):
But a logical deductions to club.

Speaker 42 (03:36:44):
You see, I'm convinced that any central man should be
that the so called Shakespearean plays were written by Sir
Francis Bacon see, but I felt that he needed a
treble man to prove the pat I'm sure that anyone
who was able to decipher my message was the man
I needed.

Speaker 4 (03:36:58):
And what did you take, mister Holmes?

Speaker 5 (03:37:00):
Do the job a rich man, name your pe.

Speaker 64 (03:37:02):
You need to say that you inveigled mister Holmes down
here just to do some research on the origin of
Shakespeare's work.

Speaker 21 (03:37:08):
You needn't look so shocked, Doctor Watson. My uncle daptor
to play a handsome scene.

Speaker 13 (03:37:12):
Well, what do you say?

Speaker 20 (03:37:13):
Miss an interesting subject for research.

Speaker 5 (03:37:16):
I'll concede that ignotious.

Speaker 20 (03:37:17):
Donnelly and others have proved almost beyond doubt that William
Shakespeare strapped on an avon did not write the place.
But I greatly doubt that Lord Bacon did.

Speaker 5 (03:37:25):
I made about my leisure in later years to some
investigation on the subject. But in the meanwhileness girl, and
I'm afraid I'm.

Speaker 20 (03:37:31):
Much too busy to want to take such an assignment.

Speaker 5 (03:37:33):
Apiece us right.

Speaker 21 (03:37:41):
Too bad you had this long drive down here for nothing,
jeal I quite.

Speaker 8 (03:37:45):
Agree on it.

Speaker 25 (03:37:46):
Seemed to know that your uncle has a distinct talent
for political joking, mademoiselle.

Speaker 21 (03:37:51):
Uncle uncle never made a joke in his life. And
mister Holmes, now that you're here, perhaps you like to
indoors in a little shooting.

Speaker 5 (03:38:00):
Thank you Estavisham. But as I told your unclimbed a
busy man.

Speaker 20 (03:38:03):
Good eating to you.

Speaker 64 (03:38:05):
Goodbye, gentlemen, who's old follow You're you're losing your touch.

Speaker 4 (03:38:14):
You'd never made a granda like this if I've still
been with you.

Speaker 25 (03:38:18):
It is comforting of an aspiring detective like myself to
know that late shore occurrence is fallible.

Speaker 5 (03:38:25):
And am I to assume that I must continue the
case alone?

Speaker 4 (03:38:28):
Do men continue the case? There isn't one, so there's
in no danger.

Speaker 20 (03:38:33):
He's in desperate danger. I'm the afraid I may be
too late to save him.

Speaker 9 (03:38:37):
But we have just spoken to the man.

Speaker 5 (03:38:38):
Oh no, did neither of you.

Speaker 20 (03:38:40):
Notice the traces of pressure alone on the boots of
that supposedly paralyzed man. Gentlemen, I fear the agony columns
led us to murder.

Speaker 25 (03:38:57):
You'll leave the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
a secon time enough for me to mention that any
meal is a better meal when it's served with a
Petrie dinner wine. If you're having chicken or fish, use
Petri California So Turned. Petri so Turn is a subtle,
delicately flavored white wine that looks and tastes like captured sunshine.

(03:39:19):
If you're having a roast or chops, or any kind
of meat or meat dish, then, by all means, sir,
Petrie California Burgundy. Petri Burgundy is a hearty, full flavored
red wine, one of the most delicious red wines you
ever poured from a bottle.

Speaker 9 (03:39:34):
When I get a bottle of each Petri Burgundy and.

Speaker 5 (03:39:37):
Petri so turned.

Speaker 25 (03:39:39):
Then, no matter what you have for dinner, you'll surely
have the right wine, a petrel wine, Katty.

Speaker 20 (03:39:45):
Why did you have to break off your story there? Well,
I had to break it off.

Speaker 64 (03:39:49):
Some whims to Baturn, and that seemed to be the
most exciting spot.

Speaker 20 (03:39:52):
It certainly was.

Speaker 5 (03:39:53):
I was convinced that the great Sherlock Holmes had been
fooled for once.

Speaker 15 (03:39:56):
What happened next we rock.

Speaker 4 (03:39:59):
We did not get into a cab and go back
to London. But let me pick up the story at
the same place as I broke it off.

Speaker 20 (03:40:05):
As Holmes said, gentlemen, I feel the agony column who
has led us to murder?

Speaker 4 (03:40:12):
Murder.

Speaker 25 (03:40:13):
There was fresh earth on the souls of his boots,
you say, distinct traces proving that the man in the
wheelchair was not terrorized.

Speaker 4 (03:40:19):
That man, whoever he is, was impascinating.

Speaker 20 (03:40:20):
Quilt had to puss off the track and the real
quiltob They have been killed, and I'm afraid. So let's
stop Yevromma wait while we make our plans. His hedge
will hide us from the house in case they're watching
from the windows. Now, this isn't a hard picture to
reconstruct that undoubtedly is or was a paralyzed Baconian scholar
named cult Up. He managed to smuggle out that ingenious
tree for help, but Microft's unfortunate telegram gave the game away.

Speaker 25 (03:40:43):
Mm hmm, I see it now, and the people in
there holding him prisoner forced him.

Speaker 15 (03:40:48):
To reveal what he has done, what they may have
done to him.

Speaker 4 (03:40:50):
Heaven alone nose.

Speaker 20 (03:40:52):
One of the criminals, guessing from the telegram that I
might appear on the case.

Speaker 5 (03:40:55):
Suppose as the crippled.

Speaker 4 (03:40:56):
Cultter, what's our next move home?

Speaker 20 (03:40:58):
That's singularly unattracted young ladies, kill the little aub We
must search the grounds as unobtrusively as we can. That's
the ground for what I can answer this question.

Speaker 1 (03:41:06):
Shot.

Speaker 5 (03:41:07):
We searched for signs of the freshly termed earth of
a grave.

Speaker 64 (03:41:23):
Well, we didn't find any traces of the poor devil's cops,
Thank Heaven.

Speaker 20 (03:41:27):
No a great disappointment.

Speaker 5 (03:41:29):
Cheer me.

Speaker 20 (03:41:29):
You have a very blood first in the beyond. Hello,
we all fellow trimming.

Speaker 5 (03:41:33):
The hedge over there, As to the gardener to a chapter,
you may be able to.

Speaker 20 (03:41:38):
Give us some information. Good eaveing to you, even to
you gentlemen. You work from its cut that I do, sir,
That I do. If I worked too, I've seldom see
the better kept garden. I thank you, sir.

Speaker 15 (03:41:49):
I do pride myself in my world.

Speaker 5 (03:41:50):
What if you can help me? We're glad to if
I can so. Did you see a telegraph boy deliver
a message here this morning?

Speaker 4 (03:41:56):
That I did, sir? The boy came here about ten
o'clock this morning.

Speaker 20 (03:41:59):
I was a keep in the front edge of the.

Speaker 5 (03:42:01):
Time, and you've been working here ever since. Yes, sir,
brought my lunch with me today and ate it in
the cavern.

Speaker 20 (03:42:06):
Has anyone entered or left the house since that telegram
was delivered?

Speaker 5 (03:42:10):
No one except I see, I see. I suppose you
occasionally run errand simsticulter. Not much these days, sir. The
poor old gentleman keeps his chair in the house pretty
much all the times are. I did run a message
for him yesterday. No, you didn't wait, sir. He was
pulling the rose bushes under his study windows when the
window opens and his hand comes out with a message.

(03:42:30):
He told me to take it to the village office
of the Times and to tell him to print it
just the way he was He looked kind of worried
when he gave me a message, and he whispered to
me just as if he was afraid.

Speaker 20 (03:42:41):
You needs own house. I'm much obliged to you. He
has five shillings steel trouble. Oh, thank you, sir, much
obliged to you. I'm sure good evening, Good evening to you, gentlemen.

Speaker 25 (03:42:51):
So that's how the message was smuggled out, and no
one has come to the house or left it.

Speaker 5 (03:42:56):
Since that telegram was a living I'll close it all.

Speaker 25 (03:42:58):
His body must still be inside that house. We are
going to search the house, Yes we are, but we're
not armed, and they certainly are.

Speaker 4 (03:43:05):
They probably won't even.

Speaker 20 (03:43:06):
Let us in, as they will. We have an interrible
key to entry, a woman's vanity.

Speaker 21 (03:43:11):
Come on, Oh, so you came there. I thought you
wouldn't be able to resist my challenge to a pistol
that establish him.

Speaker 20 (03:43:32):
We had dividually inviting a cab and decided to take
a train to London. It was now as wait, so
I I thought I'd accept your challenge.

Speaker 21 (03:43:39):
Good, come here, we'll go into the back garden.

Speaker 15 (03:43:43):
Thank you. Don't talk loudly.

Speaker 21 (03:43:45):
I think uncles are sleeping an extra here I want
all right uncle, this way.

Speaker 4 (03:43:51):
Gentles, if your uncle wants to sleep, he was a funnish.

Speaker 21 (03:43:54):
Well he's used to that doctor. Here we are. This
is a fifty yard rangement to homes. Three shots that's
aggregates for wind.

Speaker 28 (03:44:12):
I'm steward a bit.

Speaker 5 (03:44:14):
Your mistake name mistakes misstabishman, certain name.

Speaker 21 (03:44:17):
You take the first three shots very well, and it
just checked that it's loaded. Yes, six bullets.

Speaker 31 (03:44:26):
All right, here I go, brothers, famisham and tiners.

Speaker 21 (03:44:39):
I can do better. You're turning to homes, Jarret, tender mine.
I'll little do you a minute, Jeffrey and a middle
of a let at the moment you're turning to home. Please,
here you are, Thank you you you're so you know
how to handle it, revolva quite sure?

Speaker 11 (03:44:59):
Thanks?

Speaker 28 (03:44:59):
And why are you pointing it at me?

Speaker 8 (03:45:00):
Because I want you to.

Speaker 20 (03:45:01):
Raise your hands above your head? You too, whatever your
name is, sorries, who are these men? Put up your hands.
I shan't hesitate to shoot. I assure you come on.

Speaker 5 (03:45:09):
That's it. What if anything, do you think you're up
to finding out what became of the real mister quilt?
Search the man?

Speaker 20 (03:45:14):
What's the pr Go to the house, will you in searching?

Speaker 4 (03:45:18):
Yes, But of course an earnest man had a revolver
on his hip.

Speaker 20 (03:45:21):
Keep being covered with it.

Speaker 4 (03:45:22):
Instance to you now, So who are you?

Speaker 20 (03:45:25):
From your resemblance to the men in the wheelchair that
we saw earlier, I should say that you're a member
of the same family.

Speaker 21 (03:45:30):
We're both realities of mister Quilt.

Speaker 3 (03:45:32):
That's right.

Speaker 15 (03:45:32):
My name is Davis.

Speaker 42 (03:45:34):
I'm from the Australian branch of the.

Speaker 5 (03:45:36):
Is Yes, and Dougtless who stood to inherit his estate
in the event of Kuta's death.

Speaker 20 (03:45:41):
You moved in on this defenseless old man, terrorized him, live,
dop him, and finally found it necessary to destroy him.

Speaker 21 (03:45:48):
You're talking absolute right, be.

Speaker 4 (03:45:50):
Showing the truth, and you know it. I can tell
by your expressions.

Speaker 5 (03:45:53):
No bagging of a house. So if you come on
and keep your hands raised, all right, that's it. Come on.

Speaker 20 (03:46:01):
In the way end of the study, and then persing
as mister Culser is still there. We heard him call
out as became him.

Speaker 64 (03:46:07):
Yes, we might as well come, the three of them together.
He's still seated in the chair. He seems to be asleep.

Speaker 9 (03:46:15):
Here did you.

Speaker 5 (03:46:17):
Find anything, not a trace of the missing men miss
your homes.

Speaker 20 (03:46:22):
There is what did you do with mister Quilter. I
didn't do anything with him, of course not.

Speaker 9 (03:46:27):
He's sitting there.

Speaker 4 (03:46:28):
That was a good line to us. We know that
that man's an impostor.

Speaker 20 (03:46:31):
This is a fantastic situation. Nobody has left his house
since the telegram arrived, and nobody has come to it
and get mister Culcher is vanished.

Speaker 4 (03:46:40):
Lord, how when he sleeps through all this talk, you'd
think you've been drugged.

Speaker 20 (03:46:43):
The figure We are idiots. You are unquestionably the most
promising detective in France, and some people have been kind
enough to grant me a similar status in England. And
yet my old friend Watson has just solved the case.

Speaker 4 (03:46:54):
Oh nothing too happy to what sold?

Speaker 25 (03:46:59):
How listen to the breezing of that man in a chair.
He's been drugged. There sits the real mister Quilter. It
persecuted victim who.

Speaker 5 (03:47:08):
Sent a cipher message for help.

Speaker 20 (03:47:10):
The man who spoke to earlier was you yesterday? Is
impersonating quilta't you'd receive us. You took up your disguise,
adopted an Australian accent and then hid your drug victim
by placing him in his own wheelchair, knowing that would
be the last place we look for.

Speaker 5 (03:47:26):
Him, and they would have kept him here until we
had gone, and then murdered him.

Speaker 4 (03:47:29):
It's a devilish plot.

Speaker 5 (03:47:31):
Well, well, have you got to say to yourselves?

Speaker 21 (03:47:34):
Is it Jeffrey's idea not mine?

Speaker 32 (03:47:35):
I didn't have anything to do with it.

Speaker 23 (03:47:36):
What's your joy?

Speaker 4 (03:47:37):
Lie? You were in this as much as I am.

Speaker 20 (03:47:39):
Oh, this is splendid. So this splendid. Please continue the argument.
It'll make interesting evidence in court.

Speaker 21 (03:47:44):
You can't take us into court.

Speaker 5 (03:47:46):
What you can't watch the charge quote are still alive
is me?

Speaker 20 (03:47:48):
When mister Cutter revives under doctor Watson's administrations, you will
be charged. I have no doubt with attempted murder, abduction, sigestration, duriss,
and probably several other accounts.

Speaker 9 (03:47:59):
Monsieur.

Speaker 20 (03:48:00):
Yeah, if you will find us at cab, you'll take
these mysteriants to Scutson's yard. Our work is done.

Speaker 5 (03:48:18):
Well, doctor, that was a fine story. Eric, What are
you fidgeting for?

Speaker 4 (03:48:23):
I'm expecting your guess. I thought I heard him just
he and there's a front door.

Speaker 5 (03:48:27):
I guess you're being as mysterious as mister Holmes.

Speaker 13 (03:48:32):
You see.

Speaker 4 (03:48:32):
I ah, come in talk to Watson.

Speaker 64 (03:48:36):
How are you all rest, Gregory Wood, It's great to
see you again, mister Bartell.

Speaker 4 (03:48:40):
Meet my friend, mister Gregory Hood.

Speaker 5 (03:48:43):
Not the Gregory Hood, mister Bartell. I like the way
you say that.

Speaker 4 (03:48:46):
Yes, mister Butell, this is the Gregory Hood, mister Bartell.

Speaker 25 (03:48:50):
If you listen to doctor Watson, he'll lead you to
believe I'm much more important than I am.

Speaker 5 (03:48:54):
I'm quite a simple person.

Speaker 9 (03:48:55):
Really.

Speaker 25 (03:48:56):
I'm kind to dogs, just love little children, and always
help old ladies across the street. I also know how
to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Speaker 64 (03:49:04):
It is and unlike my old friend Holmes, you pretend
to know very little about criminals and crime, and yet
you're one of America's outstanding criminologists.

Speaker 5 (03:49:12):
So I've heard a hobby.

Speaker 25 (03:49:13):
Missed about to tell a hobby. My real business is
importing headquarters, San Francisco. I need any old masters. Perhaps
I can sell you a nice piece of jade, or
which you'd rather have a bit of old Balinese.

Speaker 15 (03:49:23):
Health become a wait a minute, this is all a
little too fast.

Speaker 64 (03:49:26):
For You'll learned that Gregory is a little too fast
for everybody. But miss about and how you will get
to know it to her to good eel better. You see,
as I've told you, I've always wanted to take a
trip back to England, and now I have a chance
to do so.

Speaker 5 (03:49:39):
But Doctor, when I see you again, what about our story?

Speaker 4 (03:49:42):
Oh, I shall be back in the fall.

Speaker 64 (03:49:44):
But meanwhile, I've asked mister Gregory Hood to get together
with you at this time every week and tell.

Speaker 20 (03:49:49):
You some of his experience, which of course makes me
feel very important.

Speaker 64 (03:49:53):
Mister Hood, as you know, has been involved in many
famous cases dealing in crime, is importing business and his
hobby criminology at a strange combination. I learned that he
keeps a diary of these cases, and it's a fascinating.

Speaker 4 (03:50:08):
Book, a case Book of Gregory Hood.

Speaker 5 (03:50:12):
The Case Book of Gregory Hood sounds intriguing.

Speaker 4 (03:50:15):
Intriguing it certainly is.

Speaker 25 (03:50:19):
Thank you well, then I can tell all our friends
be sure to listen next week at the same time,
and every Monday night through the summer to the Case Book.

Speaker 5 (03:50:28):
Of Gregory Hood. The Night Show.

Speaker 25 (03:50:41):
Oplon's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher
and was suggested by an incident in Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's story.

Speaker 5 (03:50:48):
The Sign of Four Music is by Dean Foster.

Speaker 25 (03:50:52):
Mister Rathborne appears through the courtesy of Metro Bolgwan Mayor
mister Bruce through the courtesy of.

Speaker 5 (03:50:57):
Universal Pictures where they are now starring, and the lock
Holm series.

Speaker 25 (03:51:06):
The Pattery Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites.

Speaker 20 (03:51:09):
You to tune in again next week, same time, same stations.

Speaker 4 (03:51:13):
Sure, Lock Holmes.

Speaker 25 (03:51:14):
Comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This is Harry
Bartell sat Night for the Patrie Family.

Speaker 5 (03:51:25):
This is the mutual broadcasting system.

Speaker 65 (03:51:28):
In today's modern world, we tend to ridicule the idea
that there are people possessed of the power of transforming
themselves into animals.

Speaker 1 (03:51:35):
Yet every now and then a story.

Speaker 65 (03:51:37):
Appears in the chronicles of the strange and the incredible
that makes us pause to wonder. Consider, for example, the
case of Carl.

Speaker 11 (03:51:44):
Janis and the writer Maurice Russell.

Speaker 13 (03:51:46):
Retired to a lonely cabin in the mountains of northern Georgia.
He took within voluminous notes which would have formed the
basis of his next novel. But he did not know
then that the most intriguing, the most tantalizing story that
he would ever write lay not in his carefully kept files,
but in the creature who bore the name of Carl
Janis tears come in.

Speaker 9 (03:52:11):
Good morning.

Speaker 16 (03:52:13):
The sound of that voice, Russell whirldurand.

Speaker 9 (03:52:16):
My name's Janis.

Speaker 5 (03:52:18):
I just moved into the hut down the valley.

Speaker 13 (03:52:22):
Well, I I'm glad to know you. His new neighbor's
appearance had shocked him to the core. His brows were shaggy,
and his black beard failed to conceal.

Speaker 16 (03:52:31):
His remarkably powerful jaws.

Speaker 13 (03:52:33):
The hands were covered with thick hair and tapered off
in long, dirty, crawl like nails. His front teeth protruded
like fangs.

Speaker 9 (03:52:41):
Why he's like a man?

Speaker 16 (03:52:45):
A week later, Russell stumbled on the answer.

Speaker 25 (03:52:48):
It was during a conversation with another neighbor, Saul Pritchard,
who had dropped into the cabin with a piece of
bad news, Tom Wisterpeel's.

Speaker 9 (03:52:55):
Boy walking along the road last night, and all of
a sudden thist.

Speaker 8 (03:52:59):
Cridit jumped out dam and duringly a talm to pieces
says it might have been a big dog or wildcat.

Speaker 16 (03:53:05):
Doll you and a wolf.

Speaker 11 (03:53:06):
That's it?

Speaker 1 (03:53:07):
Of course, that's what he.

Speaker 9 (03:53:10):
Looks like a wolf.

Speaker 13 (03:53:12):
In the two months that followed, four other men were
also attacked, and then on a certain night when sal
Frichard was returning from a trip to town, his wagon
had just rounded a sharp curve on Little Bald's Mountain,
and suddenly his horse reared back and put it in terror.
It's the wolf.

Speaker 9 (03:53:30):
As he spoke, the wolf.

Speaker 13 (03:53:31):
Had been crouched on a boulder at the side of
the road, sprang through the air. Salt Richard seized the
pitchfork that lay beside him in the wagon. He raised
it in front of him to God himself, and the
beast's body hurtling against the I provided weapon. The terrific
force was impailed on the wrong Saul did not wait
to see whether it was dead or not, but the
following morning searchers who returned to the scene found only

(03:53:52):
the bloody pitchfork. Afterward, as time passed and no more
attacks ensued on the roads around Bald Mountain, the inhabitants
concluded that they were at last rid of the killer.

Speaker 16 (03:54:02):
But the writer Maurice.

Speaker 25 (03:54:03):
Russell has added a significant footnote. A few nights after
Saul Pritchard's encounter with the wolf, Russell and Pritchard visited
Carl Janice huts.

Speaker 16 (03:54:13):
No one responded to their knocking.

Speaker 13 (03:54:16):
Janus lay motionless on his bed, his shirt front with
stained with blood. Russell unbuttoned the shirt and examined the
body carefully. That pitchfork qu staal it had three prongs.

Speaker 1 (03:54:29):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 25 (03:54:30):
Why do you have because there are no holes in
Carl janius trip, But there are three deep.

Speaker 16 (03:54:37):
Gashes in his chest.

Speaker 13 (03:54:40):
Yes, the man, Carl Genius, the man who appearance in
the community had been simultaneous with the appearance of the wolf,
had died with marks on him which one might have
expected only the wolf to bear. Let those who scarf
at the werewolf tradition, let them explain this astonishing story,

(03:55:00):
A story incredible but true.

Speaker 25 (03:55:07):
The Mystery Playhouse a rebroadcast for the servicemen and women
of the United Nations.

Speaker 61 (03:55:29):
Good evening, This is Peter Laurie. What it bore you
to hear? A tale of tragic murder? Are you unwilling
to sit through the telling of a strange and horrible story,
the brief narrative of a man caught in a web
of evil? They're not, then, my friends, keep right on

(03:55:51):
listening to the mystery playhouse. A sense of humor, I

(03:56:13):
have heard it said many times, is of real benefit
to him who possesses one. This particular sense has come
to be so generally admired that it has attained the
stature of a first class virtue. Well, the fellow whom
you are about to meet, while while hardly falling into

(03:56:33):
the virtuous category, he does have a sense of humor.
Things like murder, heat and madness, or someone telling him
his mother just died practically rolls him in the aisle.
He loves a good foulish joke. Oh and he loves

(03:56:53):
to tell him too. He is about to start one now,
So follow me please to the inner Sanctum and your
host Raymond.

Speaker 66 (03:57:21):
Good evening, friends of the thinking, Now come in, won't jill.
This is your host Raymond, again disturbing the peace.

Speaker 15 (03:57:31):
See if you've ever had the screaming mimis.

Speaker 66 (03:57:35):
Did you ever get in a tank of the yelling
and wailing jitters?

Speaker 15 (03:57:39):
You walk in your sleep?

Speaker 5 (03:57:40):
If you have awakened the middle of the night shrieking at.

Speaker 15 (03:57:42):
The top of your lung, how you do?

Speaker 8 (03:57:46):
Well?

Speaker 66 (03:57:46):
You must be an awfully haired person to live with. Well, friends,
it's I'm for a story to begin from this point on.
Forget everything pleasant, get a finger that you wan, turn

(03:58:07):
the lights down low and listen to Peter Laurie tell
you the blood curdling tale. Death is a joker. Come
with me to the Criminal Courts building. That can hush also,
unu spectators, as Charles Lufor takes the stamp, gentlemen of

(03:58:28):
the jury, I'm accused of murder. I'm an actor, a comedian.
Look at my face ugly, yes, so ugly that whoever
looks at it laughs. I'm not telling you this to
win sympathy for myself. I tell you this because it

(03:58:51):
is important to your understanding. The strange evince. It brought
me to this courtroom today to plead for my life.
Shortly before midnight of November twenty eighth, I went to
the apartment of my friend.

Speaker 15 (03:59:07):
Robert Langull, the same as Action and Max in the
eyes saw well, this is a surprise. Come in, Come in,
thank you. Would you like a drink? No, don't bother,
I don't want anything. No, Well here, man, I take
your things. Oh sup, oh George, yes, I.

Speaker 11 (03:59:28):
Have the money for you.

Speaker 15 (03:59:30):
You'll be up when twenty minutes yes, right, George Galvin.
You know I'm Charles yes Rotten actors an excellent poker player.
So I hear it, rabih Robert. Before leaving the seater tonight,
someone told me that you and Julie Winthrop are going

(03:59:52):
to be married too. Yes, we'll be married in two weeks,
right after my wife gets a decree and read out.
You must not marry Julie married Julie.

Speaker 1 (04:00:02):
You to tell me what I can do.

Speaker 15 (04:00:04):
I know Julie welling, then I also know you. That's
why you must not marry her.

Speaker 1 (04:00:09):
It might be better for you to mind your own business.

Speaker 15 (04:00:11):
Julie and I are in love with each other.

Speaker 44 (04:00:12):
No, you're not.

Speaker 15 (04:00:13):
She's fascinated by your good looks, she's impressed by your fame.

Speaker 4 (04:00:17):
But she does not love you.

Speaker 15 (04:00:19):
Now look here, we may be all friends, but I've
said all.

Speaker 2 (04:00:22):
I'm going to.

Speaker 23 (04:00:25):
Wait a moment.

Speaker 11 (04:00:27):
I get it.

Speaker 8 (04:00:27):
Now.

Speaker 9 (04:00:28):
You're in love with there yourself.

Speaker 15 (04:00:30):
I I in love with Julie. No, we are just friends,
friends your love. That's why you came in and I didn't. No, friend,
you're laughing. You in love with a girl like Julie.

Speaker 4 (04:00:48):
My love make you laugh?

Speaker 2 (04:00:50):
Oh, so you admit it all.

Speaker 11 (04:00:51):
Right, I do.

Speaker 2 (04:00:53):
Why is it too funny?

Speaker 34 (04:00:54):
Do you think she'd have you?

Speaker 4 (04:00:56):
You clown?

Speaker 38 (04:00:59):
Ugly?

Speaker 11 (04:01:02):
You in love with Julie?

Speaker 34 (04:01:04):
Why not?

Speaker 14 (04:01:06):
Why not?

Speaker 9 (04:01:07):
You?

Speaker 7 (04:01:08):
You're laughing.

Speaker 15 (04:01:12):
Look at yourself, sir, but me, No, it's choking.

Speaker 67 (04:01:20):
Go Joe, Joe, laugh, oh laugh now laugh, Ah, Robert,
I didn't mean it, Robert.

Speaker 61 (04:01:44):
Lord, what has that done? I rushed out of your apartment, trembling.
I turned my colt color up to hide my face.
The streets were crowded with people coming from the late
movies in restaurants. I tried to make myself act naturally,

(04:02:07):
but it was impossible.

Speaker 7 (04:02:10):
Way.

Speaker 61 (04:02:11):
When I saw every pale it looked at me, seemed
to accuse me of my crime.

Speaker 15 (04:02:19):
Morning Paper waited for the line to change.

Speaker 2 (04:02:21):
Paper.

Speaker 10 (04:02:21):
Mister Morning Paper, wad about the Reynolds execution.

Speaker 15 (04:02:24):
Here? Let me have one here you want. I didn't
know Reynolds supposed to be executed tonight.

Speaker 13 (04:02:30):
I burned him now he deserved it, murdering his friend
like he did.

Speaker 9 (04:02:36):
Oh wait a minute, missy, you forgot to change.

Speaker 15 (04:02:38):
Never mind, never mind.

Speaker 61 (04:02:45):
I went to my apartment and I looked at the
newspaper I bought. There was a photograph of Reynald on
the first page. In his face, I saw my future,
the shattered hoes, the torture, the trial, the horrible, nerve
wrecking experience of waiting for a death.

Speaker 15 (04:03:09):
I flung the paper away. I went to the window.
I opened it. I looked down seventeens towards to the ground.

Speaker 61 (04:03:22):
How kind of people look? The automobileized me had too
many fireflies.

Speaker 15 (04:03:30):
I climbed out from the edge. I braced my arms,
took a deep breath, one last look. I closed my.

Speaker 45 (04:03:43):
Eyes and.

Speaker 15 (04:03:49):
Hesitated a moment. I decided to answer it. I closed
the window, went through the door. Hello, Charles, Julie.

Speaker 58 (04:04:06):
Why did you rush away from the theater night?

Speaker 9 (04:04:09):
I was anxious to talk to you.

Speaker 15 (04:04:11):
Talk to me about what I need?

Speaker 11 (04:04:15):
Your advice?

Speaker 13 (04:04:16):
Child.

Speaker 15 (04:04:16):
What's wrong?

Speaker 9 (04:04:18):
Well, it's Robert.

Speaker 21 (04:04:19):
What happened, Well, nothing happened.

Speaker 9 (04:04:21):
It's just that I'm not sure I love him.

Speaker 15 (04:04:23):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 21 (04:04:24):
It's when I'm with him, everything seems alright. He's handsome
and charming, But when I'm alone, I begin to wonder.

Speaker 9 (04:04:32):
It's a doubt.

Speaker 15 (04:04:33):
Why can't you guess why? Yes, yeah, you love someone else?

Speaker 46 (04:04:41):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (04:04:43):
Who is it you?

Speaker 9 (04:04:47):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (04:04:47):
That's what I came here to tell you.

Speaker 2 (04:04:50):
That's why I don't want to marry him, because I
would have told you before.

Speaker 21 (04:04:53):
But I was so afraid of making a fool of myself.

Speaker 22 (04:04:56):
I wouldn't seem to care.

Speaker 15 (04:04:57):
I didn't care, Joey, this is crazy.

Speaker 4 (04:05:02):
I loved you from the moment I saw you.

Speaker 11 (04:05:05):
You love me, yes, But Darling, why didn't you tell me?

Speaker 15 (04:05:10):
How good are you? You're too young? That's so beautiful.
And I look at me sadly, clumsy?

Speaker 9 (04:05:20):
How could I speak to you?

Speaker 14 (04:05:23):
So?

Speaker 11 (04:05:24):
You love me?

Speaker 18 (04:05:25):
Nothing to me?

Speaker 1 (04:05:26):
Nothing?

Speaker 27 (04:05:27):
Course, How lucky we are?

Speaker 9 (04:05:30):
We found out in time and.

Speaker 15 (04:05:35):
Time, mercyful heavens.

Speaker 4 (04:05:39):
What a joke? What a joke?

Speaker 27 (04:05:44):
Trouble your face, children.

Speaker 15 (04:05:55):
Julie, something you must know night, I committed a murder.

Speaker 11 (04:06:05):
Murdy, What are you talking about?

Speaker 15 (04:06:08):
I killed Robert.

Speaker 30 (04:06:13):
Out of your mind.

Speaker 21 (04:06:13):
You don't know what you're saying is true.

Speaker 61 (04:06:16):
I want for his apartment and be quarreled, and I
showed him. Oh no, he told me a moment ago
that you loved me. He still love me, yes, Charles,
And tell me what to do, Julie.

Speaker 15 (04:06:31):
Help me.

Speaker 9 (04:06:32):
I can't think.

Speaker 11 (04:06:34):
I don't know where to turn.

Speaker 13 (04:06:36):
But What can I do, Julie? What can I do?

Speaker 7 (04:06:50):
Put yourself together?

Speaker 15 (04:06:51):
Charles, This may not be as hopeless as you think.
Why was Robert alone the apartment when you called?

Speaker 21 (04:06:58):
Were you seen entering or leaving?

Speaker 13 (04:07:00):
No?

Speaker 11 (04:07:00):
Are you sure?

Speaker 15 (04:07:02):
Yes, here's a problem. He's on the second floor. I
walked up and down.

Speaker 11 (04:07:06):
What time did you get there?

Speaker 2 (04:07:08):
Sure?

Speaker 15 (04:07:08):
Said, before midnight?

Speaker 13 (04:07:09):
And what did you do before?

Speaker 11 (04:07:10):
Better?

Speaker 15 (04:07:11):
Went to a movie movie?

Speaker 11 (04:07:13):
How long did you stay there?

Speaker 15 (04:07:14):
Oh, it's only about twenty minutes.

Speaker 18 (04:07:16):
Do you have a ticket?

Speaker 4 (04:07:17):
Stop?

Speaker 15 (04:07:18):
Huh? Yes, hear it?

Speaker 11 (04:07:19):
Day?

Speaker 9 (04:07:20):
Sure?

Speaker 18 (04:07:22):
Do you realize what this means?

Speaker 21 (04:07:24):
They may never find out about.

Speaker 15 (04:07:26):
You, never find out it's try.

Speaker 21 (04:07:28):
They won't suspect you since they can't.

Speaker 11 (04:07:29):
Know your motive.

Speaker 21 (04:07:31):
No one saw you enter all even you have an
excellent alibis.

Speaker 8 (04:07:35):
Bad?

Speaker 15 (04:07:36):
Julie? Do you realize what we're doing? We're talking about this?
If you plan these crimes? If though we were criminals.
I committed a crime, yes, but I'm no criminal. I
didn't mean to do it.

Speaker 7 (04:07:49):
I know, I know.

Speaker 9 (04:07:51):
You can just think of your own life now in mine?

Speaker 61 (04:07:55):
Yes, Julia, why see what you mean? I'm not a criminal,
but I must play a role of a criminal. Now
the Suttler clear criminal who is cunning enough to his
kipe punishment?

Speaker 15 (04:08:08):
Can I do it?

Speaker 11 (04:08:09):
Can I do it?

Speaker 13 (04:08:10):
You job with me?

Speaker 9 (04:08:11):
You must find out how much the police know.

Speaker 21 (04:08:14):
If it's hopeless and they have found out about you,
then it would be best to give yourself up.

Speaker 9 (04:08:18):
But let's not make any decisions until.

Speaker 15 (04:08:20):
We know how Can we know?

Speaker 9 (04:08:23):
Did Robert expect anyone tonight?

Speaker 15 (04:08:25):
Yes, George Gelvin's form prow was there and he said
he'd be up in about twenty minutes.

Speaker 11 (04:08:30):
Then the body must have been discovered by now.

Speaker 15 (04:08:32):
Yes, I'm sure the police must be there by this time.
I think that I'll go to Robert's apartment.

Speaker 61 (04:08:37):
Oh, Julie, No, no, I didn't want you to become
inviron already involved.

Speaker 15 (04:08:42):
Work for me, this horrible thing would never have happened.

Speaker 11 (04:08:45):
At least I can do it to help you.

Speaker 9 (04:08:46):
Now, Julie, promise me you'll.

Speaker 15 (04:08:48):
Not leave this apartment, all right. I won't be long, Julie.
If if something happens, if something goes wrong and is
separated before you return, and I want you to know that,
I don't know what to say to you.

Speaker 21 (04:09:06):
Don't have to say it, Johnny, I know what you
mean goodbye.

Speaker 15 (04:09:11):
By a criminal. I have to think like one, to
act like one, have to be one. What question would
they ask?

Speaker 11 (04:09:28):
Where were you at.

Speaker 8 (04:09:29):
Twelve o'clock at nine of November twenty eight?

Speaker 11 (04:09:33):
I was in a movie?

Speaker 8 (04:09:34):
He is the sub.

Speaker 11 (04:09:36):
Oh no, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (04:09:39):
They can see immediately that I'm lying my voice. Lets
not tremble. I shouldn't be so quick for the answer.

Speaker 8 (04:09:49):
How were you were twelve or not of November twenty eight?

Speaker 15 (04:09:52):
Where were they? Let me see? Well, I left the
theater and I went to a movie. It's a very
amusing picture, very amusing.

Speaker 23 (04:10:05):
Can you prove what you say?

Speaker 15 (04:10:08):
Well, I don't know. What's the difficult time?

Speaker 9 (04:10:12):
Well?

Speaker 15 (04:10:12):
May you have to pick itself somewhere? Yes, here you
know Chursey here this?

Speaker 8 (04:10:19):
Did you have a quarrel with Robert Langwell?

Speaker 15 (04:10:21):
Wow, we were friends. We played in many shows together.
We were on the pit of terms.

Speaker 1 (04:10:27):
That's now.

Speaker 4 (04:10:31):
Yes, I can't pet.

Speaker 15 (04:10:33):
It is possible I can escape punishment.

Speaker 68 (04:10:41):
Police. Can it be the police? Maybe it's Julie? Do
they think Charles George Gill?

Speaker 69 (04:10:54):
I know what's rather? Lights were unexpected with it? Yes
it is, But this is a important Charles, A matter
of life and death? You might say, what do you mean?
Have you a cigarette?

Speaker 5 (04:11:07):
M yes?

Speaker 7 (04:11:09):
Here?

Speaker 1 (04:11:09):
Thanks?

Speaker 15 (04:11:11):
What's that? A charge your hands? It's nothing. You don't
seem to be your usual self this evening. No quips,
no jokes? What's wrong?

Speaker 4 (04:11:21):
I don't always feel.

Speaker 15 (04:11:22):
Like jokes, Childs.

Speaker 69 (04:11:23):
It's strange about human nature, isn't it? Who would have
had a dreamed that tonight? A few minutes before midnight
you wanted Robert Langley's apartment, quarreled.

Speaker 15 (04:11:31):
With him over Julie and choked him to day?

Speaker 69 (04:11:33):
What are you talking about? An excellent act of Charles?
If you're wasting your talent on me, save them for
the footlights?

Speaker 15 (04:11:43):
Are the police? Police?

Speaker 4 (04:11:46):
Will you please tell me what all this is about?

Speaker 15 (04:11:49):
Still acting?

Speaker 61 (04:11:50):
Huh?

Speaker 69 (04:11:51):
I look, Charles, you killed Robert shortly before midnight tonight.
You are mistaken. I was in a mood be at
that time, so that's your alibi?

Speaker 15 (04:12:02):
Right clever? No, Childs, Either we discuss terms now or
I go to the police. Wait, how did you find out?
That is my secret? What do you want?

Speaker 16 (04:12:14):
Money?

Speaker 11 (04:12:15):
All you have on hand?

Speaker 16 (04:12:16):
All you can dig up?

Speaker 15 (04:12:17):
All right? Come with me. I I have some money
in the bedroom, all right? I just a moment.

Speaker 11 (04:12:24):
What is.

Speaker 15 (04:12:26):
Why I'm taking no chances? Let's go all right? Well,
where's the money?

Speaker 8 (04:12:38):
Chile?

Speaker 15 (04:12:39):
Stand back ur fire, stand back.

Speaker 9 (04:12:43):
My head, let's go?

Speaker 15 (04:12:45):
How ill tweet it?

Speaker 4 (04:12:49):
Dumb?

Speaker 9 (04:12:49):
Points to your ahead, Let go my hand. You don't
know what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (04:12:58):
I for your breathe sire, child, child?

Speaker 9 (04:13:05):
Don't how make your fire?

Speaker 31 (04:13:07):
How pease your finger?

Speaker 9 (04:13:09):
Child? This is all a joke, meet you, bobbet dum.

Speaker 11 (04:13:19):
M m.

Speaker 8 (04:13:25):
A s.

Speaker 21 (04:13:28):
Charl Darling, darling, there's nothing more to worry about.

Speaker 33 (04:13:33):
Everything's all right now.

Speaker 21 (04:13:34):
We can be married and go on living and never
fear anything.

Speaker 9 (04:13:38):
Makes you darling?

Speaker 21 (04:13:39):
You didn't commit a crime at all?

Speaker 15 (04:13:42):
What do you mean, Rob, it's alive alive.

Speaker 21 (04:13:45):
Yes, he's downstairs now paying a taxi.

Speaker 11 (04:13:50):
Yes.

Speaker 15 (04:13:50):
I spoke to him about the marriage, and he was
wonderful about the whole thing.

Speaker 21 (04:13:54):
Darling, aren't you happy?

Speaker 13 (04:13:56):
Worries are all over?

Speaker 18 (04:13:57):
You can smile and be gay.

Speaker 28 (04:13:59):
That must be Rob.

Speaker 34 (04:14:00):
Now, Hello, child, I.

Speaker 15 (04:14:05):
Thought you worth well?

Speaker 23 (04:14:07):
I'm not.

Speaker 15 (04:14:09):
How did I think it?

Speaker 5 (04:14:11):
George Galvin came in and brought.

Speaker 61 (04:14:13):
Me to George Galvin. Did you tell George Galvin what happened?

Speaker 15 (04:14:20):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (04:14:20):
I did?

Speaker 15 (04:14:22):
Look here Charles, and I told Julie, I'm willing to
forget the whole thing. If you are forget. Yeah, it
might have ended tragically, you know. But taking it over,
I realized I'm as much to blame as you are.
So if you're willing to shake hands, shake candy now.

Speaker 18 (04:14:43):
Darling, there's nothing more to worry about.

Speaker 9 (04:14:46):
I feel so happy. That's what's the.

Speaker 11 (04:14:50):
Matter with you.

Speaker 4 (04:14:53):
It's nothing, there's nothing, there's nothing.

Speaker 15 (04:15:17):
Gentlemen of the jury. I became a criminal well because
I thought I had committed a crime, and I had
to think like a criminal.

Speaker 4 (04:15:31):
Hm.

Speaker 15 (04:15:33):
My motives were those of all men. I wandered to
happiness and went in marriage to the woman. I learned.

Speaker 61 (04:15:45):
What would you have done in my place? And I
still think I know that guy h I wish I
could place him.

Speaker 15 (04:16:02):
Well.

Speaker 61 (04:16:02):
It must be wonderful to have a sense of humor,
But I don't think Charlie feels much like laughing, do you.

Speaker 15 (04:16:10):
We'll pay a return visit to.

Speaker 61 (04:16:12):
Me in a sanct Minute's Fun Living Hostymond soon, but
don't go, please, not until we drop in at the
green room where the players are rehearsing our next performance
in a Mystery playhouse. Come with me, please can't come
m hm hm says the dressings at midnight and again

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in the morning.

Speaker 15 (04:16:34):
Nurse, yes, doctor, well doctor, what did you find?

Speaker 9 (04:16:41):
Will I be blind?

Speaker 15 (04:16:43):
Is it very bad?

Speaker 4 (04:16:45):
Now?

Speaker 24 (04:16:45):
Now take it easy, mister Denton. There's nothing to worry about,
nothing at all.

Speaker 4 (04:16:50):
You you sure?

Speaker 15 (04:16:54):
You are just saying that.

Speaker 24 (04:16:55):
I'm quite sure.

Speaker 34 (04:16:57):
Bell Belly, you hear eh, I I'm not going to
be blind, Dollry Varry.

Speaker 18 (04:17:07):
Where are you right here?

Speaker 11 (04:17:09):
Darling?

Speaker 15 (04:17:09):
Did you hear I won't be blind? Isn't that one? Yes, Darling,
it's marvelous.

Speaker 4 (04:17:19):
No, you don't sound very excited, Bellie.

Speaker 9 (04:17:23):
Don't you realize I'm going to see you again?

Speaker 24 (04:17:26):
She doesn't sound excited because I don't want you to
be excited. Mister Denton, You've got to relax, Try to sleep.

Speaker 15 (04:17:34):
Sleep with this ungodly pain.

Speaker 4 (04:17:38):
My eyes feel as though they were on fire.

Speaker 24 (04:17:40):
That will stop as soon as the opiate I gave
you take so you'll be comfortable.

Speaker 15 (04:17:45):
I'm sure.

Speaker 9 (04:17:47):
No, good night, you're going.

Speaker 24 (04:17:49):
Now, doctor, Yes, I'll I'll look in on on your
husband in the morning, Stephen, Yes, Ralbie.

Speaker 18 (04:18:00):
And if I step out into the cardor for a moment, but.

Speaker 4 (04:18:02):
You you promise not to leave me.

Speaker 15 (04:18:04):
I'm afraid of it.

Speaker 4 (04:18:07):
Everything's so dark.

Speaker 24 (04:18:08):
I have the nurse.

Speaker 18 (04:18:09):
You'll be here, dear, if you want anything. I just
want to ask doctor Wade some questions.

Speaker 4 (04:18:15):
Questions, but he's already told us.

Speaker 18 (04:18:18):
Yes, Stephen, I know, but I'd like to find out
about the treatment and how I'm to take care of
you when we get you home. You know, just little things,
all right, But but hurry back.

Speaker 15 (04:18:31):
I want you near me. I will dear the good night,
mister Denton.

Speaker 5 (04:18:38):
Good night doctor, and thank you.

Speaker 24 (04:18:42):
You're quite welcome after you, missus Denton, thank you. I
suggest we step into the confultation room across the hall.
We'll have more privacy.

Speaker 15 (04:18:55):
All right, here we are, uh, thank you.

Speaker 24 (04:19:06):
Well, it's been a long time, Valerie. Yes, Paul, it
has almost ten years. Isn't it about that? Strange that
you should have called me of old people to treat
your husband's eyes.

Speaker 18 (04:19:20):
I was panicky, Paul. I didn't know what to do.
It all happened. So suddenly Stephen was working in his
laboratory at the house when suddenly I heard a violent explosion.
I ran in and found him clutching his eyes and screaming,
I'm blind. First thing, I thought I was an ambulance.

Speaker 15 (04:19:39):
Then you, Why didn't you think of me ten years ago?

Speaker 18 (04:19:42):
It's not fair?

Speaker 15 (04:19:42):
Is it fair to turn your back on me and
then to marry a man almost twice your age?

Speaker 18 (04:19:46):
Well? Please, why bring up ancient histories.

Speaker 15 (04:19:48):
And ancient history to me?

Speaker 18 (04:19:51):
I've never forgotten you, Paul, about Stephen dying?

Speaker 15 (04:19:56):
What about them?

Speaker 18 (04:19:58):
I have a feeling that you weren't telling him the truth.

Speaker 23 (04:20:02):
You're right, Oh you mean he's.

Speaker 18 (04:20:05):
Not going to regain his sight, He's going to be blind.

Speaker 24 (04:20:09):
Oh, Paul, you don't expect me to be to be
terribly concerned, are you, Valerie? After all, he did take
you away from me.

Speaker 18 (04:20:18):
Don't be vindictive, Paul. It wasn't Stephen's fault.

Speaker 24 (04:20:21):
He didn't even know of your existence, and you never
told him that we were on the point of being married.

Speaker 43 (04:20:26):
No.

Speaker 24 (04:20:26):
Never, It's rather ironic that we should meet again at
the bedside of my rival, your husband, a man who
may forever walk in darkness.

Speaker 18 (04:20:38):
Don't say that part hard.

Speaker 24 (04:20:40):
But unfortunately true. A moment ago you told me not
to be vindictive. I'm not really, but if I were,
I could have my.

Speaker 15 (04:20:51):
Fill of vengeance.

Speaker 24 (04:20:52):
If I told him about us and then told him
that he'll be blind forever, it wouldn't part. I might
take another form of rebel. I could tell you that
an operation is called for, a very delicate operation.

Speaker 18 (04:21:09):
Are you trying to say that there might be a chance.

Speaker 24 (04:21:11):
Yes, But supposing I refuse to perform the operation, Paul.

Speaker 11 (04:21:17):
You're joking.

Speaker 24 (04:21:19):
You can't mean that, perhaps not, But you call me vindictive.
Suppose I operate and my scalpel slips. What if he dies?

Speaker 18 (04:21:32):
That would be the murder. You're not a murderer, Paul.
You wouldn't risk your professional reputation. Why must you torment
me this way?

Speaker 24 (04:21:43):
You really love him, don't you?

Speaker 9 (04:21:46):
Yes?

Speaker 65 (04:21:47):
I do.

Speaker 24 (04:21:48):
Then forget the things that I've been saying. I want
you to think of me as a friend. I want
you to trust me.

Speaker 18 (04:21:58):
I do trust you, Paul.

Speaker 15 (04:22:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 24 (04:22:02):
Now, as to the possibility of surgery, here, it is
the situation the transparent film over your husband's eyes. The
corneers were burned and torn with the explosion. They've been
so damaged the blindness will result, even though the eyes heal.

Speaker 18 (04:22:22):
But you think an operation would cure that.

Speaker 24 (04:22:25):
Possibly, Although it's a very delicate job. The injured cornea
must be peeled away and replaced by a fresh, healthy one.

Speaker 18 (04:22:34):
Where can you get healthy corneas.

Speaker 24 (04:22:37):
From the eyes of the dead. Oh, it isn't quite
as hortible as its silence. Valery and a dying piece.
People often will their eyes for just this purpose. We
maintain what we call a corneal bank. It's much the
same as a blood bank, only but this is different.
Corneal tissue can't be stored.

Speaker 15 (04:22:58):
More than forty eight hours. It must be fresh, for
it's no good.

Speaker 18 (04:23:03):
You'll have some available in the bank.

Speaker 15 (04:23:06):
No, that's the trouble.

Speaker 24 (04:23:08):
I'm afraid be happy, but there's got to be some, Paul,
I don't know where Valerie is unless unless what I
was just thinking last night, one of the interns asked
me to look at the charity case that puzzled him.
The patient is a Hindu or a person enchantra. He
lives in a debty little shack near the waterfront. Yes, Paul,

(04:23:32):
I stopped by and examined him. I've found an incurable condition.
There's no way to save him. He won't live more
than a day or two. But his eyes are helping.

Speaker 18 (04:23:42):
You mean you think he might.

Speaker 15 (04:23:44):
I don't know. You'd have to have his consent.

Speaker 18 (04:23:49):
Take me to him, Paul. I'm sure I can make
him understand.

Speaker 24 (04:23:53):
Or it may not be so easy, Valerie. He's a
strange person, a misty Spiritulie.

Speaker 18 (04:24:01):
Let me try. You'll take me to him?

Speaker 15 (04:24:05):
All right, we can go there now.

Speaker 61 (04:24:24):
Doesn't the doctor sound familiar to you? Humph, that's right.
It's voice Karloff, up to his old twicks. I think
it might amuse you to be on hand for our
next performance when we present Mister Karlof and Creeps by Night.
This is Peter Laury closing the doors of the Mystery Playhouse.

Speaker 15 (04:24:50):
Good night, sleep Ti.

Speaker 70 (04:25:20):
Every door has a key, as a key to every situation.
Behind every unopened door, there is a miss and the
opening of this door introduces us to another in the
series the key.

Speaker 13 (04:25:40):
Hi there, Elvis, I beg your pardon. I said, hello,
what are you doing in here?

Speaker 2 (04:25:48):
My secretary didn't say anything about my having an appointment?

Speaker 13 (04:25:51):
Well, this is a kind of special appointment, Alvis know.
I saw it in gold letters in the door. D
Arthur Winterton, consulting broker. Nice layout.

Speaker 2 (04:26:01):
Would you mind telling me what you want and then
get out.

Speaker 13 (04:26:04):
Sir Alvis, A real classy layout. We should be able
to live real nice on this we have. I changed
so much in twenty years that even my own buddy
doesn't it have changed twenty years? Put your mind back
twenty years, Alvis, or don't you like soiling your beautiful
thoughts for the memory? Constandal the same, alive and kicking.

Speaker 2 (04:26:27):
But I thought you'd be Yeah.

Speaker 13 (04:26:30):
I'm back to get my share of the break, which
should be a nice size.

Speaker 11 (04:26:33):
What would interest twenty years?

Speaker 13 (04:26:36):
I bet that twenty years has passed like a cloud
in the sky for you, Elvis, but not for me.
I sweated out every minute of it. Once I went
a little stir crazy and hit a guy and they
put me in solitary for a long time. It was dark, cold,
wet in that hole, and they fed me bread and water.

(04:26:59):
My twenty years has taken twenty years to go by.
We've got a lot of talking to do, Elvis.

Speaker 2 (04:27:31):
We can't talk here, Cohn.

Speaker 13 (04:27:34):
It's as good as place as any, but.

Speaker 2 (04:27:35):
There are people who might hear you, my secretary.

Speaker 13 (04:27:38):
This is your place of business, isn't it. Yes, Well,
I'm talking business. Can't we leave it till you talk? Like,
you're not pleased to see your old buddy.

Speaker 2 (04:27:48):
Of course, of course I'm pleased. It's just something a shock.

Speaker 13 (04:27:52):
Second, well, imagine twenty years.

Speaker 11 (04:27:54):
Of a shock. Did I let you out?

Speaker 13 (04:27:57):
I didn't break out, if that's what you mean.

Speaker 2 (04:28:00):
But they gave you life.

Speaker 13 (04:28:02):
Well, life doesn't mean forever sometimes, Alvis. Sure they gave
me life, but it was a man's water charge, Elvis. Remember,
twenty years was enough? They said, you're all.

Speaker 2 (04:28:11):
Free, they said, so I walked out?

Speaker 11 (04:28:13):
Good.

Speaker 13 (04:28:14):
Yeah, I thought you'd be pleased.

Speaker 2 (04:28:16):
I certainly am. If there's anything I can do to
help you get a fresh thought.

Speaker 13 (04:28:20):
I paid my debt to society. You got no idea
how it feels to have paid one's social debt, Elvis.
The nice, clean feeling, that's what the good, good good.
The first thing I did when I walked into the
free air was look up my old friend and buddy, buddy, you.

Speaker 5 (04:28:36):
And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaker 13 (04:28:39):
Yeah, that's what I kept telling myself. I said to myself,
I said, can you should not have bothered Elvis like this?
Then I said, why not? We're still fowls twenty years.
Don't frizzle a man's feelings.

Speaker 11 (04:28:51):
Do they, Alvis?

Speaker 13 (04:28:52):
Indeed not like in twenty years. A man can build
on those feelings. They can grow till that's all he's
thinking about it. I thought about you heaps, and it
must have been very lonely. Point of fact, you filled
my thoughts a.

Speaker 5 (04:29:08):
Day and night.

Speaker 13 (04:29:09):
Without you, I'd have gone over the wall or around
the bed.

Speaker 2 (04:29:12):
It's gratifying to know that, Con. Now, what can we
do for you?

Speaker 11 (04:29:17):
Saday and night?

Speaker 4 (04:29:19):
I thought about you.

Speaker 2 (04:29:20):
I've got a luncheon engagement in a minute, con, So
if we can meet later on, we can talk.

Speaker 13 (04:29:25):
About well, I feel like talking now. There are so
many things I wanted to tell you. First off, it's
kind of hard to think you ever get that way, Elvis.
I ever find it hard to think quite often. You
weren't like that twenty years ago, were Kno con, let's
not know? Sure? You were sharp like attack twenty years ago.
You assessed the situation promptly, clearly, then ran for your

(04:29:45):
worthless life.

Speaker 2 (04:29:46):
No con, you know that's not true.

Speaker 13 (04:29:48):
Ran for your life, and you didn't stop running till
you hit this one horse town. I didn't run, Elvis.
I stood and covered you. I covered you long enough
for you to get the car moving and picked me up.
But the funny thing was, Alvis, that car went the
wrong way. It went away from me instead of towards me.

(04:30:08):
There I was standing all alone like the orphan on
a rock, with a gun on my fist and half
the city police force in my hammer. I remember that
real well, Alvis.

Speaker 2 (04:30:16):
That's not how things went at all. Con I admit
I ran, but not till I saw that there was
no hope in the world of getting the car to you.

Speaker 13 (04:30:23):
And of course, having come to that conclusion, you didn't
bother trying.

Speaker 11 (04:30:27):
What was the youth?

Speaker 13 (04:30:29):
And in that car was one hundred thousand dollars in
small bill.

Speaker 2 (04:30:32):
It was nearly impossible to get rid of it. Cohn,
I had to drop a lot to clear it.

Speaker 13 (04:30:36):
You had to drop seventy thousand dollars to clear it, Alvis,
isn't that right? You dropped all that much because you
were cold scared you'd be landed with a lot.

Speaker 11 (04:30:46):
How did you know?

Speaker 13 (04:30:47):
A little bird.

Speaker 2 (04:30:48):
Told me it's not a great deal of money.

Speaker 13 (04:30:50):
Con Well, my share was a total of twelve five
hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:30:55):
Yes, well, I think we should have a chat about that.
So right, you have anywhere to stay.

Speaker 13 (04:31:02):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 2 (04:31:04):
If you'll give me the address, I'll look you up
tonight and we'll have you.

Speaker 11 (04:31:07):
Know the address.

Speaker 13 (04:31:08):
Elvis, I do twenty one the question.

Speaker 2 (04:31:14):
But that's my place, our place. You wouldn't do it, Conn,
I've done it. But my wife, what does she think?

Speaker 13 (04:31:23):
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 2 (04:31:23):
I've never met the woman. You'll think of something to
tell her, your husband, she'll wonder. Con it was a
mistake coming here.

Speaker 13 (04:31:31):
We all make mistakes. My first mistake was twenty years
ago when I stood and covered for you when I
stood in the dock and refused to name the guy
with me on the robbery. Now, your first mistake was
when you ran out of that.

Speaker 2 (04:31:44):
I've explained that.

Speaker 13 (04:31:45):
Your second mistake was when you ducked out of your obligation.
You didn't even bother to find a good lawyer for me.
I had the public defender. He had a toothache right
through the trial.

Speaker 2 (04:31:54):
I had to hide out, con tell.

Speaker 13 (04:31:57):
Your next mistake was when you didn't try and get
word to me and stir. Your next mistake was not
telling me how much you got for the loot. All mistakes, Alvis,
I couldn't come when I moved here and started afresh.
I met people. Now, I got married and turned respectable.

Speaker 2 (04:32:15):
Yes, I don't want anything to upset that.

Speaker 13 (04:32:18):
Oh, I can see that. Hey you're worried, aren't you?

Speaker 11 (04:32:23):
Partner?

Speaker 2 (04:32:24):
Yes, I'll admit that.

Speaker 11 (04:32:25):
I what did you call me? Partner? Now?

Speaker 13 (04:32:31):
Now look here, con you look here, partner, I'm a
clean skin. I don't know society ten minutes of my time,
but you will plenty. You're in a missing link and
a crime committed twenty years ago. That's a long time,
I know. But the police had a long memory of this,
even longer than mine, and they'd be kind of interested
in my tale of wool. And I can go to

(04:32:51):
them with a light in my eyes because I've paid
for my sins.

Speaker 2 (04:32:54):
You wouldn't do it.

Speaker 13 (04:32:55):
God, I've paid for my sins, Alvis, and now I
think it's about time you started paying for yours. Pardoner, Tom.

Speaker 2 (04:33:16):
You've been here for a month now.

Speaker 13 (04:33:18):
My wife is beginning to ask questions, know any good answer?

Speaker 2 (04:33:20):
And the people around here.

Speaker 13 (04:33:22):
A thinking thing first time for years.

Speaker 2 (04:33:24):
From the look of him, you came in law and
drunk last night.

Speaker 13 (04:33:27):
Boy, you're going to say that again. I don't like it. Well,
I enjoyed it immensely, and I have something else to
tell you. You remind me of a little old bee buzzing,
a little old bomber.

Speaker 2 (04:33:37):
I've been reading some law books and.

Speaker 13 (04:33:40):
The heck of a way to spend your spare time. Now,
what did you find, Alvias?

Speaker 2 (04:33:44):
I founded I can't be charged with a crime I committed.

Speaker 13 (04:33:47):
Well, the first thing you learn is never admit you
committed any crime. Somebody might be lessen. My crime up
twenty years ago is outlaw not murder. That's never outlawed.
You read the wrong book.

Speaker 39 (04:33:59):
I didn't murder that.

Speaker 13 (04:34:00):
God, Go and sit down, boy, before you fall down.
You were an accessory before the fact, and I was there.
That makes me a witness, all right.

Speaker 2 (04:34:08):
But who's gonna take your word for I'm a respected
man in the community. You're an ex convict and a
killer to boot. No one will take your word against mine.

Speaker 34 (04:34:16):
Maybe not.

Speaker 13 (04:34:17):
But I could kill your business. I can foul things
up with your charming wife. I can ruin you everywhere
you went. You see how the people love to hear
the worst about friends. It's a universal failing, and they
like the frailty of man to be seen, heard and
talked about, just so long as the fraility happens to
sit on a neighbor's shoulders.

Speaker 2 (04:34:34):
But Con, this place is no good for a man
like you. I don't make enough of the business to
take care of your needs. You want to go to
the big cities where there's a chance of a big
clean up.

Speaker 1 (04:34:46):
I like it here.

Speaker 13 (04:34:48):
It's quiet, wonderfully clean, it's open, and I gotta have
share in a good little business.

Speaker 2 (04:34:55):
Will you stop saying that you have no share in
my business?

Speaker 11 (04:34:58):
Wait?

Speaker 13 (04:34:59):
Is that paper on the just one left? While?

Speaker 2 (04:35:05):
But it's a contract for him? Well, not quite, it's
a partnership agreements. I won't sign it. I will not
be blackmailed into signing this thing.

Speaker 4 (04:35:15):
Not for all the money.

Speaker 13 (04:35:16):
Give me the office of the daily chronicle place? And now,
why are all country newspapers always called the Chronicle?

Speaker 8 (04:35:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:35:23):
Conye, you wouldn't not to me, I'd like to to
the editor. Please come, well, it's interesting enough. Oh I come,
I'll sign it, I said, I'll sign it.

Speaker 13 (04:35:36):
Well, that editor won't be happy about losing such a
juicy hunk of scandal.

Speaker 2 (04:35:42):
How much money do you want?

Speaker 13 (04:35:43):
Con, do you want to tell?

Speaker 7 (04:35:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:35:48):
You reckon? I I owe you twelve thousand dollars. I
don't get them to you. I'd like to check like
this very second.

Speaker 13 (04:35:54):
Well, twelve thousand was the principle that there's a little
matter of interest.

Speaker 2 (04:36:01):
How much interested I'll give you twenty four thousand. That's
twice what I owe you. Surely that'll be enough to
give you a stake.

Speaker 13 (04:36:08):
Interest in twenty years broken down into weeks and hours
and minutes and even seconds.

Speaker 11 (04:36:13):
That's the interest I want.

Speaker 2 (04:36:17):
I see.

Speaker 11 (04:36:18):
No, no, don't.

Speaker 13 (04:36:19):
Your pure ile little imagination won't allow you to see
what's in store for you. You're not really game to
think of the worst.

Speaker 2 (04:36:24):
You're a devil, aren't you.

Speaker 13 (04:36:26):
I'm your devil, Elvis. I'm your own private retribution. You've
got no idea what's gonna happen to you, But you
and I are going to be partners.

Speaker 11 (04:36:36):
Would they you die.

Speaker 9 (04:36:39):
Or you die?

Speaker 13 (04:36:42):
But I'm in remarkably good health for a man who
spent twenty years behind bars. I intend living a long time,
all being well, and there's nothing I can do, nothing
short of murder. When you haven't the stomach for that,
I want you to order me at car tomorrows. That
fits apart and I want a room turn into one office.
So I want a weekly expense account.

Speaker 2 (04:37:02):
Do one thing for me. Probably not when you're moving
to a hotel or something. My wife is beginning to.

Speaker 13 (04:37:08):
Ask awkward questions.

Speaker 11 (04:37:10):
No, Alvius, I will not move out. I want to
be near you all the time.

Speaker 2 (04:37:14):
Don't anything make you call it?

Speaker 11 (04:37:15):
Quit nothing?

Speaker 13 (04:37:17):
And I decided I want to meet all the people
you deal with. Oh, don't worry about me upsetting them.
I wouldn't want to harm a business in which I
have such a large and personal interest.

Speaker 71 (04:37:29):
Well, good night, partner, good night time, nice dreams, heartness.

Speaker 2 (04:37:44):
Heartness, till the day you die, till the day you die.

Speaker 30 (04:38:13):
Would you care for some more coffee? Mister Stanhope, don't you.

Speaker 13 (04:38:17):
Think it's about time you called me?

Speaker 11 (04:38:18):
Khan?

Speaker 30 (04:38:19):
Mister Stanhope, I don't know what hold you have a room,
my husband, but it doesn't entitle you to expectability of
friendship from me.

Speaker 13 (04:38:27):
Maybe I should start insisting.

Speaker 30 (04:38:29):
Wouldn't do you any good?

Speaker 13 (04:38:30):
Don't worry, dearie, I won't insist on anything. I want
to live in friendly relations with you, and I mean that.
But if you insist in the freeze treatment, I don't
think I'll worry too much.

Speaker 11 (04:38:40):
Good.

Speaker 30 (04:38:41):
We know where we stand, don't, don't we What is
it you've got against Alvis?

Speaker 13 (04:38:49):
Is he a good husband?

Speaker 30 (04:38:50):
He's always provided well for me. That's my business.

Speaker 13 (04:38:56):
Has he ever told you anything about his past life?

Speaker 30 (04:38:58):
He once told me it was the wild in his youth.

Speaker 13 (04:39:01):
Oh, he was always prone to one of these statements.

Speaker 30 (04:39:03):
And I'm quite sure you were a product of his
wild days.

Speaker 13 (04:39:07):
Oh that's a nice old fashioned way of putting it.
You might even say I'm the prized product of his wild.

Speaker 30 (04:39:12):
Days, and you're blackmailing him, aren't you?

Speaker 13 (04:39:15):
Ask him?

Speaker 30 (04:39:16):
You won't tell me.

Speaker 13 (04:39:17):
Well, in that case, I'll tell you. No, I don't
think I am really blackmailing him.

Speaker 11 (04:39:22):
No, No, I'm not.

Speaker 13 (04:39:23):
I never did like blackmailers.

Speaker 30 (04:39:25):
Don't tell me you have a code of ethics, used.

Speaker 13 (04:39:27):
To have never put anybody in a spot, never worked
a blackmail racket, never turned down a bike, never talking
a man, never run out in a friend. Yes, I
had a certain code of ethics.

Speaker 30 (04:39:36):
And which one of these ethics? Did alphas?

Speaker 13 (04:39:38):
Bruce ask him?

Speaker 11 (04:39:40):
I have.

Speaker 13 (04:39:42):
Have I made myself objectionable since I've been here?

Speaker 14 (04:39:48):
No?

Speaker 13 (04:39:48):
Have I detracted in any way from the business.

Speaker 30 (04:39:52):
No, I I don't think so.

Speaker 13 (04:39:55):
In fact, I've helped. I've helped, haven't I? Yes, Well,
would you call that blackmail?

Speaker 30 (04:40:04):
All I know is that Alvis is fighting the death
of you when there's a reason. Oh, stop saying that.

Speaker 13 (04:40:11):
Hello, Well, busy time, Alvis, Verry. I hope you've made
us some more money. There's no need to worry. I'm
not worrying, just checking on my investment. You haven't invested
a penny thousand, five hundred dollars to start, plus twenty
years of hard groundwork.

Speaker 2 (04:40:30):
That's my investment.

Speaker 30 (04:40:31):
You didn't tell me about that, Alvis. I said you
didn't mention it to me.

Speaker 13 (04:40:37):
Well, I must have slipped his memory.

Speaker 2 (04:40:39):
Tell her about it, partner. I'm gonna take a little stroll.
Get him to tell you how he was. Well, could
I have some coffee? A headache? I'm waiting, please, Delia.

Speaker 13 (04:40:56):
I've had a bad day.

Speaker 30 (04:40:57):
You've been having a lot of bad days lately. Now,
what's it about? Did he put twelve thousand dollars into
the business or didn't he?

Speaker 2 (04:41:05):
It's rather difficult to explain.

Speaker 30 (04:41:07):
I can't see why he either did or he didn't. Now,
what's it to be?

Speaker 8 (04:41:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:41:11):
He didn't.

Speaker 30 (04:41:11):
That's all I wanted to know. I don't need to
make a production out of it. Yeah, I'm going to
tell you something at about time.

Speaker 2 (04:41:19):
I'm going to tell you about a boy, a very
young boy, and how his life became entangled with that
of a heart in the criminal. It began about twenty
three years ago, twenty years before.

Speaker 15 (04:41:36):
I saw him.

Speaker 30 (04:41:38):
Can stand up?

Speaker 2 (04:41:41):
You know, well why I can't do anything about it,
and we'll have that to.

Speaker 30 (04:41:45):
Put up with for the rest of our lives.

Speaker 2 (04:41:48):
Looks that way, not me, that's all.

Speaker 22 (04:41:50):
No.

Speaker 30 (04:41:51):
I didn't marry you to share you with a convict
from your past. Oh no, Either you get rid of him.

Speaker 13 (04:41:57):
Or I go.

Speaker 30 (04:41:58):
And that's that.

Speaker 2 (04:41:59):
Not dear, don't get yourself in predion.

Speaker 30 (04:42:01):
I said, my saying. I'm not saying anything else on
the subject.

Speaker 2 (04:42:07):
I think I'll go for at trouble.

Speaker 30 (04:42:08):
You go where you like, but don't forget what I
told you, will you?

Speaker 2 (04:42:12):
Oh, my dear, I shan't forget.

Speaker 11 (04:42:15):
He goes or you go.

Speaker 30 (04:42:18):
That is so right?

Speaker 2 (04:42:27):
He goes, Oh, she goes, he goes, she goes. That's
the first time you're frightened me talking to yourself. First
sign of madness. Delah has delivered an ultimatum.

Speaker 13 (04:42:45):
Strong minded women, give me a p with deal.

Speaker 72 (04:42:48):
It's not so much a matter of being strong minds.

Speaker 2 (04:42:51):
The ultimatum is that either you go or she will
leave me. It's apparent that you can't stand the side
of you or the fact that you're you're forcing yourself
on the household.

Speaker 13 (04:43:00):
Did you tell her the little story? Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:43:01):
I did, and she thinks you're a nasty type.

Speaker 13 (04:43:04):
Well, for what it's worth, I don't think she's so
hot either.

Speaker 2 (04:43:06):
You're ruining my home, in my life.

Speaker 13 (04:43:08):
Shut up, your little worm.

Speaker 3 (04:43:11):
You locked me up for twenty years.

Speaker 13 (04:43:13):
Well that doesn't matter, doesn't No, you little creepy, fat
little worm. Don't talk to me about ruining anybody's life.

Speaker 2 (04:43:22):
Yeah, hypogarets, I still can't have you doing this dreadful
thing to me in common. I really can't.

Speaker 13 (04:43:28):
What a pity.

Speaker 2 (04:43:30):
It's just that I've spent so long building things up here.
I'm having a well arted, smooth life. I can't lose it.

Speaker 52 (04:43:38):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, God, I'm hoefully sorry.

Speaker 30 (04:43:53):
Where's your friend?

Speaker 2 (04:43:55):
He decided to leave that after all. To manage that,
I pointed out the fact that he was doing dreadful
things to our way of life, and he agreed to
take a cash settlement.

Speaker 30 (04:44:07):
And believe, when does all this happen?

Speaker 2 (04:44:09):
It's already happened.

Speaker 11 (04:44:13):
Already.

Speaker 2 (04:44:14):
Yes, he's received exactly what he asked for. I'm sending
his luggage on.

Speaker 30 (04:44:21):
But I didn't think he'd give up.

Speaker 2 (04:44:23):
Well after talk, he gave up, arguing altogether.

Speaker 30 (04:44:27):
Shouldn't I ask any more questions out?

Speaker 2 (04:44:30):
No, my dear, you shouldn't. Now.

Speaker 72 (04:44:33):
I think I'll pop off to bed. It's it's been
a full day. Good night, my dear, good night as.

Speaker 2 (04:44:53):
Well. It's nice to have breakfast without cons face across
the table.

Speaker 30 (04:44:57):
Yes, wonderful. Did he say what he was? I mean,
is there any chance anyone will live and talk to
him again?

Speaker 2 (04:45:04):
No one will ever talk to constanal again.

Speaker 30 (04:45:07):
In a nightmare of these weeks.

Speaker 13 (04:45:09):
I'll get it.

Speaker 3 (04:45:14):
Hello, good morning. Did I disturb your breakfast?

Speaker 9 (04:45:20):
Who is it?

Speaker 11 (04:45:21):
No?

Speaker 22 (04:45:21):
One?

Speaker 30 (04:45:22):
You look shocking?

Speaker 11 (04:45:23):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (04:45:23):
Nothing? I haven't time for breakfast. I have got to
get to the office.

Speaker 3 (04:45:27):
I don't know what my moby all.

Speaker 2 (04:45:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I know it's early, but I want
to see doctor as soon as possible. I don't know
what's wrong with me? I thank you, yes, I hobby there. Oh,
some kind of psychosis of course, a guilt complex or something.

Speaker 23 (04:45:48):
She's early.

Speaker 2 (04:45:50):
Good morning, miss Andy, you're early.

Speaker 3 (04:45:52):
I didn't want to miss you. No, no, yes, yes, yes,
you've more on the slate.

Speaker 8 (04:45:57):
Now A.

Speaker 3 (04:46:00):
Murderer like me, he must be outside.

Speaker 2 (04:46:02):
I'll take this once and for all.

Speaker 11 (04:46:04):
Now, what's all this?

Speaker 9 (04:46:04):
Not to the bar?

Speaker 30 (04:46:10):
Not as all.

Speaker 72 (04:46:13):
I will not become a sterical. I will not become
a sterical. I'll sit down here and wait for my appointment.
I had to keep a firm grip on myself.

Speaker 2 (04:46:26):
Oh no, it couldn't be.

Speaker 11 (04:46:28):
He's dead.

Speaker 9 (04:46:29):
He's dead.

Speaker 30 (04:46:43):
Well, it's very nice service, but we haven't been to
a club in years. Why the sudden desire for.

Speaker 2 (04:46:48):
Nightclib I didn't want to be on my own.

Speaker 13 (04:46:50):
I suppose.

Speaker 2 (04:46:52):
My nerve is not the best today, still thinking about
can don't mention his name? Let's let's sit down. No, no, no, no,
let's go home.

Speaker 30 (04:47:02):
Want to tell me about it?

Speaker 2 (04:47:04):
You said you'd better not know, didn't you. He's gone
and that's all you've got to think about. He's gone,
he said, No, I don't.

Speaker 14 (04:47:11):
It's best.

Speaker 30 (04:47:13):
It's the only thing you could have done. Don't think
about him. Three o'clock, Alvis, come to bed.

Speaker 2 (04:47:29):
A little while, not too long.

Speaker 13 (04:47:35):
H don't turn around, Alvis.

Speaker 2 (04:47:40):
You can't.

Speaker 13 (04:47:41):
You've been expecting me. Yes, you can't escape your obligations, Alvis.
Twenty years of interest is too much to dodge. You'll
live with us, Alvis.

Speaker 2 (04:47:54):
Always you're a dead man, can't.

Speaker 13 (04:47:57):
I'll never be dead for you, Elvis.

Speaker 11 (04:48:00):
Never think about it.

Speaker 2 (04:48:05):
I won't believe it. It always come not with you
hanging over me.

Speaker 11 (04:48:15):
I cried.

Speaker 2 (04:48:16):
I tried to shoot myself because com came back to
see me. I tried to kill myself. I put the
gun to my power and I pulled the picker. All
I did was making away is nothing.

Speaker 30 (04:48:24):
It's loaded with blanks.

Speaker 73 (04:48:25):
To you, thank Gottridges, the guy who never misscalculates. I
think I'll let you near a gun that didn't have
the lengths in it. Oh, but don't worry, you got
years to make another try. Sure you are a thief,
a coward, and the moral murderer.

Speaker 13 (04:48:48):
Paid my debt to society, Elvis. But you're well in
the red. In fact, you've just managed your first installments.
But there's plenty of time all the time. In the world.
Good Night Partner.

Speaker 2 (04:49:18):
Opposing door finishes a story. Next week, another key will
open another door to another story.

Speaker 14 (04:49:26):
Mister romance.

Speaker 2 (04:49:29):
Or adventure all start when a door is unlocked by
the keys.

Speaker 6 (04:49:50):
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