November 14, 2024 • 43 mins
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in. Welcome, I'm E. G. Marshall.
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Welcome to mystery and.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Tragedy and the one redeeming feature of disaster. It seems
to bring out the vests in the survivors. It all began,
or did it end, with the reunion of an old
lady and the last of a relative, a granddaughter she
hadn't seen since childhood. A place Stratfield's busiest department store
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may varies the time thirteen minutes after one o'clock. If
you're superstitious, you could read that in army or European
time thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
By coincidence, that's when it happened.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Please get me my eyes, I can't see.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Help me.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have to set you.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I get yeah, I don't know. Come on, sleep us
get out here before the rest of the twing come down.
Please and to blast you are so I don't know.
I got a pretty good work on the head, but
I guess while making your Please, but.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Let me help you, I said, I can't.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Move, so you just oh, something has happened to my back.
It was so terrible to trying you and lose you again.
Don't call me that try not because you can't see me.
You can't tell who I am. But you know who
you are, don't You? Has the whole problem.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hit all.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I don't know who for what I am.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Our mystery drama Charity Is Never Dead was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Virginia
Payne and Rosemary Wright. Within half an hour after the
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accident at the department store, Stratford Community Hospital is at
temporary shambles.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
A constant arrival of ambulances, the whoop.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Of police sirens, the hysteria of the less badly hurt,
the moan of the burned, the hustle and bustle of
doctors and nurses competently handling the emergency are a background
to a quick meeting between doctor Mark Banning, chief of staff,
and the hospital chaplain Dan Waters.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Let me injure doctors enough.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And too many chills.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The phone service is restored.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
We won't know how many, excuse me, Dan Ears, it's
backed upwards of one hundred casualties before all ambulances at
a fleming.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We have to put a staff lounge, the ready room
in the carter's. The jam's already well for now ye's well,
we won't need you. Dan. Then I'm afraid of Glinton.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
The minister not only offers solace to the dying, but
prayer and comfort to the living. Of course, I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I didn't mean poll Thank Heaven.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Communication again.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
You want to get it?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Dan, carrying in someone and looks like emergency. I go, Dam,
I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Don't worry about me.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
But you were going shopping at Maybury's and I couldn't
find the rights in there for mother's birthday.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
So luckily I was a few stores away when the
explosion went off.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
I know what caused a new boiler, improper installation, pressure
backs up somehow in blue Maybury's ground floor.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Heaven, you were there, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
I was near enough to be of help, but I
appreciate your consume life.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Moreati you got there, mister Chandler.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Flashburn both eyes, I don't know how serious.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Also, she was hit by a heavy beam falling back
broken possibly, but it's more complicated than that, possible renal failure.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm sure both give me the crush. Sure I got
to go fine, my grand That's how I have flee teeth.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
We'll find it there.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I talked to you. Rest?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Who is that? Who are you know?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Doctor? Are you rest?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And look at church?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
See I need church. You don't need me in here
any longer. Mark, I'm going to run to check on
conditions in general. Oh can I help you? I I
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don't know who are you looking for? I don't really
know somebody? Anybody? No, somebody? How did you get up
on this floor? Are here? Oh? The stairs I was
looking for. I thought I might find somebody who belonged
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to them. Were you in the explosion of the store?
Was I try to remember? Did the police bring you
here to the hospital? Yeah, the ambulance with the old lady.
And I can't in this squad car. Oh, I'll just
my head.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Um.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Let me see. Did anyone examine well and enter and
looked at me and asked you?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
The way?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
It only only I couldn't get see why not well?
Because I had to find somebody. I didn't remember who? Well?
Where to begin its except with? Listen? What is there's
a piece of paper like the phone tad with a
number three pays. Oh what do you think it means? Huh?
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A room? Maybe there's no such room number in this hospital? Oh?
I thought maybe it might might be the old ladies.
What old lady? Well, because someone I met after it before.
I don't know what was the old lady's name. I
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don't know what is. But that's the whole couple, don't
you see? I don't know that either. When you were examined,
didn't they ask your name? Yes? And I didn't have
a name to give them. I thought if I just
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sat still for a while, the shot was well off
the man. Don't worry, it will all come back. I'm
not the logan, and I've teing you a little later.
You have anesia, you don't have to have a fellow
examination to make sure there's no concussion. So I really
thought I was all right. All right, you'll find out why.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Our agent patient Mark not too good? Have the situation
outside bad?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Everything under control, mar Let.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
One of the rough days are wrong, Missus Chandler. Here
it's an unlucky room about patient the other bed?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Are you gonna lose missus Chamber, Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We're gonna be you and some other tests. I don't
think she's hoperable. I've run a heavy sedation. Now, Dallas
can last wooden two days? Sweet old girl, it's pitty,
how was your life? M child uncle?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Until I can get you to think at nias the
same with me, A betty, no hoot, old girl. Uh,
you can drop the Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Come on, man, are you know my philosophy?
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Doctors?
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Don't I say I'm good lady doctors. We're exposed to
enough communical diseases as it is.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
It isn't my degree you're afraid of. Doctor might.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Once bitting.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
She's also now successfully divorced, and this is hardly.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
The time of personal problems. I check on how the
rest of it's going.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
When you conside with the patient. I have outside and
amneas your case. I found wandering around the hall retro
or terror grad retro, no memory of anything before yet.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Any physical injury.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I haven't had a real chance to examine her. Supposedly
she was checked when she was brought in.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
When all the commotions can't be sure, bring her in
here the examiner here.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I'll be able to manage one. Say, pull this curtain.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
All the examinations and teaking rooms are jammed.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Anyway, I'll go here or see miss Chandler. I know
you do, and you're trying to find her for you.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Oh you must finally come, after all, I must another lady,
an older woman. She was badly hurt in the explosion.
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I heard her, Charity, didn't she yet? Maybe you think
maybe I'm Charity.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Why would you think that?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh? This is doctor Banning. How do you do, doctor,
Because after the explosion I helped an old lady and
she thought I was her granddaughter. She called me Charity.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
Are you I don't know miss is the girl with
the amnesia I told you about, Doctor Banning?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Is your grandmother's name Chandler? By any chance? Does that
to ring a bell? No? Would you recognize missus Chandler
if you saw her?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, I mean the old lady you helped after the exit.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh? Oh yes, I would know her. I think I would.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
Now let's try quietly. He's elucidated now and I don't
want to wake your king.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Can you walk all right? Oh? Sure, all right? You
can pull back the curtains the logo, of course, sir.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well, yes, yes, that's the old lady I helped in
the store.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well is she your grandmother? Do you remember?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I can't remember anything before that bomb went off. How
do you take me to remember her?
Speaker 10 (12:35):
I've crossed your left leg over your right. Please, Oh
doesn't matter whatever, look up, police, I just have to
find out what cause it, and you're the court.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
But nothing cause? Did nothing really happen?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Look to the right. How about the bump on your head?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Worse?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But how do you know nothing happened the left?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Lease?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
What do you mean if you don't remember?
Speaker 10 (13:02):
But I do?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Right back to the explosion.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And after that, well said.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
It was awful. Something knocked me down.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That's when you got the bum. I guess what were
you doing in neighbory store?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Right, I don't remember?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You remember what happened to your pocket book? I must
block her in the store, I suppose.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I mean, I'm not even sure I had one to
begin bo.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
Yeah, uh no, doctor logan, I see no signs of
neurological damage there, but I want a skull series so
it will keep her.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I was stend to know she's stillinder, just the rangk
to have our mister guest admitted.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
You can keep me in the hospital until you.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Remember or we find out who you are. You stay
right in this room.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
I'll send the nurse in the help you with an
old lady dying, You're lucky.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The bed's available, and when you get into it, they
put the lady.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
M hm.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
H m hm is it tender? Are you all? Life?
Che I want I'll no, no, in your hand, don't
you know?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
That's all I want?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Is you just hold my hand?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Chair?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
That's all I need to ask? Sure if you want
me to. I had the most awful dream, Charity. I
thought I lost children, But oh it's all right.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh oh, why is it so dark?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Where in the hot girl? What are we doing him?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Oh, oh, of course that's awful.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Explosions? Are you all run? Charity?
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Me?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
I'm fine, but you're eye do all the hemed? You
can't see me. Maybe I'm not Charity and you'll make
a mistake. Oh, don't be silly, my dear child. Don't
you think I know my own granddaughter?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
In the bed.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
The old lady, her eyes bandaged, lies breathing quietly, holding
the girl's hand, Debbie's face watching her with a kaleidoscope
of emotions hard to read.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hope, fear, disbelief, or just simple.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Prayer for a way out of a maze of bewilderments.
We certainly won't even begin to know the answer to
any of these questions, at least until I returned shortly
with Act two. By the end of the afternoon, the
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chaos at once was the main floor of Maybury's store
has been partially restored.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
A police and fire.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Departments that made their reports, and an army of workmen
are busy boarding up windows and beginning repairs. The emergency
is over, except for what human misery it has left
in its trail. A Reverend Dan Waters has made a
personal trip to the store, to the police and to
fire headquarters to collate all the information.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And bring it to doctor Mark, banning one hundred and
fifty one casualties O everyone accounted for.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
With two exceptions.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
There's no traits of missus Chandler's granddaughter, and no idea
or clue who the girl with amnesia.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Is unless she is. That's right. How old was the granddaughter?
Speaker 8 (17:07):
According to neighbors, the police contacted somewhere in her middle twenties.
Any pictures quite a few while taken over ten years
ago when Chandler I hadn't seen her granddaughter since she
was in early teens.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Mother married a pretty rough guy named Whip.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
I don't know what went on, but the kids spent
quite a bit of time in Awayward Girls' School. She
got out her father had taken off, and I get
it the mother was pretty sick, maybe on drugs.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Charity to Carol Well, was missus amnesia a fake? And
then snatched?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
You thought TV's other pretty very complexion, white hair, and
in these two colored prints her eyes looked rab.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Dan me, why do you question her identity? I mean,
do you think it's just some wild coincident.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I'm not much of a labor and coincidence as Mark.
I'd rather go with you and accept charity at face value.
The Lord takes a lot of plans one way or another.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
He just may have blueprinted this one.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I just don't understand you, Anne, meaning she's faking.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
But why no pie, No matter what the occasion, meeting
her grandmother after all these years, no recognition.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Most of all, I guess I don't think the girl
who felt.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well, Dan thinks after I can do it earlier, she's
ready to accept that thing.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Chaplain Walter's charity. May I come in?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I could?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Yeah, so you're comfortably set well anyway, Doctor Vanning is
to me, how kind you've been to your grandmother?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Aren't you hear, I don't know, she says, I am.
I wish I could be sure right now. I'm just
sorry for her.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
How do you feel? I'm afraid?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Why can't I remember who I am? Chaplin?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Perhaps you don't want to remember?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Are they located grands daughter?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yet everyone apparently accounted for no sign of her?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Do you think if it isn't me, that it might
have been someone who died in the explosion.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
That's about the way it stacks up. We should know
by morning.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Now, I'll say good nights. I hope you are, Charity.
You could make her last days very happy if you
bring her truth and love. Good night, Charity?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Are you there?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Are we alone? Yes? I thought I heard you talking
to one of the doctors. Were you talking about me? Sorter?
Have you talked to the doctors about me?
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Not?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Really?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
About whether I would ever see again? Too soon for
I'm to say, no, Charity, dear, they know just as
I know, I won't ever see again. She goes, I
won't live long enough. They know that too, But I'm
not afraid of it, not anymore. Charity would move beside me, safe.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
And so.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Here.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
I am.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Promise you'll stay with me.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
It won't be for too long, and I promise in
return you'll never be sought.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
The band name is who Captain Wigan shows any men?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Oh and nurse put a faint gun, doctor logan if.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You cannot, So that's good to come to my office.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Why dann find the perch?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
What time your mind?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I spent most of the night at Maybury.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
I didn't find anything at the fire sale that did
anything for me, but I turned up some evidence, like
this pocket book with a wallet inside it.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And inside the wallet it's a picture.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
That Missus Chandler. This must belong with a granddaughter.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
There's additional elements.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
You remember her granddaughter came in by bus yesterday at
one roof item one ticket stuff made out the would check.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Already with so miss Amnesia must have got her packet.
Look in the accaitement. We're out of the wood shed.
Say that would make it all so nice and simple marked,
But it just doesn't wash.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
A bag with a wallet and it was clutched in
the hand of a young woman. They just dug out
dead in a degree.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I'm afraid Charity Chandler is dead.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Oh what rot luck? I mean, Mark Dan, I just
came down from the room.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Missus Chandler has no more chance of living than she
had when she was brought in. We have her on
hemo dialosis now, but that's only supported.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
But in spite of it all, she's so happy to
be reunited with her granddaughter. What it means so much
to her?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
What about the good she calls her grandpa?
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Now?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Are you sure that is some possibility?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I got a doctor logan the girl and the purse
were one.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Now we still don't know our amnesia victim is. And
worse than that, we have to break the news to
missus Challdler that her granddaughter's dead.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
What choice do we have it?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Don't kill that old woman. She is in no condition
to fund a shock like that.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
She's entitled to guy with little dignity and happiness? Must
she be told there's more than one person involved in this.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Our amnesiac has the right to know who she is not.
Before she can remember who she.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Is, she has to be told that she is not Cherry.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
What she doesn't necessarily have to tell missus Chandler that, Well,
how could we ask the girl.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
To keep that secret? I mean, under the circumstance.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Oh, it isn't reasonable. You're right, mus unless what Unless
we talk to her, you might be able to persuade
her to cheap up the pretend long enough to do
a law of the sweet old lady to die in peace.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
We wanted to sing each other one yes, forgive me
for not coming up to your room.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
No, no, I'll quote do.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Hello, DoD glogous. Wont you can? I am op. I
won't be away too long. I don't like losing Grandma alone.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Grandma.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yes, I've made up my mind, or rather she has
for me that you are charity with them. If I'm not,
then you tell me who else I am. I'm sorry,
I wish I could, I can't, but you don't think
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that I'm charity? Is that what you want to see
me about? Then tell her what you found.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Out, hop poll I father a young woman.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Go it the real charity women.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
All the evidence points to it.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Don't let me me nobody again?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Where is she?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah? Killed in the explosion?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Not oh I.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I didn't need to go to pieces and I lied.
It is for the chandler, but it's for me to see.
I actually was beginning to think.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I was.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Not because you wanted so much to be somebody again,
it's so obul that I have no roots and no
memories to live in the bathroom. How alone?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
There's always someone worse off.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Think of missus Chandler, our alone she'll be.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
When she learns the truth.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
We are not going to tell her what else can
we do?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
You'll break her, how you'll kill her under the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
We can't ask you to keep on pretending.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Why not if she still thinks I'm charity? At least
you have a few days of happiness left. Do you
think you could bring it off? Why not?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I've got it so far because you thought you might be.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
No, it's a deliberate detection. And I'm not sure that
doctor Banning would a bee to her. Why wouldn't be?
For many reasons.
Speaker 11 (26:38):
One is you might remember any moment who you really are,
My dear, you, my dear. It's a terrible thing not
to have a name to be called by, and it
could be my name. And if I have another, maybe
there's a reason enough that I want.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
To forget it. Oh, Oh, I gotta get some air.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You are right?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Oh? Sure? Have you the clan? And maybe we better
get you back up to bed, doctor logan. I'm all right,
syfically The trouble with me is in my head?
Speaker 9 (27:14):
What for me?
Speaker 12 (27:18):
Hyahs, susy, I've made up my mind and I don't
care what any of you say for.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Her take for my sake. From now on, you better
just call me Charity.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
And again we are left tantalizingly on the horns of
a dilemma. Why is there something about that plane the
job girl's memory? Is her decision to become Charity Whitman
an altruistic one?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Or has she some deeper motive than kindness and compassion?
Who is this girl who doesn't know herself?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Or does she and only wants to hide her real identity.
I'll be back shortly with Act three. It's another day scrubbed.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Bright with clean sunlight, a day for starting or sailing,
or climbing a gentle mountain, or just lying lazily in
a field and watching the sky. For most people. That is,
for the five people in our story and.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
In Slackfield Community Hospital, gets to be a very different day,
a day of sadness, suspicion, and dilemma. Missus Chandler is
mercifully asleep.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Death not very far away.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Charity and the chaplain are walking in the Hut hospital
gardens and doctors.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Logan and Banning are huddled in the corner of the
cafeteria over morning coffee.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Poor Mark, you look too tired this morning.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I'm not tired, and I'm worried about what about the
deception I agreed to. Our business is healing, not playing
with human emotions.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Can you make it sound as though I've been partied
to something something cool?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Questioning your motives, just whether any of us have any
right to contributes to deceiving a dying.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Woman, just to give her what happiness we can, even
though she barely knew her granddaughter.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
It it's obvious she was or is not the center
of her life.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
There's no doubt that.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Then, And she's convinced the girl of charity, whatever that's
we have. Who are we to question that?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Tell what I am people staff with this hospital, I'm
sticking my neck out. There could be legalities involved? What well,
For one thing, missus Chandler may have a will.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
If the name's charity a beneficiary and the girl died
in the explosion, she might want to change it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She should have that right.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I never heard of that, But wouldn't it just go
to the to the next of Kent.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
According to ours to record, there is no next of Jenner,
which may be why are so called charity is so
willing to decide that's really her name.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
It is possible to fake amy, you know, and if
there's enough money involved.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Oh, I don't believe that girl could do anything like that.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
She what is it?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
I was just thinking yesterday while Dan and I were
talking to her. She was by the window and she
stopped suddenly.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Is it as if she'd remember who she really was?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Yeah? I thought she was coming out of it.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
And then then she turned on us and told us
that from now on, as far as she was concerned,
we could take her for charity with men.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Oh, Mark, I want to believe in her. Don't let
this turn out wrong. Good morning's charity? Oh do you love?
Isn't lovely out here? I hate to leave the sun,
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but I should get back and take Grandma's awake. Oh,
she can wait a moment. It's your grandmother I want
to talk about. She has her own I checked on
her before I came out. She's resting very peacefully. She
has nothing to worry about for the moment.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But I do you.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
Who are you and this time I want an honest answer,
and this time I'll give you the only answer I
can get you.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
From now on, I am charity.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
With What do you listen to?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Okay, you did that before. Does it remind you of something?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But do you remember that crumpled piece of paper you
had with the number three eight Oh? Could that have
been a flight number? Yes? Perhaps like three eighties? Was
it a flight you were wrong? No? When you were
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going to take?
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Maybe?
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Oh? But I don't know where you going with some Yes,
I I think maybe I was, But I wo who
were you going with this? I don't remember ever so close?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
No, that's enough for now.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Just one more question? All right? What's your name? Deb Scott? Oh?
My god? What did I say? I think you just
told me who you really are? Chaplain chaplain? Excuse me
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for birs tocas.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But I need to help and I can offer what
who comes back?
Speaker 5 (33:29):
I know who I am, doctor Logan. You're Deborah Scott.
You're trying to trace now you didn't.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Listen to me. I haven't told doctor Logan everything. I
wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
For a sight.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
I have some problems as for example, this afternoon at
three o'clock. I'm supposed to fly to Mexico City with
the man I love.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Oh, that isn't a problem, that's happiness.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
I'm sure there'll be no trouble about the hospital releasing
you in time to get your plan.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
But then what happened to missus Chandler.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
What you've already done for her has been wonderful. No
one can expect you to give up your personal life
now that you've refounded.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Does your fiancee know.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
You're all right?
Speaker 6 (34:14):
She had no way to know that anything was wrong.
You see, his insurance company transferred him to New York.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I thought you said you were headed for Mexico City.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
We are, But you see, I was his secretary. The
firm closed the local hallfice. Well, we worked, and Dan
Floyd head to New York. And he's probably been trying
to get in tact with me, and I don't know
whether he is.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Didn't you call him at the firm?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Well, he already left. She'll be expecting me to leave
with him from here on his two.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Week vacation, your honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Then you have to meet it.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I don't want to run out on miss Chandler. But
how and she depends on me.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Well, maybe if you talk to your young man, he
might delay the vacation a few days. Missus Chandler hasn't
got be longer than that, so I.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Don't know if he would since his last vacation for
a long time, and he'd.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Probably just go on without me, without the girl he's
gonna marry.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I didn't say we were going to be married. Oh.
My only chance really is if I do go with him.
But I know him. If I don't turn up at
that plane, I'll never see him again.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
And I love him not much.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Does he love you? Granted what you say.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Look, it's been very little love in my life, chaplain.
I was an orphan brought up in foster homes. But
I'm not her charity. I'm Debbie Scott. I know what
I'm trying to do for Missus Chandler is right, and
I guess what I'm doing with since is wrong. But
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I can't be two people, which am I supposed to be?
New charity? Yes, Grandma, where have you been? Oh? Well,
they were just giving me a checka they're going to
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send you home. Yes, they need that. I'm all right now.
Oh that's wonderful, dear. I'm so happy for you. No
more clouds or doubts. M No, you know who you
are again. Oh well, I'll miss not having you right
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here in the room with me, and I'll miss not
being here with you, darling. Yes, come to me, so said,
just for a moment. Please, I'm here. Do one thing
for me, anything you want.
Speaker 13 (37:01):
Just give me a long hug and say, Grandma, Grandma,
that's all, Just Grandma, That's all I.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Really wanted to hear, Grandma. Oh, my dear little girl,
that I know so little about, all the years of
of not knowing you, in such a little time too.
Speaker 9 (37:42):
To catch up.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Funny, isn't it two.
Speaker 14 (37:48):
Days together in the hospital and in one way I
know everything about you.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And then another nothing at all. Now tell me, tell
me about yourself. Oh there's nothing really to tell, of
course there is.
Speaker 14 (38:06):
Every young girl has so much to tell, her hopes,
her dreams, what she asks of life.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
And you remember, I'll be watching you from somewhere, and
just maybe I can repay you and make it all
come true. Oh how I wish you could, But then
you tell me not. I Let's begin with what every
girl wants.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
In her life.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
A man. Isn't there one in yours. I don't know
why I blurted it all out because I asked it
was important. But he he doesn't love you enough to
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ask you to be his wife. Oh God, he asked
me to be when with that? Oh oh, a long
time ago.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I don't think that it would.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I think it's still going on. Why don't you give
him another chap rema Rema's been good to hear you
call me that? Now I want. The chapter says take with.
Speaker 9 (39:32):
I care what you can.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I only wish that I could.
Speaker 14 (39:38):
Ever thank you enough for what everything, my dear God
took my eyes away, but it gave me you instead.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
I'll never forget you who died, whoever you are or
will come to be? H. Now get me the chapin
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and your young man decided to wait for him? Yes?
Does that mean it? We'll be married in Mexico? Lucky
girl would think? Do you mind if I wish you
the same? Luck?
Speaker 8 (40:28):
Me? H?
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Why should I try to fool another woman? I'm afraid
I won't be so lucky. Mark.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
She's gone very quietly and without anything.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Oh silly, I'm just going to think of her that way.
She's the only real relations in his head.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
You may be the closest one.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
She yeah, what do you mean to happen?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
I'll read your letters, she dictated to me before she died.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
It's not you.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
I have never thought much about death, save that when
it came, I would not have to meet it alone,
and I did, thanks to a beloved girl during my
old law than I can ever repay. I have nothing
much worth leaving in this world's goods except this ring.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
One I was wet with that. Charity's mother was wet
with that. Now I want to give to the girl
who gave me my last days of peace, who shared
my final hours. I hope she wears it soon, proudly
and happily, with my love.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
And her own.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
She meant you, daddy.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
No, she meant her hand daughter.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
There's nothing on the paper that says so.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
That's strange. No, the last time I talked to her,
she never once called me Charity. She thinks she knew.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
This ring was meant for Debbie Scott's.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
When you wear it, remember to wear it with charity
in the biblical sense.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Good luck, Debbie.
Speaker 8 (42:28):
You have every chance there'll be someone smiling down on
you every step of the way.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Oo admit the chandler know that Debbie Scott was not
her granddaughter. Did she prefer to play out a last
three charade to make death come soften? We'll never know,
but that chance perhaps foolish. An old fashioned name given
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to a girl long ago proved in the end to
live up with old fashioned meaning.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
This is the mystery theater, and after all, what greater
mystery in the world is there than love? So, just
as a footnote, not long after Vincent Debbi married in
Mexico City, doctor Mark Banning managed to forget the first
unfortunate marriage and married doctor Anne Logan. And doctor Logan,
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since time was running by.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Decided to have a child. Actually they both hope for
a boy.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
But if it happens to be a girl, I wonder
if they'll be tempted to call her charity. Our cast
included for In Your Pain, Rosemary Wright, William Prince, Latricia Wheel,
and George Petrie. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Everyone in this town seems to know what's wrong with
my house except Helen and me.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
They know there's something wrong that's all.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
They know, and you know more beautiful sewing.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Behind those beautiful green eyes lies secrets.
Speaker 6 (44:30):
And your attitude is one reason why I can't tell you.
You wouldn't believe me anyway, Try me.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
All right.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
The house you're living in doesn't really belong to you.
That house was stolen from the daughter of Marie Lovell
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in. Welcome, I'm E. G. Marshall.
(01:26):
Welcome to mystery and.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Tragedy and the one redeeming feature of disaster. It seems
to bring out the vests in the survivors. It all began,
or did it end, with the reunion of an old
lady and the last of a relative, a granddaughter she
hadn't seen since childhood. A place Stratfield's busiest department store
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may varies the time thirteen minutes after one o'clock. If
you're superstitious, you could read that in army or European
time thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
By coincidence, that's when it happened.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Please get me my eyes, I can't see.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Help me.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have to set you.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I get yeah, I don't know. Come on, sleep us
get out here before the rest of the twing come down.
Please and to blast you are so I don't know.
I got a pretty good work on the head, but
I guess while making your Please, but.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Let me help you, I said, I can't.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Move, so you just oh, something has happened to my back.
It was so terrible to trying you and lose you again.
Don't call me that try not because you can't see me.
You can't tell who I am. But you know who
you are, don't You? Has the whole problem.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hit all.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I don't know who for what I am.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Our mystery drama Charity Is Never Dead was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Virginia
Payne and Rosemary Wright. Within half an hour after the
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accident at the department store, Stratford Community Hospital is at
temporary shambles.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
A constant arrival of ambulances, the whoop.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Of police sirens, the hysteria of the less badly hurt,
the moan of the burned, the hustle and bustle of
doctors and nurses competently handling the emergency are a background
to a quick meeting between doctor Mark Banning, chief of staff,
and the hospital chaplain Dan Waters.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Let me injure doctors enough.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And too many chills.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The phone service is restored.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
We won't know how many, excuse me, Dan Ears, it's
backed upwards of one hundred casualties before all ambulances at
a fleming.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We have to put a staff lounge, the ready room
in the carter's. The jam's already well for now ye's well,
we won't need you. Dan. Then I'm afraid of Glinton.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
The minister not only offers solace to the dying, but
prayer and comfort to the living. Of course, I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I didn't mean poll Thank Heaven.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Communication again.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
You want to get it?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Dan, carrying in someone and looks like emergency. I go, Dam,
I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Don't worry about me.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
But you were going shopping at Maybury's and I couldn't
find the rights in there for mother's birthday.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
So luckily I was a few stores away when the
explosion went off.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
I know what caused a new boiler, improper installation, pressure
backs up somehow in blue Maybury's ground floor.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Heaven, you were there, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
I was near enough to be of help, but I
appreciate your consume life.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Moreati you got there, mister Chandler.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Flashburn both eyes, I don't know how serious.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Also, she was hit by a heavy beam falling back
broken possibly, but it's more complicated than that, possible renal failure.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm sure both give me the crush. Sure I got
to go fine, my grand That's how I have flee teeth.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
We'll find it there.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I talked to you. Rest?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Who is that? Who are you know?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Doctor? Are you rest?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And look at church?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
See I need church. You don't need me in here
any longer. Mark, I'm going to run to check on
conditions in general. Oh can I help you? I I
(06:21):
don't know who are you looking for? I don't really
know somebody? Anybody? No, somebody? How did you get up
on this floor? Are here? Oh? The stairs I was
looking for. I thought I might find somebody who belonged
(06:44):
to them. Were you in the explosion of the store?
Was I try to remember? Did the police bring you
here to the hospital? Yeah, the ambulance with the old lady.
And I can't in this squad car. Oh, I'll just
my head.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Um.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Let me see. Did anyone examine well and enter and
looked at me and asked you?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
The way?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
It only only I couldn't get see why not well?
Because I had to find somebody. I didn't remember who? Well?
Where to begin its except with? Listen? What is there's
a piece of paper like the phone tad with a
number three pays. Oh what do you think it means? Huh?
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A room? Maybe there's no such room number in this hospital? Oh?
I thought maybe it might might be the old ladies.
What old lady? Well, because someone I met after it before.
I don't know what was the old lady's name. I
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don't know what is. But that's the whole couple, don't
you see? I don't know that either. When you were examined,
didn't they ask your name? Yes? And I didn't have
a name to give them. I thought if I just
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sat still for a while, the shot was well off
the man. Don't worry, it will all come back. I'm
not the logan, and I've teing you a little later.
You have anesia, you don't have to have a fellow
examination to make sure there's no concussion. So I really
thought I was all right. All right, you'll find out why.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Our agent patient Mark not too good? Have the situation
outside bad?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Everything under control, mar Let.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
One of the rough days are wrong, Missus Chandler. Here
it's an unlucky room about patient the other bed?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Are you gonna lose missus Chamber, Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We're gonna be you and some other tests. I don't
think she's hoperable. I've run a heavy sedation. Now, Dallas
can last wooden two days? Sweet old girl, it's pitty,
how was your life? M child uncle?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Until I can get you to think at nias the
same with me, A betty, no hoot, old girl. Uh,
you can drop the Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Come on, man, are you know my philosophy?
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Doctors?
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Don't I say I'm good lady doctors. We're exposed to
enough communical diseases as it is.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
It isn't my degree you're afraid of. Doctor might.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Once bitting.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
She's also now successfully divorced, and this is hardly.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
The time of personal problems. I check on how the
rest of it's going.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
When you conside with the patient. I have outside and
amneas your case. I found wandering around the hall retro
or terror grad retro, no memory of anything before yet.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Any physical injury.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I haven't had a real chance to examine her. Supposedly
she was checked when she was brought in.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
When all the commotions can't be sure, bring her in
here the examiner here.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I'll be able to manage one. Say, pull this curtain.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
All the examinations and teaking rooms are jammed.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Anyway, I'll go here or see miss Chandler. I know
you do, and you're trying to find her for you.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Oh you must finally come, after all, I must another lady,
an older woman. She was badly hurt in the explosion.
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I heard her, Charity, didn't she yet? Maybe you think
maybe I'm Charity.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Why would you think that?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh? This is doctor Banning. How do you do, doctor,
Because after the explosion I helped an old lady and
she thought I was her granddaughter. She called me Charity.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
Are you I don't know miss is the girl with
the amnesia I told you about, Doctor Banning?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Is your grandmother's name Chandler? By any chance? Does that
to ring a bell? No? Would you recognize missus Chandler
if you saw her?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, I mean the old lady you helped after the exit.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh? Oh yes, I would know her. I think I would.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
Now let's try quietly. He's elucidated now and I don't
want to wake your king.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Can you walk all right? Oh? Sure, all right? You
can pull back the curtains the logo, of course, sir.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well, yes, yes, that's the old lady I helped in
the store.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well is she your grandmother? Do you remember?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I can't remember anything before that bomb went off. How
do you take me to remember her?
Speaker 10 (12:35):
I've crossed your left leg over your right. Please, Oh
doesn't matter whatever, look up, police, I just have to
find out what cause it, and you're the court.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
But nothing cause? Did nothing really happen?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Look to the right. How about the bump on your head?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Worse?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But how do you know nothing happened the left?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Lease?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
What do you mean if you don't remember?
Speaker 10 (13:02):
But I do?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Right back to the explosion.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And after that, well said.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
It was awful. Something knocked me down.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That's when you got the bum. I guess what were
you doing in neighbory store?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Right, I don't remember?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You remember what happened to your pocket book? I must
block her in the store, I suppose.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I mean, I'm not even sure I had one to
begin bo.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
Yeah, uh no, doctor logan, I see no signs of
neurological damage there, but I want a skull series so
it will keep her.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I was stend to know she's stillinder, just the rangk
to have our mister guest admitted.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
You can keep me in the hospital until you.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Remember or we find out who you are. You stay
right in this room.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
I'll send the nurse in the help you with an
old lady dying, You're lucky.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The bed's available, and when you get into it, they
put the lady.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
M hm.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
H m hm is it tender? Are you all? Life?
Che I want I'll no, no, in your hand, don't
you know?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
That's all I want?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Is you just hold my hand?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Chair?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
That's all I need to ask? Sure if you want
me to. I had the most awful dream, Charity. I
thought I lost children, But oh it's all right.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh oh, why is it so dark?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Where in the hot girl? What are we doing him?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Oh, oh, of course that's awful.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Explosions? Are you all run? Charity?
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Me?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
I'm fine, but you're eye do all the hemed? You
can't see me. Maybe I'm not Charity and you'll make
a mistake. Oh, don't be silly, my dear child. Don't
you think I know my own granddaughter?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
In the bed.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
The old lady, her eyes bandaged, lies breathing quietly, holding
the girl's hand, Debbie's face watching her with a kaleidoscope
of emotions hard to read.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hope, fear, disbelief, or just simple.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Prayer for a way out of a maze of bewilderments.
We certainly won't even begin to know the answer to
any of these questions, at least until I returned shortly
with Act two. By the end of the afternoon, the
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chaos at once was the main floor of Maybury's store
has been partially restored.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
A police and fire.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Departments that made their reports, and an army of workmen
are busy boarding up windows and beginning repairs. The emergency
is over, except for what human misery it has left
in its trail. A Reverend Dan Waters has made a
personal trip to the store, to the police and to
fire headquarters to collate all the information.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And bring it to doctor Mark, banning one hundred and
fifty one casualties O everyone accounted for.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
With two exceptions.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
There's no traits of missus Chandler's granddaughter, and no idea
or clue who the girl with amnesia.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Is unless she is. That's right. How old was the granddaughter?
Speaker 8 (17:07):
According to neighbors, the police contacted somewhere in her middle twenties.
Any pictures quite a few while taken over ten years
ago when Chandler I hadn't seen her granddaughter since she
was in early teens.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Mother married a pretty rough guy named Whip.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
I don't know what went on, but the kids spent
quite a bit of time in Awayward Girls' School. She
got out her father had taken off, and I get
it the mother was pretty sick, maybe on drugs.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Charity to Carol Well, was missus amnesia a fake? And
then snatched?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
You thought TV's other pretty very complexion, white hair, and
in these two colored prints her eyes looked rab.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Dan me, why do you question her identity? I mean,
do you think it's just some wild coincident.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I'm not much of a labor and coincidence as Mark.
I'd rather go with you and accept charity at face value.
The Lord takes a lot of plans one way or another.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
He just may have blueprinted this one.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I just don't understand you, Anne, meaning she's faking.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
But why no pie, No matter what the occasion, meeting
her grandmother after all these years, no recognition.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Most of all, I guess I don't think the girl
who felt.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well, Dan thinks after I can do it earlier, she's
ready to accept that thing.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Chaplain Walter's charity. May I come in?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I could?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Yeah, so you're comfortably set well anyway, Doctor Vanning is
to me, how kind you've been to your grandmother?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Aren't you hear, I don't know, she says, I am.
I wish I could be sure right now. I'm just
sorry for her.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
How do you feel? I'm afraid?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Why can't I remember who I am? Chaplin?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Perhaps you don't want to remember?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Are they located grands daughter?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yet everyone apparently accounted for no sign of her?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Do you think if it isn't me, that it might
have been someone who died in the explosion.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
That's about the way it stacks up. We should know
by morning.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Now, I'll say good nights. I hope you are, Charity.
You could make her last days very happy if you
bring her truth and love. Good night, Charity?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Are you there?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Are we alone? Yes? I thought I heard you talking
to one of the doctors. Were you talking about me? Sorter?
Have you talked to the doctors about me?
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Not?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Really?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
About whether I would ever see again? Too soon for
I'm to say, no, Charity, dear, they know just as
I know, I won't ever see again. She goes, I
won't live long enough. They know that too, But I'm
not afraid of it, not anymore. Charity would move beside me, safe.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
And so.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Here.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
I am.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Promise you'll stay with me.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
It won't be for too long, and I promise in
return you'll never be sought.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
The band name is who Captain Wigan shows any men?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Oh and nurse put a faint gun, doctor logan if.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You cannot, So that's good to come to my office.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Why dann find the perch?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
What time your mind?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I spent most of the night at Maybury.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
I didn't find anything at the fire sale that did
anything for me, but I turned up some evidence, like
this pocket book with a wallet inside it.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And inside the wallet it's a picture.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
That Missus Chandler. This must belong with a granddaughter.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
There's additional elements.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
You remember her granddaughter came in by bus yesterday at
one roof item one ticket stuff made out the would check.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Already with so miss Amnesia must have got her packet.
Look in the accaitement. We're out of the wood shed.
Say that would make it all so nice and simple marked,
But it just doesn't wash.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
A bag with a wallet and it was clutched in
the hand of a young woman. They just dug out
dead in a degree.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I'm afraid Charity Chandler is dead.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Oh what rot luck? I mean, Mark Dan, I just
came down from the room.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Missus Chandler has no more chance of living than she
had when she was brought in. We have her on
hemo dialosis now, but that's only supported.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
But in spite of it all, she's so happy to
be reunited with her granddaughter. What it means so much
to her?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
What about the good she calls her grandpa?
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Now?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Are you sure that is some possibility?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I got a doctor logan the girl and the purse
were one.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Now we still don't know our amnesia victim is. And
worse than that, we have to break the news to
missus Challdler that her granddaughter's dead.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
What choice do we have it?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Don't kill that old woman. She is in no condition
to fund a shock like that.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
She's entitled to guy with little dignity and happiness? Must
she be told there's more than one person involved in this.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Our amnesiac has the right to know who she is not.
Before she can remember who she.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Is, she has to be told that she is not Cherry.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
What she doesn't necessarily have to tell missus Chandler that, Well,
how could we ask the girl.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
To keep that secret? I mean, under the circumstance.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Oh, it isn't reasonable. You're right, mus unless what Unless
we talk to her, you might be able to persuade
her to cheap up the pretend long enough to do
a law of the sweet old lady to die in peace.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
We wanted to sing each other one yes, forgive me
for not coming up to your room.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
No, no, I'll quote do.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Hello, DoD glogous. Wont you can? I am op. I
won't be away too long. I don't like losing Grandma alone.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Grandma.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yes, I've made up my mind, or rather she has
for me that you are charity with them. If I'm not,
then you tell me who else I am. I'm sorry,
I wish I could, I can't, but you don't think
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that I'm charity? Is that what you want to see
me about? Then tell her what you found.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Out, hop poll I father a young woman.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Go it the real charity women.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
All the evidence points to it.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Don't let me me nobody again?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Where is she?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah? Killed in the explosion?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Not oh I.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I didn't need to go to pieces and I lied.
It is for the chandler, but it's for me to see.
I actually was beginning to think.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I was.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Not because you wanted so much to be somebody again,
it's so obul that I have no roots and no
memories to live in the bathroom. How alone?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
There's always someone worse off.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Think of missus Chandler, our alone she'll be.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
When she learns the truth.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
We are not going to tell her what else can
we do?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
You'll break her, how you'll kill her under the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
We can't ask you to keep on pretending.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Why not if she still thinks I'm charity? At least
you have a few days of happiness left. Do you
think you could bring it off? Why not?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I've got it so far because you thought you might be.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
No, it's a deliberate detection. And I'm not sure that
doctor Banning would a bee to her. Why wouldn't be?
For many reasons.
Speaker 11 (26:38):
One is you might remember any moment who you really are,
My dear, you, my dear. It's a terrible thing not
to have a name to be called by, and it
could be my name. And if I have another, maybe
there's a reason enough that I want.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
To forget it. Oh, Oh, I gotta get some air.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You are right?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Oh? Sure? Have you the clan? And maybe we better
get you back up to bed, doctor logan. I'm all right,
syfically The trouble with me is in my head?
Speaker 9 (27:14):
What for me?
Speaker 12 (27:18):
Hyahs, susy, I've made up my mind and I don't
care what any of you say for.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Her take for my sake. From now on, you better
just call me Charity.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
And again we are left tantalizingly on the horns of
a dilemma. Why is there something about that plane the
job girl's memory? Is her decision to become Charity Whitman
an altruistic one?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Or has she some deeper motive than kindness and compassion?
Who is this girl who doesn't know herself?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Or does she and only wants to hide her real identity.
I'll be back shortly with Act three. It's another day scrubbed.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Bright with clean sunlight, a day for starting or sailing,
or climbing a gentle mountain, or just lying lazily in
a field and watching the sky. For most people. That is,
for the five people in our story and.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
In Slackfield Community Hospital, gets to be a very different day,
a day of sadness, suspicion, and dilemma. Missus Chandler is
mercifully asleep.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Death not very far away.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Charity and the chaplain are walking in the Hut hospital
gardens and doctors.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Logan and Banning are huddled in the corner of the
cafeteria over morning coffee.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Poor Mark, you look too tired this morning.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I'm not tired, and I'm worried about what about the
deception I agreed to. Our business is healing, not playing
with human emotions.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Can you make it sound as though I've been partied
to something something cool?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Questioning your motives, just whether any of us have any
right to contributes to deceiving a dying.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Woman, just to give her what happiness we can, even
though she barely knew her granddaughter.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
It it's obvious she was or is not the center
of her life.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
There's no doubt that.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Then, And she's convinced the girl of charity, whatever that's
we have. Who are we to question that?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Tell what I am people staff with this hospital, I'm
sticking my neck out. There could be legalities involved? What well,
For one thing, missus Chandler may have a will.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
If the name's charity a beneficiary and the girl died
in the explosion, she might want to change it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She should have that right.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I never heard of that, But wouldn't it just go
to the to the next of Kent.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
According to ours to record, there is no next of Jenner,
which may be why are so called charity is so
willing to decide that's really her name.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
It is possible to fake amy, you know, and if
there's enough money involved.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Oh, I don't believe that girl could do anything like that.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
She what is it?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
I was just thinking yesterday while Dan and I were
talking to her. She was by the window and she
stopped suddenly.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Is it as if she'd remember who she really was?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Yeah? I thought she was coming out of it.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
And then then she turned on us and told us
that from now on, as far as she was concerned,
we could take her for charity with men.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Oh, Mark, I want to believe in her. Don't let
this turn out wrong. Good morning's charity? Oh do you love?
Isn't lovely out here? I hate to leave the sun,
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but I should get back and take Grandma's awake. Oh,
she can wait a moment. It's your grandmother I want
to talk about. She has her own I checked on
her before I came out. She's resting very peacefully. She
has nothing to worry about for the moment.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But I do you.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
Who are you and this time I want an honest answer,
and this time I'll give you the only answer I
can get you.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
From now on, I am charity.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
With What do you listen to?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Okay, you did that before. Does it remind you of something?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But do you remember that crumpled piece of paper you
had with the number three eight Oh? Could that have
been a flight number? Yes? Perhaps like three eighties? Was
it a flight you were wrong? No? When you were
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going to take?
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Maybe?
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Oh? But I don't know where you going with some Yes,
I I think maybe I was, But I wo who
were you going with this? I don't remember ever so close?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
No, that's enough for now.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Just one more question? All right? What's your name? Deb Scott? Oh?
My god? What did I say? I think you just
told me who you really are? Chaplain chaplain? Excuse me
(33:24):
for birs tocas.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But I need to help and I can offer what
who comes back?
Speaker 5 (33:29):
I know who I am, doctor Logan. You're Deborah Scott.
You're trying to trace now you didn't.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Listen to me. I haven't told doctor Logan everything. I
wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
For a sight.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
I have some problems as for example, this afternoon at
three o'clock. I'm supposed to fly to Mexico City with
the man I love.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Oh, that isn't a problem, that's happiness.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
I'm sure there'll be no trouble about the hospital releasing
you in time to get your plan.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
But then what happened to missus Chandler.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
What you've already done for her has been wonderful. No
one can expect you to give up your personal life
now that you've refounded.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Does your fiancee know.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
You're all right?
Speaker 6 (34:14):
She had no way to know that anything was wrong.
You see, his insurance company transferred him to New York.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I thought you said you were headed for Mexico City.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
We are, But you see, I was his secretary. The
firm closed the local hallfice. Well, we worked, and Dan
Floyd head to New York. And he's probably been trying
to get in tact with me, and I don't know
whether he is.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Didn't you call him at the firm?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Well, he already left. She'll be expecting me to leave
with him from here on his two.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Week vacation, your honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Then you have to meet it.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I don't want to run out on miss Chandler. But
how and she depends on me.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Well, maybe if you talk to your young man, he
might delay the vacation a few days. Missus Chandler hasn't
got be longer than that, so I.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Don't know if he would since his last vacation for
a long time, and he'd.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Probably just go on without me, without the girl he's
gonna marry.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I didn't say we were going to be married. Oh.
My only chance really is if I do go with him.
But I know him. If I don't turn up at
that plane, I'll never see him again.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
And I love him not much.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Does he love you? Granted what you say.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Look, it's been very little love in my life, chaplain.
I was an orphan brought up in foster homes. But
I'm not her charity. I'm Debbie Scott. I know what
I'm trying to do for Missus Chandler is right, and
I guess what I'm doing with since is wrong. But
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I can't be two people, which am I supposed to be?
New charity? Yes, Grandma, where have you been? Oh? Well,
they were just giving me a checka they're going to
(36:16):
send you home. Yes, they need that. I'm all right now.
Oh that's wonderful, dear. I'm so happy for you. No
more clouds or doubts. M No, you know who you
are again. Oh well, I'll miss not having you right
(36:39):
here in the room with me, and I'll miss not
being here with you, darling. Yes, come to me, so said,
just for a moment. Please, I'm here. Do one thing
for me, anything you want.
Speaker 13 (37:01):
Just give me a long hug and say, Grandma, Grandma,
that's all, Just Grandma, That's all I.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Really wanted to hear, Grandma. Oh, my dear little girl,
that I know so little about, all the years of
of not knowing you, in such a little time too.
Speaker 9 (37:42):
To catch up.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Funny, isn't it two.
Speaker 14 (37:48):
Days together in the hospital and in one way I
know everything about you.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And then another nothing at all. Now tell me, tell
me about yourself. Oh there's nothing really to tell, of
course there is.
Speaker 14 (38:06):
Every young girl has so much to tell, her hopes,
her dreams, what she asks of life.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
And you remember, I'll be watching you from somewhere, and
just maybe I can repay you and make it all
come true. Oh how I wish you could, But then
you tell me not. I Let's begin with what every
girl wants.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
In her life.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
A man. Isn't there one in yours. I don't know
why I blurted it all out because I asked it
was important. But he he doesn't love you enough to
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ask you to be his wife. Oh God, he asked
me to be when with that? Oh oh, a long
time ago.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I don't think that it would.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I think it's still going on. Why don't you give
him another chap rema Rema's been good to hear you
call me that? Now I want. The chapter says take with.
Speaker 9 (39:32):
I care what you can.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I only wish that I could.
Speaker 14 (39:38):
Ever thank you enough for what everything, my dear God
took my eyes away, but it gave me you instead.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
I'll never forget you who died, whoever you are or
will come to be? H. Now get me the chapin
(40:12):
and your young man decided to wait for him? Yes?
Does that mean it? We'll be married in Mexico? Lucky
girl would think? Do you mind if I wish you
the same? Luck?
Speaker 8 (40:28):
Me? H?
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Why should I try to fool another woman? I'm afraid
I won't be so lucky. Mark.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
She's gone very quietly and without anything.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Oh silly, I'm just going to think of her that way.
She's the only real relations in his head.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
You may be the closest one.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
She yeah, what do you mean to happen?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
I'll read your letters, she dictated to me before she died.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
It's not you.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
I have never thought much about death, save that when
it came, I would not have to meet it alone,
and I did, thanks to a beloved girl during my
old law than I can ever repay. I have nothing
much worth leaving in this world's goods except this ring.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
One I was wet with that. Charity's mother was wet
with that. Now I want to give to the girl
who gave me my last days of peace, who shared
my final hours. I hope she wears it soon, proudly
and happily, with my love.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
And her own.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
She meant you, daddy.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
No, she meant her hand daughter.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
There's nothing on the paper that says so.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
That's strange. No, the last time I talked to her,
she never once called me Charity. She thinks she knew.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
This ring was meant for Debbie Scott's.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
When you wear it, remember to wear it with charity
in the biblical sense.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Good luck, Debbie.
Speaker 8 (42:28):
You have every chance there'll be someone smiling down on
you every step of the way.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Oo admit the chandler know that Debbie Scott was not
her granddaughter. Did she prefer to play out a last
three charade to make death come soften? We'll never know,
but that chance perhaps foolish. An old fashioned name given
(43:04):
to a girl long ago proved in the end to
live up with old fashioned meaning.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
This is the mystery theater, and after all, what greater
mystery in the world is there than love? So, just
as a footnote, not long after Vincent Debbi married in
Mexico City, doctor Mark Banning managed to forget the first
unfortunate marriage and married doctor Anne Logan. And doctor Logan,
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since time was running by.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Decided to have a child. Actually they both hope for
a boy.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
But if it happens to be a girl, I wonder
if they'll be tempted to call her charity. Our cast
included for In Your Pain, Rosemary Wright, William Prince, Latricia Wheel,
and George Petrie. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Everyone in this town seems to know what's wrong with
my house except Helen and me.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
They know there's something wrong that's all.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
They know, and you know more beautiful sewing.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Behind those beautiful green eyes lies secrets.
Speaker 6 (44:30):
And your attitude is one reason why I can't tell you.
You wouldn't believe me anyway, Try me.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
All right.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
The house you're living in doesn't really belong to you.
That house was stolen from the daughter of Marie Lovell
Mary
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