September 10, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good evening, friend.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is your host to welcome you again through the
creaking door into the nurse sanctum.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Come in, Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm enjoying some winter sports for a couple of cold
blooded skates. Personally, I don't mind the low temperature anymore.
That's because I wear a snowfall storm coat keeps the
cold spirits out. Yes, now I'm just a were wolf
in his sheepskin line shroud. Oh him, Now that's how
(00:44):
photographer Arnie he just passed up by taking a picture
from overexposure. Ready now for our excusion beyond the gray.
Let me warn you we're a bit crowded. You may
(01:05):
not be able to get around trip ticket. We can
accommodate you on the way out, but coming back you
will have to double up with a call. The fog
rows in from the sea and begins to blanket the
Long Narrow Island, which is joined to the Florida Mainland
by a bridge. In a long house on the island,
(01:28):
two men stand at the window, watching the mist develop
into a thick goldb securing the lights on the mainlanders.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The fog is getting worse.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Look out there, it's covering everything like a disgusting evil monster.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It'll lift by morning.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Morning, morning, I may not be here by morning.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What the devil do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I mean I may not to let you help me.
I asked you Ahues tonight because I was afraid to
be alone.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But you said before that you're a sister in law Carol,
and her husband wants his name, Everett would be here.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes, instant.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
But you are my friends. You're my closest friend. For
the past week, I had a feeling that death was
coming here to the island, and then when the fog
began to roll in from the sea, I knew it
would be the night.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Arthur, you're not making sense.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You've got nothing to worry about except for being a
little nervous.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You're perfectly healthy and understand Vincent.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Valeries come back, Valerie, Yes, she's here on the island.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
For Heaven's sake, doth I get hold of yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Here her out there someplace?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And that far's impossible.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And you know it's been six months since your wife
Valerie drowned.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They never found her body.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It was never washed up.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
On sure, the drowned body isn't always found. She never
went out a night, of course she did it with
all settled at the corner's inquest.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
No, there were some things that were never settled.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You know Valerie, You know how strange and moody she was.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
For a great many people have moved on, not like
Valerie was.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
She would prowl this island at night with that cataper
is always following anywhere she went.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That cat would be with her, and on foggy nights
they'd be gone for hours. That still doesn't prove the
ballery wasn't on that boat, of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Course it does.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Don't you understand cats hate water. I begged her many
times to go out fishing with me. She never stepped
foot in a boat.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Look, this is all just your imagination working over time.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Listen, she's come back to kill me. She hated me
from the day we were married. She hated me. By
her wedding night, she proved into a rage. She scratched me.
Her hand was like a claw, like a cat's claw.
And now she's come back to kill me.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You better stop talking.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The cat disappeared the night Vallerie did well.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Of course I did a drowned with her.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, the cats come back to the island. I heard
it at night.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What you heard was probably a stray cat that wandered
onto the island across the bridge.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Now, Uh, I get hello.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I said, Cam.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes, who's this this?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Woo? You have six hours to live? Just six all ours?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It was Valerie.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
She spoke too, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
As the cat was with her she she said, I
had six hours to live? Six hours?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Heah, let me have that phone sto you, said she. Oh,
maybe we can trace the call.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Hello, hello operator operator, coming to kill me. You've got
to home. I'll just take it easy off, I'll get
the police.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Marriage Hello operator operator. So well, why doesn't she answer?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think I know why. I'm afraid the wires of
them cut.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Come on, I'm driving you to the mainland.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Can't to drive faster to the five as thick as
it is out there.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm going faster than I should.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
But you've got to get me off the island bridges
just ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Will be on the mainland in a few minutes, said,
I just remembered something in the f You said that
Valerie's just to Carol and uh, her husband Everett.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Would be out here to visit you to night.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's but we can't wait for them. By the time
they say they'd be here eight thirty.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Well, it's ask that now they should drive along this
road any moment, maybe we'll meet them.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And then, why did you stop? We can't stay here
at the bridge. If I hadn't stopped quickly enough, we'd
both have been killed. This end of the bridge has
been washed out. Then please, let's go back into the house.
She's somewhere near us in the fog here, I can feel.
(05:36):
I'm not going in until I find out where that
phone wire was cut. I'm gonna splice it together again.
It's our only chance of reaching the police. It's nine o'clock,
an hour's gone viralating. And if I'm not out of
here by two o'clock versus Look, look, you can see
it through the fog. There's a strange yellow light on
the road.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Mm.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Why it's the headlight of a car coming this way?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What car? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Quick behind the house.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Here and stay out of sight. It's turning into the bribeway.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How could a color come into the others with that
bridge washed house? Be quiet, somebody's getting out. They're coming
this way.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
That it's it's Carol and everest Carol Everett, Arthur what't
I deuce?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're going out here in back of the eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
He's scared never and I'm so glad you're here. You
how did you get here?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
How do you say?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
What's gotten into you? How did you get on the island?
We drove over the bridge and up the shore road?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Can you get here?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But how could you drive over the bridge? It's been
washed out, washed out. I saw it with my own eyes.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
And Vincent saw it too, ding of Vincent, I certainly did, Oh, Vincent,
I didn't know you.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Were here, yes, Everett, and I'm glad. I am well.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You two must be mistaken. Carol and I drove over
that bridge less than three minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Three minutes Huh? Why do you say it that way?
Are you sure you haven't been on the island longer than?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Laugh?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
What does he mean?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
If I know?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Strange things have been happening. Arthur's life has been threatened.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It's true by your sister Valerie. Don't you to know
that April Fool's Day is months so?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh god? You want ever it? But it's true.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Even a telephone wire has been cut. It's a telephone.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, so the telephone wire has been cut? Man, you
better answer it author, but I'm almost afraid.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Come on, I'll go in with it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Alright, alright, hello, oll.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Hi'ska vowery. Will your head.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
This free?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
It's nine o'clock. Cont you have five more allars to it?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
It's waiting. I can't stand it. Why don't the police come? No,
I take it easy either. They'll be here. We only
fall them a few minutes ago. That something might happen
before they get here. We can't just sit around waiting
for them to arrive.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Of course, it wouldn't be difficult to find anybody out
there in.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
That FuG but we could look around until the police
got here.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh, I'm not going out there. She's waiting for me. Dear,
Please try to understand. It couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You don't know any of you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I could feel it. She's She's coming closer and closer
every minute.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
After You've got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I've got this gun, and believe me, I won't hesitate
to use it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Incent, I didn't know you were in the habit of
carrying a gun. I gave it to a Leverett before
you arrived.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Matter, don't you trust me with a gun? I really
don't trust anyone.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
What is it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It was something outside the window short, so.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Please, now, don't you get started in this crazy nonsense.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, it's a swirling fog.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You know I saw it, But no, it's gone.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I could make up the eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They were shining like the eyes of it. She's coming
for me.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Ever that tame from the back of the house.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
No, don't leave me. Now, you go with Benson.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I'll stay with Arthurs, all right, right, Arthur, I stayed
with you because I want to talk about Vincent.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think it was foolish of you to give him
that gun. Vincent's my friend. I trust him.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Why do you say that. Don't you remember how.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He acted at the Connor's inquest. He testified against your
turn again, very simply to make them think you were
responsible for vent Only's death.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You were, Vincent would have no reason to talk. He
and Valerie were quite close before you came along, Arthur,
even after you came. That isn't true. He even saw
the night she disappeared. You don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
At the inquest, he swore he wasn't on the island
that night, but he was, and I can prove it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, the cigarette lighter. Yes, vin Scince, the nator rot it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You can still see them through the rest.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Where did you get that lighter? Carol and I found
it in the water near the boat house.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I remember the day after Valerie disappeared, Vincent made the
remark about losing his life.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now do you still think he said you're friend? If
what you say is true, you and Carol and I
have got to stay together until the police get here.
You're sure they're on the way. Yes, they told me
on the phone it would take them less than fifteen
minutes to get here. Well, it may not be safe
for you to wait for them here.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We'll go down to the bridge to meet No, No.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'm not going out in that fog. She's there waiting
for it.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Look, Arthur, you've got more to fear from Vincent than anyone.
But don't come on before he returns. All right, we'd
better go out through the French windows.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Than I did.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Stay close to the house until we get to the garage.
Fog is so thick I can't see you. I'm just
on the edge of the gravel pack.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wait, what's my.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Stay?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Where you are? Where are you? Something's out here near us?
Just brushed against me.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Run here, kitty, Kitty, Kitty, don't go away, kitty.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We need you for a couple of more murders.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Everett's dead, So now that's what he gets for letting
a black cat cross his throat. Say, how do you
like that, Valerie? She's somewhere uh huh, nagging her husband
right to the grave, the same one she's in the
Valerie is sorry about that last phone call she made.
The operator said to five cents for the next five murders. Please, ball,
(12:07):
let's get back to our frightened friends. I'm at Florida Island.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
She meant to kill me, Carol. She mistook Everett for me.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
You please, how is he? Vincent?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
She's dead. It's as if his throat was torn open
by a wild animal. I told you she was more
animal and human.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
She had cat they were in here, Carol, you'd better
not touch the battle alone.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You've done it up already.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
What's that supposed to me? You know exactly what it means, Vincent.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
And when the police come, I'm going to tell them
how you ran away from me out there in the fot.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I didn't run away from you. I thought you were
behind me when I came.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Back to the house just a moment.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
A cigarette lighter that ever had had in his hand?
It's missing?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What cigarette lighter?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The one?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I mean, the one that was filing the water near
the pothouse.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I am the faintest idea of what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I have.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Are do you better searching?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Now? Look here? If you're as innocent as you claim
to be this you shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Mind alright, then go ahead and search. I will after
I make this call. Whom you're calling the police can't
understand why I haven't gotten here yet. It's almost ten o'clock.
Oh oh, operator, well, you please connect me with the
police headquarters and hurry.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Do you think you've been calling the police department all
this time?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Lay?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Valerie? We still leave. It's ten o'clock. Uh, you have
just four more allaries.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Were here?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Where's Vincent?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I just left him, Carol? Did you know about him?
And Valerie?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
We?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I did?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Why didn't you tell me? I wanted to? But after girl,
she was my sister. We'll have to get away from him. Yes, Well,
suppose we tell him that we're going for the police.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
He can't have any.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Objection to that.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I suppose he wants to come with us and the car.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Somebody has to stay here with Everritt's body.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Would you think it's safe to leave him here? If
he killed Everett, he'll have a chance to destroy any heaven.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
We can't help that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It's safer to leave him here than to take him
with us.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
He still has that.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Gun of you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's right. I forgive me for disturbing you too.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I thought you were supposed to be outside.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I was outside for a while, but I saw somebody
moving around in the other room, so I came back.
When I got to the other room, I found Everett's
body missing.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Why God, Everyt's Body's gone.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Mentioned you were in that room before alone, So was
Carol after I left.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Weren't you, Carol?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I knew you were there alone, Carol, I remember, I
say you walked with me to the front door.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
When I left the house. The body was still there
after that.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I don't know what happened, but perhaps Carol does. What
are you?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What do you think I'm driving in that I did
something with ever Ittt's body.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Draw your own conclusions. I've drawn mine.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh dare you imply such things? Listen?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
To another. Right of such talk? Not another word?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, atho, what do you think?
Speaker 9 (15:08):
I don't know what to say from going out of
my mind, I don't know where to turn, who to trust?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You can trust me?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I wish I was sure that I go.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Of course, you cannot come here, offer.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Don't you see?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
The one who hopes to kill you is trying to
break you down first? Now, for your own sake, you
mustn't give in. I don't know who's behind all this,
but I do know this.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
It's all part of a plan to destroy you, little
by little. Don't you see that?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Thing makes you listen to me? Offer and listen to me.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Well, because there isn't a great deal of time left,
we've got to get away from Carroll. Well, there's still
time while she's not here.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Why can't you see she's trying to kill you? Yes,
still be a fool.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Carol is the one who lied to you. She and
Ever at birth they intended to murder you.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But in the darkness and the.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Fog, Carol made a fatal mistake. She thought it was
you she was killing, not Everest.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh No, that was Valerie in the room.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
A human animal was there? You saw the craw marks
on everet.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Throw that could be accomplished with an iron claw is dead?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
What makes you so surely? God? I know she's said they.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Never drove across that bridge at nine tonight. They've been
here on the island all evening.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
How do you know that?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I know that because we saw that bridge with our
own eyes, and I saw it again just ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It's still down. You're just saying, now, I'm come on
with me off when you'll see for yourself.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
No, now you're trying to get me out of the house,
out into that fog ware Valerie, Will you'll stop being
an idiot.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
There?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Take this gun that'll make you feel any better? Take
it and hold it in my.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Back while we're outside. Now, let's get away from Carol
while there's still a chance.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
All right, give me the gun. Yeah, keep in front
of me all the time. Good morning. If you make
one force move, I'll kill you.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You see, Carol and Everett were lying to us.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The bridge is still down. You're right, Vincent. I couldn't
have come across that bridge, of course not.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The only trouble is we can't get back over it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
If we've got to get off this island.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I should have thought
of it before your boat.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I saw the motor boat actually accident.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Or what about a rowboat?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
There's still one of those down at the boat house
at the other end of the island.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Good, then we can row over to the mainland.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yes, yes, of course. Come on, Wait a minute, where
you going back to the house for the car.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Don't be ridiculous. We can't go back there now.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
We gotta walk all right along the beach here, gotta
walk faster than that. I was instance. If I have
a feeling we're being followed.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Ah, just your imagination.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Who could see us?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Miss fog? But I tell you that we are being
I told you you'll find it. Yes, I can see
it now.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's a cat and there's a woman with it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Far we've lost the matters.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They can't be five behind.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It doesn't make any difference. Now there's the boat house
just ahead for both. It's not at the land.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well it must be. You can't see it because of
the file.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You can see it isn't there.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
All right, then we'll hid in the boat house till morning.
You can't hide from the dead or when you please
stop that nonsense. We're dealing with somebody very much alive.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You've still got that gun. You can't harm the dead
round it. Come on, we'll go inside. The doors locked.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I didn't lock it. This boat house has never been
locked before.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
All right, wait here, I'll break through the window and
come around through the inside.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, just wait for me. I'll lock the door.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
They're coming and hurry, hurry, now, come on inside, off
the better lock the door.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yes, Arthur, we're in luck.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
There's a phone here, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I forgot Maybe it hasn't been disconnected like the other one.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'll try it. Hello, Hello, I'm right.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Oh did she eleven o'clock or just three?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Or dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Quarter?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Or two?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Arthur? You can't stay here another minute, and I can't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Run away anymore. Where would I go? Where would I hide?
If she's going to kill me? Let her come and
do it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You still got fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Oh, my time's run out now.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, I wanted to help you save yourself, but you
wouldn't let me. I'm not gonna stay here another stack sprinting.
This is your last chance. Do you wanna make a
run part with me?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I told you it was no U.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Right then, there's nothing more I can do.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Good boss, h.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Don't reach Yes, uh yeah, I've come for your Balerie.
Please you know why I've come, don't you?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Please? Don't come any closer.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
You hated me so much, couldn't even wait until death
came to me.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Naturally, you knew how much I hated warting, how much
I was afraid.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And stand where you are. Don't come another ston.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Despised me because your bullets can't harm me.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
There's no way you can harm me anymore because I
am dead, But I can harm you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Balerie, Valerie, forgive me, Valerie, please forgive me. I was
sorry as soon as I threw you off the.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Boat, but it was too late. I don't I'd know
the water to find you, but I couldn't. I tried
until my lungs almost burst.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Please please forgive me.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Why why didn't you tell the police?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I wanted to live?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But now it doesn't make any difference or wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
About that out there. It makes a big difference to us.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What are you doing back here?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I was listening outside your confession confession, Thank you, Miss Mason.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That'll be all yes, Ms Mace.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
The five outside and this dim life in here helped
her disguise, and.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
And it wasn't val her.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
How could it be? Valer is dead, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And the dead can't really return whatever? Who? Who killed him?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Everett? Everett's alive, very much alive, Arthur.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It wasn't hard for.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Me to pretend being dead with uh, Vincent and Carroll
keeping you away from my body.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And you well, if you work in on this together.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yes, the police couldn't help us because Valerie's body was
never found.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
We knew you would kill her. We just had to
wait for the chance to prove it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Mor you have my confession.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Come on either, Wait a minute, Evors, Hello, Hello, Bennett,
it's all over.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, you can hook up the wires again. And Bennett,
you'd better get to work on that bridge right away.
We're making a trip to the mainland.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Who it turned outrage all those juicy chances for murder
and not one drop of blood spill. Oh well, I
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guess that's where it is. Some nights you just can't
lay away a corpuscle.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And that Valerie, what a judge she turned out.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
To be, didn't even have enough courage to step out
of her graves.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Confidentially, though the reason is Valerie doesn't like to be
seen in shrouds. Oh no, no, there's no moral to
this story, just the ugly fact that when you're.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Dead, brother, you're dead.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
H m hm hm.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
M m hm.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
This the more.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Pleasant stream.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
The Inner Sanctum was heard in the United States over
CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System and has been rebroadcast for
service men and women overseas.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, a
voice of information and education.
Good evening, friend.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is your host to welcome you again through the
creaking door into the nurse sanctum.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Come in, Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm enjoying some winter sports for a couple of cold
blooded skates. Personally, I don't mind the low temperature anymore.
That's because I wear a snowfall storm coat keeps the
cold spirits out. Yes, now I'm just a were wolf
in his sheepskin line shroud. Oh him, Now that's how
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photographer Arnie he just passed up by taking a picture
from overexposure. Ready now for our excusion beyond the gray.
Let me warn you we're a bit crowded. You may
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not be able to get around trip ticket. We can
accommodate you on the way out, but coming back you
will have to double up with a call. The fog
rows in from the sea and begins to blanket the
Long Narrow Island, which is joined to the Florida Mainland
by a bridge. In a long house on the island,
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two men stand at the window, watching the mist develop
into a thick goldb securing the lights on the mainlanders.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The fog is getting worse.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Look out there, it's covering everything like a disgusting evil monster.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It'll lift by morning.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Morning, morning, I may not be here by morning.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What the devil do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I mean I may not to let you help me.
I asked you Ahues tonight because I was afraid to
be alone.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But you said before that you're a sister in law Carol,
and her husband wants his name, Everett would be here.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes, instant.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
But you are my friends. You're my closest friend. For
the past week, I had a feeling that death was
coming here to the island, and then when the fog
began to roll in from the sea, I knew it
would be the night.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Arthur, you're not making sense.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You've got nothing to worry about except for being a
little nervous.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You're perfectly healthy and understand Vincent.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Valeries come back, Valerie, Yes, she's here on the island.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
For Heaven's sake, doth I get hold of yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Here her out there someplace?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And that far's impossible.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And you know it's been six months since your wife
Valerie drowned.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They never found her body.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It was never washed up.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
On sure, the drowned body isn't always found. She never
went out a night, of course she did it with
all settled at the corner's inquest.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
No, there were some things that were never settled.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You know Valerie, You know how strange and moody she was.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
For a great many people have moved on, not like
Valerie was.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
She would prowl this island at night with that cataper
is always following anywhere she went.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That cat would be with her, and on foggy nights
they'd be gone for hours. That still doesn't prove the
ballery wasn't on that boat, of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Course it does.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Don't you understand cats hate water. I begged her many
times to go out fishing with me. She never stepped
foot in a boat.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Look, this is all just your imagination working over time.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Listen, she's come back to kill me. She hated me
from the day we were married. She hated me. By
her wedding night, she proved into a rage. She scratched me.
Her hand was like a claw, like a cat's claw.
And now she's come back to kill me.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You better stop talking.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The cat disappeared the night Vallerie did well.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Of course I did a drowned with her.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, the cats come back to the island. I heard
it at night.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What you heard was probably a stray cat that wandered
onto the island across the bridge.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Now, Uh, I get hello.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I said, Cam.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes, who's this this?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Woo? You have six hours to live? Just six all ours?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It was Valerie.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
She spoke too, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
As the cat was with her she she said, I
had six hours to live? Six hours?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Heah, let me have that phone sto you, said she. Oh,
maybe we can trace the call.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Hello, hello operator operator, coming to kill me. You've got
to home. I'll just take it easy off, I'll get
the police.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Marriage Hello operator operator. So well, why doesn't she answer?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think I know why. I'm afraid the wires of
them cut.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Come on, I'm driving you to the mainland.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Can't to drive faster to the five as thick as
it is out there.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm going faster than I should.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
But you've got to get me off the island bridges
just ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Will be on the mainland in a few minutes, said,
I just remembered something in the f You said that
Valerie's just to Carol and uh, her husband Everett.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Would be out here to visit you to night.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's but we can't wait for them. By the time
they say they'd be here eight thirty.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Well, it's ask that now they should drive along this
road any moment, maybe we'll meet them.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And then, why did you stop? We can't stay here
at the bridge. If I hadn't stopped quickly enough, we'd
both have been killed. This end of the bridge has
been washed out. Then please, let's go back into the house.
She's somewhere near us in the fog here, I can feel.
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I'm not going in until I find out where that
phone wire was cut. I'm gonna splice it together again.
It's our only chance of reaching the police. It's nine o'clock,
an hour's gone viralating. And if I'm not out of
here by two o'clock versus Look, look, you can see
it through the fog. There's a strange yellow light on
the road.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Mm.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Why it's the headlight of a car coming this way?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What car? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Quick behind the house.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Here and stay out of sight. It's turning into the bribeway.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How could a color come into the others with that
bridge washed house? Be quiet, somebody's getting out. They're coming
this way.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
That it's it's Carol and everest Carol Everett, Arthur what't
I deuce?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're going out here in back of the eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
He's scared never and I'm so glad you're here. You
how did you get here?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
How do you say?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
What's gotten into you? How did you get on the island?
We drove over the bridge and up the shore road?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Can you get here?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But how could you drive over the bridge? It's been
washed out, washed out. I saw it with my own eyes.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
And Vincent saw it too, ding of Vincent, I certainly did, Oh, Vincent,
I didn't know you.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Were here, yes, Everett, and I'm glad. I am well.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You two must be mistaken. Carol and I drove over
that bridge less than three minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Three minutes Huh? Why do you say it that way?
Are you sure you haven't been on the island longer than?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Laugh?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
What does he mean?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
If I know?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Strange things have been happening. Arthur's life has been threatened.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It's true by your sister Valerie. Don't you to know
that April Fool's Day is months so?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh god? You want ever it? But it's true.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Even a telephone wire has been cut. It's a telephone.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, so the telephone wire has been cut? Man, you
better answer it author, but I'm almost afraid.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Come on, I'll go in with it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Alright, alright, hello, oll.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Hi'ska vowery. Will your head.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
This free?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
It's nine o'clock. Cont you have five more allars to it?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
It's waiting. I can't stand it. Why don't the police come? No,
I take it easy either. They'll be here. We only
fall them a few minutes ago. That something might happen
before they get here. We can't just sit around waiting
for them to arrive.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Of course, it wouldn't be difficult to find anybody out
there in.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
That FuG but we could look around until the police
got here.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh, I'm not going out there. She's waiting for me. Dear,
Please try to understand. It couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You don't know any of you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I could feel it. She's She's coming closer and closer
every minute.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
After You've got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I've got this gun, and believe me, I won't hesitate
to use it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Incent, I didn't know you were in the habit of
carrying a gun. I gave it to a Leverett before
you arrived.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Matter, don't you trust me with a gun? I really
don't trust anyone.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
What is it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It was something outside the window short, so.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Please, now, don't you get started in this crazy nonsense.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, it's a swirling fog.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You know I saw it, But no, it's gone.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I could make up the eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They were shining like the eyes of it. She's coming
for me.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Ever that tame from the back of the house.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
No, don't leave me. Now, you go with Benson.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I'll stay with Arthurs, all right, right, Arthur, I stayed
with you because I want to talk about Vincent.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think it was foolish of you to give him
that gun. Vincent's my friend. I trust him.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Why do you say that. Don't you remember how.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He acted at the Connor's inquest. He testified against your
turn again, very simply to make them think you were
responsible for vent Only's death.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You were, Vincent would have no reason to talk. He
and Valerie were quite close before you came along, Arthur,
even after you came. That isn't true. He even saw
the night she disappeared. You don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
At the inquest, he swore he wasn't on the island
that night, but he was, and I can prove it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, the cigarette lighter. Yes, vin Scince, the nator rot it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You can still see them through the rest.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Where did you get that lighter? Carol and I found
it in the water near the boat house.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I remember the day after Valerie disappeared, Vincent made the
remark about losing his life.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now do you still think he said you're friend? If
what you say is true, you and Carol and I
have got to stay together until the police get here.
You're sure they're on the way. Yes, they told me
on the phone it would take them less than fifteen
minutes to get here. Well, it may not be safe
for you to wait for them here.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We'll go down to the bridge to meet No, No.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'm not going out in that fog. She's there waiting
for it.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Look, Arthur, you've got more to fear from Vincent than anyone.
But don't come on before he returns. All right, we'd
better go out through the French windows.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Than I did.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Stay close to the house until we get to the garage.
Fog is so thick I can't see you. I'm just
on the edge of the gravel pack.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wait, what's my.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Stay?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Where you are? Where are you? Something's out here near us?
Just brushed against me.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Run here, kitty, Kitty, Kitty, don't go away, kitty.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We need you for a couple of more murders.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Everett's dead, So now that's what he gets for letting
a black cat cross his throat. Say, how do you
like that, Valerie? She's somewhere uh huh, nagging her husband
right to the grave, the same one she's in the
Valerie is sorry about that last phone call she made.
The operator said to five cents for the next five murders. Please, ball,
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let's get back to our frightened friends. I'm at Florida Island.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
She meant to kill me, Carol. She mistook Everett for me.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
You please, how is he? Vincent?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
She's dead. It's as if his throat was torn open
by a wild animal. I told you she was more
animal and human.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
She had cat they were in here, Carol, you'd better
not touch the battle alone.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You've done it up already.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
What's that supposed to me? You know exactly what it means, Vincent.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
And when the police come, I'm going to tell them
how you ran away from me out there in the fot.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I didn't run away from you. I thought you were
behind me when I came.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Back to the house just a moment.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
A cigarette lighter that ever had had in his hand?
It's missing?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What cigarette lighter?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The one?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I mean, the one that was filing the water near
the pothouse.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I am the faintest idea of what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I have.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Are do you better searching?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Now? Look here? If you're as innocent as you claim
to be this you shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Mind alright, then go ahead and search. I will after
I make this call. Whom you're calling the police can't
understand why I haven't gotten here yet. It's almost ten o'clock.
Oh oh, operator, well, you please connect me with the
police headquarters and hurry.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Do you think you've been calling the police department all
this time?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Lay?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Valerie? We still leave. It's ten o'clock. Uh, you have
just four more allaries.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Were here?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Where's Vincent?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I just left him, Carol? Did you know about him?
And Valerie?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
We?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I did?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Why didn't you tell me? I wanted to? But after girl,
she was my sister. We'll have to get away from him. Yes, Well,
suppose we tell him that we're going for the police.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
He can't have any.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Objection to that.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I suppose he wants to come with us and the car.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Somebody has to stay here with Everritt's body.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Would you think it's safe to leave him here? If
he killed Everett, he'll have a chance to destroy any heaven.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
We can't help that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It's safer to leave him here than to take him
with us.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
He still has that.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Gun of you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's right. I forgive me for disturbing you too.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I thought you were supposed to be outside.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I was outside for a while, but I saw somebody
moving around in the other room, so I came back.
When I got to the other room, I found Everett's
body missing.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Why God, Everyt's Body's gone.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Mentioned you were in that room before alone, So was
Carol after I left.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Weren't you, Carol?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I knew you were there alone, Carol, I remember, I
say you walked with me to the front door.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
When I left the house. The body was still there
after that.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I don't know what happened, but perhaps Carol does. What
are you?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What do you think I'm driving in that I did
something with ever Ittt's body.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Draw your own conclusions. I've drawn mine.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh dare you imply such things? Listen?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
To another. Right of such talk? Not another word?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, atho, what do you think?
Speaker 9 (15:08):
I don't know what to say from going out of
my mind, I don't know where to turn, who to trust?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You can trust me?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I wish I was sure that I go.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Of course, you cannot come here, offer.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Don't you see?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
The one who hopes to kill you is trying to
break you down first? Now, for your own sake, you
mustn't give in. I don't know who's behind all this,
but I do know this.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
It's all part of a plan to destroy you, little
by little. Don't you see that?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Thing makes you listen to me? Offer and listen to me.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Well, because there isn't a great deal of time left,
we've got to get away from Carroll. Well, there's still
time while she's not here.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Why can't you see she's trying to kill you? Yes,
still be a fool.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Carol is the one who lied to you. She and
Ever at birth they intended to murder you.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But in the darkness and the.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Fog, Carol made a fatal mistake. She thought it was
you she was killing, not Everest.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh No, that was Valerie in the room.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
A human animal was there? You saw the craw marks
on everet.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Throw that could be accomplished with an iron claw is dead?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
What makes you so surely? God? I know she's said they.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Never drove across that bridge at nine tonight. They've been
here on the island all evening.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
How do you know that?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I know that because we saw that bridge with our
own eyes, and I saw it again just ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It's still down. You're just saying, now, I'm come on
with me off when you'll see for yourself.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
No, now you're trying to get me out of the house,
out into that fog ware Valerie, Will you'll stop being
an idiot.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
There?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Take this gun that'll make you feel any better? Take
it and hold it in my.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Back while we're outside. Now, let's get away from Carol
while there's still a chance.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
All right, give me the gun. Yeah, keep in front
of me all the time. Good morning. If you make
one force move, I'll kill you.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You see, Carol and Everett were lying to us.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The bridge is still down. You're right, Vincent. I couldn't
have come across that bridge, of course not.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The only trouble is we can't get back over it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
If we've got to get off this island.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I should have thought
of it before your boat.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I saw the motor boat actually accident.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Or what about a rowboat?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
There's still one of those down at the boat house
at the other end of the island.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Good, then we can row over to the mainland.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yes, yes, of course. Come on, Wait a minute, where
you going back to the house for the car.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Don't be ridiculous. We can't go back there now.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
We gotta walk all right along the beach here, gotta
walk faster than that. I was instance. If I have
a feeling we're being followed.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Ah, just your imagination.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Who could see us?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Miss fog? But I tell you that we are being
I told you you'll find it. Yes, I can see
it now.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's a cat and there's a woman with it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Far we've lost the matters.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They can't be five behind.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It doesn't make any difference. Now there's the boat house
just ahead for both. It's not at the land.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well it must be. You can't see it because of
the file.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You can see it isn't there.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
All right, then we'll hid in the boat house till morning.
You can't hide from the dead or when you please
stop that nonsense. We're dealing with somebody very much alive.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You've still got that gun. You can't harm the dead
round it. Come on, we'll go inside. The doors locked.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I didn't lock it. This boat house has never been
locked before.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
All right, wait here, I'll break through the window and
come around through the inside.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, just wait for me. I'll lock the door.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
They're coming and hurry, hurry, now, come on inside, off
the better lock the door.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yes, Arthur, we're in luck.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
There's a phone here, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I forgot Maybe it hasn't been disconnected like the other one.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'll try it. Hello, Hello, I'm right.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Oh did she eleven o'clock or just three?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Or dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Quarter?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Or two?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Arthur? You can't stay here another minute, and I can't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Run away anymore. Where would I go? Where would I hide?
If she's going to kill me? Let her come and
do it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You still got fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Oh, my time's run out now.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, I wanted to help you save yourself, but you
wouldn't let me. I'm not gonna stay here another stack sprinting.
This is your last chance. Do you wanna make a
run part with me?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I told you it was no U.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Right then, there's nothing more I can do.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Good boss, h.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Don't reach Yes, uh yeah, I've come for your Balerie.
Please you know why I've come, don't you?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Please? Don't come any closer.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
You hated me so much, couldn't even wait until death
came to me.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Naturally, you knew how much I hated warting, how much
I was afraid.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And stand where you are. Don't come another ston.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Despised me because your bullets can't harm me.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
There's no way you can harm me anymore because I
am dead, But I can harm you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Balerie, Valerie, forgive me, Valerie, please forgive me. I was
sorry as soon as I threw you off the.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Boat, but it was too late. I don't I'd know
the water to find you, but I couldn't. I tried
until my lungs almost burst.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Please please forgive me.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Why why didn't you tell the police?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I wanted to live?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But now it doesn't make any difference or wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
About that out there. It makes a big difference to us.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What are you doing back here?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I was listening outside your confession confession, Thank you, Miss Mason.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That'll be all yes, Ms Mace.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
The five outside and this dim life in here helped
her disguise, and.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
And it wasn't val her.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
How could it be? Valer is dead, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And the dead can't really return whatever? Who? Who killed him?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Everett? Everett's alive, very much alive, Arthur.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It wasn't hard for.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Me to pretend being dead with uh, Vincent and Carroll
keeping you away from my body.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And you well, if you work in on this together.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yes, the police couldn't help us because Valerie's body was
never found.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
We knew you would kill her. We just had to
wait for the chance to prove it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Mor you have my confession.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Come on either, Wait a minute, Evors, Hello, Hello, Bennett,
it's all over.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, you can hook up the wires again. And Bennett,
you'd better get to work on that bridge right away.
We're making a trip to the mainland.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Who it turned outrage all those juicy chances for murder
and not one drop of blood spill. Oh well, I
(23:06):
guess that's where it is. Some nights you just can't
lay away a corpuscle.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And that Valerie, what a judge she turned out.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
To be, didn't even have enough courage to step out
of her graves.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Confidentially, though the reason is Valerie doesn't like to be
seen in shrouds. Oh no, no, there's no moral to
this story, just the ugly fact that when you're.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Dead, brother, you're dead.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
H m hm hm.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
M m hm.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
This the more.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Pleasant stream.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
The Inner Sanctum was heard in the United States over
CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System and has been rebroadcast for
service men and women overseas.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
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