July 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Dark Venture was an American psychological thriller, anthology format radio series aired during 1946 and 1947. The series ran for 52 episodes, but only seventeen episodes have been recovered so far. The introduction to Dark Venture started with this narration, read by John Lake: “Over the minds of mortal men come many shadows… shadows of greed and hate, jealousy and fear. Darkness is absence of light… so in the sudden shadows which fog the minds of men and are to be found in the strange impulses which urge them on to their venture…in the dark". The stories on Dark Venture gave the listener the killer's point of view. Each episode was an adventure of a twisted reality where people were constantly plotting ways to kill someone. They played twisted mind games with their victims before killing them by strangulation, knifing or shooting.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Dark Venture.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Over the minds of mortal men come many shadows, Shadows
of greed and hate, jealousy and fear, Shadows which fogged
the minds of men and women, which urged them on
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into their adventure in the.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Dark Dark Venture. The American Broadcasting Company presents Dark Venture,
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written by Larry Marcus, directed by William T. Johnson, and
featuring John Banks. In Elizabeth is Frightened and Now your
host put a night's journey into Darkness, John Newland.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is John Newland. Tonight we searched the dark city
for Elizabeth. The night is unbroken by stars or moon.
There are only the thin, pitiful street lamps, the flashing
headlights of an occasional speeding car. The hour is two,
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The chimes and the gray cathedral boom hollowly in the
empty streets. An ambulance races down Maine, It's red warning
light flashing on and off quickly like the fevered. A
newsboy stands on a street corner, waiting for the last bus.
A tall girl in a thin coat hides in the
shadows of a cigar store, waiting for nothing at all.
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But we go on, for we must find Elizabeth. Down
Artmore Drive Now the darkness deepens. Now it is a quiet,
dignified darkness, draping itself over these fine homes. Now Here,
at last, we have reached Elizabeth. This is Elizabeth, tossing
and turning in her sleep, in the grip of some
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terrible dream that will not release her. But the faint
moonlight filtering through the curtains, we watch her strange struggle,
her head twisting feverishly from side to side, her fingers
clawing at some invisible enemy. And then suddenly the struggle
becomes too much.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Now, no, no, it's only a dream, heavenything. All right,
it's only a dream. He won't hurt me again. Go
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back to sleep.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
But I.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Can't sleep, remembering it's always the same. I can't forget you, Philip,
no matter how hard I try. I don't know who
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introduced me to the stranger in town, Philip Bailey. I
suppose we were brought together because at forty five, he
was an eligible widower, and at twenty eight I was
well on my way to being an ineligible old maid.
But from the very first I was fascinated by him,
by his strange mind, and he was so honest and kind,
and I admired him for that. I remember how he
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spoke of his first wife, Martha.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
You would've liked mouth, Elizabeth. She was so wonderfully alive
the winter she took sick of pneumonia and died.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
I simply couldn't believe it.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
For weeks afterwards, every time the doorbell rang, I thought,
this will be Martha.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
I've been dreaming this terrible thing.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I've only to throw open the door and she'll be
standing there smiling.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
A month after we met, Philip asked me to marry him,
and I accepted it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Once.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Everyone was happy for me. Everyone agreed it was a
good match. Everyone but my housekeeper Flora. When she heard
I was to be married, she let me know how
she felt in no uncertain way.
Speaker 9 (04:41):
I've known you since your mama brought you home in
a pink blanket, and I can speak plain, Elizabeth, I
think you're making a mistake.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
How can you say that, Flora? You hardly know Philip.
I've got a feeling, that's all all a feeling. But
what do you know about him, Elizabeth? Do you really know?
I know that when I'm with him, I'm very very happy.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
He knows that when he's with you he's within grabbing
distance of a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Oh, Philip was right, he warned me that's what people
would say, that he was marrying me for my money. Well,
I want to show you something, Flora. I have a
copy of it right here in my desk.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
Here.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I want you to read this.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Waiver of rights. I, Philip Dailey, do hear by relinquish
all rights and claims to all real and personal property
of Elizabeth Bronson for the duration of her natural life.
How do you like that, Flora, Well, on paper, it
looks all right.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
When we returned from our honeymoon, Philip took over the
side room on the first floor for his study. He
filled it with his books and seal him self off
from everyone for hours. Yet we still had time for
dinners in the theater and house parties. One night in
our home Philip met doctor Davis, who'd been our family
physician for many years. And here was the first indication
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of what was to come.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Now, Doctor, I don't agree at all. I have found
that the most exciting aspect of psychiatry is the brutal
and terrifying manner in which one mind could dominate another.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You mean hypnosis, mister bidding.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
hYP knows.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I dislike that word. It smacks at vaudeville stage. But
to me, it's utterly fascinating. How I can look into
another man's eyes, thrust my will into his very soul,
and force him to do my bidding.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Of course, but only a quack would use hypnosis.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
That really, it sounds like you two are about ready
to start punching each other in the nose.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I think I'll be going, Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Doctor you were to stay for dinner.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
I'll let the doctor go, Elizabeth.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I don't think he'd enjoy his dinner anyhow.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
But everything really began two days later, in the early
evening with the ringing of the telephone.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I'll get it a little.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Hello, Oh, hello, Hella.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
A bridge game tonight. Well, I'd like to Helen, but uh,
Elizabeth hasn't been feeling too well lately.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
I guess it's just nerve. She does need rest, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Could you excuse her just for the night, Thanks Helen,
Thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Philip.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Why in the world did you tell her I wasn't
feeling well. I feel wonderful.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I guess I'm just selfisher. I don't want you to
do any go to any bridge game tonight, Darling. I
want you to stay home with me. I see why
else would I tell.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Her that, Darling?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And we'll let be all missus Bailey.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Let me see you raise a blade's two faced cream. Yes,
I guess that's all, mister Martin.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Oh, by the way, are those sleeping pills helping you?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Any sleeping pills?
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Those pills your husband picked up for your nerves?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
My nerves? But I don't understand, never mind.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Are you feeling better these days?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yes, yes, I'm feeling much better.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of course.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
I told the druggists they were for you, Darling.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I thought they'd be easier to get that way. Oh,
then you really bought them for yourself?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
And I guess I've been doing too much reading lately.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
I haven't been able to sleep, so well, what do
you mean easier to get?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
It's only a mild sedative. Anyone can buy that medicine.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Well, I just in wane lot of people gossiping about
me before I make it a big issue out of it, Elizabeth,
Why else would I have told the druggist that.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Is that you, Flora?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Yes, it's me all right, me?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
You get all the groceries for dinner tonight. Yes, I
got everything. Oh, I want everything to be just ried.
It's quite a celebration, you know. Just six months ago
today I met Philip. What's the matter, Flora? You feel
all right, don't you? Of course? I feel fun More.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
People stop me on the street to tell me how
sorry they are. Your feelings are bad, and they hope
you'll be better soon.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Hell, I don't understand that. I don't understand it at all.
I'll get the fun. Hello, Hello, yes, this is oh, yes,
mister ROSSI are the cakes for the night? Ready? Yet?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Miss the bed?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I beg your pardon? Less than a one hour?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I go?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Your husband come by to follow me to candle the order.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
You're too shake for the party tonight, I say, less
than one hour a go?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yeah, I heard what you said, mister Rossie. What did
you call?
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I forget to tell your h I think you should
pay for the cakes anyhow.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I make it amy speciality for you.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I'm not going to sell them to anyone else today.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
By tomorrow the well, will you hold the lot a minute?
I want to talk to my husband about this. He's
in his study.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Too sick for the party tonight. Why is Philip saying
such things? Why is he I must see you right away, Philip.
I'm coming in.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Many times not to come into my study, but I
want to ask.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Am I being too presumptuous and wanting a place where
I can read and think in privacy, Philip?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I didn't mean to disturb you. But mister Rossie, the
baker who was supposed to have prepared our cakes for me,
he called, saying, you cancel the order because I wasn't well.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
I told him not to bother you.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
I'm tired of all these parties. I want time to
read and be alone. Elizabeth, I couldn't tell him that
was the reason for the cancelation, so well, I said
you were ill. I meant to explain it slipped my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Is that so terrible?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
No? No, I suppose not.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Why else would I have told the baker that, Eliza?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
No, Anne, I'm not really sick. Who told you I was?
Mister Rassy? Well, I'm perfectly all right, just a little tired, maybe,
but Francis, I'm all right, really I am. I know
I know what Anne said, but it's just my nerves
that's all. No, Francis is wrong. I'm not ill. I'm
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just tired, that's all.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Great.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Well I may not sound too well, but I assure you,
I assure you I am all right. Yes, I'll take
it easy. Yes, I promise, I promise.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
What is that husband of yours trying to do, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Why? What do you mean? Flora?
Speaker 9 (12:03):
You know what he told me this morning? What he
told me to throw your sleeping pills in the furnace.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
But there never were mine. He bought them for himself.
I've just been taking him for the last few nights
because all this talk about my health has made me
so upset. I know that.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
But do you know why he wanted me to throw
away the pills?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Why?
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Because, according to him, he was afraid you were thinking
of committing suicide.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
You can pack up your clothes, floora get out of
this house.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You'd like that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Well, I'm not getting out of this house. Mighty high
and mighty.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
As I say, Flora, go into the kitchen, kleas.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
I want to talk to mister Bannlora.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Please do as I say. Go into the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Theday when he came to this house, that's all I
can say.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
She'll have to leave, Darling. I won't allow her to
upset you.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
She is not upsetting me. Philip. I'm perfectly all right.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Of course you are, but you should rest more.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
You shouldn't allow yourself to become so excised.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
How much has happened that I can't understand why everyone
in towns hims to think that I'm practically practically on
the verge of suicide.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Elizabeth, what are you saying? You mustn't even think it's true.
It's that woman who upsets you with her lie. She's
gonna leave this house, Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Flora lives in this house even before I did that.
I can't tell her to.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Leave, and my wishes me nothing. Oh, it's not that
I know the mind and how it works. I know
it far better than your doctors. I know you're in peril,
that you need rest and quiet, and I won't allow
this fish wife to fill your brain with poison.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You must make a goal, Elizabeth.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
No, I see you imagine that she is your wall
against all evil?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Is that it, Elizabeth? Perhaps she is, Philip.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Well, I think you need a lesson.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I spent the rest of the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Day in my room.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
I was so confused. I didn't know where to turn.
What had happened to me? To Philip, to our marriage?
What was going on? Come in, oh, Flora? I meant
to condone and see you. I'm sorry about what happened
this afternoon. Philip didn't mean half of what he said, Flora,
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what's wrong? You look so strange? Flora answered me? What's wrong? Flora?
Talked to me? Flora? What are you gonna do? You
slapped me? Have you come crazy? Flora? Come back here, Flora?
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Why did you do this to me? Speak to me?
Why did you do this to me?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Flora?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Laura?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I was stunned. I couldn't believe what had happened, but
I could still feel the sting of her hand. Why
had she done this to me? After a while, I
found enough courage to go looking for her. She was
in the kitchen preparing suppers done.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Nothing had happened.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
She looked up when I entered. Hello, Elizabeth, you look tired,
Dear Flora. Why did you do it?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You mean, tell that husband of yours what I thought
of him?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I just did not what I mean? Why did you
come to my room and come to your room?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I've been down in this kitchen all afternoon preparing supper.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
You're lying, Flora. Now, why should I lie?
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Honey? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
The only time I left this kitchen was when mister
Bailey called me in the library to apologize for the
way he talked. I took his apology with a grain
of salt.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I can tell you. Then you werened in to see
me this afternoon. No, Flora telephoned Doctor Davis. Tell him
I must say him right away. Then I want you
to go over to your sister's house. Stay there'll I
call you.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And when Flora came into your room, how did he look, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Well, I didn't realize it at the time, doctor Davis,
but she walked as though in her sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And she told her that she was with your husband
before this happened. Yes, then, under the circumstances, i'd say
Flora was walking in her sleep, a hypnotic sleep.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Hypnotic sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I never mentioned this to you, Elizabeth, but when I
first met your husband, I discovered he was a firm
believer in hypnosis.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
But what has Philip to gain by doing that to Flora?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I imagine you go to him into his little display
of hypnotic power. The real question is what would he
gain by doing that same thing to you?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Nothing at all. He couldn't touch my money, if that's
what you mean. He just about have to talk me
into killing myself. Doctor. Yes, this morning he told Flora
he was afraid I was going to commit suicide. He
started talking Tom that I'm moody and nervous, and.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
He pardon me, yesness, what is it?
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Mister Bailey is in the briefing room.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Oh, what does he want?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (17:28):
He just wants to know when missus Bailey will be
ready to go home.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
He stopped by to pick her up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Doctor, send mister Bailey in, Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Don't want to see him. I never want to see
him again.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
What's happened, Donnie?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Your wife fell ill, so she came to see me,
mister Bailey, Well is wrong. Let's not waste time. There's
a train leaving here for the East at six o'clock.
That's just thirty minutes from now. You'd better buy a
ticket for that train.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Listeners, what's he talking about?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I'll help you to understand. Your wife is afraid that
you're trying to make a commit suicide. If everything else fails,
you'll use your knowledge of hypnosis to accomplish your death,
just as you used it on Flora this afternoon. Now,
maybe I don't have enough evidence to accuse you of
trying to kill her, but if you're not on that
six o'clock train, I'll talk to the district attorney.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Do you believe this, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Do you want me to leave?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
All right, I'll go. I'll wi are you lady? You
can send my things down to me. Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
List Later, I drove with doctor Davis to the railway
station and from the park to car. I watched Philip
emerge from the station carrying a suitcase and board the
waiting train. I waited until the train was gone, and
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then I telephoned Flora. Well, Flora, he's gone. He's gone
for good. No, Flora, huh, No, you stay with your
sister and I I'd rather be alone. Just goodnight.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Maybe that's a good idea, I said to No, we're
planning to go to the movie. Well, you'll call me
in the morning, won't you.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yes, I'll call you afterwards. I had a good dinner,
went to a picture show. It was during this show
that I started getting the strangest feeling, almost a premonition.
I I couldn't understand it. I thought, perhaps it was
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just the darkness of the theater and the natural reaction
of everything that had happened today. I left the theater
and wandered around the streets, trying to find a reason
for not going home. But what was wrong with me?
What was I afraid of? And then, for no reason
that I can explain, I call the railroad station. Hello,
I I'd like to inquire about the six pm train
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please tomorrow night. No, No, the one that left tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Guess what about it?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Well, there hasn't been any trouble with it, has there?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
What kind of I mean it? It wasn't delayed any
place along the line or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh no, of course not that trains four hundred miles
from here by.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Now, thank you, thank you very much. Now that was
a silly thing to do. And then I did something
even more silly. I dived my own number. What was
wrong with me? Who did I expect to answer the
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phone in that empty house? After a while, I hung up.
Then I went outside and took a cab home. I
just couldn't sleep. I sat up in bed and turned
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on the lamp. The clock said one thirty five. Perhaps
a glass of warm milk would help me relax. I
started for the kitchen to prepare it. When I passed
Philip's study, I saw the door was half open, and
what gave me a start. I heard over and turned
on the light. Study was empty, of course, but all
his books were still there. Then I went to the kitchen.
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I prepared the warm milk, and I took it back
to my room with me. But the milk didn't help
it all. I couldn't sleep. I thought of calling Flora,
but I couldn't disturb her at this time of night.
And then a tiny feeling started growing in me, as
faint as the ticking of a watch. I wanted to
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go back to Philip's study. The feeling grew gnawing at me.
I wanted to go back to Philip's study. Finally, I
couldn't stand it any longer. I got up from my
bed and put on my robe and started down the hall.
I opened his door again and snapped on the light.
I told myself the reason I had come here was
to decide what I'd do with this room. I'd destroy
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every evidence he had ever lived here. I'd I'd throw
out the bookcases and paper the walls, and changed the curtains.
How I went over to his desk. On the top drawer,
I found a packet of papers, letters from Martha's first wife,
their marriage license. Here was her death certificate. Martha Ellen
Bailey died August twenty third, nineteen forty four, aged twenty five.
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Cause of death suicide. But he told me she died
in the morning.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
No, Martha killed herself, Elizabeth. Yes, she killed herself, poor dear,
and she was so young.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I I saw you get on that train.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
The train makes so many stop sa Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Nothing? Not a thing.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
But I rather imagine your doctor Davis will be sorry
when he finds out in spite of my going you
killed yoursel Then again, perhaps you'll think you killed yourself
because of my going out of love, My darling, why
are you doing There are many reasons. The one that
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you would understand concerns your money, of course, the fact
that it becomes all mine upon your death. Elizabeth, You're
not run away. If you not running me, look at me,
look at me. You not run all. You not run away,
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Lisabe you stay here because you want to stay. You
want to stay, Eliza. You don't want to run away.
You want to stay.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
You want to stay with me. Listen, you want to
stay with me. You see, I'll let you go.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You could run away if you wanted to, but you
no longer desire.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
To run away. You want to stay with me.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I you want to stay with me.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Isn't that right, Eliza? Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I want to stay with you.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Of course you do. You love me very much. You
believe in me. Isn't that right, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
I believe in.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
You, Elizabeth. This I noon.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You told me to go away, that you no longer
love me. No kiss me, Elizabeth. You see, there are
no magic words, no secret formula, merely my mind imposing
its will upon yours.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Elizabeth.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
In the bottom drawer of my desk, you'll find a gun.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Get that gun.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Now, come back here to me and give me that gun.
You do these things because my mind is stronger than yours.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Elizabeth.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
You would stand here and you would let let me
kill you if I wanted to, wouldn't you, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I would stand here and let you kill me.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
If I do not want to kill you, You take
the gun, Elizabeth, that's right.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
You take the gun.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
They'll find your fingers stiffened around the trigger, and I'll
return to the town I left, and in the morning
someone will call me and tell me you killed yourself
because I left you, and I will.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Be very unhappy.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Take the gun and turn the barrel to your heart, Elizabeth,
the gun.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Turn it to your heart, not to me, Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Someone heard the shots and found me standing over Philip's body.
I explained that Philip had hypnotized me, and there was
no trouble at all, not even a trial because no
one is responsible for their actions and a hypnotic state.
And since then everyone has been so nice to me,
Doctor Davis, Flora and my friends. Everyone's been so helpful
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and understanding, and I'm very grateful. But still I find
it so hard to sleep, because always, I wonder, does
everybody truly believe that when I killed Philip I was
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actually hypnotized.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yes, Elizabeth has trouble sleeping, and once she finally falls asleep,
her dreams are far worse than any insomnia, because because
no matter how many times she tells herself that Philip
deserved to die, she still remains the victim of her
own guilt. Maybe we found our moral that deep within
each of us is a pathetic longing to do only
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good in this fleeting life, and that no matter how
we may ridicule this longing, no matter how we may
rebel against it, no matter how it annoys us in
this sophisticated world, the goodness remains to torture us when
we do evil, and to always remind us that we
are more than we seem to be, that perhaps we
might even be the children of God. And if that
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thought embarrasses you, well, I rather imagine there are times
when it also embarrasses him. Good Night, folks, see you
next week.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Listen next week for another dark venture with John Newland.
Featured into Night's story was John Banks as Elizabeth and
Hans Conrad as Philip. The others in the cast were
Janet Scott, Bonnie Phillips, Jack Petruzzie
Dark Venture.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Over the minds of mortal men come many shadows, Shadows
of greed and hate, jealousy and fear, Shadows which fogged
the minds of men and women, which urged them on
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into their adventure in the.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Dark Dark Venture. The American Broadcasting Company presents Dark Venture,
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written by Larry Marcus, directed by William T. Johnson, and
featuring John Banks. In Elizabeth is Frightened and Now your
host put a night's journey into Darkness, John Newland.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is John Newland. Tonight we searched the dark city
for Elizabeth. The night is unbroken by stars or moon.
There are only the thin, pitiful street lamps, the flashing
headlights of an occasional speeding car. The hour is two,
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The chimes and the gray cathedral boom hollowly in the
empty streets. An ambulance races down Maine, It's red warning
light flashing on and off quickly like the fevered. A
newsboy stands on a street corner, waiting for the last bus.
A tall girl in a thin coat hides in the
shadows of a cigar store, waiting for nothing at all.
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But we go on, for we must find Elizabeth. Down
Artmore Drive Now the darkness deepens. Now it is a quiet,
dignified darkness, draping itself over these fine homes. Now Here,
at last, we have reached Elizabeth. This is Elizabeth, tossing
and turning in her sleep, in the grip of some
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terrible dream that will not release her. But the faint
moonlight filtering through the curtains, we watch her strange struggle,
her head twisting feverishly from side to side, her fingers
clawing at some invisible enemy. And then suddenly the struggle
becomes too much.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Now, no, no, it's only a dream, heavenything. All right,
it's only a dream. He won't hurt me again. Go
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back to sleep.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
But I.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Can't sleep, remembering it's always the same. I can't forget you, Philip,
no matter how hard I try. I don't know who
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introduced me to the stranger in town, Philip Bailey. I
suppose we were brought together because at forty five, he
was an eligible widower, and at twenty eight I was
well on my way to being an ineligible old maid.
But from the very first I was fascinated by him,
by his strange mind, and he was so honest and kind,
and I admired him for that. I remember how he
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spoke of his first wife, Martha.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
You would've liked mouth, Elizabeth. She was so wonderfully alive
the winter she took sick of pneumonia and died.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
I simply couldn't believe it.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
For weeks afterwards, every time the doorbell rang, I thought,
this will be Martha.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
I've been dreaming this terrible thing.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I've only to throw open the door and she'll be
standing there smiling.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
A month after we met, Philip asked me to marry him,
and I accepted it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Once.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Everyone was happy for me. Everyone agreed it was a
good match. Everyone but my housekeeper Flora. When she heard
I was to be married, she let me know how
she felt in no uncertain way.
Speaker 9 (04:41):
I've known you since your mama brought you home in
a pink blanket, and I can speak plain, Elizabeth, I
think you're making a mistake.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
How can you say that, Flora? You hardly know Philip.
I've got a feeling, that's all all a feeling. But
what do you know about him, Elizabeth? Do you really know?
I know that when I'm with him, I'm very very happy.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
He knows that when he's with you he's within grabbing
distance of a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Oh, Philip was right, he warned me that's what people
would say, that he was marrying me for my money. Well,
I want to show you something, Flora. I have a
copy of it right here in my desk.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
Here.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I want you to read this.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Waiver of rights. I, Philip Dailey, do hear by relinquish
all rights and claims to all real and personal property
of Elizabeth Bronson for the duration of her natural life.
How do you like that, Flora, Well, on paper, it
looks all right.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
When we returned from our honeymoon, Philip took over the
side room on the first floor for his study. He
filled it with his books and seal him self off
from everyone for hours. Yet we still had time for
dinners in the theater and house parties. One night in
our home Philip met doctor Davis, who'd been our family
physician for many years. And here was the first indication
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of what was to come.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Now, Doctor, I don't agree at all. I have found
that the most exciting aspect of psychiatry is the brutal
and terrifying manner in which one mind could dominate another.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You mean hypnosis, mister bidding.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
hYP knows.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I dislike that word. It smacks at vaudeville stage. But
to me, it's utterly fascinating. How I can look into
another man's eyes, thrust my will into his very soul,
and force him to do my bidding.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Of course, but only a quack would use hypnosis.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
That really, it sounds like you two are about ready
to start punching each other in the nose.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I think I'll be going, Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Doctor you were to stay for dinner.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
I'll let the doctor go, Elizabeth.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I don't think he'd enjoy his dinner anyhow.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
But everything really began two days later, in the early
evening with the ringing of the telephone.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I'll get it a little.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Hello, Oh, hello, Hella.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
A bridge game tonight. Well, I'd like to Helen, but uh,
Elizabeth hasn't been feeling too well lately.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
I guess it's just nerve. She does need rest, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Could you excuse her just for the night, Thanks Helen,
Thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Philip.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Why in the world did you tell her I wasn't
feeling well. I feel wonderful.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I guess I'm just selfisher. I don't want you to
do any go to any bridge game tonight, Darling. I
want you to stay home with me. I see why
else would I tell.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Her that, Darling?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And we'll let be all missus Bailey.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Let me see you raise a blade's two faced cream. Yes,
I guess that's all, mister Martin.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Oh, by the way, are those sleeping pills helping you?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Any sleeping pills?
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Those pills your husband picked up for your nerves?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
My nerves? But I don't understand, never mind.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Are you feeling better these days?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yes, yes, I'm feeling much better.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of course.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
I told the druggists they were for you, Darling.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I thought they'd be easier to get that way. Oh,
then you really bought them for yourself?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
And I guess I've been doing too much reading lately.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
I haven't been able to sleep, so well, what do
you mean easier to get?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
It's only a mild sedative. Anyone can buy that medicine.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Well, I just in wane lot of people gossiping about
me before I make it a big issue out of it, Elizabeth,
Why else would I have told the druggist that.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Is that you, Flora?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Yes, it's me all right, me?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
You get all the groceries for dinner tonight. Yes, I
got everything. Oh, I want everything to be just ried.
It's quite a celebration, you know. Just six months ago
today I met Philip. What's the matter, Flora? You feel
all right, don't you? Of course? I feel fun More.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
People stop me on the street to tell me how
sorry they are. Your feelings are bad, and they hope
you'll be better soon.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Hell, I don't understand that. I don't understand it at all.
I'll get the fun. Hello, Hello, yes, this is oh, yes,
mister ROSSI are the cakes for the night? Ready? Yet?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Miss the bed?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I beg your pardon? Less than a one hour?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I go?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Your husband come by to follow me to candle the order.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
You're too shake for the party tonight, I say, less
than one hour a go?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yeah, I heard what you said, mister Rossie. What did
you call?
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I forget to tell your h I think you should
pay for the cakes anyhow.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I make it amy speciality for you.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I'm not going to sell them to anyone else today.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
By tomorrow the well, will you hold the lot a minute?
I want to talk to my husband about this. He's
in his study.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Too sick for the party tonight. Why is Philip saying
such things? Why is he I must see you right away, Philip.
I'm coming in.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Many times not to come into my study, but I
want to ask.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Am I being too presumptuous and wanting a place where
I can read and think in privacy, Philip?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I didn't mean to disturb you. But mister Rossie, the
baker who was supposed to have prepared our cakes for me,
he called, saying, you cancel the order because I wasn't well.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
I told him not to bother you.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
I'm tired of all these parties. I want time to
read and be alone. Elizabeth, I couldn't tell him that
was the reason for the cancelation, so well, I said
you were ill. I meant to explain it slipped my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Is that so terrible?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
No? No, I suppose not.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Why else would I have told the baker that, Eliza?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
No, Anne, I'm not really sick. Who told you I was?
Mister Rassy? Well, I'm perfectly all right, just a little tired, maybe,
but Francis, I'm all right, really I am. I know
I know what Anne said, but it's just my nerves
that's all. No, Francis is wrong. I'm not ill. I'm
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just tired, that's all.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Great.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Well I may not sound too well, but I assure you,
I assure you I am all right. Yes, I'll take
it easy. Yes, I promise, I promise.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
What is that husband of yours trying to do, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Why? What do you mean? Flora?
Speaker 9 (12:03):
You know what he told me this morning? What he
told me to throw your sleeping pills in the furnace.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
But there never were mine. He bought them for himself.
I've just been taking him for the last few nights
because all this talk about my health has made me
so upset. I know that.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
But do you know why he wanted me to throw
away the pills?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Why?
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Because, according to him, he was afraid you were thinking
of committing suicide.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
You can pack up your clothes, floora get out of
this house.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You'd like that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Well, I'm not getting out of this house. Mighty high
and mighty.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
As I say, Flora, go into the kitchen, kleas.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
I want to talk to mister Bannlora.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Please do as I say. Go into the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Theday when he came to this house, that's all I
can say.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
She'll have to leave, Darling. I won't allow her to
upset you.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
She is not upsetting me. Philip. I'm perfectly all right.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Of course you are, but you should rest more.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
You shouldn't allow yourself to become so excised.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
How much has happened that I can't understand why everyone
in towns hims to think that I'm practically practically on
the verge of suicide.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Elizabeth, what are you saying? You mustn't even think it's true.
It's that woman who upsets you with her lie. She's
gonna leave this house, Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Flora lives in this house even before I did that.
I can't tell her to.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Leave, and my wishes me nothing. Oh, it's not that
I know the mind and how it works. I know
it far better than your doctors. I know you're in peril,
that you need rest and quiet, and I won't allow
this fish wife to fill your brain with poison.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You must make a goal, Elizabeth.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
No, I see you imagine that she is your wall
against all evil?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Is that it, Elizabeth? Perhaps she is, Philip.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Well, I think you need a lesson.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I spent the rest of the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Day in my room.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
I was so confused. I didn't know where to turn.
What had happened to me? To Philip, to our marriage?
What was going on? Come in, oh, Flora? I meant
to condone and see you. I'm sorry about what happened
this afternoon. Philip didn't mean half of what he said, Flora,
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what's wrong? You look so strange? Flora answered me? What's wrong? Flora?
Talked to me? Flora? What are you gonna do? You
slapped me? Have you come crazy? Flora? Come back here, Flora?
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Why did you do this to me? Speak to me?
Why did you do this to me?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Flora?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Laura?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I was stunned. I couldn't believe what had happened, but
I could still feel the sting of her hand. Why
had she done this to me? After a while, I
found enough courage to go looking for her. She was
in the kitchen preparing suppers done.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Nothing had happened.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
She looked up when I entered. Hello, Elizabeth, you look tired,
Dear Flora. Why did you do it?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You mean, tell that husband of yours what I thought
of him?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I just did not what I mean? Why did you
come to my room and come to your room?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I've been down in this kitchen all afternoon preparing supper.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
You're lying, Flora. Now, why should I lie?
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Honey? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
The only time I left this kitchen was when mister
Bailey called me in the library to apologize for the
way he talked. I took his apology with a grain
of salt.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I can tell you. Then you werened in to see
me this afternoon. No, Flora telephoned Doctor Davis. Tell him
I must say him right away. Then I want you
to go over to your sister's house. Stay there'll I
call you.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And when Flora came into your room, how did he look, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Well, I didn't realize it at the time, doctor Davis,
but she walked as though in her sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And she told her that she was with your husband
before this happened. Yes, then, under the circumstances, i'd say
Flora was walking in her sleep, a hypnotic sleep.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Hypnotic sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I never mentioned this to you, Elizabeth, but when I
first met your husband, I discovered he was a firm
believer in hypnosis.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
But what has Philip to gain by doing that to Flora?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I imagine you go to him into his little display
of hypnotic power. The real question is what would he
gain by doing that same thing to you?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Nothing at all. He couldn't touch my money, if that's
what you mean. He just about have to talk me
into killing myself. Doctor. Yes, this morning he told Flora
he was afraid I was going to commit suicide. He
started talking Tom that I'm moody and nervous, and.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
He pardon me, yesness, what is it?
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Mister Bailey is in the briefing room.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Oh, what does he want?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (17:28):
He just wants to know when missus Bailey will be
ready to go home.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
He stopped by to pick her up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Doctor, send mister Bailey in, Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Don't want to see him. I never want to see
him again.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
What's happened, Donnie?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Your wife fell ill, so she came to see me,
mister Bailey, Well is wrong. Let's not waste time. There's
a train leaving here for the East at six o'clock.
That's just thirty minutes from now. You'd better buy a
ticket for that train.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Listeners, what's he talking about?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I'll help you to understand. Your wife is afraid that
you're trying to make a commit suicide. If everything else fails,
you'll use your knowledge of hypnosis to accomplish your death,
just as you used it on Flora this afternoon. Now,
maybe I don't have enough evidence to accuse you of
trying to kill her, but if you're not on that
six o'clock train, I'll talk to the district attorney.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Do you believe this, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Do you want me to leave?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
All right, I'll go. I'll wi are you lady? You
can send my things down to me. Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
List Later, I drove with doctor Davis to the railway
station and from the park to car. I watched Philip
emerge from the station carrying a suitcase and board the
waiting train. I waited until the train was gone, and
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then I telephoned Flora. Well, Flora, he's gone. He's gone
for good. No, Flora, huh, No, you stay with your
sister and I I'd rather be alone. Just goodnight.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Maybe that's a good idea, I said to No, we're
planning to go to the movie. Well, you'll call me
in the morning, won't you.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yes, I'll call you afterwards. I had a good dinner,
went to a picture show. It was during this show
that I started getting the strangest feeling, almost a premonition.
I I couldn't understand it. I thought, perhaps it was
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just the darkness of the theater and the natural reaction
of everything that had happened today. I left the theater
and wandered around the streets, trying to find a reason
for not going home. But what was wrong with me?
What was I afraid of? And then, for no reason
that I can explain, I call the railroad station. Hello,
I I'd like to inquire about the six pm train
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please tomorrow night. No, No, the one that left tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Guess what about it?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Well, there hasn't been any trouble with it, has there?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
What kind of I mean it? It wasn't delayed any
place along the line or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh no, of course not that trains four hundred miles
from here by.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Now, thank you, thank you very much. Now that was
a silly thing to do. And then I did something
even more silly. I dived my own number. What was
wrong with me? Who did I expect to answer the
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phone in that empty house? After a while, I hung up.
Then I went outside and took a cab home. I
just couldn't sleep. I sat up in bed and turned
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on the lamp. The clock said one thirty five. Perhaps
a glass of warm milk would help me relax. I
started for the kitchen to prepare it. When I passed
Philip's study, I saw the door was half open, and
what gave me a start. I heard over and turned
on the light. Study was empty, of course, but all
his books were still there. Then I went to the kitchen.
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I prepared the warm milk, and I took it back
to my room with me. But the milk didn't help
it all. I couldn't sleep. I thought of calling Flora,
but I couldn't disturb her at this time of night.
And then a tiny feeling started growing in me, as
faint as the ticking of a watch. I wanted to
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go back to Philip's study. The feeling grew gnawing at me.
I wanted to go back to Philip's study. Finally, I
couldn't stand it any longer. I got up from my
bed and put on my robe and started down the hall.
I opened his door again and snapped on the light.
I told myself the reason I had come here was
to decide what I'd do with this room. I'd destroy
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every evidence he had ever lived here. I'd I'd throw
out the bookcases and paper the walls, and changed the curtains.
How I went over to his desk. On the top drawer,
I found a packet of papers, letters from Martha's first wife,
their marriage license. Here was her death certificate. Martha Ellen
Bailey died August twenty third, nineteen forty four, aged twenty five.
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Cause of death suicide. But he told me she died
in the morning.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
No, Martha killed herself, Elizabeth. Yes, she killed herself, poor dear,
and she was so young.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I I saw you get on that train.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
The train makes so many stop sa Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Nothing? Not a thing.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
But I rather imagine your doctor Davis will be sorry
when he finds out in spite of my going you
killed yoursel Then again, perhaps you'll think you killed yourself
because of my going out of love, My darling, why
are you doing There are many reasons. The one that
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you would understand concerns your money, of course, the fact
that it becomes all mine upon your death. Elizabeth, You're
not run away. If you not running me, look at me,
look at me. You not run all. You not run away,
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Lisabe you stay here because you want to stay. You
want to stay, Eliza. You don't want to run away.
You want to stay.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
You want to stay with me. Listen, you want to
stay with me. You see, I'll let you go.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You could run away if you wanted to, but you
no longer desire.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
To run away. You want to stay with me.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I you want to stay with me.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Isn't that right, Eliza? Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I want to stay with you.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Of course you do. You love me very much. You
believe in me. Isn't that right, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
I believe in.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
You, Elizabeth. This I noon.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You told me to go away, that you no longer
love me. No kiss me, Elizabeth. You see, there are
no magic words, no secret formula, merely my mind imposing
its will upon yours.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Elizabeth.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
In the bottom drawer of my desk, you'll find a gun.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Get that gun.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Now, come back here to me and give me that gun.
You do these things because my mind is stronger than yours.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Elizabeth.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
You would stand here and you would let let me
kill you if I wanted to, wouldn't you, Elizabeth?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I would stand here and let you kill me.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
If I do not want to kill you, You take
the gun, Elizabeth, that's right.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
You take the gun.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
They'll find your fingers stiffened around the trigger, and I'll
return to the town I left, and in the morning
someone will call me and tell me you killed yourself
because I left you, and I will.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Be very unhappy.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Take the gun and turn the barrel to your heart, Elizabeth,
the gun.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Turn it to your heart, not to me, Elizabeth.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Someone heard the shots and found me standing over Philip's body.
I explained that Philip had hypnotized me, and there was
no trouble at all, not even a trial because no
one is responsible for their actions and a hypnotic state.
And since then everyone has been so nice to me,
Doctor Davis, Flora and my friends. Everyone's been so helpful
(27:18):
and understanding, and I'm very grateful. But still I find
it so hard to sleep, because always, I wonder, does
everybody truly believe that when I killed Philip I was
(27:39):
actually hypnotized.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yes, Elizabeth has trouble sleeping, and once she finally falls asleep,
her dreams are far worse than any insomnia, because because
no matter how many times she tells herself that Philip
deserved to die, she still remains the victim of her
own guilt. Maybe we found our moral that deep within
each of us is a pathetic longing to do only
(28:13):
good in this fleeting life, and that no matter how
we may ridicule this longing, no matter how we may
rebel against it, no matter how it annoys us in
this sophisticated world, the goodness remains to torture us when
we do evil, and to always remind us that we
are more than we seem to be, that perhaps we
might even be the children of God. And if that
(28:36):
thought embarrasses you, well, I rather imagine there are times
when it also embarrasses him. Good Night, folks, see you
next week.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Listen next week for another dark venture with John Newland.
Featured into Night's story was John Banks as Elizabeth and
Hans Conrad as Philip. The others in the cast were
Janet Scott, Bonnie Phillips, Jack Petruzzie
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