September 3, 2025 • 25 mins
Inner Sanctum was a hugely popular Old Time Radio series created by producer Himan Brown. It was based on the popular Inner Sanctum mystery series of books. It aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. Inner Sanctum featured tales of mystery, horror and suspense, with a mix of humor. That humor was what made Inner Sanctum different from similar horror and mystery series like Suspense, or The Whistler aired during the golden age of radio. Each episode started with the sound of a creaking door, some creepy organ music, followed by the opening narration. It's been said that the listening to the show was like celebrating Halloween every week. Many established stars played roles or were guest stars in the series, including Peter Lorre, Helen Hayes, Mary Astor, Frank Sinatra, Bela Lugosi, Orson Welles, and many more. Of the several hundred episodes of Inner Sanctum that aired, only about 150 survived.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good evening, friend, this is your host to welcome yours
through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Come in,
Come in tonight we're inaugurating a quiz. It's a cutthroat
session called take It or Drop Dare to qualify, just
tear off the top of your neighborhood mortician and send
(00:29):
it to us by hear may now listen to this.
Here's our terror tune. If you could guess the correct
title of our morbid Mazurka in one scream or less,
here are the prize that you'll win. A brand new
(00:50):
nineteen forty nine stainless steel yellow team just the thing
for whittling down your wife's overhead, and a handsome hand
who Florentine dagger, the knife without a conscience, and the
take it or drop dead grandpry a free, all expense
(01:11):
murdered trial in the court of your own Choosing.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The Knight's Inner sanct a mystery. The Deadly Dummy was
written by Ed Adamson and Robert Sloan and stars Mason
Adams in the role of Steve with else with Eric
as Claire.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Let's get to tonight's shivering shindy h well, by the way,
let me warn you all references to ghosts, living or
dead is anything but come into the.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Ready.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
All right, this is what happened to a guy named
Steve Pearson.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Why do you keep asking me the question? Jess Marlow
asked him, inspector. He'll tell you everything.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I told him before, Pearson Marlow was dead.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
He is.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He's in this room, sitting right there in that chair.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
That's just a ventriloqu was dummy in the chair? You
told me yourself Marlow is dead. I don't understand that
dummy is Marlow. I can prove it to you that
dummy is alive.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Real, alright, alright, till he's alive.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You think I'm crazy? Go ahead, Pearson.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Let's hear the story, all of it from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
It began when I went to work as Marlow's assistant.
He was billed as.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The Great Marlow, the great Marlowe.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
His audience has always thought he was a wonder, but
they didn't know him like I did. You couldn't please him,
no matter how hard you tried. There wasn't a meaner
man alive than Fred Marlowe. I would have quit him
right at the start of it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hadn't been for Claire. I only stayed because of her. Claire.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
She was warm and wonderful, and she was Marlow's wife. Ah, Stee, Claire,
you gotta come away with me.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
He wouldn't do any good, Steve. He'd follow us wherever
we win. You know him, he'd make our lives miserable.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We can't go on this way? How much of this
can we stand?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
We don't have to go on this way?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
What do you mean if you really love me, Claire,
we couldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
You hate him as much as I do.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Doing a thing like that.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
It isn't hard when you.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
Really hate, when you really love somebody, you'll find out.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They always find it.
Speaker 10 (03:31):
Not the way I've planned it.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Ground glass. You'll drink it, but how you'll know, No, you'll.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Never suspect he'll be during his act, that part where
he drinks the water while a dummy whistles.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
You handle his props.
Speaker 9 (03:46):
All you have to do is put the powdered glass
into the water picture before he goes on.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You'll pour the drink himself. Yes, after he.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Goes off, you can wash out the picture and the glass.
There'll be no evidence you do it Steve when giving
his last performance The Leader on Tuesday. Tuesday, it will
be Marlow's last performance anywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm I next. Everything's that, Steve as mister Marlow. Everything
is said, may draw.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
The water in the picture last night you almost forgot
about that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's in there now I made doubly sure this time.
All right, Pet, let's go.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
You're ready Marlow? Well, yes, man, my.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Last performance here. Aren't you coming out to walk?
Speaker 8 (04:37):
I'll be along in a moment.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I wouldn't want you to visit. We're going to be
really great tonight. I'll repeat it.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Hey, you said it, Marlo. Tonight we're gonna knock him dead.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Clara and I stood in the wings while Marlow went
through his act.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It seemed like agent so I could never get to
the fight. We waited for that, and then finally he
he ain't talking about drinking. I'm a little thirsty myself.
That was the cue. Now he was coming to it.
Speaker 11 (05:10):
Oh you won't join him in No, I never touched
the stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
You go right ahead, Marlow.
Speaker 11 (05:16):
I'll entertain the folks with the number while you dampen
your tonsles, Okapa, there go.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
The the water and the glass slowly emptied. The silent
scream shook in my throat. Suddenly I didn't want.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It to die.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Hating him man wasn't enough reason for killing him. I
wanted to stop him. The scream him, I felt, begged
for release, and then.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I felt Claire's hand, but I turned to her. Her
smile smothered to cry within me.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Her hand tightened and pulled, and we walked away from
the stage. Person the doctor, I sent your wife for
one morrow, pay it.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It feels like it won't bother you for long. Fire
burning cutting into me. Dying, Yes, marlow you're dying. Theresn't
help me. Nothing can help you. Now. I won't die.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
The doctor will say he won't let me. There won't
be any doctor. What Claire didn't go for one? Claire,
she wants me to die.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
She hates me. You and Claire, you both.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
You did this to me when you drank that water
back at the Lido tonight. There was ground glass in
his crown glass so finely powdered you couldn't see her
feeling pig a dummy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Can't help you, Marlow I'm dying.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Help me, Marlowe, You're just a ham at heart. What
a real Ham. Don't you think so, Steve?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
What is this?
Speaker 11 (06:47):
Oh that deathbed scene of Marlow's right off the cob.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I thought it was quite good.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Uh, strictly amateur night, strictly follow Harllow.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You you're all right upd I had Pearson believing.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
But it can't be.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You drank that water. I saw you. Yes, I drank
that water. But you're all right. It's not possible, Marlow.
Speaker 11 (07:10):
You're killing our friend Steve with suspense. Come on, give
him a break.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Of course, here you are, Peerson, here's your ground glass.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Marlow had known we were up to something. Somehow you'd
switched the container of ground glass I had bought.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
He let me leave his hotel room without another word.
I didn't know what to do, what to expect. I waited.
Three days went by. Then he sent for me. Sit down, Pearson,
I'll be with you in a minute. Marlow was busy
packing a trunk. I sat there waiting.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
The dummy pity was popped up on the table as
perpetual grin, mocking my feehur.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Friend looks kind of uncomfortable, Marlow, Really, pet.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Why did you sent for me? Marlow?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Clara I was sailing for South American knight. I suppose
you're curious as to what I'm going to do about you?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
All right, what are you going to do? Nothing? Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
I just wanted to tell you about Claire Steve.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
She's poisoned.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Piji never did like Claire.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Marlow's a sucker for that name. I guess she never
told you that she tried to have Marlow knocked off before.
There was another guy at the job before you. Claire
fed him the same lines, lying.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Marlow, Why don't you ask her? She'll be back to.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
Claire wants Marlow's money, but not Marlow.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
She was just using you.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Shut up.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
She'd give you the go by, so fat up. I said,
you're out of her class. She wouldn't want you in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Shut you up, No messium.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Poo, you forget. There are other petias. After all, they're
only me, remember, so you see? The only sure way
to shut them up is to stop thee well, I
taunted me with a second laughter.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I couldn't stand it. I had to stop it, someway.
I felt along the table behind me. My hand came
across the heavy glass ashtray.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I gripped it tightly, then brought it up behind the ol.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Slumped to the floor. The gring was still on his face.
I bent down over him. He was breathing. I hit
him again. Marlow was dead.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
You shouldn't have done that, Steve.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It was the dummy talking. I heard him.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
He lay on the floor. I had crushed him into
a hundred pieces. But they were his words.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
His voice.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
You can't get away with murder. You'll see see.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Uh here, I tell you that dummy did talk.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
It couldn't be heard of me.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Talk to me, clar he talks, He.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Gets hold of yourself. Was just in your mind, that's all.
You shouldn't have done it. If you'd only waited, we
would have found a safe. Summons to the door.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
We can't open. It's got to his body on the floor.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
They'll help me.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Put him in the trunk. Hurry now, close the top
and locket. You stay here. I'll go to the door.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Follows room.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yes, I come with a trunk. Lady, Oh, there must
be some mistake.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
That's a drunk at it.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's what it comes for, says Marlow, said, you're mistaken.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Look, misster, I got an order, say one trunk number
thirty four sixty eight that's the number on the tag
of this hit trunk.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Now listen, the order says.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
This trunk goes to the state room three D on
the Dragana. That's what it says. You get yourselves tonight.
How do I take this hit trunk?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Or don't?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Yes, yes, I'm sorry that was our mistake. But Claire,
please take the trunk?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Lady? Hey, what are you doing this hit trunk? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
That's body?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What do you mean by that? You got it?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Miss?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
It's just a k How about one of your two
older doors.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
Get out to it?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Boy there? What's wrong with you? Why did you let
him take?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Stez?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
See what is the way out for us?
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Nobody won't be found here and we're safe now he's
gone forever, nobody will ever know.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Tell what what about me?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Claire?
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Tell her about me?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's him now you can believe me.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
See what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Dummy? You heard him?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Just your nerves?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
He spoke.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
You.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Tell her?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
There he is again? See where are you going? I
gotta find that dummy. He's someplace in this room.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Hello, Steve, looking for me.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
The dummy was propped up against the closet war He
looked at him the same evil grinn as the one
I had crushed to pieces.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Please stop staring that way.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well burn him every rocking fiber of him. I burn
him to an ash, and I'll never talk again.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
He believed me. He didn't talk. It's just your imagination.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I'm not crazy. I heard him, so did you, Only
you're too afraid to admit it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
He couldn't talk without Marlow. Marlow would have to be
alive for that dummy to speak.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
What'd you say?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Marlow would have to be alive.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You know that yet? That's right? What's the matter with me?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yes, he would have to be alive. He was just
your and Marlow isn't dead.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Oh no, Steve, Please, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Deavi wil You put him into the trunk. He just
wanted us to think he was.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I didn't kill him. He wasn't dead. That's why the
dummy talked. Marla can do tricks like that. Come on, Claire, we've.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Got to hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Wait, you got to get there fast, layer, See why
are you talking? Marlow stayed from on the boat. He'll
be there in the trunk. I've got to make sure
he's dead.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's on this declaire.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Three dters.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There's the trunk in the corner over there. Give me
the key.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
See, we shouldn't have come, said give me the key, Steve,
Please don't open it. He is heading there.
Speaker 12 (13:27):
I know you. Oh.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I grabbed a person, took out the key, I unlocked
the trunk, and I pulled up the lid.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Marlow was in there, motionless. When I touched him, he
was cold.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Marlow was dead, all right, But there was something else
in the trunk with him at his feet, and the
same grin was on his wooden face.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
Hello, Steve, I knew you'd come. I was waiting for you.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Yeah, here's Steve.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Drink this.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I don't know what happened to me. Everything was black.
You were right. Marlowe is dead. But that dummy I
heard him speak.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Know, Steve, it's just as I told you. You only
heard it in your mind. He didn't really talk clear clear.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
Those things happen, and now it's over and you'll never
hear it again.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Can you get up.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Now we've got to get off this boat before somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ses I ruined everything.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
No, we're still safe. Nobody knows we came here.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You go first, that'll be the best way. I'll following
them moment to peer. All right, how do you sorry
to give you such a joke. My name is higginsman,
I'm your Stewart.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
Just stop by so we know each other.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Time was against us. We were too late in getting
out of that stable. Stewart would remember.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Claire, see what are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
There was only one chance.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
When Whilow's body in that trunk, there was only one
thing we could do.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I had Claire ring for the steward.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Mister Marlow and I have decided to cancel our trips.
But would you please have reporters come for our trunk
and take it to the pier.
Speaker 13 (15:19):
I'm sorry, missus Marlow, but that won't be possible. What
oo In the excitement, ma'am, you probably didn't notice.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Notice what are you talking about?
Speaker 13 (15:29):
Our departure we stiled twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
We had walked into a trap of our own, making
a trap that was snapped closed on us by a
dead man. Marlowe was a cold corpse in that trunk,
but we were held by his invisible grip.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Steep.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
There's still a chance we can get out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
If you mean, if his body isn't found in that trunk.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
We'll arrange it so his body will never be found.
We'll do it tonight when the deck outside it is
dark and deserted. It you'll see, Steve, we'll be.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Really rid of marlow this time, you'll see.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We got our first break. Early in the evening. A
storm came up and grew worse with the passing hours.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
About eleven o'clock I made a careful check of the
promenade deck outside the stakehworm. It was completely deserted. We
supported Marlowe's body between us and carried it towards the
darkened space at the end of the deck.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
In the morning, I'll report my husband is missing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'll ask a lot of questions.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
I'll have all the answers to the way we planned them.
Tell him how he often gets up at night to
go for a walk, and the dizzy spells.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Not that of his dizzy spells.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
That's how it must have happened, now, the terrible dizzy spell.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
It fell overboard. Sometimes, Steve, you'll have to hide.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I found a place in one of the life we'll
meet every night. Yes, wait, what is it? I thought,
I so are somebody down that way? Can not see
anyone who's probably just a shadow. Come on, let's get
this over with. You can help me lift him to
the rail.
Speaker 12 (17:13):
All right, I'll pushcon se.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yes, Claire, that's the end of Marlowe. Now we can live.
Really there? Will you kiss me?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Steez?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well I kiss you? Come here?
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Jeez?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I did.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I am sorry to be interrupt. I'm looking for someone.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I thought he might be with you, with us.
Speaker 12 (17:40):
You know we're alone.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I see I thought I saw three people walk over here. No,
it's so dark. I must have been mistaken. Yes, it
is dark. The man i'm looking for is and mister mollow.
What do you have to know him? My name is
marlow then you're the gentleman i'm looking for. My name
is Ralph Cramer. Smallow Cramer?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Are you all right to smallow?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes? Yes, I'm fine. Why.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I just wanted to be sure by the way I received.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Your letter letter. Don't you remember? Uh no, not exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I can understand you're a busy man with Marlow Well
do defecsional memory. I'm in charge of entertainment to get
on the vote. I found out last week to do
his book passing. So I wrote you asking you to
consent to be one of these features in our theatrical.
It's about a night, and I replied, you were very
kindly smile. You said, yes, I just stop by, thank
you and say that we're all looking forward to your performance.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
It's about a week.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
He's got to keep trying. There isn't much time left.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Will work, Claire, Well it will?
Speaker 8 (18:44):
You know marlows that you under study. Didn't you went
on for him in Cleveland?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Remember?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I know?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But I can't do it now. I can't get it.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
It'll come to you, darling. I'll just keep trying. Go on, Steve,
Please try again, all right?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Tell me, don't you and your girlfriend phoebe ever have
a difference of opinion?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Sure, Marlo, but I wouldn't dare to tell her about it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Oh you see, Claire, it's no good.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
You're doing fun.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Don't tell me. I know it's rotten. Tell him I'm
not going.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
On, Steeve. It means our lives. You got to go
through with it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Sure you can do it, Steve. I'll see you through.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Claire.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
The dummy just talked and I didn't do it. He said,
you can do it, Steve, I'll see you through. You
heard him, didn't you.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
No, don't let her kid just Steve.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Harry said something again. You didn't hear that either.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Oh no, Steve, don't you better put yourself together.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Dame can really play angles? Can't see?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Friend? Yes, she really can.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Who are you talking to?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know who I'm talking to?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Who? You know?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
All about it? Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
I see you.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You're making a dummy talk, Clara? Was you all the time?
Speaker 8 (19:53):
You don't know what you see?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You're trying to drive me crazy. That's why you're doing it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Now. I know what Marlo said about you was true.
You were just using you want Marlow dad. You wanted
his money, just as he said. You were playing me
for a Don't look at me that way.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, I can see you for the first time. What's
your roars?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You are the same evil grin as that dummy, because
that's what you are, something inhuman, something mean and vicious
and fast.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
See my hands gripped.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I squeezed tighter and tighter, now digging deep into the
soul crush.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
The color slowly drained out of her face. There was
a fine, old gasp, and then she stopped moving. She
was like a rag doll in my hands. I stood there,
holding her lifeless body. Then after a while I heard
a knock on the door.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
It is Rose Paper, mister Kramer, what what is it?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right, Kramer, I'll be there.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we had the extremes that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Mallow. I sat there with a dummy on my knee
and looked out on it into the sea of faces.
All the men had the same face. It was Marlow's.
The women were Claire. I tried not to look at them.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Come on, Steve, the dummy whispered to me, come on,
I told you i'd see you through.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Let's go, Pete.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I want you to meet the folks.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Hi folks, Steve, fool it's Marvel Marrow. Who was that
lady I saw you with last night? Last night?
Speaker 13 (21:43):
That was no lady that Wow, you're.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Not gonna tell me it was your wife, because I
know whose wife you was? Sort of a deadhead? Is
she Steve?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I told you not to call me Steve. You'll give
it away.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
I warned you about that dame. Remember I told you
she was playing you for a sonny.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I'm talking about her. We've got to get back on the.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Route, the routine. Yeah, that's what she gave you. Cut
it out, Hey with ground.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Glass, stop to help me out choking?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
How do you like this guy? Folks? He wants to
choke me and cut his best part.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Morning. It's just wrong word is It's.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Okay you folks, wait till you hear the story. I'm
gonna tell you, and it's no joke.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
You think this is Marlow here.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Don't listen to him. He's lying.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
You can't stop me now it's too late, Steve.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Don't listen to him.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
Please.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
He doesn't know what he's saying. He's going to tell
you lies. He's going to tell you I'm a murderer.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
But don't believe it.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Make him stop laughing good about it?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Somebody make him stop.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
Please.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
That's an inspector. That's the whole story of what happened.
It's all because of the dummy on that chair there.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
He give us a lawyer's name, and look, Card, I
don't think the lawyer would do me much good. Now
that's up to you person. I'll think it over. Okay,
rab let's take him downstairs.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I don't suppose you will lead me any longer, Inspector.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I just one question, grammer, what's that? Why did you
hear the dummies say. That night when Pearson tried to
go through with Marlow's act.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Oh, the dummy didn't say a word.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Pearson was up there on the stage talking to himself.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, that closes tonight's cadavorous chapter. Poor Steve Pearson, he
just couldn't help devil talking himself into a knot the
kind of the hangman ties. Now he's in a grave condition,
but it's his unfortune. Now his dummy done told him.
And now the real reason he killed Claire is because
he figured two dead heads are better than one anyway.
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All Twell, that ends dreary. Yes, as we stay here
in the Inner Sanctum, the end always justify the scream.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
Inner Sanctum is heard each week in the United States
over CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System, and has been rebroadcast
for servicemen and women overseas through the facilities of the
United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the Voice of Information
and Education.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
BOOT and its first state.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Also complication to the other Codict to the DA
Good evening, friend, this is your host to welcome yours
through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Come in,
Come in tonight we're inaugurating a quiz. It's a cutthroat
session called take It or Drop Dare to qualify, just
tear off the top of your neighborhood mortician and send
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it to us by hear may now listen to this.
Here's our terror tune. If you could guess the correct
title of our morbid Mazurka in one scream or less,
here are the prize that you'll win. A brand new
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nineteen forty nine stainless steel yellow team just the thing
for whittling down your wife's overhead, and a handsome hand
who Florentine dagger, the knife without a conscience, and the
take it or drop dead grandpry a free, all expense
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murdered trial in the court of your own Choosing.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The Knight's Inner sanct a mystery. The Deadly Dummy was
written by Ed Adamson and Robert Sloan and stars Mason
Adams in the role of Steve with else with Eric
as Claire.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Let's get to tonight's shivering shindy h well, by the way,
let me warn you all references to ghosts, living or
dead is anything but come into the.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Ready.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
All right, this is what happened to a guy named
Steve Pearson.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Why do you keep asking me the question? Jess Marlow
asked him, inspector. He'll tell you everything.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I told him before, Pearson Marlow was dead.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
He is.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He's in this room, sitting right there in that chair.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
That's just a ventriloqu was dummy in the chair? You
told me yourself Marlow is dead. I don't understand that
dummy is Marlow. I can prove it to you that
dummy is alive.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Real, alright, alright, till he's alive.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You think I'm crazy? Go ahead, Pearson.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Let's hear the story, all of it from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
It began when I went to work as Marlow's assistant.
He was billed as.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The Great Marlow, the great Marlowe.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
His audience has always thought he was a wonder, but
they didn't know him like I did. You couldn't please him,
no matter how hard you tried. There wasn't a meaner
man alive than Fred Marlowe. I would have quit him
right at the start of it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hadn't been for Claire. I only stayed because of her. Claire.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
She was warm and wonderful, and she was Marlow's wife. Ah, Stee, Claire,
you gotta come away with me.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
He wouldn't do any good, Steve. He'd follow us wherever
we win. You know him, he'd make our lives miserable.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We can't go on this way? How much of this
can we stand?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
We don't have to go on this way?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
What do you mean if you really love me, Claire,
we couldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
You hate him as much as I do.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Doing a thing like that.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
It isn't hard when you.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
Really hate, when you really love somebody, you'll find out.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They always find it.
Speaker 10 (03:31):
Not the way I've planned it.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Ground glass. You'll drink it, but how you'll know, No, you'll.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Never suspect he'll be during his act, that part where
he drinks the water while a dummy whistles.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
You handle his props.
Speaker 9 (03:46):
All you have to do is put the powdered glass
into the water picture before he goes on.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You'll pour the drink himself. Yes, after he.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Goes off, you can wash out the picture and the glass.
There'll be no evidence you do it Steve when giving
his last performance The Leader on Tuesday. Tuesday, it will
be Marlow's last performance anywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm I next. Everything's that, Steve as mister Marlow. Everything
is said, may draw.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
The water in the picture last night you almost forgot
about that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's in there now I made doubly sure this time.
All right, Pet, let's go.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
You're ready Marlow? Well, yes, man, my.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Last performance here. Aren't you coming out to walk?
Speaker 8 (04:37):
I'll be along in a moment.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I wouldn't want you to visit. We're going to be
really great tonight. I'll repeat it.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Hey, you said it, Marlo. Tonight we're gonna knock him dead.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Clara and I stood in the wings while Marlow went
through his act.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It seemed like agent so I could never get to
the fight. We waited for that, and then finally he
he ain't talking about drinking. I'm a little thirsty myself.
That was the cue. Now he was coming to it.
Speaker 11 (05:10):
Oh you won't join him in No, I never touched
the stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
You go right ahead, Marlow.
Speaker 11 (05:16):
I'll entertain the folks with the number while you dampen
your tonsles, Okapa, there go.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
The the water and the glass slowly emptied. The silent
scream shook in my throat. Suddenly I didn't want.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It to die.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Hating him man wasn't enough reason for killing him. I
wanted to stop him. The scream him, I felt, begged
for release, and then.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I felt Claire's hand, but I turned to her. Her
smile smothered to cry within me.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Her hand tightened and pulled, and we walked away from
the stage. Person the doctor, I sent your wife for
one morrow, pay it.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It feels like it won't bother you for long. Fire
burning cutting into me. Dying, Yes, marlow you're dying. Theresn't
help me. Nothing can help you. Now. I won't die.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
The doctor will say he won't let me. There won't
be any doctor. What Claire didn't go for one? Claire,
she wants me to die.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
She hates me. You and Claire, you both.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
You did this to me when you drank that water
back at the Lido tonight. There was ground glass in
his crown glass so finely powdered you couldn't see her
feeling pig a dummy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Can't help you, Marlow I'm dying.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Help me, Marlowe, You're just a ham at heart. What
a real Ham. Don't you think so, Steve?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
What is this?
Speaker 11 (06:47):
Oh that deathbed scene of Marlow's right off the cob.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I thought it was quite good.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Uh, strictly amateur night, strictly follow Harllow.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You you're all right upd I had Pearson believing.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
But it can't be.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You drank that water. I saw you. Yes, I drank
that water. But you're all right. It's not possible, Marlow.
Speaker 11 (07:10):
You're killing our friend Steve with suspense. Come on, give
him a break.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Of course, here you are, Peerson, here's your ground glass.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Marlow had known we were up to something. Somehow you'd
switched the container of ground glass I had bought.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
He let me leave his hotel room without another word.
I didn't know what to do, what to expect. I waited.
Three days went by. Then he sent for me. Sit down, Pearson,
I'll be with you in a minute. Marlow was busy
packing a trunk. I sat there waiting.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
The dummy pity was popped up on the table as
perpetual grin, mocking my feehur.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Friend looks kind of uncomfortable, Marlow, Really, pet.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Why did you sent for me? Marlow?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Clara I was sailing for South American knight. I suppose
you're curious as to what I'm going to do about you?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
All right, what are you going to do? Nothing? Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
I just wanted to tell you about Claire Steve.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
She's poisoned.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Piji never did like Claire.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Marlow's a sucker for that name. I guess she never
told you that she tried to have Marlow knocked off before.
There was another guy at the job before you. Claire
fed him the same lines, lying.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Marlow, Why don't you ask her? She'll be back to.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
Claire wants Marlow's money, but not Marlow.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
She was just using you.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Shut up.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
She'd give you the go by, so fat up. I said,
you're out of her class. She wouldn't want you in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Shut you up, No messium.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Poo, you forget. There are other petias. After all, they're
only me, remember, so you see? The only sure way
to shut them up is to stop thee well, I
taunted me with a second laughter.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I couldn't stand it. I had to stop it, someway.
I felt along the table behind me. My hand came
across the heavy glass ashtray.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I gripped it tightly, then brought it up behind the ol.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Slumped to the floor. The gring was still on his face.
I bent down over him. He was breathing. I hit
him again. Marlow was dead.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
You shouldn't have done that, Steve.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It was the dummy talking. I heard him.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
He lay on the floor. I had crushed him into
a hundred pieces. But they were his words.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
His voice.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
You can't get away with murder. You'll see see.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Uh here, I tell you that dummy did talk.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
It couldn't be heard of me.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Talk to me, clar he talks, He.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Gets hold of yourself. Was just in your mind, that's all.
You shouldn't have done it. If you'd only waited, we
would have found a safe. Summons to the door.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
We can't open. It's got to his body on the floor.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
They'll help me.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Put him in the trunk. Hurry now, close the top
and locket. You stay here. I'll go to the door.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Follows room.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yes, I come with a trunk. Lady, Oh, there must
be some mistake.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
That's a drunk at it.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's what it comes for, says Marlow, said, you're mistaken.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Look, misster, I got an order, say one trunk number
thirty four sixty eight that's the number on the tag
of this hit trunk.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Now listen, the order says.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
This trunk goes to the state room three D on
the Dragana. That's what it says. You get yourselves tonight.
How do I take this hit trunk?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Or don't?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Yes, yes, I'm sorry that was our mistake. But Claire,
please take the trunk?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Lady? Hey, what are you doing this hit trunk? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
That's body?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What do you mean by that? You got it?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Miss?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
It's just a k How about one of your two
older doors.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
Get out to it?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Boy there? What's wrong with you? Why did you let
him take?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Stez?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
See what is the way out for us?
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Nobody won't be found here and we're safe now he's
gone forever, nobody will ever know.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Tell what what about me?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Claire?
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Tell her about me?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's him now you can believe me.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
See what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Dummy? You heard him?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Just your nerves?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
He spoke.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
You.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Tell her?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
There he is again? See where are you going? I
gotta find that dummy. He's someplace in this room.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Hello, Steve, looking for me.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
The dummy was propped up against the closet war He
looked at him the same evil grinn as the one
I had crushed to pieces.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Please stop staring that way.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well burn him every rocking fiber of him. I burn
him to an ash, and I'll never talk again.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
He believed me. He didn't talk. It's just your imagination.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I'm not crazy. I heard him, so did you, Only
you're too afraid to admit it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
He couldn't talk without Marlow. Marlow would have to be
alive for that dummy to speak.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
What'd you say?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Marlow would have to be alive.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You know that yet? That's right? What's the matter with me?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yes, he would have to be alive. He was just
your and Marlow isn't dead.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Oh no, Steve, Please, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Deavi wil You put him into the trunk. He just
wanted us to think he was.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I didn't kill him. He wasn't dead. That's why the
dummy talked. Marla can do tricks like that. Come on, Claire, we've.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Got to hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Wait, you got to get there fast, layer, See why
are you talking? Marlow stayed from on the boat. He'll
be there in the trunk. I've got to make sure
he's dead.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's on this declaire.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Three dters.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There's the trunk in the corner over there. Give me
the key.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
See, we shouldn't have come, said give me the key, Steve,
Please don't open it. He is heading there.
Speaker 12 (13:27):
I know you. Oh.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I grabbed a person, took out the key, I unlocked
the trunk, and I pulled up the lid.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Marlow was in there, motionless. When I touched him, he
was cold.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Marlow was dead, all right, But there was something else
in the trunk with him at his feet, and the
same grin was on his wooden face.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
Hello, Steve, I knew you'd come. I was waiting for you.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Yeah, here's Steve.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Drink this.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I don't know what happened to me. Everything was black.
You were right. Marlowe is dead. But that dummy I
heard him speak.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Know, Steve, it's just as I told you. You only
heard it in your mind. He didn't really talk clear clear.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
Those things happen, and now it's over and you'll never
hear it again.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Can you get up.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Now we've got to get off this boat before somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ses I ruined everything.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
No, we're still safe. Nobody knows we came here.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You go first, that'll be the best way. I'll following
them moment to peer. All right, how do you sorry
to give you such a joke. My name is higginsman,
I'm your Stewart.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
Just stop by so we know each other.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Time was against us. We were too late in getting
out of that stable. Stewart would remember.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Claire, see what are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
There was only one chance.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
When Whilow's body in that trunk, there was only one
thing we could do.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I had Claire ring for the steward.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Mister Marlow and I have decided to cancel our trips.
But would you please have reporters come for our trunk
and take it to the pier.
Speaker 13 (15:19):
I'm sorry, missus Marlow, but that won't be possible. What
oo In the excitement, ma'am, you probably didn't notice.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Notice what are you talking about?
Speaker 13 (15:29):
Our departure we stiled twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
We had walked into a trap of our own, making
a trap that was snapped closed on us by a
dead man. Marlowe was a cold corpse in that trunk,
but we were held by his invisible grip.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Steep.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
There's still a chance we can get out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
If you mean, if his body isn't found in that trunk.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
We'll arrange it so his body will never be found.
We'll do it tonight when the deck outside it is
dark and deserted. It you'll see, Steve, we'll be.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Really rid of marlow this time, you'll see.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We got our first break. Early in the evening. A
storm came up and grew worse with the passing hours.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
About eleven o'clock I made a careful check of the
promenade deck outside the stakehworm. It was completely deserted. We
supported Marlowe's body between us and carried it towards the
darkened space at the end of the deck.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
In the morning, I'll report my husband is missing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'll ask a lot of questions.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
I'll have all the answers to the way we planned them.
Tell him how he often gets up at night to
go for a walk, and the dizzy spells.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Not that of his dizzy spells.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
That's how it must have happened, now, the terrible dizzy spell.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
It fell overboard. Sometimes, Steve, you'll have to hide.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I found a place in one of the life we'll
meet every night. Yes, wait, what is it? I thought,
I so are somebody down that way? Can not see
anyone who's probably just a shadow. Come on, let's get
this over with. You can help me lift him to
the rail.
Speaker 12 (17:13):
All right, I'll pushcon se.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yes, Claire, that's the end of Marlowe. Now we can live.
Really there? Will you kiss me?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Steez?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well I kiss you? Come here?
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Jeez?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I did.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I am sorry to be interrupt. I'm looking for someone.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I thought he might be with you, with us.
Speaker 12 (17:40):
You know we're alone.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I see I thought I saw three people walk over here. No,
it's so dark. I must have been mistaken. Yes, it
is dark. The man i'm looking for is and mister mollow.
What do you have to know him? My name is
marlow then you're the gentleman i'm looking for. My name
is Ralph Cramer. Smallow Cramer?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Are you all right to smallow?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes? Yes, I'm fine. Why.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I just wanted to be sure by the way I received.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Your letter letter. Don't you remember? Uh no, not exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I can understand you're a busy man with Marlow Well
do defecsional memory. I'm in charge of entertainment to get
on the vote. I found out last week to do
his book passing. So I wrote you asking you to
consent to be one of these features in our theatrical.
It's about a night, and I replied, you were very
kindly smile. You said, yes, I just stop by, thank
you and say that we're all looking forward to your performance.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
It's about a week.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
He's got to keep trying. There isn't much time left.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Will work, Claire, Well it will?
Speaker 8 (18:44):
You know marlows that you under study. Didn't you went
on for him in Cleveland?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Remember?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I know?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But I can't do it now. I can't get it.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
It'll come to you, darling. I'll just keep trying. Go on, Steve,
Please try again, all right?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Tell me, don't you and your girlfriend phoebe ever have
a difference of opinion?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Sure, Marlo, but I wouldn't dare to tell her about it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Oh you see, Claire, it's no good.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
You're doing fun.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Don't tell me. I know it's rotten. Tell him I'm
not going.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
On, Steeve. It means our lives. You got to go
through with it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Sure you can do it, Steve. I'll see you through.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Claire.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
The dummy just talked and I didn't do it. He said,
you can do it, Steve, I'll see you through. You
heard him, didn't you.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
No, don't let her kid just Steve.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Harry said something again. You didn't hear that either.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Oh no, Steve, don't you better put yourself together.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Dame can really play angles? Can't see?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Friend? Yes, she really can.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Who are you talking to?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know who I'm talking to?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Who? You know?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
All about it? Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
I see you.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You're making a dummy talk, Clara? Was you all the time?
Speaker 8 (19:53):
You don't know what you see?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You're trying to drive me crazy. That's why you're doing it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Now. I know what Marlo said about you was true.
You were just using you want Marlow dad. You wanted
his money, just as he said. You were playing me
for a Don't look at me that way.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, I can see you for the first time. What's
your roars?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You are the same evil grin as that dummy, because
that's what you are, something inhuman, something mean and vicious
and fast.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
See my hands gripped.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I squeezed tighter and tighter, now digging deep into the
soul crush.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
The color slowly drained out of her face. There was
a fine, old gasp, and then she stopped moving. She
was like a rag doll in my hands. I stood there,
holding her lifeless body. Then after a while I heard
a knock on the door.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
It is Rose Paper, mister Kramer, what what is it?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right, Kramer, I'll be there.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we had the extremes that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Mallow. I sat there with a dummy on my knee
and looked out on it into the sea of faces.
All the men had the same face. It was Marlow's.
The women were Claire. I tried not to look at them.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Come on, Steve, the dummy whispered to me, come on,
I told you i'd see you through.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Let's go, Pete.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I want you to meet the folks.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Hi folks, Steve, fool it's Marvel Marrow. Who was that
lady I saw you with last night? Last night?
Speaker 13 (21:43):
That was no lady that Wow, you're.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Not gonna tell me it was your wife, because I
know whose wife you was? Sort of a deadhead? Is
she Steve?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I told you not to call me Steve. You'll give
it away.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
I warned you about that dame. Remember I told you
she was playing you for a sonny.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I'm talking about her. We've got to get back on the.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Route, the routine. Yeah, that's what she gave you. Cut
it out, Hey with ground.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Glass, stop to help me out choking?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
How do you like this guy? Folks? He wants to
choke me and cut his best part.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Morning. It's just wrong word is It's.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Okay you folks, wait till you hear the story. I'm
gonna tell you, and it's no joke.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
You think this is Marlow here.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Don't listen to him. He's lying.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
You can't stop me now it's too late, Steve.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Don't listen to him.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
Please.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
He doesn't know what he's saying. He's going to tell
you lies. He's going to tell you I'm a murderer.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
But don't believe it.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Make him stop laughing good about it?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Somebody make him stop.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
Please.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
That's an inspector. That's the whole story of what happened.
It's all because of the dummy on that chair there.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
He give us a lawyer's name, and look, Card, I
don't think the lawyer would do me much good. Now
that's up to you person. I'll think it over. Okay,
rab let's take him downstairs.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I don't suppose you will lead me any longer, Inspector.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I just one question, grammer, what's that? Why did you
hear the dummies say. That night when Pearson tried to
go through with Marlow's act.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Oh, the dummy didn't say a word.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Pearson was up there on the stage talking to himself.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, that closes tonight's cadavorous chapter. Poor Steve Pearson, he
just couldn't help devil talking himself into a knot the
kind of the hangman ties. Now he's in a grave condition,
but it's his unfortune. Now his dummy done told him.
And now the real reason he killed Claire is because
he figured two dead heads are better than one anyway.
(24:01):
All Twell, that ends dreary. Yes, as we stay here
in the Inner Sanctum, the end always justify the scream.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
Inner Sanctum is heard each week in the United States
over CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System, and has been rebroadcast
for servicemen and women overseas through the facilities of the
United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the Voice of Information
and Education.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
BOOT and its first state.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Also complication to the other Codict to the DA
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