September 2, 2024 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Fantasy. Yeah, is this savage theater?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Is that you delude a guest? Wanna? Don't stop playing?
I heard the music coming from the conservatory, so I
stopped by. What are you playing? Just just a simple
melody of my own? So weird? I thought, possibly you
(00:59):
were playing a door a dirge? Yes, or Andrews?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I fear neither dirge, nor prayers nor candles burned on
the altar?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Will do Andrews any good? Cove one of what made
him do it? He was always so happy, so full
of the love of life. Why did he do such
a thing?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
He was blind.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
He couldn't stand the thought of being without the use
of his eyes. So yes, but if only I cautioned
him over and over again. I warned him to take
care of his eyes, but he wouldn't listen to me.
Now he's dead, Andrews, I suppose you and James will
postpone your marriage, o whil Dolores. Yes, I think it best,
(01:44):
don't you. It wouldn't be quite decent to have a
funeral today and a wedding day after tomorrow with it.
I wouldn't permit it in my home, and this is
still my house. You remember, Now, who's dead.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, come in.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
All right, Alma, what is it?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Miss Jals?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
All right, all right, out with it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Don't stand there stammering, Yes, mister Jalvis, it's from mister Lawes.
Mister Harvey is here. Oh, Jim said he dropped by.
Shall I show him in here, mister Laws? Yes, please do, yes, ma'am.
By the way, Almah, yes, ma'am. How does your head
feel today? Not so good, ma'am. It at me all
(02:30):
night long. I didn't get much sleep to speak of.
Perhaps you should go to a doctor, Emma. I did
mister Laws yesterday. He said there was nothing wrong with me,
But I know better. My head hurt something fierce all
the time. I'm sorry, Thank you, ma'am. I'll show mister
Harvey right in. Oh, hello, Jim.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You look tired. How are you? Miss Jonas?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Very well? Thank you well, Jim. I'm glad you stop by.
We've rather had the Dolgens around here the past day
or sir.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes, I know, I thought i'd stop by now and
be here for the funeral this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Poor Andrews. You loved him too, didn't you, Jim, Yes, dear.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I guess I did. I've known Andrews almost as long
as you have.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, all I can say is I warned him again
and again if you only listen to me. Please, Jim,
let's go outside and get some air. I've been in
the house all day. You would both better stay around close.
I may need you, all right, wanna We'll probably be
in the.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Garden very well.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh, Jim, Yes, remember about the lily pond?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh, yes, of course I will.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's dangerous, you know. Be careful of it, Jim. Don't
get too near to its age.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes, I remember.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Come there, Jim, Yes, dear. What did she mean about
the lily pond? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Don't you remember that the railing around the pond was
taken down for repairs hasn't been replaced yet?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, I know, but it's been down for almost a month. Yeah,
let's walk on the grass, shall we. Why does she
remind you about it now?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, she probably doesn't want us to fall into it,
and soil are pretty cloth.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
She seems so insistent. She said, it's dangerous for you
to be careful at it, for you not to go
too near its edge. You Jim, not me.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh, she meant both of us, silly. She just addressed
me because she wants me to take care of you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Does she.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, of course she does. What do you mean, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I've had the impression for a long time now that
she doesn't want us to be married.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Nonsense, she's delighted.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, she's not delighted. I'd want to tell you this
for a long time, but I've hesitated to say anything.
I thought I might have been mistaken. Now I know
it's true. She hates you, Jim. Wana hates me. Why
(05:38):
of all the silly things I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Of, Wanna and I are great friends, Darling, You're wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Wana has no love for you. I don't know why.
But she would be perfectly delighted if you and I
never marry. Dolorous, Jim. I want to be married just
as soon as we possibly can. But I'll go away
from here. I don't care where, just so it's someplace, elf, anywhere,
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but here.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's Darling. I thought you loved this place, love it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I despise it the lorus do, Jim, Darling, I'm so upset.
There's something terrible going on around here. I don't know
what it is, but it was responsible for Andrew's death.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Darling. How can you say that?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Because I know you know what, there was nothing wrong
with Andrew's eyes. What, No, nothing at all wrong with them,
But he went blind.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The autopsy proved it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But that's why I know he died blind. Yes, but
I went with him to an uptometrist about a week ago.
Andrews had perfect vision in both eyes and no sign
of defect or weakness.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But the laws, that's not possible, I know, but it happened.
But how how, Dear?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I can't answer that? Domo possible? Jason, Lily pull you
you almost walked right into it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I thought it was over further to the east end
of the garden.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't know why we should be so frightened of it.
It's quite shallow. Even if one of us did accidentally
fall in, we'd only get.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
A bit wet.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Is that all would happen?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Jim? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I wonder? Come on, dear, we must be getting back
to the house. I want to brush up a bit
before the crowd begins to drift in.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Dolors. You will play the organ a while. I'd like
some music, Do you mind if I don't anty? I'm
rather tired.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Look here, Deloris, how about a swim down on the beach.
Moon's up. It's quite warm tonight, Jim.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I think i'd like that certainly. If you're too tired
to play the organ, you're too tired to swim.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, it'll be good for missus Jonas. She needs some
fresh air and exercise.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes, Auntie, you don't mind so much.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I suppose not good.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Is there a suit in the man's quarters of the
bathhouse I can use him?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, yes, you'll find several there. James, take your choice.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's fine. Come along a la.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, let's not go that way, Jim. Let's take the
back door and cut through the garden to the bath house.
All right, dear, we won't be long. Addie does a
plunge and we'll be right back very well.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh James, Yes, Miss Jonas. Remember about the lily pond. Oh, yes,
all right, it's still quite dangerous, you know. Don't get
too close to its edge. You may fall into it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes, all right, we'll be careful, Miss Johns. We can
see it all right in the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Come on, Jim. There you see she keeps reminding you
about the lily podle.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Well, I just prove she doesn't want anything to happen
to me. I told you she doesn't dislike me, Jim.
Don't you think for a moment she doesn't. She dislikes
you terribly. I think she even dislikes me.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But why, good, heavens dolorless. She took you in when
you were a mere infant, less than three years old.
She's kept you clothes, a fine home, everything.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yes, I know, still she she hates me long as
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
If you've known this all along, why didn't you say
something to me about it?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Because it's just recently she's changed. I don't know why
she's changed.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
But she has.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well. Dear, suppose we forget everything for a while. This
has been a trying day for all of us. Come on,
I'll race you out to the bathhouse.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Wow, Jim must not be dressed Jack Odd at any time,
Jim Jim, do.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You hear me?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Are you in the bathhouse?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Jim Jim? I do surely? Oh no, Jim, Jim up.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
It's happening, the one the little stems around his thrust.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Now, please try not to think about it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's all over and now and there's nothing to be
helped by thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But how did it have happened?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
To him, Gloris you heard the coroner's verdict. You must
have wandered over to the lily pond while waiting for
you to finish dressing. He apparently stumbled and fell, striking
his head on a rock. Becoming unconscious. He fell with
his head under water and it strangled him. Oh, it
was so sudden. I don't have been a little quicker dressing.
(11:45):
I might have saved him. Don't think of that, dear.
We can't help what's happened. Lie still The as'll answered hello, yeres,
mister Evans.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yes, very well, I'll.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Come to your office right away. Yes, within the hour.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Very well.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Good bye, Oh Dolores. I am sorry, but I'll have
to leave you a while. That was my lawyer, and
there's some very important papers I must attend to immediately.
I'll be all right, Auntie. I'll send our men to
take care of you. But I'm afraid she won't be
of much help. She's been complaining of headache constantly, night
(12:30):
and day.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Ah did you call me, miss de Laores?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Yes, several times. He was so long answering. Sorry, mister
l I was downstairs. Can I do something for you, ma'am?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, Alma I want the key to this room, that room,
mister Loss, Yes, and I want it right away. My
aunt just kept this room locked for eighteen years. She's
always told me she wants no one in there because
her father died.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
In that room.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Yes, ma'am, that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Nothing else.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I'm not so sure. I intend to go inside that room.
Now get me the key.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Or mister Loss. I beg you, ma'am, don't go into
that room. Whatever you do, ma'am, in the name of Heaven,
don't go into that room.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Tell me, amma, what's in there.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's frightful, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Please listen to me. My head's splitten. I'm a sick woman.
I'm almost a dead woman. But with the life that's
left in me, I plead with you not to enter
that room.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Alma, stop this nonsense.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
It's not nonsense.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Smith. There's worse than the death all in there.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Alma, do you have the key? Answer me. Do you
have the key to that room?
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Yes, ma'am, but I have I stole it from Miss
Jarvice a month ago.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Then let me have it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Give it to me at once.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'll open the door.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There you are, ma'am, I'll turn on the light, whine,
but this room is empty. Nothing here but an old
table covered with a huge black cloth.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's all, miss God. Now let's shut off the light
and lock the door. Roll.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Wait a minute, what's on that table?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Please, mister Lars, don't go to that table.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I want to see. I asked you not row, mister
Delares dolls, four little dolls, each about twelve inches tall,
lying here on the table.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Please come away, mister loes.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Good, heavens, this doll looks exactly.
Speaker 10 (15:17):
Like like Andrews look, lying there his back with a.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Common pin stuck squarely in the middle of each eye.
He went blind, mister loes Good, heavens, an exact image
of Jim Harvey lying with his head submerged in a
miniature lilipod.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Mister Harvey died in a lili.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Pod in the cotton.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
This doll, Alma, it's an image of you with a
pin stuck into its head. Or mister los ma'am, my
head's killing me with its aching Almah. This fourth doll,
it's Youlores with another pin stuck into the doll's body
(16:04):
so it pierces the heart. Don't you feel pains in
your heart? Mister Lawes, Alma, what in the world does
always means?
Speaker 11 (16:14):
It's witch craft, witchcraft, black magic, But I don't understand
it's missus Jarns, your aunt.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
First she convinced Andrews he was going blind. Then she
convinced mister Harvey he'd die in the lily pod. Now
she's trying to kill me with a headache and you
with heart attack.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Good haw, haw with the user.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Where she came from? This, where she came from years ago?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Where was that Haiti?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Haiti? Yes, when you've.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Got an enemy in Haiti, you want to get rid
of him, you make a doll that looks like thank him.
You put hair from his head on the doll's head,
cloth from his clothes for the doll's clothes. Then you
stick a pin in the part of the enemy you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Want to make hurt. And it works, Alma, it does,
mister Lares. Look at Andrews, blindened because of the hecks.
Look at mister Harvey dead in the lily pond.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Look at me me with my terrible headache and the
pin sticking in the head of that doe.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We'll pull out the pin, dude, you do that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I'm sure to die right away.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Alma, tell me how you know all this.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
I've been listening, mister Lares and watching for years. I've
been watching and listening, and.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh, mister laurahommer, oh, I was bringing me on your right.
Speaker 12 (18:04):
Alma, she was dead, Lauris you any better?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Much?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Huh? How did I get here in my bed?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Doctor?
Speaker 12 (18:22):
I don't find you here unconscious than I did manage.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
To get here before I fainted? Well have you found Alma?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (18:34):
A girl dead, brain hemorrhage.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Brain hemorrhage. Yes, where did you find her? Doctor?
Speaker 12 (18:45):
In her room? She must have died in her sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, No, she didn't die in her bed. My aunt
must have placed.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Her there, Dorries you know truth?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Do youdt?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Sea Buck?
Speaker 13 (19:04):
I've known it for years. I've been watching one of
your aunt for years. When Andrews died, I became suspicious.
When your fiance perished in a lily pond, I was convinced,
convinced that Vana was using her ancient jungle power.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What. Let me tell you his story.
Speaker 13 (19:28):
She was married to a wealthy plantation on her in
Haiti about eighteen years ago. One day she decided to
ride herself of him, so she very impoisoned when he
realized what she had done to him, he went off
to the jungle to die, But first he made a will,
(19:51):
leaving all his money and property to the baby daughter
of his closest friend, a man who died of jungle fever,
and who is baby had been taken to America by friends,
while his husband left his fortune to.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That baby girl.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
That girl, my dear.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Was you.
Speaker 13 (20:16):
Before the poisoned man died, he sought out a jungle
witch doctor and had him make a charm. It was
a doll like image of the woman who had poisoned him.
He took a lock of her hair from where he'd
always carried it in a gold locket, and the hair
became the doll's hair. And he took a long needle,
(20:42):
dipped it in the most potent poison, and plunged that
needle again and again into the body of the darl image.
The poison was one that brings about instant and complete
paralysis of the human muscles. Yes, it's a poison well
(21:03):
known in Haiti.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He cast a spell upon her, just as she's been
casting spells on us precisely, But her spells were effective.
His wasn't.
Speaker 13 (21:16):
No spell is effective unless the victim is made.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Aware of its existence. Just a few moments ago, I
told your aunt the same story i've told you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You mean, you told her about the spell that was
cast upon her years ago.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
In an off hand manner.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
I passed it on to her, just a story i'd
heard a flue friend of mine and Haiti. I pretended
I didn't know that she was involved.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Where is she now?
Speaker 12 (21:58):
You feel like getting up?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yes, yes, I'm all right.
Speaker 12 (22:01):
This door leads to your aunt's room, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yes, it's not locked. Yeah, it's she in here.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
Yes, she's in there.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Oh, what is your and why not?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Why not? Don't?
Speaker 11 (22:25):
And look at her?
Speaker 13 (22:27):
The spell she cast upon you is broken. Now your
aunt is dead.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
But look at her.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
Yes, she died instantly of complete paralysis.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Death is the savage, dear t dark said escape
Fantasy. Yeah, is this savage theater?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Is that you delude a guest? Wanna? Don't stop playing?
I heard the music coming from the conservatory, so I
stopped by. What are you playing? Just just a simple
melody of my own? So weird? I thought, possibly you
(00:59):
were playing a door a dirge? Yes, or Andrews?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I fear neither dirge, nor prayers nor candles burned on
the altar?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Will do Andrews any good? Cove one of what made
him do it? He was always so happy, so full
of the love of life. Why did he do such
a thing?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
He was blind.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
He couldn't stand the thought of being without the use
of his eyes. So yes, but if only I cautioned
him over and over again. I warned him to take
care of his eyes, but he wouldn't listen to me.
Now he's dead, Andrews, I suppose you and James will
postpone your marriage, o whil Dolores. Yes, I think it best,
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don't you. It wouldn't be quite decent to have a
funeral today and a wedding day after tomorrow with it.
I wouldn't permit it in my home, and this is
still my house. You remember, Now, who's dead.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, come in.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
All right, Alma, what is it?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Miss Jals?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
All right, all right, out with it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Don't stand there stammering, Yes, mister Jalvis, it's from mister Lawes.
Mister Harvey is here. Oh, Jim said he dropped by.
Shall I show him in here, mister Laws? Yes, please do, yes, ma'am.
By the way, Almah, yes, ma'am. How does your head
feel today? Not so good, ma'am. It at me all
(02:30):
night long. I didn't get much sleep to speak of.
Perhaps you should go to a doctor, Emma. I did
mister Laws yesterday. He said there was nothing wrong with me,
But I know better. My head hurt something fierce all
the time. I'm sorry, Thank you, ma'am. I'll show mister
Harvey right in. Oh, hello, Jim.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You look tired. How are you? Miss Jonas?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Very well? Thank you well, Jim. I'm glad you stop by.
We've rather had the Dolgens around here the past day
or sir.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes, I know, I thought i'd stop by now and
be here for the funeral this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Poor Andrews. You loved him too, didn't you, Jim, Yes, dear.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I guess I did. I've known Andrews almost as long
as you have.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, all I can say is I warned him again
and again if you only listen to me. Please, Jim,
let's go outside and get some air. I've been in
the house all day. You would both better stay around close.
I may need you, all right, wanna We'll probably be
in the.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Garden very well.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh, Jim, Yes, remember about the lily pond?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh, yes, of course I will.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's dangerous, you know. Be careful of it, Jim. Don't
get too near to its age.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes, I remember.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Come there, Jim, Yes, dear. What did she mean about
the lily pond? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Don't you remember that the railing around the pond was
taken down for repairs hasn't been replaced yet?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, I know, but it's been down for almost a month. Yeah,
let's walk on the grass, shall we. Why does she
remind you about it now?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, she probably doesn't want us to fall into it,
and soil are pretty cloth.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
She seems so insistent. She said, it's dangerous for you
to be careful at it, for you not to go
too near its edge. You Jim, not me.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh, she meant both of us, silly. She just addressed
me because she wants me to take care of you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Does she.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, of course she does. What do you mean, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I've had the impression for a long time now that
she doesn't want us to be married.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Nonsense, she's delighted.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, she's not delighted. I'd want to tell you this
for a long time, but I've hesitated to say anything.
I thought I might have been mistaken. Now I know
it's true. She hates you, Jim. Wana hates me. Why
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of all the silly things I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Of, Wanna and I are great friends, Darling, You're wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Wana has no love for you. I don't know why.
But she would be perfectly delighted if you and I
never marry. Dolorous, Jim. I want to be married just
as soon as we possibly can. But I'll go away
from here. I don't care where, just so it's someplace, elf, anywhere,
(06:06):
but here.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's Darling. I thought you loved this place, love it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I despise it the lorus do, Jim, Darling, I'm so upset.
There's something terrible going on around here. I don't know
what it is, but it was responsible for Andrew's death.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Darling. How can you say that?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Because I know you know what, there was nothing wrong
with Andrew's eyes. What, No, nothing at all wrong with them,
But he went blind.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The autopsy proved it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But that's why I know he died blind. Yes, but
I went with him to an uptometrist about a week ago.
Andrews had perfect vision in both eyes and no sign
of defect or weakness.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But the laws, that's not possible, I know, but it happened.
But how how, Dear?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I can't answer that? Domo possible? Jason, Lily pull you
you almost walked right into it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I thought it was over further to the east end
of the garden.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't know why we should be so frightened of it.
It's quite shallow. Even if one of us did accidentally
fall in, we'd only get.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
A bit wet.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Is that all would happen?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Jim? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I wonder? Come on, dear, we must be getting back
to the house. I want to brush up a bit
before the crowd begins to drift in.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Dolors. You will play the organ a while. I'd like
some music, Do you mind if I don't anty? I'm
rather tired.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Look here, Deloris, how about a swim down on the beach.
Moon's up. It's quite warm tonight, Jim.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I think i'd like that certainly. If you're too tired
to play the organ, you're too tired to swim.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, it'll be good for missus Jonas. She needs some
fresh air and exercise.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes, Auntie, you don't mind so much.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I suppose not good.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Is there a suit in the man's quarters of the
bathhouse I can use him?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, yes, you'll find several there. James, take your choice.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's fine. Come along a la.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, let's not go that way, Jim. Let's take the
back door and cut through the garden to the bath house.
All right, dear, we won't be long. Addie does a
plunge and we'll be right back very well.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh James, Yes, Miss Jonas. Remember about the lily pond. Oh, yes,
all right, it's still quite dangerous, you know. Don't get
too close to its edge. You may fall into it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes, all right, we'll be careful, Miss Johns. We can
see it all right in the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Come on, Jim. There you see she keeps reminding you
about the lily podle.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Well, I just prove she doesn't want anything to happen
to me. I told you she doesn't dislike me, Jim.
Don't you think for a moment she doesn't. She dislikes
you terribly. I think she even dislikes me.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But why, good, heavens dolorless. She took you in when
you were a mere infant, less than three years old.
She's kept you clothes, a fine home, everything.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yes, I know, still she she hates me long as
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
If you've known this all along, why didn't you say
something to me about it?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Because it's just recently she's changed. I don't know why
she's changed.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
But she has.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well. Dear, suppose we forget everything for a while. This
has been a trying day for all of us. Come on,
I'll race you out to the bathhouse.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Wow, Jim must not be dressed Jack Odd at any time,
Jim Jim, do.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You hear me?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Are you in the bathhouse?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Jim Jim? I do surely? Oh no, Jim, Jim up.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
It's happening, the one the little stems around his thrust.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Now, please try not to think about it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's all over and now and there's nothing to be
helped by thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But how did it have happened?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
To him, Gloris you heard the coroner's verdict. You must
have wandered over to the lily pond while waiting for
you to finish dressing. He apparently stumbled and fell, striking
his head on a rock. Becoming unconscious. He fell with
his head under water and it strangled him. Oh, it
was so sudden. I don't have been a little quicker dressing.
(11:45):
I might have saved him. Don't think of that, dear.
We can't help what's happened. Lie still The as'll answered hello, yeres,
mister Evans.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yes, very well, I'll.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Come to your office right away. Yes, within the hour.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Very well.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Good bye, Oh Dolores. I am sorry, but I'll have
to leave you a while. That was my lawyer, and
there's some very important papers I must attend to immediately.
I'll be all right, Auntie. I'll send our men to
take care of you. But I'm afraid she won't be
of much help. She's been complaining of headache constantly, night
(12:30):
and day.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Ah did you call me, miss de Laores?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Yes, several times. He was so long answering. Sorry, mister
l I was downstairs. Can I do something for you, ma'am?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, Alma I want the key to this room, that room,
mister Loss, Yes, and I want it right away. My
aunt just kept this room locked for eighteen years. She's
always told me she wants no one in there because
her father died.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
In that room.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Yes, ma'am, that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Nothing else.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I'm not so sure. I intend to go inside that room.
Now get me the key.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Or mister Loss. I beg you, ma'am, don't go into
that room. Whatever you do, ma'am, in the name of Heaven,
don't go into that room.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Tell me, amma, what's in there.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's frightful, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Please listen to me. My head's splitten. I'm a sick woman.
I'm almost a dead woman. But with the life that's
left in me, I plead with you not to enter
that room.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Alma, stop this nonsense.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
It's not nonsense.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Smith. There's worse than the death all in there.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Alma, do you have the key? Answer me. Do you
have the key to that room?
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Yes, ma'am, but I have I stole it from Miss
Jarvice a month ago.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Then let me have it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Give it to me at once.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'll open the door.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There you are, ma'am, I'll turn on the light, whine,
but this room is empty. Nothing here but an old
table covered with a huge black cloth.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's all, miss God. Now let's shut off the light
and lock the door. Roll.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Wait a minute, what's on that table?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Please, mister Lars, don't go to that table.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I want to see. I asked you not row, mister
Delares dolls, four little dolls, each about twelve inches tall,
lying here on the table.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Please come away, mister loes.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Good, heavens, this doll looks exactly.
Speaker 10 (15:17):
Like like Andrews look, lying there his back with a.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Common pin stuck squarely in the middle of each eye.
He went blind, mister loes Good, heavens, an exact image
of Jim Harvey lying with his head submerged in a
miniature lilipod.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Mister Harvey died in a lili.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Pod in the cotton.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
This doll, Alma, it's an image of you with a
pin stuck into its head. Or mister los ma'am, my
head's killing me with its aching Almah. This fourth doll,
it's Youlores with another pin stuck into the doll's body
(16:04):
so it pierces the heart. Don't you feel pains in
your heart? Mister Lawes, Alma, what in the world does
always means?
Speaker 11 (16:14):
It's witch craft, witchcraft, black magic, But I don't understand
it's missus Jarns, your aunt.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
First she convinced Andrews he was going blind. Then she
convinced mister Harvey he'd die in the lily pod. Now
she's trying to kill me with a headache and you
with heart attack.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Good haw, haw with the user.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Where she came from? This, where she came from years ago?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Where was that Haiti?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Haiti? Yes, when you've.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Got an enemy in Haiti, you want to get rid
of him, you make a doll that looks like thank him.
You put hair from his head on the doll's head,
cloth from his clothes for the doll's clothes. Then you
stick a pin in the part of the enemy you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Want to make hurt. And it works, Alma, it does,
mister Lares. Look at Andrews, blindened because of the hecks.
Look at mister Harvey dead in the lily pond.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Look at me me with my terrible headache and the
pin sticking in the head of that doe.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We'll pull out the pin, dude, you do that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I'm sure to die right away.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Alma, tell me how you know all this.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
I've been listening, mister Lares and watching for years. I've
been watching and listening, and.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh, mister laurahommer, oh, I was bringing me on your right.
Speaker 12 (18:04):
Alma, she was dead, Lauris you any better?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Much?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Huh? How did I get here in my bed?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Doctor?
Speaker 12 (18:22):
I don't find you here unconscious than I did manage.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
To get here before I fainted? Well have you found Alma?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (18:34):
A girl dead, brain hemorrhage.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Brain hemorrhage. Yes, where did you find her? Doctor?
Speaker 12 (18:45):
In her room? She must have died in her sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, No, she didn't die in her bed. My aunt
must have placed.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Her there, Dorries you know truth?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Do youdt?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Sea Buck?
Speaker 13 (19:04):
I've known it for years. I've been watching one of
your aunt for years. When Andrews died, I became suspicious.
When your fiance perished in a lily pond, I was convinced,
convinced that Vana was using her ancient jungle power.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What. Let me tell you his story.
Speaker 13 (19:28):
She was married to a wealthy plantation on her in
Haiti about eighteen years ago. One day she decided to
ride herself of him, so she very impoisoned when he
realized what she had done to him, he went off
to the jungle to die, But first he made a will,
(19:51):
leaving all his money and property to the baby daughter
of his closest friend, a man who died of jungle fever,
and who is baby had been taken to America by friends,
while his husband left his fortune to.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That baby girl.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
That girl, my dear.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Was you.
Speaker 13 (20:16):
Before the poisoned man died, he sought out a jungle
witch doctor and had him make a charm. It was
a doll like image of the woman who had poisoned him.
He took a lock of her hair from where he'd
always carried it in a gold locket, and the hair
became the doll's hair. And he took a long needle,
(20:42):
dipped it in the most potent poison, and plunged that
needle again and again into the body of the darl image.
The poison was one that brings about instant and complete
paralysis of the human muscles. Yes, it's a poison well
(21:03):
known in Haiti.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He cast a spell upon her, just as she's been
casting spells on us precisely, But her spells were effective.
His wasn't.
Speaker 13 (21:16):
No spell is effective unless the victim is made.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Aware of its existence. Just a few moments ago, I
told your aunt the same story i've told you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You mean, you told her about the spell that was
cast upon her years ago.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
In an off hand manner.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
I passed it on to her, just a story i'd
heard a flue friend of mine and Haiti. I pretended
I didn't know that she was involved.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Where is she now?
Speaker 12 (21:58):
You feel like getting up?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yes, yes, I'm all right.
Speaker 12 (22:01):
This door leads to your aunt's room, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yes, it's not locked. Yeah, it's she in here.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
Yes, she's in there.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Oh, what is your and why not?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Why not? Don't?
Speaker 11 (22:25):
And look at her?
Speaker 13 (22:27):
The spell she cast upon you is broken. Now your
aunt is dead.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
But look at her.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
Yes, she died instantly of complete paralysis.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Death is the savage, dear t dark said escape
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