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Speaker 1 (00:14):
We're inning, friends of the creaking door. This is your
host to welcome you in Theanna sanctin. Now for another
visit with your favorite character. We're back again with a
familiar subject, murder. Ever, want to find out how scared
(00:35):
you can get?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, I suppose you hang around for.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
A while and when the show's over, I'll cut you down.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Mm hmm, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Suppose we get to under brass tag and I do
mean the ones that go around the edge of a
coffin in a tiny cottage, lost in a.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Wild, desolate section of rural New England. Ellen Richards sits
in his chair listen, approaching sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
White hair with eyes that dance nervously in the firelight.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She listens.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
She hears the winds weeping and moaning, grim heralds of
the bleak window, but she listens coming home? Did you.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Gras nonsense?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
That don'ts nothing.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
It's just because I'm alone.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
You wouldn't do this to me if I went wrong?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hello operator, Hello, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Operator?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I want you during my nephew, Leslie Richard tell him to.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Come home at once number.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Leslie, I told you, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Don't you understand, you make your what number.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Do you wish to call?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Number numbers in town somewhere to the depots, Call him
to the depot.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Don't you understand?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I had a booth.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Both and the change.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
My husband.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
He's coming about the cellar, step my step, and he's
been dead for five years, and now he's on the
lendings and now he's opening the door.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And you, darling, darling boy.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
You, you and not the other brilliant understand you see
your boy?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You must give me a hysterical Just be patient.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Quit, I'll be all right in a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What's wrong? What happens?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Let me hold your hands.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh, just knowing that you're here makes me feel better.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Already I thought i'd go out of my mind.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Now if you'll only tell me, wait a moment, do
you hear anything?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's the wind?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh, Leslie, you mustn't.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Leave me alone ever again.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think you can't bear to be alone.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
But I just drove to the station to get miss Morrow. Darling,
you're in a terrible said, you really must.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'll where is missus Morrow?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
She went through the side entrance in her room.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I guess I think I'm going to discharge that girl.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Why, Oh, I know, so I see you. She doesn't
belong here.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't like strangers about it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Really silly.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
You can't bear being alone, and now you want to
discharge your companion.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well you're here now, but I can't be with you
all the time, Leslie.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
But you almost never leave the house, and someone must
go out to get things done once in a while.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh yes, I suppose you're right, and.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
It won't do you a bit of harm to go
out once in a while too, the movies in town,
or maybe New.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
York for the theater.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, no, Ellen, don't you dare suggest that again?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You but never suggest that again?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Do you hear? Why why must you stay here, locked
up in this house?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Because because ever since my husband disappeared, I vowed. Oh
what she wouldn't understand?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think I would.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh no, No, you're young and handsome and charming, and.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
There's no use troubling you.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It's all that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I feel ever so much better already. No, dear, Leslie,
you don't know what you've done for me. Really, it
was how we're living here with just tomorrow until you
were sweet enough to come and stay with a poor
lonely old lady. I know it must be trying for yours.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's really lots of fun. I'm having a fine time.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
And that talk of your being an old lady is
just nonsense. Why if Uncle Gregory were here and could
see you now, he'd fall in love and marry you
all over again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why do you say that just to make you laugh?
Oh you're very fleshing, you're laughing pleasantly. You won't go
away ever, will you? Quite an idea?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
You are my only living relatives.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I remember your kindness.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
When I'm gone, you'll be wealthy, very wealthy here.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Now, what kind of talk is this when you are gone?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Indeed?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Why we're going to have grand times here forever and ever.
Now you go to bed and.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Sleep away, or like listening, And here's a kid repleasant.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You silly silly boy, SPoD night to miss ball for me.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm too tired, too late. You're night, Barbra.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Don't tell me about it, don't say anything, just just
kiss me and hold me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh dearness, listeners.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I could hardly bring myself to come back here tonight.
She's so hateful and cruel Robar you sorry, but how
much more of this do you think I can stand?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
This house?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Will drive me as mad as she is. Don't seem
so senseless. You say you love me, and you know.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I haven't any money, but I'll get something. I've got
a great deal. And as soon as I do.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I want to know is when when tonight?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Gregory?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
No? No, gonaway? Lest hear it?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
One lets me?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I heard listen?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Do you hear it? Oh? Thanks? Even I'm not the
only one.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
What is it? Gregory?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I know it?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
It's the way he used to walk around the house
chatting with his But I know I started this fall
while I was alone. He's come back somehow, oh Leslie,
who's conversed?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And why should he do this? Ifuse uncle Gregory come back?
Why he'd come right in the front door.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Don't you say he can't?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He's been dead these five years? Dead, he told me.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I didn't want to shock you, Oh Leslie.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
How much can I trust you?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Frust Why? And you know there isn't anything I wouldn't
do for you?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Where is it coming from?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Me?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
My robe?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
But I don't see why.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You must get out of bed.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I must know about this. I can't leave the South, Leslie,
and the food here.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Why can't you believe it? You can sell it and
go away. You don't understand. Yes, they're living room. They're
going in there.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'm not afraid to say anything.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
If you're with me.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Now comes very well? See anything. There's nothing in the corridor.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But I confuse it's closer.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
There's a living room, not a soul. Why do you
pick up that fireplace iron?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
In the moment? Can you move the piano?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
His old left rights are pretty heavy, but I think
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
There.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We got a little shovel from the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I said, I don't understand. What are you doing there?
What is it some kind of secret trap door on
the floor? You're trying to move that iron? Yes, it's
over here.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Let me do it all right.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think I have enough. There's any but dirt under there?
Use the shovels? R Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
The cap is stuff?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Perhaps this is why? Perhaps he wanted me to his body.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
He's still there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Look who Gregory? So that's why you never left his heart,
isn't it? He was lying here all this time, lying
here where you.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Buried him after you murdered him.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Isn't that so?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Who is bleeding lie. Oh yeah, Auntie Ellen, the old darling,
just had her nephew dig up her husband from under
the floor. If you think she kept him there to
make him stay home nice, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
He'd been murdered, and.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Auntie Ellen's nephew just accused her. King.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yes, yes, I killed him, Leslie.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You mustn't kill anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I know you won't tell.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Oh, it's been horrible living all these years with.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Him right in the same house. I could never leave.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Someone might find him, you see. And every time I
heard a noise in the house. Oh, it was frightful,
I should think.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
So that's why I sent for you.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I couldn't bear it alas now you know my secrets
and you will help me, of course, dear Leslie, I
know you will, and won't you?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh it, just borrow it. Don't get her. Come in, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I've heard everything, missus Richard, and I know everything.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You and Leslie, it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Was you who made those noises that capping it didn't start,
and then after you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Came yes, horrid boy fight? Did you?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
How could you do this to me after everything.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I've done for you.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I thought you loved me.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
I thought it down I will know it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I said, father, get a check book.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Okay, what I'm going to do, dear, and you are
going to write a check for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
For you, for me, the book and a pen.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I see it all.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Now, what a fool I've been taking the two of
you into my home and now you do this to
me just to get my money.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And you killed him for that money.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You have no right to talk.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You made him do this, clesly, the good boy.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You found out about this, and you put him up
to it.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I'm going to call the police at you're a murderer.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And Ellen, you won't call any police. In fact, you'll
tell no one, and you'll write that check now.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Pleasantly? Yes, true, so quite right.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I'm not in a very good position, have I.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
You would please listen it after I've trusted.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You, after I don't know. She just stood up and collapsed,
Addie Addy, Ellen, she did well.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
She's still reading and paralyzed as the boy. Father, call
her doctor. I fixed that floor and pushed the piano back. Absolutely,
she will.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Say a word.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And if she does tell about the check, who will believe?
It'll be our word against the murderers.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
My Barbara We've got to get her well enough to
write that.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Check Missus Richards, if you can understand what I'm saying,
blink your eyes.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Ah, thank you well, Doctor Walsh. Well, I can't give
you a final opinion yet, young man.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
She seems to know what we are saying. Honestly, we
won't know until I can take some X rays. It
may be simple hysterical paralysis. Doctor, I'd like to know
if if there's any danger danger, yes and no.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Patients have sometimes lived for years after a stroke.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I'm going to call in a specialist for consultation and
I'll be back in the morning with X ray equipment.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Or meanwhile, don't move her from that chair. Yes, doctor,
Watch was very kind of you to come so quickly.
Missus Richards is an old friend of mine. Call me
at once. If she seems to get work, I certainly will.
Good night right.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
At luck, just when we had hello, she seems to
be smiling.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Don't be careful.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
She can understand. Everything is safe and letter.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
You won't get away with it, Auntie. We still have you,
you know the will. You forgot about that will. You
can't make a new one now you can't write, and
we know.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Your secret yes, Annie, we still have you know, Leslie,
she has us. What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
We heard what the doctor said.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It may be years. We can wait.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Can we wait here taking care of her, waiting for
her to die? Can you imagine what that'll be like?
Maybe you can wait?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I can't, Bobbi, what's the use?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Leslie? Waited all this time? And you see what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We're worse off than we will before Barbari. You mustn't
lose your head. There may be something we can do.
What can we do? We can? Yes, let me, she
got away with it. Why can't we have even thought
of a plan? Have you?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
We can both be away, far away from here in
South America? Pad When this house can catch fire, an
invalid unable to move, it can be arranged, you know, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes it can be arranged. But are you sure of
this will? Certainly she told me about it a dozen times.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Have you seen it? No?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But I know you can't believe what she tells you. You
better look, you must be sure.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Of all of this. You're quite right. I'm almost certain
the will is in our room. I'll find it. You'll
see that.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
I'm right.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Did you say something, Miss rich.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I thought I heard you say something.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Why you're looking at me that way, Missus.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Richard, I'm not afraid.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I don't care if you heard everything. I'm not afraid
of you anymore, you and your orders.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Nothing I did was ever good enough for you.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Wasn't always telling me I was.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Too common, too cheap for you.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Well I found out what.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You were tonight. Stop your staring at me.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I want to know something, Missus Richard. He didn't figure
this out himself. I was the one who was smart
enough for that. I kept wondering why you never left
this house while your husband disappeared. And I told Leslie.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He stopped staring at me, and I heard your scream.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Huh, that's nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Have you found it?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
No, not yet, But it's around somewhere. I'm sure of it.
Do you wonder No, No, I'll find it in a minute,
I'm sure, Missus Richard. The chair. The chair has moved.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
He moved it while my back was turned while I
was talking to Leslie. Didn't you do you?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And from the fireplace there a minute ago?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Up?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Did you take it?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Did you no? Why I found it?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
She left me?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Have it?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Whybro?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
What happened to you?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And Ellen?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Where are you.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm standing behind you, Leslie.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
What don't move? But why she's dead? I killed her?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I have the end iron here in my hand.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Don't move, Please say on your ease, just where you are,
very well if you wish.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But you were very anxious to find out what happened
to my husband. Now you shall know everything. In fact,
you shall know precisely because the same thing is going
to happen to you. You see, I use this very
same instrument.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
This ooker.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You and she will share his grave.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
It's awesome, silly joking. You can't do this to me.
You know that I love you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Don't move, i'take put.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
That thing down.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You don't know what you're doing. Don't.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Oh, I'm sorry to disturb you.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Dr Walsh.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This is Ellen Richards.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Ellen Richards, I knew you'd be surprised, but I fully recovered.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You were quite right.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But you thought it was hysterical paralysis.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Well I thought so all along, but naturally I wouldn't
venture an opinion without an expert.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But why did it happen?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh, it was a silly thing, I suppose. But my
nephew Leslie told me he was going to marry.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Miss Morrow in fact they planned to elop and that
was the shock that brought it on.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yes, doctor Walsh, I suppose I let myself care for
my nephew more than I should.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, so I understand, but I'm quite over it now.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I sent them on with my blessing. They drove into
New York and they're sailing for South America.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
In a few days. So you needn't come tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Evening, all right, Ellen, but your nerves must be in
bad shape. You better let me give you a checkout.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Really well, doctor, I'll come to your house the day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Good night, good night.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Who oh there, Ellen. That's completes my checkup.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And what's the verdict.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You've got a constitution like iron. You'll live to at
least one hundred and ten. Oh but Ellen, you have
to get out of your house.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
No, now, don't go into that again, doctor Walsh. When
Gregory disappeared, I made up my mind I would never leave,
and I.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Mean to stick to that. Now. That's not what I meant, Elen.
Haven't you heard the news? What news?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
The new super Highway. It's going to be built right
through your property. Your house is dead center of the
road way. They'll have to rip it down.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, they can't do it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I will let them.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
No reason to be alarmed. You realize a handsome profit
for your property.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Fin Will these people be around? When are they coming?
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Why the surveyors are in the neighborhood now? They may
be calling at your house today to examine the property
and make an estimate of its value to But.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I must get back to the house immediately. I don't
want it to come when.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I'm not there.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Sure, hell, yes, yes, one moment. It's for you Ellen,
for me? Who is it?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I believe the man said the state police. But what
could they possibly want with you? Ellen?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Are the Ellen's relatives and friends are now all stark
dead in the parlor. She bashed nobody's head but her husband's,
her nephews, and his girlfriends. And we leave this electric
personality while she's on her way to becoming a short circuit.
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Of course, we don't want to alarm you, but crimes
like these don't happen except to people like you and you.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But not you.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, friends, it's time once again to close that creaking
door until next week at the same time, when we'll
be back with a little hunk of horror.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You'll be sure to listen, don't you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Until next week.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Then, the NY.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Pleasant Scream Inner Sanctum has come to you through the
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Television Service.
We're inning, friends of the creaking door. This is your
host to welcome you in Theanna sanctin. Now for another
visit with your favorite character. We're back again with a
familiar subject, murder. Ever, want to find out how scared
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you can get?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, I suppose you hang around for.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
A while and when the show's over, I'll cut you down.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Mm hmm, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Suppose we get to under brass tag and I do
mean the ones that go around the edge of a
coffin in a tiny cottage, lost in a.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Wild, desolate section of rural New England. Ellen Richards sits
in his chair listen, approaching sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
White hair with eyes that dance nervously in the firelight.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She listens.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
She hears the winds weeping and moaning, grim heralds of
the bleak window, but she listens coming home? Did you.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Gras nonsense?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
That don'ts nothing.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
It's just because I'm alone.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
You wouldn't do this to me if I went wrong?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hello operator, Hello, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Operator?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I want you during my nephew, Leslie Richard tell him to.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Come home at once number.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Leslie, I told you, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Don't you understand, you make your what number.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Do you wish to call?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Number numbers in town somewhere to the depots, Call him
to the depot.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Don't you understand?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I had a booth.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Both and the change.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
My husband.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
He's coming about the cellar, step my step, and he's
been dead for five years, and now he's on the
lendings and now he's opening the door.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And you, darling, darling boy.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
You, you and not the other brilliant understand you see
your boy?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You must give me a hysterical Just be patient.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Quit, I'll be all right in a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What's wrong? What happens?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Let me hold your hands.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh, just knowing that you're here makes me feel better.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Already I thought i'd go out of my mind.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Now if you'll only tell me, wait a moment, do
you hear anything?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's the wind?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh, Leslie, you mustn't.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Leave me alone ever again.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think you can't bear to be alone.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
But I just drove to the station to get miss Morrow. Darling,
you're in a terrible said, you really must.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'll where is missus Morrow?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
She went through the side entrance in her room.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I guess I think I'm going to discharge that girl.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Why, Oh, I know, so I see you. She doesn't
belong here.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't like strangers about it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Really silly.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
You can't bear being alone, and now you want to
discharge your companion.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well you're here now, but I can't be with you
all the time, Leslie.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
But you almost never leave the house, and someone must
go out to get things done once in a while.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh yes, I suppose you're right, and.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
It won't do you a bit of harm to go
out once in a while too, the movies in town,
or maybe New.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
York for the theater.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, no, Ellen, don't you dare suggest that again?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You but never suggest that again?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Do you hear? Why why must you stay here, locked
up in this house?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Because because ever since my husband disappeared, I vowed. Oh
what she wouldn't understand?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think I would.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh no, No, you're young and handsome and charming, and.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
There's no use troubling you.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It's all that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I feel ever so much better already. No, dear, Leslie,
you don't know what you've done for me. Really, it
was how we're living here with just tomorrow until you
were sweet enough to come and stay with a poor
lonely old lady. I know it must be trying for yours.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's really lots of fun. I'm having a fine time.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
And that talk of your being an old lady is
just nonsense. Why if Uncle Gregory were here and could
see you now, he'd fall in love and marry you
all over again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why do you say that just to make you laugh?
Oh you're very fleshing, you're laughing pleasantly. You won't go
away ever, will you? Quite an idea?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
You are my only living relatives.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I remember your kindness.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
When I'm gone, you'll be wealthy, very wealthy here.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Now, what kind of talk is this when you are gone?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Indeed?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Why we're going to have grand times here forever and ever.
Now you go to bed and.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Sleep away, or like listening, And here's a kid repleasant.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You silly silly boy, SPoD night to miss ball for me.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm too tired, too late. You're night, Barbra.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Don't tell me about it, don't say anything, just just
kiss me and hold me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh dearness, listeners.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I could hardly bring myself to come back here tonight.
She's so hateful and cruel Robar you sorry, but how
much more of this do you think I can stand?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
This house?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Will drive me as mad as she is. Don't seem
so senseless. You say you love me, and you know.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I haven't any money, but I'll get something. I've got
a great deal. And as soon as I do.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I want to know is when when tonight?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Gregory?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
No? No, gonaway? Lest hear it?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
One lets me?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I heard listen?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Do you hear it? Oh? Thanks? Even I'm not the
only one.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
What is it? Gregory?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I know it?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
It's the way he used to walk around the house
chatting with his But I know I started this fall
while I was alone. He's come back somehow, oh Leslie,
who's conversed?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And why should he do this? Ifuse uncle Gregory come back?
Why he'd come right in the front door.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Don't you say he can't?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He's been dead these five years? Dead, he told me.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I didn't want to shock you, Oh Leslie.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
How much can I trust you?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Frust Why? And you know there isn't anything I wouldn't
do for you?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Where is it coming from?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Me?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
My robe?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
But I don't see why.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You must get out of bed.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I must know about this. I can't leave the South, Leslie,
and the food here.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Why can't you believe it? You can sell it and
go away. You don't understand. Yes, they're living room. They're
going in there.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'm not afraid to say anything.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
If you're with me.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Now comes very well? See anything. There's nothing in the corridor.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But I confuse it's closer.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
There's a living room, not a soul. Why do you
pick up that fireplace iron?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
In the moment? Can you move the piano?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
His old left rights are pretty heavy, but I think
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
There.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We got a little shovel from the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I said, I don't understand. What are you doing there?
What is it some kind of secret trap door on
the floor? You're trying to move that iron? Yes, it's
over here.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Let me do it all right.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think I have enough. There's any but dirt under there?
Use the shovels? R Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
The cap is stuff?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Perhaps this is why? Perhaps he wanted me to his body.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
He's still there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Look who Gregory? So that's why you never left his heart,
isn't it? He was lying here all this time, lying
here where you.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Buried him after you murdered him.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Isn't that so?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Who is bleeding lie. Oh yeah, Auntie Ellen, the old darling,
just had her nephew dig up her husband from under
the floor. If you think she kept him there to
make him stay home nice, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
He'd been murdered, and.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Auntie Ellen's nephew just accused her. King.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yes, yes, I killed him, Leslie.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You mustn't kill anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I know you won't tell.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Oh, it's been horrible living all these years with.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Him right in the same house. I could never leave.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Someone might find him, you see. And every time I
heard a noise in the house. Oh, it was frightful,
I should think.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
So that's why I sent for you.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I couldn't bear it alas now you know my secrets
and you will help me, of course, dear Leslie, I
know you will, and won't you?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh it, just borrow it. Don't get her. Come in, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I've heard everything, missus Richard, and I know everything.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You and Leslie, it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Was you who made those noises that capping it didn't start,
and then after you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Came yes, horrid boy fight? Did you?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
How could you do this to me after everything.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I've done for you.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I thought you loved me.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
I thought it down I will know it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I said, father, get a check book.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Okay, what I'm going to do, dear, and you are
going to write a check for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
For you, for me, the book and a pen.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I see it all.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Now, what a fool I've been taking the two of
you into my home and now you do this to
me just to get my money.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And you killed him for that money.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You have no right to talk.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You made him do this, clesly, the good boy.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You found out about this, and you put him up
to it.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I'm going to call the police at you're a murderer.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And Ellen, you won't call any police. In fact, you'll
tell no one, and you'll write that check now.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Pleasantly? Yes, true, so quite right.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I'm not in a very good position, have I.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
You would please listen it after I've trusted.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You, after I don't know. She just stood up and collapsed,
Addie Addy, Ellen, she did well.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
She's still reading and paralyzed as the boy. Father, call
her doctor. I fixed that floor and pushed the piano back. Absolutely,
she will.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Say a word.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And if she does tell about the check, who will believe?
It'll be our word against the murderers.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
My Barbara We've got to get her well enough to
write that.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Check Missus Richards, if you can understand what I'm saying,
blink your eyes.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Ah, thank you well, Doctor Walsh. Well, I can't give
you a final opinion yet, young man.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
She seems to know what we are saying. Honestly, we
won't know until I can take some X rays. It
may be simple hysterical paralysis. Doctor, I'd like to know
if if there's any danger danger, yes and no.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Patients have sometimes lived for years after a stroke.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I'm going to call in a specialist for consultation and
I'll be back in the morning with X ray equipment.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Or meanwhile, don't move her from that chair. Yes, doctor,
Watch was very kind of you to come so quickly.
Missus Richards is an old friend of mine. Call me
at once. If she seems to get work, I certainly will.
Good night right.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
At luck, just when we had hello, she seems to
be smiling.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Don't be careful.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
She can understand. Everything is safe and letter.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
You won't get away with it, Auntie. We still have you,
you know the will. You forgot about that will. You
can't make a new one now you can't write, and
we know.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Your secret yes, Annie, we still have you know, Leslie,
she has us. What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
We heard what the doctor said.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It may be years. We can wait.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Can we wait here taking care of her, waiting for
her to die? Can you imagine what that'll be like?
Maybe you can wait?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I can't, Bobbi, what's the use?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Leslie? Waited all this time? And you see what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We're worse off than we will before Barbari. You mustn't
lose your head. There may be something we can do.
What can we do? We can? Yes, let me, she
got away with it. Why can't we have even thought
of a plan? Have you?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
We can both be away, far away from here in
South America? Pad When this house can catch fire, an
invalid unable to move, it can be arranged, you know, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes it can be arranged. But are you sure of
this will? Certainly she told me about it a dozen times.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Have you seen it? No?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But I know you can't believe what she tells you. You
better look, you must be sure.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Of all of this. You're quite right. I'm almost certain
the will is in our room. I'll find it. You'll
see that.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
I'm right.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Did you say something, Miss rich.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I thought I heard you say something.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Why you're looking at me that way, Missus.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Richard, I'm not afraid.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I don't care if you heard everything. I'm not afraid
of you anymore, you and your orders.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Nothing I did was ever good enough for you.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Wasn't always telling me I was.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Too common, too cheap for you.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Well I found out what.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You were tonight. Stop your staring at me.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I want to know something, Missus Richard. He didn't figure
this out himself. I was the one who was smart
enough for that. I kept wondering why you never left
this house while your husband disappeared. And I told Leslie.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He stopped staring at me, and I heard your scream.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Huh, that's nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Have you found it?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
No, not yet, But it's around somewhere. I'm sure of it.
Do you wonder No, No, I'll find it in a minute,
I'm sure, Missus Richard. The chair. The chair has moved.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
He moved it while my back was turned while I
was talking to Leslie. Didn't you do you?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And from the fireplace there a minute ago?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Up?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Did you take it?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Did you no? Why I found it?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
She left me?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Have it?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Whybro?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
What happened to you?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And Ellen?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Where are you.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm standing behind you, Leslie.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
What don't move? But why she's dead? I killed her?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I have the end iron here in my hand.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Don't move, Please say on your ease, just where you are,
very well if you wish.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But you were very anxious to find out what happened
to my husband. Now you shall know everything. In fact,
you shall know precisely because the same thing is going
to happen to you. You see, I use this very
same instrument.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
This ooker.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You and she will share his grave.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
It's awesome, silly joking. You can't do this to me.
You know that I love you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Don't move, i'take put.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
That thing down.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You don't know what you're doing. Don't.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Oh, I'm sorry to disturb you.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Dr Walsh.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This is Ellen Richards.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Ellen Richards, I knew you'd be surprised, but I fully recovered.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You were quite right.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But you thought it was hysterical paralysis.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Well I thought so all along, but naturally I wouldn't
venture an opinion without an expert.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But why did it happen?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh, it was a silly thing, I suppose. But my
nephew Leslie told me he was going to marry.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Miss Morrow in fact they planned to elop and that
was the shock that brought it on.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yes, doctor Walsh, I suppose I let myself care for
my nephew more than I should.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, so I understand, but I'm quite over it now.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I sent them on with my blessing. They drove into
New York and they're sailing for South America.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
In a few days. So you needn't come tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Evening, all right, Ellen, but your nerves must be in
bad shape. You better let me give you a checkout.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Really well, doctor, I'll come to your house the day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Good night, good night.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Who oh there, Ellen. That's completes my checkup.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And what's the verdict.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You've got a constitution like iron. You'll live to at
least one hundred and ten. Oh but Ellen, you have
to get out of your house.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
No, now, don't go into that again, doctor Walsh. When
Gregory disappeared, I made up my mind I would never leave,
and I.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Mean to stick to that. Now. That's not what I meant, Elen.
Haven't you heard the news? What news?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
The new super Highway. It's going to be built right
through your property. Your house is dead center of the
road way. They'll have to rip it down.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, they can't do it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I will let them.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
No reason to be alarmed. You realize a handsome profit
for your property.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Fin Will these people be around? When are they coming?
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Why the surveyors are in the neighborhood now? They may
be calling at your house today to examine the property
and make an estimate of its value to But.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I must get back to the house immediately. I don't
want it to come when.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I'm not there.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Sure, hell, yes, yes, one moment. It's for you Ellen,
for me? Who is it?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I believe the man said the state police. But what
could they possibly want with you? Ellen?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Are the Ellen's relatives and friends are now all stark
dead in the parlor. She bashed nobody's head but her husband's,
her nephews, and his girlfriends. And we leave this electric
personality while she's on her way to becoming a short circuit.
(22:20):
Of course, we don't want to alarm you, but crimes
like these don't happen except to people like you and you.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But not you.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, friends, it's time once again to close that creaking
door until next week at the same time, when we'll
be back with a little hunk of horror.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You'll be sure to listen, don't you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Until next week.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Then, the NY.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Pleasant Scream Inner Sanctum has come to you through the
(23:48):
worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and
Television Service.
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