August 3, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now mystery thither.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in Welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Thus, conscience does.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Make cowards of us all a quote naturally and almost
as naturally from Shakespeare. On the other hand, like proverbs,
quotes tend to contradict themselves. It was Oliver Goldsmith who
said conscience is a coward and those faults it has
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not strength enough to prevent it, seldom has justice enough
to accuse that contradiction is what this.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Story is all about.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
What are you doing in that closet my head, Hester,
I was just trying to make myself at I'll never
poke your nose into anything in this house that isn't
your business.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I didn't mean to.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
It's that you have in your hand.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's so queer, all leather and steel and buckles and things.
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Nor is it your business to While you stay here,
don't you ever meddle with anything that doesn't belong to you.
That's the first and last thing you have to learn
about Malverne.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Grange Power mystery drama Afraid to Live.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Afraid to Die.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Was written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin
and stars Jodder Rowland and Anne Potoniac. She's an old
lady now and an old friend in my family, and
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she is a remarkable woman. She's more sedentary than in
past years, since she's in her nineties, but she is
still slim, and her white hair frames a shrewd and
kindly face. She never married, and for most of her
years was a baby nurse. Only the last quarter of
her life has she taken to being companion to other
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elderly and lonesome ladies, except for one other time near
the beginning of her life. And this is Ellen Muir's
story about that haunting and terrifying experience.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Even young as I was then, I had a strange
feeling about Malvern Grange when I first saw it, dark
and shadowed at the end of a long drive I'm
by the great Shade trees. It made an eerie black
tunnel and that otherwise bright moon at night. It was
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the very picture of the haunted house. And fat, wheezy
old Joe Welman driving me by trap from the railroad
station didn't help me to feel much easier in my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Hey, hello, let me see I reckon. You'd be hester,
Milcolm Sneeze. He's expecting, yes, sir, Hell mule.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Right, it's me.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I'm Joe Welman. Please meet you Jack wall change, gardener, groom,
handyman and general bodyguard. All them lonesome women out of
the grange there, sir, All the luck as you got.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yes, sir, Oh, oh no, I can.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Carry you, little one. Ain't no way to tall even
for an old geeze you like me? Now, come on,
I got a horse and trap waiting to drive you
off to the grange. Answer you sure don't take after hester.
You're a right pretty little thing. It was the matter
cat got your tongue. Oh no, sir, I didn't say anything,
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not a line, did I wasn't that.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I just didn't know what to answer.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Helen. I want you meet Jenny. She's a Philly, just
like yourself.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Hello, Jenny, what a soft nose.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
She has a right backs a board. It's getting on
the twilight and we'd just be on the way. It's
a long drive, so you go. Did you get anything
to eat on the way down the train? Oh no, sir,
I wasn't a dining car.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Oh yes, mister Wilman, but I didn't have enough money.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, right beside you on the seat, there's a bag
of apples. There.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I don't want to take your asslets.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh bless you, little miss. I brought you those from
the Golden Lion, where I was having a pint while
waiting for the train, so just far away.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
That was very kind of you. I'll tell you the truth.
I am powerful, hungry well.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Or will keep you going until you get those grange
Only don't fill up all the way because I know
your aunt Hester's tea and a currant cake. Oh, waiting
for your time? You get old?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Easy?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What does shay wrong?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Nothing wrong?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Just who that was? That wasn't? Then you're homesick?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Kind of I've never been awake. Wait home, not.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Much of the one you're coming to?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Or dad?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What do you mean, well, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Gloomy old place for a bright young lady like you,
stuck off in nowhere with a bunch of old clucking hands.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
And her My aunt's very nice. She came to see
us once. Why.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Miss Milgrim's all right if you don't cross her. Her
heart may be kind enough, but a word is shorten.
Her word is law. And don't you ever forget it?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
You mentioned who is is her?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh well, now I say something else again? You wanted
to watch her and see she's possessed. Behold Nick himself.
She's more than half a goost, God a goost. Yes,
she's near a hundred. You know, all who wisioned up
and wrinkled like a witch, with long pointy nails and
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hands of all skin and bone?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Do you mean to madam Madam Litton?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Who else? God knows how she's lived this long, But
the Good Lord also knows. We all hope and pray
she lived to be one hundred and fifty. Our jobs
depend on it. And she goes we go, So does
marlburn Grange.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
But there's a grandson. Doesn't he live there?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Doctor Lytton sakes alive? No, he can't abide the place
he lives and practices in the city. Ah now here
it is dark enough for the moon to be the
only light in me, scaring the living daylights out of you.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I'm sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Mister Wilmer.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I didn't mean to miss you. I just wanted to
prepare you for your visit.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
This isn't a visit.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I've come here to work a little thing like you.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I'm strong, and I can cook and clean as good
as any. Things haven't been so good with my Pa.
My sister Becky is old enough now to help my
out with the six young ones. And also I had
to hire out and my aunt needed help. That's why
i'm here.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You were, I see? You can talk up well enough
when you're of a mind.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Too, mainly when I'm nervous sort of. And it does
sound a bit scary.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, we won't talk on it anymore. Oh am, I say,
it's a queen household? Right enough?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Is it much further?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Nope? There arms there?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
What's the house like?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
My bless you. It's a great black and white house.
It is, with black beams running up and down on across,
and the gables looking out quite as a sheet, and
shept like now when the moon is outing, and cruise
the shadows of the trees on them, and you can
count the leaves shadows dancing in the wind across the
stuccert and they looked like the crabs scuttling across the sand.
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Holy upsee downs you like him? Butty here, hey, I'm
see for yourself. Here's the drive.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
My heart was in my mouth as we drove up
the drive. The trees were so big that four people
spreading their arms and touching fingers could scarce reach around,
and it was like a long, great black tunnel there
beneath them, with the big house crouching at the end.
It's huge as a giant. We're an ogre in some
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old fairy tale. I wanted to jump out and run
away just as fast as my legs would carry me.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
So here you are, at last, Ellen.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I'm sorry if I'm late, ant Hestor well.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You're not late, child, it's just been an anxious wait.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You've come a long journey, Joe.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Take the bag up to the first room by the
head of the stairs.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
See you tomorrow, little missy.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Oh yes, mister Wilman, and thanks for the ride and
the conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm sure he is a hired man, Ellen, call him Joe.
We must all keep our place around here, but do
as I say now. First, welcome to Malvern Grange.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Come, we'll go up to my room for.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
A moment and let you freshen up, and then we'll
go into the housekeeper salon where Meg will have something
for you to eat. You'll be hungry, I expect, oh not.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Too, mister. Well, Joe gave me some apples on the.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Way, and what else did he give you on the
way and hear full about all of us. I'll warrant just.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
About missus o'meira, And well, I don't know whether she
is a miss or missus. He just called her Judith.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
S missus o'meira will be meg to you. She's a servant.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Antie, so am I.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You are my niece, and I am the housekeeper. As
I said everything in his place. Since you are young,
they can call you by your first name. And the
other lady Judith, oh, well, she's far on in years.
You may call her miss Squires.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
This is my bedroom.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I'll put the candle over here, and while you take
off your coat and hat, I'll just put a taper
to the overhead lamp so we can see a little better.
Here we are now then, yes, ma'am, aunt, yes, aunt?
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What did Joe tell you about the madam?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
You mean, the old lady who's sick, Missus.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Linton, that's who I mean, the madam. Why he don't
lie to me, girl.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
No, ma'am, I I know, I mean no, Aunt, Hester
he just said I shouldn't tell anyone.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Well, I'm sure he did tell me.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
What nonsense he might have been filling your head with.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh, it is nonsense, isn't it. I mean, she isn't
possessed by the devil, and she's not half a ghost,
is she? Aun hest I knew it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The answer to you, Ellen is that the Madam is
none of your business.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
She's a very old lady and she's not in the
best of health.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Now that's all you ever need to know of her.
You're not here to take care of her. You're here
to do housework with the rest of us. Haven't time
for now?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
That's the end of that cup.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
We'll go into my dining sitting room and you can
meet Meg and get something to eat. Where's missus Squier's
She's upstairs, sitting with the Maden, said Judith, falling asleep again.
You find Meg through that door. I have to go
upstairs to the Maden.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
In a second, my aunt was hurrying up the stairs,
one black mittened hand shielding the candle flame from blowing
out in the rush, And as the dark closed around me,
I hurried for the door she had pointed out to
me while I could still see it. The room I
entered was all paneled in oak, a fine fire blazing away,
plenty of light, and tea and hot cakes and meat
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smoking away on the table, And there was Meg fat
and jolly big as a house.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Where and here's our new companion at last.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Oh, oh, pretty little thing that'll put a bit of
light in this gloomy old house.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Maybe you'll be Ellen.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Lie meg o Mira pleased to meet you, missus omea, No, no, let's.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Make it Meg the morning for the year or twenty on.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
You were the only ones in this house with the
juice of youths still bobbling in our veins.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Oh me, darling, you must be hungry. Sit down and eat.
Oh where's miss milbroom.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Something happened upstairs? Oh there was someone with a I
don't know, a weird sort of laugh, and hester went
running upstairs.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Oh that'll be the Madam, Lord preserves.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
I suppose Judas fell asleep again if the old one
got away, Oh well, never.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Mind, your aunt will take care of it.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I'll sit you down, darln and start eating and forget
the other while you can.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So far certainly a haunting experience. The terror is yet
to come, and eventually the matter of conscience. Let us
leave poor little Ellen to her delicious meal for pego
Mira's cooking is as good as her heart, and returned
shortly to that haunting gabled house. It's fascinating to sit
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and watch Ellen Muir tell her story today, calmly and sadly.
Looking back over seventy years to when it happened, it
is easy to understand how vividly she remembers the young
girl who lived it, the Ellen Muir who sat in
that haunted house, homesick and hungry, and in spite of
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her jolly companion Meg, still filled with an inn escape
poble premonition of a terror yet to be faced.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
You'll have some more cake, Ellen, and a spot more tea.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Oh no, thank you, Meg, I'm so full, I couldn't
even manage another crown. Thank you. I wonder what's keeping
aunt Hester so long?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Well, I I'm thinking it's Juru's getting the tongue lashing
this time.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
She probably fell.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Fast asleep, like she's apt to do, and the old.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Madam was off and away.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
But I thought she was bedridden.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Well, no she is, and she isn't.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Gaze'll go by, and she won't open the curtains on
that all four poster she sleeps in, just stays shot
up in there, except for us bringing her meals.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
But the other days but the other day's what? Well?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
The other day she's a troublesome old lady.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Nor doubt of that. You have to be sharp watching her,
or glory be to Mary. She'll be into the fire
or out the window.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
How old is she?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Oh, you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Ninety nine her last birthday, and that eight months gone by?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Could I ask another question? Meg ask away?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
What's the harm? Just not to say?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I'll answer, is the old lady well in health?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
No harm?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
And in asking that she's well? She's been a bit
off for a bit lately, but she's much better this
last week.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
My dear say, should last out for a hundred years
or more? Yet, Oh, wish, here comes your aunt down
the hall.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I couldn't tell much from my aunt's face when she
came in. It was calm, and she didn't seem put out.
But she drew meg aside and started to talk with her.
In the warm room. With company and good food in
my stomach, I felt more at home and started to
look about. There were pictures on the wall and pretty
old china things in the cupboard, and there was a
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door open in the wainscut and inside a closet. I
saw this weird thing hanging up inside. I was just
going to look at it.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
When what are you doing in that closet, oh?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I asked her. I was just trying to make myself
a hammer.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Poke your nose into anything in this house that isn't
your business.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I didn't mean act you have in your hand.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
It's so queer, all leather and steal and buckles and things.
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It is, nor is it your business too. While you
stay here, don't you ever meddle with anything that doesn't
belong to you. That's the first and last thing you
have to learn about Malverne Grange.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Now give it to me, missus Middlegroom. The child meant
no harm.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Well, it's better that she learns to mind her peas
and cues. I don't want any repetitions of she's my niece, Meg,
I want her protected.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
My aunt took me up to my bed and settled
me in for the night. My only instructions were that
since my room was next to the madams, I was
to be ready to call if need be, and six
point thirty was rising. Time. I lay for a while
aweke nervous like I think it was all the tea
in me in the thought of the picture Joe Wellman
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had given me the strange old lady next door. Next morning,
I slept late, and by the time I got down
for breakfast, my aunt and the local doctor were upstairs
with a madam and Meg and I were alone in
the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Ah, there you are, little Ellen, country, fresh scrambled eggs.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Now you eat them all up. You look a bit pale.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Did you sleep well? I said, sound enough, I'm ashamed
I'm up so late.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Well show you that your aunt's not all pepper and vinegar.
She's the one who said you shouldn't be disturbed till
you're rested off from your trip.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
No eat your eggs.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I'll get you some tea, or if you do, don't mind,
I'd rather have milk.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Well, and so.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
You shot me Dallen to bring the roses back to
those pale little cheeks.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
You know you don't look like you slept so well.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Well, my room is next to missus well, you know
the madam and I thought there was quite a lot
of coming and going the way it sounded, oh.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Sure, and the old beldam has been in one of
her tantrums from the night before you arrive till today.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
She takes fits of the sulks.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Do you see?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Sometimes she won't let us dress her, and other time
she won't allow us to take the clothes off of her.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
And Lord and Mercy Ellen child, you should see the
closet after close that she has full of old fashioned.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Stuff, and she still likes to wear them, Lord and Bobus.
Sometimes we can't get her out of them till the
doctor comes, Like.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Today, you mean she goes to bed wearing them bald dresses,
evening clothes, and sometimes even a table or an ermine stall.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Now what am I telling you this? For love tis
none of your business.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
She's an old lady living well past her time for
some reason God only knows.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
She was a great beauty in her days, so they say,
and proud.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Will I get to see her? Ever? Do you think? Well?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
I don't know, Darlin, Just as well you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I would have liked to have seen the old lady,
but she might as well have been up in the
city for all the close I got. I did my
cleaning and my needlework, and once or twice a week
the town doctor came in to check them. Madam. Nights
after my dinner before the twilight, my aunt made me
go out to get some air in the gardens. I
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was always glad when I came back. Trees were so big,
and he's so dark and lonesome. It always made me
cry and think of a home. Usually i'd go down
to the stable and try to find Joe. Sometimes we
could talk.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It's none of my business, miss Mubby. Why don't you
go on back home? This is no place for a nice,
fresh little girl like you.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
My aunt is very kind, and Meg is fun, and
I told you my pa isn't doing so well. It's
important I have my job here. I can't let my
mom pod down or my aunt. And it's not so
bad here with you and Meg and Aunt Hester then
as it works out, I seldom see missus Squire's and
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never than Madam herself.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Not sure are the good so far, But there's something
evil who lies on this house and this family any
I wouldn't want it ever to touch you.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I'm not so young as I apparently seen Joe. I
can take care of myself in spite of all my
tremors and silly fears. I meant that when I said
it to Joe. My life was very simple. Actually, I
did the laundry, so cleaning, and sometimes I sat in
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the great chamber in which the Madam slept, the curtains
drawn around the bed, tending what, for all intents and purposes,
might have been a corpse. Till one evening, when I
was in my own room reading, my aunt was in
the next room with a madam, and of a sudden
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I could hear them talking. I pricked up my ears,
but it was nothing but a mumble. Till I stole,
ever so quiet to my own door, opened it a
crack to listen. Then I could hear the old lady
speak at last, a queer, high voice, like a bird.
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I don't know how to describe it, but for all
it cracked and trembled, it was clear enough.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I'm not good.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
He can't. Yes, I will yet.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
The devil, see evil one can't hurt anyone, ma'am without
the Lord for me.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
What use you she?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
What what do you say? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
No, no, rush now, don't get yourself worked up.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
And there with their nice they tell lies, you see,
and they're jealous.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Envy, envy, and Pastasia's beautiful show they lies. She believed them,
maybe believes them? About what do she?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
What was there to be said? The lie?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
You waiting? Yay yay yay, And talk about me?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Ye, my sad, my sad.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
You see.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Now let them pull all the faces they want, ma'm
and say what they will.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Just remember if the Lord is for us, who can
be against her?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Love him? So do you see?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I couldn't say to share him?
Speaker 8 (24:21):
But now he's dead?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Did dead?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
And gone?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Dead, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I kept listening with my ear to the door a
long time, but not another word did I hear. So
finally I closed it quietly and went back to my
picture book. Till suddenly.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
We don't wake her again after the trouble I've had
getting her to sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
The madam who else?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
All dressed up like she was off to the inauguration ball?
Not even her wig or her slippers would she take off?
Oh I am exhausted.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Now listen to me.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Move your candle and your book over to your door
and keep it open so you can.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Watch and listen.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I've left Madame Lytton's store Ajar, and I'm off to
have a cup of tea and a bite. And when
Judith and I come back up. You can go down,
and Meg will give you supper in my room. But
if you hear her stir, mind, give me a call.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Paul.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Shut her door and hang on to the handle, as
if for dear life, till I and the others come
up to help.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
I sat there trying to keep my eyes on the book,
but they kept being drawn down the shadowed hall to
the other door. I couldn't hold it back.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I had to have one, just to see what the
old lady was like.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I was near blinded the moment I entered the room.
I'd never been in it after dark before, and it
was ablaze with twenty two wax candles. I tiptoed to
the bed and listened. I could hear her breathing, rusty,
like the kind of gurgle. Slowly, slowly, I parted the
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curtain and looked in. Here she was just lying as
Meg described her that first day, scarlet and green and
satin and silk and lace, a big powdered wig keels
as tall as my hand and as sharp as her
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big crooked nose, and her long painting nails. Half of
the whites of her eyes were open, so rattle is,
she breathed. I was frozen, stiff with fright, and before
I knew it, she opened her eyes and sat up,
spun around and dropped her to the ground with a clock.
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She stood up, smarting at me with a finger like
a corse. Oh you you, why did you?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Says to my face.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
So I say what, madam? Why did you say I
killed the boy?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
What you know?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Scare me around? She's the life out of you? You
with my airs?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You. Oh, yes, that is a way I have you
just gone in?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Don't tell me why did you Say't I youse a boy?
I never I never see.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, you are f used the sash.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
My eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So now the moment of terror has arrived.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Ellen, backed into a corner of the room, faces that
in moniacal old Bell Dane, who advances on her mad
yellow white eyes rolling in her head, her ancient wrinkled
hands with the nails mounted on the fingers like knives,
reaching for her face and her throat. I'll return shortly
with Act three, a story in three stages, first haunting,
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second replete with terror. Both of these shall continue, but last,
and far from least, the matter of conscience, the complex
of ethical and moral principles which controls or inhibits the
actions and thoughts of an individual. We begin now, certainly
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with Ellen's conscience, which was bothering her quite as much
as her memory of terror.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Now that she was safely down.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
In the sitting room with Meg, while Missus Squire's and
her aunt were upstairs greeting the madam, Now.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Drink your tea, Ellen, I put a wee drap of
brandy in it to car you down, dear.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'm really all right now, Megan. I just lost my
head a little. It wasn't that I couldn't have handled
her physically. It was just I was so scared.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Oh sure, sure she's enough to scare the devil when
she gets into one of her fits.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to fight away being curious.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Well, this time curiosity didn't kill the cat. I've a
bit curious missile for all that. Well, what would you
say those words again? The old lady said to you.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
She she said, why do you say I killed the boy?
And did you say she killed the boy? That I make?
Why would I say a thing like that?
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Just a curious thing, love, that doesn't matter. Come on,
now we'd best see you off the bed. That drop
of brandy'll give you a nice quiet sleep. I can
see your eyes beginning to drop already.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
There, Gennemine love me doesn't like a nice bath and
a good rub down. But what ears an?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Hello? Let me see. I haven't seen you since all
the excitement today is so gone? How are you? Miss Muir?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Oh? Joe?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
When we're alone? Can it be just Ellen?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't know, might get me in trouble with Miss Milgram.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
That'll make two of us.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
She'll come around. She's a good woman at heart, and
she knows there isn't a single solary personal without a
bump of curiosity.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Yes, I know, Aunt Hester's only strict and not unkind.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
The trouble is trouble squad.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
The trouble is I'm still suffering from that bump.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Curiosity.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Eh what boy?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Eh? Well, that's an old story, Missy. If you want
to hear it, I'll tell her as sure as I can.
I mind, this is only secondhand from my father who
was groom here before me, and it's seventy years ago.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, Joe,
Miss I.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Mean Helen Wat's the point. Maybe it'll help you feel better,
and that's all the reward i'd want. The madam missus Litton,
Oh she was a great beauty in her day, tell me.
But when she married the owner of Marvin Grange, he
was a widower and he had a son about nine
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years old.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Is that the boy she was talking about? We're not
suppose why would she think she killed him?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
That was a terrible treasedy, little Missilne. The boy from
water here was a fine young man, full of energy
and daring. There are those who say he was allowed
too much liberty because one day he just plain disappeared
and the hiding the hear of him was seen from
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that day forward. Shave only his hat found by the
lake under Hawthorn Bush.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
But where do they think he went? What happened to him?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Where his little boat was missing? So he must have drowned?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Oh how awful.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
My part said that mister Litton bore up under it.
But the madam went to pieces for a long while.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
But she must have had children then, ef po Yes.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
After she got over the loss, she had a boy,
mister Stanley, that was who was the father of doctor Edmond.
Missus Shanny died a few years ago, so the estate
now belongs to doctor Edmund, old lady's grandson.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
To spend all those years worrying about something she couldn't help,
and now to have it all back up at the end.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hm, what are you talking about? Ellen? Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I was just thinking. I know. It's a good thing
we all have a conscience, but it can be a
terrible thing too. Poor Madame Lytton must be just as
conscience stricken at what she might have done is I
am at what I shouldn't have watch on? She probably
blames herself for not watching a little boy more closely,
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just as I blame myself for trying to watch something
closely that was none of my business.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Oh, now, Ell, I'm a young girl. Curious you aren't.
You blame no.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
More than the madam, I guess, but try to tell
your conscience that ancience was not to be easily set
at rest, so I found out only too soon.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Now, Ellen, will you stop your moping?
Speaker 5 (34:06):
How can I ever? Since the doctor came and I
found out what that that contraption hanging on the door
was for.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Oh, bless your child. It's not the first time she's
been in the strait waistcoat. She's been in it many
a time when she became violent.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Does she have to be shut up in it?
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Well, the doctor's afraid she'll take another fit of madness
as she's done before.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
It's all my fault.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh could it be your.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Fault because I did something I shouldn't have?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Dear Mary in heaven.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
If we all lived our lives without doing some little
thing we shouldn't have, oh, we'd all be in the
same leather jerkins. It's on my conscience, will me, darling?
I wish you only one thing? What that that should
be the heaviest thing you ever bear on your conscience?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Makes words made me feel better till the end came
wild groble end, screaming and begging for no one knew what,
and at long last the soul made its flitting from
her body and she was at rest. Doctor Lytton was
written for, but he was off in France on a vacation,
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and the delay would be so long that the local
doctor agreed she could not be kept in her place,
and the old lady of Malvern Grange was laid away
to rest in the church where her ancestors were buried.
While we all waited for doctor Lytton's return. They moved
me from my room away from the old ladies, to
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one by the end of the hall. There was little
in the room but a bed and a big bureau,
so a few things were moved in from the Madam's room,
which had been stripped when she was coffined. Among them
the big looking glass she used to dress up in
front of and admire herself in her finery. The night
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after I moved there, That's where she came from, in
the middle of the night, the great key in her hand,
her eyes fixed on the alcove in the wall at
the foot of my bed, with a blast of cold air,
and I could see everything through her, the night stand,
the window frame pattern on the wall, straight for the
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big bureau in the alcove. She went, key outstretched, and
as she vanished, I came alive and screamed as I've
never screamed in my life.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
All Right, Ellen, all right, it's all right now.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Sorry, I'm sorry that. Oh maybe it was a dree s,
but I shut now.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I'll just tell me. Had the appearance that you saw
a key in its hall?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Was it like this one?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Why?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That's it?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
A very image?
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Are you sure as sure, sure.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Ah that that'll you child.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
You sleep here with me to night, and the doctor
will be here by noon tomorrow. I'm sorry for what
I've put you through.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
A The doctor arrived promptly at noon the following day,
and after half an hour or so, closeted with my
aunt in the housekeeper's room, I was called in and introduced.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Now what is this you say you saw, my dear?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
It it was your grandmother, doctor Lytton.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well, you know my grandmother has been dead for nearly
a month.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
It was her, I mean, not alive, but a ghost.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
You believe in ghosts.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
I never did, sir, but I believe in this one.
I could see right through her.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
And you say that she just walked into the big
high bureau and disappeared.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
With a key in her hand. This key or it's copy.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Hold on a minute. Eween the room at the end
of that hall or the left up the stairs. Yes,
and the bureau you say, is in the alcohol. Yes,
come on, we're going up there and bring that key.
All right now it is. If you'll assist me and
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don't try to live. Just slide it ready, easy, easy,
that's far enough.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Now, what is it? Doctor didn't.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
When I was a boy twenty five years ago, an
old servant we had told me there used to be
a door here by heaven. There it is. The plate
and jewels used to be kept here before the big
pantry was built. Give me that key, lord, hurry, the
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lock turned all right, Stand back, both of you, but
hold that candle high. Here goes, oh good lord.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
What fell from the door as it opened was a
small skeleton, its hands resting on the inside of the door,
as if in a last plea for mercy. And as
it fell to the floor, it all crumbled to dust,
save for the small skull, which bounced and then rolled
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to my aunt's feet. That's all that was left from
what had been shut up there all those years, except
some jet button and a small green hafted knife.
Speaker 6 (40:06):
The boy, he wasn't drowned.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
He was shut up here to die.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
My grandmother couldn't have It's her rich family.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
She wanted it all for her own child.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
I damn myself for every minute of service I gave her.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
You can't be sure.
Speaker 8 (40:28):
When the boy disappeared, he was wearing a velvet suit
with black jet button your seat, and his favorite possession
was a green halfted knife, a knife from his father.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
But I hid and the key, the key Ellen saw
the ghost.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Carry I found at the bottom of your grandmother's chest,
beneath her wigs and gloves and jewels and silks and
satins under which she tried to hide her guilt.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Well it served her little at the last.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
She's where she feared she'd be in the end, with
a black devil, in the deeps.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Of hell, where she belongs.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
No wonder Madame Lytton was afraid to die, and equally
afraid to live. For what a hell her later years
must have become. When ambition, desire, and greediness, like other emotions,
are no longer strong and driving, certainly no longer strong
enough to still the pangs of conscience. I'll be back shortly.
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I find it hard nowadays to pass any neglected object
by the water's edge without having to repress a shudder.
A beer can, a pair of sunglasses, a sneaker, a
child's pale, or most of all a hat. For the
moment I spot the object, I don't see it, but
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a poor little boy shut up to die in a
sealed safe for neither his cries nor his wild thumpings
on the door, or his prayers, if.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
He knew how to say them, could be heard.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Our cast included Jodda Rowland and Potoniac, Joan Shay and
Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymon Brown.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
This is E. G.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
On until next time, pleasant dreams.
And now mystery thither.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in Welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Thus, conscience does.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Make cowards of us all a quote naturally and almost
as naturally from Shakespeare. On the other hand, like proverbs,
quotes tend to contradict themselves. It was Oliver Goldsmith who
said conscience is a coward and those faults it has
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not strength enough to prevent it, seldom has justice enough
to accuse that contradiction is what this.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Story is all about.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
What are you doing in that closet my head, Hester,
I was just trying to make myself at I'll never
poke your nose into anything in this house that isn't
your business.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I didn't mean to.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
It's that you have in your hand.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's so queer, all leather and steel and buckles and things.
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Nor is it your business to While you stay here,
don't you ever meddle with anything that doesn't belong to you.
That's the first and last thing you have to learn
about Malverne.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Grange Power mystery drama Afraid to Live.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Afraid to Die.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Was written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin
and stars Jodder Rowland and Anne Potoniac. She's an old
lady now and an old friend in my family, and
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she is a remarkable woman. She's more sedentary than in
past years, since she's in her nineties, but she is
still slim, and her white hair frames a shrewd and
kindly face. She never married, and for most of her
years was a baby nurse. Only the last quarter of
her life has she taken to being companion to other
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elderly and lonesome ladies, except for one other time near
the beginning of her life. And this is Ellen Muir's
story about that haunting and terrifying experience.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Even young as I was then, I had a strange
feeling about Malvern Grange when I first saw it, dark
and shadowed at the end of a long drive I'm
by the great Shade trees. It made an eerie black
tunnel and that otherwise bright moon at night. It was
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the very picture of the haunted house. And fat, wheezy
old Joe Welman driving me by trap from the railroad
station didn't help me to feel much easier in my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Hey, hello, let me see I reckon. You'd be hester,
Milcolm Sneeze. He's expecting, yes, sir, Hell mule.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Right, it's me.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I'm Joe Welman. Please meet you Jack wall change, gardener, groom,
handyman and general bodyguard. All them lonesome women out of
the grange there, sir, All the luck as you got.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yes, sir, Oh, oh no, I can.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Carry you, little one. Ain't no way to tall even
for an old geeze you like me? Now, come on,
I got a horse and trap waiting to drive you
off to the grange. Answer you sure don't take after hester.
You're a right pretty little thing. It was the matter
cat got your tongue. Oh no, sir, I didn't say anything,
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not a line, did I wasn't that.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I just didn't know what to answer.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Helen. I want you meet Jenny. She's a Philly, just
like yourself.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Hello, Jenny, what a soft nose.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
She has a right backs a board. It's getting on
the twilight and we'd just be on the way. It's
a long drive, so you go. Did you get anything
to eat on the way down the train? Oh no, sir,
I wasn't a dining car.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Oh yes, mister Wilman, but I didn't have enough money.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, right beside you on the seat, there's a bag
of apples. There.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I don't want to take your asslets.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh bless you, little miss. I brought you those from
the Golden Lion, where I was having a pint while
waiting for the train, so just far away.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
That was very kind of you. I'll tell you the truth.
I am powerful, hungry well.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Or will keep you going until you get those grange
Only don't fill up all the way because I know
your aunt Hester's tea and a currant cake. Oh, waiting
for your time? You get old?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Easy?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What does shay wrong?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Nothing wrong?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Just who that was? That wasn't? Then you're homesick?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Kind of I've never been awake. Wait home, not.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Much of the one you're coming to?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Or dad?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What do you mean, well, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Gloomy old place for a bright young lady like you,
stuck off in nowhere with a bunch of old clucking hands.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
And her My aunt's very nice. She came to see
us once. Why.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Miss Milgrim's all right if you don't cross her. Her
heart may be kind enough, but a word is shorten.
Her word is law. And don't you ever forget it?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
You mentioned who is is her?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh well, now I say something else again? You wanted
to watch her and see she's possessed. Behold Nick himself.
She's more than half a goost, God a goost. Yes,
she's near a hundred. You know, all who wisioned up
and wrinkled like a witch, with long pointy nails and
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hands of all skin and bone?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Do you mean to madam Madam Litton?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Who else? God knows how she's lived this long, But
the Good Lord also knows. We all hope and pray
she lived to be one hundred and fifty. Our jobs
depend on it. And she goes we go, So does
marlburn Grange.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
But there's a grandson. Doesn't he live there?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Doctor Lytton sakes alive? No, he can't abide the place
he lives and practices in the city. Ah now here
it is dark enough for the moon to be the
only light in me, scaring the living daylights out of you.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I'm sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Mister Wilmer.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I didn't mean to miss you. I just wanted to
prepare you for your visit.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
This isn't a visit.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I've come here to work a little thing like you.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I'm strong, and I can cook and clean as good
as any. Things haven't been so good with my Pa.
My sister Becky is old enough now to help my
out with the six young ones. And also I had
to hire out and my aunt needed help. That's why
i'm here.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You were, I see? You can talk up well enough
when you're of a mind.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Too, mainly when I'm nervous sort of. And it does
sound a bit scary.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, we won't talk on it anymore. Oh am, I say,
it's a queen household? Right enough?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Is it much further?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Nope? There arms there?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
What's the house like?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
My bless you. It's a great black and white house.
It is, with black beams running up and down on across,
and the gables looking out quite as a sheet, and
shept like now when the moon is outing, and cruise
the shadows of the trees on them, and you can
count the leaves shadows dancing in the wind across the
stuccert and they looked like the crabs scuttling across the sand.
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Holy upsee downs you like him? Butty here, hey, I'm
see for yourself. Here's the drive.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
My heart was in my mouth as we drove up
the drive. The trees were so big that four people
spreading their arms and touching fingers could scarce reach around,
and it was like a long, great black tunnel there
beneath them, with the big house crouching at the end.
It's huge as a giant. We're an ogre in some
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old fairy tale. I wanted to jump out and run
away just as fast as my legs would carry me.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
So here you are, at last, Ellen.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I'm sorry if I'm late, ant Hestor well.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You're not late, child, it's just been an anxious wait.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You've come a long journey, Joe.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Take the bag up to the first room by the
head of the stairs.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
See you tomorrow, little missy.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Oh yes, mister Wilman, and thanks for the ride and
the conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm sure he is a hired man, Ellen, call him Joe.
We must all keep our place around here, but do
as I say now. First, welcome to Malvern Grange.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Come, we'll go up to my room for.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
A moment and let you freshen up, and then we'll
go into the housekeeper salon where Meg will have something
for you to eat. You'll be hungry, I expect, oh not.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Too, mister. Well, Joe gave me some apples on the.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Way, and what else did he give you on the
way and hear full about all of us. I'll warrant just.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
About missus o'meira, And well, I don't know whether she
is a miss or missus. He just called her Judith.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
S missus o'meira will be meg to you. She's a servant.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Antie, so am I.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You are my niece, and I am the housekeeper. As
I said everything in his place. Since you are young,
they can call you by your first name. And the
other lady Judith, oh, well, she's far on in years.
You may call her miss Squires.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
This is my bedroom.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I'll put the candle over here, and while you take
off your coat and hat, I'll just put a taper
to the overhead lamp so we can see a little better.
Here we are now then, yes, ma'am, aunt, yes, aunt?
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What did Joe tell you about the madam?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
You mean, the old lady who's sick, Missus.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Linton, that's who I mean, the madam. Why he don't
lie to me, girl.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
No, ma'am, I I know, I mean no, Aunt, Hester
he just said I shouldn't tell anyone.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Well, I'm sure he did tell me.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
What nonsense he might have been filling your head with.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh, it is nonsense, isn't it. I mean, she isn't
possessed by the devil, and she's not half a ghost,
is she? Aun hest I knew it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The answer to you, Ellen is that the Madam is
none of your business.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
She's a very old lady and she's not in the
best of health.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Now that's all you ever need to know of her.
You're not here to take care of her. You're here
to do housework with the rest of us. Haven't time
for now?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
That's the end of that cup.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
We'll go into my dining sitting room and you can
meet Meg and get something to eat. Where's missus Squier's
She's upstairs, sitting with the Maden, said Judith, falling asleep again.
You find Meg through that door. I have to go
upstairs to the Maden.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
In a second, my aunt was hurrying up the stairs,
one black mittened hand shielding the candle flame from blowing
out in the rush, And as the dark closed around me,
I hurried for the door she had pointed out to
me while I could still see it. The room I
entered was all paneled in oak, a fine fire blazing away,
plenty of light, and tea and hot cakes and meat
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smoking away on the table, And there was Meg fat
and jolly big as a house.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Where and here's our new companion at last.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Oh, oh, pretty little thing that'll put a bit of
light in this gloomy old house.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Maybe you'll be Ellen.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Lie meg o Mira pleased to meet you, missus omea, No, no, let's.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Make it Meg the morning for the year or twenty on.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
You were the only ones in this house with the
juice of youths still bobbling in our veins.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Oh me, darling, you must be hungry. Sit down and eat.
Oh where's miss milbroom.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Something happened upstairs? Oh there was someone with a I
don't know, a weird sort of laugh, and hester went
running upstairs.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Oh that'll be the Madam, Lord preserves.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
I suppose Judas fell asleep again if the old one
got away, Oh well, never.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Mind, your aunt will take care of it.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I'll sit you down, darln and start eating and forget
the other while you can.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So far certainly a haunting experience. The terror is yet
to come, and eventually the matter of conscience. Let us
leave poor little Ellen to her delicious meal for pego
Mira's cooking is as good as her heart, and returned
shortly to that haunting gabled house. It's fascinating to sit
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and watch Ellen Muir tell her story today, calmly and sadly.
Looking back over seventy years to when it happened, it
is easy to understand how vividly she remembers the young
girl who lived it, the Ellen Muir who sat in
that haunted house, homesick and hungry, and in spite of
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her jolly companion Meg, still filled with an inn escape
poble premonition of a terror yet to be faced.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
You'll have some more cake, Ellen, and a spot more tea.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Oh no, thank you, Meg, I'm so full, I couldn't
even manage another crown. Thank you. I wonder what's keeping
aunt Hester so long?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Well, I I'm thinking it's Juru's getting the tongue lashing
this time.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
She probably fell.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Fast asleep, like she's apt to do, and the old.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Madam was off and away.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
But I thought she was bedridden.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Well, no she is, and she isn't.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Gaze'll go by, and she won't open the curtains on
that all four poster she sleeps in, just stays shot
up in there, except for us bringing her meals.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
But the other days but the other day's what? Well?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
The other day she's a troublesome old lady.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Nor doubt of that. You have to be sharp watching her,
or glory be to Mary. She'll be into the fire
or out the window.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
How old is she?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Oh, you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Ninety nine her last birthday, and that eight months gone by?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Could I ask another question? Meg ask away?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
What's the harm? Just not to say?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I'll answer, is the old lady well in health?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
No harm?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
And in asking that she's well? She's been a bit
off for a bit lately, but she's much better this
last week.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
My dear say, should last out for a hundred years
or more? Yet, Oh, wish, here comes your aunt down
the hall.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I couldn't tell much from my aunt's face when she
came in. It was calm, and she didn't seem put out.
But she drew meg aside and started to talk with her.
In the warm room. With company and good food in
my stomach, I felt more at home and started to
look about. There were pictures on the wall and pretty
old china things in the cupboard, and there was a
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door open in the wainscut and inside a closet. I
saw this weird thing hanging up inside. I was just
going to look at it.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
When what are you doing in that closet, oh?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I asked her. I was just trying to make myself
a hammer.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Poke your nose into anything in this house that isn't
your business.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I didn't mean act you have in your hand.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
It's so queer, all leather and steal and buckles and things.
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It is, nor is it your business too. While you
stay here, don't you ever meddle with anything that doesn't
belong to you. That's the first and last thing you
have to learn about Malverne Grange.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Now give it to me, missus Middlegroom. The child meant
no harm.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Well, it's better that she learns to mind her peas
and cues. I don't want any repetitions of she's my niece, Meg,
I want her protected.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
My aunt took me up to my bed and settled
me in for the night. My only instructions were that
since my room was next to the madams, I was
to be ready to call if need be, and six
point thirty was rising. Time. I lay for a while
aweke nervous like I think it was all the tea
in me in the thought of the picture Joe Wellman
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had given me the strange old lady next door. Next morning,
I slept late, and by the time I got down
for breakfast, my aunt and the local doctor were upstairs
with a madam and Meg and I were alone in
the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Ah, there you are, little Ellen, country, fresh scrambled eggs.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Now you eat them all up. You look a bit pale.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Did you sleep well? I said, sound enough, I'm ashamed
I'm up so late.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Well show you that your aunt's not all pepper and vinegar.
She's the one who said you shouldn't be disturbed till
you're rested off from your trip.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
No eat your eggs.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I'll get you some tea, or if you do, don't mind,
I'd rather have milk.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Well, and so.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
You shot me Dallen to bring the roses back to
those pale little cheeks.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
You know you don't look like you slept so well.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Well, my room is next to missus well, you know
the madam and I thought there was quite a lot
of coming and going the way it sounded, oh.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Sure, and the old beldam has been in one of
her tantrums from the night before you arrive till today.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
She takes fits of the sulks.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Do you see?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Sometimes she won't let us dress her, and other time
she won't allow us to take the clothes off of her.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
And Lord and Mercy Ellen child, you should see the
closet after close that she has full of old fashioned.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Stuff, and she still likes to wear them, Lord and Bobus.
Sometimes we can't get her out of them till the
doctor comes, Like.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Today, you mean she goes to bed wearing them bald dresses,
evening clothes, and sometimes even a table or an ermine stall.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Now what am I telling you this? For love tis
none of your business.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
She's an old lady living well past her time for
some reason God only knows.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
She was a great beauty in her days, so they say,
and proud.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Will I get to see her? Ever? Do you think? Well?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
I don't know, Darlin, Just as well you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I would have liked to have seen the old lady,
but she might as well have been up in the
city for all the close I got. I did my
cleaning and my needlework, and once or twice a week
the town doctor came in to check them. Madam. Nights
after my dinner before the twilight, my aunt made me
go out to get some air in the gardens. I
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was always glad when I came back. Trees were so big,
and he's so dark and lonesome. It always made me
cry and think of a home. Usually i'd go down
to the stable and try to find Joe. Sometimes we
could talk.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It's none of my business, miss Mubby. Why don't you
go on back home? This is no place for a nice,
fresh little girl like you.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
My aunt is very kind, and Meg is fun, and
I told you my pa isn't doing so well. It's
important I have my job here. I can't let my
mom pod down or my aunt. And it's not so
bad here with you and Meg and Aunt Hester then
as it works out, I seldom see missus Squire's and
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never than Madam herself.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Not sure are the good so far, But there's something
evil who lies on this house and this family any
I wouldn't want it ever to touch you.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I'm not so young as I apparently seen Joe. I
can take care of myself in spite of all my
tremors and silly fears. I meant that when I said
it to Joe. My life was very simple. Actually, I
did the laundry, so cleaning, and sometimes I sat in
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the great chamber in which the Madam slept, the curtains
drawn around the bed, tending what, for all intents and purposes,
might have been a corpse. Till one evening, when I
was in my own room reading, my aunt was in
the next room with a madam, and of a sudden
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I could hear them talking. I pricked up my ears,
but it was nothing but a mumble. Till I stole,
ever so quiet to my own door, opened it a
crack to listen. Then I could hear the old lady
speak at last, a queer, high voice, like a bird.
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I don't know how to describe it, but for all
it cracked and trembled, it was clear enough.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I'm not good.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
He can't. Yes, I will yet.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
The devil, see evil one can't hurt anyone, ma'am without
the Lord for me.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
What use you she?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
What what do you say? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
No, no, rush now, don't get yourself worked up.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
And there with their nice they tell lies, you see,
and they're jealous.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Envy, envy, and Pastasia's beautiful show they lies. She believed them,
maybe believes them? About what do she?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
What was there to be said? The lie?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
You waiting? Yay yay yay, And talk about me?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Ye, my sad, my sad.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
You see.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Now let them pull all the faces they want, ma'm
and say what they will.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Just remember if the Lord is for us, who can
be against her?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Love him? So do you see?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I couldn't say to share him?
Speaker 8 (24:21):
But now he's dead?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Did dead?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
And gone?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Dead, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I kept listening with my ear to the door a
long time, but not another word did I hear. So
finally I closed it quietly and went back to my
picture book. Till suddenly.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
We don't wake her again after the trouble I've had
getting her to sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
The madam who else?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
All dressed up like she was off to the inauguration ball?
Not even her wig or her slippers would she take off?
Oh I am exhausted.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Now listen to me.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Move your candle and your book over to your door
and keep it open so you can.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Watch and listen.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I've left Madame Lytton's store Ajar, and I'm off to
have a cup of tea and a bite. And when
Judith and I come back up. You can go down,
and Meg will give you supper in my room. But
if you hear her stir, mind, give me a call.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Paul.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Shut her door and hang on to the handle, as
if for dear life, till I and the others come
up to help.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
I sat there trying to keep my eyes on the book,
but they kept being drawn down the shadowed hall to
the other door. I couldn't hold it back.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I had to have one, just to see what the
old lady was like.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I was near blinded the moment I entered the room.
I'd never been in it after dark before, and it
was ablaze with twenty two wax candles. I tiptoed to
the bed and listened. I could hear her breathing, rusty,
like the kind of gurgle. Slowly, slowly, I parted the
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curtain and looked in. Here she was just lying as
Meg described her that first day, scarlet and green and
satin and silk and lace, a big powdered wig keels
as tall as my hand and as sharp as her
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big crooked nose, and her long painting nails. Half of
the whites of her eyes were open, so rattle is,
she breathed. I was frozen, stiff with fright, and before
I knew it, she opened her eyes and sat up,
spun around and dropped her to the ground with a clock.
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She stood up, smarting at me with a finger like
a corse. Oh you you, why did you?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Says to my face.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
So I say what, madam? Why did you say I
killed the boy?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
What you know?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Scare me around? She's the life out of you? You
with my airs?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You. Oh, yes, that is a way I have you
just gone in?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Don't tell me why did you Say't I youse a boy?
I never I never see.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, you are f used the sash.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
My eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So now the moment of terror has arrived.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Ellen, backed into a corner of the room, faces that
in moniacal old Bell Dane, who advances on her mad
yellow white eyes rolling in her head, her ancient wrinkled
hands with the nails mounted on the fingers like knives,
reaching for her face and her throat. I'll return shortly
with Act three, a story in three stages, first haunting,
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second replete with terror. Both of these shall continue, but last,
and far from least, the matter of conscience, the complex
of ethical and moral principles which controls or inhibits the
actions and thoughts of an individual. We begin now, certainly
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with Ellen's conscience, which was bothering her quite as much
as her memory of terror.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Now that she was safely down.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
In the sitting room with Meg, while Missus Squire's and
her aunt were upstairs greeting the madam, Now.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Drink your tea, Ellen, I put a wee drap of
brandy in it to car you down, dear.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'm really all right now, Megan. I just lost my
head a little. It wasn't that I couldn't have handled
her physically. It was just I was so scared.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Oh sure, sure she's enough to scare the devil when
she gets into one of her fits.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to fight away being curious.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Well, this time curiosity didn't kill the cat. I've a
bit curious missile for all that. Well, what would you
say those words again? The old lady said to you.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
She she said, why do you say I killed the boy?
And did you say she killed the boy? That I make?
Why would I say a thing like that?
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Just a curious thing, love, that doesn't matter. Come on,
now we'd best see you off the bed. That drop
of brandy'll give you a nice quiet sleep. I can
see your eyes beginning to drop already.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
There, Gennemine love me doesn't like a nice bath and
a good rub down. But what ears an?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Hello? Let me see. I haven't seen you since all
the excitement today is so gone? How are you? Miss Muir?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Oh? Joe?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
When we're alone? Can it be just Ellen?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't know, might get me in trouble with Miss Milgram.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
That'll make two of us.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
She'll come around. She's a good woman at heart, and
she knows there isn't a single solary personal without a
bump of curiosity.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Yes, I know, Aunt Hester's only strict and not unkind.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
The trouble is trouble squad.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
The trouble is I'm still suffering from that bump.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Curiosity.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Eh what boy?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Eh? Well, that's an old story, Missy. If you want
to hear it, I'll tell her as sure as I can.
I mind, this is only secondhand from my father who
was groom here before me, and it's seventy years ago.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, Joe,
Miss I.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Mean Helen Wat's the point. Maybe it'll help you feel better,
and that's all the reward i'd want. The madam missus Litton,
Oh she was a great beauty in her day, tell me.
But when she married the owner of Marvin Grange, he
was a widower and he had a son about nine
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years old.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Is that the boy she was talking about? We're not
suppose why would she think she killed him?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
That was a terrible treasedy, little Missilne. The boy from
water here was a fine young man, full of energy
and daring. There are those who say he was allowed
too much liberty because one day he just plain disappeared
and the hiding the hear of him was seen from
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that day forward. Shave only his hat found by the
lake under Hawthorn Bush.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
But where do they think he went? What happened to him?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Where his little boat was missing? So he must have drowned?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Oh how awful.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
My part said that mister Litton bore up under it.
But the madam went to pieces for a long while.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
But she must have had children then, ef po Yes.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
After she got over the loss, she had a boy,
mister Stanley, that was who was the father of doctor Edmond.
Missus Shanny died a few years ago, so the estate
now belongs to doctor Edmund, old lady's grandson.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
To spend all those years worrying about something she couldn't help,
and now to have it all back up at the end.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hm, what are you talking about? Ellen? Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I was just thinking. I know. It's a good thing
we all have a conscience, but it can be a
terrible thing too. Poor Madame Lytton must be just as
conscience stricken at what she might have done is I
am at what I shouldn't have watch on? She probably
blames herself for not watching a little boy more closely,
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just as I blame myself for trying to watch something
closely that was none of my business.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Oh, now, Ell, I'm a young girl. Curious you aren't.
You blame no.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
More than the madam, I guess, but try to tell
your conscience that ancience was not to be easily set
at rest, so I found out only too soon.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Now, Ellen, will you stop your moping?
Speaker 5 (34:06):
How can I ever? Since the doctor came and I
found out what that that contraption hanging on the door
was for.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Oh, bless your child. It's not the first time she's
been in the strait waistcoat. She's been in it many
a time when she became violent.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Does she have to be shut up in it?
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Well, the doctor's afraid she'll take another fit of madness
as she's done before.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
It's all my fault.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh could it be your.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Fault because I did something I shouldn't have?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Dear Mary in heaven.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
If we all lived our lives without doing some little
thing we shouldn't have, oh, we'd all be in the
same leather jerkins. It's on my conscience, will me, darling?
I wish you only one thing? What that that should
be the heaviest thing you ever bear on your conscience?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Makes words made me feel better till the end came
wild groble end, screaming and begging for no one knew what,
and at long last the soul made its flitting from
her body and she was at rest. Doctor Lytton was
written for, but he was off in France on a vacation,
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and the delay would be so long that the local
doctor agreed she could not be kept in her place,
and the old lady of Malvern Grange was laid away
to rest in the church where her ancestors were buried.
While we all waited for doctor Lytton's return. They moved
me from my room away from the old ladies, to
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one by the end of the hall. There was little
in the room but a bed and a big bureau,
so a few things were moved in from the Madam's room,
which had been stripped when she was coffined. Among them
the big looking glass she used to dress up in
front of and admire herself in her finery. The night
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after I moved there, That's where she came from, in
the middle of the night, the great key in her hand,
her eyes fixed on the alcove in the wall at
the foot of my bed, with a blast of cold air,
and I could see everything through her, the night stand,
the window frame pattern on the wall, straight for the
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big bureau in the alcove. She went, key outstretched, and
as she vanished, I came alive and screamed as I've
never screamed in my life.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
All Right, Ellen, all right, it's all right now.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Sorry, I'm sorry that. Oh maybe it was a dree s,
but I shut now.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I'll just tell me. Had the appearance that you saw
a key in its hall?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Was it like this one?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Why?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That's it?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
A very image?
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Are you sure as sure, sure.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Ah that that'll you child.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
You sleep here with me to night, and the doctor
will be here by noon tomorrow. I'm sorry for what
I've put you through.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
A The doctor arrived promptly at noon the following day,
and after half an hour or so, closeted with my
aunt in the housekeeper's room, I was called in and introduced.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Now what is this you say you saw, my dear?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
It it was your grandmother, doctor Lytton.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well, you know my grandmother has been dead for nearly
a month.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
It was her, I mean, not alive, but a ghost.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
You believe in ghosts.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
I never did, sir, but I believe in this one.
I could see right through her.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
And you say that she just walked into the big
high bureau and disappeared.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
With a key in her hand. This key or it's copy.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Hold on a minute. Eween the room at the end
of that hall or the left up the stairs. Yes,
and the bureau you say, is in the alcohol. Yes,
come on, we're going up there and bring that key.
All right now it is. If you'll assist me and
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don't try to live. Just slide it ready, easy, easy,
that's far enough.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Now, what is it? Doctor didn't.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
When I was a boy twenty five years ago, an
old servant we had told me there used to be
a door here by heaven. There it is. The plate
and jewels used to be kept here before the big
pantry was built. Give me that key, lord, hurry, the
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lock turned all right, Stand back, both of you, but
hold that candle high. Here goes, oh good lord.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
What fell from the door as it opened was a
small skeleton, its hands resting on the inside of the door,
as if in a last plea for mercy. And as
it fell to the floor, it all crumbled to dust,
save for the small skull, which bounced and then rolled
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to my aunt's feet. That's all that was left from
what had been shut up there all those years, except
some jet button and a small green hafted knife.
Speaker 6 (40:06):
The boy, he wasn't drowned.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
He was shut up here to die.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
My grandmother couldn't have It's her rich family.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
She wanted it all for her own child.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
I damn myself for every minute of service I gave her.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
You can't be sure.
Speaker 8 (40:28):
When the boy disappeared, he was wearing a velvet suit
with black jet button your seat, and his favorite possession
was a green halfted knife, a knife from his father.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
But I hid and the key, the key Ellen saw
the ghost.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Carry I found at the bottom of your grandmother's chest,
beneath her wigs and gloves and jewels and silks and
satins under which she tried to hide her guilt.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Well it served her little at the last.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
She's where she feared she'd be in the end, with
a black devil, in the deeps.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Of hell, where she belongs.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
No wonder Madame Lytton was afraid to die, and equally
afraid to live. For what a hell her later years
must have become. When ambition, desire, and greediness, like other emotions,
are no longer strong and driving, certainly no longer strong
enough to still the pangs of conscience. I'll be back shortly.
(42:01):
I find it hard nowadays to pass any neglected object
by the water's edge without having to repress a shudder.
A beer can, a pair of sunglasses, a sneaker, a
child's pale, or most of all a hat. For the
moment I spot the object, I don't see it, but
(42:23):
a poor little boy shut up to die in a
sealed safe for neither his cries nor his wild thumpings
on the door, or his prayers, if.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
He knew how to say them, could be heard.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Our cast included Jodda Rowland and Potoniac, Joan Shay and
Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymon Brown.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
This is E. G.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
On until next time, pleasant dreams.
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