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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Obsession. What of subconscious thoughts that dwell in darkness and shadow,
What of reckless desires that take root in the soil
of envy and flower in crime. We can give the
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world a face free of lurking malice, But back in
the dim recesses of our mind crouch the age old
instincts ready to destroy. And so to our story starring
devil and anchors. The deep green waves dashed with wild
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thrusting arms upon the stern rocks of the New England shore.
Silhouetted against the slight sky, is the outline of a house,
Hontly House, and the girl in our story, Maxine Stark,
must have regretted her visit to this home above the scene,
because back of her smiling and friendly face was a
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grim and growing obsession.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
At the time, it seemed the right thing. You see,
Teressa Huntley was my twin sister. We were worlds apart socially.
Zachary had mutually refused to see or speak to each
other for ten years. She had been through a tragedy,
and I was with my husband Dudley, one of his
trips I couldn't avoid.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He was a beer salesman.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
We were in.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Maine, and I insisted to be drive over to the
coast my sister. At a few miles the road was
very bumpy.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
My husband was worse than the road.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh why and the sam Hill? Are we going over
here anyway? Because I want to drive to the ends
of the earth for.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
What she is my sister, you know, and I've never
heard your brag about that before?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Were times? After all, she did just lose.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Her husband, And what's that to you?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm thinking of Teressa. Maybe her husband meant something to her.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thanks, Oh daddy, let not argue.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Well, who's arguing?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I just think it's stupid.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
What'd your sister ever do for you?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Who knows? Maybe she'll have a change of heart. Finally
we arrived at Huntley Heart.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Teressa had certainly done well. It was a charming place,
not too big, but with a touch of elect and
every woman dreams of. The house ran almost to the beach,
with the ocean beyond, and there were flowers, nuts of
them inside the house, protected from the wind by a heavy,
thick concrete wall.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was lovely.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We knocked at the door, even after ten years, Teresa
didn't seem surprised. Well, come in mag say, Teresa, this
is my husband, Dudley.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Glad to know you, missus hunting.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Say? I can't get over it?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Get over what?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
How much you two look alike? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
What did you expect?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
My husband and I were traveling by this way. I
heard what had happened so well, I thought.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
We'd drive over. I had a premonition you were coming.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Now.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I suppose you want to strikeen up a bit after
your trip.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right upstairs there, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
As Dudley and I walked upstairs, I got my first
glimpse of the interior, but I saw many green were
envy Chippendale, the prendon over the fireplace. Teressa always did
have such marvelous taste. What's with a picture? Dudley must
have been thinking the same thing as we dressed for dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Some joint she's got.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Here, Dudley, please remember where you are now?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Joint? The place up? Also?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
All ride all right? I know how to handle myself.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We went downstairs and had dinner.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It was very.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Uncomfortable, with deadly blundering all over the place, and Teressa
prim starched. Teresesa not too friendly. After dinner, it got
so late she had to ask us to stay all night.
Dudley went to bed early. Well, Teresa and I had
a little chat in the living room.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Ten years is a long time, Maxine, Yes it is.
I think it was very nice of you to come,
even though it took.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
A death to bring. I'm glad it pleases you, Teressa.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
There was no other reason, was there, of course not? No,
I didn't come to ask you for anything. Ten years
haven't changed you much, Maxie, nor.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You after what I've gone through this last month. That's
a compliment. You do miss your husband, don't you. Yes,
I miss it very much. Poor fellow.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We couldn't even give him a decent burial.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What happened. He'd been working in his garden.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He loved his garden, decided to go for a swim.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
I watched him. He was well beyond the breakers when
the rip tided him. He screamed for help. I was powerless.
We're five miles from anyone here. You know how I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Of I've always been afraid of the water.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We'll make seen if you've just been here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That Dooka finally excused herself. I thought she was going
to bed a moment later, I saw her walking down
on the beach, looking up at the See if I'm
trying it to return to her husband.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I went up to our.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Room, feeling almost a little bit sorry to Dudley was
still awake.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Well what'd she say?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Why she were talking about her husband?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
She certainly wasn't very glad to see us what she I.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Think she was in a way?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, who knows?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
He or her only sister. Maybe you'll get yours someday.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I don't want anything from her, Oh not much.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You'll have to play your card smart though.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh why don't you go to sleep?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
All right? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Ah?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I still can't get over how much you and your
sister look alike.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's the second time Dudley had said that. The words
revolved in my mind. I went over and opened the
shutters of the window. See ways was fresh and cold.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I thought of my sister and.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I Never had been much love between us and me,
only a question of who got what.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I walked back to the bed.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Dadley was escape, But to myself, in spite of everything,
Teressa had got hers prim starch. Teressa had won. Next morning,
I got up late after breakfast, I found Teressa in
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the flower garden, which was protected from the wind by
that heavy cement wall. Good morning, mac Thine, Good morning Teressa.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You look as if you rested well.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
I've been on sleeping tablets ever since it happened.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh, your garden is lovely. It's Everett's garden. He was
very proud of it. He even built the cement wall here.
He just finished it. What do you planned to do?
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
I may take a trip later on and say wow.
Oh no, never, Everett's thought too much of the house.
If I do go, i'll lock it up. But there's
still all of ever Ittt's business affairs to clear up.
Those things are always hard for a woman.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Oh no. Everett's friend at the.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Bank in town, David Coltley, he's been wonderful.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
He's taken over completely. Teresa.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I I want you to know something, but well, we've
never been very closest sister, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's hard for me to say this, But if there's anything.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Then it's very kind of you in coming here as
you did. You already expressed that, Maxing. Why don't you
and Dudley stay on over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thank you, it would be very nice.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Perhaps Deadley was right, Perhaps if I plead my card smart.
That afternoon, I decided to take a swim in the ocean,
put on a suit, and as I approached the terrace
facing the beach, I heard Dudley badly about something.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh this is the life. This is from me.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
I don't care if I never write another beer order
in my life.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Well, Maxing, your husband likes it here, So I understand
you're going through swim?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yes, anyone care to join me?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not me?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
How about you, Dudley?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Not me?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I swim like a rock.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You're in my class. As I walked down to the water,
I noticed the house faced the cold and there.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Was a moving I don't the water with a.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Small sailboat tied up at the end, as Everett kept
it there during the summer months.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I hit the water and.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Took a long turn way out past the breakers. When
I returned, the terrace was empty. I dried off and
walked to the door and stopped at the sound of
a man's voice I recognize at first, and as I listened,
I realized it was David Cotton, to whom dressed was
nice to see.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, I'm sorry I haven't been up to rest. I've
been terribly busy. But say, you're looking wonderful.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Thank you believe me for the first time, I believe
you're coming around my way of thinking.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
You've been getting some salt.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Well, that's good, that's good for you. I'll tell you.
I am. I noticed the car on the driveways I
came in.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
That belongs to Maxine, my sister, your sister.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, she and her husband are here for a few days.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
I dare say. But now I've come into all of
Everett's money, I'm certain to be plagued by relatives.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That was all I need to hear.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Teresa would never change, teressa who would always coveted and
always won. Had she suddenly a plan involved out of
what Dadley have repeated many times since our visit to
Aunty House, If I could just change places with her?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Oh, but I don't know, Maxine, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You don't know? You said you liked it here, didn't you. Yeah, Maxine,
how can we ever.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Go back to what we had? Knowing knowing all this
is here for us?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'm afraid I think what we.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Would have Just think what would be ours, the house,
her money, freedom, all the things you've wanted and I've wanted. Yeah,
but this is murder, murdered at leats. It's merely a retribution,
the retribution she deserves. But how that's the easiest part.
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I needed Dudley for my plan. Oh how I needed him.
That night we waited until well after Teressa had gone
to bed, and slipped up to her bedroom. I knew
she practically knocked herself out with sleeping pose every night.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He opened the door, crept into the room.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We had her gagged and her arms bound almost before
she did.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Then Dudley held her while I began the tremp my.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Rings, my wristwatch and the locket with my name inscribed
on it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We carried her downstairs, down to the.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Morning into the sailboat.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Dudley was the first word.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Maccine, Are you sure you know how to save this scene?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There was a good thing.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We sailed a quickly about half a mile off shore.
We untied Teressa and pushed.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Her over the side. I swing clucked in the sound
of the heavy down.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And now we returned to the story on the wild Sea,
in the shadow of Huntley House, starring Evelan Ankers.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I did have a feeling of elation as I stood
beside my husband deadly in the sailboat, watching a glimmer
of a white cat, which which a moment before had
been my sister. But the sense of elation somehow was
not complete. I thought of my plan. It worked splendidly.
Sadly has been to help, but now he was nervous.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Machine. Don't you think we'd better be heading back? I'll
ride and quickly. There's a boat over there ahead of it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh, she's miles away. There was the outside of the
boat was running nights clear in the moon, but she
was far away.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
We came about and headed back to.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The cove, about a quarter of a mile from the shore,
I ducked below. My plan was nearly completed. I opened
the seacocks, jumped up on deck and was in the
water before Dudley realized.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Robert Hapley, what are you doing, Marjane?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Come back? Don't make me here. I watched fascinating until
the sail boat went and I swam in, climbed up
on the sand with all the houses, and I stood
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up with him. Appeared to assume my new identity is
missus Everett Huntley.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
At the house.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I waited a full hour before I notified the authorities
that the boat was missing.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Neither Terreta nor Dudley could swim and it would be
over quickly, and I called David Cotton, Terresta's counselor since
her husband's death. He rushed out to the house immediately.
He was to be the first test in my new role,
and he was easier than I expected.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Oh David, I got her as quickly as I could.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Wrest It's terrible, David.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
They've been gone nearly six hours.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Now they are the ghost Guard, searching by boat and
by plane. I'm sure they're all right, but totally what happened?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, Maxine and her husband decided on the spur of
the moment to go on a moonlight's sail.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Did either of them know anything about a boat?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Of course, Maxine handles about marvelously. She did practically nothing
else but swim and sail when we were youngster.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Well, then there's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
The very calm sea tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, I never would have let them go otherwise, Oh David, here.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
They are now, you've certainly had your share in these
past weeks.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
But don't worry. If they're in trouble, they'll be picked up.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It would upset me. There was the other boat that night,
but that the day passed in two days.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I felt relieved.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
In the afternoon of the second day, I got a
sudden phone call from David. I was prepared for that too, but.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But not quite all of it.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I have bad news for you. Dressa a fishing boat
was just brought in the body of a woman. It's
evidently no, yes, seemes the boat did go down.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Oh terrible.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I suppose I should come in and arrange for the body.
But don't they want me to identify her?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Oh no, no, they'll do that mainly by taking fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I certainly wasn't prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Nor for what followed.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
In a few hours. Summoned by the police in town,
David picked me up. He certainly was understanding as we
sat in the waiting room.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
There we won't be long.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I'm sure what is it they want?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
They just said to bring you down. Thank you, Yes, lieutenant,
sit down, you're missus Huntley. Yes, missus Huntley. I called
you down here. I want a complete report of what
happened the other night. Certainly I suppose.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
After what I tell you, you won't be interested in seeing
the body. No, at least I know if I were
in your issues, I wouldn't be interested.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
The body had deteriorated, so we were unable to identify
it with fingerprints, and you identify these this locket, these rings.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, those were vaccines, O, my dearest.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I made the report.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's a place request, and a week or so later
we held Dress's funeral. They never did find Dudley's buddy.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Then I returned to Huntley House. But unless the days.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Passed by it it became oppressive. What had been so
lovely before, the house, the.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Beach, the garden with a cement.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wall shielding it, oh too quickly became the storehouse.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Of memories I wanted to lose.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Then I muddled over an idea, and finally I made
up my mind. I called David and he came out immediately.
Come on in, David, won't you sit down?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Thank you? Dressing. You know it's always so good to
see you.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Is it you need? I tell you, David, I'm going
to take.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
A trip, excellent, wonderful idea.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Bermuda, England, France. How does it sound to you?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, I think it's the only thing. Tell me when
you want to leave? Now, may go all the arrangements.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, I'd like to go as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No, sooner you said than done.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
One other thing, David, didn't, I've decided to sell the house.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Really, yes, didn't never brother a change. I thought you
said you'd never sell it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You mean ever did, don't you?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
He loved it so well that he did. David Everett
was your best friend. Wasn't he my very best as
you knew him? Do you think he would want me
to live hereafter what has happened? No, I dare say
you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I'll post it for sale.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
You'll have no trouble selling it, I'm sure, And I'll
arrange you the finest accommodations for a.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Trip to Europe.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
David was so kind, so very thoughtful. I almost believed
that he liked me, or maybe it was because of Everett.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I sold Hungry House the next day.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
People who bought it something loved. I'll accept the cement
roll by the fly bed. They said it destroyed the
view and that they were going to tear it down.
They moved in practically as I moved out. When I
arride at the station to take train to New York,
David was waiting for me with a beautiful gossage, thoughtful.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
As always, this is to you.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh, thank you, David. It's beautiful. Now.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I want you to have a wonderful rest.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You'll be in New York a few days before you sail.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I will, Yes, I thought.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
You might want to do some shopping.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh do you think of everything?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You know?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Trust him? I'm going to miss.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You really very much.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I want you to know that.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I shall miss you too.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
David, hurry back, Yes, I will, David. The trip to
New York was marvelous, especially after the memory of David
standing there at the station and what he had said, Oh,
I had a glorious shopping spreeon And the dates of
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sailing came around almost too quickly. I'd been on board
an hour since she had left the Court.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Of New York when there was a knock on my
cabin door.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Come in here, missus.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Hudley, that's right, Assergeant Burns, New York.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Please he'll come with me, please. They rushed me off
to the station. No one would say anything. I had
no idea what was happening or what had happened. Then
they they put me in a room a home. Suddenly
the door opened and David walked in.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I rushed over to him. David, what's happened?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Keep your hands off of me, David? What's the matter
that I was falling.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
In love with you?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
David? Please? Please don't stand there like that. Tell me
what's happened.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
You know what happened.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
You were there that last day with Everett.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Well weren't you. Weren't you with him there alone? Didn't
you hear him there in that rip tide? And didn't
you hear his cries?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Essa, you should never have sold Humphrey House.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Why what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The new owner tored down that cement.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Wall Everett had been building to protect his flowers.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
The new owner found Everett's body embedded in the cement.
How could you ever do it?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Teressa, How could you ever murder him?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
You have been listening to obsession.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Obsession has come to you through the worldwide facilities of
the United States Armed Forces, Radio and Television Services
Obsession. What of subconscious thoughts that dwell in darkness and shadow,
What of reckless desires that take root in the soil
of envy and flower in crime. We can give the
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world a face free of lurking malice, But back in
the dim recesses of our mind crouch the age old
instincts ready to destroy. And so to our story starring
devil and anchors. The deep green waves dashed with wild
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thrusting arms upon the stern rocks of the New England shore.
Silhouetted against the slight sky, is the outline of a house,
Hontly House, and the girl in our story, Maxine Stark,
must have regretted her visit to this home above the scene,
because back of her smiling and friendly face was a
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grim and growing obsession.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
At the time, it seemed the right thing. You see,
Teressa Huntley was my twin sister. We were worlds apart socially.
Zachary had mutually refused to see or speak to each
other for ten years. She had been through a tragedy,
and I was with my husband Dudley, one of his
trips I couldn't avoid.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He was a beer salesman.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
We were in.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Maine, and I insisted to be drive over to the
coast my sister. At a few miles the road was
very bumpy.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
My husband was worse than the road.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh why and the sam Hill? Are we going over
here anyway? Because I want to drive to the ends
of the earth for.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
What she is my sister, you know, and I've never
heard your brag about that before?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Were times? After all, she did just lose.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Her husband, And what's that to you?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm thinking of Teressa. Maybe her husband meant something to her.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thanks, Oh daddy, let not argue.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Well, who's arguing?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I just think it's stupid.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
What'd your sister ever do for you?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Who knows? Maybe she'll have a change of heart. Finally
we arrived at Huntley Heart.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Teressa had certainly done well. It was a charming place,
not too big, but with a touch of elect and
every woman dreams of. The house ran almost to the beach,
with the ocean beyond, and there were flowers, nuts of
them inside the house, protected from the wind by a heavy,
thick concrete wall.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was lovely.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We knocked at the door, even after ten years, Teresa
didn't seem surprised. Well, come in mag say, Teresa, this
is my husband, Dudley.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Glad to know you, missus hunting.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Say? I can't get over it?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Get over what?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
How much you two look alike? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
What did you expect?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
My husband and I were traveling by this way. I
heard what had happened so well, I thought.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
We'd drive over. I had a premonition you were coming.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Now.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I suppose you want to strikeen up a bit after
your trip.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right upstairs there, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
As Dudley and I walked upstairs, I got my first
glimpse of the interior, but I saw many green were
envy Chippendale, the prendon over the fireplace. Teressa always did
have such marvelous taste. What's with a picture? Dudley must
have been thinking the same thing as we dressed for dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Some joint she's got.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Here, Dudley, please remember where you are now?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Joint? The place up? Also?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
All ride all right? I know how to handle myself.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We went downstairs and had dinner.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It was very.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Uncomfortable, with deadly blundering all over the place, and Teressa
prim starched. Teresesa not too friendly. After dinner, it got
so late she had to ask us to stay all night.
Dudley went to bed early. Well, Teresa and I had
a little chat in the living room.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Ten years is a long time, Maxine, Yes it is.
I think it was very nice of you to come,
even though it took.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
A death to bring. I'm glad it pleases you, Teressa.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
There was no other reason, was there, of course not? No,
I didn't come to ask you for anything. Ten years
haven't changed you much, Maxie, nor.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You after what I've gone through this last month. That's
a compliment. You do miss your husband, don't you. Yes,
I miss it very much. Poor fellow.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We couldn't even give him a decent burial.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What happened. He'd been working in his garden.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He loved his garden, decided to go for a swim.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
I watched him. He was well beyond the breakers when
the rip tided him. He screamed for help. I was powerless.
We're five miles from anyone here. You know how I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Of I've always been afraid of the water.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We'll make seen if you've just been here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That Dooka finally excused herself. I thought she was going
to bed a moment later, I saw her walking down
on the beach, looking up at the See if I'm
trying it to return to her husband.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I went up to our.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Room, feeling almost a little bit sorry to Dudley was
still awake.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Well what'd she say?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Why she were talking about her husband?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
She certainly wasn't very glad to see us what she I.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Think she was in a way?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, who knows?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
He or her only sister. Maybe you'll get yours someday.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I don't want anything from her, Oh not much.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You'll have to play your card smart though.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh why don't you go to sleep?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
All right? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Ah?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I still can't get over how much you and your
sister look alike.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's the second time Dudley had said that. The words
revolved in my mind. I went over and opened the
shutters of the window. See ways was fresh and cold.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I thought of my sister and.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I Never had been much love between us and me,
only a question of who got what.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I walked back to the bed.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Dadley was escape, But to myself, in spite of everything,
Teressa had got hers prim starch. Teressa had won. Next morning,
I got up late after breakfast, I found Teressa in
(07:48):
the flower garden, which was protected from the wind by
that heavy cement wall. Good morning, mac Thine, Good morning Teressa.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You look as if you rested well.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
I've been on sleeping tablets ever since it happened.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh, your garden is lovely. It's Everett's garden. He was
very proud of it. He even built the cement wall here.
He just finished it. What do you planned to do?
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
I may take a trip later on and say wow.
Oh no, never, Everett's thought too much of the house.
If I do go, i'll lock it up. But there's
still all of ever Ittt's business affairs to clear up.
Those things are always hard for a woman.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Oh no. Everett's friend at the.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Bank in town, David Coltley, he's been wonderful.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
He's taken over completely. Teresa.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I I want you to know something, but well, we've
never been very closest sister, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's hard for me to say this, But if there's anything.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Then it's very kind of you in coming here as
you did. You already expressed that, Maxing. Why don't you
and Dudley stay on over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thank you, it would be very nice.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Perhaps Deadley was right, Perhaps if I plead my card smart.
That afternoon, I decided to take a swim in the ocean,
put on a suit, and as I approached the terrace
facing the beach, I heard Dudley badly about something.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh this is the life. This is from me.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
I don't care if I never write another beer order
in my life.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Well, Maxing, your husband likes it here, So I understand
you're going through swim?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yes, anyone care to join me?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not me?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
How about you, Dudley?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Not me?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I swim like a rock.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You're in my class. As I walked down to the water,
I noticed the house faced the cold and there.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Was a moving I don't the water with a.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Small sailboat tied up at the end, as Everett kept
it there during the summer months.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I hit the water and.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Took a long turn way out past the breakers. When
I returned, the terrace was empty. I dried off and
walked to the door and stopped at the sound of
a man's voice I recognize at first, and as I listened,
I realized it was David Cotton, to whom dressed was
nice to see.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, I'm sorry I haven't been up to rest. I've
been terribly busy. But say, you're looking wonderful.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Thank you believe me for the first time, I believe
you're coming around my way of thinking.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
You've been getting some salt.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Well, that's good, that's good for you. I'll tell you.
I am. I noticed the car on the driveways I
came in.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
That belongs to Maxine, my sister, your sister.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, she and her husband are here for a few days.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
I dare say. But now I've come into all of
Everett's money, I'm certain to be plagued by relatives.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That was all I need to hear.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Teresa would never change, teressa who would always coveted and
always won. Had she suddenly a plan involved out of
what Dadley have repeated many times since our visit to
Aunty House, If I could just change places with her?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Oh, but I don't know, Maxine, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You don't know? You said you liked it here, didn't you. Yeah, Maxine,
how can we ever.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Go back to what we had? Knowing knowing all this
is here for us?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'm afraid I think what we.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Would have Just think what would be ours, the house,
her money, freedom, all the things you've wanted and I've wanted. Yeah,
but this is murder, murdered at leats. It's merely a retribution,
the retribution she deserves. But how that's the easiest part.
(12:02):
I needed Dudley for my plan. Oh how I needed him.
That night we waited until well after Teressa had gone
to bed, and slipped up to her bedroom. I knew
she practically knocked herself out with sleeping pose every night.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He opened the door, crept into the room.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We had her gagged and her arms bound almost before
she did.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Then Dudley held her while I began the tremp my.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Rings, my wristwatch and the locket with my name inscribed
on it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We carried her downstairs, down to the.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Morning into the sailboat.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Dudley was the first word.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Maccine, Are you sure you know how to save this scene?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There was a good thing.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We sailed a quickly about half a mile off shore.
We untied Teressa and pushed.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Her over the side. I swing clucked in the sound
of the heavy down.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And now we returned to the story on the wild Sea,
in the shadow of Huntley House, starring Evelan Ankers.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I did have a feeling of elation as I stood
beside my husband deadly in the sailboat, watching a glimmer
of a white cat, which which a moment before had
been my sister. But the sense of elation somehow was
not complete. I thought of my plan. It worked splendidly.
Sadly has been to help, but now he was nervous.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Machine. Don't you think we'd better be heading back? I'll
ride and quickly. There's a boat over there ahead of it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh, she's miles away. There was the outside of the
boat was running nights clear in the moon, but she
was far away.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
We came about and headed back to.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The cove, about a quarter of a mile from the shore,
I ducked below. My plan was nearly completed. I opened
the seacocks, jumped up on deck and was in the
water before Dudley realized.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Robert Hapley, what are you doing, Marjane?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Come back? Don't make me here. I watched fascinating until
the sail boat went and I swam in, climbed up
on the sand with all the houses, and I stood
(14:27):
up with him. Appeared to assume my new identity is
missus Everett Huntley.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
At the house.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I waited a full hour before I notified the authorities
that the boat was missing.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Neither Terreta nor Dudley could swim and it would be
over quickly, and I called David Cotton, Terresta's counselor since
her husband's death. He rushed out to the house immediately.
He was to be the first test in my new role,
and he was easier than I expected.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Oh David, I got her as quickly as I could.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Wrest It's terrible, David.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
They've been gone nearly six hours.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Now they are the ghost Guard, searching by boat and
by plane. I'm sure they're all right, but totally what happened?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, Maxine and her husband decided on the spur of
the moment to go on a moonlight's sail.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Did either of them know anything about a boat?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Of course, Maxine handles about marvelously. She did practically nothing
else but swim and sail when we were youngster.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Well, then there's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
The very calm sea tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, I never would have let them go otherwise, Oh David, here.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
They are now, you've certainly had your share in these
past weeks.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
But don't worry. If they're in trouble, they'll be picked up.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It would upset me. There was the other boat that night,
but that the day passed in two days.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I felt relieved.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
In the afternoon of the second day, I got a
sudden phone call from David. I was prepared for that too, but.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But not quite all of it.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I have bad news for you. Dressa a fishing boat
was just brought in the body of a woman. It's
evidently no, yes, seemes the boat did go down.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Oh terrible.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I suppose I should come in and arrange for the body.
But don't they want me to identify her?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Oh no, no, they'll do that mainly by taking fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I certainly wasn't prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Nor for what followed.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
In a few hours. Summoned by the police in town,
David picked me up. He certainly was understanding as we
sat in the waiting room.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
There we won't be long.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I'm sure what is it they want?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
They just said to bring you down. Thank you, Yes, lieutenant,
sit down, you're missus Huntley. Yes, missus Huntley. I called
you down here. I want a complete report of what
happened the other night. Certainly I suppose.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
After what I tell you, you won't be interested in seeing
the body. No, at least I know if I were
in your issues, I wouldn't be interested.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
The body had deteriorated, so we were unable to identify
it with fingerprints, and you identify these this locket, these rings.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, those were vaccines, O, my dearest.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I made the report.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's a place request, and a week or so later
we held Dress's funeral. They never did find Dudley's buddy.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Then I returned to Huntley House. But unless the days.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Passed by it it became oppressive. What had been so
lovely before, the house, the.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Beach, the garden with a cement.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wall shielding it, oh too quickly became the storehouse.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Of memories I wanted to lose.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Then I muddled over an idea, and finally I made
up my mind. I called David and he came out immediately.
Come on in, David, won't you sit down?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Thank you? Dressing. You know it's always so good to
see you.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Is it you need? I tell you, David, I'm going
to take.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
A trip, excellent, wonderful idea.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Bermuda, England, France. How does it sound to you?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, I think it's the only thing. Tell me when
you want to leave? Now, may go all the arrangements.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, I'd like to go as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No, sooner you said than done.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
One other thing, David, didn't, I've decided to sell the house.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Really, yes, didn't never brother a change. I thought you
said you'd never sell it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You mean ever did, don't you?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
He loved it so well that he did. David Everett
was your best friend. Wasn't he my very best as
you knew him? Do you think he would want me
to live hereafter what has happened? No, I dare say
you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I'll post it for sale.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
You'll have no trouble selling it, I'm sure, And I'll
arrange you the finest accommodations for a.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Trip to Europe.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
David was so kind, so very thoughtful. I almost believed
that he liked me, or maybe it was because of Everett.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I sold Hungry House the next day.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
People who bought it something loved. I'll accept the cement
roll by the fly bed. They said it destroyed the
view and that they were going to tear it down.
They moved in practically as I moved out. When I
arride at the station to take train to New York,
David was waiting for me with a beautiful gossage, thoughtful.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
As always, this is to you.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh, thank you, David. It's beautiful. Now.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I want you to have a wonderful rest.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You'll be in New York a few days before you sail.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I will, Yes, I thought.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
You might want to do some shopping.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh do you think of everything?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You know?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Trust him? I'm going to miss.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You really very much.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I want you to know that.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I shall miss you too.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
David, hurry back, Yes, I will, David. The trip to
New York was marvelous, especially after the memory of David
standing there at the station and what he had said, Oh,
I had a glorious shopping spreeon And the dates of
(21:12):
sailing came around almost too quickly. I'd been on board
an hour since she had left the Court.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Of New York when there was a knock on my
cabin door.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Come in here, missus.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Hudley, that's right, Assergeant Burns, New York.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Please he'll come with me, please. They rushed me off
to the station. No one would say anything. I had
no idea what was happening or what had happened. Then
they they put me in a room a home. Suddenly
the door opened and David walked in.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I rushed over to him. David, what's happened?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Keep your hands off of me, David? What's the matter
that I was falling.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
In love with you?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
David? Please? Please don't stand there like that. Tell me
what's happened.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
You know what happened.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
You were there that last day with Everett.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Well weren't you. Weren't you with him there alone? Didn't
you hear him there in that rip tide? And didn't
you hear his cries?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Essa, you should never have sold Humphrey House.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Why what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The new owner tored down that cement.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Wall Everett had been building to protect his flowers.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
The new owner found Everett's body embedded in the cement.
How could you ever do it?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Teressa, How could you ever murder him?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
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