March 27, 2025 • 29 mins
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Present Suspense.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
I suspend.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Back home again, Back home on the street. What he
lay is what the sign on the lamp post says.
But it's just the street to those that knows it.
Here about a few that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What with the name.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's got as dirty, rotten rummer spot as you'll find
in the Oarl of London.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Jrgy Williams.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Back home again?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Are you my time? Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Quite?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
A couple men.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Bound to be.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
More than I can say for you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The street the only oh I've had since my mum
and dad were taken the blitz. That's how they got it.
And now I came to live with my uncle Bert,
if you can call that living there.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
I've been the last six months as you do in
dart More. King one of these little schemes that he
talked me into, saying how safe it was, And it
was for uncle Bert, but not for me, because uncle
Bert is a cook and a liar. He's steal a
pennies off a dead man's eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh he'd never get caught.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They could prove it on the dead one sooner than
they could on uncle Bert got.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Hold out of that. Come come on, move along day.
Hey't you there just a minute?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're you're George Williams.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Ain't you? That's right? Coffer?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What of it?
Speaker 8 (02:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Nothing at all me lad? Just mind you don't cut
any fancy keepers. Now that you're back. I can take
care of myself. I can, huh.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And if you can't those again, you know.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
That's what it's like being from the street.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You're marked with it, your kind to uncle Bertie goes
for double but there's no place to go.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So uh, I'm going on, Georgie, Georgie. Then hello, uncle Bert, Georgie,
let's come on, I come well, come home. I'm coming in.
But there's no need to carry on so about it.
You wonder about it? Why you're the prodigal son you are,
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Georgie Belen, it's a petty caff for you. Come off
his uncle Bert. You don't want me back.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
If there was any other place in the Oarl of
England for me to hang my aunt, I wouldn't be back.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Boy, Now that does I think you'd say that to me?
What raised you from my dang len?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, got me a six month stretch of hard labor
to top it. Door down right and grateful I am
my uncle Bert.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
George was hard to know you go ahead and do something.
I spoke about it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yes, but if i'd come home with a swag, you'll
have had your share quick enough and know just about that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I'm sorry for Georgie.
Speaker 9 (04:01):
You never know what I've been through blaming me so
points so well.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I'm going to be a surprise board.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yea, hello George, missus Penry.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Oh you see Bertie does remember me?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Isn't that I couldn't very well help it seeing all
the errands I used to run to you from the
shop in our eye Street. Aren't expected to see you
down in these parts, though.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
But you see I don't have the shop anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Oh so today, yes, and.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Bert you tell him?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Tell me what that's a surprise. I was telling you
about Georgie led Missus Pendley and I got it last week.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
We're married, So you see, George, you'll have to call
me aunt Edna now Mary.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
They swept me off my feet.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He did you married him? And why not?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Oh George, I know it seems a bit queer to
someone your age, two people as old as we are,
but we were both lonely since my husband died.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Have had no Do you need somebody to take care
of her? Somebody that match? Now you know my.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Old heart, you remember, don't you, George?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And so she didn't me take over the job and
made me the yiest man in.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
The world to boot You do understand, don't you, George?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Well, I I expect you'll be moving out of this rattle.
Then both of you will go and live in your house.
I expect a Missus Pendry.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
This is williams now then aunt Edna, aunt Edna then well,
you see, I don't have my house anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
George dey lot around here, and well, we didn't want
to give them any chance to say I'm married. Aren't
edit for the money?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So I sold my house too. But I don't care
where I live so long as I'm with third. And
you're just as welcome her as ever, even more.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
You have your room.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Upstairs, you always used to have more.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Hey, hold on, what's the where is it? Where's what?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know?
Speaker 10 (05:53):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
The picture? The picture of my mother that was over
the mantel piece.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Oh Bert, I asked you to leave it where it was.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You missed this in the house, now, lad, Never mind
about that? Where's the picture? Handed? On the mind? Are
you turning over? I said? And it's no broad raising
a round because I can't hand it. No, what did
you do with it? You had no right to put
your filthy hands on you. I must know I burnd it.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
The only thing I am the world to remind the other.
Why why are you wobbles?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You're from me? Don't you raise for him?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
To me?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Crazy down? Poor asked me what you've done? What's up
with her?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Here?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Give me the end? Get her to her room. No,
I don't need you both.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
But George wouldn't mind.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
My medicine.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's a blue bottle in the kitchen cabin, a teaspoon
and half a glass of water. Want to sting?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
All right, keep your hair on and come along, my dear,
Come on the bed with you. Yeah, it is a medicine.
Give it two.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Feeling better now, I'll be all right after the business.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I just like her and Ruth for a while.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
If you don't mind you are, will be just outside
here if you want anything, Come on, Georgie.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I'm sorry to be such and thank you George.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Nothing to thank me for?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And that bed of hers?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Ask me fair? What you to do? I dare say?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
What's the game?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Uncle Burt Dame?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
What game?
Speaker 10 (07:33):
You know? What?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
This marriage business?
Speaker 10 (07:36):
Your word?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What you said? We were both lonely, lonely.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You're not tying yourself down playing nurse made to some
old a bag because you're.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Lonely, Not you, George, speaking of my wife, your one,
your wife's money. That's all you've got your eye on. Ah,
So that's it. Then why didn't I move into the
fine push out of hers up? Nwe to?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Why didn't I of course you'd rather have the cash
ice Pa.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
All right, the further I do come in. We're at
a t one thow one day, if you can wait
that long? And just what do you mean by that?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
All I know is I'm not having any I'm clearing
out now tonight. But I didn't go. Oh, I don't
know why. That night when it was late enough, so
I reckon they'd be asleep, I made straight for the kitchen.
I was near dead from hunger.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
I was.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I started rummaging through the cupboard.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
And then I saw it, right next to a bottle
of medicine, a little box. It was marked with the
stolen Crossbones.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Poison rat poison.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Hello, George, why would the matter look at the wad?
Scared you have to do?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Oh no, no, you just came on your bit son,
That's all. I didn't expect to find you up.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I've been wanting to talk to you. Why why don't
you and your uncle Bert get along?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Well, if you must know, Uncle Bert and I don't
quite see eye to eye on one or two things.
But oh well, I'll be out of his way soon enough.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Never fear about.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
That, George, I know Bert isn't all that well.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I know what people say about him, but he's been good.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
To me, got his reasons to I dare say he's
a sharp one. He is.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
He's been good to me, and perhaps if he had
a chance, if he hadn't been in the street, he'd
have been a good man all his life.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
The street.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
That's what we all put our troubles onto here, the street.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I know it's hard, George, but if maybe you could
get yourself a bit of education.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Oh why, of course, all I have to do is
prott long enough to walks for the redrest of the
menaire son, No, I didn't mean.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
That, just learn a trade for the starter for the money.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Well, I've got a pig of the money.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Oh no, I don't need any help yours or anybody else's.
While the last six months I've had about all the
reforming I can stay.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
It's not that, George.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
You're like a neview to me.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Now you better stick to reforming Uncle Burt he needed
as much as I.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, Georgie, I'll told you didn't need proper fortune teller.
You are what you're doing up at this time of
night deadne You shouldn't been jumping up in the middle
of the night with your the shape.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
It is, Oh, I heard George. I just wanted to
see if he.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Was all right. Well, not along to bed now, there's
a good girl. I'll take care of Georgie.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Well, good night.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You're not in a proper mood. George. You will never
make your way in the world, not the way you're
going about it.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I suppose you know just how to go about it.
That's why you've lived in this stilthy ale all your life.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I wouldn't say that, but I know one way. Money
is one way and me playing.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
What's this this part of your plans?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Is it that? What rat poisoned it? I ain't never
seen no rats around here. There's no arm having a
bit andy is there? And the prevention's worth a pan
of cure, you know.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And the proper andy place you've got for it too,
haven't you? Right next to a bottle of medicine.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's it? So now I'm a cruel and inhuman monster
that will poisoning his own wife. Is that it?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I didn't say you would. That's why I didn't say
you wouldn't neither.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think I got it all played. They I slipper
the poison, and no one even bothered to us why
she rolled up, because they all know you've got a
bed ticket. Is that the way you too?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I see you've done a bit of thinking.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
At any rate, look at it, George Milen. Even if
I was the monster you say, I'd be the last
one that killer, don't you see? Not yet? I don't.
I have to make out there will, Georgie. I'll get
that stuff anyway. I'm going to afford to wait, I
don't know about certain now that part is George, that
would benefit along with me that I can afford to white.
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as his aunt Edna.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
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Speaker 1 (13:59):
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Speaker 7 (14:16):
I should have known it then that today I found
the rat poison. What Uncle Bert was up to. I
knew he'd married Edna for her money. I knew he
was rotten enough to live. I watched him like an orc.
I fixed all the meals myself, seeing I wanted to
help around the house. The poison was always there, up
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in the kitchen cupboard next to him, mention with the
skull and crossbones on it, and the scene.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
No, dear George Lend can't have a spot of tea
with this team. Well, but what about that? We're not
frost breads, but we can have a spot feel all
the same.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
It was birth's idea, said, it made us seem more
of a family, like Erica Georgie.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
No thanks, but I'll turn the tray around for you, though,
looks a bit unsteady but dead.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Now you get aunted in this cup and she gets yours.
But there's no matter, is it? Of course not.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
It's all the same tea.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You don't mind, do you, Uncle Bert?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No, why should I?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Oh it's nice to have a cup of tea about
this time of day.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
I'd almost forgotten.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Well cleaned up, uncle Bert, only get cold sitting there?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What's that pettersonality? I like it a bit cool, and myself.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
There's anything wrong with your tea?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Birth mine lovely, shouldn't be anything wrong with it? Picture
himself he did, of course, there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
No love us, But no need to take it all
down in the gulp. I think you were swallowing rank poisons.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
In your throat, and uncle Bert, but.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I gotta swallow in me with But it's good now, Georgie.
You can sink your right. You are okay. You know
where the tea is, Georgie. No, no, it's in the kitchen,
right next to the medicine. You'll find a Georgie, right
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next to the medicine. But the tea wasn't next to
the medicine. It wasn't there at all.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I only the little box was there, with the skull
and crossbones and still unopened.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Boys. I found the tea and poured out the two cups.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
All the time my eye was on the little box.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I was thinking how I had to.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Get away, had to get away, about the money, how easy.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It would be.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
And then it comes to me all in a flash,
what bird was up to? Why I'd done nothing about it?
Because he'd known what I was thinking before I knew
it myself. He knew what I was thinking out there
in the kitchen right then. He knew I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
About murder man.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That night.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I in the box didn't chuck it out, mind, you
only did it in a place not too hard to find.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Next morning it was back in the cupboard.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Right next to the mansion. Poison, no mistake about it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Now, and another of Uncle Bert's nigh safe little schemes.
Safe for him you all, but come right out in
so many words with it.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Nothing to arrange but the terms that I knew he'd
get to that too. Once he was sure of me.
All he had to do was wait, was what he thought,
Wait for me to kill her?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, George, cleaning up the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Well, it don't look like I'm playing a bloody game
of darts, does.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It now, Georgie? I was looking for that red boy
from last night, and the devil don't job to find it.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I could have told you where it was found some
rats at last, have you not in.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Particular caught it? Best to have it out there where
it's andy though? Well it's andy now, all right? So
where I've put in? Did you now?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Look here?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Georgie? You know how I feel about you. What's mine
is yours? Whatever I am, or whatever I might share
and share a life fifty partners.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Let's first I've ever known you to offer a bloke
so much as a time.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Of days be the last two, but the one time
might be worth all the rest.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Hey, Georgie, only times I've known you cheat your own
grandmother out of the last two teeth in her head.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's maybe. But if your partners they're taking your chances together,
aren't you? Both of you and the same the bed
of the good got to tweet each other fair and square, then,
don't you. If it's like that, that's how it is.
All right? You'll think it over see it, don't, Oh,
my dear, not tacking bed.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Are you not dead?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Huh right?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You are well, Georgie. You know how to fix it,
don't you. I know how to fix it. I'll just
slip along down the road and got a few things
to attend to. But I'll be bad in plenty of time.
Mind you are, then, and Georgie, fix it right this time?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
I got the medicine and mix it up as usual.
So I scarcely knew what I was doing, because all
the time I was thinking about the stream, about my
shirt was always eight dirty, about my baggy second an soup,
And now well what did she matter to me?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Anyhow?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
She was a sure thing to roll up in a
ear or two anyway, what.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Would that sicker of hers?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But if she didn't know I, I was free, free.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Next thing I knew, I don't in the box and
dunking up at the stuff into a glass to kill
a card horse. Then I was carrying it into her
walking I in a dream. I'm wondering where my voice
was coming from it.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It sounded so strange and far away.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Just set it down on the table with you, George, right, Oh,
aren't you aunt?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Didn't I hate to be such.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
A trouble to you, George? You've been awfully good about
the house here and all.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Oh, it's no trouble all the same.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I know it isn't easy.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Oh, I don't mind always just to help my mum
about the house.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
You loved your mother a lot, didn't you, George?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yes, I yes I did.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
I wish you'd do what I know she'd want you
to do if she was alive.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What's there?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Get away? Get away from the street. I know she's
praying for that, whatever she is.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
The street does things to people, George.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Terrible things. I will I will get away one day.
One day may be too late, Maybe it will, maybe
it won't.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Why don't you let me help you. I know she'd
want that too.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Do you really think she would?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Oh? I know she would, George.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Please, no, no, I said, I don't want any help enough,
and I don't.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
All right, George, I won't say anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Hand me my medicine.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Please, what my medicine.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
On the table?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Oh you are, thank you?
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Go George.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm sorry I slipped. I did, did you? Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I I thought you struck the glass out of my hand.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
No, no, no, I didn't.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Anyway, it's no matter. I'll get you some more, George, aren't.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Anna an you?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You've got to get away from here?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Get away, yes, now to day before it's too late.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Perhaps it is too late.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
No, no, it isn't.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Not for you.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
I can't get out of it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I never will, but you can. You've got money. You've
got to go.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Are you sure that best?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I know it is for everyone? For you, I mean,
for your l.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
That's it, if that's what I mean. I was thinking
about that. You're l Oh you'll never get welly, you'll die.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I've been prepared for that for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh, not here. You you got to go. Promise me
you'll go.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Yes, Perhaps that is best? All right, George, I'll go.
Speaker 11 (23:14):
That night, I slept, really slept, for the first time
in weight. When I woke up, it it seemed late.
I heard the sound of dishes down in the parlor.
I jumped into my clothes in a flash and looked
down the stairs.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
They were having breakfast coffee.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
I seemed to turn all sick inside. I ran down
the backstairs of the kitchen and over to the cupboard.
The boss was still there, but it was empty. The
poison of the news since yesterday.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I ran out into the parlor.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh, thanks, I think, don't.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Don't think it. Did you think it ended up?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Tell me my coffee.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's poisoned. I won't shut up. I knew he did.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
He wanted me to, and when I wouldn't, he did
it himself.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
But he won't get away with the head.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
No, I've gotta go on.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
I'll get your doctor nor again. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I'll tell you. I'll think you were medicine. She's dead dead.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Oh, don't try any of that, ancle Bert.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You poisoned her. You didn't, and I know it.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
I looked at the box in the kitchen and it's empty,
and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
To the police.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
You did, George, Well, I swear I didn't I Tony,
she made the coffy of she launted out hands she
did Georgie, God, doctor just don't want me to right.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
That's it being the running master mind. So far you
get your own doctor, Gorge.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
So long, Uncle Bert, happy landing.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I went next.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Door and asked missus Wiggins to call the police.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Then I went back to the house. I picked up Ed.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
In my arms and carried her to her room, and
later on a bed, I smoothed out a pillar for
her head, as though she was still alive. Then I
saw it, the picture of my mother and the note,
Dear George, don't be sorry for me, and don't think
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badly of me. I was wrong to close my eyes
to things just because I didn't want to see them.
But after yesterday I knew you were right and it
was best for me to go away. Give this note
to the police so that they will know it was
me and not you the poisoned him. I found a
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picture of your mother in the attic. She was so
beautiful that I could see why even.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Bert couldn't really burn it, like he said, take the
money that I've left and leave the street, but carry
her picture with you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Wherever you go, for I know she will always be
watching over you as.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
She was yesterday, to keep you from arm.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And so shall I your friend.
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
I suspend.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Back home again, Back home on the street. What he
lay is what the sign on the lamp post says.
But it's just the street to those that knows it.
Here about a few that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What with the name.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's got as dirty, rotten rummer spot as you'll find
in the Oarl of London.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Jrgy Williams.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Back home again?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Are you my time? Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Quite?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
A couple men.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Bound to be.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
More than I can say for you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The street the only oh I've had since my mum
and dad were taken the blitz. That's how they got it.
And now I came to live with my uncle Bert,
if you can call that living there.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
I've been the last six months as you do in
dart More. King one of these little schemes that he
talked me into, saying how safe it was, And it
was for uncle Bert, but not for me, because uncle
Bert is a cook and a liar. He's steal a
pennies off a dead man's eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh he'd never get caught.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They could prove it on the dead one sooner than
they could on uncle Bert got.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Hold out of that. Come come on, move along day.
Hey't you there just a minute?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're you're George Williams.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Ain't you? That's right? Coffer?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What of it?
Speaker 8 (02:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Nothing at all me lad? Just mind you don't cut
any fancy keepers. Now that you're back. I can take
care of myself. I can, huh.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And if you can't those again, you know.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
That's what it's like being from the street.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You're marked with it, your kind to uncle Bertie goes
for double but there's no place to go.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So uh, I'm going on, Georgie, Georgie. Then hello, uncle Bert, Georgie,
let's come on, I come well, come home. I'm coming in.
But there's no need to carry on so about it.
You wonder about it? Why you're the prodigal son you are,
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Georgie Belen, it's a petty caff for you. Come off
his uncle Bert. You don't want me back.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
If there was any other place in the Oarl of
England for me to hang my aunt, I wouldn't be back.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Boy, Now that does I think you'd say that to me?
What raised you from my dang len?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, got me a six month stretch of hard labor
to top it. Door down right and grateful I am
my uncle Bert.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
George was hard to know you go ahead and do something.
I spoke about it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yes, but if i'd come home with a swag, you'll
have had your share quick enough and know just about that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I'm sorry for Georgie.
Speaker 9 (04:01):
You never know what I've been through blaming me so
points so well.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I'm going to be a surprise board.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yea, hello George, missus Penry.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Oh you see Bertie does remember me?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Isn't that I couldn't very well help it seeing all
the errands I used to run to you from the
shop in our eye Street. Aren't expected to see you
down in these parts, though.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
But you see I don't have the shop anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Oh so today, yes, and.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Bert you tell him?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Tell me what that's a surprise. I was telling you
about Georgie led Missus Pendley and I got it last week.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
We're married, So you see, George, you'll have to call
me aunt Edna now Mary.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
They swept me off my feet.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He did you married him? And why not?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Oh George, I know it seems a bit queer to
someone your age, two people as old as we are,
but we were both lonely since my husband died.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Have had no Do you need somebody to take care
of her? Somebody that match? Now you know my.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Old heart, you remember, don't you, George?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And so she didn't me take over the job and
made me the yiest man in.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
The world to boot You do understand, don't you, George?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Well, I I expect you'll be moving out of this rattle.
Then both of you will go and live in your house.
I expect a Missus Pendry.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
This is williams now then aunt Edna, aunt Edna then well,
you see, I don't have my house anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
George dey lot around here, and well, we didn't want
to give them any chance to say I'm married. Aren't
edit for the money?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So I sold my house too. But I don't care
where I live so long as I'm with third. And
you're just as welcome her as ever, even more.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
You have your room.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Upstairs, you always used to have more.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Hey, hold on, what's the where is it? Where's what?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know?
Speaker 10 (05:53):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
The picture? The picture of my mother that was over
the mantel piece.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Oh Bert, I asked you to leave it where it was.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You missed this in the house, now, lad, Never mind
about that? Where's the picture? Handed? On the mind? Are
you turning over? I said? And it's no broad raising
a round because I can't hand it. No, what did
you do with it? You had no right to put
your filthy hands on you. I must know I burnd it.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
The only thing I am the world to remind the other.
Why why are you wobbles?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You're from me? Don't you raise for him?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
To me?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Crazy down? Poor asked me what you've done? What's up
with her?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Here?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Give me the end? Get her to her room. No,
I don't need you both.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
But George wouldn't mind.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
My medicine.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's a blue bottle in the kitchen cabin, a teaspoon
and half a glass of water. Want to sting?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
All right, keep your hair on and come along, my dear,
Come on the bed with you. Yeah, it is a medicine.
Give it two.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Feeling better now, I'll be all right after the business.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I just like her and Ruth for a while.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
If you don't mind you are, will be just outside
here if you want anything, Come on, Georgie.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I'm sorry to be such and thank you George.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Nothing to thank me for?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And that bed of hers?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Ask me fair? What you to do? I dare say?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
What's the game?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Uncle Burt Dame?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
What game?
Speaker 10 (07:33):
You know? What?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
This marriage business?
Speaker 10 (07:36):
Your word?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What you said? We were both lonely, lonely.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You're not tying yourself down playing nurse made to some
old a bag because you're.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Lonely, Not you, George, speaking of my wife, your one,
your wife's money. That's all you've got your eye on. Ah,
So that's it. Then why didn't I move into the
fine push out of hers up? Nwe to?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Why didn't I of course you'd rather have the cash
ice Pa.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
All right, the further I do come in. We're at
a t one thow one day, if you can wait
that long? And just what do you mean by that?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
All I know is I'm not having any I'm clearing
out now tonight. But I didn't go. Oh, I don't
know why. That night when it was late enough, so
I reckon they'd be asleep, I made straight for the kitchen.
I was near dead from hunger.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
I was.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I started rummaging through the cupboard.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
And then I saw it, right next to a bottle
of medicine, a little box. It was marked with the
stolen Crossbones.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Poison rat poison.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Hello, George, why would the matter look at the wad?
Scared you have to do?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Oh no, no, you just came on your bit son,
That's all. I didn't expect to find you up.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I've been wanting to talk to you. Why why don't
you and your uncle Bert get along?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Well, if you must know, Uncle Bert and I don't
quite see eye to eye on one or two things.
But oh well, I'll be out of his way soon enough.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Never fear about.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
That, George, I know Bert isn't all that well.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I know what people say about him, but he's been good.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
To me, got his reasons to I dare say he's
a sharp one. He is.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
He's been good to me, and perhaps if he had
a chance, if he hadn't been in the street, he'd
have been a good man all his life.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
The street.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
That's what we all put our troubles onto here, the street.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I know it's hard, George, but if maybe you could
get yourself a bit of education.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Oh why, of course, all I have to do is
prott long enough to walks for the redrest of the
menaire son, No, I didn't mean.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
That, just learn a trade for the starter for the money.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Well, I've got a pig of the money.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Oh no, I don't need any help yours or anybody else's.
While the last six months I've had about all the
reforming I can stay.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
It's not that, George.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
You're like a neview to me.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Now you better stick to reforming Uncle Burt he needed
as much as I.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, Georgie, I'll told you didn't need proper fortune teller.
You are what you're doing up at this time of
night deadne You shouldn't been jumping up in the middle
of the night with your the shape.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
It is, Oh, I heard George. I just wanted to
see if he.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Was all right. Well, not along to bed now, there's
a good girl. I'll take care of Georgie.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Well, good night.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You're not in a proper mood. George. You will never
make your way in the world, not the way you're
going about it.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I suppose you know just how to go about it.
That's why you've lived in this stilthy ale all your life.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I wouldn't say that, but I know one way. Money
is one way and me playing.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
What's this this part of your plans?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Is it that? What rat poisoned it? I ain't never
seen no rats around here. There's no arm having a
bit andy is there? And the prevention's worth a pan
of cure, you know.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And the proper andy place you've got for it too,
haven't you? Right next to a bottle of medicine.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's it? So now I'm a cruel and inhuman monster
that will poisoning his own wife. Is that it?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I didn't say you would. That's why I didn't say
you wouldn't neither.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think I got it all played. They I slipper
the poison, and no one even bothered to us why
she rolled up, because they all know you've got a
bed ticket. Is that the way you too?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I see you've done a bit of thinking.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
At any rate, look at it, George Milen. Even if
I was the monster you say, I'd be the last
one that killer, don't you see? Not yet? I don't.
I have to make out there will, Georgie. I'll get
that stuff anyway. I'm going to afford to wait, I
don't know about certain now that part is George, that
would benefit along with me that I can afford to white.
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Speaker 7 (14:16):
I should have known it then that today I found
the rat poison. What Uncle Bert was up to. I
knew he'd married Edna for her money. I knew he
was rotten enough to live. I watched him like an orc.
I fixed all the meals myself, seeing I wanted to
help around the house. The poison was always there, up
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in the kitchen cupboard next to him, mention with the
skull and crossbones on it, and the scene.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
No, dear George Lend can't have a spot of tea
with this team. Well, but what about that? We're not
frost breads, but we can have a spot feel all
the same.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
It was birth's idea, said, it made us seem more
of a family, like Erica Georgie.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
No thanks, but I'll turn the tray around for you, though,
looks a bit unsteady but dead.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Now you get aunted in this cup and she gets yours.
But there's no matter, is it? Of course not.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
It's all the same tea.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You don't mind, do you, Uncle Bert?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No, why should I?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Oh it's nice to have a cup of tea about
this time of day.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
I'd almost forgotten.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Well cleaned up, uncle Bert, only get cold sitting there?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What's that pettersonality? I like it a bit cool, and myself.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
There's anything wrong with your tea?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Birth mine lovely, shouldn't be anything wrong with it? Picture
himself he did, of course, there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
No love us, But no need to take it all
down in the gulp. I think you were swallowing rank poisons.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
In your throat, and uncle Bert, but.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I gotta swallow in me with But it's good now, Georgie.
You can sink your right. You are okay. You know
where the tea is, Georgie. No, no, it's in the kitchen,
right next to the medicine. You'll find a Georgie, right
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next to the medicine. But the tea wasn't next to
the medicine. It wasn't there at all.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I only the little box was there, with the skull
and crossbones and still unopened.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Boys. I found the tea and poured out the two cups.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
All the time my eye was on the little box.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I was thinking how I had to.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Get away, had to get away, about the money, how easy.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It would be.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
And then it comes to me all in a flash,
what bird was up to? Why I'd done nothing about it?
Because he'd known what I was thinking before I knew
it myself. He knew what I was thinking out there
in the kitchen right then. He knew I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
About murder man.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That night.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I in the box didn't chuck it out, mind, you
only did it in a place not too hard to find.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Next morning it was back in the cupboard.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Right next to the mansion. Poison, no mistake about it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Now, and another of Uncle Bert's nigh safe little schemes.
Safe for him you all, but come right out in
so many words with it.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Nothing to arrange but the terms that I knew he'd
get to that too. Once he was sure of me.
All he had to do was wait, was what he thought,
Wait for me to kill her?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, George, cleaning up the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Well, it don't look like I'm playing a bloody game
of darts, does.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It now, Georgie? I was looking for that red boy
from last night, and the devil don't job to find it.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I could have told you where it was found some
rats at last, have you not in.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Particular caught it? Best to have it out there where
it's andy though? Well it's andy now, all right? So
where I've put in? Did you now?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Look here?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Georgie? You know how I feel about you. What's mine
is yours? Whatever I am, or whatever I might share
and share a life fifty partners.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Let's first I've ever known you to offer a bloke
so much as a time.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Of days be the last two, but the one time
might be worth all the rest.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Hey, Georgie, only times I've known you cheat your own
grandmother out of the last two teeth in her head.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's maybe. But if your partners they're taking your chances together,
aren't you? Both of you and the same the bed
of the good got to tweet each other fair and square, then,
don't you. If it's like that, that's how it is.
All right? You'll think it over see it, don't, Oh,
my dear, not tacking bed.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Are you not dead?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Huh right?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You are well, Georgie. You know how to fix it,
don't you. I know how to fix it. I'll just
slip along down the road and got a few things
to attend to. But I'll be bad in plenty of time.
Mind you are, then, and Georgie, fix it right this time?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
I got the medicine and mix it up as usual.
So I scarcely knew what I was doing, because all
the time I was thinking about the stream, about my
shirt was always eight dirty, about my baggy second an soup,
And now well what did she matter to me?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Anyhow?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
She was a sure thing to roll up in a
ear or two anyway, what.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Would that sicker of hers?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But if she didn't know I, I was free, free.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Next thing I knew, I don't in the box and
dunking up at the stuff into a glass to kill
a card horse. Then I was carrying it into her
walking I in a dream. I'm wondering where my voice
was coming from it.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It sounded so strange and far away.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Just set it down on the table with you, George, right, Oh,
aren't you aunt?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Didn't I hate to be such.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
A trouble to you, George? You've been awfully good about
the house here and all.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Oh, it's no trouble all the same.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I know it isn't easy.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Oh, I don't mind always just to help my mum
about the house.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
You loved your mother a lot, didn't you, George?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yes, I yes I did.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
I wish you'd do what I know she'd want you
to do if she was alive.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What's there?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Get away? Get away from the street. I know she's
praying for that, whatever she is.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
The street does things to people, George.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Terrible things. I will I will get away one day.
One day may be too late, Maybe it will, maybe
it won't.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Why don't you let me help you. I know she'd
want that too.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Do you really think she would?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Oh? I know she would, George.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Please, no, no, I said, I don't want any help enough,
and I don't.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
All right, George, I won't say anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Hand me my medicine.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Please, what my medicine.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
On the table?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Oh you are, thank you?
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Go George.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm sorry I slipped. I did, did you? Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I I thought you struck the glass out of my hand.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
No, no, no, I didn't.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Anyway, it's no matter. I'll get you some more, George, aren't.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Anna an you?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You've got to get away from here?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Get away, yes, now to day before it's too late.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Perhaps it is too late.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
No, no, it isn't.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Not for you.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
I can't get out of it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I never will, but you can. You've got money. You've
got to go.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Are you sure that best?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I know it is for everyone? For you, I mean,
for your l.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
That's it, if that's what I mean. I was thinking
about that. You're l Oh you'll never get welly, you'll die.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I've been prepared for that for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh, not here. You you got to go. Promise me
you'll go.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Yes, Perhaps that is best? All right, George, I'll go.
Speaker 11 (23:14):
That night, I slept, really slept, for the first time
in weight. When I woke up, it it seemed late.
I heard the sound of dishes down in the parlor.
I jumped into my clothes in a flash and looked
down the stairs.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
They were having breakfast coffee.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
I seemed to turn all sick inside. I ran down
the backstairs of the kitchen and over to the cupboard.
The boss was still there, but it was empty. The
poison of the news since yesterday.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I ran out into the parlor.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh, thanks, I think, don't.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Don't think it. Did you think it ended up?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Tell me my coffee.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's poisoned. I won't shut up. I knew he did.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
He wanted me to, and when I wouldn't, he did
it himself.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
But he won't get away with the head.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
No, I've gotta go on.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
I'll get your doctor nor again. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I'll tell you. I'll think you were medicine. She's dead dead.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Oh, don't try any of that, ancle Bert.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You poisoned her. You didn't, and I know it.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
I looked at the box in the kitchen and it's empty,
and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
To the police.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
You did, George, Well, I swear I didn't I Tony,
she made the coffy of she launted out hands she
did Georgie, God, doctor just don't want me to right.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
That's it being the running master mind. So far you
get your own doctor, Gorge.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
So long, Uncle Bert, happy landing.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I went next.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Door and asked missus Wiggins to call the police.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Then I went back to the house. I picked up Ed.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
In my arms and carried her to her room, and
later on a bed, I smoothed out a pillar for
her head, as though she was still alive. Then I
saw it, the picture of my mother and the note,
Dear George, don't be sorry for me, and don't think
(25:53):
badly of me. I was wrong to close my eyes
to things just because I didn't want to see them.
But after yesterday I knew you were right and it
was best for me to go away. Give this note
to the police so that they will know it was
me and not you the poisoned him. I found a
(26:17):
picture of your mother in the attic. She was so
beautiful that I could see why even.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Bert couldn't really burn it, like he said, take the
money that I've left and leave the street, but carry
her picture with you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Wherever you go, for I know she will always be
watching over you as.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
She was yesterday, to keep you from arm.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And so shall I your friend.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
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