March 19, 2025 • 27 mins
Please enjoy Philomel Cottage a great episode of the legendary Suspense - - a Old Time Radio OTR classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Continental star who has recently come to join our Hollywood
film colony, Miss Lily Palmer. But before we ring up
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
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Speaker 1 (01:28):
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very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you. Miss Lily Palmer
as Alex Martin with Raymond E. Lewis as her husband
Gerald in Pilamel Cottage, a tale well calculated to keep
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you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Hemel Cottage. With that, Alex was just reading the sign
over the gates.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
What does Philomel mean?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Why, you, little partner.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We've been here for three weeks and you still don't now.
Philomel is another name for the bird they's supposed to
sing only for lovers. We've been hearing it every twilight.
Of course, that sign Philamel Cottage is the main reason
I wanted this place for us.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Glad you bought it, Oh, Jerald.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
This was a fifty to fifty investment, and you know, fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Fifty a thousand pounds from me and two from you.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
But we did have to have the place, didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
We utterly hopeless romantic guy man.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well you can't get out of it now. Oh, Gerald,
you know what day to.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Day is Today?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's the thirteenth our anniversary, Darling. We've known each other
exactly a month.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, exactly thirty days.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh Jerald, really our heart?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What is it, dear? Do you have that pain again?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
No, I think, Oh Jered, do you want me to
get your.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
No, there's eleven thirty five.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'd better get out of the village. I want to
get that camera equipment.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And the human timetable walks through.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The garden gate.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why there there's nothing wrong with justin. Maybe not a
honeymoon with the rag. It's the rage it back.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Come on, Jerald, forget your own photography.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Why don't you stay in this gardening?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Be good for you?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Roll George, he gets paid for it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
He's not you again until Saturday. The place will go
to rack and ruin.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I don't walk too fast here, remember last time, and
be careful, darling. Well, if it just slip out, be careful.
I was swinging there on the garden gate, smiling out
my happiness across a part of England.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
That would just bin boat.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And flashed as any you'd care to find Nobo the
right tu ridiculous thing.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
If this were London's sage, that would have.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
London.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And slowly my smiles fell away.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I knew then that the memory of this last week
in London, it's never really.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Been far from my mind.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That and at last talk with Stick on the top
deck of the bus crossing your father's square, I've never
seen him like that before.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
No open muscle, I tell you, Alex, the man, the
perfect explainser to you. You'll know nothing about him.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I know that I love him.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
O can you know in a week you've only met him.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It doesn't take everyone seven years to find out they're
in love with a girl.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's meant for me? Isn't there this?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's no use to Alex. Don't you know what it's
been for me not being able to tell you I
couldn't love with the income I had, neither decided I
couldn't wait anymore. I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Anyway, and you know what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yes, you do have money. You inherited that money for
your cousin or love of the world it was.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't see what.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You didn't think that I could ask you to.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Have met any then?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Do you didn't think I could live off your money.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
They believe me. I am, but I it really.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Doesn't matter now, one way or the other doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Does this? You can let his letters to that muscle chap.
That's what he's uttered.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You mark my words after your money.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It might interest you to know that Gerald has money
of his own, far more than I have.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
More than I am. Maybe that's the difference.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I've had enough of risk. I'm getting off at the
next stop.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Please all right, and let me tell you something. If
you think I'm going to let them cut me out
and not do anything about it, you're very much mistaken.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't care up with him.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're here.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'll get up with him.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And it's the last thing I do.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing
I do.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's just just a heat of the moment, outburst of
her pride. I shook my head and shook it away.
And then the telephone rang inside the cottage. Who could
be calling? Couldn't be Gerald.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Gerald had hardly had time.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
To get beyond the term the roads.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
It happened to.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Him if he'd had another attack, maybe would be one
of the villagers is calling the table, Hello, Alex.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Why uh? Who did you say, Dick?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
My Alex was the man with the boys. I wouldn't
have learned it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's tack, Dick winded for him.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Who where are you?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Trapper's Arms? That's the right name, isn't it around? You
quated with your village pub.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You mean you're here?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yes, I'm on.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Holiday doing it bit of fishing.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Any objection to by looking.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Up you two good people out? No?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh no, no, no, you must.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
By Alex, my biggest partner. Of course, I won't bother
you off.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'm sorry, Dick, but I I only meant that we'd
be away this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Won't you come this evening?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Thanks very much, but I'll probably be away.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But then pend upon whether a pillette my ATTENSI or
not a biolex And it's black.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
For a long moment I could, I still quite still,
and then I walked across the living Roman. By the
time I reached the side.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Porch, I made up my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I would say nothing to jail about it. I stepped
out into the garden. And oh why, George, I thought
you'd agreed that Saturday was your day here.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I want to be a pair of with the Squires
on Saturday. And I said to myself, I says, mister
and missus Martin, they won't mind if I come for
one from a Wednesday instead.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Of a Saturday.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Of course, not your And then I.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Thought too, might as well see you before you go away.
So still then you're wishing about the box with dad.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You before I go away to London tomorrow. Me going
to London tomorrow. So where did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I got, mister Martin? Dwand village yesterday They told me
you was both.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Going away to London tomorrow and with one's certain when you'd.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Be back again.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Tell me, but don't tell me that you and the
matter disagree or dirty.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
No, naturally not no, there's a skip. Just sip my mind, George.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yes, never could understand why anybody wanted to go up
to London, though, like miss James, what soldiers do?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So you went up there and come live, mind.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You, and I'll fixing up this place I did do
with tat all over everywhere You're going to take a
lot of sight says to him, when I've seen you
put the place up for sale, it's not everyone will
have your fan for washing themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
In every room in the outside.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
A Georgie says to me, I'll get it, pretty study
at two thousand pounds for this house and five.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Form me this.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You got three thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Two thousands.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But so he was asking with talk for at the time,
and a very high figure.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was thought to be no George, you see I
gave to him. Well it really was three thousands.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Sis had that cheek They say three thousand to you.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, he didn't say it to me.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He said it's a my husband, but I can.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I'll do some staking now.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And the price was still sad.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
As I strode on across the garden, I was conscious
of a thin, vague thought, struggling to make itself turn,
and then abruptly it was gone. My eye had fallen
upon a small, dark green object lying in the fire
beside one.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of the flower bays.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was Carold's diary, my husband's socker diary. I picked
it up and opened this I remember I scam the
entries with some amusement, once again reminded of Jared's enslavements
of time and system seen on page twenty one. There
was an entry April fourteenth, Mary Alex had been Peter's
church two thirty. And then I looked at today's date, Wednesday,
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made thirteen. Only one thing was written there in red pencil.
I said six pm.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So what did it mean?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
What was to happen at six pm?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And I something just oh.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
But this is ridiculous. What am I afraid of? Gerald
is my husband. I love him, I trust him.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
As Then I looked again at that cryptic entry six pm.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh, yes, yes, there you are, miss me darling.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh why wouldn't I it's three o'clock. You've had time
to buy out the whole villait only the camera shop.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Now if I don't have the best flip dark room
that started London won't behind.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
If you're not careful, that dark room of yours is
going to overflow the whole seller. Oh incidentally, here's something
you've been watering the flowers?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Catch Oh my diary got into the garden today.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
M I know all your secrets.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well I'm not so sure. What about your designation at
six pm today?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That where you've caught me at last? It's a Rendezvo
was a very handsome young woman, quite remarkably like you.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
In fact, you're evading the issue, not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's simply a reminder that I want you to help
me develops some negatives this.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Eising at six o'clock. Well, I'll be getting dinner.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll eat a light supper tonight. We might have just
a sandwich it too, some coffee.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Out on the porch or before we work on the negatives.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You mean, yes, that'll be place morning.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You know something, Alex, I've never found anybody yet who.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Could touch your coffee. No, really, and that covers Australian Canada.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Too, You and your mysterious past.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
No reason, Jared, I do wish I knew more about you, Alex.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're serious. Well, I know it's still darling.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I've told you all about me, my boyhood in Sydney,
my life in Canada.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh, I see, you mean love affairs. You women are
all alike.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, but there must have been other women. I don't
mean that you're you're a blue beard or something, but surely.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What's put your mind on such a subject anyway? And
I've mentioned it before?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh, I don't know Jered, I've been rather upset ally
I imagine I can think, Oh, George for the gardener.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yes, I have some ridiculous idea. We were going away
to London, he said. You told him to say him.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, he came to work today instead of Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Fool.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I wanted, Oh, joy, fly down, slide down here, darling.
I'll bring you some water your meetings.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'm sorry, darling, getting you all upset about s oh,
just because of a stupid old god.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I made some weak joke to him about being off
to London in the morning. He must have taken it
seriously or else he isn't here properly.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You strained him out. I suppose, Oh, how.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Do you know what the gossip he is?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I didn't want the whole village to think my husband
was leaving me in the dark about his plans.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Are you all right, dear?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Really told him we were doing Yes, of course. I'm
sorry you were placed in that kind of situation. Do
I suppose you're in on anybody else? Today?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Is far from the world, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It isn't very lushly, is it?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, now not?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
In other words, you want yourself now that's quite plain,
and I want you to have a little rest, little nap.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You'll be right as rain by six o'clock.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Must you do those photographs tonight? You don't I did.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
When one sets a time to do something, one should
stick to it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's the only way to get through one's work. All right,
up with you? Upstairs to your bedroom.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Very well, there, I'll be getting things arranged. I went
upstairs to my room.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I told myself there was no basis, no basis whatever
for my state of mind.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And still the turmoil that.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Out, the odd unaccountable sense of dread, persisted, grew and grew,
until quite clearly I knew what I must do.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I knew I must find.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Some testimony to my husband's past.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Something to reassure me in extremeely.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I remember let had seen the locked drawer in Gerald's
pure rope.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I keipped over to the.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Door the head of the stairs, opened it and entered
my husband's room. Only I could find the keys on
the locked door.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
But there was none in.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sight the closet, and then his coat pockets, and then
they had my feet stay on the floor.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I opened the door, looked down a small packet of
letters tied with a light blue ridden and when I
saw the uppermost untlop, my face flushed with shame. They
were my own letters, love letters written to Gerald.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Before we were married.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
There was nothing else in the door, just the roll
of ancient favorite newspaper, clipping my ground to the top clipping.
It was from an American paper featured the trial of
one shar the Matro, notorious winder and bigamist. A skeleton had.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Been found beneath the floor of his house, and most
of the women he had.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Married had never been heard of again. And another of
the clippings described lamitrous behavior and court his interest in
the cameras of the news photographers, a sensational escape from prisons.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And another displayed his picture long.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Bearded, scholarly looking fellow reminded me of someone. I glanced
at the caption beneath the picture.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
A modern blue beard, A modern blue beard.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
My eyes went back to the picture, and then a flash,
I saw the redempts. I went through the other crypt
Dates had been found in the man's Pocketylan dates. It
was contended when he had done away with his weaklas.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
He was an Amata photographer.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He was from siding from Canada.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
He was subject to heart texts.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He was he was yar.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
H room world about me.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Dick had tried to warn me. Dick had been near
me that morning, and I turned him away. Just then
that I noticed the sound.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
There was a pipe in the corner running up through
the room from below near space. Something was striking at
that pipe. Is so someone were? I thought someone were taking? Yes,
I knew then that Charles and the matcher was preparing
the dark room for the latest one on his victim
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six o'clock, less than an hour from now. All the
jip top piece of shot in the place. The money
paid for the house, My money, my money, only the
bonds had entrusted to his keeping me. And then suddenly
I heard the quiet.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
The beginning had stopped kat on that house at once
before he came up, clicking back in the door. Don't look,
don't knock it, don't bother. Just to get away. I
rushed to the door out in the hall, and.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yes, my dear, why are you here?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Starting me? I?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Why?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yes, I was just I was just trying to find
your knees while we are, your dear colus.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Nothing looks so guilty about now, is it?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Take comm on down getting later, though, Jared, I just
have time to make the coffee and sandwiches before we
do the pictures.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Said, well, I'll be right down, darling.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Is it really mustn't delay? Must we coming? Alex? Very well?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh that's better, never mind, Jared, by Alex, how cold
you are?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Of course? Oh? Yes, yes, I am rather well.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I will soon pass away, I'm sure, very long, dear,
are you? Yes, into the kitchen, Alex. What is the man? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Oh now, I'll be all right the kitchen, yes, yeah, yes,
I'll fix for something in a second. You just sit
here in the living room and oh no, no, no,
the porch. That'll be more comfortable, wanted.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And I'll be right with.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Him, Alex, I'll just do Why no, of course, poor
cherld rottenly not to.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Have suggested that, since you're feeling a bit under power,
you can probably do with some help.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'll come with you.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I knew that, some ways, somehow I must get worth
a big the possibility that he might be gone. But
now I do I just put out of my mind,
no more Pennis, no more Penny. When I carried the
coffee out on the porch, I glanced at the clock
on the mantel.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Ten minutes to six.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
A pity, you're so abstracted, my dear.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Huh oh, why do you say that?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Because you're missing the loveliest sight you are likely to
see again. Look out beyonder garden, the first soft shades
of twilight.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Twilight of a cellar male cattage. I say, Alex, you
are the low pie. What do you mean the first
time you've never slept on the coffee? You must have
tossed in the entire canister.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh, I'll be more careful after this.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh, dear, that reminds me, Alex where you're going.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
And I think to get excited about Jarl. I forgot
to order things for tomorrow. I'm just going to fund
the grocer this time of eating. Oh, he generally stays
late on Wednesdays. I'll be right back, darling.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Don't jump the door, Alex.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I keep the insects out of the living room.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You're not afraid.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'm going to make love to the grocer.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Are you operator chid opbreador get me the kebler's arms?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Please hurry? Hello, Hello, it's a windy foot. Please will
you what? You don't know if he's if he's still there. Oh,
well see, won't you? It's most important disturb you for
darling you do.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I hate anyone listening when I telephone, but I do, Gerard, truly,
if you're quite.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Sure, you're really calling the process.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
As a matter of fact, I'm not sure. But what
I mean is I'm afraid I've got the wrong person,
a perfect changer.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I don't understand someone I know nothing about.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Know nothing about? And why did you hang out here?
Who's at the end of that wire? Let me see hello?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But instead, alright, my dear, i'd as well get started.
We're late now. Please for the picture precisely three minutes
a white Gerald.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
It won't be six o'clock for eight minutes. Talk at
o'clock day on the net.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I don't go by that right like I go by
my own wristwice.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Jered listened, Stop pacing and listen to me.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't feel up to it tonight, I'm said, and
I like, I.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Promise you you won't be a bit tired of it's over. No,
I'm not going to wait one minute longer.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
No, I want you it' I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Not coming there, no, no, charl stop stop it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I've got something to tell you. I've got something to confess. Confess, yes, yes,
to confess something something I ought to have told you before.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I've I've had my secret past to a former lover,
well in a way.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But something else. You'd call it, yes, I bet you'd.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Call it a crime, a crime you I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The better sit down, our Cherald's there. I told you.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I told you I'd never been married before, and that
was not entirely true. There was a marriage when I
was twenty two in Vienna.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
He he he.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Was an elderly man with a with a little property.
I used him to ensure his life in my favor.
And at one time I was a nurse with access
to a number of poisons. And there's one poison of
a white powdered. You know something about poison, perhaps no,
I know, Well, this one is absolutely untreaceable. Any doctor
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would give a certificate of heart radia and and that and.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't know. No, I can't go on. I want
to hear.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Well, all right, I always made this his coffee for him,
and one evening I put a pinch of this poison
in his cups. I remember that evening, how very much
like so very much like this. It was, how how
peaceful he He gasped a little and tried to move
from his chair, but couldn't, and presently he died.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
How much was the shirts to money?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh about about two thousand pounds, I speculated, So I
lost it at and it was over two years before
I married again, and he was a much younger man,
quite well off. You. There was a will in my favor.
He liked me to to make his coffee too, just
as my first husband had done.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I made very good coffee.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I it was the same along about twilight coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
It was the same as the other.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
He just sat there in.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
His chair coffee and died.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Our village doctor pronounced his heart failure. My husband did
every week, can't you see?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
And that helps?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It helps a great toal that matted me over four
thousand pounds. I didn't speculate with coffee.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
That's why I tasted that way. You poisoned me, He
poisoned me.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I'll to you, yes, I poisoned you, and already the
poisoners working you tee, you can't move from your chair.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'll kiss you.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Her costab got what having in that room?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I had to tell him the most horrible story. Oh
I couldn't have kept it up any longer. You came
just in time, Dick. You understood on the phone.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Isn't darling?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
When I heard you say, you got the wrong person,
someone you knew nothing about.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
What did you find possible?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
A man sitting in a chair said, I travel it
looks like and kiss will say. He's dead your husband, Men, you.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Might say, a perfect stranger. He was just and presently
he died.
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you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Hemel Cottage. With that, Alex was just reading the sign
over the gates.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
What does Philomel mean?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Why, you, little partner.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We've been here for three weeks and you still don't now.
Philomel is another name for the bird they's supposed to
sing only for lovers. We've been hearing it every twilight.
Of course, that sign Philamel Cottage is the main reason
I wanted this place for us.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Glad you bought it, Oh, Jerald.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
This was a fifty to fifty investment, and you know, fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Fifty a thousand pounds from me and two from you.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
But we did have to have the place, didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
We utterly hopeless romantic guy man.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well you can't get out of it now. Oh, Gerald,
you know what day to.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Day is Today?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's the thirteenth our anniversary, Darling. We've known each other
exactly a month.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, exactly thirty days.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh Jerald, really our heart?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What is it, dear? Do you have that pain again?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
No, I think, Oh Jered, do you want me to
get your.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
No, there's eleven thirty five.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'd better get out of the village. I want to
get that camera equipment.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And the human timetable walks through.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The garden gate.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why there there's nothing wrong with justin. Maybe not a
honeymoon with the rag. It's the rage it back.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Come on, Jerald, forget your own photography.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Why don't you stay in this gardening?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Be good for you?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Roll George, he gets paid for it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
He's not you again until Saturday. The place will go
to rack and ruin.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I don't walk too fast here, remember last time, and
be careful, darling. Well, if it just slip out, be careful.
I was swinging there on the garden gate, smiling out
my happiness across a part of England.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
That would just bin boat.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And flashed as any you'd care to find Nobo the
right tu ridiculous thing.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
If this were London's sage, that would have.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
London.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And slowly my smiles fell away.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I knew then that the memory of this last week
in London, it's never really.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Been far from my mind.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That and at last talk with Stick on the top
deck of the bus crossing your father's square, I've never
seen him like that before.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
No open muscle, I tell you, Alex, the man, the
perfect explainser to you. You'll know nothing about him.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I know that I love him.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
O can you know in a week you've only met him.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It doesn't take everyone seven years to find out they're
in love with a girl.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's meant for me? Isn't there this?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's no use to Alex. Don't you know what it's
been for me not being able to tell you I
couldn't love with the income I had, neither decided I
couldn't wait anymore. I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Anyway, and you know what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yes, you do have money. You inherited that money for
your cousin or love of the world it was.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't see what.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You didn't think that I could ask you to.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Have met any then?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Do you didn't think I could live off your money.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
They believe me. I am, but I it really.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Doesn't matter now, one way or the other doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Does this? You can let his letters to that muscle chap.
That's what he's uttered.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You mark my words after your money.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It might interest you to know that Gerald has money
of his own, far more than I have.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
More than I am. Maybe that's the difference.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I've had enough of risk. I'm getting off at the
next stop.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Please all right, and let me tell you something. If
you think I'm going to let them cut me out
and not do anything about it, you're very much mistaken.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't care up with him.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're here.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'll get up with him.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And it's the last thing I do.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing
I do.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's just just a heat of the moment, outburst of
her pride. I shook my head and shook it away.
And then the telephone rang inside the cottage. Who could
be calling? Couldn't be Gerald.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Gerald had hardly had time.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
To get beyond the term the roads.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
It happened to.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Him if he'd had another attack, maybe would be one
of the villagers is calling the table, Hello, Alex.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Why uh? Who did you say, Dick?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
My Alex was the man with the boys. I wouldn't
have learned it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's tack, Dick winded for him.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Who where are you?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Trapper's Arms? That's the right name, isn't it around? You
quated with your village pub.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You mean you're here?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yes, I'm on.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Holiday doing it bit of fishing.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Any objection to by looking.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Up you two good people out? No?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh no, no, no, you must.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
By Alex, my biggest partner. Of course, I won't bother
you off.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'm sorry, Dick, but I I only meant that we'd
be away this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Won't you come this evening?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Thanks very much, but I'll probably be away.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But then pend upon whether a pillette my ATTENSI or
not a biolex And it's black.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
For a long moment I could, I still quite still,
and then I walked across the living Roman. By the
time I reached the side.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Porch, I made up my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I would say nothing to jail about it. I stepped
out into the garden. And oh why, George, I thought
you'd agreed that Saturday was your day here.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I want to be a pair of with the Squires
on Saturday. And I said to myself, I says, mister
and missus Martin, they won't mind if I come for
one from a Wednesday instead.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Of a Saturday.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Of course, not your And then I.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Thought too, might as well see you before you go away.
So still then you're wishing about the box with dad.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You before I go away to London tomorrow. Me going
to London tomorrow. So where did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I got, mister Martin? Dwand village yesterday They told me
you was both.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Going away to London tomorrow and with one's certain when you'd.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Be back again.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Tell me, but don't tell me that you and the
matter disagree or dirty.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
No, naturally not no, there's a skip. Just sip my mind, George.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yes, never could understand why anybody wanted to go up
to London, though, like miss James, what soldiers do?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So you went up there and come live, mind.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You, and I'll fixing up this place I did do
with tat all over everywhere You're going to take a
lot of sight says to him, when I've seen you
put the place up for sale, it's not everyone will
have your fan for washing themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
In every room in the outside.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
A Georgie says to me, I'll get it, pretty study
at two thousand pounds for this house and five.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Form me this.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You got three thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Two thousands.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But so he was asking with talk for at the time,
and a very high figure.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was thought to be no George, you see I
gave to him. Well it really was three thousands.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Sis had that cheek They say three thousand to you.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, he didn't say it to me.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He said it's a my husband, but I can.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I'll do some staking now.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And the price was still sad.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
As I strode on across the garden, I was conscious
of a thin, vague thought, struggling to make itself turn,
and then abruptly it was gone. My eye had fallen
upon a small, dark green object lying in the fire
beside one.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of the flower bays.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was Carold's diary, my husband's socker diary. I picked
it up and opened this I remember I scam the
entries with some amusement, once again reminded of Jared's enslavements
of time and system seen on page twenty one. There
was an entry April fourteenth, Mary Alex had been Peter's
church two thirty. And then I looked at today's date, Wednesday,
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made thirteen. Only one thing was written there in red pencil.
I said six pm.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So what did it mean?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
What was to happen at six pm?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And I something just oh.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
But this is ridiculous. What am I afraid of? Gerald
is my husband. I love him, I trust him.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
As Then I looked again at that cryptic entry six pm.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh, yes, yes, there you are, miss me darling.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh why wouldn't I it's three o'clock. You've had time
to buy out the whole villait only the camera shop.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Now if I don't have the best flip dark room
that started London won't behind.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
If you're not careful, that dark room of yours is
going to overflow the whole seller. Oh incidentally, here's something
you've been watering the flowers?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Catch Oh my diary got into the garden today.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
M I know all your secrets.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well I'm not so sure. What about your designation at
six pm today?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That where you've caught me at last? It's a Rendezvo
was a very handsome young woman, quite remarkably like you.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
In fact, you're evading the issue, not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's simply a reminder that I want you to help
me develops some negatives this.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Eising at six o'clock. Well, I'll be getting dinner.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll eat a light supper tonight. We might have just
a sandwich it too, some coffee.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Out on the porch or before we work on the negatives.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You mean, yes, that'll be place morning.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You know something, Alex, I've never found anybody yet who.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Could touch your coffee. No, really, and that covers Australian Canada.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Too, You and your mysterious past.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
No reason, Jared, I do wish I knew more about you, Alex.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're serious. Well, I know it's still darling.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I've told you all about me, my boyhood in Sydney,
my life in Canada.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh, I see, you mean love affairs. You women are
all alike.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, but there must have been other women. I don't
mean that you're you're a blue beard or something, but surely.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What's put your mind on such a subject anyway? And
I've mentioned it before?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh, I don't know Jered, I've been rather upset ally
I imagine I can think, Oh, George for the gardener.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yes, I have some ridiculous idea. We were going away
to London, he said. You told him to say him.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, he came to work today instead of Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Fool.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I wanted, Oh, joy, fly down, slide down here, darling.
I'll bring you some water your meetings.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'm sorry, darling, getting you all upset about s oh,
just because of a stupid old god.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I made some weak joke to him about being off
to London in the morning. He must have taken it
seriously or else he isn't here properly.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You strained him out. I suppose, Oh, how.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Do you know what the gossip he is?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I didn't want the whole village to think my husband
was leaving me in the dark about his plans.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Are you all right, dear?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Really told him we were doing Yes, of course. I'm
sorry you were placed in that kind of situation. Do
I suppose you're in on anybody else? Today?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Is far from the world, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It isn't very lushly, is it?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, now not?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
In other words, you want yourself now that's quite plain,
and I want you to have a little rest, little nap.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You'll be right as rain by six o'clock.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Must you do those photographs tonight? You don't I did.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
When one sets a time to do something, one should
stick to it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's the only way to get through one's work. All right,
up with you? Upstairs to your bedroom.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Very well, there, I'll be getting things arranged. I went
upstairs to my room.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I told myself there was no basis, no basis whatever
for my state of mind.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And still the turmoil that.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Out, the odd unaccountable sense of dread, persisted, grew and grew,
until quite clearly I knew what I must do.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I knew I must find.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Some testimony to my husband's past.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Something to reassure me in extremeely.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I remember let had seen the locked drawer in Gerald's
pure rope.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I keipped over to the.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Door the head of the stairs, opened it and entered
my husband's room. Only I could find the keys on
the locked door.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
But there was none in.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sight the closet, and then his coat pockets, and then
they had my feet stay on the floor.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I opened the door, looked down a small packet of
letters tied with a light blue ridden and when I
saw the uppermost untlop, my face flushed with shame. They
were my own letters, love letters written to Gerald.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Before we were married.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
There was nothing else in the door, just the roll
of ancient favorite newspaper, clipping my ground to the top clipping.
It was from an American paper featured the trial of
one shar the Matro, notorious winder and bigamist. A skeleton had.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Been found beneath the floor of his house, and most
of the women he had.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Married had never been heard of again. And another of
the clippings described lamitrous behavior and court his interest in
the cameras of the news photographers, a sensational escape from prisons.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And another displayed his picture long.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Bearded, scholarly looking fellow reminded me of someone. I glanced
at the caption beneath the picture.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
A modern blue beard, A modern blue beard.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
My eyes went back to the picture, and then a flash,
I saw the redempts. I went through the other crypt
Dates had been found in the man's Pocketylan dates. It
was contended when he had done away with his weaklas.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
He was an Amata photographer.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He was from siding from Canada.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
He was subject to heart texts.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He was he was yar.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
H room world about me.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Dick had tried to warn me. Dick had been near
me that morning, and I turned him away. Just then
that I noticed the sound.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
There was a pipe in the corner running up through
the room from below near space. Something was striking at
that pipe. Is so someone were? I thought someone were taking? Yes,
I knew then that Charles and the matcher was preparing
the dark room for the latest one on his victim
(16:40):
six o'clock, less than an hour from now. All the
jip top piece of shot in the place. The money
paid for the house, My money, my money, only the
bonds had entrusted to his keeping me. And then suddenly
I heard the quiet.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
The beginning had stopped kat on that house at once
before he came up, clicking back in the door. Don't look,
don't knock it, don't bother. Just to get away. I
rushed to the door out in the hall, and.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yes, my dear, why are you here?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Starting me? I?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Why?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yes, I was just I was just trying to find
your knees while we are, your dear colus.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Nothing looks so guilty about now, is it?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Take comm on down getting later, though, Jared, I just
have time to make the coffee and sandwiches before we
do the pictures.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Said, well, I'll be right down, darling.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Is it really mustn't delay? Must we coming? Alex? Very well?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh that's better, never mind, Jared, by Alex, how cold
you are?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Of course? Oh? Yes, yes, I am rather well.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I will soon pass away, I'm sure, very long, dear,
are you? Yes, into the kitchen, Alex. What is the man? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Oh now, I'll be all right the kitchen, yes, yeah, yes,
I'll fix for something in a second. You just sit
here in the living room and oh no, no, no,
the porch. That'll be more comfortable, wanted.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And I'll be right with.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Him, Alex, I'll just do Why no, of course, poor
cherld rottenly not to.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Have suggested that, since you're feeling a bit under power,
you can probably do with some help.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'll come with you.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I knew that, some ways, somehow I must get worth
a big the possibility that he might be gone. But
now I do I just put out of my mind,
no more Pennis, no more Penny. When I carried the
coffee out on the porch, I glanced at the clock
on the mantel.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Ten minutes to six.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
A pity, you're so abstracted, my dear.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Huh oh, why do you say that?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Because you're missing the loveliest sight you are likely to
see again. Look out beyonder garden, the first soft shades
of twilight.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Twilight of a cellar male cattage. I say, Alex, you
are the low pie. What do you mean the first
time you've never slept on the coffee? You must have
tossed in the entire canister.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh, I'll be more careful after this.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh, dear, that reminds me, Alex where you're going.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
And I think to get excited about Jarl. I forgot
to order things for tomorrow. I'm just going to fund
the grocer this time of eating. Oh, he generally stays
late on Wednesdays. I'll be right back, darling.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Don't jump the door, Alex.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I keep the insects out of the living room.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You're not afraid.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'm going to make love to the grocer.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Are you operator chid opbreador get me the kebler's arms?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Please hurry? Hello, Hello, it's a windy foot. Please will
you what? You don't know if he's if he's still there. Oh,
well see, won't you? It's most important disturb you for
darling you do.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I hate anyone listening when I telephone, but I do, Gerard, truly,
if you're quite.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Sure, you're really calling the process.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
As a matter of fact, I'm not sure. But what
I mean is I'm afraid I've got the wrong person,
a perfect changer.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I don't understand someone I know nothing about.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Know nothing about? And why did you hang out here?
Who's at the end of that wire? Let me see hello?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But instead, alright, my dear, i'd as well get started.
We're late now. Please for the picture precisely three minutes
a white Gerald.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
It won't be six o'clock for eight minutes. Talk at
o'clock day on the net.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I don't go by that right like I go by
my own wristwice.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Jered listened, Stop pacing and listen to me.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't feel up to it tonight, I'm said, and
I like, I.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Promise you you won't be a bit tired of it's over. No,
I'm not going to wait one minute longer.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
No, I want you it' I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Not coming there, no, no, charl stop stop it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I've got something to tell you. I've got something to confess. Confess, yes, yes,
to confess something something I ought to have told you before.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I've I've had my secret past to a former lover,
well in a way.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But something else. You'd call it, yes, I bet you'd.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Call it a crime, a crime you I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The better sit down, our Cherald's there. I told you.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I told you I'd never been married before, and that
was not entirely true. There was a marriage when I
was twenty two in Vienna.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
He he he.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Was an elderly man with a with a little property.
I used him to ensure his life in my favor.
And at one time I was a nurse with access
to a number of poisons. And there's one poison of
a white powdered. You know something about poison, perhaps no,
I know, Well, this one is absolutely untreaceable. Any doctor
(22:17):
would give a certificate of heart radia and and that and.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't know. No, I can't go on. I want
to hear.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Well, all right, I always made this his coffee for him,
and one evening I put a pinch of this poison
in his cups. I remember that evening, how very much
like so very much like this. It was, how how
peaceful he He gasped a little and tried to move
from his chair, but couldn't, and presently he died.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
How much was the shirts to money?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh about about two thousand pounds, I speculated, So I
lost it at and it was over two years before
I married again, and he was a much younger man,
quite well off. You. There was a will in my favor.
He liked me to to make his coffee too, just
as my first husband had done.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I made very good coffee.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I it was the same along about twilight coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
It was the same as the other.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
He just sat there in.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
His chair coffee and died.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Our village doctor pronounced his heart failure. My husband did
every week, can't you see?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
And that helps?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It helps a great toal that matted me over four
thousand pounds. I didn't speculate with coffee.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
That's why I tasted that way. You poisoned me, He
poisoned me.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I'll to you, yes, I poisoned you, and already the
poisoners working you tee, you can't move from your chair.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'll kiss you.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Her costab got what having in that room?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I had to tell him the most horrible story. Oh
I couldn't have kept it up any longer. You came
just in time, Dick. You understood on the phone.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Isn't darling?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
When I heard you say, you got the wrong person,
someone you knew nothing about.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
What did you find possible?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
A man sitting in a chair said, I travel it
looks like and kiss will say. He's dead your husband, Men, you.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Might say, a perfect stranger. He was just and presently
he died.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
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(25:37):
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Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well, thank you, Ken, But how can I accept another room?
I'm already married to the King of science. You're what
did you remember my husband who played the Siamese monarch
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Speaker 6 (25:51):
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