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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Suspense Radio's outstanding Peter of Thrills brings you an hour
a full sixty minutes of suspense to Night, A banner
presentation of Emlyn William's classic Night Must Fall, directed by

(00:38):
antonem Leader and produced by Robert Montgomery. Our stars mister
Montgomery and Dame May Whitty with Heather Angel, Richard Nay
and Matthew Bolden in Night Must Fall.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
This is Robert Montgomery.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I cannot introduce Night Must Fall. I have no words
in prologue, so surely do I feel that the play
is the thing. But I can introduce, with great anticipation
and pride, the performance of Dame May Witty as Missus Bramson,
Heather Angel as Olivia Grayne, Richard May as Hubert Lowry,
and Matthew Bolton as Inspector Bell Size. It is our

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particular pride that both Dame May Witty and Matthew Bolton
are playing the roles they created in the original stage
play in London, and I I will play Danny. With
these performances and with Night must Fall, we again hope
to keep you in suspend. It is a smallish place,

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a typical English country cottage, rambling and comfortable, with roses
climbing upon the walls and the fences surrounding it. On
every side stands the.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Dark bulk of the forest, the massive trees close packed,
their interlacing canopies shadowing the undergrowth below. It is an
out of the way place, far from the nearest village,
a mile or more from the nearest neighbor. A proper
place for a murder, you might say. Usually the forest

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quiet is undisturbed, but today one might hear a few
scattered shouts, see strange men in uncomfortable city clothes poking
about through the brush searching, And in the Bramson cottage
door of the maid is receiving a visitor in the kitchen.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I'm so glad to come.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
I've been off of me Rocker with that old witch
in their sign, all those terrible things about you and me,
and the police turning the place up, said Dan, and
asking all kinds of questions.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
And oh, Denny, here's deading out what's all around? What
police you mean you haven't done?

Speaker 7 (03:23):
Missus Chelfon, a woman from the Tall Bolls has disappeared.
Nobody knows what's become of us. And there's even a
man from Scotland yards Scotland Yard.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
That is gratifying. Gratifying well, I mean they're being Johnny
on the spot like that shows were to get an
our tax money's worth? No, what's the matter with the
old girl?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh Dennis? She knows about us, and she says, if
you don't marry Michael, you give me the sack, Danny,
you will? You will, won't you?

Speaker 6 (03:58):
If you know about you always had the very same
thing in mind myself. I expect she wants to.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Talk to me.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Whit is it through this?

Speaker 8 (04:07):
You can't go in there.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
She's got people with her, Miss Scotland Yard. Donny, be careful,
she is, you captain.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Look at a king, you know? So that's missus Brampson name.
They say she don't have half a be talk tucked.

Speaker 9 (04:24):
Away, how she's rich and all, but try to get
out of him.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
Who's the girl with the spectacles?

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Who gets her niece, Miss Grin, Miss Olivia Grinse and.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
The chap with her.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
I I suppose mister Laurie he wants to marry her?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Who didn't think she wants to?

Speaker 10 (04:40):
Not? Really?

Speaker 11 (04:42):
Well, if you see anything on usual, well, anybody's strange
wandering in the woods, Am I not? Stake from nearby
and then just let him know. Good morning, missus Bramston.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Who's that just left the detective Scotland Yard?

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Wish I had a better look at him? Never seen
anyone from Scotland Yard?

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Ah, that is yes, ma'am instantly, yes, non, come.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
On, nothing inventioned, nothing gained, as they say, Well.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Morning all.

Speaker 9 (05:19):
So your baby face, as Doughter calls you.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
That's me silly name, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (05:25):
What's your real name?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Dan?

Speaker 6 (05:27):
Just call me Dan?

Speaker 9 (05:29):
You smoke? I see?

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Yes? Oh, I am sorry. I always forget my manners
with a cigarette when I'm in company. I am sorry.

Speaker 12 (05:37):
You know my maid Dora Paco I believe, but we
have met. Yes, you walked out of the last August
Bank holiday.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yes, excuse me smiling. But it sounds funny when you
put it like that, doesn't it.

Speaker 9 (05:49):
You ought to be ashamed of yourself?

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Oh I am. I've thought about it a good bit
since I.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Can tell you you work at the Tall Boys, don't you, yes,
Miss twenty four hours miss?

Speaker 13 (06:00):
Oh, well, then perhaps you can tell us something about
that female who's been murdered. Hmm, well can you tell
us you know there's a missus Chalfan staying at the
tow boys who went off one day.

Speaker 9 (06:12):
Yes, well, nobody's seen her since I.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
Know what she like. But I thought you said or
somebody said something about to murder. Well we don't know,
of course that there might have been mightn't be?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh, yes, there might have been.

Speaker 9 (06:28):
Yes, you ever seen her?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yes, I I used to take cigarettes and drinks up
to her.

Speaker 9 (06:33):
Well what she like?

Speaker 6 (06:34):
What's she like? She's on the tall side, thin ankles
with one of them, bracelets on one of them, fair
hair and well go on, thin eyebrows with white marks
where he was pulled out to be in the fashion.

Speaker 10 (06:51):
You know.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Her mouth a bit thin as well, with the red
stuff painted round it.

Speaker 14 (06:57):
You can rub it off. I suppose her neck rather thick.
Laughs a bit loud and then it stops. She's very lively.
You can't say I don't keep my eyes skin?

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Can you?

Speaker 10 (07:13):
Jove?

Speaker 9 (07:13):
I should say you do a living portrait, if ever
there was one. Now, weren't you going for a walk?

Speaker 10 (07:19):
So I was by joke.

Speaker 9 (07:20):
Well, I'll just jot off.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Bye bye, Hubert. You're very observant young man.

Speaker 9 (07:27):
The ladies you know you weren't so observant that Dora
mightn't be in the flummock she is.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Now, that's true, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
You don't sound very repentant.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
Well, what's done's done. My motto, isn't it? Are you leaving?
Miss if you don't mind, she'd be a nice bit
of ice next summer, wouldn't she.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
You're a proper one to talk about next summer when
Dora will be.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, what is it now, missus Prenson.

Speaker 15 (07:51):
The butcher wants paying, and he says, there's men ferret
in at the bottom of the garden looking for that
missus Chelphant, And do you know about it?

Speaker 12 (07:59):
They won't ferret long, not amongst my pampas grass. Olivia, Olivia, Oh,
that girl's never there.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Here.

Speaker 9 (08:08):
You come on my garden. You come out?

Speaker 6 (08:11):
You there, you, you come out of my garden. You're
the cook.

Speaker 15 (08:17):
I suppose why, I'll never know. Won't let me pay
the butcher, so I won't know where she keeps a purse.
But I do know, So put that in your pipe
and smoke it.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
They do say down at the tall boys that she's
got enough inside of her purse too.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, nobody's seen it open. If you have a peep inside,
young fellow. You'll go down in his story, that's what
you'll do. Oh, something's falling over aunt?

Speaker 9 (08:37):
He did you?

Speaker 6 (08:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Hello, miss did missus Bramson call me?

Speaker 16 (08:42):
Do you know?

Speaker 6 (08:43):
I'm sorry? I don't know your name. Oh? There is
uh not much doing around here for a girl, is there.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
I'm not a snob. But in case you ever call
here again, I'd like to point out that, though I'm
employed by my aunt, I'm not quite in Dora's position.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Oh I hope not. So I'll be putting it all
right for dor. I'm going to marry you, and I
don't believe you. You don't like me?

Speaker 10 (09:08):
Do you?

Speaker 6 (09:09):
No? Everybody else does?

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Your eyes set quite wide apart? Your hands are quite good.
I don't really know what's wrong with you.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
You know I've been looking at you too. You're lonely,
aren't you.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
I'm sorry, it's a waste of time you're doing your
stuff with me. I'm not the type. Are you playing
up to? Missus Bramson?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Clean up?

Speaker 4 (09:33):
You stand a pretty poor chance there. You know?

Speaker 6 (09:37):
What do you bet?

Speaker 9 (09:38):
They say they've got termids to look for that silly woman?

Speaker 12 (09:41):
What they I'd like to know if there's anything I
hated these men who think they've got authority.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I don't think they're quite as bad as men who
think they've got charm.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Well, it's no good thinking she's got any is it?

Speaker 10 (09:54):
Now?

Speaker 9 (09:54):
Young man? What about Dora?

Speaker 6 (09:56):
I've got at it? Wait a minute, are you sure
you're comfortable like that? Don't you?

Speaker 9 (10:00):
Missus? Manson?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
You ought to be facing a wee bit more? Decide
they are taught the sun more. Now you're looking pale?

Speaker 9 (10:05):
You know pale? Did you say? Pale?

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Washed out? The minute I saw you just now, I
said to myself, Now there's a lady that's got a
lot to contend.

Speaker 9 (10:14):
Well, I have nobody knows it better than I do.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
I know, I'm sure.

Speaker 14 (10:18):
Oh, it must be terrible to watch everybody else riding
up and down, enjoying everything, to see everybody tasting the fruit.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
And oh, I am sorry. I shouldn't want to say.

Speaker 9 (10:28):
That, but it's true, as true as you're my witness.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Do you mind if I ask you what your ailments are?

Speaker 9 (10:34):
Well? Can't you very sit down?

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Thank you, ma'am?

Speaker 9 (10:37):
Well, I have the most terrible palpitation healths.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
But the way you get about huh, what. It's a
pretty bad thing to have, you know. Do you know
that nine women out of telling your position to be
just sitting down and giving way good? Yes, they would.
I've known people with palpitations. Somebody very close to me.
They're dead now, Oh, my mother's a matter of fact.

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I can just remember it. Oh as a matter of fact. Yes,
oh no, it's a daft thing.

Speaker 9 (11:10):
Come along now, out with you.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well it's only fancy, I suppose, but you remind me
a bit of her. Have your mother? Oh, have you
got a son?

Speaker 9 (11:19):
I haven't anybody at all.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
She had the same eyes, very wide apart as you,
and the same.

Speaker 9 (11:27):
Very good hands, and the same palpitation and.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
The same palpitations. You don't mind my talking about your
health doing you?

Speaker 4 (11:34):
No?

Speaker 17 (11:35):
You know you ought to get used to letting other
people do things for you. Yes, yes, you're a funny
boy to be a page boy.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
Hm hmm.

Speaker 9 (11:48):
I've taken a liking to you.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
That's very kind of you, missus.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Bramson Plantation. I packed these books for the.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Post now I'll post them for you, good pleasure.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Have you got to go back now?

Speaker 6 (11:58):
Well no, not really, this is my half day stay
to lunch. Well, I don't like to impose myself in
the kitchen.

Speaker 9 (12:04):
Of course I know, well, there's plenty of food stay
to lend.

Speaker 14 (12:08):
Well, I don't know, all right, so long as you
let me help a bit this morning? Don't you want
to some string for this? Where's captain O?

Speaker 9 (12:15):
That woman knows in the kitchen somewhere you're here? Yes,
that's right, what you say?

Speaker 6 (12:24):
Sorry? I told her I'm going to marry you. Oh
here I am. I'm on an Errand for the old girl,
I want a bit.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Of string, not here in the jar.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Ah. This will do.

Speaker 9 (12:41):
Then she likes you?

Speaker 6 (12:43):
And why not?

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Here's something in the paper. A keeper in the Shepley
woods was closely questioned, but he had heard nothing beyond
a woman's voice in the woods, and a man's voice
probably with her.

Speaker 9 (13:04):
Rubbish the whole business. Are you Dan or whatever your
name is? Are those men still rummaging in my garden?

Speaker 6 (13:11):
They're out they're talking about right enough?

Speaker 12 (13:12):
And I must go this minute and have a look
at my pamper's grass, and if they've damaged it, I'll
bring an action.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Have your package ready in half a shake?

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Now?

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Miss?

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Thank you? What's that you're whistling?

Speaker 6 (13:35):
I don't know. Some song I picked up, Mighty like
a Rose? I think they call it.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Do you know what it says here in the paper?
But what Pip the murder?

Speaker 6 (13:44):
Oh you're sure of that, now, are you?

Speaker 4 (13:47):
It says a keeper heard a woman's voice in the
woods on the afternoon in question, and a man's voice
probably with her, singing mighty like a rose?

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Is that a fact? Now? Popular song? That one? Pretty too?
Pretty little fellow everybody knows. Don't know what to call me,
But I'm mighty like a ruse.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'm sorry? Is my cigarette worrying you at all? I
like it?

Speaker 9 (14:36):
I can never make this horrid game come out?

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Look the red nine on the black ten.

Speaker 9 (14:40):
Don't interfere?

Speaker 18 (14:41):
I saw that now, I wonder No, no, no, no,
the other one, the other one, the other, Yes, dear,
of course, I am sorry my cigarette bothering you?

Speaker 9 (14:53):
No, dear, no. Oh I'm sick of Solitaire. I want
to be read too.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Right we now, let's see what we have, Ah, you
old fashioned child? A lot. It's East Lynn. It's your
favorite book, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
Oh? Why yes, sir, it is.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Go on, you old fashioned child, retorted missus Vane. Why
did you not put on your diamonds. I did put
on my diamonds, stammered Lady Isabelle. But I took them
off again. What on earth for? That's the other lady
speaking there? What on earth for? I did not like

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to be too fine? Answered Lady isabel with a laugh.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Good is it?

Speaker 6 (15:34):
Oh? Yes, realistic?

Speaker 9 (15:37):
Ah? Time for your medicine, Danny, you always remember?

Speaker 6 (15:41):
Hell? Ever?

Speaker 9 (15:44):
News about?

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Why?

Speaker 9 (15:45):
About them?

Speaker 4 (15:46):
That is the missing woman?

Speaker 6 (15:47):
What else?

Speaker 12 (15:48):
All I know is those idiot policemen are still talking
about in my garden, and my pampus glass is practically ruined.

Speaker 9 (15:55):
I haven't found anything, of course I never will. Lot
of nonsense were his life? There's Oh what missus Bampson.
Time for your walk? Oh yes, dear, have you got
my pills? Got them in the pockets, Hanna chocolates.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Got them in the pocket too. Here's your hat now,
and I carry your rug on the shoulder.

Speaker 14 (16:11):
See you later.

Speaker 9 (16:11):
You're good, right?

Speaker 4 (16:12):
You off?

Speaker 6 (16:13):
Mind?

Speaker 9 (16:13):
You take good care of her?

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Hubert?

Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yes, what do you think of him?

Speaker 9 (16:19):
Granny's white head boy? You mean he's all right?

Speaker 6 (16:21):
I suppose he's made quite.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
A hit with her, Yes, hasn't he?

Speaker 6 (16:25):
And in such a short time something I haven't been
able to manage in a year.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yes, it was just two weeks ago. Today he moved
in bag and baggage. He came the afternoon after that
woman disappeared. By jove, that's right, Hubert.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Hmmm.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Have you noticed how he acts as if he doesn't
care happens? But all the time he's watching to see
what we're thinking of him.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Yes, I've thought of that.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's his incredible vanity. They always have it. Who murderous?

Speaker 10 (16:59):
Good head?

Speaker 9 (17:00):
You mean this woman they're looking for?

Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (17:03):
But why it's incredible, I.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Say, Hubert, I'm going to look through his things right now,
will you while they're out?

Speaker 19 (17:10):
Says that's a bit sick spine.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
We may never have another chance? Please? Will you help me? Well?
I suppose come on, wait a minute, wasn't there another one?

Speaker 9 (17:38):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yes? This hat box old fashioned?

Speaker 19 (17:41):
Isn't it bit heavy? Too?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Suppose there's something inside it?

Speaker 6 (17:48):
It's locked, but I've got the keys somewhere about if
you Oh no, no, no, we were just Could I
have my wife if I leave? It's the only one
I got.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yes, of course, thank you very much, not at all.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
I did you see the picture of me when I
was a little fellow.

Speaker 9 (18:03):
Yes, it's very jolly.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
Did you it was on the inside of my wallet?

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (18:09):
Was it? Yes? But I should be keeping my money
only any bit of money I have I always keep
on me safer, don't you think. Yes, I only keep
one ten barbed note in there this wallet for emergencies.
Oh that's funny.

Speaker 19 (18:27):
It's gone.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
I expect I dropped it somewhere. What did you think
of the letter letter? You got it in your hand?

Speaker 10 (18:36):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (18:36):
Well I didn't.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
It means well does lell? But we had a row.
She would spy on me. And if there's anything I hate,
it's a spy. Don't you agree? Yes, I'd soon have anything,
and a spy bar a murderer of course. What what
did you say I should bar a murderer? Of course?

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Talking of murder, do you know anything about missus chelfond'swears
at the moment.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
I've got nothing to go on. But I think she's
been buried.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh you do, yes, I do, ooby.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
They say she had several chaps on a string, and
there was one fella, a London chap, a bachelor, very
citified with a fair mustache.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
What are you looking at me for?

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Well? You wasn't around these parts of the day, She
bunked twas, Yes.

Speaker 9 (19:24):
I was, as a matter of fact. Uh huh, what
in Heaven's name are you getting at?

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Well? If the shoe fits, eh, er, I'm going.

Speaker 9 (19:31):
Out for a breath of earl again.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
I'm sorry, I really am about going through your things.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Sorry, you were caught at it?

Speaker 10 (19:41):
To me?

Speaker 9 (19:42):
Did you do it?

Speaker 6 (19:45):
You know you wouldn't be bad looking without them glasses.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
It doesn't interest me very much what I look like,
don't you believe it? You're very conceited, aren't you?

Speaker 19 (19:53):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (19:54):
And you're acting all the time, aren't you action?

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Action?

Speaker 20 (19:57):
What?

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Look at the way I can look you in the eyes.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
I'll I have a theory. It's the criminals who can
look you in the eyes and the honest people who
blush and look away. Oh it's a very blank look, though,
isn't it. You are acting, aren't you?

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (20:14):
And what you like when you're not at I don't
know so long since I stopped, But when.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
You're alone, I act more than ever I do. I
don't know, because I like it. Now. What do you
say if I ask a question or two for a change,
just for a change, Why can't you take a bit
of an interest in some other body but me?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'm not interested in you, but you you don't talk.
That's bound to make people wonder.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
I can talk a lot. Sometimes a drop of drink
makes a power of difference to me. You'll be surprised.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
I wonder if I would.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
I know you would.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I think I can diagnose you all right, carry on.
You haven't any feelings at all, but you live in
a world of your own, a world of your own imagination.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
I don't underst found you so very well, not being
so very literary.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
You follow me perfectly.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Well, do you still think there's been a bit of
dirty work? I don't know what to think now, I
suppose not disappointed? What on earth do you mean disappointed?

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yes, I suppose I am. Oh, I don't know, because
nothing has ever happened to me, and it's a dull day,
and it's the depth of the country. I don't know, Dora,
what is it a rubbish?

Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, there's someone sticking out what hand?

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Somebody's hand? They've found her? Yes, where are you going.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
To have a look?

Speaker 21 (22:17):
In to Night's full Hour of Suspense, Mister Robert Montgomery
stars as Danny with Dame May Whitty, Richard Nay, Heather Angel,
and Matthew Bolton in Night Must Fall to Night's study
in Suspense.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
In just a moment, we will return with Act two
of Suspense.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System, and now back.

Speaker 21 (23:05):
To our Hollywood sound stage and Act too of Night
Must Fall, starring Robert.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Montgomery, Dame May Whittie.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
And the Angel Richard Nay, and featuring Matthew Bolton in
a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspends. The

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forest around Missus Bramson's cottage had always been quiet and
peaceful until the day they found the body.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
From that day on, there was no more quiet.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
There were policemen in questions, there were bus loads of
sightse here as a newspaper.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
Men photographers.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Suddenly, the little rose covered cottage was a focus of
national curiosity, and the people who lived there basked in
the reflected glory.

Speaker 9 (24:13):
With Daddy, you are the.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Back home again. I put your gloves away.

Speaker 14 (24:20):
I feel dead and no wonder talking to all those
people getting your picture took fifteen sixteen times again?

Speaker 9 (24:25):
How is today? Oh you, Olivia, Hello Auntie and misters.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
I feel dead don't be a silly old woman. You
look as pretty as a picture. Strawberries and cream in
your face. Is not a day over forty.

Speaker 14 (24:39):
And when I've made you a nice cup of tea,
you'll be twenty five in the sun and eighteen with
your back to the light.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
So you can think yourself lucky.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
You caution, you would be the death of me.

Speaker 14 (24:50):
And now would you like a drop off in your tea? Gin, whiskey,
liquor brandy, or a nice dollop of sailors? Rum here, doesn't.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Listen to it.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
I love dear, because you know there's always my heart.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
You've lost your heart. You know you have to the
little fellow who pushes your pram, You know you have.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
Did we get to laugh, dear, with this thing all
around us?

Speaker 6 (25:18):
Yes? I forgot.

Speaker 9 (25:19):
Wonder if they'll even nabbed him?

Speaker 4 (25:21):
What do you mean the fellow did it?

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Wonder what he's doing now?

Speaker 4 (25:25):
I wonder?

Speaker 6 (25:26):
You know the fact they still have no idea where
this woman's head is cut clean off at one stroke?
They say stop it for no.

Speaker 12 (25:32):
Need to jump down the poor boy's throat. Merely the
fact cut off, but one stroke horrible. I suppose you
won't stay to tea.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
No, thank you.

Speaker 9 (25:45):
I think I'll go off before it's dark.

Speaker 10 (25:48):
Goodbye, Missus Bramson.

Speaker 9 (25:49):
Goodbye mister Dan, Dan, just Dan, Goodbye.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Livia, goodbye Hubert. I'm sorry, can't be helped.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
Good night, good night you to the door. What's he
so solemn about.

Speaker 9 (26:04):
Olivia's decided not to marry him?

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Silly girl made up her mind of it? Doesn't sudden,
didn't you? Oh?

Speaker 9 (26:11):
I don't know what's got into the girl this last
week or so. She's been touchy as a cat with kittens.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
She's lost her heart to someone to it and.

Speaker 12 (26:19):
Tell me have any more of those terrible people called
reporters police?

Speaker 6 (26:25):
There's a definite fallen off in attendance today. It's Sunday.
I expect this. Don't talk like that, dear, Sorry, mom?

Speaker 9 (26:31):
And don't you call me ma'am?

Speaker 6 (26:33):
Well? If I can't call you missus Bramson, then I
can't call you mom. What can I call you? Well?

Speaker 9 (26:37):
If you're very good, I might let you call me madam?
Who came up? You are in a mood today. I
want to be read to now.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Your servant, mother of mine? What did you have? Now?
Let's see, there's the channings and red Court file them. Well,
oh what about the Bible? The Bible Sunday you know?

Speaker 9 (27:01):
Oh well, all right, dear, makes a nice change. Not
that I don't often dip into it.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
I'm sure you do.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
Now where I read all random is nice, don't you think, dear?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
That's random?

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yes, I Auntie? The paper boys at the back door,
he says, your pictures in the News of the world again. Oh,
he says he won't leave the paper until he's been paid.
Says he hasn't been paid for a month.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
Has been paid?

Speaker 19 (27:27):
He mad?

Speaker 9 (27:28):
Are you mad?

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Why don't you be? Because you don't give me the
money to do it with?

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Well, oh, we'll reel me over to that cupboard, right.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
You are, Auntie? Well, what don't you think I mean?

Speaker 9 (27:40):
Wouldn't it Danny r He knows when I keep my money,
don't you, dear?

Speaker 6 (27:44):
Since you told me? Of course?

Speaker 9 (27:46):
Of course? Well, now here, here's the key, Hi wat
till I get it from around my neck? Now help
me with it?

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Right you are there there?

Speaker 4 (27:55):
You are?

Speaker 9 (28:02):
Well, Olivia, what.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
You steering at?

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Isn't that rather a lot of money to have in
the house?

Speaker 9 (28:08):
Put not your trust in banks?

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Is my motto, and always will be and so right,
so right.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
But there's hundreds of pounds it.

Speaker 9 (28:16):
Don't be a silly goose. Here, God, get the paper. Yes,
I'll hurry back. Now, lock the box up and put
it back. There's a deer.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
What were those sort of colored folders? Look like somebody's
will or something.

Speaker 12 (28:33):
Oh, they're bonds and stucks. Nothing you'd understand about, deer.
Where is that girl with the paper?

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Here you are, I'll find the place for you. There
are no mother of mine who page headlines are not? Oh?

Speaker 9 (28:47):
Yes, the victims passed with another picture of me underneath.

Speaker 19 (28:52):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (28:53):
Taken a tunbridge a year before the war. The Bungalow
of death.

Speaker 12 (29:00):
English murderers still at large, The enigma, the missing head.

Speaker 9 (29:05):
Oh, this prince too small?

Speaker 6 (29:07):
Shall I read it to you? Yes?

Speaker 9 (29:08):
The ado the e's seen.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Oh yeah that The murderer committed the crime in the forest.
He buried the body shallow in the open pit, cunningly
chanting it being filled, which it was the next day,
the eleventh. That was the day before I come here,
So it was the head was severed by a skilled person,
possibly a butcher. The murderer.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
What's the matter?

Speaker 9 (29:31):
Can you hear something.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
I forgot it was Sunday.

Speaker 8 (29:37):
They're going to church in the villages, all got up
in their Sunday best, with the prayer books and the
organ plane and the windows shining, shining on holy things,
because holy things isn't afraid of the.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Daylight, and Danny, it's all the time the daylight's moving
over the floor, and by the end of the sermon
the air and the churches turn and drave, and people
isn't able to think of holy things so much, and
no more on of the terrible things that's going on
outside that everybody's reading about in the papers, because they
know that though it's still daylight and everything's ordinary and quiet,
to day will be the same as all the other

(30:10):
days and come to an end and it'll be night. Hmm.
I forgot it was Sunday.

Speaker 9 (30:18):
Good gracious, what's come over.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
You, Denny speech?

Speaker 14 (30:22):
If I like anything when I'm roused, I used to
go to Sunday school, see, and the thoughts at a
popp into.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
My head like as if I was reading them off
a book.

Speaker 9 (30:29):
You should have been a preacher, you should And I
want to lie down now.

Speaker 12 (30:34):
Anything you say, mother of mine, you know you've pushed
me about enough for one day.

Speaker 9 (30:39):
You might try to cheer Olivia up a bit, though
the look she.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Needs it, only too happy to try them, that is,
if you liked me too, Miss Olivia.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
You've been drinking, haven't you.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
You don't miss much to you. No, I've had a
drink and I feel fine. You wouldn't like another door, sir, reading,
would it?

Speaker 4 (31:02):
I prefer talking? Carry on asking questions?

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Carry on?

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Are you sure you were ever a sailor? Are you
sure you weren't a butcher?

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Ah? Talking's daft. Doing's the thing you can talk too,
Yes to hear me? Just now? She's right?

Speaker 4 (31:19):
You know.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
I should have been a preacher. I remember when I
was a kid sitting in Sunday school, catching my mother's
eye where she was sitting for the door, and she
pointed to the pulpit and then to me as if
to say, that's the place for you.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
I never forgot that. I don't believe a word of.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
It, neither do I, but it sounds wonderful, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (31:41):
I never saw my mum and I never had a dad,
And the first thing I remember is the Cardiff Ducks.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
And you're the first woman I ever told that to
so you can compliment yourself or the drink. I think
it's for drink.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
You do live in your imagination, don't you.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yes, it's the only way to bear with the awful
things you have to do.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
What awful thing?

Speaker 6 (32:04):
I haven't had as much to drink as all that.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
You haven't a very high opinion of women, have you.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
Women don't have to drink be drunk to talk. You
don't talk that much though, fair play. You're a dark horse,
you are? You know this isn't a life for you.
What is there to it? Tell me that? What is
their to it?

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yes? Getting up at seven, having breakfast with a vixenish
old woman and spending the rest of the day with
her in a dreary house in the middle of a wood,
going to bed at eleven. I'm plain. I haven't got
any money, I'm shy, and I haven't got any friends.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Don't you like the old lady?

Speaker 4 (32:43):
I could kill her?

Speaker 6 (32:44):
Oh no, you couldn't. Not many people have it in
them to kill people. Oh no?

Speaker 4 (32:50):
And what was your life at the tall boys?

Speaker 6 (32:54):
My life? Well, the day didn't start so good. Well,
the latter stuck up woods to clean a lot of
silly high heels all along the passage, waiting for a
polish odders, odders, harders.

Speaker 14 (33:04):
Go here, do this, do that, Open the door and
we get a move on. Wait in my tea stone cold.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
I'm not a waiter. I'm a millionaire, and everybody's under me.
And just when I think I got a bit of peace,
there's somebody locking the bedroom door. Won't let me out.
Tart tart talk, won't fork up with no more money?
At me, at me, at me, calls me.

Speaker 14 (33:21):
Everything lies on the floor and streams and screams, and
nothing keeps that mouth shut.

Speaker 16 (33:25):
Only it's raining out of the window, and the leaves
is off the cheese.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
Oh lord, I wish I could hear a bit of music,
and I do inside of myself, and I have a
drop of drink, and everything's fine. And when it's the night,
go on to fly floor for you. And you'd like
to know, wouldn't you? Why would you like to know?
Why do you lie awake nights?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Don't? I'm frightened off? Why how do you know I
lie awake at night? Shall I tell you why? Because
you're awake yourself? You can't sleep? Can you? You can't sleep?
There's one thing that keeps you awake, isn't there one
thing you've pushed into the back of your mind and

(34:21):
you can't do any more about it, and you never will.
And you know what it is. It's a little thing,
A box, holy, a box, but it's rather heavy.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
It's the only thing that keeps me awake, mind you,
the only thing.

Speaker 9 (34:41):
But I don't know what to do.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
You see, nothing worries me, nothing in the world. Only
A don't like a pair of ice staring at me
with no look at them. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
I don't know what to do. Dan, Oh, Danny, don't
there's someone at the door.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
It's all right, anybody's there. I'll deal with them. I'll
manage it myself. You watch.

Speaker 11 (35:10):
Oh hell, damn house. Things not so bad, mister inspector.
Good afternoon, Miss Graham.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
How do you do if you'll excuse me?

Speaker 10 (35:17):
Out of course? Are you bearing up?

Speaker 4 (35:19):
A dan?

Speaker 6 (35:20):
Yes, it's bear enough. You know.

Speaker 11 (35:21):
I haven't scared you're out of the house yet, I say, oh, no, fiercer,
no more news to me, I suppose no, sir, ah,
too bad, too bad?

Speaker 10 (35:26):
You might have sit down, please do sir?

Speaker 6 (35:28):
Would you like to see missus.

Speaker 10 (35:29):
Bramson say, oh, plenty of time for that. How's she
bearing up?

Speaker 6 (35:33):
Well, it's been a bit of a shock for her
them finding the remains of the lady at the bottom
of the garden.

Speaker 10 (35:37):
You know, why didn't you sleep in your bed on
the night of the tenth.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
What'd you say?

Speaker 10 (35:43):
Why didn't you sleep in your bed on the night
of the murder?

Speaker 6 (35:46):
I did I know?

Speaker 10 (35:47):
I didn't, Yes, I did.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
Oh, oh, ohful except about half an hour, that's right.
I couldn't sleep for a coffee and I went up
on the fire escaper.

Speaker 10 (35:54):
Oh what time was that?

Speaker 6 (35:55):
Or about what?

Speaker 4 (35:56):
You know?

Speaker 6 (35:56):
How it is when you wake up in the middle
of the night, you don't know what time it is?

Speaker 10 (35:59):
M Why didn't you tell us you were on intimate
terms with the deceased woman?

Speaker 6 (36:03):
Intimate turn?

Speaker 10 (36:04):
Now come along, old.

Speaker 11 (36:05):
Chap she was seeing by two of the maids talking
to you in the shrubbery. Well, oh, sir, it's been
on my conscience ever since, so you were.

Speaker 14 (36:16):
Oh no, sir, not that I avoided her ever after
the day she stopped me, said when they asked me
about it, I got friend to tell about her stopping me.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
But now you know about it, sir.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
It's a weight off my mind. You wouldn't believe.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
As a matter of act, sir, it was the disgust
like of nearly getting mixed up with her that was
keeping me awake at nights.

Speaker 10 (36:32):
I see.

Speaker 11 (36:34):
You're a bit of a milk sap, aren't you, am
I sir? Yes, Well, that'll be all for the day.
I'll let you off justice once.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
I am that relieved.

Speaker 11 (36:42):
But don't for There's just one thing, if you don't mind,
I'll have a quick look through your luggage, just a
matter of form.

Speaker 10 (36:49):
Oh yes, well where do you hang out?

Speaker 19 (36:52):
Right in there?

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Sir? First door had fastened?

Speaker 10 (36:55):
First door face. You can't miss it.

Speaker 9 (36:58):
I'll find it.

Speaker 6 (36:59):
It's open. I think you can't miss it. You can't
miss it. You can't miss it. You can't miss it.

Speaker 10 (37:08):
This hat box is locked. Have you got the key?
It isn't mine, not yours? No, who's of them?

Speaker 6 (37:15):
I don't know?

Speaker 10 (37:16):
It isn't mine.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Oh I'm sorry, I thought, why inspector? What are you
doing with my box?

Speaker 10 (37:23):
Your box?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yes, it's got all my letters in it.

Speaker 10 (37:26):
But I found it.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Oh Dan's room used to be the box room. Oh
I see, I'll keep it in my wardrobe. It'll be
safer there if you'll give it to.

Speaker 9 (37:35):
Me, please, of course, thank you.

Speaker 11 (37:37):
I'm very sorry, miss I. I'm afraid I've offended her.
She'll be all right, sir, Well, young fellow, I must
be off You might tell the old lady I popped in.

Speaker 10 (37:47):
Will you tell her? I hope she's better? Thank you, sir.

Speaker 6 (37:50):
Good day, sir, Good day, Good day.

Speaker 10 (37:52):
Sir, good.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Welcome back to the land of the living, oh dead.

Speaker 9 (38:27):
We thought the murder had got you.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
What'll ever come over here?

Speaker 6 (38:32):
I don't know. I felt sick.

Speaker 15 (38:34):
I think waiting, hand and foot on, Madame Crocodile enough
to wear King Kong out here?

Speaker 9 (38:41):
Have a sip of this? Is that bitter? Yes?

Speaker 6 (38:49):
Clears the brain knowin think indeed it's a proper girl stick.
Ashamed of myself? What's miss Olivia go.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
On somewhere for the night?

Speaker 19 (38:59):
Gone for the night?

Speaker 15 (39:00):
Said she was frightened, just a good excuse to get
away from the old dragon.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
If you ask me, did she say why she was frightened?

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Not her, not Miss high and mighty.

Speaker 9 (39:13):
I've got my own ideas about where she was going.

Speaker 15 (39:17):
Let mister Hugo, never you mind about her and mister Hubert.
Maybe the poor thing was frightened.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
She tried to get the old lady to leave with her,
didn't she, Well, not that she'd have a bunch.

Speaker 15 (39:28):
We've got to get on up with to get through
the woods before it's too dog, Well, come along then.

Speaker 9 (39:32):
I'd come with you.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
Only I'm going the other direction, Pearly hillway.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
You going out?

Speaker 9 (39:37):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (39:38):
I feel a bit funny.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
But you can't leave her here by yourself. Oh no,
she'll screamed the place there.

Speaker 14 (39:44):
She asked her a while back, and she didn't seem
to mind. You know what she is, she said, do
me good, and won't hear of me staying. It's no
good arguing with her?

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Now, good arg in with her.

Speaker 9 (39:53):
You have a nice long walk while you get the chance.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
You wight on her too much a litter all the curtains.
There's a darkout. You got the torch door?

Speaker 22 (40:05):
Help her?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Hannah, good night, dad, if you want coming.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
Our wife see in the morning. Good night, Hi, good night, good.

Speaker 22 (40:15):
Night, good night, good night here, good night. There anyone

(40:37):
seen the night before judgment day?

Speaker 9 (40:39):
What's the matter with talking to herself? She keeper wouldn't
walk out of rooms and leave me high and dry.
Don't like it were my chocolates? That gives? Been at
them again?

Speaker 20 (40:59):
Hold on, Danny, Denny. Hi, oh it must have been
an awl Oh, thank heaven, Danny.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
What's that by doing in the kitchen? Danny? I got
the jitters, I got the jitters. I've got the jitters, Danny.
They've gone, they've gold gone. They've left me here alone.

(41:41):
Oh Lord, help a poor old woman.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Danny, Danny.

Speaker 9 (41:46):
Where are you, Danny, Danny.

Speaker 22 (41:48):
I I'm going to be murdered, Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny.

Speaker 9 (41:57):
There's something outside to Danny.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Danny, Danny.

Speaker 9 (42:03):
When are you?

Speaker 4 (42:04):
When are you? Danny?

Speaker 9 (42:05):
Dannything outside?

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Lord?

Speaker 9 (42:10):
Help me, help me?

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Oh Lord, but.

Speaker 9 (42:16):
As we forgive it, Danny.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
Oh uh huh, that's all right, it's all right. It's
only Danny. It's only Danny I to give you. Never
can have a drop of this, have a drop of this.

Speaker 9 (42:39):
I can have a drop.

Speaker 6 (42:40):
Come on, come on, that's better. I am sorry. Really,
you see, they wanted me to see them the main
path past the rubbish sheep in case they was frightened.
Now that's better.

Speaker 9 (42:51):
I don't know yet. Give me them all.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (42:56):
Oh oh Danny, Danny, dear, oh, oh, I know what
I want. There's no woman calling, there no answer.

Speaker 19 (43:11):
That's better.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
Now, Oh Danny, oh Danny, here's a leaf. When I
saw your heath, I.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
Bet you wasn't half glad.

Speaker 9 (43:19):
You're the only ones that has Dandy Danny. That's what
you are.

Speaker 6 (43:22):
That's right.

Speaker 23 (43:26):
That day you said to me about me reminding you
of your mother. Yes, that is a beautiful thought. Yes,
when do you think you're just an ignorant mine?

Speaker 9 (43:37):
It's starting, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
Get him?

Speaker 20 (43:43):
No, not as long as ever I live.

Speaker 9 (43:51):
I want to chuckle it.

Speaker 19 (43:52):
Now.

Speaker 14 (43:53):
You want a nice one with a soft scent of
the kind you like. Here's one straight away. An shut
your eyes, open your mouth.

Speaker 9 (44:02):
You're the only one strong hands. You have a pet,
My little chubby face, my little davy face, My Danny.

Speaker 18 (44:17):
Am I in a draft?

Speaker 9 (44:19):
He got to take care of myself, Hunda. I want
to be read to now, Okay, what do you have?

Speaker 6 (44:27):
The old east Linnen? Now?

Speaker 9 (44:29):
Now I don't feel like anything sentimental tonight?

Speaker 6 (44:33):
What do you have then?

Speaker 9 (44:34):
When I think i'd like the Bible? You were going
to read from him this morning? You know it's sunday.
Isn't that nice? All the aches and pains quite once,
pretty peaceful, bless her.

Speaker 14 (44:51):
He's the man that walketh not in the council of
the ungodly, nor standeth not in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of that's gone.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
For here is so nicely human, lady. But his delight
is in the law of the Lord. And in his
law doth he meditate?

Speaker 9 (45:08):
Day?

Speaker 6 (45:09):
And nice? Sh What what's that? Here's something?

Speaker 9 (45:13):
Yes, sort of stamping noise. Why, Denny, it's you. It's
your heart, beauty. I'm all right.

Speaker 14 (45:27):
Dear, fine, fine. I've been run along the path sy,
I've been not a train. And I suppose when I
was at sea, I never missed a day running around
the decks.

Speaker 6 (45:33):
Of course, curse. I remember those mornings, and some see
very misty place it is with the sun like breathing
silver head. He's coming up across the water and only
me about and nothing else, and the sun just me,
and the.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
Sun is no sun down ere. It's night.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
I it's night now. The ungodly are not so. But
I like the chaff which the wind drive at away.

Speaker 9 (46:00):
I think I'll go to bye bye and have the
rest tomorrow. Shall we help me? Dear, help me? You
know what I am?

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Yes, we committed. Wait a minute, I've only got two more.

Speaker 9 (46:11):
Verses, Dear, I don't want to wake up in the
morning with a nasty cold.

Speaker 14 (46:16):
Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the way of judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the
Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, But the way
of the ungodly shall perish.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
That's the end.

Speaker 9 (46:31):
Yes, Oh well, it's been a long day.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
Are you quite comfortable, bay kie?

Speaker 9 (46:37):
Glad to go to bed? Hope that woman's got in
my bottling.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
Bet you be sure you're comfortable. Wouldn't you like this
cushion back of your head? No, just will make I
think you be more comfortable with a cushion. A pretty
little fellow. Everybody knows no know what to call me.

Speaker 23 (46:57):
A funny look on your face, dear, smiling like that?
You look so kind, so kind?

Speaker 4 (47:09):
What are you going to do with that question?

Speaker 19 (47:13):
Kenny day, I'll trouble here for the key.

Speaker 24 (47:40):
Thanks, Now you'll be put to some pluck of use.
Calsium calsue jaroussine carousine.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
I I we'll have a proper bonfire. What was that
in the sun room? Well, no, no, she's dead. Get
hold of yourself. Done. There's somebody there be ain't the curtains.

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We'll see, we'll see. Ah, it's you.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
I've never seen a dead body before. I climbed through
the window, nearly fell over it like a sack of
potatoes or something. I thought it was at first, that's murder.
But it's so olden Henri. I came back expecting I

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don't know, And here I find you smoking a cigarette.
You might have been tidying up the room for the night.
It's it's so ordinary. Why don't you say something?

Speaker 6 (49:18):
I thought she was going to spend the night in town?

Speaker 10 (49:22):
I was.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
Why'd you come back to find you out?

Speaker 4 (49:27):
You've kept me getting for a fortnight, getting hard. I
very nearly knew all the time, but not quite. And
now I do know.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
Why are you so keen in finding me out in.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
The same way any sane, decent minded human being would want.
We'd want to have you arrested for the monster that
you are.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
Why did you come back?

Speaker 4 (49:46):
I I told you, Hah.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
She didn't keep any money anywhere else, did she.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
I've read a lot about evil I never expected to
come across it in real life.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
You shouldn't feed so much. I never got through a
book yet, but I'll read you all right. You haven't
had a drapt to drink, and yet you feel as
if you had. You never knew there was such a
secret part inside of you. I hate you. I hate
feel as light as air, same as I feel sometimes.
Why this is my big chance? You're the one I

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can tell about myself.

Speaker 14 (50:22):
I'm sick of hearing how clever everybody else is.

Speaker 6 (50:24):
I want to tell him how clever I am.

Speaker 14 (50:25):
For a change money, I've got to havin people doing
what they're told and me tellin em what to do it.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
There was a woman that the tall boys wasn't there.
She wouldn't be tall, would she. She never knew it
was me.

Speaker 14 (50:34):
She was dealing with me as I made her think
she was a chronicle of invalid This old girl who's
been treating me like a son.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
She's been more used to me to night than she's
been to any other body in her whole life. Stupid,
that's what people are.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Stupid.

Speaker 14 (50:52):
You said just now, murder's ordinary. Well it isn't ordinary
at all. See, And I'm not an ordinary chap. This
one big difference between me and the other pallace that
tried this game. I'll never be found out because I
don't care that the world's got to be far from me.

Speaker 6 (51:09):
That's me.

Speaker 19 (51:12):
He waits, But you can't wait, can you?

Speaker 4 (51:16):
What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (51:18):
Well?

Speaker 14 (51:18):
When I say I'll never be found out, what I
mean is no living soul will ever be able to
tell any other living soul about me.

Speaker 6 (51:27):
Can you think of anybody who can go tomorrow and
tell the police the fire at Forest Conner wasn't an accident?
To Pie?

Speaker 4 (51:35):
I can no, you can't. Why can't I well?

Speaker 6 (51:37):
About the against a very serious problem I am, But
the answer to it is simple as pie, to a
fellow like me, Simple as pie. She isn't going to
be the only one found tomorrow in the fire at
Forest Corner, and she frightened. You ought to be. Don't
you think I'll do it?

Speaker 4 (51:56):
I know you will. I just can't realize it.

Speaker 6 (52:00):
You know, when I told you all about myself just now,
I made up my mind then about you. That's what
I am.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
See.

Speaker 6 (52:05):
I make up my mind to do a thing, and
I do it. I what's that light in there? What
light there's somebody that's room. Hold a flashlight.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
It can't be in this room. It must be a
light in the wood.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
Look there the window.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Somebody's watching the bag.

Speaker 10 (52:21):
Nobody's watching.

Speaker 6 (52:23):
I'm the one that watches. They got no call to
watch me. I'll go out and tell them that and all.
I'm the one who watches. Look behind them, trees, hundreds
of eyes back of each tree, thousands of eyes. The
whole world's on the track.

Speaker 19 (52:39):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (52:40):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Noise?

Speaker 6 (52:41):
Like a big wall falling over into the sea.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
I mustn't come in.

Speaker 6 (52:46):
You're looking up as if you've never seen me before.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
I never have, nobody has. You've stopped acting at last.
You're real, frightened, like a child. I mustn't come in.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
Everything slipping away from underneath our feet. Can't you feel it?
Stark and slower than hundreds of miles an hour. I'm
going backwards, and there's the wind in my years, a
terrible blowing wind. Everything's going past me like telegraph poles,
all the things I've ever seen, faster and faster, backwards
to the day I was born.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
I can see it, do it the day I was born.

Speaker 6 (53:28):
I'm going to die.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
It's all right, you won't die. I'll tell him. I'll
tell him I made you do it.

Speaker 9 (53:41):
I'll tell lies, I'll tell.

Speaker 6 (53:44):
Believe me.

Speaker 10 (53:46):
I'm sorry to pop back like this. Well, everything looks
all right here, I tell.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
You we did hear. The plane is plain and we've
gone near a quarter of a mile line is playing?
Made my blood run cold. Danny, she screamed, Danny. Where
are you?

Speaker 10 (54:00):
Well we'll soon find out.

Speaker 11 (54:02):
Now.

Speaker 10 (54:02):
Then, Oh, hello Dan, Hello sir, second time today. Eh,
that's right, sir. How's the old lady.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
That's so bad? Thanks inspector. She's gone to bed. She
says she didn't want to be disturbed. I love Kerozy,
but you know what she's like, inspected, very nervy these days.

Speaker 10 (54:15):
I'll just take a look in the bedroom, if you
don't mind.

Speaker 13 (54:17):
I no.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
Sooner got around the car, and than she screamed for me.

Speaker 10 (54:20):
Danny, Danny, Danny, she screamed, Danny.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
She calls me. That's a pet name for Dan.

Speaker 10 (54:23):
That is she's not there. I I'll take a look
in the sun row.

Speaker 6 (54:27):
I told her so.

Speaker 10 (54:28):
Then I said, it's dangerous, that's.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
What it is.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
Haven't so much kerosine in the house that kerosine. She
shouldn't have had so much kerosine in the house.

Speaker 10 (54:37):
Well, now, miss Greene, what are you doing here? Man?

Speaker 4 (54:41):
She inspector.

Speaker 6 (54:42):
I'm control right, I'm the fella. Anything I'm concerned and
I run all by myself. There's going to be any
questions on a public platform to answer, I'm going to
do it by myself or not at all. I'll manage myself,
all right.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
I get yer.

Speaker 10 (55:04):
You'll like a bit of lime? Lie eh? Well, well,
let's have a look at your hands, old boy. Will
you sure? Handcuffs?

Speaker 4 (55:15):
Handcuffs?

Speaker 10 (55:16):
Hand up?

Speaker 9 (55:17):
Hand better?

Speaker 10 (55:22):
That's better. You'd better come along quietly?

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Look at him? What's he doing? He's looking at himself
in the mirror.

Speaker 6 (55:42):
This is the real thing, my boy, acting. That's what
she said, wasn't it?

Speaker 10 (55:49):
She was right?

Speaker 6 (55:50):
You know I've been playing up to you, haven't I.
I showed you a trick or two, didn't I? But
this is the real thing.

Speaker 10 (56:00):
Come along, man, just come in.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
Do you have a cigarette?

Speaker 10 (56:06):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (56:17):
Thanks? You know it's a funny thing. I want something
now I've never wanted before in my whole life.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
A long walk.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
All by myself and share, isn't it?

Speaker 10 (56:34):
You coming?

Speaker 6 (56:37):
But they'll get their money's worth the trial. I'll hang
in the end, They'll get their money's worth the trial.
You wait, you just wait and see.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
This is Robert Montgomery again with very grateful thanks to you,
Dame May Whittie, Heather Angel, Richard Nay and Matthew Bolton
for your superb performances in Nightmas four. We all count
your appearances here a distinct compliment. It was, of course
a great personal thrill to join you for to night's play.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Good Night and thank you, mister Montgomery.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
May soon be seen in the Universal International production The
Saxon Charm, Name May Whitty's current pictures, Columbia's Sign of
the Ram and the Rangel may soon be seen in
Universal internationals The Saxon Charm, Richard Nay's next picture as
Johan of Lorraine. Night Must Fall by Emmeline Widiams was

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adapted from the stage play by Robert L. Richards, was
directed by Anton M Leader and produced by Robert Montgomery.
Lud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian
Morrowack composes the original scores.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Next week here Dorothy Sayer's.

Speaker 21 (58:57):
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Speaker 2 (59:40):
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Speaker 1 (59:42):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System