August 13, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In just a moment suspend with Madeleine Carroll.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hell, oh, hello Tom, where I am? Thought you were
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Uh oh?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here sounds like ignition trouble to me? Tom?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Why don't you call Ed's Auto Electric best service station
in town. He's an auto like man, really knows his
stuff and believes in preventive service, you know, fixes things
before to happen. Carries autolite parts, you know, auto light
spark plugs, batteries, complete ignition systems. Yeah, that's right, the works.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh, by the way, Tom auto light has that swell
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right now?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
O spem.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
All a light? Then it's fifty thousand dealers in service
stations Bring you radio is outstanding. Theater of grill starrying tonight,
Miss Madeline Carroll in Anton Leader's production of The Morrison Affair,
a tale well calculated to keep you wispend.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh, mister Bellue is.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
A woman outside. She doesn't have an appointment, but she
must speak to mister Blue privately.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
All right out here.
Speaker 8 (01:33):
I'll allow you sixty five as a divorce. She's got
that nothing much the paper law. Will you come in? Please,
thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (01:43):
Mister please sit down, dotty buzz me when it's half passed.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We can't be overheard here, can we.
Speaker 9 (01:52):
No? Now, then, missus, i'd land you didn't take notes.
Oh well, all right, but I do need your name.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'll tell you later. Do lawyers have any kind of
code or rule against revealing confidential information like priests?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (02:09):
However you want me to promise before I hear your case?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, all right, if it.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
Makes you feel better. I've handled hundreds of divorces, oh,
and never lost the patience.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It is a divorce, yes, in a way. But he's
dangerous and as a child, the.
Speaker 9 (02:25):
Courts usually leaned toward giving the mother custoday.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I know, but mister Belleu, I'm in desperate trouble. I'm
afraid you can't understand till I tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Then you see, I'm English. My husband is American. He
grew up here in Boston, a very prominent family. He's
the Morrisons. He's doctor Paul Morrison.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
Yes, I know, doctor Morrison. Oh oh that is i've
heard of him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Then you know he's a surgeon. I met Paul in
London in nineteen thirty nine. We were married very soon
after we met, and then England went to war and
Paul decided to stay in England to help out. He
was different then, so deeply concerned over human suffering. The
war changed him, changed him hideously. But those first two
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years in London we were happy, almost completely happy. Quite suddenly,
America was in the war and Paul had his orders
to return to the American Army Medical Corps. We spent
a little time we had left at a cottage in
the country, and all the time I was trying to
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forget the one thing that have been preying on my
mind ever since they told me at the hospital. But
I couldn't, and so finally, even though it was our
last day together, I went up to London to do
what I had always known someday I would have to do.
It was late afternoon when I returned.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We did about darling, where have you this?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm sorry, I'm so late.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Poor, Never mind about being so sorry. Come over here
this the instant, give me a kiss.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Want to know what you're heartless?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Hes he going off and leaving me alone all day
a last day.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Do you think I'd have gone if it hadn't been important.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Look, darling, I'm a doctor too. I don't know what
doctor you want to see this time, but none of
us can perform miracles.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I don't believe in miracles. Paul and I didn't go
to Lendar to see a doctor. I went to find
out if we could adopt a child.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Adopt a child.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He always been against the idea of this.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
There's no time to go to a big, complicated thing
like that. I'm gonna be on my way home by
this time tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's not this time tomorrow. I'm thinking about, Paul. It's
all my life. If I can't have a child on
my own, then I want to adopt. I sort of
halfway picked out when at the orphanage today. But his
parents were killed in an air aid and and oh, Paul,
you've always wanted a boy.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I wanted a son, Yes, but adopting a child involves
certain risks. There are fundamental laws of hereticiy.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Now you're being played.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
You can call it anything you like.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's out of the question.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Why give me one reason?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You know the reasons as well as I do.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
All I know is I'm a woman that I want
a child.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
She will come here look at me. Maybe I'm old
fashioned or overcautious, but if we got a child that
way picked him out like something in a grocery shelf,
you might feel he was your son, but it wouldn't
be mine. And the sun has to be for both
of us. A not at all.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I stayed on in London for more than six months
after Paul left. It was ghastly there, For everyone has
to me. I lived in a fever of loneliness worse
than loneliness. Then my mother asked me down to the
country to wait out the war with her. It was
a summer evening when I took a crowded train from
Patty and I sat alone in the compartment, none with
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my hunger for Paul. You must understand not there. I
wasn't myself. I wasn't accountable. You see, I had a
double kind of loneliness. When the conductor opened my compartment
door for other passengers, I didn't even look up, says.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
You, Oh, thank you, the windows.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Didn't you too. I recommendations.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
He's going to want some of their pressure for the little.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Neighbors, and you can have my seat if you like.
It doesn't make any difference to me. It's very kind
of your miss. I'm sure the god there now Johnny
saw me.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
This is all right, you know. And when they're reading junction.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Trouble to me?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Mary is not taking up too much room on the street.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Mego, no, not at all. If seven in Flushing me man, now, Mary.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Parry, stop Ramason in my carry all there's nothing in
it two weeks ah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
N can be such a dr house. Yes, I know
you're you grace. Can I hold him for a minute?
What you too like to look at pictures? Here's a
magazine with all sorts of pictures about America. All that's
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fns of your miss arm shure. He's delighted. Thank her. Yeah,
the keeping quad her mother ought to be two people
that you are. I'll hold a baby while he said
it bostle. But if it wasn't trouble you, no, I
don't mind. Yeah. I sat there scarcely breathing, looking down
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at the baby in my lap, because as though I'd
never felt warmth before. He stopped wimpling, and he looked
up at me with very big brown eyes that seemed
to hold recognition. He's taking a real party to your myth.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
And now i'm attack. What's his name, Jamely? It was
his father's name. He was killed last week in Obama
over Germany.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm terribly sorry. But you have the children.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh yes, niss, But sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I
think it would be better if I didn't have this
last one. Oh no, you can't mean that. It's not easy, miss,
with no man to provide. You said you're marriedness. Do
you have any children?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
No, I have no children.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
You know if you had one, knowing all the things,
I won't be able to give him. I can't help
thinking it'd be better to offer if I left him
on someone's doorsteps, so to speak, someone well fixed like you.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You go greet it all your life, but it's his
life I'm thinking about when I say it. Of course,
I'm not brave enough to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That wish I was.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Oh well, if wishes res horses, as they say.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
We've got born into that injunctions. You still won't to
get there, CAPI.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Oh, thanks you, thank you, John, and man. I want
to see this, PI have you can look at the
magazine when you come back and on the wrong bus.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Off.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You're white from the outside, Hi, mama, Come on, lady,
Well we like ming down. I'm going to sit right here.
Why don't I hold him till you come back. I will.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I will not to bother you now bother at all. Well,
you won't have an a trouble with him. He's always
been a good baby.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
A long time. Like if you assure me quite sure,
I'm quite sure. Maybe you'll say what I did was
wicked that she didn't tell me to take her.
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Child, but I know she did.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
She made her decision that I made mine. I'll consume
minute I got out to carry the baby down the kilo.
I was tumbling tiers, afraid i'd brought him. I managed
to get up plain and made my way across the
crowded platform. It was nearly time for the train to
pull up.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
O god fad.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Then I saw the woman her tool the curren, coming
towards me. I stepped behind a posts.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We thought that.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I stood there and watched the free climb onto the train,
and he began to move, and it was a bike
for a train. Whish if only I hadn't imagined it
was something else above the racket of the train. It
sounded like a woman screaming.
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Speaker 3 (11:17):
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Speaker 4 (12:18):
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The tale well calculated to keep you in shall spend?
Speaker 9 (12:47):
I can't file for your divorce, missus Morrison, until you
and your husband turned the child over to the British console.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
My husband doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He thinks it's his child.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
He's a sect. Something's wrong.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Will then make a cream best of it? Tell him,
oh no, you mustn't.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
He must never know. He'll kill me or Janie or
both of us.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
How on earth did you make your husband believe?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was easy?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I figured it all out on the way to mothers.
I took a bus at read Injunction, then another train.
It was almost midnight when I got home and let
myself in the front door. Mother was waiting up is yes, mother?
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You Jesus before? Still is in the kitchen, Mum, don't
ask questions now please, he's hungry. I'm him up the milk.
She's mine? Now what do you mean? I don't know Yah,
hold on again to leave. I stole him, Esa. I
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don't ask you to understand, mother, I only asked her
to help me because I'm your child, and because I
can't ever have a child of my own. Pol Let
you keep this side. He thinks it's his only will
the pool in my stop it maybe years before the
war was over, and I see Paul again. He look
forward to seeing me. He's bound to ask where this
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son was born? He was born here? That our records
and such things, Sheila the date that plays the parents
of the hind though, Mother telephone, doctor Lucas. He's a
slot and he's not even not read thet does that matter?
He's greedy and that's the kind of man. I need
tell him. I want to see him tomorrow because tomorrow
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my son Jamie will be born. That night, before I
went to bed, I cabled Paul at his last apl address.
Why haven't you answered my letters? Or don't you like
my news? His answering cable came in the morning, What letters?
What news? Will phone frequently? Paul had traveled so much
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New York, Baltimore, three months in the Pacific, it would
be easy to make him believe that some of his
mail had gone astray. I waited all day for Paul's
call and for doctor Lucas that miserable little man took
his time about it.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Ah, Missus Morrison, I'm late, but your mother assured me
no one, as you know, it's about my son.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Why I didn't cheer that.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I'm difficulties about his birth record. I have a loss
of certificate and I need a duplicate.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Fine, Missus Morrison, I'm sure if you write as a.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Matter of fact, I want the record change change. I
want the certificate to say that he was born here
to day. This is morson. It can be done, can't it.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
It's a rather difficult you mean it's expensive, yes, very expensive.
There's the risk to adoptor's reputation.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
How much er, hum?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Thousand pounds?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
All right?
Speaker 10 (16:07):
I'm afraid it would have to be twelve hundred pounds
all right, but that's all I can pay.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Here.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
You can write it out under this lam.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
For one moment, I'll find the farm.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yes, kid, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
He's the son of mister and missus Paul Morrison. Excuse me,
see yes, don't hear me?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Morrison? Hello, Hello Sheila, Poor old darling where are you India?
I turned the whole army inside out to get a priority. Ken, heck,
can you hear me? All right? Fine, but darling, why
didn't you answer my level? I answered everyone? I got sidy.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
The important world got lost or something. You haven't heard
the news?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
What news?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
You're you're going to be afore the Paul?
Speaker 11 (16:55):
Did you hear me, Paul?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yes? But Sheila's impossible.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
But it's happened all the same. Any day now you'll
have a son and heir.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Oh, you've made up your mind, could be a boy here.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
That's what you want, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yes, it's what I want. But it seems like a miracle.
I was dead.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Certainly something wrong, Missus Mordeson.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I was cut off, Oh, braider a breader, yeah, parbread
I was cut off. It was a call from India.
Didn't you hang up? Certainly not? I was cut off. Well,
I'll try to get your party back, yes, try, but
it's all right if you don't.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
What is the name of your son, Missus Morrison?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Uh, Jamie Jamie Morrison, Jamie Morrison.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
On June third, nineteen forty two. You know Missus Modeson's
head edity is kicking.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
There's nothing wrong with my son to edit it, And then.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
There's always the danger of being found out, as long
as anyone knows the side yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
At first, some night side dreamed that Jamie's mother had
come to fetch Jamie. But that was only at first.
There is my kid, very peek. Four years went by.
Then the war was over, and Jamie and I sailed
to join Paul in America. But day all arrived in
New York. I may have been nervous, but I was
sure it last could happen, as sure as I'd ever
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been in my life. Oh, poor old Don, my.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Dear, I've never seen you look better, darling, motherhood sits you.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
That's my daddy.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Jamie, Well, well, how do you do? James?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
My name isn't James, it's Jamie.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Jamie.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, I've always called him that. I don't know why.
It's the kind of brickday b befollow.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Now I'm better settled for James. We must.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
He's never appreciated nicknames. Funny about his eyes, his eyes.
I've got to look at my Mendel. Can two blue
eyed people have a brown eyes show?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I must read it no matter what Mendel says.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, he's positively the first Marson with brown eyes.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
He's a miracle kid.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Miracle kid, blue oy, brown eyes. I roll the phrases
around my mind, hunting.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Their real meaning.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I was over sensitive, of course, but from the first
day I felt that Paul was hostile to jail.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Where's my miracle kid?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
He's taking his nap. What do you want with him?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'm driving down to the rifle range with a friend.
I thought i'd take James along, but.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
He's too young, Paul, too young for what to play
with guns.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
That's just why I want to take him along. He
knows how to handle guns. The better off he'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Mommy, well you, Mommy, Hill, I am Jamie Lomy you
so oh, darling, darling, what's happened?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I love the horse.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
He went to fast and jumped along and I saw
up my knee.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, got the ead.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
He's more scared than her.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Oh no, I had I used peroxide. It won't sing.
I told you he was too young to ride.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Oh it was a gentle horse. Jamie lost the seat
when it started to trot.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
We'll do better next time, won't we.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Kid, I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
They won't see you next time.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yes, there will be, Sheila.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Jamie, go up to mother's room now, I'll be along
in a minute to fix your knees. All right, Mommy,
Candy in my bureau, you know where, Yes, Mommy, I do. Paul,
what are you trying to do?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I'm trying to make my son like my son.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
He's my son too.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
You know what you're doing to him, Sheila, it's not
anybody Sonny's a zombie. I swear I'd rather see him
dead than what you want him to be.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I suppose it was then that I first realized what
I would have to do. But someday, someday, soon, I'd
have to get Jamie away from Paul. I was frightened.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
I even began to carry a gun in my bag,
and I began to make plans i'd start again, build
a new life for myself and my son. Then yesterday
I knew that I'd have to hurry, that I couldn't
postpone my decision any longer. I found out when Paul
came home from the hospital. He came directly to my room.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Ah, they were I want to tell you something, she
is it?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
What's happened?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
A big day at the conference.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh, in the medical conference, a psychiachist from Chicago named
Drake read a paper on psychosomatic medicine. It's terrific. And
then there was a curious report on euthanasia. You know,
mercy killing. Interesting but extreme in what way?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Well, the doctor's delivering the report favors not only the
mercy killing of incurables. He advocates weeding out and purifying
the race by studying heredity and eliminating those whose heredity
is questionable. Real, quick, but horrible.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Sheila.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Well, his report was going on, though I began to wonder.
I thout you and Jamie?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
How about me and Jamie?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yes, I wanted to ask you, is there something about
Jamie's heredity that you don't want me to know?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Then I understood the danger was real and now for myself,
but mostly for Jamie. Paul was playing with me like
a cat plays her mouse. This talk about mercy killing
your edity, this suckle cruel talk, threatening me with Jamie's death,
announcing in advance the mercy killing of a child who
was in Syria because he isn't a minor. That's why
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I come to me, To me, I can't risk Paul's
getting custody. I have to take Jamie away first, far
away where poor can't reach him, and then get a divorce.
Mm hmmm. I want you to tell me where it's
safest for us to go and get the papers I need.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
M Missus Morrison. I promised that whatever you told me
would be confidential. I'm sorry I made that promise. If
I hadn't, I'd go to doctor Morrison and tell him
that his wife carries a heavy load of guilt, a
very heavy load, and it's coloring everything she does.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You think I'm insane.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
I think you have dangerous delusions, and you won't help me.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I can't. Missus Morrison.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
A psychiatrist might help you, but only if you go
to him now, before it's too late.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yes, he's go to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Doctor Morrison said for you to come right away.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
What is it, Elsa, what's happened? It's the little boy.
He got a hold one with daddy's guns. Jane, he's child, Jane,
and he was playing with it and it went off
and it was pointed right at hisself. He's hurt. Dad,
take my blood, poor take it. I'll do anything.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
You'll get hold of yourself. You're a sterical. We have
to know his blood type first. The lad should be
calling back any minute.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Poor, I'd rather you didn't offer me, asked felt the McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
This is McDonald's kind of a case. I don't you
trust me, Sheila.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I thought you might be too nervous being his father?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Am I, Sheila? What am I his father? Sheila?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Doctor Marrison speaking, all right, it's a lad. Hello, Yes, Brooks,
it's what you're absolutely sure. You checked twice. I see, yes,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
He gave the results of the blood test.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
We can't use your blood, shealer.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
You know from the blood test, yestim.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's the boy.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Already for operation of start immediately. Yes, no, what, Shela, Now,
don't tell me. All I know is that your blood
is type and mine is Type A and James's type B.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Wait here, Sheila, don't do it for do what.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I won't let you operate.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I won't.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I won't get doctor McDonald or I'll.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Kill you out of your mind. You can't shoot that gun.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I can, and I will before I let you touch Jamie.
Now that you know he's not your son, I've.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Always known it.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
You're lying from the first moment I saw him. It's
a proven medical facts. Who blue eyed people cannot have
a brown eyed child.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Oh you're cool, he would deliberate.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
First, I thought you'd been unfaithful, that Jamie was your
son and another man was his father. But the blood
proves he's not yours either. You adopted it.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I stole him, and I'm not going to lose him
now with Morrison.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Thank you. Wait here, smer Paul.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I warned you, doctor never like a sack of dry
leaves and liquid, the color of dark grapes seep through
and spread slowly across the front of his surgeon's jack.
Then people came and dragged me away. I've seen no
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one since except those who guard me and my lawyer,
mister Bellow, who came to tell me that Paul was
dead and that Jamie would live. The operation was performed
successfully by doctor McDonald. Then mister Bellow began to talk
about how to defend me against the charge of murder.
Why not tell him the truth?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Let me tell you the truth, missus Morrison. After you
shot doctor Morrison, he could have lived. He had to
choose between his life and Jamie.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
What could he do for Jamie?
Speaker 9 (27:00):
The bullet had lodged in Jamie's brain. It would take
hours to find a brain specialist as good as Dr Morrison.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But he didn't operate.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
He ordered them to take him to the operating room.
Then for an hour and a half he stood at
doctor McDonald's elbow, directing every move of his scalpel. When
the operation was over, Doctor Morrison was dying, but Jamie
would live.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And so in my defense, mister bellew intends to plead insanity,
But I wasn't insane then now am I? Now? I
know that I'm merely a selfish woman. Everything I did
I did for myself, not for Jamie. I can see
that now. But Paul gave his life for his son,
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and no matter what happens to him now, Jamie had
a far.
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Oh, mister Bellue is.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
A woman outside. She doesn't have an appointment, but she
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All right out here.
Speaker 8 (01:33):
I'll allow you sixty five as a divorce. She's got
that nothing much the paper law. Will you come in? Please,
thank you, thank you very much.
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Mister please sit down, dotty buzz me when it's half passed.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We can't be overheard here, can we.
Speaker 9 (01:52):
No? Now, then, missus, i'd land you didn't take notes.
Oh well, all right, but I do need your name.
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I'll tell you later. Do lawyers have any kind of
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Yes?
Speaker 9 (02:09):
However you want me to promise before I hear your case?
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Yes, all right, if it.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
Makes you feel better. I've handled hundreds of divorces, oh,
and never lost the patience.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It is a divorce, yes, in a way. But he's
dangerous and as a child, the.
Speaker 9 (02:25):
Courts usually leaned toward giving the mother custoday.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I know, but mister Belleu, I'm in desperate trouble. I'm
afraid you can't understand till I tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Then you see, I'm English. My husband is American. He
grew up here in Boston, a very prominent family. He's
the Morrisons. He's doctor Paul Morrison.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
Yes, I know, doctor Morrison. Oh oh that is i've
heard of him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Then you know he's a surgeon. I met Paul in
London in nineteen thirty nine. We were married very soon
after we met, and then England went to war and
Paul decided to stay in England to help out. He
was different then, so deeply concerned over human suffering. The
war changed him, changed him hideously. But those first two
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years in London we were happy, almost completely happy. Quite suddenly,
America was in the war and Paul had his orders
to return to the American Army Medical Corps. We spent
a little time we had left at a cottage in
the country, and all the time I was trying to
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forget the one thing that have been preying on my
mind ever since they told me at the hospital. But
I couldn't, and so finally, even though it was our
last day together, I went up to London to do
what I had always known someday I would have to do.
It was late afternoon when I returned.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We did about darling, where have you this?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm sorry, I'm so late.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Poor, Never mind about being so sorry. Come over here
this the instant, give me a kiss.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Want to know what you're heartless?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Hes he going off and leaving me alone all day
a last day.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Do you think I'd have gone if it hadn't been important.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Look, darling, I'm a doctor too. I don't know what
doctor you want to see this time, but none of
us can perform miracles.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I don't believe in miracles. Paul and I didn't go
to Lendar to see a doctor. I went to find
out if we could adopt a child.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Adopt a child.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He always been against the idea of this.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
There's no time to go to a big, complicated thing
like that. I'm gonna be on my way home by
this time tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's not this time tomorrow. I'm thinking about, Paul. It's
all my life. If I can't have a child on
my own, then I want to adopt. I sort of
halfway picked out when at the orphanage today. But his
parents were killed in an air aid and and oh, Paul,
you've always wanted a boy.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I wanted a son, Yes, but adopting a child involves
certain risks. There are fundamental laws of hereticiy.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Now you're being played.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
You can call it anything you like.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's out of the question.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Why give me one reason?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You know the reasons as well as I do.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
All I know is I'm a woman that I want
a child.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
She will come here look at me. Maybe I'm old
fashioned or overcautious, but if we got a child that
way picked him out like something in a grocery shelf,
you might feel he was your son, but it wouldn't
be mine. And the sun has to be for both
of us. A not at all.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I stayed on in London for more than six months
after Paul left. It was ghastly there, For everyone has
to me. I lived in a fever of loneliness worse
than loneliness. Then my mother asked me down to the
country to wait out the war with her. It was
a summer evening when I took a crowded train from
Patty and I sat alone in the compartment, none with
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my hunger for Paul. You must understand not there. I
wasn't myself. I wasn't accountable. You see, I had a
double kind of loneliness. When the conductor opened my compartment
door for other passengers, I didn't even look up, says.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
You, Oh, thank you, the windows.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Didn't you too. I recommendations.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
He's going to want some of their pressure for the little.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Neighbors, and you can have my seat if you like.
It doesn't make any difference to me. It's very kind
of your miss. I'm sure the god there now Johnny
saw me.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
This is all right, you know. And when they're reading junction.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Trouble to me?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Mary is not taking up too much room on the street.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Mego, no, not at all. If seven in Flushing me man, now, Mary.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Parry, stop Ramason in my carry all there's nothing in
it two weeks ah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
N can be such a dr house. Yes, I know
you're you grace. Can I hold him for a minute?
What you too like to look at pictures? Here's a
magazine with all sorts of pictures about America. All that's
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fns of your miss arm shure. He's delighted. Thank her. Yeah,
the keeping quad her mother ought to be two people
that you are. I'll hold a baby while he said
it bostle. But if it wasn't trouble you, no, I
don't mind. Yeah. I sat there scarcely breathing, looking down
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at the baby in my lap, because as though I'd
never felt warmth before. He stopped wimpling, and he looked
up at me with very big brown eyes that seemed
to hold recognition. He's taking a real party to your myth.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
And now i'm attack. What's his name, Jamely? It was
his father's name. He was killed last week in Obama
over Germany.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm terribly sorry. But you have the children.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh yes, niss, But sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I
think it would be better if I didn't have this
last one. Oh no, you can't mean that. It's not easy, miss,
with no man to provide. You said you're marriedness. Do
you have any children?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
No, I have no children.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
You know if you had one, knowing all the things,
I won't be able to give him. I can't help
thinking it'd be better to offer if I left him
on someone's doorsteps, so to speak, someone well fixed like you.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You go greet it all your life, but it's his
life I'm thinking about when I say it. Of course,
I'm not brave enough to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That wish I was.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Oh well, if wishes res horses, as they say.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
We've got born into that injunctions. You still won't to
get there, CAPI.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Oh, thanks you, thank you, John, and man. I want
to see this, PI have you can look at the
magazine when you come back and on the wrong bus.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Off.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You're white from the outside, Hi, mama, Come on, lady,
Well we like ming down. I'm going to sit right here.
Why don't I hold him till you come back. I will.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I will not to bother you now bother at all. Well,
you won't have an a trouble with him. He's always
been a good baby.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
A long time. Like if you assure me quite sure,
I'm quite sure. Maybe you'll say what I did was
wicked that she didn't tell me to take her.
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Child, but I know she did.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
She made her decision that I made mine. I'll consume
minute I got out to carry the baby down the kilo.
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to get up plain and made my way across the
crowded platform. It was nearly time for the train to
pull up.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
O god fad.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Then I saw the woman her tool the curren, coming
towards me. I stepped behind a posts.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We thought that.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I stood there and watched the free climb onto the train,
and he began to move, and it was a bike
for a train. Whish if only I hadn't imagined it
was something else above the racket of the train. It
sounded like a woman screaming.
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The tale well calculated to keep you in shall spend?
Speaker 9 (12:47):
I can't file for your divorce, missus Morrison, until you
and your husband turned the child over to the British console.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
My husband doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He thinks it's his child.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
He's a sect. Something's wrong.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Will then make a cream best of it? Tell him,
oh no, you mustn't.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
He must never know. He'll kill me or Janie or
both of us.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
How on earth did you make your husband believe?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was easy?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I figured it all out on the way to mothers.
I took a bus at read Injunction, then another train.
It was almost midnight when I got home and let
myself in the front door. Mother was waiting up is yes, mother?
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You Jesus before? Still is in the kitchen, Mum, don't
ask questions now please, he's hungry. I'm him up the milk.
She's mine? Now what do you mean? I don't know Yah,
hold on again to leave. I stole him, Esa. I
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don't ask you to understand, mother, I only asked her
to help me because I'm your child, and because I
can't ever have a child of my own. Pol Let
you keep this side. He thinks it's his only will
the pool in my stop it maybe years before the
war was over, and I see Paul again. He look
forward to seeing me. He's bound to ask where this
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son was born? He was born here? That our records
and such things, Sheila the date that plays the parents
of the hind though, Mother telephone, doctor Lucas. He's a
slot and he's not even not read thet does that matter?
He's greedy and that's the kind of man. I need
tell him. I want to see him tomorrow because tomorrow
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my son Jamie will be born. That night, before I
went to bed, I cabled Paul at his last apl address.
Why haven't you answered my letters? Or don't you like
my news? His answering cable came in the morning, What letters?
What news? Will phone frequently? Paul had traveled so much
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New York, Baltimore, three months in the Pacific, it would
be easy to make him believe that some of his
mail had gone astray. I waited all day for Paul's
call and for doctor Lucas that miserable little man took
his time about it.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Ah, Missus Morrison, I'm late, but your mother assured me
no one, as you know, it's about my son.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Why I didn't cheer that.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I'm difficulties about his birth record. I have a loss
of certificate and I need a duplicate.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Fine, Missus Morrison, I'm sure if you write as a.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Matter of fact, I want the record change change. I
want the certificate to say that he was born here
to day. This is morson. It can be done, can't it.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
It's a rather difficult you mean it's expensive, yes, very expensive.
There's the risk to adoptor's reputation.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
How much er, hum?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Thousand pounds?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
All right?
Speaker 10 (16:07):
I'm afraid it would have to be twelve hundred pounds
all right, but that's all I can pay.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Here.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
You can write it out under this lam.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
For one moment, I'll find the farm.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yes, kid, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
He's the son of mister and missus Paul Morrison. Excuse me,
see yes, don't hear me?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Morrison? Hello, Hello Sheila, Poor old darling where are you India?
I turned the whole army inside out to get a priority. Ken, heck,
can you hear me? All right? Fine, but darling, why
didn't you answer my level? I answered everyone? I got sidy.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
The important world got lost or something. You haven't heard
the news?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
What news?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
You're you're going to be afore the Paul?
Speaker 11 (16:55):
Did you hear me, Paul?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yes? But Sheila's impossible.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
But it's happened all the same. Any day now you'll
have a son and heir.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Oh, you've made up your mind, could be a boy here.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
That's what you want, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yes, it's what I want. But it seems like a miracle.
I was dead.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Certainly something wrong, Missus Mordeson.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I was cut off, Oh, braider a breader, yeah, parbread
I was cut off. It was a call from India.
Didn't you hang up? Certainly not? I was cut off. Well,
I'll try to get your party back, yes, try, but
it's all right if you don't.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
What is the name of your son, Missus Morrison?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Uh, Jamie Jamie Morrison, Jamie Morrison.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
On June third, nineteen forty two. You know Missus Modeson's
head edity is kicking.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
There's nothing wrong with my son to edit it, And then.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
There's always the danger of being found out, as long
as anyone knows the side yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
At first, some night side dreamed that Jamie's mother had
come to fetch Jamie. But that was only at first.
There is my kid, very peek. Four years went by.
Then the war was over, and Jamie and I sailed
to join Paul in America. But day all arrived in
New York. I may have been nervous, but I was
sure it last could happen, as sure as I'd ever
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been in my life. Oh, poor old Don, my.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Dear, I've never seen you look better, darling, motherhood sits you.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
That's my daddy.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Jamie, Well, well, how do you do? James?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
My name isn't James, it's Jamie.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Jamie.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, I've always called him that. I don't know why.
It's the kind of brickday b befollow.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Now I'm better settled for James. We must.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
He's never appreciated nicknames. Funny about his eyes, his eyes.
I've got to look at my Mendel. Can two blue
eyed people have a brown eyes show?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I must read it no matter what Mendel says.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, he's positively the first Marson with brown eyes.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
He's a miracle kid.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Miracle kid, blue oy, brown eyes. I roll the phrases
around my mind, hunting.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Their real meaning.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I was over sensitive, of course, but from the first
day I felt that Paul was hostile to jail.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Where's my miracle kid?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
He's taking his nap. What do you want with him?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'm driving down to the rifle range with a friend.
I thought i'd take James along, but.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
He's too young, Paul, too young for what to play
with guns.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
That's just why I want to take him along. He
knows how to handle guns. The better off he'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Mommy, well you, Mommy, Hill, I am Jamie Lomy you
so oh, darling, darling, what's happened?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I love the horse.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
He went to fast and jumped along and I saw
up my knee.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, got the ead.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
He's more scared than her.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Oh no, I had I used peroxide. It won't sing.
I told you he was too young to ride.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Oh it was a gentle horse. Jamie lost the seat
when it started to trot.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
We'll do better next time, won't we.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Kid, I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
They won't see you next time.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yes, there will be, Sheila.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Jamie, go up to mother's room now, I'll be along
in a minute to fix your knees. All right, Mommy,
Candy in my bureau, you know where, Yes, Mommy, I do. Paul,
what are you trying to do?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I'm trying to make my son like my son.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
He's my son too.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
You know what you're doing to him, Sheila, it's not
anybody Sonny's a zombie. I swear I'd rather see him
dead than what you want him to be.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I suppose it was then that I first realized what
I would have to do. But someday, someday, soon, I'd
have to get Jamie away from Paul. I was frightened.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
I even began to carry a gun in my bag,
and I began to make plans i'd start again, build
a new life for myself and my son. Then yesterday
I knew that I'd have to hurry, that I couldn't
postpone my decision any longer. I found out when Paul
came home from the hospital. He came directly to my room.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Ah, they were I want to tell you something, she
is it?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
What's happened?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
A big day at the conference.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh, in the medical conference, a psychiachist from Chicago named
Drake read a paper on psychosomatic medicine. It's terrific. And
then there was a curious report on euthanasia. You know,
mercy killing. Interesting but extreme in what way?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Well, the doctor's delivering the report favors not only the
mercy killing of incurables. He advocates weeding out and purifying
the race by studying heredity and eliminating those whose heredity
is questionable. Real, quick, but horrible.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Sheila.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Well, his report was going on, though I began to wonder.
I thout you and Jamie?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
How about me and Jamie?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yes, I wanted to ask you, is there something about
Jamie's heredity that you don't want me to know?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Then I understood the danger was real and now for myself,
but mostly for Jamie. Paul was playing with me like
a cat plays her mouse. This talk about mercy killing
your edity, this suckle cruel talk, threatening me with Jamie's death,
announcing in advance the mercy killing of a child who
was in Syria because he isn't a minor. That's why
(22:55):
I come to me, To me, I can't risk Paul's
getting custody. I have to take Jamie away first, far
away where poor can't reach him, and then get a divorce.
Mm hmmm. I want you to tell me where it's
safest for us to go and get the papers I need.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
M Missus Morrison. I promised that whatever you told me
would be confidential. I'm sorry I made that promise. If
I hadn't, I'd go to doctor Morrison and tell him
that his wife carries a heavy load of guilt, a
very heavy load, and it's coloring everything she does.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You think I'm insane.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
I think you have dangerous delusions, and you won't help me.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I can't. Missus Morrison.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
A psychiatrist might help you, but only if you go
to him now, before it's too late.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yes, he's go to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Doctor Morrison said for you to come right away.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
What is it, Elsa, what's happened? It's the little boy.
He got a hold one with daddy's guns. Jane, he's child, Jane,
and he was playing with it and it went off
and it was pointed right at hisself. He's hurt. Dad,
take my blood, poor take it. I'll do anything.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
You'll get hold of yourself. You're a sterical. We have
to know his blood type first. The lad should be
calling back any minute.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Poor, I'd rather you didn't offer me, asked felt the McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
This is McDonald's kind of a case. I don't you
trust me, Sheila.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I thought you might be too nervous being his father?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Am I, Sheila? What am I his father? Sheila?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Doctor Marrison speaking, all right, it's a lad. Hello, Yes, Brooks,
it's what you're absolutely sure. You checked twice. I see, yes,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
He gave the results of the blood test.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
We can't use your blood, shealer.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
You know from the blood test, yestim.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's the boy.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Already for operation of start immediately. Yes, no, what, Shela, Now,
don't tell me. All I know is that your blood
is type and mine is Type A and James's type B.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Wait here, Sheila, don't do it for do what.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I won't let you operate.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I won't.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I won't get doctor McDonald or I'll.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Kill you out of your mind. You can't shoot that gun.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I can, and I will before I let you touch Jamie.
Now that you know he's not your son, I've.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Always known it.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
You're lying from the first moment I saw him. It's
a proven medical facts. Who blue eyed people cannot have
a brown eyed child.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Oh you're cool, he would deliberate.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
First, I thought you'd been unfaithful, that Jamie was your
son and another man was his father. But the blood
proves he's not yours either. You adopted it.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I stole him, and I'm not going to lose him
now with Morrison.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Thank you. Wait here, smer Paul.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I warned you, doctor never like a sack of dry
leaves and liquid, the color of dark grapes seep through
and spread slowly across the front of his surgeon's jack.
Then people came and dragged me away. I've seen no
(26:30):
one since except those who guard me and my lawyer,
mister Bellow, who came to tell me that Paul was
dead and that Jamie would live. The operation was performed
successfully by doctor McDonald. Then mister Bellow began to talk
about how to defend me against the charge of murder.
Why not tell him the truth?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Let me tell you the truth, missus Morrison. After you
shot doctor Morrison, he could have lived. He had to
choose between his life and Jamie.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
What could he do for Jamie?
Speaker 9 (27:00):
The bullet had lodged in Jamie's brain. It would take
hours to find a brain specialist as good as Dr Morrison.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But he didn't operate.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
He ordered them to take him to the operating room.
Then for an hour and a half he stood at
doctor McDonald's elbow, directing every move of his scalpel. When
the operation was over, Doctor Morrison was dying, but Jamie
would live.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And so in my defense, mister bellew intends to plead insanity,
But I wasn't insane then now am I? Now? I
know that I'm merely a selfish woman. Everything I did
I did for myself, not for Jamie. I can see
that now. But Paul gave his life for his son,
(27:55):
and no matter what happens to him now, Jamie had
a far.
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