November 19, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
And now the Night's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of
thrills suspense. The Night the story of a man who
felt that he had to prove himself, had to go
to any lengths to make people believe him. Antoniella stars
in his own adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's telling.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The chapel was.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
A ruin roofed by daylight, flowed with lawn in a
corner of the gardener had tiptot a heap of cut
grass in the lawn mirth. It smelt stuffy and sweet.
Outside beyond the ragged arch of the chapel there was sunshine,
but not here. Terry looked up, feeling shy, noticing suddenly
(01:00):
surprised the blood on his hands, Embarrassed all at once
at the idea of anyone coming. His brain was ticking
like a watch, remembering, remembering Josephine home coming from Ceylon
a month ago, that first interview with his father in
the study, so heavy with solemnity.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Sit down, Terry, thank you father.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, so you're back with us?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Hmm, that Penny, I suppose you.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Rather expected it, No matter of fact, this time I didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I hoped you'd make a go of it.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Sorry, Nah, you mind telling me what happened?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I shouldn't mind it all if I knew how things
were going all right? And then the letter from the
office by buy Cylon Hellow, England.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I didn't hear quite the same thing, Oh markrage phone
from London told me that you'd been shirking on the job,
insolent to the plantation manager. That they simply had no
choice but to give you the sact.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But it wasn't as bad as that after all.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Here, Terry, it's gone too far this time. When your
mother was alive, I tried to understand. You were tucked
out of school fourteen, you remember, and Cambridge. The mother
was who I suppose she meant well you being the
youngest boy.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I think if i'd had my.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Way with you though, it would have been better.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
But now I even kicked out again. Your mother's dead.
He won't protect you anymore. You're going to have to
grow up, now, do you understand?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Have you any plans right?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I don't know a father. If I if I could
think things out, I know I could do something.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
You've said that.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Before, but I could perhaps art if if I had
a chance to study or listen to.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Me and take that filthy cigarette out of your mouth
when I'm talking to your Sorry, I'm fed up.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
With you, Terry, your brothers and sister are shamed. We
all are.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Why the devil can't you be a man? School's finished
your twenty four or I will not tolerate uslackly in
my house.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I warn you, this is your last chance.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You can have a couple of weeks to get settled,
and I'll try to find you something in the city.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Rather that's aftuy decent of you.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it for
my own self respect and the memory of your mother. Yes, madam,
we shan't mention the still long incident again. I think
you better go upstairs now, get dressed for dinner.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And remembering in the now high cold walls of the
chapel Josephine, the first meeting after he'd been home for
only four days, Josephine with her chestnut hair gently framing
that face that he had loved yet been unable to
visualize during those eight months away from her, and a
warm lazier afternoon, the sound of tennis drifting across the lawn, Josephine.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
As a marvelous, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, he's good. I'm afraid I've never been able to
stand up to him or John for that matter.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
You don't practice.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Oh is that is?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I thought perhaps it was just done. Not much good
at it, Josephine. You know it's the funniest thing. All
the time I was in Ceylon, even when I wrote you,
I simply couldn't remember what you looked like. It's odd,
isn't it.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
I'm sorry I didn't write to you. I've been terribly.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Busy and it doesn't matter. I can see you now.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Shall we go down to the court. I'd love a
game when they finished.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Josephine, Yes, do you believe in me? But it's change, Chris, No, No,
it isn't. It's important, do you.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
I think you're a very nice young man.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Don't say it that way.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
How would you like me to say it?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't know, But not like that, not as though
you were talking to the gardeners.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
It's not silly.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I know I'm not much good, so I thought it
was my eyes. You know. I used to drink whiskey
to help, really I did. For a little while. It
did help. I could do things cleverly I wasn't clumsy anymore,
and then certainly the whiskey didn't do any good. I've wanted
to make people proud of me. You, Josephine've always wanted that, if.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Only you wouldn't take yourself so seriously, Terry, if you try,
and I don't know, behave like a man.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I am a man. I love you like a man,
not a little boy. I could do something if I
had the chance.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
I'm sure you could.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
If I thought that you cared, I could do anything.
I need somebody you to believe.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
In me, Terry, dear, I'm very fond of you, you
know I am.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But me.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
No, no, don't say anything. Now I'll show you. I'll
make you proud of me.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
You'll see.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Now, do be a darling and try not to look
so intense. I'm going to see how the game's getting on.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Come along, you, remembering with the sharp, quick call of
a bird, John nine years older, a barrister, promising young
barrister Charles six years older, making a place for himself
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in the Conservative Party, or I think big yet, but
with a gleam of Parliament in his eye, and he'd
get there, everyone said so. Terry wanted to feel close
to both of them. Understand, be understood. He'd always wanted
that Catherine, his sister, twenty with an anxious, methodical mind,
loving life and the gossipel. They were together one evening
(06:42):
a few days later, discussing plans for the party.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Oh, I think he's a perfect idiot. Besides, he's always
asking me to marry him.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right, strikeout, Percy, break.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Welsh with Josephine's coming, isn't she?
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Yes, Terry, joseph scene is coming.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I think our little Terry has a crush on josephin vulgar.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I like her.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Yes, break your heart.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
You broke mine while you're away.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Stop it. We've got to get on with Charles.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Will you pots about it? Absolutely and forever.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I know he's teasing you, Terry.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
No, I don't think he is, Terry, don't be a fool.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Of course, it's not a very funny joke. Good lord.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I thought the long would have tough on your skin
a bit.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Look here, if you two want to fight, do it
after we've finished.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yes, carry on, you can manage without me.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I think, hmm, he's a sensitive soul. What is the
matter with him?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You know he is like that? Why do you always
beg for trouble.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I'm sorry. I thought perhaps he changed a bit. I'll
go and apologize. Hmm mind if I.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yes? O, come on in, Come in, it's gone a
bed if you like. I uh found a girl a
regiment in the village today. Quite nice, don't you think?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh my, hed Terry, you're not still playing with lead souls?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, why the devil not? It's my hobby, what's yours?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I came to apologize what I said before.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You don't have to. I understand it's not true.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
You know I was teasing.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
But Josephine, it doesn't matter, Terry m You are.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Keen on her, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
It's decent, so I know.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
But well you're you're not too serious, are you? I
mean you're not in love with or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
H Whatever gave you that idea?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I wasn't sure. She's She's a decent.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Sort, but not for you.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh why do you say that Josephine.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Likes to have fun?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
I don't think she's ready to settle down?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
What does that mean?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
What I said? That's all you're saying?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
She runs about?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
No, no, no, no, just if you are in love with her?
I wouldn't want to see you hurt.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Thanks very much, but don't worry.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I can manage right. Oh, only being brotherly or serene,
of course good. Want to come down for a nightcap
before you turn in.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No bets, I'm rather tired.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Good night, then see you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Remembered as the shaft of sunlight touched the tip of
the upturned shoe. The night of the party, bright moon,
swirl of evening dresses on young bodies, warm scented a music, dancing,
couples laughing, kissing, and the security of shrubberies. Joseph lovely,
(09:54):
But as he watched her, he began to understand what
Charles meant when he spoke of her, and he didn't
want to wander standing. He danced one dance, and then
she was always gone, and Terry went looking for her.
He found her in the old chapel, and with her
was an indistinct figure, a man vaguely known somebody's friend.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
Yeah, no, no, yes, he's doing my NATU.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Isn't that what it's for? You're the beast song.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Let you behave I'm going back inside.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I didn't think we came out here to say, hey,
sid if you do go back, poor little Terry will
before you.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Take your choice.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
I haven't got one.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That right through her.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
She damages truth. She kills souls. He's killed mine.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I must do something, And remembering last night, all night,
thinking it out, sometimes taking a drink, but mostly walking
alone in the shrubberies, avoiding the others.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
He was not angry, he kept saying, I must not
be angry.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
I must be just.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I must not be angry. I must be just.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
All night. Then he walked alone in the garden, and
as the light began to grow in the sky, he
stepped through the French windows and took down the African
knife from the dining room wall. He'd always wanted that
African knife. And then he'd gone upstairs, shaved, changed into channels,
put the knife into blazed a pocket, and sat on
the windows hill in his room, waiting for the sun
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to come up, waiting and thinking, no one.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
But I can do it. She ought not to live
with this floor in her She really mustn't. I must
see that she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You are listening to Anthony Ella, starring in his own
adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's telling. Tonight's presentation in Radio's outstanding
theater of thrills suspense. Tomorrow Night, the FBI in Peace
(13:05):
and War looks into the strange case of the go
Getter on CBS Radio. It's a thrilling g manhunt involving
the machinations of a used car dealer who has his
own methods for undercutting competition. Don't miss the details over
most of these same stations Tomorrow Night, when the Star's
Address presents the FBI in Peace and War. And now
(13:25):
we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, mister Anthony Ellis
in Elliott Lewis's production of Telling a Tale well calculated
to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
A breeze stirred the collar of address till he remembered
sitting on the windows hill, watching sunlight brighten and broaden
from a yellow agitation behind the trees into swathes of
color across the lawn. And later it had all been
arranged for them. He fell into, had his party in
some kind of design. He went downstairs to the dining room,
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where the family was gathered for a late breakfast.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Molly, oh boy, scrambled eggs, Oh no, thanks, do you good?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Didn't say much of you last night? Have a good time.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Yes, wasn't it a lovely party?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Andrey kiss?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Give me a cop a coffee?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Where's Josephine?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Oh she's already head at breakfast?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
What a girl.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I don't know how she does it. I've got a
head like a melon.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Where is she?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Here's your coffee?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You look done in, Terry? You're all right?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yes, morning you lady people.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Morning.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Who wants to play a game of tennis?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
My, would you like to go for a walk? Joseph?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
All right, you had some breakfast before you go out?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
No fact, all your stuff?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Your pockets so full, Terry, that jacket isn't going to
be worth a brass farthing.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You might to get oppressed.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Oh oh, come on, Terry, don't listen to him.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
He's jealous because he hasn't got that casual look.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I had a lovely time last night, didn't you. Did
you see Marilyn when she fell in the pond? I
thought Charles would have a fit. He last so much.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Oh he must have kept your father a person night.
I hope he didn't mind. Oh what a heavenly morning.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
It is, isn't it? I saw it begin?
Speaker 8 (15:41):
How aunt Earth could you get up so early. It
must have been fize.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I didn't go to bed.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I like it here in the chapel, don't you. Yes, quiet,
I just want a chase to think it, to make
things right. You know what I mean. Let's go on,
not for a minute. Josephine, I saw you here last night.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Did you. I suppose you enjoyed yourself.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Why did you let him kiss you?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Oh, poor little Terry. Don't be tiresome, darling.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Do you believe in me?
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Yes? I believe Terry. I understand that'll be a good book.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Will you kiss me?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Everywhere?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Cigarette and scattered last night by the couple who had
come to the chapel to kiss tell her notice to child.
Cigarette stump in Josephine's hair.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I had left ear that showed through.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
He thought, She's never forgive me for that.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
So fastidious. She mentioned my dirty nails once they were dirty. No,
she'd never forgive me for this.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
He picked the cigarette out of her hair and threw
it away. She lay now with her feet and lower
body in the sunshine.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
The sun was just high enough.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Her arms flung out wide at him, desperately generously on
her face with a dazzled look her blood quietly soaked
through the grass, sinking through to the roofs of this.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I've done the right thing. What do you feel now, Josephine?
Believe in me?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
On his way to the house, he stooped down and
dipped his hands in the garden tank.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Someone might scream.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
He felt embalast at the thought of somebody screaming, and
the red curled away through the water and melted.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Catherine, Oh, Terry, Catherine, I have done something.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Could be putting the furniture back in the drawing room.
I wish you'd go and help it. It's getting those
big sofas through the door, and the cabinets. Well, I'm
putting the music away.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Suppose to marry now? Nobody will marry her?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Who don't mumble? Terry?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What do you know what Josephine is?
Speaker 9 (18:34):
No, I haven't the slightest idea. Now go on, Terry,
please help Catherine.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Do you know what happened down in the chapel, Catherine, Well,
would you do if I killed somebody? Laugh if I
killed a woman?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Laugh harder?
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Do you know any women?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
She had not.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wanted to be cruel, but he'd spoiled something for her.
Last night she had gone to the chapel, she had
been kissed, and now his talking about it had changed everything.
She supposed he must have seen her and was being
nasty about it. Might even tell father you'd always been
like that. She found herself not liking Terry at all,
almost hating him. Terry went to the drawing room and
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helped move the furniture. It was Terry's fault. They scratched
the paint on the wall with a heavy cabinet. Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Blast, we've scratched the paint.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
That's my fault. It's nice of you to say we
though I wonder if you'd.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Say we killed Perhaps you had better help with the
bars and things.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Old man.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All right, Charles, but you should have seen the blood.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
On my John.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
We'll have to move this rug out of the way.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
John, can I talk to you for a minute.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
As soon as we've finished here, I'll get a move on.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Terry.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
We will be all morning.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
He helped until he broke a piece of delicate micon.
Then they sent him out. The servants who were helping.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
As well, smiled tolerantly.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He went to the kitchen for a cup of coffee.
Cook was preparing a rose for dinner. He watched for
a moment or two.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You're very good at that, cook, Thank you, mister Terry.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
I think I wouldn't be oh everybody to his trade,
mister Terry.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'd probably make a good butcher. Though, that's not you,
mister Terry.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I remember when you cut your finger once and you
screamed for an hour at the side of the blood.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I don't anymore.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Hell, that's nice.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
You'd never believe it if I were.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
To tell you it's all right, sir.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Cook. You ever read murder mysteries sometimes? Did you read
the one about a woman who was stabbed to death
by a man who was in a chapel just like ours?
And the funny thing is her name was Joseph's a coincidence.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Now, mister Kerry, I'll have to ask you, if you've
finished your copy, to leave my kitchen.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
I have a lot of work to do and the
guests coming for dinner.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
But it's true.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
I'll run along now, sir, Yes.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Cook, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
He wandered out and into the hall. On the table
were two letters come by the second post, waiting for
Josephine no one, he thought, or to read them. He
must protect Josephine. He picked them up and slipped them
into his pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I say, what are you doing with those letters?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, the josephinees I saw them.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Before I know. I'm taking them to her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Oh you know where she is.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
She's in the chapel, right, John. I want to tell
you something later.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I've got to go into the village for some things.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
John, she's in the chapel. Good you take them to her, John,
I've killed Josephine in the chapel.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
John, take him along to her.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
John hurried ahead, not listening, not turning round. Only hearing
Josephine's name. He went into the smoking room and banged
the door behind him.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Terry thought, oh, yes, you're a fine man, my brother,
fine man with a muscular back. But you couldn't have
done what I've done. You've never kissed Josephine.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
He sat on the second step of the staircase, sat
there looking at balister, shaking with exaltation.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Josephine, Josephine, Josephine.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
The study door panels had always looked solemn. They bowed
with solemnity. Terry had to get passed to his father.
He chose the top left hand panel to tap one.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
H yah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yah h h What do you want to tell you?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I want to talk talk about my future.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I suppose, my boy, that you really have got the future. Well,
sit down a minute, I'll just finish this letter.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
H h.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
H oh.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, Well there must be some kind of future for me, mustn't.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, I should certainly hope. So you've been giving it
some thought? What about merrit We haven't talked about that.
You know a nice girl that might do something for you?
Set you down a bitter anybody in mind?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
No, nobody, it's a thought.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
In the meantime, we've got to find you something in
the city. That was the idea, wasn't it. Yes, there
might be an opening as your uncle Victor's bank. No,
you weren't very good figures for your m Look.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Here, father, I've got something to show you. That African knife.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That African knife?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's here.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I've got to show you.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Wait just a minute.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
It was here.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I did have it. I brought it to show you.
I must have it somewhere. You remember the African knife.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
What's the matter with you today?
Speaker 4 (24:50):
It isn't here. I haven't got it must perhaps I
dropped it on the grass by the tanks somewhere, but
I remember wiping it on the grass I had it.
Then it's gone.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
What are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And what is her name?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
Your sister?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
She's outside? Can then you're right.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Only he's down at the table. She said, somebody tell her?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh tell it?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
What are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Nothing?
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Nothing m hm.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Suspense, in which Anthony Ellis was starred in his own
adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's telling.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Later tonight, continue this week's serial story of the Case
of Murder and the Poison Fangs with mister Keane, Tracer
of Lost Persons. Mister Keane will be working on this
one the rest of the week, and a thriller it
is too. As you know. If you've heard this week's
developments up to now, don't forget it. CBS Radio brings
you another half hour one episode Murder Mystery, the Case
(26:48):
of the Date for Murder Friday night on most of
these same.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Stations next week.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The story of a murder in which no gun was used,
nor knife, nor blunt instrument, nor poison, nor suffocation nor
force of any kind, and yet a man was murdered.
It's called Destruction. You may hear it next week on Suspense.
(27:28):
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. Featured
in the night's cast for Ben Wright, Herb Butterfield, Ellen Morgan,
Betty Harford, John Dayner, Richard Peel and Florence Walcome.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
And Remember.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Next week Morton Fine and David Friedkins's new suspense play Destruction.
Action as a Policeman Really finds It twenty first Precincts
on the CBS Radio Network
And now the Night's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of
thrills suspense. The Night the story of a man who
felt that he had to prove himself, had to go
to any lengths to make people believe him. Antoniella stars
in his own adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's telling.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The chapel was.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
A ruin roofed by daylight, flowed with lawn in a
corner of the gardener had tiptot a heap of cut
grass in the lawn mirth. It smelt stuffy and sweet.
Outside beyond the ragged arch of the chapel there was sunshine,
but not here. Terry looked up, feeling shy, noticing suddenly
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surprised the blood on his hands, Embarrassed all at once
at the idea of anyone coming. His brain was ticking
like a watch, remembering, remembering Josephine home coming from Ceylon
a month ago, that first interview with his father in
the study, so heavy with solemnity.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Sit down, Terry, thank you father.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, so you're back with us?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Hmm, that Penny, I suppose you.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Rather expected it, No matter of fact, this time I didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I hoped you'd make a go of it.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Sorry, Nah, you mind telling me what happened?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I shouldn't mind it all if I knew how things
were going all right? And then the letter from the
office by buy Cylon Hellow, England.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I didn't hear quite the same thing, Oh markrage phone
from London told me that you'd been shirking on the job,
insolent to the plantation manager. That they simply had no
choice but to give you the sact.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But it wasn't as bad as that after all.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Here, Terry, it's gone too far this time. When your
mother was alive, I tried to understand. You were tucked
out of school fourteen, you remember, and Cambridge. The mother
was who I suppose she meant well you being the
youngest boy.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I think if i'd had my.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Way with you though, it would have been better.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
But now I even kicked out again. Your mother's dead.
He won't protect you anymore. You're going to have to
grow up, now, do you understand?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Have you any plans right?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I don't know a father. If I if I could
think things out, I know I could do something.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
You've said that.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Before, but I could perhaps art if if I had
a chance to study or listen to.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Me and take that filthy cigarette out of your mouth
when I'm talking to your Sorry, I'm fed up.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
With you, Terry, your brothers and sister are shamed. We
all are.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Why the devil can't you be a man? School's finished
your twenty four or I will not tolerate uslackly in
my house.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I warn you, this is your last chance.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You can have a couple of weeks to get settled,
and I'll try to find you something in the city.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Rather that's aftuy decent of you.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it for
my own self respect and the memory of your mother. Yes, madam,
we shan't mention the still long incident again. I think
you better go upstairs now, get dressed for dinner.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And remembering in the now high cold walls of the
chapel Josephine, the first meeting after he'd been home for
only four days, Josephine with her chestnut hair gently framing
that face that he had loved yet been unable to
visualize during those eight months away from her, and a
warm lazier afternoon, the sound of tennis drifting across the lawn, Josephine.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
As a marvelous, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, he's good. I'm afraid I've never been able to
stand up to him or John for that matter.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
You don't practice.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Oh is that is?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I thought perhaps it was just done. Not much good
at it, Josephine. You know it's the funniest thing. All
the time I was in Ceylon, even when I wrote you,
I simply couldn't remember what you looked like. It's odd,
isn't it.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
I'm sorry I didn't write to you. I've been terribly.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Busy and it doesn't matter. I can see you now.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Shall we go down to the court. I'd love a
game when they finished.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Josephine, Yes, do you believe in me? But it's change, Chris, No, No,
it isn't. It's important, do you.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
I think you're a very nice young man.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Don't say it that way.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
How would you like me to say it?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't know, But not like that, not as though
you were talking to the gardeners.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
It's not silly.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I know I'm not much good, so I thought it
was my eyes. You know. I used to drink whiskey
to help, really I did. For a little while. It
did help. I could do things cleverly I wasn't clumsy anymore,
and then certainly the whiskey didn't do any good. I've wanted
to make people proud of me. You, Josephine've always wanted that, if.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Only you wouldn't take yourself so seriously, Terry, if you try,
and I don't know, behave like a man.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I am a man. I love you like a man,
not a little boy. I could do something if I
had the chance.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
I'm sure you could.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
If I thought that you cared, I could do anything.
I need somebody you to believe.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
In me, Terry, dear, I'm very fond of you, you
know I am.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But me.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
No, no, don't say anything. Now I'll show you. I'll
make you proud of me.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
You'll see.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Now, do be a darling and try not to look
so intense. I'm going to see how the game's getting on.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Come along, you, remembering with the sharp, quick call of
a bird, John nine years older, a barrister, promising young
barrister Charles six years older, making a place for himself
(06:20):
in the Conservative Party, or I think big yet, but
with a gleam of Parliament in his eye, and he'd
get there, everyone said so. Terry wanted to feel close
to both of them. Understand, be understood. He'd always wanted
that Catherine, his sister, twenty with an anxious, methodical mind,
loving life and the gossipel. They were together one evening
(06:42):
a few days later, discussing plans for the party.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Oh, I think he's a perfect idiot. Besides, he's always
asking me to marry him.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right, strikeout, Percy, break.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Welsh with Josephine's coming, isn't she?
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Yes, Terry, joseph scene is coming.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I think our little Terry has a crush on josephin vulgar.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I like her.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Yes, break your heart.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
You broke mine while you're away.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Stop it. We've got to get on with Charles.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Will you pots about it? Absolutely and forever.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I know he's teasing you, Terry.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
No, I don't think he is, Terry, don't be a fool.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Of course, it's not a very funny joke. Good lord.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I thought the long would have tough on your skin
a bit.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Look here, if you two want to fight, do it
after we've finished.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yes, carry on, you can manage without me.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I think, hmm, he's a sensitive soul. What is the
matter with him?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You know he is like that? Why do you always
beg for trouble.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I'm sorry. I thought perhaps he changed a bit. I'll
go and apologize. Hmm mind if I.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yes? O, come on in, Come in, it's gone a
bed if you like. I uh found a girl a
regiment in the village today. Quite nice, don't you think?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh my, hed Terry, you're not still playing with lead souls?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, why the devil not? It's my hobby, what's yours?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I came to apologize what I said before.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You don't have to. I understand it's not true.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
You know I was teasing.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
But Josephine, it doesn't matter, Terry m You are.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Keen on her, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
It's decent, so I know.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
But well you're you're not too serious, are you? I
mean you're not in love with or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
H Whatever gave you that idea?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I wasn't sure. She's She's a decent.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Sort, but not for you.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh why do you say that Josephine.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Likes to have fun?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
I don't think she's ready to settle down?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
What does that mean?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
What I said? That's all you're saying?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
She runs about?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
No, no, no, no, just if you are in love with her?
I wouldn't want to see you hurt.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Thanks very much, but don't worry.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I can manage right. Oh, only being brotherly or serene,
of course good. Want to come down for a nightcap
before you turn in.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No bets, I'm rather tired.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Good night, then see you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Remembered as the shaft of sunlight touched the tip of
the upturned shoe. The night of the party, bright moon,
swirl of evening dresses on young bodies, warm scented a music, dancing,
couples laughing, kissing, and the security of shrubberies. Joseph lovely,
(09:54):
But as he watched her, he began to understand what
Charles meant when he spoke of her, and he didn't
want to wander standing. He danced one dance, and then
she was always gone, and Terry went looking for her.
He found her in the old chapel, and with her
was an indistinct figure, a man vaguely known somebody's friend.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
Yeah, no, no, yes, he's doing my NATU.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Isn't that what it's for? You're the beast song.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Let you behave I'm going back inside.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I didn't think we came out here to say, hey,
sid if you do go back, poor little Terry will
before you.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Take your choice.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
I haven't got one.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That right through her.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
She damages truth. She kills souls. He's killed mine.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I must do something, And remembering last night, all night,
thinking it out, sometimes taking a drink, but mostly walking
alone in the shrubberies, avoiding the others.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
He was not angry, he kept saying, I must not
be angry.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
I must be just.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I must not be angry. I must be just.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
All night. Then he walked alone in the garden, and
as the light began to grow in the sky, he
stepped through the French windows and took down the African
knife from the dining room wall. He'd always wanted that
African knife. And then he'd gone upstairs, shaved, changed into channels,
put the knife into blazed a pocket, and sat on
the windows hill in his room, waiting for the sun
(12:03):
to come up, waiting and thinking, no one.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
But I can do it. She ought not to live
with this floor in her She really mustn't. I must
see that she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You are listening to Anthony Ella, starring in his own
adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's telling. Tonight's presentation in Radio's outstanding
theater of thrills suspense. Tomorrow Night, the FBI in Peace
(13:05):
and War looks into the strange case of the go
Getter on CBS Radio. It's a thrilling g manhunt involving
the machinations of a used car dealer who has his
own methods for undercutting competition. Don't miss the details over
most of these same stations Tomorrow Night, when the Star's
Address presents the FBI in Peace and War. And now
(13:25):
we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, mister Anthony Ellis
in Elliott Lewis's production of Telling a Tale well calculated
to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
A breeze stirred the collar of address till he remembered
sitting on the windows hill, watching sunlight brighten and broaden
from a yellow agitation behind the trees into swathes of
color across the lawn. And later it had all been
arranged for them. He fell into, had his party in
some kind of design. He went downstairs to the dining room,
(14:13):
where the family was gathered for a late breakfast.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Molly, oh boy, scrambled eggs, Oh no, thanks, do you good?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Didn't say much of you last night? Have a good time.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Yes, wasn't it a lovely party?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Andrey kiss?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Give me a cop a coffee?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Where's Josephine?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Oh she's already head at breakfast?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
What a girl.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I don't know how she does it. I've got a
head like a melon.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Where is she?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Here's your coffee?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You look done in, Terry? You're all right?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yes, morning you lady people.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Morning.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Who wants to play a game of tennis?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
My, would you like to go for a walk? Joseph?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
All right, you had some breakfast before you go out?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
No fact, all your stuff?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Your pockets so full, Terry, that jacket isn't going to
be worth a brass farthing.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You might to get oppressed.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Oh oh, come on, Terry, don't listen to him.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
He's jealous because he hasn't got that casual look.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I had a lovely time last night, didn't you. Did
you see Marilyn when she fell in the pond? I
thought Charles would have a fit. He last so much.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Oh he must have kept your father a person night.
I hope he didn't mind. Oh what a heavenly morning.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
It is, isn't it? I saw it begin?
Speaker 8 (15:41):
How aunt Earth could you get up so early. It
must have been fize.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I didn't go to bed.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I like it here in the chapel, don't you. Yes, quiet,
I just want a chase to think it, to make
things right. You know what I mean. Let's go on,
not for a minute. Josephine, I saw you here last night.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Did you. I suppose you enjoyed yourself.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Why did you let him kiss you?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Oh, poor little Terry. Don't be tiresome, darling.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Do you believe in me?
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Yes? I believe Terry. I understand that'll be a good book.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Will you kiss me?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Everywhere?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Cigarette and scattered last night by the couple who had
come to the chapel to kiss tell her notice to child.
Cigarette stump in Josephine's hair.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I had left ear that showed through.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
He thought, She's never forgive me for that.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
So fastidious. She mentioned my dirty nails once they were dirty. No,
she'd never forgive me for this.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
He picked the cigarette out of her hair and threw
it away. She lay now with her feet and lower
body in the sunshine.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
The sun was just high enough.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Her arms flung out wide at him, desperately generously on
her face with a dazzled look her blood quietly soaked
through the grass, sinking through to the roofs of this.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I've done the right thing. What do you feel now, Josephine?
Believe in me?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
On his way to the house, he stooped down and
dipped his hands in the garden tank.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Someone might scream.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
He felt embalast at the thought of somebody screaming, and
the red curled away through the water and melted.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Catherine, Oh, Terry, Catherine, I have done something.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Could be putting the furniture back in the drawing room.
I wish you'd go and help it. It's getting those
big sofas through the door, and the cabinets. Well, I'm
putting the music away.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Suppose to marry now? Nobody will marry her?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Who don't mumble? Terry?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What do you know what Josephine is?
Speaker 9 (18:34):
No, I haven't the slightest idea. Now go on, Terry,
please help Catherine.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Do you know what happened down in the chapel, Catherine, Well,
would you do if I killed somebody? Laugh if I
killed a woman?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Laugh harder?
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Do you know any women?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
She had not.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wanted to be cruel, but he'd spoiled something for her.
Last night she had gone to the chapel, she had
been kissed, and now his talking about it had changed everything.
She supposed he must have seen her and was being
nasty about it. Might even tell father you'd always been
like that. She found herself not liking Terry at all,
almost hating him. Terry went to the drawing room and
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helped move the furniture. It was Terry's fault. They scratched
the paint on the wall with a heavy cabinet. Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Blast, we've scratched the paint.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
That's my fault. It's nice of you to say we
though I wonder if you'd.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Say we killed Perhaps you had better help with the
bars and things.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Old man.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All right, Charles, but you should have seen the blood.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
On my John.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
We'll have to move this rug out of the way.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
John, can I talk to you for a minute.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
As soon as we've finished here, I'll get a move on.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Terry.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
We will be all morning.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
He helped until he broke a piece of delicate micon.
Then they sent him out. The servants who were helping.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
As well, smiled tolerantly.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He went to the kitchen for a cup of coffee.
Cook was preparing a rose for dinner. He watched for
a moment or two.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You're very good at that, cook, Thank you, mister Terry.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
I think I wouldn't be oh everybody to his trade,
mister Terry.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'd probably make a good butcher. Though, that's not you,
mister Terry.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I remember when you cut your finger once and you
screamed for an hour at the side of the blood.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I don't anymore.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Hell, that's nice.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
You'd never believe it if I were.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
To tell you it's all right, sir.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Cook. You ever read murder mysteries sometimes? Did you read
the one about a woman who was stabbed to death
by a man who was in a chapel just like ours?
And the funny thing is her name was Joseph's a coincidence.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Now, mister Kerry, I'll have to ask you, if you've
finished your copy, to leave my kitchen.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
I have a lot of work to do and the
guests coming for dinner.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
But it's true.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
I'll run along now, sir, Yes.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Cook, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
He wandered out and into the hall. On the table
were two letters come by the second post, waiting for
Josephine no one, he thought, or to read them. He
must protect Josephine. He picked them up and slipped them
into his pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I say, what are you doing with those letters?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, the josephinees I saw them.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Before I know. I'm taking them to her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Oh you know where she is.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
She's in the chapel, right, John. I want to tell
you something later.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I've got to go into the village for some things.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
John, she's in the chapel. Good you take them to her, John,
I've killed Josephine in the chapel.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
John, take him along to her.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
John hurried ahead, not listening, not turning round. Only hearing
Josephine's name. He went into the smoking room and banged
the door behind him.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Terry thought, oh, yes, you're a fine man, my brother,
fine man with a muscular back. But you couldn't have
done what I've done. You've never kissed Josephine.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
He sat on the second step of the staircase, sat
there looking at balister, shaking with exaltation.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Josephine, Josephine, Josephine.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
The study door panels had always looked solemn. They bowed
with solemnity. Terry had to get passed to his father.
He chose the top left hand panel to tap one.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
H yah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yah h h What do you want to tell you?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I want to talk talk about my future.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I suppose, my boy, that you really have got the future. Well,
sit down a minute, I'll just finish this letter.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
H h.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
H oh.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, Well there must be some kind of future for me, mustn't.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, I should certainly hope. So you've been giving it
some thought? What about merrit We haven't talked about that.
You know a nice girl that might do something for you?
Set you down a bitter anybody in mind?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
No, nobody, it's a thought.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
In the meantime, we've got to find you something in
the city. That was the idea, wasn't it. Yes, there
might be an opening as your uncle Victor's bank. No,
you weren't very good figures for your m Look.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Here, father, I've got something to show you. That African knife.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That African knife?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's here.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I've got to show you.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Wait just a minute.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
It was here.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I did have it. I brought it to show you.
I must have it somewhere. You remember the African knife.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
What's the matter with you today?
Speaker 4 (24:50):
It isn't here. I haven't got it must perhaps I
dropped it on the grass by the tanks somewhere, but
I remember wiping it on the grass I had it.
Then it's gone.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
What are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And what is her name?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
Your sister?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
She's outside? Can then you're right.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Only he's down at the table. She said, somebody tell her?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh tell it?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
What are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Nothing?
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Nothing m hm.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Suspense, in which Anthony Ellis was starred in his own
adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's telling.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Later tonight, continue this week's serial story of the Case
of Murder and the Poison Fangs with mister Keane, Tracer
of Lost Persons. Mister Keane will be working on this
one the rest of the week, and a thriller it
is too. As you know. If you've heard this week's
developments up to now, don't forget it. CBS Radio brings
you another half hour one episode Murder Mystery, the Case
(26:48):
of the Date for Murder Friday night on most of
these same.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Stations next week.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The story of a murder in which no gun was used,
nor knife, nor blunt instrument, nor poison, nor suffocation nor
force of any kind, and yet a man was murdered.
It's called Destruction. You may hear it next week on Suspense.
(27:28):
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. Featured
in the night's cast for Ben Wright, Herb Butterfield, Ellen Morgan,
Betty Harford, John Dayner, Richard Peel and Florence Walcome.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
And Remember.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Next week Morton Fine and David Friedkins's new suspense play Destruction.
Action as a Policeman Really finds It twenty first Precincts
on the CBS Radio Network
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