May 6, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you.
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The Spense.
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The spense stories from the world great literature of pure excitement.
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A new series frankly dedicated to your horrification and entertainment.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
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Of best selling novels, from the theater of Broadway in
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Figures ever know. BBS gives you the Spense.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Tonight's presentation is one of the finest of the contemporary
stories of mystery and terror, John Dixon Carr's famous novel
The Burning Court.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Ah A glass of sherry by the fireside of a
beautiful suburban home. What could be more comforting. You're an
admirable host, mister Depa, and it's really a shame our
first meeting is under such a cloud. It's also a
shame I have so little time to tell you which
one of your guests here a murdered your uncle last week.
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Now let's see.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now I believe we're all here.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Your wife, your friend, mister Stephan, Captain Brennan, as soon
as deadly yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Just who did you say.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
You were with?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No wonder you've had so much difficulty with the case. Captain.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
My name is Cross, Go down, Cross the writer. As
a matter of fact, it's because of my just completed book,
Poisoning Throughout the Ages, that I happened to be here now,
and Tad Stevens there happens to be a member of
the firm which publishes my work. I'd never seen him
until tonight, but I've been told what happened. This afternoon
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He began reading my manuscripts for the first time on
the train, the commuter's train, which every afternoon deposited him
safely and soundly here in Kriston. I imagine he was half
way home by the time he finished the first chapter.
Then he turned the page. Attached to the following leaf
was a picture, and looking at it, the young man
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stiffened suddenly and all.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But cried out his shocked.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It was a picture of a young woman's and under
it had been printed famous Poisoner married Dobray sixteen seventy six.
Ted Stevens was looking at a picture of his own wife.
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Imagine imagine his twenty five year old wife in seventeenth
century costume, the face, the features, even the with provis
of expression were identical. Even the name Dobray was his
wife's maiden name. But no, no, no, that was ridiculous.
This woman in the picture was well one of his
wife's ancestors.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, that that was.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It, simply an amazing family resemblance. Marie would be waiting
for him.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
At the station.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
He needed to have to tell her about he wondered why, however,
she never told him about what help? But you don't
discuss such an ancestor, do you. Ted Stevens glanced down
at the chapter to which the picture had been attached.
It was entitled The Affair of the Non Dead Woman. Hello,
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Sir Stevens was almost joded from his seat. It was
doctor Weldon, professor of English at the College, an old
friend of his. Quickly he struts to ficture beneath the
manuscripts and moved over.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hi, couldn't see your doc, h here, have a seat. Oh?
I thought maybe you were giving me the what do
they called the brush off? Oh no, I say, as
a matter of fact, Doc, you're the one man I
do want to see. Very flattering. Remember those discussions we
used to have about murders better than Bridge anytime? Well,
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I got the idea that dude made sort of a
hobby out of the old cases, a historical one all.
I've studied for a number of them.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Ever hear of a woman named Marie w a Marie
de Bury movie play. Oh yeah, that was her name,
of course, one of the finest specialist and arsenic poisonings
you could ever hope to find. We're almost gonna station,
she said, let's get to the door. Yeah. The real
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charmer Murray was most.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Of the scolds of half a hundred husbands, lovers, suitors,
and just plain friends before she was caught.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
What happened to her?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Doc She was the head of and burned.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Chris Fair. Oh absurd, laughable.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Ken Stevens kept saying this to himself, and yet what
he knew With the foolish tread followed him straight through
the small suburban stations and clung to him as he
reached the street. And there in the road stair was Marie,
leaning toward him a little to hold the door open,
and smiling at him.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Oh what an earthly staring.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
At that street light shining on your hair.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I like that, poor your tight Come on, get in.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
The car then, like a wisp of smoke. It was gone,
the old ridiculous fear, the delusion. When at home Marie
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brought the cocktails into the living room, the logs were
burning brightly in the fireplace, throwing a soft dancing glow
upon a room that was darkening with dusk.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
To you, Marie, ten, to you, dear.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
As Stevens placed his glass down, he noticed the manuscript
of my book. It was there on the table, right
where he placed it when he first came in. Deliberately
he turned from it and then turned back. The manuscript
had been moved, only an inch or so, but it
had been moved. Keeping his back to his wife, he
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thrums through that early chapter and discovered, just as he
knew he would, that the photograph was gone. For a
long moment he thought of what to do. Then slowly
he turned around.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This book by Cross I brought home. There was a
story of poisoner in it. Rather funny. Her name happens
to be the same as yours. Of course, your maiden name,
that is who there is? Or idiot darling, Well she
a relative of yours?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Why tis your serious?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
In a way?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes? Oh, I don't mean it's really important. It's just
that well, when you run across the person who's a
dead ringer for your own wife and who lived three
hundred years ago and was a top flight poisoner. Well
you like to hear about it, that's all?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
What on earth are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Darling? To be honest with me, didn't you look at
this manuscript when I was out of the room. No,
let me take out a picture of a prisoner named
Marie de.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Bay imost certainly did not. Oh, Ted, what is this
all about? Who you doing it?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Just this? Somebody took that picture out of that manuscript
and died in home. Who's that? Well, I'll take a look, and.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't feel like why it's Mark?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bitar?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Mark?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Ted? Wait a second, k Ted? Whatever is you won
promise you won't do it?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Promise I won't.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Promise you won't get yourself involved. Pree, kid, don't go
out tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Say what in the world is.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Anyway we can let him stay out? Tired? Mark?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
How are you come on in?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Franks says thinking about getting you a call later.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Let me have your hat.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Thanks, Maria. I hope you'll excuse me for popping in
like this, But well, I wanted to talk to Ted
it's rather important.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
I don't mind at all.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Come on, Mard, we'll step into the library. Don't you
mind it?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Yeah, of course not, Yed, I'll be letting the sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
For here in the corner. Mark, well, let's hear it.
But subber taed My uncle Miles was murdered. Murdered. Oh,
the talk hasn't reached you yet, but it's already started.
Nothing definite, of course, just that there was something wrong
about uncle miles death. But I don't Mark, are you
sure of this? You know he was murdered. I don't know,
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of course I don't. I just don't see how it
could be any other way. Uncle Miles, you know, had
been sick for quite a while, but last Saturday he
seemed so much better that Missus Corbett that was his nurse,
decided to take the day off. And oh you know
all this. You and Marie were over that afternoon. Anyway,
Lucy and I went to the club that night, to
that masquerade party, and we left the old boy completely alone.
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I've cursed myself a thousand times since. But what about
your housekeeper, missus what's her name? Henderson? Wasn't he round? Sure?
In that little house? Out and beck. We told her
to look in now and then, but well that wasn't
good must It was after midnight when Lucy and I
got back, Uncle Myles was dying ted. It looked exactly
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like one of his regular attacks. But then later, after
he was gone, I happened to glance under.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The chest of drawers in his room.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
There was a small silver cup under there, almost drained,
and Uncle Myles's cat. The cat was still warm, quite
dam fool. I managed to get the cat out of
the house and buried without anyone seeing me. Next day
I had the contents of the cut analyzed. It was
pois yes asenac. Well, what do you want me to
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help me open the crisp fuck? I want to have
a private autopsy performed. Help me get Uncle Miles's body
out of that vault. Oh, I know, it's a tough job.
The thing is sealed solid. But we can do it,
you mean, without the police knowing about it, without anybody
knowing about it. Missus Henderson's and her sister and I
managed to send Lucy over to the club. It might
be crazy. You're playing with dynamite. Mark there there's something
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you've got to tell the police. Now I can't take
that chair. But they'll have to know sometime.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You'll only know first.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I tell you you don't understand, Ted, there was somebody
in Uncle Miles's room that night, handing him something in
a silver cups. Missus Henderson was on the porch by
the window. She saw her, She saw her head. She
thinks it was my wife. Oh, Lucy. It doesn't mean
anything to missus Henderson yet because she doesn't suspect anything.
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But well, Ted, you've got to see why. I've got
to be sure why. I've got to know how Uncle
Miles died because it wasn't Lucy, Ted, I know it wasn't,
of course, not Mark. She had an all But what
she was with you with the club wasn't s Yes,
except for half an hour.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I see.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You will help me, won't you, Ted, when we start
as soon as you can make it okay, come on now,
I'll get your hat you tat on her head. No,
I'll come over as soon as I can see Marie.
You're going to tell her about that?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think that's something. Don't you worry about it? No?
Thanks said thanks a loss uh Mary Darling.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Mark asked me to work I knowed here you's got
to take in sanitive with.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It to be hungry. But you knew I was going on. Yes,
I knew.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
I couldn't help it. Kid, I had an idea what
Mark said. It was about to talk about his uncle's death.
There's a lot of talk about it in the village
that so I tried to tell you why. I didn't
want you to get mixed up in it. But it's
too late, no, isn't it. I mean you're going. I
can tell by the way you ve ted. Wait a second,
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there's just one thing I want to tell you before
you leave. That is it. No matter what happens, no
matter what you find the thing or believe, I love you.
You remember that, won't you?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I remember? You said to me.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
By the light of a dim kerosene lantern, Mark and
Ted Stevens pounded their way through the thick shelf of
rock that covered the Depat's ancestful tomb, tried opened the
great slab of stone which lay across the subterranean door,
and then at last descended to the dank, ink black chamber.
They found the coffin. They dragged it from its grip
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and placed it on the cold stone floor. They unclamped
the lid and opened it.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Mark it empty. That's impoppable. It can't see but it
is mark. You know what this means. That body wasn't
in the coffin when it was placed here, elsewhere it
was it from the time that coffin was closed on
Uncle Miles. Somebody the undertaker or Lucy or me, somebody
was with it until it was buried and the crypt
was sealed, bright asset and somebody beat as to which
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somebody's broken in here ahead of.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Us broken in listened to Lucy and I have hardly
left the house since the funeral. Do you think anybody
could break in here, smash through back stone and cement
without our seeing them, without our hearing them?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well well, but.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well you might as well come on up, man, But
who is that may mister day Bob are here? My
name's Captain Brenda. I'm from the Office of the Commissioner
of Police. I like to talk to here, you know,
mister day ba here follow my blood light up.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But I don't understand how did you? How did you
know about this?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
By listening? Le reminder, if we go up to her
house esterday.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Bar why no, not at all thank you already. Let's
look here, Captain night Freddy. This is misterday bar with
that great I'm glad to know you, and let's.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Their sad Stevens. But how did you? How did you know?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
My name?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Is very simple? I got the names of every got
over here at the day Pas, the day the old
man died. You and your wife were included. Oh here
we are.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But I don't captain who gave you those names?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Why your housepaper?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Of course, missus Henderson.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
You didn't think missus Henderson saw the dead cat, did you,
mister Depa, But she did. He also saw you bury it,
and we've been interested in the case ever said. Well,
nice place you have here, mister Dava. Now let's see
got into missus Henderson. Your wife was wearing some kind
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of a mess you very cartume that night. What kind
of a thing was it?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, it was there, you can see it. It was
copied from the dress and that old painting over there.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh yeah, funny. Where is the woman's face?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's always been that way as long as I can remember.
Somebody must have thrown accid on it or something. I
can't blame them much. She was a poisoner a poisoner.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
The story goes that one of my ancestors, with both
of her executions now he don't break her name, was.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh yes, I've read about her.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Well, all the pointing tricks from one of her lovers,
guy with the name of God.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
As a cross. Good, there's a oys, mister Stevens. We
cop three now and then?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And did you say good at the car? That's French.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We call it cross. Absolutely no limit to a cop
education is there? But to get back to your wife,
Missus de bad. She was just like the famous Marie
Now and Missus Henderson looks.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Through that when miss a minute, Captain Missus Henderson can't
do she saw a thing and you know, what do
you mean? I mean you haven't any way to insinuate
that my wife was in that whole?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Well, who's insinuating?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I'm trying to say that Missus Henderson, after thinking it over,
realized that she was kicked by the costumes. The woman
she saw the funny clothes handing the couple of poisons
to your uncle wasn't your wife at all. Because your
wife is an unusually tall young woman and the one
Missus Henderson saw was fully half a head short more
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on the order.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Let's say of mister Stephens wife, my wife? Why this
is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I don't know by what's the matter? Mister Stephens is
sounding like a leaf. Tell me now, just a fond
Where it was missus Stephens that night she was home
with me so evening. Certainly he retired early? Yes, we
both did you?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I supposed her sound asleep by midnight as I was.
And how do you know where your wife was? Let Stephens?
She had to have a customer that would mess with
the day? Pause? How did she man exact? Where did
she get? But she never had one?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
She never had a death like that?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why about our moments?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Why did she pointed him? I don't know how?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Money?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Said me?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Want what I hate?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Did she hate? Mine? Said?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
No, Oh I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't know. I tell you from yesterday.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I phone and got hold of miss the part in
the nurse all right, that's missus Stephens.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Couldn't read it the phone. I'm my go they were got.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Here, my wife, very very wild.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Way.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Why are you done?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Maria? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh good evening?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Pass for you.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I my name is Cross, go down Cross Cross.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
But my wife, what have you done?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
To us you, what have you done to my wife?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You'll find nothing at all? Young man here here, here, How.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Many have him to us?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
The police just told us in the matter, why are
you here?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Why am I here? Because your wife, reading my chapter
on the DeBras, realized I knew more about the family
than even she did, because she found my phone number
on the front cover of the manuscript, and because I
know an exceptional case when I hear one, does that
answer your question?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No? You know it doesn't. Can't you see I've got you.
I've got to know whether Yeah, I see whether your
wife is.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That's Marie Dobray, who was burnt burnt by order of
the High Tribunal for all poison cases, the Burning Court
of France. Witchcraft, black magic, the world across the threshold.
You're quite sure, no doubt also that I'm go down
Saint Croix, who first ruder.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
No, No, my boy.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Now, my real name happens to be, of all things,
Tom Simpson, most unsuitable for a distinguished writing career. And
Marie Dobray is no more your wife's real name than
mine is. Go down cross what your esteemed wife was
an adopted child? Mister Stevens adopted by people in Canada
named Dobray, remote members of the real family of Poisonous.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I can't believe it. Why why didn't you tell me?
Give why?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Because until I told her half an hour ago, she
didn't know it herself. You see, in the course of
my research on the family, I found out about it,
and in the course of talking with your wife I
found out something else. How for years she was haunted
by the fear that she might be a poisoner, by inheritance,
by bloods. And you can see, can't you why she
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never talked about it her past to you. Yes, and
yet mister Stevens, you had all but made her forget
that past you And that's why she was willing to lie,
to steal a picture, do anything.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
In order to hold you to us here.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I see that now, you know, young man, I rather
think she loves you. But as you will see, though,
she comes only when I call her er missus Stephens.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You mean she's Maria Youth. You're all right?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Oh yeah, you're both all right now. Nothing can saying
it ever.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Marie written doing the same iradiate Maggie, Maggie.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
So that's my name, my real name Magnet Tavish, and
it's a lovely name.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Dear, I'm a beautiful, gorgeous dalling. Please, if you don't
understand the police they think you had something to do
with my Levette. They think I did so.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Now, mister Stevens, before we go back to the dipas,
don't you think you'd better tell me everything that's been
said and done up to date. Having just saved your
White's soul from the burning court, now i'll wrest her
body from the electric chair. Yes, mister Depart, truly excellent, sherry,
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don't you think so, Missus.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Corbett, Yes, it's very nice.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, that's ladies and gentlemen, is how I happen to
be here. So let us consider first that supernatural ocus
focus in the crypt, that body that walked out of
the sealed tomb, that body that never was in the tomb,
never was in the tomb. No, mister Depa, the murderer
knew that very soon Missus Henderson's story would be about
an investigation.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He had to get rid of the well known corpus delta.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, but who could have kept the body out of
the two who, mister Depart, Why you said?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What heck, I don't understand what. It's very simple.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
You had the opportunity. I believe you said yourself. You
were alone with the body before the burial, and you
had the strength. I dare say you carried it down
to the furnace where it's now probably nothing but ashes ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Why would he spend an hour smashing into a crypt
for a body he knew wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Why Captain m to impress mister Stevens his witness and
also apparently.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
You fantastic Oh no, Lucie, stop comics. And I suppose,
mister Croft, but I also put on a woman's masquerade costume,
went into my uncle's room and handed him a nice
cup of arslings.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
No, no, no, that had to be done by a woman,
your accomplice. As a matter of fact. Oh now, come, come, come,
You mustn't all look at missus depart, because Mark Depar's
one noble ack was his frantic effort to prevent his
wife from being charged with the crime, a crime which
he and nurse Myra Corbett committed. Brah Copp, Yes, sir, yes,
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mister Stephens, this quiet little lady besides me money, miss
Corbett a cutout of Mark Depart's inheritance payments for services renders.
That's an absolute lyclop, you see, ladies and gentlemen. Captain
Brennan never bothered to check Miss Corbett's whereabouts on the
night of the murder.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Why even sink of the nurse. She was a custodian
of the old man.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
You're crazy your faith, and yet.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Huber the nurse could so naturally offer the old man
a cup, a cup he was sure contained medicine. And
who miss Corbett, living right here in this house would
know what kind of masscarage dress she must copy, would
know when missus Henderson would pass the window that night,
pass and see her and accept her.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
She hoped for Lucy Department No true, Oh yes, yes,
Miss Carver, was the touch of recue. That was your
own idea, wasn't it not? Mark?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
You weren't content with a mere murderer share of the prophet.
You wanted a white chair, half of the whole estate.
You wanted Lucy Depart convicted and out of the way
for good. M M Well, I give you a toast,
Miss Corbett with mister Depaw's excellent sherry to a particularly
ruthless poisoner and yet you know on the whole I'm
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rather partial to female poisoners.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Why only tonight, I I what's the matter, this man said?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Fian I, I by know anything, fianide form that glass
of srry By and eye that a nurse could get
quite easily. That glass was right beside you, miscovered and
nobody else was there. Too bad he didn't drink it
as well as you hope. A second ago we had
nobody to use against you. But we have now, miscovid,
we have now, and I arrest you for the murder
of godamn cross.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And the night my record and paid for their lives
for that crime. Yes, I'm in here there.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh I thought you might.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
What did you cut it off for?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Huh? What do you mean the radio?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh yeah, well I thought you wanted to talk.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Oh kid, don't you think I know you're better than there?
What was on the radio?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There wasn't? Okay, this is about my record. She goes
to the chairs night. I didn't think you wanted to
be reminded of.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I don't really making him take an effort to hide
it on me? Keep it alivee doesn't he? Oh right, darling? No,
I didn't ask if he.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Wanted the cocktail before dinner, the magest one you've got.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
H No, I'll get off the IQ.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I know if I picked up the fire, all came steel.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Where are some papers that started?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Mm hmm right there by the bookcase. And the name's
not Marie, it's Maggie, because Darling Marie's dead and gone forever.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
Oh no, Marie, We're never dead, neither of it. It
was your hand that touched that glass. I know that now,
and I could return the favor, But Sad, I shall
ask that you dispatch your husband. This one I call
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the other. No, just a little bit of voison in
the drink?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Urry?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Any kind of a dream?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
What kinde kids?
Speaker 8 (27:16):
What kind of a cocktail shall we have?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh? Any kind darling? Any kind of doll?
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Speaker 4 (01:24):
Ah A glass of sherry by the fireside of a
beautiful suburban home. What could be more comforting. You're an
admirable host, mister Depa, and it's really a shame our
first meeting is under such a cloud. It's also a
shame I have so little time to tell you which
one of your guests here a murdered your uncle last week.
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Now let's see.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now I believe we're all here.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Your wife, your friend, mister Stephan, Captain Brennan, as soon
as deadly yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Just who did you say.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
You were with?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No wonder you've had so much difficulty with the case. Captain.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
My name is Cross, Go down, Cross the writer. As
a matter of fact, it's because of my just completed book,
Poisoning Throughout the Ages, that I happened to be here now,
and Tad Stevens there happens to be a member of
the firm which publishes my work. I'd never seen him
until tonight, but I've been told what happened. This afternoon
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He began reading my manuscripts for the first time on
the train, the commuter's train, which every afternoon deposited him
safely and soundly here in Kriston. I imagine he was half
way home by the time he finished the first chapter.
Then he turned the page. Attached to the following leaf
was a picture, and looking at it, the young man
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stiffened suddenly and all.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But cried out his shocked.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It was a picture of a young woman's and under
it had been printed famous Poisoner married Dobray sixteen seventy six.
Ted Stevens was looking at a picture of his own wife.
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Imagine imagine his twenty five year old wife in seventeenth
century costume, the face, the features, even the with provis
of expression were identical. Even the name Dobray was his
wife's maiden name. But no, no, no, that was ridiculous.
This woman in the picture was well one of his
wife's ancestors.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, that that was.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It, simply an amazing family resemblance. Marie would be waiting
for him.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
At the station.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
He needed to have to tell her about he wondered why, however,
she never told him about what help? But you don't
discuss such an ancestor, do you. Ted Stevens glanced down
at the chapter to which the picture had been attached.
It was entitled The Affair of the Non Dead Woman. Hello,
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Sir Stevens was almost joded from his seat. It was
doctor Weldon, professor of English at the College, an old
friend of his. Quickly he struts to ficture beneath the
manuscripts and moved over.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hi, couldn't see your doc, h here, have a seat. Oh?
I thought maybe you were giving me the what do
they called the brush off? Oh no, I say, as
a matter of fact, Doc, you're the one man I
do want to see. Very flattering. Remember those discussions we
used to have about murders better than Bridge anytime? Well,
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I got the idea that dude made sort of a
hobby out of the old cases, a historical one all.
I've studied for a number of them.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Ever hear of a woman named Marie w a Marie
de Bury movie play. Oh yeah, that was her name,
of course, one of the finest specialist and arsenic poisonings
you could ever hope to find. We're almost gonna station,
she said, let's get to the door. Yeah. The real
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charmer Murray was most.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Of the scolds of half a hundred husbands, lovers, suitors,
and just plain friends before she was caught.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
What happened to her?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Doc She was the head of and burned.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Chris Fair. Oh absurd, laughable.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Ken Stevens kept saying this to himself, and yet what
he knew With the foolish tread followed him straight through
the small suburban stations and clung to him as he
reached the street. And there in the road stair was Marie,
leaning toward him a little to hold the door open,
and smiling at him.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Oh what an earthly staring.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
At that street light shining on your hair.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I like that, poor your tight Come on, get in.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
The car then, like a wisp of smoke. It was gone,
the old ridiculous fear, the delusion. When at home Marie
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brought the cocktails into the living room, the logs were
burning brightly in the fireplace, throwing a soft dancing glow
upon a room that was darkening with dusk.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
To you, Marie, ten, to you, dear.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
As Stevens placed his glass down, he noticed the manuscript
of my book. It was there on the table, right
where he placed it when he first came in. Deliberately
he turned from it and then turned back. The manuscript
had been moved, only an inch or so, but it
had been moved. Keeping his back to his wife, he
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thrums through that early chapter and discovered, just as he
knew he would, that the photograph was gone. For a
long moment he thought of what to do. Then slowly
he turned around.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This book by Cross I brought home. There was a
story of poisoner in it. Rather funny. Her name happens
to be the same as yours. Of course, your maiden name,
that is who there is? Or idiot darling, Well she
a relative of yours?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Why tis your serious?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
In a way?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes? Oh, I don't mean it's really important. It's just
that well, when you run across the person who's a
dead ringer for your own wife and who lived three
hundred years ago and was a top flight poisoner. Well
you like to hear about it, that's all?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
What on earth are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Darling? To be honest with me, didn't you look at
this manuscript when I was out of the room. No,
let me take out a picture of a prisoner named
Marie de.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Bay imost certainly did not. Oh, Ted, what is this
all about? Who you doing it?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Just this? Somebody took that picture out of that manuscript
and died in home. Who's that? Well, I'll take a look, and.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't feel like why it's Mark?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bitar?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Mark?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Ted? Wait a second, k Ted? Whatever is you won
promise you won't do it?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Promise I won't.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Promise you won't get yourself involved. Pree, kid, don't go
out tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Say what in the world is.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Anyway we can let him stay out? Tired? Mark?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
How are you come on in?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Franks says thinking about getting you a call later.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Let me have your hat.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Thanks, Maria. I hope you'll excuse me for popping in
like this, But well, I wanted to talk to Ted
it's rather important.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
I don't mind at all.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Come on, Mard, we'll step into the library. Don't you
mind it?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Yeah, of course not, Yed, I'll be letting the sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
For here in the corner. Mark, well, let's hear it.
But subber taed My uncle Miles was murdered. Murdered. Oh,
the talk hasn't reached you yet, but it's already started.
Nothing definite, of course, just that there was something wrong
about uncle miles death. But I don't Mark, are you
sure of this? You know he was murdered. I don't know,
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of course I don't. I just don't see how it
could be any other way. Uncle Miles, you know, had
been sick for quite a while, but last Saturday he
seemed so much better that Missus Corbett that was his nurse,
decided to take the day off. And oh you know
all this. You and Marie were over that afternoon. Anyway,
Lucy and I went to the club that night, to
that masquerade party, and we left the old boy completely alone.
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I've cursed myself a thousand times since. But what about
your housekeeper, missus what's her name? Henderson? Wasn't he round? Sure?
In that little house? Out and beck. We told her
to look in now and then, but well that wasn't
good must It was after midnight when Lucy and I
got back, Uncle Myles was dying ted. It looked exactly
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like one of his regular attacks. But then later, after
he was gone, I happened to glance under.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The chest of drawers in his room.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
There was a small silver cup under there, almost drained,
and Uncle Myles's cat. The cat was still warm, quite
dam fool. I managed to get the cat out of
the house and buried without anyone seeing me. Next day
I had the contents of the cut analyzed. It was
pois yes asenac. Well, what do you want me to
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help me open the crisp fuck? I want to have
a private autopsy performed. Help me get Uncle Miles's body
out of that vault. Oh, I know, it's a tough job.
The thing is sealed solid. But we can do it,
you mean, without the police knowing about it, without anybody
knowing about it. Missus Henderson's and her sister and I
managed to send Lucy over to the club. It might
be crazy. You're playing with dynamite. Mark there there's something
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you've got to tell the police. Now I can't take
that chair. But they'll have to know sometime.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You'll only know first.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I tell you you don't understand, Ted, there was somebody
in Uncle Miles's room that night, handing him something in
a silver cups. Missus Henderson was on the porch by
the window. She saw her, She saw her head. She
thinks it was my wife. Oh, Lucy. It doesn't mean
anything to missus Henderson yet because she doesn't suspect anything.
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But well, Ted, you've got to see why. I've got
to be sure why. I've got to know how Uncle
Miles died because it wasn't Lucy, Ted, I know it wasn't,
of course, not Mark. She had an all But what
she was with you with the club wasn't s Yes,
except for half an hour.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I see.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You will help me, won't you, Ted, when we start
as soon as you can make it okay, come on now,
I'll get your hat you tat on her head. No,
I'll come over as soon as I can see Marie.
You're going to tell her about that?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think that's something. Don't you worry about it? No?
Thanks said thanks a loss uh Mary Darling.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Mark asked me to work I knowed here you's got
to take in sanitive with.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It to be hungry. But you knew I was going on. Yes,
I knew.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
I couldn't help it. Kid, I had an idea what
Mark said. It was about to talk about his uncle's death.
There's a lot of talk about it in the village
that so I tried to tell you why. I didn't
want you to get mixed up in it. But it's
too late, no, isn't it. I mean you're going. I
can tell by the way you ve ted. Wait a second,
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there's just one thing I want to tell you before
you leave. That is it. No matter what happens, no
matter what you find the thing or believe, I love you.
You remember that, won't you?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I remember? You said to me.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
By the light of a dim kerosene lantern, Mark and
Ted Stevens pounded their way through the thick shelf of
rock that covered the Depat's ancestful tomb, tried opened the
great slab of stone which lay across the subterranean door,
and then at last descended to the dank, ink black chamber.
They found the coffin. They dragged it from its grip
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and placed it on the cold stone floor. They unclamped
the lid and opened it.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Mark it empty. That's impoppable. It can't see but it
is mark. You know what this means. That body wasn't
in the coffin when it was placed here, elsewhere it
was it from the time that coffin was closed on
Uncle Miles. Somebody the undertaker or Lucy or me, somebody
was with it until it was buried and the crypt
was sealed, bright asset and somebody beat as to which
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somebody's broken in here ahead of.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Us broken in listened to Lucy and I have hardly
left the house since the funeral. Do you think anybody
could break in here, smash through back stone and cement
without our seeing them, without our hearing them?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well well, but.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well you might as well come on up, man, But
who is that may mister day Bob are here? My
name's Captain Brenda. I'm from the Office of the Commissioner
of Police. I like to talk to here, you know,
mister day ba here follow my blood light up.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But I don't understand how did you? How did you
know about this?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
By listening? Le reminder, if we go up to her
house esterday.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Bar why no, not at all thank you already. Let's
look here, Captain night Freddy. This is misterday bar with
that great I'm glad to know you, and let's.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Their sad Stevens. But how did you? How did you know?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
My name?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Is very simple? I got the names of every got
over here at the day Pas, the day the old
man died. You and your wife were included. Oh here
we are.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But I don't captain who gave you those names?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Why your housepaper?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Of course, missus Henderson.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
You didn't think missus Henderson saw the dead cat, did you,
mister Depa, But she did. He also saw you bury it,
and we've been interested in the case ever said. Well,
nice place you have here, mister Dava. Now let's see
got into missus Henderson. Your wife was wearing some kind
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of a mess you very cartume that night. What kind
of a thing was it?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, it was there, you can see it. It was
copied from the dress and that old painting over there.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh yeah, funny. Where is the woman's face?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's always been that way as long as I can remember.
Somebody must have thrown accid on it or something. I
can't blame them much. She was a poisoner a poisoner.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
The story goes that one of my ancestors, with both
of her executions now he don't break her name, was.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh yes, I've read about her.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Well, all the pointing tricks from one of her lovers,
guy with the name of God.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
As a cross. Good, there's a oys, mister Stevens. We
cop three now and then?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And did you say good at the car? That's French.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We call it cross. Absolutely no limit to a cop
education is there? But to get back to your wife,
Missus de bad. She was just like the famous Marie
Now and Missus Henderson looks.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Through that when miss a minute, Captain Missus Henderson can't
do she saw a thing and you know, what do
you mean? I mean you haven't any way to insinuate
that my wife was in that whole?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Well, who's insinuating?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I'm trying to say that Missus Henderson, after thinking it over,
realized that she was kicked by the costumes. The woman
she saw the funny clothes handing the couple of poisons
to your uncle wasn't your wife at all. Because your
wife is an unusually tall young woman and the one
Missus Henderson saw was fully half a head short more
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on the order.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Let's say of mister Stephens wife, my wife? Why this
is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I don't know by what's the matter? Mister Stephens is
sounding like a leaf. Tell me now, just a fond
Where it was missus Stephens that night she was home
with me so evening. Certainly he retired early? Yes, we
both did you?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I supposed her sound asleep by midnight as I was.
And how do you know where your wife was? Let Stephens?
She had to have a customer that would mess with
the day? Pause? How did she man exact? Where did
she get? But she never had one?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
She never had a death like that?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why about our moments?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Why did she pointed him? I don't know how?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Money?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Said me?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Want what I hate?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Did she hate? Mine? Said?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
No, Oh I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't know. I tell you from yesterday.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I phone and got hold of miss the part in
the nurse all right, that's missus Stephens.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Couldn't read it the phone. I'm my go they were got.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Here, my wife, very very wild.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Way.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Why are you done?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Maria? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh good evening?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Pass for you.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I my name is Cross, go down Cross Cross.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
But my wife, what have you done?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
To us you, what have you done to my wife?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You'll find nothing at all? Young man here here, here, How.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Many have him to us?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
The police just told us in the matter, why are
you here?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Why am I here? Because your wife, reading my chapter
on the DeBras, realized I knew more about the family
than even she did, because she found my phone number
on the front cover of the manuscript, and because I
know an exceptional case when I hear one, does that
answer your question?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No? You know it doesn't. Can't you see I've got you.
I've got to know whether Yeah, I see whether your
wife is.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That's Marie Dobray, who was burnt burnt by order of
the High Tribunal for all poison cases, the Burning Court
of France. Witchcraft, black magic, the world across the threshold.
You're quite sure, no doubt also that I'm go down
Saint Croix, who first ruder.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
No, No, my boy.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Now, my real name happens to be, of all things,
Tom Simpson, most unsuitable for a distinguished writing career. And
Marie Dobray is no more your wife's real name than
mine is. Go down cross what your esteemed wife was
an adopted child? Mister Stevens adopted by people in Canada
named Dobray, remote members of the real family of Poisonous.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I can't believe it. Why why didn't you tell me?
Give why?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Because until I told her half an hour ago, she
didn't know it herself. You see, in the course of
my research on the family, I found out about it,
and in the course of talking with your wife I
found out something else. How for years she was haunted
by the fear that she might be a poisoner, by inheritance,
by bloods. And you can see, can't you why she
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never talked about it her past to you. Yes, and
yet mister Stevens, you had all but made her forget
that past you And that's why she was willing to lie,
to steal a picture, do anything.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
In order to hold you to us here.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I see that now, you know, young man, I rather
think she loves you. But as you will see, though,
she comes only when I call her er missus Stephens.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You mean she's Maria Youth. You're all right?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Oh yeah, you're both all right now. Nothing can saying
it ever.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Marie written doing the same iradiate Maggie, Maggie.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
So that's my name, my real name Magnet Tavish, and
it's a lovely name.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Dear, I'm a beautiful, gorgeous dalling. Please, if you don't
understand the police they think you had something to do
with my Levette. They think I did so.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Now, mister Stevens, before we go back to the dipas,
don't you think you'd better tell me everything that's been
said and done up to date. Having just saved your
White's soul from the burning court, now i'll wrest her
body from the electric chair. Yes, mister Depart, truly excellent, sherry,
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don't you think so, Missus.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Corbett, Yes, it's very nice.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, that's ladies and gentlemen, is how I happen to
be here. So let us consider first that supernatural ocus
focus in the crypt, that body that walked out of
the sealed tomb, that body that never was in the tomb,
never was in the tomb. No, mister Depa, the murderer
knew that very soon Missus Henderson's story would be about
an investigation.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He had to get rid of the well known corpus delta.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, but who could have kept the body out of
the two who, mister Depart, Why you said?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What heck, I don't understand what. It's very simple.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
You had the opportunity. I believe you said yourself. You
were alone with the body before the burial, and you
had the strength. I dare say you carried it down
to the furnace where it's now probably nothing but ashes ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Why would he spend an hour smashing into a crypt
for a body he knew wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Why Captain m to impress mister Stevens his witness and
also apparently.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
You fantastic Oh no, Lucie, stop comics. And I suppose,
mister Croft, but I also put on a woman's masquerade costume,
went into my uncle's room and handed him a nice
cup of arslings.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
No, no, no, that had to be done by a woman,
your accomplice. As a matter of fact. Oh now, come, come, come,
You mustn't all look at missus depart, because Mark Depar's
one noble ack was his frantic effort to prevent his
wife from being charged with the crime, a crime which
he and nurse Myra Corbett committed. Brah Copp, Yes, sir, yes,
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mister Stephens, this quiet little lady besides me money, miss
Corbett a cutout of Mark Depart's inheritance payments for services renders.
That's an absolute lyclop, you see, ladies and gentlemen. Captain
Brennan never bothered to check Miss Corbett's whereabouts on the
night of the murder.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Why even sink of the nurse. She was a custodian
of the old man.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
You're crazy your faith, and yet.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Huber the nurse could so naturally offer the old man
a cup, a cup he was sure contained medicine. And
who miss Corbett, living right here in this house would
know what kind of masscarage dress she must copy, would
know when missus Henderson would pass the window that night,
pass and see her and accept her.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
She hoped for Lucy Department No true, Oh yes, yes,
Miss Carver, was the touch of recue. That was your
own idea, wasn't it not? Mark?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
You weren't content with a mere murderer share of the prophet.
You wanted a white chair, half of the whole estate.
You wanted Lucy Depart convicted and out of the way
for good. M M Well, I give you a toast,
Miss Corbett with mister Depaw's excellent sherry to a particularly
ruthless poisoner and yet you know on the whole I'm
(24:27):
rather partial to female poisoners.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Why only tonight, I I what's the matter, this man said?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Fian I, I by know anything, fianide form that glass
of srry By and eye that a nurse could get
quite easily. That glass was right beside you, miscovered and
nobody else was there. Too bad he didn't drink it
as well as you hope. A second ago we had
nobody to use against you. But we have now, miscovid,
we have now, and I arrest you for the murder
of godamn cross.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And the night my record and paid for their lives
for that crime. Yes, I'm in here there.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh I thought you might.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
What did you cut it off for?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Huh? What do you mean the radio?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh yeah, well I thought you wanted to talk.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Oh kid, don't you think I know you're better than there?
What was on the radio?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There wasn't? Okay, this is about my record. She goes
to the chairs night. I didn't think you wanted to
be reminded of.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I don't really making him take an effort to hide
it on me? Keep it alivee doesn't he? Oh right, darling? No,
I didn't ask if he.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Wanted the cocktail before dinner, the magest one you've got.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
H No, I'll get off the IQ.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I know if I picked up the fire, all came steel.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Where are some papers that started?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Mm hmm right there by the bookcase. And the name's
not Marie, it's Maggie, because Darling Marie's dead and gone forever.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
Oh no, Marie, We're never dead, neither of it. It
was your hand that touched that glass. I know that now,
and I could return the favor, But Sad, I shall
ask that you dispatch your husband. This one I call
(27:02):
the other. No, just a little bit of voison in
the drink?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Urry?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Any kind of a dream?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
What kinde kids?
Speaker 8 (27:16):
What kind of a cocktail shall we have?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh? Any kind darling? Any kind of doll?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You've just heard The Burning Courts from John Dixon Carr's
famous novel, the first in Columbia's new series about standing
classics and chills by world famous authors. The Night's Play
Ladies and Gentlemen has one rather special significance we think
you'd like to know about. As you perhaps have heard,
every fine comedian is said the cherish of secret desire
to do an abrupt about space. He Pines for the
(28:07):
part of a blackguard. Well, tonight you witness the fulfillment
of one such desire. The role of that literary and
quite infamous die hard, Gordon Cross was portrayed by none
other than Hollywood's expert provoker of Lafe, Charlie Ruggles, given
New York for the world premiere of his latest screen success,
Friendly Enemies. The role of Marie the lad been acted
(28:28):
by a young lady who long ago won national acclaim
as one of Broadway's most accomplished dramatic actresses, Miss Julie Hayden.
Thank you, Charlie Ruggles and Miss Julie Hayden for your
splendid performances. The play to Knights, as all plays in
this series, whilst produced and directed by Charles Vander, written
by Harold Metford, and scored Barberinard Herman. Next week we
bring you an intensively exciting and moving drama, The Life
(28:51):
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