May 6, 2025 • 29 mins
An anthology series specializing in suspenseful stories that keep listeners on the edge of their seats, featuring unexpected twists and turns. The narratives span various genres, all with a tension-filled core.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Now, let's see suspect suspectant suspense. Here we are suspense,
the condition of mental uncertainty, usually accompanied by apprehension or
anxiety fear of something.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Which is about to occur. As do not keep me
any longer in suspense.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
For our story of suspense tonight, we invite you to
enjoy The Devil in the Summerhouse by John Dixon Carr.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Somewhere along the Hudson, perhaps not.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Far from Terrytown, there is a modest house in its
own ground.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Behind it, in a spacious garden, stands a summerhouse of
evil memory.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
More than twenty five years ago a man shot himself,
or at least died in that summer house. They found
Major Kenyon with a scorched bullet.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Hole in his head and the weapon beside him.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But we are in the present now.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
The latticed summer house has grown heavy with bands and.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Only the other evening, two men.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Came into that garden twilight over the shaggy grass, as
a storm was brewing along the Hudson. Two men, a.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Lawyer from New York who's there, and Captain Burke of
the homicide.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
My friend Lazy I was just trying to ask you
the same thing. My name is Parker. I'm an attorney.
You're not Captain Burke. Yeah, the very same I am.
I thought I recognized you, mister Parker. Must be something
important to bring you so far from New York at
this time of night.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was in Terrytown anyway. I thought they'd be a
housekeeper here. I don't see any lights.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've got business here, Yes, in a way, have you?
I don't know. I'll tell you better after you tell
me what brought you to a place if no one
has lived in for ten years.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Tell me, captain, did you ever get an anonymous letter
from a dead man?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I can't say I did anonymous. How do you know
the man's dead?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Because they're all dead, every last.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
One of them, dead and under the ground where they
can't be hurt me longer.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Look, there's the summer House.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Where Jerry Kenyon used to work. There are the windows
of the library in the dining room. Kind of found
this lightly as the Winter's Players, don't it. Jerry Kenyon
hadn't a care in the world. He had he shot himself.
I'll show you the letter. How look, mister Parker, I
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couldn't read anything in this light. But if we can
get inside of the house, certainly we can get into
the house. I was the family attorne here, who got
the keys?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Why I should have dead person send me a letter? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I was working on but you got a flashlight? I say,
came here prepared, runnything? Any this is the library. There
were always candles on the mantle. Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, have you matched Captain her eyes? I like them.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
That's been the same old heavy furniture, same old thick carpet,
same old globe map. Oh, mister Parker, this letter that
you were talking about, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Read it.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Hey, wait a minute, this thing is dated November two,
nineteen eighteen. That's right, And be careful of that paper.
You see how old it is. But it was mailed
yesterday from where I don't remember. I didn't keep the envelope.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Read this there.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Show in case you didn't know. It's high and Joe there, Joe.
If you want to know how Major Kenyon really died,
but we know how he died, it was seis Are
you sure it was? Whoever wrote this letter doesn't seem
to think so. If you want to know how Major
Kenyon really died, look in the third draw the desk
in the library, pressed hard at the back of the
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drawer yards right. Truly, it's not sign it's right. Are
you sure you don't know who wrote that letter? This
is the first time I've been back in this room, Captain.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was almost a home to me once.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
There's the tae where Isabelle sat on the afternoon it happened.
Isabelle was the day Kenyon's wife, beautiful woman.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
There's the door that the maid let me in by
that afternoon, you know, Captain, seems to me they're all
here at the night.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh, we stand neath the sounding laughter, and the wolves
around us.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Are bare.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
As they echo appeals of laughter. It seems that the
dead of the Yet we stand to our glasses steady.
You know it's I was at my school, reader, How
is the rest of it going? Yet we stand to
our glasses steady and drink to our comrade liars.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Here's a glass to the dead already.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Ruh for the next that dies, excuse me, catch him?
And I don't know what's come over me talking that way.
I was very fond of these people. Are you going
to look at the A S dram This is a
lot of nunsense, and why are you here, mister Parker.
Jerry Kenyon was always a happy man, at least that's
what I always thought, big oysterous funnel.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
He had a good position with lighter to him.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You know, the photograph company, Sure I know, but he'd
just been made a major.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
In the army. Nineteen seventeen. There was a war on then,
two of you. Remember.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I remember to make the world safe for democracy. Old days,
old hot aches, old memories. I remember that blazing hot
day in August and all the windows were up. I
remember this room and Isabelle and was Day's wife sitting
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in that chair knitting.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I remember, Oh, yes, kiddy, what is it? There's Amanda,
see miss Kenny And he says his name's Parker.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yes, I'm expecting him, Joe, and please.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
All right, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
So I take your knitting in your knitting bag. Why
should you take my knitting? I don't know, Miss Kenyon,
I just wondered.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Didn't come in now? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Hello, Joe.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hello Isabelle you sent for me, Joe.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
I must apologize for kitty servants are getting to be
a problem nowadays.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
She looks pretty enough to get along.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Oh, Kitty's got large ideas. She wants to go on
the stage if you please, and do imitations like miss Briefer.
She only knew how hard it was acting all your.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Life, Isabelle, you've been crying.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
I have not, at least?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Is that why you sent for me.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I've missed Joe. You haven't been here in.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Over a week.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Joe, I had an idea. Jerry was getting a little
tired of having me around this house.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Oh no, Joe, why Jerry?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes? What about Jerry?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
I wish I knew Joe. That's why I wanted you here.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Where is he? By the way, I want to say
it bye one before he leaves.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
He's probably out in the summerhouse where he works with
all those papers. He's got a lot of work to
catch up with. He's going overseas tomorrow. Yes, I know
he's out there. He's been out there all day his
last day here, I've been alone.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That sounded like a shot.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yes it was a shot.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Ye doesn't seem to worry.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
It's only Paul, Jerry's brother.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh, but you've gotten them off your hands for good.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Jerry asked him out. He got him two nights ago.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That doesn't make it any easier for you, does it.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
No, I don't mind. Jerry's fixed him up with a
pistol range in the cellar. Paul's a terribly bad shot,
not like the rest of us. You don't seem to
like it, Joe, Shall I have kiddy go down telling you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
As long as he keeps away? Put Joe. But about Jerry,
who is it this time?
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Oh, Jerry's been home five days on leave from camp.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Never mind what camp.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
But he spent four evenings of those five with that
Fisk woman.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Diane Fisk, the redhead with all the money.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Oh, she got money.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Well, she must have some attraction.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Then please understand me, Joe. It's not that I'm jealous
any longer. It's just Jerry goes his way and I
go mine. I may not be without admirers myself if
it comes to that.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You no idea how true that is? Isabelle.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
No, I was thinking about Jerry.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
It may not always be lucky. And they meet some
girl who's not as broad minded as I am, and
then when he gives her the go by. Aul must
be getting really curious down in that. So it's not
getting anything.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Must be using a lot of ammunition.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Now your trouble, Joe is as you're too much of
a gentleman. And if you really want to see Jerry
there he is now, well, just standing in the door
of the summer house.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Look out the window, and finally right out there.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
Doesn't he look noble in his new uniform, sam brown,
belt and revolver and everything. We'll look how he turns
around and waves his cap at us like a real soldier.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Real soldiers don't exactly wave their cats, do.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
There he does? Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Joe Parker's here, Joe Parker.
He wants to see you into the summer house again.
Not a care in the world here we listen, Isabelle.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You've got to slow down. You'll be crying again in
a minute. Come one of the gents down.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Light hurts my eyes, that's all, and will just pull
these blinds. It's better than Oh no, you heard the
great five Chiefs orders. I'm to get you something.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
What do you have, y'all?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Highball?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Oh it's no bother.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Everything's out in the dining room here. The iceman didn't
deliver the day of all days, so I'm afraid I
can't give you any ice. I read the paper yesterday
that we're likely to have automatic ice boxes any day. Now,
you know things that treeze ice by electricity or something.
Do you believe that, Joel?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I doubt it. Listeners a bell?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
You are? It's not cold at all.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
It's the best I could do.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What I wanted to say was, couldn't you get that
brother of yours to give up practicing?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Now? Hasn't he done his good deed for the day?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Yes, maybe he has. I'll ring for Kitty.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
You don't have to call me, miss Kenyon.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
I'm here.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Oh, yes, Kitty, what is this?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
It's only to tell you there's another visitor.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
This time it's a woman, Lady, Kitty, call her a lady, please.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Maybe she says her name's Diane sisk.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Kitty.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Tell the lady I'm not in Lady, she's a fine lady.
I don't want that truth, my dear, I don't want
her truth anyway.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
It's too light, Miss Kenyon.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
She's coming down the hall now.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
My dear, missus Kenyon, how do you do Diane?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
This is a friend of ours, Miss Fisker, missus Parker.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
Now, I don't want to win tube media. I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I wouldn't have been.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Tuded for words, especially on a day like this.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Isn't it awful?
Speaker 11 (13:18):
But your husband simply insisted, My dear Missus Kennedy simply
wouldn't take no for an answer.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I'm sure he wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Do you know what he's brought from his office as
a surprise.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
No, a phonograph recording Machine's going to let us use it.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
So that we can all hear ourselves talk twice.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm nice.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Kenny's lame. Can't somebody stop that firing.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Kitty?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yes, ma'am, I would you please go down the cellar
and tell mister Kenyon's brother he's driving us.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
All crazy, tell him to stuff.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
Yes, ma'am, My dear missus Kenyon, I do hope I
haven't offended you in any way. I know I'm a
silly little chair who box.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
They say people who.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
Have red hair often are because at your age you
must find the heat very.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Chi don't you think we do all better? Sit down?
I was very much interested in what missus Fisk said
about a phonograph recording machine. Missus Kenyon was just talking
about a machine to make ice.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Yes, yes, isn't science and wonderful?
Speaker 11 (14:13):
But I do think it was me to Major Kenyon
to invite me out here and then go and fall
asleep in the summer house.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Did you say fall asleep? Yes, of course.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
How did you know?
Speaker 11 (14:26):
Well, I came up the back way and I saw
him in the summer house, with his heads forward on.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
The table, taking a nice little.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
SNeW It's very queer.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
Of course, you couldn't see much except in the bright
light of the door, but I think I saw him there.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
I didn't disturb him naturally, but I think i'd better
disturb him. And now, please don't trouble on my car.
The fact is, my dear, I don't altogether trust myself
in this room. A woman of my age.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Has to conserve his strength, you know. So if you'll
just excuse.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
Me, well, of course, if you. I just can't think
what I'm always saying, because I have the best intentions
in the world, mister Barker.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Parker, Oh yes.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Parker, but I do somehow manage to offend people, being
so dependent in everything except the man. Of course, I
couldn't offend you, mister Barker at Parker.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
No good, I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Of course. The person I really came to see was
Paul mister Kenyon's brother.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
He's a little young, of course, but he's joining up
next month, and I think we should all do outdit,
don't you?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
He has such a pleasant personalities. I think he likes me.
Speaker 11 (15:32):
Why have you walked into that door this minute?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
No? How am I ever going to get any place?
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Someone always interrupting my revolver practice, just when I'm getting
to the point where.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I, oh, Paul, good lord, are you here again?
Speaker 11 (15:46):
You're very untidy object.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
Paul.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
It's pretty untidy in the cellar and dirty. I've got
ct coroaches on me, so keep away.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Do you have a good day? Shooting so well?
Speaker 12 (15:57):
One of the best, mister target, and the only shot
that mattered. I hit the target dead center. That sounded
like Isabelle.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I think it was Isabelle.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Why have you got those lines down? Get them up?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
What's wrong with you? What are you looking at?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Through that window?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
That was twenty five years ago, Captain Brooke, we found
Jerry Kenyon lying across the table in the summer house.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
He'd shut himself through the head with his own revolver
from the hoster. It was lying on the floor. Decide him,
I said.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
When isabel found him. He'd been dead about half an hour.
The doctor's proved anything. Yes, that shut It been fired
against his head in front of his uniform cap was
powder burned with a bullet entered. There's no doubt about that,
none at all.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
We never noticed the real shot.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Because that young lad was shooting off guns like a maniac.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And I sell hercisely.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now they're old dead by accident illness, they're old gun
Isabel Kenyon died less than a year afterwards. I think
she died just because she was so fond of Jerry.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I suppose you've guessed my little secret.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh, I think I can sort of read between the lines.
You were in love with isabeut Kenyon, weren't you. Yes, Well,
these things happen. I never let us see it. You understand,
women know pretty generally. So they're gone, the youngest of them.
And I'm left alone with old tunes, old ghosts, wondering
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why the fellow ever killed himself? Why? Why?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And this morning, out of.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
A clear sky, I get a letter saying, if you
want to know how Major Pinion really died, look in
the third drave the desk in the library.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But I tell you we know how he died. Now,
aren't you going to do it naturally? I've got a
key somewhere here that fits the drawer.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Oh listen, mister Parker. And my father's country in Ireland.
They're going to saying that when a man's going to
commit suicide.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I thought of doing it too.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And then the devil comes in and takes him by
the hand and talks to him. They say, you can
see the devil as plain as I see you, just
before you pull the trigger.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
The devil must have been in the summer House that afternoon.
Oh no, I wasn't what you mean.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Major Kenyon didn't kill himself.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was murdered, my dear Captain Burke.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
The police covered all that at the time. Everybody had
an alibi they did, did they?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well? Think of what I've told you. Isabelle and I
were together all the time.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Paul, her brother was shooting off guns in the Stella.
Her Diane fiskea what about her? Her chauffeur who drove there,
swore he saw walk.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Straight up to the place she passed the summer House.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But didn't stop there. That's ex even kiddy the maid
could prove she'd never stirred out of the house until
just a minute or so before Isabelle went herself. Oh
and why did the maid have to leave the house
at all? She was taking Jerry the black coffee he
drank every afternoon. He'd already been dead half an hour then,
And that, my dear captain, disposes of everybody. Well, now listen,
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mister Parker, you're a good guy, and I'm not going
to hold out on you any longer. You see, I
say Major Kennym was murdered because.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I know he was murdered by an outsider, by.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
One of the people in my house. That's impossible. I
why don't open that destaurant? See what time is it?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
It's quarter tway quarter eight, and I haven't got a
time for what? Holy Saint Patrick, will you open that draw?
It's waited twenty five years, my friend, it can wait
a minute more. I've got the key somewhere, miss keys.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Everything same, Paul never altered when.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
He inherited the same old desks him out phonograph same.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I think this is the key. Yeah, it opens. There's
nothing here except one of the two old newspapers.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Everything very dirty, let us says the fresh heart at
the back. Have you tried.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That doesn't seem to Yes, my god, it doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Well.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
There seems to be a movable back on a hymn.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well, what's inside?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
As some sort of flat brown paper postle, sealed with
wax and about as dirty as it can get open
if man open, and I'm going to it's a phonograph records.
There's a plain quite label.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Something on it written in pencil. I didn't see two
a lot of days without my glassing.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Here give it a minute, alditary one, a record of
how I killed Serry Kenyon. Say, don't you get it,
mister Parker. This is the real goods. The murder is
going to tell us his own story twenty five years later.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Be careful whatever you do, don't drop it.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You seem to be interested enough. Now I don't say
I'm not interested. I say I can't believe it. You know,
when you were talking about the dead coming back and
that kind of thing, you sure started giving me goose pumples.
But that's just what it is. A dead person. Now
there's the phonograph. Put that record on. Let's hear what
the ghost says. Any of them could have made the record.
Of course, the apparatus was al here, so't just stand
there by the phonograph want to work? Yes, it works
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because it wound up. Yes, it's wound up. Here goes Now, look,
mister Parker, whose voice do you think it's going to be?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I don't know now.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I want to warn you the voice you're going to
hear from there.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He's be quiet. Listen, I've started do that well.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Speaker.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Who killed Jerry Kenyon?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
I killed him, Joe Dear. I'm sorry about it, Joe,
but I had to have you for an alibi, and
you were so terribly easy.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
To a phonograph record. Man, don't look at the.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Zipper of the line we did.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
You and I were almost together, Joe, but that wasn't
quite true. I left you to go into the dining
room and mix the high ball, remember yes, And I
was carrying my big knising bag.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Remember that too.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
And there was something else in it besides missing. I'm
an awfully good revolver shot, Joe. I told you we
were all good except Paul. And the back windows of
the dining room faced the same way as the back
windows of the library.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Jerry was in the summer house. I made a sign
to him from the window, and he came to the
door there in bright sunlight, fifty feet away. Joe, don't
you know what august heat is in a wooden summer house,
didn't you? Didn't anybody see that? No man would be
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wearing a cap inside on a day like that. Jerry
had taken his cap off before he went into the
summer house. We saw him do it. He was bareheaded
when he came to the door. So I lifted the
revolver and shot him through the head. Then I got
the gun back in my knitting bag and went back
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into the library with your drink.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Don't talk back to the thing.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Being bagged too. I had to use it. It was
a duplicate of Jerry's army camp, with a powder burnt
hole already fired through it in the place I wanted.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So I've been a goat for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
I waited for some time, and then flipped out to
find the body. I sit in a new cap over
Jerry's head, in place where it ought to go. I
put the old cat in my knissing bag. I took
his revolver out of the holster and kept it. The
gun that I used I dropped on the floor beside him,
so I proved it was suicide.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do you see, Joe.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Joe, listener, I'm very sick. They tell me I'm going
to die, Joe. I'm afraid I'm going.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Out in the dark. And I don't know it's fair,
don't Joe.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Okay, I've had just about another this, Joe.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I want you to tell everybody about it. I want
you to tell him how a poor crazy woman couldn't
stand that man any longer, and how.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's cut off and it's going to stay cut off.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Thank you. I've heard it well enough too. But you
can'd of arrest.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
No, now, my.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Friend, you kind of arrest.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now I have to hear him. Then I'm not going
to arrest anybody. Tell me, captain. Did you know what
was on the record. No, that's why I had to
hear it. I knew about it, but I wasn't sure
what it had to say. But so help me. I
never guessed how hard it would hit you.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Don't you get it even yet? Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh No, you don't. You don't see anything. That was
how the fake suicide was managed. Yes, that's just how
it was all done, bar one or two little things
only only only it wasn't Isabelle Kenyon who committed the murder.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Did I hear you correctly?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You did? This is another one of your little jokes
I imagined. Can't you let me alone? Have you some
kind of personal spide against me? You're going to hear
the real truth now if I have to hold you
down in that chair. I know Missus Kenyon didn't kill
her husband because I've just come from talking to the
real murderer up the river.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
But they're all dead, oh nother or not, and I.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Haven't got much time either. That clut's just going to
strike eight.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
What's the time to do the deal?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
If you will follow me. Missus Kenyon died listening to
here after he husband and a chieved this. But it
wasn't Missus Kenyon's voice you just heard in that record.
What I'm telling you. The real murderer hated her, hated
her like poison, and wanted her playing for the crime.
When Missus Kenyon died, the real murderer wrote a letter,
but she never mailed that letter. She made a lying
record of his about Kenyon's voice his evidence. Now you
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figure it out for yourself. Who was pretty enough to
take major Kenyon's eye and spike back like fury when
she got thrown over. Who wanted to go on the
stage and do impersonations?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Kiddy?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The med I are talking say?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
She shut from the dining room window, and.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
She couldn't borrow Missus Kenyon's nitting bag. She went out
to the summerhouse with a gun and the fake cap
wrapped a napkin on a coffee tray. Did go out,
I remember, Actually she got there before Missus Kenyon did,
but the summer house was dark inside and Missus Kenyan
never noticed her. The next day, Kitty wrote that letter,
but she couldn't bring herself to send it, so she
kept that letter till the day before yesterday. Then one
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of the boys had sing so thinking he was doing
her kind action, but a stamp on it and mailed it.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Did you say, sing Sing?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yes, they're electrocuting her to night for the murder of
an Italian down at Tyger's Hook. I found out about
the record, all right, But the one thing I wasn't
sure of was that she had done the job alone. Frankly,
the way you watched it, I thought that you might
have been in on it. Two Uh, that's why I
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had to hear it through and it was anything but
a joke. And now here it goes to blazon Forever
eight o'clock. She's dead.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
And so ends the Devil in the Summer House. Tonight's
story of suspense.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
The part of mister Parker.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Was played by Martin Gable.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Again next Tuesday at nine thirty p m. Eastern war Time,
a story dedicated to the thrill of the night time.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
The Hushed Voice and the Powling Step, another adventure in suspense.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
William Spear, the producer, John Beats, the director.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
And John Dixon Car the author, are collaborators on suspense.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Now, let's see suspect suspectant suspense. Here we are suspense,
the condition of mental uncertainty, usually accompanied by apprehension or
anxiety fear of something.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Which is about to occur. As do not keep me
any longer in suspense.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
For our story of suspense tonight, we invite you to
enjoy The Devil in the Summerhouse by John Dixon Carr.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Somewhere along the Hudson, perhaps not.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Far from Terrytown, there is a modest house in its
own ground.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Behind it, in a spacious garden, stands a summerhouse of
evil memory.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
More than twenty five years ago a man shot himself,
or at least died in that summer house. They found
Major Kenyon with a scorched bullet.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Hole in his head and the weapon beside him.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But we are in the present now.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
The latticed summer house has grown heavy with bands and.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Only the other evening, two men.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Came into that garden twilight over the shaggy grass, as
a storm was brewing along the Hudson. Two men, a.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Lawyer from New York who's there, and Captain Burke of
the homicide.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
My friend Lazy I was just trying to ask you
the same thing. My name is Parker. I'm an attorney.
You're not Captain Burke. Yeah, the very same I am.
I thought I recognized you, mister Parker. Must be something
important to bring you so far from New York at
this time of night.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was in Terrytown anyway. I thought they'd be a
housekeeper here. I don't see any lights.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've got business here, Yes, in a way, have you?
I don't know. I'll tell you better after you tell
me what brought you to a place if no one
has lived in for ten years.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Tell me, captain, did you ever get an anonymous letter
from a dead man?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I can't say I did anonymous. How do you know
the man's dead?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Because they're all dead, every last.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
One of them, dead and under the ground where they
can't be hurt me longer.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Look, there's the summer House.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Where Jerry Kenyon used to work. There are the windows
of the library in the dining room. Kind of found
this lightly as the Winter's Players, don't it. Jerry Kenyon
hadn't a care in the world. He had he shot himself.
I'll show you the letter. How look, mister Parker, I
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couldn't read anything in this light. But if we can
get inside of the house, certainly we can get into
the house. I was the family attorne here, who got
the keys?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Why I should have dead person send me a letter? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I was working on but you got a flashlight? I say,
came here prepared, runnything? Any this is the library. There
were always candles on the mantle. Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, have you matched Captain her eyes? I like them.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
That's been the same old heavy furniture, same old thick carpet,
same old globe map. Oh, mister Parker, this letter that
you were talking about, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Read it.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Hey, wait a minute, this thing is dated November two,
nineteen eighteen. That's right, And be careful of that paper.
You see how old it is. But it was mailed
yesterday from where I don't remember. I didn't keep the envelope.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Read this there.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Show in case you didn't know. It's high and Joe there, Joe.
If you want to know how Major Kenyon really died,
but we know how he died, it was seis Are
you sure it was? Whoever wrote this letter doesn't seem
to think so. If you want to know how Major
Kenyon really died, look in the third draw the desk
in the library, pressed hard at the back of the
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drawer yards right. Truly, it's not sign it's right. Are
you sure you don't know who wrote that letter? This
is the first time I've been back in this room, Captain.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was almost a home to me once.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
There's the tae where Isabelle sat on the afternoon it happened.
Isabelle was the day Kenyon's wife, beautiful woman.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
There's the door that the maid let me in by
that afternoon, you know, Captain, seems to me they're all
here at the night.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh, we stand neath the sounding laughter, and the wolves
around us.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Are bare.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
As they echo appeals of laughter. It seems that the
dead of the Yet we stand to our glasses steady.
You know it's I was at my school, reader, How
is the rest of it going? Yet we stand to
our glasses steady and drink to our comrade liars.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Here's a glass to the dead already.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Ruh for the next that dies, excuse me, catch him?
And I don't know what's come over me talking that way.
I was very fond of these people. Are you going
to look at the A S dram This is a
lot of nunsense, and why are you here, mister Parker.
Jerry Kenyon was always a happy man, at least that's
what I always thought, big oysterous funnel.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
He had a good position with lighter to him.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You know, the photograph company, Sure I know, but he'd
just been made a major.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
In the army. Nineteen seventeen. There was a war on then,
two of you. Remember.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I remember to make the world safe for democracy. Old days,
old hot aches, old memories. I remember that blazing hot
day in August and all the windows were up. I
remember this room and Isabelle and was Day's wife sitting
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in that chair knitting.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I remember, Oh, yes, kiddy, what is it? There's Amanda,
see miss Kenny And he says his name's Parker.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yes, I'm expecting him, Joe, and please.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
All right, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
So I take your knitting in your knitting bag. Why
should you take my knitting? I don't know, Miss Kenyon,
I just wondered.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Didn't come in now? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Hello, Joe.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hello Isabelle you sent for me, Joe.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
I must apologize for kitty servants are getting to be
a problem nowadays.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
She looks pretty enough to get along.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Oh, Kitty's got large ideas. She wants to go on
the stage if you please, and do imitations like miss Briefer.
She only knew how hard it was acting all your.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Life, Isabelle, you've been crying.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
I have not, at least?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Is that why you sent for me.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I've missed Joe. You haven't been here in.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Over a week.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Joe, I had an idea. Jerry was getting a little
tired of having me around this house.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Oh no, Joe, why Jerry?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes? What about Jerry?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
I wish I knew Joe. That's why I wanted you here.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Where is he? By the way, I want to say
it bye one before he leaves.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
He's probably out in the summerhouse where he works with
all those papers. He's got a lot of work to
catch up with. He's going overseas tomorrow. Yes, I know
he's out there. He's been out there all day his
last day here, I've been alone.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That sounded like a shot.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yes it was a shot.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Ye doesn't seem to worry.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
It's only Paul, Jerry's brother.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh, but you've gotten them off your hands for good.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Jerry asked him out. He got him two nights ago.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That doesn't make it any easier for you, does it.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
No, I don't mind. Jerry's fixed him up with a
pistol range in the cellar. Paul's a terribly bad shot,
not like the rest of us. You don't seem to
like it, Joe, Shall I have kiddy go down telling you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
As long as he keeps away? Put Joe. But about Jerry,
who is it this time?
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Oh, Jerry's been home five days on leave from camp.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Never mind what camp.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
But he spent four evenings of those five with that
Fisk woman.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Diane Fisk, the redhead with all the money.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Oh, she got money.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Well, she must have some attraction.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Then please understand me, Joe. It's not that I'm jealous
any longer. It's just Jerry goes his way and I
go mine. I may not be without admirers myself if
it comes to that.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You no idea how true that is? Isabelle.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
No, I was thinking about Jerry.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
It may not always be lucky. And they meet some
girl who's not as broad minded as I am, and
then when he gives her the go by. Aul must
be getting really curious down in that. So it's not
getting anything.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Must be using a lot of ammunition.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Now your trouble, Joe is as you're too much of
a gentleman. And if you really want to see Jerry
there he is now, well, just standing in the door
of the summer house.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Look out the window, and finally right out there.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
Doesn't he look noble in his new uniform, sam brown,
belt and revolver and everything. We'll look how he turns
around and waves his cap at us like a real soldier.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Real soldiers don't exactly wave their cats, do.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
There he does? Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Joe Parker's here, Joe Parker.
He wants to see you into the summer house again.
Not a care in the world here we listen, Isabelle.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You've got to slow down. You'll be crying again in
a minute. Come one of the gents down.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Light hurts my eyes, that's all, and will just pull
these blinds. It's better than Oh no, you heard the
great five Chiefs orders. I'm to get you something.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
What do you have, y'all?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Highball?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Oh it's no bother.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Everything's out in the dining room here. The iceman didn't
deliver the day of all days, so I'm afraid I
can't give you any ice. I read the paper yesterday
that we're likely to have automatic ice boxes any day. Now,
you know things that treeze ice by electricity or something.
Do you believe that, Joel?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I doubt it. Listeners a bell?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
You are? It's not cold at all.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
It's the best I could do.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What I wanted to say was, couldn't you get that
brother of yours to give up practicing?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Now? Hasn't he done his good deed for the day?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Yes, maybe he has. I'll ring for Kitty.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
You don't have to call me, miss Kenyon.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
I'm here.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Oh, yes, Kitty, what is this?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
It's only to tell you there's another visitor.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
This time it's a woman, Lady, Kitty, call her a lady, please.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Maybe she says her name's Diane sisk.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Kitty.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Tell the lady I'm not in Lady, she's a fine lady.
I don't want that truth, my dear, I don't want
her truth anyway.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
It's too light, Miss Kenyon.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
She's coming down the hall now.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
My dear, missus Kenyon, how do you do Diane?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
This is a friend of ours, Miss Fisker, missus Parker.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
Now, I don't want to win tube media. I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I wouldn't have been.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Tuded for words, especially on a day like this.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Isn't it awful?
Speaker 11 (13:18):
But your husband simply insisted, My dear Missus Kennedy simply
wouldn't take no for an answer.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I'm sure he wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Do you know what he's brought from his office as
a surprise.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
No, a phonograph recording Machine's going to let us use it.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
So that we can all hear ourselves talk twice.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm nice.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Kenny's lame. Can't somebody stop that firing.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Kitty?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yes, ma'am, I would you please go down the cellar
and tell mister Kenyon's brother he's driving us.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
All crazy, tell him to stuff.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
Yes, ma'am, My dear missus Kenyon, I do hope I
haven't offended you in any way. I know I'm a
silly little chair who box.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
They say people who.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
Have red hair often are because at your age you
must find the heat very.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Chi don't you think we do all better? Sit down?
I was very much interested in what missus Fisk said
about a phonograph recording machine. Missus Kenyon was just talking
about a machine to make ice.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Yes, yes, isn't science and wonderful?
Speaker 11 (14:13):
But I do think it was me to Major Kenyon
to invite me out here and then go and fall
asleep in the summer house.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Did you say fall asleep? Yes, of course.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
How did you know?
Speaker 11 (14:26):
Well, I came up the back way and I saw
him in the summer house, with his heads forward on.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
The table, taking a nice little.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
SNeW It's very queer.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
Of course, you couldn't see much except in the bright
light of the door, but I think I saw him there.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
I didn't disturb him naturally, but I think i'd better
disturb him. And now, please don't trouble on my car.
The fact is, my dear, I don't altogether trust myself
in this room. A woman of my age.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Has to conserve his strength, you know. So if you'll
just excuse.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
Me, well, of course, if you. I just can't think
what I'm always saying, because I have the best intentions
in the world, mister Barker.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Parker, Oh yes.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Parker, but I do somehow manage to offend people, being
so dependent in everything except the man. Of course, I
couldn't offend you, mister Barker at Parker.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
No good, I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Of course. The person I really came to see was
Paul mister Kenyon's brother.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
He's a little young, of course, but he's joining up
next month, and I think we should all do outdit,
don't you?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
He has such a pleasant personalities. I think he likes me.
Speaker 11 (15:32):
Why have you walked into that door this minute?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
No? How am I ever going to get any place?
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Someone always interrupting my revolver practice, just when I'm getting
to the point where.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I, oh, Paul, good lord, are you here again?
Speaker 11 (15:46):
You're very untidy object.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
Paul.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
It's pretty untidy in the cellar and dirty. I've got
ct coroaches on me, so keep away.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Do you have a good day? Shooting so well?
Speaker 12 (15:57):
One of the best, mister target, and the only shot
that mattered. I hit the target dead center. That sounded
like Isabelle.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I think it was Isabelle.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Why have you got those lines down? Get them up?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
What's wrong with you? What are you looking at?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Through that window?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
That was twenty five years ago, Captain Brooke, we found
Jerry Kenyon lying across the table in the summer house.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
He'd shut himself through the head with his own revolver
from the hoster. It was lying on the floor. Decide him,
I said.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
When isabel found him. He'd been dead about half an hour.
The doctor's proved anything. Yes, that shut It been fired
against his head in front of his uniform cap was
powder burned with a bullet entered. There's no doubt about that,
none at all.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
We never noticed the real shot.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Because that young lad was shooting off guns like a maniac.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And I sell hercisely.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now they're old dead by accident illness, they're old gun
Isabel Kenyon died less than a year afterwards. I think
she died just because she was so fond of Jerry.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I suppose you've guessed my little secret.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh, I think I can sort of read between the lines.
You were in love with isabeut Kenyon, weren't you. Yes, Well,
these things happen. I never let us see it. You understand,
women know pretty generally. So they're gone, the youngest of them.
And I'm left alone with old tunes, old ghosts, wondering
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why the fellow ever killed himself? Why? Why?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And this morning, out of.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
A clear sky, I get a letter saying, if you
want to know how Major Pinion really died, look in
the third drave the desk in the library.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But I tell you we know how he died. Now,
aren't you going to do it naturally? I've got a
key somewhere here that fits the drawer.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Oh listen, mister Parker. And my father's country in Ireland.
They're going to saying that when a man's going to
commit suicide.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I thought of doing it too.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And then the devil comes in and takes him by
the hand and talks to him. They say, you can
see the devil as plain as I see you, just
before you pull the trigger.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
The devil must have been in the summer House that afternoon.
Oh no, I wasn't what you mean.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Major Kenyon didn't kill himself.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was murdered, my dear Captain Burke.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
The police covered all that at the time. Everybody had
an alibi they did, did they?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well? Think of what I've told you. Isabelle and I
were together all the time.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Paul, her brother was shooting off guns in the Stella.
Her Diane fiskea what about her? Her chauffeur who drove there,
swore he saw walk.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Straight up to the place she passed the summer House.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But didn't stop there. That's ex even kiddy the maid
could prove she'd never stirred out of the house until
just a minute or so before Isabelle went herself. Oh
and why did the maid have to leave the house
at all? She was taking Jerry the black coffee he
drank every afternoon. He'd already been dead half an hour then,
And that, my dear captain, disposes of everybody. Well, now listen,
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mister Parker, you're a good guy, and I'm not going
to hold out on you any longer. You see, I
say Major Kennym was murdered because.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I know he was murdered by an outsider, by.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
One of the people in my house. That's impossible. I
why don't open that destaurant? See what time is it?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
It's quarter tway quarter eight, and I haven't got a
time for what? Holy Saint Patrick, will you open that draw?
It's waited twenty five years, my friend, it can wait
a minute more. I've got the key somewhere, miss keys.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Everything same, Paul never altered when.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
He inherited the same old desks him out phonograph same.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I think this is the key. Yeah, it opens. There's
nothing here except one of the two old newspapers.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Everything very dirty, let us says the fresh heart at
the back. Have you tried.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That doesn't seem to Yes, my god, it doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Well.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
There seems to be a movable back on a hymn.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well, what's inside?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
As some sort of flat brown paper postle, sealed with
wax and about as dirty as it can get open
if man open, and I'm going to it's a phonograph records.
There's a plain quite label.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Something on it written in pencil. I didn't see two
a lot of days without my glassing.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Here give it a minute, alditary one, a record of
how I killed Serry Kenyon. Say, don't you get it,
mister Parker. This is the real goods. The murder is
going to tell us his own story twenty five years later.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Be careful whatever you do, don't drop it.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You seem to be interested enough. Now I don't say
I'm not interested. I say I can't believe it. You know,
when you were talking about the dead coming back and
that kind of thing, you sure started giving me goose pumples.
But that's just what it is. A dead person. Now
there's the phonograph. Put that record on. Let's hear what
the ghost says. Any of them could have made the record.
Of course, the apparatus was al here, so't just stand
there by the phonograph want to work? Yes, it works
(22:01):
because it wound up. Yes, it's wound up. Here goes Now, look,
mister Parker, whose voice do you think it's going to be?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I don't know now.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I want to warn you the voice you're going to
hear from there.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He's be quiet. Listen, I've started do that well.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Speaker.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Who killed Jerry Kenyon?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
I killed him, Joe Dear. I'm sorry about it, Joe,
but I had to have you for an alibi, and
you were so terribly easy.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
To a phonograph record. Man, don't look at the.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Zipper of the line we did.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
You and I were almost together, Joe, but that wasn't
quite true. I left you to go into the dining
room and mix the high ball, remember yes, And I
was carrying my big knising bag.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Remember that too.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
And there was something else in it besides missing. I'm
an awfully good revolver shot, Joe. I told you we
were all good except Paul. And the back windows of
the dining room faced the same way as the back
windows of the library.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Jerry was in the summer house. I made a sign
to him from the window, and he came to the
door there in bright sunlight, fifty feet away. Joe, don't
you know what august heat is in a wooden summer house,
didn't you? Didn't anybody see that? No man would be
(23:32):
wearing a cap inside on a day like that. Jerry
had taken his cap off before he went into the
summer house. We saw him do it. He was bareheaded
when he came to the door. So I lifted the
revolver and shot him through the head. Then I got
the gun back in my knitting bag and went back
(23:54):
into the library with your drink.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Don't talk back to the thing.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Being bagged too. I had to use it. It was
a duplicate of Jerry's army camp, with a powder burnt
hole already fired through it in the place I wanted.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So I've been a goat for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
I waited for some time, and then flipped out to
find the body. I sit in a new cap over
Jerry's head, in place where it ought to go. I
put the old cat in my knissing bag. I took
his revolver out of the holster and kept it. The
gun that I used I dropped on the floor beside him,
so I proved it was suicide.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do you see, Joe.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Joe, listener, I'm very sick. They tell me I'm going
to die, Joe. I'm afraid I'm going.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Out in the dark. And I don't know it's fair,
don't Joe.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Okay, I've had just about another this, Joe.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I want you to tell everybody about it. I want
you to tell him how a poor crazy woman couldn't
stand that man any longer, and how.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's cut off and it's going to stay cut off.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Thank you. I've heard it well enough too. But you
can'd of arrest.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
No, now, my.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Friend, you kind of arrest.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now I have to hear him. Then I'm not going
to arrest anybody. Tell me, captain. Did you know what
was on the record. No, that's why I had to
hear it. I knew about it, but I wasn't sure
what it had to say. But so help me. I
never guessed how hard it would hit you.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Don't you get it even yet? Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh No, you don't. You don't see anything. That was
how the fake suicide was managed. Yes, that's just how
it was all done, bar one or two little things
only only only it wasn't Isabelle Kenyon who committed the murder.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Did I hear you correctly?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You did? This is another one of your little jokes
I imagined. Can't you let me alone? Have you some
kind of personal spide against me? You're going to hear
the real truth now if I have to hold you
down in that chair. I know Missus Kenyon didn't kill
her husband because I've just come from talking to the
real murderer up the river.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
But they're all dead, oh nother or not, and I.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Haven't got much time either. That clut's just going to
strike eight.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
What's the time to do the deal?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
If you will follow me. Missus Kenyon died listening to
here after he husband and a chieved this. But it
wasn't Missus Kenyon's voice you just heard in that record.
What I'm telling you. The real murderer hated her, hated
her like poison, and wanted her playing for the crime.
When Missus Kenyon died, the real murderer wrote a letter,
but she never mailed that letter. She made a lying
record of his about Kenyon's voice his evidence. Now you
(26:46):
figure it out for yourself. Who was pretty enough to
take major Kenyon's eye and spike back like fury when
she got thrown over. Who wanted to go on the
stage and do impersonations?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Kiddy?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The med I are talking say?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
She shut from the dining room window, and.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
She couldn't borrow Missus Kenyon's nitting bag. She went out
to the summerhouse with a gun and the fake cap
wrapped a napkin on a coffee tray. Did go out,
I remember, Actually she got there before Missus Kenyon did,
but the summer house was dark inside and Missus Kenyan
never noticed her. The next day, Kitty wrote that letter,
but she couldn't bring herself to send it, so she
kept that letter till the day before yesterday. Then one
(27:25):
of the boys had sing so thinking he was doing
her kind action, but a stamp on it and mailed it.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Did you say, sing Sing?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yes, they're electrocuting her to night for the murder of
an Italian down at Tyger's Hook. I found out about
the record, all right, But the one thing I wasn't
sure of was that she had done the job alone. Frankly,
the way you watched it, I thought that you might
have been in on it. Two Uh, that's why I
(27:53):
had to hear it through and it was anything but
a joke. And now here it goes to blazon Forever
eight o'clock. She's dead.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
And so ends the Devil in the Summer House. Tonight's
story of suspense.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
The part of mister Parker.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Was played by Martin Gable.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Again next Tuesday at nine thirty p m. Eastern war Time,
a story dedicated to the thrill of the night time.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
The Hushed Voice and the Powling Step, another adventure in suspense.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
William Spear, the producer, John Beats, the director.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
And John Dixon Car the author, are collaborators on suspense.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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