Man in the Morgue an episode of The Creaking Door

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we still building stands at the endof the anyway. Here's a small glass
plate on the door. It readsme trooper, let him police mogue.
No, you don't miss, Let'sstay your tub. I musn't miss.

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I didn't worry. I'm gonna givemy job as a crime reporter. What
is it? And then I hitin. One says yes what they say
when they put him in, ohby, they're probably multiple fractures. Don't
as safe and it's interesting? Isit worth a paragraph? And I taking
down down and down now just anotherTrump never had a bog on it.
And I was sitting struck by astory accidents on my department. Yay,

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you never know. We might bestruck from beyond. He was not.
I have a hope, esfully,I went to Although I've been in that
large cold room many times, unlikeWillie, I never bolt completely at ease.
I won't tell little what Willie you'vemystically described as his cold storage bins

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and watched him pull out section twentysix. He looked at him, fished
out the things he wants two daysago. Looked terrible when you first came
in, But oh clean, youmight lie me. We have lots of
conversations without ahing a word. Yeah, I suppose you think I'm mad to

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No, that's your willie none inlife. How is he going to do
this too? Oh well, it'san old story tongue. Hey, you
see I was guessed inuring the fourteento eighteen more. Yeah, Shortly after
our returned, the missus dared wenever had any children and now readitus to
speak of. It was difficult findinga job for I think I couldn't stand

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eat of any sort be landed.Stop playing that, you all believe me,
Tom, I walked hundreds of milesthrough the streets of London before I
found a job that no one elsewanted, and the job, so to
speak, which didn't require much effort, and which most certainly was cool.
Yeah. So yeah, I amindeed, and I don't want to do

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an answer, don't you It isn'tdeserve a job that anyone can go now,
of course he isn't told. Youoften find some wise character the pub
who says, how can you workthere? Well, my argument is somebody's
got to do it, somebody's gotto look up. Yeah, that's the
point of view, you know,young Tom. You know you know what

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I'd like to be if I hadn'tjust to know what he was, I'd
like to be a doctor. Itmust be a fine thing to be a
doctor, to save life instead ofangling dead. Do you have to be
a crime recorded? Will he?Hey? How old and things? And
I don't suppose i'd let me tryto be a doctor now, not my

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age. You know. If Ican't be a doctor, I'll stick to
behind yall. It's nice and quietyyour hotel. Can't help worrying thinking about
this blank Look at the back ofhis charge and equ gleam paint. Yeah,

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so yes, the car must havebeen him there? Did the police
see? I don't think the buddyhad told you. Then whoever knocks him
down must have been driving a car. It would have been fresh repents.
That's about the size of it,Tom. And once more, that paint
couldn't have been put on the carmany minutes. That's true, And it's
true. Are you sure you wouldhave a disk of eating it? And

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I've already told y'all lock you here. It's peaceful. No one argues with
me. I lock it that way, and my charges are always satisfied.
God, I've never had it complainabout your accommodation, aren't you They're going
to retire on h five minutes fromnow, Not that I want to mon,

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No, I'll be sorry leaving you. Oh I'll be well taken care
of. I'll put a tarbee someaway, you know. So would you
like a cup too, Tom,I'm about to make myself not actually,
I think I'm going to go overto the police station. If I don't
get a story of singing yours truly, we'll be putting in an application for
your job when you retire. Hewas a character, all right. When

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a picturesque turn of phrase, hehad to save life instead of handling death.
I thought about his words as Iwalked a two hundred yards to the
West London Police precincts well well asLondon's youngest and brightest crime uponner Little says,
yours truly. You know, ifthere's no news, it's bad news.

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Me know right about crime? Youknow each do you known thing about
the stiff who was not time tonight buy a green painted car? I
just come to the morgue. Ohso you've been talking, friend Willie.
Yes, the incident happened in yourmanner to take the sergeant well is you
better prepare to make a statement tothe prince. Oh, oh, you
must be out up, Tom,that Trump gets knocked down already, A
juicy murder is about to be writtenup. Thank you're right, I must

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get a story, is Oh justa minute? Sure he's a reporter to
wordy sergeant. He's one on theturn. Yes he is. He is
for you, Tom. Thanks?Hello, Hello, speak up corner.
Hello, Sorry, Tom, it'sWilly healthy you know the municipal mall?
Yes? If Tom? Yes,Willie? What's the matter you your sons?

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A Tom? Do me a figurewith you? Something funny's going on?
I remembered you saying that you wouldgain to the police station, calling
here on your way with you?Well, yes, of course I've got
I'm on my way now. Anythingwrong wrong? Look? I maybe old
Tom, but I'm not promisy.You're the most say then I know what's
the trouble it's about? Want tobe charged? You're was I want to

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be customerate? Oh? I knowthese sounds as aren't going round the bin.
A few minutes ago I happened tobe Yes, Willy, Hello,
Hello, you're still there. Hello, it's funny right, what's the matter
I don't know, but I'm goingto find out. It could have been

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anything, a telephone line going dead, seventy year old Willie getting so absent
minded as to beget to finish thetelephone conversation. As I say, it
couldn't have been anything, but Iwasn't prepared for what it really was.
I got to the front door andI knocked. I waited. I knew

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that Willy kept the gate blocked,always sadly, that soft, kindly grid
of his, that he didn't wantanyone to come messing around with his charges.
No answer, and that's again,still no answering call from Willie.
No croaking voice cheerfully saying I'm coming, I'm coming. I tried the handle

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and the gates opened way way.My voice echoed to the building. Still
no answering shots. As I enteredthe morgue itself, with its long line
of refrigerated cabinet all in a neatrow as awaiting my inspection, I had

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my first clutch of fear. Andthen I saw the swaying card at the
telephone receiver, which it those werereplaced, but there was, And then
I had a crazy course, he'sin there, He's in one of those
cabinets. Number twenty three, she'sa peace smoking old lady. This hasn't

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disturbed the serenity of that features.She isn't Willy. Number twenty four.
I shrunk in face, gazed atme, not recognition when I should he
recognized me and really seen a guyin my life before? Who's either or
death? I was getting less theold by mess have gone out of the

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packet of fives or something. Rememwhy I should be telephone me at the
police station. Why the swinging pendulumand the telephone receiver? What the who's
that? Willie? Will you stopsaying hide and seek? Willie? No

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answer. The morgue was as silentas the hears it accommodated silent. Did
I say, stop taking my nervesout for good? You said, Pommy?
You said you wouldn't he from onwhatever you're hiding? My blood froze.

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It wasn't really lousy, dear shrunkencroaking voice Willie that had mad laughed
him for no human agency as ajoke. Isn't touch young crime report A
Tom Dixon during nuts in the MetropolitanPolice Morgue. Now had it become an
incession? Willie had to be inthe place Willie was in grave danger?
Willie was where was he? Iran back to the cabinets. Not you,

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old chat it is still you are, said, sure Willie? Where
are you? Willie? Where areyou being accommodated in infrigerating Kenneth and the
twenty eighth? Of course you didn'trecognize me as you lying there? Help?

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for our crime reporting friend to indulgein. But back to our story,
to the police morgue where Tom Dixongazes down at his friend who has changed
his status to that of guests poorlydying in Harrison. Say for trying to

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pin somewhere something, but a deadcow will come over kill kill. Why
can't I get a silent taking?Come on, come on, Western I

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speaking taking. I'm speaking of themore. Look Tom, if you're following
out the story or getting Mary atthe mall, we've taken a sample of
the pape from the tramp's trousers.Now it could be a stolen You don't
understand. It's it's willy Yes,Oh you mean o man talking? Yes?
What about him? He's there andhe's here all man, he's no
longer in the lads. He's oneof the charges here. Are you trying?

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What you're talking about? I'm tryingto tell you I've just found and
refrigerated hand a number twenty eight reservedfor corpses of waiting all something or identication,
and he wanted an autopsy to discoverhow will he died. He was
murdered the back of his head fastingthere. What are you saying? You
man lying up? Yes? Now, look Tom, Yes, this is
a chap or a newspaper. Iplunders if I'm joking, had to go
on to quickly I'm not choking andsaid I'm I'm scared of that I'm scared

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on my wits. You've got lostthem already, know my wit said,
but maybe that's wedding wants whoever itis listening to. Then once my tear
there's rib me away from yourself.I'll be right. Said you hear that,
whoever I would have ben that wasmy friends pageant send wellers with a
c I d they come up anysell me here say the couple of consoles.
Your guys came down and tell youin my windows and any bad conditions,

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if only one way to be theguy, there's more than that.
S that's door unless you have topass me. Eh, oh God,
why July there? God laugh,I had a cabinets. Lie, you're
running pussy my my god, scary. The shouldn't challenge to every guy scary?

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You know? Remember who begin totremble if I didn't want to get
and two would become a trender whenI was canalist, for I wasn't married
to bulls? Why did it takea long? When I saw it in
the fifth row of the cabinet wasone that I pulled out and not replaced.
It had containdered everybody of a manwho must have been in his early

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forties. Slowly it began to riseuntil it stood arrest. It spoke,
go mortal, leave the day here, you leave, You can't pull me.
Let us wrist and the old manrestricted to his final rest repas it

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was decreed, however, you wouldwant ring his mortal day? Women,
hi girl, unless we frame you. It was all crazy show, it
was, But I became crazy too. I had taken no more. Who's

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had to be the adventure? He'sdeath, the sentinel guarding the gates of
death. I ran, where yougoing, Tommy? He said? He
I'm sorry, said, I can'tget ahold of myself. Have you brought
anyone with your thing? Of course? Two cramps to worse? Keep him
here by the gate. There's somethingor someone in there her head. I

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mean, have you been telling himdrinking him over here? Because you told
me that Willy, dear old Willy, it's lying one of those cabins.
Yeah, that's what you say,Kevin at twenty eight, Well, come
on, sha me tell them thatthere's two cops. Tell them not to
move from the gate, and he'sall right. Anything for a quiet death.
Sorry, tom I know I wasn'tfunny. Yeah, is he really
dead? Willie. All right,all right, all right, let's carry.

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As we walked towards the cabinets,my feet felt like tongues of lead,
I guess, he said, lookingat metal record of his eye wandering.
I had brought an on on ahoax while I was drunk, or
worse, sharting at twenty eight.Yeah, he said he was murdered,
his head bashed him. What wererunning away for? I'm saying you were
a ghost him and a killers scaringall this sudden me, well to our

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goats. You like taway out ofthe law day. Why is the last
night you're rotting? Sire? Andlistens, I'm a telephone in an ambulance.
You're geting to the hospital, andlebeill those of the hospital before we
leave it. And maybe we'd betterbook our accommodation here. Oh what is
the lot of that ghast? Yeah? Leave the ghost tournament? Where's Willie?
You don't understand somebody walked out ofthat cabinet. Stop one of the
courtiers. His life as much asyou like. Here he is five months

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ago before he was to say,good guy, and he's dead and now
death has claimed him terminently. Yeah, stop searching the face with her eyes
like that one. She'll make menervous. I'm making you nenus. You
haven't done anything. Wait till ourfriend starts making with his laughs. Right?

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He satisfied that these days here Iam. It's look at a scar
you see? Yeah? Do youthink a ghost did best? I think
we let all go back to thestation. I'll keep these tire You crazy,
You haven't seen that one? About? What about a cure for whatever
it is? He he's here hidingsomeone here? Si? No, it

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was a corpse that stood up,Yes to it? He hit the nail
on the head. It was acorpse that wasn't a corpse. Then someone
who was supposed to be there,someone who had to get out of here
because he is hes. They hadto get out of here before they commenced
an autopsy on his live body.Yeah, is that right? Is the
way you fill with me? Cattest fifth cart quick? This is that's

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what no identification tag. This cabinetwas supposed to be empty, and yet
I saw a corpse stand up andfrighten it quick? That's the other option.
No, Look, there's supposed tobe a corpse in this capiness,
but not the corpse of Willy daughter, it says Arthur Hudson, awaiting very

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you know, well not yes,not just a minute in the open this
yeah, And that's poor Willy,you know. He shouts off when I'm
sure, And that's when I musthave interrupted the killer and I thought it
was a ghost. But don't youseat it, the undertakers would have arrived,

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the poor Willie would have been buriedas Arthur Hudson, you know,
say that mean that means the coltthat frightened me out of my wits was
mister Hudson, who isn't a corpse, you know? And now looking at
Tom, this sounds crass. Ilooked sat even before I started getting scared,
like I couldn't search them all properlybecause I didn't go too far from

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the entrance of the exit, ifyou like. But now there are two
friends at the gate. We're goingto search this place until we find friend.
There's nothing here. Tom may musthave changed his hiding place when I
ran like a scared rubbery. Hemust be Yeah, he must be one
of those refrigerating kids this month,I mean playing being a corpse for the
second hand said when you get you'llswing Panessa. I think there's the next

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one. I loved that. Wellyeah, ah, well, I'll be
huh caught a bloom on your cheeksfor the dead man? Get up the
corpse? Get up? Should Ibe done? Here? Here? He

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looks pretty? He doesn't even hiseyes closed. Yeah, yeah, careful,
Tommy, maybe youngs Hen see whatI'm gonna do is press his muscles
together and like this, he stays, he won't mind like that ghost I
I walk or so say cold?Isn't it a let of cold that your

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hundred of one? The swine didn'tbother about his finger? Prince Willie would
be listing. Update. He waskilled ten minutes before the morgue was due
to shut for the night. Theygot him. Here is your name,
Arthur Adson. I'm arresting young forthat murmury. I con I'm assuming cold,

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are you? I don't go?Didn't feel the cold beker for something
that she was alright from the bagsto please. I catched my colonel here
catches dead the cons coming, tomConning. Yeah, I read your piece

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this morning. You said there werequestions that need to be answered. You
said that they were likely to besensational development of that. Yeah, well,
it's all in a bag, ArthurAdson an hour of work actor meet
said Dr Herbert Williams. Williams havebeen struck off the medical register after being
sentenced for a drug offense when heknew about William Dalton and the government more

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since he was at one time connectedwith the Municipal Pathological Department O the that
was the scheme. Adson pretends tobe very sicky, gets his landlady to
phone Dr Williams. Dr Williams injectshim with a drug, a drug that
gives him an appearance of death,signs the death certificate, manages to get
him put into a police morgue andyou know what, all for a fifty

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thousand quid life insurance sole money.Yeah. If Paul william hadn't suspected something
and hadn't telivered me, they mighthave got away with it. Two and
that's it. The idea was forAdson to put on Dalton's clares and switch
identities until Adson was safely out ofthe building. He tried to frighten you.

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You see, he couldn't leave untilyou know, he frightened me.
If you hadn't arrived, entire willnever mind that now, first beyond bars.
Although friend had something suffering from asevere chill. Really you don't think
that you will do me? Yeah? Hello West London's c I D.
Someone is speaking who what? Yes, all right, I'll I'll look into

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it. Yeah, we'll see theman run right away. No, no,
not at all. I don't havea story. If you Tom asked
good that was Morgan and Sam.Also, Butcher's the refrigeration rum has been
burgled. The carcass of beef hasbeen stolen. And you're interested, and
you can go and fry as well. Will Will Will, who are in

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tuding experience for a young crime reporter. And as for that man Hudson,
fancy giving poor old Willy Dalton sucha cold reception. Actually, I don't
think mister Hudson planned things that hewill do you. The plan didn't have

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