February 23, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
The Adventures of the Saints, starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
The robin Hood of.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Modern Crime now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey, mister templar, Yes, louis starting to rain, so it is.
You couldn't get a dinner back in town, out of tree,
all the way out here in the country to eat.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Louis, I was invited to a dinner party, and Long
Island is hardly the country.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's full of trees, ain't it true?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
This does happen to be a rather lonely spot.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But Ryan is getting heavier too. I should have stared
in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm sorry, Louis.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
What is a cabba from Brooklyn doing out here in
the middle of nature?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And he seems to be driving a cab by a Louis. Yeah,
is it possible that the roof of your cab leaks?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's possible it's leaking on you, on me.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well after almost the temple.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
According to the Chemistry, books were composed of ninety eight
percent water.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Anyways, perhaps I find the percentage high enough without any additions.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
However, there's no extra charge. We've got a mister Temple,
the mota.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Ah, it stopped so I noticed discouragement.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, it's possible to hold leaks too.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Don't blame the motor, after all, it didn't composed ninety
eight percent water.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You shortly will be while we sit here calmly contract pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Who's calm book?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Mister Temple?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You know something?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
This could be the beginning of like a real horror story.
It's to night time where two guys stuck out.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Here in the wilderness Long Island.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The rain is raining, the thunder is thundering, and I'm scared.
You know what ought to happen next? If this was
a horror story, that's what ought to happen next.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It m sound came from the left through those trees.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, oh here see lights.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It must be a house. Doesn't seem very far away.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But that's where the dog yelled from.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Huh yes, except the judging from the sound, the dog
was outside.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's strange.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Why would a dog be out in this downpour?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Maybe he read a book on chemistry, or maybe he's
just leading the dog's life.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That was a joke, I think, and I may laugh later.
At this moment, there's someone running down the.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Road from the direction of the house book. He's heading
for us. I hope you don't mind, but can you
give me lift back to Glenville.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh, we'd be glad to accept that we're stuck here ourselves. However,
you can join us inside it's slightly less.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Damn thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I won't stay long. I don't care for a neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
How did you get here? I'm a camp driver. Well,
or where's your cab? Back there? That house?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, the Hawthorned place? Well why didn't you take your
cab when you left?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Because I was in a hurry because there was things
closer to the camp than I was.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What kind of things?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Listen, young man, nobody lives in the Hawthorn House. Nobody's
lived there for over a hundred years. So tonight, back
in town, I picked up a fair And where does
he want to go? The Hawthorn House. I'm an old fool,
so I take him there. He gets out of the house,
tells me to wait, goes inside. I walk around to
(03:49):
stretch my legs. Then I noticed the house is all
lit up. I think that's mighty queer. But I figure
maybe somebody knew who bought the place, or perhaps someone dead,
Because I go round to the side and I look
into the house through the big front window, and I
see who's in the house.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It ain't anybody knew who was it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was the folks who used to live in that
house a hundred years ago. And what was worse, they
were sitting around at.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Table eating dinner.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I see you say they were the people who lived
there a hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
How could you know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That because of the way they was dressed, because of
the way they looked. Mister, I've lived in Glenville all
my life, and there's pictures of the Hawthorns going way
back in the Glenville town Hall.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Perhaps the people you saw were descendants of the original Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Sure, sure, except nobody dresses that way anymore, except that
one of them was bleeding on to the tablecloth with
his throat cut open, and another was putting food into
his mouth, only he didn't have a face around that mouth.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Look, you're a positive you didn't imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
All right? I imagine that I'm crazy. Think whatever you like,
But me.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I'm getting out of here, So.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Let's let's get out of here too, Louis.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh, let's swell with me. Are we gonna walk to Glendil.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No, I'd like to take a look at that house.
Why oh, we may still be in time for dinner, but.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Mister Templar, I ain't hungry, And.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Besides, that guy might still maybe be bleeding.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I doubt it you do.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Huh? Why you're forgetting we're ninety eight percent water.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That answer is supposed to cheer me up.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
The dog I'm worrying about, Louis.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Why well, out here a dog would be kept for
companionship protection.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Therefore, why was that dog put out in the rain?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I just as soon forget the dog. Oh, somebody is
busy not paying attention to me.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's out, Huh.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Obviously colonial architecture large rather pretty, huh, brilliantly left with
colonial electricity candles, Louis, You can see them through that
large window, chandeliers ablaze with candle.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You can't see anything else except the ceiling. But that
must be the dining room.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, probably, mister Temple.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
There's all this real.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It seems to be hey, bell, pull on the door.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
A dog don't like a.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ringing the bell. Look, mister Temple, look an elephant with teeth.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's a large dog. It's drench.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Look up for your hand because he's his swallow with it.
Look you know he's heading for me, mister Temple. The
dog has to come all the way out here to
feed a dog. Telly, Louise, he likes you. He's looking
up at yeah, trying to decide which part to start on. Lloy.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
There's positively a light in his eyes.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Or do you know you may be his ideal Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Sure, his ideal dog food get found, mister Temple.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Believe us Go inside.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Hey, no one answered the bell. I wonder when it's open.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He look touch he's leaving.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
It's strange, sounds terrified, But.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Of what I didn't say a thing.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Huh. Hallway seems empty, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Going mm ooh kind of quiet. Yeah, not even a
chain clanking, not even a creaking.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And louis there what there is a door down the hallway.
It's uh, probably the dining room, and I ain't hungry.
The house is old, dusty, unused, but.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
There is a light.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Maybe they forgot to turn the gas off when they
all died or something.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Uh huh, it's the dining room.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
I would around up and buy some oil for the door.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
A large table in the city, chairs all around, white
linen and polly.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Silver around the table, plus dishes with food.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, and food that's warm.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Louis, Oh, mister template, I don't like this. A house
in which nobody's lived for a hundred years, miles from
many ways, all lit up with candles in.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
A table with fresh cooked food on it, and there's.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No one, no one at all at the table.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Unless uh nless we can't see them.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Louis, Yep, found a lot of cobwebs, mister temple, in
a lot of empty rooms, but nothing a.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Living Now, may as well head back to the dining room.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Don't let your appetite tempt You're probably might now all
the food is vanished.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Hey is isn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That sounds yeah like dishes rattling? Yeah, come on, Maybe
maybe the guests all all come back.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
They weren't in the house. It would mean they'd all
have to rush out into the rain.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But why they were thirsty? Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What they do. As a giant that's we can look
in without being seen.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, I don't believe it. A butler, an old guy
dressed in closet belonging to music.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
See him.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Look at he's got knee pants on with lace cuffs.
And at that table where there's no one seated, he's
serving dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Maybe maybe maybe he's just practicing for what I heard
of ghost writers.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Maybe he's a ghost.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
But suppose we go in and find out. Uh h yeah,
uh it good evening.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Be still, if you please be still. He was afraid
we might disturb the guests.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He's gathering some of the dishes. Granted, the swinging doorn
probably leads to the pantry.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Look, he's waving on us and we wave back.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now he wants us to join him.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Come on, Uh huh serving pantry?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I uh beg your pardon.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Indeed you should, but uh you are hot hortens the name,
of course. But the footman must have told you that
the footman kill it. He let you in, didn't He
shouldn't have directed you to the dining room, of course,
but then he's getting a you'd better go to your
quarters at once. They are behind the main staircase. Glad
you came along.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
We need you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Kileb isn't the man he used to be. But then
he's been with the Hawthorns for so many years.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I remember when he entered service, you do it was
the year Old Boney got his.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Toes toasted at Moscow. Old Boney can't stand around gossiping
all evening guests might notice. Get your quarters, man, I've
worked to do. Hey, look you ducked out.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah the door is locked, probably a spring latch, which
means we may as well go back to that any room.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Look, you know something's wrong with this whole thing. Mister Temple,
who is old Boney?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
H Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That happens to be the nickname the English head for
Napoleon Louis.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh fine, so Howton says he remembers the year Old
Bonney got his toes.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Toasted at Moscow.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Look, my brother in law, Joey, you know, happens to
be a very educated man. College man, no, no, graduate
from United States Army. He's now a mechanical type engineer. Look, anyway,
once he told me Napoleon was in Moscow in eighteen
hundred and twelve. Your brother in law was great, But
mister Temple, that would make this guy hot over a
hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Mmm, I'm afraid it would.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
A guy over one hundred and fifty years old is dead.
So what's Houghton doing walking around? Huh?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
But he may have been too busy to lie down
and die.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
That does not put a twinkle in my eye. Look,
mister Temple, I want to go home.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Knew he is a pleat in here of some kind
a pattern for her, and if that pattern is to
mean anything, I hey, lois h that closet there?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yeah it's a closet. Yeah, yeah, I suppose we open it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Look.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I don't like to mention this, but in all old families,
you know what they keep in closets, they keep skeleton
in closet.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Templar hurt? He he it fell down?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, no skeleton.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
However, that I can see for myself. Fortunate thing, I know? Who? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
What's fortunate about it?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
With a skeleton, we could never tell whether or not
its throat had been cut?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
His throat has been cut?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, verily, let's go take a trip someplace.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Let's wait. Well, haven't you realized something yet?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I don't think I wanna This man here is dressed
just as we are, not in the costume of a
dead age. Well, it didn't help him many the oh
you found.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Some yeah, long brown hair is clinging to his clothes
and uh huh, various papers mm.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
In life Lewis, his name was Charles Gray.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
He was a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh, the bar Association are.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Like, this is something else.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, he was carrying this document, Louis.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now what is it?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
A copy of the.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Last will of one Samuel Hawthorne. Although him we didn't
meet yet.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Now, lots of.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Closets we haven't opened yet either.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know we're not going through if I can help it. Well,
what does the will say?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
And you better read fast because all them candles, you know,
are begin to give up.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
H I, Samuel Hawthorne, being sound of mind and body,
do hereby make this my last will and testament.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It is my desire that all my heirs, in time
to come, in order to inherit my vast fortunes, must
at least once a year, open Hawthorne House, and there
give a ceremonial dinner to the neighboring gentry.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
In custom yeah uh uh.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
At this dinner everyone present must wear clothing of my tower.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh yeah, my heirs must be of high moral repute
and of all divorces.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Huh. Obviously the dead man here.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Mister Charles Gray was the lawyer in charge of the
estate and presumably came here to make sure the terms
of the will were met.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Okay, so now we know the ghosts weren't really ghosts.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, but what we haven't seen any of 'em.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
It's true, nor any neighboring gentry.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
However, that stipulation was probably way Yell, mister Temple, you
know we we better maybe get the police. Yeah, there
are any foods around here, Loom, couldn't we walk to Glenville?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No, Leary, I think we're here for the night.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh fine, fine, if it's right in with that pattern
for Hower you mentioned. Oh all I personally need right
now is for someone to scream, good and loud and
(14:31):
mister Temple, this makes the second time we've searched the
house and found nothing.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
It was a woman screaming loop.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Maybe it was a ghost.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Ghost aren't supposed to scream, they clank change.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, maybe this year ghost didn't know that. Go back
to the dining hre.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I suppose let me remember the house with lights. There's
that good.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Maybe the corpse took a walker. Sh No, still here.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, I'm still dead.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Ah, hollas have a fun dressed up like Napoleon. Do
Look you ain't walking very straight.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I had.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's the same, inquisitive but uh, oh, mister Gray just
touched in a bad way, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's not especially normal. I'm Simon Temper and you.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
James Hawthorne's uh besides house breaking, your occupation is what?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Ay o? The shame, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yes? I am. Oh, I just.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Sitting at alloarynxes rather than not occupations for the same.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
But it would be if I had cut mister Grey's throat.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
However, you're uh Samuel Hawthorne's air, Yeah, the currant one.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes, uh, you've been snooping. But there was a clause
in the will about the all.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Been overduring that snoop. You're married, mister Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Sorry, would have helped supply a motive, I suppose, but
I'm not not. Have I ever been fortunate or unfortunate
enough to be married?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
A woman screamed a few moments ago. Who was she? Other?
Th't her? But you couldn't have failed to if you
were in the house. But I was, But you must
have been.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
It's been raining out your clothes are dry and spotless. Well,
to be honest, I wasn't in the house, and yet
I was. You search the house, I presume. Yeah, see
you overlook the cellar.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I didn't find one. It's a tricky place to get to.
The entrance is behind the chimney in the parlor. Has
something to do with colonial or politics perhaps at any rate,
I was down there.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You're fond of sellers.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, what I requit was bottles and bottles, A bottles.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Of nepole and brandere yes. Uh, now, if you don't
mind out, sit down.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I have another few hours to remain in costume in
here in order to comply with the terms of the will.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I'm sleep.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I show uh for.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
H that's for life.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It's more probably branded. So what do we do?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Sit here? Listen to his slow when the podium keeps
cropping up all the time. M Louie, M suppose we
go downstairs and have a look at these bottles.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Mm oh ooh, some staircase down to the cellar.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Here.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It's very narrow. My shoulders keep rubbing against the wall, and.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
A dirty wall too.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Hey, look the cellar's all lit up.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Huh, Candles on barrels they lots of barrels, not to
mention kegs and casks, and every.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Hands up casks and blondes, and it hands.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Up with forty two caliber revolvers.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Forty two.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You didn't expect me to be arm did you.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I'm afraid we didn't expect you at all, Miss Watual.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You would say that, but this isn't going to work
out the.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Way you are.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I'm afraid I haven't had any thought to reason.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
But books the temple, she's running up the stairs.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yes, hey, she bolted the door behind her.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Oh, mister temple.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
That was a very solid type of door lead into
the cellar, and the cellar is about six miles underneath
the ground.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And we're locked in.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh no worry, Louis will be released in time, in
time for what a funeral.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
That girl was beautiful living.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
She's on the other side of a locked door. So
what good is it do you?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Huh? I can worry.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh, this is an occupation for a grown man.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Worry about what the part she's playing in this entire
mask the temple.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah, those were shots today, I answer your question hardly.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
We don't know who shot at home. Yeah, so she
had still locked Yeah, still locked. Now, don't bother, Louis
I wanna answer, may as well go down again and
make ourselves comfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, for how long twenty years? I'd O't be silly, Louis,
you've got an optimistic thought.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
We'd never last twenty years down here.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You know something, mister templar m I'm beginning to feel
aged in the water, and you.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Better restrain yourself. Hm.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
We've only been down here half an hour. Perhaps hey, hey,
the Marines have landed.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yet another bottle of Oh, mister Temple trimpling her, but
not exactly, very naughty of you. Don't mind admitting that's
why I'm here myself need another bottle of brandy. Don't
know what happened to I.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Want to upstairs. It's all empty.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Must have operated. Oh perhaps those shots frightened it out
of the bottle.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh, your head's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Hey, I had my sul Matter of fact, I'm firing
no confidence when I tell you those shots were fired
A mate, whoever shot at you couldn't have had very
good aim.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Fortunately for me.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No car, dear cousin Caler happens to be, and I
put myself to be Foger loudly marsh Should I say
marsh woman color being blonde and beauty? Oh you marry
She's next in line for Samuel Hawthorne's pretty little watching
in it. If I should happen to be disqualified, I'm dead.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Can you have your bottles? Close? We go upstairs, HM,
and I get let history.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
But let's take casey bless the war was resolved from
one's shoulders.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
H can rub it off?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Uh? Back in the party, very tempor even a reputation
for these things? Who cut mister Greys a murderer or
very purtuous?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
But uh but why who.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Is mister Grey's task to see to it that the
provisions of the will would observed?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
His death?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Therefore must have had something to do with that.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You're a bachelor in deed, I am? Was he no
a pretty little wife? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Or should be decis As a matter of fact, really
thinking about her grief makes me deser m therefore touching
this bottle, and I hope you'll won't think you are
too terribly selfish. I shall tiddle off to Betty by
a dust see that perhaps, But it's almost morning. Uh, hey,
good lots, uh oh here, I am very glad to
(21:05):
see go. But how about us now we go for
the police, Louis, If you're a cable's dying, however, Carl, oh,
let's not look for her, or mister Temple. A girl
with all those calibers don't appeal to me.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh, you're being narrow minded, Louis.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
After all those shots, how many calibers can she have?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
The last.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Sweat out?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
It's cold?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It's not But do I mind? No out here, at
least no ghosts, no corpse is neither, Louis.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
What look?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Oh the other cab the cab look, Louis.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Mm oh, I didn't like that. Mm Should I take
a look too, you're might as well? Okay, I'll they
whoa wa Wow, it's the frighten cab driver. Mister Temple.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yes, except that nothing will frighten him anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Mister Temple, this is not a healthy neighborhood to throats.
His has been cut too.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, same technique as he has done Gray, Louie, We've
got to get back to the house.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You don't like our throats the way they are. Come along, Louis,
there's no time to go to Glenville. There's lots of
time in which a murderer may kill again. Oh, let's
change a few subjects.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Huh, very well.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I've got three questions, Louis. Why did the cab
driver whose body we've just seen, lie to us? Why
did Carla think she was in danger from us? And
can a bachelor be divorced?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
For the answer for the last one, I know he can't.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Right, Therefore, we know who the murderer is, don't we.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Say?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
The dog? We know about him too, don't.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Don't we know about him?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You remember I mentioned the long brown hairs clinging to
Gray's clothes. Yeah, those hairs must have come from the dog.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We saw. The dog therefore belong to Grey.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
All that, mister Temple down the hall and then I'll
call Yeah, if I move quickly, let's get all of me.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Well, Carla going to run away?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
No, but I won't let go with the guy.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yes you will. It's much too heavy for you. Just
come along with us, all right.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You don't try anything I won'd.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Except for catching a killer.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
A killer.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But hmm, we want the dining room.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Well, everybody by saw so nearly everyone, mister Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh, I'm glad you've got Carla's got mister Templer.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
She might not miss me again.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
We don't know that it was she who shot at you,
do we, Carla? It would be easy to discover if
this gun has been fired recently.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, maybe I did shoot at him, but I there's.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Something else that should come first. Charles Gray was murdered
in this house earlier tonight. Why both you, mister Hawthorne,
and Carla covered a fortune. That's why you're both here, ye,
mister temple Lewis. All mister Hawthorne had to do was
spend the night you're inappropriate costume and also refrained from appearing.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
In a divorce case. A bachelor can appear in the
divorce case, can't he?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Mister Hawthorne, Mm, you found the papers for the horse
she was on Gray Ami MEA's correspondent there.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
He was always so touchy about his wife.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I didn't find them.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Doesn't matter, however, I knew they or something like them.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Had to exist.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
On the other hand, if Horton, the ghost butler we
found serving dinner earlier this evening.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Is really insane.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You're trying to pin the murder on him.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
He left the house in time to have committed it. Uh,
there's usually a murder of you know, mister.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Harthorne, which murder are you talking about? I?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Uh, Gray's murder?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Nactually no, because Harton wouldn't have had to leave the
house to kill him.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Gray was murdered in this room.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But you accepted my statement about having to leave the
house to murder. We're both talking about the cab driver's murder,
aren't we? What cab driver the one who brought Gray here,
the one who saw Gray murder, the one who fled
and then fought things over and decided to return for
a little exercise in blackmail.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Mister Compley, you said he lied to us, But what
about you?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Remember, Louis?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He told us he looked into the dining room through
the front window and had seen the ghosts of dinner.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Do you also remember, however, that when we got to
the house, Yeah, we looked in the front window too, Yeah,
and all we could see through it was the chandaliers
in the ceiling. I said so myself, uh huh, the
cabby light and died for it. Look, I haven't been
outside the house all evening.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It must have been you cleaned.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You were in the cellar when we first met, and
that's why you didn't hear Carla scream.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
But the cellar stairway is narrow.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
It's impossible to avoid getting plaster on your shoulders, plaster
that can't be rubbed off. And yet when we first met,
I remarked that your clothes were spotless.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He should have been wet.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Nonsense.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You'd had time to change from your ordinary clothes. You
didn't think of rubbing plaster on the costume.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
However, too bad.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You might then have applied to the scarlet of murder
a coat of whitewash.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I was hiding in the cellar because James had threatened me.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You see, I knew mister Gray was going to sue
his wife for a divorce and named James.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Mm and if he did, you would inherit all the
Hawthorne money. Yes, I was terrified that he would kill me.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I see. Tell me about Horty maccarlo.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Poor Horton has been hired every year for the occasion.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
He's very, very old. Now tell me about you, Simon.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, I'm comp I don't mean to interrupt you and
miss Carla, but it's Lewie. Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
You don't have the ghost of a chance.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey, mister templar, Yes, louis starting to rain, so it is.
You couldn't get a dinner back in town, out of tree,
all the way out here in the country to eat.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Louis, I was invited to a dinner party, and Long
Island is hardly the country.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's full of trees, ain't it true?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
This does happen to be a rather lonely spot.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But Ryan is getting heavier too. I should have stared
in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm sorry, Louis.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
What is a cabba from Brooklyn doing out here in
the middle of nature?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And he seems to be driving a cab by a Louis. Yeah,
is it possible that the roof of your cab leaks?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's possible it's leaking on you, on me.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well after almost the temple.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
According to the Chemistry, books were composed of ninety eight
percent water.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Anyways, perhaps I find the percentage high enough without any additions.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
However, there's no extra charge. We've got a mister Temple,
the mota.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Ah, it stopped so I noticed discouragement.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, it's possible to hold leaks too.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Don't blame the motor, after all, it didn't composed ninety
eight percent water.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You shortly will be while we sit here calmly contract pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Who's calm book?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Mister Temple?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You know something?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
This could be the beginning of like a real horror story.
It's to night time where two guys stuck out.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Here in the wilderness Long Island.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The rain is raining, the thunder is thundering, and I'm scared.
You know what ought to happen next? If this was
a horror story, that's what ought to happen next.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It m sound came from the left through those trees.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, oh here see lights.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It must be a house. Doesn't seem very far away.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But that's where the dog yelled from.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Huh yes, except the judging from the sound, the dog
was outside.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's strange.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Why would a dog be out in this downpour?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Maybe he read a book on chemistry, or maybe he's
just leading the dog's life.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That was a joke, I think, and I may laugh later.
At this moment, there's someone running down the.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Road from the direction of the house book. He's heading
for us. I hope you don't mind, but can you
give me lift back to Glenville.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh, we'd be glad to accept that we're stuck here ourselves. However,
you can join us inside it's slightly less.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Damn thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I won't stay long. I don't care for a neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
How did you get here? I'm a camp driver. Well,
or where's your cab? Back there? That house?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, the Hawthorned place? Well why didn't you take your
cab when you left?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Because I was in a hurry because there was things
closer to the camp than I was.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What kind of things?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Listen, young man, nobody lives in the Hawthorn House. Nobody's
lived there for over a hundred years. So tonight, back
in town, I picked up a fair And where does
he want to go? The Hawthorn House. I'm an old fool,
so I take him there. He gets out of the house,
tells me to wait, goes inside. I walk around to
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stretch my legs. Then I noticed the house is all
lit up. I think that's mighty queer. But I figure
maybe somebody knew who bought the place, or perhaps someone dead,
Because I go round to the side and I look
into the house through the big front window, and I
see who's in the house.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It ain't anybody knew who was it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was the folks who used to live in that
house a hundred years ago. And what was worse, they
were sitting around at.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Table eating dinner.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I see you say they were the people who lived
there a hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
How could you know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That because of the way they was dressed, because of
the way they looked. Mister, I've lived in Glenville all
my life, and there's pictures of the Hawthorns going way
back in the Glenville town Hall.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Perhaps the people you saw were descendants of the original Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Sure, sure, except nobody dresses that way anymore, except that
one of them was bleeding on to the tablecloth with
his throat cut open, and another was putting food into
his mouth, only he didn't have a face around that mouth.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Look, you're a positive you didn't imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
All right? I imagine that I'm crazy. Think whatever you like,
But me.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I'm getting out of here, So.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Let's let's get out of here too, Louis.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh, let's swell with me. Are we gonna walk to Glendil.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No, I'd like to take a look at that house.
Why oh, we may still be in time for dinner, but.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Mister Templar, I ain't hungry, And.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Besides, that guy might still maybe be bleeding.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I doubt it you do.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Huh? Why you're forgetting we're ninety eight percent water.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That answer is supposed to cheer me up.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
The dog I'm worrying about, Louis.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Why well, out here a dog would be kept for
companionship protection.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Therefore, why was that dog put out in the rain?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I just as soon forget the dog. Oh, somebody is
busy not paying attention to me.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's out, Huh.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Obviously colonial architecture large rather pretty, huh, brilliantly left with
colonial electricity candles, Louis, You can see them through that
large window, chandeliers ablaze with candle.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You can't see anything else except the ceiling. But that
must be the dining room.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, probably, mister Temple.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
There's all this real.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It seems to be hey, bell, pull on the door.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
A dog don't like a.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ringing the bell. Look, mister Temple, look an elephant with teeth.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's a large dog. It's drench.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Look up for your hand because he's his swallow with it.
Look you know he's heading for me, mister Temple. The
dog has to come all the way out here to
feed a dog. Telly, Louise, he likes you. He's looking
up at yeah, trying to decide which part to start on. Lloy.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
There's positively a light in his eyes.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Or do you know you may be his ideal Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Sure, his ideal dog food get found, mister Temple.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Believe us Go inside.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Hey, no one answered the bell. I wonder when it's open.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He look touch he's leaving.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
It's strange, sounds terrified, But.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Of what I didn't say a thing.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Huh. Hallway seems empty, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Going mm ooh kind of quiet. Yeah, not even a
chain clanking, not even a creaking.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And louis there what there is a door down the hallway.
It's uh, probably the dining room, and I ain't hungry.
The house is old, dusty, unused, but.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
There is a light.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Maybe they forgot to turn the gas off when they
all died or something.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Uh huh, it's the dining room.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
I would around up and buy some oil for the door.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
A large table in the city, chairs all around, white
linen and polly.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Silver around the table, plus dishes with food.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, and food that's warm.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Louis, Oh, mister template, I don't like this. A house
in which nobody's lived for a hundred years, miles from
many ways, all lit up with candles in.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
A table with fresh cooked food on it, and there's.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No one, no one at all at the table.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Unless uh nless we can't see them.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Louis, Yep, found a lot of cobwebs, mister temple, in
a lot of empty rooms, but nothing a.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Living Now, may as well head back to the dining room.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Don't let your appetite tempt You're probably might now all
the food is vanished.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Hey is isn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That sounds yeah like dishes rattling? Yeah, come on, Maybe
maybe the guests all all come back.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
They weren't in the house. It would mean they'd all
have to rush out into the rain.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But why they were thirsty? Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What they do. As a giant that's we can look
in without being seen.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, I don't believe it. A butler, an old guy
dressed in closet belonging to music.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
See him.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Look at he's got knee pants on with lace cuffs.
And at that table where there's no one seated, he's
serving dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Maybe maybe maybe he's just practicing for what I heard
of ghost writers.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Maybe he's a ghost.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
But suppose we go in and find out. Uh h yeah,
uh it good evening.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Be still, if you please be still. He was afraid
we might disturb the guests.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He's gathering some of the dishes. Granted, the swinging doorn
probably leads to the pantry.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Look, he's waving on us and we wave back.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now he wants us to join him.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Come on, Uh huh serving pantry?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I uh beg your pardon.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Indeed you should, but uh you are hot hortens the name,
of course. But the footman must have told you that
the footman kill it. He let you in, didn't He
shouldn't have directed you to the dining room, of course,
but then he's getting a you'd better go to your
quarters at once. They are behind the main staircase. Glad
you came along.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
We need you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Kileb isn't the man he used to be. But then
he's been with the Hawthorns for so many years.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I remember when he entered service, you do it was
the year Old Boney got his.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Toes toasted at Moscow. Old Boney can't stand around gossiping
all evening guests might notice. Get your quarters, man, I've
worked to do. Hey, look you ducked out.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah the door is locked, probably a spring latch, which
means we may as well go back to that any room.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Look, you know something's wrong with this whole thing. Mister Temple,
who is old Boney?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
H Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That happens to be the nickname the English head for
Napoleon Louis.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh fine, so Howton says he remembers the year Old
Bonney got his toes.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Toasted at Moscow.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Look, my brother in law, Joey, you know, happens to
be a very educated man. College man, no, no, graduate
from United States Army. He's now a mechanical type engineer. Look, anyway,
once he told me Napoleon was in Moscow in eighteen
hundred and twelve. Your brother in law was great, But
mister Temple, that would make this guy hot over a
hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Mmm, I'm afraid it would.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
A guy over one hundred and fifty years old is dead.
So what's Houghton doing walking around? Huh?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
But he may have been too busy to lie down
and die.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
That does not put a twinkle in my eye. Look,
mister Temple, I want to go home.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Knew he is a pleat in here of some kind
a pattern for her, and if that pattern is to
mean anything, I hey, lois h that closet there?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yeah it's a closet. Yeah, yeah, I suppose we open it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Look.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I don't like to mention this, but in all old families,
you know what they keep in closets, they keep skeleton
in closet.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Templar hurt? He he it fell down?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, no skeleton.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
However, that I can see for myself. Fortunate thing, I know? Who? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
What's fortunate about it?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
With a skeleton, we could never tell whether or not
its throat had been cut?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
His throat has been cut?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, verily, let's go take a trip someplace.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Let's wait. Well, haven't you realized something yet?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I don't think I wanna This man here is dressed
just as we are, not in the costume of a
dead age. Well, it didn't help him many the oh
you found.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Some yeah, long brown hair is clinging to his clothes
and uh huh, various papers mm.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
In life Lewis, his name was Charles Gray.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
He was a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh, the bar Association are.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Like, this is something else.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, he was carrying this document, Louis.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now what is it?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
A copy of the.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Last will of one Samuel Hawthorne. Although him we didn't
meet yet.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Now, lots of.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Closets we haven't opened yet either.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know we're not going through if I can help it. Well,
what does the will say?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
And you better read fast because all them candles, you know,
are begin to give up.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
H I, Samuel Hawthorne, being sound of mind and body,
do hereby make this my last will and testament.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It is my desire that all my heirs, in time
to come, in order to inherit my vast fortunes, must
at least once a year, open Hawthorne House, and there
give a ceremonial dinner to the neighboring gentry.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
In custom yeah uh uh.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
At this dinner everyone present must wear clothing of my tower.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh yeah, my heirs must be of high moral repute
and of all divorces.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Huh. Obviously the dead man here.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Mister Charles Gray was the lawyer in charge of the
estate and presumably came here to make sure the terms
of the will were met.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Okay, so now we know the ghosts weren't really ghosts.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, but what we haven't seen any of 'em.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
It's true, nor any neighboring gentry.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
However, that stipulation was probably way Yell, mister Temple, you
know we we better maybe get the police. Yeah, there
are any foods around here, Loom, couldn't we walk to Glenville?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No, Leary, I think we're here for the night.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh fine, fine, if it's right in with that pattern
for Hower you mentioned. Oh all I personally need right
now is for someone to scream, good and loud and
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mister Temple, this makes the second time we've searched the
house and found nothing.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
It was a woman screaming loop.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Maybe it was a ghost.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Ghost aren't supposed to scream, they clank change.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, maybe this year ghost didn't know that. Go back
to the dining hre.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I suppose let me remember the house with lights. There's
that good.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Maybe the corpse took a walker. Sh No, still here.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, I'm still dead.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Ah, hollas have a fun dressed up like Napoleon. Do
Look you ain't walking very straight.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I had.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's the same, inquisitive but uh, oh, mister Gray just
touched in a bad way, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's not especially normal. I'm Simon Temper and you.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
James Hawthorne's uh besides house breaking, your occupation is what?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Ay o? The shame, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yes? I am. Oh, I just.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Sitting at alloarynxes rather than not occupations for the same.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
But it would be if I had cut mister Grey's throat.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
However, you're uh Samuel Hawthorne's air, Yeah, the currant one.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes, uh, you've been snooping. But there was a clause
in the will about the all.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Been overduring that snoop. You're married, mister Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Sorry, would have helped supply a motive, I suppose, but
I'm not not. Have I ever been fortunate or unfortunate
enough to be married?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
A woman screamed a few moments ago. Who was she? Other?
Th't her? But you couldn't have failed to if you
were in the house. But I was, But you must
have been.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
It's been raining out your clothes are dry and spotless. Well,
to be honest, I wasn't in the house, and yet
I was. You search the house, I presume. Yeah, see
you overlook the cellar.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I didn't find one. It's a tricky place to get to.
The entrance is behind the chimney in the parlor. Has
something to do with colonial or politics perhaps at any rate,
I was down there.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You're fond of sellers.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, what I requit was bottles and bottles, A bottles.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Of nepole and brandere yes. Uh, now, if you don't
mind out, sit down.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I have another few hours to remain in costume in
here in order to comply with the terms of the will.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I'm sleep.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I show uh for.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
H that's for life.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It's more probably branded. So what do we do?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Sit here? Listen to his slow when the podium keeps
cropping up all the time. M Louie, M suppose we
go downstairs and have a look at these bottles.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Mm oh ooh, some staircase down to the cellar.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Here.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It's very narrow. My shoulders keep rubbing against the wall, and.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
A dirty wall too.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Hey, look the cellar's all lit up.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Huh, Candles on barrels they lots of barrels, not to
mention kegs and casks, and every.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Hands up casks and blondes, and it hands.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Up with forty two caliber revolvers.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Forty two.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You didn't expect me to be arm did you.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I'm afraid we didn't expect you at all, Miss Watual.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You would say that, but this isn't going to work
out the.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Way you are.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I'm afraid I haven't had any thought to reason.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
But books the temple, she's running up the stairs.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yes, hey, she bolted the door behind her.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Oh, mister temple.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
That was a very solid type of door lead into
the cellar, and the cellar is about six miles underneath
the ground.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And we're locked in.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh no worry, Louis will be released in time, in
time for what a funeral.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
That girl was beautiful living.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
She's on the other side of a locked door. So
what good is it do you?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Huh? I can worry.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh, this is an occupation for a grown man.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Worry about what the part she's playing in this entire
mask the temple.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah, those were shots today, I answer your question hardly.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
We don't know who shot at home. Yeah, so she
had still locked Yeah, still locked. Now, don't bother, Louis
I wanna answer, may as well go down again and
make ourselves comfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, for how long twenty years? I'd O't be silly, Louis,
you've got an optimistic thought.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
We'd never last twenty years down here.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You know something, mister templar m I'm beginning to feel
aged in the water, and you.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Better restrain yourself. Hm.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
We've only been down here half an hour. Perhaps hey, hey,
the Marines have landed.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yet another bottle of Oh, mister Temple trimpling her, but
not exactly, very naughty of you. Don't mind admitting that's
why I'm here myself need another bottle of brandy. Don't
know what happened to I.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Want to upstairs. It's all empty.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Must have operated. Oh perhaps those shots frightened it out
of the bottle.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh, your head's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Hey, I had my sul Matter of fact, I'm firing
no confidence when I tell you those shots were fired
A mate, whoever shot at you couldn't have had very
good aim.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Fortunately for me.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No car, dear cousin Caler happens to be, and I
put myself to be Foger loudly marsh Should I say
marsh woman color being blonde and beauty? Oh you marry
She's next in line for Samuel Hawthorne's pretty little watching
in it. If I should happen to be disqualified, I'm dead.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Can you have your bottles? Close? We go upstairs, HM,
and I get let history.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
But let's take casey bless the war was resolved from
one's shoulders.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
H can rub it off?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Uh? Back in the party, very tempor even a reputation
for these things? Who cut mister Greys a murderer or
very purtuous?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
But uh but why who.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Is mister Grey's task to see to it that the
provisions of the will would observed?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
His death?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Therefore must have had something to do with that.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You're a bachelor in deed, I am? Was he no
a pretty little wife? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Or should be decis As a matter of fact, really
thinking about her grief makes me deser m therefore touching
this bottle, and I hope you'll won't think you are
too terribly selfish. I shall tiddle off to Betty by
a dust see that perhaps, But it's almost morning. Uh, hey,
good lots, uh oh here, I am very glad to
(21:05):
see go. But how about us now we go for
the police, Louis, If you're a cable's dying, however, Carl, oh,
let's not look for her, or mister Temple. A girl
with all those calibers don't appeal to me.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh, you're being narrow minded, Louis.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
After all those shots, how many calibers can she have?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
The last.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Sweat out?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
It's cold?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It's not But do I mind? No out here, at
least no ghosts, no corpse is neither, Louis.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
What look?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Oh the other cab the cab look, Louis.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Mm oh, I didn't like that. Mm Should I take
a look too, you're might as well? Okay, I'll they
whoa wa Wow, it's the frighten cab driver. Mister Temple.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yes, except that nothing will frighten him anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Mister Temple, this is not a healthy neighborhood to throats.
His has been cut too.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, same technique as he has done Gray, Louie, We've
got to get back to the house.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You don't like our throats the way they are. Come along, Louis,
there's no time to go to Glenville. There's lots of
time in which a murderer may kill again. Oh, let's
change a few subjects.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Huh, very well.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I've got three questions, Louis. Why did the cab
driver whose body we've just seen, lie to us? Why
did Carla think she was in danger from us? And
can a bachelor be divorced?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
For the answer for the last one, I know he can't.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Right, Therefore, we know who the murderer is, don't we.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Say?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
The dog? We know about him too, don't.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Don't we know about him?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You remember I mentioned the long brown hairs clinging to
Gray's clothes. Yeah, those hairs must have come from the dog.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We saw. The dog therefore belong to Grey.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
All that, mister Temple down the hall and then I'll
call Yeah, if I move quickly, let's get all of me.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Well, Carla going to run away?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
No, but I won't let go with the guy.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yes you will. It's much too heavy for you. Just
come along with us, all right.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You don't try anything I won'd.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Except for catching a killer.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
A killer.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But hmm, we want the dining room.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Well, everybody by saw so nearly everyone, mister Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh, I'm glad you've got Carla's got mister Templer.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
She might not miss me again.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
We don't know that it was she who shot at you,
do we, Carla? It would be easy to discover if
this gun has been fired recently.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, maybe I did shoot at him, but I there's.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Something else that should come first. Charles Gray was murdered
in this house earlier tonight. Why both you, mister Hawthorne,
and Carla covered a fortune. That's why you're both here, ye,
mister temple Lewis. All mister Hawthorne had to do was
spend the night you're inappropriate costume and also refrained from appearing.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
In a divorce case. A bachelor can appear in the
divorce case, can't he?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Mister Hawthorne, Mm, you found the papers for the horse
she was on Gray Ami MEA's correspondent there.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
He was always so touchy about his wife.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I didn't find them.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Doesn't matter, however, I knew they or something like them.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Had to exist.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
On the other hand, if Horton, the ghost butler we
found serving dinner earlier this evening.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Is really insane.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You're trying to pin the murder on him.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
He left the house in time to have committed it. Uh,
there's usually a murder of you know, mister.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Harthorne, which murder are you talking about? I?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Uh, Gray's murder?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Nactually no, because Harton wouldn't have had to leave the
house to kill him.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Gray was murdered in this room.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But you accepted my statement about having to leave the
house to murder. We're both talking about the cab driver's murder,
aren't we? What cab driver the one who brought Gray here,
the one who saw Gray murder, the one who fled
and then fought things over and decided to return for
a little exercise in blackmail.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Mister Compley, you said he lied to us, But what
about you?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Remember, Louis?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He told us he looked into the dining room through
the front window and had seen the ghosts of dinner.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Do you also remember, however, that when we got to
the house, Yeah, we looked in the front window too, Yeah,
and all we could see through it was the chandaliers
in the ceiling. I said so myself, uh huh, the
cabby light and died for it. Look, I haven't been
outside the house all evening.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It must have been you cleaned.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You were in the cellar when we first met, and
that's why you didn't hear Carla scream.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
But the cellar stairway is narrow.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
It's impossible to avoid getting plaster on your shoulders, plaster
that can't be rubbed off. And yet when we first met,
I remarked that your clothes were spotless.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He should have been wet.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Nonsense.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You'd had time to change from your ordinary clothes. You
didn't think of rubbing plaster on the costume.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
However, too bad.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You might then have applied to the scarlet of murder
a coat of whitewash.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I was hiding in the cellar because James had threatened me.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You see, I knew mister Gray was going to sue
his wife for a divorce and named James.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Mm and if he did, you would inherit all the
Hawthorne money. Yes, I was terrified that he would kill me.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I see. Tell me about Horty maccarlo.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Poor Horton has been hired every year for the occasion.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
He's very, very old. Now tell me about you, Simon.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, I'm comp I don't mean to interrupt you and
miss Carla, but it's Lewie. Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
You don't have the ghost of a chance.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of the Saint,
the robin Hood of Modern Crime.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Now here's our star, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This is Vincent Christ inviting you to join us again
next week at the same time for another exciting adventure
of the Saint.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Good Night.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
This script of The Saint was written by Lewis Vitti's
in the cast You've heard Adrian Martin as Carla and
Edmund MacDonald as James. Tudor Owen was the butler Fred Shields.
The cab driver Louis is played by Larry Doctor. The Saint,
based on characters created by Leslie Chatteris, is a James L.
Safier production that is directed by Helen mac Vincent Price
is soon to be seen co starring in r K
O's production of his Kind of Woman.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You're an Answer, Don Stanley.
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