May 12, 2025 • 43 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Charity Is Never Dead
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Welcome to mystery and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Tragedy and the one redeeming feature of disaster. It seems
to bring out the vets in the survivors. It all began,
or did it end, with the reunion of an old
lady and the last of a relative, a granddaughter she
hadn't seen since childhood. Of place, Stratfield's busiest department store
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may varies the time thirteen minutes after one o'clock. If
you're superstitious, you could read that in army or you're
ping time thirteen thirty by coincidence, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
When it happened.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Please get me, my eyes burning, I can see.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Help me, I said, you get yes, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Come on, sleep us get out of here before the
rest of the ling come down. Please and to blast
you are I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I got a pretty good work on the head, but
I guess while making your Please let me help you.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
I'm I say, I can't move, so you.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Just oh, something has happened to my back. It was
so terrible to trying you and lose you again. Don't
call me that. Try not because you can't see me. Boy,
you can't tell who I am. But you know who
you are, don't you. That's the whole problem.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I hit.
Speaker 8 (02:10):
I don't know who for what I am.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Our mystery drama Charity Is Never Dead was written especially
for the Mystery.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Theater by Ian Martin and s guards Virginia Payne and
Rosemary Wright. Within half an hour after the accident at
the department store, Stratford Community Hospital is at temporary shambles.
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A constant arrival of ambulances, the whoop.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Of police sirens, the hysteria.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of the less badly hurt, the moan of the burned,
A hustle and bustle of doctors and nurses competently handling
the emergency are a background to a quick meeting between
doctor Mark Banning, chief of staff, and the hospital chaplain
Dan Waters.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Let me injure doctors enough and too many killed. The
phone service is restored.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
We won't know how many.
Speaker 11 (03:20):
Excuse me, dan nerd backed upwards of one hundred casualties
before all ambulances at a fleming. If we have to
go to staff lounge, the ready room in the Carter's
the jam's already well.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
For now, Yes, well, we won't need you, Dan. Then
I'm afraid of Glinton.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
The minister not only offers solas to the dying, but
prayer and comfort to the living.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
Of course, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
I didn't mean full Thank Heaven communication again.
Speaker 11 (03:47):
You want to get it, Dan, carrying in someone and
looks like emergency.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I go, damn.
Speaker 12 (03:53):
I'm glad to see you don't worry about me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But you were going shopping at Maybury's this morning.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I couldn't find the rights in there for mother's birthday,
so luckily I was a few stores away when.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
The explosion went off.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I know what caused, and you boiler improper installation, pressure
backs up somehow in blue Maybury's ground floor.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Thank Heaven you were there.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Thank Heaven. I was near enough to be of help,
but I appreciate your consume life.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
More patient. But we got there.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Mister Chandler. Flash burn both eyes, I don't know how serious.
Also she was hit by a heavy beam falling.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Back broken possibly, but it's more complicated than that, possible
renal failure.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I'm sure both give me the crush. Sure I got
to go fine, my grand That's how I have flee teeth.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
We'll find there I talked to you, rest.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Who is that?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Who are you? Are you rest analytic?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
See?
Speaker 10 (05:02):
I need charge.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You don't need me in here any longer. Mark, I'm
going to run a check on conditions in general. Oh
can I help you?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I I don't know who are you looking for?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I don't really know somebody? Anybody? No, somebody? How did
you get up on this floor? Are here? Oh? The
stairs I was looking for. I thought I might find
somebody who belonged to them. Were you in the explosion
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of the store? Was I try to remember? Did the
police bring you here to the hospital?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, the ambulance with the old lady and I came
in this we hurt.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh, I'll just my head upon. Let me see. Did
anyone examine well and enter and looked at me and
asked you?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The way? It?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Only only I couldn't get see why not?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Because I had to find somebody. I didn't remember who? Well?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
What to begin its?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Except with?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
What is There's a piece of paper like for the
phone tad with a number three pays?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Oh what do you think it means? Huh?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
A room?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Maybe there's no such room number in this hospital? Oh?
I thought maybe it might might be the old ladies.
What old lady? Well, because someone I met after it before,
I don't know what was the old lady's name. I
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don't know what is my name. But that's the whole trouble,
don't you see?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I don't know that either. When you were examined, didn't
they ask your name?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
And I didn't have a name to kiss them?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I thought if I just sat still for a while,
the shot was well off the man. Don't worry, it
will all come back. I'm not the logan, and I've
seeing you a little later.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You have amnesia. You'll have to have a fellow examination
to make sure there's no concussion. But I really thought
I was all right.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
All right, you'll find out why our agent patient Mark
not too good?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Have the situation outside the bad?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Everything under control?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Mar Lar?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Who the rough days for all?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Missus Chandler. Here it's an unlucky room about patient the
other bedding?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Are you gonna lose? Missus Chamber?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, we're gonna be you and some other tests. I
don't think he's operable. I've run a heavy sedation. Now
how she can last? Wooden? Two days? Sweet old girl's pitty?
How was your life?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
M How rumble until I can get you to think
at least.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The same with me. A betty no.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Old girl. You can drop the ol.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Come on, man, are you know my philosophy? Doctors don't
I said, I'm good, lady, doctors. We're exposed to enough communical.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Diseases as it is.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
It isn't my degree you're afraid of, doctor, It.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Might once bitting.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
She's also now successfully divorced, and.
Speaker 10 (08:57):
This is hardly the time forres no problems. I check
on how the rest of it's going.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
When you conside with the patient. I have outside and
amnesia case I found wandering around the.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Hall retro or terror grade retro.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
No memory of anything before.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yet any physical injury.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I haven't had a real chance to examine her. Supposedly
she would checked when she.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Was brought in, and all the commotions can't be sure.
Bring her in here, the examiner here, I'll be able
to manage one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Say, pull this curtain.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
All the examinations and treaking rooms are jammed.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Anyway, I'll go here.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Or see miss Chandler. I know you do, and they're
trying to find her for you.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh you must finally come, after all, I must shr
another lady an older woman. She was badly hurt in
the explosion. I heard her Charity, didn't she yet? Maybe
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you think maybe I'm Charity.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Why would you think that?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
This is doctor Banning. How do you do, doctor? Because
after the explosion, I helped an old lady and she
thought I was her granddaughter. She called me Charity.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Are you I don't know this is the girl with
the amnesia I told you about, Doctor Banning.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Oh is your grandmother's name Chandler?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
By any chance? Does that to ring a bell?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Would you recognize missus Chandler if you saw her?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, I mean the old lady you helped after the exit? Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Oh yes I would know her.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I think I would.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now let's try why he's elucidated now and I don't
want to wake your king. Can you walk all right? Sure?
All right? You can pull back the curtains, back the logo,
of course, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Well, yes, yes, that's the old lady I helped in
the store.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well is she your grandmother? Do you remember?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I can't remember anything before that bomb went off. How
do you take me to remember her?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I've broushed your left leg over your right? Please? Nothing
matter what relace? Look up, police just have to find
out what cause it, and you're the cause?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
But nothing cause? Did nothing really happen?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Look to the right, how about the bump on your head?
But how do you know nothing happened the left? Please?
What do you mean if you don't remember?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
But I do?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Right back to the explosion and after that, well, just
that it was awful. Something knocked me down.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's when you got the bum. I guess what were
you doing in abory store? Right?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I don't remember?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You remember what happened to your pocket book?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I must block her in the store, I suppose, I mean,
I'm not even sure I had one to begin bo.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Yeah, uh no, doctor logan, I see no signs of
neurological damage there. But I want a skull series so
it will keep her. I was stand to know she's stillinder,
just the raink to have our mister guest admitted.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You can keep me in the hospital until you remember.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Or we find out who are Stay right in this room.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
I'll send the nurse in the off with the old
lady dying. You're lucky the bed's available, and when you
get into it, they.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Put the lady h m hm.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
H m is it tender? Are you all life? Che
I want I'll get it? No, No, in your hand,
don't you know? That's all I want?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Is you, dear?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Just hold my hand chair, That's all I need to ask,
sure if.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You want me to.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
I had the most awful dream, Charity. I thought i'd
lost children.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But oh it's all right.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Oh oh why is it so dark? Where are we
in the hot girl? Whe are we doing him? Oh? Oh, oh,
of course that's awful explosion? Are you all run?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Charity me?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
I'm fine, but your eye do all banned? You can't
see me. Maybe I'm not Charity and you'll make a mistake. Oh,
don't be silly, my dear child. Don't you think I
know my own granddaughter?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
In the bed, the old lady, her eyes bandaged, lies
breathing quietly, holding the girl's hand, Debby's face watching her
with a kaleidoscope of emotions hard to read.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Hope, dear, disbelief, or just simple.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Prayer for a way out of a maze of bewonderments.
We certainly won't even begin to know the answer to
any of these questions, at least until I returned shortly
with Act two. By the end of the afternoon. The
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chaos at once was the main floor of Maybury's store
has been partially restored.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
A police and fire.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Departments that made their reports, and an army of workmen
are busy boarding up windows and beginning repairs. The emergency
is over, except for what human misery it has left
in its trail. A Reverend Dan Waters has made a
personal trip to the store, to the police and to
fire headquarters to collate all the information and bring it
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to doctor Mark Banning one hundred and fifty one casualties.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So everyone accounted for, with two exceptions. There's no traits
of missus Chandler's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Granddaughter, and no idea of who the girl with amnesia
is unless she is.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's right. How old was the granddaughter?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
According to neighbors, the police contacted somewhere in her middle twenties.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Any pictures quite a.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Few while taken over ten years ago when Chandler I
hadn't seen her granddaughter since she was in early teens.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Mother married a pretty rough guy name Whip.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I don't know what went on, but the kids spent
quite a bit of time in a wayward girls' school.
She got out her father had taken off and I
get it. The mother was pretty sick, maybe on drugs.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Charity to Carol Well, was missus amnesia a fake? And
then snatched your thof.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Tbs other pretty very complexion white hair, and in these
two colored prints her eyes looked brah, Dan me, why
do you question her identity?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I mean, do you think it's just some wild coincidence.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm not much of a believer and coincidence, as mark,
I'd rather go with you and accept charity at face value.
The Lord takes a lot of plans in one way
or another.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He just may have blueprinted this one. I just don't
understand you, Anne, meaning she's faking.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
But why no pie, no matter what the occasion, meeting
her grandmother after all these years, no recognition.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Most of all, I guess I don't beat the girl
who felt well.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Dan thinks that if I can do it earlier, she's
ready to accept that thing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Chaplain Walter's charity. May I come in?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I could?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, so you're comfortably set well anyway, Doctor Vanning has
told me how kind you've been to your grandmother.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Why not aren't you heard?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I don't know, she says, I am I wish I
could be sure right now, I'm just sorry for her.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How do you feel.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Afraid? Why can't I remember who I am traveling?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Perhaps you don't want to remember?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Are they located grands daughter?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yet everyone apparently accounted for no sign of her? Do
you think if it.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Isn't me, that it might have been someone who died
in explosion?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That's about the way it stacks up. We should know
by morning.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
No, I'll say good nights. I hope you are, Charity.
You could make her last days very happy if you
bring her truth and love.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Good night, Charity? Are you there?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Are we alone?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I thought I heard you talking to one of the doctors.
Just were you talking about me? Sla? Have you talked
to the doctors about me?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Not?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Really about whether I would ever see again? Too soon
that I'm to say, no, Charity, dear. They know just
as I know, I won't ever see again.
Speaker 13 (19:35):
She goes, I won't live long enough. They know that too,
But I'm not afraid of it, not anymore. Charity would
move beside me, safe and so.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Here.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I am.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Promise you'll stay with me. It won't be for too long,
And I promise in return, you'll never be sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The banning is who Captain Wigan?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You shuret's aim in?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh and nurse put a faint doun doctor logan if
you cannot, So that's good to come to my office.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Why dann find the perch?
Speaker 10 (20:25):
What time your mind?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I spent most of the night at Maybury.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I didn't find anything at the fire sale that did
anything for me, but I turned up some evidence, like
this pocket book with a wallet inside it, And inside
the wallet it's a picture.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
That Missus chandlery, this must belong We're gonna daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
There's additional evidence. Do you remember her granddaughter came in.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
By bus yesterday at one roof item one ticket stuff
made out the a charity with her, So miss Amnesia
must have got her packet. Look in the attainment we're
out of the wood shed. Carry that would make it
all so nice and simper marked. But it just doesn't wash.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
A bag with a wallet, and it was clutched in
the hand of a young woman. They just dug out dead. Agree,
I'm afraid Charity Chandler is dead.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Oh what rot luck? I mean, Mark Dan, I just
came down from the room.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Missus Chandler has no more chance of living than she
had machines brought in.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
We have her on hemo dialosi now, but that's only supported.
But in spite of it all, she's so happy to
be reunited with her granddaughter. What it means so much
to her?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
What about the good she calls her grandpa?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Now, are you sure that there is some possibility?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I got a doctor logan the girl and the purse
were one.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
So we still don't know our amnesia victim is. And
worse than that, we have to break the news to
missus Challer that her granddaughter's dead.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What choice do we hear it?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Don't kill that old woman. She is in no condition
to stand a shock like that.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
She's entitled to guy with a little dignity and happiness.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Must she be told there's more.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Than one person involved in this. Our amnesiac has the
right to know who she is not.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Before she can remember who she is, she has to
be told that she is not Cherry.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
What she doesn't necessarily have to tell missus Chandler that, well,
how could we ask the girl to keep that secret?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean, under the circumstance.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Oh, it isn't reasonable. You're right, unless unless what unless
we talk to her?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
You might be able to persuade her to cheap up
the pretend long enough to do a law.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Are very sweet, old wady to die in peace.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
We wanted to sing each other one yes, forgive me
for not coming up to your room.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
No, no, I'll quote.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Dorlo dotlogus, won't you can't.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
I am hope. I won't be away too long. I
don't like losing Grandma alone.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Grandma.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yes, I've made up my mind, or rather she has
for me, that you are charity with them. If I'm not,
then you tell me who else I am. I'm sorry.
I wish I could, but I can't. But you don't
think that I'm charity? Is that what you want to
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see me about? Don tell her what you found out?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The police, the father, a young woman who real charity women,
All the evidence points to it.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Doesn't that make me nobody again? Where is she?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah? Killing the explosion? Not Oh, I.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Didn't need to go to piece and I lied. It
is for the chandler, but it's for me too.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
To see.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
I actually was beginning to think I was.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Not because you wanted so much to be somebody again.
It's so obul that has no roots and no memories
to live in a bathroom.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
How long there's always someone worse off. Think of missus Chandler,
our alone. She'll be when she learns the truth.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We are not going to tell her. What else can
we do? You'll break her, how you'll kill her under.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
The circumstances, we can't ask you to keep on pretending?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Why not? If she still thinks I'm charity? At least
you have a few days of happiness left. Do you
think you could bring it off? Why not?
Speaker 15 (25:27):
I've got it?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Tell far because you thought you might be No, it's.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
A deliberate detection.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
And I'm not sure that doctor Banning would agree to her.
Why wouldn't be For many reasons.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
One is you might remember any moment who you really are,
My dear, you, my dear.
Speaker 16 (25:46):
It's a terrible thing not to have a name to
be called by, and it could be my name. And
if I have another, maybe there's a reason enough that
I want.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
To forget it. Oh, oh, I gotta get some air.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You are right?
Speaker 14 (26:04):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Sure? Have you the clan? Maybe we better get you
back up to bed, doctor Logan. I'm all right, byfically,
the cover with me is in my head? What for me? Yahs, susy.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I've made up my mind, and I don't care what
any of you say for her take for my sake,
from now on, you.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Better just call me Charity.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And again we are left tantalizingly on the horns of
a dilemma. Why is there something about that plane, the job?
The girl's memory? Is her decision to become Charity Whitman
an altruistic one? Or has she some deep her motives
and kindness and compassion?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Who is this girl who doesn't know herself?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Or does she and only wants to hide her real identity.
I'll be back shortly with Act three. It's another day
scrubbed bright with clean sunlight, a day for starting or sailing,
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or climbing a gentle mountain, or just lying lazily.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
In a field and watching the sky. For most people,
that is, for the five people in.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Our story and in Slackfield Community Hospital, gets to be
a very different day.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
A day of sadness, suspicion, and dilemma.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Missus Chandler is mercifully asleep.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Death not very far away now. Charity and the chaplain.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
Are walking in the hospital gardens, and doctors.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Logan and Banning are huddled in a corner of the
cafeteria over morning coffee.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Poor Mark, you look too tired this morning.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm not tired, and I'm worried about what about the
deception and agreed to. Our business is healing, not playing
with human emotions.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Can you make it sound as though I've been partied
to something something cool. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Questioning your motives, just whether any of us have any
right to contributes to deceiving a dying woman just.
Speaker 15 (28:36):
To give her what happiness we can even though she
barely knew her granddaughter it it's obvious she was or
is not the center of her life.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
There is no doubt that then, and she's convinced the
girl is charity whatever that's we have.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Who are we to question that?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Tell what I am people staff with this hospital my
neck out.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
There could be legalities involved. What well, For one thing,
missus Chandler may have a will.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
If the name's charity a beneficiary and the girl died
in the explosion, she might want to change it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
She should have that right.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I never heard of that.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
But wouldn't it just go to the to the next
of Kim.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
According to the record, there is no next of Jenner,
which may be why our so called charity.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Is so willing to decide that's really her name.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
It is possible to fake any you know, and if
there's enough money involved.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Oh, I don't believe that girl could do anything like that.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
She what is it?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
I was just thinking yesterday while Dan and I were
talking to her she would buy the window. And she
stopped suddenly, as.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
If she'd remembered who she really was.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah, I thought she was coming out of it.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
And then then she turned on us and told us
that from now on, as far as she was concerned,
we could take her for charity with them.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Oh, Mark, I want to believe in her. Don't let
this turn out wrong. Good morning's charity you want? Isn't
lovely out here? I hate to leave the sun, but
(30:35):
I should get back and take Grandma's awake. Oh, she
can wait a moment. It's your grandmother. I want to
talk about her. She hasn't own. I checked on her
before I came out. She's resting very peacefully. She has
nothing to worry about for the moment.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But I do you?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Who are you? And this time I want an honest answer,
And this time I'll give you the only answer I
can give you. From now on I am charity with
when you listen to okay, you did that before? Does
it remind you of something? Yeah? Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Remember that crumpled piece of paper you had with the
number three eight Oh could.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
That have been a flight number?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Perhaps like three eighties. Was it a flight you were wrong?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
When you were going to take? Yes? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Oh? But I don't know where you going with someone? Yes?
I I think maybe I was.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But I who.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Who were you going with?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
This?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I don't remember ever?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
So close?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
No, I'm so sorry. That's enough for now. Just one
more question? All right? What's your name? Deb Scott? Oh?
My god? What did I say? I think you just
told me who you really are? Chaplain, chaplain? Excuse me
(32:23):
for first to the micas, but I need to.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
Help and I can offer what who comes back?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I know who I am, doctor Logan, you're Deborah Scott.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You're trying to trace now you didn't listen to me.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
I haven't told doctor Logan everything I wanted to talk
to you for a site. I have some problems.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
As for example, this afternoon at.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Three o'clock, I'm supposed to fly to Mexico City with
the man I love.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Oh That isn't a problem, that's happiness. I'm sure there'll
be no trouble about the hospital releasing you in time
to get your plan.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Then what happened to missus Chandler.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
What you've already done for her has been wonderful. No
one can expect you to give up your personal life
now that you've refounded.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Does your fiancee know you're all right?
Speaker 6 (33:13):
She had no way to know that anything was wrong.
You see, his insurance company transferred him to New York.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I thought you said you were headed for Mexico City.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
We are, But you see, I was his secretary. The
firm closed the local office.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Well, we worked, and Dan Floyd head to New York
and he's probably been trying to get in tact with me,
and I don't.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Know whether he is.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Didn't you call him at the firm, Well, he.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Already left to be expecting me to leave with him
from here on his two week.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Vacation, your honeymoon. Then you have to meet it.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
I don't want to run out on miss Chandler, but
when she depends on me, well.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Maybe if you talk to your young man, he might delay.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The vacation a few days.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Missus Chandler hasn't gotten any longer than that, so I.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Don't know if he would. Since his last vacation for
a long time.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
And he'd probably just go on without me, without the
girl he's gonna marry.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I didn't say we were going to be married.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Oh.
Speaker 16 (34:20):
My only chance really is if I do go with him,
But I know him. If I don't turn up at
that plan, I'll never see him again.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
And I love him not much.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Does he love you? Granted? What you say?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Look, it's in very little love in my life, chaplain.
I was an orphan brought up in foster homes. But
I'm not her charity. I'm Debbie Scott. I know what
I'm trying to do for missus Chandler is right, and
I guess what I'm doing with Vince is wrong. But
(34:54):
I can't be two people, which am I supposed to be?
Loew charity? Yes, Grandma, where have you been? Oh? Well,
they were just giving me a checker. They're going to
(35:15):
send you home. Yes, they need that. I'm all right now.
Oh that's wonderful, dear. I'm so happy for you. No
more clouds or doubts. M No, you know who you
are again?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Oh, well, I'll.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Miss not having you right here in the room with me,
and I'll miss not being here with you, darling.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Yes, come to me, so said, just for a moment. Please,
I'm here. Do one thing for me, and thing you want.
Just give me a long hug.
Speaker 12 (36:04):
And say, Grandma, Grandma, that's all, Just Grandma, that's all
I really wanted.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
To hear, Grandma.
Speaker 12 (36:27):
Oh, my dear little girl, that I know so little about,
all the years of.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Of not knowing you, and such a little time too
to catch up.
Speaker 12 (36:45):
Funny, isn't it two days together in the hospital and
in one way I know everything about you.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
And then another nothing at all. Now tell me, tell
me about yourself. Oh there's nothing really to tell, of
course there is.
Speaker 14 (37:06):
Every young girl has so much to tell, her hopes,
her dreams, what she asks of life. And you remember,
I'll be watching you from somewhere, and just maybe I
I can repay you and make it all come true.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Oh how I wish you could. But then you tell
me not.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
I Let's begin with what every girl wants in her life.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
A man. Isn't there one in yours?
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Like?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
I don't know why I blurted it all.
Speaker 17 (37:46):
Out, because I asked it was important, but he er,
he doesn't love you enough to ask you to be
his wife.
Speaker 12 (37:58):
Oh he died he asked me to be when with that?
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Oh, oh a long time ago. I don't think that
it would. I think it's still going on.
Speaker 12 (38:18):
Why don't you give him another chap Grema, GMA's been
good to hear you call me that.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Now I want The chapter says take.
Speaker 10 (38:32):
With I.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Care what you can.
Speaker 12 (38:36):
I only wish that I could ever thank you enough
for who have everything. My dear God took my eyes away,
but it gave me you instead.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I'll never forget you who died, whoever you are or
will come to be. Now get me the chapin and
(39:11):
your young man decided to wait for him?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Does that need it?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
We'll be married in Mexico. Lucky girl will think? Do
you mind if I wish you the same luck me?
Why should I try to fool another woman? I'm afraid
I won't be.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
So lucky.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
She's gone very quietly and without anything.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Oh silly, I'm just going to think of her that way.
She's the only real relation that you had.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
You may be the closest one she had.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
What do you mean to helpline.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I'll read your letters, she dictated to me before she died.
It's not Jule.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I have never thought much about death, save that when
it came, I would not have to meet it alone.
And I did, thanks to a beloved girl during my
old mare, than I can ever repay. I have nothing
much worth leaving in this world's goods except this ring.
One I was wet with. The Charity's mother was wet
with that. Now I want a gift to the girl
(40:31):
who gave me my last days of peace, who shared
my final hours.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I hope she wears it soon.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Proudly and happily, with my love and her own. He
meant you, daddy, No, she meant her hen daughter. There's
nothing on the paper that says so.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
That's strange. No, the last time I talked to her,
she never once called me charity. She thinks she knew.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
It doesn't matter. This ring was meant for Debbie Scott's.
When you wear it, remember to wear it with charity
in the biblical sense. Good luck, Debbie.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
You have every chance there'll be someone smiling down on
you every step of the way.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
OOO.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Admit the chandler know that Debbie Scott was not her granddaughter.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Did she prefer to play out a last great charade
to make death come soften?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
We'll never know, but that chance perhaps Schoolish, an old
fashioned name given to a girl long ago, proved in
the end to live up with old fashioned meanings.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 9 (42:23):
This is a mystery theater, and after all, what greater.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Mystery in the world is there than love?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
So just as a footnote, not long after Vincent Debbie
married in Mexico City, doctor Mark Banning managed to forget
the first unfortunate marriage and married doctor Anne Logan. And
doctor Logan, since time was running by, decided to have
a child.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Actually they both hope for a boy.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
But if it happens to be a girl, I wonder
if they'll be tempted to call her charity. Our cast
included Virginia Jane, Rosemary Wright, William Prince, Latricia Wheel, and
George Petrie. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Everyone in this town seems to know what's wrong with
my house except Helen and me.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
They know there's something wrong, that's all they know.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
And you know, more beautiful sewing.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Behind those beautiful green eyes lies secrets.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
And your attitude is one reason why I can't tell you.
You wouldn't believe me anyway, Try me all right. The
house you're living in doesn't really belong to you. That
house was stolen from the daughter of Marie LoVa.
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Welcome to mystery and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Tragedy and the one redeeming feature of disaster. It seems
to bring out the vets in the survivors. It all began,
or did it end, with the reunion of an old
lady and the last of a relative, a granddaughter she
hadn't seen since childhood. Of place, Stratfield's busiest department store
(00:50):
may varies the time thirteen minutes after one o'clock. If
you're superstitious, you could read that in army or you're
ping time thirteen thirty by coincidence, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
When it happened.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Please get me, my eyes burning, I can see.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Help me, I said, you get yes, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Come on, sleep us get out of here before the
rest of the ling come down. Please and to blast
you are I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I got a pretty good work on the head, but
I guess while making your Please let me help you.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
I'm I say, I can't move, so you.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Just oh, something has happened to my back. It was
so terrible to trying you and lose you again. Don't
call me that. Try not because you can't see me. Boy,
you can't tell who I am. But you know who
you are, don't you. That's the whole problem.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I hit.
Speaker 8 (02:10):
I don't know who for what I am.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Our mystery drama Charity Is Never Dead was written especially
for the Mystery.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Theater by Ian Martin and s guards Virginia Payne and
Rosemary Wright. Within half an hour after the accident at
the department store, Stratford Community Hospital is at temporary shambles.
(02:51):
A constant arrival of ambulances, the whoop.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Of police sirens, the hysteria.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of the less badly hurt, the moan of the burned,
A hustle and bustle of doctors and nurses competently handling
the emergency are a background to a quick meeting between
doctor Mark Banning, chief of staff, and the hospital chaplain
Dan Waters.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Let me injure doctors enough and too many killed. The
phone service is restored.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
We won't know how many.
Speaker 11 (03:20):
Excuse me, dan nerd backed upwards of one hundred casualties
before all ambulances at a fleming. If we have to
go to staff lounge, the ready room in the Carter's
the jam's already well.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
For now, Yes, well, we won't need you, Dan. Then
I'm afraid of Glinton.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
The minister not only offers solas to the dying, but
prayer and comfort to the living.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
Of course, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
I didn't mean full Thank Heaven communication again.
Speaker 11 (03:47):
You want to get it, Dan, carrying in someone and
looks like emergency.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I go, damn.
Speaker 12 (03:53):
I'm glad to see you don't worry about me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But you were going shopping at Maybury's this morning.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I couldn't find the rights in there for mother's birthday,
so luckily I was a few stores away when.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
The explosion went off.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I know what caused, and you boiler improper installation, pressure
backs up somehow in blue Maybury's ground floor.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Thank Heaven you were there.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Thank Heaven. I was near enough to be of help,
but I appreciate your consume life.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
More patient. But we got there.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Mister Chandler. Flash burn both eyes, I don't know how serious.
Also she was hit by a heavy beam falling.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Back broken possibly, but it's more complicated than that, possible
renal failure.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I'm sure both give me the crush. Sure I got
to go fine, my grand That's how I have flee teeth.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
We'll find there I talked to you, rest.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Who is that?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Who are you? Are you rest analytic?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
See?
Speaker 10 (05:02):
I need charge.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You don't need me in here any longer. Mark, I'm
going to run a check on conditions in general. Oh
can I help you?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I I don't know who are you looking for?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I don't really know somebody? Anybody? No, somebody? How did
you get up on this floor? Are here? Oh? The
stairs I was looking for. I thought I might find
somebody who belonged to them. Were you in the explosion
(05:47):
of the store? Was I try to remember? Did the
police bring you here to the hospital?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, the ambulance with the old lady and I came
in this we hurt.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh, I'll just my head upon. Let me see. Did
anyone examine well and enter and looked at me and
asked you?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The way? It?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Only only I couldn't get see why not?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Because I had to find somebody. I didn't remember who? Well?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
What to begin its?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Except with?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
What is There's a piece of paper like for the
phone tad with a number three pays?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Oh what do you think it means? Huh?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
A room?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Maybe there's no such room number in this hospital? Oh?
I thought maybe it might might be the old ladies.
What old lady? Well, because someone I met after it before,
I don't know what was the old lady's name. I
(06:57):
don't know what is my name. But that's the whole trouble,
don't you see?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I don't know that either. When you were examined, didn't
they ask your name?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
And I didn't have a name to kiss them?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I thought if I just sat still for a while,
the shot was well off the man. Don't worry, it
will all come back. I'm not the logan, and I've
seeing you a little later.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You have amnesia. You'll have to have a fellow examination
to make sure there's no concussion. But I really thought
I was all right.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
All right, you'll find out why our agent patient Mark
not too good?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Have the situation outside the bad?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Everything under control?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Mar Lar?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Who the rough days for all?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Missus Chandler. Here it's an unlucky room about patient the
other bedding?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Are you gonna lose? Missus Chamber?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, we're gonna be you and some other tests. I
don't think he's operable. I've run a heavy sedation. Now
how she can last? Wooden? Two days? Sweet old girl's pitty?
How was your life?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
M How rumble until I can get you to think
at least.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The same with me. A betty no.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Old girl. You can drop the ol.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Come on, man, are you know my philosophy? Doctors don't
I said, I'm good, lady, doctors. We're exposed to enough communical.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Diseases as it is.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
It isn't my degree you're afraid of, doctor, It.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Might once bitting.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
She's also now successfully divorced, and.
Speaker 10 (08:57):
This is hardly the time forres no problems. I check
on how the rest of it's going.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
When you conside with the patient. I have outside and
amnesia case I found wandering around the.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Hall retro or terror grade retro.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
No memory of anything before.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yet any physical injury.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I haven't had a real chance to examine her. Supposedly
she would checked when she.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Was brought in, and all the commotions can't be sure.
Bring her in here, the examiner here, I'll be able
to manage one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Say, pull this curtain.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
All the examinations and treaking rooms are jammed.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Anyway, I'll go here.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Or see miss Chandler. I know you do, and they're
trying to find her for you.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh you must finally come, after all, I must shr
another lady an older woman. She was badly hurt in
the explosion. I heard her Charity, didn't she yet? Maybe
(10:14):
you think maybe I'm Charity.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Why would you think that?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
This is doctor Banning. How do you do, doctor? Because
after the explosion, I helped an old lady and she
thought I was her granddaughter. She called me Charity.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Are you I don't know this is the girl with
the amnesia I told you about, Doctor Banning.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Oh is your grandmother's name Chandler?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
By any chance? Does that to ring a bell?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Would you recognize missus Chandler if you saw her?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, I mean the old lady you helped after the exit? Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Oh yes I would know her.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I think I would.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now let's try why he's elucidated now and I don't
want to wake your king. Can you walk all right? Sure?
All right? You can pull back the curtains, back the logo,
of course, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Well, yes, yes, that's the old lady I helped in
the store.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well is she your grandmother? Do you remember?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I can't remember anything before that bomb went off. How
do you take me to remember her?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I've broushed your left leg over your right? Please? Nothing
matter what relace? Look up, police just have to find
out what cause it, and you're the cause?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
But nothing cause? Did nothing really happen?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Look to the right, how about the bump on your head?
But how do you know nothing happened the left? Please?
What do you mean if you don't remember?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
But I do?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Right back to the explosion and after that, well, just
that it was awful. Something knocked me down.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's when you got the bum. I guess what were
you doing in abory store? Right?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I don't remember?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You remember what happened to your pocket book?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I must block her in the store, I suppose, I mean,
I'm not even sure I had one to begin bo.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Yeah, uh no, doctor logan, I see no signs of
neurological damage there. But I want a skull series so
it will keep her. I was stand to know she's stillinder,
just the raink to have our mister guest admitted.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You can keep me in the hospital until you remember.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Or we find out who are Stay right in this room.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
I'll send the nurse in the off with the old
lady dying. You're lucky the bed's available, and when you
get into it, they.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Put the lady h m hm.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
H m is it tender? Are you all life? Che
I want I'll get it? No, No, in your hand,
don't you know? That's all I want?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Is you, dear?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Just hold my hand chair, That's all I need to ask,
sure if.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You want me to.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
I had the most awful dream, Charity. I thought i'd
lost children.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But oh it's all right.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Oh oh why is it so dark? Where are we
in the hot girl? Whe are we doing him? Oh? Oh, oh,
of course that's awful explosion? Are you all run?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Charity me?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
I'm fine, but your eye do all banned? You can't
see me. Maybe I'm not Charity and you'll make a mistake. Oh,
don't be silly, my dear child. Don't you think I
know my own granddaughter?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
In the bed, the old lady, her eyes bandaged, lies
breathing quietly, holding the girl's hand, Debby's face watching her
with a kaleidoscope of emotions hard to read.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Hope, dear, disbelief, or just simple.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Prayer for a way out of a maze of bewonderments.
We certainly won't even begin to know the answer to
any of these questions, at least until I returned shortly
with Act two. By the end of the afternoon. The
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chaos at once was the main floor of Maybury's store
has been partially restored.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
A police and fire.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Departments that made their reports, and an army of workmen
are busy boarding up windows and beginning repairs. The emergency
is over, except for what human misery it has left
in its trail. A Reverend Dan Waters has made a
personal trip to the store, to the police and to
fire headquarters to collate all the information and bring it
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to doctor Mark Banning one hundred and fifty one casualties.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So everyone accounted for, with two exceptions. There's no traits
of missus Chandler's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Granddaughter, and no idea of who the girl with amnesia
is unless she is.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's right. How old was the granddaughter?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
According to neighbors, the police contacted somewhere in her middle twenties.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Any pictures quite a.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Few while taken over ten years ago when Chandler I
hadn't seen her granddaughter since she was in early teens.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Mother married a pretty rough guy name Whip.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I don't know what went on, but the kids spent
quite a bit of time in a wayward girls' school.
She got out her father had taken off and I
get it. The mother was pretty sick, maybe on drugs.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Charity to Carol Well, was missus amnesia a fake? And
then snatched your thof.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Tbs other pretty very complexion white hair, and in these
two colored prints her eyes looked brah, Dan me, why
do you question her identity?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I mean, do you think it's just some wild coincidence.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm not much of a believer and coincidence, as mark,
I'd rather go with you and accept charity at face value.
The Lord takes a lot of plans in one way
or another.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He just may have blueprinted this one. I just don't
understand you, Anne, meaning she's faking.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
But why no pie, no matter what the occasion, meeting
her grandmother after all these years, no recognition.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Most of all, I guess I don't beat the girl
who felt well.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Dan thinks that if I can do it earlier, she's
ready to accept that thing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Chaplain Walter's charity. May I come in?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I could?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, so you're comfortably set well anyway, Doctor Vanning has
told me how kind you've been to your grandmother.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Why not aren't you heard?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I don't know, she says, I am I wish I
could be sure right now, I'm just sorry for her.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How do you feel.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Afraid? Why can't I remember who I am traveling?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Perhaps you don't want to remember?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Are they located grands daughter?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yet everyone apparently accounted for no sign of her? Do
you think if it.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Isn't me, that it might have been someone who died
in explosion?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That's about the way it stacks up. We should know
by morning.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
No, I'll say good nights. I hope you are, Charity.
You could make her last days very happy if you
bring her truth and love.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Good night, Charity? Are you there?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Are we alone?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I thought I heard you talking to one of the doctors.
Just were you talking about me? Sla? Have you talked
to the doctors about me?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Not?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Really about whether I would ever see again? Too soon
that I'm to say, no, Charity, dear. They know just
as I know, I won't ever see again.
Speaker 13 (19:35):
She goes, I won't live long enough. They know that too,
But I'm not afraid of it, not anymore. Charity would
move beside me, safe and so.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Here.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I am.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Promise you'll stay with me. It won't be for too long,
And I promise in return, you'll never be sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The banning is who Captain Wigan?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You shuret's aim in?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh and nurse put a faint doun doctor logan if
you cannot, So that's good to come to my office.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Why dann find the perch?
Speaker 10 (20:25):
What time your mind?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I spent most of the night at Maybury.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I didn't find anything at the fire sale that did
anything for me, but I turned up some evidence, like
this pocket book with a wallet inside it, And inside
the wallet it's a picture.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
That Missus chandlery, this must belong We're gonna daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
There's additional evidence. Do you remember her granddaughter came in.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
By bus yesterday at one roof item one ticket stuff
made out the a charity with her, So miss Amnesia
must have got her packet. Look in the attainment we're
out of the wood shed. Carry that would make it
all so nice and simper marked. But it just doesn't wash.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
A bag with a wallet, and it was clutched in
the hand of a young woman. They just dug out dead. Agree,
I'm afraid Charity Chandler is dead.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Oh what rot luck? I mean, Mark Dan, I just
came down from the room.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Missus Chandler has no more chance of living than she
had machines brought in.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
We have her on hemo dialosi now, but that's only supported.
But in spite of it all, she's so happy to
be reunited with her granddaughter. What it means so much
to her?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
What about the good she calls her grandpa?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Now, are you sure that there is some possibility?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I got a doctor logan the girl and the purse
were one.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
So we still don't know our amnesia victim is. And
worse than that, we have to break the news to
missus Challer that her granddaughter's dead.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What choice do we hear it?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Don't kill that old woman. She is in no condition
to stand a shock like that.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
She's entitled to guy with a little dignity and happiness.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Must she be told there's more.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Than one person involved in this. Our amnesiac has the
right to know who she is not.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Before she can remember who she is, she has to
be told that she is not Cherry.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
What she doesn't necessarily have to tell missus Chandler that, well,
how could we ask the girl to keep that secret?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean, under the circumstance.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Oh, it isn't reasonable. You're right, unless unless what unless
we talk to her?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
You might be able to persuade her to cheap up
the pretend long enough to do a law.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Are very sweet, old wady to die in peace.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
We wanted to sing each other one yes, forgive me
for not coming up to your room.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
No, no, I'll quote.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Dorlo dotlogus, won't you can't.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
I am hope. I won't be away too long. I
don't like losing Grandma alone.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Grandma.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yes, I've made up my mind, or rather she has
for me, that you are charity with them. If I'm not,
then you tell me who else I am. I'm sorry.
I wish I could, but I can't. But you don't
think that I'm charity? Is that what you want to
(23:54):
see me about? Don tell her what you found out?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The police, the father, a young woman who real charity women,
All the evidence points to it.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Doesn't that make me nobody again? Where is she?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah? Killing the explosion? Not Oh, I.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Didn't need to go to piece and I lied. It
is for the chandler, but it's for me too.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
To see.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
I actually was beginning to think I was.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Not because you wanted so much to be somebody again.
It's so obul that has no roots and no memories
to live in a bathroom.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
How long there's always someone worse off. Think of missus Chandler,
our alone. She'll be when she learns the truth.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We are not going to tell her. What else can
we do? You'll break her, how you'll kill her under.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
The circumstances, we can't ask you to keep on pretending?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Why not? If she still thinks I'm charity? At least
you have a few days of happiness left. Do you
think you could bring it off? Why not?
Speaker 15 (25:27):
I've got it?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Tell far because you thought you might be No, it's.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
A deliberate detection.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
And I'm not sure that doctor Banning would agree to her.
Why wouldn't be For many reasons.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
One is you might remember any moment who you really are,
My dear, you, my dear.
Speaker 16 (25:46):
It's a terrible thing not to have a name to
be called by, and it could be my name. And
if I have another, maybe there's a reason enough that
I want.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
To forget it. Oh, oh, I gotta get some air.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You are right?
Speaker 14 (26:04):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Sure? Have you the clan? Maybe we better get you
back up to bed, doctor Logan. I'm all right, byfically,
the cover with me is in my head? What for me? Yahs, susy.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I've made up my mind, and I don't care what
any of you say for her take for my sake,
from now on, you.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Better just call me Charity.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And again we are left tantalizingly on the horns of
a dilemma. Why is there something about that plane, the job?
The girl's memory? Is her decision to become Charity Whitman
an altruistic one? Or has she some deep her motives
and kindness and compassion?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Who is this girl who doesn't know herself?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Or does she and only wants to hide her real identity.
I'll be back shortly with Act three. It's another day
scrubbed bright with clean sunlight, a day for starting or sailing,
(27:31):
or climbing a gentle mountain, or just lying lazily.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
In a field and watching the sky. For most people,
that is, for the five people in.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Our story and in Slackfield Community Hospital, gets to be
a very different day.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
A day of sadness, suspicion, and dilemma.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Missus Chandler is mercifully asleep.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Death not very far away now. Charity and the chaplain.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
Are walking in the hospital gardens, and doctors.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Logan and Banning are huddled in a corner of the
cafeteria over morning coffee.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Poor Mark, you look too tired this morning.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm not tired, and I'm worried about what about the
deception and agreed to. Our business is healing, not playing
with human emotions.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Can you make it sound as though I've been partied
to something something cool. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Questioning your motives, just whether any of us have any
right to contributes to deceiving a dying woman just.
Speaker 15 (28:36):
To give her what happiness we can even though she
barely knew her granddaughter it it's obvious she was or
is not the center of her life.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
There is no doubt that then, and she's convinced the
girl is charity whatever that's we have.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Who are we to question that?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Tell what I am people staff with this hospital my
neck out.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
There could be legalities involved. What well, For one thing,
missus Chandler may have a will.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
If the name's charity a beneficiary and the girl died
in the explosion, she might want to change it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
She should have that right.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I never heard of that.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
But wouldn't it just go to the to the next
of Kim.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
According to the record, there is no next of Jenner,
which may be why our so called charity.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Is so willing to decide that's really her name.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
It is possible to fake any you know, and if
there's enough money involved.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Oh, I don't believe that girl could do anything like that.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
She what is it?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
I was just thinking yesterday while Dan and I were
talking to her she would buy the window. And she
stopped suddenly, as.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
If she'd remembered who she really was.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah, I thought she was coming out of it.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
And then then she turned on us and told us
that from now on, as far as she was concerned,
we could take her for charity with them.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Oh, Mark, I want to believe in her. Don't let
this turn out wrong. Good morning's charity you want? Isn't
lovely out here? I hate to leave the sun, but
(30:35):
I should get back and take Grandma's awake. Oh, she
can wait a moment. It's your grandmother. I want to
talk about her. She hasn't own. I checked on her
before I came out. She's resting very peacefully. She has
nothing to worry about for the moment.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But I do you?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Who are you? And this time I want an honest answer,
And this time I'll give you the only answer I
can give you. From now on I am charity with
when you listen to okay, you did that before? Does
it remind you of something? Yeah? Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Remember that crumpled piece of paper you had with the
number three eight Oh could.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
That have been a flight number?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Perhaps like three eighties. Was it a flight you were wrong?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
When you were going to take? Yes? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Oh? But I don't know where you going with someone? Yes?
I I think maybe I was.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But I who.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Who were you going with?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
This?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I don't remember ever?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
So close?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
No, I'm so sorry. That's enough for now. Just one
more question? All right? What's your name? Deb Scott? Oh?
My god? What did I say? I think you just
told me who you really are? Chaplain, chaplain? Excuse me
(32:23):
for first to the micas, but I need to.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
Help and I can offer what who comes back?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I know who I am, doctor Logan, you're Deborah Scott.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You're trying to trace now you didn't listen to me.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
I haven't told doctor Logan everything I wanted to talk
to you for a site. I have some problems.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
As for example, this afternoon at.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Three o'clock, I'm supposed to fly to Mexico City with
the man I love.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Oh That isn't a problem, that's happiness. I'm sure there'll
be no trouble about the hospital releasing you in time
to get your plan.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Then what happened to missus Chandler.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
What you've already done for her has been wonderful. No
one can expect you to give up your personal life
now that you've refounded.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Does your fiancee know you're all right?
Speaker 6 (33:13):
She had no way to know that anything was wrong.
You see, his insurance company transferred him to New York.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I thought you said you were headed for Mexico City.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
We are, But you see, I was his secretary. The
firm closed the local office.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Well, we worked, and Dan Floyd head to New York
and he's probably been trying to get in tact with me,
and I don't.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Know whether he is.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Didn't you call him at the firm, Well, he.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Already left to be expecting me to leave with him
from here on his two week.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Vacation, your honeymoon. Then you have to meet it.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
I don't want to run out on miss Chandler, but
when she depends on me, well.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Maybe if you talk to your young man, he might delay.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The vacation a few days.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Missus Chandler hasn't gotten any longer than that, so I.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Don't know if he would. Since his last vacation for
a long time.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
And he'd probably just go on without me, without the
girl he's gonna marry.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I didn't say we were going to be married.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Oh.
Speaker 16 (34:20):
My only chance really is if I do go with him,
But I know him. If I don't turn up at
that plan, I'll never see him again.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
And I love him not much.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Does he love you? Granted? What you say?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Look, it's in very little love in my life, chaplain.
I was an orphan brought up in foster homes. But
I'm not her charity. I'm Debbie Scott. I know what
I'm trying to do for missus Chandler is right, and
I guess what I'm doing with Vince is wrong. But
(34:54):
I can't be two people, which am I supposed to be?
Loew charity? Yes, Grandma, where have you been? Oh? Well,
they were just giving me a checker. They're going to
(35:15):
send you home. Yes, they need that. I'm all right now.
Oh that's wonderful, dear. I'm so happy for you. No
more clouds or doubts. M No, you know who you
are again?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Oh, well, I'll.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Miss not having you right here in the room with me,
and I'll miss not being here with you, darling.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Yes, come to me, so said, just for a moment. Please,
I'm here. Do one thing for me, and thing you want.
Just give me a long hug.
Speaker 12 (36:04):
And say, Grandma, Grandma, that's all, Just Grandma, that's all
I really wanted.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
To hear, Grandma.
Speaker 12 (36:27):
Oh, my dear little girl, that I know so little about,
all the years of.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Of not knowing you, and such a little time too
to catch up.
Speaker 12 (36:45):
Funny, isn't it two days together in the hospital and
in one way I know everything about you.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
And then another nothing at all. Now tell me, tell
me about yourself. Oh there's nothing really to tell, of
course there is.
Speaker 14 (37:06):
Every young girl has so much to tell, her hopes,
her dreams, what she asks of life. And you remember,
I'll be watching you from somewhere, and just maybe I
I can repay you and make it all come true.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Oh how I wish you could. But then you tell
me not.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
I Let's begin with what every girl wants in her life.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
A man. Isn't there one in yours?
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Like?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
I don't know why I blurted it all.
Speaker 17 (37:46):
Out, because I asked it was important, but he er,
he doesn't love you enough to ask you to be
his wife.
Speaker 12 (37:58):
Oh he died he asked me to be when with that?
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Oh, oh a long time ago. I don't think that
it would. I think it's still going on.
Speaker 12 (38:18):
Why don't you give him another chap Grema, GMA's been
good to hear you call me that.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Now I want The chapter says take.
Speaker 10 (38:32):
With I.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Care what you can.
Speaker 12 (38:36):
I only wish that I could ever thank you enough
for who have everything. My dear God took my eyes away,
but it gave me you instead.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I'll never forget you who died, whoever you are or
will come to be. Now get me the chapin and
(39:11):
your young man decided to wait for him?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Does that need it?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
We'll be married in Mexico. Lucky girl will think? Do
you mind if I wish you the same luck me?
Why should I try to fool another woman? I'm afraid
I won't be.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
So lucky.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
She's gone very quietly and without anything.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Oh silly, I'm just going to think of her that way.
She's the only real relation that you had.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
You may be the closest one she had.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
What do you mean to helpline.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I'll read your letters, she dictated to me before she died.
It's not Jule.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I have never thought much about death, save that when
it came, I would not have to meet it alone.
And I did, thanks to a beloved girl during my
old mare, than I can ever repay. I have nothing
much worth leaving in this world's goods except this ring.
One I was wet with. The Charity's mother was wet
with that. Now I want a gift to the girl
(40:31):
who gave me my last days of peace, who shared
my final hours.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I hope she wears it soon.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Proudly and happily, with my love and her own. He
meant you, daddy, No, she meant her hen daughter. There's
nothing on the paper that says so.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
That's strange. No, the last time I talked to her,
she never once called me charity. She thinks she knew.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
It doesn't matter. This ring was meant for Debbie Scott's.
When you wear it, remember to wear it with charity
in the biblical sense. Good luck, Debbie.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
You have every chance there'll be someone smiling down on
you every step of the way.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
OOO.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Admit the chandler know that Debbie Scott was not her granddaughter.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Did she prefer to play out a last great charade
to make death come soften?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
We'll never know, but that chance perhaps Schoolish, an old
fashioned name given to a girl long ago, proved in
the end to live up with old fashioned meanings.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 9 (42:23):
This is a mystery theater, and after all, what greater.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Mystery in the world is there than love?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
So just as a footnote, not long after Vincent Debbie
married in Mexico City, doctor Mark Banning managed to forget
the first unfortunate marriage and married doctor Anne Logan. And
doctor Logan, since time was running by, decided to have
a child.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Actually they both hope for a boy.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
But if it happens to be a girl, I wonder
if they'll be tempted to call her charity. Our cast
included Virginia Jane, Rosemary Wright, William Prince, Latricia Wheel, and
George Petrie. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Everyone in this town seems to know what's wrong with
my house except Helen and me.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
They know there's something wrong, that's all they know.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
And you know, more beautiful sewing.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Behind those beautiful green eyes lies secrets.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
And your attitude is one reason why I can't tell you.
You wouldn't believe me anyway, Try me all right. The
house you're living in doesn't really belong to you. That
house was stolen from the daughter of Marie LoVa.
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