1049 - A Case Of Nerves (Suspense)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A journey into the realm of the strange and terrify.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I hope you will enjoy the chap that will thrill
you a little and kill you a little.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.
Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
This is a man in black here to introduce this
half hour of suspense.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now that tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I got off the training polido and walked through the
station in the street.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I passed up late, great taste, and want to board
a bus passified would.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Likely to leave me when I can take your chance
on that. I haven't paid any attention to the bus,
and I didn't know what the line was or where
it was going. That making it difference. I didn't know
the leader very well anyway. Now I saw the window.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
When I came to a likely neighborhood, I got off
strange and familiate quarter of the city. You know, get familiar,
because every city has neighborhoods like to grab faceless houses
looking almost to like, and then most of.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Them grabbed men and women anxious to make a dollar
by renting a room.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
Now this here is a nice room.

Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's the best one.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I got the windows long.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
As I how long you figure I'm sad?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh, just over night. I'll see you now.

Speaker 7 (02:09):
Oh the last two dollars three?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah? Oh are you sick? Yes, I'm very sick. The doctor, Yeah, hey,
you are sick, and I think I think I'll go
to bed. Doctor.

Speaker 8 (02:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's doctor Martin just around the corner.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
He's young, but he's good. Well would you call him
for me? Please ask him to come right up. Oh yeah, sure,
come in.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm doctor Martin. You're mister my name.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Is wentwere doctor James Wegworth. I just got him to town.
I'm said, I'm in for my old trouble again.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh what's that the web word? Tried gemin on Garralgia.
H have that attack before? Just where is the pain here?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I'm here? Oh yes, now if you turn no, no, no,
don't touch it. Taste like a red hot arm, even
the fat today. If I know, really you shouldn't have
that nerve operation. Yes, I am ready to have it
down when I get home. Oh where's that Cleveland? I
know a lot of them. And who's your doctor?

Speaker 9 (03:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Doctor Fletcher, Lawrence Fletcher, No, no, no, Andrew and Andrew
are flesher recall him, but he's waiting to clear up.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
A heart mission before he operates. Oh, yes, there is sound.
Now how did this attack come on? Oh the way
they always do.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm shooting, and I touched the nerve with the racingly, yes,
the trigger for it.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's very difficult. Well, that doesn't help me when that
nerve starts jumping. When we're to be back in Cleveland
or three days, I'll give you a prescription. This is morphine.
Caught a grin to take it before. That's the only
thing that gives me and the relief.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
And I don't have to tell you bout I'll gout
this off at the drug store.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
And has them send it up. But thank you, doctor
Canada person. I better give you a shot right now.
Oh you know, doctor, I think the painting is so bad. Now,
I don't like to take more than I have to. Oh, well,
if you're sure you can get along, well, yes, yes,
I can make out all right, I'll hold the tablets
and until later. I played Doctor Martin, young Doctor Martin

(04:26):
at Toledo and he left. I waited the package to
arrive from the drug store. Then I say that I
saw the landlady wouldn't think of a secureire. In the morning,
I got on the train with my treatment to the
hospital for.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
The little white tablets in my pocket, the.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Little quite tablets with which I would kill Louise. I
have been so simple to see, the young impressionable doctor,
so simple to compifit symptoms that I been Woi's reactive
for four years now.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
We're keeping from there for four years more.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right for plenty, and I live with a sick dollar
earth and thinkful nerves so long, too long, too long
to need.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
ACA. I'm sure I had come every day.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now, and I said to be on handy, and I
to come back to Louise's and tacks to quietly raging
nerve with more fines. It's not the long in my
pocket where these little white tablets are the point of piece.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Coming into the hospital kitchen. Oh hello, oh, hello Ellie.
I'm like to bring mister Baker and mal of.

Speaker 8 (05:38):
Course, and give it a touch of the fire to
take the chill up.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I've missed you, but away, I hear, mister Baker. Yes,
I had to go out of town, and you asked me.
It's a good thing for you. You needed a change.
The hospital day after day was telling on you. Oh
I don't think so, Yes, it was.

Speaker 8 (05:57):
I could see you're a good man to be believe me,
it's like a stage.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
You're not like some others. They could mention, well, isn't
enough ready?

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Now it is there? We are foodful of sugar.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
That's the way.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
It's a baker license. I'll give you the baker.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yes, I'll do that.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
It was just a matter of stepping into an alcove
on the way to Louise's room, dropping me white tablets
into the warm milk sugar would mask be bitter taste?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh yeah, an ideal spot.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Mister baker.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh did I start?

Speaker 6 (06:37):
I didn't mean to.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
No, No, I'm going up there myself now I come,
of course. Mess White walked beside me to Louisa's room.
My chest that night was gone, an a night of
pain for Louise.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I front to sudden anger at the mess, and a
moment later I realized, un reasonable it walk.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
There's hard to be angry with anyone's so Kirk so
alive was beautiful even then. It has to be a uniform.
She managed to remain feminine. It was always a flower
at the shoulder.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Today it was a spring of flowering dog wood, and
her quiet, unprofessional perfume was an exciting thing in my nostrils.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Then we went in front of Louisa's door.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Hello, missus Baker.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Look I brought you, Albert dear, Hello Dowling.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
Oh, I'm so glad you're back. I missed you.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hi, mister too, here's your milk.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
You never forget, do you, Albert?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
How was your day just fine?

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Wasn't it in fine?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yes, missus Baker, a very good day all. Thanks you
should do.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Hello. I'm glad I wrought you something else? Please?

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Oh, thank you Alice to remembering. Look Paris, isn't it beautiful?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh what it is?

Speaker 8 (08:11):
It's an old piece, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I had to hunt all over the house for it?
What if I give you the sudden notion you wanted
it anyway? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
I've had a feeling. I'll be joining mother.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Louise. Please don't talk, Baker.

Speaker 8 (08:31):
You're going to be up on your feet before you
know it. And that's almost enough talking to night, mister Baker.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
Missus Baker, do you want me to leave a tabbit
for you?

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes? Thanks?

Speaker 7 (08:42):
You do.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I hope you don't need to take it. Well, good night,
they tablets. You've been taking it every night.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
I try not to, but lately that's yes, Albert, Dear,
you deserve something.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Better than this.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
Please please, do you know your nose to the grunting
to pay for the doctors? Ny a little handball at the.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
Club and.

Speaker 10 (09:19):
He's but you're going to get better, Dear, you must
believe the doctor. Oh yeah, yes, yes, if you're looking
out for your eyes very pretty, Yes, I suppose so.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I have noted.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
You embarrassed me sometimes the way you love that.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
You're still beautiful to these.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
I won't talk like that again. You better go to Halbert.
I'll try to please.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, a good night here, I'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's the Baker.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's why I thought you're gone. I wanted to talk to.
It's about missus Baker.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
She worries me.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
He met stated very low. You heard how she talks
about her mother the market. She needs something.

Speaker 8 (10:26):
I don't know what to.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Snap her out of his mood. I just thought I
mentioned it to you. Yes, Oh, where are you're going
to put them?

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Asking the way you know?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I don't see why that plan to it doesn't give
her more of that stuff she needs it, get you
washing it out as those were poison.

Speaker 8 (10:45):
But this poisons the Baker. That's why I'm particularly careful
about missus Baker.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
You don't think she'd actually.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, usually the ones that talk about it don't do it,
mister Baker, So I wouldn't worry a good night.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Wait a minute, his wife, Pauline, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yes, I didn't think you knew. Would you mind when
we were alone? If I called you poll?

Speaker 6 (11:15):
I'd like it?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, no, this is a awful thing to ask, but well,
you know us, they're pretty lonely. For me, that is,
I can guess what would you would you let.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Me take you to dinnis this evening?

Speaker 6 (11:32):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Thank you, mister Baker. I'd love it. I'm off two
of eight. I'll pick you out to him and Pauline,
my name, my name is Albert at eight. Then Albert

(11:55):
my heart sang.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Everything's I had my poison and my witnesses Louisa said
yes for right things in their presence, talking about her
Lockett meaning of filed in suicide? How beautifully every incurant place.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
I stopped at all the lobby dog and I hit
my name, I say bigger, Oh, doctor van Tour, how
are you fine?

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Say?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I want you to meet. Come on, This is doctor
Martin of Toledo. I looked at him, at the man
who stepped forward shakes hands with me. My mouth been dry.
This was doctor Martin of Toledo. Would giving me my
murder of description, the eager, bumptious young hand and stood
there now, looking straight into my eyes and saying, hello,

(12:40):
how's that bad lord of your last? I couldn't answer,

(13:02):
couldn't even turn him hide. I can party stair, unbelieving
me him. And it's your heart that for a long
time to put out his hands, because there's nothing else
to do. I took it. Oh, this is mister Baker. Doctor.
It's his wife who had this trigeminal condition. Is why?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yes, of course you didn't think I meant mister Baker,
did you? He's as strong as an ox as I
can see that.

Speaker 10 (13:24):
No.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
I ran into doctor Martin, and the doctor's loud, Baker.
He was telling me about a case just on Toledo.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Most Alida, wasn't martin symptoms were remarkably similar to missus Baker's.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Remarkably, I thought he might like to look in on
missus Baker. You got mine she she's sleeping.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
I think, oh too bad. We're another time, perhaps, say doctor,
Oh yes, certainly, doctor. Well, I'm about to run that.
I ran into you Martin about sometimes yes glad to
lady Baker.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah sure, doctor, Sure, I will have to be going myself.
No oh wait, uh wait, doctor, I want to.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Talk to you. I don't see that there's anything to
talk about. It's the third I want you to know
that I what happened in so again, you don't have
to explain. I understand. Do you understand you didn't say
anything up to them too? Why should I None of
my business, not of your business? Of course I did.

(14:18):
I didn't have you tagged as an addict.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Addict, yes, you don't look like one, and that trick
of refusing an immediate shot, But I did I hand
it to you. You fooled me completely and using your
wife's symptoms very I don't know if you can get
a supply.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Whatever your needed for that. No, no, no, no, I'll
shure you.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
It's all part to lie to me. I guess I
ought to thank you for teaching me that trick. It
won't work again on this baby, believe me.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
And now, if you excuse me, mister Baker or mister Wentworth,
I'm heading for a spot of handfall.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh wait, yes, no fint feeling. No, no, of course not.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Look Cooper, if you really mean man about no hard feelings.
And if you haven't got a Parker, well I I'd
played a pretty good game.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Now that's what I call a switch anyway, Oh right,
hop in an addict.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
He took me from attics, working on any dodge I
could to get a spply of dope. Yes, but later
when he heard of Louise instead. You remember, I had
no idea.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
What I was wanted to. When he knew that I
couldn't let him go, he brove me over to be
I played.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
He wasn't a member of the of the Curtsy card
from a Toldo cloud, and he signed me in as
his guest, laughing at James Wentworth. He was a fast
man on the corn counter tos I'd have had a heart.
I'm keeping up with him in any second stances, but
that's who would.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
Get me easy.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I can think of only one thing.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
It was dangerous, dangerous, and I have to get rid
of him somehow, the nice backhands. You've got that baker
wish I got into at the couples half as well.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm not find the compliment stuff. They just came over
the final score and be satisfied. How about this spoil
out they've got a good steamer. Yeah, it sounds good
to me. He's this way then, Oh take your towel.
Oh oh oh boy, it is time. Yeah, sit on
your towel, man, I get that here. Oh I was

(16:42):
lucky for me. You came along place is said today.
Now that's totally but I enjoyed it. Oh god, isn't it. Yeah,
say thank you? You know I mis judged you the sorry,
Oh that's all right, I forget it. You know you
really could do something for your stuggles. There we've got
to say to tell you that Toldo has been having

(17:02):
pretty good luck with the picture lately. I can't heard him.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
I only realized that we were alone, clouding the steam.
Now he's visible to any casually curious person listening through
the glass chair in the door.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
With my hands, I can't get out of ny take
nerve back up, my gal. Here, that's what he's doing that.

Speaker 9 (17:22):
I'm sorry marking, but there's no right away with my
tongue over head and stop behind the play plating off
and reach me. I didn't want to leave any marks
on him. With my free hand, I covered it up
and bring the top cap to the tower.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
We want hotness. There is in a few minutity he
hung length in my arms. And that's a few minutes warning.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
You know, I.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Left me didn't have the steen the locker room.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
I fresh brick leaf out of my hair on the
wrong side, and class took it down and the way
I never normally wear it. A man at the reception
that's fairly glanced at me. I passed him when I
told Martin lad looked for a man named Wentwork. Never
find him because he didn't exist. It wasn't he that close.

(18:21):
They were supporting Martin's death for the cause down to
thought fada brought on by the shock of exercise and the.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Chemm They didn't make contagion. It wasn't important.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I waited anyway weaker, waiting once carefully because now
not only Louisa's scutia was at stake, but I own him, Alice,
there's a.

Speaker 7 (18:46):
Nicius Corny's journey.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
They're not coming in here.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I know darling.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
I know, I know, I'm not wait, I'm leaving the hospital.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
I'm taking your job at your cargo. No, what, Yes,
this is hopeless.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
I can't stand it, taking care of your wife, smiling
at it, seeing the two of you together.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
But you can't do it. I couldn't doam about you
now that I followed, he do you think this is
going to do to me? But I can't. Where are
you going? I'm getting out of tomorrow? Tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Oh my god, goodbye? Call me?

Speaker 3 (19:35):
She was gone, she said goodbye. Try you what you meant?

Speaker 1 (19:42):
When I saw her again with me in the hospital
across the Leisa's bed, she leave us fighting had be
miss Baker.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Now no, I couldn't stand that. Now.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yes, but thecause one shore away over, I guess little
white happiness was set in my pocket.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Praise Albert, dear, I brought you your milk.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Oh, thank you, dear hold Please?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
You're locket?

Speaker 7 (20:19):
It's beautiful, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Who shall I leave it to? I wonder that's fight.
She's a sweet girl, Louise.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
And I don't talk that way. Lucisa' not glad I
heard it.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
I will take the milk and old Albert.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Drank it. I had to place my shoots to keep
him cry out. She smiled and held out the empty
glass to me. It was over. I went home and
part sleeplessly, waiting waiting for the inavitor. Hello, yes, yeah, no, no,

(21:16):
I'll be right over.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Doctor van tour is outside to use his room, and
a white face Pauline, and never the kitchens.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
I hurried off the carrid. Oh doctor, can I go
end out? Baker? Your wife is dead? Why later, hope?
I don't understand. I thought you was improving with you
that you planned to offer.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
She died of an overdose of molt, I assume, But
how could she get That's what I intend to find out.
She took it in this glass of milk, and her
traces left. Nellie, here's as you brought it up to her.
I didn't want that's all right, Nellie.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, of course I took it up. I did every month.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Everybody in the hospital knows that it's dyne had also,
was anybody in the room when you brought it?

Speaker 7 (22:07):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
No, no, If you're just Louise and you saw her
drinking milk, no, no, doctor, she she didn't drink it then,
not until I tried gone. She did that frequently, that's right, doctor, Yes,
I know that too. Only last night, before she drank
it she managed to dissolve and had a.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Lethal dose of morphine. I checked the hospital. Supply every
tablet has accounted for. We keep a very strict counsel.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yes, I know, man. Have you anything to say, Baker,
I hardly know her. I'm stunned, don't you.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
What do you mean?

Speaker 9 (22:38):
Surely you're not accusing miss acchoosing anyone that will be
up to the portract mistake.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
It seems perfectly clear. I didn't kill her, then how
did she not? She should shook her? Why she did
it more than once?

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Just once?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
You remember, miss doctor.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
I spoke to mister Baker about it myself.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
You know she was there, that's trueers, But the more
pean it must have come from the outside, and we'd
have missed. Oh wait a minute, the tablet you left
for her each night, Yes, I ordered that for or
it instead of taking it.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
She saved it. But she must have. It's the only
way it could have happened. But that it must be.
For the past week, she's been exhausted and drang in
the morning.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
Yet the tablet'slaw was gone.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Well that's the case, knows. How does it happen that
you fail to find them? But she couldn't leave her bed.
You bade her and change the linen of.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
The locket the pocket. Yeah, yes, of course you remember
its white.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
She made such a point of asking me to bring
her to her, and then the way she talked about
joining her mother.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yes, I do, I do remember. She wanted you to
help the locket to l It was the last wish.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Where is it?

Speaker 3 (23:49):
I have it here, It's clutched in her hand. That's hmm.

Speaker 11 (24:00):
Prease headquarters, please you you have to notify them, Yes,
I do. Prete headquarters. Give me homicide, homicide, Yes, I'll wait.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
How you off your mind?

Speaker 6 (24:12):
I just got through.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
It's everything.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yes, you explained everything, including what's still puzzled me. See beer,
You were right about this locket. Your wife did have
a reason for wanting it. Look, I'll open it, Jeli.
It's four one, two, three, four, five, six seven quarter
grain morphine tablets that she saved at the cost of
seven nights of agony, and she would have taken them
last night, only.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
You beat her to it, and so closes nice tale

(24:58):
out

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Fo