Unknown Broadcast | What Returns in the Night: Four Tales of Ghosts, Betrayal, and Retribution

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My dear, so happy to see you. Oh what's that?
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Why?
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Yes, it seems to be beautiful outside, not that I
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would know, at least not firsthand. Please please have your seat,
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I've of course had it ready for you. And of
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course the fire is burning, nice and bright, cozy, even
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when it's not the dead of winter. If you ask me,
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the tea will be done steeping in just a moment.
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And I well, I'm simply jubilant, so why not get
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the festivities going. I can't speak for you, my dear,
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but for me, nothing is quite as exciting as the
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return of the More's bees.
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Come in.
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Welcome, hi'm e g.
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Marshall.
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Welcome to the Sound of Suspense, the fear you can hear.
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For the next fifty two minutes, we're going to take
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you into the world of mystery, into the world of
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terrifying imagination. The story you are going to hear concerns
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a question which has been asked since the first men
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on Earth were born and died? Is there a life
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after death? Is there a way to return from the grave?
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And if there is, and we come back in the
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body of a living creature, even one that has claws
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instead of fingernails. Here is one chilling answer, Doctor Singh,
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have to tell me? Could my wife have come back
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as a bird?
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Sparrow? Something like that?
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Well, your wife was a rather big woman, mister Morrisby.
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And the physical is how about the snake? A seagull?
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How about a cat? A great, big fat cat?
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A cat?
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Our mystery drama, The Return of the Moresby's was written
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especially for the radio mystery theater by Henry Slesser and
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stars Patrick O'Neill. I'll be back shortly with that one.
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Now here is act one. Like all murder stories, soon
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or later it reaches the office of a daily newspaper.
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You wanted to see me, chief, You bet I want
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to see you, Prownie, come in and shut that door.
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I bet I know what it's about. That story I
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filed on Richard Morrisby.
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Right, I got a flash for you, Prowdie. This is
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a newspaper office, not a fiction magazine. You take this
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story of yours and see if you can sell it
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to Weird or Digest or something.
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But get it off my desk. Now, wait a while, Max.
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I know it's offbeat, but I thought I handled it
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with a kind.
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Of a light touch. Story's about murder.
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Can't be handled with a light touch, not on this paper.
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But it's accurate.
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I mean, this is exactly what the guy mores Be
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told me just before he died.
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Real he must have been out of his head. He
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asked for somebody to hear his story. That's how I
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got to meet him.
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I was at the hospital covering that subway accident.
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No, that story made sense to me, nothing but nice,
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clear facts.
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But this nonsense, piez. Let me tell you about this guy,
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Maybe you'll change your mind. I thought about him. Well,
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For one thing, he was a real distinguished looking guy.
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The only thing peculiar about him was his eyes.
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His eyes, Yeah, they were the palest blue eyes I
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ever saw on a man.
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They weren't really blue at all. They're like silver.
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Big deal.
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So he had silver eyes.
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And when he started to tell me about himself, well
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I just had to hear the whole story.
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Gee. Yes, I was born in a lot too.
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My family moved to the States when I was young.
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They didn't improve much on a climate when I did.
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We lived in Vermont.
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I don't think I was ever warm enough until the
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age of twenty four, when I moved to southern California.
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I lived on beaches, a superb swimmer, a superior surf border,
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and a terrible bum. It was on the beach at
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Malibu that I met the woman who was to become
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my wife.
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Her name was Una. She was as pale as a Gardeenian,
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a Gardenia with bones.
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Una had more bones than any other woman I've ever met,
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isn't it I beg your pardon, I said, it's.
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A beautiful day. I don't think I've ever seen the
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ocean look pretty old. Frankly, the Pacific always looked a
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little money to me.
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I wonder if that's what Balboa said when he first
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saw it.
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He probably said, what a great place for surfing.
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Ah, I see you have a serf board.
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Yes. As a matter of fact, I think I see
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a wave that I like. Will you excuse me? I
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wish I had the nerve to try it. Yeah, you
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really should.
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Well by now, maybe I'll ask my chauffeur to teach me.
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I'm sorry, what did you say.
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Charles, my chauffeur, he's very good at sports.
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Sure, you know.
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Come to think of it, that wave doesn't look so
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good after all. By the way, my name is Richard
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Richard Morris.
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How do you do?
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My name is Una, Una Vandermeyer. That was her name.
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As soon as I realized that she was from the
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Vandermeyer family, she.
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Didn't seem half as bony as she did before.
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In fact, not only do I become accustomed to Owner's appearance,
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I was even able to tolerate her name conversations.
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Can't you just feel the mystery of the stars, Richard?
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Sometimes I feel their vibrations as if they're trying to
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communicate with me.
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Do you ever feel that? WHOA? Sometimes I suppose I.
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Really think we must be one with the universe?
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Do too?
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I really believe there's just one great universal soul and
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we're all part of it.
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Don't you think so too? Yes?
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Of course, right on as they say, you see what
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I mean? She talked that way all the time, from
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the first day of our honeymoon.
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Well, it was a fine honeymoon, just the same.
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It lasted a whole year on the beaches of the Caribbean,
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on the French Riviera.
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I got browner and browner, Oooner got freckles.
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Finally, we returned to our home in Los Angeles and
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settled down to a quiet, comfortable Marriage.
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Of Earth. Is that your play?
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It's sitar music.
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Dolly, Oh, it's just so spiritual.
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What what made you buy the record?
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No, doctor Singh recommended it. Who doctor sing at the
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Temple of Metapsychosis. You know what Metapsychosis? I told you
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about joining the temple last week? Oh, Richard, sometimes I
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think you don't listen to me.
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Now.
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As you may know, Southern California abounds and quasi religious organizations.
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And she'd gone through a numberblem without discovering the universal
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soul at any other authors.
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Darling, please come to one of doctor Singh's lectures. He's
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such a magnificent speaker. He emits such vibrations.
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And I went, you see what an obliging husband I was.
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Actually it turned out to be more interesting than I thought.
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The temple itself was unpretentious, and doctor Singh was an
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impressive man, And when he spoke, I realized why his
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message had such appeal for uner, because he preached a
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doctrine that combined eternal life with the love of small animals.
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This sole is immortal, This hold cannot die. The soul,
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upon leaving the body, must make its passage.
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Every swear it.
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Is a science called Eschitalogy, which deals with the last
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four things, death, judgment, heaven, and hell. It is the
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most ancient of all sciences, and from its wisdom has
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come the inescapable certainty of the transmigration of souls.
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Yeah, yeah, I know it's a bit weird, but stay
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with it.
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And where does the soul go?
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According to the wise man of all generations past, this
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soul departs from the mouth of the dying. It is
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consequently a small thing, a bird, a snake, a mouse, a.
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Dove, or a hawk, a dog, a cat, an insect.
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For these small creations of God are empty vessels placed
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upon Earth for only one purpose, to house the departing
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souls of humanity, so that they need not wonder forever
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in a trackless eternity.
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Yeah, yes, it's pure right, of course.
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But that's what the man said, and Honor sat there
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and believed every single word.
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Oh, wasn't in math stretch?
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Isn't it wonderful that the soul never dies, that we
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can all come back as a little animal.
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I'm not sure I want to come back as an animal,
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but you'd still be you, Richard.
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Oh don't you see?
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Well?
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By the way, what was that envelope you handed doctor
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Singh after the meeting.
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The envelope that was my donation. Of course, you're a
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donation to the temple.
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Yes, to support the work of doctor Singh to open
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other temples.
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Around the world. Well, how much money was in the envelope?
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And what does it matter, Richard, I'm.
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Just curious two thousand dollars? Uma, you go to that
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temple once a week? Do you always give that kind
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of donation. It's all in a very good cause, Richard.
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Well, in an equally good cause that.
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Of finding out exactly how much of my wife's money
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was supporting this nonsense. I sneak a look at UNA's checkbook.
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The answer astonished me. Not only had my wife put
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more than thirty thousand dollars into doctor Singh's collection plate,
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she had also donated some twenty thousand more to various
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institutions for the care and feeding of cats, dogs and birds.
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It was so kind of you to honor us with
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a visit, Doctor Singh. I know how terribly busy you are.
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On the contrary, you are kind to invite me to
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your lovely home.
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Oh, now tell me, doctor Singh, what determines the kind
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of animal one becomes when the soul escapes after death.
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Uh, missus Morsby, that is a question which has baffled
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wiseman for countless generations.
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But isn't it possible to do well research?
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Yes, Missus Morrisby, I don't doubt that we could find
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the answer to such great questions if only.
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We had the proper resources.
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But unfortunately that would record fired money, a great deal
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more money than the movement has at present.
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Well, it seems to me you don't do badly. Well,
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there you are, hello, Richard.
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Well, we've been all morning right here in my little
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sewing room.
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Don't tell me you were sewing. Oh, don't be silly.
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Actually, I've been composing something, oh, something more important than that, Richard.
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Do you realize that I have no last will and testamenty?
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Well, why should you healthy young chicken like you.
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I can't call myself young anymore, Richard.
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You'll always be young to me, darling.
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Oh that's very sweet, But that's the same. It's only
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practical to have a will. Would you read it over,
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Richard and see if it well, if it sounds legal.
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Enough, certainly, Well, let's see now I will Vandermiah Morsby,
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a resident of the City of Los Angeles, State of California,
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residing at ah Shard and Drive, being over the age
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of twenty one of sound and disposing mind and memory.
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Darling, this is superb. Where on earth did you get
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the language?
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Well, to tell you the truth, I copied it out
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of Daddy's will.
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The one that left you ten millions. Yes, well, I
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don't see how you can go wrong.
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Let's see now, not acting under duress, menace, fraud, or
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undue influence of any person whosoever.
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And gosh, lord, what is it what I'm serious about?
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This?
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Oh?
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About making a will?
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Of course, I mean this, this bequest, the temple mumbo jumper,
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what's wrong with it?
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Now?
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Listen, Darling, I told you how important doctor Singh's work is,
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but it requires money to carry it on, tons of money.
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So the least I can do is to help the
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poor man as much as I can. But you're giving
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him ninety percent of your entire fortune. Ah, I'll still
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have a million dollars if I go first, Richard.
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Isn't that enough?
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No, it isn't.
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No.
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I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. Don't you realize
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that man? Is a fraud, a charlatan.
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What for heaven's sake will open your eyes? Don't you
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realize the simple truth? Your money won't build any temples.
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It's just going to line the pockets of that turban phony.
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Richard, what a terrible thing to say.
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Well, you told me you like doctor Singh, that you
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are very impressed by his theory of transmigration.
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Darling. I was only saying all that to please you.
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But now I'm telling you that the only thing doctor
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Singh is planning to transmigrate is your money into his
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savings account.
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And frankfully, I'm not gonna let him do it. Richard,
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what are you doing? You're tearing up my Will's right?
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How dare you do such a thing.
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It's my money and I'll do whatever.
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Me is with it.
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Ohn, Darling, I just want you to have a chance
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to come to your sense.
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There's nothing wrong with my senses. I can see very
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clearly what the the real trouble is. If I didn't
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leave a will, all my money would go to you,
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wouldn't it.
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Well, naturally, i'm your husband. You don't have any other owner.
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That's why you're acting this way. It's just plain and
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simple greed. Una, listen to me. Oh, it's all right,
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it's all right.
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I'm glad you tore up that will Richard, because I
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realize now that I was quite wrong, do you. Yes,
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it's a mistake to leave only nine million of my
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money to the temple.
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I'm going to leave all.
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Of it to doctor Singh.
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When Una actually drafted that incredible document, we called our
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attorney for a Monday morning appointment.
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I realized that I.
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Had to do something very drastic before the weekend was over.
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I had to kill my poor, misguided wife. I had
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to make her one with the universe. It's obvious that
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mister Moresby is going to be a very reluctant murderer.
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The question is will his reluctance get in the way
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of his efficiency. We'll get the details when we returned
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shortly with that too. Now let's return to Richard Moresby.
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In order to find him, we'll have to search the
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highway for Richard has taken his white Jaguar out for
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a spin.
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But there he is now.
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On Saturday morning, I took a little spin in my
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ex kale and did some thinking on the open road.
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I didn't want to kill poor una. Of course, the
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whole idea was repellent.
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But on the other hand, the thought of doctor Singh
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spending the fortune that was rightfully mine was even more abhorrent. However,
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I decided I would make one more stab at a reconciliation, Darling,
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to your living room too.
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It doesn't feel like it.
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Matter of fact, I've felt like a stranger in this
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house for the past two days, and I suppose that's
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my fault. Well, you haven't been exactly cordial, have you.
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I've hardly been home, Richard.
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I spent all day yesterday at the temple, all morning
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at the pet breast kennels.
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And are all the little souls doing?
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You just won't stop being a reverend for you. It's
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been my money all along, hasn't it, Richard? From the
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very beginning you were attracted to my money.
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Darling, If you thought that you would never have married,
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I didn't want to believe it.
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I don't want to believe it now.
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Now, How can I prove to you that you're mistaken?
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Richard?
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Do you really want to prove it? Of course, I'll
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do anything you said.
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All right, Well, I know exactly what you can do.
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You can let me leave my money to doctor Sing
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in the tempoo, the whole ten million.
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Yes, because that's the only way I'll know it's.
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Me you love.
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Well, you can't say I didn't try.
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The only's decision now left me with absolutely no alternative.
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I was still deeply unhappy about the necessity of taking
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your life.
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Honor Faith was kind to me that very afternoon.
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Now you're sure that you.
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Want me to continue reading your child, of course, darling.
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Well, I'm sort of embarrassed about this part.
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It's a paper that I wrote myself, or something you wrote.
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Yeah, I wrote it this morning. I was going to
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show it to doctor Sing. It's well, this is sort
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of a poem.
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It's called death, surfy title. Look, I can read my
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own handwriting.
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Death has become nothing to me.
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Death holds no fear for me. Come death, I welcome you.
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Lead me to the woods, the.
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Waters, the air, above the earth.
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Come take me death. Your touch is kind riches, Oh,
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Richard White, you look like that?
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Is it really that terrible?
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Oh terrible, my darling, It's it's beautiful.
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You mean it.
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You must give it to me. Oh, I must have it?
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You like it that much?
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Yes, I certainly do.
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Well, I'll type it up for you.
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Rich No, I'm must have the original now, just just
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the way you wrote it.
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Oh, darling, I'm so flattered.
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What would you do with it? Oh, I'm going to
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I'm going to put it in a frame, of course,
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and I know just where I'm going to hang it.
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Yes, I could hardly believe my ears Ulla had written
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her own suicide note, and her own handwriting. It was
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truly calmer at work.
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Now there was no question of failure and no longer
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any need for delay. Oh what a lovely idea. This
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was Richard candlelight dinner for two. Yes, I thought you'd
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enjoy it.
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So sweet of you to handle the whole menu with
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cook You spoil me shamefully.
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That night I spoiled her just a bit more by
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bringing hot cocoa to her in bed.
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Oh oh, rich And you shouldn't have started, but I know.
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How you like your hot cocoa before retiring. Only you
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can't get to sleep without it. Yelda Parker could have
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brought it to me. Oh no, this is something I
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had to do myself. Don't drink it down now I'm
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drinking it. Does it taste all right?
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Oh?
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Tastes just fun.
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Now That was very good news, because I'd prepared the
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hot cocoa myself, and I had no idea whether.
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Twenty five melted sleeping pills would seriously affect the flavor.
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Finally, UNU was all tucked in for the night.
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I went into my study, picked up the poem she
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had written for doctor Singh, and brought.
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It to the bedroom. I placed it carefully on the
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night table beside it.
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Then I bent over my sleeping darling to see if
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she was getting along all right.
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She was very quiet. A dreadful thing happened. Open eyes.
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Red Richard, Richard, hush, hush, daring not go go back
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to sleep, Richard, I'm I'm sick.
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No no, no, no, no no, you're only sleeping.
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Go go tasted so strange, I might not have to
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set you.
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Richard, you'll feel much better in the morning, or not.
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I promise you tomorrow morning, you'll you'll be the one
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with the universe. That paper, what paper?
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Dollar is my arm?
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My mother arms?
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Doctor singing? What's it doing? I was just just reading
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it over, Darling. That's all.
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Bottle of my sleeping pills.
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Us, it's.
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Tea.
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The bottle is empty.
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Oh, Richard, Richard have you done nothing, darling, nothing, Now
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just go to.
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Cock you sleeping spills in it of them, I think.
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Don't try to get up. I don't. Don't.
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Don't trying to kill me, trying to do for Having's say, now,
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stop saying things like that.
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Your servants to hear. Oh, somebody, now, come on, light.
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Out, light down, for Haven's sake, Come on now, let
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light up.
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Oh that's that's better. You won't get up with it.
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You won't get Richard. I promise you anything you say, Darling,
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come back, Richard.
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You know how I'll be back.
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Yes, yes, of course. Just just welcome death the way
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you wrote in your little poem, b that hi.
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Swearing.
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Oh.
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The funeral was held two days later. It was a
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magnificent occasion of cross. I gave Ola a farewell that
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was consistent with her vast fortune.
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Everything was the best, often flowers, picture everything.
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Her burial place was one of the choicest bits of
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real estate at Forest Laws. The only discordant note was
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the fact that doctor Singh insisted on saying a few
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words at the service. They were familiar words, but frankly
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they gave me a slight bit of a chill and
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uner Morvesby is dead, but her soul lives on.
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The soul cannot die. The soul is immortal.
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It has left the earthlier remains of this woman and
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has sought the body of a small living thing. There
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it will abide until the almighty is ready to choose
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its next home.
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More not the end of Una Morsty, for there is knowing.
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I couldn't help congratulating myself on how well everything had gone.
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When I called for medical attention the knight of.
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UNA's death, the physician was only too ready to declare
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her suicide. The police had to be informed, naturally, and
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they too agreed with the doctor's verdict.
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Ulla had died by her own hand, and she died
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with all a will.
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There was simply no question that the matter would be
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provailed in my favor. Suddenly I realized I was not
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only rich, but a rich widower. What fist is open
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for me?
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The devil? Look out, your stupid mag.
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I'm trying to get run over. I ad bet I
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was shaken up by it. I mean it was sort
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of coincidence, you know. Right after the fiddle and all that.
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I was very glad to be home again. You can
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be sure.
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Excuse me, mister Margeby. Yes, Parker, Cook is worried about
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the raccoon, Sir lo what There's been a raccoon at
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the kitchen door all morning, and Cook is badly along.
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I'm afraid I've tried to scare it away, but it keeps.
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Me turning a raccoon for having said, why don't you
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just shoot it and make a coat out of it?
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I was wondering if you wished me to call the
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game wardens.
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Please, Parker, do whatever you please about it. I'm going
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to take a nap.
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Yes, very good.
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I went upstairs at once, undressed and got into bed.
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It was a warm day, and yet yet I found
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myself cold. I got out the electric blanket and soon
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felt very cozy. Indeed, in fact, I've felt so much
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better that I made a phone call. Hello, may I
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speak to Rachel.
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Thank you very much. Hello Rachel. Rachel.
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You probably don't even know my name, but it's Moresby,
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Richard Morsby. You met me at the club numerous times.
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I'm the rather distinguished looking gentleman who sits at the
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table on the.
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Far right corner. Yeah, I know, I know it is,
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and I've always regretted it.
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Frankly, I would have enjoyed my lunches at the club
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even moore if you would.
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Serve them stright. Well, what I wanted to find out
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was if you're busy this evening, Oh, what you have
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in mind? A little uh, quiet dinner? Perhaps? Is that
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all you had in mind? Why don't we just wait
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and see. I can pick you up outside the club
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whenever you're free.
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It's you, I mean, I'm still gonna show what him
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when you are.
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Oh, I'll be sitting in the next kale jaguar. Do
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you think you'll recognize it?
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Check?
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I get off at six thirty see you? Then? Yes,
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I was feeling very good, now, very good.
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Indeed, I would have drifted off into a pleasant sleep,
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except for one thing.
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The moment I thought a bomb had gone off in
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the room. Then I realized it was nothing more than
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a bird.
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A foolish sparrow had dived in headfirst into the plate
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00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:59.960
glass window of the bedroom, and now they stunned them
502
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.160
the carpet. I looked at the things fluttering a little heart,
503
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.640
and suddenly I was struck.
504
00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:12.960
By a terrifying competition. Wi the dog, the raccoon, the bird.
505
00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.599
Good Lord could one of them have been.
506
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.759
As Una Moresby returned from the grave in.
507
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:37.039
Oddsense, such things don't really happen, but perhaps we should
508
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:48.440
reserve judgment until I returned shortly with Act three. Now
509
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:51.119
let's see if common sense has returned to our hero.
510
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.000
He's doing a sensible thing right now. He's taking a
511
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:56.359
good refreshing shower.
512
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:04.000
By the time evening came, I was feeling better.
513
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:10.440
All my peculiar notions about UNA's animal reincarnation seemed ludicrous.
514
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:13.119
As I stood in front of the shaving mirror, I
515
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.240
thought about the delicious young woman that was waiting for
516
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.039
me at the club.
517
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.799
I'd admired Rachel's way with a tray for months, but
518
00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:23.640
ever faithful to my wife, I hadn't done more than
519
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:24.680
gays from Afar.
520
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.119
But now things were going to be different. Yes, so
521
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:30.480
is it?
522
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:31.960
It's Parker, sir?
523
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:37.839
Yes, come in, Parker. It's all right. Excuse me, sir,
524
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.279
A bit of emergency in the kitchen.
525
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:41.680
Well, what is it?
526
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:42.839
A snake?
527
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.079
Sir?
528
00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:43.920
Oh?
529
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:44.039
What?
530
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.079
Cook insists that there's a snake curled up in the
531
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:48.920
telephone wire.
532
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:52.880
That's ridiculous, Parker Cook says, it's there.
533
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.680
Mister Mordby they do get into the house.
534
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:57.960
Sometimes we'll tell cook she's seeing things.
535
00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.279
Tell her to stop nipping at the cooking sher and
536
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:02.119
she'll soon stop seeing snakes.
537
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.039
What was that? I would guess it was cook, sir?
538
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.920
Oh for heaven, say go down and see to at Parker.
539
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:13.559
But I'm not very good with snakes.
540
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:24.160
Well what do you think? I am an expert. But
541
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:25.319
that wasn't the end of it.
542
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:29.720
Ten minutes later, Parker was back upstairs, saying that snake
543
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.559
had left the kitchen and run into the living room. No,
544
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.680
I suppose snakes don't run, They slither. It slithered into
545
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:39.599
the living room and was now embracing still another telephone wire,
546
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.160
obviously mistaking it.
547
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:47.559
For a long lost love. But then another another unsettling
548
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.920
thought came into my mind. What if? What if the snake? No, No,
549
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:54.279
that that was ridiculous.
550
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.000
Hello, Hi, Yes, who.
551
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:03.079
This Rachel from the club? Oh? Yes, Rachel?
552
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:03.480
What is it?
553
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.519
Could you make it six instead of six? Thanty? I'll
554
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:09.079
try to sneak out a little early.
555
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:11.799
Yes, fine, I'll be as soon as I can in
556
00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:14.240
the jack War, Yes, yes, in the Jaguar.
557
00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:14.559
Listen.
558
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.000
The reason I want to leave earlier is because my
559
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.160
husband always.
560
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:20.599
Picks me up at six daddy, what was that? So?
561
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.319
I asked one of the girls I work with to
562
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.960
tell him I got another job someplace il Gia.
563
00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:30.400
He likes me to an extra money. Yes, I see,
564
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:32.079
so just to make.
565
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.960
The story look good, I guess you'll have to lend
566
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.319
me a few dollars after our day.
567
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:39.079
Yes, of course.
568
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:43.200
And listen, I really do remember you shook it.
569
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.440
You're the handsome one with a cute bald head. See
570
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:57.440
your sound as it happens. I have a very full
571
00:32:57.519 --> 00:32:58.039
head of hair.
572
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:02.640
But distressing as Rachel's telephone call was, an even more
573
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.480
disturbing thought intruded the snake was in the telephone wire.
574
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.079
What if the sink had been trying to listen in
575
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:15.839
on the extension phone. I knew the idea was absurd,
576
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.000
but I couldn't help the superstitious shiver of dread.
577
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:23.960
In fact, I was so troubled that I decided to
578
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:25.960
forego my date with Rachel the waitress.
579
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:30.160
It wouldn't matter anyway, she'd be angry at some man
580
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.359
at the club with a cute bald head.
581
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.839
The next day, I did the only thing that really
582
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.359
relaxed me. I went to the beach.
583
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.519
It proved to be an excellent idea. I stretched out
584
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.039
on the golden sand and let the sun warm me.
585
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:50.119
I listened to the waves beating against the shore.
586
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.119
I listened to the haunting cries of seagulls surfing overhead.
587
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:58.200
Suddenly I was aware that the gulls, which had been
588
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.920
hovering over the water, now hovering over me. Instead of
589
00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:05.920
their cries being sad and plaintive, now they now.
590
00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:09.440
They seemed menacing. I stood up hastily, But the gulls
591
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.119
seemed to be increasing in number.
592
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:15.920
I saw their sharp pointed beaks. They're raking claws. They
593
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.840
were predators, of course. How many times had I seen
594
00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:21.639
them swoop into a dive and snatch up some poor
595
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.800
fish out of the sea. And there was one sea
596
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:28.599
down in particular, Its beady eyes seemed to be staring
597
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.239
at me. So it was my imagination. Of course, it
598
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.079
wasn't the fish. I was a man, But just the same,
599
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:39.440
I found myself found myself running down the beach, running,
600
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:41.000
running for dear life.
601
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:44.880
And that's that's where I knew it was time to
602
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.519
see a doctor.
603
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:56.320
Yes, mister Morsey, And did it pleased that you honor
604
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.000
the temper with your crass.
605
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.159
I'm greatful met your willing to see me, doctor, saying,
606
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.280
I realized that, well, you had a disappointment. The disappointment,
607
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.239
I'm afraid I don't understand. I know my wife made
608
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:13.079
certain promises to you concerning her will.
609
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:17.119
I believe she mentioned some modest donation. She wasn't in
610
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:19.599
her right mind, of course, I mean when she took
611
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:20.639
her sleeping pills.
612
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:25.119
Yes, it was very sad. I trust that she has
613
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:28.800
found the peace and happiness that she thought. Frankly, that's
614
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.000
that's what I wanted to talk to you about it.
615
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:34.760
I mean about whether you really believe that my wife
616
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.079
is well, that she's some kind of animal right now.
617
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:41.719
But of course I believe it, mister Mosby, I don't
618
00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:47.480
merely believe. I'm positive when your wife passed from this
619
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:51.920
world into the next, rasoul made its a skip, yes,
620
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:53.280
says I know how it goes.
621
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.119
But what I'd really liked your opinion about is what
622
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.599
sort of animals do you think she might be? Now?
623
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:04.440
I told you, mister Morsebeard, we have no way of knowing,
624
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:05.920
But can't you take a guess?
625
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.920
I mean, you said it might be influenced by a
626
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:11.440
person's calmer, am I quoting you right?
627
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:15.440
Is the kind of person she was in life may
628
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:18.039
well determined the kind of animal she is.
629
00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:18.320
Now.
630
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.840
Your wife was soft, Your wife was gentle, Your wife
631
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:25.480
was independent, dispirit.
632
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:31.320
Now what animal does that remind you of? I don't know.
633
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:33.159
I can't think.
634
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:37.800
Then go home and think about it, mister Morsebard, go
635
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.840
home and try to be one with the universe.
636
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:48.800
I went home, and I tried to be one with
637
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.880
the universe. And when that didn't work, I tried being
638
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.000
one with a bottle of scotch. I was still in
639
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:57.840
the library and sleep in the big leather chair. When
640
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.559
I heard the noise in the cellar. I simply had
641
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:06.639
to investigate. I looked into the sewer. I found that
642
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:10.119
one bad ball wasn't enough for a thorough search. I
643
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:13.440
found a flashlight and I went down the cellar steps.
644
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:22.400
Firsts there was nothing I could see, but then it's
645
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:23.360
an empty oil can.
646
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:27.480
Swiftly my my flashlight picked out the culprit. At first
647
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:29.960
I thought it would turn out to be a mouse,
648
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:38.920
but instead instead it was a large white cat. I
649
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:39.880
don't like cats.
650
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:43.480
I never had skulking cynical creatures.
651
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.239
And the beam of by flashlight hit it as the
652
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.159
cat froze. I thought it was an alley cat. It's
653
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.800
it's fur shaggy, it's its eyes nailful in the light.
654
00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:59.719
It was fat, and yet it was bony too. I
655
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:03.079
said I had scat, but it didn't scat. Instead, it
656
00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:09.280
started to walk toward me, and I knew what Doctor
657
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.239
Singh had meant. I knew for certain I was looking
658
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.719
at the reincarnation of my wife.
659
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:19.400
As soon as that hideous copparation howled at me, I
660
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:25.039
rade a cowarded dash for the cellar door. Once I
661
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:27.800
was on the other side, I remembered the hunting rifle
662
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.480
that Una had given me the Christmas.
663
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:35.199
It stood unused in an upstairs closet. I found it.
664
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.199
I loaded it and brought it back to the cellar.
665
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:43.960
I hadn't fired a rifle since boyhood. I stood on
666
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.840
the top of the stairs with my flashlight picked out
667
00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:50.599
the ghostly white form of the cat. I put down
668
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:55.480
the light, raised the weapon, and squeezed the trigger.
669
00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.599
The report was definitely, but the recoil was worse. Therecarious
670
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:02.320
balance on the top step was lost.
671
00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:03.480
I felt to the bottom.
672
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.960
I tried to get up again, but the pain in
673
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.800
my right leg was agonizing. I found out later, and
674
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:23.840
it's broke. Well the cat, the cat was still alive,
675
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.679
and it was regarding me at an eye level. Now
676
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:34.280
it's fur matted with plastic dust, its eyes filled with hatre.
677
00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.920
Tried to crawl towards my fallen rifle.
678
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:42.280
Such as I saw the creature and seemed towards me.
679
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.480
I screamed, oua.
680
00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.599
My hand was on the rifle now, grasping it too
681
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.920
quickly in my panic, my fingers touched the trigger.
682
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:54.079
The rifle went off again.
683
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:06.079
Well that's how Moresby ended up in the hospital chief
684
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.400
with a broken leg and a bullet in his hip,
685
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:09.599
and then he died.
686
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:11.960
But I think he was telling the truth.
687
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:16.119
You can see it in his eyes, his silver eyes, right, yeah,
688
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.760
his silver eyes. And you really believe that the guy's
689
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:23.000
wife came back is at cat to get her revenge?
690
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:26.760
Why does it matter? It's still a good story. Sorry, proudy,
691
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.679
I can't helpkay it.
692
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.280
Well, what if I got more details? What if I
693
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:33.320
talked to this doctor singh? If I went to the
694
00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:36.320
Morsby cellar and found that cat, and what would you do?
695
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:41.119
Then? Ask her if she's missus Moresby. I still think
696
00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:44.119
it's worth a try, Chief. I'll tell you what, proudy,
697
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:48.400
what are you doing for lunch? I hadn't thought about it. Well,
698
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.840
think about buying my lunch.
699
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:50.639
You.
700
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.559
There's a pretty good restaurant right around the corner where
701
00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:56.639
the Morsby's lived. Now he can get a bite there
702
00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:07.519
and then check out that cellar. So, uh, this is
703
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:08.119
where it happened.
704
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:12.440
Man Boysby fell from these steps when he fired that rifle. Hey,
705
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.480
you can still see the plaster dust where the bullet hit.
706
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:18.679
Yeah, I see it, but I don't see any white cat.
707
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:21.840
It might be hiding someplace, or it might be a
708
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:26.280
figment of his imagination if he saw hold it.
709
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:32.719
Did you hear something? No, listen, there it is.
710
00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:38.280
Look hmm it's a catt all right, and it looks
711
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:42.760
like it just found its supper. Oh that mouse is
712
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.280
still alive, but that's for long. Look at the squirm
713
00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.000
he's eating it. Yeah, and there goes your mouse.
714
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:53.079
Oh my god, that's a matter. Probably never see a
715
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:55.880
cat eat a mouse before. Jeez, did you see that mouse?
716
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:56.159
Sure?
717
00:41:56.239 --> 00:42:00.920
I saw it. Didn't you notice something like? Why it's eyes? Chief?
718
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:02.760
Did you ever see a mouse with eyes?
719
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.039
Like that.
720
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:09.159
They were so pale blue they were almost silver.
721
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:18.800
And so the cat and mouse game comes to an end.
722
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:24.559
But according to doctor Singh, there is no end. Perhaps
723
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:28.199
Richard Moresby will have his turn next in another afterlife.
724
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:30.599
I'll be back in a few moments.
725
00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:46.599
Do you believe in reincarnation? Do you believe the dead return?
726
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:52.320
We have to believe it, because here we are the
727
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:57.519
reincarnation of radio drama. We hope you'll keep us alive
728
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:02.039
by listening again to the radio miss Theater. Our cast
729
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:05.920
included Patrick O'Neal, Marion Zodas, Nick Pryor.
730
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:06.760
And Dan Uncle.
731
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.119
The entire production is under the direction of Hyman Brown.
732
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:23.679
My dear, aren't memories something? I don't mean to be obtuse,
733
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:28.679
I just mean there's so many things to so many people,
734
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:37.239
and well beyond. Some memories are sweet, some memories are sour.
735
00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:43.159
Some memories are a combination of the two. And some
736
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:48.800
people like bitter sweet more than they like sweet alone.
737
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:54.840
But no memory has me as bitter as that of
738
00:43:55.079 --> 00:44:05.000
John Jock Todd. Escape.
739
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:13.840
You are groping in the dark of the African jungle night,
740
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:18.000
trapped on a wharf above a crocodile infested river, fighting
741
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:21.480
for your life against a ruthless giant from whom you
742
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.400
must escape.
743
00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:36.239
Escape designed to free you from the four walls of
744
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:38.840
today for a half hour of high adventure.
745
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:46.679
A tonight we escape to the tank jungles of the
746
00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:50.639
Segwanga Valley in Africa, into the heart of a courageous man.
747
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As Robert Simpson told it in his story John Jack Todd, no.
748
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Doubt you may presume my Scotch ancestry from a wee
749
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:18.280
bit of the old speech that still links to my voice,
750
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:21.599
though it's been some years now since I last walked
751
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:25.039
in the heather of the hellens of Abergorie. My name
752
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:28.159
is John Todd, the same as my father's, though to
753
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.320
be sure, he is more often called Jock Todd, Jock
754
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:34.639
being the fighter's equivalent to John, and a name which
755
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:37.719
in no wise applies to me. I am a peace
756
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.840
loving man, not a fighter, and no man can deny
757
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:46.039
it even today. However, in other respects, I was a
758
00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:48.360
raw lad, for certain when I sailed up from Glasgow
759
00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:50.360
and came here to this heathen.
760
00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:50.800
Land of Africa.
761
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.119
And that's a thing which cannot be said of me
762
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:55.719
at present. If a man lives at our in this
763
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:59.280
steaming hot jungle at the Niger River. Then he must
764
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:03.400
learn very quickly, and most especially so if he lands
765
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:07.000
at that dirty little trading post and say Guanga Creek.
766
00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:14.599
FP side by London, coming up.
767
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.199
Hell, here you are, mister hurt sa Gwanga landing, and
768
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:20.480
you can have it as far as I am.
769
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.519
Consultants, Well, I might say the Parlor Company had somewhat
770
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:25.199
more elaborate offices than Glasgow.
771
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.559
Mister Simpsons, Hey, hey, no doubt about that. And how
772
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:29.440
long did you sign up?
773
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:29.519
For?
774
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:30.679
Four years?
775
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.639
Four years waking for them? They catch you fellows in
776
00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:35.280
Glasgow before they ever seen the place.
777
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:39.119
There's a fair looking buildings there on the bank.
778
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:39.960
Reagan buildings.
779
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.079
Hey, what's that help any you want to tear out
780
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:43.480
the world.
781
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:46.840
They don't suppose you've heard anything about rock.
782
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:49.199
And they told me I should report for the agent
783
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.400
in charge. Here a man named Captain Brock hurts.
784
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:55.559
And druck every agent in the stink and jungle calls
785
00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:56.440
himself the captain.
786
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:58.159
That's him there in the world.
787
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:02.239
Heasy, boy, get a lie ready now, all right? Put
788
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:02.679
the model.
789
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:05.320
He's up their size man for seven.
790
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.559
He's big enough right in some ways, so as a
791
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:12.920
gorilla watch out. Can I say I understand you? You will,
792
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:14.719
mister Tudd, if you live long enough.
793
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:18.400
Topside Row's a lion, boy, yes.
794
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:22.519
Me cuts quick that the fellow with him is named Ganson.
795
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:25.519
You get nothing to fear from him till after Box
796
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:28.639
made a move. He's a sneaking little jack all but
797
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.440
he never makes his own kill.
798
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.199
I still can't understand what you're talking about, mister Simpson.
799
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.400
You find out soon enough, butn't help you. No, No,
800
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:38.840
now to go ahead of time? All right, tack here
801
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:41.320
once a week on the river run. But you're still
802
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:41.880
on your own.
803
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.039
You better know it right now, mister Simpson. You will
804
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:45.800
have to explain.
805
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:48.519
No, mister Simpson, all same, plenty fast.
806
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.039
All right, boy, come on, mister Tudd, you may as
807
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:52.079
well meet your new boss.
808
00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:55.400
Coo blong.
809
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:01.519
Look up the amorphae senatious this time have Ganson. Well, Simpson,
810
00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:02.880
you are half a day late, and.
811
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.480
I start running my boat on the schedule. I'll send
812
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:06.239
you a copy of it.
813
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.880
Brock m If there was another boat on this river,
814
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.199
I could ship my stuff on. You know what I
815
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:12.239
would do then, don't.
816
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.119
June, No, you wouldn't rock, not as long as you know,
817
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:16.320
I carry a gun.
818
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.119
Hey you there, you then you junior assistant.
819
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.400
That's right, sir. My name is John Todd.
820
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:26.800
And I assume your cow'll take the time to find
821
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:29.320
out your name later. And I do not give two
822
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:33.199
cents for what you assume. That's tell him, and did
823
00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:37.159
not I tell you to shut up and get out there?
824
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.800
Those natives of the war, right.
825
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:39.320
Joe captain?
826
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:41.320
All right, move along? Are you ready? Peggers? Come on
827
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:44.360
home now you they're wrong, You just step.
828
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:49.320
I have some brandy over the bungalo Simpson, if you
829
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:50.800
would like a drink while the boys.
830
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.199
Are loading, I just had a drink on board.
831
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:57.519
You there, whatever, your name is, John Todd, sir, Ah,
832
00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:59.480
So it is John Todd, is it?
833
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.719
And I suppose you call yourself Jack like the rest
834
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:07.159
of your blasted countrymen, No, said Jock is the name
835
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.079
for a fighting man such as my father gonna say
836
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:10.559
it fits me?
837
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:13.639
So you are not a fighting man.
838
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:13.920
Eh.
839
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:18.320
It makes things a lot easily. You don't hit block.
840
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:21.400
As soon as you're both is loaded, you can bring
841
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:25.920
the lading bills up to the office. Well, Todd, you're
842
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:27.679
going to stand here on the wharf. The rest of
843
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:29.679
the day, No, sir, but I thought you'd be one.
844
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:35.119
You are not paid to think. Get your stuff up
845
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:40.000
to the bungalow and be quick about it. Whatever you say,
846
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:41.559
Captain block.
847
00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:45.039
Four years of it, mister Todd, Welcome to Sagua.
848
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:58.039
I didn't understand it at all the reason for Captain
849
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.960
brock having acted in such a strange way. I'd never
850
00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:03.320
met the man, nor could I think that he'd never
851
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.320
heard of me before. And I couldn't be certain of
852
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:08.719
the extent of the man's authority here in the jungle.
853
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:12.320
The Home Office in Glasgar having been a wee bit
854
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.719
unclear about the matter, they had said only that the
855
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:18.159
agent was very much like the captain a board of ship,
856
00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:22.480
and that he carried full responsibility in his own two hands.
857
00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:27.679
But about the attitude of Captain Brockie himself, I very
858
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.199
soon had few doubts left in my head. I didn't
859
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:34.400
see the man again the afternoon arrived, but a houseboy
860
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:35.840
came and wakened me in the middle of the night
861
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.559
and said the captain wished to see me in the
862
00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:49.079
main room of the bungalow. Immediately, Captain brock the boy said,
863
00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:49.880
you'd sent for meself.
864
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:54.079
You do not have to tell me that it took
865
00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:55.559
you long enough to get here too.
866
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:57.320
I took no more time than to put on a
867
00:50:57.400 --> 00:50:58.000
pair of pants.
868
00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:02.360
Ah, So it makes you argument if to wake you
869
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.079
up in the middle of the night, I was not
870
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:07.800
intending to be, so I am not interested in your intentions,
871
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:08.440
mister Tat.
872
00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:11.480
You will learn to keep a civil tongue in your head. Well,
873
00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:12.079
I was not mean.
874
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:12.559
Shut up.
875
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:15.000
That's better.
876
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.920
And I suppose you're wondering why I had you waked
877
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:20.199
up like this in the middle of the night.
878
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:23.119
I'll presume you had a reason.
879
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:28.000
Oh you presume, do you? Who is? And what do
880
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:29.880
you presume the reason is?
881
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:33.199
I'm afraid I couldn't say. Then I will tell you
882
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:38.079
I sent for you, mister Toad, simply to show you
883
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:41.000
I can have you waked up any time I please
884
00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:45.960
to you. Have no other reason than that, none at all,
885
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:53.920
mister Tat. A fighting man might resent it, but then
886
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.079
you are not one. I you too bad.
887
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.480
All you've got to say to me, then I'll go
888
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:02.159
back to my bed.
889
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:03.440
That is all.
890
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:06.519
Now get out of my office.
891
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.360
Just as you say, Captain Brook.
892
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:21.719
The attitude of the man didn't change. One of the
893
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:24.960
next few weeks, and I couldn't find in my head
894
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:28.760
any reason for his hatred, And it was hatred. It
895
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:30.639
was in his eyes every time he spoke to me.
896
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.440
I took care of my duties and stayed clear of him. Otherwise,
897
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.159
and for the most part, we came to no head
898
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:42.639
on clash. That with the two exceptions, however, the first
899
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:43.760
one happened.
900
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:44.880
About a week after I had arrived.
901
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:47.880
I was supervising a group of Nats at the time
902
00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:50.519
working on the breakwater at the end of the war.
903
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:54.159
It's the time. What the devil are those boys supposed.
904
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:54.159
To be doing.
905
00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:55.719
They're repairing the breakwater.
906
00:52:56.119 --> 00:52:59.159
I can see that without being born. Now where did
907
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:01.239
you get your thought? Or is it to buy the timber?
908
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:04.760
Why you ordered it last week yourself from chee Glory?
909
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.320
Maybe I told you to accept delivery without having me
910
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:09.239
look at it first.
911
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:11.320
You told me to receive it when it came in,
912
00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:14.159
and that's what I did. It's good timber. I checked
913
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:14.679
it myself.
914
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:16.880
How would you know if it is good timber?
915
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:20.079
My father happens to be a forester back in Colin
916
00:53:20.199 --> 00:53:22.079
the devil take you and your father both.
917
00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:26.199
I'd advise you never to say that in my father's hearing.
918
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:30.400
Are you threatening me?
919
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:35.880
No, I'm nothing like that, But I'm sort of suggesting
920
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.119
it isn't always wise to insult.
921
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:38.840
A man you've never seen.
922
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:43.880
I see, now that I come to think of it.
923
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:47.000
He is the one that is a fighter, isn't he?
924
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:53.719
That's correct, the one they called Jack. Well, it is
925
00:53:53.920 --> 00:54:00.280
too bad he is not around here. Mister John Ta boy,
926
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:05.000
you're there, Throw that piece of timber you're using, and
927
00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:07.320
if POOL could see it's too short up on a deal,
928
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.880
I said, throw it out. I will teach you to wager.
929
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:18.239
You get back at your feet, I said, get and
930
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:19.760
your feet before I kick.
931
00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:20.159
Your head off.
932
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:27.639
I'd seen him knock Ganson down the same way and
933
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:30.360
then kick him like I did the natives, and Gansen
934
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:33.760
took it and saved these courses until Brock was not around.
935
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:37.400
I wondered what I might do if he ever tried
936
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:40.960
it on me, And the next week I saw that
937
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:42.960
he would try it sooner or later.
938
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:45.159
Yeah.
939
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.679
Shift thea wanna and his boy coming from back country
940
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:57.119
with a dozen canoes full of palm nuts, and I
941
00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:59.880
was out in the warehouse checking in the load. We
942
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.519
He used a big wicker basket for measure in called
943
00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:05.360
a cooler for some reason or other, and the one
944
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:07.519
as boys would fill this and then we'd dump it
945
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:10.320
on the pilot at the end of the building. Gansen
946
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:12.599
was boushing the load and and I check off each
947
00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.840
cooler in the teybook as it was dump. It was
948
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.920
late in the afternoon when we finally finished.
949
00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:20.440
All right, all right, step loudly now you then light
950
00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:23.280
as yet write no more. The trouble about after that one?
951
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:25.239
All right, Todd is the last one?
952
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:26.840
You got it? Mark? Have you flight Canton?
953
00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:28.400
All right, now you're ruddy beggars.
954
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.079
Let's take it back and top it. Come on, put
955
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:33.400
your backs to a name, pick her up.
956
00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:33.800
Let's you.
957
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:37.119
A shake him out, chake.
958
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:38.039
Him out everything, and.
959
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:42.239
That's what happens. I'm on, chake him out. That does it?
960
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:43.039
All right?
961
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.840
How many killers did we have? Turned eight and twenty
962
00:55:48.239 --> 00:55:51.599
or the many you count? How many caller you'll get?
963
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:57.760
Oh save me? Maybe nineteen to nineteen? Me count? Oh
964
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:02.199
same twenty? Well, Lork, it's not you miss one, Todd,
965
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:03.599
you miss twenty.
966
00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:08.880
I didn't miss one, mister Ganson. Thetally is nineteen turn
967
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:09.199
the wrong.
968
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:13.880
Will you pay me twenty trouble.
969
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:18.440
Strana that stands at nineteen, be a crazy fool to
970
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:19.159
give it two?
971
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:20.199
And what's one cooler?
972
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:20.800
More or less?
973
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:24.320
Meet though Captain Brook, he picks good that.
974
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.039
Will not be necessary to wanna.
975
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:28.840
What is the trouble here, Todd?
976
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.400
I mean you got sense enough to taking a few
977
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.320
palm nuts without getting your feet twisted.
978
00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:35.639
My fate have nothing to do with it, Captain Brook.
979
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:39.159
He claims twenty coolers, and I counted nineteen.
980
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:39.800
Then you missed one.
981
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:41.119
Give him twenty?
982
00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:42.360
Can I do that?
983
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:42.639
Sir?
984
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:43.000
You?
985
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:46.440
What can I sign my name to help cheat the company?
986
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:47.880
Cool? Blimy?
987
00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:48.760
If right down right?
988
00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:49.639
You shut up.
989
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:56.239
Gnson, mister Todd out here, I am the company.
990
00:56:56.800 --> 00:56:58.440
Now write out that credit check.
991
00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:01.599
Whatever you say, Captain Brook.
992
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:04.599
It's taking your orders like a good check.
993
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:12.159
Mister Todd, I thought you'd ched your Hoganson. Well have
994
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:13.719
you got it written? Mister Todd?
995
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:18.679
Here you are Captain.
996
00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:26.119
Brook's lucky you decided. Mister you have made this out
997
00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:33.199
for nineteen, which is according to my account, lusted little,
998
00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:41.519
I'll advise you to stop and think before you move. Well, no,
999
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.119
you wouldn't be picking up that shovel with any hostile intent,
1000
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:50.480
would you no man, no more than you'd be advanced
1001
00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:58.360
and tadd me with a hostile intent like that, Doanna,
1002
00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:01.760
I'm tearing up this track. I will give you one
1003
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:05.360
myself for twenty you always come to me. I will
1004
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:06.000
make it right with.
1005
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:10.199
You, Yes, Captain all same like you say mm hmm.
1006
00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:15.280
And mister Todd, I will make it right with you too.
1007
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:17.920
You can depend on that.
1008
00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:25.559
Roc stayed clear of me for a few weeks, and
1009
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:27.719
outside of the job of work I was hired to do,
1010
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:28.760
I had.
1011
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:29.440
No words with him.
1012
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:33.159
I recall mister Simpson saying to watch out for him.
1013
00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:36.119
I was here certain he was only waiting for the
1014
00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:39.159
chance to make his move. He outweighed me for fifty pounds,
1015
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:41.679
and I knew beyond doubt that I couldn't stand up
1016
00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:45.360
to him. But what really worried me was not known
1017
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:48.440
of any reason for the man's attitude. It made no
1018
00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:50.679
sense that a man should go looking for a fight
1019
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:55.039
without no reason at all. At any rate, the weeks passed,
1020
00:58:55.639 --> 00:58:59.280
the jungle steamed, and the muddy river rolled past the wharf,
1021
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:08.199
and then one day it happened Sunday was my one
1022
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:10.639
three day in the week, so I'd hired a canoe
1023
00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:12.599
and paddled up stream for a visit with a fellow
1024
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:16.840
countryman at another trading post some few miles away. It
1025
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.239
was just getting dark when I came back to the wall,
1026
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:22.760
and when I got in close, I saw Brocks standing
1027
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.280
there smoking, leaning on a pilot.
1028
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:26.159
At the far side.
1029
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:29.920
The watchboy squatted near the edge waiting to take the
1030
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:35.280
line from my canoe. He caught it and pulled the
1031
00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:38.760
boat in and made it fast, and I climbed out onto.
1032
00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:41.880
The war ow. Good trick, Muster Tod, not so bad,
1033
00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:46.840
bit hot, that was all you savey Which place canoe
1034
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:47.320
man live?
1035
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:49.480
Yes, sir, live on breakwater side?
1036
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:54.119
Then go tell him, come get canoe. Tell him two
1037
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.320
day pass, I give him check for pay.
1038
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:02.880
Live on now, till man, please soon, boy, you're there.
1039
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:06.719
He's hold and Brock, did I give you permission to
1040
01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:11.519
leave the war mussa? What Muster Todd is I tell
1041
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:14.199
you you could leave moussa?
1042
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:17.440
All right? And go get the head man.
1043
01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:21.360
Tell him I want him here right away, and you
1044
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:30.199
come back with him. Oh boy, all right, Todd, get
1045
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:31.079
up to your quarters.
1046
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:35.039
I think I'll be staying right here. Captain Brock. If
1047
01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:37.000
your planning to tie that boy to a post and
1048
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:39.400
flog him, because I have no doubt you've decided to do.
1049
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.440
Then you'll be having a word with me first, Canson.
1050
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:45.559
Is that you all right?
1051
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:47.280
Y'are cap I heard what he said.
1052
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:48.920
If it's a witness you want it, I will tell
1053
01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:52.800
you when I want anything, Captain, no man. Take mister
1054
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:54.800
Todd up to his room and keep him there. I
1055
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:55.960
will attend to him later.
1056
01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:58.840
If either of you lay a hand on me, it
1057
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.400
will be a most up a day in your lives.
1058
01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:08.760
You don't say so, mister Tar, mister John, I've told
1059
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:10.119
you what you may expect.
1060
01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:11.320
Show you hair.
1061
01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:15.880
I am not to lay a hand on you, not
1062
01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:16.679
even like.
1063
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:20.119
This till the proper hit him again.
1064
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:21.599
Mister Toad, get.
1065
01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:26.159
At his foot smash into my side. I tried to
1066
01:01:26.360 --> 01:01:28.280
get up onto my knees and I couldn't.
1067
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.760
I told you to get up again.
1068
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:34.760
I know it wouldn't take many to finish me off.
1069
01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:37.679
My head hung over the side of the wharf. I
1070
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.280
made one effort and rolled off into the water.
1071
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.039
There he's calling it to the water, Captain, maybe because
1072
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:46.960
when that is his hard luck, I supposed trousers, the
1073
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:49.119
resident commission will be done almost but certain I don't
1074
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:49.960
want to shie him.
1075
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:54.519
Afghanstan, Yes, sir, he can't swim all right there he
1076
01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:56.000
is now climbing out on the bank.
1077
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:00.800
May what's the matter, mister Parr. You are not leaving
1078
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:04.079
us Io. You have not changed your mind about having
1079
01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:07.199
a word with me, have you? Mister Chad.
1080
01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:17.199
Back in my own quarter, as I changed into dry clothes,
1081
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:20.480
hurrying as fast as I could, I couldn't have find
1082
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.159
it in my heart to be angry with the man.
1083
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:25.000
He had struck me without warning and kicked me while
1084
01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:27.599
I was down, and they was panning out to flog
1085
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:30.039
a native boy without the lad having committed to vote.
1086
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:34.159
It was not a thing to become angry about. Captain
1087
01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:37.280
Brock had to be punished, that was all, And though
1088
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.800
it would mean my own life most likely, it had.
1089
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.599
To be done. It was snow more than a matter
1090
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:54.360
of simple justice. Within five minutes I was back at
1091
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.159
the wall. The watchboy had come back with the headman,
1092
01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:59.119
and a group of natives had gathered.
1093
01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:01.440
Around the circle of light. Will not fire a hurricane lantern.
1094
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:03.960
They didn't see me at first.
1095
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:07.960
All right, Ganson his hands up all his head and
1096
01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:11.400
tie them there, stretch your mark right the captain. The
1097
01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:13.920
watch boy stood there, trembling with fear, while Ganson bound
1098
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:14.920
his hands to the heavy post.
1099
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.320
Hurry after, you come, sifool, and make it tight. I
1100
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.400
wanted to hang there after I'm through with him.
1101
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:23.239
Oh he'll do that all right, cap Miss Todd.
1102
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.639
Well, mister you are just in time to see the
1103
01:03:29.679 --> 01:03:31.280
boy again what he's coming to him?
1104
01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:37.400
Rock. I told you before you'll not be doing this
1105
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:38.679
without having a word with me.
1106
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:42.119
I was under the impression that you had already had
1107
01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:45.880
your word, mister Tar. You've been laying into me ever
1108
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.760
since I came here. For reasons if your own, whatever they.
1109
01:03:48.719 --> 01:03:52.599
Might be, and one do you plan to do about it?
1110
01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:53.280
Mister Tar?
1111
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:56.199
You may be somewhat within your rights in that respect,
1112
01:03:56.280 --> 01:03:57.840
but you're not so when you hit a man with
1113
01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.679
that warning and kick him while he's lying on the ground.
1114
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:02.159
Kevin, give him what for?
1115
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:05.199
I take it, then, mister Todd, you have objections to
1116
01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:08.360
hitting a man without warning? Perhaps it is the thing
1117
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:10.400
your father would not think of doing.
1118
01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:13.800
No objections, mister Rock now, but I know you do
1119
01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:16.559
it well. It's a thing that one can do as
1120
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:17.199
well as the other.
1121
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:21.079
Here you I don't mind not that I know.
1122
01:04:22.760 --> 01:04:24.199
I cropped him along one side of the head and
1123
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:25.760
then again or the other. And why do you rock
1124
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:27.840
back from the blows? I trenched my hands around his stick,
1125
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:29.760
fingers into his throat.
1126
01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:34.119
Stop, Kevin, tells out your bloody don't stop.
1127
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:36.159
Crust and struggled and twitching for I held on and
1128
01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:39.360
kept choking him, tensing my hands tighter and tighter. He
1129
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:40.840
struck at me, and I let go with one hand
1130
01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:41.679
and cuffed him again.
1131
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:42.480
And he.
1132
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:47.360
Mistake in my pot for the and raging. So he
1133
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:49.440
taught himself loose and smash his fish into my face.
1134
01:04:50.719 --> 01:04:51.760
You gotta love Kevin.
1135
01:04:53.559 --> 01:04:54.159
I have a shory.
1136
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:57.719
Kill him, Kevin killing.
1137
01:04:59.519 --> 01:04:59.760
God.
1138
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:01.400
Haven't can his bloody.
1139
01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:01.760
Anything for him?
1140
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.039
Give him a good lot. He's got your.
1141
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:08.880
Rankers head Dimmand when he's gone.
1142
01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:12.360
And you're running for you're breaking his leg.
1143
01:05:12.440 --> 01:05:19.440
That's right, Canson. Get up, rock on your feet. Man
1144
01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:24.119
through only pretended, Come on, get up on your feet.
1145
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:26.320
I get up, you.
1146
01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:29.239
Blimy.
1147
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:32.440
If you ain't broken, I doubt it. I'm taking it
1148
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:36.880
to only twisted Canson. Yes, the boys give him hand
1149
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:39.199
to his room if he needs it. I'm going to
1150
01:05:39.239 --> 01:05:42.320
my quarters and clean up a bit right miss to
1151
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:44.280
Todd and Captain Brock.
1152
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:46.880
You have no reason to be calling me a killer.
1153
01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:49.880
I'm a peace loving man, and I have no good
1154
01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:52.119
opinion of such things as killing in fighting.
1155
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:54.599
Tried to do me in, Todd.
1156
01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:58.519
You are going to pay for it. I'm going to
1157
01:05:58.639 --> 01:05:59.159
kill you for it.
1158
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:01.239
Maybe today, i'll be next month, but I am going
1159
01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:03.159
to kill you. You can't count on it.
1160
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:12.480
I went to my quarters then, and I didn't know
1161
01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:13.599
what happened just after that.
1162
01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:17.159
I didn't know about Block kicking Gansen off the stairs
1163
01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:19.599
while the little man was trying to help him, nor
1164
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:23.679
about Ganson going to the Captain's room a few minutes afterward.
1165
01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:29.559
How are you feeling, Captain.
1166
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:31.960
I'll shut your mouth, Ganson, or I will shut it
1167
01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:32.280
for you.
1168
01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:36.320
You've got no call to betraying me like that. I'd
1169
01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:38.199
have helped you if I could, but they just want
1170
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:41.119
no chance. They'd have done for me the same as.
1171
01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:42.199
You can shut up.
1172
01:06:43.800 --> 01:06:45.280
I cannot even move my leg.
1173
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.599
It wan't no cold to kick me A while ago,
1174
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:50.440
neither I could get out of this chair.
1175
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:52.280
I'd do the same again.
1176
01:06:53.559 --> 01:06:57.199
You can't get up, Kevin Bruh, How could I hope
1177
01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:59.159
to well?
1178
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:02.039
What is in your mind, you little beggar.
1179
01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:06.239
You've been booting me around for nearly two years now,
1180
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:10.559
haven't you the autonomy? The first minute I landed like
1181
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:13.199
you've got an abbot of doing when a bloke is new,
1182
01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:14.119
and I.
1183
01:07:14.119 --> 01:07:16.079
Will break your darky little nick as soon as I
1184
01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:16.519
can walk.
1185
01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:20.679
You've been treating me like a ruddy dog, capt'n, and
1186
01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:24.840
I've been taking it too until now.
1187
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:27.719
Ooh, what are you up to?
1188
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:31.519
Henson eh Anson?
1189
01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:40.800
I sat in my room for a long time, holding
1190
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:42.760
the distol I'd taken from a door of the desk.
1191
01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:46.599
I couldn't see any way out of it. Sooner or
1192
01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:49.559
later that the first chance you could find Brok was
1193
01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:52.920
going to kill me. And aside from murdering the man
1194
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:55.679
in cold blood, I didn't see any way of preventing him.
1195
01:07:56.360 --> 01:07:58.719
I couldn't leave the trading post, and for certain I
1196
01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:01.320
couldn't stay on my guard for twenty four hours a day.
1197
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:04.719
I couldn't say how long it was.
1198
01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:07.840
I sat there, holding the pistol in my hand and
1199
01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:11.159
trying to think how I might keep from dying, and
1200
01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:14.119
not even knowing why the man hated me enough to
1201
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:18.439
wish to kill me. Then I heard somebody coming down
1202
01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:22.399
the hall outside my door. But for a moment they
1203
01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:23.560
might be going passed.
1204
01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:24.760
But then.
1205
01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:35.439
I raised the gun and pointed at the door, dancer,
1206
01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:39.319
dancing man.
1207
01:08:39.399 --> 01:08:40.760
What have you done to your hands?
1208
01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:43.000
Man?
1209
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:48.000
Oh you ought to see him, mister Todd. You ought
1210
01:08:48.039 --> 01:08:51.119
to come take a look at him. Oh, blody, if
1211
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:54.720
I ain't marked him up all right? I marked him good.
1212
01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:55.399
What do you saying?
1213
01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:55.600
Man?
1214
01:08:55.760 --> 01:08:59.359
What have you done? He was always thought he was
1215
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:02.479
so much just because it was bigger than me.
1216
01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:06.279
I showed him all right, what have you done?
1217
01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:10.359
And you can't take a look for yourself, mister Todd,
1218
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:14.319
Come and see what used to be so I a
1219
01:09:14.560 --> 01:09:31.560
mighty calling itself kept and brook. Take a look at him,
1220
01:09:31.600 --> 01:09:35.239
mister Todd. He ain't quite so tough now as he
1221
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:36.079
was before.
1222
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:39.439
You done to him.
1223
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:46.560
With my own two hands.
1224
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:48.039
I've done it, mister Todd.
1225
01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:49.600
I beat his face to.
1226
01:09:52.439 --> 01:09:57.159
Get as bad as he as. Gunson. You're not going
1227
01:09:57.199 --> 01:09:59.359
to hit your brock get your own gunton.
1228
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:06.479
Ah, anyway, I marked him. I've marked his place up good, so.
1229
01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:08.399
It will show for a long time.
1230
01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:10.640
Again.
1231
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:13.800
Shut up your great glove around baby, most like you
1232
01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:16.800
live through it, all right? Oh you may never look
1233
01:10:16.920 --> 01:10:20.079
the same again. Hell And you've been having a bit
1234
01:10:20.119 --> 01:10:21.760
of excitement, oh, mister Simpson.
1235
01:10:22.079 --> 01:10:24.239
He doted the wharf ten minutes ago. The boys told
1236
01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:28.720
me what had happened to you? Good plot, you did
1237
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:30.399
all that not to his face.
1238
01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:34.640
Gunson has been settling up an old score. I'm afeared
1239
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:36.399
the little man has a vicious disposition.
1240
01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:40.560
I never thought i'd see it. Brock praying like.
1241
01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:43.960
A baby, and the sound of it fairly sickened me.
1242
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:47.119
Suppose we step outside and let him be.
1243
01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:55.960
Hit me plea, mister Simpson, I've found out why Captain
1244
01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:57.279
Broock hated me the way he did.
1245
01:10:58.439 --> 01:10:59.520
Well, he threatened to kill me.
1246
01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:03.159
But do you think it is the man?
1247
01:11:03.279 --> 01:11:05.800
The coward? That's all you saw him in.
1248
01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:06.399
There just now.
1249
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:09.840
He knew he was a coward, and he was afraid
1250
01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:12.920
i'd find it out. You may be right, there's no
1251
01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:16.159
doubt of it. And I'm thinking you'll have him for
1252
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:19.720
a passenger when you go back down river'll not be
1253
01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:23.399
able to stay here now that we understand him, and
1254
01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:25.399
I'll see to it that Gunson goes along with him.
1255
01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:28.680
Helly, I can't say that I'll mind the change.
1256
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:32.119
I mean, doing business here from now on with a
1257
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:34.359
gent by the name of Jock Todd.
1258
01:11:35.039 --> 01:11:35.279
Job.
1259
01:11:36.359 --> 01:11:40.479
Oh no, you're taking me all wrong. I'm a peace
1260
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:44.159
loving man and my name is John. It's no wise
1261
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:46.760
proper to call a man jock unless he's a fighter.
1262
01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:50.479
Now you take my father for instance. Here's a man
1263
01:11:50.520 --> 01:11:52.439
who can hold his own in any kind of company.
1264
01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:54.119
Well, I don't know.
1265
01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:09.640
Escape Produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight Brought You
1266
01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:13.479
John Jack Todd by Robert Simpson, Adapted for radio by
1267
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:17.840
Les Crutchfield, featuring Wilms Herbert as John Todd, Jack Krusian
1268
01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:21.720
as Captain Brock, and Tony Barrett as Ganson, with Don
1269
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:25.680
Diamond and Paul McVeigh. The musical score was conducted by
1270
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:26.479
Wilbur Hatch.
1271
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:35.000
Next week, you are rushing forward through time, far into
1272
01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:38.920
the future, trying desperately to flee the clutching fingers of
1273
01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:42.920
a band of night creatures, a dreamlike horror from whom
1274
01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:46.520
there seems no escape.
1275
01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:59.800
Next week we escape with H. G. Wells's awesome story
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01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.159
The Time Machine. Good Night.
1277
01:13:02.279 --> 01:13:05.000
Then until the same time next week, when once again
1278
01:13:05.079 --> 01:13:13.479
we offer you escape. This's the CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting.
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Do you ever struggle to believe, not necessarily anything spiritual
1280
01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:47.279
or religious. Heaven forbid. No do you ever struggle to
1281
01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:55.600
believe your own will, your own observations, The observations of
1282
01:13:55.680 --> 01:14:00.640
others are easy to doubt. But when doubting oneself, things
1283
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:05.079
can get a little messy and quickly.
1284
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:05.720
At that.
1285
01:14:07.800 --> 01:14:12.680
I feel like sometimes when I'm certain of something, I
1286
01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:19.079
should tried it. Take it, perhaps to the well The
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1295
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stories of mystery and terror. John Dixon Carr's famous novel
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1298
01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:51.680
Ah a glass of sherry by the fireside of a
1299
01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:56.560
beautiful suburban home. What could be more comforting? You're an
1300
01:15:56.600 --> 01:16:00.920
admirable host, mister lepa, and it's really, our first meeting
1301
01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:03.880
is under such a cloud. It's also a shame I
1302
01:16:03.960 --> 01:16:06.520
have so little time to tell you which one of
1303
01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:20.039
your guests here a murdered your uncle last week. Now
1304
01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:23.600
let's see now, I believe we're all here, Your wife,
1305
01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:26.439
your friend, mister Stevens, Captain Brennan.
1306
01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:29.920
Yes, and accidentally yourself. Just who did you say you were?
1307
01:16:30.279 --> 01:16:33.479
Will no wonder you've had so much difficulty with the case, Captain.
1308
01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:39.640
My name is Cross, go Dan Cross, the writer. As
1309
01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:42.239
a matter of fact, it's because of my just completed book,
1310
01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:45.279
Poisoning Throughout the Ages that I happen to be here now,
1311
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:48.239
and Ted Stevens there happens to be a member of
1312
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:51.079
the firm which publishes my work. I'd never seen him
1313
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:55.319
until tonight, but I've been told what happened. This afternoon.
1314
01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:58.199
He began reading my manuscript for the first time on
1315
01:16:58.359 --> 01:17:02.239
the train, the commuter Trade, which every afternoon deposited him
1316
01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:05.720
safely and soundly here in Crispin. I imagine he was
1317
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:08.239
halfway home by the time he finished the first chapter.
1318
01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:10.880
Then he turned a page.
1319
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:16.159
Attached to the following leaf was a picture, and looking
1320
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:20.399
at it, the young man stiffened. Suddenly and all but
1321
01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:23.800
cried out his shock. It was a picture of a
1322
01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:30.199
young woman, and under it had been printed famous poisoner
1323
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:36.800
Marie Doubray sixteen seventy six. Ted Stevens was looking at
1324
01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:50.880
a picture of his own wife. Imagine, imagine his twenty
1325
01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:55.439
five year old wife in seventeenth century costume. The face,
1326
01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:58.960
the features, even a wistfulness of expression, were identical.
1327
01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:00.079
Even the name h.
1328
01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:04.000
Dobray was his wife's maiden name. But no, no, no,
1329
01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:07.880
that was ridiculous. This woman in the picture was well
1330
01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:09.479
one of his wife's ancestors.
1331
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:10.880
Yes, that was it, That was it.
1332
01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:15.319
Simply an amazing family resemblance. Marie would be waiting for
1333
01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:17.000
him at the station, and he'd have to tell her
1334
01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:21.159
about it, he wondered. Why, however, she never told him
1335
01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:25.720
about Oh, hell, but you don't discuss such an ancestor,
1336
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.079
do you. Ted Stevens glanced down at the chapter to
1337
01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:30.600
which the picture had been attached.
1338
01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:35.119
It was entitled The Affair of the Non Dead Woman.
1339
01:18:43.319 --> 01:18:43.560
Hello.
1340
01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:46.880
Ted Stevens was almost joldered from his seat.
1341
01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:50.039
It was doctor Weldon, professor of English at the College,
1342
01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:52.800
an old friend of his. Quickly he thrust the picture
1343
01:18:52.840 --> 01:18:54.279
beneath the manuscript.
1344
01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:57.359
And moved over. Hi, I didn't see you, Doc, Oh, here,
1345
01:18:57.800 --> 01:18:59.800
have a seat. I thought maybe you were giving me
1346
01:18:59.880 --> 01:19:02.520
the uh what do they call it? The brush off?
1347
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:02.840
Oh?
1348
01:19:03.039 --> 01:19:07.199
No, I say, as a matter of fact, Doc, you're
1349
01:19:07.239 --> 01:19:10.199
the one man I do want to see. Very flattering.
1350
01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:14.560
Remember those discussions we used to have about murders better
1351
01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:15.479
than Bridge anytime?
1352
01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:17.720
Well, I got the idea that you made sort of
1353
01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.840
a hobby out of the old cases, the historical one all.
1354
01:19:20.960 --> 01:19:23.880
I've studied quite a number of them. Yes, never hear
1355
01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:28.880
of a woman named Marie Wray read Debray.
1356
01:19:30.239 --> 01:19:31.439
Read Pray.
1357
01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:36.640
Oh, yes that was her name, of course, one of
1358
01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:40.319
the finest specialist and arsenic poisonings you could ever hope
1359
01:19:40.359 --> 01:19:44.000
to find. We're almost at our station, said, let's get
1360
01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:44.399
to the door.
1361
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:47.439
Yes, a real charmer.
1362
01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:51.239
Murray was must have discolded half a hundred husbands, lovers,
1363
01:19:51.279 --> 01:19:53.640
suitors and just plain friends.
1364
01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:56.399
Before she was called. What happened to her?
1365
01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:56.640
Doc?
1366
01:19:56.960 --> 01:19:59.079
She was beheaded and burned.
1367
01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:00.960
Christmas.
1368
01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:16.000
Oh absurd, laughable ted Stevens kept saying this to himself,
1369
01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:18.880
and yet what he knew was a foolish dread followed
1370
01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:21.199
him straight through the small suburban.
1371
01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:23.560
Station and clung to him as he reached the street,
1372
01:20:24.520 --> 01:20:27.800
and there in the roadster was Marie, leaning toward him
1373
01:20:27.800 --> 01:20:30.479
a little to hold the door open, and smiling at him.
1374
01:20:31.239 --> 01:20:33.600
Oh, dear, what on earth youer stirring?
1375
01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:33.760
It?
1376
01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:35.800
That straight light shining on your hair?
1377
01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:36.640
I like that.
1378
01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:39.920
Ooh, you're tired, Come on, get in the car.
1379
01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:48.239
Then like a wisp of smoke, it was gone. The
1380
01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:51.039
whole ridiculous fear, the delusion.
1381
01:20:51.880 --> 01:21:03.439
When at home, Marie brought the cocktails into the living room,
1382
01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:07.920
the logs were burning brightly in the fireplace, throwing a soft,
1383
01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:10.880
dancing glow upon a room that was darkening with dusk.
1384
01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:14.600
To you, Marie, and to you dear.
1385
01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:20.600
As Stevens placed his glass down, he noticed the manuscript
1386
01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:23.520
of my book. It was there on the table, right
1387
01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:26.920
where he placed it when he first came in. Deliberately
1388
01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:30.880
he turned from it and then turned back. The manuscript
1389
01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:34.560
had been moved only an inch or so, but it
1390
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:38.640
had been moved. Keeping his back to his wife, he
1391
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:42.279
thrumbed through that early chapter and discovered, just as he
1392
01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:51.479
knew he would, that the photograph was gone. For a
1393
01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:54.720
long moment he thought of what to do. Then slowly
1394
01:21:55.560 --> 01:22:02.439
he turned around this book by cross Home. Yeah, there
1395
01:22:02.520 --> 01:22:03.960
was a story of poisoner in it.
1396
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:07.239
Rather funny. Her name happens to be the same as yours.
1397
01:22:07.399 --> 01:22:12.000
If your maiden name, that is odd, isn't it, Darling?
1398
01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:14.399
Well she a relative of yours?
1399
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:18.000
Why did You're serious in a way?
1400
01:22:18.279 --> 01:22:20.560
Yes? Oh, I don't mean it. It's really important.
1401
01:22:20.640 --> 01:22:21.079
It's just that.
1402
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:23.520
Well, when you run across a person who's a dead
1403
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:25.359
ringer for your own wife and who lived three hundred
1404
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:25.960
years ago.
1405
01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:28.720
And was a top flight poisoner, well you like to
1406
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:29.800
hear about it, that's all.
1407
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:31.800
What on earth are you talking about?
1408
01:22:32.439 --> 01:22:35.600
Darling? Be honest with me. Didn't you look at this
1409
01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:37.159
manuscript when I was out of the room.
1410
01:22:37.439 --> 01:22:40.520
No, you didn't take out a picture of a poisoner
1411
01:22:40.600 --> 01:22:42.800
named Marie wa I most certainly did not.
1412
01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:47.479
Oh what is this all about? How are you getting it?
1413
01:22:47.880 --> 01:22:47.920
For?
1414
01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:51.439
Just this? Somebody took that picture out of that manuscript
1415
01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:56.000
since i'd been home. Who's that? Well, I'll take a look,
1416
01:22:56.720 --> 01:22:59.359
and I don't feel like why it's Mark?
1417
01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:00.920
Mark?
1418
01:23:01.479 --> 01:23:07.159
Ted? Wait a second, Ted, whatever is you want? Promise
1419
01:23:07.319 --> 01:23:08.000
you won't do it.
1420
01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:10.079
Promise I won't do it.
1421
01:23:11.119 --> 01:23:15.520
Promise you won't get yourself involved. Please, Ted, don't go
1422
01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:16.239
out tonight.
1423
01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:17.479
So what in the world is.
1424
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:19.119
Well?
1425
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:23.960
Anyway, we can't let him stay outside, Mark, how are
1426
01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.920
you come on in? Thanks to thinking about giving you
1427
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:27.600
a call later.
1428
01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:32.039
Let me have your thanks, I Maria, I hope you'll
1429
01:23:32.039 --> 01:23:34.720
excuse me for popping in like this, but well I
1430
01:23:34.800 --> 01:23:35.800
wanted to talk to Ted.
1431
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:38.840
It's rather important. Well I don't mind at all. Come on, Mark,
1432
01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:40.600
we'll step into the library. Do you mind, dear?
1433
01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:43.159
Of course, not Ed. I'll be waking the sandwiches for I'll.
1434
01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:44.000
Grab that chair in the corner.
1435
01:23:44.119 --> 01:23:46.039
Mark. Well, let's hear it.
1436
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:50.680
What's the trouble, Ted? My uncle Miles was murdered?
1437
01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:51.800
Murdered?
1438
01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:54.720
Oh, the talk hasn't reached you yet, but it's already started.
1439
01:23:55.319 --> 01:23:58.720
Nothing definite, of course, just that there was something wrong
1440
01:23:58.760 --> 01:23:59.840
about uncle miles death.
1441
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:03.239
But I don't Mark, are you sure of this? No,
1442
01:24:03.399 --> 01:24:05.680
he was murdered. I don't know, of course, I don't.
1443
01:24:06.399 --> 01:24:08.279
I just don't see how it could be any other way.
1444
01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:11.239
Uncle Miles, you know, had been sick for quite a while,
1445
01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:14.039
but last Saturday he seemed so much better that Miss
1446
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:17.119
Corbett that was his nurse, decided to take the day
1447
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:17.520
off and.
1448
01:24:17.800 --> 01:24:18.800
Oh you know all this.
1449
01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:22.600
You and Marie were over that afternoon. Anyway, Lucy and
1450
01:24:22.640 --> 01:24:25.239
I went to the club that night, to that masquerade party,
1451
01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:29.520
and we left the old boy completely alone. I've cursed
1452
01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:32.000
myself a thousand times since thought, what about.
1453
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:35.359
Your housekeeper, missus? What her name Henderson? Wasn't she around?
1454
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:35.960
Sure?
1455
01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:39.920
In that little house out and beck? We told her
1456
01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:40.840
to look in now and then.
1457
01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:44.479
But well that wasn't good enough. It was after midnight
1458
01:24:44.520 --> 01:24:49.079
when Lucy and I got back. Uncle Miles was dying ted.
1459
01:24:49.399 --> 01:24:52.319
It looked exactly like one of his regular attacks. But
1460
01:24:52.439 --> 01:24:57.520
then later, after he was gone, I happened to glance
1461
01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:00.159
under the chest of drawers in his room. It was
1462
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:04.840
a small silver cup under there, almost drained, and Uncle
1463
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:05.479
miles cat.
1464
01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:11.000
The cat was still warm, but quite dead.
1465
01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:11.439
Oh.
1466
01:25:12.399 --> 01:25:13.880
I managed to get the cat out of the house
1467
01:25:13.920 --> 01:25:17.000
and buried without anyone seeing me. Next day I had
1468
01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:22.760
the contents of the cup analyzed. It was poison, yes, arsenic.
1469
01:25:25.279 --> 01:25:27.600
Well what do you want me to do?
1470
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:30.399
Help me open the crypt? What I want to have
1471
01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.920
a private autopsy performed. Help me get Uncle Miles's body
1472
01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:36.359
out of that vault. Oh, I know, it's a tough job.
1473
01:25:36.439 --> 01:25:37.560
The thing is sealed solid.
1474
01:25:37.640 --> 01:25:39.680
But we can do it, you mean without the police
1475
01:25:39.720 --> 01:25:43.239
knowing about it, without anybody knowing about it. Missus Henderson's
1476
01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:45.600
visiting her sister, and I managed to send Lucy over
1477
01:25:45.640 --> 01:25:48.680
to the club. You must be crazy playing with dynamite, Mark,
1478
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:50.640
This is something you've got to tell the police.
1479
01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:50.800
Now.
1480
01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:53.359
I can't take that chair. Must They'll have to know sometimes,
1481
01:25:53.399 --> 01:25:54.680
You're only I got to know first.
1482
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:59.000
I tell you you don't understand it. It was somebody
1483
01:25:59.039 --> 01:26:02.199
in uncle Miles's room night, handing him something in a
1484
01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:05.520
silver cup. Missus Henderson was on the porch by the window.
1485
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:08.920
She saw her, She saw her tied.
1486
01:26:10.039 --> 01:26:12.039
She thinks it was my wife.
1487
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:13.960
Oh, Lucy.
1488
01:26:14.199 --> 01:26:17.039
It doesn't mean anything to missus Henderson yet because she
1489
01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:18.039
doesn't suspect anything.
1490
01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:21.760
But well, ten, you've got to see why. I've got
1491
01:26:21.840 --> 01:26:24.159
to be sure why. I've got to know how Uncle
1492
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:27.560
Miles died because it wasn't Lucy, Ted. I know it wasn't,
1493
01:26:27.640 --> 01:26:30.000
of course not Mark. She had an alibi. What she
1494
01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:31.319
was with you at the club, wasn't she?
1495
01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:31.680
Yes?
1496
01:26:32.800 --> 01:26:36.279
Except for half an hour. I see you will help me,
1497
01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:36.920
won't you, Ted?
1498
01:26:37.720 --> 01:26:38.359
When do we start?
1499
01:26:38.640 --> 01:26:41.119
As soon as you can make it okay, Come on now,
1500
01:26:41.279 --> 01:26:43.199
I'll get your head. You trod on ahead. Now'll come
1501
01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:45.000
over as soon as I can see Marie. You're not
1502
01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:46.920
going to tell her about this, of course not.
1503
01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:48.319
I'll think of something.
1504
01:26:48.319 --> 01:26:49.039
Don't you worry about it?
1505
01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:49.680
No? Thanks, Ted?
1506
01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:57.279
Thanks a lot, Uh, Marie Darling Mark asked me to.
1507
01:26:59.359 --> 01:26:59.600
Bet it.
1508
01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:01.880
Take your sandwiches with you will be hungry?
1509
01:27:03.600 --> 01:27:04.319
K Who I was going on?
1510
01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:09.600
Yes, I knew I couldn't help it, Ted, I had
1511
01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:12.439
an idea what Mark's visit was about. To talk about
1512
01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:15.359
his uncle dead. There's a lot of gossip about it
1513
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:17.720
in the village. That's why I tried to tell you.
1514
01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:20.159
I didn't want you to get.
1515
01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:20.640
Mixed up in it.
1516
01:27:21.399 --> 01:27:22.840
But it's too late, No, isn't it.
1517
01:27:22.960 --> 01:27:24.199
I mean you're going.
1518
01:27:24.319 --> 01:27:27.920
I can tell by the way you look, Ted. Wait
1519
01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:31.159
a second. There's just one thing I want.
1520
01:27:31.039 --> 01:27:32.159
To tell you before you leave.
1521
01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:36.079
That is that, no matter what happened, no matter what
1522
01:27:36.199 --> 01:27:41.279
you find or think or believe, I love you. You
1523
01:27:41.479 --> 01:27:42.520
remember that, won't you?
1524
01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:44.279
I remember?
1525
01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:44.399
You?
1526
01:27:45.760 --> 01:27:46.560
Said so, Marie.
1527
01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:57.399
By the light of a dim kerosene lantern, Mark and
1528
01:27:57.520 --> 01:28:00.840
Ched Stevens pounded their way through a thick shelf of
1529
01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:05.039
rock that covered the depart's ancestral tomb. Pride opened the
1530
01:28:05.079 --> 01:28:08.239
great slab of stone which lay across the subterranean door,
1531
01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:12.520
and then at last descended to the dank, ink black chamber.
1532
01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:17.159
They found the coffin. They dragged it from its grip
1533
01:28:17.960 --> 01:28:21.760
and placed it on the cold stone floor. They unclamped
1534
01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:22.279
the lid.
1535
01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:23.760
And opened it.
1536
01:28:25.159 --> 01:28:30.840
Mark it empty. That's impossible, it can't be, but it is.
1537
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:31.239
Mark.
1538
01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:33.119
You know what this means.
1539
01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:36.199
That body wasn't in this coffin when it was placed here.
1540
01:28:36.399 --> 01:28:39.119
Elsewhere it was tied from the time that coffin was
1541
01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:42.520
closed on Uncle Miles, somebody the undertaker or Lucy or me.
1542
01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:45.199
Somebody was with it until it was buried, and the
1543
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:47.840
crypt was sealed right after, and somebody beat us to it.
1544
01:28:48.119 --> 01:28:49.119
Somebody's broken in here.
1545
01:28:49.039 --> 01:28:52.119
Ahead of us, broken in listened to it. Lucy and
1546
01:28:52.199 --> 01:28:54.520
I have hardly left the house since the funeral. Do
1547
01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:57.079
you think anybody could break in here, smashed through that
1548
01:28:57.199 --> 01:28:59.840
stone and cement without our seeing them, without our hearing them?
1549
01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:02.039
Well, well.
1550
01:29:04.319 --> 01:29:05.840
Well you might as well come on out.
1551
01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:06.039
Man.
1552
01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:09.720
Who is that me and mister day Pa up here?
1553
01:29:12.239 --> 01:29:14.279
My name's Captain Brennan. I'm from the office of the
1554
01:29:14.319 --> 01:29:17.399
Commissioner of Police. Like to talk to him. You know,
1555
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:20.800
my mister Dave Pi here, follow my flash light up.
1556
01:29:21.960 --> 01:29:26.199
But I don't understand. How did you How did you
1557
01:29:26.279 --> 01:29:28.079
know about this by listening? Maylee?
1558
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:30.359
Do you mind if we go up to your house,
1559
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:34.600
mister day bar No, not at all, Oh thank you,
1560
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:38.720
Oh Freddy, look here, Captain Night Freddy, this is mister
1561
01:29:38.880 --> 01:29:41.319
deve par But Doc Gray, I'm glad to know you,
1562
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:43.880
Misterday And mister Ted Stevens.
1563
01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:46.680
Is that how did you? How did you know my name?
1564
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:49.239
Very simple? I got the names of everybody who is
1565
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:51.079
here at the day pas the day the old man died.
1566
01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:54.920
You and your wife were included. Oh here we are.
1567
01:29:55.239 --> 01:29:58.880
But I don't Captain who gave you those names? My housekeeper,
1568
01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:02.920
of course, Missus Henderson. You didn't think Missus Henderson saw
1569
01:30:02.960 --> 01:30:05.680
the dead cat, did you, mister Depa, But she did.
1570
01:30:06.439 --> 01:30:10.520
She also saw you bury it, and we've been interested
1571
01:30:10.640 --> 01:30:16.119
in the case ever since. Nice place you have here,
1572
01:30:16.279 --> 01:30:16.960
mister Deepa.
1573
01:30:18.199 --> 01:30:19.039
Well, let's see.
1574
01:30:19.960 --> 01:30:22.600
Godding to missus Henderson. Your wife was wearing some kind
1575
01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:24.279
of a mess great costume that night.
1576
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:26.119
What kind of a thing was it?
1577
01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:28.000
Well? It wasn't there.
1578
01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:28.680
You can see it.
1579
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:31.119
It was copied from the dress and that old painting
1580
01:30:31.159 --> 01:30:36.640
over there. Oh yes, funny, where's the woman's face?
1581
01:30:37.000 --> 01:30:39.399
It's always been that way long as I can remember.
1582
01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:42.399
Somebody must have thrown acid on it or something. I
1583
01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:43.640
can't blame them much.
1584
01:30:44.079 --> 01:30:45.920
She was a poisoner. A poisoner.
1585
01:30:46.159 --> 01:30:46.359
Yes.
1586
01:30:47.000 --> 01:30:49.640
The story goes that one of my ancestors was responsible
1587
01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:51.920
for her execution, Maury Dobray.
1588
01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:55.119
Her name was Oh yes, I've read about her, learned
1589
01:30:55.159 --> 01:30:56.760
all the poison tricks from one of her lover's.
1590
01:30:56.840 --> 01:30:58.199
Guy for the name of God.
1591
01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:02.159
Ass Akra goodess o, Yes, mister Stevens, we cops read
1592
01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:05.600
now and then did you say good as a car?
1593
01:31:06.039 --> 01:31:08.399
That's French, we call it cross.
1594
01:31:08.800 --> 01:31:12.119
Absolutely no limit to a cops education is there.
1595
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:16.039
But to get back to your wife, mister de bar
1596
01:31:16.960 --> 01:31:20.720
she was dressed like the famous Marie. Now, when missus
1597
01:31:20.760 --> 01:31:21.760
Henderson looked through.
1598
01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:24.479
That win just a minute, Captain Missus Henderson can't prove
1599
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:25.600
she saw a thing, and you know it.
1600
01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:27.640
What do you mean? I mean, you haven't any right
1601
01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:31.000
to insinuate that my wife within that room? Well, who's insinuating?
1602
01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:34.279
I'm trying to say that Missus Henderson, after thinking it over,
1603
01:31:34.399 --> 01:31:37.399
realizes she was kicked by the custom. The woman she
1604
01:31:37.479 --> 01:31:40.239
saw the funny clothes handing the cup of poison to
1605
01:31:40.319 --> 01:31:44.319
your uncle wasn't your wife or tall? Because your wife
1606
01:31:44.439 --> 01:31:47.840
is an unusually tall young woman, and the one Missus
1607
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:52.239
Henderson saw was fully half a head shorter. More on
1608
01:31:52.439 --> 01:31:56.680
the order, let's say of mister Stevens's wife, My wife
1609
01:31:57.720 --> 01:32:01.159
absolutely ridiculous. I don't know all right, what's the matter,
1610
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:03.000
mister Stevens, you're tumbling like a leaf?
1611
01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:09.039
Tell me now, just for fun, where it was missus
1612
01:32:09.079 --> 01:32:12.920
Stevens that night? She was home with me the whole evening.
1613
01:32:13.520 --> 01:32:17.600
Certainly she retired early? Yes, we both did you?
1614
01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:20.000
I suppose were sound asleep by midnight? Yes?
1615
01:32:20.039 --> 01:32:20.359
I was?
1616
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:23.520
And how do you know where your wife was? Lucky Stevens.
1617
01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:25.840
She had to have a custume that would match missus Dave?
1618
01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:26.239
Pause?
1619
01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:28.239
How did she manage that? Where did she get it?
1620
01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:30.319
But she she never had one. She never had a
1621
01:32:30.399 --> 01:32:32.600
dress like that. But about I'm motive? Why did she
1622
01:32:32.720 --> 01:32:34.920
poison him? I don't know how money? Suddenly?
1623
01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:35.520
What was it?
1624
01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:35.880
Hate?
1625
01:32:36.079 --> 01:32:37.079
Did she hate myles day?
1626
01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:37.720
Yes?
1627
01:32:37.800 --> 01:32:40.920
Yes, she can tell her? No, Oh, I don't know why.
1628
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:45.000
I don't know. I tell you yesterday ProLAN got hold
1629
01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:47.119
of his stay part in the nurse. All right, met
1630
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:48.000
missus Stevens.
1631
01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:49.439
I the reach her.
1632
01:32:50.279 --> 01:32:51.199
Prom won't answer.
1633
01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:54.600
Yeah, I don't pick up.
1634
01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:55.520
I'm going home.
1635
01:32:56.359 --> 01:32:56.760
Stevens.
1636
01:32:56.800 --> 01:32:59.600
Come a here, I might even get my wife. Stop?
1637
01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:14.239
Noory, very well?
1638
01:33:14.279 --> 01:33:14.479
Are you?
1639
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:18.279
It's the horie? What have you done Forria?
1640
01:33:19.479 --> 01:33:19.640
Oh?
1641
01:33:20.159 --> 01:33:21.119
Oh, good evening?
1642
01:33:22.439 --> 01:33:23.159
Who are you? I?
1643
01:33:24.239 --> 01:33:27.880
My name is Cross, Go down Cross? Cross was my wife?
1644
01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:28.920
What have you done to her?
1645
01:33:29.720 --> 01:33:30.199
You think?
1646
01:33:30.279 --> 01:33:32.000
What have you done to my wife? You were nothing
1647
01:33:32.039 --> 01:33:34.840
at all? Young man? Here here, here's a lying Something's
1648
01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:36.399
happened to her? The police do just phoned?
1649
01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:37.119
There wasn't an answer.
1650
01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:39.960
Why are you here? Why am I here?
1651
01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:40.680
Well?
1652
01:33:41.479 --> 01:33:44.520
Because your wife, reading my chapter on the Dubrays, realized
1653
01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:46.920
I knew more about the family than even she did.
1654
01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:49.720
Because she found my phone number on the front cover
1655
01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:53.520
of the manuscript, and because I know an exceptional case
1656
01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:55.680
when I hear one? Does that answer your question?
1657
01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:56.039
No?
1658
01:33:56.279 --> 01:33:57.119
And you know it doesn't.
1659
01:33:58.079 --> 01:34:01.159
Can't you see? I've got to I've got.
1660
01:34:01.079 --> 01:34:04.000
To know whether, Yeah, I see whether your wife is
1661
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:08.039
that Marie Dobray who was burnt burnt by Order of
1662
01:34:08.119 --> 01:34:11.560
the High Tribunal for all poisoned cases, the Burning Court
1663
01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:15.840
of France, witchcraft, black magic, the world across the threshold.
1664
01:34:16.680 --> 01:34:19.239
You're quite sure, no doubt also that I am Godwin
1665
01:34:19.319 --> 01:34:22.359
Saint Croix who first wooed her. No, no, my boy,
1666
01:34:22.720 --> 01:34:26.000
he now My real name happens to be, of all things,
1667
01:34:26.119 --> 01:34:30.439
Tom Simpson, most unsuitable for a distinguished writing career. And
1668
01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:33.159
Marie Debray is no more your White's real name than
1669
01:34:33.239 --> 01:34:37.239
mine is Gordan Cross What your esteemed wife was an
1670
01:34:37.279 --> 01:34:41.479
adopted child, mister Stevens, adopted by people in Canada named Dobray,
1671
01:34:42.079 --> 01:34:44.760
remote members of the real family of poisoners.
1672
01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:50.039
Ah, I can't believe it. Oh, why why didn't you
1673
01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:50.399
tell me?
1674
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:50.760
Ye?
1675
01:34:50.920 --> 01:34:51.119
Why?
1676
01:34:51.640 --> 01:34:54.159
Because until I told her half an hour ago, she
1677
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:56.640
didn't know it herself. You see, in the course of
1678
01:34:56.720 --> 01:34:59.479
my research on the family, I found out about it,
1679
01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:02.079
and in the course of talking with your wife I
1680
01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:05.760
found out something else. How for years she was haunted
1681
01:35:05.880 --> 01:35:10.079
by the fear that she might be a poisoner, by inheritance,
1682
01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:13.279
by blood. And you can see, can't you why she
1683
01:35:13.399 --> 01:35:17.159
never talked about it her past to you? Yes, yes,
1684
01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:19.960
And yet mister Stevens, You had all but made her
1685
01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:23.720
forget that passed you, and that's why she was willing
1686
01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:27.199
to lie, to steal a picture, do anything in order
1687
01:35:27.279 --> 01:35:28.039
to hold you to her.
1688
01:35:28.239 --> 01:35:31.399
Why, here's I see that now, you know, young man,
1689
01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:36.039
I rather think she loves you. But as you will see, though,
1690
01:35:36.119 --> 01:35:40.800
why she comes only when I call her er, missus Stevens,
1691
01:35:41.479 --> 01:35:44.960
you mean she's yes, Marie, it's you. You're all right?
1692
01:35:45.079 --> 01:35:47.520
Ah, yes, you were both all right now nothing can
1693
01:35:47.640 --> 01:35:52.600
change it ever, Marie, listen doing the same radio, same Maggie, Maggie.
1694
01:35:52.760 --> 01:35:55.520
Oh that's my name, my real name, Maggie Nick Tavish.
1695
01:35:55.800 --> 01:35:58.000
It is a lovely name, dear, the most.
1696
01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:01.680
Beautiful, gorgeous darling, darling Kee. You don't understand the police
1697
01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:03.439
They think you had something to do with miles death.
1698
01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:05.239
They think I did so.
1699
01:36:05.960 --> 01:36:08.479
Now, mister Stevens, before we go back to the depas,
1700
01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:10.560
don't you think you'd better tell me everything that's been
1701
01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:13.199
said and done up to date. Having just saved your
1702
01:36:13.239 --> 01:36:16.319
White's soul from the burning court, now i'll rest her
1703
01:36:16.399 --> 01:36:27.439
body from the electric chair. Yes, mister Depat, truly excellent, Sherry,
1704
01:36:28.199 --> 01:36:30.000
don't you think so, Miss Corbett?
1705
01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:32.279
Yes, yes, it's very nice.
1706
01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:36.359
Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I happen to
1707
01:36:36.439 --> 01:36:40.199
be here. So let us consider first that supernatural hocus
1708
01:36:40.279 --> 01:36:43.319
pocus in the crypt, that body that walked out of
1709
01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:46.800
the sealed tomb, that body that never was in the tomb,
1710
01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:50.840
never was in the tube. No, mister Depa, the murderer
1711
01:36:50.920 --> 01:36:53.479
knew that very soon missus Henderson's story would bring about
1712
01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:54.199
an investigation.
1713
01:36:54.800 --> 01:36:57.760
He had to get rid of the well known corpus delecta. Yes,
1714
01:36:57.840 --> 01:37:00.159
but who could have kept the body out of the
1715
01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:02.840
two oo? Mister depart Why you, sir?
1716
01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:03.079
What?
1717
01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:07.560
Heck? I don't understand that.
1718
01:37:07.640 --> 01:37:10.439
It's very simple. You had the opportunity. I believe you
1719
01:37:10.520 --> 01:37:13.079
said yourself. You were alone with the body before the burial,
1720
01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:16.560
and you had the strength. I dare say you carried
1721
01:37:16.600 --> 01:37:20.000
it down to the furnace where it's now probably nothing
1722
01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:23.800
but ashes ridiculous. Why would he spend an hour smashing
1723
01:37:23.840 --> 01:37:25.640
into a crypt for a body he knew wasn't there.
1724
01:37:25.760 --> 01:37:30.119
Why Captain to impress mister Stevens his witness and also
1725
01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:35.920
apparently you fantastic? Oh no, Lucy, just comic.
1726
01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:38.880
And I suppose, mister Cross that I also put on
1727
01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:41.600
a woman's masquerade costume, went into my uncle's room and
1728
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:43.560
handed him a nice cup of Arsenay.
1729
01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:46.600
No, no, no, that had to be done by a woman,
1730
01:37:47.279 --> 01:37:49.159
your accomplice. As a matter of fact.
1731
01:37:49.880 --> 01:37:52.000
Oh now, come, come, come, you mustn't all look at
1732
01:37:52.039 --> 01:37:55.560
missus Depart because Mark Depart's one no black was his
1733
01:37:55.640 --> 01:37:58.880
frantic effort to prevent his wife from being charged with
1734
01:37:59.000 --> 01:38:03.800
the crime, a crime which he and nurse Myrah Corbett committed.
1735
01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:07.600
Mira Corbett will yes, sir, yes, mister Stephens, this quiet
1736
01:38:07.640 --> 01:38:10.600
little lady beside me. Why would I do you think money,
1737
01:38:10.640 --> 01:38:13.680
miss Corbett a cutout of Mark Depart's inheritance payments for
1738
01:38:13.760 --> 01:38:14.560
services rendered.
1739
01:38:14.680 --> 01:38:17.119
That's an absolutely cross, you see, ladies and gentlemen.
1740
01:38:17.159 --> 01:38:19.840
Captain Brennan never bothered to check Miss Corbett's whereabouts on
1741
01:38:19.920 --> 01:38:20.640
the night of the murder.
1742
01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:23.800
Why even think of the nurse? She was the custodian
1743
01:38:23.840 --> 01:38:25.840
of the old man's health, And.
1744
01:38:25.920 --> 01:38:28.439
Yet Hubert, a nurse could so naturally offer the old
1745
01:38:28.479 --> 01:38:31.560
man a cup, a cup he was sure contained medicine,
1746
01:38:31.560 --> 01:38:35.199
you hear that? And who but miss Corbett, living right
1747
01:38:35.279 --> 01:38:37.880
here in this house, would know what kind of masquerade
1748
01:38:37.960 --> 01:38:40.920
dress she must copy, would know when missus Henderson would
1749
01:38:40.920 --> 01:38:43.239
pass the window that night, pass and see her and
1750
01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:43.920
accept her.
1751
01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:47.840
She hoped for luc Depart. That's not true.
1752
01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:51.199
Oh yes, miss Carbott, Yes, Miss Corbett, that dress was
1753
01:38:51.279 --> 01:38:54.319
the touch that wrecked you. That was your own idea,
1754
01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:57.239
wasn't it not, Marx. You weren't content with a mere
1755
01:38:57.319 --> 01:38:59.960
murderers share of the prophets. You wanted a white share
1756
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:03.079
half of the whole estate. You wanted Lucy Depart convicted
1757
01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:03.600
and out.
1758
01:39:03.439 --> 01:39:04.319
Of the way for good.
1759
01:39:05.600 --> 01:39:10.159
M hmm, Well, I give you a toast, Miss Corbett,
1760
01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:17.720
with mister Depat's excellent sherry to a particularly ruthless poisoner.
1761
01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:23.479
And yet you know on the whole I'm rather partial
1762
01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:37.600
to female poisoners. Why only tonight, I h let.
1763
01:39:39.359 --> 01:39:39.880
Mister Cook.
1764
01:39:40.159 --> 01:39:45.520
What's the matter, Brenner? This man is dead and from Cyani.
1765
01:39:45.640 --> 01:39:49.239
If I know anything cyanide from that glass of sherry Cyan,
1766
01:39:49.319 --> 01:39:52.399
I that a nurse could get quite easily. That glass
1767
01:39:52.479 --> 01:39:54.479
was right beside you, Misscovit, and nobody else was there.
1768
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:56.840
It too bad he didn't drink it as son as
1769
01:39:56.880 --> 01:39:59.560
you hoped. A second ago, we had nobody to use
1770
01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.840
against you, but we have now, Miss Cobbett. We have now,
1771
01:40:03.640 --> 01:40:06.159
and I arrest you for the murder of God and crossed.
1772
01:40:19.319 --> 01:40:21.520
Now close to five months ago than the prominent auth
1773
01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:24.399
was murdered, and tonight my recovered pays with her life
1774
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:24.960
for that crime.
1775
01:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.840
The former nurse, at first protesting her innocence. Yes, I'm
1776
01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:32.680
in here there. Oh, I thought you're right. What did
1777
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:35.359
you cut it off for? Huh? What do you mean
1778
01:40:35.680 --> 01:40:36.199
the radio?
1779
01:40:37.000 --> 01:40:37.159
Oh?
1780
01:40:38.079 --> 01:40:40.600
Oh yeah, well I thought you wanted to talk.
1781
01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:43.800
Oh, Ted, don't you think I know you're better than there?
1782
01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:45.359
What was on the radio?
1783
01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:52.239
Okay, it was about my recovered? She goes to the chairs. Man,
1784
01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:54.640
I didn't think you wanted to be reminded.
1785
01:40:55.319 --> 01:40:58.199
I don't really, But making such an effort to hide
1786
01:40:58.239 --> 01:41:01.319
it only keeps it alive, doesn't it? All right?
1787
01:41:01.439 --> 01:41:01.720
Darling?
1788
01:41:02.279 --> 01:41:05.039
No, I came to ask if you wanted a cocktail
1789
01:41:05.079 --> 01:41:05.840
before dinner.
1790
01:41:05.760 --> 01:41:06.920
The largest one you've got.
1791
01:41:07.279 --> 01:41:08.880
Hi, Now, get off the ice cube.
1792
01:41:08.920 --> 01:41:10.800
I know if I all takes up the fire.
1793
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:16.039
Where are the papers that started right there by the bookcase.
1794
01:41:16.600 --> 01:41:19.159
The name's not Marie, it's Maggie.
1795
01:41:20.199 --> 01:41:20.920
It was Darling.
1796
01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:24.239
Marie did and gone forever?
1797
01:41:37.680 --> 01:41:43.960
Oh no, Marie were never did neither of us it
1798
01:41:44.159 --> 01:41:46.239
was your hand that touched that glass.
1799
01:41:47.039 --> 01:41:50.479
I know that now, and I could return the favor.
1800
01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:56.479
But instead I shall ask that you despatch your husband
1801
01:41:57.720 --> 01:41:59.840
this one like all the other.
1802
01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:05.520
Yes, now, just a little bit of voice in the drink?
1803
01:42:06.039 --> 01:42:09.399
Very any kind of.
1804
01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.760
What kind of kids? What kind of a cocktail should
1805
01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:15.960
we have?
1806
01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:22.680
Oh? Any kind darling? Any kind of doll?
1807
01:42:41.640 --> 01:42:44.399
You've just heard The Burning Court from John Dixon Carr's
1808
01:42:44.439 --> 01:42:47.960
famous novel, the first in Columbia's new series of outstanding
1809
01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:51.880
classics and chills by world famous authors. The Night's Play,
1810
01:42:51.960 --> 01:42:54.720
Ladies and Gentlemen, has one rather special significance we think
1811
01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:57.520
you'd like to know about. As you perhaps have heard,
1812
01:42:57.720 --> 01:43:01.119
every fine comedian is said the chish as secret desire
1813
01:43:01.199 --> 01:43:03.960
to do an abrupt, a devout face. He pines for
1814
01:43:04.039 --> 01:43:07.039
the part of a blackguard. Well, tonight you witnessed the
1815
01:43:07.079 --> 01:43:10.479
fulfillment of one such desire. The role of that literary
1816
01:43:10.600 --> 01:43:14.439
and quite infamous die hard, Gordon Cross was portrayed by
1817
01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:18.920
another than Hollywood's expert provoker of laughs, Charlie Ruggles, here
1818
01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:20.720
in New York for the world premiere of his latest
1819
01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:24.680
screen success, Friendly Enemies. The role of Marie Well, that
1820
01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:26.640
was enacted by a young lady who long ago won
1821
01:43:26.760 --> 01:43:29.600
national acclaim is one of Broadway's most accomplished.
1822
01:43:29.079 --> 01:43:31.319
Dramatic actresses, Miss Julie Hayden.
1823
01:43:31.800 --> 01:43:34.119
Thank you, Charlie Ruggles and Miss Julie Hayden for your
1824
01:43:34.159 --> 01:43:38.159
splendid performances. The play to Knit, as all plays in
1825
01:43:38.199 --> 01:43:41.560
this series, was produced and directed by Charles Vander, written
1826
01:43:41.600 --> 01:43:43.680
by Harold Metford and Scort Barbernard Herman.
1827
01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:48.000
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
1828
01:43:58.039 --> 01:44:02.479
My dear, my dear, I'm so glad that you're here.
1829
01:44:04.520 --> 01:44:13.880
I feel lighter, more lively, but not in an excitable.
1830
01:44:13.239 --> 01:44:14.680
Way, more in a.
1831
01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:21.479
I'm not sure how to put it exactly. Oh what's that? Perhaps,
1832
01:44:22.319 --> 01:44:28.520
although doesn't that sound a bit treacherous? I mean, a
1833
01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:33.039
reason to feel alive should be love. It should be compassion,
1834
01:44:33.159 --> 01:44:37.560
It should be care. It should be mutual joy, not
1835
01:44:37.880 --> 01:44:40.079
simply retribution.
1836
01:44:42.640 --> 01:45:03.880
Wait a minute, have you heard the whistler? I am
1837
01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:04.840
the worst man?
1838
01:45:08.840 --> 01:45:10.520
No, no, no, don't come here me.
1839
01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:11.840
I didn't time to kill you.
1840
01:45:11.960 --> 01:45:12.000
No.
1841
01:45:12.439 --> 01:45:13.680
That was John Henry.
1842
01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:17.760
He waited, waited for a chance to sell his soul
1843
01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:18.880
to the devil.
1844
01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:22.760
Money is not enough, John, money is not enough.
1845
01:45:23.800 --> 01:45:29.319
We want you John, We want you. That was his wife,
1846
01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:36.600
mar the former widow Mars Yes, and a simple minded
1847
01:45:36.760 --> 01:45:43.880
son Henry. Ahead, go ahead, we must have John.
1848
01:45:44.039 --> 01:45:55.319
Hind Yes, Yes, goodnight. CBS presents a new mystery series,
1849
01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:57.079
The Whistler.
1850
01:46:02.800 --> 01:46:03.199
And I.
1851
01:46:03.600 --> 01:46:05.359
The Whistler know many things.
1852
01:46:05.560 --> 01:46:06.880
For I walk by night.
1853
01:46:07.920 --> 01:46:12.159
I know many strange tale, many secrets hidden in the
1854
01:46:12.279 --> 01:46:14.239
hearts of men and women who.
1855
01:46:14.159 --> 01:46:15.760
Have stepped into the shadows.
1856
01:46:16.680 --> 01:46:19.680
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak,
1857
01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:25.800
And so I tend to night the strange story of retribution.
1858
01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:34.640
Gaze up this muddy range spatter robe. A small, lonely
1859
01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:39.119
stone building appears against the lighting street sky. The dismal
1860
01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:43.680
courthouse of a southern village, the village of Marsden Birth.
1861
01:46:48.760 --> 01:46:53.239
It's nearly midnight. A trial is in progress, a murder trial.
1862
01:46:54.479 --> 01:47:00.960
John Hendrix is on trial for his life. The stage
1863
01:47:01.159 --> 01:47:06.439
versus Henry killed his wife and steps. He killed his
1864
01:47:06.600 --> 01:47:09.880
wife and her simple minded son, Henry for the ten
1865
01:47:10.039 --> 01:47:13.159
thousand in cash she kept in her big house on the.
1866
01:47:13.199 --> 01:47:16.720
Outskirts of town. Opened the door.
1867
01:47:22.279 --> 01:47:26.000
There he stands John Mandrick's, a huge, silent man of
1868
01:47:26.119 --> 01:47:29.560
the large bony hand. Closed the door.
1869
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:32.760
Well, what do you think does he.
1870
01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:33.640
Look like a murderer?
1871
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:36.119
The prosecutor's closing our game.
1872
01:47:37.800 --> 01:47:40.680
That's who That missus Hendrix had no current bank account.
1873
01:47:41.039 --> 01:47:43.199
It has been proven that she did have a large
1874
01:47:43.239 --> 01:47:45.520
sum of money which she kept on her escape.
1875
01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:49.000
John Hendrix knew of his money and attempted.
1876
01:47:48.560 --> 01:47:50.680
To steal it, was caught in the act and killed
1877
01:47:50.720 --> 01:47:51.640
them both in.
1878
01:47:51.760 --> 01:47:52.800
Order to cover up the ft.
1879
01:47:53.159 --> 01:47:54.720
It was not a trap who killed that.
1880
01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:57.840
Old gray haired lady in her simple son. There was
1881
01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:01.880
only one intruder, one thief, one murderer. And there he says,
1882
01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.720
ladies and gentlemen, there he said, in all his guilt,
1883
01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:06.600
a vicious killer, a murderer.
1884
01:48:07.880 --> 01:48:09.520
There is only one decision.
1885
01:48:10.479 --> 01:48:12.520
There is only one penalty that kind.
1886
01:48:12.399 --> 01:48:15.439
Of race from this countryside, the stigma, this phedish crime.
1887
01:48:16.039 --> 01:48:19.479
One penalty for this axe murderer, John Hendrix, and that
1888
01:48:19.800 --> 01:48:29.359
penalty is death. State restses and gentlemen of the jury.
1889
01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:30.640
Have you reached a verdict?
1890
01:48:31.760 --> 01:48:32.960
Have you reached a verdict?
1891
01:48:35.800 --> 01:48:39.600
Your honor, We we the jury, do the lack of
1892
01:48:39.680 --> 01:48:43.479
more complete evidence, find the defendant guilty of murder and
1893
01:48:43.640 --> 01:48:44.520
the second.
1894
01:48:44.279 --> 01:48:55.399
Degree second degree cheated death.
1895
01:48:56.079 --> 01:48:56.800
You'll get live.
1896
01:48:57.560 --> 01:49:01.039
Scribe, of course, you are, But it had to be.
1897
01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:04.279
It had to be.
1898
01:49:05.239 --> 01:49:07.560
I know, darn Hendrix.
1899
01:49:07.720 --> 01:49:09.920
Stand up, Yes, John, stand up?
1900
01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:13.159
Based card watching Now he's on the speech.
1901
01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:16.520
Ron Hendrix, I wish to state that I am not
1902
01:49:16.680 --> 01:49:17.199
in the card.
1903
01:49:17.279 --> 01:49:18.760
With the friending of this jury.
1904
01:49:19.479 --> 01:49:21.680
However, there's nothing for me to do but send you
1905
01:49:21.840 --> 01:49:24.880
to the State penitentiary for the remainder of your natural life.
1906
01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:32.159
Know where you are now?
1907
01:49:32.920 --> 01:49:36.119
Recognize that huge sprawling stone structure of the high walls
1908
01:49:36.119 --> 01:49:43.880
around the State Penitentiary. How much later ten years John
1909
01:49:44.000 --> 01:49:48.439
Hendrix is in there. He has a number. Now ten thirteen.
1910
01:49:49.399 --> 01:49:54.399
Let's go through the gates, up the steps, down the corridor.
1911
01:49:56.640 --> 01:49:59.760
Here we are in cell block to night again.
1912
01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:01.279
It must turn me.
1913
01:50:07.119 --> 01:50:09.720
This has been going on for ten years for John
1914
01:50:09.800 --> 01:50:15.159
Hendrick ten thirteen and his cellmate Bill ten fourteen. Bill
1915
01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:18.880
ten fourteen as a gangster, or rather he was, but
1916
01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:22.560
he's changed during five years and been here. Bill has
1917
01:50:22.640 --> 01:50:25.479
decided to go straight if he ever gets out, which
1918
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:29.239
is very doubtful, but he holds no resentment, has become
1919
01:50:29.319 --> 01:50:32.920
more or less happy. Bill started reading here the philosophy,
1920
01:50:32.960 --> 01:50:35.079
and so far he's changed.
1921
01:50:36.199 --> 01:50:37.600
But what about John Hendry.
1922
01:50:38.840 --> 01:50:44.479
Oh no, not Hendrick, because he has a plan, he
1923
01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:45.399
has a purpose.
1924
01:50:46.439 --> 01:50:48.680
He moves closer to the cell door and listen.
1925
01:50:49.880 --> 01:50:51.760
All I got to say, Bill, is I think you're
1926
01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:53.880
crazy enough to make the try with me. That's a
1927
01:50:54.039 --> 01:50:56.199
matter of opinion, John, But it'll be simple like.
1928
01:50:56.279 --> 01:50:58.479
Everything, will say, it's all big. Not a chance of
1929
01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:01.600
a ship at I'll ficks. Who will well? A friend
1930
01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:04.840
of mine hand say crooked God, Oh he ain't a guard.
1931
01:51:05.439 --> 01:51:07.239
And til they get a fix of the warden, what.
1932
01:51:07.479 --> 01:51:09.479
Difference does it make who it is? Along as the
1933
01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:10.680
whole thing you set and picked.
1934
01:51:11.159 --> 01:51:14.880
You got to have some help inside her out Kendrick,
1935
01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:16.399
I think you're nuts.
1936
01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:17.960
Stir chrasy.
1937
01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:20.000
I'm getting out of this place. I got a reason,
1938
01:51:20.039 --> 01:51:20.680
a good reason.
1939
01:51:20.840 --> 01:51:23.720
I got something waiting for me outside, something I can enjoy,
1940
01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:25.039
something that belongs to me.
1941
01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:27.600
I'm the only one that knows where it is, and
1942
01:51:27.640 --> 01:51:30.640
I'm going out. You're in there for a good long time.
1943
01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:31.760
But then if you don't want.
1944
01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:34.199
To go with me, you can stay in rowl. Kendricks,
1945
01:51:34.800 --> 01:51:36.520
I still think you're nuts, all right?
1946
01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:37.039
What of it?
1947
01:51:37.359 --> 01:51:39.920
I got the right hoping and it works those it does.
1948
01:51:40.600 --> 01:51:42.000
But who would find this money?
1949
01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:42.520
In no way?
1950
01:51:42.520 --> 01:51:46.079
I'm the old lady's estate. What GOODMU do here? You
1951
01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:48.399
killed her and her son to get it, and that's
1952
01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:48.680
a lie.
1953
01:51:48.840 --> 01:51:52.039
I didn't didn't kill anybody. I say ain't true, not
1954
01:51:52.119 --> 01:51:54.600
a word of it. But I know where the money is. Okay,
1955
01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:55.439
you can break.
1956
01:51:55.319 --> 01:51:56.600
Out, you can have the money.
1957
01:51:56.640 --> 01:52:00.439
But well, I've done a lot of wreathing, and since
1958
01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:03.880
i've been here, you're gone sight me so but I.
1959
01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:04.479
Know this much.
1960
01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:08.920
Now, wherever do get out, I'll do things. I'll look different,
1961
01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:12.079
but leave me, Hendrix. I'll tread the string.
1962
01:52:12.279 --> 01:52:12.439
Now.
1963
01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:15.079
I've done a lot of things that I'm sure sorry for,
1964
01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:15.479
and now I.
1965
01:52:16.079 --> 01:52:18.960
I can't under them, but I won't do them again.
1966
01:52:19.560 --> 01:52:20.439
Who knows, sir.
1967
01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:23.800
I'll do things different, not the way I get it before.
1968
01:52:24.279 --> 01:52:26.680
You just got religion, but it won't get young maybe not,
1969
01:52:26.920 --> 01:52:27.840
But I'm resigned.
1970
01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:30.079
I got exactly what's.
1971
01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:33.319
Coming to me and will leave me Hendricks. So will you?
1972
01:52:34.840 --> 01:52:35.319
So will you?
1973
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:39.279
If you break out, they'll have you back one way
1974
01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:39.720
or another.
1975
01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:42.840
You watch and see, well I'm going.
1976
01:52:42.880 --> 01:52:45.399
So you watch and see what can see.
1977
01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:53.479
Now?
1978
01:52:54.239 --> 01:53:01.319
Another's dog. Another night, a lonely country road.
1979
01:53:01.640 --> 01:53:02.000
A car.
1980
01:53:04.359 --> 01:53:06.680
We're in the south. That village we passed a few
1981
01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:12.960
miles back. That silent sleeping village was Marsdenburg. Yes, Marsdenberg remembers.
1982
01:53:13.039 --> 01:53:15.039
That small, lonely stone building.
1983
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:18.479
Was the courthouse, the courthouse where John Henwicks was tried
1984
01:53:18.560 --> 01:53:22.079
and convicted. We're on the outskirts now, on a lonely road.
1985
01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:24.359
A young man is driving the old car and.
1986
01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:28.800
As a girl beside him, it's motor trouble. So they're
1987
01:53:28.920 --> 01:53:31.399
just ahead of life. Yes, it's a little cross road.
1988
01:53:31.279 --> 01:53:37.479
Store alon, there's a life.
1989
01:53:38.239 --> 01:53:40.760
I don't see anybody. Oh it's closed.
1990
01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:41.640
We better drive on.
1991
01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:45.399
I guess you're right. Okay, how a being plus a
1992
01:53:45.680 --> 01:53:47.359
right like a trouble?
1993
01:53:47.880 --> 01:53:48.960
We're having motor troubles?
1994
01:53:49.640 --> 01:53:52.199
Is that? I?
1995
01:53:52.239 --> 01:53:53.960
Did you anything? Driving around a night like this?
1996
01:53:54.319 --> 01:53:56.880
A where with mister? Is there an inn or something
1997
01:53:56.920 --> 01:53:58.359
around here where we can stay for the night?
1998
01:53:58.720 --> 01:54:03.640
And in a Yes, there's the place about eight miles
1999
01:54:03.720 --> 01:54:04.159
up the road.
2000
01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:05.800
They'll probably put you up.
2001
01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:08.079
And there's a sign on the left hand side of
2002
01:54:08.079 --> 01:54:08.319
the road.
2003
01:54:08.399 --> 01:54:11.039
Can't miss it. This road's pretty bad when it rains.
2004
01:54:11.479 --> 01:54:14.760
Got a big carefully, you'll sign yourself walk thanks. He'll
2005
01:54:14.840 --> 01:54:17.479
try good nights.
2006
01:54:18.119 --> 01:54:32.079
You will need the light. The storm is increasing now.
2007
01:54:32.800 --> 01:54:35.000
The muddy road sparkles and the flashes of lightning.
2008
01:54:35.439 --> 01:54:37.640
The tall, dark pree swayed back and forth in the
2009
01:54:37.720 --> 01:54:41.079
fury of the storm, like moaning lost souls. The little
2010
01:54:41.119 --> 01:54:43.279
car lurches and bounces in its fight to keep the
2011
01:54:43.319 --> 01:54:44.079
center of the highway.
2012
01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:51.560
Two miles three, miles four maybe five?
2013
01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:54.920
And look there it is straight out on the right
2014
01:54:55.000 --> 01:54:55.600
side of the road.
2015
01:54:55.640 --> 01:54:56.279
A blue light.
2016
01:54:57.239 --> 01:54:59.399
Ah, yes, that's it.
2017
01:55:02.439 --> 01:55:05.960
Wait, George, the old man say, on the right side
2018
01:55:06.439 --> 01:55:07.800
or the left side of the road.
2019
01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:11.079
George, what's wrong?
2020
01:55:11.279 --> 01:55:13.000
I don't know the distribut him.
2021
01:55:13.000 --> 01:55:13.399
It's gotten.
2022
01:55:13.439 --> 01:55:16.840
We have the life before it's gone?
2023
01:55:17.319 --> 01:55:17.720
What is it?
2024
01:55:19.760 --> 01:55:25.199
I was looking? I better turn in here.
2025
01:55:25.279 --> 01:55:29.079
This motor won't last much longer. I can't see, I think,
2026
01:55:29.680 --> 01:55:31.680
can you certainly is.
2027
01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:32.600
Definitely looking for me.
2028
01:55:33.760 --> 01:55:35.520
There must be a house back in there.
2029
01:55:37.600 --> 01:55:39.239
The driveway the head.
2030
01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:42.560
Oh yeah, this motive is about to conker. We've better
2031
01:55:42.640 --> 01:55:43.800
drive in and see if we can find.
2032
01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:53.239
Yes, drive in, George, you'll find something that's right through
2033
01:55:53.319 --> 01:55:53.680
the gate.
2034
01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:55.279
Make the curves.
2035
01:55:55.399 --> 01:55:56.840
Holly, there goes a motor.
2036
01:55:57.399 --> 01:55:58.039
A little more.
2037
01:55:59.359 --> 01:56:03.279
No, oh, we do maybe it.
2038
01:56:04.000 --> 01:56:08.840
Thank Heaven, Yes, that's right, always, Thank Heaven of the time.
2039
01:56:09.000 --> 01:56:12.560
I do all right, Get out and go up on
2040
01:56:12.640 --> 01:56:17.000
the park, or what do we do with the day?
2041
01:56:17.319 --> 01:56:18.880
We'll leave them here in the car. Do we find
2042
01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:19.760
out if there's anyone here?
2043
01:56:20.279 --> 01:56:20.560
Come on?
2044
01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:33.960
You see a bell?
2045
01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:39.079
No, don't see a thing. See this place looks completely deserted.
2046
01:56:39.840 --> 01:56:41.079
I don't think anyone lives here.
2047
01:56:43.319 --> 01:56:43.640
Let's go.
2048
01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:52.159
You're listening to the whistler.
2049
01:56:52.800 --> 01:56:56.279
We pause momentarily for station that adentification. This is the
2050
01:56:56.359 --> 01:56:57.920
Columbia Broadcasting System.
2051
01:57:00.119 --> 01:57:13.840
Uh, George, let's don't knock.
2052
01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:18.159
I don't like this place. Let's go on?
2053
01:57:18.720 --> 01:57:19.720
How with a dead motor?
2054
01:57:20.399 --> 01:57:20.840
Or did we go?
2055
01:57:22.520 --> 01:57:23.000
I'll knock?
2056
01:57:24.039 --> 01:57:29.000
Well, all right, Ah, well.
2057
01:57:28.880 --> 01:57:36.520
That's right, knock George, knock, go ahead, louder.
2058
01:57:38.039 --> 01:57:38.359
Again.
2059
01:57:40.800 --> 01:57:41.880
We've got to have sheltered.
2060
01:57:42.239 --> 01:57:46.760
Yes, we can't stay in that car any longer, can't we?
2061
01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:47.359
No?
2062
01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:48.640
Right?
2063
01:57:48.720 --> 01:57:55.560
Not here it comes now you're on your own, George,
2064
01:57:56.640 --> 01:57:57.640
on your own?
2065
01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:01.640
There is someone?
2066
01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:05.399
Yes?
2067
01:58:05.960 --> 01:58:08.479
Oh what is it?
2068
01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:09.000
Well?
2069
01:58:09.039 --> 01:58:11.359
I you see our car?
2070
01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:13.279
Yes, our car?
2071
01:58:13.439 --> 01:58:15.520
So and we can't go any farther. And it's such
2072
01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:17.520
a terrible night out, but we thought we could stop
2073
01:58:17.560 --> 01:58:19.119
here for the evening. Stop here?
2074
01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:22.640
Why, yes, we saw your light and light?
2075
01:58:23.800 --> 01:58:24.479
What life?
2076
01:58:26.119 --> 01:58:30.159
Quite a little neon out in front there is no light.
2077
01:58:31.079 --> 01:58:32.840
Well have you a room?
2078
01:58:33.399 --> 01:58:35.720
Yes, there is a room.
2079
01:58:36.319 --> 01:58:38.239
Well, could we come in?
2080
01:58:38.920 --> 01:58:40.159
I mean talk?
2081
01:58:40.279 --> 01:58:40.880
We went out here.
2082
01:58:41.560 --> 01:58:42.439
You may come in.
2083
01:58:43.960 --> 01:58:45.000
If you wish.
2084
01:58:45.439 --> 01:58:47.119
Oh, thank you.
2085
01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:51.520
Oh now this is quite a relief. We were afraid
2086
01:58:51.560 --> 01:58:54.039
you'd close up for the night, especially when all the
2087
01:58:54.119 --> 01:58:56.319
lights were out. Are the lights out?
2088
01:58:56.800 --> 01:58:57.399
Yes? You see?
2089
01:58:58.720 --> 01:58:58.920
Huh?
2090
01:58:59.359 --> 01:59:00.520
Of course her out?
2091
01:59:00.760 --> 01:59:03.319
So I didn't know.
2092
01:59:05.079 --> 01:59:07.119
You do take touris dewie?
2093
01:59:07.359 --> 01:59:07.479
Oh?
2094
01:59:07.600 --> 01:59:08.800
Yes, that's what they told us.
2095
01:59:09.359 --> 01:59:11.319
Who told you? For the man?
2096
01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:13.279
The old man at a little store back.
2097
01:59:13.199 --> 01:59:17.079
At the crossroad, little star, Yes, at the crossroad about
2098
01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:20.119
five miles back. You know what the crossroad is?
2099
01:59:20.199 --> 01:59:20.479
Don't know?
2100
01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:25.079
There is no store at the cross road. There isn't
2101
01:59:25.960 --> 01:59:27.800
no I see.
2102
01:59:29.359 --> 01:59:32.159
A look, madam, would you mind turning all the lights?
2103
01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:37.279
I can't see a thing. We have no light here. Lie,
2104
01:59:37.359 --> 01:59:40.760
I'll give me a flash Lia She means there's no electricity.
2105
01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:44.760
No, there is no light here.
2106
01:59:45.199 --> 01:59:46.439
Well saw the flash around?
2107
01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:47.520
Then there must be a lamp.
2108
01:59:47.720 --> 01:59:50.159
No, don't make a light.
2109
01:59:51.159 --> 01:59:53.239
We see well in the dark.
2110
01:59:53.479 --> 01:59:57.199
We who'd we? Is there someone else in the house?
2111
01:59:57.439 --> 02:00:02.039
My son, he's going to be No, he's standing beside.
2112
02:00:02.399 --> 02:00:03.159
Is that who you?
2113
02:00:06.359 --> 02:00:06.560
Yes?
2114
02:00:08.920 --> 02:00:09.199
Got it?
2115
02:00:09.359 --> 02:00:11.920
You got it, she was.
2116
02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:16.640
How long have you been standing above since you came in?
2117
02:00:17.079 --> 02:00:21.000
He so I've been seeing you make anize like a spoof.
2118
02:00:21.159 --> 02:00:23.479
Wow you What is your name? George Kimball?
2119
02:00:24.039 --> 02:00:24.640
This is my wife.
2120
02:00:24.760 --> 02:00:25.039
Children.
2121
02:00:25.600 --> 02:00:27.720
We're on our way west with travelers.
2122
02:00:27.319 --> 02:00:28.359
Travelers.
2123
02:00:29.720 --> 02:00:34.000
Quiet sun fire, No, let him talk. He's quiet enough.
2124
02:00:35.560 --> 02:00:37.159
How long have your books been living here?
2125
02:00:37.479 --> 02:00:41.640
He lived here all our lives? How about closing the door?
2126
02:00:42.600 --> 02:00:43.560
Is the door open?
2127
02:00:43.680 --> 02:00:44.399
Why? Of conscience?
2128
02:00:45.279 --> 02:00:48.279
What you I'll take it easy, Joe, don't get excited.
2129
02:00:49.000 --> 02:00:50.600
I'll look mat And there's a candle on the table
2130
02:00:50.600 --> 02:00:52.239
of the pathlace is there?
2131
02:00:52.479 --> 02:00:52.680
Yes?
2132
02:00:52.800 --> 02:00:55.399
And if you don't mind, I'm going to like please
2133
02:00:55.560 --> 02:00:58.479
don't oh wait a minute. If you want us to
2134
02:00:58.479 --> 02:01:02.000
stay here, we insisted we have some life. You want
2135
02:01:02.039 --> 02:01:03.079
us to stay here, don't.
2136
02:01:02.880 --> 02:01:05.399
You, doey sun?
2137
02:01:07.560 --> 02:01:08.239
Yes mother?
2138
02:01:09.720 --> 02:01:10.520
What are you looking at me?
2139
02:01:11.199 --> 02:01:11.439
Yes?
2140
02:01:11.720 --> 02:01:13.199
Mother? Without life?
2141
02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:14.439
Yes weather.
2142
02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:16.800
I don't want to say.
2143
02:01:17.680 --> 02:01:20.720
This place doesn't look there have been no good here
2144
02:01:21.119 --> 02:01:22.319
for many years.
2145
02:01:23.159 --> 02:01:26.359
I don't get it. You don't seem to want ust
2146
02:01:26.359 --> 02:01:29.319
your son us. How do you make any money that way?
2147
02:01:29.439 --> 02:01:30.720
We don't make money.
2148
02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:33.479
You don't you mean you haven't had any guests?
2149
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:36.079
No, not for many years.
2150
02:01:36.600 --> 02:01:37.680
Well, you can't expect me?
2151
02:01:37.720 --> 02:01:38.279
Do you act like this?
2152
02:01:38.560 --> 02:01:40.680
But we do expected here?
2153
02:01:41.520 --> 02:01:42.119
We don't we?
2154
02:01:42.399 --> 02:01:42.560
Sir?
2155
02:01:43.439 --> 02:01:43.640
Yes?
2156
02:01:43.880 --> 02:01:46.960
Really well he certainly has a surprise coming.
2157
02:01:47.279 --> 02:01:48.800
Yes he has.
2158
02:01:51.680 --> 02:01:54.439
How many rooms have you st how many rooms? But
2159
02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:55.560
only one?
2160
02:01:55.920 --> 02:01:56.520
Only one?
2161
02:01:57.239 --> 02:01:59.520
That doesn't make sense. What do you mean only one
2162
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:03.520
for our guess? You mean normally mone equipment? Yes, and
2163
02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:05.680
if you've got a reserve for this guest you expect.
2164
02:02:06.760 --> 02:02:07.560
What are we going to do?
2165
02:02:07.920 --> 02:02:11.039
There is an inn farther along the road. They have rooms.
2166
02:02:11.199 --> 02:02:14.000
They will take care of you. It will be best
2167
02:02:14.199 --> 02:02:14.600
for us.
2168
02:02:15.399 --> 02:02:16.760
Our distributor got wet.
2169
02:02:16.680 --> 02:02:17.640
So our car won't run.
2170
02:02:17.760 --> 02:02:18.720
Where is your car?
2171
02:02:19.359 --> 02:02:23.279
Right foot of the steps? I see you?
2172
02:02:23.359 --> 02:02:23.840
No car?
2173
02:02:24.279 --> 02:02:26.319
You don't why it's standing right?
2174
02:02:29.680 --> 02:02:30.119
It goes?
2175
02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:30.920
We smoke?
2176
02:02:30.960 --> 02:02:31.479
It is gone?
2177
02:02:32.039 --> 02:02:32.319
Where?
2178
02:02:32.520 --> 02:02:35.720
How what isn't your sounds?
2179
02:02:36.800 --> 02:02:37.720
Throw your light around?
2180
02:02:38.760 --> 02:02:39.479
Not a sign of it?
2181
02:02:40.720 --> 02:02:44.279
Say? What goes on here? Can?
2182
02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:45.159
Yes?
2183
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:47.640
Wellthy you move the car?
2184
02:02:49.359 --> 02:02:53.800
Yes, I understand, I understand.
2185
02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:56.000
Wait a minute, your son moved it?
2186
02:02:56.560 --> 02:02:57.079
How could he?
2187
02:02:57.720 --> 02:03:00.239
The motor won't even run and even the but what
2188
02:03:00.399 --> 02:03:03.880
we didn't do a sound? So how did you move it?
2189
02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:06.560
I don't know?
2190
02:03:07.640 --> 02:03:10.199
What's a fun thing that we are in a place
2191
02:03:10.239 --> 02:03:13.359
where they don't want us in the way of leaving. Well,
2192
02:03:13.439 --> 02:03:15.560
you've got us on your hands now you have to.
2193
02:03:15.600 --> 02:03:16.199
Make the best of it.
2194
02:03:16.760 --> 02:03:20.840
Nonsense, this is all silly. Come on, let's have some
2195
02:03:21.000 --> 02:03:21.960
light and cut off the monkey.
2196
02:03:23.159 --> 02:03:25.000
And what have we decided?
2197
02:03:25.399 --> 02:03:28.560
Yes, mother, we decided, Yes, very.
2198
02:03:28.479 --> 02:03:34.279
Well, you wish, if you wish, you may stay, stay
2199
02:03:34.479 --> 02:03:36.319
until to whin all night?
2200
02:03:37.119 --> 02:03:41.039
Yes, mother, if you wish's better. And that's more like it.
2201
02:03:42.039 --> 02:03:49.239
Now I like this candle. There we are God, look
2202
02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:53.119
at the dust and the cop wells this looks deserted,
2203
02:03:53.560 --> 02:03:58.279
like an old seller. Well, how about the room? Do
2204
02:03:58.399 --> 02:04:00.199
we get it or the guests or expect.
2205
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:03.199
There is another room that will loo perhaps.
2206
02:04:04.439 --> 02:04:05.079
Could we see her?
2207
02:04:05.239 --> 02:04:05.399
Yes?
2208
02:04:06.319 --> 02:04:07.760
And by the way, how much do you charge?
2209
02:04:07.840 --> 02:04:08.600
You charge?
2210
02:04:08.920 --> 02:04:11.600
Nothing? Charge nothing?
2211
02:04:12.079 --> 02:04:15.119
Nothing sounds silly, But if it's bright for us, we'll
2212
02:04:15.279 --> 02:04:16.199
not mean short anyway.
2213
02:04:17.239 --> 02:04:18.840
Well, let's see the room.
2214
02:04:18.960 --> 02:04:24.319
Very well, it is upstairs after you?
2215
02:04:24.479 --> 02:04:30.880
No, you go search or well, come on, Joe, bring
2216
02:04:30.960 --> 02:04:35.399
that up the camera follow me. Yes, well.
2217
02:04:37.720 --> 02:04:39.239
I never thought so much dust.
2218
02:04:39.640 --> 02:04:42.880
I must like it, you know, nice cream dust.
2219
02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:45.800
That room at the head of the stairs.
2220
02:04:47.640 --> 02:04:52.560
Why this room was well furnished? Is this the room
2221
02:04:52.760 --> 02:04:55.880
reserved for your expected guest. No, you said you had
2222
02:04:55.960 --> 02:04:58.479
only one room furnished. Who sleeps here?
2223
02:04:58.720 --> 02:05:01.479
I stay here? Now, I see.
2224
02:05:02.920 --> 02:05:07.560
Do I it's a nice stop this It was always comfortable.
2225
02:05:08.640 --> 02:05:09.520
So we will leave you.
2226
02:05:09.720 --> 02:05:10.920
Now come down.
2227
02:05:11.680 --> 02:05:13.720
We must leave them alone.
2228
02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:16.439
Now, yes, mother has to leave them alone.
2229
02:05:16.760 --> 02:05:20.560
Good night, good night. You will lock your doors.
2230
02:05:20.920 --> 02:05:24.600
Huh oh oh, yes, yes, we'll lock.
2231
02:05:26.439 --> 02:05:32.319
Good by. Sorry did she say good night or goodbye?
2232
02:05:32.800 --> 02:05:33.159
I don't know.
2233
02:05:33.319 --> 02:05:37.079
I thought she said she did say goodbye.
2234
02:05:37.359 --> 02:05:40.159
Only want a scorory of it. I wish we hadn't
2235
02:05:40.199 --> 02:05:42.960
had car trouble. That's what we get for trying to
2236
02:05:43.159 --> 02:05:44.039
drive in the storm.
2237
02:05:44.479 --> 02:05:45.560
How much money have we left?
2238
02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:46.079
Much?
2239
02:05:46.720 --> 02:05:48.439
Just enough to get the Los Angeles the way I figure.
2240
02:05:49.319 --> 02:05:50.760
Once I get there, I know there'd be a job
2241
02:05:50.840 --> 02:05:51.039
for me.
2242
02:05:51.520 --> 02:05:51.920
We'll make it.
2243
02:05:51.960 --> 02:05:54.319
Don't worry, you will see me in a nice job
2244
02:05:54.359 --> 02:05:54.920
in Hollywood.
2245
02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:58.760
I'm not worried about seeing you in Hollywood. No, No,
2246
02:06:00.039 --> 02:06:01.279
I'm just worried about being in.
2247
02:06:01.319 --> 02:06:02.079
The morning.
2248
02:06:03.960 --> 02:06:16.399
The same night.
2249
02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:18.399
But later it's midnight.
2250
02:06:19.000 --> 02:06:20.479
Another car on the same road.
2251
02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:23.600
You know who it is. It's John Hendrix.
2252
02:06:24.239 --> 02:06:26.880
You know where he's going. He turns in at our
2253
02:06:26.960 --> 02:06:31.840
deserted mansion up the driveway and stops. He steps out,
2254
02:06:33.000 --> 02:06:35.039
slips up the steps, opens the door, and throws the
2255
02:06:35.079 --> 02:06:38.520
splash about the dusty room. Cobwebs glistens in the beam.
2256
02:06:39.239 --> 02:06:41.279
A few moments and the light comes rest.
2257
02:06:41.039 --> 02:06:41.760
On the fireplace.
2258
02:06:42.279 --> 02:06:44.079
He steps quickly to the mantle.
2259
02:06:44.079 --> 02:06:46.239
Draws a small hammer and chisel from his pocket, and
2260
02:06:46.359 --> 02:06:47.880
sets to work for moving a brick.
2261
02:06:49.800 --> 02:06:51.439
Now he's finished, brick is loose.
2262
02:06:52.119 --> 02:06:55.159
He reaches in and withdraws a heavy yellow envelope. He
2263
02:06:55.279 --> 02:06:57.880
starts to put it in his pocket, but suddenly freezes
2264
02:06:57.920 --> 02:06:58.640
in his tracks.
2265
02:06:59.159 --> 02:06:59.880
He can't move.
2266
02:07:00.600 --> 02:07:06.920
He turns, icy cold, turn around. Hendrix turn around, look
2267
02:07:07.800 --> 02:07:10.199
at the foot of the stairs. Across the room stands
2268
02:07:10.239 --> 02:07:13.199
a woman holding a candle, and beside her a grinning
2269
02:07:13.319 --> 02:07:17.279
youth holding an axe. Turn around Hendrix look at their
2270
02:07:17.399 --> 02:07:18.840
heads covered with blood.
2271
02:07:19.680 --> 02:07:23.720
Turn around and Hendrix murder on Hendry.
2272
02:07:23.800 --> 02:07:31.119
Sea Yes, John, Henry.
2273
02:07:30.920 --> 02:07:31.960
Yes, Jo No.
2274
02:07:32.520 --> 02:07:35.239
No. We've come for you John, the same way you
2275
02:07:35.520 --> 02:07:36.199
came for us.
2276
02:07:36.880 --> 02:07:38.720
We've been waiting for you, John.
2277
02:07:39.319 --> 02:07:41.199
We knew you'd come back for the money.
2278
02:07:41.359 --> 02:07:45.720
We've been waiting. We've come to take you John. No, No,
2279
02:07:46.079 --> 02:07:46.920
Please don't come.
2280
02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:50.159
Here me, Please, you must suffer John, as we have suffered.
2281
02:07:50.239 --> 02:07:50.960
I have suffered.
2282
02:07:51.079 --> 02:07:53.680
I'm not enough, John, not enough.
2283
02:07:53.840 --> 02:07:54.800
I didn't mean to do it.
2284
02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:55.840
I didn't plan to kill you.
2285
02:07:56.319 --> 02:07:59.119
I went bad offt my head. No, no, don't come
2286
02:07:59.159 --> 02:07:59.399
here me.
2287
02:07:59.560 --> 02:08:02.359
You can money you have, then give it to us, John,
2288
02:08:02.960 --> 02:08:03.960
give us the money.
2289
02:08:04.079 --> 02:08:05.199
You won't need it.
2290
02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:06.960
Now comes home.
2291
02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:09.920
We must have the money and we must take John.
2292
02:08:10.279 --> 02:08:14.880
Comes, hon Come, no, no, there's some money on the ploor.
2293
02:08:15.000 --> 02:08:17.960
Money is not enough, John, money is not enough.
2294
02:08:18.640 --> 02:08:20.840
Go ahead and go ahead.
2295
02:08:21.319 --> 02:08:24.640
We must have John Hendrick murderers.
2296
02:08:30.279 --> 02:08:31.880
Bullets won't stop up?
2297
02:08:37.479 --> 02:08:42.119
Good Lord? It that I heard a scream downstairs?
2298
02:08:44.479 --> 02:08:44.880
All open?
2299
02:08:44.920 --> 02:08:48.319
The door must have been downstairs. I don't see a
2300
02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.760
thing last night, Great Scott. Look a man down here
2301
02:08:52.800 --> 02:08:53.239
on the floor.
2302
02:08:53.600 --> 02:09:01.039
Come on, what took the gun?
2303
02:09:01.159 --> 02:09:01.880
It's been fired.
2304
02:09:02.760 --> 02:09:05.520
I don't see a mark on ge Come on you
2305
02:09:06.079 --> 02:09:07.600
and crops.
2306
02:09:08.039 --> 02:09:08.840
What's going on here?
2307
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:09.760
Hand over that gun?
2308
02:09:10.520 --> 02:09:10.880
Thanks?
2309
02:09:11.560 --> 02:09:12.239
What are you doing here?
2310
02:09:14.119 --> 02:09:17.520
We're stopping here? Is we're just leaving?
2311
02:09:17.680 --> 02:09:20.279
I can see that always man on the floor and.
2312
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:23.960
Yes, yes, Joan, what's the matter with you?
2313
02:09:24.079 --> 02:09:24.119
No?
2314
02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:25.279
No, no, we don't.
2315
02:09:27.720 --> 02:09:28.720
What are you two doing here?
2316
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:30.119
Why we're guess?
2317
02:09:30.920 --> 02:09:31.079
Yes?
2318
02:09:32.560 --> 02:09:33.760
Whose I guess?
2319
02:09:34.039 --> 02:09:37.000
Lodgers Taurus guests of the old lady. Old lady, the
2320
02:09:37.039 --> 02:09:39.079
old lady that lives here, The old lady and her son,
2321
02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:40.039
and I.
2322
02:09:40.039 --> 02:09:41.399
Have to cook up a better one than that.
2323
02:09:41.560 --> 02:09:42.840
What do you mean drive here?
2324
02:09:43.279 --> 02:09:43.840
Where's your car?
2325
02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:45.720
The son took us and old lady. What are you
2326
02:09:45.840 --> 02:09:46.279
talking about?
2327
02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:46.960
They live here?
2328
02:09:47.000 --> 02:09:48.960
They said they owned this place. We had bo of
2329
02:09:49.000 --> 02:09:49.960
trouble and they put us.
2330
02:09:49.920 --> 02:09:50.359
Up at the night.
2331
02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:51.000
What about him?
2332
02:09:51.000 --> 02:09:52.479
Thank that isn't dead breathing.
2333
02:09:52.720 --> 02:09:54.520
That's so I had a stroke or something. Say all right,
2334
02:09:54.840 --> 02:09:55.760
John Hendricks.
2335
02:09:55.680 --> 02:09:56.399
Take a look around.
2336
02:09:56.880 --> 02:09:57.920
See if there's anyone else here.
2337
02:09:58.840 --> 02:10:01.560
What's your name, George can This is my wife.
2338
02:10:02.000 --> 02:10:04.720
We're on our way to California. Do you know who
2339
02:10:04.760 --> 02:10:05.239
this man is?
2340
02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:07.800
Certainly we've been on his trail. He's an escaped country
2341
02:10:07.960 --> 02:10:09.880
They sure gun, No, si, did you shoot at you?
2342
02:10:10.000 --> 02:10:11.199
No, sir, you shoot at him?
2343
02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:13.880
This gun's been fired. We heard shots returned in the
2344
02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:16.840
driveway out side of anyone's up, Not but Dustin Cobweb
2345
02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:19.439
Blood Campbell. You said there was an old lady and
2346
02:10:19.520 --> 02:10:21.720
his son. He sure they were here all evening and're
2347
02:10:21.760 --> 02:10:22.319
out here now.
2348
02:10:22.840 --> 02:10:23.039
Well.
2349
02:10:23.119 --> 02:10:26.079
They let us in and showed us to our room.
2350
02:10:27.560 --> 02:10:28.720
They certainly were here.
2351
02:10:30.039 --> 02:10:31.600
What did the old lady look like?
2352
02:10:32.239 --> 02:10:36.039
Well, she had gray hair, wore a house dress and
2353
02:10:36.079 --> 02:10:36.520
an apron.
2354
02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:38.119
What did the boy look like?
2355
02:10:38.800 --> 02:10:42.239
It was a big kid about twenty, had a round
2356
02:10:42.359 --> 02:10:45.640
rosie face, and I think, well that I know he
2357
02:10:45.760 --> 02:10:46.680
was kind of simple minded.
2358
02:10:47.199 --> 02:10:50.479
He had a strange laugh, and he had red hair.
2359
02:10:50.840 --> 02:10:54.399
Well, I'll be darned, what do you think of that, Frank,
2360
02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:59.000
Golly's me the creeps? Why so you know who you've
2361
02:10:59.199 --> 02:11:02.920
just described? You know, the old lady and her son
2362
02:11:03.079 --> 02:11:07.600
who used to live here, used to live Yeah, they
2363
02:11:07.680 --> 02:11:10.359
were murdered here ten years ago.
2364
02:11:11.079 --> 02:11:11.960
What murdered?
2365
02:11:12.119 --> 02:11:16.239
Sure, This man on the floor was her husband, the
2366
02:11:16.359 --> 02:11:17.279
boy's stepfather.
2367
02:11:18.079 --> 02:11:19.680
He was tried for killing.
2368
02:11:19.520 --> 02:11:21.920
Them with an axe and stealing her money and buns.
2369
02:11:22.800 --> 02:11:26.119
He got off at second degree because of lack of evidence.
2370
02:11:26.680 --> 02:11:28.479
He escaped a week to go and headed this way.
2371
02:11:29.319 --> 02:11:31.600
They've been on his trail ever since. He ended this county.
2372
02:11:32.640 --> 02:11:36.560
So you see, Kimball, if there was anybody else here tonight,
2373
02:11:36.920 --> 02:11:38.960
it must have been a figment of your imagination.
2374
02:11:40.159 --> 02:11:43.239
This house has been deserted for ten years.
2375
02:11:43.800 --> 02:11:47.600
Oh joy, good lord.
2376
02:11:48.640 --> 02:11:51.239
On the envelope on the back door, sta it's the money, Well,
2377
02:11:51.319 --> 02:11:54.119
what do you know? The money in the bond, Old
2378
02:11:54.319 --> 02:11:59.239
Martha Hendrick's money. That's why Hendrix came here. But where
2379
02:11:59.319 --> 02:11:59.640
did they go?
2380
02:12:00.439 --> 02:12:02.079
The old lady, no place.
2381
02:12:02.399 --> 02:12:06.800
Because they weren't here, Kimball, Well, better get him out
2382
02:12:06.800 --> 02:12:07.880
of here and back to the headquarters.
2383
02:12:08.000 --> 02:12:10.239
Wait a minute, totally of us, he won't. You're coming
2384
02:12:10.239 --> 02:12:13.159
along to why we need you for a day or two.
2385
02:12:13.760 --> 02:12:16.439
All right, let's get going, Frank, Come on, But where
2386
02:12:17.039 --> 02:12:17.640
where did they go?
2387
02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:19.520
We saw them?
2388
02:12:19.960 --> 02:12:20.960
I know they were here.
2389
02:12:21.159 --> 02:12:24.359
Well, you certainly described them to a t, but don't
2390
02:12:24.479 --> 02:12:25.600
worry too much about it.
2391
02:12:25.680 --> 02:12:28.680
You know, things like this can drag you nuts, you
2392
02:12:28.760 --> 02:12:32.479
know what I mean, Things like this will Dreams like
2393
02:12:32.600 --> 02:12:34.159
this sometimes just.
2394
02:12:35.399 --> 02:12:36.720
Just happened, you know what I mean.
2395
02:12:38.119 --> 02:12:42.239
No, well, oh, come on, let's go before I get
2396
02:12:42.319 --> 02:12:43.319
the He be gvs.
2397
02:12:47.279 --> 02:12:48.119
What did he say?
2398
02:12:49.079 --> 02:12:56.560
Things like this just sometimes happened, just happened. Well, sometimes
2399
02:12:56.600 --> 02:12:58.319
they do, and that they explained.
2400
02:13:00.359 --> 02:13:01.359
But not this time.
2401
02:13:02.319 --> 02:13:04.880
Oh no, not this time.
2402
02:13:05.840 --> 02:13:11.920
This can be explained. Remember John Hendrick cellmate Bill Bill
2403
02:13:12.119 --> 02:13:17.119
number ten fourteen. He can explain. He knows all about
2404
02:13:17.199 --> 02:13:22.560
it because he planned it. Bill wanted the money. He
2405
02:13:22.560 --> 02:13:26.079
had learned all the dope from Hendrix. He sent his pals,
2406
02:13:26.239 --> 02:13:29.399
the Phony spooks, made up like the old lady and
2407
02:13:29.439 --> 02:13:32.680
her son, to grab the money. When Hendrix recovered it,
2408
02:13:33.760 --> 02:13:36.279
too bad, they dropped it in their hurry to get away.
2409
02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.479
Bill didn't want to hurt John. He wanted to scare
2410
02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:47.159
him out of it. Remember Bill ten fourteen had change.
2411
02:13:48.439 --> 02:13:50.880
He said he'd never do things the way he'd done
2412
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:56.279
them before, and he didn't. Bill meant what he said.
2413
02:14:01.239 --> 02:14:01.760
Good night.
2414
02:14:24.800 --> 02:14:28.159
If this came upon you unaware, and you listen, we've
2415
02:14:28.279 --> 02:14:36.640
served our purpose. A whistler with original music composed and
2416
02:14:36.720 --> 02:14:39.800
conducted by Wilberhats is written and directed by Jay Donald
2417
02:14:39.840 --> 02:14:44.600
Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. Next week,
2418
02:14:44.840 --> 02:14:50.359
same time, the whistler returns. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
2419
02:15:05.199 --> 02:15:09.760
Well, my dear, I think our time has come to
2420
02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:13.600
an end for well, for this week, I do hope
2421
02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:17.319
to see you back here. I'll be here waiting, of course,
2422
02:15:18.319 --> 02:15:25.520
same time, same place, and always happy to have you.
2423
02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:30.800
But for now, the morning is coming quickly and I
2424
02:15:30.960 --> 02:15:34.199
have to get back to my own mourning as well.
2425
02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:39.359
So as you make your way home, as you enter
2426
02:15:39.520 --> 02:15:43.760
the threshold of your humble abode. As you lay your
2427
02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:48.600
head down on your cool down pillow, do me this
2428
02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:55.760
one favor before you drift away into sleep. Just take
2429
02:15:55.880 --> 02:16:00.760
one moment and be thankful for what you have, and
2430
02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:02.119
I'll be seeing you.
2431
02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:10.600
Come along my family, the family whom I begin to
2432
02:16:10.840 --> 02:16:16.760
follow again.
2433
02:16:18.119 --> 02:16:19.000
That's the wronging
2434
02:16:26.359 --> 02:16:26.840
You break.