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00:06:20.069 --> 00:06:21.829 What's the difference? Damages. 87 00:06:21.949 --> 00:06:22.250 Money. 88 00:06:23.089 --> 00:06:29.839 Oh, Tish doesn't need money. You said Tom had insurance, and. 89 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:30.980 Anyway, she has us. 90 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:35.579 She's 22, Belle. She had a probable 50 years of 91 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.610 support to be expected from her husband. Even $ 50, 000 worth 92 00:06:39.629 --> 00:06:41.470 of insurance wouldn't begin to cover that. 93 00:06:42.209 --> 00:06:43.910 How much will you do for her? 94 00:06:43.910 --> 00:06:47.870 $ 3 million. What? They'll settle for $ 1 million. 95 00:06:47.870 --> 00:06:53.259 $ 1 million? I don't think she. 96 00:06:53.259 --> 00:06:58.170 This won't help her now, Belle, but someday, maybe, she'll 97 00:06:58.250 --> 00:07:09.509 thank me for that. Dad will bring the bags in. 98 00:07:09.550 --> 00:07:12.629 Do you want to go right upstairs or sit down 99 00:07:12.709 --> 00:07:13.209 for a moment? 100 00:07:13.449 --> 00:07:15.790 I don't care. Downstairs, maybe. 101 00:07:16.310 --> 00:07:16.930 Tired, dear? 102 00:07:17.750 --> 00:07:18.730 No, it's just. 103 00:07:20.579 --> 00:07:22.740 Right now, I only have one wish in the world. 104 00:07:23.740 --> 00:07:26.860 Why didn't I die with him? Why didn't he kill 105 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:34.620 us both? Is that you, Jim? 106 00:07:34.740 --> 00:07:38.939 Yes, Bill. It's stopped snowing, has it? Just started in again. 107 00:07:38.980 --> 00:07:41.550 Looks like we're due for a real Wisconsin blizzard. How 108 00:07:42.579 --> 00:07:43.189 are you, dear? 109 00:07:43.670 --> 00:07:44.949 A hothouse plant. 110 00:07:45.329 --> 00:07:49.110 I stayed indoors all day. You'd better mix yourself a drink. 111 00:07:49.310 --> 00:07:55.529 Don't worry. I'm glad the suggestion came from you. How's Tish? 112 00:07:56.110 --> 00:07:56.829 I don't know, Jim. 113 00:07:57.129 --> 00:07:58.610 Three whole months. 114 00:08:00.050 --> 00:08:01.050 She just can't seem. 115 00:08:00.910 --> 00:08:01.389 To shake it. 116 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:03.060 You've got to give it time, Bill. 117 00:08:03.069 --> 00:08:05.079 I know, but I don't. 118 00:08:05.019 --> 00:08:07.600 Think it's going to be here, darling. I think she's 119 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:08.600 got to get away. 120 00:08:08.620 --> 00:08:12.360 Away from Milwaukee and all the old associations. 121 00:08:12.379 --> 00:08:12.449 And. 122 00:08:14.569 --> 00:08:15.649 Away from herself. 123 00:08:15.689 --> 00:08:18.129 After today, she's going to be able to go pretty 124 00:08:18.170 --> 00:08:22.579 much wherever she wants. She is a very rich young lady. 125 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:23.779 They settled the suit? 126 00:08:23.819 --> 00:08:26.019 Mm-hmm. For a million dollars. 127 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:26.110 Oh. 128 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:29.360 To a new beginning, maybe. 129 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.160 What's a new beginning? 130 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:32.320 Oh, Tish. 131 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.259 I didn't hear you come down. I'm not deliberate. I guess, 132 00:08:37.350 --> 00:08:38.970 in a way, I'm a sort of a ghost. 133 00:08:39.289 --> 00:08:39.789 Oh, Tish. 134 00:08:40.899 --> 00:08:44.179 I might as well tell you I'm thinking of cutting 135 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:44.679 and running. 136 00:08:45.179 --> 00:08:46.039 Where would you go? 137 00:08:46.059 --> 00:08:47.600 What would you do? 138 00:08:47.620 --> 00:08:51.039 I was a working girl before Tom and I met 139 00:08:51.059 --> 00:08:54.070 each other. But it was here we did meet. 140 00:08:54.970 --> 00:08:57.429 I've been thinking if I got away, far away. 141 00:08:57.450 --> 00:09:01.649 I mean, with my own savings and Tom's insurance. 142 00:09:01.730 --> 00:09:05.990 Honey, let me tell you something. Money's no problem. 143 00:09:06.549 --> 00:09:08.950 I have just made a settlement which gives you quite 144 00:09:09.090 --> 00:09:15.399 an enormous amount of money Uh, for Tom's death, one 145 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:19.710 million dollars. As recompense? For gross carelessness. 146 00:09:20.549 --> 00:09:22.870 Would you consider that a fair exchange? 147 00:09:23.750 --> 00:09:26.730 Gee, honey, that's a hell of a thing to say 148 00:09:26.769 --> 00:09:27.169 to me. 149 00:09:27.250 --> 00:09:28.330 I'm sorry, Daddy. 150 00:09:29.090 --> 00:09:33.429 Of course it was unfair. That's me these days. I 151 00:09:33.470 --> 00:09:34.450 should be grateful. 152 00:09:35.289 --> 00:09:38.929 So suddenly I'm a millionaire. What do I do with it? 153 00:09:38.990 --> 00:09:43.080 It was the only... Well, best way I knew to help. 154 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:43.639 I know. 155 00:09:43.659 --> 00:09:48.169 But getting born all over again depends most on self-help. 156 00:09:49.330 --> 00:09:54.950 So here I go. Where, Tish? The biggest, noisiest, coldest. 157 00:09:56.029 --> 00:09:59.659 Oh, not cold like poor old Milwaukee, but cold-shouldery. 158 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:01.899 The best place. 159 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.899 I can think of to be really alone because it's 160 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.659 so packed with people too busy with their own affairs. 161 00:10:07.370 --> 00:10:09.830 The best place to learn to really tough it out. 162 00:10:10.509 --> 00:10:13.070 And a town I can really have something in common with. 163 00:10:13.850 --> 00:10:14.409 New York. 164 00:10:14.730 --> 00:10:15.909 New York. 165 00:10:26.509 --> 00:10:28.049 Oh, hello. 166 00:10:28.129 --> 00:10:28.690 Hi, kid. 167 00:10:28.809 --> 00:10:30.909 I'm your bunkie down the hall. Can I borrow a 168 00:10:30.909 --> 00:10:31.590 cup of sugar? 169 00:10:32.070 --> 00:10:34.649 I'm terribly sorry, but I just moved in and I 170 00:10:34.690 --> 00:10:36.289 don't even have staples yet. 171 00:10:36.389 --> 00:10:39.679 Oh, Nathan, you could always send out. Send out? Baby, 172 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:44.179 this is the village. Anything you want.

Pizza, hero sandwich, Chinese, enchiladas, 173 00:10:44.299 --> 00:10:47.799 rum cake, you name it. Forget the cup of sugar. 174 00:10:47.820 --> 00:10:48.759 Just a ploy, honey. 175 00:10:49.139 --> 00:10:49.639 A what? 176 00:10:50.179 --> 00:10:51.649 A ploy. Gimmick. 177 00:10:52.220 --> 00:10:55.740 Like in chess, the gambit? It's an opening move. 178 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:56.200 Sort of. 179 00:10:56.220 --> 00:10:58.690 Well, I know you just moved in a couple of days. 180 00:10:58.509 --> 00:11:00.129 Ago and you look kind of down in the dumps 181 00:11:00.210 --> 00:11:02.389 and lonely. Still, I figured I'd amble over and get 182 00:11:02.429 --> 00:11:02.990 us acquainted. 183 00:11:03.789 --> 00:11:04.610 I'm Hank Plank. 184 00:11:05.269 --> 00:11:08.179 How does that grab you for a name? What's your handle? 185 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:09.679 I'm Letitia Hender. 186 00:11:10.379 --> 00:11:11.200 I'm Meredith. 187 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:12.360 Oh, it ain't the. 188 00:11:12.379 --> 00:11:15.879 Second name that needs changing. It's the first. Like, my 189 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:17.000 straight name is Henrietta. 190 00:11:17.019 --> 00:11:19.019 But I didn't go for dragging that around all my life. 191 00:11:19.059 --> 00:11:20.059 So I got it to be Hank. 192 00:11:21.019 --> 00:11:24.000 Well, as a matter of fact, everyone calls me Tish. 193 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:24.970 But then, hi. 194 00:11:25.539 --> 00:11:26.879 Oh, it's not that bad. 195 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:28.610 I'm only putting you on. 196 00:11:28.909 --> 00:11:29.409 I like it. 197 00:11:30.009 --> 00:11:33.049 Would you like to come in, Frank? I'll tell you what, kid. 198 00:11:33.070 --> 00:11:35.450 Let's put it this way. Would you like me to 199 00:11:35.470 --> 00:11:35.789 come in? 200 00:11:36.409 --> 00:11:36.860 Yes, I. 201 00:11:37.779 --> 00:11:40.759 Think maybe you're just what I need. You're funny, and 202 00:11:40.830 --> 00:11:42.090 I could use a laugh if you. 203 00:11:42.110 --> 00:11:42.970 Well, I'll come in. 204 00:11:42.990 --> 00:11:46.529 Listen, when you're 5'2 and 160 pounds like me, you're 205 00:11:46.549 --> 00:11:49.529 a bowel of laughs. And that's before I open my 206 00:11:49.570 --> 00:11:51.350 mouth even, which, like you see, is as big as 207 00:11:51.389 --> 00:11:51.809 my waist. 208 00:11:52.710 --> 00:11:54.230 And I'll bet your heart. 209 00:11:54.490 --> 00:11:56.990 Well, I dig people as well. 210 00:11:57.570 --> 00:11:58.049 All kinds. 211 00:11:59.009 --> 00:12:04.309 Hey, that's a nice place you got. So what's the trouble, baby? 212 00:12:05.129 --> 00:12:05.379 Money? 213 00:12:05.389 --> 00:12:08.269 Yeah. It's the least of my worries. Oh, that's nice. 214 00:12:08.370 --> 00:12:12.350 It's the only real one I got. It's a man. 215 00:12:12.370 --> 00:12:14.750 That's the reason for the mix-up in the last. 216 00:12:14.610 --> 00:12:15.210 Names, right? 217 00:12:16.009 --> 00:12:17.529 He walk out on you, the bum? 218 00:12:17.669 --> 00:12:18.190 Oh, no. 219 00:12:19.210 --> 00:12:23.169 He was killed. A car hit him. Right after we 220 00:12:23.190 --> 00:12:26.470 were married. As he was getting into our car in 221 00:12:26.549 --> 00:12:29.289 front of the church. Oh, holy cow. 222 00:12:30.850 --> 00:12:30.990 Well. 223 00:12:31.740 --> 00:12:33.879 You want me to move by the window headfirst? 224 00:12:34.019 --> 00:12:35.000 Oh, no, no. 225 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.299 Please don't go. Oh, Hank, I just want somebody to 226 00:12:39.340 --> 00:12:41.000 talk to about him. Come on. 227 00:12:41.059 --> 00:12:42.240 Sit on the couch, Tish. 228 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:44.919 You'll never believe it, but I got big ears, too. 229 00:12:45.059 --> 00:12:46.120 All the better to listen with. 230 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:47.559 Go ahead, honey. 231 00:12:47.580 --> 00:12:48.960 Spill. 232 00:12:54.580 --> 00:12:54.860 Spill. 233 00:12:57.460 --> 00:12:57.600 Yes? 234 00:12:57.940 --> 00:12:58.980 You hear that? 235 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.259 Oh, I've been. 236 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.990 Waiting for you. Listen, let's get this show on the road. 237 00:13:04.009 --> 00:13:06.190 I've got a hunch today's going to be a big one. 238 00:13:06.690 --> 00:13:08.529 You think we'll get a job? I don't know. I 239 00:13:08.750 --> 00:13:11.350 just got five. Something big is going to happen. I 240 00:13:11.429 --> 00:13:14.429 hope it's for you. I better land something pretty soon 241 00:13:14.470 --> 00:13:16.840 or I'll end up on relief. Don't be silly. You 242 00:13:16.860 --> 00:13:19.460 know I have plenty of money. Kid, you're the first 243 00:13:19.500 --> 00:13:21.379 solid gold millionaire I ever knew. 244 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:22.240 But don't get me wrong. 245 00:13:22.340 --> 00:13:23.559 I'd never borrow a cent. 246 00:13:23.659 --> 00:13:24.879 I'd go on a diet first. 247 00:13:25.389 --> 00:13:27.029 Hank here owes nobody nothing. 248 00:13:27.049 --> 00:13:29.789 But after all you've done for me these last few days, 249 00:13:30.340 --> 00:13:34.059 listening to me moping and weeping and carrying on, feeding 250 00:13:34.100 --> 00:13:35.960 and looking after me like a mother hen. 251 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:37.940 You have to clean out the old system. 252 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.320 I just happen to be around. But hear this. 253 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:41.139 What? 254 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.500 You are too trusting, Little, now. 255 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.279 Don't you go around shooting off your mouth to just anybody. 256 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:50.220 This is a big, bad city with more con men, deadbeats, and. 257 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.200 Just plain thieves licking their lips. 258 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:53.419 Waiting for a pigeon to come along. 259 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.519 I've never spilled my heart out to anyone like that, Hank. 260 00:13:57.330 --> 00:13:58.350 Anyone but Tom. 261 00:13:58.889 --> 00:13:59.289 Okay. 262

00:14:00.110 --> 00:14:00.669 Close book. 263 00:14:01.250 --> 00:14:05.350 Hey, listen, now, make sure that front door closes tight, okay? 264 00:14:05.470 --> 00:14:05.750 I will. 265 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.259 Okay, let's see if I got a letter telling me 266 00:14:10.299 --> 00:14:14.740 I won the lottery. 267 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:15.799 Oh, cupboard is there. 268 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:19.480 Aren't you going to open your box? What for? Nobody 269 00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:22.000 to write to me. Even Mom and Dad don't know 270 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.299 my address yet. You better open it. Looks like there's 271 00:14:24.350 --> 00:14:25.000 something there. 272 00:14:25.590 --> 00:14:26.409 Oh, all right. 273 00:14:28.289 --> 00:14:30.330 Hey, there is something here. 274 00:14:30.350 --> 00:14:31.690 A letter. 275 00:14:31.789 --> 00:14:35.710 Probably from some local store marked resident. No, it's addressed 276 00:14:35.750 --> 00:14:40.059 to me. My married name. Who on earth could. 277 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:42.039 What is it, Mary? 278 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:44.120 I can't. 279 00:14:45.659 --> 00:14:46.080 Mrs. 280 00:14:46.379 --> 00:14:50.419 Hank, listen to this. My poor, bereaved Mrs. 281 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:50.919 Meredith. 282 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:55.120 No words of mine can adequately express my grief at 283 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:56.039 your deep sorrow. 284 00:14:56.899 --> 00:14:59.990 I would hesitate to intrude, except that it is at 285 00:15:00.029 --> 00:15:01.409 the request of. 286 00:15:01.350 --> 00:15:02.730 Your own dear husband. 287 00:15:03.649 --> 00:15:06.730 He spoke to me last night from beyond the veil 288 00:15:07.549 --> 00:15:11.389 and begged me to reach you immediately and tell. 289 00:15:11.029 --> 00:15:13.679 You that he is calling for. 290 00:15:15.980 --> 00:15:21.379 You. 291 00:15:22.179 --> 00:15:26.279 Here's a startling twist, which is only the beginning of 292 00:15:26.340 --> 00:15:30.379 a long, twisted chain of events. Who is the writer 293 00:15:30.419 --> 00:15:35.710 of this mysterious letter who apparently possesses supernatural powers. 294 00:15:36.649 --> 00:15:38.250 How else in a city. 295 00:15:38.029 --> 00:15:42.090 Of eight million could he have reached unerringly to find 296 00:15:42.309 --> 00:15:47.309 one girl alone, away from friends or family, none of 297 00:15:47.330 --> 00:15:51.940 whom know where to reach her? Unless, could Hank have 298 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:56.100 been the one to let him know? I'll return shortly 299 00:15:56.179 --> 00:16:11.759 with some of the answers. shocked and startled almost out 300 00:16:11.779 --> 00:16:14.940 of her wits by the incredible content of this strange 301 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.059 letter she hands it to Hank to read to her 302 00:16:18.539 --> 00:16:19.320 he spoke. 303 00:16:19.100 --> 00:16:21.879 To me last night from beyond the veil and begged 304 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.029 me to reach you immediately and tell you he was 305 00:16:24.049 --> 00:16:27.450 calling for you since I realize my words may be 306 00:16:27.490 --> 00:16:30.929 confusing and even shocking to you I would like to 307 00:16:30.970 --> 00:16:33.570 explain I couldn't reach you by. 308 00:16:33.350 --> 00:16:35.529 Phone, so I decided I was bound in. 309 00:16:35.909 --> 00:16:38.590 All conscience to write and inform you of your husband's 310 00:16:38.750 --> 00:16:42.889 urgent request. I am only the medium in this, but 311 00:16:42.929 --> 00:16:45.889 I do suggest you contact me either by phone. 312 00:16:46.029 --> 00:16:48.480 Or at the above address. I will be at your 313 00:16:48.500 --> 00:16:49.720 service at any time. 314 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.240 My work, my duty, and my joy is the service 315 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:57.360 of all mankind. Yours in the service of the eternal spirit, 316 00:16:57.860 --> 00:17:00.620 which makes us one. 317 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.340 Dr. Pavit Krishna Wow. 318 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:05.920 Who is this man, Hank? 319 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:07.359 Who knows? Search me. 320 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.160 91601 Park Avenue. 321 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.200 Fancy neighborhood. 322 00:17:12.890 --> 00:17:15.849 The Temple of Transcendent Truth. 323 00:17:16.829 --> 00:17:17.589 It's me. 324 00:17:17.710 --> 00:17:18.829 I don't know. 325 00:17:19.710 --> 00:17:22.190 I guess he's, like, not a doctor, but more like 326 00:17:22.349 --> 00:17:24.109 a guru or a. 327 00:17:23.990 --> 00:17:24.789 Swami, you know? 328 00:17:25.450 --> 00:17:28.859 But it's impossible. The whole thing's impossible. 329 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:29.619 What do you mean? 330 00:17:30.299 --> 00:17:31.920 How could he know how to find me? 331 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.880 I spent three months like a zombie after Tom was killed. 332 00:17:36.579 --> 00:17:38.420 Then I made up my mind I couldn't go on 333 00:17:38.460 --> 00:17:40.839 like that, so I picked up my skirts and ran, 334 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:44.359 hid out. I didn't want anyone, least of all Dad 335 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:46.640 and Mom, whom I loved, to know where I was. 336 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:47.440 How come? 337 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.400 Because they, well, they don't realize it, but they've. 338 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.700 Always protected me, wrapped me in cotton, given me too 339 00:17:54.779 --> 00:17:58.740 much love and not enough self-reliance. That's what I've realized 340 00:17:58.859 --> 00:18:01.140 I have to build for myself if I have to 341 00:18:01.180 --> 00:18:04.160 have my life. So I came to New York, and 342 00:18:05.099 --> 00:18:08.349 God was sure smiling on me to let me find you. 343 00:18:08.369 --> 00:18:11.309 Oh, yes, I'm big treasure. You don't realize. 344 00:18:12.369 --> 00:18:15.170 I mean, after I blew off steam and you rode 345 00:18:15.250 --> 00:18:18.930 out the storm with me, I honestly thought I had 346 00:18:18.970 --> 00:18:19.509 a chance. 347

00:18:19.769 --> 00:18:22.539 A chance at what? Oh, I don't know. 348 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:24.539 Coming to grips with myself. 349 00:18:25.339 --> 00:18:30.319 Making myself a person. Building some real backbones. But this. 350 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:33.900 Turned me all to jelly. 351 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:35.339 I don't get that quite. 352 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:36.940 Don't you see? 353 00:18:38.259 --> 00:18:41.619 I was brought up to believe in a world after death, 354 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.079 but I never thought... I mean, I. 355 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.369 Don't think I could believe in communicating between somebody alive 356 00:18:48.430 --> 00:18:51.970 and somebody who's dead, huh? 357 00:18:52.869 --> 00:18:54.349 You mean you think the doctor here. 358 00:18:54.250 --> 00:18:54.890 Is a phony? 359 00:18:55.690 --> 00:18:56.730 I don't know what to think. 360 00:18:58.069 --> 00:19:00.150 How could he be since he found me? 361 00:19:01.569 --> 00:19:04.220 What do you think? I don't see how this guy 362 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.759 could be a phony. Or could I hurt to at 363 00:19:06.779 --> 00:19:10.579 least give him a phone call? I think maybe I 364 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:11.839 just ought to go there. 365 00:19:12.339 --> 00:19:14.000 You couldn't go wrong at that address. 366 00:19:14.380 --> 00:19:16.839 Want to use my phone to make an appointment? Yes. 367 00:19:18.059 --> 00:19:19.180 What have I got to lose? 368 00:19:19.420 --> 00:19:19.759 Sure. 369 00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:21.640 What are you about to lose? 370 00:19:28.819 --> 00:19:30.539 Oh, yes, Madame Meredith. 371 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.769 I know the doctor was in great hope that you 372 00:19:33.789 --> 00:19:34.950 would answer his letter. 373 00:19:35.210 --> 00:19:37.710 He's most anxious to see you. 374 00:19:37.789 --> 00:19:40.670 I still don't understand how he managed to locate me. 375 00:19:41.769 --> 00:19:46.609 I would not know. I am just his receptionist. You're French? 376 00:19:47.250 --> 00:19:48.890 I am from Algiers. 377 00:19:49.329 --> 00:19:52.339 My ancestors is mixed. 378 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:55.079 If you'll have a seat, please. 379 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:57.900 A gentleman is with the master. 380 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:02.220 I'm a little confused. This is not a medical office? 381 00:20:02.819 --> 00:20:03.400 Oh, yes. 382 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:04.960 In part. 383 00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:08.039 You wear a nurse's uniform. I am a nurse. 384 00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:12.140 And the doctor, as you can see from the evidence 385 00:20:12.259 --> 00:20:17.630 and the word, is a licensed physician. But the temple 386 00:20:17.750 --> 00:20:19.549 of transcendent truth. 387 00:20:20.269 --> 00:20:25.670 That has become his full life work. There are many 388 00:20:25.690 --> 00:20:30.390 steps to the truth. Oh, he is here himself now. 389 00:20:30.809 --> 00:20:31.730 He will explain. 390 00:20:32.190 --> 00:20:34.970 But you're sure you

can't help me somehow. Everyone says 391 00:20:35.019 --> 00:20:36.240 you can work miracles, Dr. 392 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:37.039 Baba Krishna. 393 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:39.279 I work no miracles, Mr. 394 00:20:39.299 --> 00:20:39.599 York. 395 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.099 For some people, I can show the way. 396 00:20:42.779 --> 00:20:46.259 Not for all. Why not for me? Because your heart 397 00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:50.680 is not truly open. Because you come in doubt. There 398 00:20:50.769 --> 00:20:54.690 is no truth without faith. No bridge that can be 399 00:20:54.710 --> 00:20:57.329 built without belief. 400 00:20:57.450 --> 00:20:59.029 Excuse me, Mr. 401 00:20:59.069 --> 00:20:59.430 Young. 402 00:21:00.019 --> 00:21:02.079 The doctor has someone waiting. 403 00:21:02.420 --> 00:21:07.200 An emergency case. It's Madame Meredith, Master. 404 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.339 I am so relieved. You will please come with me, Mrs. 405 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:11.920 Meredith. 406 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:13.960 We have much to talk about. 407 00:21:13.980 --> 00:21:17.529 I don't understand why, when we don't even know each other. 408 00:21:17.849 --> 00:21:21.829 All will be revealed in time. Please, to follow me. 409 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:27.779 Show Mr. Young out, Sister Maryse. 410 00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:35.619 But how did you find me? I know where to 411 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:36.200 find me. 412 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.269 Your husband told me when he. 413 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:40.390 Broke through to me. 414 00:21:40.950 --> 00:21:41.990 Tom is dead. 415 00:21:42.009 --> 00:21:46.829 Ah, death is only another state of the spirit. And 416 00:21:46.869 --> 00:21:50.130 the spirit is endless and infinite. 417 00:21:51.210 --> 00:21:51.579 But I. 418 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:57.299 When he died, he... Even Tom couldn't have known I 419 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:58.420 would come to New York. 420 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:04.440 From Milwaukee? Away from the house of your father and mother, Mr. 421 00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:10.700 And Mrs. James Henderson, who live on Summer Street at 125. 422 00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:12.329 How could you know about them? 423 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:16.650 Because your husband told me. He is worried about you. 424 00:22:17.690 --> 00:22:22.380 There is an evil force gathering about you. He is 425 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.849 concerned about the money. I don't care about the money. 426 00:22:29.009 --> 00:22:31.029 But what was it Tom wanted. 427 00:22:30.710 --> 00:22:32.150 To tell me? 428 00:22:32.150 --> 00:22:36.789 I think you should let him tell you himself. Tom? 429 00:22:37.809 --> 00:22:42.240 But how can he? Don't you understand? He's dead. He 430 00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:43.400 isn't anymore. 431 00:22:43.420 --> 00:22:48.819 Hush, my child. No one is never anymore. 432 00:22:49.589 --> 00:22:51.349 I'm just so confused. 433 00:22:51.450 --> 00:22:55.289 There is confusion. Because you do not yet know the light.

434 00:22:56.309 --> 00:23:01.509 Listen to my words. Don't fight me. Try to think. 435 00:23:02.410 --> 00:23:06.269 Just make your mind a blank. Leave it an open 436 00:23:06.369 --> 00:23:07.809 slate to be written upon. 437 00:23:08.569 --> 00:23:14.700 And all will be clear. Your eyes are heavy. Heavy. 438 00:23:15.660 --> 00:23:16.400 Heavier now. 439 00:23:17.630 --> 00:23:19.529 The eyelids will not stay open. 440 00:23:20.769 --> 00:23:21.690 They close. 441 00:23:22.690 --> 00:23:24.490 There is no light behind them. 442 00:23:25.690 --> 00:23:33.380 Only the soothing dark and peace, peace, rest and peace. 443 00:23:34.660 --> 00:23:35.240 And you are. 444 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:40.440 Asleep, asleep, asleep. 445 00:23:43.950 --> 00:23:49.980 So, Maria, Is she under? 446 00:23:50.019 --> 00:23:55.650 Yes, completely. Prepare the syringe and bring it back. She 447 00:23:55.710 --> 00:23:58.250 must feel well and joyous when she wakes. 448 00:23:58.609 --> 00:24:01.349 Yours to command, mine to obey. 449 00:24:01.650 --> 00:24:02.309 I wonder. 450 00:24:03.490 --> 00:24:06.680 I may rule the others, but you know. 451 00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:11.599 That I am your slave. 452 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:14.640 You are still in a. 453 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:15.529 Trance, Mrs. 454 00:24:15.609 --> 00:24:15.880 Meredith. 455 00:24:17.089 --> 00:24:18.710 But you may open your eyes. 456 00:24:20.150 --> 00:24:20.430 There. 457 00:24:21.930 --> 00:24:24.390 How do you feel? At rest. 458 00:24:24.970 --> 00:24:25.730 Splendid. 459 00:24:26.970 --> 00:24:30.269 Now you are going to answer me some very intimate 460 00:24:30.349 --> 00:24:32.710 questions about your relationship with. 461 00:24:33.779 --> 00:24:51.630 The man you loved and married. And he called you Tish? 462 00:24:52.089 --> 00:24:52.430 No. 463 00:24:53.410 --> 00:24:57.109 Everyone else did. Tom wanted his own name. 464 00:24:57.849 --> 00:24:59.019 What did he call you? 465 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.900 Anne. My full name is Letitia Anne. 466 00:25:04.700 --> 00:25:07.380 And did he have a high voice? No. 467 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:08.599 Low? 468 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:08.759 No. 469 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:10.700 Not growly. 470 00:25:11.940 --> 00:25:13.970 Like yours a little, but younger. 471 00:25:15.630 --> 00:25:16.430 More like this. 472 00:25:17.150 --> 00:25:17.529 Yes. 473 00:25:19.130 --> 00:25:20.369 Well, not quite. 474 00:25:20.690 --> 00:25:25.670 Did he say, Anne, I love you more than anyone 475 00:25:25.730 --> 00:25:27.220 else in the world? Yes. 476 00:25:28.539 --> 00:25:34.680 Yes, that's Tom. Only he'd say, Anne, I love you 477 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.339 a million. 478 00:25:35.900 --> 00:25:39.900 When you hear this voice you are hearing now, You 479 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:43.400 will know it as Tom's. You will know it as 480 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:45.720 certainly as the sun rises. 481 00:25:46.380 --> 00:25:48.240 I will know it as Tom's. 482 00:25:48.799

--> 00:25:52.940 Tom left you a very rich woman, a million dollars. 483 00:25:53.420 --> 00:25:59.059 It was like blood money. I will never use it 484 00:26:00.140 --> 00:26:02.420 only for some worthwhile charity. 485 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:07.460 Would you sign it over to the temple of transcendent truth? 486 00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:12.319 I don't know. I don't know what it is. 487 00:26:12.339 --> 00:26:17.940 It is a church and a refuge. You could live 488 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:20.660 here in the retreat with all of us who have 489 00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:25.069 given our lives to the pursuit of oneness. 490 00:26:25.910 --> 00:26:26.930 I don't know. 491 00:26:29.549 --> 00:26:32.210 Would you if Tom told you to? 492 00:26:33.190 --> 00:26:36.579 I don't know. I'd have to ask him. 493 00:26:37.529 --> 00:26:39.069 Then you shall ask Tom. 494 00:26:40.289 --> 00:26:41.589 Yes, I mean it. 495 00:26:42.269 --> 00:26:44.349 Listen to me, Mrs. 496 00:26:44.410 --> 00:26:48.089 Meredith. What I am going to tell you, you will 497 00:26:48.150 --> 00:26:53.869 remember when you wake. Everything else you will forget. Remember 498 00:26:54.089 --> 00:26:58.289 only one thing. Ask Tom what to do with the 499 00:26:58.349 --> 00:27:05.079 money and obey him as your husband. You understand? 500 00:27:05.710 --> 00:27:05.970 Yes. 501 00:27:06.910 --> 00:27:10.210 I will ask him and do as he tells me. 502 00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:14.910 She has been difficult. You know that even under hypnotism, 503 00:27:15.130 --> 00:27:17.650 I cannot force anyone against his will. 504 00:27:18.390 --> 00:27:19.269 You have the high power. 505 00:27:19.349 --> 00:27:19.630 Yes. 506 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.079 Good. 507 00:27:20.690 --> 00:27:23.119 Give it to her now, so she will feel the 508 00:27:23.180 --> 00:27:27.160 joy and release when she leaves. Then I will wake her, 509 00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:31.900 and we will bring her to the sanctuary. Oh. 510 00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:40.440 I'm hungry. I'd choose if I fell asleep or something. 511 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:42.720 This is what we call the sanctuary. 512 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:48.130 Here the outside world disappears like the illusion it is. 513 00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:53.009 And the truth is all. The oneness of the spirit. 514 00:27:53.829 --> 00:27:56.630 The bridge from life to life. 515 00:27:57.089 --> 00:28:00.119 Why did you bring me here? To this dark place? 516 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:05.390 To talk with your husband. Call. 517 00:28:06.190 --> 00:28:08.619 Call your husband. 518 00:28:08.650 --> 00:28:09.170 Tom? 519 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:11.539 Tom? 520 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:13.220 Anne. 521 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.220 Anne, darling. 522 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:16.720 It's you. 523 00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:20.160 It's the voice. Listen to me, Anne, my darling. 524 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:22.309 You mustn't worry about me. 525 00:28:22.329 --> 00:28:25.769 Only about all those around you in your physical life. 526 00:28:26.970 --> 00:28:30.710 I am here to talk to you from the beyond 527 00:28:31.650 --> 00:28:35.369 whenever you want. Whenever the good doctor builds the bridge. 528 00:28:36.450 --> 00:28:40.250 But it would be easier if you stayed here. 529 00:28:39.950 --> 00:28:42.289 In the retreat. 530 00:28:42.829 --> 00:28:44.289 Is that what you want me to do? 531 00:28:45.269 --> 00:28:47.230 That is up to Dr. 532 00:28:47.309 --> 00:28:48.109 Pavakrishna. 533 00:28:49.430 --> 00:28:52.170 This is nasty. 534 00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:59.059 That is enough for one day. Maris, please, open the door. 535 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:02.339 You will rest a minute now. 536 00:29:03.750 --> 00:29:13.269 Before you go home. Oh, excuse me, miss. 537 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:18.380 Jesus, I'm sorry. I'm not feeling very well. 538 00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:21.799 Well, I wouldn't bother you except that we have seen 539 00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:22.900 each other before. 540 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:24.339 We have? Yeah, in Dr. 541 00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:27.819 Father Kushner's office. I came out while you were waiting 542 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:28.240 to go in. 543 00:29:28.619 --> 00:29:29.420 Oh, yes, yes. 544 00:29:30.390 --> 00:29:31.490 Linda, I'm sorry. 545 00:29:31.710 --> 00:29:32.569 Whoever you are. 546 00:29:32.589 --> 00:29:34.549 Oh, uh, Jerry. Jerry Young. 547 00:29:34.549 --> 00:29:37.089 I just can't talk at the moment. 548 00:29:37.089 --> 00:29:37.619 I'm too. 549 00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:39.339 Oh, please let me go. 550 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:42.980 I only wanted to ask you, did he, uh... Did 551 00:29:43.019 --> 00:29:44.380 he bring you any relief at all? 552 00:29:45.180 --> 00:29:46.339 I don't... I mean, I. 553 00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:49.900 Oh, could you get me a cab, please? I think 554 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:50.980 I'm going to pass out. 555 00:29:51.009 --> 00:29:52.809 Oh, uh, yeah, sure. 556 00:29:52.829 --> 00:29:53.670 Just give me your address. 557 00:29:53.730 --> 00:30:04.869 I'll see you at home. There you are. You want 558 00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:06.549 me to open the door for you? 559 00:30:06.730 --> 00:30:10.109 Oh, if I could just find my keys. 560 00:30:10.190 --> 00:30:11.289 Hi, Chase. 561 00:30:12.349 --> 00:30:16.490 Hey, what gives you this? I went to see. 562 00:30:16.509 --> 00:30:20.880 Oh, this gentleman was nice enough to see me home. 563 00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:21.839 You know her? 564 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:22.559 No. 565 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.480 Okay, gentlemen, thanks, and blow, okay? I'll take over. 566 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:27.079 Bye-bye. 567 00:30:32.299 --> 00:30:34.440 Hey, you still here? 568 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:35.000 Yeah. 569 00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:39.099 Listen, I don't know who you are, mister, but you're 570 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:41.660 looking for passing. Don't take me on. 571 00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:43.549 You make one wrong move, I just assume it touches 572 00:30:43.569 --> 00:30:44.009

your heart. 573 00:30:44.029 --> 00:30:47.529 Hey, hey, hey, hey, tiger down, down. No sweat, no problems, 574 00:30:47.589 --> 00:30:51.690 and a little advice for you later. But first, the credentials. 575 00:30:52.690 --> 00:30:53.490 You get the message? 576 00:30:53.509 --> 00:30:55.609 Police? 577 00:30:55.950 --> 00:30:57.650 Detective Young, first homicide. 578 00:30:57.730 --> 00:30:57.930 Now. 579 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:01.339 You want to put that carving knife away and let's 580 00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:14.359 you and me talk turkey. Now that the twisted, complicated 581 00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:18.690 chain I talked about is forged, remember. 582 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:20.710 The slimiest slime in the world. 583 00:31:20.730 --> 00:31:24.970 The crook who feeds on human grief and loss and 584 00:31:25.009 --> 00:31:28.990 far too often gets away with it. Usually this greedy 585 00:31:29.049 --> 00:31:33.720 grub stays just inside the law and never steps over 586 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:37.420 the line. If you want to know if he manages 587 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:40.839 to get away with it this time again, why don't 588 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.490 you join me after these short messages for Act Three? 589 00:31:51.730 --> 00:31:55.380 The mystery at the core of this story It's still 590 00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.460 how Dr. Pavit Krishna could have divined the information he 591 00:31:59.509 --> 00:32:03.369 had to begin with, unless he is a true psychic. 592 00:32:04.529 --> 00:32:08.049 Any suspicion of Henrietta as an informant has long since 593 00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:12.430 laid to rest. And even doubting the authenticity of Detective 594 00:32:12.470 --> 00:32:16.289 Gary Young's badge and credentials, there is no way he 595 00:32:16.329 --> 00:32:16.730 could have. 596 00:32:16.670 --> 00:32:18.670 Known who Henrietta. 597 00:32:18.150 --> 00:32:22.900 Is or what connection she has with Tish. So, let 598 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.420 us proceed to the proof. the pudding. 599 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:29.180 What you're telling me is that this crook preys off old. 600 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.200 Women and widows and ladies off the go. He's a 601 00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:33.839 big number one phony, right? 602 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:34.519 In my book. 603 00:32:35.009 --> 00:32:36.470 So why haven't you nailed him sooner? 604 00:32:36.890 --> 00:32:40.309 Because we can't get anyone to testify against him. I 605 00:32:40.349 --> 00:32:42.789 can't prove it, but at least two older women have 606 00:32:42.849 --> 00:32:46.559 left money in their wills to his temple died. 607 00:32:46.579 --> 00:32:48.759 Kind of very convenient. 608 00:32:49.460 --> 00:32:50.779 You mean he's a murderer? 609 00:32:51.299 --> 00:32:52.579 The whole setup smells. 610 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.119 Now, I tried to con my way in as a 611 00:32:55.180 --> 00:32:58.019 broken-hearted son looking to reach his mother, but somehow that 612 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:01.279 spider smelled me out. What I'm trying to say is, 613 00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:05.579 your little Mrs. Meredith, after the sad story you told me, 614 00:33:05.609 --> 00:33:07.869 and if she is worth all that money, is just 615 00:33:07.930 --> 00:33:10.329 the kind of pigeon that's made for his racket. Well, 616 00:33:10.349 --> 00:33:12.609 what do you want me to do about it? Hang 617 00:33:12.650 --> 00:33:15.180 on to her. Hold her back till I get a 618 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.559 chance to do a little research on all you've told me. 619 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:20.420 With a little luck, we can set a trap to 620 00:33:20.500 --> 00:33:24.160 pin that bald-headed eagle to the wall. 621 00:33:33.289 --> 00:33:33.670 Hello? 622 00:33:34.349 --> 00:33:34.970 Mrs. Henderson? 623 00:33:35.150 --> 00:33:35.430 Yes. 624 00:33:36.130 --> 00:33:39.490 This is Detective Gary Young, New York Police, calling. Oh, no. 625 00:33:39.789 --> 00:33:41.019 Something happened to me. 626 00:33:41.069 --> 00:33:41.569 No, no, no. 627 00:33:41.609 --> 00:33:43.069 There's nothing wrong with your daughter, Mrs. 628 00:33:43.190 --> 00:33:43.529 Henderson. 629 00:33:43.589 --> 00:33:45.430 I just talked to her within the last hour or so. 630 00:33:45.490 --> 00:33:46.230 She's fine. But. 631 00:33:47.809 --> 00:33:49.710 Well, there are a couple of questions I wanted to 632 00:33:49.769 --> 00:33:50.230 ask you. 633 00:33:52.009 --> 00:33:54.869 Of course, as long as Tish is okay, ask anything 634 00:33:54.950 --> 00:33:55.509 you want. 635 00:33:55.829 --> 00:33:58.819 Have you received any calls about her during the last week? 636 00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:00.339 Why, yes. 637 00:34:01.220 --> 00:34:02.359 There was a call from a man. 638 00:34:02.380 --> 00:34:04.660 I never did. 639 00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:07.140 Get his name quite straight, but he said that he. 640 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.769 Had a job for my daughter, but didn't have her 641 00:34:09.809 --> 00:34:10.739 New York address. I was. 642 00:34:12.739 --> 00:34:15.599 Quite upset. In fact, I didn't have it either. The 643 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:18.079 best I could do was suggest she might have located 644 00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:19.199 my old neighborhood. 645 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:20.760 And where would that be, ma'am? 646 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:25.059 Oh, years ago before I was married and settled down, 647 00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:28.960 I had an apartment in Greenwich Village. Silly romanticism, maybe, 648 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.349 but when Tish took off for New York, I thought 649 00:34:32.369 --> 00:34:38.670 she'd be safer and happier there than anywhere. But how 650 00:34:38.690 --> 00:34:40.489 would you know she had gone to New York? 651 00:34:41.409 --> 00:34:44.670 Or to call Well, Mrs. Henderson, the tragic circumstances of 652 00:34:44.710 --> 00:34:47.050 her husband's death made all the wire services. I dug 653 00:34:47.070 --> 00:34:50.400 that out of back newspaper

files. And the big settlement 654 00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:51.980 for damages was another big story. 655 00:34:53.219 --> 00:34:55.739 Detective Young, is Tish in trouble? 656 00:34:55.820 --> 00:34:59.039 No, nothing I can't handle. You leave it up to me, 657 00:34:59.389 --> 00:35:01.750 and don't worry. I'll call on you if I need help. 658 00:35:07.210 --> 00:35:11.170 I think you're kind of trapped in a big-time con game. How? 659 00:35:11.369 --> 00:35:14.489 I told you, Tish, there was nothing supernatural. 660 00:35:14.630 --> 00:35:19.159 This guru-schmuru picked up your story in a country-wide press release. Oh, right. 661 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:20.300 Perhaps he could have. 662 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.519 But how could he know my address, personal things like 663 00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:27.099 what my husband called me, all that? 664 00:35:27.380 --> 00:35:29.960 Don't ask me, but why don't you give Jerry Young a. 665 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:31.019 Chance to explain? 666 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:31.739 Oh, you. 667 00:35:32.489 --> 00:35:35.690 You just went hook, line, and sinker for a good-looking cop, 668 00:35:35.750 --> 00:35:37.789 and he can make you believe anything you want. 669 00:35:37.949 --> 00:35:39.050 I wish that was the truth. 670 00:35:39.130 --> 00:35:46.329 I wouldn't have to be asked to give in. You 671 00:35:46.369 --> 00:35:50.059 can wake up now, Pierce. Are you awake? 672 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:51.119 Yes. 673 00:35:51.900 --> 00:35:56.550 Would you like to talk about the money? No. But 674 00:35:56.610 --> 00:35:58.289 you do want to talk to Tom. 675 00:35:58.949 --> 00:35:59.610 Oh, yes. 676 00:36:00.329 --> 00:36:03.690 That money preys upon your mind, does it not? 677 00:36:04.070 --> 00:36:08.030 Yes. Then why not let Tom suggest what to do 678 00:36:08.070 --> 00:36:08.329 with it? 679 00:36:08.849 --> 00:36:09.429 Yes. 680 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:14.559 I would do what Tom asks. That would be right. 681 00:36:14.820 --> 00:36:15.579 Very well, then. 682 00:36:16.139 --> 00:36:19.760 That is arranged. We shall go to the sanctuary to 683 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:24.630 meet Tom. Marry Give her the injection before I bring 684 00:36:24.670 --> 00:36:30.780 her out of the hypnosis. 685 00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:32.320 I can't get anywhere with her, Mr. 686 00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:32.760 Young. 687 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.179 I mean, when she comes back from that temple, like 688 00:36:35.219 --> 00:36:37.320 she calls it, it's like she was hypnotized. 689 00:36:37.699 --> 00:36:40.929 She probably is. And I wouldn't put it past him 690 00:36:40.949 --> 00:36:41.619 to use drugs. 691 00:36:41.989 --> 00:36:44.610 The worst part of it all is she's talking about 692 00:36:44.650 --> 00:36:47.210 moving into the house with all the other creeps because. 693 00:36:46.989 --> 00:36:49.980 Then she can talk to Tom whenever she wants. How 694 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:51.099 can he fool her like that? 695 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:56.650 She's not dumb. Post-hypnotic suggestion. Stimulants to make her feel 696 00:36:56.710 --> 00:37:00.449 on a high after her supposed talks. The letdown when 697 00:37:00.469 --> 00:37:02.449 they wear off that drags her back. 698 00:37:02.949 --> 00:37:04.030 And then he has her hooked? 699 00:37:04.750 --> 00:37:06.250 He knows he's being watched. 700 00:37:07.030 --> 00:37:11.119 That guy has the intuition of a cat. Maybe he 701 00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:14.440 does have some really SP. I figure he's after one 702 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:18.340 big score and then blow. And your friend Tish has 703 00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:21.059 just the kind of stake he and his girlfriend need. 704 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:33.150 We've got to figure something desperate. I mean, time is 705 00:37:33.210 --> 00:37:34.030 running out for us. 706 00:37:34.190 --> 00:37:34.909 I feel it. 707 00:37:34.969 --> 00:37:36.510 We must figure something out. 708 00:37:36.670 --> 00:37:39.230 I know, I know, but for some reason I cannot 709 00:37:39.269 --> 00:37:42.190 break her down. How do I get that million dollars 710 00:37:42.250 --> 00:37:42.610 from her? 711 00:37:42.909 --> 00:37:43.769 Where is it? 712 00:37:43.829 --> 00:37:46.090 In Milwaukee, in a safe deposit box. 713 00:37:46.170 --> 00:37:46.889 In real money? 714 00:37:46.969 --> 00:37:47.670 Better than that. 715 00:37:48.289 --> 00:37:49.449 What is better than money? 716 00:37:49.989 --> 00:37:50.530 Diamonds. 717 00:37:51.070 --> 00:37:51.650 Diamonds? 718 00:37:51.849 --> 00:37:54.760 Her father is in the business. When she did not 719 00:37:54.820 --> 00:37:57.639 want the money for herself, he persuaded her to invest. 720 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:01.219 And he bought for her diamonds. 721 00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:02.440 Perfect for us. 722 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:10.019 Untraceable. Good as or better than gold. In South America... 723 00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:13.530 We could live like kings. If we have them. We 724 00:38:13.590 --> 00:38:16.389 are going to get them. And we are not going 725 00:38:16.449 --> 00:38:20.429 to wait. Get everything packed and ready for us to leave. 726 00:38:20.449 --> 00:38:22.300 But how are we going to get into the safe 727 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.239 to pass it back? 728 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.239 She is going to do that for us. Under hypnosis. 729 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:30.840 At her ghostly husband's suggestion. 730 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:32.400 And then? 731 00:38:33.139 --> 00:38:36.989 I cannot keep her hypnotized forever. It will be like 732 00:38:37.010 --> 00:38:40.329 the other two. She will have to die. 733 00:38:44.670 --> 00:38:48.530 You can't be serious. Fish, baby, give Detective Lennon a break. 734 00:38:48.750 --> 00:38:49.699 Listen to him. 735 00:38:50.219 --> 00:38:53.780 You've got to listen. It's all a big con game. 736 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:56.500 But how could the doctor have gotten my. 737 00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:58.099 Address without

Tom? 738 00:38:58.219 --> 00:39:00.500 Well, the same way I did. I called your mother 739 00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:01.199 in Milwaukee. 740 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.500 But Mother doesn't know my address. 741 00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:06.110 She gave me enough of a lead. She said Greenwich Village. 742 00:39:06.530 --> 00:39:08.849 So I called your real estate agent. She confirmed what 743 00:39:08.889 --> 00:39:13.059 I suspected. Someone called her ten days ago saying he 744 00:39:13.099 --> 00:39:15.949 had a job for a Mrs. Meredith but couldn't locate her. 745 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:18.619 See, honey, it's like Gary says. Once the doctor knew 746 00:39:18.659 --> 00:39:21.019 the village, he just kept calling agents until. 747 00:39:20.860 --> 00:39:23.619 He found the right one. No, I can't. 748 00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:24.309 I won't. 749 00:39:24.369 --> 00:39:27.409 Now, listen, I'm going to tell you something else. Has 750 00:39:27.449 --> 00:39:29.969 he been giving you any injections? You know, is that 751 00:39:30.059 --> 00:39:30.900 medical man. 752 00:39:30.780 --> 00:39:35.679 No you mean you don't know here come over to 753 00:39:35.699 --> 00:39:38.219 the mirror roll over we'll roll over sleep what are 754 00:39:38.300 --> 00:39:41.110 you doing to me just want to show you something 755 00:39:42.289 --> 00:39:43.849 you see those puncture marks on the back of your 756 00:39:43.949 --> 00:39:47.949 arm I've never been more... Be, probably, some kind of 757 00:39:47.989 --> 00:39:49.340 amphetamine to make you feel good. 758 00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:50.599 No, I don't believe it. 759 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.099 I can't let go of me. 760 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:55.980 I want, I want to talk to Tom. 761 00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:57.440 What? 762 00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:04.190 That's the bait to keep dragging you back. Okay, Tish. 763 00:40:05.469 --> 00:40:07.469 I'm going to call you that because we're all in 764 00:40:07.510 --> 00:40:12.050 this sink or swim. You'll go back. But not until 765 00:40:12.070 --> 00:40:14.130 you sweat a lot of things out of your system. 766 00:40:14.210 --> 00:40:21.789 Where the devil is she? 767 00:40:22.329 --> 00:40:24.179 This is the second appointment. 768 00:40:23.739 --> 00:40:24.340 She has missed. 769 00:40:24.449 --> 00:40:27.179 Well, we can't call her. She doesn't have a phone yet. 770 00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:29.260 Shall I go to the apartment? 771 00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:33.320 No. We'll give her one more day. Then we will 772 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:34.139 have to make a move. 773 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:44.000 Okay, Gary. I've been a stupid, romantic, gullible little fool. 774 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.760 I should have realized, remembering Tom, that he'd never have 775 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.539 gone with this. 776 00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:50.380 No matter where he is. 777 00:40:51.539 --> 00:40:53.780 I think I owe him something for making him out 778 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:58.980 as foolish as me. Okay, let's get busy setting houses 779 00:40:59.039 --> 00:40:59.460 in order. 780 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:00.920 What do I do? 781 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.119 It's simple. 782 00:41:03.159 --> 00:41:06.539 And, I hope, not too dangerous. Now, they're hungry for money. 783 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.099 I think we can catch them off guard. The first 784 00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:13.099 thing is this. Nobody can be hypnotized if they don't 785 00:41:13.139 --> 00:41:16.260 want to. Now, it's really a trick which is guaranteed 786 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.739 that it won't work. Then, after that, do everything he 787 00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:23.340 wants to. Pretend to agree. Try to get him to 788 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:28.239 lay out everything he has in mind. Now, you'll have 789 00:41:28.260 --> 00:41:30.880 the radio transmitter in your pocket, no bigger than a 790 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:33.559 pack of cigarettes, and a mic is here. You see 791 00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.960 in this brooch? We'll have the house covered. If you 792 00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:38.739 get in any real trouble, press here against the pack. 793 00:41:39.550 --> 00:41:44.989 That's an alarm. And if not, go with it. And 794 00:41:45.110 --> 00:41:54.150 trust me. Mrs. Meredith, I have missed you the last 795 00:41:54.190 --> 00:41:54.590 two days. 796 00:41:55.409 --> 00:41:58.269 I'm sorry. I was thinking. 797 00:41:59.030 --> 00:42:00.429 What were you thinking? 798 00:42:01.190 --> 00:42:06.449 About the money you asked for. For the temple. You 799 00:42:06.489 --> 00:42:09.500 may have it, if that is what Tom wants. 800 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:14.019 Did you bring the safe deposit key as Tom asked 801 00:42:14.059 --> 00:42:15.579 you to? Yes. 802 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:18.380 Does anyone know where you are today? 803 00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:23.059 No. Splendid. And you are ready to do exactly what 804 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:28.050 I say, as your dear husband asked you to? Yes. 805 00:42:28.889 --> 00:42:37.389 Then sleep for a moment. Rest. Rest, my dear. I 806 00:42:37.449 --> 00:42:38.030 heard it all. 807 00:42:38.789 --> 00:42:39.050 Now? 808 00:42:39.250 --> 00:42:42.219 Now. We'll pack the cars in front. You have the 809 00:42:42.260 --> 00:42:42.880 plane tickets. 810 00:42:42.889 --> 00:42:43.949 We take her to Milwaukee. 811 00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:47.920 Once she has opened the box, she has to die. 812 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:49.840 It is almost dark. 813 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.800 Come. There is much to do. 814 00:42:52.880 --> 00:43:01.599 I am quite sure I have her under. But hold 815 00:43:01.659 --> 00:43:06.210 her tight, Maryse. We take no chances. Put her in 816 00:43:06.230 --> 00:43:07.820 the middle, between us. 817 00:43:09.820 --> 00:43:10.889 Mrs. Meredith? 818 00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:12.059 Yes? 819 00:43:12.500 --> 00:43:18.019 Climb into the car, my dear. That's right. Now you, Maurice, 820 00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:23.360 and I will go around

to the driver's side. All right, doctor. 821 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:24.619 Hold it right there. 822 00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:24.920 What? 823 00:43:25.099 --> 00:43:29.559 Who? Police. Police. Don't move. You're covered. Look out, you 824 00:43:29.619 --> 00:43:30.760 crazy person! Doctor! 825 00:43:30.860 --> 00:43:31.559 Doctor, watch it! 826 00:43:39.099 --> 00:43:40.019 You all right, Tish? 827 00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:44.900 Yes, I think I've saved it. What happened to the doctor? 828 00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:50.449 He was killed. Crazy madman who came in that car 829 00:43:50.489 --> 00:43:51.110 from nowhere. 830 00:43:51.309 --> 00:43:52.309 Did you find him? 831 00:43:54.809 --> 00:43:57.230 No, he turned a corner and disappeared into thin air. 832 00:43:58.190 --> 00:44:00.130 Just like the man who killed my Tom? 833 00:44:00.289 --> 00:44:06.769 No. No comparison. This wasn't much loss. Not we'll find 834 00:44:06.849 --> 00:44:09.869 a car just like the Milwaukee police found the man who... Don't. 835 00:44:10.949 --> 00:44:15.789 The past is really dead now. And somehow, Gary, I 836 00:44:15.889 --> 00:44:18.550 don't think you ever will find this driver. 837 00:44:19.650 --> 00:44:22.769 Because I saw him just before the car hit. 838 00:44:23.269 --> 00:44:23.409 Oh? 839 00:44:24.449 --> 00:44:26.849 Could you recognize him if you saw him again? 840 00:44:26.949 --> 00:44:30.849 Yes, only I never will. I told you the past 841 00:44:30.869 --> 00:44:35.510 is dead. The man behind the wheel was Tom. 842 00:44:45.380 --> 00:44:51.199 Well, there's poetic irony for you. Or is it? Was 843 00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:54.199 it only an illusion in the brain of a tired 844 00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:59.920 and tortured girl? Or could Dr. Pappit Krishna, meddling in 845 00:44:59.980 --> 00:45:04.800 powers beyond him, the powers of darkness and evil, have 846 00:45:04.860 --> 00:45:09.800 raised up from the supernatural the instrument of his own death. 847 00:45:11.380 --> 00:45:16.000 We'll never know, because Titch was right. The driver of 848 00:45:16.019 --> 00:45:19.300 the mystery car was never found. 849 00:45:20.219 --> 00:45:21.139 I'll be back shortly. 850 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:34.260 There's little more to add. 851 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.860 Louise is no longer in the country, shipped out as 852 00:45:37.900 --> 00:45:42.920 an undesirable alien. Tish, being young, and Tyne being the 853 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:47.489 best of healers, found the best of use for those diamonds. 854 00:45:48.369 --> 00:45:51.650 They equipped and staffed a halfway house for young people 855 00:45:51.730 --> 00:45:53.710 to escape and shake. 856 00:45:53.409 --> 00:45:54.809 Their individual drug habits. 857 00:45:55.710 --> 00:45:59.230 She has found another doctor, the head one at the clinic, 858 00:45:59.989 --> 00:46:03.889 and this one she will marry soon. She doesn't go 859 00:46:03.969 --> 00:46:07.329 often to New York, but when she does, it's to 860 00:46:07.369 --> 00:46:12.510 visit her best friends, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Young. That's 861 00:46:12.590 --> 00:46:17.380 the ex-Hank Plank, who has shed an uncomfortable name and 862 00:46:17.380 --> 00:46:22.699 35 pounds along with it. Our cast included Jennifer Harmon, 863 00:46:22.820 --> 00:46:25.360 Russell Horton, Martha Greenhouse, William Redfield. 864 00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:26.559 And Terry Keene. 865 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.699 The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Browne. 866 00:46:34.429 --> 00:46:38.690 And now, a preview of our next tale. I was 867 00:46:38.829 --> 00:46:39.559 led to the edge. 868 00:46:39.469 --> 00:46:46.179 Of the forest. The Forbidden Forest. By my teacher and sponsor. 869 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:48.300 Death. 870 00:46:50.019 --> 00:46:52.139 Are you frightened, Gold? 871 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:53.760 No? 872 00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:55.880 Say the truth. 873 00:46:57.699 --> 00:46:58.820 Well, yes. 874 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:00.869 Remember what I taught you. 875 00:47:01.750 --> 00:47:03.570 Yes, I remember. 876 00:47:04.059 --> 00:47:07.590 They're very good fighters inside. 877 00:47:08.989 --> 00:47:12.409 Never let a woman get close enough to use her dagger. 878 00:47:12.429 --> 00:47:19.070 I remember. Oh, you won't remember. 879 00:47:20.110 --> 00:47:22.340 In the heat of the fight, you do what's in 880 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:26.000 your heart. I wish I knew what was in my heart. 881 00:47:27.340 --> 00:47:32.670 Before this night is over... You may find out. This 882 00:47:32.730 --> 00:47:36.030 is E.G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery 883 00:47:36.090 --> 00:47:42.150 theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, 884 00:47:43.150 --> 00:47:45.369 pleasant dreams. 885 00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:45.260 Fed up with shoveling snow? Can't shake that cold of yours? 886 00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:47.679 Want to get away from it all? 887 00:48:48.260 --> 00:48:49.920 We offer you escape. 888 00:49:02.329 --> 00:49:05.349 You were alone in a remote village on the Welsh border, 889 00:49:06.070 --> 00:49:10.409 surrounded by silent townspeople who were watching. and waiting for 890 00:49:10.469 --> 00:49:12.760 you to decide to lose your soul. 891 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.960 Escape, produced by William N. Robeson and carefully contrived to 892 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.039 free you from the four walls of today for a 893 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:31.460 half hour of high adventure. 894 00:49:37.139 --> 00:49:41.219 Today we escape to a remote section of Wales and 895 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:45.980 a strange village between two worlds. As Algernon Blackwood described 896 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.639 it in his eerie story, Ancient Sorceries. 897 00:50:08.289 --> 00:50:11.010 I had spent a week's vacation in Wales and was 898 00:50:11.090 --> 00:50:14.510 returning to London by train when it all began. It 899 00:50:14.550 --> 00:50:17.719 was late afternoon. We'd left the

Welsh mountains and crossed 900 00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:21.179 the border into Western England, passing through a countryside which 901 00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:26.860 appeared singularly empty, deserted of life. Over the soft hills 902 00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:31.400 and the valleys between hung a faintly perceptible haze, giving 903 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:35.099 to the whole landscape a feeling of enchantment and unreality. 904 00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:39.510 The train slowed at length to stop at a tiny 905 00:50:39.550 --> 00:50:43.289 wayside station. As it did so, a sudden thought occurred 906 00:50:43.309 --> 00:50:46.469 to me. Why not leave the crowded train with its 907 00:50:46.530 --> 00:50:49.820 irritating noises and spend the night in this peaceful spot, 908 00:50:50.380 --> 00:50:52.599 then take a slower and emptier train in the morning? 909 00:50:53.739 --> 00:50:55.880 On the impulse, I rose from my seat, and the 910 00:50:55.900 --> 00:50:59.309 man sitting opposite me said, Why, say, sir, we only 911 00:50:59.329 --> 00:51:01.380 stop here for a minute or two. If you were 912 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:04.380 thinking of walking about a bit. No, I... Matter of fact, 913 00:51:04.420 --> 00:51:06.860 I'm getting off here. I thought you were going to London. 914 00:51:07.139 --> 00:51:08.780 I'll go on in the morning. I'm going to stay 915 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:11.550 here for the night. I strongly advise you not to. 916 00:51:12.550 --> 00:51:15.550 I beg your pardon? This is the village of Malton. 917 00:51:16.050 --> 00:51:16.409 Malton? 918 00:51:16.469 --> 00:51:17.230 I've never heard of it. 919 00:51:17.570 --> 00:51:21.250 Few people have, outside. But if you place any value 920 00:51:21.289 --> 00:51:23.070 on your soul, you'll not spend the night here. 921 00:51:24.250 --> 00:51:25.269 What are you talking about? 922 00:51:25.329 --> 00:51:25.710 Why not? 923 00:51:26.170 --> 00:51:30.530 Because of the sleep. And because of the cats... That's 924 00:51:30.570 --> 00:51:33.969 all I can tell you. You're insane. I'll take my 925 00:51:34.010 --> 00:51:34.969 bag now, if you don't mind. 926 00:51:35.070 --> 00:51:37.969 You're making a terrible mistake. You may not even get 927 00:51:38.010 --> 00:51:41.010 the chance to regret it. Don't leave this train. I 928 00:51:41.050 --> 00:51:41.889 know what I'm talking about. 929 00:51:41.989 --> 00:51:43.170 Oh, what utter nonsense. 930 00:51:43.570 --> 00:51:43.829 Don't. 931 00:51:44.210 --> 00:51:58.579 Don't, I tell you. Goodbye. I stood there on the 932 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.900 embankment as the train pulled away. What was the matter 933 00:52:02.940 --> 00:52:07.199 with the man anyway? Cats, sleep, his words made no sense. 934 00:52:08.889 --> 00:52:11.110 I picked up my bag and started walking up the 935 00:52:11.150 --> 00:52:14.909 long hill toward the village, and suddenly, for no reason 936 00:52:14.949 --> 00:52:29.510 at all, I shivered. Hello? Hello, is anyone here?

937 00:52:29.530 --> 00:52:29.599 Yes. 938 00:52:31.489 --> 00:52:33.670 Oh, I didn't see you at first. 939 00:52:33.949 --> 00:52:36.070 Is there something I can do. 940 00:52:35.969 --> 00:52:36.949 For you, sir? 941 00:52:37.309 --> 00:52:40.110 Why, yes. I saw your sign outside the Inn of 942 00:52:40.130 --> 00:52:42.360 the Golden Bough. I should like to get a room. 943 00:52:42.889 --> 00:52:45.739 You're planning to stay here? 944 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:47.460 Why, yes. 945 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:54.510 Very well. You may sign the register. 946 00:52:54.530 --> 00:52:56.190 Here. 947 00:52:56.929 --> 00:53:00.909 Thank you. I'm going to catch another train and go 948 00:53:00.949 --> 00:53:01.510 on in the morning. 949 00:53:01.550 --> 00:53:02.550 Yes, of course. 950 00:53:02.570 --> 00:53:03.730 There we are. 951 00:53:05.150 --> 00:53:08.829 Arthur Llewellyn. Llewellyn? 952 00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:14.349 Yes, from London. Arthur Llewellyn. 953 00:53:16.570 --> 00:53:20.099 You've been a long time coming back. 954 00:53:20.940 --> 00:53:21.159 What? 955 00:53:21.340 --> 00:53:25.800 But now that you're here, you'll find there are some 956 00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:27.800 things that never change. 957 00:53:28.750 --> 00:53:31.489 Madam, I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about. 958 00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:33.710 You rang, madam? 959 00:53:34.389 --> 00:53:40.039 Don Rere. The gentleman would like a room for the night. 960 00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:44.639 His name is Arthur Llewellyn. 961 00:53:44.659 --> 00:53:46.760 Aye, so it is. 962 00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:49.639 Welcome back to Malton, sir. 963 00:53:54.750 --> 00:53:58.179 I knew I'd never been here before. What was it 964 00:53:58.219 --> 00:54:00.559 all about? First the men on the train, and now 965 00:54:00.619 --> 00:54:06.340 these people. Were they crazy, or was I? Well, I 966 00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:09.699 left the inn and walked along narrow cobbled streets, beneath 967 00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:13.500 quaint gables leaning out from the silent shuttered houses, through 968 00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:17.380 dappled pools of light and shadow. As I walked, it 969 00:54:17.420 --> 00:54:20.340 gradually dawned upon me that the village of Malton was 970 00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:23.719 centuries old, older than any town in England ought to be. 971 00:54:24.769 --> 00:54:26.679 and the people I passed now and then were dressed 972 00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:30.539 in the fashion of another day. They paid no attention 973 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:36.300 to me, went silently about their own business. Yes, that 974 00:54:36.340 --> 00:54:38.639 was it. That's what I'd been noticing. 975 00:54:40.250 --> 00:54:40.809 Silently. 976 00:54:44.289 --> 00:54:46.250 As I walked, I noticed they came and went with 977 00:54:46.289 --> 00:54:50.320 only soft padding sounds to mark their passing, as though 978 00:54:50.340 --> 00:54:55.769 they walked in shoes with soles of velvet. When I stopped, 979 00:54:56.730 --> 00:55:02.969 there was no sound. The silence was unbroken. I hurried 980 00:55:03.030 --> 00:55:04.949 through the streets and came at last to the far 981 00:55:04.989 --> 00:55:07.409 side of the village, to a place where the hill 982 00:55:07.449 --> 00:55:10.610 broke away sharply from a low, flat wall of stone, 983 00:55:11.010 --> 00:55:14.300 perhaps a rampart once. I sat down upon it, and 984 00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:20.119 the dreamy tranquility of the place stole over me. Presently, 985 00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:22.260 I don't know how much later, I became aware of 986 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.329 the sound of weird music. rising out of the veil 987 00:55:25.389 --> 00:55:29.809 below me. I looked down from the rampart. The sunken 988 00:55:29.869 --> 00:55:31.829 plain at the bottom melted away into a sea of 989 00:55:31.909 --> 00:55:41.869 gathering shadow, blurred into a swirl of thickening mist. I 990 00:55:41.909 --> 00:55:45.300 thought of dead trees swept by the night wind, of 991 00:55:45.380 --> 00:55:49.880 animals with half-human voices singing to a white moon, of 992 00:55:49.900 --> 00:55:52.179 the wailing of cats on the roof tiles at night. 993 00:55:52.900 --> 00:55:56.000 of unearthly creatures far off in the sky calling to 994 00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:00.409 one another in chorus. I felt my heart beat faster 995 00:56:00.449 --> 00:56:03.789 and faster, felt the vague stirrings of some urge inside 996 00:56:03.829 --> 00:56:06.389 of me trying to answer the awful call of that music. 997 00:56:07.329 --> 00:56:10.570 I fought against the feeling, fought against myself, and even 998 00:56:10.610 --> 00:56:12.889 as I did, I found I was staring down into 999 00:56:12.929 --> 00:56:16.480 that valley, peering desperately into the dark mist, trying to 1000 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:20.440 see I... I don't know what. And then suddenly. 1001 00:56:26.460 --> 00:56:31.650 The music ended. I stood on the rampart alone, dusk 1002 00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:35.150 fallen about me, and the early night wind moaned with 1003 00:56:35.190 --> 00:56:39.150 a chill breath. Quick terror rose up in me. I 1004 00:56:39.210 --> 00:56:41.309 turned and ran on through the darkened streets, ran with 1005 00:56:41.349 --> 00:56:44.739 heart pounding, dodging its shadows, through one demalle after another, 1006 00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:48.719 and arrived at last panting and almost breathless at the 1007 00:56:48.739 --> 00:56:49.800 door of the golden bough. 1008 00:56:53.630 --> 00:56:58.050 You've been a long time returning, Mr. 1009 00:56:58.110 --> 00:56:58.650 Llewellyn. 1010 00:56:59.349 --> 00:57:00.610 It's past seven. 1011 00:57:00.630 --> 00:57:00.789 Yes, I. 1012 00:57:02.670 --> 00:57:05.590 Guess I walked farther than I meant to. I didn't 1013 00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:06.570 realize it was so late. 1014 00:57:06.900 --> 00:57:10.239 You heard the music, didn't you? 1015 00:57:11.219 --> 00:57:11.539 Yes. 1016 00:57:13.099 -->

00:57:16.599 Yes, the strangest music I've ever heard. How did you know? 1017 00:57:17.739 --> 00:57:18.719 Who plays it, anyway? 1018 00:57:19.579 --> 00:57:22.280 Then you didn't remember it? 1019 00:57:23.869 --> 00:57:24.130 No. 1020 00:57:25.849 --> 00:57:31.590 Why should I? The thing was becoming irritating, this quiet 1021 00:57:31.659 --> 00:57:35.559 insistence that I was someone else. I went into my 1022 00:57:35.619 --> 00:57:39.380 lonely dinner and ate as quickly as possible. Then, taking 1023 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:42.960 the candle Dandreri gave me, I crossed the lobby, climbed 1024 00:57:42.980 --> 00:57:46.719 the stairs behind the desk, and walked past silent doors 1025 00:57:46.820 --> 00:57:49.510 down the long, empty hall that led to my room 1026 00:57:49.570 --> 00:57:53.969 at the end. I was halfway to my door when suddenly... 1027 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:59.380 The flame of my candle went out. I stood stark 1028 00:57:59.420 --> 00:58:03.280 still in the pitch blackness, fumbling for a match. And 1029 00:58:03.300 --> 00:58:06.329 at that moment I knew that someone or something was 1030 00:58:06.369 --> 00:58:08.769 there with me in the darkness. I held my breath 1031 00:58:08.809 --> 00:58:12.030 and listened. There was no sound, no movement. I reached 1032 00:58:12.090 --> 00:58:14.250 out and found the wall and moved along, feeling my 1033 00:58:14.289 --> 00:58:17.949 way in the inky blackness. It was then I touched it. 1034 00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:21.099 Near my face another soft, warm yielding. 1035 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:22.860 And alive. 1036 00:58:24.179 --> 00:58:24.260 Who? 1037 00:58:25.510 --> 00:58:25.849 Who is it? 1038 00:58:26.829 --> 00:58:28.929 It is I, Ilsa. 1039 00:58:29.050 --> 00:58:29.309 Who? 1040 00:58:30.309 --> 00:58:33.769 Ilsa. Don't you remember me, Arthur? 1041 00:58:34.699 --> 00:58:34.969 No. 1042 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:36.119 No. 1043 00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:42.099 But wouldn't you like to remember me? Don't you want 1044 00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:45.179 to see me again? To look at me? 1045 00:58:46.300 --> 00:58:47.820 Now? I. 1046 00:58:49.139 --> 00:58:49.750 I don't know. 1047 00:58:52.570 --> 00:58:56.159 But not tonight, Arthur. Perhaps tomorrow. 1048 00:58:56.179 --> 00:58:56.360 Tomorrow. 1049 00:58:57.519 --> 00:58:58.139 Tomorrow. 1050 00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:02.190 Tomorrow. Tomorrow. 1051 00:59:03.250 --> 00:59:04.130 Tomorrow. 1052 00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:12.800 I stumbled blindly through the door of my room and 1053 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.500 shut it behind me. I lit the candle and flung 1054 00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:20.619 myself across the bed. The room was small with one 1055 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:23.500 shuttered window and the light of the flame flickered on 1056 00:59:23.539 --> 00:59:27.429 the walls and ceiling. I stared at the hand that 1057 00:59:27.449 --> 00:59:30.780 had touched her out there in the dark hall. I 1058 00:59:30.820 --> 00:59:34.280 lifted it to my face and smelled the barbaric scent 1059 00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:39.159 that still clung to my fingers. It was evil and maddening. 1060 00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:43.969 The candle sputtered and burned and the melted minutes dripped away. 1061 00:59:45.570 --> 00:59:50.369 Who was I? Who were these people? Who was Ilsa? 1062 00:59:55.329 --> 01:00:00.070 I fell asleep finally and dreamed of soft moving creatures. 1063 01:00:01.019 --> 01:00:04.449 and the silence of life in a dim, muffled world 1064 01:00:04.469 --> 01:00:10.030 devoid of all feeling but ecstasy. And I dreamed, too, 1065 01:00:10.170 --> 01:00:11.849 of cats. 1066 01:00:18.460 --> 01:00:21.519 You slept quite late this morning, Mr. 1067 01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:22.099 Llewellyn. 1068 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:26.409 Morning, Dundree. I felt as though I'd been drugged. 1069 01:00:26.909 --> 01:00:31.150 The night air here in Malton is very conducive to sleep. 1070 01:00:31.530 --> 01:00:34.510 I'd meant to catch the morning train to London. Now 1071 01:00:34.530 --> 01:00:37.190 it's too late. What a terrible shame. 1072 01:00:39.010 --> 01:00:39.250 Yes. 1073 01:00:40.230 --> 01:00:42.030 Oh, by the way, D'Andrea. 1074 01:00:42.269 --> 01:00:45.030 Yes, Mr. Llewellyn? Do you... I.... 1075 01:00:46.329 --> 01:00:48.349 I mean, I was wondering if you'd know anyone by 1076 01:00:48.389 --> 01:00:50.389 the name of Ilsa. 1077 01:00:50.789 --> 01:00:54.880 Ilsa happens to be my daughter, Mr. Llewellyn. 1078 01:00:54.889 --> 01:00:55.860 All right. 1079 01:00:56.289 --> 01:00:57.190 I didn't hear you come in. 1080 01:00:57.769 --> 01:00:58.710 I hope you. 1081 01:00:58.590 --> 01:01:03.260 Were able to sleep well, without unpleasant dreams. 1082 01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:04.340 I guess so. 1083 01:01:04.550 --> 01:01:06.639 I'm so happy to hear it. 1084 01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:11.079 Perhaps then you may decide to stay with us for 1085 01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:12.820 a long time. 1086 01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:15.579 That's very kind of you. 1087 01:01:15.940 --> 01:01:18.460 No, it's not kindness, Mr. 1088 01:01:18.500 --> 01:01:19.039 Llewellyn. 1089 01:01:20.420 --> 01:01:25.260 But all of us are hoping that you may decide soon. 1090 01:01:26.610 --> 01:01:35.679 Decide? Decide what? It was no use. None of them 1091 01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.860 would answer my questions. They seemed to think I should 1092 01:01:38.940 --> 01:01:43.000 know already. I left the inn as soon as I'd eaten, 1093 01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:46.800 walked around the streets of the village. I began to 1094 01:01:46.860 --> 01:01:50.760 notice I was never completely alone. If I turned down 1095 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:54.429 an empty street, someone always stepped from a doorway or 1096 01:01:54.469 --> 01:01:58.760 entered from the opposite end. Wherever I went, within five minutes, 1097 01:01:58.820 --> 01:02:03.530 a dozen people were strolling near me. And I realized 1098 01:02:03.570 --> 01:02:08.389 these people were watching

me, tensely, as a cat watches 1099 01:02:08.469 --> 01:02:11.489 a mouse, or another cat. 1100 01:02:12.429 --> 01:02:13.630 The End. 1101 01:02:25.659 --> 01:02:29.260 It's quite fortunate you came back early, Mr. 1102 01:02:29.300 --> 01:02:29.820 Llewellyn. 1103 01:02:29.980 --> 01:02:33.119 Your dinner this evening is a rather special one. 1104 01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:33.980 Special? 1105 01:02:34.659 --> 01:02:35.340 What do you mean by that? 1106 01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:36.940 You are to have a guest. 1107 01:02:37.619 --> 01:02:38.119 Oh, who? 1108 01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:39.800 An old friend. 1109 01:02:40.659 --> 01:02:44.579 She's coming now. The girl who came toward us across 1110 01:02:44.619 --> 01:02:47.579 the room was lithe and slim. She moved with the 1111 01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:49.360 sinuous grace of a young panther. 1112 01:02:49.699 --> 01:02:50.300 She was lovely. 1113 01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:54.610 Exotic and terrifyingly beautiful. 1114 01:02:55.010 --> 01:02:59.159 May I present Mr. Arthur Llewellyn, Miss Ilsa. He's been 1115 01:02:59.199 --> 01:03:00.719 with us for two days. 1116 01:03:01.500 --> 01:03:07.780 Yes, I know. My mother told me. May I sit down, Mr. 1117 01:03:07.820 --> 01:03:08.199 Llewellyn? 1118 01:03:09.579 --> 01:03:13.159 Oh, yes, please do. Here, permit me. 1119 01:03:14.579 --> 01:03:17.440 Thank you. You may serve us, Dundreary. 1120 01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:19.159 Thank you, Miss Ilsa. 1121 01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:23.139 Then, you're Ilsa? 1122 01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:24.219 Yes. 1123 01:03:25.429 --> 01:03:26.889 Don't you remember me, Arthur? 1124 01:03:27.550 --> 01:03:30.150 From last night. It was you last night, wasn't it? 1125 01:03:30.750 --> 01:03:35.510 Yes, and other nights. Can't you remember all the other nights? 1126 01:03:36.869 --> 01:03:37.090 No. 1127 01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:39.429 No. 1128 01:03:40.539 --> 01:03:44.679 Then we shall have to try that much harder. It's 1129 01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:46.760 been such a very long time. 1130 01:03:47.699 --> 01:03:51.039 Please, Ilsa. What is it all of you talk about? 1131 01:03:51.059 --> 01:03:52.989 I don't understand any of it. 1132 01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:57.929 You will, Arthur. Unless you leave, of course. Weren't you 1133 01:03:57.969 --> 01:04:00.329 planning to take a train to London in the morning? 1134 01:04:00.510 --> 01:04:03.210 Yes. No. 1135 01:04:05.030 --> 01:04:06.570 No, I've changed my mind. 1136 01:04:08.530 --> 01:04:12.079 I'm glad you did. We'll try to make you happy here, 1137 01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:16.920 my mother and I. And then perhaps you'll stay a long, 1138 01:04:17.659 --> 01:04:18.460 long time. 1139 01:04:19.219 --> 01:04:19.460 No. 1140 01:04:20.780 --> 01:04:22.159 I must leave for sure in a day or two. 1141 01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:28.110 Suppose we wait and see. And meanwhile, if there's anything 1142 01:04:28.150 --> 01:04:31.389 you want, all you have to do is ask me. 1143 01:04:32.570 --> 01:04:32.889 All right. 1144 01:04:34.130 --> 01:04:35.150 Why don't you tell me about. 1145 01:04:37.630 --> 01:04:38.409 Yes, Arthur. 1146 01:04:39.409 --> 01:04:39.969 About what? 1147 01:04:41.690 --> 01:04:41.909 No. 1148 01:04:43.929 --> 01:04:46.070 No, I don't want to know. I don't want you 1149 01:04:46.110 --> 01:04:53.699 to tell me. Suddenly I realized I was afraid to know. 1150 01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:55.460 I was afraid. 1151 01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:02.480 I should leave now, but I couldn't leave. It was Ilsa. 1152 01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:09.289 She attracted, repelled, fascinated and horrified me, all in single 1153 01:05:09.349 --> 01:05:13.269 flashes of blasting emotion. I felt the presence of a 1154 01:05:13.329 --> 01:05:15.690 great grey curtain ready to roll back at any moment 1155 01:05:15.750 --> 01:05:18.000 and leave me on the brink of an awful adventure. 1156 01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:22.360 And I knew the village held its breath, watched and waited. 1157 01:05:22.380 --> 01:05:26.570 And then on the evening of the fifth day... The 1158 01:05:26.610 --> 01:05:37.079 whole ghastly secret exploded into hideous life. After dinner, Ilsa 1159 01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:39.380 had asked me to walk with her. It was the 1160 01:05:39.420 --> 01:05:42.840 first time I'd been outside the inn after dark. We 1161 01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:45.659 walked through the village in the moonlight, saying very little, 1162 01:05:46.909 --> 01:05:49.690 and came finally to the stone rampart above the sunken plain. 1163 01:05:50.909 --> 01:05:51.909 We were quite alone. 1164 01:05:54.789 --> 01:05:58.480 Look, Arthur, it's a full moon tonight. Do you know 1165 01:05:58.539 --> 01:05:59.400 what that means? 1166 01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:03.219 Yes. It means I can see more clearly how beautiful 1167 01:06:03.260 --> 01:06:03.500 you are. 1168 01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:07.880 Do you really believe that? Do you think I'm beautiful? 1169 01:06:08.980 --> 01:06:12.239 Like a soft, sleek leopard in a warm jungle of shadows. 1170 01:06:13.090 --> 01:06:15.409 But wait, I'll see you even better in a moment. 1171 01:06:16.210 --> 01:06:17.829 Arthur, what are you doing? 1172 01:06:18.230 --> 01:06:21.130 These dry leaves by the wall. They'll make an excellent bonfire. 1173 01:06:22.130 --> 01:06:22.449 There. 1174 01:06:23.170 --> 01:06:23.909 There, you see? 1175 01:06:24.170 --> 01:06:24.349 Now. 1176 01:06:25.429 --> 01:06:25.659 No. 1177 01:06:25.820 --> 01:06:26.280 What's wrong? 1178 01:06:26.550 --> 01:06:26.989 The fire. 1179 01:06:27.329 --> 01:06:27.829 No, Arthur. 1180 01:06:27.889 --> 01:06:28.349 Put it down. 1181 01:06:28.630 --> 01:06:31.170 All right, Ilza. Don't worry. It's all right. 1182 01:06:31.929 --> 01:06:32.230 There. 1183 01:06:32.849 --> 01:06:34.190 Didn't even get a chance to get started. 1184 01:06:35.030 --> 01:06:35.829 There, you see? It's out. 1185 01:06:36.449 --> 01:06:36.730 Yes. 1186 01:06:37.889 --> 01:06:38.210 I see. 1187 01:06:39.190 -->

01:06:40.289 Why did it bother you so much? 1188 01:06:40.670 --> 01:06:42.949 Don't you remember? Don't you remember the fire? 1189 01:06:43.750 --> 01:06:44.030 No. 1190 01:06:44.730 --> 01:06:45.230 What fire? 1191 01:06:47.110 --> 01:06:47.269 No. 1192 01:06:48.550 --> 01:06:53.760 Don't talk of it. Look at me instead. Look at me, Arthur. 1193 01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:55.780 Yes, Ilsa. 1194 01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:58.500 Arthur, do you love me? 1195 01:06:59.559 --> 01:06:59.820 Yes. 1196 01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:03.340 Yes, Ilsa, I love you. 1197 01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:07.139 I'm glad. That means you'll come back to us then. 1198 01:07:07.159 --> 01:07:09.360 I don't know what you mean, Ilsa. 1199 01:07:10.139 --> 01:07:14.789 You can know everything tonight, if you want to. 1200 01:07:15.690 --> 01:07:18.170 Yes, I do. I do, Ilsa. 1201 01:07:18.750 --> 01:07:21.989 You must know a part of it already, down inside. 1202 01:07:22.750 --> 01:07:24.750 You must remember some of it, don't you? 1203 01:07:25.690 --> 01:07:26.010 Yes. 1204 01:07:27.110 --> 01:07:31.699 It's like something buried for centuries deep inside of me. 1205 01:07:32.590 --> 01:07:34.460 Now it's beginning to come alive. 1206 01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:38.360 Let it come alive. Don't fight against it. You belonged 1207 01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:41.440 to us once, long ago, and you still belong. 1208 01:07:42.860 --> 01:07:45.139 Yes. I seem to know that. 1209 01:07:45.340 --> 01:07:48.159 That's why you came back. You heard me calling. You 1210 01:07:48.199 --> 01:07:51.639 heard them calling. And you came seeking the old life again. 1211 01:07:51.659 --> 01:07:52.539 Yes, but. 1212 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:56.039 Ilsaia. I'm afraid. 1213 01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:58.460 Are you afraid of me? Look at me. 1214 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:00.860 Ilsa. 1215 01:08:02.659 --> 01:08:06.500 Will you live the old life again? With me tonight? 1216 01:08:06.519 --> 01:08:08.500 Yes. 1217 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:10.159 Yes. 1218 01:08:10.739 --> 01:08:13.099 Oh, I've known that you would because I own you, Arthur. 1219 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:15.119 You belong to me. And I want you to come 1220 01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:17.930 with me. I shall never let you escape from me again. 1221 01:08:17.989 --> 01:08:18.449 Yes, yes. 1222 01:08:19.090 --> 01:08:21.390 Go back to the inn then. Wait for me, Arthur. 1223 01:08:21.689 --> 01:08:22.649 I shall come for you. 1224 01:08:23.529 --> 01:08:23.890 Tonight. 1225 01:08:34.319 --> 01:08:36.399 Back at the inn, I paced the floor of my room. 1226 01:08:37.119 --> 01:08:40.810 A tense, uncontrollable excitement driving me along in a nervous frenzy. 1227 01:08:41.569 --> 01:08:43.829 The dry crypt of the memory had broken open and 1228 01:08:43.869 --> 01:08:46.329 all the things I'd hidden away for centuries poured into 1229 01:08:46.369 --> 01:08:51.479 my consciousness. I knew now why I'd come here. I 1230 01:08:51.529 --> 01:08:54.399 knew what I was going to do. And I

knew 1231 01:08:54.460 --> 01:08:59.180 that I was lost. I sensed the rising stir of 1232 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:02.140 movement throughout the inn and outside in the courtyard below 1233 01:09:02.180 --> 01:09:05.560 my window. I knew what to expect when I threw 1234 01:09:05.619 --> 01:09:12.149 open the window. From every window of the inn and 1235 01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:14.590 from those of the houses about the court were leaping 1236 01:09:15.090 --> 01:09:18.710 great monstrous beasts with soft dark fur and eyes that 1237 01:09:18.770 --> 01:09:20.189 gleamed with eerie phosphorescence. 1238 01:09:20.829 --> 01:09:21.229 Cats! 1239 01:09:22.020 --> 01:09:27.659 Cats of human size! This was the secret of Molten. Lycanthropy. 1240 01:09:28.340 --> 01:09:32.199 The witchcraft of centuries long dead and buried. The half-human 1241 01:09:32.270 --> 01:09:34.649 cries floated up to me, and the moon cast their 1242 01:09:34.670 --> 01:09:36.869 dark shadows on the ground as they padded across the 1243 01:09:36.949 --> 01:09:39.270 courtyard and vanished through the narrow streets of the village, 1244 01:09:39.710 --> 01:09:43.369 heading for a hideous rendezvous. This is what I'd been. 1245 01:09:44.229 --> 01:09:49.840 This is what I wanted to be now. I scarcely 1246 01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:52.020 heard the door of the room open behind me. 1247 01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:56.699 Are you ready, my love? Shall we join them? 1248 01:09:57.020 --> 01:09:57.319 Yes. 1249 01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:02.539 Here, Arthur, the sacred bomb... made of her vein and 1250 01:10:02.579 --> 01:10:07.340 mistletoe and blind things out of the sea. Remember? 1251 01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:08.319 Yes. 1252 01:10:10.140 --> 01:10:11.060 Yes, I remember. 1253 01:10:11.359 --> 01:10:15.289 Take it. Use it. We'll change now. Transform. Leap from 1254 01:10:15.310 --> 01:10:17.369 the window and join them. Lead us again, Arthur. 1255 01:10:17.909 --> 01:10:19.810 Yes, but not here, Ilsa. 1256 01:10:19.909 --> 01:10:20.329 Not yet. 1257 01:10:21.829 --> 01:10:24.439 Wait until we get there. Then we'll change. 1258 01:10:24.899 --> 01:10:27.979 If you wish. Come then, Arthur. to the stone wall 1259 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.819 above the grove. That's where we'll change on the stone rampart. 1260 01:10:41.100 --> 01:10:43.600 In the grove on the sunken plain beneath the wall, 1261 01:10:44.270 --> 01:10:47.369 insane shadows writhed in the moonlight and postured in the 1262 01:10:47.430 --> 01:10:51.369 luminous mist. A thousand of the devil's own were dancing 1263 01:10:51.409 --> 01:10:54.430 in the unearthly music born from the harmony of the 1264 01:10:54.470 --> 01:10:58.109 black sacrifice. crying out in delirious abandon, calling to the 1265 01:10:58.170 --> 01:11:00.789 thing that now lived inside of me and struggled screaming 1266 01:11:00.829 --> 01:11:04.430 in my skull, trying to answer them back. I fought 1267 01:11:04.470 --> 01:11:07.789 against them, fought against Ilsa,

pleading and clinging with her 1268 01:11:07.869 --> 01:11:09.189 soft arms about my neck. 1269 01:11:10.130 --> 01:11:12.680 Now, now, Arthur, come with me now if you love me. 1270 01:11:12.939 --> 01:11:15.319 I love you, but I can't do it. I can't 1271 01:11:15.380 --> 01:11:16.300 do it, not again, Ilsa. 1272 01:11:16.319 --> 01:11:18.199 Yes, my love, only an instant to change and then 1273 01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:19.180 we'll live forever. 1274 01:11:19.899 --> 01:11:21.140 Is it living without a soul? 1275 01:11:21.180 --> 01:11:22.399 Does it matter when I'm here? 1276 01:11:22.420 --> 01:11:27.109 No, no, once before I escaped. but I could never 1277 01:11:27.189 --> 01:11:29.470 escape again. This time there'd be no turning back. 1278 01:11:29.510 --> 01:11:31.130 Am I not worth it? Look at me, look at me, 1279 01:11:31.170 --> 01:11:31.569 my love. 1280 01:11:32.250 --> 01:11:34.729 I clung to the very edge of sanity, thought that 1281 01:11:34.770 --> 01:11:37.770 I'd not be lost and damned forever. And at that 1282 01:11:37.810 --> 01:11:40.449 very moment, I knew, knew what I could do. 1283 01:11:40.909 --> 01:11:42.439 Wait, what are you doing? 1284 01:11:42.449 --> 01:11:44.859 I found a match in my pocket, struck it, dropped 1285 01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:46.560 it into the dry leaves that lay banked along the 1286 01:11:46.579 --> 01:11:47.739 whole length of the stone wall. 1287 01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:50.279 No, no, Arthur, don't. 1288 01:11:51.060 --> 01:11:52.479 I can't come to you through the fire. 1289 01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:53.939 You're driving me away. 1290 01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:56.220 Yes, go, go into the valley, Ilsef. 1291 01:11:57.470 --> 01:11:58.250 Goodbye, Elsa! 1292 01:11:59.350 --> 01:11:59.890 Goodbye! 1293 01:12:00.069 --> 01:12:00.890 You fool! 1294 01:12:01.390 --> 01:12:02.409 You fool! 1295 01:12:06.029 --> 01:12:11.079 You fool! 1296 01:12:13.399 --> 01:12:14.979 I turned from the wall of flame that for a 1297 01:12:15.020 --> 01:12:17.340 few minutes would shut me off from the valley, ran 1298 01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:19.560 through the moonlit streets, not back toward the inn of 1299 01:12:19.579 --> 01:12:22.149 the Golden Bar, but down the long road that led 1300 01:12:22.210 --> 01:12:24.289 away from that cursed village of Malton. 1301 01:12:35.979 --> 01:12:36.439 Well, Mr. 1302 01:12:36.479 --> 01:12:39.340 Llewellyn, I find this one of the most interesting cases 1303 01:12:39.399 --> 01:12:43.159 of hallucination I've encountered since I began the practice of psychiatry. 1304 01:12:43.470 --> 01:12:45.090 I tell you what really happened, Doctor. 1305 01:12:45.390 --> 01:12:48.149 And having investigated your story a bit during the past week, 1306 01:12:48.210 --> 01:12:50.569 I'm in a position now to answer most of the 1307 01:12:50.609 --> 01:12:52.510 questions that have been worrying you since you. 1308 01:12:52.449 --> 01:12:55.390 Came back to London. What do you mean, investigated? 1309 01:12:55.630 --> 01:12:57.250 I went up to Hereford and looked over some of 1310 01:12:57.289 --> 01:12:59.729 the old records there. And then I motored over to 1311 01:12:59.779 --> 01:13:00.989 Malton for a couple of hours. 1312 01:13:01.689 --> 01:13:05.000 Well, then you know it's all true. You saw it. 1313 01:13:05.029 --> 01:13:07.329 You know I was there. There's no question but what 1314 01:13:07.350 --> 01:13:08.229 you were there, Mr. 1315 01:13:08.270 --> 01:13:08.630 Llewellyn. 1316 01:13:09.229 --> 01:13:11.390 The lady who runs the inn showed me your name 1317 01:13:11.409 --> 01:13:14.789 in the register. Said you'd left quite suddenly without taking 1318 01:13:14.829 --> 01:13:16.329 your luggage or paying your bill. 1319 01:13:16.750 --> 01:13:18.029 She was really quite put out. 1320 01:13:19.390 --> 01:13:21.819 I see. Well.... 1321 01:13:23.420 --> 01:13:25.520 What about the records, Doctor? The ones you spoke of? 1322 01:13:26.439 --> 01:13:29.189 I think they really explain the whole thing, Mr. 1323 01:13:29.229 --> 01:13:29.630 Llewellyn. 1324 01:13:30.550 --> 01:13:34.109 It seems that during the 14th century, the village of 1325 01:13:34.170 --> 01:13:36.510 Morton became a kind of headquarters in that part of 1326 01:13:36.529 --> 01:13:37.189 the country. 1327 01:13:37.470 --> 01:13:39.880 For the practice of witchcraft. 1328 01:13:40.939 --> 01:13:42.260 Yes. Go on. 1329 01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:45.560 Numerous trials were held there in the late 1300s, and 1330 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:48.420 a great many men and women were convicted of sorcery 1331 01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:49.239 and burned to death. 1332 01:13:49.260 --> 01:13:49.739 Yes. 1333 01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:52.390 In the records of a trial in 1372, I found 1334 01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:52.750 the name of. 1335 01:13:56.369 --> 01:13:59.770 An Arthur Llewellyn, and of Ilsa and her mother. 1336 01:14:01.130 --> 01:14:04.569 That proves it, then. It proves a clear case of hallucination. 1337 01:14:05.260 --> 01:14:07.859 You knew that story before you went there, not consciously, 1338 01:14:07.899 --> 01:14:10.039 but somewhere down in your latent memory. 1339 01:14:10.420 --> 01:14:11.979 I knew nothing of it before. 1340 01:14:12.220 --> 01:14:14.960 That man was an ancestor of yours. The story must 1341 01:14:14.979 --> 01:14:17.430 have been known in your family. When you arrived in 1342 01:14:17.470 --> 01:14:21.590 Malton accidentally, the association of the name just pulled the trigger, 1343 01:14:21.970 --> 01:14:23.710 and your imagination did the rest. 1344 01:14:24.069 --> 01:14:27.310 But, Doctor, my... My parents died when I was four. 1345 01:14:27.909 --> 01:14:29.930 I've never been around any of my family. 1346 01:14:30.010 --> 01:14:34.329 No matter. You see, a childhood memory is amazingly persistent 1347 01:14:34.369 --> 01:14:34.970 at times. 1348 01:14:38.449 --> 01:14:38.710 Yes. 1349 01:14:41.050 --> 01:14:50.770 Yes, I suppose it is. I knew

then what I 1350 01:14:50.810 --> 01:14:55.710 had to do. The only thing I could do... There'd 1351 01:14:55.729 --> 01:14:59.310 be no use in talking further with the doctor. He'd 1352 01:14:59.369 --> 01:15:03.659 find some phrase of science to cover everything. He'd even 1353 01:15:03.699 --> 01:15:06.000 try to explain away the mark I still carried across 1354 01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:08.899 my shoulder where Ilsa had thrown her arm about me 1355 01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:12.199 in those last mad minutes on the rampart. A mark 1356 01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:14.399 that was covered with a soft grey fur like the 1357 01:15:14.460 --> 01:15:23.079 fur of a cat. Yes, I knew now what had 1358 01:15:23.119 --> 01:15:25.710 to be done. It must be done while I still 1359 01:15:25.750 --> 01:15:32.029 retain my sanity. One last act, final and irrevocable. An 1360 01:15:32.130 --> 01:15:34.699 act that begins by walking into the railway station at 1361 01:15:34.760 --> 01:15:43.770 Charing Cross. Good evening, sir. May I help you? 1362 01:15:44.729 --> 01:15:44.989 Yes. 1363 01:15:46.890 --> 01:15:47.890 I'd like a ticket to Malton. 1364 01:15:47.909 --> 01:15:49.090 Malton? Malton? 1365 01:15:50.020 --> 01:15:51.909 I don't believe I have. It's a village on the 1366 01:15:51.949 --> 01:15:53.550 Swansea line near the border of Wales. 1367 01:15:54.069 --> 01:15:54.630 Oh, yes. 1368 01:15:55.350 --> 01:15:58.310 Yes, here it is. I don't believe I've ever sold 1369 01:15:58.369 --> 01:16:01.359 a ticket to Malton before. I don't doubt it. 1370 01:16:02.229 --> 01:16:03.329 Let's see now. 1371 01:16:04.180 --> 01:16:10.699 Four and six. Single fare. First class. Did you wish 1372 01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:11.399 a return? 1373 01:16:12.260 --> 01:16:16.560 Or one way? What did you say? Oh. 1374 01:16:19.869 --> 01:16:20.489 I'm sorry. 1375 01:16:22.710 --> 01:16:23.109 Make it. 1376 01:16:24.770 --> 01:16:25.130 One way. 1377 01:16:41.909 --> 01:16:42.390 Escape. 1378 01:16:43.270 --> 01:16:46.470 Produced by William N. Robeson and directed by Norman MacDonald. 1379 01:16:46.529 --> 01:16:50.600 Today brought to you Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood. Adapted 1380 01:16:50.659 --> 01:16:54.510 for radio by Les Crutchfield, with Paul Freese as Arthur Llewellyn, 1381 01:16:54.670 --> 01:16:58.430 Kay Brinker as Ilsa, Anne Morrison as Madam, and William 1382 01:16:58.489 --> 01:17:02.529 Conrad as the Doctor. Music is conceived by Cy Feuer 1383 01:17:02.609 --> 01:17:04.390 with Eddie Dunstetter at the console. 1384 01:17:07.210 --> 01:17:07.710 Next week. 1385 01:17:09.289 --> 01:17:12.069 After you've had a hard day at the office or 1386 01:17:12.250 --> 01:17:16.100 bending over a hot stove, next week at this time 1387 01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:20.840 when your problems seem too much for you, We offer you. 1388 01:17:22.149 --> 01:17:22.720 Escape! 1389 01:17:34.119 --> 01:17:38.270 Next week, we bring you another exciting story of high adventure. Goodbye, then,

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day to hear they'd fished 1426 01:21:08.659 --> 01:21:11.520 him up out of the river, but no. This morning, 1427 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:14.460 while I'm cleaning down the stairs, who do you think 1428 01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:15.479 should ring my bell? 1429 01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:25.359 Hello, Mrs. Hawkins. Remember me? 1430 01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:26.140 What? 1431 01:21:26.899 --> 01:21:27.359 It's Mr. 1432 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:28.039 Jennings. 1433 01:21:31.609 --> 01:21:32.039 Oh, my, Mr. 1434 01:21:32.130 --> 01:21:34.850 Jennings, you sure give me a turn. I never expected 1435 01:21:34.890 --> 01:21:36.789 to see you around this neighborhood again. 1436 01:21:37.090 --> 01:21:39.909 Well, here I am. How's the upstairs floor? 1437 01:21:40.649 --> 01:21:41.770 Just as you left it, Mr. 1438 01:21:41.810 --> 01:21:42.180 Jennings. 1439 01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:44.060 I haven't rented it to a soul. 1440 01:21:44.079 --> 01:21:45.720 Well, I want to rent it again. 1441 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:47.439 You, Mr. 1442 01:21:47.460 --> 01:21:47.859 Jennings? 1443 01:21:47.920 --> 01:21:50.239 That's right. I'm setting up housekeeping again. 1444 01:21:50.260 --> 01:21:54.239 Well, if that don't beat getting married again, Mr. 1445 01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:54.720 Jennings. 1446 01:21:55.619 --> 01:21:57.689 In a way. Let's run up and take a look, 1447 01:21:57.729 --> 01:21:58.010 shall we? 1448 01:21:58.750 --> 01:21:59.909 Okay, if you say so. 1449 01:22:01.689 --> 01:22:04.670 Only, won't it make you feel kind of blue to 1450 01:22:04.710 --> 01:22:05.689 see the old place again? 1451 01:22:05.710 --> 01:22:06.510 Blue? 1452 01:22:07.449 --> 01:22:07.939 Why should it? 1453 01:22:08.550 --> 01:22:09.850 Well, memories, you know. 1454 01:22:10.229 --> 01:22:13.619 That's just what I want to find. Memories. Everything just 1455 01:22:13.699 --> 01:22:17.579 as it was. I hope you've left it just the same, Mrs. Hawkins. 1456 01:22:18.239 --> 01:22:20.039 No painting or new wallpaper? 1457 01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:20.819 Not yet. 1458 01:22:20.840 --> 01:22:22.859 Thought I'd fix it up to please. 1459 01:22:22.640 --> 01:22:23.239 The new tenant. 1460 01:22:23.359 --> 01:22:26.000 Well, leave it just as it was. Please, for me. 1461 01:22:27.189 --> 01:22:30.890 Well, here's the keys. Maybe you'd like to go in 1462 01:22:30.930 --> 01:22:32.130 and look around by yourself. 1463 01:22:33.210 --> 01:22:38.470 No. Do come in, Mrs. Hawkins. You were always so 1464 01:22:38.550 --> 01:22:44.649 very kind. More a friend than a landlady. Oh, how 1465 01:22:44.729 --> 01:22:49.069 beautiful it looks, even bare. The sunshine always was so 1466 01:22:49.149 --> 01:22:53.649 warm up here. And the trees. I'd almost forgotten how 1467 01:22:53.710 --> 01:22:57.329 close the trees were. And there's the marks our sofa 1468 01:22:57.350 --> 01:23:00.489 made against the wall. And the square shapes of our 1469 01:23:00.569 --> 01:23:01.649 picture still on the wall. 1470 01:23:01.689 --> 01:23:04.380 Well, it could stand a good cleaning, of course. 1471 01:23:05.140 --> 01:23:07.460 Do you remember how Mabel used to sit here up 1472 01:23:07.479 --> 01:23:10.659 on evening and sing? The upright was over there and 1473 01:23:11.340 --> 01:23:15.340 over at the Maxfield Parish. And over near the bay window, 1474 01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:18.819 above the ferns, the canary sat in his cage. And 1475 01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:23.479 when she sang Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, he'd always sing 1476 01:23:23.500 --> 01:23:23.760 with her. 1477 01:23:23.800 --> 01:23:24.760 Oh, come now, Mr. 1478 01:23:24.779 --> 01:23:25.060 Jennings. 1479 01:23:25.079 --> 01:23:26.720 You'll be getting yourself all fretted up. 1480 01:23:27.079 --> 01:23:29.600 Oh, no, no, I... I assure you, Mrs. Hawkins, it's 1481 01:23:30.239 --> 01:23:33.859 very important. You see, I'm going to have it again, 1482 01:23:34.789 --> 01:23:38.369 just as it was. That so? I've made a list, 1483 01:23:38.970 --> 01:23:41.770 but in a year, so many details escape one. Like 1484 01:23:41.789 --> 01:23:45.649 those ferns, for instance. Well, I'd almost forgotten how she 1485 01:23:45.689 --> 01:23:49.630 loved ferns. Oh, yes, and there was something over in 1486 01:23:49.670 --> 01:23:51.569 that corner. What was it? 1487 01:23:52.779 --> 01:23:53.399 A rocker. 1488 01:23:54.260 --> 01:23:57.409 Her mother's old rocker. It used to squeak over a 1489 01:23:57.449 --> 01:23:59.119 loose board whenever anybody sat in it. 1490 01:23:59.350 --> 01:24:01.850 You mean you're going to try and find all them 1491 01:24:01.909 --> 01:24:03.409 things again, Mr. Jennings? 1492 01:24:03.750 --> 01:24:04.050 Yes. 1493 01:24:04.489 --> 01:24:06.609 But you sold all them to junk dealers. You gave 1494 01:24:06.630 --> 01:24:07.029 them away. 1495 01:24:07.069 --> 01:24:09.500 But you scattered them every which way when you. 1496 01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:10.180 Broke up your home. 1497 01:24:10.579 --> 01:24:13.340 I've already been looking. I've collected a lot of things. 1498 01:24:13.359 --> 01:24:17.579 It isn't so hard. You see, our furniture wasn't very 1499 01:24:17.659 --> 01:24:19.810 precious to anyone but us. 1500 01:24:19.930 --> 01:24:22.409 Well, of course you know what you're doing, Mr. Jennings. 1501 01:24:23.100 --> 01:24:24.840 It's none of my business, I suppose. 1502 01:24:25.109 --> 01:24:27.220 Will two months' rent be enough in advance, Mrs. Hawkins? 1503 01:24:28.260 --> 01:24:29.920 I won't be moving in for another couple of weeks, 1504 01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:33.180 but from time to time, I'd like to have things delivered. 1505 01:24:33.239 --> 01:24:36.100 Well, two months will be just dandy. I'll make you 1506 01:24:36.119 --> 01:24:40.140 a special bargain price, too, seeing you don't want no redecorating. 1507 01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:43.479 You're sure your lady. 1508 01:24:43.239 --> 01:24:45.560 Friend won't want none either, Mr. Jennings? 1509

01:24:45.819 --> 01:24:46.720 I hardly think so. 1510 01:24:46.960 --> 01:24:49.739 Well, I hope you'll both be very happy here. It's 1511 01:24:50.220 --> 01:24:51.539 nice to have you back in the neighborhood. 1512 01:24:52.039 --> 01:24:53.239 It's good to be home. 1513 01:25:07.510 --> 01:25:10.159 Now, Mrs. McIntyre, what would you have done in my place? 1514 01:25:10.739 --> 01:25:12.899 I admit it'd give me a funny feeling, you know. 1515 01:25:12.979 --> 01:25:15.060 You would think a man had more respect for the 1516 01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:18.100 dead and her dead only less than a year than to... 1517 01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:21.020 Bring a new wife. Plumb back to the same floor 1518 01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:24.260 and the same furniture. And I say, what kind of 1519 01:25:24.300 --> 01:25:26.699 a woman is she, too, to stand for that kind 1520 01:25:26.739 --> 01:25:29.760 of nonsense? But, of course, it ain't really none of 1521 01:25:29.819 --> 01:25:32.300 my business. Besides, two months' rent. 1522 01:25:32.420 --> 01:25:33.140 Two months' rent. 1523 01:25:37.279 --> 01:25:37.760 Oh, gosh. 1524 01:25:38.140 --> 01:25:38.210 Oh. 1525 01:25:45.250 --> 01:25:47.369 Oh, Mr. Jennings, what are you doing here this time 1526 01:25:47.409 --> 01:25:47.750 of night? 1527 01:25:48.050 --> 01:25:48.689 I'm moving in. 1528 01:25:48.710 --> 01:25:50.590 Moving in? 1529 01:25:50.829 --> 01:25:53.060 I intended coming much earlier, but I had so many 1530 01:25:53.100 --> 01:25:55.439 last-minute things to do, like picking up Dickie and. 1531 01:25:55.460 --> 01:25:58.239 Oh, now, don't tell me that's your old canary, Mr. Jennings. 1532 01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:01.100 Yes, it's little Dickie. I found him in a pet 1533 01:26:01.119 --> 01:26:04.859 shop on 3rd Avenue, in his old cage. He looks 1534 01:26:04.939 --> 01:26:05.829 pretty chipper, doesn't he? 1535 01:26:05.930 --> 01:26:08.210 Well, aren't you the one? I'd have thought he'd have 1536 01:26:08.229 --> 01:26:09.869 died of lonesomeness ages ago. 1537 01:26:10.189 --> 01:26:12.270 Did all my furniture and things get here, Mrs. Hawkins? 1538 01:26:12.510 --> 01:26:13.050 Just about. 1539 01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:15.739 They've been delivering off and on for the last week. 1540 01:26:16.520 --> 01:26:19.319 You sure got everything back, Mr. Jennings. 1541 01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:23.380 Well, pretty nearly everything. A couple of rugs are missing 1542 01:26:23.420 --> 01:26:27.159 and our old kitchen table and... Oh, I got the piano. 1543 01:26:27.659 --> 01:26:30.560 I bought the old upright back from the Sunday school. Boy, 1544 01:26:30.619 --> 01:26:34.430 I've been more than lucky. Miss Hawkins, you won't mind, 1545 01:26:34.479 --> 01:26:36.289 will you, if I start moving some of it into 1546 01:26:36.329 --> 01:26:38.369 place tonight? I'll be very quiet. 1547 01:26:38.470 --> 01:26:41.189 Tonight? Well, it's pretty near midnight, Mr. 1548 01:26:41.229 --> 01:26:41.590 Jennings. 1549 01:26:41.649 --> 01:26:43.779 Yes, I know, but... I'd have to work all day 1550 01:26:43.800 --> 01:26:46.680 tomorrow and the next day. You see, there's so little time. 1551 01:26:46.939 --> 01:26:48.880 Oh, you're expecting her soon? 1552 01:26:49.460 --> 01:26:50.020 Very soon. 1553 01:26:50.539 --> 01:26:52.779 Oh, well, if you don't get it done in time, 1554 01:26:52.850 --> 01:26:54.970 I'll be glad to give you and her a hand 1555 01:26:55.279 --> 01:26:56.029 when she gets here. 1556 01:26:56.149 --> 01:27:00.569 Oh, no, no. It's got to be already before she comes. Otherwise, 1557 01:27:01.510 --> 01:27:02.170 she won't come. 1558 01:27:02.869 --> 01:27:04.390 You don't say, Mr. 1559 01:27:04.409 --> 01:27:04.770 Jennings. 1560 01:27:05.149 --> 01:27:07.869 So, if you don't mind, it'll only be for a 1561 01:27:07.890 --> 01:27:10.569 few nights. And I won't move any of the heavy 1562 01:27:10.609 --> 01:27:14.060 pieces after midnight. If you only knew what this means 1563 01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:17.260 to me, Mrs. Hawkins, how I've waited for months. 1564 01:27:17.380 --> 01:27:21.060 Is that so, Mr. Jennings? Well, I'm sure glad you 1565 01:27:21.100 --> 01:27:23.289 found somebody to make a home for you again, and 1566 01:27:24.109 --> 01:27:25.829 I hope she's the right girl for you and is 1567 01:27:25.850 --> 01:27:26.770 going to make you happy. 1568 01:27:26.789 --> 01:27:28.630 Oh, she will, all right. 1569 01:27:28.649 --> 01:27:31.949 Of course, there are some people I know say a 1570 01:27:31.989 --> 01:27:34.899 man ought to wait a couple of years, but, well, 1571 01:27:35.100 --> 01:27:38.539 I was only saying yesterday, certain men are natural-born husbands, 1572 01:27:38.600 --> 01:27:41.420 and Homebodies, they need a home and a woman to 1573 01:27:41.460 --> 01:27:42.180 look after them. 1574 01:27:42.739 --> 01:27:46.020 Yes, yes, that's true. Well, good night, Mrs. Hawkins. I'll 1575 01:27:46.039 --> 01:27:47.039 try not to disturb you. 1576 01:27:47.060 --> 01:27:48.220 Good night, Mr. 1577 01:27:48.260 --> 01:27:48.640 James. 1578 01:28:02.430 --> 01:28:05.789 Come in, Mrs. McIntyre. No, it's okay. He's at the office. 1579 01:28:05.829 --> 01:28:06.930 He'll never know we come up. 1580 01:28:07.409 --> 01:28:07.609 Yeah. 1581 01:28:07.649 --> 01:28:07.789 Yeah. 1582 01:28:08.859 --> 01:28:09.659 Take a look around. 1583 01:28:09.680 --> 01:28:13.819 Ain't it something? Everything fixed up down to the last 1584 01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:17.270 knife and fork just exactly as she had it. Don't 1585 01:28:17.289 --> 01:28:20.890 it give you the creeps? Yep, that's the same canary 1586 01:28:20.909 --> 01:28:25.109 singing in his cage just like it used to. And look, Mrs. McIntyre, 1587 01:28:25.130 --> 01:28:28.229 come here in the bedroom. He's even got her clothes 1588 01:28:28.850 --> 01:28:33.229 hung up in the closet. Now, I'm asking you, Mrs. McIntyre, 1589 01:28:33.770 --> 01:28:35.890 where do you think the second Mrs.

Jennings is going 1590 01:28:35.909 --> 01:28:36.609 to say they're back? 1591 01:28:49.899 --> 01:28:50.119 Mr. 1592 01:28:50.159 --> 01:28:50.560 Jennings? 1593 01:28:51.100 --> 01:28:52.500 Oh, hello, Mrs. 1594 01:28:52.539 --> 01:28:52.859 Hawkins. 1595 01:28:52.880 --> 01:28:55.779 Well, I've been beside myself with worry, Mr. Jennings. Where 1596 01:28:55.800 --> 01:28:57.880 you been all this time, if I may ask? 1597 01:28:58.000 --> 01:28:58.420 Right here. 1598 01:28:58.439 --> 01:28:59.460 Right here? 1599 01:28:59.699 --> 01:29:02.920 What did you... Didn't you hear us come in? I've 1600 01:29:02.939 --> 01:29:04.739 been to work all day, of course, but last night, 1601 01:29:04.779 --> 01:29:08.010 a little after one. Perhaps you were sleeping. 1602 01:29:08.279 --> 01:29:08.439 Us? 1603 01:29:09.010 --> 01:29:09.750 You mean you and. 1604 01:29:10.329 --> 01:29:11.289 Well, yes. 1605 01:29:11.729 --> 01:29:12.270 She's come. 1606 01:29:12.750 --> 01:29:15.369 You mean she's been upstairs all day? 1607 01:29:15.689 --> 01:29:16.189 Certainly. 1608 01:29:17.609 --> 01:29:18.689 I haven't heard a sound. 1609 01:29:19.050 --> 01:29:22.569 Probably she's sleeping. She was very tired. The trip was 1610 01:29:22.630 --> 01:29:23.930 more exhausting than I'd dreamed. 1611 01:29:24.409 --> 01:29:27.350 Well, you might have stopped by and told me on 1612 01:29:27.369 --> 01:29:30.350 your way to work this morning, Mr. Jennings... Of course, 1613 01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:33.090 it's none of my business, but I could have at 1614 01:29:33.149 --> 01:29:36.369 least introduced myself to my own tenant and maybe even 1615 01:29:36.529 --> 01:29:37.149 helped her out. 1616 01:29:37.890 --> 01:29:40.829 Oh, it's all right. She doesn't want to see anybody 1617 01:29:40.850 --> 01:29:41.210 just yet. 1618 01:29:41.229 --> 01:29:42.010 Oh, no? 1619 01:29:42.909 --> 01:29:46.949 Well, of course, I wouldn't intrude on your privacy for anything, Mr. Jennings, 1620 01:29:47.020 --> 01:29:51.079 although I'm sure when the first Mrs. Jennings was alive, 1621 01:29:51.140 --> 01:29:52.319 we were all friends here. 1622 01:29:52.960 --> 01:29:55.640 Oh, no, no, it isn't that. It's only that in 1623 01:29:55.699 --> 01:29:59.140 these first few days, everything is so new and strange. 1624 01:29:59.909 --> 01:30:02.350 She's not quite herself. Okay, Mr. Jennings. 1625 01:30:02.949 --> 01:30:06.460 You know best. But if you should want me, you 1626 01:30:06.479 --> 01:30:09.239 just call down the dumb waiter, and I'll be right up. 1627 01:30:09.260 --> 01:30:13.640 Thanks, Mrs. Hawkins. Thank you. But on no account are 1628 01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:16.479 we to be disturbed. On no account. 1629 01:30:16.500 --> 01:30:19.500 The End. 1630 01:30:34.729 --> 01:30:38.010 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as stars Mildred 1631 01:30:38.069 --> 01:30:42.109 Natwick and Don DeFore in The Furnished Floor by Lucille Fletcher. 1632 01:30:42.710 --> 01:30:47.960 Roma Wines' presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 1633 01:30:51.560 --> 01:30:52.380 Suspense. 1634 01:30:56.329 --> 01:30:59.529 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for 1635 01:30:59.649 --> 01:31:05.050 Roma Wines. Happier days are here again. People are entertaining 1636 01:31:05.109 --> 01:31:09.279 more and more, inviting friends over often, enjoying friendly visits 1637 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:14.060 in simple, sensible ways. One such way is to serve Roma, 1638 01:31:14.260 --> 01:31:18.399 California sherry. In the words of famed hostess Elsa Maxwell, 1639 01:31:19.229 --> 01:31:23.670 I serve my guests Roma sherry. There is nothing so friendly, 1640 01:31:24.029 --> 01:31:29.710 so heartwarming... as delicious, glorious, golden amber Roma sherry, rich 1641 01:31:29.810 --> 01:31:31.590 in nutty, mellow taste goodness. 1642 01:31:32.189 --> 01:31:32.970 Serve cool. 1643 01:31:33.630 --> 01:31:37.470 When I invite friends in, I always serve Roma sherry 1644 01:31:37.630 --> 01:31:41.779 as first call for dinner. And Miss Maxwell might have added, 1645 01:31:41.880 --> 01:31:45.020 Roma sherry is most enjoyable later in the evening, too. 1646 01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:50.180 In fact, any time. Roma sherry, like all the famous 1647 01:31:50.279 --> 01:31:55.380 Roma wines, reflects the heritage of carefully selected grapes, freshly 1648 01:31:55.420 --> 01:32:01.060 gathered at flavor fullness from California's choicest vineyards, quickly but 1649 01:32:01.119 --> 01:32:05.189 gently pressed, then by a process as slow as time, 1650 01:32:05.729 --> 01:32:10.829 brought to liquid perfection by Roma's ancient winemaking skill, and 1651 01:32:10.909 --> 01:32:16.609 bottled at Roma's famed wineries. Enjoy Roma wines regularly. They 1652 01:32:16.649 --> 01:32:23.380 are always unvaryingly good. Remember, because of uniformly fine quality 1653 01:32:23.479 --> 01:32:29.560 at reasonable cost, More Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 1654 01:32:30.510 --> 01:32:33.550 R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 1655 01:32:34.449 --> 01:32:37.750 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage 1656 01:32:37.850 --> 01:32:41.569 Don DeFore and Mildred Natwick in The Furnished Floor. A 1657 01:32:42.329 --> 01:32:45.930 play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 1658 01:32:59.789 --> 01:33:01.090 Now, don't get me wrong, Mrs. 1659 01:33:01.149 --> 01:33:01.729 McIntyre. 1660 01:33:02.310 --> 01:33:05.069 The last thing in the world I am is a busybody, but, well, 1661 01:33:05.310 --> 01:33:07.170 you know, I don't go out much on account of 1662 01:33:07.210 --> 01:33:09.949 my heart, and our two floors are kind of close. 1663 01:33:10.550 --> 01:33:13.220 Downstairs in my dining room, you can hear most everything 1664 01:33:13.260 --> 01:33:16.250 that goes on upstairs. Now, Didn't you have thought there'd 1665 01:33:16.270 --> 01:33:19.909 have been something last night? Some talking or footsteps or 1666

01:33:19.989 --> 01:33:23.250 dishes rattling? Well, I'm telling you, I sat there till midnight, 1667 01:33:23.670 --> 01:33:28.520 and there wasn't a thing. Nothing at all, except along 1668 01:33:28.579 --> 01:33:32.020 about half past twelve, I hear the dumb waiter come 1669 01:33:32.060 --> 01:33:35.500 rumbling down the shaft. Well, I just stole a peek, 1670 01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:38.939 and there, going by with his claws sticking up in 1671 01:33:38.979 --> 01:33:42.060 the air, was that little yellow canary. 1672 01:33:43.079 --> 01:33:43.390 Dead. 1673 01:33:51.869 --> 01:33:52.989 Good morning, Mrs. Hawkins. 1674 01:33:53.020 --> 01:33:53.939 Good morning. 1675 01:33:54.729 --> 01:33:55.840 And how's Mrs. 1676 01:33:55.899 --> 01:33:56.640 Jennings today? 1677 01:33:56.859 --> 01:33:57.399 Wonderful. 1678 01:33:57.779 --> 01:33:58.960 Feeling a bit better now? 1679 01:33:59.500 --> 01:34:02.880 Oh, yes. Of course, she's still very weak, but every 1680 01:34:02.939 --> 01:34:05.520 day I'm sure will make her stronger. I have high 1681 01:34:05.560 --> 01:34:06.460 hopes for her recovery. 1682 01:34:06.899 --> 01:34:08.880 You had a doctor in to see her yet? 1683 01:34:09.460 --> 01:34:09.779 Dr. 1684 01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:12.119 Rubenstein, my doctor, is very good. 1685 01:34:12.140 --> 01:34:18.409 No. I'm afraid a doctor wouldn't help her. No, no. 1686 01:34:35.579 --> 01:34:35.819 Mrs. 1687 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:36.460 Jennings. 1688 01:34:39.460 --> 01:34:39.699 Mrs. 1689 01:34:39.739 --> 01:34:40.279 Jennings. 1690 01:34:41.220 --> 01:34:41.640 It's Mrs. 1691 01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:47.899 Hawkins. The lady downstairs. I heard you were sick, and 1692 01:34:47.960 --> 01:34:50.199 so I got a little bit of lunch for you, Mrs. Jennings. 1693 01:34:50.819 --> 01:34:53.300 It's just a little bowl of homemade chicken broth, but 1694 01:34:53.359 --> 01:35:00.640 it's nice and rich. You sleeping, Mrs. Jennings? Okay, then 1695 01:35:00.779 --> 01:35:02.819 I'll just slip in quietly with my own key, if 1696 01:35:02.859 --> 01:35:05.100 you don't mind, and leave it right beside your bed. Oh, 1697 01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:07.100 that's funny. 1698 01:35:07.979 --> 01:35:10.350 He must have bought a new kind of lock. He 1699 01:35:10.369 --> 01:35:11.810 didn't say anything to me. 1700 01:35:13.050 --> 01:35:13.850 Mrs. Jennings! 1701 01:35:15.090 --> 01:35:15.390 Mrs. 1702 01:35:15.449 --> 01:35:16.010 Jennings! 1703 01:35:35.970 --> 01:35:36.250 Mr. 1704 01:35:36.270 --> 01:35:36.970 Jennings? 1705 01:35:38.409 --> 01:35:39.560 Good evening, Mrs. Hawkins. 1706 01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:42.659 You've got a minute, Mr. Jennings. I'd like to speak 1707 01:35:42.699 --> 01:35:43.899 to you, if you don't mind. 1708 01:35:44.380 --> 01:35:47.899 Well, Mrs. Jennings is waiting for me upstairs. It's about Mrs. Jennings. 1709 01:35:48.420 --> 01:35:49.859 She's still poorly, you say? 1710 01:35:50.420 --> 01:35:52.520 Well, she is confined a good deal to

her bed. 1711 01:35:52.800 --> 01:35:55.050 Well, why don't you get someone in to look after her? 1712 01:35:55.239 --> 01:35:56.039 I know a good woman. 1713 01:35:56.079 --> 01:35:56.319 Mrs. 1714 01:35:56.359 --> 01:35:58.369 McIntyre goes out nursing by the day. 1715 01:35:58.449 --> 01:35:58.649 No. 1716 01:35:58.949 --> 01:35:59.270 Oh, no. 1717 01:35:59.729 --> 01:36:02.529 Well, I don't like it, Mr. Jennings, locking her up 1718 01:36:02.609 --> 01:36:04.829 like that every morning so not a soul can get in. 1719 01:36:05.329 --> 01:36:06.869 Suppose something happened. 1720 01:36:07.390 --> 01:36:08.170 What could happen? 1721 01:36:08.489 --> 01:36:09.869 What could happen? 1722 01:36:09.930 --> 01:36:10.850 Anything could happen. 1723 01:36:10.949 --> 01:36:11.630 A fire. 1724 01:36:11.649 --> 01:36:13.520 Oh, that doesn't worry me. 1725 01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:17.399 Or she could get worse and maybe even die. 1726 01:36:17.800 --> 01:36:18.079 Oh, no. 1727 01:36:18.989 --> 01:36:22.529 Everybody's got to go sometime, Mr. Jennings. I wouldn't take 1728 01:36:22.600 --> 01:36:23.220 no chances. 1729 01:36:23.460 --> 01:36:26.199 Yes, I know. But not her. 1730 01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:29.720 Not her? Whatever do you mean, Mr. Jennings? 1731 01:36:29.939 --> 01:36:32.600 Because she's immune. Immune? 1732 01:36:32.979 --> 01:36:36.409 Against... She ain't got no contagious disease up there, has she? 1733 01:36:36.430 --> 01:36:42.090 Oh, no, no. It's nothing like that. Oh, Mrs. Hawkins, please, 1734 01:36:42.189 --> 01:36:45.720 please don't worry or be uneasy. It's worked out so beautifully. 1735 01:36:46.390 --> 01:36:48.789 It's nothing that can do you any harm. And we're 1736 01:36:48.850 --> 01:36:52.810 so happy. So wonderfully happy. Oh, Mr. 1737 01:36:52.829 --> 01:36:56.109 Jennings. I'll be up in about one hour with the plumber. 1738 01:36:56.149 --> 01:36:56.630 The plumber? 1739 01:36:57.010 --> 01:36:59.569 I'm sorry to disturb you at supper time. But there's 1740 01:36:59.619 --> 01:37:02.039 something gone wrong with the pipes. And we think it's 1741 01:37:02.119 --> 01:37:03.319 upstairs in your floor. 1742 01:37:03.380 --> 01:37:05.800 You can't come in. Mrs. Jennings will be sleeping. 1743 01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:09.779 Plumber says it's the only time he can come. Unless 1744 01:37:09.819 --> 01:37:13.369 he comes tomorrow afternoon while you're at the office... You 1745 01:37:13.390 --> 01:37:16.069 want to leave me your key, Mr. Jennings? 1746 01:37:16.270 --> 01:37:17.069 No, no, I can't. 1747 01:37:17.770 --> 01:37:19.970 Well, he'll have to get in there sooner or later, Mr. 1748 01:37:19.989 --> 01:37:20.310 Jennings. 1749 01:37:20.550 --> 01:37:22.609 The water downstairs is all black and discolored. 1750 01:37:22.630 --> 01:37:24.989 It's out of the question tonight. I'll discuss it with 1751 01:37:25.020 --> 01:37:27.579 you in the morning. Okay, Mr. Jennings. 1752 01:37:29.939 --> 01:37:41.449 Well, now, Mrs. 1753 01:37:41.470 --> 01:37:44.510 McIntyre, how would you feel? Your own house going to 1754 01:37:44.659 --> 01:37:47.399 rack and ruin. You can't even do nothing about it. 1755 01:37:47.409 --> 01:37:50.470 I ask you, what kind of a thing's he got 1756 01:37:50.529 --> 01:37:54.229 up there that nobody can see? I tell you, just 1757 01:37:54.390 --> 01:37:57.590 sitting here in this silent house night after night gives 1758 01:37:57.630 --> 01:38:02.369 me the creeps. And with my heart, what is? Well, anyway, 1759 01:38:02.390 --> 01:38:05.770 his two months rent's up tomorrow, and I got my 1760 01:38:05.829 --> 01:38:08.770 mind made up. I got my mind made up. 1761 01:38:15.619 --> 01:38:20.170 Oh, good evening, Mrs. Hawkins. I didn't know you for 1762 01:38:20.210 --> 01:38:21.529 a minute standing there in the dark. 1763 01:38:21.909 --> 01:38:24.649 Well, I didn't want to miss you this time, Mr. Jennings. 1764 01:38:24.970 --> 01:38:25.210 No? 1765 01:38:26.010 --> 01:38:28.710 I got your money this morning for next month stuck 1766 01:38:28.750 --> 01:38:29.289 under the door. 1767 01:38:29.529 --> 01:38:32.270 Oh, yes. yes. I had to leave early. I hope 1768 01:38:32.310 --> 01:38:32.949 it is all right. 1769 01:38:33.430 --> 01:38:37.149 No, it wasn't all right. I'm sorry, but the floor 1770 01:38:37.170 --> 01:38:38.270 has been rented, Mr. Jennings. 1771 01:38:38.739 --> 01:38:39.140 Rented? 1772 01:38:39.340 --> 01:38:41.359 To a young serviceman and his wife from the fourth. 1773 01:38:41.420 --> 01:38:43.800 They took it sight unseen this morning. Oh, but you can't... 1774 01:38:43.859 --> 01:38:46.279 They're living in a crowded room on 81st Street. It's 1775 01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:48.619 very crowded. I told them I figured you could probably 1776 01:38:48.779 --> 01:38:50.439 get most of your stuff out in a week. 1777 01:38:50.779 --> 01:38:55.439 A week? I never told you I was going, Mrs. Hawkins. 1778 01:38:55.500 --> 01:38:56.439 I'm sorry, Mr. 1779 01:38:56.479 --> 01:38:59.619 Jennings. If it's a matter of a little more rent, 1780 01:38:59.899 --> 01:39:01.899 I'll be glad to pay and sign a lease, any 1781 01:39:01.939 --> 01:39:02.699 kind of a lease you want. 1782 01:39:02.720 --> 01:39:05.159 It's not a matter of rent or a lease, Mr. 1783 01:39:05.199 --> 01:39:05.560 Jennings. 1784 01:39:06.050 --> 01:39:08.590 It's just I want my four back, that's all. 1785 01:39:08.689 --> 01:39:09.090 But Mrs. 1786 01:39:09.130 --> 01:39:09.489 Hawkins. 1787 01:39:09.670 --> 01:39:10.310 I like. 1788 01:39:10.170 --> 01:39:13.529 Neighborly people upstairs, Mr. Jennings. I'm home a lot. I 1789 01:39:13.569 --> 01:39:16.090 like people I can trust. I don't want no mysteries 1790 01:39:16.130 --> 01:39:18.850 in my house. New locks on the door so no 1791 01:39:18.909 --> 01:39:21.449 one can get in and sneakings in and out at night. 1792 01:39:22.130 --> 01:39:25.670 Mrs. Hawkins, I swear you it's all right. Perfectly all right. 1793

01:39:25.750 --> 01:39:28.289 All this business about Mrs. Jennings. Never a face at 1794 01:39:28.329 --> 01:39:30.430 the window. Never a footstep on the floor or a 1795 01:39:30.529 --> 01:39:32.189 dish rag hung out on the line. 1796 01:39:32.270 --> 01:39:35.729 Mrs. Jennings is ill. She's not like other people. He's... 1797 01:39:36.670 --> 01:39:38.609 I tell you, I won't go. You've got to let 1798 01:39:38.630 --> 01:39:39.010 me stay. 1799 01:39:39.189 --> 01:39:41.319 Here's your rent back, Mr. Jennings. 1800 01:39:41.939 --> 01:39:43.699 I haven't any place to go. This is my home. 1801 01:39:44.039 --> 01:39:46.680 It's all I have. I staked out of everything on 1802 01:39:46.699 --> 01:39:47.739 being here. Everything. 1803 01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:50.319 Are there other floors vacant in this neighborhood? 1804 01:39:51.319 --> 01:39:54.750 No, no. It's got to be this one. This particular floor. 1805 01:39:56.670 --> 01:39:56.890 Mrs. 1806 01:39:56.930 --> 01:40:00.130 Hawkins, if I could buy the house, the whole house. 1807 01:40:00.250 --> 01:40:01.069 Buy the house? 1808 01:40:01.109 --> 01:40:03.659 Yes, yes, if it's for sale. Perhaps you never thought 1809 01:40:03.699 --> 01:40:05.720 of selling it, but I'd give you a good price. 1810 01:40:06.039 --> 01:40:07.439 I'd scrape the money together somehow. 1811 01:40:07.460 --> 01:40:12.340 This house ain't for sale. It happens to be my home, too, Mr. Jennings. 1812 01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:14.640 Oh, I know, I know, but you're all alone now 1813 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:19.380 that Mr. Hawkins is... Oh, I mean, it's a heavy responsibility. 1814 01:40:19.399 --> 01:40:22.899 A big house and all those stairs to keep clean 1815 01:40:22.920 --> 01:40:27.310 and the repairs and all. Oh, Mrs. Hawkins, if you'd 1816 01:40:27.319 --> 01:40:29.729 only reconsider. I'd do anything. 1817 01:40:29.750 --> 01:40:31.850 No, it's too much for me. I don't understand it. 1818 01:40:32.420 --> 01:40:34.439 Why can't she see me and talk to me? Why 1819 01:40:34.500 --> 01:40:36.359 can't she invite me in for a cup of tea 1820 01:40:36.430 --> 01:40:37.020 and explain? 1821 01:40:37.050 --> 01:40:39.329 Because she can't. 1822 01:40:40.130 --> 01:40:42.149 What's the matter with her that she can't? Is she 1823 01:40:42.189 --> 01:40:44.590 so ugly or so beautiful or so crazy? 1824 01:40:44.949 --> 01:40:46.770 Who is she, anyway? 1825 01:40:48.710 --> 01:40:51.439 I can't tell you. Okay, Mr. Jennings. 1826 01:40:51.460 --> 01:40:53.239 Then that's that. 1827 01:40:58.899 --> 01:40:59.680 Mrs. 1828 01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:01.060 Hawkins. 1829 01:41:01.439 --> 01:41:02.340 Mrs. 1830 01:41:03.500 --> 01:41:04.680 Hawkins. 1831 01:41:04.760 --> 01:41:05.340 Yes? 1832 01:41:25.909 --> 01:41:29.029 I'm here, Mr. Jennings, at the dumbwaiter. 1833 01:41:29.050 --> 01:41:32.329 Mrs. Hawkins. 1834 01:41:32.770 --> 01:41:33.520 Yes, Mr. 1835 01:41:33.560 --> 01:41:34.180 Jennings. 1836 01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:35.140 What is it? 1837 01:41:36.600 --> 01:41:39.640 I'm sending you down the key on the dumbwaiter. 1838 01:41:39.659 --> 01:41:42.380 She wants you to come up. 1839 01:41:42.979 --> 01:41:43.399 She? 1840 01:41:43.420 --> 01:41:44.920 Mrs. 1841 01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:45.659 Jennings. 1842 01:41:48.420 --> 01:41:49.039 Okay? 1843 01:41:50.340 --> 01:41:50.739 Got it? 1844 01:41:51.699 --> 01:41:56.699 Yes. She wants me to... Come up now, Mr. 1845 01:41:56.739 --> 01:41:57.180 Jennings? 1846 01:41:58.260 --> 01:41:59.020 That's right. 1847 01:41:59.039 --> 01:42:03.079 Well, it's kind of late if she ain't so well. 1848 01:42:03.100 --> 01:42:09.619 That's all right. She's feeling much better tonight. She wants 1849 01:42:09.680 --> 01:42:14.970 to talk to you about the floor before it's too late. 1850 01:42:15.850 --> 01:42:16.390 Okay. 1851 01:42:16.409 --> 01:42:46.859 I'll be right up. Okay, Mr. Jennings. I, uh... I'm here. 1852 01:42:46.880 --> 01:43:03.649 Come in. You have the key. Okay. Oh. 1853 01:43:04.829 --> 01:43:08.090 Where's your lights, Mr. Jennings? I can't see a thing. 1854 01:43:09.090 --> 01:43:10.470 I'll light a candle in a moment. 1855 01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:12.140 Mrs. 1856 01:43:12.220 --> 01:43:17.529 Jennings prefers the dark. But you know this floor so well, Mrs. Hawkins. 1857 01:43:18.689 --> 01:43:19.090 Come in. 1858 01:43:20.270 --> 01:43:21.250 Where are you, Mr. 1859 01:43:21.289 --> 01:43:21.689 Jennings? 1860 01:43:22.550 --> 01:43:27.939 Right in here, in the parlor. Sitting on the sofa. 1861 01:43:29.520 --> 01:43:32.880 That's just the wind. There's always a little draft blowing 1862 01:43:32.899 --> 01:43:33.199 in here. 1863 01:43:33.859 --> 01:43:33.979 But. 1864 01:43:34.680 --> 01:43:36.100 Won't you sit down, Mrs. Hawkins? 1865 01:43:36.659 --> 01:43:39.630 No, thanks. I'm only going to stay a minute, just 1866 01:43:39.710 --> 01:43:40.949 long enough to meet Mrs. 1867 01:43:40.989 --> 01:43:44.310 Jennings. Oh, but you've already met her. 1868 01:43:45.609 --> 01:43:47.420 Already met her? 1869 01:43:48.229 --> 01:43:53.479 Don't you remember? Five years ago, a rather chilly day, 1870 01:43:54.479 --> 01:43:58.380 the rain was falling. She rang the bell to ask 1871 01:43:58.439 --> 01:44:01.600 about the upstairs floor. And you invited her in for 1872 01:44:01.640 --> 01:44:02.319 a cup of tea. 1873 01:44:03.350 --> 01:44:04.659 I'm afraid you're mistaken. 1874 01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:07.869 That was the first Mrs. 1875 01:44:07.930 --> 01:44:09.829 Jennings. That's what I mean. 1876 01:44:09.850 --> 01:44:09.909 Oh. 1877 01:44:13.250 --> 01:44:14.329 Oh, no, Mr. 1878 01:44:14.350 --> 01:44:14.750 Jennings. 1879 01:44:14.850 --> 01:44:18.949 Now do you understand, Mrs. Hawkins? Now do you know 1880 01:44:19.010 --> 01:44:22.369 why we couldn't ever go away? We? 1881 01:44:23.310 --> 01:44:26.069 But there couldn't... Well, the first Mrs. 1882 01:44:26.130 --> 01:44:29.060 Jennings, it's... I know. I know.

You saw her coffin 1883 01:44:29.100 --> 01:44:30.590 in this very room, didn't you, Mrs. 1884 01:44:30.630 --> 01:44:31.029 Hawkins? 1885 01:44:31.930 --> 01:44:34.930 You saw them take her away. I think you even 1886 01:44:34.989 --> 01:44:36.989 followed out to that cold, dark cemetery. 1887 01:44:37.029 --> 01:44:37.529 Well, but. 1888 01:44:37.770 --> 01:44:40.930 But she couldn't stay away. She pleaded with me in 1889 01:44:40.970 --> 01:44:47.189 my dreams to bring her back, and... I brought her back. Oh, no, Mr. Jennings. 1890 01:44:48.029 --> 01:44:48.930 Don't say such things. 1891 01:44:49.350 --> 01:44:51.609 If everything were the same as in the past, she said, 1892 01:44:52.760 --> 01:44:57.220 we could have the past. If I furnished our old floor... 1893 01:44:57.899 --> 01:45:00.680 We're the same things. She'd live here, too. 1894 01:45:01.100 --> 01:45:01.779 Excuse me, Mr. 1895 01:45:01.800 --> 01:45:02.180 Dennings. 1896 01:45:02.640 --> 01:45:03.399 I'm afraid I've got to. 1897 01:45:03.460 --> 01:45:04.079 Oh, no, no, no. 1898 01:45:04.100 --> 01:45:08.680 Don't go yet. There's nothing frightening about it. Would you 1899 01:45:08.720 --> 01:45:11.260 be afraid to look at a forsythia bush that had 1900 01:45:11.279 --> 01:45:13.979 been asleep all winter? Or a tulip? 1901 01:45:14.840 --> 01:45:15.739 Or a tree? I. 1902 01:45:16.779 --> 01:45:17.729 I ain't afraid, Mr. 1903 01:45:17.770 --> 01:45:18.100 Dennings. 1904 01:45:18.550 --> 01:45:18.890 I only. 1905 01:45:18.930 --> 01:45:26.770 Listen. What? You don't hear it? In the bedroom? No. 1906 01:45:27.750 --> 01:45:30.970 The rocking? No. 1907 01:45:32.050 --> 01:45:32.869 Mabel. 1908 01:45:34.609 --> 01:45:35.390 Mabel. 1909 01:45:36.970 --> 01:45:37.250 Don't. 1910 01:45:38.270 --> 01:45:38.890 Don't call her. 1911 01:45:39.050 --> 01:45:40.899 I hear it, Mr. 1912 01:45:40.909 --> 01:45:43.880 Jennings. Oh, but she wants to meet you. She's always 1913 01:45:43.960 --> 01:45:45.680 loved you so much. I really. 1914 01:45:45.699 --> 01:45:48.960 I just assumed... Some other time, Mr. 1915 01:45:48.979 --> 01:45:49.359 Jennings. 1916 01:45:51.039 --> 01:45:51.779 The door's locked. 1917 01:45:52.199 --> 01:45:56.340 It snapped shut behind you. Really, Mrs. Hawkins, you don't know... 1918 01:45:57.159 --> 01:46:02.609 She'll be in in a moment. There. There. She's coming 1919 01:46:02.649 --> 01:46:03.149 down the hall. 1920 01:46:03.170 --> 01:46:05.470 Now, let me out of this. Do you hear? Let 1921 01:46:05.489 --> 01:46:07.210 me out. My heart won't stand. 1922 01:46:07.489 --> 01:46:18.319 Oh. Oh. Here she is. There. Standing in the doorway. Smiling. Oh, 1923 01:46:18.380 --> 01:46:20.800 my darling. My darling. 1924 01:46:21.739 --> 01:46:24.859 I don't see nobody. 1925 01:46:25.729 --> 01:46:28.930 Mrs. Hawkins... She's going to sing for you. 1926 01:46:29.149 --> 01:46:30.529 Sing for me? 1927 01:46:31.229 --> 01:46:32.829 This is the first night she's been able to. Do 1928 01:46:34.069 --> 01:46:36.229 you remember the old song she used to sing of 1929 01:46:36.270 --> 01:46:38.810 an evening? Swing low, sweet girl. 1930 01:46:39.109 --> 01:46:39.970 I don't want to hear it. 1931 01:46:40.130 --> 01:46:44.729 Oh, please, please, Mrs. Hawkins. She's very timid. You'll frighten her. 1932 01:46:44.770 --> 01:46:47.090 The dead can't come back. They'd never want to live 1933 01:46:47.130 --> 01:46:47.970 on this earth again. 1934 01:46:48.250 --> 01:46:53.920 Go on, Mabel, dearest. Don't mind. You're looking very beautiful tonight, 1935 01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:58.619 my darling. I like that dress. Do you remember when 1936 01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:01.310 we bought it? On our first wedding anniversary. 1937 01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.310 Why don't they all come back then? Why couldn't my 1938 01:47:04.350 --> 01:47:05.170 poor old John? 1939 01:47:05.550 --> 01:47:10.649 Sit down, dearest. There. Now it seems like old times again. 1940 01:47:11.630 --> 01:47:15.090 The flower in your hair. The canary singing in his cage. 1941 01:47:15.670 --> 01:47:16.520 No, it can't. I. 1942 01:47:16.510 --> 01:47:17.670 Oh. 1943 01:47:18.750 --> 01:47:23.329 Oh, I told you. My heart won't get a doctor quick. 1944 01:47:23.350 --> 01:47:26.779 Your voice. Your voice was always like a bird's to me. Oh. 1945 01:47:27.649 --> 01:47:29.779 I'll never forget the first time I ever heard it. 1946 01:47:30.789 --> 01:47:34.850 On an evening in spring at the Calvary Baptist Church. 1947 01:47:34.890 --> 01:47:35.550 Doctor! 1948 01:47:36.939 --> 01:47:38.380 Play, dearest, play. 1949 01:47:38.520 --> 01:47:41.020 Doctor! 1950 01:48:01.979 --> 01:48:06.119 Go on, dearest. It's all right. Sing. 1951 01:48:07.979 --> 01:48:14.710 Swing low, sweet chariot. 1952 01:48:15.350 --> 01:48:19.689 Come and for to carry me home. 1953 01:48:22.380 --> 01:48:53.649 Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me. 1954 01:48:54.140 --> 01:48:57.239 Roma Wines have brought you Mildred Natwick and Don DeFore 1955 01:48:57.319 --> 01:49:01.380 as stars of The Furnished Floor. Tonight's study in Suspense. 1956 01:49:01.399 --> 01:49:01.699 Suspense. 1957 01:49:03.560 --> 01:49:07.510 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines, the sponsor of suspense. 1958 01:49:08.710 --> 01:49:11.170 And here's a hint on how to make better cocktails. 1959 01:49:11.630 --> 01:49:16.270 Make them with zestful, full-flavored Roma vermouth. The vermouth of 1960 01:49:16.409 --> 01:49:19.789 almost a hundred rare herbs. Made and bottled in the 1961 01:49:19.850 --> 01:49:25.689 heart of California's famous vineyards. Yet surprisingly low-priced. Try Roma 1962 01:49:25.909 --> 01:49:26.939 vermouth soon, won't you? 1963 01:49:27.180 --> 01:49:30.199 Mildred Natwick will soon be seen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production 1964 01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:33.199 Yolanda and the Thief. Don DeFore is currently being seen 1965 01:49:33.239 --> 01:49:36.170 in the Hal Wallace production You

Came Along, A Paramount Picture. 1966 01:49:36.750 --> 01:49:39.630 Next Thursday, you will hear Miss Myrna Loy, a star 1967 01:49:39.829 --> 01:49:43.369 of Suspense, radio's outstanding. 1968 01:49:42.779 --> 01:49:48.960 Theater of thrills. Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. Made in 1969 01:49:49.020 --> 01:49:53.460 California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is CBS, the 1970 01:49:53.479 --> 01:49:55.020 Columbia Broadcasting System. 1971 01:51:00.180 --> 01:51:03.000 Wait a minute. Have you heard the strange tales of 1972 01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:03.539 the whistler? 1973 01:51:20.859 --> 01:51:22.319 I'm the whistler. 1974 01:51:27.779 --> 01:51:31.180 John was here in this room. I saw him and 1975 01:51:31.239 --> 01:51:34.760 talked to him. He had a message for me. And 1976 01:51:34.819 --> 01:51:37.699 while he was here, the room was filled with the 1977 01:51:37.850 --> 01:51:39.189 odor of musty roses. 1978 01:51:43.710 --> 01:51:47.199 Another Sunday night, and again CBS presents The Whistler. I, 1979 01:51:56.180 --> 01:51:59.460 the whistler, know many things, for I walk by night. 1980 01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:03.590 I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the 1981 01:52:03.619 --> 01:52:06.270 hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. 1982 01:52:07.510 --> 01:52:11.970 And so I tell you tonight the unusual story of Apparition. 1983 01:52:14.529 --> 01:52:17.489 In the midst of a circle of tall, moaning pines 1984 01:52:17.609 --> 01:52:21.489 spreads an old mansion. On the second floor, a low 1985 01:52:21.529 --> 01:52:25.659 light burns in a large bedroom, the bedroom of Elizabeth Kemper, 1986 01:52:26.020 --> 01:52:27.739 the elderly mistress of the mansion. 1987 01:52:28.680 --> 01:52:28.939 Mrs. 1988 01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:32.850 Kemper's husband, John, died suddenly a year ago and left 1989 01:52:32.890 --> 01:52:34.909 his entire estate to his wife, Elizabeth. 1990 01:52:35.649 --> 01:52:37.250 Shortly after John's death. 1991 01:52:37.710 --> 01:52:41.710 Elizabeth brought her husband's sister, Bertha, and Bertha's daughter, Celia, 1992 01:52:41.750 --> 01:52:45.609 to live with her. Since John's death, Elizabeth's health has 1993 01:52:45.649 --> 01:52:48.819 gradually failed and she has taken to her bed. In 1994 01:52:48.840 --> 01:52:52.220 the meantime, Elizabeth's only sister, Mary, has come to live 1995 01:52:52.260 --> 01:52:56.859 in the great house and Mary's son, Herbert. Now, long 1996 01:52:56.960 --> 01:53:01.039 past midnight, Elizabeth tosses in her bed and mumbles. 1997 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:01.619 John. 1998 01:53:03.199 --> 01:53:09.520 John. What is it? What do you want? Why don't 1999 01:53:09.560 --> 01:53:10.210 you say it? 2000 01:53:10.819 --> 01:53:14.159 Suddenly, Elizabeth's door bursts open and Bertha moves into the 2001 01:53:14.189 --> 01:53:16.149 room and stands beside the bed. 2002 01:53:17.310 --> 01:53:17.770 Elizabeth? 2003 01:53:19.390 --> 01:53:19.829 Elizabeth? 2004 01:53:20.109 --> 01:53:21.970 Huh? 2005 01:53:22.069 --> 01:53:24.590 Elizabeth? It's Bertha. 2006 01:53:24.989 --> 01:53:25.069 Oh. 2007 01:53:25.800 --> 01:53:28.100 Bertha. Oh, yes, Bertha. 2008 01:53:29.149 --> 01:53:29.970 Why did you scream? 2009 01:53:30.409 --> 01:53:30.909 Scream? 2010 01:53:31.770 --> 01:53:32.609 Did I scream? 2011 01:53:33.170 --> 01:53:33.470 Yes. 2012 01:53:34.350 --> 01:53:36.729 Just as I came in the room. You must have 2013 01:53:36.770 --> 01:53:37.350 frightened me. 2014 01:53:38.449 --> 01:53:39.170 Were you dreaming? 2015 01:53:39.630 --> 01:53:43.510 No, I... I don't think so. But I don't know. I... 2016 01:53:43.479 --> 01:53:45.520 I thought John was here. 2017 01:53:46.239 --> 01:53:46.560 John? 2018 01:53:47.920 --> 01:53:49.119 You thought John was here? 2019 01:53:49.420 --> 01:53:53.300 Yes. Standing there beside the bed. Elizabeth? 2020 01:53:53.319 --> 01:53:53.659 Elizabeth? 2021 01:53:55.149 --> 01:53:57.810 I saw him, too. Just a moment ago. 2022 01:53:58.050 --> 01:53:58.270 What? 2023 01:53:58.529 --> 01:53:59.189 In my room. 2024 01:53:59.220 --> 01:54:03.420 Oh, but that's nonsense. Why should he always appear to you? 2025 01:54:04.359 --> 01:54:05.100 I'm his sister. 2026 01:54:05.699 --> 01:54:05.939 Yes. 2027 01:54:06.720 --> 01:54:09.949 Yes, of course. John was trying to tell me something. 2028 01:54:11.130 --> 01:54:12.109 Something about you. 2029 01:54:12.649 --> 01:54:12.829 What? 2030 01:54:13.710 --> 01:54:15.689 He was trying to tell me that you should listen 2031 01:54:15.729 --> 01:54:16.029 to him. 2032 01:54:16.699 --> 01:54:20.739 Listen to him? Something about the property. What about the property? 2033 01:54:21.399 --> 01:54:22.720 He says he made a mistake. 2034 01:54:22.779 --> 01:54:23.199 Mistake? 2035 01:54:23.579 --> 01:54:26.479 He says he wasn't killed accidentally. He did it deliberately. 2036 01:54:27.470 --> 01:54:28.670 He committed suicide. 2037 01:54:28.710 --> 01:54:29.350 Suicide? 2038 01:54:30.430 --> 01:54:31.270 Why should he have done that? 2039 01:54:31.789 --> 01:54:35.050 He hasn't explained that. But he says now he knows 2040 01:54:35.090 --> 01:54:38.649 the truth about everything. He knows that his reason for 2041 01:54:38.710 --> 01:54:41.270 hating me and cutting me off in his will was unfounded. 2042 01:54:41.649 --> 01:54:42.310 And he's sorry. 2043 01:54:42.630 --> 01:54:44.909 He's been trying to reach you, but you aren't receptive. 2044 01:54:45.060 --> 01:54:47.380 You claim you've seen John every night since the day 2045 01:54:47.420 --> 01:54:47.779 he died. 2046 01:54:47.800 --> 01:54:49.319 I have, Elizabeth. I swear I have. 2047 01:54:49.939 --> 01:54:52.859 I've seen him many times in my dreams. But why 2048 01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.439 doesn't he tell me what he wants? Some night, Elizabeth, 2049 01:54:55.479 --> 01:54:57.800 John will reach you in your waking moments. Then you'll 2050 01:54:57.840 --> 01:55:00.409

believe me. I can't understand it. He didn't like you 2051 01:55:00.430 --> 01:55:02.829 when he told me so. Why should he change now? 2052 01:55:03.640 --> 01:55:05.840 Perhaps it would be best if Stevie and I left you. 2053 01:55:06.119 --> 01:55:07.960 Why should you want to leave all of a sudden? 2054 01:55:07.979 --> 01:55:10.039 You have your own sister and her son, Herbert. You 2055 01:55:10.060 --> 01:55:12.560 won't be alone. I only knew what John was trying 2056 01:55:12.579 --> 01:55:14.180 to say to me. I've told you what he's been 2057 01:55:14.220 --> 01:55:14.859 saying to me. 2058 01:55:14.890 --> 01:55:17.529 Mother, is anything wrong? 2059 01:55:17.689 --> 01:55:18.590 We heard someone scream. 2060 01:55:18.970 --> 01:55:19.869 At least I thought I did. 2061 01:55:20.010 --> 01:55:20.850 No, nothing's wrong. 2062 01:55:21.189 --> 01:55:21.829 Go back to bed. 2063 01:55:21.850 --> 01:55:24.239 Elizabeth, Elizabeth, what is it? 2064 01:55:24.369 --> 01:55:25.149 What's what, Mary? 2065 01:55:25.590 --> 01:55:28.170 Oh, dear me, I heard someone scream. 2066 01:55:28.649 --> 01:55:30.670 What was it? Are you all right, Elizabeth? Yes, Mary, 2067 01:55:30.710 --> 01:55:31.850 I had a nightmare, that's all. 2068 01:55:32.050 --> 01:55:32.130 Oh. 2069 01:55:33.010 --> 01:55:35.329 Well, I was worried. Better go back to bed, all 2070 01:55:35.350 --> 01:55:35.569 of you. 2071 01:55:35.850 --> 01:55:36.489 I'll be all right. 2072 01:55:36.600 --> 01:55:36.810 Yes. 2073 01:55:36.840 --> 01:55:38.039 Yes, come along, Eve. 2074 01:55:38.180 --> 01:55:39.159 I'll see you in the morning. 2075 01:55:39.199 --> 01:55:44.140 Good night. 2076 01:55:47.239 --> 01:55:49.979 But, Mother, why do you keep frightening Aunt Elizabeth by 2077 01:55:50.020 --> 01:55:51.229 telling her about Uncle John? 2078 01:55:51.239 --> 01:55:53.369 I'm not frightening her. She should know the truth. 2079 01:55:53.569 --> 01:55:54.670 But she is frightened. 2080 01:55:55.050 --> 01:55:58.890 Why, she's getting worse and worse. Are you sure you 2081 01:55:58.970 --> 01:56:02.090 have seen Uncle, really? Do you dare suggest that I'm lying? 2082 01:56:02.779 --> 01:56:03.960 Is that what you mean, Celia? 2083 01:56:04.100 --> 01:56:04.979 No, no, Mother. 2084 01:56:05.180 --> 01:56:06.270 I didn't mean that honest. 2085 01:56:07.090 --> 01:56:07.729 That's better. 2086 01:56:09.029 --> 01:56:10.689 And don't you ever say such a thing again. 2087 01:56:11.189 --> 01:56:14.529 But why doesn't he appear to Aunt Elizabeth? She only 2088 01:56:14.590 --> 01:56:15.550 dreams about him. 2089 01:56:15.829 --> 01:56:18.449 That's something that can't be answered. There are those who 2090 01:56:18.489 --> 01:56:20.310 are gifted with the powers to see those. 2091 01:56:20.170 --> 01:56:24.510 Who have departed. See them and talk with them. I'm 2092 01:56:24.609 --> 01:56:25.689 one of those so gifted. 2093 01:56:25.720 --> 01:56:27.340 Do you understand? 2094 01:56:27.739 --> 01:56:28.619 Yes, yes, Mother. 2095 01:56:29.119 --> 01:56:31.420 John is trying to get a message to Elizabeth about me... 2096 01:56:32.239 --> 01:56:34.340 And because he finds it difficult to reach her, he's 2097 01:56:34.380 --> 01:56:35.640 chosen me as the medium. 2098 01:56:36.300 --> 01:56:37.180 What is the message? 2099 01:56:37.739 --> 01:56:40.119 He left me nothing in his will because he hated 2100 01:56:40.159 --> 01:56:41.239 me and thought I hated him. 2101 01:56:41.260 --> 01:56:42.119 But you did. 2102 01:56:42.180 --> 01:56:42.659 I did not. 2103 01:56:43.439 --> 01:56:46.270 It was his imagination. But now he's learned the truth. 2104 01:56:46.319 --> 01:56:48.069 Now he knows I had nothing but his best interest 2105 01:56:48.109 --> 01:56:52.569 at heart. He's trying to tell Elizabeth to leave all 2106 01:56:52.590 --> 01:56:56.189 the estate to me. And he will continue to return 2107 01:56:56.250 --> 01:57:00.029 to this house until his mission is accomplished. Then his 2108 01:57:00.090 --> 01:57:01.229 soul can rest in peace. 2109 01:57:01.899 --> 01:57:04.489 I'm frightened, Mother. I don't want to stay here another day. 2110 01:57:04.569 --> 01:57:05.489 I can't stand it here. 2111 01:57:05.510 --> 01:57:08.310 You stay here until I'm ready to leave. Do you 2112 01:57:08.449 --> 01:57:08.949 hear me? 2113 01:57:09.449 --> 01:57:11.090 Yes, yes, Mother, I hear. 2114 01:57:11.109 --> 01:57:14.210 Now stop this nonsense and go to bed. 2115 01:57:14.760 --> 01:57:16.460 Yes, Mother, I'm sorry. 2116 01:57:17.460 --> 01:57:18.279 You'd better be. 2117 01:57:27.189 --> 01:57:29.710 In another part of the great house, Herbert is talking 2118 01:57:29.729 --> 01:57:31.949 with his mother Mary, Elizabeth's own sister. 2119 01:57:32.930 --> 01:57:35.149 Now, now, Mother, get hold of yourself. 2120 01:57:35.310 --> 01:57:37.350 Oh, I'm terribly frightened, Herbert. 2121 01:57:37.369 --> 01:57:39.810 Why should you be frightened? Nothing can harm you. What 2122 01:57:39.829 --> 01:57:40.569 have you to be afraid of? 2123 01:57:40.569 --> 01:57:43.000 Oh, there's something awful in this house. I can feel it. 2124 01:57:43.010 --> 01:57:45.300 I don't want to stay here any longer. We must 2125 01:57:45.350 --> 01:57:46.460 leave before it's too late. 2126 01:57:46.500 --> 01:57:49.020 I'll admit that strange things are going on, but I'm 2127 01:57:49.060 --> 01:57:49.899 not ready to leave here. 2128 01:57:50.390 --> 01:57:50.930 Not just yet. 2129 01:57:51.069 --> 01:57:52.489 We don't belong here. 2130 01:57:52.520 --> 01:57:53.960 Aunt Elizabeth is your own sister. 2131 01:57:54.079 --> 01:57:55.399 I don't think John wants us here. 2132 01:57:55.460 --> 01:57:58.159 You really believe that John's spirit is walking around this 2133 01:57:58.199 --> 01:57:58.779 place every night? 2134 01:57:58.819 --> 01:57:59.539 Well, what else? 2135 01:57:59.739 --> 01:58:01.770 Then why doesn't he say what he's trying to say 2136 01:58:01.810

--> 01:58:02.369 and get it over with? 2137 01:58:02.390 --> 01:58:03.750 Well, I can't stay here much longer. 2138 01:58:04.069 --> 01:58:04.949 I'll lose my mind. 2139 01:58:04.970 --> 01:58:08.010 I can imagine John's not wanting Bertha here, since he 2140 01:58:08.050 --> 01:58:10.840 stipulated in his will that Aunt Elizabeth... must never give 2141 01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:13.460 Bertha a dollar of the estate. But what's he got 2142 01:58:13.500 --> 01:58:14.060 against you? 2143 01:58:14.680 --> 01:58:15.000 Nothing. 2144 01:58:15.579 --> 01:58:17.560 He didn't say that Elizabeth couldn't leave you a part 2145 01:58:17.600 --> 01:58:17.770 of it. 2146 01:58:17.880 --> 01:58:19.560 All I want to do is get out of this house. 2147 01:58:19.579 --> 01:58:21.359 Well, I don't feel that way about it. Why should 2148 01:58:21.380 --> 01:58:22.920 you walk out and leave everything to Bertha? 2149 01:58:23.000 --> 01:58:26.029 Well, that's why John's staying around here. He doesn't want 2150 01:58:26.189 --> 01:58:26.930 anyone here. 2151 01:58:26.949 --> 01:58:28.989 Well, ghost or no ghost, I'm not walking out at 2152 01:58:29.050 --> 01:58:29.630 a time like this. 2153 01:58:30.760 --> 01:58:32.899 Then I will. I'm leaving here tomorrow. 2154 01:58:33.979 --> 01:58:38.689 Oh, no. No, you're not leaving. We're both staying until... 2155 01:58:39.069 --> 01:58:42.229 until Aunt Elizabeth makes her will. You're staying here whether 2156 01:58:42.250 --> 01:58:42.930 you like it or not. 2157 01:58:43.350 --> 01:58:43.750 You hear? 2158 01:58:44.569 --> 01:58:45.289 Yes, Herbert. 2159 01:58:45.829 --> 01:58:49.170 But nothing good will come of it. I'm convinced of that. 2160 01:58:49.710 --> 01:58:53.909 No? Well, we'll see about that. Good night, Mother. 2161 01:58:55.100 --> 01:58:56.720 Good night. 2162 01:59:04.149 --> 01:59:06.770 An hour later, Mary has finally dropped off to sleep. 2163 01:59:07.310 --> 01:59:10.890 Then, as the clock strikes three, a figure in white 2164 01:59:10.970 --> 01:59:14.810 slips into Mary's room and stands beside the bed. Slowly, 2165 01:59:14.829 --> 01:59:17.890 Mary opens her eyes and stifles a scream. 2166 01:59:18.710 --> 01:59:19.250 Who is it? 2167 01:59:19.970 --> 01:59:23.529 What do you want? I want to talk to you, Mary. Yes, 2168 01:59:23.550 --> 01:59:25.649 I have a message for you. A message? 2169 01:59:25.850 --> 01:59:26.229 Yes. 2170 01:59:27.229 --> 01:59:28.069 John is here. 2171 01:59:29.010 --> 01:59:30.100 Standing beside me. 2172 01:59:30.840 --> 01:59:32.260 I don't see anyone. 2173 01:59:32.380 --> 01:59:33.060 He is here. 2174 01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:33.159 What? 2175 01:59:34.149 --> 01:59:35.029 What is the message? 2176 01:59:35.630 --> 01:59:38.329 John says that Elizabeth is planning to leave the estate 2177 01:59:38.390 --> 01:59:42.090 to you. But he's learned the truth. He knows that 2178 01:59:42.149 --> 01:59:45.470 his dislike for me was unfounded. He wants the estate 2179 01:59:45.489 --> 01:59:49.449 left to me because it's rightfully mine. And he'll never 2180 01:59:49.510 --> 01:59:52.010 be able to rest in peace until that is accomplished. 2181 01:59:52.289 --> 01:59:54.930 Oh, I don't want it. I don't want any part 2182 01:59:54.970 --> 01:59:55.329 of the estate. 2183 01:59:55.350 --> 01:59:58.489 Then if you want to escape this torment, you must 2184 01:59:58.569 --> 02:00:02.300 convince your sister that John made a mistake. If you 2185 02:00:02.340 --> 02:00:05.699 accept any part of it, John will never let you rest. 2186 02:00:06.859 --> 02:00:07.729 Do you understand? 2187 02:00:08.149 --> 02:00:08.369 Yes. 2188 02:00:08.670 --> 02:00:08.930 Yes. 2189 02:00:09.210 --> 02:00:10.149 Yes, I understand. 2190 02:00:10.710 --> 02:00:13.670 Very well. We'll leave you now. Good night. 2191 02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:22.560 Elizabeth. 2192 02:00:23.220 --> 02:00:24.619 Elizabeth, wake up. 2193 02:00:25.300 --> 02:00:25.579 What? 2194 02:00:25.680 --> 02:00:26.140 Wake up. 2195 02:00:26.300 --> 02:00:29.170 Oh, Mary, what's wrong? You're shaking like a leaf. He 2196 02:00:29.710 --> 02:00:30.409 was in my room. 2197 02:00:30.430 --> 02:00:30.829 Who? 2198 02:00:31.329 --> 02:00:33.810 John, he was in my room. Mary, what are you saying? 2199 02:00:33.850 --> 02:00:34.750 He had a message. 2200 02:00:35.149 --> 02:00:37.350 He said you were planning to leave the estate to me, 2201 02:00:37.750 --> 02:00:40.470 according to his will. But he made a mistake about Bertha. 2202 02:00:40.890 --> 02:00:43.279 He wanted you to leave it to her, so he 2203 02:00:43.300 --> 02:00:45.859 can rest in peace. Mary, are you out of your mind? 2204 02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:47.319 No, no, you must believe me. 2205 02:00:47.739 --> 02:00:49.119 I don't want any part of the estate. 2206 02:00:49.579 --> 02:00:50.960 Oh, please, promise me. 2207 02:00:51.300 --> 02:00:52.680 Leave it to Bertha and have done with it. I 2208 02:00:53.300 --> 02:00:55.970 refuse to accept it. Get control of yourself, Mary. I'm 2209 02:00:56.010 --> 02:00:57.130 leaving here in the morning. 2210 02:00:57.630 --> 02:00:58.229 I'm frightened. 2211 02:00:58.250 --> 02:01:00.880 And if you had any sense, you'd leave too. If 2212 02:01:00.899 --> 02:01:03.800 you stay here, you'll go mad. Very well, Mary. 2213 02:01:04.279 --> 02:01:06.319 If that's what you call gratitude, you can go. Oh, 2214 02:01:06.399 --> 02:01:08.960 I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but I won't remain another night. 2215 02:01:08.979 --> 02:01:10.939 Are you sure you saw John? 2216 02:01:11.260 --> 02:01:12.119 No, no. 2217 02:01:12.579 --> 02:01:14.100 No, but he was there in my room. Did you 2218 02:01:14.119 --> 02:01:14.579 talk with him? 2219 02:01:14.880 --> 02:01:15.119 No. 2220 02:01:15.640 --> 02:01:16.260 No, that is I. 2221 02:01:16.300 --> 02:01:17.689 Then how do you know he was there? 2222 02:01:17.699 --> 02:01:19.289 Well, Bertha told me he was there. 2223 02:01:19.310 --> 02:01:19.810

Bertha? 2224 02:01:19.829 --> 02:01:21.130 Was she there too? Oh, yes. 2225 02:01:21.710 --> 02:01:23.949 She told me what he wanted. He said he couldn't 2226 02:01:23.989 --> 02:01:27.449 reach you. Why should John appear to everyone but me? 2227 02:01:28.149 --> 02:01:28.829 I don't know. 2228 02:01:29.369 --> 02:01:30.810 But I know he was there. 2229 02:01:31.449 --> 02:01:33.920 I could sense it. I tell you, there was someone 2230 02:01:33.939 --> 02:01:36.859 in the room with Bertha. It must have been John. 2231 02:01:37.479 --> 02:01:39.779 Oh, let Bertha have the estate or something terrible will 2232 02:01:39.800 --> 02:01:40.430 happen to all of us. 2233 02:01:41.039 --> 02:01:42.079 Oh, please, Elizabeth. 2234 02:01:42.100 --> 02:01:43.039 Go to bed, Mary. 2235 02:01:43.300 --> 02:01:46.199 We'll talk about it tomorrow. Yes, Elizabeth. 2236 02:01:53.460 --> 02:01:55.800 Next day, Herbert goes into town and pays a visit 2237 02:01:55.859 --> 02:02:00.720 to Henry Wentworth, Elizabeth's attorney. Wentworth was also John's attorney 2238 02:02:00.760 --> 02:02:03.890 for many years and was familiar with the family for 2239 02:02:03.930 --> 02:02:04.750 two decades. 2240 02:02:05.109 --> 02:02:05.310 Mr. 2241 02:02:05.350 --> 02:02:07.609 Wentworth, you drew John Kemper's will. 2242 02:02:07.909 --> 02:02:08.609 Yes, I did. 2243 02:02:08.729 --> 02:02:09.869 Have you any idea why. 2244 02:02:09.750 --> 02:02:11.689 He cut his sister Bertha off without a dollar? 2245 02:02:12.029 --> 02:02:15.149 No, but in the last five years, John turned against Bertha, 2246 02:02:15.189 --> 02:02:16.289 turned against her violently. 2247 02:02:16.350 --> 02:02:16.670 Why? 2248 02:02:17.149 --> 02:02:19.470 I don't really know. She was his only sister and 2249 02:02:19.510 --> 02:02:22.109 he had no brothers. It was very strange. What happened 2250 02:02:22.149 --> 02:02:24.979 to Bertha's husband? Well, he died about five years ago. 2251 02:02:25.000 --> 02:02:29.189 Committed suicide. He worked for John at one time. Then 2252 02:02:29.229 --> 02:02:30.869 John set him up in a business of his own. 2253 02:02:31.289 --> 02:02:32.710 Thought he went to the wall in the crash of 2254 02:02:32.710 --> 02:02:36.010 29 and lost every penny. Just couldn't take it, so 2255 02:02:36.050 --> 02:02:36.729 he killed himself. 2256 02:02:36.909 --> 02:02:37.550 He left nothing? 2257 02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:40.920 Nothing but an insurance policy to his wife, Bertha. Didn't 2258 02:02:40.939 --> 02:02:42.630 amount to much. Five thousand, I think. 2259 02:02:42.789 --> 02:02:44.970 Were John and Bertha's husband on good terms? 2260 02:02:45.369 --> 02:02:48.409 Apparently the best of friends. How did Bertha's husband die? 2261 02:02:48.710 --> 02:02:52.289 Took poison. Overdose of sleeping tablets. Oh, I see. But 2262 02:02:52.310 --> 02:02:55.319 from the day Bertha's husband died, John, her brother, seemed 2263 02:02:55.340 --> 02:02:58.199 to turn against Bertha. And shortly changed his will, cutting 2264 02:02:58.239 --> 02:03:00.939 Bertha off. I was the only one who knew about 2265 02:03:00.979 --> 02:03:02.600 it until the will was read. 2266 02:03:02.739 --> 02:03:04.800 Have you any idea why he changed the will? 2267 02:03:05.199 --> 02:03:05.439 No. 2268 02:03:05.460 --> 02:03:06.090 Whatever. 2269 02:03:06.100 --> 02:03:06.470 Whatever. 2270 02:03:07.189 --> 02:03:08.239 It was none of my business. 2271 02:03:08.819 --> 02:03:09.439 Ah, yes. 2272 02:03:09.699 --> 02:03:10.310 Well, thank you, Mr. 2273 02:03:10.329 --> 02:03:10.630 Winkler. 2274 02:03:11.409 --> 02:03:12.510 I appreciate your telling me this. 2275 02:03:13.050 --> 02:03:13.460 Good day. 2276 02:03:23.670 --> 02:03:26.869 Then Herbert pays another visit. A visit to Dr. Martin, 2277 02:03:26.970 --> 02:03:28.670 formerly John Kemper's physician. 2278 02:03:29.430 --> 02:03:29.710 Dr. 2279 02:03:29.750 --> 02:03:33.189 Martin is at first reluctant to talk, but finally answers 2280 02:03:33.229 --> 02:03:34.050 a few questions. 2281 02:03:35.149 --> 02:03:35.609 Uh, doctor. 2282 02:03:36.590 --> 02:03:40.270 You were John Kemper's physician for many years. Yes, that's right. 2283 02:03:40.829 --> 02:03:41.750 Was there anything wrong with him? 2284 02:03:42.430 --> 02:03:44.949 You mean, was he unbalanced? No, no. 2285 02:03:45.229 --> 02:03:46.600 Did he have any severe ailments? 2286 02:03:46.949 --> 02:03:48.220 Well, no. 2287 02:03:48.239 --> 02:03:52.119 No, the last year or so, he seemed to change considerably, though. 2288 02:03:52.180 --> 02:03:55.020 Became a bit morose. Anything wrong with his heart? 2289 02:03:55.579 --> 02:03:58.630 Well, yes and no. Yes and no? 2290 02:03:58.750 --> 02:04:01.649 Well, he began to suffer from severe headaches. Took to 2291 02:04:01.770 --> 02:04:03.770 using a lot of aspirin. Of course, too much of 2292 02:04:03.810 --> 02:04:04.470 anything's bad. 2293 02:04:04.789 --> 02:04:06.210 He was killed in a car wreck. 2294 02:04:06.550 --> 02:04:08.909 Yes, he'd been to the city and was driving back 2295 02:04:08.989 --> 02:04:10.989 home late at night. Drove off into the ditch. Did 2296 02:04:11.029 --> 02:04:14.050 you attend him? I saw the body shortly after the wreck. 2297 02:04:14.090 --> 02:04:16.270 He'd been dead about an hour. Badly smashed up. Was 2298 02:04:16.310 --> 02:04:16.810 it his heart? 2299 02:04:17.130 --> 02:04:19.520 Oh, could have been, but I think he went to 2300 02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:20.270 sleep at the wheel. 2301 02:04:20.380 --> 02:04:21.220 Was there an autopsy? 2302 02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:23.800 No, it was obvious how he died. His skull had 2303 02:04:23.819 --> 02:04:26.439 been crushed in. Who had he visited in the city 2304 02:04:26.520 --> 02:04:29.909 on business? No, I never thought about it. Where is 2305 02:04:29.970 --> 02:04:32.510 John Kemper buried? In the family vault at the edge 2306 02:04:32.550 --> 02:04:33.289 of his own estate. 2307 02:04:33.310 -->

02:04:33.970 Didn't you know that? 2308 02:04:34.369 --> 02:04:34.529 Huh? 2309 02:04:35.369 --> 02:04:36.109 Oh, yes. 2310 02:04:36.329 --> 02:04:38.250 Yes, yes. I'd forgotten. 2311 02:04:38.270 --> 02:04:41.640 Well, good day, Doctor. And thanks for the information. 2312 02:04:51.520 --> 02:04:54.270 Then later that night, the household prepares to settle down 2313 02:04:54.310 --> 02:04:56.810 to sleep. And by one, the lights go out in 2314 02:04:56.829 --> 02:05:00.649 the various rooms. Now only that in Elizabeth's room remains. 2315 02:05:02.149 --> 02:05:03.770 Will there be anything else, ma'am? 2316 02:05:04.029 --> 02:05:04.260 No. 2317 02:05:04.649 --> 02:05:05.180 No, Higgins. 2318 02:05:05.399 --> 02:05:05.960 That'll be all. 2319 02:05:05.979 --> 02:05:07.579 Has everyone gone to bed? 2320 02:05:07.939 --> 02:05:08.539 Oh, yes, ma'am. 2321 02:05:08.560 --> 02:05:11.619 They've all retired. Is the milk warm enough? 2322 02:05:12.100 --> 02:05:12.380 Yes. 2323 02:05:13.300 --> 02:05:13.960 Good night, Higgins. 2324 02:05:14.479 --> 02:05:17.319 Good night, ma'am. I hope you rest well tonight. 2325 02:05:17.520 --> 02:05:18.180 Thank you, Higgins. 2326 02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:24.710 The moon bathed the estate in its eerie glow... The 2327 02:05:24.750 --> 02:05:26.649 big clock strikes off the hour. 2328 02:05:26.670 --> 02:05:31.250 Then, in the distance, there. 2329 02:05:31.170 --> 02:05:35.520 Is the howl of a dog. A mournful howl of 2330 02:05:35.600 --> 02:05:40.899 impending doom. John's dog crying in its loneliness. Across the 2331 02:05:40.960 --> 02:05:44.060 lawn from the family vault walks a haggard figure in 2332 02:05:44.079 --> 02:05:47.840 the moonlight. A figure with long white hair walking toward 2333 02:05:47.859 --> 02:05:51.500 the house. And a few moments later, the weird figure 2334 02:05:51.539 --> 02:05:54.920 appears in Mary's room, stands in the shadows and points 2335 02:05:54.979 --> 02:05:56.039 at Mary. 2336 02:05:57.319 --> 02:05:59.840 What do you want? Who are you? 2337 02:05:59.859 --> 02:06:02.520 I am John. John? 2338 02:06:02.539 --> 02:06:03.779 Oh, good heavens. 2339 02:06:03.840 --> 02:06:06.420 I've come back to talk to you. You must hear me. 2340 02:06:07.500 --> 02:06:08.159 I hear you. 2341 02:06:08.399 --> 02:06:11.399 I made a great mistake in life. I hated my sister, 2342 02:06:11.439 --> 02:06:12.800 but I know all things now. 2343 02:06:13.470 --> 02:06:14.520 Bertha's a good woman. 2344 02:06:15.159 --> 02:06:17.750 I'm doomed to walk this place without rest until I've 2345 02:06:17.770 --> 02:06:18.369 made amends. 2346 02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:19.880 Do you understand? 2347 02:06:19.899 --> 02:06:19.970 Yes. 2348 02:06:20.319 --> 02:06:22.640 Yes, I understand. 2349 02:06:22.680 --> 02:06:25.300 If Elizabeth refuses to listen to my pleas and leaves 2350 02:06:25.340 --> 02:06:28.159 this estate to you, you will never rest a moment 2351 02:06:28.220 --> 02:06:28.840 under this roof. 2352 02:06:29.600 --> 02:06:30.939 For I can never leave. 2353 02:06:31.619 --> 02:06:35.329 It rightfully belongs to Bertha. And to her it must go. 2354 02:06:35.350 --> 02:06:38.350 I don't want it. I don't want any part of it. 2355 02:06:38.350 --> 02:06:42.350 I won't stay here. I promise. Just let me alone. 2356 02:06:42.369 --> 02:06:43.310 I will. 2357 02:06:44.069 --> 02:06:46.310 If you and your son leave here at once. 2358 02:06:46.329 --> 02:06:46.949 We will. 2359 02:06:47.189 --> 02:06:47.699 We will. I. 2360 02:06:50.539 --> 02:06:54.439 Where are you? John? Are you here? 2361 02:06:55.359 --> 02:06:55.880 John? 2362 02:07:00.779 --> 02:07:04.670 Mary gasps and suddenly falls back on her pillow. Poor 2363 02:07:04.770 --> 02:07:10.109 Mary has fainted dead away. From the darkened stairway, the 2364 02:07:10.170 --> 02:07:12.130 great clock chimes out the hour. 2365 02:07:12.770 --> 02:07:18.090 Three o'clock. Elizabeth. 2366 02:07:18.779 --> 02:07:23.039 Eyes closed but still awake. Senses a presence and slowly 2367 02:07:23.119 --> 02:07:27.380 opens her eyes. Standing close beside her is the white-haired figure, 2368 02:07:27.720 --> 02:07:29.359 its face hidden in the shadows. 2369 02:07:31.220 --> 02:07:33.899 No, no, Elizabeth. Don't turn on the light. 2370 02:07:34.119 --> 02:07:34.380 Who. 2371 02:07:35.340 --> 02:07:35.760 who is it? 2372 02:07:36.380 --> 02:07:40.060 You wouldn't want to see me. I've been out there 2373 02:07:40.199 --> 02:07:40.619 too long. 2374 02:07:40.800 --> 02:07:41.199 John! 2375 02:07:42.659 --> 02:07:43.039 John! 2376 02:07:43.239 --> 02:07:45.239 At last I've reached through to you. 2377 02:07:45.600 --> 02:07:47.409 Oh, I must be dreaming again. I. 2378 02:07:49.489 --> 02:07:49.689 Why. 2379 02:07:50.649 --> 02:07:51.880 Why are you whispering, John? 2380 02:07:52.399 --> 02:07:55.960 I'm not whispering, Elizabeth. Can't you hear me? 2381 02:07:56.039 --> 02:07:58.039 Yes. Yes, I can hear you. I. 2382 02:07:59.760 --> 02:08:00.680 What is that odor? 2383 02:08:01.539 --> 02:08:01.899 Odor? 2384 02:08:02.140 --> 02:08:03.880 Yes, a strange odor. 2385 02:08:04.619 --> 02:08:04.779 Like. 2386 02:08:05.520 --> 02:08:09.060 like the smell of flowers. A musty odor of roses. 2387 02:08:09.850 --> 02:08:12.909 Why, I've just come from the. 2388 02:08:12.890 --> 02:08:14.050 Vault, Elizabeth. 2389 02:08:14.850 --> 02:08:15.189 John! 2390 02:08:16.369 --> 02:08:18.329 John, what is it? What do you want? 2391 02:08:18.489 --> 02:08:20.310 You're going to make your will tomorrow. 2392 02:08:20.369 --> 02:08:20.810 Yes, yes. 2393 02:08:21.329 --> 02:08:23.350 Only you can right the wrong I've done. 2394 02:08:23.850 --> 02:08:23.949 Wrong? 2395 02:08:24.130 --> 02:08:26.670 My father left this estate to me with the understanding 2396 02:08:26.710 --> 02:08:28.109 that I should leave it to burn. 2397 02:08:28.189 --> 02:08:28.770 Yes, I know. 2398 02:08:29.020 --> 02:08:32.300 I suspected her of wrongdoing

and cut her off and. 2399 02:08:32.279 --> 02:08:33.579 Instructed you to do so. 2400 02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:33.920 Yes. 2401 02:08:34.460 --> 02:08:36.239 But now I know that I was wrong. 2402 02:08:37.119 --> 02:08:38.840 You must leave the estate to her. 2403 02:08:39.520 --> 02:08:42.079 You must right my wrong so that I can go 2404 02:08:42.220 --> 02:08:43.060 on to my rest. 2405 02:08:43.100 --> 02:08:44.060 Yes, yes, John. 2406 02:08:44.239 --> 02:08:45.520 If you fail to do this. 2407 02:08:46.810 --> 02:08:51.140 I shall be doomed to walk this place throughout eternity. 2408 02:08:51.909 --> 02:08:54.079 And all those who come here shall not know a 2409 02:08:54.119 --> 02:08:54.859 moment's peace. 2410 02:08:55.039 --> 02:08:56.220 Yes, I understand, John. 2411 02:08:56.399 --> 02:09:00.640 If you fail me, you too shall suffer my torment 2412 02:09:00.720 --> 02:09:02.579 with me forever. 2413 02:09:02.880 --> 02:09:03.399 Yes, I. 2414 02:09:04.560 --> 02:09:06.659 I'll do it. I'll do as you say, only. 2415 02:09:08.979 --> 02:09:09.090 I. 2416 02:09:10.199 --> 02:09:10.550 John. 2417 02:09:11.350 --> 02:09:13.529 Your heart, Elizabeth? 2418 02:09:13.869 --> 02:09:14.479 Yes, I. 2419 02:09:14.939 --> 02:09:16.439 You haven't much time, Elizabeth. 2420 02:09:17.100 --> 02:09:18.680 You'll be joining me soon. 2421 02:09:19.520 --> 02:09:20.720 I know. 2422 02:09:22.119 --> 02:09:31.210 John, where are you? I promise, John. I promise. 2423 02:09:33.229 --> 02:09:36.329 Elizabeth clutches at her heart, gasping for breath. A few 2424 02:09:36.369 --> 02:09:38.850 moments pass and she revives sufficiently to reach for the 2425 02:09:38.890 --> 02:09:42.310 stimulant on the nightstand. She pours a dose. And as 2426 02:09:42.350 --> 02:09:44.569 she swallows it, she glances out the window over the 2427 02:09:44.609 --> 02:09:49.810 moonlit grounds. Across the lawn moves the white-haired figure, gliding 2428 02:09:49.869 --> 02:09:51.909 toward the family vault at the edge of the estate. 2429 02:09:52.609 --> 02:09:52.930 John! 2430 02:09:53.890 --> 02:09:54.170 John! 2431 02:09:54.189 --> 02:09:59.029 Elizabeth drops the glass and falls to the floor. A 2432 02:09:59.869 --> 02:10:03.229 few seconds later, Bertha hurries into the room. Elizabeth! 2433 02:10:04.140 --> 02:10:04.560 Elizabeth! 2434 02:10:05.840 --> 02:10:06.159 Mary! 2435 02:10:06.680 --> 02:10:07.020 Herbert! 2436 02:10:07.399 --> 02:10:08.159 What happened, Mother? 2437 02:10:08.220 --> 02:10:08.539 Hurry! 2438 02:10:09.800 --> 02:10:10.300 Good heavens! 2439 02:10:10.829 --> 02:10:12.270 Is she all right? Elizabeth? 2440 02:10:12.670 --> 02:10:12.930 Elizabeth? 2441 02:10:14.350 --> 02:10:14.470 Oh. 2442 02:10:15.369 --> 02:10:16.050 She's dead. 2443 02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:17.479 She's dead. 2444 02:10:17.520 --> 02:10:18.020 Who screamed? 2445 02:10:18.300 --> 02:10:19.140 Must have been Elizabeth. 2446 02:10:19.319 --> 02:10:20.300 Had another attack. 2447 02:10:20.680 --> 02:10:21.300 She's still breathing? 2448 02:10:21.359 --> 02:10:21.939 Put her on the bed. 2449 02:10:22.239 --> 02:10:23.739 There's her medicine. I'll get another glass. 2450 02:10:23.779 --> 02:10:25.640 You stay here, Mary. I'll get the glass from the bathroom. 2451 02:10:26.199 --> 02:10:27.560 What do you suppose happened to her? 2452 02:10:27.619 --> 02:10:28.039 Maybe. 2453 02:10:28.600 --> 02:10:29.180 Maybe it was. 2454 02:10:29.619 --> 02:10:29.960 Was what? 2455 02:10:30.859 --> 02:10:31.939 I don't... I don't know. 2456 02:10:31.960 --> 02:10:33.300 What's wrong with you, Mother? 2457 02:10:33.340 --> 02:10:34.319 You're white as a sheet. 2458 02:10:34.539 --> 02:10:34.810 Am I? 2459 02:10:34.800 --> 02:10:35.800 What are you trying to say? 2460 02:10:36.800 --> 02:10:37.680 I saw it, too. 2461 02:10:38.060 --> 02:10:38.640 Saw what? 2462 02:10:39.430 --> 02:10:40.149 What did you see? 2463 02:10:40.750 --> 02:10:41.449 I saw him. 2464 02:10:41.989 --> 02:10:42.430 John. 2465 02:10:43.029 --> 02:10:45.489 He was in my room a while ago. I talked 2466 02:10:45.550 --> 02:10:45.930 to him. 2467 02:10:46.250 --> 02:10:47.029 You talked to him? 2468 02:10:47.109 --> 02:10:48.970 Yes, Cindy. He talked to me. 2469 02:10:49.850 --> 02:10:51.229 I heard him and I saw him. 2470 02:10:51.239 --> 02:10:52.960 What did he say? Stop whimpering and tell us. 2471 02:10:53.039 --> 02:10:53.539 He said. 2472 02:10:54.260 --> 02:10:54.979 He said. 2473 02:10:55.020 --> 02:10:56.039 Mother, mother, stop it. 2474 02:10:56.079 --> 02:10:56.579 Stop it. 2475 02:10:56.659 --> 02:10:57.500 I won't stay. 2476 02:10:58.199 --> 02:10:58.979 I won't stay. 2477 02:10:59.079 --> 02:10:59.520 I won't. 2478 02:10:59.539 --> 02:10:59.939 Come back here. 2479 02:11:00.100 --> 02:11:00.680 Grab her, Cindy. 2480 02:11:00.859 --> 02:11:01.659 Elizabeth's coming, too. 2481 02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:03.039 Aunt Elizabeth. 2482 02:11:03.060 --> 02:11:03.579 Aunt Elizabeth. 2483 02:11:03.779 --> 02:11:04.930 Oh, but I. 2484 02:11:04.970 --> 02:11:05.060 Here. 2485 02:11:05.100 --> 02:11:05.189 Here. 2486 02:11:09.430 --> 02:11:09.989 You're all right now. 2487 02:11:10.069 --> 02:11:10.510 Just take it easy. 2488 02:11:10.789 --> 02:11:11.109 Yes. 2489 02:11:12.210 --> 02:11:15.649 Yes, I'm all right. What's wrong with Mary? 2490 02:11:15.869 --> 02:11:17.470 She says she saw John and talked to him. 2491 02:11:18.029 --> 02:11:19.050 I think she's imagining things. 2492 02:11:19.350 --> 02:11:19.770 No, no. 2493 02:11:20.430 --> 02:11:21.810 She isn't imagining things. 2494 02:11:22.189 --> 02:11:22.560 I know. 2495 02:11:22.569 --> 02:11:25.539 I saw him, too. He was here. He talked to me. 2496 02:11:25.619 --> 02:11:27.960 Oh, now, look at Elizabeth. The whole thing is... No, no, no. 2497 02:11:28.100 --> 02:11:28.739 He was here. 2498 02:11:28.760 --> 02:11:31.760 It was no dream. I saw him walk through the 2499 02:11:31.779 --> 02:11:32.739 garden toward the boat. 2500

02:11:32.779 --> 02:11:33.060 When? 2501 02:11:33.460 --> 02:11:36.420 It can't be very long ago. There was a strange, 2502 02:11:36.640 --> 02:11:38.680 sickly odor in the room all the while he was here. 2503 02:11:38.720 --> 02:11:40.739 It smelled like musty roses. 2504 02:11:40.840 --> 02:11:41.800 Oh, be quiet, Mother. 2505 02:11:42.279 --> 02:11:44.500 Now maybe you believe what I've been telling you. 2506 02:11:44.619 --> 02:11:45.159 What did he say? 2507 02:11:45.600 --> 02:11:48.460 It was about his will and my will. And he 2508 02:11:48.500 --> 02:11:49.319 talked about Bertha. 2509 02:11:49.579 --> 02:11:50.039 About me? 2510 02:11:50.079 --> 02:11:50.359 Yes. 2511 02:11:50.840 --> 02:11:53.359 He said he was wrong about you. Wants to make 2512 02:11:53.439 --> 02:11:56.489 things right through me. He knew I intended to make 2513 02:11:56.550 --> 02:11:57.329 my will tomorrow. 2514 02:11:57.989 --> 02:12:00.720 And he told me just what to do. Yes, that's 2515 02:12:00.739 --> 02:12:01.600 what he said to me. 2516 02:12:01.619 --> 02:12:01.920 To you? 2517 02:12:02.539 --> 02:12:02.779 Yes. 2518 02:12:02.819 --> 02:12:04.779 Why, this is the strangest thing I've ever encountered. Why 2519 02:12:04.800 --> 02:12:05.460 should he talk to you? 2520 02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:08.060 Well, he did, I tell you. And Elizabeth must do 2521 02:12:08.079 --> 02:12:10.439 what he wants. Otherwise, something will happen. 2522 02:12:10.600 --> 02:12:11.199 What will happen? 2523 02:12:11.430 --> 02:12:12.930 Well, I don't know. 2524 02:12:12.939 --> 02:12:16.210 I want you to call Mr. Wentworth, the lawyer, and 2525 02:12:16.250 --> 02:12:18.409 have him here first thing in the morning. I want 2526 02:12:18.430 --> 02:12:20.710 to draw my will, as John tells me. 2527 02:12:20.989 --> 02:12:21.350 Very well. 2528 02:12:22.090 --> 02:12:24.109 I think I'll have a look around the grounds. Never 2529 02:12:24.130 --> 02:12:26.829 go back to sleep now, anyway. So, good night, Aunt Elizabeth. 2530 02:12:27.970 --> 02:12:29.439 Good night. 2531 02:12:34.569 --> 02:12:40.300 Herbert wanders about the grounds for a while and finally 2532 02:12:40.340 --> 02:12:43.500 goes to Higgins, the butler, and after some persuasion, obtains 2533 02:12:43.560 --> 02:12:48.000 the keys to the family vault. The next morning, the lawyer, Wentworth, 2534 02:12:48.079 --> 02:12:49.220 visits Elizabeth. 2535 02:12:48.859 --> 02:12:49.680 In her room. 2536 02:12:51.560 --> 02:12:53.359 Well, how are you this morning, Elizabeth? 2537 02:12:53.640 --> 02:12:54.779 Much better, Mr. Wentworth. 2538 02:12:55.079 --> 02:12:55.979 You had a bad night. 2539 02:12:56.020 --> 02:12:57.779 Yes, I guess I had another attack. 2540 02:12:57.800 --> 02:12:58.899 Oh, so? 2541 02:13:00.560 --> 02:13:00.800 Mr. 2542 02:13:00.819 --> 02:13:03.770 Wentworth, I want to draw up my will. I should 2543 02:13:03.789 --> 02:13:07.199 have done it long ago, but... Well, something held me back. 2544 02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:10.819 I see. Well, I'll take down the data and have 2545 02:13:10.859 --> 02:13:13.260 it typed, then bring it back for you to sign. 2546 02:13:13.779 --> 02:13:15.859 I'll be in court all day, probably through the evening, 2547 02:13:15.880 --> 02:13:18.699 so I'll have to come around 11 tonight. 2548 02:13:18.810 --> 02:13:20.090 Very well, as soon as possible. 2549 02:13:20.369 --> 02:13:20.609 Good. 2550 02:13:20.949 --> 02:13:22.289 Now, let's have the particulars. 2551 02:13:22.310 --> 02:13:22.569 Yes. 2552 02:13:23.829 --> 02:13:28.050 To my sister, Mary Wilton, I leave the five-room cottage 2553 02:13:28.109 --> 02:13:28.649 in Danbury. 2554 02:13:29.529 --> 02:13:32.520 To my nephew, Herbert Wilton... I leave $ 1, 000 in cash. 2555 02:13:32.560 --> 02:13:32.819 Yes? 2556 02:13:34.279 --> 02:13:35.500 And to my husband's sister. 2557 02:13:35.699 --> 02:13:39.680 Bertha Mallory, I leave all other property, personal and real, 2558 02:13:40.239 --> 02:13:42.140 amounting to some. 2559 02:13:41.439 --> 02:13:41.600 $ 400, 000. 2560 02:13:41.479 --> 02:13:42.119 What? 2561 02:13:42.840 --> 02:13:43.239 Please. 2562 02:13:44.460 --> 02:13:49.270 Amounting to some $ 400, 000, according to my late husband's wishes. 2563 02:13:49.590 --> 02:13:52.350 What do you mean? John stipulated that you leave not 2564 02:13:52.390 --> 02:13:53.229 a penny to Bertha. 2565 02:13:53.409 --> 02:13:54.949 John has changed his mind. 2566 02:13:55.310 --> 02:13:56.569 When did he change his mind? 2567 02:13:56.649 --> 02:13:57.329 Since his death. 2568 02:13:58.869 --> 02:14:02.340 Don't you think we'd better... Postpone this until you feel better. 2569 02:14:02.520 --> 02:14:05.390 I want my will drawn just as I have told you. 2570 02:14:06.050 --> 02:14:08.270 But what do you mean by saying John has changed 2571 02:14:08.329 --> 02:14:08.909 his mind? 2572 02:14:08.930 --> 02:14:09.689 How could he? 2573 02:14:10.029 --> 02:14:10.850 He told me so. 2574 02:14:11.470 --> 02:14:11.970 Last night. 2575 02:14:13.649 --> 02:14:14.649 You know what you're saying. 2576 02:14:14.729 --> 02:14:14.909 Yes. 2577 02:14:15.750 --> 02:14:16.449 I saw John. 2578 02:14:17.029 --> 02:14:19.729 I talked to him. He was wrong in his attitude 2579 02:14:19.750 --> 02:14:20.310 toward Bertha. 2580 02:14:20.810 --> 02:14:23.630 Oh, this is... This is ridiculous. 2581 02:14:23.649 --> 02:14:25.170 I want it done as I say. 2582 02:14:25.189 --> 02:14:27.149 Very well. 2583 02:14:27.949 --> 02:14:30.710 I'll draw it up this way. But I certainly think that. 2584 02:14:31.329 --> 02:14:32.270 You think I'm insane? 2585 02:14:32.289 --> 02:14:34.529 Well, since you bring it up, yes, I do. 2586 02:14:34.689 --> 02:14:35.909 So did I at first. 2587 02:14:36.489 --> 02:14:37.020 But I'm not. 2588 02:14:37.949 --> 02:14:40.399 I'll be expecting you around 11 tonight, Mr. Wentworth. 2589 02:14:41.199 --> 02:14:41.479 Yes. 2590 02:14:42.039 --> 02:14:42.680 Yes, of

course. 2591 02:14:43.260 --> 02:14:43.739 I'll be here. 2592 02:14:54.800 --> 02:14:56.560 Now it is shortly after 11, the same night. 2593 02:14:58.119 --> 02:15:01.119 The lawyer has returned to the will, and Elizabeth has 2594 02:15:01.180 --> 02:15:03.060 called her three relatives to her room. 2595 02:15:04.779 --> 02:15:07.039 Very well, Mr. Wentworth. This is drawn the way I 2596 02:15:07.100 --> 02:15:07.390 want it. 2597 02:15:07.399 --> 02:15:09.020 You mean as John wants it? 2598 02:15:09.220 --> 02:15:10.439 I mean just that. 2599 02:15:11.470 --> 02:15:14.050 I'm leaving the property that was mine before I married John, 2600 02:15:14.060 --> 02:15:17.810 the small cottage, to you, Mary, and $ 1, 000 to Herbert. 2601 02:15:18.710 --> 02:15:22.489 All else, I am leaving according to John's directions to you, Bertha. 2602 02:15:22.829 --> 02:15:25.449 That's the way John wants it, and that's the way 2603 02:15:25.470 --> 02:15:25.930 it shall be. 2604 02:15:26.109 --> 02:15:27.350 You must do as you think best. 2605 02:15:27.710 --> 02:15:30.630 I'm doing as John wishes. Hand me the pen, Wentworth. 2606 02:15:34.069 --> 02:15:34.689 There you are. 2607 02:15:34.710 --> 02:15:36.479 And I hope you all understand. 2608 02:15:36.489 --> 02:15:37.189 I don't. 2609 02:15:37.439 --> 02:15:38.180 Thank you, Elizabeth. 2610 02:15:38.960 --> 02:15:42.560 Well, now that you've got it, Bertha, what good is 2611 02:15:42.600 --> 02:15:44.300 it going to do you? What do you mean? 2612 02:15:44.439 --> 02:15:46.300 How much chance do you think you'll have to use it? 2613 02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:48.130 What happiness do you think it'll bring you? 2614 02:15:48.270 --> 02:15:50.310 More than it would you. Isn't it rightfully mine? 2615 02:15:50.369 --> 02:15:50.609 Is it? 2616 02:15:50.770 --> 02:15:51.810 That's the way John wanted it. 2617 02:15:51.850 --> 02:15:52.250 Oh, no, Eddie. 2618 02:15:52.649 --> 02:15:53.119 The way you are. 2619 02:15:53.199 --> 02:15:54.170 I had nothing to do with it. 2620 02:15:54.189 --> 02:15:54.810 John made a will. 2621 02:15:55.090 --> 02:15:56.069 He's never wanted to change it. 2622 02:15:56.069 --> 02:15:57.210 Elizabeth knows better than that. 2623 02:15:57.229 --> 02:15:58.369 Elizabeth knows nothing of the kind. 2624 02:15:58.409 --> 02:16:00.250 This is my house now, and the sooner. 2625 02:16:00.029 --> 02:16:00.770 You leave, the better. 2626 02:16:00.789 --> 02:16:02.189 You'll be leaving sooner than I will. 2627 02:16:02.270 --> 02:16:03.149 You and your spooks. 2628 02:16:03.449 --> 02:16:05.109 You don't believe in ghosts, and you never saw one. 2629 02:16:05.329 --> 02:16:07.409 I saw John. Night after night, everyone saw him. 2630 02:16:07.430 --> 02:16:08.750 Everyone but me, because I'm not a dumb. 2631 02:16:08.789 --> 02:16:10.479 Your own Mother Mary saw him and talked to him. 2632 02:16:10.489 --> 02:16:10.869 Oh, gosh. 2633 02:16:10.909 --> 02:16:12.729 John is dead in his coffin out there in

the vault. 2634 02:16:12.750 --> 02:16:13.140 I saw him. 2635 02:16:13.149 --> 02:16:14.010 But I did see him. 2636 02:16:14.050 --> 02:16:14.479 So did I. 2637 02:16:14.470 --> 02:16:15.659 We wouldn't know if you did see him. 2638 02:16:15.689 --> 02:16:16.050 We would. 2639 02:16:16.409 --> 02:16:16.970 We've seen him. 2640 02:16:18.090 --> 02:16:18.989 Then turn around. 2641 02:16:19.890 --> 02:16:20.569 Turn around, all of you. 2642 02:16:21.310 --> 02:16:21.649 And look. 2643 02:16:21.770 --> 02:16:22.109 John. 2644 02:16:22.569 --> 02:16:22.949 Good Lord. 2645 02:16:22.970 --> 02:16:23.310 It's him. 2646 02:16:23.829 --> 02:16:24.350 Is that John? 2647 02:16:25.350 --> 02:16:25.539 Is it? 2648 02:16:25.750 --> 02:16:26.470 Yes, yes. 2649 02:16:26.989 --> 02:16:27.670 Take off your wig. 2650 02:16:28.470 --> 02:16:28.890 Higgins. 2651 02:16:28.989 --> 02:16:30.029 Yes, the butler. 2652 02:16:30.069 --> 02:16:31.329 There's your spook. 2653 02:16:32.670 --> 02:16:34.200 I'm sorry, ma'am. I. 2654 02:16:34.780 --> 02:16:35.540 You can go, Higgins. 2655 02:16:35.600 --> 02:16:36.239 I'll explain everything. 2656 02:16:36.520 --> 02:16:36.719 Yes. 2657 02:16:36.959 --> 02:16:38.620 Bertha hired Higgins to impersonate John. 2658 02:16:38.659 --> 02:16:39.200 That's a lie. 2659 02:16:39.260 --> 02:16:40.760 Higgins would never have done it if he'd known about 2660 02:16:40.780 --> 02:16:43.159 the murders. I trapped him into it. He confessed everything. 2661 02:16:43.260 --> 02:16:43.639 Murders? 2662 02:16:43.799 --> 02:16:44.329 What do you mean? 2663 02:16:44.469 --> 02:16:46.850 I got wise to the whole thing. I investigated the 2664 02:16:46.870 --> 02:16:50.159 whole story about Bertha's husband. And John's accidental death. They 2665 02:16:50.180 --> 02:16:50.760 were both murdered. 2666 02:16:50.780 --> 02:16:51.219 You're lying. 2667 02:16:51.239 --> 02:16:53.959 I have the bodies exhumed and examined. They both died 2668 02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:56.770 of an overdose of sleeping tablets. The very same purchased 2669 02:16:56.809 --> 02:16:58.389 by a brother at a certain drugstore. 2670 02:16:58.430 --> 02:16:59.750 He's crazy. He's crazy. 2671 02:16:59.809 --> 02:17:00.290 I can't even listen. 2672 02:17:00.309 --> 02:17:02.930 She put the tablets in her husband's aspirin bottle. She 2673 02:17:02.969 --> 02:17:05.479 was the one John visited. That night he had the wreck. 2674 02:17:05.860 --> 02:17:07.670 She must have drugged him. That's why he went to 2675 02:17:07.709 --> 02:17:08.229 sleep at the wheel. 2676 02:17:08.309 --> 02:17:08.729 I didn't. 2677 02:17:08.750 --> 02:17:09.469 I didn't. 2678 02:17:09.489 --> 02:17:11.989 She killed her husband for his insurance. And John cut 2679 02:17:12.010 --> 02:17:14.110 her off on his will because he suspected that she 2680 02:17:14.139 --> 02:17:14.659 killed her husband. 2681 02:17:14.670 --> 02:17:15.219 It's a lie. 2682 02:17:15.280 --> 02:17:15.620 A lie. 2683 02:17:15.680 --> 02:17:16.110 I tell you. 2684 02:17:16.120 --> 02:17:18.299 John never wanted his will changed. I have proof of 2685 02:17:18.319 --> 02:17:20.579 the whole thing. And the police are waiting outside now. 2686 02:17:20.639 --> 02:17:21.719 You haven't a chance, Bertha. 2687 02:17:21.959 --> 02:17:22.479 You're guilty. 2688 02:17:22.520 --> 02:17:23.040 The police. 2689 02:17:24.020 --> 02:17:24.120 Oh. 2690 02:17:24.659 --> 02:17:27.399 What good will all this do you? Where is your 2691 02:17:27.459 --> 02:17:28.069 fortune now? 2692 02:17:28.569 --> 02:17:29.329 They'll hang you. Oh. 2693 02:17:31.670 --> 02:17:34.059 Oh, yes. Yes, I did. I did it. 2694 02:17:34.629 --> 02:17:35.729 I don't know why, but I did it. 2695 02:17:36.370 --> 02:17:37.290 I gave him the tablet. 2696 02:17:37.329 --> 02:17:38.030 Did Higgins know that? 2697 02:17:38.239 --> 02:17:38.450 No. 2698 02:17:38.479 --> 02:17:44.760 No, he didn't know. I... Bertha, she's fainted. 2699 02:17:44.799 --> 02:17:45.180 Mother! 2700 02:17:46.829 --> 02:17:48.750 No, she hasn't fainted. 2701 02:17:48.870 --> 02:17:49.190 What's wrong? 2702 02:17:50.049 --> 02:17:50.430 With her? 2703 02:17:50.909 --> 02:17:51.409 She's dead. 2704 02:17:52.549 --> 02:17:54.510 Mother! 2705 02:17:54.530 --> 02:17:55.170 Mother! 2706 02:17:55.270 --> 02:17:59.450 Hand me that will, Mr. Wentworth. I want to draw 2707 02:17:59.469 --> 02:18:01.879 up a new one in the morning. 2708 02:18:07.399 --> 02:18:08.920 Well, there you are. 2709 02:18:09.829 --> 02:18:10.430 The story. 2710 02:18:11.649 --> 02:18:14.989 John never wanted his will changed, and for good reason. 2711 02:18:15.389 --> 02:18:19.930 He really knew the truth. But wait a minute. How 2712 02:18:19.969 --> 02:18:21.930 did you figure this one out, Herbert? 2713 02:18:22.569 --> 02:18:26.799 You didn't really have those bodies exhumed, did you? 2714 02:18:27.620 --> 02:18:32.280 I didn't have them exhumed. And if I had, there 2715 02:18:32.299 --> 02:18:35.940 would have been no traces of sleeping tablets left. And 2716 02:18:35.979 --> 02:18:41.030 there were no police waiting outside. I was bluffing, working 2717 02:18:41.129 --> 02:18:42.489 on pure hypotheses. 2718 02:18:43.670 --> 02:18:44.510 But it did work. 2719 02:18:45.209 --> 02:18:49.420 Yes, it worked, Herbert. And it afforded me a very 2720 02:18:49.479 --> 02:18:52.739 nice story indeed. Thank you, Herbert. 2721 02:18:53.360 --> 02:18:53.819 You're welcome. 2722 02:19:17.540 --> 02:19:31.510 CBS has presented The Whistler. Original music for this production 2723 02:19:31.569 --> 02:19:33.409 was composed and conducted. 2724 02:19:33.010 --> 02:19:34.049 By Wilbur Hatch. 2725 02:19:34.649 --> 02:19:37.709 The Whistler is written and directed by J. Donald Wilson 2726 02:19:38.209 --> 02:19:49.520 and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. Next week, same time, I, 2727 02:19:49.579 --> 02:19:53.100 the Whistler, will return to tell you another weird tale. 2728 02:19:54.159 --> 02:19:54.719 Good night. 2729 02:20:02.209 --> 02:20:33.590 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The melody is like 2730 02:20:33.709 --> 02:20:36.520 a ghost that sneaks around from post to post. 2731 02:20:36.600 --> 02:20:39.700 Coming, I'm coming, coming. 2732 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:40.840 I hear his laughter. 2733 02:20:40.979 --> 02:20:44.600 In the stilly night he sneaks into your very brain 2734 02:20:44.719 --> 02:20:45.540 and screams. 2735 02:20:45.579 --> 02:20:49.709 I want you, come on I'll haunt you. What is 2736 02:20:49.750 --> 02:20:50.450 the opposite? 2737 02:20:50.590 --> 02:20:53.590 I'm a musical mosquito, I'm another Monty Cristo. 2738 02:20:53.770 --> 02:20:55.290 All this ragtime. 2739 02:20:54.829 --> 02:20:56.370 Will belong to me. 2740 02:20:57.469 --> 02:20:57.870 Cheers! 2741 02:20:59.950 --> 02:21:00.690 Thank you. 2742 02:21:00.750 --> 02:21:30.809 Thank you. I feel, I feel. 2743 02:21:30.950 --> 02:21:32.469 I feel, I feel. 2744 02:21:32.549 --> 02:21:33.770 I feel, I feel. 2745 02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:34.780 I feel, I feel.