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At a rural cemetery, a coffin from Dr. Grimshaw's institution
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is found to contain a sand-filled dummy. Private Detective John
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Doherty is then hired by a wealthy father whose son
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supposedly died at the sanatorium and enters the exclusive facility
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outside Gawanda, New York, posing as an alcoholic patient. Tonight's
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Dimension X is episode 25, Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium, first heard
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on NBC on September 22, 1950. Adapted by George Lefferts
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from a short story by Fletcher Pratt, it stars Carl
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Weber as John Doherty with Roger DeKoven as Arthur Kay,
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Edward King directed. And now we return to the original broadcast.
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Adventures in time and space told in future tense. What
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you will hear transcribed in the next half hour represents
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either a magnificent hoax or the true explanation of the
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famous Grimshaw Sanatorium scandal, which made the headlines back in 1947.
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The manuscript upon which this account is based was removed
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by the New York State Police from a fountain pen
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cover found in the doorway to Dr. Grimshaw's study. We
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offer this manuscript as evidence only. Whether it is authentic
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or not, you must judge for yourself. My name is
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John Doherty, Hamilton College, class of 34, member of Theta Alpha.
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I'm one of those fools who wanted some excitement in life.
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So instead of going into my father's shoe business, I
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became a private detective. These are facts. You can check
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them if you like. The rest of what I write
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here is so fantastic that I don't expect it to
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be believed. If anyone should find this manuscript and read it,
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all I ask is that you notify Miss Millicent Armbruster
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of 299 Wallace Avenue, Buffalo, that Johnny Doherty is dead.
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On the evening of July 1st, Miss Armbruster and I
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were driving to a wedding. Not our own, though I
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wish it had been. It was Sunday, and in order
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to avoid traffic, I took the old Mill Road, a
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single-lane dirt affair that runs past the Gawanda Cemetery. Hey, Johnny,
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aren't you going too fast? Not for this road. There
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isn't a thing around except some tombstone.
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Johnny, there's a.
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Gate to the cemetery. What about it?
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That hurts.
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I don't see anything.
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Johnny, look out!
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Look out! It was a big black hearse with no
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lights on, pulling out of the cemetery. Lucky I had
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good brakes. We skidded for about 20 feet and slammed
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into the back of the hearse. Two rear doors buckled
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and snapped open. It was a freak. A huge oak
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coffin with brass handles tipped up and began slowly to
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slide back toward us.
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John!
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Oh, how horrible. You stay right here, honey. I'll help
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the driver with that thing. Hey, you okay in the
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speed limits, do you, Jack? Now, look, let's not get
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hung up on who was right and who was wrong.
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I was going too fast, and you were traveling without
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lights after dark. Main thing is, nobody's hurt and no
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damage done, except for that coffin. And I don't suppose
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the occupant minds too much. Let's see the driver's license
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and registration. Right here. Hmm. John Doherty. Oh, a private eye, huh?
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You listen to the radio too much, Junior. Now, if
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you don't mind, who does this joy wagon belong to?
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Go on to funeral service. It's being rented to Grimshaw. Who?
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Grimshaw from the private sanatorium. Do you mind if I
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ask what you were doing after dark coming out of
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a cemetery with a wooden kimono? We're moving one of
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Grimshaw's patients to a new grave.
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Uh-huh.
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Do they always travel like this? Now look, Hawkshaw, how
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about skipping the third degree and giving me a hand
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getting the box back in the wagon, huh?
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The pleasure.
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Better screw on the cover again. It's going to slide off.
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Let's get it in the hearse first. Okay, Junior. You
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get on that end.
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Ready?
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Lift.
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Just slide it.
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Brother, who's in there, King Cole?
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Look out for the cover. Hey. I told you that'd happen. Hey.
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What's the guy's name, Junior? Why don't you ask him?
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Real wise guy, huh? I've got half a mind to
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report this accident.
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Go ahead.
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See what gets you. Grimshaw's got a lot of influence
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around here, mister. A lot of influence. Now, if you'll
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pardon me, I'll deliver the body. So long, Junior.
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Johnny?
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Johnny?
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I'm coming, honey.
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Johnny?
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Everything all right, Johnny?
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I thought so until a few seconds ago. Listen, baby,
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can you sit here in the car for another five minutes? Oh,
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we're due at the wedding in half an hour. I
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won't be long. Where are you going? For a stroll
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through the cemetery. Oh, hey, Johnny, stop making jokes. Honey,
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when we lifted that coffin back on a meat wagon,
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I got a good look inside of it.
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Oh.
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Exactly how I felt. I figured we'd knock the stuffing
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out of the corpse... I mean, I didn't expect the
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stuffing to be sand. What? Yes. It wasn't a body.
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It was a dummy stuffed with sand. A dummy with
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a wax face. Johnny! Which brings up an interesting question.
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Who's supposed to be in that box? And just where
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is the dead man spending his time?
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Ah!
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Sometimes in my business, when things drop off, you have
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to go out and dig up new clients. My next
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case was a gentleman named Harlan Ward, Sr., the wealthy
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automobile manufacturer. I'd gotten his name off his son's tombstone.
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Are you trying to tell me, Dorothy, that my son
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Harlan was never buried at Kuanda Cemetery?
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Exactly, Mr. Ward.
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Why?
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Maybe if you'll tell me the circumstances surrounding your son's death,
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I can help answer that. My son was a rather
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impetuous young man, tall, good-looking. After his graduation from Princeton,
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he began drinking quite heavily. After he got into a
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couple of scrapes, we sent him to Dr. Grimshaw's sanatorium
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in the hope that he could be cured. While my
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wife and I were in Europe, we received.
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Word that he had died. He was buried at Gawanda
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in our absence. Last week, my wife and I decided
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to have his body removed to the.
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Family vault here at Short Hills. How did your son die, Mr.
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Ward?
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Suicide. He slashed his wrists at the sanatorium. You never
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saw the body? No.
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We couldn't get back from Europe in time.
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I see. See here.
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How do I know this whole thing isn't a plan
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to fleece me? How do I know that you didn't
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remove the body yourself?
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You don't. But you're a rich man, Mr. Ward, and
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you're perfectly willing to take a chance that I'm on
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the level and that your son may still be alive.
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You sound very sure of yourself, Mr.
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Doherty.
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My fee is $ 2, 000 retainer plus expenses. What sort of expenses?
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However much it costs to take the cure at Dr.
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Grimshaw's sanatorium. What do you say, Mr. Ward? All right, Doherty.
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My secretary will send you a check in the morning. Good. Oh,
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one other thing. What's that? I want a photograph of
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your son, a good one. I think that can be arranged.
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Look here, Dorothy.
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If I cooperate, how do I know that you won't
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run off?
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I won't guarantee it. On the other hand, I might
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have to get myself killed on this job. We both
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take a risk, Mr.
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Ward.
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THE END.
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Dr.
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Grimshaw's sanatorium was just outside Gawanda, and it was strictly
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for the $ 460 a day. Most of the cases were
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nervous breakdowns and alcoholics. I committed myself as a dipso,
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and just to make it convincing, I stopped at five
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or six bars on the way over. I was interviewed
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by Grimshaw himself, a small man with a fringe of
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white hair. He seemed on the level.
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And yet.
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There was something just the slightest bit phony about the
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whole deal. You understand, Mr. Doherty? That's not my real name,
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of course. Social reasons. We understand. Our paid clientele is
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very select. Our rates are rather high. You'll be paid
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in cash and in advance, Dr. Grimshaw. You find us
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most sympathetic. Um, how long does a cure usually take, Doctor? Well, that,
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of course, depends on the degree of alcoholism. This is
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my assistant, Dr. Boyd. Now, how do you do? How
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do you do? We are accepting Mr. Doherty as a patient.
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Better place him in the ward with Mr. Kay and Mr.
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Crakey.
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Mr. Kay is a long-term patient. Mr. Doherty, highly intelligent man,
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formerly a professor of plant pathology. Mr. Crakey suffers mild delusions.
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I think you'll find him rather amusing. After about three days,
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my roommates, Arthur Kay and Craigie, got used to me,
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and we even began to play three-handed bridge. Kay was
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a chronic dope addict, an intelligent, sensitive man. Craigie was
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nothing but a clown. He kept a big black cat
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named the Professor, which he talked to as if it
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were human. And so I said to her, my dear Countess.
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If you don't like the company of my cat, then
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you don't like me. She looked at me as if
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I were insane, but of course the joke was on
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her because I was. Eh, Professor?
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You'll have to forgive Count Crakey, Mr. Doherty. When you've
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been here as long as I have, you'll get used
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to him. Do you like cats, Mr. Doherty?
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I do hope you like cats since we are to
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have adjoining rooms. The Professor is very sociable and excellent company.
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Except when he kills birds and deposits them in your bed.
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He's nothing but a feline murderer as far as I'm concerned.
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Huh? Ah, see?
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You have insulted him. Come here, Professor. Let's make friends.
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How about giving me your paw? Hey, catch me, you
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black devil.
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You insulted him.
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You hurt his feelings. Well, keep him away from me.
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It will be a pleasure. I would advise you not
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to insult him again.
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Count Crakey is not altogether without influence here, as Mr.
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Cable informed you. Good afternoon.
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And evening.
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Is he always as nuts as that? Ever since I've
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been here. How did they let him keep that black Satan?
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I don't know. I suppose Grimshaw wants to pamper him.
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He's been here since they opened the place, I understand.
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Spends about three hours a day getting therapy from Grimshaw.
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What's his problem? Manic depressive. A little paranoid, too. How
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long have you been here, Arthur? Grimshaw's two years. I
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left for a while, but I couldn't stay away from
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the junk, so I committed myself again. Did you happen
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to know a patient here named Harlan Ward? Why do
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you ask that? Do you know him? I met him
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socially a few times. I understand he died here. So
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the newspapers said. I wouldn't know. Suicide, wasn't it? Was it?
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You're being pretty careful, aren't you? Mr. Doherty, what would
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you say if I were to tell you that I
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don't believe Harlan Ward is dead? What makes you so certain?
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Harlan Ward used to share this room with us. He
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slept in the same bed you now use. I see.
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He was an alcoholic. Doing quite well, too, from what
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I could observe. We all expected him to go home soon.
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Then one evening, he had a violent fight with Craigie.
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Craigie accused him of snooping or something. Later that night,
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Grimshaw and Boyner took him out.
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Where?
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They take all the special treatment cases to the charity clinic.
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It's that small building on the other side of the
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stone wall... I think they do their surgery cases there.
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Why did they take him there?
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I don't know.
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Confinement, I guess. A few days later, we read about
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his death. Suicide, they said. Why do you think he's
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still alive, Arthur? This. About a month ago, I was
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in the garden next to the wall that separates us
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from the charity clinic. Suddenly, I thought I heard a
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sound like a child whimpering. It stopped. A moment later,
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this note came over the wall wrapped around a stone.
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Then I'm certain I heard a blow and a scream
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again like a child. What does the note say? Help me,
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for God's sake, Harlan Ward. I haven't told anyone yet
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for fear Grimshaw and Voyner might find out. It might
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just be some insane prank by one of the charity cases.
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And yet, why should Dr. Grimshaw want to pretend Harlan
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Ward is dead? I'm not an oracle, Mr. Doherty. What
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about this charity clinic? I've always been curious. Grimshaw and
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Voyner make sure that no patient goes there unsupervised. Many
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of those have been taken across like Harlan Ward. I've
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never seen again. Arthur, how'd you like to have some fun?
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Like what? Like sneaking out tonight and going over the wall.
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What do you say? It'd break the monotony a little.
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I don't know. If there's something fishy going on, it'd
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be better to find out now, wouldn't it? I suppose
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there's no real harm in it? Of course not. I'd
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go alone, but I'll need help scaling that wall. Will
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you do it? All right. I'll go with you. It
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was shortly after midnight when Kay and I slipped out
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of the room and made our way out to the garden.
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Count Crakey was snoring soundly when we left. The wall
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was about eight feet high, but we made it without
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too much trouble. Count! All clear.
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Give me your hand and I'll lift.
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You. Careful when you drop. Ready? Go ahead. There's a
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charity building over there. One of the lights in the
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basement window. Come on. We'll make a run across the
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driveway and hide in that clump of bushes alongside the building. Ready?
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All right. Okay, hold it. Drop that. What's the matter?
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Let's crawl over toward the window with the light. Maybe
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we can see something. I suppose you've got the chance.
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Listen.
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Take it easy. Sounds like it. Can you make out
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what he's saying? Good Lord. What was that? Probably some
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patient having a DTs. I think it came from that
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basement window. Let's get over there where I can have
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a look.
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Easy.
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What do I do to get caught now? Just. See anything? Relax.
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It's some sort of laboratory. That's right. I can see Grimshaw.
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I know. And someone else with its back toward me.
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If we're still, we may make out what they're saying.
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Take it quietly. It will be easier. No. I warn you.
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Please, please.
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It will all be over soon. You won't remember anything.
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No, I don't want to go.
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Boyner, give it to him.
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No, no, no.
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Shut him up, Boyner.
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No.
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Good Lord. What is it? Come on. We've got to
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get out of here. What did you see? What did
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they do to that child? Arthur, that wasn't a child.
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It was a midget. The smallest midget I've ever seen.
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What were they doing? Trying to give it some sort
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of injection. When it resisted, Voyner.
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Knocked it out.
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What did you suppose they were doing to it? I
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don't know, Arthur. All I know is that when it fell,
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it had the face of Harlan Ward. Harlan Ward All
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the way back to our room, my brain was working
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like a pinball machine. Only the score wouldn't add up.
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The pieces were there all right. A crazy old doctor,
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a brutal assistant, a private sanatorium, and a midget with
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a dead man's face. But I couldn't figure it out.
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I thought that when I got back to our room,
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I'd have some time to think about it. But I'd
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forgotten about our friend, the happiness boy, Count Craigie. I
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told you, I have caught you.
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Fine.
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So, you've caught us. Now, how about crawling back into
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the woodwork like a good little count? Where were you?
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Mink hunting. Arthur and I like to go mink hunting
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at night. It's a funny thing, though. The mink weren't
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running very good. The grunion were running like crazy, though,
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weren't they, Arthur? Like crazy, Mr. Doherty. You make fun
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of Count Craigie. You're lying. I shall report you to Dr. Boyner.
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Better not, if you know what's good for you. So
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you threaten me. Me come Craigie, world's champion gymnast and
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barbell balancer. I shall scream for help.
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Help! Help!
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Did you hurt him? Just knocked him out. What do
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we do now? Put him to bed. Hope that when
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he wakes up in the morning, he's forgotten the whole thing.
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And if he hasn't? They won't take him seriously anyway.
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I don't think Grimshaw would believe him. Besides which, he
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doesn't know what we actually were doing. Come on. Let's
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get him back into bed. I went to sleep in
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my own room. And the next thing I felt was
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the sharp jab of the hypodermic needle in my left arm.
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I started to struggle, but it was no use. Voyner
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and another assistant were holding me down. Grimshaw stood over me,
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the empty needle still in his hand.
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That's it.
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It would be useless to struggle, Mr.
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Daugherty.
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In a moment, your motor nerves will be completely paralyzed.
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What's this about, Grimshaw? I might ask the same of you.
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My good friend Count Crakey informs me you and Mr.
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Kay decided to do some snooping earlier tonight. He followed
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you and saw you climb the wall. Crakey's insane. That
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is a matter of opinion, Mr. Daugherty. Crakey, what is this?
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Perhaps my assistant, Dr. Grimshaw, would be good enough to explain. Assistant?
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Yes.
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You see, I am the actual head of the Grimshaw sanatorium.
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Grimshaw? Count Craigie feigns many delusions, Mr. Doherty, but in
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this case he's telling the truth. Count Craigie is actually
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Professor Ernst Hussler. Professor Hussler and I worked together in
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the Berlin Neurological Institute before the last war.
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Unfortunately, my political affiliations with the Third Reich were under
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investigation after the war by the War Crimes Commission.
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However, Dr.
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Grimshaw managed to snag... me into this country where I
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masquerade as a mental patient. Thus, we are able to
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continue certain experiments which were interrupted by the American army.
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I can imagine the sort of experiments you've conducted. You
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and your friend, Mr. K, will discover their exact nature
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very shortly, Mr. Doherty. It's a magnificent opportunity to serve science.
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Then I passed out. And the next thing I knew,
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I was coming to in a different room. I guessed
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it was somewhere in the charity building because of the
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angle of the sun through the windows. They had me
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in a straitjacket and kept doping me until I lost
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count of time. I don't know how long it kept up.
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I remember one day being wheeled along a corridor into
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an operating room and hearing the voices of Boiner, Grimshaw,
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and Craigie as if from a great distance. Pituitary and pituitary.
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Four cc's.
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Four cc's. How are the measurements? Reducing rapidly. We'll operate
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at once. If Boiner start the anesthesia. All right, doctor.
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Commence.
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When I came to again, I had a blinding headache.
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After that wore off a horrible sensation of weakness. I
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began to wonder if Craigie and Grimshaw weren't doing something
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to drive me insane... because I lost all sense of perspective.
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The room seemed to grow in size. I don't know
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how much time passed, but one day Grimshaw came into
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the room with a bundle in his arms... about the
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size of a newborn baby. The bundle was my friend,
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Arthur Kay. Good morning, Mr. Doherty. I've brought you a companion...
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I'm sure you two gentlemen will enjoy each other's company.
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Put me out.
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Of here. Put me out. I couldn't believe my eyes
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until Grimshaw sat Arthur down on the bed beside me.
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It was then that I got the real shock.
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For I realized that what had looked.
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Like a tiny bundle in Grimshaw's arms was actually the
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same size.
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That I was. Then, for the first time, I began
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to understand what was happening to us. Arthur Kay and
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I were being made into midgets. We got the full
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explanation next morning when the eminent Professor Hassler, alias Count Crakey,
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came in to gloat over us. Allow me to congratulate you, gentlemen.
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How are you feeling?
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You speak much. I am disappointed, gentlemen.
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Do you not feel privileged to be a.
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Part of an experiment that will place me at the
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very top rank of the world's endocrinologists?
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What are you doing to us?
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It has been long established, gentlemen, that dwarfism and giantism
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result from injury to, or malfunction of, the pituitary and
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thyroid glands. The interlock between these glands was thought to
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be a hormone. I have discovered that this was incorrect.
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It is an enzyme, an enzyme I isolated some years ago.
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I was well on the way to synthesis in Germany
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when the surrender interrupted me. The interruption also limited the
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number and type of subjects on whom I could experiment.
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I was forced to find others.
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Such as Harlan Ward?
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Mr.
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Ward was only a control experiment. And now you've done
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the same to us.
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No, gentlemen.
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For you, I have reserved a special privilege. You gentlemen
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will be the first to test the full effects of
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the enzyme. In short, I intend that you, Mr. K,
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and you, Mr. Doherty, when the experiment is completed, will
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emerge as perfectly healthy, normal individuals.
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Except, of course, that you will.
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Be only five inches tall.
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Nightmare a nightmare from which Arthur and I awoke for
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brief periods to find ourselves in a strange new world
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a huge frightening world where everything was enlarged a hundred
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times when we finally emerged we found ourselves imprisoned in
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a tiny mouse cage judging by the relative size of
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things we could not have been more than five inches
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tall now that our senses cleared we realized that the
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experiment was at an end that from now on it
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was either escape or be destroyed.
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Suppose we don't make it. At least you've written a
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story on that scrap of paper. Someone may find it
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and read it.
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Nobody will believe it. Why'd you bother to write it?
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I don't know.
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My friends I'm for feeding I trust that you.
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So you've managed to break out it won't do you
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know there is no way you could have gotten out.
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Of the room with the door and window locked.
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I know you're in here.
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I would advise you to save yourselves trouble and give
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up no Perhaps you are in the desk drawer. Or
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behind this decanter. Then perhaps in this cabinet.
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Very well.
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I shall count to five. One.
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Two.
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Three. Four. Five. You will not get off me. Very well,
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my tiny friends.
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If you prefer to play the game of cat and mouse,
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then I.
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Shall be happy to play.
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How long do you figure it will take them to
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get downstairs and let the cat into the building?
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Three minutes at most. Then we've got three minutes to
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get out. How?
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All the doors in.
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The mental institution lock from the outside. We need a
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special key to get out and then we could.
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Wait a minute. What is it?
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John? What?
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Do you see that thin strand of wire running along
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the molding? What about it? Do you know what it is?
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No.
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It's the automatic fire alarm. What about it? When the
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alarm is tripped by a fire, all the locks are
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sprung so that the patients can escape in their rooms.
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Are you certain?
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Positive.
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This door is part of the system. If I can
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work the insulation off that wire and short it before
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Craigie lifts the can of the building, let's go. There's
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a tiny sliver of steel in the cage on the floor.
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I'll work with that. You keep an ear to the door.
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Go ahead.
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What was that?
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What?
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I thought I heard a door slam. Mikey couldn't be
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back so soon. Hurry up or I'll have a gut ache.
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Stand away. I've got a show on it.
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Ready? Okay. We made it.
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There goes the door. Come on, we'll make a run
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for it down the hall. If we can get to
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the garden, we've got a chance. I smell smoke. The
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short may have.
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Actually started the fire.
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Come on.
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Wait a minute.
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What's up? I have to go back. The man just...
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Don't be a fool. There's no time. Stop us now. Arthur,
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where are we? It's funny.
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Arthur? Arthur?
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Arthur, what's happened to you?
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Arthur? This is the record found in a fountain pen
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cover in the burned-down hallway of Grimshaw Sanatorium. There is
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nothing to add, except that the fire which destroyed the
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sanatorium and killed so many of its occupants, including Dr.
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Grimshaw and Dr. Voyner, was definitely of incendiary origin. It
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is believed by the fire chief that some small creature,
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either a mouse or possibly a cat, chewed the insulation
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off the wire and short-circuited the system. The two patients,
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John Doherty and Arthur Kay, vanished completely after the fire,
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and their remains were never found. Whether the manuscript which
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you have just heard is authentic, or whether it was
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the work of one of the more demented inmates of
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the sanatorium, we leave to your judgment.
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You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world.
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Of the future. The world of... Dimension. Next week on
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Dimension X, and the moon be still as bright. The
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story of the first despoilers of the planet Mars. The
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men from... Earth.
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Tonight, Dimension X has transcribed Dr. Grimshaw's sanatorium. Adapted for
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radio by George Lefferts from an original short.
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Story by Fletcher Pratt.
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Featured in the cast were Carl Weber as John Doherty
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and Roger DeKoven as Arthur Kay. Your narrator was Norman Rose.
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Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers. Dimension X is
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directed by Edward King.
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Your National Guard is a strong, well-knit military organization of
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men from every state and territory in the nation. No
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matter what emergency faces our country, a National Guardsman has
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ensured his future. He's trained to handle himself if the
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going gets tough. And at the same time, he's learned
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new skills to help his civilian career. Regular Army and
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Air Force pay scales apply to every hour of training
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a Guardsman takes. So men, if you're over 17, join
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the National Guard. Keep your guard up. Enjoy Bob Hope
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and Groucho Marx, coming soon on NBC.
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This has been Dimension X, Episode 25, Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium.
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Until we meet again, good night. Follow old-time sci-fi radio
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for more classic science fiction broadcasts.
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At a rural cemetery, a coffin from Dr. Grimshaw's institution
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is found to contain a sand-filled dummy. Private Detective John
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Doherty is then hired by a wealthy father whose son
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supposedly died at the sanatorium and enters the exclusive facility
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outside Gawanda, New York, posing as an alcoholic patient. Tonight's
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Dimension X is episode 25, Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium, first heard
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on NBC on September 22, 1950. Adapted by George Lefferts
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from a short story by Fletcher Pratt, it stars Carl
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Weber as John Doherty with Roger DeKoven as Arthur Kay,
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Edward King directed. And now we return to the original broadcast.
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Adventures in time and space told in future tense. What
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you will hear transcribed in the next half hour represents
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either a magnificent hoax or the true explanation of the
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famous Grimshaw Sanatorium scandal, which made the headlines back in 1947.
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The manuscript upon which this account is based was removed
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by the New York State Police from a fountain pen
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cover found in the doorway to Dr. Grimshaw's study. We
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offer this manuscript as evidence only. Whether it is authentic
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or not, you must judge for yourself. My name is
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John Doherty, Hamilton College, class of 34, member of Theta Alpha.
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I'm one of those fools who wanted some excitement in life.
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So instead of going into my father's shoe business, I
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became a private detective. These are facts. You can check
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them if you like. The rest of what I write
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here is so fantastic that I don't expect it to
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be believed. If anyone should find this manuscript and read it,
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all I ask is that you notify Miss Millicent Armbruster
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of 299 Wallace Avenue, Buffalo, that Johnny Doherty is dead.
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On the evening of July 1st, Miss Armbruster and I
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were driving to a wedding. Not our own, though I
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wish it had been. It was Sunday, and in order
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to avoid traffic, I took the old Mill Road, a
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single-lane dirt affair that runs past the Gawanda Cemetery. Hey, Johnny,
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aren't you going too fast? Not for this road. There
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isn't a thing around except some tombstone.
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Johnny, there's a.
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Gate to the cemetery. What about it?
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That hurts.
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I don't see anything.
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Johnny, look out!
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Look out! It was a big black hearse with no
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lights on, pulling out of the cemetery. Lucky I had
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good brakes. We skidded for about 20 feet and slammed
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into the back of the hearse. Two rear doors buckled
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and snapped open. It was a freak. A huge oak
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coffin with brass handles tipped up and began slowly to
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slide back toward us.
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John!
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Oh, how horrible. You stay right here, honey. I'll help
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the driver with that thing. Hey, you okay in the
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speed limits, do you, Jack? Now, look, let's not get
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hung up on who was right and who was wrong.
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I was going too fast, and you were traveling without
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lights after dark. Main thing is, nobody's hurt and no
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damage done, except for that coffin. And I don't suppose
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the occupant minds too much. Let's see the driver's license
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and registration. Right here. Hmm. John Doherty. Oh, a private eye, huh?
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You listen to the radio too much, Junior. Now, if
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you don't mind, who does this joy wagon belong to?
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Go on to funeral service. It's being rented to Grimshaw. Who?
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Grimshaw from the private sanatorium. Do you mind if I
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ask what you were doing after dark coming out of
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a cemetery with a wooden kimono? We're moving one of
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Grimshaw's patients to a new grave.
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Uh-huh.
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Do they always travel like this? Now look, Hawkshaw, how
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about skipping the third degree and giving me a hand
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getting the box back in the wagon, huh?
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The pleasure.
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Better screw on the cover again. It's going to slide off.
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Let's get it in the hearse first. Okay, Junior. You
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get on that end.
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Ready?
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Lift.
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Just slide it.
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Brother, who's in there, King Cole?
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Look out for the cover. Hey. I told you that'd happen. Hey.
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What's the guy's name, Junior? Why don't you ask him?
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Real wise guy, huh? I've got half a mind to
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report this accident.
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Go ahead.
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See what gets you. Grimshaw's got a lot of influence
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around here, mister. A lot of influence. Now, if you'll
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pardon me, I'll deliver the body. So long, Junior.
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Johnny?
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Johnny?
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I'm coming, honey.
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Johnny?
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Everything all right, Johnny?
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I thought so until a few seconds ago. Listen, baby,
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can you sit here in the car for another five minutes? Oh,
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we're due at the wedding in half an hour. I
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won't be long. Where are you going? For a stroll
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through the cemetery. Oh, hey, Johnny, stop making jokes. Honey,
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when we lifted that coffin back on a meat wagon,
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I got a good look inside of it.
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Oh.
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Exactly how I felt. I figured we'd knock the stuffing
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out of the corpse... I mean, I didn't expect the
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stuffing to be sand. What? Yes. It wasn't a body.
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It was a dummy stuffed with sand. A dummy with
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a wax face. Johnny! Which brings up an interesting question.
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Who's supposed to be in that box? And just where
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is the dead man spending his time?
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Ah!
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Sometimes in my business, when things drop off, you have
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to go out and dig up new clients. My next
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case was a gentleman named Harlan Ward, Sr., the wealthy
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automobile manufacturer. I'd gotten his name off his son's tombstone.
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Are you trying to tell me, Dorothy, that my son
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Harlan was never buried at Kuanda Cemetery?
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Exactly, Mr. Ward.
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Why?
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Maybe if you'll tell me the circumstances surrounding your son's death,
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I can help answer that. My son was a rather
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impetuous young man, tall, good-looking. After his graduation from Princeton,
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he began drinking quite heavily. After he got into a
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couple of scrapes, we sent him to Dr. Grimshaw's sanatorium
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in the hope that he could be cured. While my
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wife and I were in Europe, we received.
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Word that he had died. He was buried at Gawanda
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in our absence. Last week, my wife and I decided
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to have his body removed to the.
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Family vault here at Short Hills. How did your son die, Mr.
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Ward?
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Suicide. He slashed his wrists at the sanatorium. You never
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saw the body? No.
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We couldn't get back from Europe in time.
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I see. See here.
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How do I know this whole thing isn't a plan
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to fleece me? How do I know that you didn't
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remove the body yourself?
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You don't. But you're a rich man, Mr. Ward, and
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you're perfectly willing to take a chance that I'm on
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the level and that your son may still be alive.
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You sound very sure of yourself, Mr.
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Doherty.
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My fee is $ 2, 000 retainer plus expenses. What sort of expenses?
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However much it costs to take the cure at Dr.
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Grimshaw's sanatorium. What do you say, Mr. Ward? All right, Doherty.
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My secretary will send you a check in the morning. Good. Oh,
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one other thing. What's that? I want a photograph of
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your son, a good one. I think that can be arranged.
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Look here, Dorothy.
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If I cooperate, how do I know that you won't
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run off?
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I won't guarantee it. On the other hand, I might
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have to get myself killed on this job. We both
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take a risk, Mr.
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Ward.
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THE END.
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Dr.
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Grimshaw's sanatorium was just outside Gawanda, and it was strictly
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for the $ 460 a day. Most of the cases were
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nervous breakdowns and alcoholics. I committed myself as a dipso,
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and just to make it convincing, I stopped at five
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or six bars on the way over. I was interviewed
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by Grimshaw himself, a small man with a fringe of
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white hair. He seemed on the level.
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And yet.
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There was something just the slightest bit phony about the
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whole deal. You understand, Mr. Doherty? That's not my real name,
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of course. Social reasons. We understand. Our paid clientele is
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very select. Our rates are rather high. You'll be paid
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in cash and in advance, Dr. Grimshaw. You find us
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most sympathetic. Um, how long does a cure usually take, Doctor? Well, that,
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of course, depends on the degree of alcoholism. This is
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my assistant, Dr. Boyd. Now, how do you do? How
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do you do? We are accepting Mr. Doherty as a patient.
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Better place him in the ward with Mr. Kay and Mr.
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Crakey.
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Mr. Kay is a long-term patient. Mr. Doherty, highly intelligent man,
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formerly a professor of plant pathology. Mr. Crakey suffers mild delusions.
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I think you'll find him rather amusing. After about three days,
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my roommates, Arthur Kay and Craigie, got used to me,
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and we even began to play three-handed bridge. Kay was
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a chronic dope addict, an intelligent, sensitive man. Craigie was
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nothing but a clown. He kept a big black cat
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named the Professor, which he talked to as if it
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were human. And so I said to her, my dear Countess.
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If you don't like the company of my cat, then
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you don't like me. She looked at me as if
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I were insane, but of course the joke was on
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her because I was. Eh, Professor?
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You'll have to forgive Count Crakey, Mr. Doherty. When you've
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been here as long as I have, you'll get used
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to him. Do you like cats, Mr. Doherty?
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I do hope you like cats since we are to
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have adjoining rooms. The Professor is very sociable and excellent company.
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Except when he kills birds and deposits them in your bed.
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He's nothing but a feline murderer as far as I'm concerned.
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Huh? Ah, see?
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You have insulted him. Come here, Professor. Let's make friends.
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How about giving me your paw? Hey, catch me, you
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black devil.
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You insulted him.
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You hurt his feelings. Well, keep him away from me.
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It will be a pleasure. I would advise you not
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to insult him again.
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Count Crakey is not altogether without influence here, as Mr.
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Cable informed you. Good afternoon.
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And evening.
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Is he always as nuts as that? Ever since I've
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been here. How did they let him keep that black Satan?
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I don't know. I suppose Grimshaw wants to pamper him.
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He's been here since they opened the place, I understand.
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Spends about three hours a day getting therapy from Grimshaw.
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What's his problem? Manic depressive. A little paranoid, too. How
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long have you been here, Arthur? Grimshaw's two years. I
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left for a while, but I couldn't stay away from
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the junk, so I committed myself again. Did you happen
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to know a patient here named Harlan Ward? Why do
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you ask that? Do you know him? I met him
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socially a few times. I understand he died here. So
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the newspapers said. I wouldn't know. Suicide, wasn't it? Was it?
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You're being pretty careful, aren't you? Mr. Doherty, what would
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you say if I were to tell you that I
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don't believe Harlan Ward is dead? What makes you so certain?
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Harlan Ward used to share this room with us. He
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slept in the same bed you now use. I see.
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He was an alcoholic. Doing quite well, too, from what
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I could observe. We all expected him to go home soon.
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Then one evening, he had a violent fight with Craigie.
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Craigie accused him of snooping or something. Later that night,
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Grimshaw and Boyner took him out.
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Where?
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They take all the special treatment cases to the charity clinic.
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It's that small building on the other side of the
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stone wall... I think they do their surgery cases there.
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Why did they take him there?
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I don't know.
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Confinement, I guess. A few days later, we read about
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his death. Suicide, they said. Why do you think he's
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still alive, Arthur? This. About a month ago, I was
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in the garden next to the wall that separates us
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from the charity clinic. Suddenly, I thought I heard a
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sound like a child whimpering. It stopped. A moment later,
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this note came over the wall wrapped around a stone.
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Then I'm certain I heard a blow and a scream
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again like a child. What does the note say? Help me,
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for God's sake, Harlan Ward. I haven't told anyone yet
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for fear Grimshaw and Voyner might find out. It might
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just be some insane prank by one of the charity cases.
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And yet, why should Dr. Grimshaw want to pretend Harlan
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Ward is dead? I'm not an oracle, Mr. Doherty. What
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about this charity clinic? I've always been curious. Grimshaw and
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Voyner make sure that no patient goes there unsupervised. Many
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of those have been taken across like Harlan Ward. I've
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never seen again. Arthur, how'd you like to have some fun?
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Like what? Like sneaking out tonight and going over the wall.
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What do you say? It'd break the monotony a little.
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I don't know. If there's something fishy going on, it'd
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be better to find out now, wouldn't it? I suppose
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there's no real harm in it? Of course not. I'd
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go alone, but I'll need help scaling that wall. Will
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you do it? All right. I'll go with you. It
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was shortly after midnight when Kay and I slipped out
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of the room and made our way out to the garden.
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Count Crakey was snoring soundly when we left. The wall
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was about eight feet high, but we made it without
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too much trouble. Count! All clear.
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Give me your hand and I'll lift.
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You. Careful when you drop. Ready? Go ahead. There's a
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charity building over there. One of the lights in the
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basement window. Come on. We'll make a run across the
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driveway and hide in that clump of bushes alongside the building. Ready?
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All right. Okay, hold it. Drop that. What's the matter?
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Let's crawl over toward the window with the light. Maybe
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we can see something. I suppose you've got the chance.
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Listen.
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Take it easy. Sounds like it. Can you make out
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what he's saying? Good Lord. What was that? Probably some
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patient having a DTs. I think it came from that
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basement window. Let's get over there where I can have
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a look.
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Easy.
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What do I do to get caught now? Just. See anything? Relax.
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It's some sort of laboratory. That's right. I can see Grimshaw.
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I know. And someone else with its back toward me.
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If we're still, we may make out what they're saying.
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Take it quietly. It will be easier. No. I warn you.
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Please, please.
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It will all be over soon. You won't remember anything.
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No, I don't want to go.
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Boyner, give it to him.
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No, no, no.
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Shut him up, Boyner.
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No.
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Good Lord. What is it? Come on. We've got to
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get out of here. What did you see? What did
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they do to that child? Arthur, that wasn't a child.
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It was a midget. The smallest midget I've ever seen.
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What were they doing? Trying to give it some sort
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of injection. When it resisted, Voyner.
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Knocked it out.
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What did you suppose they were doing to it? I
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don't know, Arthur. All I know is that when it fell,
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it had the face of Harlan Ward. Harlan Ward All
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the way back to our room, my brain was working
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like a pinball machine. Only the score wouldn't add up.
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The pieces were there all right. A crazy old doctor,
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a brutal assistant, a private sanatorium, and a midget with
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a dead man's face. But I couldn't figure it out.
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I thought that when I got back to our room,
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I'd have some time to think about it. But I'd
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forgotten about our friend, the happiness boy, Count Craigie. I
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told you, I have caught you.
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Fine.
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So, you've caught us. Now, how about crawling back into
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the woodwork like a good little count? Where were you?
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Mink hunting. Arthur and I like to go mink hunting
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at night. It's a funny thing, though. The mink weren't
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running very good. The grunion were running like crazy, though,
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weren't they, Arthur? Like crazy, Mr. Doherty. You make fun
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of Count Craigie. You're lying. I shall report you to Dr. Boyner.
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Better not, if you know what's good for you. So
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you threaten me. Me come Craigie, world's champion gymnast and
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barbell balancer. I shall scream for help.
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Help! Help!
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Did you hurt him? Just knocked him out. What do
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we do now? Put him to bed. Hope that when
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he wakes up in the morning, he's forgotten the whole thing.
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And if he hasn't? They won't take him seriously anyway.
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I don't think Grimshaw would believe him. Besides which, he
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doesn't know what we actually were doing. Come on. Let's
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get him back into bed. I went to sleep in
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my own room. And the next thing I felt was
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the sharp jab of the hypodermic needle in my left arm.
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I started to struggle, but it was no use. Voyner
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and another assistant were holding me down. Grimshaw stood over me,
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the empty needle still in his hand.
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That's it.
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It would be useless to struggle, Mr.
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Daugherty.
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In a moment, your motor nerves will be completely paralyzed.
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What's this about, Grimshaw? I might ask the same of you.
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My good friend Count Crakey informs me you and Mr.
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Kay decided to do some snooping earlier tonight. He followed
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you and saw you climb the wall. Crakey's insane. That
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is a matter of opinion, Mr. Daugherty. Crakey, what is this?
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Perhaps my assistant, Dr. Grimshaw, would be good enough to explain. Assistant?
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Yes.
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You see, I am the actual head of the Grimshaw sanatorium.
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Grimshaw? Count Craigie feigns many delusions, Mr. Doherty, but in
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this case he's telling the truth. Count Craigie is actually
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Professor Ernst Hussler. Professor Hussler and I worked together in
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the Berlin Neurological Institute before the last war.
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Unfortunately, my political affiliations with the Third Reich were under
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investigation after the war by the War Crimes Commission.
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However, Dr.
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Grimshaw managed to snag... me into this country where I
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masquerade as a mental patient. Thus, we are able to
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continue certain experiments which were interrupted by the American army.
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I can imagine the sort of experiments you've conducted. You
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and your friend, Mr. K, will discover their exact nature
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very shortly, Mr. Doherty. It's a magnificent opportunity to serve science.
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Then I passed out. And the next thing I knew,
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I was coming to in a different room. I guessed
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it was somewhere in the charity building because of the
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angle of the sun through the windows. They had me
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in a straitjacket and kept doping me until I lost
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count of time. I don't know how long it kept up.
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I remember one day being wheeled along a corridor into
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an operating room and hearing the voices of Boiner, Grimshaw,
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and Craigie as if from a great distance. Pituitary and pituitary.
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Four cc's.
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Four cc's. How are the measurements? Reducing rapidly. We'll operate
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at once. If Boiner start the anesthesia. All right, doctor.
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Commence.
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When I came to again, I had a blinding headache.
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After that wore off a horrible sensation of weakness. I
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began to wonder if Craigie and Grimshaw weren't doing something
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to drive me insane... because I lost all sense of perspective.
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The room seemed to grow in size. I don't know
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how much time passed, but one day Grimshaw came into
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the room with a bundle in his arms... about the
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size of a newborn baby. The bundle was my friend,
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Arthur Kay. Good morning, Mr. Doherty. I've brought you a companion...
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I'm sure you two gentlemen will enjoy each other's company.
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Put me out.
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Of here. Put me out. I couldn't believe my eyes
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until Grimshaw sat Arthur down on the bed beside me.
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It was then that I got the real shock.
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For I realized that what had looked.
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Like a tiny bundle in Grimshaw's arms was actually the
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same size.
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That I was. Then, for the first time, I began
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to understand what was happening to us. Arthur Kay and
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I were being made into midgets. We got the full
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explanation next morning when the eminent Professor Hassler, alias Count Crakey,
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came in to gloat over us. Allow me to congratulate you, gentlemen.
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How are you feeling?
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You speak much. I am disappointed, gentlemen.
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Do you not feel privileged to be a.
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Part of an experiment that will place me at the
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very top rank of the world's endocrinologists?
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What are you doing to us?
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It has been long established, gentlemen, that dwarfism and giantism
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result from injury to, or malfunction of, the pituitary and
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thyroid glands. The interlock between these glands was thought to
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be a hormone. I have discovered that this was incorrect.
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It is an enzyme, an enzyme I isolated some years ago.
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I was well on the way to synthesis in Germany
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when the surrender interrupted me. The interruption also limited the
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number and type of subjects on whom I could experiment.
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I was forced to find others.
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Such as Harlan Ward?
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Mr.
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Ward was only a control experiment. And now you've done
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the same to us.
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No, gentlemen.
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For you, I have reserved a special privilege. You gentlemen
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will be the first to test the full effects of
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the enzyme. In short, I intend that you, Mr. K,
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and you, Mr. Doherty, when the experiment is completed, will
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emerge as perfectly healthy, normal individuals.
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Except, of course, that you will.
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Be only five inches tall.
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Nightmare a nightmare from which Arthur and I awoke for
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brief periods to find ourselves in a strange new world
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a huge frightening world where everything was enlarged a hundred
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times when we finally emerged we found ourselves imprisoned in
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a tiny mouse cage judging by the relative size of
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things we could not have been more than five inches
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tall now that our senses cleared we realized that the
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experiment was at an end that from now on it
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was either escape or be destroyed.
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Suppose we don't make it. At least you've written a
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story on that scrap of paper. Someone may find it
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and read it.
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Nobody will believe it. Why'd you bother to write it?
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I don't know.
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My friends I'm for feeding I trust that you.
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So you've managed to break out it won't do you
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know there is no way you could have gotten out.
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Of the room with the door and window locked.
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I know you're in here.
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I would advise you to save yourselves trouble and give
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up no Perhaps you are in the desk drawer. Or
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behind this decanter. Then perhaps in this cabinet.
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Very well.
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I shall count to five. One.
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Two.
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Three. Four. Five. You will not get off me. Very well,
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my tiny friends.
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If you prefer to play the game of cat and mouse,
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then I.
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Shall be happy to play.
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How long do you figure it will take them to
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get downstairs and let the cat into the building?
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Three minutes at most. Then we've got three minutes to
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get out. How?
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All the doors in.
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The mental institution lock from the outside. We need a
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special key to get out and then we could.
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Wait a minute. What is it?
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John? What?
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Do you see that thin strand of wire running along
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the molding? What about it? Do you know what it is?
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No.
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It's the automatic fire alarm. What about it? When the
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alarm is tripped by a fire, all the locks are
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sprung so that the patients can escape in their rooms.
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Are you certain?
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Positive.
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This door is part of the system. If I can
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work the insulation off that wire and short it before
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Craigie lifts the can of the building, let's go. There's
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a tiny sliver of steel in the cage on the floor.
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I'll work with that. You keep an ear to the door.
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Go ahead.
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What was that?
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What?
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I thought I heard a door slam. Mikey couldn't be
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back so soon. Hurry up or I'll have a gut ache.
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Stand away. I've got a show on it.
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Ready? Okay. We made it.
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There goes the door. Come on, we'll make a run
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for it down the hall. If we can get to
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the garden, we've got a chance. I smell smoke. The
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short may have.
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Actually started the fire.
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Come on.
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Wait a minute.
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What's up? I have to go back. The man just...
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Don't be a fool. There's no time. Stop us now. Arthur,
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where are we? It's funny.
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Arthur? Arthur?
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Arthur, what's happened to you?
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Arthur? This is the record found in a fountain pen
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cover in the burned-down hallway of Grimshaw Sanatorium. There is
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nothing to add, except that the fire which destroyed the
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sanatorium and killed so many of its occupants, including Dr.
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Grimshaw and Dr. Voyner, was definitely of incendiary origin. It
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is believed by the fire chief that some small creature,
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either a mouse or possibly a cat, chewed the insulation
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off the wire and short-circuited the system. The two patients,
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John Doherty and Arthur Kay, vanished completely after the fire,
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and their remains were never found. Whether the manuscript which
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you have just heard is authentic, or whether it was
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the work of one of the more demented inmates of
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the sanatorium, we leave to your judgment.
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You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world.
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Of the future. The world of... Dimension. Next week on
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Dimension X, and the moon be still as bright. The
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story of the first despoilers of the planet Mars. The
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men from... Earth.
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Tonight, Dimension X has transcribed Dr. Grimshaw's sanatorium. Adapted for
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radio by George Lefferts from an original short.
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Story by Fletcher Pratt.
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Featured in the cast were Carl Weber as John Doherty
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and Roger DeKoven as Arthur Kay. Your narrator was Norman Rose.
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Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers. Dimension X is
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directed by Edward King.
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Your National Guard is a strong, well-knit military organization of
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men from every state and territory in the nation. No
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matter what emergency faces our country, a National Guardsman has
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ensured his future. He's trained to handle himself if the
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going gets tough. And at the same time, he's learned
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new skills to help his civilian career. Regular Army and
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Air Force pay scales apply to every hour of training
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a Guardsman takes. So men, if you're over 17, join
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the National Guard. Keep your guard up. Enjoy Bob Hope
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and Groucho Marx, coming soon on NBC.
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This has been Dimension X, Episode 25, Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium.
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Until we meet again, good night. Follow old-time sci-fi radio
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for more classic science fiction broadcasts.
