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And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in.
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Suspense.
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In a moment, Act One of Brother John, starring William Redfield,
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and written especially for Suspense by Elspeth Erick.
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It was so simple, it was ridiculous.
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I was lying there in the Veterans Hospital with a
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brain embolism. Stroke, they call it, for short. You think
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that only happens to old people? Both of us in
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that room were under 30. You see, you get a
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stroke on the left side of your brain, it paralyzes
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the right side of your body, and it makes you
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so you can't talk. I mean, you got all the
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words in your head and you understand what everybody says,
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but you can't talk. So I just laid there and
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listened to Brother John talking to the army doctor.
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He's your brother?
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Yes, yes, 20 years younger. I've taken care of him
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since he was a kid. Well, we'll hope for a
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spontaneous recovery.
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What's that?
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The damage to the brain clears up by itself. Speech
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returns and the paralysis disappears. Ah. Well, what do I
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do now? Well, can you remember what books he read
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as a child? Little poems or songs? Hey diddle diddle,
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humpty dumpty. Often these things come back first. Charlie was
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born in France. Our parents both died there when Charlie
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was 10. By that time, I was in okay shape financially,
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and they sent him back to me.
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But he only spoke French.
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I remember he used to sing that Frère Jacques thing. Yes,
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singing often helps. The rhythm carries them along. I hardly
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know any French. Well, now, you do your best. This
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may all clear up sooner than you think. The man
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on the other side of the screen has the same trouble.
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He seems to be coming along. Well, thank you, doctor.
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Anything else you want to know, ask for me at
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the desk.
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Thanks. Hey there, chum. You look fine. Now, listen.
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I'm going to tell you what we're going to do.
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You know the apartment I have over the garage at
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the Tremains? You're going to come there.
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It's big enough. Wait till you see it. It's great.
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Yeah.
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What's the matter? You think they'll mind? They won't mind.
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They're very nice people. Of course, they're really not in
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any position to mind anything.
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Are they, huh?
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No.
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When I took that prison rap for Jerry Tremaine, he
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promised he'd look after me for the rest of my life.
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And if somebody asks you, what does your brother do,
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you can say he's butler for the Gerald Tremaines.
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It's not much, I grant you that, but it's better
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than saying he's a bum. Right?
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He's doing very well, incidentally, old Jerry. All strictly on
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the up and up ever since that one little mistake
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that I did time for. But I'm a nice fellow.
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I've stuck to our original agreement, 200 a week for life.
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Of course, I get my board and room. So most
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of it, I've got put away for you. And if
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you ever need a little extra, well, truth is, Mrs.
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Tremaine is what you might say... crazy about me. I
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could always put the bite on her for a little
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extra if you needed it. Listen, I brought you some champagne.
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Want me to open it now, huh?
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Okay, later.
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With your buddy here. Doctor says you both got this
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cerebral thing. Okay if I introduce myself? My name's McGee.
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Yeah, I'm Charlie's brother, John. I brought some champagne. You
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and Charlie can have it together, okay?
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Okay.
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You both look great, you know, just great. Well, good luck.
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Enjoy the champagne. Hey, looks like a nice fella. You
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want to say something, Charlie? Go ahead, go ahead, try.
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Go ahead.
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Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, Dormez-vous, dormez-vous.
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I had to laugh.
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Big brother John standing there trying to sing in French. Well,
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all right, so he didn't know French. But he had brains.
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He does a little stretch in prison for a guy.
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Then when he gets out, he moves in with the guy.
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Gets 200 a week and takes over the wife besides. Well, anyway,
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a few days later, I had a spontaneous recovery. Blood
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clot was absorbed. Speech came back. Paralysis is gone.
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I'm out of the army. walking around.
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But you see, I'd never met these Tremaines, and I'm
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very curious to find out what they're like.
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So, Mrs.
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Tremaine comes to the door. Not a bad-looking woman for
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her age. She lets me in and introduces me to
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her husband.
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This is my husband, Mr. Tremaine. Gerald, this is John's brother, Charlie.
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Charlie? Good Lord, I.
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Sit down. Sit down, Charlie.
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Well, I should have called John, I guess, but I
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wanted to surprise him.
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Gerald, you tell him.
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I just can't. Charlie, we were just going to call
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you at the hospital. Huh? Yeah, the truth is... Well,
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your brother... Your brother has been shot, Charlie. Killed. John?
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John was shot?
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It just happened about an hour ago.
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What?
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Who'd want to do a thing like that?
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We don't know who did it.
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The police don't know.
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Gerald, you ought to let them know that Charlie's here.
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All right, I will. I'll be right with you. I.
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Oh, he... He was such a wonderful brother to me.
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I know.
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He talked a lot about you. I mean, he... He
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did everything for me. You were planning to stay here
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with him, weren't you? He said so.
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Yeah, yeah, till I get a job or something. Now
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I don't know what to do.
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Well, why don't you just stay on here anyway for
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the time being?
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Oh, I don't know if I could.
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John's apartment's over the garage, you know. Why don't you
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just move in?
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Well, I.
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Gee, Mrs. Tremaine, I'd... I'd kind of like that.
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I'd like to poke around there, sort of, and see
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if I can't figure out who could have wanted to
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kill my brother John.
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It was so simple. It was ridiculous.
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I could move right in, and I did. Ah, they
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were nice, really. She was what you'd call faded, I guess,
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but not too faded. I could see how John could
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have gone for her a little bit. Next morning, I
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asked if I could help her with breakfast. You know,
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John told me a lot about you, Mrs.
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Tremaine.
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He did?
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Yeah. He liked you a lot.
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Well, that's very nice to hear.
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I can see why. You're very attractive.
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Well, now.
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I mean, John certainly thought you were. And so do I.
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That's a nice compliment from a young man.
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And you're not much older than I am.
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Well, I'm certainly not younger.
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Lots of men my age go for older women.
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I really wouldn't know about that.
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Oh, come on now, Mrs. Tremaine. You must have had
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lots of guys going for you.
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Really, Charlie, I don't think this is the way for
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us to talk.
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I knew I had her.
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When they say they shouldn't talk this way, they're starting
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to weaken. They talk that way all the time they're
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saying they shouldn't, and pretty soon they're ready for action.
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Anyway, I could see she was getting uncomfortable.
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And that was exactly what I wanted. Her husband came
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downstairs right then. And I took him some coffee in
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the living room. John was with us a long time,
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you know, Charlie.
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Yeah, yeah, I know. A terrible shock.
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Awful.
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You talked to the police? Mm-hmm. Last night. They
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seem to know much. Well, they need time. Oh, sure. Sure. Look, Charlie,
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you stay on here just as long as you like. No, no, Mr. Tremaine.
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I'll be moving on pretty soon, I guess. I mean,
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John said he had some money saved up for me.
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Oh?
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Yeah.
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Quite a lot.
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Good.
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I don't know how he did it. Almost $ 40, 000. That much, huh? Yeah. Well,
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he must have made good investments.
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No, no.
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He just had savings. In four different banks. Oh, is
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that so? Yeah. Every week he made a deposit. A
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big one. You don't say. Ever since the first week,
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he came to work for you. Well, now, what do
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you know about that? So, I had him, too. And
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I knew it. Now, both of them were uncomfortable. Ah,
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but they were nice people, really.
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I could almost have gotten to like them.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, I helped Mrs. Tremaine put the breakfast on the table.
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They even asked me to eat with them, but I
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said no, I was going out. Only I didn't go out.
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I stayed in the kitchen because I wanted to hear
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what they had to say to each other.
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Connie, how long is he going to stay?
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Charlie?
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Yeah, Charlie.
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I don't know.
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Nice fellow.
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Very nice.
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Not like John, though.
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No, not really.
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Doesn't even look like him.
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A lot younger, of course.
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Yes.
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I'll miss John.
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We'll get somebody else.
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Not like John, though.
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No, not like John. I was sorry I wasn't like John.
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I really was. I'd have liked to stay on with
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these people for a while.
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I was even a pretty good butler, if you can
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imagine that. I helped Mrs. Tremaine get lunch.
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I'm terribly awkward in the kitchen, I'm afraid.
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Oh, well, let me do that.
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John always did everything.
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Uh-huh. He was a good man.
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Yes, he was.
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Yeah, you know, I'm sorry I didn't get to see
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more of him. Oh, wait.
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We used to ask him to have you here for
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a visit, but he never would.
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I know, I know. I wonder why he wouldn't. I
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wonder if it was a woman.
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Oh, no, it wasn't a woman. I'd have known if the.
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Oh? You would?
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Well, I mean, if that was why he wouldn't have
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you here, I'd have known if he was seeing some
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woman here.
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No, I meant if it was some woman who killed him.
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You should have seen her face. All of a sudden,
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she looked like somebody had hit her.
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Then Mr.
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Tremaine came home for lunch. I made him a drink
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first in the living room.
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Join me, Charlie? Oh, well, thank you, Mr. Tremaine. I
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don't usually indulge in the middle of the day. Of
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course not. $ 38, 000. How's that?
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That's what my brother had in four different banks.
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Oh, well, that makes you a rich man, doesn't it?
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Well, not quite.
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I just can't help wondering, that's all. Wondering what, Charlie? Oh,
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where he got all that money. Who gave it to
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him all those years. Well, I wouldn't know if anybody
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gave it to him.
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Well, you see, if somebody was paying him, that could
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be the man who killed him.
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So he could stop paying it. Oh, I see what
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you mean.
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She came in right then and told him lunch was ready,
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and they both went into the dining room looking absolutely sick.
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As a parting shot, I said that I was going
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down to the police station. I thought that should start
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a little something, you know?
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I went out to the kitchen,
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Opened and shut the door like I was leaving, but
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I sat down to listen.
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That's the third time he's talked to the police.
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That's natural, isn't it?
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Yes, I guess so.
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I must say, he doesn't seem to be mourning for
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his brother very much.
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No, they were supposed to be very close, weren't they?
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I guess men just don't show their feelings, in fact.
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I'm sure they don't.
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Meaning me?
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Toward each other. Some men don't even show their feelings
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toward their wives.
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Me again?
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If you have any feelings toward your wife.
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Oh, Connie, don't start that again. Sorry. I'm sorry. That
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Charlie is making us both nervous.
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I'm not nervous.
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Are you nervous? No, not nervous, exactly. Yes, you are.
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Why don't we get rid of him?
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Get rid of who?
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That Charlie.
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But we just asked him to stay.
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You asked him, not me.
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If you want him to leave.
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I didn't say I wanted... Tell him so. Well, I'll
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give him some money till John's estate is settled. That'd
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be nice. Well, so tell him. Me?
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You tell him.
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Why should I tell him? You tell him.
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Why me?
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And so it went. You tell it. No, you tell it.
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I wanted to laugh.
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I got out of the kitchen very quietly, and I
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did go down to the police station.
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They didn't know anything.
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They hadn't found the gun, and they couldn't figure out
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who'd had a motive. So, about 5.30, I went back
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to the house.
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Mrs.
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Tremaine was setting the table for dinner. Did you see
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the police, Charlie?
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Yeah, yeah. I was there all afternoon. Really?
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All afternoon?
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Mm-hmm.
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They wanted me to tell them everything I knew about John.
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Really?
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Yeah. I didn't know a lot.
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He never said too much about himself.
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No.
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No, he was sort of a quiet man.
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A few things, I told him.
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Oh? Like what?
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Well, like I gathered he was very happy here. I mean,
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you took good.
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Care of him. I gathered that.
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Well, we tried.
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He was really happy here. Yeah, he really was happy.
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He used to say he never wanted to leave here.
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Did he?
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Yeah.
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I guess he had about everything he wanted right here
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in this house.
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Everything?
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I mean, jobs like that are sure hard to find
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that have everything.
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I suppose they are.
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Her hands started to shake, and pretty soon she gave
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up trying to set the table and went out to
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the living room to join Mr.
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Tremaine.
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I told her that I was going to go up
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and wash up for dinner, but instead I went out
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in the hall. She closed the door to the living room,
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and standing on the other side, I could hear everything
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that went on.
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Gerald, I must tell you something.
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What, dear?
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Gerald, we've got to get rid of that man.
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I told you that at lunch.
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He knows something.
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What do you mean, something?
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Gerald, I never meant to tell you this. It isn't
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anything much, really. Only now it might make the police
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think I killed John. You? Oh, I'm so ashamed of myself.
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Carrying on with a servant.
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A poor little lonely housewife.
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Taking up with the first man who was nice to her.
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Connie, Connie, what are you talking about? That's the way I.
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Thought of myself, Gerald. It
was all self-willing. I was
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alone all day. And John was here. That's the way
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it was.
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You?
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And John? It looks hard to believe.
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I'm not trying to excuse myself.
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I'm not.
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It's just that now John's dead. And that awful Charlie
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thinks some woman killed him. And I think he thinks
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I'm the woman.
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No, he doesn't.
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He thinks some man did it. Some man who was
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paying John a lot of money. Extortion money.
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Who? Me.
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You?
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Yes.
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He doesn't come right out and say it, but he
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knows someone's been paying the money, and I think he
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suspects me. And he's right.
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What do you mean?
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I paid John for 15 years, ever since he got
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out of jail. We were both guilty, but he took
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the rap.
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Guilty of what? Embezzlement. Embezzlement? Yes.
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We took $ 70, 000 from the firm before we got caught.
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As I said, I went free, and John went up
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the river. I paid him $ 200 a week, 52.
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Weeks a year.
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He'd saved up almost $ 40, 000 when he was killed.
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But you didn't kill him.
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Is that a question?
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I know you didn't do it.
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You know I didn't.
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Of course. You think I did?
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No, no, no, of course not.
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You don't think maybe he got tired of me or
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I got jealous or hysterical or something and shot him?
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No, of course I don't.
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I did get jealous sometimes and hysterical.
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But you didn't kill him.
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No, I didn't.
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Neither did I.
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I know.
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Well, that wasn't the way I thought it would go, frankly.
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In the first place, I never thought they'd spill everything
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to each other. And in the second place, I thought
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if they did spill everything, they'd each jump at the
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chance to pin it on the other.
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They must have loved each other or something.
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Something like that.
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Anyway, I decided to walk in and settle the whole
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thing right then and there.
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Mr.
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Tremaine. Oh, yes, Charlie.
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Mr.
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Tremaine, the fact is, I need $ 50, 000 from you right now.
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$ 50, 000?
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What is this, Charles? Well, it's extortion money, Mr. Tremaine.
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You know what that is. It's just a word like embezzlement.
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I see.
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Gerald, he knows. He actually... That's right.
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That's right. I actually know, Mrs. Tremaine.
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I didn't know exactly before that it was embezzlement, you see.
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But Brother John told me he'd done time for your husband,
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and that was why he had this cushy job.
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I didn't know why he bothered to work at all. I...
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I know I wouldn't have. Oh, I guess you wouldn't have. Now,
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wait a minute.
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Well, I take that back. I know a reason why
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he worked here. Don't you, Mrs.
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Tremaine? Yeah. You were fooling around a little, weren't you? Huh?
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With Brother John?
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Now, look, my wife and I have no secrets, so
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this is not a shock to either one of us.
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But have you told the police? It might be a
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shock to them.
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Have you?
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Well, now, of course you haven't. My wife didn't kill
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your brother, neither did I. Maybe yes, maybe no.
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How do we know you didn't kill him? Why would
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I kill my own brother?
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For the money and the four savings banks?
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I was going to get that anyway. Brother John told
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me so in the hospital. He even said he could
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put the touch on your wife for a little extra
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if I needed it. You can't prove that. Well, I
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think I could if I had to. There's a guy
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--> 00:19:40.390
up at the hospital. He had the bed next to mine.
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He was there when John came to see me.
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He knows all about this? Well, he might.
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Neither one of us could talk at the time. Maybe
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he can't even now.
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I don't know. But he was still there when I
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got out. What's his name? Now, why would I tell
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you that? I can find out. What's the difference, Mr. Tremaine?
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Suppose he says the whole story is true, that he
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heard John tell it to me.
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It'll all come out anyway, newspapers and everything. And then
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what will the police think about you?
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So come on. I mean, let's be sensible.
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You raise the $ 50, 000 and I'll clear out.
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How am I supposed to raise $ 50, 000?
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Your house, your car.
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You must have insurance. You two stay there. I'll answer
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that phone. What do you think, Constance?
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Don't give it to him.
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It's just money.
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Don't give it to him.
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You sure? It's wrong. What I did was wrong. Let's
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not keep on doing what's wrong. Well, it's the wrong
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number or something. It sounded like a singing telegram.
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Singing telegram?
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I couldn't make it out. Well, how about it?
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Charlie, we don't think we can give you $ 50, 000. We
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don't think we can afford it.
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Can you afford being smeared all over the newspapers?
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We can't afford to go on living this way, lying
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to each other.
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One of you may not go on living at all.
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Let me answer it this time.
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Leave the phone off the hook. Charlie, neither one of
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us killed John. Tell that to the police. I'm going to.
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I've talked to my wife, and she agrees.
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Gerald, come here.
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You too, Charlie.
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Now, look, I don't think you've thought this over. Oh, yes,
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we have. We don't want to think about it anymore. Gerald, listen. Huh?
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What is it? Listen.
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I'll hold the phone up. Listen, Charlie.
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Frere Jacques. Frere Jacques. Dormez-vous. Dormez-vous. Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous, dormez-vous.
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Well, that's the story.
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It was the real Charlie on the phone, the guy
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in the other bed. See, he hadn't had a spontaneous
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recovery like mine, but he'd gotten back enough to get
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to a phone in the hospital, dial the number, and
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then sing this French.
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Song into the phone. Brother John, Brother John, are you sleeping?
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Are you sleeping? That's what it says. It's just my lousy.
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Luck I never learned French or I'd have known it
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was the real Charlie the first time he called.
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Oh, I guess you want the gun I killed John with, huh?
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Here.
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Yeah, I've had it in my pocket the whole time.
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Oh, and thanks for offering me a lawyer.
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But frankly.
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I don't think any lawyer in the world could get
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me off.
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Do you? Well, do you? Suspense.
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You have been listening to Brother John, starring William Redfield,
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and written especially for Suspense by Elspeth Erick. Suspense is
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produced and directed by Bruno Zerato Jr., music supervision by
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Ethel Huber, sound patterns by Joseph Cabibbo. Heard in tonight's
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story were Connie Lemke as Constance Tremaine, Paul McGrath as
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Gerald Tremaine, Sam Gray as John, Bill Smith as the doctor,
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and Guy Repp as the voice of Charlie. Listen again
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next week when we return with The Curse of Kamashek,
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written by Jonathan Bundy. Another tale well calculated to keep.
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You in suspense. This is the CBS Radio Network.