April 19, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | Cursed Rings, Vanishing Brides, Greed: Four Vintage Radio Horror Stories from the Dark

Unknown Broadcast | Cursed Rings, Vanishing Brides, Greed: Four Vintage Radio Horror Stories from the Dark
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Unknown Broadcast presents Cursed Rings, Vanishing Brides, Greed, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in murder, disappearance, and investigation, folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions, and old-time radio suspense and preserved as a complete after-dark drama.

Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, ghostly dread, strange disappearances, greed, curses, and dark family secrets. This week’s transmission moves from plague-haunted bloodlines to a vanished bride, from murderous greed to a glittering dream of impossible wealth.

🌹 A Ring of Roses — A seemingly innocent visit to meet a fiancée’s old friend turns into a sinister journey through inherited secrets, Black Plague lore, and a cursed ring that feels tied to the living and the dead alike. It’s lush, gothic, and steeped in the creeping dread of classic radio horror.
💍 The Bride Vanishes — A bride disappears into mystery, leaving behind unease, strange behavior, and the sense that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface. This one carries that delicious vintage radio suspense mood of mounting confusion, ominous atmosphere, and danger waiting just offstage.
💵 Avarice — The Whistler steps in with a tale of greed, money, and murderous desperation, where John Abbott’s hunger for wealth twists everything around him. It is sharp, cruel, and exactly the kind of crime-horror radio story where one bad desire poisons an entire house.
💎 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — The night closes with Escape, promising a fabulous world of wonder, danger, and impossible riches. There’s something especially haunting about ending on a story built around desire so extravagant it starts to feel unreal, like a dream that may not want to let you wake up.

Some families inherit love. Some inherit dread. And some spend their whole lives reaching for something bright enough to blind them.

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Ah, my dear, so glad to see you here. Yet again,

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nothing has quite scared you off as of yet. But

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of course it is early, not in the sense of

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the day, but perhaps in the sense of well, you'll

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find out soon enough. Please get comfortable. I have your

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chair right up by the fire, because even as the

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days grow warmer, the night always seems to grow colder

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and darker. Oh, what's that. Well, I'm not sure I

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would say you should worry, at least not yet. In fact,

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I would say it's all just a ring of roses.

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Come in. Welcome, I am E. G. Marshall. Welcome to

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the sound of suspense, to the fear you can hear.

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Our tale is a blood freezing story inspired by a

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nursery rhyme, A sweet simple song. Ring a ring of

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rose is a pocket full of poses. At you, at you,

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we all fall down. It sounds young and innocent, doesn't it.

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But it is very old and very sinis for the

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ring a ring of roses with the splotches that first

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appeared on the faces of those afflicted during the Black Plague.

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The pocket full of poses were the herbs that were

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carried hopefully to ward off the fatal disease. The sneezing

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sounds hachu hachu, were the sounds of the final spasms,

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and we all fall down was well, you can guess.

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Our mystery drama, A Ring of Roses, was written especially

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for the radio mystery theater by S. J. Wilson and

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stars Glynnis O'Connor.

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I'll be back shortly with that one.

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Science has brought most plagues under control, but not so

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those other epidemics of the past, those that plague us

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with their unseen, unknown and unexpected terrors. And such is

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the tale of terror you're about to hear. Draw close

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to the guttering candle, for you will receive no warmth

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from her Ring of Roses.

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You know, George, I've heard about this place so often

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from Helena.

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I'm just dying to see her home.

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And I'm anxious to meet your friend Helena.

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Oh, I'm sure you like her.

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What will she like me taking her best friend away

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from her?

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Come on, George, you know you're irresistible. Ca Why do

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you think I'm going to marry you?

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Well, for one thing, my beautiful, exquisite, enormous pots of money.

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Oh George, wait, looks.

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Lay, I'll get your hands off the wheel. What do

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you think you're trying to do?

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But we've passed it. It's a sign to the house.

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Back there, Laurie, Laurie, I never want you to do

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that again. I'm not gonna let missing a sign risk

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you are getting hurt. You understand, I'm sorry.

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Shouldn't have grabbed the wheel that way?

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All right, forget it, but please never again ever. And

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that is supposed to be the sign.

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Helena warned that we might miss it.

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Why would anyone use a rose colored stone in a

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brass oval with no name or any identification on it

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for a house sign.

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Well, their name is Rawston, and Helena said the generations.

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Back when their family first moved to America, it was

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rose stone, so they put up a rose stone.

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Well, if they want people to get that meaning from it,

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they either enjoy guessing games, or more likely just want

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to keep themselves very very private.

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Yes, guess what, as you said, they are very private.

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Well, I got that impression before we got here, and

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I also have the feeling that they're not very friendly either.

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Oh, how can you say that?

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When Helena's mother especially invited us over because she personally

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wanted to give us our engagement gift.

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Yes, and that's pretty peculiar too.

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Oh how many parties, I mean showers?

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Did your girlfriends give you four? Right?

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No?

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Three?

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Last one was at dinner, all right.

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And Helena was invited to everyone.

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But I know, George, she didn't turn up for any

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of them.

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You know, Laurie, I've never seen you so wound up.

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What's spinning around on that pretty head of yours.

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No, but.

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I am on edge what.

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I guess about meeting Helena's mother. You see, she's so strange.

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She seems so powerful and so terribly uncompromising. I was

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trying to change things for Helena, and then I let

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her down by becoming engaged to you.

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But I don't tell me you weren't gonna marry for

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for Helen's sake.

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Well, at least not until she married first. We were

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going to share an apartment together in the city.

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You know what I'm gonna do, Laurie.

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I Am going to turn this car right around and

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head back to the city. This whole trip is more

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foolish than funny.

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Oh no, George, please don't talk.

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You's we all you hear.

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Something like like saying, let me open the window.

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It's a woman singing that old nursery.

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Rhyme, we all fall down.

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But what's that snapping sound? It sounds it's like a

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piece of leather. It sounds like a whip.

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George, what are you doing.

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I'm getting out something's happening here that I don't.

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Don't open the door. Please don't. We'll go back if

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you want.

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I'll be right back to keep the window shut and

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the doors locked.

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Don't leave me, George, I'm coming with you.

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Wait, okay, but stay close to me.

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Which seems to be coming from behind those hedges.

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You know, it could be just playing game.

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If that voice is coming from a kid, he's using

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a bull's horn. Let's stop here. You might see through

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the head. Please be careful, holy to look at that.

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Let me see that man, the old man with a beard.

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He's trying to catch the girl with his whip.

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Oh, she's chasing him. She's making fun of him.

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If he layings that wagon whip on her, he'll split

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her face open.

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Look at their.

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Clothes, George, they're just like settlers in the early eighteen hundred. Yeah,

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you know, they could be rehearsing a play.

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If they are, he's lost his mind in his part

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that man's going wild with that whip.

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But she's provoking him.

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Why does she stop?

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Hey, hey, you there, What are you two doing?

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George? You shouldn't have done that?

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And who is who is ordering me and questioning me?

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I am over here. That's a terrible thing you're doing.

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Oh George, please don't go in there.

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They know we're here. We must meet them. That's a

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dangerous wep you're using. That young woman can be killed

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by it.

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I see by your clothes you are a stranger, and

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I can also see that you are a kind human

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who wishes no harm to come to another. But this,

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this wench is my daughter. And what I am doing

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is the true way to gain the obedience of a

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child who will stray.

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But what in heaven could she have done to deserve

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being whipped?

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I did no harm to no personal to him. I

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have broken no law of God or Master.

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Jump it o your witch's tongue. Believe me, young woman,

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when I tell you that she has the demon in her,

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playing and wencing with the young master who owns this land.

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While I'm out here working at clearing their forest lands,

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she's up there in the Great House with her enticements

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and tricks and enchantments. And if it has already come

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to this, that he has given her a gift for

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favors promised or already bestowed, the gift of a ring

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and already cursed ring.

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He gave it to me fair and with the holy

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vow that he will marry me in the month of

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the next full moon.

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Marry you Willie, you can have fair to read and write.

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You who are lower than his mother's kitchen skugging, you

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give me that right?

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I won't.

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I swear by the name and the soul of my

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sainted mother that you will never get this ring.

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I do, though it mean your own death, you get

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the whip of it.

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God, why can't you be a little more reasonable? She

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may be telling you the truth.

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I am. I swear it on my dead mother's bible.

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I am than if you are, Why don't you give

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him the ring and let your young man personally tell

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your father.

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Of his plan.

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No, No, he'll do no thing like that. He'll bury

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the ring in some secret spot and drag me.

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Away before the fall of night.

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For he doesn't want me to marry to no one,

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but to stay with him and clean and cook and

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wash for the rest of his devil life.

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As you can see, she's beyond talking of matters with

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sense and decency. She's been taken up with her planning

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and scheming to get away from me for the purpose

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of Harlot's game.

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And she hardly a.

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Marrying I'll kill you, George, for God's sake.

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Stop, Oh, I can't look.

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Instead, she killed her own father.

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But where is she? What happened to her?

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There she is, she's running away.

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Hey, they come back, come back. You can't get away.

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It's you will never get away.

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The ring will circle you.

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George, George, don't try to catch her.

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She's like wind. I'll never get my hands on her.

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She's almost in the forest.

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Come back, come back.

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We're not gonna hurt you.

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She disappeared.

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Even before she got to the forest.

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But George, look what I found. It's the ring. She

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dropped the ring.

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Let me see it.

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You know what it's like.

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It's just like the road sign.

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Well, it's the same shape, the same color stone. It's smaller,

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but it is just like the road sign, rose colors.

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George, George, we've got to get help the police.

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Where, of course, the house. We've got to get to

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Helena's house. This ring so rosy, this ring so rare?

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Does it belong to the living or the dead? We

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will return shortly with that too.

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You alone. I don't want to disturb your mother, My.

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Dear, you're not disturbing me in the slightest. This room

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has no secrets. Its acoustics are incredible. I'm Helena's mother.

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Hello, missus Rawston. We've just had a very a very

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unusual experience. Laurie's pretty badly shaken by it.

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Yes, so I see, Helen. Why don't you take Laurie

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to your room, let her refresh yourself. Perhaps mister Williamson

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will tell me something more about what's happened.

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I think the police should be notified at once.

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The police here. Did you have an accident?

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Well, not exactly, but we happen to see something that

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can only be described as gruesome, I guess, and the

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police should be notified.

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Mother, do you think, Helen, dearest? This is not the

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time for speculation.

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I shall be.

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Glad to have the deputy's office call, but can you

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give me some indication of what they'd be told.

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We don't like bothering our offices unnecessarily. They have enough

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to do as it is. But someone's just been murdered.

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Oh no, not again, Helena, restrain yourself. Dearest Laura. You

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say someone's been.

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Murdered who we don't know who he is.

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But it was trying to whip the young woman and

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mister Williamson.

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She took an axe and killed him.

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No, how could you was.

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Paining that it wouldn't happen to you? Oh poor Laurie.

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Now why don't you young people make yourselves comfortable? A

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glass of sherry might calm you.

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But mother, you told me that it would never happen again,

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that thing, Helena.

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I said, I had taken every precaution not to have

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it happen. But who am I to promise I will

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control the uncontrollable? Are you saying that this has happened.

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Before, Mauri? Maybe missus Ralston wants to explain.

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Well, not really, but I feel I'm obliged to. However,

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it is difficult. How does one explain the inexplicable way

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I think they're ghosts?

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There are no ghosts, Helena. Doctor Mednick, the last scientist

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I consulted, said it was undoubtedly an instance of photoly

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sensory projection.

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Helena pooh poose it. But has either of you ever

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heard of that discipline?

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Oh?

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Vaguely. It once came up in a course on parapsychology

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that I had at school.

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No one has ever proved PSP.

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Mothers, Well, they've never proved esp either, But a lot

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of serious scientists work with it.

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But George, what does that photo whatever mean?

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I complicated? Photolysis is the means by which light can

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affect the arrangement of chlorophyll grains in leaves.

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Chlorophyll grains leaves. There's a man not more than a

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mile from here who's been murdered.

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Calm yourself, my child. There is no such man, and

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no such daughter. This has happened before I've seen it.

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Helena has a very few close friends have Unfortunately you

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have too. Mister Williamson, do you think you'd still like

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to try an explanation of PSP?

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Well, it's spooky in a way, but that I mean

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the scientific explanation of it. You see, we're all supposed

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to give off certain light and heat waves.

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And what is it happens in the case of individuals

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who are emotionally stimulated, let us say people in love.

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The theory has it that people in a very intense

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emotional state give off more highly conraded waves.

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Well, I just don't understand what chlorophyll and leaves and

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light waves have to do with a man being murdered.

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He it's tied up with photosynthesis, and scientists aren't sure

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how that process really works. But with the unusual intensity

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of light, the cells of chlorophyll rearrange themselves and are

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forced to give off some of the excess carbohydrates in

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which there is an unusual amount of stored energy.

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I'm not following this at all. My dear Helena speaks

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of you as having the patients of a saint. So

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if you'd like me to telephone the deputies, I suggest

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you give your feelings, say, a chance to finish.

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There is much more, Laurie. Just at the openings and

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the leaves. They're called stoemates tend to react like projectors,

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and through the magnification of additional oxygen, are supposed to

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be able to relay an episode they once absorbed when

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they were in the receptive state, like like film.

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Are you talking.

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About something something like motion picture film?

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Yes, Laurie, but he means something like a projector with

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a memory, A memory of blood in this case, Well.

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It happens that chloraville is very much like hemoglobia, except

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that it contains magnesium instead of the iron found in blood.

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Are you saying that what we saw was a motion

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picture nothing more.

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Well, essentially that's it. But when and where the original

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was recorded we have no idea.

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But there's a building, there's a cabin out there, and

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there's a.

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Man's body bleeding.

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Why don't you go and see for yourself if.

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You don't believe us, No, Laurie, there's nothing there, Helena,

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you too, Yes, as mother said, I've seen it.

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Others have too. Around here, they call it the enchanted forest.

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But if you go out there again, you won't find

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a cabin or a man.

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Nothing.

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The police know all about it.

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They'll come and you'll just feel foolish.

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I don't know what to think. It all seems so real.

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Well, now, why don't we come back to the present

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and the truly real? Because I have the real pleasure

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of giving you our gift to celebrate your engagement. It's

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a complete surprise. Even I don't know what it is. Laurie, dear,

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It isn't that what we're giving you is expensive or valuable,

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but it is, dear to us. We hope it will

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be your first family heirloom.

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Here.

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It is no pretty rapping, but it seems too lovely

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a box to cover with silly paper. Mother, I've never

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seen that box before. Well, now, isn't it nice that

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I can still have some surprises for you.

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That's a great looking box, Missus Rawston. Those the roses

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painted on ivory, aren't they?

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Oh, it's so beautiful.

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I feel as if I'm depriving you of something very

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special if if I accepted it.

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No, please take it. It's it's little enough.

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And you know what, I think that box would be

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perfect for It already has its purpose, Dear. What I

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was going to say was that it would be the

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perfect place to keep a lock of your first baby's hair,

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wouldn't it.

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And I'm afraid it's going to stay empty for some time.

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Oh George, we don't know that, not yet.

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We will have to find you another container for that

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when the time comes.

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This box already has its occupant. I mean there's something inside.

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We'll look and see.

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Go ahead, Laurie.

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My heart's beating so loudly.

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She's been like that all day, so excited, darling. Do

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you want me to open it?

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No?

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No, I'm all right. Just let me take a deep breath.

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Oh no, hey, that's that's the same.

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Sorry, that's wrongs.

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Give me the box, Laurie.

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And inside inside.

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Put her on the couches.

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Or sorry, mother, do something, don't just stand there and

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control yourself and get some water.

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Laurie, My poor Laurie.

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Wake up, Dorry, come out of it, honey, Darling.

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She's trying to open.

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Her eyes slowly, Laurie, it's me, George.

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What happened?

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Just passed out for a moment.

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Here, Give her this water.

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Sip this.

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I don't need it. But did I really see it?

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See what the ring?

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Yes, yes, I've got it.

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What ring?

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This ring? The same one with a rose colored stone?

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Mother?

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How dare you? That's mine? You know what that ring

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means to me?

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Oh?

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Please take anything away.

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I don't want to look at it.

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Don't worry. You won't have to here, missus Rawston. Take

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it back, and I hope it isn't a sample of

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your sense of humor.

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Just one moment. Mister Williamson.

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I don't particularly appreciate your tone or your attitude.

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What do you mean by my sense of humor.

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If you and your daughter know all about that axe

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murdering scene that we saw earlier, then you must have

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known about the ring.

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What about it?

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It's mine, that ring. It's just like that road sign

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you have on the highway.

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Yes, the sign was copied from the design of the ring.

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It's been our family hallmark, so to speak, for generations.

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Is that why the girl who killed her father did

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it because of that ring?

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What do you mean she had it?

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She teased him with it while she sang that song,

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that same nursery rhyme in the box.

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Oh, oh no, what that couldn't be. That's my ring.

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She couldn't have had it. Are you too sure you

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saw this ring?

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Well, the girl in the field, she dropped it when

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she ran away.

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Then where is it now? Well, George, you had it?

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What are you sure? I thought you put it into

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your purse? Oh? Look, isn't in any of my pockets?

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No, and it's not here in my purse. How could

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it be? There is only one ring, this ring. It's

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been in the Roston family for generations. It was brought

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here by a Roston early in the eighteenth century. It

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has always belonged to the oldest child in each.

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Family, in which case it would be your daughters, since

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you are a Rostin by marriage.

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Yes, that would be so if it were true. You're

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not going to tell them?

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Well why not?

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It's time that silly cloud you've been hiding behind was

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blown away.

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But don't, mother, please, I beg you nonsense.

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I am a Rostin. That ring belongs to me, Helen.

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His father died in the Southeast Asian War shut down,

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even before he knew I was going to have a child.

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Mother, I hate you for this. I hate you, Helena.

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Don't say that to your own mother.

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Why not?

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She hated me ever since she learned that her father

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and I had never married.

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Imagine that, in this day, a girl making such a

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fuss about legitimacy.

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Please we don't have to hear any more, missus.

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Oh yes, yes you do, George.

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Can't we get out of here quickly?

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You can go whenever you like, Miss Thornton, but out

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of your friendship for Helena. You must take that ring

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with you. No, I couldn't. I won't let her give

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it to me. Elena, won't you do it? The ring?

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She tore it out of my hand. I've got it

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and no one will ever get it from me. Let

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her go.

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She'll be back and with the ring. She knows it's

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wrong for her to have taken it. Eventually, the ring

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must come to you, Laurie.

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We don't want it, but it will come to you.

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It can do you no harm. It's a silly superstition,

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but only Rawston's is supposed to be vulnerable to the ring,

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and Laurie, if you are Helena's friend, as you say

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you are, you will take it. But she wants it.

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She insists that it stay her.

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Only as an excuse.

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What sort of an excuse could the ring give her

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the excuse not to marry?

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And why not?

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She considers herself feted ill starred.

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If you will, you see, at one time the superstition

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arose that if the firstborn was female, the ring would

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prevent her from marrying. It's high time that ring is

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out of rost and hands. Why don't you just throw

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it away with Helena carrying all as if possessed.

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We just do not want it. I'm sorry, but we

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must get back to the city.

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Yes, it's a long drive and we'd like to make

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it before dark.

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I regret this has turned out to be so unpleasant,

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But then perhaps it couldn't have been avoided.

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Perhaps, But it's over now, George, let's go. Oh I

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can't get away fast enough.

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I don't know what the speed limit is here, but

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whatever it is, will break it.

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Helena, I order you to come out of your room

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at once.

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At once, Mother, don't hurt her.

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She is my only friend, the only friend I have

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in the whole world.

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Run from the ring, run for your life. But without

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a ring, what's a husband or wife? We'll return shortly

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with act three. She let us try and penetrate the

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shrouding darkness of the final act of a Ring of Roses.

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Laurie and George have been plunged into a strange, unwil

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experience as the twilight lowers over the countryside. They are

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fleeing from the rostins, the malevolent nursery rhyme, the flashing acts,

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the avenging curse, the fatal ring. What can flight outrace

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those forces of evil? That woman at missus Rosston, she's monstrous.

480
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.400
Oh, I'm so sorry for Helena.

481
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.079
Yeah, well I didn't see any halos around her head either.

482
00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:30.920
Yeah, but just imagine having to live with that mother.

483
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:33.559
Why does she have to tell Helena that she and

484
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:34.880
her father never married.

485
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:36.440
Do you believe it?

486
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:39.680
Why would she lie about something that important?

487
00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:43.559
Maybe out of just plain malice or.

488
00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:45.400
Or what?

489
00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.000
It just occurred to me. Couldn't she have invented that

490
00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:53.680
story about the curse the ring puts on firstborn Roston

491
00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:58.200
girls to what end? Simple, it'd be a guarantee that

492
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.880
she'd never be alone, that she could hold on to

493
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:03.799
her daughter for life, like the woodcutter.

494
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:08.279
Oh, don't remind me of him anyway. I can't see

495
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:10.240
how the ring and whatever it's supposed to.

496
00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:11.119
Do fits well.

497
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:13.359
If she made up the business about fate keeping her

498
00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:16.079
from marrying Helena's father, and wouldn't that be a kind

499
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:20.039
of evidence proof for Helena that the curse was real?

500
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:22.720
Well, then why would she give us the ring?

501
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.079
I'm only guessing, but couldn't it have been missus Rawson's

502
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:28.640
way of telling her daughter that she wouldn't marry even

503
00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:31.000
if the ring was off the premises, so to speak.

504
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.720
But George, whatever we think of missus Rawson, she's still

505
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:37.640
a mother. And what mother would sentence her daughter to

506
00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:39.039
a lifetime of misery?

507
00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:39.680
Huh?

508
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:43.200
Look, I'm sorry I got you into this mess. I

509
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:44.960
didn't dream it would be that horrible.

510
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:46.799
Well you had no way of knowing.

511
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:52.279
Well, looking back, I should have Helena always so strange,

512
00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:58.920
so withdrawn, so mysterious about herself or home and her mother.

513
00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:01.039
It should have been a.

514
00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:06.079
Warning, honey, let's find a happier subject such ass Well,

515
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:11.200
let's see. Okay, it's not original, but it'll do. For instance,

516
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:14.039
if and when we have our first baby, would you

517
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:14.960
want a boy or a girl?

518
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:16.720
Oh, don't be corn, Why not?

519
00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.920
Corn is fine as long as it's George George.

520
00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:23.400
Isn't there someone in the road, Well, look straight ahead.

521
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:27.440
Oh yeah, that's a woman. Well we're not stopping for

522
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:29.599
man or beast or any mixture of the two.

523
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:30.680
Here.

524
00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.039
Lets you get her off the road, because if it doesn't,

525
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:35.240
then she may be another bit of PSP and we

526
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.200
can drive right through.

527
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:36.920
Darling.

528
00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:40.920
Slow down, she's waving at us, George, slow down.

529
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.960
Way. If that's a living body and it wants to

530
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:45.000
stay that way, she'll get off the road.

531
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:48.640
Oh please, She isn't moving from the middle of the road.

532
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:49.880
Have her teeth wherever she.

533
00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:52.240
Is, George, George, you're going to hit her.

534
00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:55.119
All right? All right?

535
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:56.480
I think so?

536
00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:57.880
That stupid woman.

537
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:00.759
It's Helena.

538
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.440
Yeah, well, just wave goodbye and we'll get going.

539
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:08.599
Lourie, please, I must speak to you.

540
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.000
Tell her your phone around Halloween. Hey, wait, Laurie, don't

541
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:12.680
lower the window.

542
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:15.480
She's in trouble, better hr than you.

543
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:17.839
There can't be any danger in finding out what she want.

544
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.279
How much you've been through enough, Helena. We're in a hurry.

545
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:22.640
Telephone Laurie tomorrow.

546
00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:23.680
Don't go.

547
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:27.759
Please let me explain, George, I don't have the heart.

548
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:33.480
Are you sure that's Helene? Of course, her face it

549
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:34.640
looks so strange.

550
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:37.240
What's strange about her face?

551
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.640
Her eyes, they're washed out, they're sunken, as if he

552
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.279
said she's taken some kind of drug.

553
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:47.000
That's probably because she's been crying. I'm lowering the window.

554
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:48.279
And you're also raising my temper.

555
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:49.599
What do you want me to do?

556
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.279
So wave goodbye and we'll get going.

557
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.880
Oh she's gone to the front of the car now, George.

558
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.240
Oh she does look dreadful.

559
00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:58.640
Why not, she is dreadful.

560
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.119
I've got to find out what she wants.

561
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:04.160
Just one minute, let me talk to her for just

562
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:05.200
only one minute.

563
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:09.559
Okay, sixty seconds, But don't lower the window more than

564
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:10.079
an inch.

565
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.640
Helena Helena over here.

566
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.279
Now, what is it? Oh? Thank you, Laurie.

567
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.519
If you only knew how miserable I am about what

568
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:23.279
happened today.

569
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.799
It was all my fault.

570
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:26.920
You don't have to apologize.

571
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:31.519
It wasn't anybody's fault. Mother had only the best intentions

572
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:32.160
in giving.

573
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:32.400
You the ring.

574
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.079
Sure, she did nothing like unloading something on a couple

575
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.200
of strangers. That isn't yours to give away.

576
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:39.880
But the ring does belong to her mother.

577
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:42.559
Only to be given to her child, which excludes you.

578
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:47.039
That's true. But you see, after me, there won't be

579
00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:47.920
any Rostins.

580
00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:50.119
But you will marry Helena.

581
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:51.400
Just wait, Untie.

582
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:55.599
I doubt it, and even if I did, my children won't.

583
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:58.680
Be Rostin's Helena. This has been the weirdest day in

584
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.480
my life. Oh, frankly, the sooner we get away from here,

585
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:02.759
the better off will feel.

586
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:05.920
Just one more thing. Prove to me that you are

587
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:10.440
still my friend, and please take the ring.

588
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:14.640
No, Helena, thank you, but I couldn't.

589
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:16.359
Absolutely not, Helena.

590
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.799
Why don't you just throw that ring away somewhere?

591
00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:19.559
I can't.

592
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.519
I'm not allowed to. It has to be given to

593
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.200
a Rostaer or to the person closest and dearest to me.

594
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:31.960
But how could you expect me to take it? Every

595
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:35.359
time I look at it, I remember that terrible scene.

596
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.599
In the wood.

597
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.400
I swear the ring has nothing to do with what

598
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:39.240
happened out there.

599
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:40.640
It never has before.

600
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:43.160
This is the first time, and it'll be the last

601
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.160
for us. Okay, Helen, I stand away from the car.

602
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:45.880
I'm backing out.

603
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:48.279
Why if you don't take the ring, I'll die.

604
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:51.240
I know I'll die. You won't die, Helena.

605
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:52.119
Why should be?

606
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.480
Because it will mean that I've lost my only friend,

607
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:55.799
that I have no one.

608
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:56.240
To turn to.

609
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:58.880
All I'm stuck here in this present with my mother,

610
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:00.680
and she'll never let me go.

611
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:03.079
Never Holong, Helena.

612
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:05.519
If I returned to the house with the ring, my

613
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:07.200
mother will do something terrible.

614
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:09.280
If you don't take the ring, I'll throw myself in

615
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:12.199
front of the car. I don't care anymore. I don't care.

616
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:15.360
Helena. Give me the ring.

617
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.320
Oh you mean you will take it? Oh, Laurie, You've

618
00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:22.639
made me so happy. I've in ded it to you

619
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:24.400
forever forever.

620
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.119
You're angry with me, George, aren't you.

621
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:34.239
No.

622
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.679
I'll probably never see her again, and if it meant

623
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:40.360
that much.

624
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:42.840
To her, probably meant even more to her was that

625
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.880
she could twist and bend you in anyway she wanted.

626
00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:48.719
Well, in a way. It was her last hope of

627
00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:52.360
getting out of that house. That's why I finally took

628
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.360
the ring. Actually, what harm could it do?

629
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:58.000
I don't know, Laurie, except that anything connected with the

630
00:34:58.119 --> 00:34:59.639
ruston seems dangerous.

631
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:04.519
That's because the Rawstins are difficult to understand or explain.

632
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.320
That may be. But why we might never get to

633
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.360
the bottom of that axe job in the woods. There

634
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:12.920
must be a key somewhere to the rastins. After all,

635
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:17.519
they're not ghosts or optical illusions. They are people, living,

636
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:21.559
breathing humans. Still, for all we know about them, they're

637
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:25.920
just as haunted as that phantom woodcutter and his crazy daughter.

638
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:28.280
Let's stop talking about them.

639
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.719
I will if you do me an important favor.

640
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:32.880
If I can.

641
00:35:33.159 --> 00:35:39.840
You can't throw that ring away? You mean, now, ripe

642
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.639
the second, open the window and throw it out. But why, honey,

643
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.280
I consider it a special favor to me. If you

644
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:47.559
got rid of that ring.

645
00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:51.960
Well, I have no intention of keeping it, but I

646
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:53.519
don't want to just throw it away.

647
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:55.159
What do you want to do with it?

648
00:35:56.320 --> 00:36:01.079
Give it away to whom I haven't thought yet.

649
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:03.960
Try thinking about it right now.

650
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.119
You sound as if you're ordering me to do it.

651
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.480
Actually, I'm begging you, Laurie, begging you to get rid

652
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:11.480
of the damn ring.

653
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:16.960
I said I would, but when when I find someone

654
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.360
to give it to someone who would appreciate it. It

655
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:25.719
just doesn't make sense to just throw away something that's

656
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:29.639
probably valuable for just anyone to find, or to have

657
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.199
it crushed under a car.

658
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:37.119
Say I know what I could do with it.

659
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.400
Robed, Laurie. It's only going to get us into an argument.

660
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:41.639
No, I'm serious.

661
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:44.679
Honestly, I just thought of where this ring could do

662
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:45.400
the most good.

663
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:47.320
Fine, you do what you want with it, but let's

664
00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:48.159
not talk about it.

665
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.440
Oh you'll agree, I bet you will.

666
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:53.960
Oh honey, do you realize that since we've known each other,

667
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:56.360
we've never had so many disagreements.

668
00:36:56.599 --> 00:36:58.440
But I'm not disagreeing with you.

669
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.920
Good, then let's change the subject. Or better still, let's

670
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:04.840
let's let everything take a rest.

671
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:06.800
If that's what you want.

672
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:20.480
Fine, Ari, what are you doing?

673
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:22.119
Nothing?

674
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:25.199
Ari, what are you doing with that ring?

675
00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:27.280
Nothing? I said?

676
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:29.760
Besides, you don't want to talk about it?

677
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:32.440
Why are you wearing it?

678
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:37.119
I was playing with it. I just wanted to see

679
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:37.639
if it fit.

680
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:40.719
Will you please take it off?

681
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.599
What are you getting so excited about that ring?

682
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.400
If you can't throw it away, at least put it away.

683
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:49.320
You're getting awfully bossy.

684
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:51.239
You're doing it on need to get a rise out

685
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:51.440
of me.

686
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.280
You can forget about it because I'm going to give

687
00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:57.599
it to that thrip shop around the corner from where

688
00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:57.880
I live.

689
00:37:57.960 --> 00:37:59.320
Great idea, and I'll please take it.

690
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:06.800
Off, right, wait, anything for some peace? That's funny?

691
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:08.760
What is.

692
00:38:11.159 --> 00:38:15.320
The ring stuck? I'll get it off.

693
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.400
You shouldn't have put it on if it was too small,

694
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:18.440
but it wasn't.

695
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:23.599
In fact, it felt too big. Isn't that strange? I

696
00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.920
can't even twist it.

697
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:30.119
Get the flashlight out of the glove compartment. I'll turn

698
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:31.760
it on and hold your finger under the light.

699
00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:34.719
There, can you see it?

700
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.039
Your finger doesn't look swollen.

701
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:45.760
No, it hasn't swollen, but the ring won't budge.

702
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.159
George, George, do you hear something?

703
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:50.800
Hear what?

704
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:54.039
That voice? The singing?

705
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.320
Don't you hear it?

706
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:06.440
I don't wait, yes, I do said song. Where's it

707
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:07.159
coming from?

708
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:08.760
I don't know.

709
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:11.400
It seems to be surrounding us.

710
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:13.679
I've turned the bright lights on. You keep trying to

711
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:14.400
get that ring off.

712
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.840
I am trying, but it's as if it's cemented to

713
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:20.000
my finger, and that's singing.

714
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.360
It's the same as the girls in the forest.

715
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.000
Get rid of the flash and give me your hand.

716
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:25.840
Maybe I can't get it off.

717
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:26.719
Well you can't.

718
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:29.920
There's no traffic, Laurie. I can manage the wheel with

719
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:30.480
one hand.

720
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.719
Why don't we wait till we get to a gas station.

721
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:34.519
Then I can get it off with a little sop.

722
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:35.800
Come on, give me your hand.

723
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:36.519
All right?

724
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:37.159
No?

725
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:38.800
Wait, I can't.

726
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:39.239
Why not?

727
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:40.400
Oh?

728
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:41.360
I just can't.

729
00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:43.559
George Glory, you were about to drive me out of

730
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.320
my head. Why can't you give me your hand?

731
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:48.719
Because because I remembered something?

732
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:51.400
What if I Heaven's sake, what, Laurie, What.

733
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:55.000
Helena said back there when you wanted me to take

734
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:57.880
the ring? She said a lot of hysterical things that

735
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.960
if she couldn't give the ring to a ross, it

736
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.360
would have to be to a person nearest and dearest

737
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:03.639
to her.

738
00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:06.719
The Helen is all whacked up. Now give me your hand, Laurie.

739
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:08.599
But what if it's true?

740
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:09.239
Oh?

741
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:11.480
That voice, a terrible voice.

742
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.760
Why is this? Slorry? Please give me your hand.

743
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:18.360
No, because if you can get it off, then you'll

744
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:19.079
be stuck with it.

745
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:19.679
Who cares.

746
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:21.800
I don't want anything to happen to.

747
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:29.400
You, Not for anything, George. George looks straight ahead to them,

748
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:30.159
the old man.

749
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:30.440
Of the girl.

750
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:32.639
He's got a hat the car.

751
00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:38.199
Don't don't go around them, threw them down, kill them,

752
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.320
do anything working.

753
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.639
George, were perfectly on top.

754
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:43.800
For the last time.

755
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:44.519
Give me your hand.

756
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:44.840
The rink?

757
00:40:44.920 --> 00:41:03.480
Can Laurie, are you all right? It was a tree? Weird?

758
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:10.119
Oh, only a tree, Laurie, you heard me. It's only

759
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.719
a tree, Laurie.

760
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:27.000
The ring, the ring? What did you do? Not on

761
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.159
your finger? Your finger?

762
00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:41.719
Good Lord, she's dead.

763
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:46.280
So you gave Laurie the ring?

764
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:51.079
Elena, Yes, mother, as you told me to. Now give

765
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:55.079
me the box and you'll see if the ring has worked.

766
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:59.480
Wonders once more. Here's the box, the one with the

767
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:08.679
rose open it. Yes, mother, but the music. Why isn't

768
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:12.159
the music playing. It's a good sign that it's not playing.

769
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.719
It's the sign that the ring has done its work.

770
00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.679
Your friend, Laurie will not marry ever.

771
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:22.119
Not ever.

772
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:25.599
But the ring?

773
00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:30.400
Mother, Where is the ring? You'll find it in the woods.

774
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:35.119
In the clearing, in the same place where I killed

775
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.199
your great grandfather one hundred and forty three years ago.

776
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:44.960
Go and bring back the ring. It will keep us

777
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.239
alive forever.

778
00:42:48.880 --> 00:43:02.440
Forever, forever you ghosts, forever, you say, But your death

779
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:05.719
is as forever as your grim rosy ring.

780
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:19.360
I'll be back shortly and let us end our tale

781
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.559
of ring a ring of roses, for as we also know,

782
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:27.199
roses are red, roses are blue, But the rose of

783
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:33.519
death is meant for who. Our cast included Glennis O'Connor,

784
00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:39.360
George Petrie, Sidney Walker, El Speth, Eric Holland Taylor, and

785
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.199
Carol Hillard. The entire production was under the direction of

786
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:43.960
Hyman Brown.

787
00:43:44.559 --> 00:44:04.719
Until next time, pleasant dreams.

788
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:13.719
Well, my dear, how do you feel now? Is the

789
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:19.400
chill growing within you? Or has it been called back

790
00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:24.360
by the fire and a good hot cup of tea?

791
00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:31.599
What's that? Well? Of course I have more to share,

792
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:37.440
I always do. I so enjoy these evenings we spend together,

793
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:45.440
so I'm prepared for anything, although no one is prepared

794
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:49.400
when the bride vanishes.

795
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:02.320
Suspense.

796
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:29.000
Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventures.

797
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:34.760
Story is calculated to intrigue you to stir your nerves tonight.

798
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.639
For instance, as we begin, you may want to ask

799
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:42.159
yourself how could a young lady a bride walk out

800
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:48.559
on a balcony alone and vanish completely vanish? We trusted

801
00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:50.920
while you are wondering how and why it.

802
00:45:51.039 --> 00:46:02.199
Was done, we shall keep you in suspense or suspense.

803
00:46:03.239 --> 00:46:12.960
Tonight, CBS presents The Bride Vanishes by John Dixon Carr,

804
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:26.440
Italy in springtime, Italy as we used to know it

805
00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:31.320
before the jackal struck and the Island of Capri twenty

806
00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:35.320
miles out across the Bay of Naples, blue water, a

807
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:39.119
dazzle under the sun behind for the bone white beaches

808
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.440
and vesuvius, dull purple, and a heat haze ahead. As

809
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:47.360
the little steamer from Naples chugs out across the bay,

810
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:53.639
rises cupri olive trees and white roads and vineyards above

811
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:56.960
the cliffs. Could young Americans find a better place to

812
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:02.280
spend their honeymoon while the guitars and the warm winds blow,

813
00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:11.119
and the little steamer carries them? Well, missus Courtney, Well,

814
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:17.000
mister Courtney, I can't keep it up. I'm going to

815
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:19.039
break down and ask if you're happy.

816
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:21.960
Oh, I'll break down to I want to walk up

817
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:23.519
everybody I'm eating, say.

818
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:25.559
WEU just like that.

819
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:27.840
What I want to do is turn somersaults myself all

820
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:28.840
along this decade.

821
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:32.360
I want to say, I've been married to Tom Courtney

822
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:35.159
for practically two weeks and now we're.

823
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:39.079
Going to have a Villa Cattrie for a month. Oh Tom,

824
00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:40.679
I ought to be the happiest woman in.

825
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:43.800
The world, only you shivered.

826
00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:44.639
What's wrong?

827
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:48.159
Well, ever since we got aboard this ship, people have

828
00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:49.360
been staring at me.

829
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:51.760
I can't blame them for that, Dear, no, no.

830
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.639
I mean in a funny way and mut rooms.

831
00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:58.519
Even your American friend what's his name, Uhranger?

832
00:47:58.719 --> 00:47:59.400
Mister Granger.

833
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:01.639
When you're introduced him to me at Naples, I thought

834
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:02.840
his eyes were gonna pop off.

835
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:03.360
Be careful.

836
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:06.119
He's standing over by the rear now. Oh he lives

837
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:06.480
at Capri.

838
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.480
I like to see him wearing that white ten gallon

839
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:11.400
hat and lay.

840
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:14.639
Before Granger made money in oil wells, he was a

841
00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.639
real old fashioned cow punching and he's prop with it.

842
00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:19.000
Good fella doo.

843
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.840
He's too polite to say anything, but he keeps looking

844
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.039
around at me, just the same as the rest of

845
00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:29.559
them do will Well, Tommy, they look scared.

846
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:31.000
You know, we see.

847
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:33.280
This isn't the time to start imagining things.

848
00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:33.800
I know.

849
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:37.320
Maybe I'm just so happy I'm afraid it can't last.

850
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:38.679
Oh, don't say that.

851
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.599
But wouldn't it be pretty awful if something did happen

852
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:43.599
and we weren't together any longer?

853
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:46.639
Wait a minute, hasn't this ship stopped?

854
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:47.880
Yes?

855
00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:50.679
Well, I di Capri ahead of us, isn't it.

856
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:51.280
I can't be.

857
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:54.039
Anything else, but it seems a funny place to stop.

858
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.079
No sign of a harbor, only rocks and little gray cliffs. Oh,

859
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:02.960
mister Granger, mister John, Yes, you happen to know why

860
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:03.639
we're stopping here.

861
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:08.079
Yes, that's amazing, one son. We're stopping so that you

862
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:11.679
and your good lady and anybody else who's curious can

863
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:13.480
get a look at the blue grotto.

864
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:17.840
Blue grottle cord shaved your eyes?

865
00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:18.920
Good hemn man?

866
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:23.519
You see that that tiny little arch under the cliff. Yeah,

867
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:26.719
and all the little white rowboats are coming out towards us.

868
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:27.719
Now.

869
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:31.039
When the first boat comes alongside, you climb down that

870
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:32.119
iron ladder.

871
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:34.480
And get in. The boat will row you out and

872
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:35.960
through the arch into the grotto.

873
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:38.360
It's a great big dark cavern.

874
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:39.920
The water in there.

875
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.480
Looks as though it's lit up underneath with blue fire.

876
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:45.119
Like to go out and see it. Let me give

877
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:48.000
you a little tiptoe. The current's pretty fast out there.

878
00:49:48.039 --> 00:49:50.360
You'll go shooting under that arch like sixty.

879
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:51.719
Are we lucky to upt?

880
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:52.039
Oh?

881
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:54.360
No, no, but the arch is this highs your head

882
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:57.079
when you see it coming. Lie back flat in the boat,

883
00:49:57.400 --> 00:49:58.920
that is, unless you want your block.

884
00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:02.599
Thanks mister Granger. We remember.

885
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:03.440
Come along with.

886
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:15.119
Easy on the ladder, Lucie Brown.

887
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:18.400
I'm all right, darling, and just as good a swimmer

888
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:19.000
as you are.

889
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:23.760
The boat now I think one more step, steady, I'll

890
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:29.719
turn around facing the boatman and sit down here, easy man,

891
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:30.519
you want upset us?

892
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:30.960
Sit down?

893
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:32.920
Who come back?

894
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:36.760
Yes, come back. I've never been here before in my life.

895
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:39.079
Push off, man, stop rowing. The other boats are piling

896
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:40.079
up behind you.

897
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:42.519
You come back, start.

898
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:43.199
Rowing, can't you?

899
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:47.960
And that is Soberto basta huh.

900
00:50:48.360 --> 00:50:49.559
You can't take his eyes off us.

901
00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:51.480
I wish he'd watch out where he's rowing.

902
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:55.400
You'll come to live at the philoport, says yes, Tom,

903
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:58.239
did you know that he's the lady?

904
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:00.360
She is a mustad.

905
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.000
Dead of course, she's not dead. What are you talking about?

906
00:51:03.159 --> 00:51:08.800
She never come to Capri before. Never. Then I tell.

907
00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:14.480
You she will disappear, just like the other one disappear.

908
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:17.360
I arrest my orders and I tell.

909
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:19.960
You, are we moving rather fast?

910
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:22.159
Yes, that's the entrance to the grotto ahead. I tell

911
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:26.880
you there was a lady so much like your competing back.

912
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:28.280
It's scared.

913
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:30.599
Look a man, I don't want to teach you your business,

914
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:33.679
but you've got your back to that grotto to take it.

915
00:51:33.760 --> 00:51:36.840
This lady back? Where's she coming from? Do not take

916
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:37.719
you to the veloport?

917
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:52.800
Sounds he put on your back down?

918
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:56.480
I am sorry. I almost make you get hurt. You know,

919
00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:59.159
any got your own head, not all excuse me, nor

920
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:03.079
I to it. Hell, I will rode you around the

921
00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:03.840
blue ghattle.

922
00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:14.519
I don't think I like it much, Tom, neither do I.

923
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:18.440
Dark set for that blue light under.

924
00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:22.679
The water, transtand you can see the fishes swimming.

925
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:27.559
The gentleman about this lady who disappeared in the Bulghese

926
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:32.679
two three years ago? She disappeared, you say, she looked

927
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:36.679
exactly like my wife, Si senor. She was going to

928
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.960
be married. She was trying on what do you call her?

929
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:43.039
Wedding dress, her mother and sisters. They were in the

930
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:46.159
room with her. She walk out on a balcony over

931
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:47.639
the sea. You know what I mean?

932
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:52.119
On a balcony over the sea. Everybody ever hear of

933
00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:56.000
her again? You mean she jumped over into the sea,

934
00:52:56.519 --> 00:52:57.320
a young girl.

935
00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:58.920
Going to be married gee herself.

936
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:00.679
No, no, no, no, did happen?

937
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:06.400
I do not know, but sometimes they say you can

938
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:11.079
beat her ghost in the Here she flows just under

939
00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:14.920
the water where you can see her and turn over

940
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.119
hand all he and the wading veil is still around

941
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:19.679
her face.

942
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:22.480
Tom, let's get out of here.

943
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:23.119
Do you want to go?

944
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:26.599
Yes, let's see if this fellow strings not sting a

945
00:53:26.639 --> 00:53:29.760
long and somebody ought to know what this means. If

946
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:33.320
we've inherited a haunted balcony where people disappear like soap bubbles.

947
00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:35.719
I say it's too much. Let's get back to our

948
00:53:35.719 --> 00:53:38.400
ship and talk to Granger. Yes, Boman, take us back.

949
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:48.760
Lord, ma'am. You two young women.

950
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:49.960
See I start.

951
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:51.360
He was like, can't give me a.

952
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:51.800
Hand a seat?

953
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.480
Oh didn't anybody else go to the blue grotto?

954
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:01.639
Well, man, no, not after I saw you go. It's

955
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:05.280
all right. We've just heard the story in, Miss Spranger.

956
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:07.119
Oh, I ought to have told you about it myself.

957
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:08.280
All the way out here.

958
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:10.039
I've been cussing myself and thinking.

959
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:12.360
What an ornery old badger I am for not telling

960
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:14.400
you when I first met you in Naples. The girl

961
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:18.920
did vanish by a first rate miracle, Yes, broad daylight,

962
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:21.119
and within twenty feet of her mother and sisters.

963
00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:23.239
You don't look like a man who believe in miracles,

964
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:25.400
Miss Svenger, Oh, I'm not soun I'm just telling you

965
00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:28.920
what happened. But why is everybody so excited? Somebody must

966
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:30.079
have thrown her off the balcony.

967
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:33.199
Josephine Adams was all alone on a balcony forty feet

968
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:36.519
up the cliff, smooth as glass. She didn't fall, she

969
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:39.239
wasn't thrown because there was no sound of a splash,

970
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:41.400
and she didn't come back from the balcony because her

971
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:43.519
mother and sisters were in front of the only door.

972
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:49.679
Yet within fifteen seconds fifteen seconds, mind you, she just vanished.

973
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:52.239
You believe that, sure?

974
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.119
I believe it. Son, It's a fact.

975
00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:55.639
Did you know the girl's tamray?

976
00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:56.960
Oh? Very well.

977
00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.639
We've got a reelinginglish speaking columny here. Oh, by the way,

978
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:02.360
in about half a minute. Now, I'm going to show

979
00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:03.119
you your new home.

980
00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:04.639
Can we see it here?

981
00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:05.840
Oh?

982
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.199
Sure you can, ma'am. It's on the edge of the cliff,

983
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:10.760
doctor Davis. His house is on one side of it.

984
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:12.159
My shack's on the other.

985
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:17.039
Uh. That's why I want to ask you a question.

986
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:19.119
Of course, ask anything in life.

987
00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:21.440
Well, I'm an old stager, ma'am, but not exactly up

988
00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:23.440
to the high toned society around here.

989
00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:26.519
But do you do you trust me?

990
00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:27.559
Said?

991
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:28.199
I think so?

992
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:32.480
Well, then promise me something unley sure with somebody you

993
00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:33.159
do trust.

994
00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:37.840
Keep away from that balcony. Do you honestly think there's danger?

995
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:40.639
I don't know, sir. If I did, I wouldn't have

996
00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:41.719
to talk this way.

997
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:45.239
Sounds like a dog barking. I thought I heard it before.

998
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:48.480
What is a big police dog and led by a

999
00:55:48.639 --> 00:55:51.679
very handsome woman. If you asked me, Oh Lord, here

1000
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:54.960
she is again, Oh the Countess. She lives in our colony.

1001
00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:57.840
She looks like an American. You take your eyes off

1002
00:55:57.840 --> 00:55:58.559
for Tom Carton.

1003
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:01.719
She is an American. Marry the coach for cheesy or

1004
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:06.320
something like that. Just call her Nelly, my dear mister Granger.

1005
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:08.199
It's true.

1006
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:11.199
Everybody told me so, but I couldn't believe it until

1007
00:56:11.239 --> 00:56:15.440
I saw her. She does look exactly like poor Josephine Adams,

1008
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:18.639
just as small, just as dainty.

1009
00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:21.679
Jesus is everybody trying to give me the jitters.

1010
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:23.800
Oh yeah, I want you to meet some friends of mine.

1011
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.360
Oh you don't need to introduce me.

1012
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:26.440
I know who they are.

1013
00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:28.760
You have a nice young couple who've taken that villa

1014
00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:34.679
I'm Nelli located. This is my dog, Tiberius, named after

1015
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:37.199
the wicked Roman emperor you know, who used to live

1016
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:37.639
at Cafri.

1017
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:38.639
I most confessed.

1018
00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:42.199
I'm terribly fascinated by wicked things.

1019
00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:44.920
And you, mister.

1020
00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:47.320
Colley Lucy, stopped to do me in the ribs.

1021
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:48.800
I haven't done anything.

1022
00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:50.679
No, and you're not going to Tiberia seems to have

1023
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:52.280
taken quite badly to hum it is.

1024
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.760
I've never known him to go to a changer. I

1025
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:57.920
only wish I could borrow him. He might be a

1026
00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:01.639
charm against I don't know. We'll be at the Harburn

1027
00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:02.320
a few minutes.

1028
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:04.239
Then you must let me drive you up to the Vinna.

1029
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.000
You won't be able to get any servants, I'm afraid,

1030
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.679
because they won't stay there, but you can camp out.

1031
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:18.119
Luke there, we're passing it now where on the case

1032
00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:19.639
where I'm pointing.

1033
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:24.320
Wait a minute, there must be some mistake. That's not

1034
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:25.400
the villable gasey.

1035
00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:26.119
It sure is.

1036
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:29.760
And that's a palace like all the other houses there.

1037
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.119
And I rendered it furnished for about twenty five dollars

1038
00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:34.599
a month.

1039
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:36.679
Can't you guess why you got it so cheap?

1040
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:36.880
Son?

1041
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.039
You take my advice, you'll turn around and go back

1042
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:41.559
to Naples by the next steamer.

1043
00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:43.519
Harry Granger, don't be an idiot.

1044
00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:47.119
Let's have some excitement. Let's have some excitement.

1045
00:57:48.199 --> 00:57:53.480
Tom is beautiful, too, infernally beautiful, if you ask me.

1046
00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:55.719
There there's the balcony.

1047
00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:01.599
It's all right by daylight, sun marble them tapestries and whatnot.

1048
00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:04.239
But at night, when you've gotta put out the lights,

1049
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.159
you start thinking what happened?

1050
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.360
The moon over Capri makes a deathly daylight. You could

1051
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:32.199
see to read on that balcony if anyone went out there.

1052
00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:35.679
Frosted glass doors open out on it.

1053
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:40.079
From a big room on the ground floor, two determinedly

1054
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:47.280
calm persons and a dog sit looking at each other. Lucy,

1055
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:51.320
stop it, stop what stop looking over at that balcony.

1056
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:52.480
I'm sorry, darling.

1057
00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:55.440
Why are we sitting here anyway? There's an outer room

1058
00:58:55.519 --> 00:58:56.800
that's much more comfortable.

1059
00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.639
It's like having a toothache, a very little toothache.

1060
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:02.559
I may be dense, angel, but I don't follow you.

1061
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:04.400
You put your tongue against the tooth to see if

1062
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.440
it will hurt. You know it will hurt, but you

1063
00:59:06.519 --> 00:59:07.800
go on doing it just the same.

1064
00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:09.079
That's us.

1065
00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:13.480
Maybe you're right, Oh, Tommy, did you ever think we'd

1066
00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:15.000
have a lovely house like this?

1067
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:18.440
The house is all right? Yes, then they have to

1068
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:22.320
go and spoil everything our honeymoon with this blasted Tommy

1069
00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:24.400
rot about tom Here is Jerry.

1070
00:59:24.119 --> 00:59:25.599
Now as I was this afternoon.

1071
00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:28.039
Even Tiberius is Jitry.

1072
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:31.719
Yes, I guess I am, easy boy, easy easy.

1073
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:36.519
Well, it's whiskey on the table. They call it ky here,

1074
00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:39.239
which yourself a drink in.

1075
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:44.239
A minute, not just now. We see there's nothing wrong

1076
00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:48.679
with that balcony. Suppose you walked out there this minute.

1077
00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:52.400
I've had a horrible longing to try it, just because

1078
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:52.760
I know I.

1079
00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:55.719
Shouldn't do nothing to attack you. All you'd have to

1080
00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:58.719
do would be yellow. That'll bring mister Granger out on

1081
00:59:58.760 --> 01:00:01.199
his balcony like a shot. And the neighbor on the

1082
01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:04.840
other side of what who is on the other.

1083
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:07.960
Side, by the way, A loney doctor what?

1084
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:11.440
A specialist in brain diseases, Doctor David.

1085
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:14.599
He's English.

1086
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:17.800
It's somebody in the other room. Easy, Tiberius is he?

1087
01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:21.559
I'm afraid it's all right. You hold Tiberius as color

1088
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:23.760
while I open the door. We don't want him to

1089
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:27.000
fly at anybody. We're going into the other room and

1090
01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:28.559
stay there. Ready.

1091
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:39.440
Yes, Uh, good evening, mister Courtney. Uh, good evening, Missus Courtney.

1092
01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:44.119
I'm no ghost, though you appear to regard me as one.

1093
01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:47.559
I'm Milly, your neighbor. Dr Rutherford Davis.

1094
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:52.800
Oh, yes, of course, mister Granger mentioned you.

1095
01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:57.960
I trust you will pardon this intrusion. No one answered

1096
01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:01.280
my knock, so I ventured to come in. It's no

1097
01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:05.480
intrusion now to Davis. We're a little disorganized here, that's

1098
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:11.559
all naturally, mister Courtney. I wish I could say welcome

1099
01:01:11.599 --> 01:01:15.920
to Capri, but I have a very different message. Well,

1100
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:20.320
if you value Missus Courtney's life, you'll go back to

1101
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:25.000
Naples immediately, sir, Not you too. I do not say

1102
01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:27.320
that as a ghost hunter, Sir, I say it is

1103
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.719
a medical man. May I sit down?

1104
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:32.400
Oh of course, please do.

1105
01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:37.599
Thank you. We seem to be forgetting our manners, doctor Davis.

1106
01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:40.920
Will you will have a drink? Oh? Thank you, perhaps

1107
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:41.800
a small whiskey.

1108
01:01:42.519 --> 01:01:44.760
I'll get it done. You sit down and talk to

1109
01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:45.440
doctor Davis.

1110
01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:47.440
You're not going back into that room alone.

1111
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:49.239
I'm only going to get the drinks done.

1112
01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.679
Promise to be good, and Tiberius can come with me,

1113
01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:54.000
can't you, Tiberian?

1114
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:57.360
Oh? I see you've borrowed Tiberius from the count Ucation.

1115
01:01:57.639 --> 01:01:59.519
Yes, she was kind enough to offer him.

1116
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:00.320
Use me.

1117
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:01.159
I'll be back in a minute.

1118
01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:13.480
Come on, hi, I hope this is all right. Doctor. No, sir,

1119
01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:17.559
it is not all right. Your wife is in very

1120
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:22.639
great danger. But why because of that balcony? No, because

1121
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:26.199
she looks exactly like the late Josephine Adams. I don't

1122
01:02:26.199 --> 01:02:30.239
get it, mister Courtney. Did you ever hear of paranoia?

1123
01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:34.559
That's some kind of mental disease. And the paranoia begins

1124
01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:38.480
by imagining that he or she is being persecuted by someone.

1125
01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:43.119
First he hears things, a voice in his brain whispers,

1126
01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:44.440
you will be killed.

1127
01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:47.440
You will be killed. You will be killed.

1128
01:02:48.559 --> 01:02:50.400
He hears it in the tick of a clock, in

1129
01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:53.119
the rattle of a train, in the footsteps on the street.

1130
01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:56.079
There are holes in the walls through which his.

1131
01:02:56.199 --> 01:03:00.000
Enemy is always watching, invisible speaking tubers, bring me message.

1132
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:03.760
J There are pains, there's joints, and nightmares of attempts

1133
01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:08.079
to poison him. His brain bursts and he chills, he chills,

1134
01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:16.360
he chills. Excuse me first, speaking so strongly, But how

1135
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:20.840
does this affect us? And mister Courtney, will you will

1136
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:25.159
you examine this sheet of paper? What is it? The

1137
01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:27.920
fragment of a typewritten dowry. I found it on the

1138
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:31.519
cliffs months ago. Don't ask me who wrote it, but

1139
01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:34.800
I know that a criminal, lunatic on this island. He

1140
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:40.039
imagined the poor, inoffensive Josephine Adams was his enemy, so

1141
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:46.440
he killed her, killed her. Oh, I don't know. And

1142
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:49.920
what happened to the girl's body. I'm not a detective, sir.

1143
01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:53.400
The body was carried out to sea, perhaps or washed

1144
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:55.679
along the cliffs and into the Blue Grotto to be lost.

1145
01:03:56.480 --> 01:04:00.159
But don't you understand the danger to your wife. I'm

1146
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:03.599
not suggesting that somebody's cracked brain. Your wife is Josephine

1147
01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:05.639
Adams created all over again.

1148
01:04:05.960 --> 01:04:06.880
Kill Lucy.

1149
01:04:07.559 --> 01:04:15.920
It couldn't be done. It was done, my friend. Listen,

1150
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:22.800
it sounded like a dog howling. Missus Courtney is rather

1151
01:04:22.880 --> 01:04:25.800
a long time in getting that whiskey. She wouldn't know

1152
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:28.400
they the balcony. She promised not to go out on

1153
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:32.000
the balcony. People do very perverse things, my friend, when

1154
01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:38.360
they know they shouldn't. Lucy, Lucy, that seems to be

1155
01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:39.840
tiberious out on the balcony.

1156
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:47.400
I can't see anything else from here. She's gone, She's gone.

1157
01:04:48.079 --> 01:05:15.800
She's an empty balcony, a howling dog, and a sea

1158
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:18.199
turned clear silver under the moon.

1159
01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:23.920
Then, after the two Moultons shouting, there are other pictures.

1160
01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:28.239
Don't you hear the noise of that motor launch with.

1161
01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:32.199
A half demented young man at the wheel. Three other

1162
01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:37.119
familiar figures are gathered around him. Don't you recognize the

1163
01:05:37.159 --> 01:05:42.920
brunette prettiness of Nellie Lucas, the white ten gallon hat

1164
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:52.320
of Harry Grainger, and the neat pointed beard of doctor Davis.

1165
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:55.000
But what on earth is he going to do out

1166
01:05:55.079 --> 01:05:56.719
here in this motor boat?

1167
01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:58.519
I'd like to lower that roselle.

1168
01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:01.920
Listen, please take it easy, said, we're with you.

1169
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.079
What time is it time? Yes? What time is it that?

1170
01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:09.880
Two in the morning? Going on for three twelve dollars?

1171
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:12.360
Send the tide out to be just where it was

1172
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:14.719
this afternoon. Where's the tag got to do with it?

1173
01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:17.880
A whole lot. Somebody's set a trap and made Lucy

1174
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:19.559
fall off that doctoring, I know it.

1175
01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:20.760
Oh, that's absurd.

1176
01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:23.280
If Lucy's been carried out to sea, there's nothing we

1177
01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:26.239
can do about. But if she's been carried along with

1178
01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:30.400
the current and into the blue grotto at one moment, sir,

1179
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:33.119
you're not proposing to run this big launch under that

1180
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:36.760
arch after dark? Yes, doctor, that's just exactly it.

1181
01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:40.159
Go on, do it. I'll back you up. Let's have

1182
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:41.199
some excitement.

1183
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:44.840
Be exciting enough, I assure you, mister courtey. Have you

1184
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:47.679
got some wild hope of recovering your wife's body. I've

1185
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:50.960
even got a wild hope she may be alive. Lucy's

1186
01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:54.480
a very strong swimmer. You're acting like a Nut's get set, everybody,

1187
01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:55.679
I'm going to swing around.

1188
01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:03.280
We're in m Canada. Been a whole time.

1189
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:05.079
I got to duck my own head when we go through.

1190
01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:12.360
Everybody else squat down. I still protest against this, don't

1191
01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:13.559
you understand, mister Carton?

1192
01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:14.840
Ready, here we go.

1193
01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:32.559
Why don't know the rooms? There's no blue grotto.

1194
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:35.000
It's the blackest pitch.

1195
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:37.480
My dear Nelly. I kept trying to tell all of

1196
01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:41.280
you the blue grotto effect is caused by the sun's rays.

1197
01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:43.840
There never is one except when the sun is out.

1198
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:48.840
Just how does our friend propose to find anything in here?

1199
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:50.119
Listen?

1200
01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:53.159
Something just ruled.

1201
01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:54.039
At the side of the boat.

1202
01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:57.360
I felt it move.

1203
01:07:58.159 --> 01:08:01.199
Not the dead girl, I trust. There's a hand here,

1204
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:03.480
a wet hand.

1205
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:05.559
Lucy.

1206
01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:10.039
She's not alive, mister er, help me lift her up

1207
01:08:10.039 --> 01:08:17.439
over the side, you know, don't hit the boat, Lucy, Lucy,

1208
01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:18.039
you're all right?

1209
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:20.439
Are you all right?

1210
01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:20.840
Lucy?

1211
01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:22.279
Can you hear me?

1212
01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:23.760
All right?

1213
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:25.800
Day?

1214
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:30.680
I got in here, I couldn't swim out again.

1215
01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:33.479
I don't try to talk, got.

1216
01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:34.039
To talk.

1217
01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:39.960
Faith, Tom. Who's with you?

1218
01:08:40.399 --> 01:08:40.720
Only?

1219
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:42.479
Who's with you?

1220
01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:45.000
It's a murderer with you.

1221
01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:47.479
I was just wondering the same thing, to be shut

1222
01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:49.279
up in the dark at three o'clock in the morning

1223
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:53.239
with a criminal, lunatic. Lucy, don't hold me so tired,

1224
01:08:53.319 --> 01:08:55.600
Let don't here. I'll get the boat started, and have

1225
01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:59.399
you out of here in a second only, doctor Davis.

1226
01:09:01.159 --> 01:09:01.800
I got the ten.

1227
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:08.560
I know how they've that girl Josephine Adam died almost

1228
01:09:08.640 --> 01:09:09.000
kill me.

1229
01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:12.680
Has anybody he got some brandy or a flashlight? I

1230
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:15.039
have a flash like my friend. Will you allow me,

1231
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:17.760
as a medical man to examine missus Corney, you better

1232
01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:19.840
keep back with us a second actor. She's a stable.

1233
01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:21.159
Give me the flash tip please.

1234
01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:27.119
I walked into the other room. Nobody with me, all alone,

1235
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:33.760
that typeerias. Yes, somebody call my name from the balcony,

1236
01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:42.239
I thought, very softly. This is Courtney, said Miss Courtney.

1237
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:44.279
Did you recognize the boys.

1238
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:48.319
Yes, that's why I went hadn't you better.

1239
01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:52.119
Start up this person out of Don't pay any attention

1240
01:09:52.199 --> 01:09:54.600
to the lucy. Nobody can hurt you now.

1241
01:09:56.600 --> 01:10:02.920
I went out on the balcony, bright moonlight, brightest day,

1242
01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:05.159
but there was nobody there.

1243
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:06.880
Nobody on the balcony.

1244
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:07.199
No.

1245
01:10:08.399 --> 01:10:09.279
I looked out over.

1246
01:10:09.159 --> 01:10:11.880
The sea, and then something came at me.

1247
01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:13.600
Something blew out.

1248
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:14.479
Of the errant k Mercy.

1249
01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:18.600
One moment before missus Cottney goes on, is anybody in

1250
01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.000
this boat carrying or revolver? Not that I know of,

1251
01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:26.239
excuse my mentioning heat. But I felt something metal like

1252
01:10:26.279 --> 01:10:28.920
a revolver brush past my hand.

1253
01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:31.319
Oh, it was only the flashlight with me.

1254
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.159
It was not a flashlight. Mister Courtney's got the flash light.

1255
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:36.640
You please let Lucy go on and finish. Lucy, you

1256
01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:38.239
were on the balcony and something came at you.

1257
01:10:38.439 --> 01:10:43.079
Yes, like a snake, sideways out of the air.

1258
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:48.239
It went over my head fast upon my neck. It

1259
01:10:48.279 --> 01:10:51.800
was a rope with a running noose in it. That's

1260
01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:57.119
a rope. It was thrown from another balcony. I'm small

1261
01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:02.279
and light like Josephine Adams.

1262
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:04.640
Pull me sideways and over the rail I felt.

1263
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:07.560
I think I begin to understand what I couldn't see.

1264
01:11:07.439 --> 01:11:12.319
What happened to Josephine Adams frosted Glaister's falcony so.

1265
01:11:12.319 --> 01:11:15.079
They couldn't see'd take it easy, now, you're perfectly safe.

1266
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:16.760
An issue, perfectly say.

1267
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:20.760
The murderer that have fallen the rope, But the rope

1268
01:11:20.920 --> 01:11:25.399
was jerked long before she struck the water that broke

1269
01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:25.760
her neck.

1270
01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:31.319
Then the murderer lowerder softly so there wasn't any splash,

1271
01:11:31.479 --> 01:11:34.439
and the current took her away rope and all that's it.

1272
01:11:34.439 --> 01:11:36.840
It would have happened to me, only the rope must

1273
01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:37.439
have slept.

1274
01:11:37.239 --> 01:11:42.039
Through the murderer's fingers. What did I tell you? Somebody

1275
01:11:42.039 --> 01:11:46.880
in this boat has got to revolved. Who's overboard? Somebody

1276
01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:49.159
went switched on that like my friend, and shine it

1277
01:11:49.199 --> 01:11:54.159
on the water. Then there's you like look at it

1278
01:11:55.159 --> 01:12:00.680
turning up over and over. The water on the grotto

1279
01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:04.720
is red. What's all right, Lucy? I swear you're safe

1280
01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:05.039
for nothing?

1281
01:12:05.960 --> 01:12:07.279
Did he shoot himself?

1282
01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:07.880
Yes?

1283
01:12:08.199 --> 01:12:09.920
Did shoot himself?

1284
01:12:10.159 --> 01:12:12.239
Who had a balcony exactly like ours on the house

1285
01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:15.600
next door, who began life as a cowpuncher and would

1286
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:18.119
have known how to user lesso? Yes, and knew Josephine

1287
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:21.279
Adams well and got it into his maniac's head. But

1288
01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:25.920
missus Courtney was Josephine Adams all over again, Harry Grainger.

1289
01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:44.800
Look there's his ten gallon half floating away.

1290
01:12:49.800 --> 01:12:51.880
And so ends The bride vanishes.

1291
01:12:52.119 --> 01:12:54.840
A story of mysterious doings in the Isle of Capri

1292
01:12:55.560 --> 01:13:07.399
and the night's story of suspense. Columbia presents these tales

1293
01:13:07.399 --> 01:13:11.399
of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure for your relaxation

1294
01:13:11.560 --> 01:13:15.319
and enjoyment. Next Tuesday, there'll be another in this series,

1295
01:13:16.239 --> 01:13:24.000
Same hour, nine thirty Eastern wartime. William Spear, the producer,

1296
01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:28.520
John Deets the director, Alexander Semler the composer conductor, and

1297
01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:35.079
John Dixon Carr, the author, are collaborators on suspense.

1298
01:13:55.239 --> 01:14:04.000
My dear, you seem a bit peaked now. Perhaps the weather,

1299
01:14:04.920 --> 01:14:10.079
the temperature, is getting to you. After all, there's no

1300
01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:14.399
shame in it. It's simply the elements. The force of

1301
01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:19.600
nature is a force to be reckoned with, I suppose,

1302
01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:25.439
But as I think about it more, nature can be

1303
01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:31.840
a bit cocky, thinking there's nothing beyond it, nothing that

1304
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:41.640
can betray it. Frankly, there's only punishment for avarice.

1305
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.479
Wait a minute, have you heard the strange tales of

1306
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:47.079
the Whistler.

1307
01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:04.960
I'm the whistler.

1308
01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:12.680
You promised me that you wouldn't gamble again. You've broken

1309
01:15:12.680 --> 01:15:15.760
that promise, and I won't give you another cent this time, John,

1310
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:16.680
you can work it out for.

1311
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:24.479
Yourself another Sunday night, and again CBS presents the Whistler.

1312
01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:35.000
Either Whistler know many things or I walk by night.

1313
01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:38.720
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the

1314
01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:40.680
hearts of men and women who have shipped into the

1315
01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:44.880
shadows and so I tell you tonight the amazing story

1316
01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:50.479
on avarice. John Abbott lives in a vast house on

1317
01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:54.000
the outskirts of town. But it isn't John's house. It

1318
01:15:54.079 --> 01:15:56.880
belongs to his wife. John has never had a penny

1319
01:15:56.880 --> 01:16:00.239
he could honestly call his own. Then John's own. He's

1320
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:03.560
been lucky. John add is somewhat of a gambler who

1321
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:07.199
was fortunate enough to marry a wealthy young widow, Marsha Howard,

1322
01:16:07.479 --> 01:16:10.960
wife of the late motor magnate Burton Howard. But John

1323
01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:13.439
has pulled a few tricks bordering on the shady side

1324
01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:17.039
of late, and Marsha has come to distrust him. She

1325
01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:19.399
has paid off a number of his gambling deaths, but

1326
01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:22.159
this time he's really in a spot. John got into

1327
01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:25.960
a poker game with Mike Flynn's loss and paid off

1328
01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:27.319
with a worthless check.

1329
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:30.920
Hello, Mike, how are you? I haven't seen you since

1330
01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:33.359
that big night last week. Who have you been keeping

1331
01:16:33.359 --> 01:16:33.960
yourself well?

1332
01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:35.800
Have you been keeping you two? Well?

1333
01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:37.239
My wife's been rather ill.

1334
01:16:37.279 --> 01:16:37.479
You know.

1335
01:16:38.039 --> 01:16:39.680
I have intended to get in to see you in

1336
01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:40.600
the boys for some time.

1337
01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:42.359
Did you try real hard? John?

1338
01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:43.000
Kay?

1339
01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:46.119
What do you mean?

1340
01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:47.960
I can to get an idea. You were trying to

1341
01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:51.079
avoid me. Why should I would you are dropped in

1342
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:53.239
the day if Muggsy hadn't tipped shocked and I wanted

1343
01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:53.680
to see you.

1344
01:16:54.119 --> 01:16:55.479
Of course I would.

1345
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:02.159
You the prigs. I resent that Mike you do when

1346
01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:04.960
I resent this? What this rubber check? You've got a

1347
01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:06.520
lot of nerve want? And then on a game when

1348
01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:10.560
you can't pay off? Why was it return insufficient funds?

1349
01:17:10.640 --> 01:17:11.520
According to the slip.

1350
01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:15.520
I can't understand that. There must be some mistake.

1351
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:18.399
There's no mistake, John. You didn't have four thousand and

1352
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:20.640
the bank and you know you didn't. I checked on it.

1353
01:17:20.760 --> 01:17:23.760
Well, I'll take care of it. You've got nothing to

1354
01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:27.199
worry in four covern. I don't carry that much money

1355
01:17:27.199 --> 01:17:27.439
on me.

1356
01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:30.159
Then you'd better dig it up, John.

1357
01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:34.239
I can't walk out and take it off the tree.

1358
01:17:34.680 --> 01:17:36.079
You know where they get it in a minute. Do

1359
01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:38.760
I sure your wife is rolling in money?

1360
01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:43.199
That's not as easy as you think. See Masher doesn't

1361
01:17:43.199 --> 01:17:44.159
approve of gambling.

1362
01:17:44.600 --> 01:17:46.000
Neither do I.

1363
01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:49.000
When you can't back your bid, well.

1364
01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:52.159
I can get it. You've got to give me a

1365
01:17:52.199 --> 01:17:52.760
little time.

1366
01:17:53.600 --> 01:17:55.720
Take a few days, John, I'll give you those Saturday

1367
01:17:55.800 --> 01:17:57.720
and none to give me that money Saturday.

1368
01:17:58.079 --> 01:17:59.119
That's almost impossible.

1369
01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:01.920
This is Wednesday time you need and I don't know,

1370
01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:04.000
but I get it as soon as possible.

1371
01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:09.319
Do you have to have cash? Not necessarily? I see

1372
01:18:10.319 --> 01:18:11.159
what do you have in mind?

1373
01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:11.520
John?

1374
01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:12.840
Why?

1375
01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:17.000
Nothing? Nothing at the moment? Better think of something. Yes,

1376
01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:20.640
I will, I'll get it. Any good security.

1377
01:18:20.119 --> 01:18:23.920
Or do I quite understand? But whatever it is, I'll

1378
01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:25.199
expect if I know Saturday.

1379
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:31.279
Otherwise, will I could turn it over to the district attorney.

1380
01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:33.359
I could have a pal of mine take you for

1381
01:18:33.399 --> 01:18:36.079
a little drive in the country some afternoon.

1382
01:18:36.760 --> 01:18:40.359
Oh, I'll get it, Mike, I'll get it. I'll have

1383
01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:43.039
something for you Saturday at noon. I don't know what

1384
01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:44.359
it will be, but i'll have it.

1385
01:18:44.359 --> 01:18:47.600
It's fine, John, it's fine. I'll be expecting you. Thanks Mike,

1386
01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:53.479
Thanks for the extension. Always glad to help out a friend. Yes, well,

1387
01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:57.840
so long, So long? John.

1388
01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:01.479
Oh.

1389
01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:05.079
John Abbott walks out of Mike's office and home deep farm,

1390
01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:08.560
goes to his wife's room on the floor above, slips

1391
01:19:08.600 --> 01:19:09.960
easily to the side of her bed.

1392
01:19:11.119 --> 01:19:13.000
Marsia, humhm, Marusia.

1393
01:19:13.439 --> 01:19:15.079
Oh is that you Nidia?

1394
01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:20.199
Or are you asleep? Marsha, John, I'm sorry if I awakened you.

1395
01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:25.640
What time is it a little afternoon? I haven't seen

1396
01:19:25.680 --> 01:19:27.800
your sister this morning. He's around some place.

1397
01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:28.319
I imagine.

1398
01:19:28.920 --> 01:19:29.640
What did you want?

1399
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:30.000
John?

1400
01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:34.680
I wanted to ask you something that is well. I

1401
01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:35.720
have a favor to ask.

1402
01:19:36.199 --> 01:19:36.960
What's troublem?

1403
01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:37.239
You know?

1404
01:19:37.479 --> 01:19:37.760
John?

1405
01:19:38.399 --> 01:19:40.479
I hate to bother you when you don't feel well,

1406
01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:42.880
but I need a little money.

1407
01:19:43.159 --> 01:19:46.000
Money? What is it this time? Your brother again?

1408
01:19:46.239 --> 01:19:48.039
No, no, it doesn't concern Ellen.

1409
01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:51.520
That's a wonder. How much longer is he going to

1410
01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:51.920
stay here?

1411
01:19:52.520 --> 01:19:54.960
I don't know? Is he so obnoxious?

1412
01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:57.239
I can't understand why a young fellow like Allan should

1413
01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:58.199
be content to do nothing.

1414
01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:00.560
Oh he'll get into something soon, dear.

1415
01:20:00.760 --> 01:20:03.840
I hope. So what do you need money for?

1416
01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:07.119
John? A note? I had came do?

1417
01:20:07.760 --> 01:20:08.680
What kind of a note?

1418
01:20:09.119 --> 01:20:10.960
Just a note? I gave it some time ago?

1419
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:12.600
How much?

1420
01:20:12.840 --> 01:20:13.720
Four thousand dollars?

1421
01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:14.439
Four thousand?

1422
01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:14.840
Yes?

1423
01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:18.880
You mean to say that you owe someone four thousand dollars?

1424
01:20:19.119 --> 01:20:21.119
I'm sorry, Marsha, but I do.

1425
01:20:21.239 --> 01:20:22.079
When did this happen?

1426
01:20:22.279 --> 01:20:23.119
Just a week or sorgo?

1427
01:20:23.199 --> 01:20:26.279
You've been gambling again? Do you realize how many thousands

1428
01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:28.560
of dollars? I've given you to pay off such ridiculous debts.

1429
01:20:28.680 --> 01:20:31.079
Yes, Marsha, but you don't have to shout.

1430
01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:32.800
Out twenty a month ago you promised you'd never gamble again,

1431
01:20:33.119 --> 01:20:34.520
and now four thousand dollars.

1432
01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:38.279
I didn't mean to get in so deeply, Marsha. I will.

1433
01:20:38.359 --> 01:20:40.159
I just dropped in to say hello to a few

1434
01:20:40.159 --> 01:20:42.800
of the boys, and I had a few drinks and

1435
01:20:43.520 --> 01:20:45.279
before I realized that I was in the hole.

1436
01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:47.439
Don't blame it on a few drinks. All you need

1437
01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:48.319
is a deck of cards.

1438
01:20:48.399 --> 01:20:49.840
Oh, don't rub it in, Marsha.

1439
01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:51.960
I feel badly enough about it.

1440
01:20:52.079 --> 01:20:53.439
You do.

1441
01:20:53.479 --> 01:20:55.640
You sit in on any game you like, regardless of

1442
01:20:55.680 --> 01:20:57.800
the stakes, and expect me to always pay off. What

1443
01:20:57.880 --> 01:20:59.000
do you think I am the mint?

1444
01:20:59.159 --> 01:21:00.800
Well, you're not broke, musch.

1445
01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:04.079
It's no fault of yours. I let you handle my money.

1446
01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:07.079
I wouldn't have a dime. What did you give an

1447
01:21:07.079 --> 01:21:08.880
I owe you.

1448
01:21:08.199 --> 01:21:10.960
No, dear, I wrote a check a check.

1449
01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:14.079
Why did you do that? You have no account of

1450
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:14.960
that size and never did.

1451
01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:17.479
Oh, they wouldn't take my iow you who wouldn't take it?

1452
01:21:18.239 --> 01:21:19.840
Were you playing with Mike Flinn again?

1453
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:22.399
Yes, they're a fool.

1454
01:21:22.479 --> 01:21:23.920
John an impossible fool.

1455
01:21:23.960 --> 01:21:26.159
But that isn't the point, my dear, Will you help me?

1456
01:21:26.239 --> 01:21:29.640
No, John, you promised me that you wouldn't gamble again.

1457
01:21:29.960 --> 01:21:32.000
You broke that promise, and I won't give you a dime.

1458
01:21:32.600 --> 01:21:34.000
You can work it out for yourself.

1459
01:21:34.159 --> 01:21:35.760
Where would I get four thousand dollars?

1460
01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:37.319
Why don't you try working for a change?

1461
01:21:37.399 --> 01:21:39.319
Well, I don't expect you to give it to me.

1462
01:21:39.399 --> 01:21:40.119
I'll pay it back.

1463
01:21:40.159 --> 01:21:41.239
You'll pay it back.

1464
01:21:41.319 --> 01:21:42.439
Do you think I believe that?

1465
01:21:42.880 --> 01:21:44.760
You act as though you were down to your last penny?

1466
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:46.760
What good does all that money do you?

1467
01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:47.199
Anyway?

1468
01:21:47.520 --> 01:21:48.600
What good will it ever do you?

1469
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:48.920
No good?

1470
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:49.640
Whatever do you?

1471
01:21:50.119 --> 01:21:52.359
I might be able to get into some kind of

1472
01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:53.800
business if I had enough capital.

1473
01:21:55.319 --> 01:21:58.239
You well, what's wrong with that? You talk as though

1474
01:21:58.279 --> 01:21:59.279
I were a good for nothing more?

1475
01:21:59.479 --> 01:22:02.199
You are you and your brother. I'm sorry I didn't

1476
01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:04.560
know that before I married you. And now your brother's

1477
01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:06.319
hanging around here, and what for.

1478
01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:08.600
Pretending to be in love with my sister.

1479
01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:10.680
I don't like him and you can tell him to leave,

1480
01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:12.560
that's right. Get yourself excited over.

1481
01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:13.880
Have a good reason to be excited.

1482
01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:17.039
You're not half as sick as you think you have.

1483
01:22:17.199 --> 01:22:19.199
All the symptoms of a hypochondriac.

1484
01:22:19.359 --> 01:22:19.760
Out of here.

1485
01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:25.720
I'm going, I'm going, Marsha.

1486
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:26.880
What's going on in here?

1487
01:22:26.920 --> 01:22:28.039
What was Marsha yelling about?

1488
01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:31.399
I don't know, she stated, she certainly can get worked

1489
01:22:31.439 --> 01:22:31.840
up easily.

1490
01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:33.720
You better called out the man very well.

1491
01:22:33.680 --> 01:22:43.239
I'll call him from downstairs, not the manning. Yes, this

1492
01:22:43.359 --> 01:22:47.119
is John Ebbatt. I wonder if you could come over here.

1493
01:22:48.319 --> 01:22:54.520
Marcia has had another spell. Yes, very well, good man.

1494
01:22:55.479 --> 01:22:55.920
What happened?

1495
01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:56.239
John?

1496
01:22:56.640 --> 01:22:59.159
I don't know, Ellen, she gets excited over the least

1497
01:22:59.159 --> 01:22:59.560
little thing.

1498
01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:01.800
What was she yelling about?

1499
01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:02.199
No?

1500
01:23:02.439 --> 01:23:04.199
I went in to ask her about something and she

1501
01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:04.640
blew up.

1502
01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:07.760
What did you say to her? Why was it something

1503
01:23:07.760 --> 01:23:09.039
about me? No?

1504
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:13.079
I needed a little money to cover a note. I

1505
01:23:13.319 --> 01:23:16.560
happened to ask her at the wrong moment. He means

1506
01:23:16.560 --> 01:23:17.760
a check, didn't you check?

1507
01:23:18.279 --> 01:23:20.680
What do you mean at four thousand dollars check he

1508
01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:21.560
gave Mike Flynn?

1509
01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:22.479
What do you know about that?

1510
01:23:22.640 --> 01:23:25.399
You heard about it? Do you think she'll let you

1511
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:26.000
have the money?

1512
01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:30.560
I don't know, Ellen, I rather think.

1513
01:23:30.479 --> 01:23:34.279
She will eventually. What do you mean eventually? You've got

1514
01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:37.640
to have it by Saturday? Yes, that's that's right.

1515
01:23:38.079 --> 01:23:38.279
Sure.

1516
01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:40.479
In a tough spot. John, I need to be in

1517
01:23:40.520 --> 01:23:43.199
your shoes. Why Mike Flynn is a bad egg to

1518
01:23:43.239 --> 01:23:45.840
fool around with. I know how to take care of Mike,

1519
01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:49.479
I hope. So I am going out for a few moments.

1520
01:23:49.720 --> 01:24:01.880
I'll be back by the time doctor Manning gets here. Okay.

1521
01:24:02.680 --> 01:24:05.760
John goes out and walks around for a while, pondering

1522
01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:09.800
over his predicaments. Alan sprawls on the sofa and studies

1523
01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:13.079
his own personal problem. In a few moments, meet her.

1524
01:24:13.399 --> 01:24:17.279
Marcia's young sister comes down the stairs. I wish you, Needa,

1525
01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:18.600
she's a little better.

1526
01:24:19.079 --> 01:24:20.800
I gave her some of the medicine and she pulled

1527
01:24:20.840 --> 01:24:21.159
out of it.

1528
01:24:21.359 --> 01:24:22.119
What upset her?

1529
01:24:22.119 --> 01:24:25.079
Oh, it doesn't take much to upset Marcia. She's such

1530
01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:26.319
an unreasonable woman.

1531
01:24:26.520 --> 01:24:28.039
I wonder what John said to her.

1532
01:24:28.319 --> 01:24:29.960
Probably some trivial little thing.

1533
01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:33.720
Maybe Sometimes I feel I can't stay here another day?

1534
01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:34.960
Why her?

1535
01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:38.319
Well, I I feel it's my beauty to stay. It

1536
01:24:38.319 --> 01:24:40.239
wouldn't be right to leave Marsia in this condition.

1537
01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:42.199
Is that the only reason for sting?

1538
01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:43.119
No?

1539
01:24:44.119 --> 01:24:45.960
Suppose she's angry because of my being here.

1540
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:46.840
I don't know.

1541
01:24:47.359 --> 01:24:49.600
I don't think she likes me very much. I don't

1542
01:24:49.640 --> 01:24:51.479
know why she should feel that way. I've tried to

1543
01:24:51.479 --> 01:24:52.159
be nice to her.

1544
01:24:52.279 --> 01:24:55.079
She doesn't seem to like anyone very well. She makes

1545
01:24:55.079 --> 01:24:57.159
herself miserable. No one seems to be able to do

1546
01:24:57.199 --> 01:24:58.000
anything for her.

1547
01:24:58.119 --> 01:24:59.920
I suppose she resents your being here, Nita.

1548
01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:01.159
Why should she?

1549
01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:05.359
I don't know. She might convent some crazy idea, and well,

1550
01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:08.039
I wouldn't want to see her get angry with you, Anita.

1551
01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:09.840
What reason would she have to do that?

1552
01:25:10.159 --> 01:25:10.279
Oh?

1553
01:25:10.359 --> 01:25:13.479
I don't know. I was just talking, thinking out loud.

1554
01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:15.319
What are you trying to say?

1555
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:17.039
Do you think that Marcia loves John?

1556
01:25:17.199 --> 01:25:18.000
I know she doesn't.

1557
01:25:18.399 --> 01:25:19.960
Do you believe that John loves Marcia?

1558
01:25:20.399 --> 01:25:20.960
I don't know.

1559
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:23.439
I don't see how he could, considering the way she

1560
01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:27.479
treats him. Poor John is miserable. My heart aches for him.

1561
01:25:28.359 --> 01:25:33.159
Peter. You know that I love you very much, don't you, Darling? Yeah?

1562
01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:35.479
Please please marry me. Na.

1563
01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:36.760
I just can't Heleana.

1564
01:25:37.319 --> 01:25:38.880
I know you love me, but I know.

1565
01:25:39.159 --> 01:25:41.600
I know that I have nothing, but that'll change. I

1566
01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:43.199
get a swell job coming up, and I'll make you

1567
01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:43.680
very happy.

1568
01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:46.000
Need I believe you, I know you love me, but

1569
01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:48.359
I I just can't say yes because.

1570
01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:52.079
Because of John John is a slow Follownita, but he's

1571
01:25:52.119 --> 01:25:54.319
not longer than you. Besides, he's married to Marsha, So

1572
01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:55.279
what good does it do to you?

1573
01:25:55.479 --> 01:25:57.600
I can't help, Allan, I just can't help.

1574
01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:00.000
Do you think that John cares for you?

1575
01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:00.720
I think he does.

1576
01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:01.479
Because he told yourself.

1577
01:26:01.720 --> 01:26:03.920
No, no, it doesn't matter.

1578
01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:05.479
I worship you.

1579
01:26:05.720 --> 01:26:08.239
Never divorced Marsha. You can't afford to I know. And

1580
01:26:08.359 --> 01:26:09.760
what do you expect to happen to? You're waiting for

1581
01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:10.399
Marsha to die?

1582
01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:10.840
Is that it?

1583
01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:12.079
How can we stay such a thing?

1584
01:26:12.159 --> 01:26:12.279
Oh?

1585
01:26:12.279 --> 01:26:14.520
Why not? Be Frank Marshall may live for years. No

1586
01:26:14.600 --> 01:26:16.239
longer you stay around here, the worse it will be

1587
01:26:16.319 --> 01:26:18.479
for you. If you married me and got away from

1588
01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:20.199
here for a while, you forget all about John.

1589
01:26:20.279 --> 01:26:21.000
I don't think so.

1590
01:26:21.279 --> 01:26:23.359
The longer you stay, the more miserable you'll become.

1591
01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:25.279
Perhaps, but I can't leave.

1592
01:26:25.319 --> 01:26:25.680
I care.

1593
01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:29.760
I've tried very well, leada O. Thank You're foolishall you

1594
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:30.079
your mind?

1595
01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:32.640
Please Alan, let me alone. Don't say another word about it?

1596
01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:34.079
Please, okay?

1597
01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:46.960
I won't say another word. Not another word. Doctor Manning

1598
01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:51.159
visits Marsha. John returns to the house, and now the

1599
01:26:51.239 --> 01:26:54.640
doctor has come downstairs and asks John, Allan and Mita

1600
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:55.960
to join him in the library.

1601
01:26:57.279 --> 01:26:59.359
I well, I have a little talk with the three

1602
01:26:59.359 --> 01:26:59.560
of you.

1603
01:26:59.720 --> 01:27:01.600
Yes, about Marcia.

1604
01:27:01.800 --> 01:27:02.319
That's right.

1605
01:27:02.439 --> 01:27:05.000
I wish she doctor. She's much worse than when I

1606
01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:09.159
saw her last worse. Yes, she's suffered some emotional upset.

1607
01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:12.359
She can't afford to do that. Her condition is very,

1608
01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:15.680
very serious. I've warned you before about the result of

1609
01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:19.119
the slightest argument. I don't know what occurred this morning,

1610
01:27:19.560 --> 01:27:21.920
but I warn you that another such occurrence will cost

1611
01:27:21.920 --> 01:27:22.279
her life.

1612
01:27:22.720 --> 01:27:24.000
Is she that bad?

1613
01:27:24.279 --> 01:27:26.359
I am going to be frank with you John. For

1614
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:28.680
her own good, I have to tell her the truth.

1615
01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.760
I think I should tell you the truth. I doubt

1616
01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:35.920
that Marsha will live more than a year. But yes,

1617
01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:40.159
the other hand, if she suffers no further emotional stress,

1618
01:27:40.640 --> 01:27:43.439
she may live two or three years.

1619
01:27:43.520 --> 01:27:46.960
I didn't realize it was that serious. I'm sorry to

1620
01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:47.279
have to.

1621
01:27:47.239 --> 01:27:49.199
Tell you this, but I feel that you should.

1622
01:27:49.079 --> 01:27:49.840
Know all the truth.

1623
01:27:50.199 --> 01:27:53.560
It is quite a shock, doctor, but I appreciate you

1624
01:27:53.680 --> 01:27:54.159
letting me know.

1625
01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:57.600
Yes, we all do, of course. Well, I must run

1626
01:27:57.640 --> 01:27:59.560
along now. I will have a few words of your

1627
01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:02.079
housekeep for missus. Simmons about Marsha's.

1628
01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:04.439
Dire gooday, doctor, and thanks for coming over.

1629
01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:08.840
It's really serious. I thought Marsha was more or less

1630
01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:10.920
of a hypochondriac. I really did.

1631
01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:16.439
Yes, so today, well this puts a new light on

1632
01:28:16.439 --> 01:28:18.399
the situation. What situation?

1633
01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:22.479
Hm, Well, I'm.

1634
01:28:21.560 --> 01:28:23.439
Sorry I caused Marsha to become upset.

1635
01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:27.199
Yes, we must be very careful from now on about

1636
01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:28.079
what we say to her.

1637
01:28:28.319 --> 01:28:44.319
Yeah, that's right, very careful all of us. Early next morning,

1638
01:28:44.479 --> 01:28:47.039
John goes into town to have a talk with Mike Flynn,

1639
01:28:47.159 --> 01:28:50.319
a gambler. Mike isn't in his office, so John drops

1640
01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:51.960
over to the drug store to purchase.

1641
01:28:51.680 --> 01:28:53.079
A few articles.

1642
01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:55.680
Well, h hi, Jolen, I haven't seen you for a

1643
01:28:55.720 --> 01:28:57.399
week or show you've been keeping yourself.

1644
01:28:57.560 --> 01:28:59.239
I've been rather busy the past few days.

1645
01:29:00.119 --> 01:29:00.600
Do for you?

1646
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:02.640
Well, I have a list of things here, quite a

1647
01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:04.399
few items. I'll let you fix them up and I

1648
01:29:04.600 --> 01:29:05.560
call for them later.

1649
01:29:05.800 --> 01:29:08.079
Very well, that's a nice special going today.

1650
01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:09.800
No, no, just what you see there on the list?

1651
01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:14.520
Yes, yes, of course, let me see yes, yeah, yes,

1652
01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:18.079
I have everything here. I'll be by it. Oh. Well, hello, Mike,

1653
01:29:18.159 --> 01:29:20.520
I was just up to your office, so I am here.

1654
01:29:21.239 --> 01:29:23.239
Got some good news for me. John.

1655
01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:28.159
Why, yes, that is well. I think things are going

1656
01:29:28.199 --> 01:29:29.199
to be all right.

1657
01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:35.279
M glad to hear it. For your sake, I wanted

1658
01:29:35.319 --> 01:29:40.039
to ask a little favor of you, Mike. Yes, well,

1659
01:29:39.760 --> 01:29:42.319
don't things and what it is once you get in

1660
01:29:42.319 --> 01:29:42.640
your mind?

1661
01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:46.560
John, Well, I suppose we go over to your office.

1662
01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:48.760
Okay, what are you saying?

1663
01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:51.640
Just wrap those things up, mister Smith. I'll call for

1664
01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:53.640
them in half hour, So come on, Mike.

1665
01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:04.560
Then John returns home at noon. Now it is after one,

1666
01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:07.520
Lunch is over, and John sits at the desk in

1667
01:30:07.520 --> 01:30:11.640
the library, lost in deep meditation. The library door opens

1668
01:30:11.640 --> 01:30:17.520
beneath his lips quietly to John's side. John, Oh, yes, Nita,

1669
01:30:18.560 --> 01:30:19.760
I didn't.

1670
01:30:19.520 --> 01:30:20.119
Hear you come in.

1671
01:30:20.479 --> 01:30:23.319
I opened the door very quietly. I thought you might

1672
01:30:23.319 --> 01:30:24.119
be taking a nap.

1673
01:30:24.439 --> 01:30:27.319
No, no, no, I was just thinking things over.

1674
01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:29.399
I know how you much feel, John.

1675
01:30:29.840 --> 01:30:33.039
I've developed a bit of a headache. Hey, didn't sleep

1676
01:30:33.039 --> 01:30:33.920
a week less night.

1677
01:30:34.079 --> 01:30:35.239
I'm so sorry for you.

1678
01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:35.640
John.

1679
01:30:37.279 --> 01:30:40.359
May I rub your head? It might help a little.

1680
01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:46.760
Oh, thanks, Nita, I'm all tied up in nuts.

1681
01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:47.680
Does that help?

1682
01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:48.039
Oh?

1683
01:30:48.159 --> 01:30:53.960
Yes, yes, helps a lot. Sweet of you, Nita, You're

1684
01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:54.920
an awfully nice girl.

1685
01:30:55.399 --> 01:30:56.479
Thanks.

1686
01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:58.560
If the man who gets you for a wife is

1687
01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:01.319
certainly going to be lucky, think so, I know, So

1688
01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:04.279
are you really in love me.

1689
01:31:04.319 --> 01:31:08.199
To Yes, John, I'm sure I am, and I.

1690
01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:11.439
Hope it lasts. But with a girl like you, sweet

1691
01:31:11.479 --> 01:31:15.560
and kind, gentle, bound to last. Yes, you know.

1692
01:31:16.960 --> 01:31:19.640
Ellen is a very good boy, but he's got to

1693
01:31:19.640 --> 01:31:24.279
be handled carefully, quite a bit like me. I know

1694
01:31:24.399 --> 01:31:28.520
my shortcomings and Ellen has the same. We were both

1695
01:31:28.600 --> 01:31:30.319
raised with a silver spoon in our mouths.

1696
01:31:30.920 --> 01:31:32.880
Then we were suddenly thrown out into the world on

1697
01:31:32.880 --> 01:31:33.439
our own.

1698
01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:34.399
And we just couldn't take it.

1699
01:31:35.880 --> 01:31:39.279
I had nothing to offer anyone, so I just followed

1700
01:31:39.279 --> 01:31:44.039
the line of least resistance. Ellen is just like me,

1701
01:31:44.159 --> 01:31:47.439
but fortunately he's young enough to be changed. He can

1702
01:31:47.520 --> 01:31:51.720
learn new tricks. The right girl could help, and you

1703
01:31:52.279 --> 01:31:57.159
are the right girl, thinks sir. Yes, here it is

1704
01:31:57.239 --> 01:31:59.279
different from your sister as night from day.

1705
01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:03.760
But I don't. But you just said you didn't know, John,

1706
01:32:03.800 --> 01:32:06.640
I didn't. I did say I was in love but

1707
01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:07.640
not with Alan.

1708
01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:09.359
But he's mad about you, Nita.

1709
01:32:09.479 --> 01:32:11.359
I know he's nice, but I don't love him and.

1710
01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:12.319
I never will.

1711
01:32:13.399 --> 01:32:17.119
Oh, then if you're in love and it isn't Ellen,

1712
01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:18.800
then who is he?

1713
01:32:19.720 --> 01:32:20.319
Don't you know?

1714
01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:21.359
No?

1715
01:32:22.359 --> 01:32:28.760
Oh, John, Sure, Nita, Nita.

1716
01:32:28.920 --> 01:32:31.039
John, forgive me, but I can't help it.

1717
01:32:31.880 --> 01:32:33.800
What do you mean, don't you know?

1718
01:32:33.960 --> 01:32:34.279
John?

1719
01:32:35.720 --> 01:32:37.359
Look at me, Nita, Yes.

1720
01:32:37.239 --> 01:32:40.000
John, I know it's despicable, but I can't help it.

1721
01:32:40.039 --> 01:32:40.760
I love you.

1722
01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:44.640
Well of all things, Anita.

1723
01:32:45.199 --> 01:32:47.000
I've loved you from the day we first met.

1724
01:32:47.479 --> 01:32:51.760
But Nita, Darling, this what's ridiculous. You can't mean I do.

1725
01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:52.239
I do.

1726
01:32:52.319 --> 01:32:53.880
I've tried to find it, but I can't.

1727
01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:55.239
I'm married to your sister.

1728
01:32:55.279 --> 01:32:56.880
Marcia doesn't love you, not the way I do.

1729
01:32:56.960 --> 01:32:57.880
And you don't love Marcia.

1730
01:32:57.880 --> 01:32:58.439
How do you know that?

1731
01:32:58.840 --> 01:32:59.359
I can tell?

1732
01:32:59.439 --> 01:32:59.720
I know?

1733
01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:05.199
Oh, you're miserable, John, Yes, Marsha has treated you terribly.

1734
01:33:05.640 --> 01:33:06.720
How you've got on this long?

1735
01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:09.479
I'll never understand that I love you.

1736
01:33:09.960 --> 01:33:10.960
I'll always love you.

1737
01:33:12.399 --> 01:33:13.680
Don't you care for me at all?

1738
01:33:14.880 --> 01:33:19.920
Yes, Nita, I'll have to confess I do, Oh John,

1739
01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:21.560
John doe.

1740
01:33:22.640 --> 01:33:23.319
It won't work.

1741
01:33:24.239 --> 01:33:27.560
In the first place, I married to Marsha. The second place,

1742
01:33:27.600 --> 01:33:28.399
I'm older than you.

1743
01:33:29.479 --> 01:33:30.159
The third place.

1744
01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:34.399
Yes, I'm in a spot, very tickling spot. I can't

1745
01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:37.560
afford to well break off with Marsha, What do you

1746
01:33:37.600 --> 01:33:40.800
mean I owe a certain man four thousand dollars. I

1747
01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:43.960
must pay him by this coming saturd deal. I might

1748
01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:44.560
go to jail.

1749
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:46.000
Oh he couldn't do that.

1750
01:33:46.560 --> 01:33:49.760
Yes he could, and he might even take me for

1751
01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:50.199
a ride.

1752
01:33:50.600 --> 01:33:54.520
Kill you Yes, Oh, John, did you tell Marcia.

1753
01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:56.279
That was the cause of her relapse?

1754
01:33:56.720 --> 01:34:00.760
Refuse absolutely, That only proves he doesn't love you and hateful.

1755
01:34:00.800 --> 01:34:02.239
Sometimes I think she's in, Say.

1756
01:34:02.159 --> 01:34:02.439
Do you.

1757
01:34:04.680 --> 01:34:05.359
Maybe she is.

1758
01:34:05.880 --> 01:34:08.840
You mustn't give up, hope, John, you will get the money.

1759
01:34:08.960 --> 01:34:13.039
Oh, there'll be away, John, there must be a way

1760
01:34:13.279 --> 01:34:14.119
we'll make away.

1761
01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:18.560
Make away? What do you mean?

1762
01:34:19.319 --> 01:34:22.199
I'm not sure that we'll find it.

1763
01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:32.840
Then a short while later, the house keepers singing comes

1764
01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:35.199
to Marshall's room. Take away the lunch and train.

1765
01:34:36.359 --> 01:34:39.279
Did you enjoy your lunch, missus Eavis? I thought i'd

1766
01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:44.399
pick up the tray and dishes were ice cream? Where

1767
01:34:44.439 --> 01:34:46.279
did you get the ice cream? I didn't serve you

1768
01:34:46.279 --> 01:34:51.720
any ice cream? Missus Abbs Are you asleep? If you

1769
01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:53.439
wanted ice cream? You could have told me.

1770
01:34:54.439 --> 01:35:04.560
Missus Abbith Lucy, she's cold, Missus she's dead.

1771
01:35:07.279 --> 01:35:08.720
The police an ambulance.

1772
01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:21.880
The police arrived, the ambulance arrived, but Marsha was dead,

1773
01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:26.520
quite dead. Why the police were called over? The housekeeper?

1774
01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:29.319
You but once the police arrived they followed it through

1775
01:35:29.359 --> 01:35:32.399
to an office. Now the officers have returned to the

1776
01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:38.079
Abbot residence. Captain Barnes are speaking you. You're a Missus

1777
01:35:38.119 --> 01:35:42.159
Simmons housekeeper. Yes that I am mm hmmm. And you're Needa,

1778
01:35:42.279 --> 01:35:47.279
Missus Abbott's sister. And you I'm Ellen Abbott, John Abbott's brother.

1779
01:35:47.439 --> 01:35:51.439
You are here, I'm visiting her. See the Simmons. You

1780
01:35:51.600 --> 01:35:54.239
served lunch to Missus evantt. I did what did you serve?

1781
01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:57.720
I served chicken soup, queen carrot toast.

1782
01:35:57.399 --> 01:36:01.479
And teeth and uh ice cream? No, you didn't say

1783
01:36:01.560 --> 01:36:02.000
ice cream.

1784
01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:02.520
I did not.

1785
01:36:02.800 --> 01:36:04.920
Are you part of of Missus Emmons? I'm positive you

1786
01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:05.880
don't have to shout.

1787
01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:08.840
I thought you didn't hear I argue.

1788
01:36:09.319 --> 01:36:10.760
You two step out of the room for a moment.

1789
01:36:10.800 --> 01:36:16.319
I want to talk to the housekeeper alone. Certainly, Missus Seumans.

1790
01:36:17.279 --> 01:36:19.520
How long have you been with Missus Abbott? You mean

1791
01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:21.359
how long have I worked here? That's right?

1792
01:36:21.720 --> 01:36:22.319
Too long?

1793
01:36:22.760 --> 01:36:23.640
Didn't you drag it here?

1794
01:36:24.319 --> 01:36:25.319
I don't want to talk about it.

1795
01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:27.680
Didn't you like, Missus Abbott, I certainly did.

1796
01:36:27.840 --> 01:36:30.159
She was so good to me. I worshiped her.

1797
01:36:32.079 --> 01:36:35.640
You you came the other day she married her first husband,

1798
01:36:35.680 --> 01:36:36.119
didn't Jim?

1799
01:36:36.239 --> 01:36:39.880
Yes, and they were so happy. It was very pleasant here.

1800
01:36:39.920 --> 01:36:42.399
Then you mean there came a time when things ceased

1801
01:36:42.479 --> 01:36:43.119
to be pleasant?

1802
01:36:44.039 --> 01:36:45.000
Yes, that's what I mean.

1803
01:36:45.479 --> 01:36:48.039
When did things take on a change after she married

1804
01:36:48.079 --> 01:36:50.960
John Abbott? How long after she married Abbott did her

1805
01:36:51.199 --> 01:36:52.239
health began to fail?

1806
01:36:53.079 --> 01:36:53.880
It was about a year.

1807
01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:54.920
Did they quarrel off him?

1808
01:36:55.039 --> 01:36:58.760
Yes, quite a bit? What about Well about money? Mister

1809
01:36:58.760 --> 01:37:01.039
Abbott didn't have a cent when they were married, and

1810
01:37:01.079 --> 01:37:03.039
he's never earned a cent and done a day's worth

1811
01:37:03.079 --> 01:37:06.920
since it was always gambling, always losing money, her money.

1812
01:37:07.680 --> 01:37:09.760
When she got disgusted and clamped.

1813
01:37:09.399 --> 01:37:11.880
Out, and shortly after that she began the prayer and

1814
01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:12.840
she changed completely.

1815
01:37:13.159 --> 01:37:14.720
She became morose and cranky.

1816
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:17.159
She just can't realize what the change there was in

1817
01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:18.119
unless you knew her.

1818
01:37:18.399 --> 01:37:20.079
Long has Alan Abod been visiting here?

1819
01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:23.840
Is the way he passed the visiting stage? A lazy

1820
01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:25.920
lover been living here? Over six months?

1821
01:37:25.960 --> 01:37:26.960
How long has native been here?

1822
01:37:28.159 --> 01:37:31.119
She came to live here every year ago, Missus Abbad

1823
01:37:31.119 --> 01:37:32.960
astaid to stay with her when she first took ill,

1824
01:37:33.319 --> 01:37:34.479
and that was a big mistake.

1825
01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:37.079
Take I have her sister here. What do you mean?

1826
01:37:37.319 --> 01:37:38.239
I'm talking too much.

1827
01:37:38.319 --> 01:37:39.680
I don't want to get mixed up in this. I'm

1828
01:37:39.760 --> 01:37:40.039
leaving you.

1829
01:37:40.439 --> 01:37:42.359
I'm afraid you're going to stay right here, missus Simmons,

1830
01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:42.840
until I.

1831
01:37:42.760 --> 01:37:43.279
Tart you to go.

1832
01:37:43.560 --> 01:37:45.319
You you mean I'm arrested.

1833
01:37:45.439 --> 01:37:48.199
We call it detained until this is cleared up.

1834
01:37:48.399 --> 01:37:50.439
What are you doing here anyway? Why are you snooping

1835
01:37:50.439 --> 01:37:51.800
around asking from any questions?

1836
01:37:51.800 --> 01:37:53.800
Why did you call the police when you found the body?

1837
01:37:54.760 --> 01:37:55.199
I don't know.

1838
01:37:56.800 --> 01:37:58.119
You didn't call the doctor.

1839
01:37:58.159 --> 01:37:59.119
You'll call the police.

1840
01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:01.199
It was in your mind. It cause you to call

1841
01:38:01.239 --> 01:38:02.039
a police instantly.

1842
01:38:02.359 --> 01:38:02.920
I don't know what.

1843
01:38:03.039 --> 01:38:03.920
I really don't know.

1844
01:38:04.039 --> 01:38:06.800
He's had bad attacks before and you always called doctor Manning.

1845
01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:09.119
But this time you called us why. I don't know.

1846
01:38:09.239 --> 01:38:11.199
Then I'll tell you. Because you knew she had been murdered.

1847
01:38:12.159 --> 01:38:13.600
I didn't. I didn't thenk you much.

1848
01:38:13.640 --> 01:38:15.399
I suspected it. Who just inspect her hus?

1849
01:38:17.359 --> 01:38:18.640
I don't know what you're talking about.

1850
01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:20.319
Then it must have been you who served the ice

1851
01:38:20.359 --> 01:38:23.640
cream was served and I was asking in it.

1852
01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:25.039
Rat poison.

1853
01:38:26.279 --> 01:38:28.960
Was murdered. I knew it. I knew her husband did it.

1854
01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:29.720
No, she did it?

1855
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:30.640
Did it? Why?

1856
01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:32.560
Because she was madly in love with John. She wanted

1857
01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:34.920
mush out of the way. I knew she was the devil.

1858
01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:43.720
Bring them all in murdy, Nina, your sister was served

1859
01:38:43.760 --> 01:38:47.319
ice cream at lunch in this day, Missus Simmons says

1860
01:38:47.359 --> 01:38:48.079
she didn't serve it.

1861
01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:49.479
Well, what about it?

1862
01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:52.039
I'll ask you that. What do you know about it?

1863
01:38:52.239 --> 01:38:52.439
Why?

1864
01:38:52.760 --> 01:38:54.800
Wait a minute, what's the ice cream got.

1865
01:38:54.640 --> 01:38:56.000
To do with it? And I'll tell you in a moment.

1866
01:38:56.439 --> 01:38:57.399
Did you say that ice cream?

1867
01:38:57.479 --> 01:38:58.840
You don't have to answer that, did you?

1868
01:38:59.520 --> 01:38:59.720
Yes?

1869
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:01.000
Yes, I did serve it.

1870
01:39:01.159 --> 01:39:02.119
What did I tell you?

1871
01:39:02.159 --> 01:39:05.079
Where did he get the arseny? What awesome? Missus Abbott

1872
01:39:05.119 --> 01:39:07.920
died of our cenical poisoning. This dish contains arseny?

1873
01:39:08.439 --> 01:39:09.239
Where did he get it?

1874
01:39:09.760 --> 01:39:10.560
Why should I do?

1875
01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:13.359
Second, you had a motive. You were in love with

1876
01:39:13.399 --> 01:39:15.560
John and wanted your sister out of the way. You

1877
01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:17.039
bought the ice cream, and you spa.

1878
01:39:16.960 --> 01:39:18.319
I did not wanted to get it.

1879
01:39:19.119 --> 01:39:19.640
I don't know.

1880
01:39:20.399 --> 01:39:23.680
You'd better tell you're in a tough sprung. Wait a minute,

1881
01:39:23.920 --> 01:39:26.159
Nita did not do it. She couldn't have done such

1882
01:39:26.159 --> 01:39:27.960
a thing. I bought the ice cream.

1883
01:39:28.239 --> 01:39:30.279
I gave it to Nita to serve Tomasha, and you

1884
01:39:30.359 --> 01:39:30.640
put the.

1885
01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:32.119
Ausenic in it. Nita would never do that.

1886
01:39:32.199 --> 01:39:32.800
She's in the kind.

1887
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:34.119
John did it, and he had a motive.

1888
01:39:34.159 --> 01:39:34.600
I monive.

1889
01:39:34.680 --> 01:39:36.760
He gave Mike Flanner rubber check for four thousand dollars.

1890
01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:37.640
Mike gave him till.

1891
01:39:37.479 --> 01:39:39.479
Saturday or he turned it over to the DA. Marshall

1892
01:39:39.479 --> 01:39:41.560
refused to help John out, so he killed it. Is

1893
01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:42.640
that true about the check?

1894
01:39:42.800 --> 01:39:45.159
Yes, but I didn't kill Marsha. That's ridiculous.

1895
01:39:45.199 --> 01:39:45.960
Of course it is.

1896
01:39:46.199 --> 01:39:48.439
And if anybody had a money to kill it with al.

1897
01:39:48.359 --> 01:39:51.000
What Yes, Alan was in love with me, asked me

1898
01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:51.680
to marry.

1899
01:39:51.479 --> 01:39:53.199
Him, but I knew what was back of it.

1900
01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:53.800
Nita.

1901
01:39:54.000 --> 01:39:55.920
He wanted to marry the money. He knew Marsha would

1902
01:39:55.960 --> 01:39:56.199
lead to me.

1903
01:39:56.399 --> 01:39:56.800
I had not.

1904
01:39:57.039 --> 01:39:58.840
I told him I loved John and turned him down.

1905
01:39:59.079 --> 01:40:00.000
He was jealous of John.

1906
01:40:00.479 --> 01:40:02.880
If Alan Poyt and Marsha, he figured John would be

1907
01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:04.119
played and that would put John out.

1908
01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:04.359
Of the way.

1909
01:40:05.000 --> 01:40:06.359
He put the artic in the ice cream.

1910
01:40:06.479 --> 01:40:08.359
You must have crazy, absolutely crazy.

1911
01:40:08.399 --> 01:40:10.760
He's not the only one. The house keeper accuses Nita.

1912
01:40:10.800 --> 01:40:14.000
Needa accuses Alan, Alan accuses John and both men trying

1913
01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:16.319
to protect Nita. But I've got a piece of evidence

1914
01:40:16.319 --> 01:40:19.239
that definitely pins it on one of it. I'm out

1915
01:40:19.239 --> 01:40:21.680
a charge. What do you find? I checked the boxer

1916
01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:24.439
rat poison we found in the pantry purchase yesterday known

1917
01:40:24.479 --> 01:40:26.560
and the poison register was signed by John Abbotts. The

1918
01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:29.640
rugg is confirmed it all right, John, Yes, yes, I

1919
01:40:29.840 --> 01:40:32.319
bought it, but I swear I am innocent. The evidence

1920
01:40:32.439 --> 01:40:36.319
is all against you, John, and it's Tanita's part in it. Well,

1921
01:40:36.399 --> 01:40:42.199
it'll all come out in the trial. But waste. It

1922
01:40:42.279 --> 01:40:43.079
isn't over yet.

1923
01:40:43.479 --> 01:40:44.560
The door first open.

1924
01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:46.680
And Doctor Manning rushes in waiting a special delivery letter

1925
01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:50.520
just received in his office. Need it doctor? Listen to this.

1926
01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:54.439
John doesn't love me. He cares for nothing but my money.

1927
01:40:54.960 --> 01:40:57.439
He's in the spot over a bad check, a spot on.

1928
01:40:57.479 --> 01:40:58.399
Which he deserves to be.

1929
01:40:59.119 --> 01:41:01.600
Alan is no good and pretends to be in love

1930
01:41:01.640 --> 01:41:03.760
with Nita, but he really wants to marry her for

1931
01:41:03.800 --> 01:41:04.119
the money.

1932
01:41:04.119 --> 01:41:05.159
He thinks I'll leave her.

1933
01:41:06.199 --> 01:41:09.600
My sister is in love with my husband, which disgusts me.

1934
01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:12.920
If I leave my property to her, John will marry

1935
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:16.399
her at the first opportunity. This house is filled with

1936
01:41:16.479 --> 01:41:20.920
nothing but avarice and greed. I can bear it no longer.

1937
01:41:21.119 --> 01:41:23.800
The thought of hanging on to life under these conditions

1938
01:41:23.800 --> 01:41:27.560
for another year is intolerable. A few minutes ago, I

1939
01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:30.199
slipped down the back way and found some rat poison.

1940
01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:33.399
It means the portion of it slipped back to my

1941
01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:37.119
room and mixed it with the ice cream and closed

1942
01:41:37.159 --> 01:41:41.279
his short will witnessed by Missus Simmons, I leave all

1943
01:41:41.319 --> 01:41:45.640
my property, personal and real to the children's home at Montebello.

1944
01:41:46.920 --> 01:41:49.760
This will end the disgusting situation created by my late

1945
01:41:49.880 --> 01:41:55.159
husband's fortune. I'm Marsha Howard. All where there you are.

1946
01:41:55.760 --> 01:41:58.920
None of them kills Marsha that they certainly had the motive.

1947
01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:02.640
Now all of them are left to face the world pennyless,

1948
01:42:03.159 --> 01:42:06.319
and there's still a four thousand dollars check standing between

1949
01:42:06.439 --> 01:42:07.880
John and Nita.

1950
01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:09.840
Too bad.

1951
01:42:33.000 --> 01:42:44.840
CBS has presented The Whistler. Original music for this production

1952
01:42:44.960 --> 01:42:47.880
was composed and conducted by wilbra Hatch. The Whistler has

1953
01:42:47.880 --> 01:42:50.720
written and directed by Jay Donald Wilson and originates from

1954
01:42:50.840 --> 01:42:56.600
Columbia Square in Hollywood. Next week, same time, I the

1955
01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:08.039
whistler will return to tell you another unusual This is

1956
01:43:08.079 --> 01:43:26.680
their Columbia Broadcasting System.

1957
01:43:28.199 --> 01:43:33.600
My dear, things are getting a bit heavier now, But

1958
01:43:33.760 --> 01:43:38.159
I hope you're still enjoying yourself as much as I

1959
01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:46.600
find myself enjoying myself. Well, I suppose it is getting late.

1960
01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:52.720
But you seem to want one more trip through the dark,

1961
01:43:52.880 --> 01:43:59.000
one more journey before you journey home. Who knows what

1962
01:43:59.119 --> 01:44:05.680
you may find, perhaps happiness, sadness, or the Diamond as

1963
01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:07.600
Big as the Ritz.

1964
01:44:13.159 --> 01:44:18.560
Escape Escape tonight to a fabulous world where there is

1965
01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:20.359
a Diamond as Big as the Ritz.

1966
01:44:26.000 --> 01:44:30.640
A Columbia Broadcasting System and it's affiliated stations resents Escape

1967
01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:33.640
a new series of programs, of which this the third

1968
01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:36.479
is The Diamond As Big as the Rints by F.

1969
01:44:36.520 --> 01:44:39.960
Scott Fitzgerald, produced and directed by William N. Robeson.

1970
01:44:47.119 --> 01:44:49.960
In a country as large as ours, there are many

1971
01:44:50.000 --> 01:44:54.319
odd and wonderful corners hidden away, but none more fabulous

1972
01:44:54.359 --> 01:44:57.520
and wonderful than the one conceived in the imagination of F.

1973
01:44:57.600 --> 01:45:00.880
Scott Fitzgerald and located in the ages of his famous

1974
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:05.199
short story The Diamond As Big as the Ricks. It

1975
01:45:05.279 --> 01:45:09.680
is described in the words of John Unger twenty years old, impressionable,

1976
01:45:09.960 --> 01:45:12.159
and quite willing to swear to the truth of this

1977
01:45:12.279 --> 01:45:13.640
whole strange affair.

1978
01:45:14.439 --> 01:45:16.439
I'd been going to the Saint Midas Prep school for

1979
01:45:16.439 --> 01:45:18.960
a couple of years, and this was my second summer vacation.

1980
01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:22.239
I'd met this fellow, Percy Washington during the winter and

1981
01:45:22.359 --> 01:45:24.800
got to be pretty good friends with him. Only I

1982
01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:26.920
didn't know about his family, or where he came from,

1983
01:45:27.000 --> 01:45:29.520
or anything like that. Of course, I knew he must

1984
01:45:29.520 --> 01:45:31.760
be rich, because halla fellas a Saint Midas come from

1985
01:45:31.760 --> 01:45:34.800
wealthy families. So when he invited me to spend the

1986
01:45:34.800 --> 01:45:37.520
summer at his home out west someplace, that was okay

1987
01:45:37.560 --> 01:45:41.159
by me. Well, we've been on the train overnight when

1988
01:45:41.159 --> 01:45:44.000
he first mentioned it. I don't even remember now what

1989
01:45:44.159 --> 01:45:47.000
led up to it. We've been talking about, first one

1990
01:45:47.039 --> 01:45:53.920
thing and then another. Exactly where is your home, Percy?

1991
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:56.279
I mean you bought the train tickets and office. It's

1992
01:45:56.319 --> 01:45:59.880
in Montana, sort of Montana.

1993
01:46:00.199 --> 01:46:00.399
Oh.

1994
01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:02.920
Yes, it's pretty wild country, isn't it.

1995
01:46:03.319 --> 01:46:03.560
Mmm?

1996
01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:04.760
Some of it is.

1997
01:46:05.359 --> 01:46:07.880
You take Hades, Missouri, where I come from. It's been

1998
01:46:07.880 --> 01:46:09.399
settled for one hundred and fifty years.

1999
01:46:09.600 --> 01:46:12.039
One of the first towns on the Mississippi river indeed.

2000
01:46:12.359 --> 01:46:14.239
Oh sure, that's very interesting.

2001
01:46:14.880 --> 01:46:17.960
Well, I sure do appreciate you not making jokes about it,

2002
01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:19.960
you know the way some of the fellas do when

2003
01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:24.680
I say I come from Hades. Why my father's plantations.

2004
01:46:24.199 --> 01:46:27.199
Got Just do you know that my father is the

2005
01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:31.279
richest man in the world. Huh by far the richest.

2006
01:46:32.119 --> 01:46:33.920
Well I read about a man that paid taxes on

2007
01:46:33.960 --> 01:46:35.199
a five million dollar income.

2008
01:46:35.359 --> 01:46:39.039
Small fry. If my father paid tax on his real income,

2009
01:46:39.439 --> 01:46:43.199
he disrupt the whole economy of the United States, no kidding.

2010
01:46:44.159 --> 01:46:46.760
I like rich people, and the richer fella is the better.

2011
01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:47.439
I like him.

2012
01:46:47.640 --> 01:46:49.840
My father could buy out all the millionaires in the

2013
01:46:49.880 --> 01:46:51.760
country and not even know he had done it.

2014
01:46:52.159 --> 01:46:53.920
Is that a thing? Life?

2015
01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:56.600
Visit that the Schlitzer Murphy's once they're plenty of rich.

2016
01:46:57.039 --> 01:46:59.319
Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as big as hen's

2017
01:46:59.359 --> 01:47:02.199
eggs and sapphires that glue like headlamps.

2018
01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:05.720
I like jewels, always have. I used to collect them

2019
01:47:05.720 --> 01:47:07.840
instead of stams and diamonds or the.

2020
01:47:07.840 --> 01:47:10.279
Slitser Murphy's had diamonds as big as walnuts.

2021
01:47:10.319 --> 01:47:15.359
Oh that's nothing, huh, nothing at all. My father has

2022
01:47:15.399 --> 01:47:20.399
a diamond as big as the Ritz. Ah, please, I'm

2023
01:47:20.399 --> 01:47:24.800
not joking, but you mean as big as the Ritz

2024
01:47:24.840 --> 01:47:29.359
Carlton Hotel exactly. My father has a diamond as big

2025
01:47:29.399 --> 01:47:38.479
as the Ritz. Well, from there on it was something

2026
01:47:38.520 --> 01:47:39.199
like a dream.

2027
01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:41.880
We got off the train about dusk at a little

2028
01:47:41.880 --> 01:47:46.239
whistle stopped called fish Montana. There wasn't anything there, not

2029
01:47:46.319 --> 01:47:49.760
even a station, just a broken down old buggy and

2030
01:47:49.880 --> 01:47:53.399
four or five sheep herders lounging beside the track. And

2031
01:47:53.439 --> 01:47:57.079
I suppose, wondering who we were anyway, Percy and I

2032
01:47:57.159 --> 01:47:59.399
climbed into the buggy, and without saying a word, the

2033
01:47:59.479 --> 01:48:01.399
drivers whip and off we went.

2034
01:48:09.279 --> 01:48:10.680
I don't know how far we travel.

2035
01:48:11.239 --> 01:48:14.079
We didn't seem to be following any road. After an

2036
01:48:14.079 --> 01:48:16.359
hour or so, it got dark, but the driver kept

2037
01:48:16.439 --> 01:48:18.239
right on, never saying a word.

2038
01:48:22.680 --> 01:48:25.920
I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have

2039
01:48:26.039 --> 01:48:27.680
to take certain precautions, you know.

2040
01:48:28.199 --> 01:48:29.319
Oh, that's all right.

2041
01:48:29.399 --> 01:48:32.439
Anyway, we're almost there your home, you mean, oh, no,

2042
01:48:32.560 --> 01:48:35.000
to the place where we consider it safe to transfer.

2043
01:48:35.640 --> 01:48:37.039
Transfer What do you mean?

2044
01:48:37.159 --> 01:48:41.520
There's the signal now, headlights well up, the horse absom here.

2045
01:48:41.560 --> 01:48:46.880
We are an automobile, but there's no road.

2046
01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:49.800
Oh, this car is specially built, doesn't need roads.

2047
01:48:50.279 --> 01:48:51.720
Welcome home, must.

2048
01:48:51.840 --> 01:48:55.279
Good evening, Gigsum. Oh, come on, John, let's get in.

2049
01:48:57.039 --> 01:48:58.079
That door opened by it?

2050
01:48:58.199 --> 01:49:00.199
So sonically controlled.

2051
01:48:59.760 --> 01:48:59.920
You know.

2052
01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:04.760
Gosh, Hey, what's this car? Made out of silver?

2053
01:49:05.279 --> 01:49:08.680
No platinum? And those are emeralds in the hubcaps and

2054
01:49:08.840 --> 01:49:11.680
me upholstering it's per mink.

2055
01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:13.720
You're already must.

2056
01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:19.239
Anytime, Gigson. You've probably noticed the exceptional brightness of the headlights.

2057
01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:23.600
The lenses are cut from diamonds. Boy, what a car

2058
01:49:23.840 --> 01:49:26.960
in this old junkie we use it for a station wagon.

2059
01:49:41.199 --> 01:49:44.039
What are we stopping for? This is just a deserted canyon.

2060
01:49:44.159 --> 01:49:46.399
Oh, we're not there yet, John, it's a little further.

2061
01:49:46.760 --> 01:49:49.159
Wait you'll see hell.

2062
01:49:49.039 --> 01:49:55.880
Oh, Percy, what's that but noise?

2063
01:49:56.199 --> 01:49:59.520
They're sending the hooks down hooks, Yes, to attach to

2064
01:49:59.600 --> 01:50:02.800
the wheel. You know that's what Dixon is doing now.

2065
01:50:03.239 --> 01:50:06.079
But oh yes, I forgot to mention. Gigson will look

2066
01:50:06.119 --> 01:50:09.920
after you during the visit, look after me your personal valet.

2067
01:50:10.479 --> 01:50:13.279
Of course. There'll be other slaves available too, whenever you

2068
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:13.760
need them.

2069
01:50:14.800 --> 01:50:17.159
You have a lot of slaves, Oh.

2070
01:50:17.039 --> 01:50:20.600
Three or four hundred, I suppose already gigsum.

2071
01:50:20.800 --> 01:50:33.399
Yes, must have hello a store. Look, look we're leaving

2072
01:50:33.399 --> 01:50:33.880
the ground.

2073
01:50:34.039 --> 01:50:36.520
Yes, there's a hoy step there on top of the cliff,

2074
01:50:36.800 --> 01:50:39.640
has cables about a quarter of a mile long. But

2075
01:50:39.760 --> 01:50:44.760
what four Oh, it's the only way in imagine.

2076
01:50:44.520 --> 01:50:47.359
Hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile off the

2077
01:50:47.399 --> 01:50:48.159
side of a cliff.

2078
01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:51.640
It's nothing really, as you may have guessed, John, this

2079
01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:54.399
is not going to be like anything you ever saw

2080
01:50:54.520 --> 01:51:09.119
before in your life. Well, John, there it is.

2081
01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:10.119
That's your home.

2082
01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:16.960
Oh, it's magnificent, glacial it's not a bad little place.

2083
01:51:17.920 --> 01:51:18.680
How big is it?

2084
01:51:18.800 --> 01:51:21.560
I suppose you mean the number of rooms. I think

2085
01:51:21.600 --> 01:51:25.279
it's around one hundred and forty, but Father may remember exactly.

2086
01:51:25.880 --> 01:51:26.000
Then.

2087
01:51:26.039 --> 01:51:29.640
Of course there are other buildings, slaves, quarters and things.

2088
01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:31.840
Why has anybody ever found out about it?

2089
01:51:32.159 --> 01:51:32.680
This place?

2090
01:51:32.720 --> 01:51:35.560
I mean, well, for one thing, it's the only five

2091
01:51:35.640 --> 01:51:40.000
square miles in the United States that have never been surveyed.

2092
01:51:40.199 --> 01:51:41.680
Huh why not?

2093
01:51:42.319 --> 01:51:42.520
Oh?

2094
01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:43.920
Things were arranged.

2095
01:51:44.720 --> 01:51:46.079
I don't see how that's possible.

2096
01:51:46.239 --> 01:51:49.920
Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand. Grandfather had

2097
01:51:49.960 --> 01:51:53.880
to bribe three government bureaus, a vice president, and half

2098
01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:56.399
of Congress ones to keep this place off of the maps.

2099
01:51:56.680 --> 01:52:00.640
But surely somebody stumbled on to it. Prospect people like that.

2100
01:52:01.039 --> 01:52:04.279
Oh, yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course we have

2101
01:52:04.359 --> 01:52:09.279
to arrange things, I mean, not always. Usually we just

2102
01:52:09.319 --> 01:52:12.479
take them prisoner and keep them same as the aviators. Oh,

2103
01:52:12.560 --> 01:52:15.159
planes come here, well, once in a while they fly over.

2104
01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:18.920
Of course they never get away. We have nine anti

2105
01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:20.880
aircraft batteries around the hill here.

2106
01:52:23.039 --> 01:52:25.520
You shoot them down. Oh yes, great sport.

2107
01:52:26.079 --> 01:52:29.199
It does upset mother a bit, though, and there's always

2108
01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:33.439
a chance that one might get away. That's father's greatest worry.

2109
01:52:34.199 --> 01:52:39.640
This place, this whole thing, it's it's fantastic. Oh come now, John,

2110
01:52:40.039 --> 01:52:41.760
I picked you of a fellow with his feet on

2111
01:52:41.800 --> 01:52:44.720
the ground, and you haven't seen anything yet. You know,

2112
01:52:45.439 --> 01:52:57.880
this is only the beginning, And it was.

2113
01:52:58.000 --> 01:52:59.239
Only the beginning.

2114
01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:02.039
For we crossed the acres of lawn and entered the

2115
01:53:02.039 --> 01:53:06.000
great Chateau, and from that moment on, vision upon vision

2116
01:53:06.159 --> 01:53:10.479
tumbled together in a gigantic kaleidoscope of color symmetry and

2117
01:53:10.640 --> 01:53:15.399
exquisite harmony. But there were corridors lined with gleaming crystals,

2118
01:53:15.520 --> 01:53:18.560
lit by lamps cut from emerald, and there were great

2119
01:53:18.600 --> 01:53:22.039
halls carpeted with chinchilla fur and ermine, and some with

2120
01:53:22.119 --> 01:53:26.039
floors of clear transparency flaming in the shifting glow of

2121
01:53:26.079 --> 01:53:29.399
a myriad colored fire beneath them. And there was a

2122
01:53:29.439 --> 01:53:33.680
white haired man, pink faced and pleasant, who was Percy's father,

2123
01:53:34.640 --> 01:53:38.359
and a lovely lady with dark hair piled high on

2124
01:53:38.439 --> 01:53:42.800
her head like a fragile queen, who was Percy's mother.

2125
01:53:46.159 --> 01:53:50.279
Soft music came from hidden places, perfumes filled the air,

2126
01:53:50.920 --> 01:53:56.319
exotic foods and wines more rare than pearls. And finally,

2127
01:53:57.159 --> 01:54:00.840
sitting in my chair in the Great Banquet Hall, I

2128
01:54:01.079 --> 01:54:02.760
quietly fell asleep.

2129
01:54:06.119 --> 01:54:08.760
I thought there could be no more, no greater wonders.

2130
01:54:09.279 --> 01:54:09.880
I was wrong.

2131
01:54:10.359 --> 01:54:13.520
There were many more, and greater ones, and one of

2132
01:54:13.560 --> 01:54:15.439
them I discovered the next morning in the garden.

2133
01:54:24.920 --> 01:54:30.000
Hello there, huh oh.

2134
01:54:29.079 --> 01:54:30.439
Oh, you're lovely.

2135
01:54:30.760 --> 01:54:33.319
My name is Kidsman. You're John Hunger and you're a

2136
01:54:33.399 --> 01:54:34.199
friend of my brother.

2137
01:54:35.880 --> 01:54:39.800
Are you from the East, No, well, at least not exactly.

2138
01:54:41.159 --> 01:54:44.359
I'm from Hades, Oh, Missouri.

2139
01:54:45.079 --> 01:54:46.880
Would you like to sit down here on the grass?

2140
01:54:47.079 --> 01:54:48.159
Well, yeah, sure I would.

2141
01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:50.359
I'm going to use to school this fall.

2142
01:54:50.720 --> 01:54:51.880
Do you suppose I like it?

2143
01:54:52.199 --> 01:54:54.560
I think so. Of course it'll be different from all this.

2144
01:54:54.920 --> 01:54:57.479
That's what Jasmine says. And she's in the east. Now

2145
01:54:58.159 --> 01:54:59.760
I've never been outside.

2146
01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:01.920
Who's Jasmine my sister.

2147
01:55:02.600 --> 01:55:03.720
She's older than I am.

2148
01:55:06.399 --> 01:55:10.119
I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most

2149
01:55:10.159 --> 01:55:11.720
beautiful girl I've ever seen.

2150
01:55:12.239 --> 01:55:16.840
Yes, I know what. I surprised you didn't I a

2151
01:55:16.880 --> 01:55:19.159
year ago I would have said thank you. But father

2152
01:55:19.239 --> 01:55:21.840
says it's very necessary to learn to take things for granted.

2153
01:55:22.239 --> 01:55:24.760
So now I just take it for granted that I'm beautiful.

2154
01:55:24.840 --> 01:55:27.439
You see, you're pretty sophisticated, aren't you.

2155
01:55:27.520 --> 01:55:30.560
Oh I'm not at all. I think sophisticated young people

2156
01:55:30.600 --> 01:55:33.079
are terribly common. I'm not a bit like that.

2157
01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:34.359
I didn't really mean it.

2158
01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:35.880
I only said it to tease you.

2159
01:55:36.159 --> 01:55:37.000
Well, I'm glad.

2160
01:55:37.600 --> 01:55:39.520
I wouldn't want you to think anything like that.

2161
01:55:40.159 --> 01:55:40.359
Why.

2162
01:55:40.399 --> 01:55:43.159
I don't smoke or drink even And I never read

2163
01:55:43.159 --> 01:55:44.399
a thing he said poetry.

2164
01:55:44.920 --> 01:55:45.800
I was only kidened.

2165
01:55:46.119 --> 01:55:48.640
I believe girls should enjoy their youth in a wholesome

2166
01:55:48.720 --> 01:55:49.319
sort of way.

2167
01:55:49.439 --> 01:55:52.079
Oh so do I I like you?

2168
01:55:52.199 --> 01:55:52.520
John.

2169
01:55:53.279 --> 01:55:54.920
I wish you'd spend some of your time with me

2170
01:55:55.079 --> 01:55:57.279
this summer, not all with Percy.

2171
01:55:57.560 --> 01:55:59.359
Oh I will kiss mine. I will.

2172
01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:01.640
You may be in love with me if you'd like to.

2173
01:56:02.319 --> 01:56:03.800
I'm absolutely fresh ground.

2174
01:56:03.840 --> 01:56:06.239
You know I am in love with you.

2175
01:56:06.560 --> 01:56:08.039
But of course we'll have to meet secretly.

2176
01:56:08.439 --> 01:56:09.680
My parents wouldn't permit.

2177
01:56:09.560 --> 01:56:11.399
It if they knew all, and that's what we'll do.

2178
01:56:11.720 --> 01:56:13.600
Well, I have to go now. I'm supposed to be

2179
01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:17.159
with mother at eleven? Aren't you going to ask me

2180
01:56:17.239 --> 01:56:22.239
for a kiss? Jasmine says, boys always do nowadays.

2181
01:56:21.840 --> 01:56:25.960
Well, some of them do, but not me. We don't

2182
01:56:26.000 --> 01:56:27.920
expect nice girls to do that sort of thing.

2183
01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:29.239
In hades.

2184
01:56:30.199 --> 01:56:40.600
Yeah, it was a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly,

2185
01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:43.800
always smiling, and yet all the time I had a

2186
01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:47.279
feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just

2187
01:56:47.359 --> 01:56:51.720
around the corner. A few days after I'd met kids mind,

2188
01:56:52.079 --> 01:56:56.800
Percy remarked casually that an unusual event had occurred. A

2189
01:56:56.880 --> 01:57:00.520
man had escaped from the cage. I didn't know what

2190
01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:02.960
it meant then, but the next morning I was walking

2191
01:57:02.960 --> 01:57:05.119
with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate.

2192
01:57:05.880 --> 01:57:08.359
The slaves quarters are there, Miss danghn.

2193
01:57:08.720 --> 01:57:11.840
Oh, yes, they're very nice, very adequate.

2194
01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:15.560
During one period of my youth, I became absurdly idealistic

2195
01:57:16.119 --> 01:57:19.000
allowed them to live in luxury. I even equipped their

2196
01:57:19.079 --> 01:57:20.720
rooms with tiled bars.

2197
01:57:21.800 --> 01:57:24.039
I suppose they used the bathtubs to keep coal in,

2198
01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:26.279
mister Schlitzer murphatized.

2199
01:57:26.439 --> 01:57:29.439
Imagine the opinions of mister Schlitzer Murphy are of little importance.

2200
01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:32.800
They did not use the tubs for coal. They bathed

2201
01:57:32.840 --> 01:57:33.520
in them.

2202
01:57:33.640 --> 01:57:37.600
Unfortunately, several caught cold and died, So of course I

2203
01:57:37.600 --> 01:57:38.880
had the bars removed.

2204
01:57:39.399 --> 01:57:40.079
Shall we move on?

2205
01:57:41.960 --> 01:57:45.560
Mister Washington Percy said something about a man escaping from

2206
01:57:45.600 --> 01:57:46.199
the cage.

2207
01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:48.439
I didn't quite get it. The cage.

2208
01:57:48.439 --> 01:57:52.199
Eh, well, perhaps you'd like to see it might prove interesting,

2209
01:57:52.319 --> 01:57:53.079
just as novel day.

2210
01:57:53.520 --> 01:57:57.079
It's over here these trees.

2211
01:57:57.840 --> 01:58:01.279
They're sixty feet tall, and they have roses blooming all

2212
01:58:01.319 --> 01:58:01.760
over them.

2213
01:58:02.000 --> 01:58:05.479
Rather're interesting development by a Swiss botanist. They are the

2214
01:58:05.520 --> 01:58:06.720
only ones in the world.

2215
01:58:06.920 --> 01:58:09.560
I'll be time, though. I suppose you'll see them all

2216
01:58:09.560 --> 01:58:10.680
over the country in a few years.

2217
01:58:10.920 --> 01:58:15.880
No, no, these are the only ones that was arranged.

2218
01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:18.800
Here. We are a cage.

2219
01:58:20.680 --> 01:58:25.960
It's a pit dug in the ground, the grating on top.

2220
01:58:26.079 --> 01:58:29.720
Oh, yes, it's not really a cage except in a

2221
01:58:29.760 --> 01:58:35.439
certain scenes. Well, boys, how are you getting along, had sirry?

2222
01:58:36.079 --> 01:58:39.319
Yeah?

2223
01:58:38.199 --> 01:58:40.520
How many men are down there?

2224
01:58:40.880 --> 01:58:41.760
About fifty years?

2225
01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:45.199
I recall, No, are they no aviators?

2226
01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:48.600
We've shut down wandering prospectors middle of that sort.

2227
01:58:48.720 --> 01:58:50.399
Yes, but why are they kept there?

2228
01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:56.000
They've all had the common misfortune of having discovered El Dorado. Gentlemen,

2229
01:58:57.760 --> 01:59:01.159
I'm sure you'd like to know that your companion who

2230
01:59:01.199 --> 01:59:04.960
departed without my permission has been taken care of.

2231
01:59:07.199 --> 01:59:08.000
He was shot.

2232
01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:12.920
He was shot by some of my agents in fourteen

2233
01:59:13.079 --> 01:59:17.159
different places, golf, mister hunger.

2234
01:59:19.880 --> 01:59:22.800
They found them, then the man who got away.

2235
01:59:23.039 --> 01:59:27.239
Those places were towns. My agents were over eager. None

2236
01:59:27.239 --> 01:59:30.279
of them could offer a positive identification. I am afraid

2237
01:59:30.279 --> 01:59:33.199
the man may still be at large. So you see,

2238
01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:36.720
it's not all utopia, hair. We do have our difficulties.

2239
01:59:37.960 --> 01:59:40.560
Isn't it a little unnecessary holding them like that?

2240
01:59:40.640 --> 01:59:42.760
We're not at all. It's the only way to keep

2241
01:59:42.800 --> 01:59:43.560
this place hidden.

2242
01:59:44.399 --> 01:59:49.119
Yes, I guess that must be important. Percy was telling

2243
01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:51.640
me something on the train. I thought he was just kidding,

2244
01:59:51.920 --> 01:59:54.520
but he said, you had a diamond as big as

2245
01:59:54.520 --> 01:59:55.680
the rich Carlton Hotel.

2246
01:59:55.800 --> 01:59:58.520
Oh yes, yes, indeed, as a matter of fact, it's

2247
01:59:58.600 --> 02:00:04.960
much bigger than the Rits, much bigger.

2248
02:00:09.279 --> 02:00:12.520
Well, summer went on, and I was more and more

2249
02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:16.720
in love with kiss Mine. Oh she was priceless, exquisite,

2250
02:00:16.960 --> 02:00:20.399
like no other girl in the world. After a couple

2251
02:00:20.439 --> 02:00:23.159
of weeks I'd kissed her, of course, and I was

2252
02:00:23.239 --> 02:00:28.039
really in love for the first time. I should have known.

2253
02:00:28.439 --> 02:00:30.439
I should have put two and two together when Percy's

2254
02:00:30.439 --> 02:00:33.399
father showed me the cage, but I didn't until one

2255
02:00:33.439 --> 02:00:36.279
morning late in the summer I'd slipped off of his

2256
02:00:36.439 --> 02:00:41.880
mind to the rose garden. Kiss Mine, I think we

2257
02:00:41.920 --> 02:00:42.600
ought to Ellope.

2258
02:00:43.279 --> 02:00:45.880
I don't know. She would be much nicer to be

2259
02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:48.479
married here, but then it would be more romantic to

2260
02:00:48.520 --> 02:00:48.920
her loawe.

2261
02:00:49.119 --> 02:00:52.680
Yeah, all the Sunday supplements would write stories about fabulous

2262
02:00:52.800 --> 02:00:53.720
errorspes with.

2263
02:00:55.840 --> 02:00:56.720
You are fabulous.

2264
02:00:56.760 --> 02:01:00.159
You know I knew an heiress from Omaha once. I

2265
02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:02.920
don't think you like her. She visited my sister here.

2266
02:01:03.319 --> 02:01:06.560
Oh you've had other guests thennah, Well, yes, we've had

2267
02:01:06.560 --> 02:01:06.880
a few.

2268
02:01:07.720 --> 02:01:10.880
Wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside.

2269
02:01:11.159 --> 02:01:15.880
To some extent? Well, let's talk about something pleasanter but

2270
02:01:16.199 --> 02:01:20.399
so unpleasant about it. Well, I grew quite fond.

2271
02:01:20.079 --> 02:01:20.800
Of some of them.

2272
02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:24.279
You mean they told and your father.

2273
02:01:24.399 --> 02:01:26.760
Oh, they didn't get a chance to Father had to

2274
02:01:26.760 --> 02:01:27.239
be sure.

2275
02:01:29.199 --> 02:01:30.039
That's murder.

2276
02:01:30.199 --> 02:01:33.279
What else could we do in the cage? Well, they'd

2277
02:01:33.279 --> 02:01:35.880
have been a constant reproach to us, And father does

2278
02:01:35.920 --> 02:01:39.039
it so nicely. They're always drugged in their sleep, and

2279
02:01:39.039 --> 02:01:41.319
then we tell their families they died of scarlet fever.

2280
02:01:41.399 --> 02:01:45.279
And butte, I'm not sure how that affects the statistics

2281
02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:48.760
there of all the horrible it is not, after all,

2282
02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:52.399
be terribly boring you without ever having anybody? Why father

2283
02:01:52.439 --> 02:01:55.159
and mother would sacrificed some of their best friends.

2284
02:01:55.439 --> 02:02:00.520
Well, you're no better than the that's what they plan

2285
02:02:00.600 --> 02:02:01.039
to do with me.

2286
02:02:01.359 --> 02:02:03.720
Oh couldn't you forget it and be nice to me

2287
02:02:03.840 --> 02:02:07.640
until you've put away? It's only for two or three weeks.

2288
02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:11.319
You'd go on this way, kissing, talking about love when

2289
02:02:11.319 --> 02:02:12.720
you know I'm not much better than a corpse.

2290
02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:15.239
You're not a corpse, You're not. I won't have you

2291
02:02:15.279 --> 02:02:16.319
saying I kissed a corpse.

2292
02:02:16.399 --> 02:02:18.159
Oh that wasn't what I said, Did I did?

2293
02:02:18.199 --> 02:02:18.279
Not?

2294
02:02:18.399 --> 02:02:18.960
You said it?

2295
02:02:20.960 --> 02:02:22.399
Who kissed a corpse?

2296
02:02:22.640 --> 02:02:24.840
Well nobody, we were joking.

2297
02:02:25.079 --> 02:02:26.680
You two having any business here anyway?

2298
02:02:26.880 --> 02:02:28.920
Kiss mine? Go read go play golf.

2299
02:02:29.079 --> 02:02:30.640
Don't let me find you here when I come back.

2300
02:02:30.880 --> 02:02:34.880
Yes, father, good day children. You see now he knows

2301
02:02:35.159 --> 02:02:38.119
you've spoiled everything. You don't really love me?

2302
02:02:38.680 --> 02:02:39.279
Kiss mind you.

2303
02:02:41.920 --> 02:02:45.119
Tell me what's the reason for all this secrecy? What

2304
02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:47.079
if you are rich and have this place? Why would

2305
02:02:47.079 --> 02:02:48.920
it be so terrible if anybody found out about it?

2306
02:02:48.960 --> 02:02:50.319
Why it's on account of the diamond?

2307
02:02:50.359 --> 02:02:52.680
Of course, diamond. What is this diamond all of you

2308
02:02:52.760 --> 02:02:53.279
talk about.

2309
02:02:53.680 --> 02:02:57.880
Well, it's the Oh you'd better ask Chrissy. I'm always

2310
02:02:57.880 --> 02:02:59.000
getting things mixed up.

2311
02:02:59.079 --> 02:03:01.680
Well I will ask him. And another thing. I'm getting

2312
02:03:01.680 --> 02:03:03.520
out of here tonight. If I have to dig through

2313
02:03:03.560 --> 02:03:05.279
the mountains, I'm going back east.

2314
02:03:05.439 --> 02:03:07.439
Take me with you. No, why not?

2315
02:03:09.039 --> 02:03:09.079
Be?

2316
02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:09.840
Is my dear?

2317
02:03:09.880 --> 02:03:11.279
Your father wouldn't permit it.

2318
02:03:11.560 --> 02:03:13.720
If you won't take me, I'll go tell him I

2319
02:03:13.720 --> 02:03:14.319
want to marry you.

2320
02:03:14.439 --> 02:03:16.880
No, you can't do that, he bumped me office afternoon.

2321
02:03:17.079 --> 02:03:21.079
Oh please take me, darling. We'll be terribly poor and

2322
02:03:21.199 --> 02:03:25.359
very happy, and I'll cook things for you, all herbs

2323
02:03:25.399 --> 02:03:29.800
and berries and things. Won't that be fun? You will,

2324
02:03:29.960 --> 02:03:30.279
won't you?

2325
02:03:30.399 --> 02:03:30.680
John?

2326
02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:37.960
Well, my head was really in a whirl. This whole

2327
02:03:37.960 --> 02:03:41.680
thing was fantastic, So was the family, even kids mine.

2328
02:03:42.279 --> 02:03:45.199
I couldn't think of anything to do, but well, I

2329
02:03:45.279 --> 02:03:46.399
rushed to see Percy.

2330
02:03:46.880 --> 02:03:48.760
But John, why didn't you ask me before?

2331
02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:50.840
Because I thought you were kidding all the time.

2332
02:03:51.840 --> 02:03:53.159
I know you wouldn't have believed me.

2333
02:03:53.199 --> 02:03:55.439
If I tell you now, I'm ready to believe anything.

2334
02:03:55.520 --> 02:03:55.560
No.

2335
02:03:56.079 --> 02:03:59.760
Well, it was grandfather who started the whole thing purely

2336
02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:02.840
by accident. He came out here from Virginia after the

2337
02:04:02.880 --> 02:04:05.479
war between the States and stumbled onto it. On what

2338
02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:08.840
the diamond? That's what made this all possible. Of course,

2339
02:04:09.399 --> 02:04:12.119
grandfather spent two years going around to different cities of

2340
02:04:12.119 --> 02:04:15.079
the world selling bits of it. Then he started building

2341
02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:18.760
this place. He put his money in jewels, but father

2342
02:04:18.960 --> 02:04:23.439
found that radium took much less space. But why the secrecy, Oh,

2343
02:04:23.479 --> 02:04:26.079
we just wouldn't do if anyone found out, ruined the

2344
02:04:26.079 --> 02:04:27.119
economy of the world.

2345
02:04:27.359 --> 02:04:29.920
The thing's too big, and this has been going on

2346
02:04:30.000 --> 02:04:34.000
for three generations. Then the cage and this thing of

2347
02:04:34.039 --> 02:04:35.199
inviting friends.

2348
02:04:35.319 --> 02:04:38.560
Oh, yes, you see, there wasn't really any danger before

2349
02:04:38.640 --> 02:04:41.680
airplanes They are what worrious.

2350
02:04:42.000 --> 02:04:43.520
You knew and you invited me here?

2351
02:04:43.560 --> 02:04:45.279
What would happen? Please? John?

2352
02:04:45.720 --> 02:04:48.720
I thought you'd be more sensible about it. After all,

2353
02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:50.239
you can see my position.

2354
02:04:50.399 --> 02:04:54.399
Oh yeah, well where is it? Where do you keep

2355
02:04:54.399 --> 02:04:56.560
this diamond? It's cause so cock eyed much trouble.

2356
02:04:56.760 --> 02:04:58.960
Oh, I thought you'd guessed you've noticed the hill the

2357
02:04:59.039 --> 02:05:03.600
chateau stands on. It contains a cubic mile, and except

2358
02:05:03.600 --> 02:05:09.399
for a thin covering of dirt, it's one big, solid diamond.

2359
02:05:19.079 --> 02:05:20.159
It was nearly midnight.

2360
02:05:21.359 --> 02:05:23.640
I don't know what woke me, but all.

2361
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:26.399
Of a sudden I was staring across the patches of moonlight,

2362
02:05:26.439 --> 02:05:30.199
spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom, staring at three

2363
02:05:30.279 --> 02:05:34.760
slaves I'd never seen before. They just slipped inside the

2364
02:05:34.800 --> 02:05:38.479
door and stood there, each with a vicious length of

2365
02:05:38.520 --> 02:05:44.920
shiny copper wire, the official executioners. I lay there on

2366
02:05:44.960 --> 02:05:49.399
the bed watching them, counting heartbeats, not daring to move,

2367
02:05:49.520 --> 02:05:52.840
not daring not to move. They didn't know I'd wakened,

2368
02:05:53.399 --> 02:05:56.159
and they began edging across the room.

2369
02:05:56.960 --> 02:05:59.399
Come on, all three of you, there's no time off

2370
02:05:59.399 --> 02:06:01.119
of this old hell's broken loose.

2371
02:06:01.239 --> 02:06:03.199
Hurry.

2372
02:06:04.880 --> 02:06:07.640
I took one long, deep breath, the first one in

2373
02:06:07.680 --> 02:06:09.640
several moments, and then I was out of the bed

2374
02:06:09.640 --> 02:06:12.079
in an instant throwing on my clothes and dashing through

2375
02:06:12.079 --> 02:06:15.439
the long crystal corador to kiss mine's um, kiss mine?

2376
02:06:15.439 --> 02:06:17.640
Are you awake the window?

2377
02:06:18.239 --> 02:06:19.720
So they woke you up too, if.

2378
02:06:19.600 --> 02:06:21.800
You mean three of your father's slay No airplane?

2379
02:06:21.880 --> 02:06:23.880
Airplane, So that's what it is.

2380
02:06:23.880 --> 02:06:26.760
At least a dozen. I saw them crossing against the moon.

2381
02:06:27.239 --> 02:06:27.399
Oh.

2382
02:06:27.439 --> 02:06:29.079
Look they're circling way over there.

2383
02:06:29.199 --> 02:06:30.279
You think they're here on purpose?

2384
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:30.439
Oh?

2385
02:06:30.520 --> 02:06:33.199
Yes, they dropped warnings to father. It's that man who

2386
02:06:33.239 --> 02:06:34.119
got away from the cage.

2387
02:06:34.119 --> 02:06:35.600
You now, Oh, good for him.

2388
02:06:35.479 --> 02:06:36.439
Yes, wasn't he clever?

2389
02:06:36.880 --> 02:06:37.039
Well?

2390
02:06:37.039 --> 02:06:39.880
I think we'll open up on the many second now, yes,

2391
02:06:39.880 --> 02:06:42.960
already aircraft. Oh, this is going to be thrilling, thrilling.

2392
02:06:43.560 --> 02:06:47.880
Look they're arranged now, bravo.

2393
02:06:46.920 --> 02:06:47.880
Get away from that window.

2394
02:06:49.159 --> 02:06:50.439
What good heavens did you see that?

2395
02:06:50.520 --> 02:06:51.720
Yes, and we've got to get out of here.

2396
02:06:51.960 --> 02:06:52.800
Can't you understand?

2397
02:06:52.880 --> 02:06:55.159
Up on the chateau next, I know, there's a little

2398
02:06:55.159 --> 02:06:57.279
grove across on the side of the mountains. We always

2399
02:06:57.319 --> 02:06:58.880
keep one of the cars there. Oh, we have a

2400
02:06:58.960 --> 02:06:59.880
nice view of everything.

2401
02:07:00.159 --> 02:07:00.920
Nice few kids.

2402
02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:01.119
Mind.

2403
02:07:01.159 --> 02:07:03.920
You don't seem to understand they mean business. They're out

2404
02:07:03.960 --> 02:07:05.479
to finish off you and your whole family.

2405
02:07:05.600 --> 02:07:07.840
But it all seems so silly, or when you come

2406
02:07:07.920 --> 02:07:20.560
right down to it, they've never even met us. What

2407
02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:23.720
time is it, John, isn't morning yet?

2408
02:07:24.119 --> 02:07:27.239
I don't know. I've lost my watch. Seems to be

2409
02:07:27.279 --> 02:07:28.079
getting lighter.

2410
02:07:27.880 --> 02:07:28.279
All right.

2411
02:07:28.359 --> 02:07:29.359
It's quieter too.

2412
02:07:29.840 --> 02:07:32.399
Now they've knocked out your father's guns. Every last one

2413
02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:34.920
of them will belong now.

2414
02:07:35.359 --> 02:07:38.079
Oh, it seems such a shame. The family puts so

2415
02:07:38.199 --> 02:07:41.960
much work on the place. Everything's always been so pleasant.

2416
02:07:44.079 --> 02:07:46.000
Well, you better get some sleep, kids. Mine, I'm gonna

2417
02:07:46.000 --> 02:07:47.119
walk down the path a little ways.

2418
02:07:47.119 --> 02:07:50.359
Oh, you'll come back this kiss mine.

2419
02:07:51.279 --> 02:07:52.239
I'll come back.

2420
02:07:55.039 --> 02:07:55.880
At the edge of the wood.

2421
02:07:55.880 --> 02:07:58.600
I stopped and looked out across the valley toward direct chateau,

2422
02:07:58.720 --> 02:08:02.920
standing on its diamond in the center. The bombing had stopped.

2423
02:08:03.239 --> 02:08:05.479
The planes droned over the far rim of the plateau,

2424
02:08:05.640 --> 02:08:09.279
seeking some sort of formation. Then, on a little knoll

2425
02:08:09.479 --> 02:08:12.840
just below me, three men appeared suddenly from the underbrush.

2426
02:08:13.279 --> 02:08:16.920
The first one strode imperiously ahead. The other two bore

2427
02:08:16.960 --> 02:08:20.520
a heavy burden between them. There was mister Washington and

2428
02:08:20.520 --> 02:08:23.600
two of the slaves. I stepped behind a rock and

2429
02:08:23.640 --> 02:08:26.039
stood motionless, watching them.

2430
02:08:26.239 --> 02:08:31.840
All right, missus foreigner, We'll stop here now hoisted up,

2431
02:08:32.000 --> 02:08:35.199
Hold it there, Hold together easy.

2432
02:08:35.319 --> 02:08:36.880
Now there.

2433
02:08:37.479 --> 02:08:39.319
The burden they held up to the heavens was an

2434
02:08:39.319 --> 02:08:43.640
immense diamond, cut and polished, catching the first faint rays

2435
02:08:43.680 --> 02:08:46.199
of the dawn, and gleaming like a fragment of the

2436
02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:46.880
morning star.

2437
02:08:47.279 --> 02:08:52.159
Ah, you out there, you there.

2438
02:08:53.159 --> 02:08:55.319
I could see no one else anywhere in view you

2439
02:08:55.800 --> 02:08:56.640
above there.

2440
02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:02.399
I want you to understand, this is only a sample.

2441
02:09:03.880 --> 02:09:08.000
I'll give you a thousand cut as fine, set in

2442
02:09:08.119 --> 02:09:12.960
pedestals of platinum, and I'll build you a temple a

2443
02:09:13.159 --> 02:09:18.600
thousand feet high, cast of solid gold, and on the

2444
02:09:18.640 --> 02:09:23.840
top of it, I'll put one diamond a hundred feet across,

2445
02:09:24.800 --> 02:09:28.720
set there forever to catch the rays of your son.

2446
02:09:29.840 --> 02:09:33.199
The thought began to dawn on me. I couldn't believe it.

2447
02:09:33.439 --> 02:09:38.520
I'll let your name on the temple in emeralds, and

2448
02:09:38.640 --> 02:09:42.880
I'll see that the whole world worships at its base.

2449
02:09:44.199 --> 02:09:48.960
All you have to do is make everything the way

2450
02:09:49.000 --> 02:09:50.159
it was before.

2451
02:09:51.560 --> 02:10:02.000
Mister Washington was offering a bribe to God. He stopped talking,

2452
02:10:02.039 --> 02:10:03.680
and the three of them stood there, looking up at

2453
02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:07.760
the heavens, waiting for an answer, and then at the

2454
02:10:07.760 --> 02:10:10.039
far end of the valley. Out of those same silent

2455
02:10:10.079 --> 02:10:14.920
heavens blossomed the white puffs of parachutes. A man who

2456
02:10:15.039 --> 02:10:18.000
tried to bribe God looked up and saw them. They

2457
02:10:18.039 --> 02:10:22.239
came old in an instant, and, turning with lord head,

2458
02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:26.279
walked down the path toward the chateau. With sudden premonition,

2459
02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:28.079
I whirled and headed for the spot where I'd left

2460
02:10:28.119 --> 02:10:39.279
his mine, his mine and the car that needed no roads.

2461
02:10:41.600 --> 02:10:42.960
Haven't we gone far enough?

2462
02:10:43.079 --> 02:10:43.359
John?

2463
02:10:43.720 --> 02:10:45.960
I suppose we're ten miles from the chateau.

2464
02:10:46.319 --> 02:10:50.600
It's also hectic, is rushing about and losing sleep and everything.

2465
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And made those field glasses here they are?

2466
02:10:53.079 --> 02:10:54.039
Or can you see anything?

2467
02:10:54.479 --> 02:10:54.520
No?

2468
02:10:55.319 --> 02:10:59.319
Wait, what is it to your father and mother? And

2469
02:10:59.359 --> 02:11:04.199
Percy guessing the two slaves still carrying a big diamond. Wait,

2470
02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:07.960
they're going in a tunnel down below the chateau. So

2471
02:11:08.119 --> 02:11:08.399
that's it.

2472
02:11:08.399 --> 02:11:09.720
They've got an underground escape.

2473
02:11:09.840 --> 02:11:12.800
No, I remember, now, the mountain's wired some kind of

2474
02:11:12.920 --> 02:11:15.640
Adam bomb, adam atomic bomb.

2475
02:11:15.680 --> 02:11:16.279
Oh, that's it.

2476
02:11:16.520 --> 02:11:18.720
Father's had it for years. He always said it would

2477
02:11:18.760 --> 02:11:21.800
disintegrate the whole works, diamond and all. Of course he

2478
02:11:21.840 --> 02:11:23.560
I regarded it as the last resort.

2479
02:11:24.079 --> 02:11:27.880
So I'd rather have it like that. They're all inside

2480
02:11:27.880 --> 02:11:30.279
the tunnel now the troopers are moving in.

2481
02:11:30.520 --> 02:11:32.640
I don't suppose there's really anything to be done about

2482
02:11:32.640 --> 02:11:49.720
it now, and there wasn't. I keep thinking about things

2483
02:11:49.720 --> 02:11:53.680
the way they were. It was all so pleasant. I

2484
02:11:53.720 --> 02:11:55.800
don't suppose it will be ever exactly like that.

2485
02:11:55.840 --> 02:11:58.680
Again, not ever, kids mine, and maybe it never was.

2486
02:12:00.119 --> 02:12:02.119
Time for dreaming, and dreams died too.

2487
02:12:02.520 --> 02:12:05.479
I'll probably have to take in washing, but of course

2488
02:12:05.520 --> 02:12:08.840
will be very happy. What will we do, John do?

2489
02:12:09.600 --> 02:12:12.920
Oh? We can love a while underneath the stars. That's

2490
02:12:12.960 --> 02:12:14.920
a form of divine drunkenness. We can all try.

2491
02:12:15.600 --> 02:12:17.359
And then there may be other diamonds in the world.

2492
02:12:17.520 --> 02:12:18.039
Who knows.

2493
02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:21.560
And even though it's a shabby gift, as always disillusion

2494
02:12:23.159 --> 02:12:25.920
turn if you call a kids mind before you catch pneumonia.

2495
02:12:27.680 --> 02:12:28.600
Let's go to sleep.

2496
02:12:41.720 --> 02:12:43.439
The Diamond As Big as the Rets by F. Scott

2497
02:12:43.479 --> 02:12:46.479
Fitzgerald was adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield and produced

2498
02:12:46.479 --> 02:12:49.439
and directed by William N. Robeson, with Jack Edwards Junior

2499
02:12:49.439 --> 02:12:52.279
as John, Danny Merrill Les Percy, and Linda Mason as

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02:12:52.359 --> 02:12:55.720
his mind. The special musical score was conceived and conducted

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02:12:55.720 --> 02:13:00.199
by cyfuer and so good night until next week at

2502
02:13:00.199 --> 02:13:03.880
this time, but it will again be time to escape.

2503
02:13:04.560 --> 02:13:17.279
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2504
02:13:23.159 --> 02:13:29.239
Well, my dear, it appears the evening has reached its culmination,

2505
02:13:30.399 --> 02:13:34.399
and now soon the sun will come up and reclaim

2506
02:13:35.079 --> 02:13:39.800
what's theirs. But I do hope you'll join me again. Soon.

2507
02:13:40.760 --> 02:13:48.319
I'll be right here, same time, same place, ready to

2508
02:13:48.439 --> 02:13:55.000
share something joyful and dark with you. But now, as

2509
02:13:55.079 --> 02:13:59.239
you make your way home through the dark woods, through

2510
02:13:59.239 --> 02:14:03.560
the quiet city streets, as you make your way to

2511
02:14:03.600 --> 02:14:07.279
your humble home, to lay your head on that soft,

2512
02:14:07.760 --> 02:14:14.000
delicate pillow and rest that mind of yours, if you

2513
02:14:14.039 --> 02:14:18.199
could do me one favor before you slip away to

2514
02:14:18.319 --> 02:14:23.159
the land of nod, take one moment and be thankful

2515
02:14:23.880 --> 02:14:28.560
for what you have, and I'll be seeing you soon.

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