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Ah, my dear, so good to see you again, always
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happy when you make your way to my little place here.
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Please have a seat. It's getting darker and darker, but
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the fire is plenty bright, and I'll get something warm
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for us to drink as we try to chill ourselves
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back down. Oh what's that? Well, I suppose I wouldn't
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be a very good host if I let that happen. No, No,
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take your mind off of such frivolous and deadly concerns.
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Try instead to focus on three women.
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Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.
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Welcome to the sounds of suspense, to the fear you
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can hear. I have a story for you about a writer,
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a writer of books.
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We all know what it is to read a book.
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We all read sometimes to learn, sometimes to pass the time,
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sometimes to experience a life unrelated to our own, and
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sometimes to surrender ourselves to the fantasies of a person.
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And we have never met, and we'll never meet. But
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what is it to write a book?
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Ah?
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That's another thing altogether. But what difference does it make?
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All the difference in the world. Well, it's not as
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if it.
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Were read, don't you see that? I mean, it's not
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real life.
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It is real life. It's a life more real than
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yours or mine, or any life.
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Than anyone will ever live.
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How can you say that it's just a book.
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And our mystery drama Three Women was written especially for
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the Mystery Theater by Elspeth Eric and stars Ruth Ford.
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It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers
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a Budweiser. Our return shortly with that one?
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What is a book?
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Two?
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Three four hundred pages of words lying side by side
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in rows.
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That's all words. We all know, many of them. We use.
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Nothing mysterious about the words themselves. But they are not
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thrown helter skelter on the pages.
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Are they? Oh?
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They lie there in a certain order, each one following
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on the one before. And who prescribed that order? Who
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put this word here and that word there?
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A writer?
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And this is the story of a writer named Stephen
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Lake and the book he wrote.
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Yeah, does mister Lake live here?
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Yeah?
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Is her home? And could I see him?
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Well, he's worked king.
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Could you tell him please?
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It's mister Higgins to see him. Higgins, I'm a publisher.
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Look could I step inside?
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It's terribly cold out here. I guess.
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So he really is working, isn't he. I mean I
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hear him. He's typewriter.
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You're a publisher, you say, yes, that's right. If you
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just tell him you can go on up up, yup
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that ladder.
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That's where he works.
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Up there. Oh, thank you.
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You get to the top, just bang on the trap door.
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Well, yes, thank you.
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Bang hard. She'll hear you.
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Yes, all right, he heard you, mister Lake.
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I'm Albert Higgins, Albert Higgins, not from.
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Yes, from Higgins and heart. All right to come up
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the rest of the way.
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All right, Well I should say, can you make it?
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Can I?
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I think I can't. Yes, here we are. I can't
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believe it, mister Albert Higgins. Very same this where you work. Yes,
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it's the only place I can get away.
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I live with my wife and my mother in law.
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That was my mother in law who lets you in. Well,
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it's nice and secluded up here. Anyway, I may I
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take your cold mister Higgins, Oh thank you? No, actually,
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I think i'll keep it on.
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You're cold.
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Well, it's awfully cold outside.
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Well, I think it's even colder in here. I get
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where I don't notice it. You have a stove.
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I see, yes, but sometimes I forget to put wood.
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In just a second, I'll get it going again. That's
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a real old Franklin stove, isn't it? Genuine article?
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I haven't seen a Franklin stove in years.
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They're great if you remember to keep them lighted. A
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place it down, Miss Higgins.
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All right, well, now i'd better explain what I'm doing here.
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I truly like to know.
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My secretary handed me your manuscript just as I was leaving.
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The office for the weekend. We have a little ski.
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Lodge up here, my wife and I right up the
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road from you, as a matter of fact.
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Because I think maybe I've seen it right off Route
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seven about a mile north.
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Yes, that's it.
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Well, I was coming up by myself, and on the
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train I read your book.
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When I got to the lodge.
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I read it again.
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I like it a lot, except for one thing. What's
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that You've made one grievous error, mister Lake, or may
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I call you Stephen, call me anything?
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What's the mistake?
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You've killed off the most attractive character in the book.
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You mean, Clarissa.
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You can't do that, my boy.
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Why nine tenths of the book's appeal is the charm
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of that girl. She's another scarlet o'fer.
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You can't spend.
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Two hundred pages making us fall in love with this
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marvelous creature and then poof just like that, have a
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die on us, go out of our lives.
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You just can't do that. But I have to.
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You don't have to at all, Stephen. You've written a
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marvelous book. I want to publish it.
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All I want from you is ten new pages, the
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last ten.
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Write me ten new pages at the end and let
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Clarissa live. I can't. I can't now, Steven. That isn't
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asking mine. It's everything. I can't do it. She has
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to die. She has to. Why does she have to die?
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Because because if she doesn't die, I don't know what
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will happen to me?
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Mama, me forget your.
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Books, get her ready, just about because Stephen, he gets
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so wrapped up in his writing.
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Oh he's not wrapped up now.
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Listen to him. He's thinking, Mama.
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He's walking up and down to help him think. But
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he can't be putting words down every single minute.
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He's been walking up and down like that ever since
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that man left.
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Well man, what was somebody here from?
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Mister Higgins?
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Higgins, Albert Higgins from Higgins in Heart.
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I believe he did say was a publisher.
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Oh, Mama, it was our last hope.
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You know, every other publisher turned down Steve's novel, and
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he sent it to Higgins and heart.
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Mister Higgins was here.
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They're up there together for about fifteen minutes, and then
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the great mister Higgins came tumbling down the letter like
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the devil himself was after him, very red in the face,
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looked at me like everything was my fault, and catapulled
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it out of here.
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You didn't ask Steve what happened?
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Retther, When have I ever asked mister genius type novel
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writer Stephen Lake anything he feels like telling me.
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He'll tell me what she never does.
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I'm going to find out.
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Good luck is all I can say, Steven.
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It's impossible, absolutely impossible, Steve.
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Impossible.
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Chris Darling, are you all right?
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Oh? You just get home?
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Missus McGinnis. Want of the windows washed, Darling? Mama said,
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don't want you washing windows, Stephen. Mamma said, there was
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a man here today.
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Mister Higgins, Albert Higgins. He really was here. He has
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a ski lodge up the road.
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He didn't just drop in, diddy, what did he want?
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He read my book?
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He wants to publish, Oh, Steven, why didn't you say so?
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He wants me to change it? Well?
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Does he want you to change it a lot completely?
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Oh?
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But would that be a lot of work the.
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Last ten pages? He wants me. He wants me to
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let Clarissa live? Is that all, oh, Steven mean? Is
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that all?
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Clarissa is supposed to die? It's all been decided, she
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has to die. I can't better go on living just
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to please mister Higgins.
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But it's not just mister Higgins. Oh, Stephen, I wasn't
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going to tell you yet, not for a while, but
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I can't go on doing housework for other people much longer.
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I never wanted you to do housework for other people,
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but pretty soon I.
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Won't be able to. I'm I'm going to have a baby, Stephen.
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You're not. Yeah, you must be wrong.
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Oh no, I'm not wrong, not about this. You must
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be with Stephen too, Glad.
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That's a little bit and coming right now? What with
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mister Higgins wanting to publish your book?
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When the spring we'll both be having babies.
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You'd be having your book and i'd be having it.
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I can't let Clarissa live.
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I can't do it. She has to die, just the
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way I wrote it. She has got to die.
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Stephen, you're frightening me.
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I'm sorry.
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What difference would it make if you let Clarissa live?
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All the difference in the world, Just not as if
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it were real.
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It's just a book.
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It's not just a book, Loretta. I can't talk about
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it anymore right now.
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When you think about it, won't you about rewriting it.
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I'll think about it, well.
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Mama says, dinner's almost ready.
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I'll be right down when don't belong. I won't Clarissa, Clarissa,
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I can't let you live.
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Yes, I can't die.
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I can't.
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Just can do anything you put your mind to, Stephen,
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anything at all. Ye're such a great man. You can
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do anything, absolutely anything at all.
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You know you can, mister Higgins, missus Stephen Lake. I
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have to see you, sir, No, right away, if that's possible.
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I'll come to your place. Yes, yes, it's better that way.
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In an hour, all right, sir, I'll be there.
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Oh that's my sweet Stephen, my dear lost by old
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brilliant boy, my Stephen.
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I'm glad you've called me, Stephen.
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I must say I was a trifle perturbed that you're
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out first this afternoon.
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It seems such a little thing.
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I was asking to kill off a character like Clarissa
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in the last ten pages, when you've spent the entire
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book and instructing her her magnetic personality.
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It's not right. I have to do it, sir.
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It's cheating meeting your readers up the garden bath.
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I'll tell you something which perhaps I shouldn't, but anyway,
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I discussed with my wife the possibility of a sequel
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to this book using the same central character, Clarissa. It's
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a shame to waste a character like that on one book.
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There should be another, and perhaps another. How can we
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do that if you kill her off at the end
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of your first.
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Book, mister Higgins, I've been writing for seven years steadily.
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I've never sold anything. Six years ago I got married.
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My wife, Loretta, has been working as a domestic all
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these years, and her mother goes out every day to
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do other people's lundry. I haven't brought in one red
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scent in all that time, but now you will lots
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of reds at the house We're living in one room schoolhouse.
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We bought it a year ago with every cent we
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had in the savings bank, four hundred.
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Dollars at a country auction.
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The room where I work used to be the place
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where they stored supplies. We got the Franklin stole from
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a junkyard. If you want the truth, we stole it.
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Young Risers. Never have it easies, Stephen. My wife has
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never complained, never once. She's scrubbed other women's flaws. She's
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washed their dishes, and dusted their furniture, and scarred their
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bathtubs and polished their silver.
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Inview of all this, I should think you jump at
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the chance to have your novel public. I do jump
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at his. I am jumping at it. Only I can't
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let Clarissa live. She's got to die ten pages from
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the end of the book.
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That's on reason.
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Don't you think I wanted her to live? Don't you
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think I kept her alive as long as I could?
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You think I wanted to kill her?
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I had to.
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I can't, for the life of me see why.
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Because.
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Because I'd fallen in love with Oh come now, Steve, deeply, hopelessly,
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irrevocably in love now now, my boy.
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I've been a publisher a long time. I've talked to
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dozens of authors. They all fall in love with characters
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they've created.
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Happens all the time. Clarissa isn't just a character. Well,
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of course she is.
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She didn't exist before you created her the ja she
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exists now, good heavens man, she came out of your mind.
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She has no life except the one you gave. Maybe
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she did come out of my mind. But now she's
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got a life of her own. Well in a manner
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of speaking, of course she has. And I want to
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prolong that life, Stephen. I predict great successful Clarissa. And
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for you. You and Clarissa are one. You might say, no, no,
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we are not one. We must ever be one. I
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want her dead, not of my life. On my word,
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I can't follow you, mister Higgins. If Clarissa is allowed
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to live, I shall desert my wife, desert your wife.
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My wife is going to have a baby.
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Then why on earth would you desert her?
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Because I love Clarissa. I love her with the kind
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of love I never knew existed, a love that has
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more power over me than I have over myself.
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I can't fight it. I can't escape it.
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It haunts my waking hours and my dreams as well.
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Those last ten pages of the book weren't easy to write, mister.
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Higgins, but I had to write them. I had to.
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Free myself somehow from a love that was destroying my.
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Soul, my life.
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I don't think you're quite sane, Stephen, neither is wh
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I suppose suppose we were to publish the book as
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it is. Oh, if only you would and Clarissa dies,
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what then? But then she go back to being a
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character in a book. And if you let her live,
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then I would follow her. My life, my body, even
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my talent would belong to her. I myself would belong
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to Clarissa and to her alone.
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Everybody talks about love, but nobody does anything about it.
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Now Here, for the first time, we have a man
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who wants to do something. He wants to kill the lady.
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It may not be the perfect solution, not want to
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be universally recommended. Still it's something We'll be back shortly
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with that too. It was an American writer who said it,
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and not so long ago. Novelists, whatever else they may be,
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are also children talking to.
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Children in the dark.
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Listen with me, now to the second act of Three Women.
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Stephen is talking to Clarissa, a character he created in
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one of his books, In the Dark.
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Clarissa, I can't let you go on living, but I
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want to, Steve. Of course you want to. We all
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want to.
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I want to so fastly. And it's your fault, Stephen.
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Why is it my fault?
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Because you gave me such a wonderful life in your book.
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I enjoy it so much. I can't either thought of
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giving it up.
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Neither can I. Neither can I.
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To have had a life like that, and that to
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die ten pages from the.
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Point, I know, I know when the book is published,
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you'll be dead.
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I don't see why, Stephen.
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I really do, because you'll Now it's just been you
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and me and this room and words on paper.
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But after the book is published, what will it be? Then?
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It'll be something that sells for seven ninety five dollar
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fifty in the paperback edition.
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My goodness, you're currently on a big stale, aren't you
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just hoping?
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But it won't have a big sale if you kill
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me off, sweetheart?
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It might or was there who gave me? Probably my
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mother in law. She gets home early to get dinner.
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Ready, Lucy, come up here.
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I don't think so. She hardly ever does.
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But let's talk more about how much he loves me.
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She is coming up here?
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Oh, father, Well we'll talk some more later. I am
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not going to let you kill me off, Stephen, it's
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too cruel.
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Just a minute, all right, to come.
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Up, of course, mother, give me your hand.
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What how do you stand it?
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I like it. It's cold to.
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The fire's gone out.
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You've been working, Oh no, not much.
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What you've been doing figuring something out?
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Well, you're trying to.
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Figuring out what to do with the last ten pages
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of your novel.
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More or less, Stephen.
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It's not up to me to tell you what to
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do and don't.
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I don't know one book from another.
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But this book of yours it's a.
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Novel, isn't it. It's a novel.
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About made up people?
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Right?
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Yes? So what's the difference.
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You can do what you want with made up people.
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They can live as.
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Long as as.
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Long as you're alive to write about him.
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True?
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Is that true?
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Yes? Yes, that's true.
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So if mister Higgins says you should let this character,
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this Clarissa, go on living, what's the difference?
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Let the lady live who cares also.
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And I don't mean this as a reproach.
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We can use the.
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Money, Believe me, I know that.
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So if a little lady is worth more alive than dead,
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I say, let her live. Yeah, it's not a lot
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of work the way I understand it from Loretta.
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I mean, you don't have to write the whole book over,
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just the last ten pages. Well, what's that.
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You can knock that off in no time.
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Well, I better be getting on down and get dinner started.
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It'll be ready in about half an hour.
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I'll be done.
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God, Yes, yes, my heart, the cold hand I held
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wet with my tears. Good Steve, beautiful stood ever sen
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The fingers moved fastly.
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Oh Steve, Yes, it was a very good dinner mother.
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How would you know you hardly tasted it?
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Well, what I did taste was awfully good.
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Nobody's gonna eat anymore.
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I'll clear you don't be silly, mama, and I'll finny shop.
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You go back to work if you want to.
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Well, all right, I guess I will.
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Poor Steven, he looks awful. He hardly eats anything anymore.
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I had a talk with him today, a change a book.
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What did you say I said, what's.
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The difference character in a book and be alive or dead?
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Who cares? Steven cares should?
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Oh, mama, he's a writer.
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Writers care about these things.
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It has something to do with.
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The artistic integrity.
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You'd think maybe somebody's putting things into Stephen's head's artistic notions,
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things like that.
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Who would do that?
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Mister Higgins wants him to change the book.
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I wasn't thinking of mister Higgins. I was thinking of.
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Some woman.
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What wound.
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I don't know what woman.
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I don't suppose I should.
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Say this, But lots of times I hear him talking
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up there. Oh mama, Steve talks to himself all the
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time when he's trying to work things out.
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This isn't talking to himself.
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This is talking to somebody.
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There's a big difference.
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Another thing that that mattress he has up there. It
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looks to me like there's two people been lying on us.
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Mom.
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All right, all right, all right, I told you I
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shouldn't say it.
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No, I'm sorry I did. He didn't seem very happy
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about the baby.
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I should have kept my mouth shut.
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Oh that's all right, you finish up the dishes.
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I'm going up to talk to him.
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Don't say I said anything.
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Don't tell him we've been talking.
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I won't.
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Yeh, just a second.
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I'm not disturbing you, am I of course not. I
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didn't hear the typewriters. So Stephen, do.
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You love me?
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What kind of a question is that?
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It's the kind of question wives are always asking, even
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if they never say the words, yes, I love you.
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Are you glad going to have a child?
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Yes, yes, I'm I'm glad we're going to have a child.
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Well, ask a straight question, you can get a straight answer.
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That's the way it should be.
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So I'll ask you another one. Why don't you want
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to change the book?
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I I just don't.
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Well it's not a straight answer.
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I know it isn't. I just can't.
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Steven, I'm going to ask you another straight question.
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Are you.
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Interested in some other woman?
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Interested? No?
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Because if you are, I'll go away.
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Why don't want you to go away?
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I'll go away and have the baby someplace else. Do
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you get over this other woman? Then I'll come back.
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Or if you don't get over her, I'll stay away.
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Can you swear to me that there's no other woman
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in your life except me? Can you promise.
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Me that, Loretta, I swear to you.
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I promise you that I love you, that I love you,
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that I want you for my wife for always far
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as long as we live.
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I guess I'll have to be satisfied with that.
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It's the truth, all right.
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I'll let you work now.
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Oh, I thought she'd never leave.
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Please, Clarissa, I don't feel like talking to you right now.
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Why didn't you tell her about me?
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Could I tell her about you? She wouldn't believe me.
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Nobody would, Darling.
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You know what I was thinking?
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Wrong?
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Theretta was going on and all about herself and you
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and the baby she's good have.
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I was thinking, don't I have a baby? I'm not
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in this book, of course, but later on into.
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Other book, I'll have this perfectly gorgeous child who have
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my sweet disposition? And you're bowless?
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Great? How about that, mama?
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I asked him if there was somebody else, another woman. Well,
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he said he loved me and wanted me for his
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wife for as long as we live.
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I'm still hear him talking up there, and it certainly
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sounds to me like he's talking to somebody.
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Oh, mister Higgins, come in before you've freeze to death.
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Sure is hwry, miss Higgins.
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All right, alright, and I sorry on the cold missus Leeke.
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Your husband's in. I hope he's.
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Up there's working.
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I guess as talk.
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To you about you know, about Clarissa keeping her alive.
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He just says he doesn't want to.
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All right, to go up and see him.
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Oh, I'm sure it is.
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Good luck, mister Higgins. Thank you. Oh, mister Higgins.
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Okay, to talk to you for a few minutes, Stephen,
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I guess so sure. I thought i'd like to see
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how you're getting along. I'm not you haven't done any work? No, no, no, oh,
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a few pages. They're over there next to the typewriter. Okay,
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to have a look if you want to, mister Higgins,
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if you're here, to talk to me about letting Clarissa live,
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I most certainly am.
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I'm not sure I can take it anymore. My mother
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in law's talking to me about it. My wife talks
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to me about it. Stephen. This is very good so far.
506
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.240
The hardest thing of all is Clarissa talks to me
507
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:09.640
about it. Do you know what she wants now? She
508
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:11.839
wants a baby, my baby.
509
00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:15.000
Well, you could probably work in a baby later on.
510
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:16.759
Mister Higgins.
511
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:20.839
If Clarissa has a baby, am I going to love
512
00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:27.440
it more than Loretta's baby? Stephen? These pages are very good.51300:29:28.559 --> 00:29:31.480
Now write the last couple of pages. I've got to51400:29:31.720 --> 00:29:35.079
kill her off, mister Higgins, and never write about her anymore,51500:29:35.319 --> 00:29:38.920
never now, Stephen, stop it, come down and try to51600:29:38.960 --> 00:29:44.359
be reasonable. Can't be reasonable. I love my wife, Miss Jiggins.51700:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.000
I want to live with my wife and our child.51800:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.799
I can't live with her and Clarissa too.51900:29:52.920 --> 00:29:54.039
There's no miss Higgins.52000:29:55.119 --> 00:29:58.279
Clarissa has to die, just the way I wrote it52100:29:58.319 --> 00:30:01.039
in the first place. If she dies of this book52200:30:01.160 --> 00:30:02.920
that I can't write about her anymore. And if I52300:30:02.920 --> 00:30:06.319
don't write about her anymore, she won't exist save and52400:30:06.480 --> 00:30:09.680
I won't publish the book if Clarissa dies.52500:30:09.839 --> 00:30:11.119
I put it to you straight.52600:30:12.079 --> 00:30:13.759
Don't you think you owe it to your wife, to52700:30:13.799 --> 00:30:17.400
your mother in law, to yourself to make this little concession?52800:30:17.680 --> 00:30:21.680
Concession? What will happen to them if you don't? What52900:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.960
will happen to them if I do?53000:30:32.279 --> 00:30:36.960
Money is the root of all evils, and killing is53100:30:37.039 --> 00:30:40.839
certainly evil. Yet here we have a man who wants53200:30:40.880 --> 00:30:43.880
to kill and is letting himself be talked out of53300:30:43.960 --> 00:30:50.000
killing for money, leaves us with the perplexing question what53400:30:50.319 --> 00:30:54.559
is evil? Maybe we'll find out when we return shortly53500:30:54.640 --> 00:31:01.480
for act three. She pity the poor novelist, alone with53600:31:01.599 --> 00:31:09.359
his thoughts, his visions, his conceits, his fancies, his only solid,53700:31:09.400 --> 00:31:11.759
substantial companion, his.53800:31:11.839 --> 00:31:21.039
Typewriter, Stephen, What is it, Clarissa? Everybody wants me to53900:31:21.119 --> 00:31:22.039
live except you.54000:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.240
I know, I know, and you're the one who loves me.54100:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.519
I know nobody else even knows me except from reading54200:31:30.559 --> 00:31:32.400
the book, and that's not really knowing.54300:31:32.559 --> 00:31:34.359
Larrissa, I wish you'd let me work.54400:31:34.960 --> 00:31:35.640
How am I doing?54500:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.640
You're living just barely, but you're living.54600:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.599
I thought I was because I was feeling so warm54700:31:45.640 --> 00:31:46.720
and loving about you.54800:31:49.240 --> 00:31:49.519
I know.54900:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.599
The only reason you're keeping me alive is for the money.55000:31:53.400 --> 00:31:54.799
You can't fold, Stephen.55100:31:54.839 --> 00:31:56.799
If there was a way to kill me and still55200:31:56.839 --> 00:31:58.880
make the money, I bet you'd take you.55300:32:00.200 --> 00:32:05.400
To be away. Clarissa, You've given me an idea.55400:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.759
Oh it makes me very happy. If I've given you something,55500:32:09.480 --> 00:32:11.160
You've given me everything.55600:32:11.240 --> 00:32:14.119
It's about time I get something back to you.55700:32:15.119 --> 00:32:20.119
Mister Higgins. Stephen Lake, Yes, I have an idea. I55800:32:20.160 --> 00:32:21.759
have to talk to you about it right away? Can55900:32:21.799 --> 00:32:24.519
I come to your house? Well, that's all right, I56000:32:24.559 --> 00:32:30.000
have snowshoes. I'll be there and say half an hour. Thanks,56100:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.119
mister Higgins.56200:32:32.480 --> 00:32:34.480
What kind of an idea have you got?56300:32:36.480 --> 00:32:40.839
Never you mind, I'm coming with you. I don't want56400:32:40.839 --> 00:32:41.720
you tagging along.56500:32:41.839 --> 00:32:42.880
I want to tag along.56600:32:43.279 --> 00:32:44.480
Where are my snowshoes?56700:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.440
Now? What's this big idea you have to tell? Mister Higgins?56800:32:51.000 --> 00:32:51.960
None of your business?56900:32:52.119 --> 00:32:52.799
Is it about me?57000:32:53.839 --> 00:32:56.279
As a matter of fact, it is so that it.57100:32:56.359 --> 00:33:01.519
Is my business and you're not going to kill me off,57200:33:01.599 --> 00:33:13.400
are you? I thought that was all decided? Are you?57300:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.680
My idea is this, miss Higgins. I'll finish up the57400:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.559
book just the way you want it.57500:33:18.720 --> 00:33:22.240
Good. Good, Grissa stirs and comes to life.57600:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.680
Whatever it was she was dying of, she only went57700:33:24.680 --> 00:33:27.400
into coma, et cetera, et cetera. I'll work it out.57800:33:27.960 --> 00:33:29.480
I'll give you a book in a couple of days,57900:33:29.759 --> 00:33:30.680
maybe by tomorrow.58000:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.319
Good. Then if you still like it, it's oh, I58100:33:34.519 --> 00:33:36.400
like it. It's yours only.58200:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.079
I want it in my contract that whatever money the58300:33:40.119 --> 00:33:42.279
book makes goes to my wife.58400:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.680
I want her to get all the proceeds. But it's58500:33:46.720 --> 00:33:47.319
your book.58600:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.240
Why. I just happened to write it, that's all. And58700:33:50.359 --> 00:33:55.039
writing is I nearly ruined my wife's happiness in my own.58800:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.759
I don't want any money for that, Stephen.58900:33:59.000 --> 00:34:02.200
It seems to me that you're simply feeling guilty about59000:34:02.240 --> 00:34:03.720
your feelings for Clarissa.59100:34:04.480 --> 00:34:09.280
I am guilty as hell, and about the other books,59200:34:09.280 --> 00:34:10.400
the ones after this one.59300:34:10.679 --> 00:34:13.280
You're not going to tell me you don't want any59400:34:13.320 --> 00:34:17.000
of that money either. I want somebody else to write59500:34:17.039 --> 00:34:18.159
those things, not me.59600:34:18.840 --> 00:34:22.800
You're juilky, mister Higgins. I've got to get Clarissa out59700:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.119
of my head, and the only way to do that59800:34:25.239 --> 00:34:27.960
is to put her into somebody else's head. Let somebody59900:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.239
else keep her alive, not me.60000:34:32.360 --> 00:34:37.039
I suppose we could find her ghostwriter, but please let60100:34:37.079 --> 00:34:41.920
me have those last ten pages with Clarissa alive, mister Higgins.60200:34:42.840 --> 00:34:55.679
You'll have them tonight. You are with the Archie very.60300:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.519
You're working on the new end into the novel Archie.60400:34:58.679 --> 00:34:59.199
That's right.60500:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.719
I get to live and live and.60600:35:03.639 --> 00:35:06.480
Live, Chorisa. It's cold in here. Why don't you do60700:35:06.559 --> 00:35:08.679
something useful, like putting some wood in the stove.60800:35:09.920 --> 00:35:10.840
I don't know how.60900:35:12.639 --> 00:35:16.599
You don't know much, do you, Okay, I'll do it.61000:35:17.320 --> 00:35:18.880
Recognize big fire, and.61100:35:18.840 --> 00:35:20.760
Then we can sit and talk about what's going to61200:35:20.800 --> 00:35:21.760
happen next.61300:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.599
What do you mean by next? The other book? The61400:35:24.639 --> 00:35:27.599
ones who are going to write after this one?61500:35:28.199 --> 00:35:30.559
I blow on this fire? Will you? At least you61600:35:30.559 --> 00:35:30.960
can do that?61700:35:35.039 --> 00:35:36.840
Go on, tell me about the other book.61800:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.800
I don't know anything about the other books.61900:35:41.199 --> 00:35:43.159
Would you like to hear some of my ideas?62000:35:43.159 --> 00:35:46.920
Not? Really? Well, that's enough, you can stop blowing. It's62100:35:46.920 --> 00:35:51.639
caught fire. Ah. I feel good.62200:35:52.039 --> 00:35:53.800
I think the next novel ought to be.62300:35:53.800 --> 00:35:58.880
In Venice, Parisa. I have made a deal with mister Higgins.62400:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.199
When I finish these ten pages thereby keeping you alive,62500:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.679
I shall turn them over to him to replace the62600:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.880
original ten, and then I shall write no more books,62700:36:13.880 --> 00:36:15.440
no more books about you anyway.62800:36:16.440 --> 00:36:19.519
But mister Higgins thinks I'm wonderful. He wants lots of62900:36:19.559 --> 00:36:20.360
books about me.63000:36:20.800 --> 00:36:22.920
He's going to get lots of books about you. But63100:36:22.960 --> 00:36:24.239
they won't be written by me.63200:36:25.239 --> 00:36:27.320
But who'll writes them?63300:36:27.360 --> 00:36:33.039
A ghost? A ghost? I don't want to be written63400:36:33.039 --> 00:36:33.400
by a.63500:36:33.360 --> 00:36:36.440
Ghost, A pot ghost myself.63600:36:36.440 --> 00:36:39.239
Oh, he'll be a real live man. A ghost writer.63700:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.760
That's what they are called in the publishing business. But63800:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.880
it won't be you, definitely.63900:36:45.400 --> 00:36:49.039
Not me, but it will be real, live man.64000:36:49.360 --> 00:36:52.119
Yes, and now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to64100:36:52.159 --> 00:36:52.880
get back to work.64200:36:55.679 --> 00:36:59.400
I wonder will he be as handsome as you?64300:37:00.840 --> 00:37:01.840
Handsomer? Probably?64400:37:04.119 --> 00:37:06.440
I wonder where he loved me the way you do?64500:37:07.280 --> 00:37:08.559
For his sake, I hope not.64600:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.400
I would I love him?64700:37:13.119 --> 00:37:14.280
Why should you love him?64800:37:15.719 --> 00:37:16.079
Why not?64900:37:17.159 --> 00:37:17.960
You never loved me?65000:37:19.360 --> 00:37:23.360
That's the way you wrote it. I couldn't love.65100:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.280
Anyone except yourself.65200:37:25.400 --> 00:37:27.800
But he might write me differently, mightn't he?65300:37:27.800 --> 00:37:28.639
He shouldn't.65400:37:29.519 --> 00:37:32.079
He should follow the character exactly as I've set it65500:37:32.119 --> 00:37:33.239
down on the first book.65600:37:33.519 --> 00:37:35.599
But if he fall in love with me, he might65700:37:35.639 --> 00:37:39.199
want to change so I could fall in love with him.65800:37:40.599 --> 00:37:43.199
It would be so much more convenient for everybody.65900:37:43.400 --> 00:37:50.599
Glarissa, you wouldn't wouldn't fall in love fall in love66000:37:50.639 --> 00:37:58.920
with the ghostwriter? Would you? How should I know? Will you?66100:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.920
You wouldn't have his charm out? You wouldn't do that?66200:38:04.199 --> 00:38:06.559
I think I'll put another piece of wood on the fire.66300:38:06.880 --> 00:38:08.119
Or would you rather do it?66400:38:08.599 --> 00:38:13.800
Chrissa? Would you have his child? Yeah?66500:38:14.039 --> 00:38:17.800
Oh look, that's a nice fire.66600:38:18.559 --> 00:38:23.880
Love answer me? Would you have his child will Stephen.66700:38:24.320 --> 00:38:28.440
If that's the way he writes it, I guess I'll66800:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.599
have to Stephen whether you do.66900:38:32.840 --> 00:38:35.519
Oh no, No, you're not going to have his child. No,67000:38:36.119 --> 00:38:38.000
you're going back to where you were in the original.67100:38:38.440 --> 00:38:40.599
You're going to die ten pages from the end of67200:38:40.599 --> 00:38:40.960
the Bark.67300:38:41.199 --> 00:38:44.280
You're not going to burn the new pages, Stephen.67400:38:45.519 --> 00:38:45.920
You're not.67500:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.599
Dora Pop Pop so one home.67600:38:52.480 --> 00:38:59.039
I'm a far hop a quel, get me the quirl play.67700:38:59.519 --> 00:39:21.320
Hap, I'll get it, Mama, Missus Lee, mister Higgins, it's67800:39:21.360 --> 00:39:22.079
mister Higgins.67900:39:22.199 --> 00:39:26.360
Mama, Oh, I haven't seen you since the funeral.68000:39:26.440 --> 00:39:28.760
Mister Higgins. Thank you for the beautiful flowers.68100:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.679
May I come in for a minute, Why, of course,68200:39:31.840 --> 00:39:32.280
come in?68300:39:32.559 --> 00:39:34.920
Would you like a cup of tea?68400:39:35.039 --> 00:39:36.880
Mister Higgins, I was just about.68500:39:36.599 --> 00:39:38.360
To put the catalog. Thank you.68600:39:38.400 --> 00:39:42.880
No, Missus Lake, I I haven't wanted to intrude before68700:39:42.920 --> 00:39:44.800
this on your grief.68800:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.280
Such such a terrible accident.68900:39:48.440 --> 00:39:52.000
Mama, and I can't figure out how it happened. You know,69000:39:52.239 --> 00:39:56.920
Stephen knew that Franklin still so well, he'd used it69100:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.960
for years and then we'd like it sort of.69200:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.039
He blew up in his face, Missus Lake.69300:40:04.280 --> 00:40:06.760
He was working on the new ending for the novel69400:40:06.920 --> 00:40:12.000
when it happened. At least I think he was.69500:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.639
I don't know for sure, mister Higgins.69600:40:16.039 --> 00:40:19.480
He promised me i'd have the new pages that same night.69700:40:20.199 --> 00:40:23.960
He acted as though he couldn't wait to get started.69800:40:24.440 --> 00:40:27.760
Then, imagine that's what he was doing, missus Lake.69900:40:28.000 --> 00:40:31.639
Would you mind, if I'm not intruding? Could I go70000:40:31.760 --> 00:40:32.760
up and take a look?70100:40:33.239 --> 00:40:33.920
You see?70200:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.880
If I can find them, I can just substitute them70300:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.639
for the original last ten pages and we can go70400:40:41.760 --> 00:40:44.519
right to work. I think we might be able to70500:40:44.519 --> 00:40:45.960
publish the book this spring.70600:40:46.280 --> 00:40:49.679
Why that would be wonderful. At least you'd have a70700:40:49.719 --> 00:40:53.639
little money coming in. Steven would have liked that. So70800:40:54.000 --> 00:40:55.800
is it all right if I take a look.70900:40:56.119 --> 00:41:00.559
Why surely you don't mind if I don't go up71000:41:00.599 --> 00:41:05.719
there with you. I haven't wanted to somehow since the five.71100:41:05.559 --> 00:41:08.239
Oh no, no, that's quite all right. I'll go up71200:41:08.280 --> 00:41:09.039
by myself.71300:41:10.679 --> 00:41:11.400
Clap door is.71400:41:11.440 --> 00:41:13.199
Not locked, miss Higgins.71500:41:15.039 --> 00:41:19.559
Make it all right? Yes, thank you? Fine? Oh?71600:41:19.679 --> 00:41:22.599
I suppose I should have cleaned up that place, but.71700:41:24.239 --> 00:41:25.239
I just couldn't know.71800:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.000
Hurry when the time comes, all.71900:41:26.880 --> 00:41:30.039
To it never entered my head to look for those72000:41:30.159 --> 00:41:31.119
ten pages.72100:41:31.280 --> 00:41:32.599
Oh, no mind, mama.72200:41:32.679 --> 00:41:37.480
If he finds the pages and publishes the book, and72300:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.119
if it's a success.72400:41:39.719 --> 00:41:42.480
That'll be nice, won't it. Blake?72500:41:44.199 --> 00:41:46.920
What is it, mister Higgins? You found them?72600:41:47.480 --> 00:41:53.480
I found something. I found this. It's ten pages. Oh,72700:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.400
thank the good Lord, all neatly stacked beside his TechWriter.72800:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.400
Oh I'm so glad, mister Higgins.72900:42:01.079 --> 00:42:01.800
Have you read them?73000:42:02.159 --> 00:42:02.360
Well?73100:42:02.599 --> 00:42:09.719
No, listen, lovely gorgeous Clarissa lifted her beautiful head.73200:42:10.159 --> 00:42:16.519
She wasn't dead after all. Well, but that's not the73300:42:16.599 --> 00:42:17.400
way Stephen.73400:42:17.639 --> 00:42:23.400
Right, I could hardly believe my eyes. That creamy complexion73500:42:23.760 --> 00:42:26.960
was beginning to pink and pink.73600:42:27.599 --> 00:42:29.480
There's no such word as pink, and.73700:42:29.760 --> 00:42:34.280
My adorable sweetheart had only fainted and wasn't dead at all.73800:42:35.440 --> 00:42:37.760
My goodness, but I was happy.73900:42:38.920 --> 00:42:42.760
Now, I ask you, Stephen didn't write that way up.74000:42:42.760 --> 00:42:43.920
All like that?74100:42:44.239 --> 00:42:48.320
Who did? Who did write this awful trash? Mister Higgins,74200:42:49.599 --> 00:42:51.599
you don't think it well?74300:42:51.679 --> 00:42:58.000
Somebody wrote it is typed on his typewriter. You you74400:42:58.039 --> 00:43:03.519
don't suppose it is possible that Stephen went mad and74500:43:03.639 --> 00:43:06.920
wrote this awful stuff while he was unbalanced.74600:43:06.519 --> 00:43:09.400
Mister Higgins, If Stephen was a certified lunatic.74700:43:09.480 --> 00:43:11.639
He couldn't write ten pages like those there.74800:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.840
Do you want them to keep for any reason? I74900:43:15.880 --> 00:43:18.639
don't think so. Well, I'll take them home with me75000:43:18.719 --> 00:43:19.800
and burn them.75100:43:19.960 --> 00:43:25.559
Mister Higgins, does this mean that there won't be any75200:43:25.960 --> 00:43:26.639
book at all?75300:43:27.880 --> 00:43:31.199
Well, I hadn't thought.75400:43:31.480 --> 00:43:34.960
I would so like to have a book of Stevens published.75500:43:36.239 --> 00:43:37.880
Tell you what we'll do, missus Lake.75600:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.800
We'll go ahead and publish the original version, the one75700:43:40.840 --> 00:43:42.199
where Clarissa dies.75800:43:45.079 --> 00:43:49.199
You say something, No, sounds like a ghost kind.75900:43:48.960 --> 00:43:56.880
Of It really does.76000:43:56.760 --> 00:43:58.639
Sound like go go win.76100:44:00.119 --> 00:44:04.840
Well, I'll be getting along, and don't you worry you too,76200:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.119
There'll be a little money coming in. It's still a76300:44:07.159 --> 00:44:12.920
good novel, even with Clarissa dying to meddle. I'd hoped76400:44:13.119 --> 00:44:15.679
Clarissa would have a long and happy life.76500:44:15.880 --> 00:44:27.880
But it's such a sweet and the moral of the76600:44:27.960 --> 00:44:33.920
story is what is the moral of the story? How's76700:44:33.960 --> 00:44:39.159
this lie? If you like, but never believe your own lies?76800:44:40.760 --> 00:44:46.639
Or the man who fools himself is a fool? Indeed, well,76900:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.119
something like that. You figure it out. I'll be back shortly.77000:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.440
The gift of youth is ours for just a little while.77100:45:00.280 --> 00:45:06.280
Is capricious, and money flips through our fingers. Health is77200:45:06.280 --> 00:45:12.079
a godsend, subject to recall. Even the benison of love77300:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.360
can elude us, or it can wither in our hearts.77400:45:16.360 --> 00:45:23.079
But the blessings of imagination, ah, they belong to us77500:45:23.119 --> 00:45:30.599
forever and ever. Our cast included Ruth Ford, George Petrie, Elspeth,77600:45:30.719 --> 00:45:35.599
Eric Joan Loring and Roger de Covin. The entire production77700:45:35.800 --> 00:45:37.679
was under the direction of Hymen Brown.77800:45:42.719 --> 00:45:49.519
Do you ever find yourself overly focused on things that well,77900:45:49.599 --> 00:45:53.920
they don't really they don't really accomplish very much, at78000:45:54.039 --> 00:46:00.800
least not in any conceivable short term, whether it's a78100:46:00.800 --> 00:46:07.960
an item in a store or the favor of another person. Myself,78200:46:08.159 --> 00:46:14.599
I've been known to obsess and consider more than maybe rationals,78300:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.440
But not for a toy or a friend, but for78400:46:20.559 --> 00:46:25.639
what's behind. Sire Da Molttroy's Door.78500:46:30.719 --> 00:46:37.280
Escape Escape tonight to Paris five hundred years ago.78600:46:42.480 --> 00:46:47.280
A Columbia Broadcasting system and it's affiliated stations presents Escape,78700:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.280
a new series of programs at which this the fifth78800:46:50.480 --> 00:46:55.280
is Assire de Montois Door by Robert Louis Stevenson, produced78900:46:55.320 --> 00:46:56.599
and directed by William N.79000:46:56.679 --> 00:46:59.760
Robeson.79100:47:03.119 --> 00:47:05.599
The pen of Robert Louis Stevenson has been an avenue79200:47:05.639 --> 00:47:09.280
of escape for three generations. Our grandparents thrilled to the79300:47:09.320 --> 00:47:12.679
macab metamorphosis of doctor Jacob, just as we will never79400:47:12.719 --> 00:47:16.880
forget the nursery menace called long John Silver. Tonight we79500:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.440
escape with Robert Louis Stevenson down another avenue which leads79600:47:20.480 --> 00:47:24.039
to Paris in fourteen twenty nine and the amazing adventure79700:47:24.119 --> 00:47:40.519
of the Sire de Montois Door.79800:47:36.079 --> 00:47:41.480
Dark of the Moon fourteen twenty nine. Paris House of79900:47:41.480 --> 00:47:44.719
Burgundy holds the throne of France, and english Men at80000:47:44.800 --> 00:47:48.800
arms patrol the narrow streets. Troublous times for any man80100:47:48.800 --> 00:47:59.840
to be lost on foot at night. You there over here,80200:48:00.199 --> 00:48:00.880
good by the wall.80300:48:02.599 --> 00:48:09.480
Now the shadows themselves are speaking, no shadow, a real life,80400:48:09.559 --> 00:48:10.280
young be.80500:48:10.480 --> 00:48:12.920
I've managed to get myself lost in these confounded alleys.80600:48:13.159 --> 00:48:14.239
Can you tell me where I am?80700:48:14.599 --> 00:48:15.239
Well?80800:48:15.360 --> 00:48:20.079
Now find young Cavalier the less and he's lost.80900:48:20.079 --> 00:48:22.320
I'm trying to find the boat son in Will the81000:48:22.320 --> 00:48:23.159
street leave me there?81100:48:23.239 --> 00:48:23.440
Now?81200:48:23.800 --> 00:48:27.400
A one street is as good as another, and none81300:48:27.400 --> 00:48:29.159
of them will never lead a man anyway.81400:48:29.159 --> 00:48:30.760
Oh, come, now, you must know something about this part81500:48:30.800 --> 00:48:33.480
of Paris. Think man, a patrol may pass in that moment.81600:48:35.679 --> 00:48:36.440
You are wanted.81700:48:36.800 --> 00:48:38.480
I have a safe conduct passed from the captain of81800:48:38.480 --> 00:48:41.960
the garrison. Safe conduct teeches and.81900:48:42.320 --> 00:48:45.519
If I'm a good that'll do you hear in the dog, then.82000:48:45.480 --> 00:48:47.199
Well you're certainly not helping my chances.82100:48:46.960 --> 00:48:50.960
Any No, the only safe conduct you have is that82200:48:51.320 --> 00:48:53.119
sword of swinging at your side.82300:48:53.159 --> 00:48:56.159
Wait, waite a patrol.82400:48:58.039 --> 00:49:00.639
They're coming this way and crying.82500:49:00.719 --> 00:49:02.440
You think you're right, I've got to run for it.82600:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.719
Tell him nothing when I should tell a lot too long?82700:49:05.920 --> 00:49:08.800
Wait, no one's there.82800:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.320
Speak up, oil, Speak up, and you're a blundering pack82900:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.079
of two day grenadiers that walk like a herd of83000:49:17.159 --> 00:49:20.000
cattle such as me. Speak up, that served with a83100:49:20.119 --> 00:49:24.199
mad Prince Charlie himself. May you rest in peace? An83200:49:24.199 --> 00:49:28.559
old campaign? Where are you from? Sojourn front? Damn blue?83300:49:28.760 --> 00:49:32.119
From a smarter outfit in bivouac than the likes of83400:49:32.159 --> 00:49:33.440
you in court?83500:49:34.119 --> 00:49:37.719
Bitterness cups the men seeing anybody about, old timer.83600:49:37.760 --> 00:49:42.920
Not but shadows and the tankards of ail. Find French83700:49:43.000 --> 00:49:47.039
cavalier who departed hints without a bio league. Just where83800:49:47.079 --> 00:49:49.880
do you go? Who knows? Perhaps she in one way,83900:49:50.280 --> 00:49:53.639
maybe the other, so I think it was the other there.84000:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.119
All right, man, I'm French cavalier.84100:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.920
I'll never make a foul on the spit spread up84200:50:00.039 --> 00:50:00.599
cover of the street.84300:50:00.880 --> 00:50:01.480
Keep an eye out.84400:50:01.519 --> 00:50:02.679
Don't have to slip away between you.84500:50:03.679 --> 00:50:05.079
Oh, now, I tell it.84600:50:13.440 --> 00:50:17.559
Or the fool, the drunken fool. I'm for it now,84700:50:17.599 --> 00:50:22.800
all right. Ah, there's a cross street. There's a bare84800:50:22.920 --> 00:50:24.960
chance to pass it by, so I can only get84900:50:25.000 --> 00:50:35.840
through here. Who Now, it's a dead end unless this leads. No,85000:50:35.960 --> 00:50:37.239
it's only the door to a house.85100:50:38.679 --> 00:50:44.239
Caught like a retina trap. All right, if it's so written,85200:50:44.280 --> 00:50:46.679
and so be it. With a bit of luck, there85300:50:46.719 --> 00:50:47.880
w two or three go with me?85400:50:48.360 --> 00:50:48.559
Huh?85500:50:50.639 --> 00:50:54.360
The door it's unlocked. I can push it open.85600:50:56.039 --> 00:50:58.239
H h h.85700:50:59.760 --> 00:51:05.239
Like amount of hill inside? Well, what have I got85800:51:05.280 --> 00:51:05.639
to lose?85900:51:07.960 --> 00:51:08.440
Come alive?86000:51:08.840 --> 00:51:09.519
I have to be here.86100:51:09.599 --> 00:51:20.119
Somepla not here, gone, didn't come in here after all?86200:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.079
Pap in the corner, fly on the go.86300:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.760
U Uh.86400:51:28.280 --> 00:51:32.320
It was close, too close. Now they get out of here,86500:51:32.360 --> 00:51:33.840
and no one in the house will ever be the wiser.86600:51:36.480 --> 00:51:36.800
What's this?86700:51:39.360 --> 00:51:45.000
The door's locked? It's a trap. But why why would86800:51:45.039 --> 00:51:47.280
such a thing be done? I came in here by chance,86900:51:47.320 --> 00:51:54.360
one chance against a million. Wait, it's a light somewhere87000:51:54.400 --> 00:52:00.599
inside the house. Oh all right, say be dead at87100:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.199
this moment, So.87200:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.400
Come in, young man.87300:52:18.159 --> 00:52:20.239
I've been expecting you all evening.87400:52:21.480 --> 00:52:24.079
I fear you must be mistaken, so my visit is87500:52:24.159 --> 00:52:25.519
quite unexpected for both of us.87600:52:27.079 --> 00:52:27.320
Good.87700:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.760
That's very good for the both of us, you say, well,87800:52:31.000 --> 00:52:33.679
no matter, you're here. That's the main point.87900:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.679
Take a seat, my boy, put yourself at ease. We88000:52:37.960 --> 00:52:39.840
arrange our little affairs presently.88100:52:40.119 --> 00:52:42.639
There seems to be some misunderstanding. You see, your door88200:52:42.760 --> 00:52:43.920
was standing the door.88300:52:44.880 --> 00:52:47.440
That was a little piece of ingenuity, don't you agree?88400:52:48.079 --> 00:52:49.800
So you must know that I had no intention of88500:52:49.840 --> 00:52:51.440
intruding without an invitation.88600:52:51.400 --> 00:52:52.679
Without an invitation, is it?88700:52:52.880 --> 00:52:53.079
Well?88800:52:53.920 --> 00:52:56.079
We old people are used to such reluctance.88900:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.519
When he touches our honor, we cast him out until89000:52:59.559 --> 00:53:04.000
we find way of overcoming it. And sober boy, invitation89100:53:04.159 --> 00:53:06.239
on that you are believe the most?89200:53:06.559 --> 00:53:09.480
Will I hope you'll pardon my saying it, But I89300:53:09.559 --> 00:53:11.239
haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.89400:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.280
Oh so that's it, dead to rights, but still pretending.89500:53:14.360 --> 00:53:15.760
Ah, you're a.89600:53:15.880 --> 00:53:19.480
Clever road Sir, my name is Denny de Beaulieux. I89700:53:19.559 --> 00:53:21.239
am not a guest in your house by my own choice,89800:53:21.280 --> 00:53:24.039
and I am not accustomed to being slain, nor.89900:53:24.039 --> 00:53:27.280
Is the house of Nightoir customer certain things of which90000:53:27.320 --> 00:53:27.719
you well know.90100:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.320
I should have expected better treatment at the hands of90200:53:32.360 --> 00:53:33.960
one of the most honored families of France.90300:53:34.320 --> 00:53:39.360
Honored indeed, until you, Monsieur de Bouilleux, took yourself to90400:53:39.440 --> 00:53:39.960
dishonor a.90500:53:40.079 --> 00:53:42.239
Side of maltoy. I have attempted to explain that I90600:53:42.280 --> 00:53:44.280
took a stand before your daughter fight off the patrol90700:53:44.320 --> 00:53:46.559
which I'd encountered in the street. I assure you I90800:53:46.679 --> 00:53:51.559
had no slight intention of forcing myself. Since it seems90900:53:51.559 --> 00:53:53.679
impossible for you to converse with any degree of reason,91000:53:53.760 --> 00:53:57.960
May I did you good night? Ha ha, sir? If91100:53:58.039 --> 00:54:00.559
you have your right wits, then you're insulting me grossly,91200:54:00.880 --> 00:54:02.679
and if not, I have no desire to spend further91300:54:02.760 --> 00:54:04.000
time of the momentary.91400:54:03.599 --> 00:54:07.280
Young fool thinking to get away so easily.91500:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.400
No power on earth can make me stay here any longer,91600:54:09.760 --> 00:54:11.800
even if I'm forced to hack that door of yours to.91700:54:11.840 --> 00:54:17.559
Pieces I in me and now, will you please sit down,91800:54:17.960 --> 00:54:22.079
my dear nephew, nephew, you lie in your teeth, I.91900:54:22.119 --> 00:54:26.000
Said, sit down, think for a minute that I made92000:54:26.400 --> 00:54:29.000
a little contrivance for the door, and stop short with that.92100:54:29.880 --> 00:54:32.000
You want to be bound hand and foot to your bones,92200:54:32.039 --> 00:54:33.320
crack inside of your then get.92300:54:33.280 --> 00:54:34.800
Up, try to get away.92400:54:35.360 --> 00:54:38.480
But if you'd rather stay a free young buck, a92500:54:38.599 --> 00:54:42.239
gravely conversing with an old gentleman, Sit where you are.92600:54:42.280 --> 00:54:44.880
I'm peace, you mean, then.92700:54:46.760 --> 00:54:49.320
I am a prisoner here, I stated the facts.92800:54:49.480 --> 00:54:50.639
Go your own conclusion.92900:54:51.400 --> 00:54:54.599
Oh, fair, fame in, come in, thank you?93000:54:54.800 --> 00:54:55.320
Messiah?93100:54:56.800 --> 00:54:59.599
Tell me how is she a little better frame of93200:54:59.719 --> 00:55:03.159
min and I hope she is more resigned at least?93300:55:03.280 --> 00:55:03.719
Messiah?93400:55:03.960 --> 00:55:08.280
Well, now, isn't she hard to please? A lightly strippling93500:55:08.360 --> 00:55:08.800
such as this?93600:55:09.119 --> 00:55:12.639
Well born and her own choice? What more would the93700:55:12.760 --> 00:55:16.480
jade wall have? If you'll pardon the situation is not93800:55:16.760 --> 00:55:20.199
usual for a young damsel. It is somewhat trying to93900:55:20.360 --> 00:55:22.360
her blushed trying, is it? Hah?94000:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.960
She should have thought of that before the dance began.94100:55:25.679 --> 00:55:28.159
She called the turns, and now she'll do the pain.94200:55:28.280 --> 00:55:30.679
But the risk of being presumptuous, may I ask who94300:55:30.800 --> 00:55:31.280
she is?94400:55:31.480 --> 00:55:31.519
Ha?94500:55:32.199 --> 00:55:36.320
You hear their careful soire merschidable girl wish used to94600:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.239
know who she is?94700:55:38.840 --> 00:55:40.119
I heard, miss sir.94800:55:41.320 --> 00:55:43.400
I am pleased that you find my most casual remarks94900:55:43.440 --> 00:55:43.960
on music.95000:55:44.280 --> 00:55:46.719
So you'd like to know who she is?95100:55:47.360 --> 00:55:47.760
Very well?95200:55:49.119 --> 00:55:51.719
After all, you really should know, young fellow. It's only95300:55:51.800 --> 00:55:56.239
fitting for you to be introduced properly. Come along, Come along,95400:55:56.719 --> 00:56:00.159
I'll take you into she all right. Why, that's the95500:56:00.199 --> 00:56:04.960
reason I planned the whole thing, You Stamanian, scoundly bladdard.95600:56:22.360 --> 00:56:24.239
Come along, my boy, right.95700:56:24.159 --> 00:56:27.159
Through this door after your sirf You don't know.95800:56:28.079 --> 00:56:30.440
Now, it's not that kind of a trap.95900:56:32.480 --> 00:56:32.960
Here we are.96000:56:34.159 --> 00:56:35.239
How are you, my dear?96100:56:35.400 --> 00:56:35.800
Please?96200:56:35.960 --> 00:56:42.280
Uncle pity, but I do a gradier more than you shown.96300:56:42.400 --> 00:56:45.440
For the name of Martela. I come now, come now,96400:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.159
up off your knees and look at the friend I96500:56:47.280 --> 00:56:50.480
brought you. It's good to be devout, but it is96600:56:50.559 --> 00:56:52.480
also necessary to be pol.96700:56:52.559 --> 00:56:55.320
I have no understanding how you can be sub vicious.96800:56:56.320 --> 00:56:57.639
That's very untied.96900:56:58.800 --> 00:57:02.559
And now the believer, since we decided to keep up97000:57:02.599 --> 00:57:07.760
this face, allow me to present my niece belong It's97100:57:07.840 --> 00:57:08.320
such an in.97200:57:08.519 --> 00:57:10.559
Human rational in heaven itself.97300:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.599
He's not the man my own good.97400:57:15.679 --> 00:57:18.599
This is not the man expecting you to say as much.97500:57:18.679 --> 00:57:22.119
Funny ear, is it so unfortunate that you couldn't rememory97600:57:22.159 --> 00:57:22.480
his name?97700:57:22.599 --> 00:57:25.800
It's true, I swept by the blessed virgin. I do97800:57:26.039 --> 00:57:29.400
not know this man, never laid eyes on him before.97900:57:29.960 --> 00:57:32.199
Please to tell him, tell him we've never seen each98000:57:32.199 --> 00:57:32.719
other before.98100:57:32.840 --> 00:57:36.360
For myself, at any rate, I've never had that pleasure, Siah.98200:57:36.360 --> 00:57:37.880
I've not met your lovely niece.98300:57:37.719 --> 00:57:38.400
Before this moon.98400:57:39.480 --> 00:57:43.440
Now isn't that too bad? But it's never too late98500:57:44.000 --> 00:57:44.440
to begin.98600:57:44.960 --> 00:57:48.559
Quite often these impromptu marriages turn out very well in.98700:57:48.599 --> 00:57:49.840
The end marriage.98800:57:50.800 --> 00:57:52.559
May would you please be kind enough to explain what98900:57:52.679 --> 00:57:52.960
you mean?99000:57:53.119 --> 00:57:53.440
Aha?99100:57:53.760 --> 00:57:57.639
Now, surely you've heard of the custom of marriage. It's99200:57:57.800 --> 00:57:59.000
quite widely praed.99300:57:59.039 --> 00:58:01.360
At least, sir, I've never before such a mini because99400:58:01.360 --> 00:58:03.599
I perceive you to be and I have no intention99500:58:03.719 --> 00:58:05.440
of marrying anyone. Then may I ask what.99600:58:05.559 --> 00:58:06.400
Were your intentions?99700:58:06.440 --> 00:58:06.679
Ma? I?99800:58:08.159 --> 00:58:12.280
Oh, well, no matter now deaf fast looking forward to99900:58:12.400 --> 00:58:13.840
performing the nuptial rites.100000:58:13.920 --> 00:58:17.559
Oh, he's quite properly or danger know? So shall we100100:58:17.719 --> 00:58:25.239
say in two hours? Meanwhile, I suggest you become better acquainted.100200:58:25.400 --> 00:58:29.760
Wait, uncle, you can't be in earnest I swear to100300:58:29.840 --> 00:58:32.400
you will kill myself before I'll be forced on this100400:58:32.519 --> 00:58:32.920
young man.100500:58:33.920 --> 00:58:37.039
How come now, my dear Blanche, is.100600:58:37.079 --> 00:58:39.679
It possible that just think I'm lying, that you still100700:58:39.760 --> 00:58:40.960
believe this is the man?100800:58:41.199 --> 00:58:43.920
Frankly I do, then you're wrong. I refuse to leaven100900:58:44.000 --> 00:58:44.519
to consider it.101000:58:44.679 --> 00:58:44.719
You.101100:58:45.679 --> 00:58:47.639
You took it upon yourself to dishonor the name of101200:58:47.719 --> 00:58:51.400
our family. You forfeited all right whatsoever to question my designs.101300:58:51.920 --> 00:58:54.199
I consider it a duty to see that you're married101400:58:54.280 --> 00:58:57.639
with as little delay as possible. Out of the goodness101500:58:57.719 --> 00:59:00.280
of my heart. I've attempted to find them man of101600:59:00.360 --> 00:59:04.559
your choice, and I believe I've done so. But if not,101700:59:04.960 --> 00:59:08.760
then I cannot one, Jack Straw, Is that perfectly clear?101800:59:09.360 --> 00:59:10.880
It's clear, sir, that you're a madman.101900:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.760
Perhaps my dear nephew.102000:59:13.840 --> 00:59:14.960
I'm not your nephew, nor.102100:59:14.920 --> 00:59:15.280
Will I be.102200:59:15.480 --> 00:59:19.039
It's sooner die a thousand times such.102300:59:18.840 --> 00:59:20.639
A fury against the inevitable.102400:59:20.960 --> 00:59:24.880
At any rate, you'll have two hours to compose your differences.102500:59:25.760 --> 00:59:29.760
Pair face will bring me club very well, MESSI thank102600:59:29.840 --> 00:59:34.679
you place it there. This meschuitable is another of my102700:59:34.880 --> 00:59:39.440
little contrivances, and one that is hardly less ingenious than102800:59:39.519 --> 00:59:39.840
my door.102900:59:40.079 --> 00:59:42.559
Messiah your accomplishments are of no interest to me.103000:59:42.639 --> 00:59:46.840
What's the oh, I think you'll find this one most interesting.103100:59:47.480 --> 00:59:50.440
You will notice that the upper container is filled with water.103200:59:51.239 --> 00:59:54.239
In exactly two hours, all of the water will have103300:59:54.360 --> 00:59:58.000
dripped into the lower vessel, and at that time I103400:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.559
should return remove the plug.103501:00:00.760 --> 01:00:01.920
Pair of horse were.103601:00:04.639 --> 01:00:11.400
Clever, indeed well. Genius is so rarely appreciated, And now103701:00:11.519 --> 01:00:15.639
I'm quite sure you sooner carry on your interview without103801:00:16.119 --> 01:00:16.800
an audience.103901:00:19.800 --> 01:00:25.920
You you'd never met my uncle before. You didn't arrange104001:00:25.960 --> 01:00:26.320
this with you.104101:00:26.400 --> 01:00:29.159
I've never laid eyes on him. Certainly nothing was arranged104201:00:29.199 --> 01:00:30.239
with me. Else I wouldn't be here.104301:00:32.119 --> 01:00:34.639
And you're as much an unfortunate victim as myself.104401:00:34.679 --> 01:00:36.760
But you at least must be more aware of the circumstances.104501:00:36.760 --> 01:00:37.840
I can understand none of this.104601:00:39.920 --> 01:00:42.760
It's not an easy thing for a girl to tell.104701:00:44.119 --> 01:00:47.239
Whatever you may think of me, now, I fear you104801:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.119
should think the worst when I've finished.104901:00:50.159 --> 01:00:54.239
Words are but words, but your manner encourages respect.105001:00:57.480 --> 01:01:01.000
I've lived all my life with my uncle, and I've105101:01:01.079 --> 01:01:06.280
not been happy. Three months ago, a young captain of105201:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.360
the Guard began to stand near me in the church.105301:01:09.719 --> 01:01:13.559
You must understand I gave him no encouragement.105401:01:13.039 --> 01:01:13.400
To do so.105501:01:13.719 --> 01:01:19.800
Quite so, I understand he was handsome, of course, it's a.105601:01:19.880 --> 01:01:24.800
Matter of fact. Very after a while he began to105701:01:24.880 --> 01:01:29.519
pass me notes. He found me pleasing, wanted to meet me,105801:01:29.639 --> 01:01:35.239
and so most interested in me for some reason. This105901:01:35.480 --> 01:01:39.480
morning he passed me a note urging me to leave106001:01:39.519 --> 01:01:42.400
the outer door open tonight so that he could speak106101:01:42.400 --> 01:01:46.719
a few words with me on the stairs. This is106201:01:46.800 --> 01:01:48.480
most difficult for me to tell, Monsieur.106301:01:49.679 --> 01:01:50.400
I'm sure he.106401:01:50.519 --> 01:01:51.280
Meant no harm.106501:01:53.320 --> 01:01:56.440
I've no idea how my uncle came to suspect. Sometimes106601:01:56.519 --> 01:02:02.280
his shrewdness becomes almost diabolic. He took that note from106701:02:02.320 --> 01:02:06.599
my hand, read it, gave it back to me. I've106801:02:06.639 --> 01:02:09.599
been kept in my room all day, knowing nothing of106901:02:09.679 --> 01:02:10.719
what he might be planning.107001:02:10.920 --> 01:02:11.440
So that's it.107101:02:13.280 --> 01:02:15.360
By pure accident, I've blundered into a trap set for107201:02:15.400 --> 01:02:15.880
someone else.107301:02:16.480 --> 01:02:19.519
Had my uncle brought the captain himself, the things still107401:02:19.559 --> 01:02:22.159
would have been confusing. How should I know that? He107501:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.079
may not have been trifling with me all along, But107601:02:25.239 --> 01:02:29.239
to be forced into a situation with you, a perfect stranger.107701:02:29.599 --> 01:02:33.280
Your regard for me is quite clear, mademoiselle. I regret107801:02:33.320 --> 01:02:38.679
appearing as a disappointment to you. I believe you said107901:02:38.719 --> 01:02:41.960
he was very handsome. If that were all, there's.108001:02:41.840 --> 01:02:47.639
More I mean, monsieur, that you yourself are quite handsome.108101:02:49.280 --> 01:02:49.800
But it's so.108201:02:51.920 --> 01:02:52.840
Not really no use.108301:02:53.079 --> 01:02:56.400
Please understand me. I'm not urging you in any way urging.108401:02:57.000 --> 01:02:59.440
I'm accustomed to meeting young ladies Uponicasian who are quite108501:02:59.440 --> 01:03:03.039
ready to act me as something beside a convenient substitute108601:03:03.119 --> 01:03:05.440
for some handsome captain of the guards.108701:03:05.480 --> 01:03:08.400
I've no doubted it, monsieur, And to correct a mistaken108801:03:08.480 --> 01:03:11.079
impression you see they have, I'm well aware that you're108901:03:11.159 --> 01:03:13.719
doing no urging, and were you to do so, I109001:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.599
should neither listen to not give it any consideration whatsoever,109101:03:17.599 --> 01:03:19.599
so well that we both understand one another.109201:03:19.920 --> 01:03:23.119
So and that being the case, Mademoiselle de Maltroy, I109301:03:23.199 --> 01:03:24.599
wonder if you'll be good enough to conduct me.109401:03:24.639 --> 01:03:26.480
To your uncle with the greatest of pleasure.109501:03:26.519 --> 01:03:27.159
Monsieur, I have no.109601:03:27.199 --> 01:03:28.960
Doubt but what this little matter can be settled very109701:03:29.000 --> 01:03:32.039
quickly and with as much honor as possible to everybody concerned.109801:03:44.480 --> 01:03:46.480
For two hours weren't necessary.109901:03:47.039 --> 01:03:50.480
Already harmonious cord rises triumph on.110001:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.880
The contrary side of the maltry. Your assumption is entirely false.110101:03:53.920 --> 01:03:58.519
Oh what a peky well perforce. Well, there's nothing to it.110201:03:58.800 --> 01:03:59.599
We will simply have.110301:03:59.679 --> 01:04:02.639
To wait a while longer, as you say, Messa.110401:04:02.519 --> 01:04:04.119
I thar, it may be much longer than you think,110501:04:04.800 --> 01:04:05.519
In fact, forever.110601:04:06.360 --> 01:04:10.039
That's a very long time indeed. And and you, my110701:04:10.239 --> 01:04:12.920
dear niece, what are your sentiments in the matter.110801:04:13.000 --> 01:04:14.639
I will not marry this man.110901:04:15.079 --> 01:04:17.320
To what you, my uncle, I will not marry him.111001:04:19.079 --> 01:04:22.679
Right back where we started. Can it be that our111101:04:22.800 --> 01:04:25.679
young friend is lacking in perception? Pierre fos?111201:04:25.880 --> 01:04:28.519
Where it is possible, Mersey.111301:04:28.480 --> 01:04:30.079
I'm not, at any rate lacking in a sense of111401:04:30.119 --> 01:04:33.360
honorable conduct. Dragged in here against my will, I've addressed111501:04:33.360 --> 01:04:35.960
your niece in the manner of a gentleman. I found111601:04:36.039 --> 01:04:42.559
her charming, lovely, delightful. But now I have the honor111701:04:42.599 --> 01:04:45.400
of declining your offer of her hand. Let that end111801:04:45.440 --> 01:04:45.719
the matter.111901:04:45.840 --> 01:04:50.320
Oh, it's not as simple as that. Take a look112001:04:50.400 --> 01:04:53.400
from my window them and tell me what you've seen112101:04:53.920 --> 01:04:54.920
on the wall beneath it.112201:04:55.119 --> 01:04:56.960
What do you mean see for yourself?112301:04:57.320 --> 01:04:59.360
Whatever it is can have no bearing on the matter.112401:05:02.840 --> 01:05:05.000
There's an iron ring set in the wall.112501:05:04.920 --> 01:05:07.719
Quite so, and fastened to the ring.112601:05:09.239 --> 01:05:09.719
A rope.112701:05:09.960 --> 01:05:13.840
Right, so we have two elements, and to complete our112801:05:13.880 --> 01:05:15.159
little diagram we need.112901:05:15.119 --> 01:05:15.760
A third one.113001:05:16.199 --> 01:05:19.440
That element is at the moment firmly attached to your body.113101:05:20.360 --> 01:05:23.000
I'm referring, sir, to your neck.113201:05:23.920 --> 01:05:25.840
And may I inquire the purpose of the dogs there113301:05:25.880 --> 01:05:28.320
in the courtyard below? Are they also a part of113401:05:28.360 --> 01:05:29.280
your devilish plans?113501:05:29.440 --> 01:05:33.320
My dear young man, A body doesn't hang in ropes113601:05:33.400 --> 01:05:34.199
forever you know.113701:05:35.239 --> 01:05:38.159
You, Maiac. Even murder doesn't stop you.113801:05:38.760 --> 01:05:41.960
That's such a nasty word. Let us confine ourselves to113901:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.719
the bald facts. At the end of your two hours,114001:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.639
you will prepare yourself either to marry my knee or114101:05:47.719 --> 01:05:48.719
to kick out your life.114201:05:48.960 --> 01:05:51.000
Why you swing at the end of that rope. There's114301:05:51.039 --> 01:05:52.039
no other alternative.114401:05:52.840 --> 01:05:57.440
I think there's one between gentlemen. At any rate, I'm yourself.114501:05:57.599 --> 01:06:00.239
Full looking for a moment to definder God, and your114601:06:00.280 --> 01:06:04.800
sword is a threat. You'll still be wearing it. Pere fast,114701:06:04.840 --> 01:06:07.480
whare will you open that door to the passage?114801:06:07.519 --> 01:06:07.880
Please?114901:06:08.079 --> 01:06:10.119
Of course, Messiah, I'll be most.115001:06:10.000 --> 01:06:10.480
Happy to.115101:06:12.199 --> 01:06:16.280
Gentlemen show this rash young back the color of your steel.115201:06:19.599 --> 01:06:22.639
Whether he likes to admit it or not, Monsieur de bouyeux.115301:06:23.239 --> 01:06:26.000
One day a man grows too old to fight his115401:06:26.119 --> 01:06:29.000
own battles and must hire others to do it for him.115501:06:29.920 --> 01:06:33.880
Close the door, peer, Fasha, then.115601:06:33.800 --> 01:06:34.440
You're not fight?115701:06:34.920 --> 01:06:35.960
Do I seem a fool?115801:06:36.760 --> 01:06:39.519
There'll be no fighting and no haughty refusal to marry Manie.115901:06:40.239 --> 01:06:44.280
You found her charming well and good. But I'll tell116001:06:44.320 --> 01:06:47.920
you this worse is common as the parish rode more116101:06:48.039 --> 01:06:50.039
hideous to the gargoyle over my door.116201:06:50.440 --> 01:06:53.360
You'll not spurn the hand of a maltoir and never116301:06:53.440 --> 01:06:54.079
lived to tell him it.116401:06:55.440 --> 01:06:58.519
Alive and married, you'll be or dead and hanging from116501:06:58.559 --> 01:07:01.360
that window, and soon after, uh, food.116601:07:01.159 --> 01:07:06.199
For the dogs. It's one or the other. Make up116701:07:06.239 --> 01:07:06.679
your mind?116801:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.320
Please, why do you not sit down?116901:07:29.719 --> 01:07:34.599
Your concern is most gratifying, mademoiselle. Since I have such117001:07:34.599 --> 01:07:37.360
a short time to live, I doubt that i'll grow117101:07:37.519 --> 01:07:38.320
very tired.117201:07:38.840 --> 01:07:40.440
Be short, and why do we waste it?117301:07:40.519 --> 01:07:42.039
In form of speech, as you will.117401:07:44.360 --> 01:07:49.880
Listen to him, Drip, drip, drip, That devilish clock like117501:07:49.920 --> 01:07:52.000
an artery opened and life's blood itself dripping away.117601:07:52.360 --> 01:07:54.800
Sat here and and sort into my whole mind's in117701:07:54.880 --> 01:07:55.519
a great world.117801:07:55.559 --> 01:07:59.039
Please you, You really shouldn't trouble yourself so much.117901:07:59.400 --> 01:08:01.440
I can't where they have your sling. For my sake,118001:08:06.239 --> 01:08:08.400
I will marry you gladly.118101:08:10.039 --> 01:08:11.719
You must think then that I stand very much in118201:08:11.800 --> 01:08:12.400
fear of death.118301:08:12.519 --> 01:08:16.079
Oh no, no, I've had reason to see that you're118401:08:16.119 --> 01:08:16.479
no count.118501:08:16.560 --> 01:08:18.239
I've asked for no petty. If a thing has to be,118601:08:19.000 --> 01:08:19.760
then that's the end of it.118701:08:19.880 --> 01:08:23.760
Oh so you misunderstood me. I the great nobility with118801:08:23.840 --> 01:08:26.960
which you face my uncle should have removed all questions118901:08:27.000 --> 01:08:29.399
about your bravery, and such doubts existed.119001:08:31.479 --> 01:08:35.239
That is what kind of you to say so?119101:08:36.079 --> 01:08:40.880
Not, of course, anyone could raise such questions once they've119201:08:40.960 --> 01:08:41.359
seen you.119301:08:43.000 --> 01:08:46.560
Death is another incident. That's all happen.119401:08:47.359 --> 01:08:50.920
Life's a better one, you'll agree.119501:08:51.000 --> 01:08:56.239
Then, I'm afraid you underrate the difficulty what your generosity119601:08:56.319 --> 01:09:01.479
offers me. My pride prevents accepting this moment of noble feeling.119701:09:01.560 --> 01:09:05.119
Told me, aren't you forgetting what you already owe to119801:09:05.199 --> 01:09:13.239
someone else? He never really met, mademoiselle. My very life's119901:09:13.279 --> 01:09:15.720
to forfeit here. Well, I'll pack gladly if it be120001:09:15.760 --> 01:09:17.119
of service to a lady. But to tell me it's120101:09:17.119 --> 01:09:19.800
for something that never really means be so cruel. Cruel120201:09:19.880 --> 01:09:22.520
you forget I'm the one who's going.120301:09:22.399 --> 01:09:22.920
To die, not you.120401:09:23.199 --> 01:09:24.560
I've not forgotten, monsieur.120501:09:24.760 --> 01:09:30.119
Yes, you'll enjoy tomorrow's sun like any other days, and120601:09:30.199 --> 01:09:37.119
tomorrow night perhaps you'll see him again. Of course I'll120701:09:37.159 --> 01:09:40.319
be forgotten never. But it's all a man can expect120801:09:40.319 --> 01:09:43.800
when he's born into the world. Death at last, there's120901:09:43.840 --> 01:09:45.600
a piece of ironic misfortune.121001:09:48.520 --> 01:09:49.199
It can't bear.121101:09:50.399 --> 01:09:53.840
Oh, if I've said anything to wound you, I'm sorry121201:09:53.880 --> 01:09:56.800
it was. It was for your own sake, not mine.121301:09:58.199 --> 01:09:58.520
Thank you.121401:10:01.920 --> 01:10:04.960
It's a bitter thing, my dear, to see you in121501:10:05.039 --> 01:10:09.279
such distress that giving my life itself for you can't121601:10:09.359 --> 01:10:09.640
help it.121701:10:11.359 --> 01:10:12.039
I'm sorry.121801:10:13.399 --> 01:10:14.439
I'll try to be braver.121901:10:18.319 --> 01:10:19.920
Is there no way at all in which I can122001:10:20.039 --> 01:10:22.600
serve you, either now.122101:10:24.159 --> 01:10:27.840
Or afterwards, only by letting me think of you as122201:10:27.880 --> 01:10:30.840
a friend for the brief time that's left to us,122301:10:32.279 --> 01:10:35.399
By forgetting for the moment that I'm an awkward intruder122401:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.319
throwing her by circumstance, That's all.122501:10:40.119 --> 01:10:43.560
And after it, what does it matter? The closer you122601:10:43.680 --> 01:10:46.199
come to it, the clearer you see that death's no122701:10:46.319 --> 01:10:49.960
more than a dark and dusty corner where a man122801:10:50.039 --> 01:10:53.760
climbs into his tomb and shuts the door after him.122901:10:53.800 --> 01:10:54.319
I'll miss you.123001:10:54.600 --> 01:10:58.680
I've only a few friends now, and once I'm dead,123101:10:58.680 --> 01:10:59.920
I've no doubt that i'll have none.123201:11:00.199 --> 01:11:02.039
You forget to Blanche de MALTOI.123301:11:03.760 --> 01:11:07.960
You're very sweet. Any young man in France would be123401:11:08.000 --> 01:11:10.079
glad to trade places with me and die for you.123501:11:12.920 --> 01:11:15.239
You value the small service I do your father beyond123601:11:15.279 --> 01:11:15.720
it's worth.123701:11:16.359 --> 01:11:20.000
I'll not have you thinking so manly of yourself. Look123801:11:20.079 --> 01:11:26.399
at me. Would you say that I am beautiful?123901:11:28.600 --> 01:11:29.079
I think so.124001:11:31.840 --> 01:11:33.840
I think the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.124101:11:34.880 --> 01:11:41.399
I'm glad of that. Tell me, is there a man124201:11:41.520 --> 01:11:45.279
in France who can't say he's been asked in marriage124301:11:45.359 --> 01:11:48.640
by a beautiful maiden as from her own lips, and124401:11:49.760 --> 01:11:55.720
refused her to her face. You're a man and have124501:11:55.960 --> 01:11:59.640
to spy such a triumph, but any woman knows more124601:11:59.680 --> 01:12:00.920
of It's precious enough.124701:12:01.000 --> 01:12:02.680
But remember you asked me out of the pity of124801:12:02.720 --> 01:12:04.119
your heart, not for love.124901:12:04.239 --> 01:12:07.319
Are you're so sure of that? Must I bear my125001:12:07.479 --> 01:12:09.600
very so like a merchant show kiss.125101:12:11.239 --> 01:12:14.960
You're very good as good as you're beautiful.125201:12:17.520 --> 01:12:20.359
I'll not forget it for the time that's left me.125301:12:22.560 --> 01:12:26.119
Very well. I too have a pride of my own.125401:12:27.560 --> 01:12:29.920
You turn back now from your word. I'd no more125501:12:30.119 --> 01:12:32.319
marry you than I want any stranger off the street.125601:12:33.960 --> 01:12:38.279
It's it's a small love that shies at a little125701:12:38.399 --> 01:12:44.199
pride dawn starting to break.125801:12:46.119 --> 01:12:50.159
Yeah, my uncle and his.125901:12:50.279 --> 01:12:56.039
Man won't come here any moment. What shall we say126001:12:56.119 --> 01:12:56.399
to him?126101:12:59.199 --> 01:12:59.560
Anything?126201:12:59.600 --> 01:13:08.319
You will? Hmm.126301:13:10.399 --> 01:13:11.920
All of my life I wait for you.126401:13:13.399 --> 01:13:15.159
And weep them all because it was you.126501:13:15.239 --> 01:13:17.159
If I'm wrong, it's a great price. I'm paying for126601:13:17.279 --> 01:13:19.159
it when i'd not pay if I didn't care for you.126701:13:19.319 --> 01:13:22.319
So dearly careful, I'm not.126801:13:22.560 --> 01:13:24.479
You have been kind on the moment your uncle brought126901:13:24.520 --> 01:13:26.079
me into you, and you raise your face to look127001:13:26.119 --> 01:13:26.319
at me.127101:13:26.439 --> 01:13:29.039
That's what I knew, that strange for it was then127201:13:29.079 --> 01:13:29.800
I found it too.127301:13:31.000 --> 01:13:33.560
You've seen already that I'm not afraid to die. I127401:13:33.720 --> 01:13:36.640
know it is it really true, not something born of pity.127501:13:36.960 --> 01:13:38.359
I swear by all the toney.127601:13:39.600 --> 01:13:42.960
I love you, and I can tell you now that I.127701:13:43.000 --> 01:13:47.560
Love you too, even a true Remember, no matter I127801:13:47.680 --> 01:13:49.600
love you, Oh my God, I love you more than127901:13:49.680 --> 01:13:50.720
my life my soul.128001:13:55.279 --> 01:14:02.039
Well, well, well, it's gratifying to see this little matter128101:14:02.479 --> 01:14:05.560
settle in such a congenial fashion.128201:14:06.560 --> 01:14:09.039
Good morning, my dear nephew.128301:14:10.840 --> 01:14:13.560
I have nothing to say to you, sir. You're a128401:14:13.680 --> 01:14:15.159
vicious and unprincipled old man.128501:14:16.720 --> 01:14:17.600
That mother.128601:14:17.680 --> 01:14:19.239
It's ungracious to tell you.128701:14:19.960 --> 01:14:20.600
No. No.128801:14:21.359 --> 01:14:23.760
At the very worse, I'm no more than a very128901:14:24.199 --> 01:14:27.600
wise old man, one who's lived a long time and129001:14:28.159 --> 01:14:31.560
seen a great many remarkable things, an old man who's129101:14:31.640 --> 01:14:36.239
learned all about such mysteries as the love of life and.129201:14:38.239 --> 01:14:49.600
Love beside.129301:14:49.640 --> 01:14:52.560
The maltwas door by Robert Lois Stevenson, was adapted for129401:14:52.720 --> 01:14:56.399
radio by Less Crutchfield and produced and directed by William N. Robson,129501:14:56.720 --> 01:14:59.840
with Elliot Lewis as Denny, Beggy Webber has Blanche, and129601:15:00.039 --> 01:15:03.199
Ramsey Hill as the sired in Maltoir. The special musical129701:15:03.239 --> 01:15:11.920
score was conceived and conducted by sy Viewer. Escape is129801:15:12.039 --> 01:15:15.479
presented by the Columbia Broadcasting System and it's affiliated stations129901:15:15.520 --> 01:15:15.920
each week.130001:15:15.960 --> 01:15:18.319
At this time next week, we invite you to.130101:15:18.439 --> 01:15:21.600
Escape to Egypt thirty five hundred years ago with Arthur130201:15:21.640 --> 01:15:25.479
Conan Doyle's fascinating Tale of the Ring of Talk, and130301:15:25.600 --> 01:15:26.880
so good night until next week.130401:15:26.920 --> 01:15:30.199
At this time when again it will be time to escape.130501:15:36.159 --> 01:15:39.359
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.130601:15:55.760 --> 01:16:01.279
My dear, you do seem a bit unsettled.130701:16:02.560 --> 01:16:02.840
Good.130801:16:03.880 --> 01:16:07.560
I know that's why you come here, and I'm happy130901:16:08.279 --> 01:16:12.880
to provide no worries here other than the ones that131001:16:14.199 --> 01:16:15.760
keep things interesting.131101:16:18.000 --> 01:16:18.159
Hm.131201:16:20.720 --> 01:16:27.000
I like to read, how about you. There's something so131301:16:28.680 --> 01:16:34.319
joyous about cracking open an old book, the way it smells,131401:16:35.159 --> 01:16:40.119
the way the imagery builds in your mind. But even131501:16:40.239 --> 01:16:45.439
better is reading the last letter of Doctor Bronson.131601:17:00.479 --> 01:17:25.000
Suspense, This is the Man in Black here again when131701:17:25.039 --> 01:17:30.640
produced Columbia's program Suspense. Heading our starring Hollywood cast Tonight131801:17:30.760 --> 01:17:33.600
is mister Laird Kreegar, who will be seen shortly in131901:17:33.680 --> 01:17:36.039
the twentieth century Fox production of one of the great132001:17:36.119 --> 01:17:40.840
suspense stories of all time, The Lodger. Tonight, mister Kreegar132101:17:40.920 --> 01:17:44.239
appears as a cynical gentleman who made an unusual.132201:17:43.920 --> 01:17:44.680
Beth with death.132301:17:45.640 --> 01:17:47.960
With mister Kregar as a cast of the screen's most132401:17:48.000 --> 01:17:53.000
distinguished and characteristic players, Miss Helen Vincent, mister Walter Kingsford,132501:17:53.399 --> 01:17:57.159
mister George Coloris, mister Harold Huber, and mister Ian Wolf132601:17:57.720 --> 01:18:00.640
here to bring us the suspense play called the Last132701:18:00.760 --> 01:18:04.399
Letter of Doctor Bronson, and so were the performance of132801:18:04.520 --> 01:18:07.279
Laird Kreegar, as he writes for us this Last Letter132901:18:07.359 --> 01:18:10.399
of Doctor Bronson, and with the performances of in the133001:18:10.560 --> 01:18:15.000
order of their appearance, Walter Kingsford, eng Wolfe, Harold Huber,133101:18:15.520 --> 01:18:18.920
Helen Benson, and George Coloris, we again hope to keep133201:18:18.960 --> 01:18:19.199
you in.133301:18:20.800 --> 01:18:36.119
Suspense. My dear Doctor Mosher, forgive me if I dashed133401:18:36.159 --> 01:18:39.039
this letter off rather hurriedly. There are but a very133501:18:39.119 --> 01:18:42.840
few minutes remaining for me, the few minutes between now133601:18:43.079 --> 01:18:47.560
and midnight. You have always protested my fascination with the133701:18:47.640 --> 01:18:51.279
subject of death. It urged you to hear me discuss133801:18:51.319 --> 01:18:55.840
the latest electrocution or hanging. I remember your sarcasm the133901:18:55.920 --> 01:18:58.239
day you found me staring down from the top of134001:18:58.279 --> 01:19:01.319
the entire State building, speculating on the thoughts of a134101:19:01.399 --> 01:19:05.279
man about to leap from that pinnacle. You alone, Motioner,134201:19:05.520 --> 01:19:09.319
know how this fascination led to my latest experiment, I134301:19:09.399 --> 01:19:14.079
should say, my last experiment. I promised you a complete134401:19:14.119 --> 01:19:17.199
account of it all. Here is that account. First of all,134501:19:18.079 --> 01:19:20.239
let me recall a conversation which we held here in134601:19:20.319 --> 01:19:22.039
my study a little over a year ago.134701:19:25.560 --> 01:19:29.920
There you go again, Bronson, death and murder. Really you're unhealthy?134801:19:30.039 --> 01:19:33.479
Please answer my question, Mosher. Why do men behave as134901:19:33.520 --> 01:19:36.920
they do? What keeps them from breaking loose? Why don't135001:19:36.960 --> 01:19:38.800
they kill one another as animals do?135101:19:39.119 --> 01:19:39.279
Why?135201:19:39.399 --> 01:19:41.920
Because because they aren't animals.135301:19:41.600 --> 01:19:44.600
But, my dear Moser, being neither vegetable nor mineral, they135401:19:44.680 --> 01:19:47.159
must be animal. What I need that you do not135501:19:47.399 --> 01:19:48.000
know the answer?135601:19:48.720 --> 01:19:49.399
I do so.135701:19:50.119 --> 01:19:52.199
I have been studying the question for some time, and135801:19:52.279 --> 01:19:56.039
I've concluded that there are five basic checks which serve135901:19:56.159 --> 01:20:00.359
to restrain man from murdering his fellow men. The best136001:20:00.439 --> 01:20:05.119
corollary is that murder occurs only when some stronger drive136101:20:05.199 --> 01:20:07.239
overrides these five basic checks.136201:20:07.439 --> 01:20:09.119
You make it sound very simple.136301:20:09.359 --> 01:20:10.000
It is simple.136401:20:10.199 --> 01:20:12.479
And what are these five basic checks?136501:20:12.600 --> 01:20:15.079
Well, I'm not prepared to reveal the outcome of my136601:20:15.159 --> 01:20:18.079
study is yet I must put my theory to the test.136701:20:18.039 --> 01:20:20.279
And that would seem to be a difficult undertaking.136801:20:20.520 --> 01:20:23.159
Difficult, yes, but intriguing.136901:20:24.640 --> 01:20:26.840
I take it you're about to embark upon another of137001:20:26.920 --> 01:20:31.239
your experiments. Correct, Bronson, Why must you keep on LEAs137101:20:31.239 --> 01:20:35.319
studies invariably bring you some physical or what is more dangerous?137201:20:35.640 --> 01:20:38.880
Some nervous disaster, and in turn your handsome bill for137301:20:38.920 --> 01:20:40.399
putting me in shape to conduct the next.137401:20:40.399 --> 01:20:43.439
Sooner or later, you will experiment yourself into a position137501:20:43.600 --> 01:20:45.560
beyond my power to wait you later.137601:20:45.640 --> 01:20:48.800
Then, meanwhile, I shall continue to pursue my soul interest137701:20:48.840 --> 01:20:49.159
in life.137801:20:49.399 --> 01:20:52.800
And how do you propose to conduct this this restraint137901:20:52.880 --> 01:20:54.600
from murder experiment?138001:20:54.800 --> 01:20:59.000
Well, a murder is composed of four elements, the murderer, remotive,138101:20:59.079 --> 01:21:01.920
the opportunity, and the victim. My first step will be138201:21:02.000 --> 01:21:05.039
to select five men, each of whom will be restrained138301:21:05.119 --> 01:21:07.880
from murder by the particular check that I'm testing on him.138401:21:08.079 --> 01:21:10.720
That's no easy to as by no means. It will138501:21:10.760 --> 01:21:13.840
require an extensive search. But having found my men, I138601:21:13.920 --> 01:21:18.119
must then supply each with a motive breed, revenge, jealousy.138701:21:18.279 --> 01:21:18.680
I see.138801:21:18.720 --> 01:21:21.199
And your next step must be to give each man138901:21:21.239 --> 01:21:22.399
an opportunity.139001:21:21.960 --> 01:21:25.640
Precisely, an opportunity which precludes all checks. But the one139101:21:25.720 --> 01:21:28.279
being tested, well, not knowing what your checks are, I139201:21:28.359 --> 01:21:31.479
can't help you there. Well, that'll be relatively simple. And finally,139301:21:32.159 --> 01:21:33.720
I'm a supply and intended victim.139401:21:33.800 --> 01:21:37.119
And you'll ask this victim to face five men, each139501:21:37.199 --> 01:21:40.279
standing to provide handsomely by murdering him correct his only139601:21:40.399 --> 01:21:43.439
chances survival being the correctness of your theory of checks139701:21:43.760 --> 01:21:47.159
in all five instances. And do you imagine you will139801:21:47.199 --> 01:21:50.399
discover a man with such utter confidence in your reckoning?139901:21:50.520 --> 01:21:56.800
There is one such man? Oh myself, ronson, this is foul,140001:21:57.000 --> 01:21:59.479
no motion. I never hesitate to risk high stakes on140101:21:59.520 --> 01:22:00.640
a sure thing, not even my life.140201:22:00.680 --> 01:22:03.439
Now look here, Bronson, you're adopting yourself. You told me140301:22:03.560 --> 01:22:06.000
to speak to you like a Dutch ankle, as your physician.140401:22:06.159 --> 01:22:07.840
I haven't insulted my physician.140501:22:07.960 --> 01:22:10.800
As you will take precautions, provide yourself for emergencies.140601:22:10.880 --> 01:22:12.079
I tell you there's no danger.140701:22:12.279 --> 01:22:15.880
Oh well, well, when will you begin your experiment?140801:22:16.199 --> 01:22:21.199
Well, I suppose, and about well? Why wait? Why don't140901:22:21.199 --> 01:22:22.439
we begin right now? Mosher?141001:22:23.439 --> 01:22:27.079
I invite you to kill me. What there's a revolval141101:22:27.239 --> 01:22:28.720
right here in my desk, and I want you to141201:22:28.800 --> 01:22:32.319
take this revolv. Oh you you're joking, Bronson R What141301:22:32.560 --> 01:22:35.119
possible motive? Could I have a murdering you motive?141401:22:36.520 --> 01:22:39.359
Why we're known to be associated rather closely in our work.141501:22:39.800 --> 01:22:42.279
You'll come naturally into my entire practice. I've put that141601:22:42.319 --> 01:22:42.720
in writing.141701:22:42.760 --> 01:22:44.199
Why it's.141801:22:45.439 --> 01:22:46.960
Why won't you kill me? Then, Mosher?141901:22:47.039 --> 01:22:47.199
Why?142001:22:47.680 --> 01:22:50.079
There are dozens of reasons in the first place, I142101:22:50.199 --> 01:22:51.319
go to electric chair for it.142201:22:51.359 --> 01:22:55.079
Thank you, doctor Mosher, You've given me an admirable illustration142301:22:55.159 --> 01:22:57.039
of the first and most obvious of the five checks142401:22:57.039 --> 01:23:01.279
in my theory. Man refrains from during his fellow being142501:23:01.800 --> 01:23:11.199
because he himself will be killed by law. Remember motion,142601:23:12.279 --> 01:23:17.279
Remember how it began. That was more than a year ago. Yes,142701:23:17.399 --> 01:23:19.680
I've spent more than a year in selecting my other142801:23:19.800 --> 01:23:23.239
four subjects because the checks I wanted them to prove142901:23:23.319 --> 01:23:26.479
were not so simple. In selecting my people, it was143001:23:26.560 --> 01:23:30.039
necessary that I cultivate the friendship of each, so that143101:23:30.079 --> 01:23:32.319
when the time should come to confront him with my proposition,143201:23:32.800 --> 01:23:41.680
I should be certain of how he would act. The143301:23:41.800 --> 01:23:44.680
first of my four potential murders was a clerk named143401:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.880
Chatten Tartan was badly in debt, his wife in the143501:23:47.920 --> 01:23:51.600
hospital about to undergo an expensive operation, and he was143601:23:51.640 --> 01:23:55.000
a deeply religious man. We went to church together on143701:23:55.119 --> 01:23:57.560
Sunday evenings at Saint Luke's, right around the corner from143801:23:57.600 --> 01:24:00.880
my apartment. One Sunday evening, after the service, I asked143901:24:00.920 --> 01:24:03.159
him to come to my apartment, and we talked as144001:24:03.199 --> 01:24:03.880
we walked along.144101:24:04.159 --> 01:24:06.640
You know, doctor Bronson, I was talking about you to144201:24:06.720 --> 01:24:08.680
my wife the other day before they took her to144301:24:08.760 --> 01:24:09.279
the hospital.144401:24:09.800 --> 01:24:11.479
I was saying, what a great comfort it was to144501:24:11.560 --> 01:24:12.840
be with you these Sunday nights.144601:24:13.000 --> 01:24:14.720
Now come, mister Totten, you embarrass me.144701:24:14.920 --> 01:24:15.760
No, I mean it.144801:24:16.279 --> 01:24:17.880
In the world to day, too many people seem to144901:24:17.920 --> 01:24:19.479
feel that they no longer need their God.145001:24:19.680 --> 01:24:21.800
Yes, but their lives are void of the great thing145101:24:21.840 --> 01:24:22.720
you have in your faith.145201:24:23.000 --> 01:24:25.199
The church is a great comfort to me, and I145301:24:25.319 --> 01:24:27.399
do need something to cling to in times like these.145401:24:27.600 --> 01:24:30.920
Mister Tarton, you could make rather good use of five145501:24:31.000 --> 01:24:32.399
thousand dollars, couldn't sure.145601:24:32.640 --> 01:24:34.399
It isn't like you to make fun of my poverty.145701:24:34.520 --> 01:24:35.520
Now I'm quite sincere.145801:24:35.800 --> 01:24:37.680
You know what even one hundred dollars would mean to me,145901:24:38.079 --> 01:24:39.079
and at present more than ever.146001:24:39.399 --> 01:24:41.000
Yes, with your wife's smith's fault.146101:24:41.199 --> 01:24:42.079
Isn't this your apartment?146201:24:42.119 --> 01:24:43.640
We're passing well, I want to go in the sideway.146301:24:43.640 --> 01:24:54.439
We shall be unobserved. Unobserved, you'll understand presently. Please come146401:24:54.479 --> 01:25:01.239
into my study now here we are, and if you'll146501:25:01.239 --> 01:25:02.520
take this chair oppos at my desk.146601:25:03.600 --> 01:25:03.920
Thank you.146701:25:04.720 --> 01:25:07.960
Mister Tatton, you said that even one hundred dollars would146801:25:07.960 --> 01:25:10.680
be a great help to you. Here in my desk146901:25:11.159 --> 01:25:14.239
I have this package containing five thousand dollars.147001:25:14.880 --> 01:25:17.479
What could I do for you that would be worth147101:25:17.560 --> 01:25:18.239
all that money?147201:25:18.520 --> 01:25:21.800
Let me explain. My doctor called on me yesterday and147301:25:21.880 --> 01:25:25.800
he told me, well, it'll be quite frank with you,147401:25:25.880 --> 01:25:29.600
mister Totton. He said that I was slowly going mad.147501:25:29.920 --> 01:25:32.840
Oh no, that couldn't be. I'm quite all right at present,147601:25:33.640 --> 01:25:36.079
but it's only a matter of time, and I'd rather147701:25:36.239 --> 01:25:40.039
not have to face it. I believe you can understand that.147801:25:40.239 --> 01:25:42.680
But there must be something you can do. Knowing in advance,147901:25:42.800 --> 01:25:45.560
there is, and I want you to help me. I148001:25:46.039 --> 01:25:48.680
don't understand. Put on these gloves, take them, but why148101:25:49.000 --> 01:25:50.680
As soon as you have them on, I shall hand148201:25:50.760 --> 01:25:53.960
you this paper knife. Notice how very sharp it is.148301:25:54.800 --> 01:25:59.520
I grip it firmly, thus and clearly impress my finger148401:25:59.560 --> 01:26:02.800
prints on handle. Finally, here on the desk, I am148501:26:02.880 --> 01:26:05.399
leaving this note explaining that I've committed suicide.148601:26:05.439 --> 01:26:05.960
Suicide.148701:26:06.279 --> 01:26:08.000
When the knife is in your hand, I want you148801:26:08.079 --> 01:26:11.520
to drive it into my heart. Then you may leave148901:26:11.640 --> 01:26:13.880
by the same way we came in. You will be149001:26:14.000 --> 01:26:17.399
quite unnoticed. And with the five thousand dollars in your pocket,149101:26:17.560 --> 01:26:20.439
you can't mean this, but I do. You see, I149201:26:21.159 --> 01:26:26.600
don't have the nerve to well. I can't quite make149301:26:26.640 --> 01:26:30.960
the final move myself. You would greatly oblige me, and149401:26:31.239 --> 01:26:33.079
with the five thousand dollars you will be able to149501:26:33.119 --> 01:26:34.680
give your wife the treatment she needs.149601:26:35.399 --> 01:26:36.159
What you say.149701:26:38.840 --> 01:26:41.239
You can't die yet you're not ready? Will you have149801:26:41.359 --> 01:26:43.479
me wait until I've gone mad. Can't take the matter149901:26:43.520 --> 01:26:45.640
of life and death into your own hand. Not asking150001:26:45.680 --> 01:26:47.920
you to pass judgment upon my actions. Whether I wish150101:26:47.920 --> 01:26:49.239
to live or die as my own concern and my150201:26:49.319 --> 01:26:50.039
mind is resolved.150301:26:50.319 --> 01:26:50.800
Is that clear?150401:26:50.840 --> 01:26:51.640
I'm sorry for you.150501:26:51.880 --> 01:26:53.920
I'm merely asking you to do something for which I150601:26:53.960 --> 01:26:57.800
will pay you very well. You will of course be150701:26:58.039 --> 01:27:01.239
killing me, but if you could realize what life would150801:27:01.239 --> 01:27:03.319
be like for me otherwise, I'm very sorry. But I150901:27:03.359 --> 01:27:06.279
can't oblige you. If it's the law you will fear, it's.151001:27:06.199 --> 01:27:09.399
Not that you seem to have arranged that perfectly, then151101:27:10.279 --> 01:27:13.560
what is it. I'm an honest Christian and I thought151201:27:13.600 --> 01:27:16.199
you were Doctor Bronson. If you don't understand why I151301:27:16.239 --> 01:27:18.920
can't do this monster thing, I suggest you look up151401:27:18.920 --> 01:27:19.840
the sixth Commandment.151501:27:22.520 --> 01:27:36.760
Good night, so mosher. My second point was proved man151601:27:37.000 --> 01:27:41.079
refrains from killing because it is against his religious principles.151701:27:45.560 --> 01:27:47.880
The hands of the crock now read fifteen minutes to midnight,151801:27:48.520 --> 01:27:50.560
one quarter of an hour in which to complete this report.151901:27:51.960 --> 01:27:55.720
My third proposition called for an entirely different sort of man,152001:27:56.000 --> 01:27:58.920
in fact, the very reverse of Tartan, a man who152101:27:59.039 --> 01:28:02.600
believed neither in heaven nor hell, and also a man152201:28:02.680 --> 01:28:07.760
of little intelligence. It required careful search. For a number152301:28:07.800 --> 01:28:10.640
of nights, I frequented the rougher districts of the city.152401:28:11.520 --> 01:28:14.119
At first I had no luck. Then one night I152501:28:14.199 --> 01:28:17.479
came upon my man, very unexpectedly. I was walking along152601:28:17.560 --> 01:28:19.960
one of the darker streets. There was no one in view.152701:28:24.199 --> 01:28:27.399
H He was slumped down beside an ashcan. He had152801:28:27.439 --> 01:28:29.439
been shot in the chest and that arm severing an artery.152901:28:29.479 --> 01:28:31.640
He was bleeding profusely. I tore off his shirt and153001:28:31.680 --> 01:28:34.319
made a tonica for his arm. Oddly, no one came153101:28:34.359 --> 01:28:35.520
into the alley to investigate.153201:28:37.000 --> 01:28:37.439
Get away?153301:28:37.840 --> 01:28:39.479
Was this a gang shooting? What do you think? I153401:28:39.520 --> 01:28:42.439
think you're going to the hospital the cops.153501:28:42.439 --> 01:28:42.600
Come on.153601:28:42.680 --> 01:28:45.399
I'll help you to your feet. I ain't going you'll153701:28:45.439 --> 01:28:46.760
die man if you're not treated quickly.153801:28:46.840 --> 01:28:49.560
I ain't gonna tell you. No cops gonna, no cobs153901:28:49.880 --> 01:28:51.880
think gonna, I'm gonna.154001:28:52.520 --> 01:28:52.720
Oh.154101:28:57.199 --> 01:29:00.239
His name was Matt Doyle. I visited Doyle in the154201:29:00.279 --> 01:29:03.760
hospital almost every day. Several months later, I decided to154301:29:03.840 --> 01:29:06.960
put him to the test. I found Doyle in one154401:29:07.000 --> 01:29:08.880
of his hangouts and brought him to my apartment.154501:29:10.439 --> 01:29:11.960
Hey, this sure is a fancy roots.154601:29:12.000 --> 01:29:15.039
You got yourself back. I find it very pleasant. Have154701:29:15.119 --> 01:29:19.560
a cigarette, thanks, Doyle. How many men have you killed?154801:29:21.840 --> 01:29:25.000
That's all right, doll, I understand. Now. Suppose we got154901:29:25.000 --> 01:29:25.560
down to business.155001:29:25.680 --> 01:29:27.520
Yeah, I've been wondering what you want me for.155101:29:27.760 --> 01:29:29.960
I want you to do something for me, and I'm155201:29:30.000 --> 01:29:32.119
going to give you five thousand dollars to do it.155301:29:32.319 --> 01:29:33.560
Will you do what I ask you for?155401:29:33.720 --> 01:29:35.279
Five grand? Spell it?155501:29:36.159 --> 01:29:37.920
I want you to put on these gloves so there155601:29:37.920 --> 01:29:40.239
won't be any fingerprints. Then I'm going to hand you155701:29:40.319 --> 01:29:42.000
this knife and you're going to kill me with it.155801:29:42.159 --> 01:29:42.359
Huh.155901:29:42.880 --> 01:29:45.479
I've arranged everything so it will appear to be suicide.156001:29:46.000 --> 01:29:49.079
You nuts not yet, but I will be before very long.156101:29:49.760 --> 01:29:52.479
That's why I want to die all you have to156201:29:52.520 --> 01:29:54.760
do is stab me and slip out with this five thousand?156301:29:55.359 --> 01:29:56.079
Is this on the level?156401:29:56.159 --> 01:29:56.760
Absolutely?156501:29:57.159 --> 01:29:58.159
Just one of those mine.156601:29:58.159 --> 01:30:00.560
If I kill you, that's right. Nobody will know why156701:30:00.560 --> 01:30:00.880
I've done it.156801:30:01.039 --> 01:30:01.319
No one.156901:30:03.159 --> 01:30:04.239
These gloves is.157001:30:04.520 --> 01:30:05.479
Kind of big for me.157101:30:05.680 --> 01:30:08.000
That's all right, they'll do Yeah, yeah, I want me157201:30:08.079 --> 01:30:09.720
to put any other one. It's safer.157301:30:10.279 --> 01:30:11.039
I guess it is.157401:30:12.000 --> 01:30:13.600
Gee, what is it?157501:30:14.359 --> 01:30:19.520
I was just thinking, I grand ah, the boss is157601:30:19.600 --> 01:30:20.800
gonna pay me more next.157701:30:21.199 --> 01:30:24.479
I mean, I never got ask it. I want you157801:30:24.640 --> 01:30:30.960
to understand exactly what you're doing, Doyle, without any justifiable cause,157901:30:31.119 --> 01:30:33.760
merely for the sake of money. You are going to158001:30:33.880 --> 01:30:38.520
murder me. You understand that. Yeah, you've been hired to158101:30:38.600 --> 01:30:39.239
do this before.158201:30:39.520 --> 01:30:42.439
Yeah, I suppose don't to talk about it now the jug.158301:30:42.600 --> 01:30:44.560
But you've never killed a friend, have you?158401:30:45.239 --> 01:30:45.439
Yeah?158501:30:46.640 --> 01:30:48.279
Anyway, that was my pals that they got in the158601:30:48.279 --> 01:30:50.399
boss's way. But when the bosses say slipper to a matt,158701:30:50.479 --> 01:30:52.600
then there was just another job than me.158801:30:52.920 --> 01:30:56.039
But there's a little difference in this case, Doyle. I158901:30:56.199 --> 01:30:57.039
saved your life.159001:30:57.359 --> 01:31:01.800
Yeah, I don't know what.159101:31:03.039 --> 01:31:03.399
I don't know.159201:31:04.760 --> 01:31:06.960
Nope, I can't do it. But I thought you said159301:31:07.000 --> 01:31:09.239
they had take these grubs afraid of the law. Now159401:31:09.760 --> 01:31:12.640
what's the matter, then, Is it because I'm your friend?159501:31:12.800 --> 01:31:13.359
That's more than that.159601:31:14.000 --> 01:31:15.640
I can't bump you off even if you want it.159701:31:15.720 --> 01:31:17.119
It would be an act of true friendship.159801:31:17.159 --> 01:31:17.840
I ain't swer sure.159901:31:17.920 --> 01:31:19.159
When a cat has fits, you put it out of160001:31:19.199 --> 01:31:21.720
its misery, don't you. That's what I want? Oblivion?160101:31:22.359 --> 01:31:25.199
He sorry, Doc, I ain't a guy. It's like you said,160201:31:25.520 --> 01:31:27.600
you saved my life, so that's that.160301:31:29.520 --> 01:31:32.239
Sorry. I wish you could help me me too, but160401:31:32.640 --> 01:31:33.720
not that now.160501:31:33.840 --> 01:31:35.640
If you got some other punk you want to care.160601:31:35.520 --> 01:31:36.520
Of, there's no one.160701:31:37.760 --> 01:31:45.000
Thanks, just the same. Oh, don't mention it. There was160801:31:45.079 --> 01:31:49.319
my third proposition. Man will not kill fellow man if160901:31:49.359 --> 01:31:53.760
a sufficient degree of gratitude has been in vogued. Even161001:31:53.800 --> 01:31:56.039
a professional killer and one of the lowest examples of161101:31:56.119 --> 01:31:58.800
human life such as Doyle, could not bring himself to161201:31:58.960 --> 01:32:10.680
murder his benefactor. My next subject was altogether different in temperament.161301:32:11.680 --> 01:32:14.880
With Judith Ainsley, I used a special technique. I first161401:32:15.000 --> 01:32:18.319
encountered Judith Ainsley when I operated on Barrett Sheffield, the actor.161501:32:19.319 --> 01:32:21.439
You will recall that Sheffield was brought to the hospital161601:32:21.479 --> 01:32:24.000
with a long absce As I prepared to do the161701:32:24.079 --> 01:32:26.760
rib resection, I noticed that the nurse standing beside me161801:32:26.920 --> 01:32:27.960
was greatly agitated.161901:32:31.960 --> 01:32:36.159
Doctor, do you think this is advisable?162001:32:36.359 --> 01:32:38.239
What is more pronounced?162101:32:41.439 --> 01:32:44.399
Miss Ainsley? Another? Heemust getting blue?162201:32:44.720 --> 01:32:47.359
Do you think you really should just signed miss Ainsley?162301:32:47.640 --> 01:32:47.920
Sorry?162401:32:47.960 --> 01:32:51.000
Doctor quickly?162501:32:51.199 --> 01:33:10.439
Quickly, Kevin, quickly, stethoscope here it is, well, that's that, yes,162601:33:12.680 --> 01:33:14.880
and sangely, what's the matter with you? You've been acting162701:33:14.920 --> 01:33:16.199
strangely all through this operation.162801:33:16.439 --> 01:33:17.119
You killed him?162901:33:17.479 --> 01:33:18.000
You killed him.163001:33:18.000 --> 01:33:18.880
You shouldn't have gone ahead.163101:33:18.880 --> 01:33:19.520
You know that I won't.163201:33:19.560 --> 01:33:20.800
I shall see to it in the same thing that163301:33:20.840 --> 01:33:22.479
you are never assigned to one of my cases again.163401:33:24.000 --> 01:33:24.880
What's the matter with you?163501:33:24.960 --> 01:33:25.359
Anyway?163601:33:25.920 --> 01:33:28.800
Have you never seen a pulmoner before? Or does it163701:33:28.920 --> 01:33:31.399
upset you to see a handsome actor like Barrett Sheffield?163801:33:31.479 --> 01:33:32.039
Die? Yes?163901:33:32.640 --> 01:33:32.880
Did?164001:33:33.600 --> 01:33:33.760
Oh?164101:33:34.279 --> 01:33:37.359
Yes? We were going to be married next week.164201:33:48.560 --> 01:33:53.199
If I ever saw hate, cold, undying hate, it was164301:33:53.239 --> 01:33:55.479
in that girl's eyes as she turned and left the164401:33:55.520 --> 01:33:59.640
operating room. That day, I had made the most implacable164501:33:59.760 --> 01:34:07.039
enemy me of my life. As I come to my164601:34:07.279 --> 01:34:10.880
third check, dear Moser, it suddenly occurred to me that164701:34:11.159 --> 01:34:15.520
Judith Ainslie was the perfect subject. One day at the hospital,164801:34:15.600 --> 01:34:17.640
I inquired about miss Ainsley and learned that she had164901:34:17.680 --> 01:34:20.079
done four years of medical and was now interning at165001:34:20.159 --> 01:34:23.000
Cedars of Lebanon in hope of picking up a resident fellowship.165101:34:23.800 --> 01:34:25.520
I went down to the hospital and sat in the165201:34:25.600 --> 01:34:29.119
doctor's lounge waiting for her. Presently, she came in with165301:34:29.199 --> 01:34:32.199
another intern. I stood up. She turned and looked at me.165401:34:32.920 --> 01:34:35.600
I saw again in her eyes that inexorable hate she165501:34:35.680 --> 01:34:38.560
had never forgiven me for what she felt was my165601:34:38.760 --> 01:34:41.560
negligence in the death of the man she loved. I165701:34:41.680 --> 01:34:45.359
walked toward her. Excuse me, please, I see you remember me,165801:34:45.359 --> 01:34:45.920
miss Ainsley?165901:34:46.000 --> 01:34:47.560
Yes, will you excuse me, Miss Ainsley.166001:34:48.119 --> 01:34:49.720
You may not believe this, but I have come here166101:34:49.800 --> 01:34:50.760
especially to talk to her.166201:34:50.760 --> 01:34:52.439
Today, doctor me, Doctor Bronson.166301:34:52.640 --> 01:34:59.159
Yes, come along with me, please in this treatment room.166401:34:59.199 --> 01:35:01.479
Please we can talk privately, Doctor Bronson.166501:35:01.520 --> 01:35:03.119
I don't think there could be anything you and I166601:35:03.199 --> 01:35:04.000
can say to each other.166701:35:04.199 --> 01:35:07.560
Well, now, miss Ainsley, that all depends. That all depends.166801:35:08.079 --> 01:35:11.960
Sit down, wald um, missus Ainsley.166901:35:11.840 --> 01:35:14.399
Doctor Ainsley, if you please, oh.167001:35:14.399 --> 01:35:17.800
Yes, of course, doctor, I have a little proposition to167101:35:17.840 --> 01:35:20.560
make to you. First of all, there are two facts167201:35:20.600 --> 01:35:24.439
I'd like to be sure of a You are unable167301:35:24.479 --> 01:35:26.239
to set up your own practice because you don't have167401:35:26.319 --> 01:35:27.159
the money to get started.167501:35:27.279 --> 01:35:27.640
Is that right?167601:35:27.960 --> 01:35:30.399
I don't see what business that is of yours, but167701:35:30.520 --> 01:35:31.520
it happens to be true.167801:35:31.640 --> 01:35:35.640
Fine, fact be you still hate me and feel a167901:35:35.720 --> 01:35:37.760
strong desire to be revenged for the wrong which you168001:35:37.840 --> 01:35:38.720
consider I have done you.168101:35:39.479 --> 01:35:41.479
Yes, I'm afraid that's true, Doctor Bronson.168201:35:41.640 --> 01:35:45.760
Good, good, Yes, you see. I want to pay someone168301:35:45.800 --> 01:35:48.199
to murder me, and I think you'd enjoy it more168401:35:48.279 --> 01:35:50.439
than anyone. And you need the money too.168501:35:50.600 --> 01:35:52.640
Doctor Bronson. I'm there is it as a patient in168601:35:52.720 --> 01:35:53.239
three or two?168701:35:53.359 --> 01:35:56.560
Will you wait a moment, Doctor Ainsley, I'm perfectly serious,168801:35:57.680 --> 01:35:59.079
absolutely serious.168901:36:00.359 --> 01:36:01.039
You want to die?169001:36:01.520 --> 01:36:05.960
Yes, you see, I'm going mad. I can't face it.169101:36:06.039 --> 01:36:08.199
I wish to end my life immediately.169201:36:09.960 --> 01:36:10.560
You're smiling.169301:36:11.680 --> 01:36:12.600
Good, you're interested.169401:36:12.640 --> 01:36:14.920
Then you're going mental, doctor Persis.169501:36:14.600 --> 01:36:17.760
Yes, hopeless. I've been to five or six men about it.169601:36:17.960 --> 01:36:21.600
Are you far gone hallucinations? Illusions of grandeur?169701:36:21.920 --> 01:36:24.119
Yes, advanced stages agony.169801:36:24.319 --> 01:36:26.479
There must be quite a temptation to get it over with.169901:36:26.640 --> 01:36:28.239
I wonder what I would do if it happen to me.170001:36:28.600 --> 01:36:31.119
I want you to understand doctor, that I'm not asking170101:36:31.159 --> 01:36:34.960
you to perform a crude murder. This would look like170201:36:35.039 --> 01:36:39.039
a simple error, unavoidable. There would not be the slightest170301:36:39.119 --> 01:36:40.640
aspect of homicidal intent.170401:36:40.840 --> 01:36:43.560
Really, that's most interesting, Doctor, gone in my heart.170501:36:44.560 --> 01:36:48.239
I've had considerable damage terronary occlusion, had to spend some170601:36:48.359 --> 01:36:49.239
six weeks on my back.170701:36:49.399 --> 01:36:50.239
Just got up last week.170801:36:51.039 --> 01:36:53.039
Naturally I was given digitalis ah.170901:36:53.079 --> 01:36:55.800
I see, doctor, we've been heavily digitalized. And if someone171001:36:55.840 --> 01:36:57.920
were to give you an injection of calcium BLUECN eight171101:36:58.159 --> 01:37:00.640
you would have an immediate heart block in a few minutes.171201:37:00.760 --> 01:37:01.119
Exactly.171301:37:03.640 --> 01:37:06.800
I must compliment your doctor, Ainsley, You've learned a great deal.171401:37:07.760 --> 01:37:10.039
What a pity you can't have your own practice, And that,171501:37:10.399 --> 01:37:12.239
of course reminds.171601:37:11.880 --> 01:37:13.560
Me ah another inducement.171701:37:13.760 --> 01:37:16.319
Of course, I plan to pay you with some of171801:37:16.439 --> 01:37:19.119
five thousand dollars for your professional services in this matter.171901:37:20.039 --> 01:37:23.479
And I think, unless times have changed greatly since I've172001:37:23.720 --> 01:37:25.479
been in practice myself, you ought to be able to172101:37:25.479 --> 01:37:27.800
set up handsomely with that my own practice.172201:37:28.560 --> 01:37:29.479
We'd better be careful.172301:37:29.560 --> 01:37:29.880
Doctor.172401:37:30.000 --> 01:37:31.800
You may tept me a little bit too far.172501:37:32.600 --> 01:37:36.119
I thought you'd find it an attractive proposition. It would172601:37:36.119 --> 01:37:39.039
be only an error. I will say that I'm feeling172701:37:39.119 --> 01:37:42.880
badly again, a recurrence of my pericardial pains. I'll go172801:37:42.960 --> 01:37:44.680
back to bed and ask that you'll be assigned to172901:37:44.760 --> 01:37:47.720
my case. The rest is simple. No one would ever173001:37:47.800 --> 01:37:49.800
expect you to know that I'd been digitalized.173101:37:49.800 --> 01:37:51.920
If I were on my toes, I would naturally go173201:37:52.000 --> 01:37:54.640
over your case history before giving medication of any kind.173301:37:54.800 --> 01:37:56.560
Well, yes, I.173401:37:56.880 --> 01:38:01.319
Suppose that's true. Professional people might think you had been173501:38:01.319 --> 01:38:04.640
a little lax. Might not have the highest regard for173601:38:04.680 --> 01:38:06.720
a new doctor who launched her career with such an173701:38:06.800 --> 01:38:12.800
unprofessional incident, Just a slight stain on your reputation for173801:38:13.000 --> 01:38:13.880
just a short while.173901:38:14.319 --> 01:38:16.439
You're a very clever doctor. You knew that would do it,174001:38:16.520 --> 01:38:19.640
didn't you. I want to thank you. You've done me174101:38:19.720 --> 01:38:20.399
a great service.174201:38:20.479 --> 01:38:21.079
You mean you'll do it.174301:38:21.520 --> 01:38:25.399
You've reminded me that nothing, no money, revenge, nothing can174401:38:25.439 --> 01:38:27.279
be worth the slightest suspicion.174501:38:26.840 --> 01:38:27.760
In a doctor's career.174601:38:28.239 --> 01:38:31.399
I've worked too hard, I've waited too long for my practice.174701:38:31.920 --> 01:38:34.159
When I get it, it won't be soiled by any174801:38:34.399 --> 01:38:37.520
single act of carelessness. They don't ever say that I174901:38:37.680 --> 01:38:39.239
lost any patient because of an error.175001:38:39.319 --> 01:38:43.399
In judgment. You see, I once knew a doctor who.175101:38:43.479 --> 01:38:56.079
Did their emotion is my fourth check man, or in175201:38:56.159 --> 01:38:59.920
this case, woman refrains from killing because of the fear175301:39:00.159 --> 01:39:06.800
of loss of reputation. Now I come to the testing175401:39:06.880 --> 01:39:10.000
of my fifth subject, a man who would not murder175501:39:10.079 --> 01:39:12.640
because he couldn't bear the sight of blood, much less175601:39:12.640 --> 01:39:16.800
the responsibility for shedding it. Ladoun was my man, and175701:39:16.920 --> 01:39:20.840
I found him shortly after my search began. On that day,175801:39:21.359 --> 01:39:23.439
I saw him turn a ghastly white as a fast175901:39:23.520 --> 01:39:25.680
moving car almost ran over a small dog which run176001:39:25.720 --> 01:39:30.279
into the street. It wasn't a particularly frightening sight, but176101:39:30.439 --> 01:39:34.319
Ladoun clutched at his throat and fell in a dead faint. I,176201:39:34.439 --> 01:39:36.760
of course made it my business to become acquainted with him.176301:39:37.800 --> 01:39:41.039
I hadn't seen him for more than four months until176401:39:41.119 --> 01:39:44.520
to night. He's changed, I noticed as he took his176501:39:44.600 --> 01:39:48.760
place at my desk. He's thinner. His dark eyes seem176601:39:49.239 --> 01:39:56.920
blacker than ever. Ladourne, I want you to do me176701:39:57.000 --> 01:40:00.600
a favor. It's a little peculiar, but I'm perfect sincere176801:40:00.640 --> 01:40:01.000
about it.176901:40:01.720 --> 01:40:01.920
Well.177001:40:03.000 --> 01:40:07.119
Circumstances require that my life be ended, but I can't177101:40:07.279 --> 01:40:11.840
quite reach the point to kill myself. I've arranged everything177201:40:11.920 --> 01:40:15.119
necessary to give the appearance of a suicide. Here is177301:40:15.199 --> 01:40:18.560
the farewell note which I've written, I see. And here177401:40:18.640 --> 01:40:21.279
is the knife with which apparently I shall have killed myself.177501:40:21.960 --> 01:40:26.439
Notice I am carefully putting my fingerprints on it. Yes,177601:40:27.399 --> 01:40:29.960
here are the gloves for you to wear. And here177701:40:30.079 --> 01:40:32.159
is five thousand dollars for you if you will drive177801:40:32.239 --> 01:40:37.279
this knife into my heart. What do you say You've177901:40:37.399 --> 01:40:42.000
arranged everything, everything, No one knows I'm here, no one178001:40:42.600 --> 01:40:47.960
and you want need to kill you? I yes, of178101:40:48.079 --> 01:40:51.520
course it will be a bit messy. When a person178201:40:51.640 --> 01:40:55.760
is stabbed, his blood usually splurts out. But if you178301:40:55.920 --> 01:40:58.319
keep to one side, I don't think much will get178401:40:58.359 --> 01:41:02.239
on you. Why do you want to My doctor says178501:41:02.279 --> 01:41:06.000
that I'm going insane, but I haven't got much longer.178601:41:07.000 --> 01:41:07.760
That's strange.178701:41:08.119 --> 01:41:11.159
That's about going mad about him saying that you're going mad.178801:41:11.560 --> 01:41:13.680
Oh, yes, it was a shot.178901:41:13.760 --> 01:41:14.439
No, I don't mean that.179001:41:15.079 --> 01:41:17.279
What do you mean that's the same thing they told me.179101:41:17.560 --> 01:41:18.159
Oh that's straight.179201:41:19.319 --> 01:41:21.119
They watched They told me over a year ago that179301:41:21.199 --> 01:41:23.840
I was going mad. I only laughed at them.179401:41:23.840 --> 01:41:29.119
Over a year. Well, do you have you noticed any change?179501:41:29.239 --> 01:41:31.359
Shot much at least no change for the words.179601:41:32.199 --> 01:41:32.640
That's good.179701:41:32.680 --> 01:41:34.760
In fact, I'm really much better. I've been having fewer179801:41:34.800 --> 01:41:36.760
and fear of those sixpells. You remember how I was179901:41:37.159 --> 01:41:38.760
the day that dog was almost run over.180001:41:38.920 --> 01:41:41.000
You've gotten over those six spells.180101:41:41.000 --> 01:41:42.199
I haven't had one in three months.180201:41:42.840 --> 01:41:45.960
Then there isn't any check jack?180301:41:46.239 --> 01:41:46.680
What? Check?180401:41:47.840 --> 01:41:48.600
Nothing? Oh?180501:41:49.680 --> 01:41:52.119
Well, this is going to be a pretty massive business.180601:41:52.159 --> 01:41:55.680
You might as well get it over with nice gloves.180701:41:55.680 --> 01:41:57.760
You've got here, nice and smooth in my hand.180801:41:58.039 --> 01:41:59.880
Then you're going through with it?180901:42:00.119 --> 01:42:02.159
Yes, can't let you down. Well, never mind the knife.181001:42:02.159 --> 01:42:05.199
I've got my gun right here. Look thirty eight beauty,181101:42:05.239 --> 01:42:08.720
isn't it. Yes, But then if you will give me181201:42:08.840 --> 01:42:10.560
back the knife, no, no, I'll keep it for you.181301:42:11.159 --> 01:42:11.359
Yeah.181401:42:11.359 --> 01:42:13.199
I've used this gun of love in the past three months.181501:42:13.560 --> 01:42:15.039
I've bumped up about fifty dogs.181601:42:17.279 --> 01:42:17.760
Done what.181701:42:18.560 --> 01:42:19.279
It's very interesting.181801:42:19.359 --> 01:42:20.479
I do it after midnight.181901:42:20.960 --> 01:42:22.279
It's fun watching the dogs.182001:42:22.960 --> 01:42:24.920
You have to know just where to hit them, and182101:42:25.000 --> 01:42:28.159
he kills them instantly. But the noise in here. Aren't182201:42:28.159 --> 01:42:30.039
you afraid that somebody will be silence? Love?182301:42:30.680 --> 01:42:32.600
I don't like to wake people up when I kill them, mutch,182401:42:32.720 --> 01:42:33.760
but they'll find the bullet.182501:42:34.239 --> 01:42:36.239
They'll trace your gun. They're sure to get you in182601:42:36.319 --> 01:42:38.439
a suicide. The weapon says, right beside the body where182701:42:38.479 --> 01:42:38.920
it falls.182801:42:39.079 --> 01:42:39.520
Suicide.182901:42:39.560 --> 01:42:40.680
Who says this is suicide?183001:42:40.760 --> 01:42:41.279
It's murder.183101:42:41.479 --> 01:42:42.359
I'm going to murder you.183201:42:42.800 --> 01:42:43.720
That's what you asked me to do.183301:42:43.920 --> 01:42:47.520
Look here, Ladurn, this has gone far enough. I was183401:42:47.640 --> 01:42:51.680
only joking. I don't want you to kill me five thousand.183501:42:52.039 --> 01:42:53.039
Oh yeah, listen to me.183601:42:53.079 --> 01:42:56.119
I was only joking. Ready, No, wait, you want it183701:42:56.159 --> 01:42:58.199
through the heart of brain? Can't you wait just a183801:42:58.239 --> 01:42:58.680
little while?183901:42:58.800 --> 01:42:58.960
Wait?184001:42:59.039 --> 01:42:59.279
What for?184101:43:01.039 --> 01:43:07.399
Well, I've been conducting a little experiment. I'd like to184201:43:07.439 --> 01:43:10.279
write an account of it before I go. What sort184301:43:10.279 --> 01:43:15.600
of an experiment? I don't think you would understand. Oh okay,184401:43:15.800 --> 01:43:19.760
I wait till midnight. Then I've got to go. There's184501:43:19.800 --> 01:43:20.680
a German police dog.184601:43:20.720 --> 01:43:23.840
I've been wanting to get a big, ugly brute kindly fun.184701:43:24.479 --> 01:43:26.760
Yes, I wait, thank you.184801:43:28.159 --> 01:43:32.520
The clock says ten minutes past eleven. Yes, you've got184901:43:32.600 --> 01:43:33.239
fifty minutes.185001:43:33.800 --> 01:43:35.279
I'll wait by the window.185101:43:44.079 --> 01:43:49.279
And so motion. My experiment has ended as you predicted.185201:43:49.399 --> 01:43:53.159
I have finally placed myself in a position beyond your power.185301:43:53.239 --> 01:44:00.960
Too strange, isn't it? But the one I didn't count185401:44:01.039 --> 01:44:03.079
on was the choosing of a subject who would not185501:44:03.239 --> 01:44:06.840
respond to my checks, who in fact had no checks185601:44:06.880 --> 01:44:11.720
at all. For insanity. It knows no restraints.185701:44:12.439 --> 01:44:12.880
Midnight.185801:44:13.600 --> 01:44:17.720
Oh yes, Adoon, I'm hurrying. He is still at the window,185901:44:18.439 --> 01:44:21.439
and he is sure to shoot me. There is nothing186001:44:21.520 --> 01:44:23.279
I can do to say or stop him.186101:44:24.680 --> 01:44:25.199
I know that.186201:44:27.119 --> 01:44:31.359
I'm beginning to understand exactly what is going on in186301:44:31.479 --> 01:44:39.760
his twisted mind. I wonder why. Now I shall sign186401:44:39.880 --> 01:44:43.239
my name for the last time and lay down my pen.186501:44:44.279 --> 01:44:47.079
Then I shall look up and say all right.186601:44:47.000 --> 01:44:47.680
For don.186701:44:52.119 --> 01:44:53.279
All right, ladon.186801:45:22.520 --> 01:45:25.920
And so closes the last letter of Doctor Bronson Tonight's186901:45:26.000 --> 01:45:30.760
Tale of Suspense. In our Hollywood cast to Night, Laird187001:45:30.840 --> 01:45:35.359
Gregar played Doctor Bronson, Walter Kingsford played Doctor Moser, Ian187101:45:35.439 --> 01:45:39.560
Wolfe was mister Totten, Harold Huber played Doyle, Helen Vinson187201:45:39.640 --> 01:45:43.840
was Nursingeley, and George Coloris played Laderne. The producer of187301:45:43.880 --> 01:45:46.640
these broadcasts, William Spear, who with Robert Lewis che On,187401:45:46.720 --> 01:45:50.760
guest director Richard Paulette Craik, author Blud Gluskin, and Lucian187501:45:50.800 --> 01:45:54.159
Merrowick conductor and composer, collaborated on tonight's suspense.187601:45:56.439 --> 01:45:58.439
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.187701:46:12.439 --> 01:46:23.399
Sometimes I wonder so deeply, almost like wading into cool water.187801:46:25.399 --> 01:46:29.800
I wonder do I want to be a hero? Do187901:46:29.960 --> 01:46:35.119
I want to be brilliant? Do I want to burn bright?188001:46:35.439 --> 01:46:43.880
Or smolder darkly? But as is often the case with life,188101:46:45.319 --> 01:46:52.359
you never really get to choose. I became very quickly188201:46:54.199 --> 01:46:56.239
a man who waited.188301:47:00.159 --> 01:47:03.359
Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler?188401:47:22.039 --> 01:47:23.279
I'm the whistler.188501:47:27.079 --> 01:47:28.920
I didn't ask you to marry me. You asked me,188601:47:29.760 --> 01:47:31.079
and you said you were going to get a job188701:47:31.119 --> 01:47:33.560
so you wouldn't be dependent on your mother. I was188801:47:33.640 --> 01:47:35.920
happy then, Barry, I'm proud of you.188901:47:40.039 --> 01:47:43.920
Another Saturday Night, and again CBS presents the Whistler.189001:47:49.960 --> 01:47:53.800
I the whistler know many things, for I walk by night.189101:47:54.760 --> 01:47:58.359
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the189201:47:58.439 --> 01:48:02.159
hearts of men and women stepped into the shadows. And189301:48:02.319 --> 01:48:05.720
so I tell you tonight the weird story of the189401:48:05.840 --> 01:48:10.920
man who waited. A huge estate spreads out before you,189501:48:11.159 --> 01:48:14.239
the ancestral home of the Bartlets, set amid the peaceful189601:48:14.279 --> 01:48:18.119
New England countryside. The war has not yet come. It189701:48:18.279 --> 01:48:22.159
is nineteen thirty seven. The estate is ruled by Lydia Bartlet,189801:48:22.359 --> 01:48:26.439
a cold, cantankerous woman ill with heart trouble. Into this189901:48:26.600 --> 01:48:30.199
unhappy setting has come young Genevieve Garrison to act as190001:48:30.239 --> 01:48:34.720
secretary companion to bedridden old Lydia Bartlet. Lydia has but190101:48:34.840 --> 01:48:38.600
one child, a son, Barry, recently returned from a tour190201:48:38.680 --> 01:48:42.079
of Europe. The handsome young Barry is immediately attracted to190301:48:42.119 --> 01:48:45.039
lovely Genevieve, and, after a month has passed.190401:48:46.039 --> 01:48:47.520
Jenevie, where are you up here?190501:48:50.119 --> 01:48:50.279
Oh?190601:48:50.800 --> 01:48:53.359
I've been looking all over for you? So this is190701:48:53.399 --> 01:48:54.119
your hiding place.190801:48:54.239 --> 01:48:56.800
No one ever comes up here except the birds.190901:48:57.000 --> 01:48:58.640
It's fidy windy up here in the tower.191001:48:59.039 --> 01:49:01.000
I love it. It sings to me.191101:49:02.960 --> 01:49:05.000
You're a strange girl, you know.191201:49:05.199 --> 01:49:08.079
I think you're part of this wilderness, some wild thing191301:49:08.239 --> 01:49:12.319
that shows itself for an instant and then disappears. That's191401:49:12.319 --> 01:49:16.680
your charm for me, Genety, that that unattainable wildness.191501:49:16.199 --> 01:49:19.000
That laws please Berry.191601:49:20.199 --> 01:49:22.000
Oh, I know mother'd have a fit if she knew191701:49:22.039 --> 01:49:22.800
I were in love with you.191801:49:23.319 --> 01:49:26.880
And you must be sensible, Berry. After all, she controls191901:49:26.920 --> 01:49:29.239
the estate and you would have nothing if you were192001:49:29.319 --> 01:49:30.000
to make her angry.192101:49:31.359 --> 01:49:33.760
Your eyes were almost black when I see them so close.192201:49:35.640 --> 01:49:40.560
You frightened, Genevieve, No, that is your heart's beating, so faine,192301:49:40.560 --> 01:49:40.760
I know.192401:49:42.359 --> 01:49:45.880
Let me go, Berry. Are you frightened or is it? Yeah?192501:49:46.760 --> 01:49:47.560
I am frightened.192601:49:48.279 --> 01:49:51.359
Would you marry me, darling Perry? I mean, would you192701:49:51.439 --> 01:49:53.000
marry me if I were able?192801:49:53.279 --> 01:49:57.039
Yes, Barry, Yes, you know that I'll have to.192901:49:57.039 --> 01:49:59.680
Find some sort of a job if we marry. Mother193001:49:59.720 --> 01:50:02.000
would cut me off in a minute. You know how193101:50:02.079 --> 01:50:03.159
she feels about marriage.193201:50:03.279 --> 01:50:07.119
Yes, we'd best forget about it, Barry. I wouldn't want193301:50:07.119 --> 01:50:09.840
to cause any trouble between you and your mother. You193401:50:09.960 --> 01:50:10.600
better go now.193501:50:11.239 --> 01:50:16.920
Oh you're too lovely for words, Jennevie very, I love you, darling.193601:50:27.039 --> 01:50:31.319
And so three months passed by. Then one day Genevieve193701:50:31.439 --> 01:50:33.199
steps into Lyda Bartlet's bedroom.193801:50:33.760 --> 01:50:35.079
Did you call me missus Boston?193901:50:35.199 --> 01:50:35.880
I certainly did.194001:50:35.960 --> 01:50:36.560
Where have you been?194101:50:37.119 --> 01:50:39.720
Put the pillow behind my back and lift my head194201:50:39.760 --> 01:50:40.319
a little more?194301:50:40.840 --> 01:50:43.199
There is that better now?194401:50:43.479 --> 01:50:46.079
Yes, yes, it'll do. I want to talk to you.194501:50:46.439 --> 01:50:48.199
What about about Annie the maid?194601:50:48.600 --> 01:50:48.760
Oh?194701:50:49.199 --> 01:50:51.760
Has that young stable boy been visiting Annie again?194801:50:52.159 --> 01:50:52.359
Well?194901:50:52.640 --> 01:50:54.359
I think she sees him on her days off.195001:50:54.560 --> 01:50:56.680
Well, I wanted understood once and for all that I'll195101:50:56.760 --> 01:50:59.079
not tolerate any such nonsense under my roof.195201:50:59.239 --> 01:50:59.800
It must stop.195301:51:00.079 --> 01:51:02.359
But I think Annie would leave if you forbid her195401:51:02.359 --> 01:51:05.039
to see the boy. She's really very much in love195501:51:05.119 --> 01:51:05.399
with him.195601:51:05.520 --> 01:51:07.840
Love bosh, silly nonsense.195701:51:07.960 --> 01:51:10.880
Missus Bartler. You loved your husband, didn't you.195801:51:11.520 --> 01:51:14.399
My marriage was arranged by my parents. It only lasted195901:51:14.399 --> 01:51:16.760
a short while because he died, but there was a196001:51:16.920 --> 01:51:18.159
nightmare while it did last.196101:51:18.399 --> 01:51:19.960
Love. Huh, there's no such thing.196201:51:20.239 --> 01:51:21.319
I'm sorry I mentioned it.196301:51:21.920 --> 01:51:23.760
And there's something else I want to talk to you about.196401:51:24.000 --> 01:51:25.439
Yes, what is it?196501:51:25.920 --> 01:51:28.720
What's wrong with you lately? You don't look well? You196601:51:28.840 --> 01:51:31.520
better see doctor Anstead. I have seen him, and what196701:51:31.640 --> 01:51:32.079
did he say?196801:51:32.359 --> 01:51:37.119
Nothing serious? It's well a slight heart murmur. He gave196901:51:37.159 --> 01:51:38.760
me some medicine. I'll be all right.197001:51:39.039 --> 01:51:40.600
Rather take care of yourself, I will.197101:51:41.439 --> 01:51:44.560
Where's the newspaper here? Anything in it we did to me?197201:51:45.279 --> 01:51:49.680
Well, there's a tea a charity affair, with the proceeds197301:51:49.760 --> 01:51:51.239
going to the baby's shelter.197401:51:51.439 --> 01:51:53.960
Baby shelter. Women are fools.197501:51:54.640 --> 01:51:57.399
Well, go on, go on for else are a number197601:51:57.439 --> 01:52:00.960
of engagements and several wedding and thennouncements, and.197701:52:02.520 --> 01:52:04.039
What's the matter I did?197801:52:04.119 --> 01:52:09.800
It's it's something something about your son, Barry.197901:52:11.159 --> 01:52:12.239
What do you mean? Read it?198001:52:12.760 --> 01:52:20.520
Seeing frequently together on Miss Joan Marvel and mister Barry Bartlett,198101:52:20.640 --> 01:52:24.880
son of Lydia Bartlett, an early announcement has anticipated.198201:52:25.399 --> 01:52:26.399
He's out of his mind.198301:52:26.840 --> 01:52:28.960
Oh, Darry, do such a thing. I won't have it.198401:52:29.279 --> 01:52:33.000
I won't, missus Barnett, I just oh.198501:52:34.159 --> 01:52:37.279
Annie, Annie, come here at once, Miss Garrison are painted?198601:52:47.359 --> 01:52:47.960
How are you feeling?198701:52:48.000 --> 01:52:48.239
General?198801:52:48.399 --> 01:52:50.600
Mother said you've been ill, that you had some sort198901:52:50.640 --> 01:52:51.159
of an attack.199001:52:51.399 --> 01:52:55.000
It wasn't anything. I had, rather a shock. My heart199101:52:55.079 --> 01:52:58.199
isn't too good. I was reading the paper to your199201:52:58.279 --> 01:53:00.920
mother and I noticed your name couple with that of199301:53:01.039 --> 01:53:02.439
a Miss Marvelle.199401:53:02.680 --> 01:53:04.439
Oh it was silly of me.199501:53:04.520 --> 01:53:07.079
To give way, because I know it can't mean anything.199601:53:07.720 --> 01:53:11.760
Now, Jenney, I think i'd better come right out with it.199701:53:11.960 --> 01:53:15.640
You mean it, it's true, Oh Barry, How could you?199801:53:15.800 --> 01:53:17.680
I've been trying to get up here to discuss it199901:53:17.760 --> 01:53:21.239
with you. You know that such an arrangement as ours200001:53:21.399 --> 01:53:23.319
is no good. Why if mother ever found out we200101:53:23.399 --> 01:53:27.560
were married, we'd be sunk. It's very unfair it's.200201:53:27.560 --> 01:53:30.119
Just as unfair to me. I didn't ask you to200301:53:30.159 --> 01:53:32.720
marry me. I was content the way things were. But200401:53:32.840 --> 01:53:34.479
when you asked me to be your wife, you said200501:53:34.479 --> 01:53:35.920
you were going to get a job so you wouldn't200601:53:35.920 --> 01:53:36.880
be dependent on your mother.200701:53:37.640 --> 01:53:39.439
I was so happy and so proud of you, and200801:53:39.560 --> 01:53:42.119
I tried to get a job. But it's terribly awkward200901:53:42.159 --> 01:53:44.079
trying to find something to do when you're not accustomed201001:53:44.119 --> 01:53:45.960
to it. And you can't ask a man of my201101:53:46.039 --> 01:53:48.159
position to go out and become a garage mechanic or201201:53:48.199 --> 01:53:48.680
something like that.201301:53:48.960 --> 01:53:51.960
It's nothing dishonorable and becoming a garage mechanic.201401:53:51.800 --> 01:53:52.800
Or don't talk nonsense.201501:53:53.760 --> 01:53:57.279
Naturally, I can't tell my friends my reason that I201601:53:57.439 --> 01:54:02.279
married naturally. I met Joan some time ago. I was201701:54:02.359 --> 01:54:05.520
up at King's College with her brother Ned. She's grown201801:54:05.600 --> 01:54:06.680
up to be most.201901:54:06.479 --> 01:54:08.960
Attractive, more attractive than I am. I wouldn't say that.202001:54:10.520 --> 01:54:13.640
It would be a very suitable marriage. The Marvells have202101:54:13.800 --> 01:54:15.319
pots of money, and the old man would give me202201:54:15.359 --> 01:54:18.680
a place in his business. Oh, naturally, I plan to202301:54:18.760 --> 01:54:20.960
take care of you, make you a suitable allowance and202401:54:21.000 --> 01:54:24.199
that sort of thing. If you divorce me. As a202501:54:24.279 --> 01:54:26.600
matter of fact, Joan knows all about you and has202601:54:26.680 --> 01:54:29.520
consented to marry me if if I can get a divorce.202701:54:29.760 --> 01:54:33.000
She knows about your being married to me, but there's202801:54:33.039 --> 01:54:34.000
something else she can't know.202901:54:34.159 --> 01:54:37.640
Berry, Well, what are you talking about?203001:54:38.239 --> 01:54:39.319
I'm going to have a child.203101:54:40.319 --> 01:54:46.640
You're a child, a child who knows about it.203201:54:46.880 --> 01:54:49.560
Doctor Ansteth. I went to see him and he told203301:54:49.560 --> 01:54:51.319
me what was wrong with anst.203401:54:51.039 --> 01:54:55.359
It's a good sport. I won't talk anybody else.203501:54:55.800 --> 01:54:58.880
I've told no one else, but I think Annie suspects203601:55:00.239 --> 01:55:00.960
it doesn't get to mother.203701:55:01.520 --> 01:55:02.079
But you can.203801:55:02.079 --> 01:55:04.479
Understand now why I can't divorce you.203901:55:04.640 --> 01:55:06.359
I can understand why you think so, But I still204001:55:06.399 --> 01:55:09.439
think it's a shame. Why do these things have to204101:55:09.560 --> 01:55:10.039
happen to me?204201:55:15.520 --> 01:55:17.680
You know why these things have to happen to you?204301:55:18.079 --> 01:55:19.600
Barry with yours.204401:55:19.600 --> 01:55:23.000
There's no great tragedy, though you think yourself so ill used.204501:55:23.920 --> 01:55:26.520
The harm that has done is not to yourself but204601:55:26.640 --> 01:55:29.640
to the woman who loves you so dearly. And can204701:55:29.680 --> 01:55:31.439
you be sure she won't tell your mother?204801:55:33.199 --> 01:55:34.439
Is there anything else you want?204901:55:34.520 --> 01:55:35.279
Missus Bartlett?205001:55:35.399 --> 01:55:35.560
Yes?205101:55:35.640 --> 01:55:38.840
Any You're not to let that Joe Moberley into the kitchen.205201:55:39.239 --> 01:55:41.399
Is that clear? I'll not have that sort of thing205301:55:41.479 --> 01:55:42.479
going on in my house.205401:55:42.760 --> 01:55:44.880
I'm not seeing Joe in the house, and when I205501:55:44.960 --> 01:55:48.000
see him, I see him open and honest about prospectable people.205601:55:49.000 --> 01:55:50.840
I'm not the only person in this house. It is205701:55:50.880 --> 01:55:51.880
a gentleman for another.205801:55:52.439 --> 01:55:55.239
Well, I'd like to know who that person is.205901:55:55.439 --> 01:55:57.479
I'm not saying anything against anybody.206001:55:57.920 --> 01:56:00.640
Only if I can't see my Joe that keeps his206101:56:00.760 --> 01:56:03.640
distance and knows his place, why should anybody.206201:56:03.319 --> 01:56:05.159
Else be alowed to have a man in the house.206301:56:05.479 --> 01:56:15.279
Ask miss Garrison to come up here at once, and206401:56:15.439 --> 01:56:17.279
he said, you wish to speak to me, missus Bartland.206501:56:17.319 --> 01:56:19.520
So I do, so, I'll come right to the point.206601:56:20.399 --> 01:56:22.239
What's going on behind my back?206701:56:22.439 --> 01:56:24.319
Behind your back? I don't know what you mean?206801:56:24.359 --> 01:56:25.079
Oh, yes you do.206901:56:25.439 --> 01:56:27.199
You lie very badly out with it.207001:56:28.199 --> 01:56:32.359
I don't understand. Did any say anything about me?207101:56:32.680 --> 01:56:34.960
I was berating Annie for seeing that Joe, and she207201:56:35.079 --> 01:56:37.359
tossed her hid and said she wasn't the only person207301:56:37.439 --> 01:56:41.159
hereabouts who had a gentleman friend. Only her gentleman friend207401:56:41.560 --> 01:56:45.880
called on her open and honest. Well, is there anything207501:56:45.920 --> 01:56:46.800
to what she says?207601:56:47.039 --> 01:56:49.880
Yes, I have a gentleman friend. As Annie puts it,207701:56:49.960 --> 01:56:51.880
so elegantly. I have more than that.207801:56:52.520 --> 01:56:55.840
I have a husband, a husband, your son, very very207901:56:56.800 --> 01:56:59.319
very you're lying, You're lying.208001:56:59.359 --> 01:56:59.960
You wouldn't dare.208101:57:00.399 --> 01:57:01.439
He knows what he means to me.208201:57:01.560 --> 01:57:02.479
He couldn't do this to me.208301:57:02.720 --> 01:57:03.479
It seems he did.208401:57:03.399 --> 01:57:05.640
Missus, Barkley, and you'd tricked him into it. Course you208501:57:05.680 --> 01:57:07.760
would say that, but I did nothing of the sort.208601:57:08.319 --> 01:57:08.960
I loved him.208701:57:09.359 --> 01:57:10.880
He asked me to marry him so he might free208801:57:10.960 --> 01:57:11.720
himself of your.208901:57:11.600 --> 01:57:12.159
Hold on him.209001:57:12.239 --> 01:57:12.840
Barry did that.209101:57:13.439 --> 01:57:14.279
I'll not believe it.209201:57:14.359 --> 01:57:15.359
Of course you won't believe it.209301:57:15.840 --> 01:57:17.239
You don't know the meaning of love.209401:57:17.359 --> 01:57:18.319
What a way to talk to me.209501:57:18.640 --> 01:57:20.279
I'll not tolerate it another moment.209601:57:20.359 --> 01:57:22.880
You'll have to tolerate it, because there's no way of209701:57:22.920 --> 01:57:26.359
your stopping me. I learned something else from Barry. He209801:57:26.479 --> 01:57:28.520
has one side to his nature, which he takes from you.209901:57:29.039 --> 01:57:30.039
What do you mean?210001:57:30.439 --> 01:57:32.960
I married him because he wished it. He was going210101:57:33.039 --> 01:57:35.079
to find a way that we might live together openly.210201:57:35.600 --> 01:57:37.680
But Barry found he couldn't do what he said he210301:57:37.720 --> 01:57:40.960
would do. He found an easier way to live through210401:57:41.000 --> 01:57:43.359
another woman who could keep him in the style to210501:57:43.399 --> 01:57:46.319
which you had accustomed him. So he told me this,210601:57:47.199 --> 01:57:51.159
expecting I would forego my claim to him, divorce him.210701:57:51.560 --> 01:57:54.279
I would have released him, but there was another whose210801:57:54.319 --> 01:58:00.600
claim was greater than mine. His child disgraceful and Harry Ruth.210901:58:01.199 --> 01:58:04.319
I kind of join more this and call my lawyer211001:58:05.039 --> 01:58:05.840
and come.211101:58:05.800 --> 01:58:07.079
Him off and understand.211201:58:10.279 --> 01:58:12.600
My nice.211301:58:14.079 --> 01:58:20.680
Oh what's the ever.211401:58:20.600 --> 01:58:21.800
Miss Garrison coming in?211501:58:22.880 --> 01:58:25.520
Oh it's a missus. It's never attack.211601:58:25.880 --> 01:58:27.319
I'll call doctor Ansey.211701:58:27.520 --> 01:58:31.479
You can call him Anny. But Missus Bartlett is dead.211801:58:36.399 --> 01:58:39.800
And now Barry will be free from his mother's apron strings,211901:58:40.279 --> 01:58:43.560
free from financial worry. He will inherit the estate to212001:58:43.640 --> 01:58:47.119
do with as he pleases. But still he hasn't everything.212101:58:47.840 --> 01:58:49.560
Joan is forever on his mind.212201:58:51.399 --> 01:58:52.439
I had to talk with you, Joan.212301:58:52.479 --> 01:58:54.279
It has been ages since I've had a moment along212401:58:54.319 --> 01:58:54.520
with you.212501:58:54.800 --> 01:58:57.319
I'm sorry, Berry, but I didn't think it best.212601:58:58.560 --> 01:59:01.000
I've got the talk things over which when we plan.212701:59:00.960 --> 01:59:02.600
To marry before and you told me how you've been212801:59:02.680 --> 01:59:05.600
tricked into marriage by that woman. I was willing to212901:59:05.640 --> 01:59:07.199
overlook it if you could get a divorce from her.213001:59:07.279 --> 01:59:08.920
Now that's the devil of it. She won't divorce me.213101:59:09.039 --> 01:59:14.479
Now there's going to be a child. Oh where is213201:59:14.560 --> 01:59:16.560
she in the nursing home. She's been ill ever since213301:59:16.600 --> 01:59:19.239
mother died. For a while they thought she might die too,213401:59:19.319 --> 01:59:20.359
but she pulled out of it.213501:59:20.680 --> 01:59:23.840
Oh, I know she must have well led you on.213601:59:24.119 --> 01:59:26.920
But you're so attractive, and she must have been really213701:59:27.000 --> 01:59:27.439
fond of you.213801:59:27.520 --> 01:59:29.239
And I don't love her, dear id love you.213901:59:29.439 --> 01:59:31.159
Can't you understand it. I can't give you up.214001:59:31.199 --> 01:59:34.239
I won't, very darling, I love you too, but this214101:59:34.399 --> 01:59:35.960
isn't the thing we can decide in a moment.214201:59:36.399 --> 01:59:40.199
You must be patient, patient, patient. You sit there close214301:59:40.239 --> 01:59:43.880
to me and you ask me to be patient. I214401:59:44.039 --> 01:59:47.000
will for a while, but only for a while.214501:59:51.600 --> 01:59:54.560
Genevieve, lying in her narrow bed in the nursing home,214601:59:54.720 --> 01:59:57.640
is trying to be patient too, trying to forget the214701:59:57.760 --> 02:00:00.479
pain which wrecks her to the core, try to keep214802:00:00.520 --> 02:00:03.520
from calling for the husband who wasn't there. She had214902:00:03.600 --> 02:00:05.680
hoped that the birth of their son would bring him215002:00:05.720 --> 02:00:09.199
back to her. Then one evening the door opened.215102:00:11.079 --> 02:00:11.960
Is that you, nurse?215202:00:12.359 --> 02:00:15.600
No, it's Barry, They said, I might see you.215302:00:15.640 --> 02:00:18.640
Now, very Oh, why haven't you come before?215402:00:19.239 --> 02:00:22.479
I've wanted you so And I don't go on like that.215502:00:23.199 --> 02:00:25.199
I've had quite a lot of business connected with the estate,215602:00:25.239 --> 02:00:26.920
which took me away for a bit. They sent me215702:00:26.960 --> 02:00:28.439
a while about the baby, and I came as quickly215802:00:28.439 --> 02:00:28.880
as I could.215902:00:29.399 --> 02:00:30.119
Have you seen him?216002:00:30.680 --> 02:00:35.800
Yes, from little Dickens. Babies all look alike. Well, you'll216102:00:35.840 --> 02:00:38.039
be as fit as a fiddle before long. And after216202:00:38.159 --> 02:00:40.720
you get out of here, there's some things that must216302:00:40.760 --> 02:00:41.399
be straightened out.216402:00:42.039 --> 02:00:43.239
What things straightened out?216502:00:43.880 --> 02:00:45.760
I don't understand all things. Things.216602:00:45.840 --> 02:00:48.119
I'll see about a house for you and the baby, and.216702:00:48.319 --> 02:00:49.079
For me and the baby.216802:00:49.840 --> 02:00:50.399
What about you?216902:00:51.439 --> 02:00:52.439
Aren't you going to live with us?217002:00:52.479 --> 02:00:53.000
Berry? No?217102:00:53.199 --> 02:00:56.880
You see I erry that girl. Are you still in217202:00:56.960 --> 02:00:57.399
love with her?217302:00:57.720 --> 02:00:59.760
Well, yes I am.217402:01:00.359 --> 02:01:02.359
I thought when the baby came it would be different.217502:01:03.600 --> 02:01:06.000
It's not. Well, let me tell you something.217602:01:06.520 --> 02:01:09.439
Sit down. You'll have to keep her waiting a while longer.217702:01:10.640 --> 02:01:11.039
They thought.217802:01:11.079 --> 02:01:13.560
I didn't hear them because I was being put under217902:01:13.560 --> 02:01:18.600
the anesthetic. But I wasn't quite quite out. The doctor218002:01:18.680 --> 02:01:22.479
said she may last for years, but I lay you218102:01:22.560 --> 02:01:24.239
ten to one. She's dead in three months.218202:01:25.439 --> 02:01:28.479
Oh come now, you may have imagined it.218302:01:28.600 --> 02:01:31.279
I didn't imagine it. You know what that means to me?218402:01:32.239 --> 02:01:35.039
Three months to live. You can see how important it218502:01:35.159 --> 02:01:36.760
is that those three months should be spent with you.218602:01:37.079 --> 02:01:38.560
The doctor didn't say a word to me about your218702:01:38.600 --> 02:01:39.720
being in such a serious condition.218802:01:40.079 --> 02:01:40.760
I heard him.218902:01:42.079 --> 02:01:45.000
I see, and you don't want to give me a divorce.219002:01:45.960 --> 02:01:46.640
You want me to wait?219102:01:46.720 --> 02:01:47.720
Is that it? Yes?219202:01:48.000 --> 02:01:49.159
Very please?219302:01:50.520 --> 02:01:52.800
First it was my mother and now you.219402:01:53.199 --> 02:01:53.520
Very.219502:01:55.039 --> 02:01:58.239
There's something I feel I must tell you something of219602:01:58.880 --> 02:01:59.560
about your mother.219702:01:59.640 --> 02:02:00.159
You don't know.219802:02:01.359 --> 02:02:02.039
But what do you mean?219902:02:02.279 --> 02:02:04.159
The doctor said she died of a heart attack, and220002:02:04.279 --> 02:02:07.199
she did, but she wouldn't have died if I'd given220102:02:07.199 --> 02:02:10.159
her the medicine for it. She'd found out from Annie220202:02:10.199 --> 02:02:12.760
that I'd been seeing some man, and when she asked.220302:02:12.520 --> 02:02:17.079
Me who it was, I told her everything you did.220402:02:17.359 --> 02:02:19.279
She went into a tantrum and stormed at me. She220502:02:19.319 --> 02:02:23.039
had an attack, and I stood behind watched what to220602:02:23.159 --> 02:02:26.199
gasp for breath and call for help that never came.220702:02:27.199 --> 02:02:29.920
I did that for you, for you, Barry.220802:02:31.199 --> 02:02:34.199
Did you expect me to to go on with you?220902:02:34.600 --> 02:02:36.800
I'd expect you to stay with me and our son221002:02:36.960 --> 02:02:40.560
during the last remaining months of my life. And if221102:02:40.560 --> 02:02:42.800
you try to leave me or seek to have me221202:02:42.840 --> 02:02:45.439
put away because of what I've done, I'll bring you221302:02:45.600 --> 02:02:50.199
into it. I'll swear it was your idea. That you're221402:02:50.239 --> 02:02:51.039
an accessory.221502:02:57.439 --> 02:03:03.520
The months go by, one, two, three, and Genevieve, remembering221602:03:03.600 --> 02:03:06.199
the conversation which she had overheard between the doctor and221702:03:06.239 --> 02:03:09.960
the nurse, cannot believe it when she finds herself unmistakably221802:03:10.039 --> 02:03:11.119
improving in health.221902:03:12.600 --> 02:03:15.239
Well, Genevieve, you'd had a rather severe time of it222002:03:15.319 --> 02:03:18.800
before the baby came, and you were quite rundown. But222102:03:18.920 --> 02:03:21.840
you've done very well. You must watch you heart, though,222202:03:22.800 --> 02:03:25.520
avoid any strenuous activity, and keep his calm.222302:03:25.279 --> 02:03:25.560
As f.222402:03:30.920 --> 02:03:33.960
Barry has solemnly accepted the conditions which have been forced222502:03:34.000 --> 02:03:36.920
on him, but the knowledge that Genevieve was responsible for222602:03:37.000 --> 02:03:40.000
his mother's death, as well as for his enforced separation222702:03:40.119 --> 02:03:42.880
from the girl he loves, makes him sullen and bitter.222802:03:43.720 --> 02:03:46.760
There's no happiness for either of them in this unnatural arrangement,222902:03:47.319 --> 02:03:50.159
but Genevieve holds him with her constant threat.223002:03:54.000 --> 02:03:56.359
Did you ring for me, missus Bradley when you ask223102:03:56.439 --> 02:03:58.359
cook to make me a fresh part of coffee? Annie,223202:03:58.800 --> 02:03:59.800
this tastes very bitter.223302:04:00.039 --> 02:04:01.760
Ask them that Cook won't like it.223402:04:02.359 --> 02:04:04.920
Well, I can't drink this. It tastes bitter as strip.223502:04:06.640 --> 02:04:13.520
Never mind, don't take it back, leave it? Yes, ah,223602:04:14.439 --> 02:04:16.399
but I could have sworn it tasted bitter.223702:04:16.880 --> 02:04:19.159
I I couldn't.223802:04:20.479 --> 02:04:25.119
Oh, good morning, Berry, good morning. I'd offer you some coffee,223902:04:25.720 --> 02:04:26.840
but it's not so very good.224002:04:27.000 --> 02:04:28.479
Oh thanks, I'll just have a look at the paper.224102:04:28.479 --> 02:04:29.439
I have coffee in my room.224202:04:29.560 --> 02:04:31.680
Oh since when do you do that?224302:04:32.920 --> 02:04:32.960
What?224402:04:33.960 --> 02:04:36.640
Since when do I do one have coffee in your room?224502:04:37.439 --> 02:04:38.239
I did this morning?224602:04:38.840 --> 02:04:40.439
Was it the same part?224702:04:40.640 --> 02:04:41.319
Well, it might have been.224802:04:41.359 --> 02:04:41.720
I don't know.224902:04:41.760 --> 02:04:43.640
I never noticed. Why did you notice?225002:04:43.680 --> 02:04:45.159
It was quite bitter?225102:04:45.720 --> 02:04:48.159
I can't say that I did. Might have been standing225202:04:48.199 --> 02:04:50.640
too long. The cook should have sent you some fresh coffee.225302:04:50.680 --> 02:04:51.479
Get after her about it.225402:04:52.000 --> 02:04:55.800
Yes, it might have been standing too long.225502:05:00.319 --> 02:05:02.880
It might have been standing too long, But you don't225602:05:02.920 --> 02:05:06.079
think so to you, Genevieve, Not when you know how225702:05:06.159 --> 02:05:10.319
your husband resents, bitterly resents his enforced stay at your side,225802:05:11.039 --> 02:05:13.840
how he wishes the doctor's prognosis of your case has225902:05:13.880 --> 02:05:17.600
been fulfilled. If only there was some way to break226002:05:17.720 --> 02:05:21.159
up this infatuation with John before it's too late.226102:05:22.119 --> 02:05:25.560
Why not call John talk to her yourself.226202:05:27.159 --> 02:05:29.520
Miss Jian Maulville, Man, how do you do?226302:05:29.640 --> 02:05:30.319
Miss Marvelle?226402:05:30.800 --> 02:05:31.039
Come in?226502:05:31.199 --> 02:05:31.960
Please? Thank you?226602:05:32.479 --> 02:05:37.359
That will be all Annie. I suppose you're wondering why226702:05:37.439 --> 02:05:40.119
I said for you. Yes, I was a bit surprised,226802:05:40.159 --> 02:05:42.319
to say the least. I want to talk to you226902:05:42.359 --> 02:05:46.640
about Barry. There is my husband, we have a child.227002:05:46.720 --> 02:05:49.439
As you know, this is his home and I've done227102:05:49.479 --> 02:05:52.920
everything possible to keep him here where he belongs. But227202:05:53.119 --> 02:05:56.119
so long as you continue to see him, it will227302:05:56.159 --> 02:05:59.199
be more difficult for him to make a decision. What227402:05:59.399 --> 02:06:02.600
makes you think I've been seeing him. I can tell227502:06:02.640 --> 02:06:05.439
by the way he acts he thinks he's in love227602:06:05.479 --> 02:06:08.800
with you, and he will continue to think so until227702:06:08.840 --> 02:06:13.199
you make a definite break. Well, Missus Bartlett, I've not227802:06:13.319 --> 02:06:15.680
been seeing Berry. He's tried to reach me many times,227902:06:15.760 --> 02:06:16.960
but I've purposely avoided him.228002:06:17.000 --> 02:06:17.479
Are you sure?228102:06:17.840 --> 02:06:18.039
Yes?228202:06:18.600 --> 02:06:21.279
Because I'm going to be married to someone else, so228302:06:21.399 --> 02:06:24.960
you have nothing further to worry about. Does Perry know this, then?228402:06:25.000 --> 02:06:27.199
Why haven't you told him? I intend to tell him today.228502:06:27.399 --> 02:06:32.399
I wish you would. He's been well, been acting strangely228602:06:32.479 --> 02:06:36.319
of late, and I'd feel ever so much easier about228702:06:36.359 --> 02:06:39.000
things if you let him know the truth. I understand,228802:06:39.039 --> 02:06:42.479
Missus Bartlett. I hope you'll be very happy, miss Marcel,228902:06:43.439 --> 02:06:53.800
and I do thank you for coming so you see229002:06:53.840 --> 02:06:54.640
it all for the best.229102:06:54.720 --> 02:06:55.039
Berry.229202:06:56.439 --> 02:06:58.680
Until I talked to her, I was really undecided about229302:06:58.720 --> 02:07:00.920
marrying Roger hadn't. But now I know what to do.229402:07:01.680 --> 02:07:04.520
She's a lovely woman, Berry, the most tragic eyes I've229502:07:04.520 --> 02:07:06.880
ever seen in my life. You must go back to her.229602:07:07.039 --> 02:07:08.159
She wants you, needs you.229702:07:08.279 --> 02:07:09.279
You must forget about me.229802:07:10.000 --> 02:07:11.119
So she sent for you that.229902:07:11.520 --> 02:07:15.039
Yes, she thought she was being clever. Oh why doesn't230002:07:15.079 --> 02:07:17.720
she give up? She knows how I feel. I do230102:07:17.840 --> 02:07:18.920
wish you hadn't gone to us.230202:07:18.960 --> 02:07:20.640
I'm glad I did. I know now what to do,230302:07:21.439 --> 02:07:25.119
and having seen her talk to her, I understand you230402:07:25.439 --> 02:07:26.239
so much better.230502:07:27.840 --> 02:07:28.600
Understand me.230602:07:29.159 --> 02:07:31.880
Yes, I think you know what I mean.230702:07:33.079 --> 02:07:33.800
Good Bye? Berry?230802:07:34.039 --> 02:07:36.800
No, please, John, please wait a minute. You don't really230902:07:36.840 --> 02:07:39.079
love this watcher. You're doing this just because of Genevieve.231002:07:39.520 --> 02:07:42.359
You must think of yourself, think of me. Hold your231102:07:42.399 --> 02:07:45.680
decision for a few weeks. Why, well, something may happen.231202:07:45.800 --> 02:07:48.039
I mean, well, if you'll just wait a bit, the231302:07:48.119 --> 02:07:49.319
picture may change for us.231402:07:49.640 --> 02:07:52.079
How do you mean how could that be possible?231502:07:52.159 --> 02:07:52.319
Now?231602:07:52.560 --> 02:07:54.039
Promise me, promise me that you'll wait.231702:07:55.319 --> 02:07:56.560
What are you thinking, Berrie?231802:07:57.039 --> 02:07:58.760
Right? Why? Nothing?231902:07:58.800 --> 02:08:02.000
I just want you should wait, she said, you've been232002:08:02.039 --> 02:08:04.039
acting on she's imagining me.232102:08:05.600 --> 02:08:08.359
I'll have to hurry now, I miss my appointment. Goodbye,232202:08:10.119 --> 02:08:11.359
I said, goodbye, Berry.232302:08:12.119 --> 02:08:17.840
Oh oh, yes, goodbye John. Oh.232402:08:24.640 --> 02:08:28.720
Now it is late the same night. Genevieve lies wakefully232502:08:28.840 --> 02:08:32.920
in her bed. A car draws up outside. The front232602:08:32.960 --> 02:08:38.079
door opens and closes. Genevieve sits up. Someone is coming232702:08:38.199 --> 02:08:42.760
up the stairs. They paused before the door.232802:08:44.359 --> 02:08:44.800
Who is it?232902:08:46.680 --> 02:08:50.680
Yes, Berry, Hello, Genevieve.233002:08:51.199 --> 02:08:54.680
Oh, Perry, I'm sorry to disturb you at this time233102:08:54.720 --> 02:08:55.000
of night.233202:08:56.159 --> 02:08:57.000
How do you feel? Why?233302:08:57.840 --> 02:08:58.680
I feel much better?233402:08:58.760 --> 02:08:59.000
Berry?233502:09:00.119 --> 02:09:02.000
I well.233602:09:02.119 --> 02:09:04.960
John told me that she had talked to you this afternoon. Yes, Barry,233702:09:06.239 --> 02:09:10.119
we're all washed up, you know she She asked me233802:09:10.159 --> 02:09:10.640
to come back to.233902:09:10.640 --> 02:09:13.359
You, if you only would.234002:09:14.039 --> 02:09:16.000
It's a lot of unpleasant memories between us.234102:09:16.680 --> 02:09:18.000
I try to make you forget them.234202:09:18.079 --> 02:09:21.680
Barry, I had decided to go to California.234302:09:22.199 --> 02:09:24.920
Please don't stay with me. I need you, Darling. Please234402:09:24.960 --> 02:09:32.520
don't go. Oh, Jenny, if that's the way he wanted, Barry,234502:09:33.319 --> 02:09:36.159
I don't know what this means to me. We'll really234602:09:36.239 --> 02:09:39.399
be together again. You wouldn't have.234702:09:39.399 --> 02:09:48.319
Baby, Kennedy, Jenny, Kennedy, what's wrong?234802:09:49.800 --> 02:09:56.920
It's by high excitement by medicine in the bathroom. Plise,234902:09:57.000 --> 02:10:00.920
barryd yes, the little one, the medicine dropper.235002:10:01.760 --> 02:10:08.199
Please, yeah, yes, Jenny, bottle of the medicine dropper is235102:10:10.399 --> 02:10:16.119
medicine drop in? Oh yeah, I haven't How much do235202:10:16.119 --> 02:10:16.439
you take?235302:10:17.600 --> 02:10:18.199
Five drops?235402:10:19.840 --> 02:10:20.039
One?235502:10:21.079 --> 02:10:24.039
Two, three, four?235602:10:25.079 --> 02:10:26.079
Five? Here you are?235702:10:28.439 --> 02:10:29.239
Thank you, Berry.235802:10:29.760 --> 02:10:32.000
You'll be all right now, Jenny, You'll be all right235902:10:32.000 --> 02:10:35.399
in a few moments. I'll stay in the other room tonight.236002:10:37.560 --> 02:10:39.880
Very what is it that.236102:10:40.000 --> 02:10:42.239
Bottle that isn't my medicine?236202:10:42.720 --> 02:10:42.760
What?236302:10:43.359 --> 02:10:48.119
No, look look at the label. That's your mother's medicine.236402:10:49.159 --> 02:10:51.079
Oh, good lord, it is It's wrong for me.236502:10:51.720 --> 02:10:53.319
That medicine is a heart the present?236602:10:54.479 --> 02:10:58.880
Very very, what what is your dad?236702:11:01.119 --> 02:11:01.880
I can't pray?236802:11:03.319 --> 02:11:09.439
Kevid oh jenneviy Genevieve?236902:11:14.560 --> 02:11:19.279
Well, Barry, what have you done? Genevieve is dead? Isn't237002:11:19.319 --> 02:11:25.039
this what you wanted? You're free now, Barry free. Then237102:11:25.359 --> 02:11:28.199
forty five minutes later, doctor anstepped hurried into the bedroom.237202:11:29.039 --> 02:11:30.079
Well, Barry, what is it?237302:11:30.159 --> 02:11:30.680
What's happened?237402:11:30.840 --> 02:11:33.000
I don't know, doctor, this is the way I found her?237502:11:34.640 --> 02:11:34.880
Well?237602:11:35.760 --> 02:11:41.119
What sign up a pulse? Poor girl? I can't understand it.237702:11:41.560 --> 02:11:42.640
She'd improved so much.237802:11:43.239 --> 02:11:49.800
She's she's dead, doctor, Yes, Barry, I'm sorry, I completely237902:11:49.920 --> 02:11:50.720
dumbfounded it.238002:11:51.359 --> 02:11:55.760
Wait a moment, what's this? What? What on earth? Why?238102:11:56.239 --> 02:11:56.399
Why?238202:11:56.479 --> 02:11:57.760
She's taking some of this medicine?238302:11:58.439 --> 02:11:58.640
Good?238402:11:58.920 --> 02:11:59.640
Good, heavens?238502:11:59.720 --> 02:12:02.319
Yes, I can smell it in the glass. What's wrong?238602:12:02.920 --> 02:12:05.479
This isn't her medicine. I prescribed this for your mother,238702:12:05.880 --> 02:12:09.640
my mother. Genevieve's heart needed a stimulant. This induces the238802:12:09.640 --> 02:12:15.319
opposite reaction. She took this by mistake, by mistake. But238902:12:15.479 --> 02:12:17.560
how on earth could Well, there's.239002:12:17.920 --> 02:12:19.079
Nothing we can do for her now.239102:12:20.640 --> 02:12:20.920
Hmm.239202:12:22.119 --> 02:12:24.640
What time did you say you came into the room, Mary, Why?239302:12:25.399 --> 02:12:27.840
Or just a few moments before I called you? Well,239402:12:28.000 --> 02:12:32.199
that would be twelve minutes ago. Yes, and that's right.239502:12:32.880 --> 02:12:35.920
I see as she was gasping for breath, she tried239602:12:35.920 --> 02:12:37.920
to say something, but I couldn't make out what it was.239702:12:38.760 --> 02:12:39.800
I called you immediately.239802:12:40.479 --> 02:12:44.000
Well, i'll call the undertakers. I'll use the phone in239902:12:44.039 --> 02:12:51.199
the hall. The body is in this room, mister Andrews.240002:12:51.319 --> 02:12:52.159
Come in, Thank you.240102:12:53.720 --> 02:12:55.479
Very This is mister Andrews.240202:12:55.560 --> 02:12:56.520
Oh, how do you do? How do you do?240302:12:56.680 --> 02:12:58.439
Mister Andrews is a police inspector.240402:12:58.560 --> 02:13:03.119
What I thought you called the undertakers. Not yet, but240502:13:03.399 --> 02:13:04.720
why the police. Mary.240602:13:05.319 --> 02:13:07.680
Here's a letter your wife gave me not so long ago.240702:13:08.479 --> 02:13:11.119
It says on the envelope to be opened at my death,240802:13:11.239 --> 02:13:14.800
and I said, yeah, I'll read it to you. There,240902:13:15.079 --> 02:13:18.119
Doctor Anstid. For many months now, my husband has been241002:13:18.159 --> 02:13:21.079
in love with another woman. I refuse to give him241102:13:21.079 --> 02:13:24.520
a divorce. Lately, he's been acting in a strange manner.241202:13:25.720 --> 02:13:28.239
I know he wants me out of the way. I241302:13:28.399 --> 02:13:29.720
know he has tried to poison me.241402:13:30.560 --> 02:13:32.439
I've hoped and hoped that I could bring him back241502:13:32.439 --> 02:13:35.319
to his senses, but now I'm afraid it is too late.241602:13:36.279 --> 02:13:39.279
If my death occurs, I want you to investigate the241702:13:39.359 --> 02:13:42.479
circumstances thoroughly, Signed Genevieve Martrett.241802:13:42.760 --> 02:13:44.840
But that's ridiculous. I never thought of such a thing.241902:13:44.880 --> 02:13:48.039
It's all pure imagination. I came back here tonight to stay.242002:13:48.720 --> 02:13:51.279
I realized what a fool i'd been. That matter doesn't242102:13:51.279 --> 02:13:53.399
prove a thing, it proves a motive. And furthermore, you242202:13:53.560 --> 02:13:54.760
lied about the time you found her.242302:13:55.039 --> 02:13:55.239
Lie.242402:13:55.560 --> 02:13:57.520
You said you came into this room twelve minutes before242502:13:57.520 --> 02:14:00.319
I arrived. You said she was trying to speak, that242602:14:00.439 --> 02:14:03.359
you called me at once twelve minutes elept from the242702:14:03.399 --> 02:14:04.680
time you found her till I came.242802:14:05.039 --> 02:14:06.279
Yes, that's what I said.242902:14:06.359 --> 02:14:08.880
But she had been dead almost an hour when I243002:14:09.000 --> 02:14:12.359
saw her. What you waited, Barry, waited till you.243102:14:12.359 --> 02:14:14.920
Were sure she was dead? Then you called me.243202:14:15.000 --> 02:14:16.680
No, no, no, wait a minute, doctor, I can explain.243302:14:16.760 --> 02:14:17.279
I can explain.243402:14:17.479 --> 02:14:18.800
Explain down at headquarters. Come on.243502:14:25.479 --> 02:14:29.159
Barry tried to explain. He told the truth. He had243602:14:29.239 --> 02:14:32.079
come back to Genevieve to stay. He did get the243702:14:32.159 --> 02:14:36.000
bottle for Genevieve. It was an accident. But he couldn't243802:14:36.039 --> 02:14:39.319
explain why he waited almost thirty minutes before he called243902:14:39.359 --> 02:14:42.760
the doctor. He said he just sat beside the bed244002:14:42.800 --> 02:14:46.279
in a daze, and that was the truth. But no244102:14:46.439 --> 02:14:51.560
one would believe him, no one. Poor Barry.244202:15:14.920 --> 02:15:29.159
CBS has presented The Whistler. Original music for this production244302:15:29.399 --> 02:15:33.279
was composed and conducted by Wilbur h Tonight's story was244402:15:33.319 --> 02:15:36.720
written by Elizabeth Easton and directed by Jay Donald Wilson.244502:15:38.159 --> 02:15:47.680
The Westler originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. Next week,244602:15:48.159 --> 02:15:49.000
same time.244702:15:49.199 --> 02:15:53.079
I the Whistler will return to tell you another unusual tale.244802:15:53.960 --> 02:15:54.640
Good Night.244902:16:00.079 --> 02:16:02.039
To the Columbia Broadcasting System.245002:16:16.119 --> 02:16:21.680
Well, my dear, the evening is stretched on far and wide,245102:16:22.000 --> 02:16:26.600
and now soon the sun will rise and bring about245202:16:26.720 --> 02:16:29.479
its constant oppression.245302:16:30.920 --> 02:16:32.319
So you should make.245402:16:32.239 --> 02:16:36.879
Your way home. And I well, I'll go wherever it245502:16:37.079 --> 02:16:42.840
is I go, but please do come back. I'll be245602:16:43.040 --> 02:16:50.719
here so happy for your company, same time, same place,245702:16:52.879 --> 02:16:57.079
just waiting. But if I may ask you one favor,245802:16:57.559 --> 02:17:03.239
one small, small thing before you go, as you make245902:17:03.319 --> 02:17:07.000
your way home, as you wander through the dark woods246002:17:07.120 --> 02:17:11.760
and the empty city streets, as you make your way246102:17:11.879 --> 02:17:17.000
into bed to nod away, take one moment and just246202:17:17.959 --> 02:17:22.799
be thankful for what you have, and I'll be seeing246302:17:22.959 --> 02:17:24.159
you soon.
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