Nov. 23, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Family Secrets & Fatal Footfalls: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Betrayal

Unknown Broadcast | Family Secrets & Fatal Footfalls: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Betrayal
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We return with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, and radio suspense for a pre-Thanksgiving vigil, my dear—where family tables creak, footsteps count down to doom, and a song in the parlor hushes murderous hearts. Tonight’s reliquary opens to four chillers, a clutch of shadows to keep the knives honest and the lights low. 

  • 🕰️ Family Ties — The portrait smiles, the phone rings, and blood remembers what the living forget, my dear.
  • 🥧 Just One Happy Little Family — The perfect supper setting: polite voices, careful smiles… and a place set for catastrophe. 
  • 🪜 Seven Steps to Murder — Count them softly: one through seven, each a rung lower into the dark. The Whistler is listening. 
  • 🐦 Birdsong for a Murder — A gentle tune cages terrible impulses; the canary sings while the heart sharpens its beak. (A fitting hymn in this “time of giving thanks,” is it not?) 

Draw closer. We’ll carve the silence and pass the fear—Unknown Broadcast for lovers of classic OTR horror storiesand radio suspense, my dear. Keep listening; the dark is so very patient.

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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Ah, so good to see you, my dear. I was

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concerned for a moment that perhaps you were a little

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too busy. Oh, I wouldn't be upset. I could only

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imagine the kinds of expectations and hustle and bustle this

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time of year. But the fact that you've found a

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little time to be with me, well, that makes me

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truly thankful. Please please have a seat. It's time to

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relax now and enjoy a little cold fear. No, no,

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I'll put a log on the fire. Of course. Of

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course I'll make sure we're warm and toasties have got

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the tea going. Are you ready to explore Family Times?

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A CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

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Coming Welcome.

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I'm e. G.

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Marshall.

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Snap a candle and it goes out. Hide from the

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human soul all knowledge of its origins, and still some

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flicker of instinct will keep the knowledge alive at a

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level deep beyond the reach of memory. There are truths

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which survive in us forever, and which we may never

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know unless one day, by merest chance, Robert who witt

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that called you? No one?

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But I heard the phone ring you answered it. I

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could hear your voice.

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It must have been someone there. No, there was no one.

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You were talking to a dead connection.

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Yes, I have to go now, dear, But where when

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will you be back? I don't know. Our mystery drama

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Family Ties was written especially for the Mystery theater by

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Percy Grainger and stars Terry Kane and Russell Boughton. It

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is easy to lose perspective.

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On our problems.

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They have a way of becoming too small or too big,

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and this in turn makes it difficult to know precisely

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what action to take.

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Often the hardest thing to do is to admit we

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have a problem at all.

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Those who say, if we can recognize a problem, we

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are half way to solving it. But sometimes that isn't true.

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Sometimes that is only the beginning.

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Of our troubles.

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A miss to Warren, Lieutenant, what can I do for you?

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I'm sorry, lieutenant, Yes, they sent me to see you.

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Who sent you?

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The policeman at the front desk.

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We'll shut the door please, Oh I'm sorry. Now would

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you like a chair? No? Oh?

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Yes, yes, I will thank you.

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You are in the right place, aren't you. Is this

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the Missing Person's Bureau?

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Yes?

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Well then yes I am. I feel foolish I didn't

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know there really were missing persons, I mean, except in

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the movies.

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You have someone who's missing that you want to report,

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I think so, do you think so? Either he's missing

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or he's not, Miss smith Is, missus.

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Uh, I'm sorry, Missus pandenis Janet Pandannis.

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And the person you're reporting my husband.

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All right, well I thought he was missing, but now

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that I'm actually here, I'm not so sure. I mean,

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Robert's not the type of person you think of. It's

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missing Robert that's his name.

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Yes, but please, missus Pandanis, let's try to keep the

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momentum going. Description are you?

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I'm not sure I can.

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You can't describe your own husband?

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Why not?

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We've been married so long as it's fifteen years. Well,

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perhaps you have a photograph.

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Oh yes, right here in my purse. He's a flight

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a receding hairline, dark hair, horn, room glasses, an impeccable dressing.

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Yes, could I see the picture?

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Oh of course, I'm sorry.

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There's nothing to be nervous about. Huh. He and he

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looks like an accountant.

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Yes, that's what he is.

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Oh, well, that answers my next question. Now, what makes

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you think he's missing.

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He hadn't been home for two days. And there is

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this unusual well for Roberts, it is, and he's always

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home every night right after work. It's only during tax

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season that he occasionally has to make trips to work

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on clients returns. But he always tells me where he's going.

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And he called me every.

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Night, and you've heard nothing. No, Now, were there any

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circumstances surrounding his disappearance?

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Oh no, I hope.

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Well, I mean, anything unusual that might serve as a clue.

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Well, yes, yes, he hungh up the phone and walked out,

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hung up the phone, and I got this piece of tape.

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Who whoa, whoa, whoa?

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Why don't you start at the beginning, missus Ben Dennis.

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About four days ago, I began receiving phone calls, or

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Robert did, because every time I answered, the party would hang.

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Up without speaking to you.

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Yes, I thought it was just a crank caller. But

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this happened several times, and then two nights ago the

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phone rang again.

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I was busy, so.

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Robert answered it.

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Did you overhear any of the conversations?

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No, I heard nothing. Several minutes later, I walked into

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the living room and he was gone, and for two

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days now I haven't had any communication with him whatsoever.

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Now you mentioned a piece of paper.

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Oh, yes, yes, I just discovered it today.

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Oh, this paper's blank.

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No, if you look carefully, you'll notice the pressure of

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the pen left a clear indentation.

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It looks like an address.

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It's from the notepad we keep by the phone. I

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think Robert must have jotted it down as he was speaking.

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This is his handrunning. Yes. Well, could it be the

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address of one of his tax clients? Oh?

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I doubt it, as you can see, addressed in a

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very good area of the city. Because of Robert's family,

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name is crime teller, all pretty fancy Dennis.

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Is he related to Jacob Pendennis, the industrialist?

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Yes, that was his father.

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I remember reading about that case. Pendennis was murdered, wasn't

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he and robbed in his own home? Yes, Robert wasn't

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quite born at the time. He never knew his father. Well,

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I'll go out right away and check on this address.

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Missus pan Dennis with luck, we'll have some word on

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your husband in a couple of hours. Yes, who's that,

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Lieutenant Warren? Police? What do you want? Could I speak

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to you for a woman.

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Do you have a search want?

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Well?

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No, but that you can't come in the name on

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the mailbox downstairs, says Grady. Is that you yes?

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Else? The Grady? Am I in trouble?

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No? I'm with the Missing Person Bureau. Missus Grady.

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Do you want to see my past?

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Brew?

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No, that that's not necessary. I love it. I could

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show it to you, but you can't come in. Do

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you know a mister Robert Pendennis? He's an accountant. I

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don't need an accountant here. This is his picture. Why

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should I know him? Well, we have reason to believe

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he might have come here. Why would anyone want to

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come to see me? Well, I don't know.

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I've only got.

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One room here, you see, and it's got my whole life.

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But you can't come in.

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Uh.

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Do you have any relatives? Family? Why were someone who

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might be using mister pandenis as services? No, I have

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no relatives. I have no family. Do you go out frequently?

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Could he have.

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Come by while you were out? I never go out,

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not even to shaw I never go out. Excuse me,

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I must go now easy. I'm going to die soon. Oh,

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I'm sorry if I disturbed you, Missus Grady. It oh hello, lieutenant,

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come in. Did you find anything? I'm afraid not. This

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address is for a one room tenement apartment in the

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South End. It's occupied by an elderly lady and shut in.

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I shut in, never goes out, keeps the blinds down,

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the TV running.

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What business could Rob possibly have with a person like that?

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Her name is Elsa Grady? Does that name ring a bell?

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No?

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She said she didn't know your husband hadn't seen him.

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Well, I'm sorry, but I haven't any other evidence to

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give you.

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We'll do all the usual things. Check the local hospitals

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JA so for circulator's picture and description.

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Is there anything I can do?

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Have you got access to his client file?

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Yes?

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He keeps the duplicate set here at Harmy, often works at.

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Night in his study.

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Well you could go through those see if Elsa Grady's

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name or address appears in any of them, and we'll

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keep in touch and of course call me immediately if.

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You hear anything.

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But even if there were some connection to one of

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his clients, why would Rob just disappear like this, I mean,

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without a word. He must know. I'm worried. Why isn't

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he called? I know something's happened to him?

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Lieutenant, I know it, Cannet.

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How good does he come in?

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Thank you?

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Well?

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To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?

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How's Robert?

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So?

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The answer to the first question is that I don't

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know the answer to the second.

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Tol He's vanished, vanished.

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It's been three.

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Days now now I haven't heard a word.

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How uncharacteristic of him. You did never fight, did you?

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No? No, I've already been to the police.

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Yeah.

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The family's never liked publicity. Janet, you should have come

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straight to me. I've been the Pendennis family lawyer for

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forty years.

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Well, that's why I'm here now. The police are no

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help at all. I want to hire a private investigator.

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Can you tell me what happened?

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Rob got a phone call and then just disappeared. He

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wrote down an address.

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Have you got that with you?

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Yes?

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Now, the police have already been there.

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It's a ten minute apartment in the South End occupied

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by an old woman has shut in?

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Did Robert Noah?

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I don't know how or why. Her name is Elsa Grady.

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What could a private investigator do?

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Well?

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See if that woman was in some way connected to

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one of Rob's tax clients.

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That could open a real ten of worms.

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Through the files.

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Myself, I didn't see anything, but someone was trained.

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Maybe he rob as a large client Elgenet. It could

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get expensive. I don't care about the expense, of course,

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not here. But you realize it could also take a

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good deal of time, to say nothing of possibly violating

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the client's privileged relationship with Robert Douglas. Robert is missing,

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he might be hurt, he might be in trouble.

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Bring the files to my office.

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Better still, I'll send someone over for them and go

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through them myself.

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But I'm sure Robert will turn up soon.

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He is not an inconsiderate person.

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I have an idea.

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Oh, why don't we go to this address ourselves? What's

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the user? Perhaps the police frightened the old woman here.

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Perhaps if she saw you, the wife, if.

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She did have anything to tell us, she would Oh, yes, yes,

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that's a good idea. Let's go, Missus Grady.

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It doesn't seem to be anyone.

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Here, Missus Grady.

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There has to be. Lieutenant Warren said she never went out.

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Missus Grady.

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Please say, Janet, go in. She's not here.

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Room.

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It's a mess. Looks like there's been a fight.

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Or someone searching for something. Bureau drawers are pulled out.

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Lord, what nothing?

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What's that you found?

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Really, it's just an empty picture frame.

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It seems to be pure silvers or an odd thing

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to find in an apartment like this. It's beautiful, something

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from the past. So sad to think of.

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People growing old being alone.

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What the bed feitzare stains that looked like blood?

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Douglas? Work could have happened?

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Do you think she's been kidnapped?

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A worse?

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Oh?

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What's the matter?

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Oh?

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I get turned something, Douglas.

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It's Tye class.

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You recognize it?

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Yes?

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I gave this Thie class to Robert on our last

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wedding anniversary. If he has his initials r JP, So

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he was here, But where is he now? And what's

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happened to that old woman?

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What has happened? Indeed, is always advisable to end and

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act with a question or two to ponder during the interval.

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Don't you think Robert has not appeared in our story?

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I find I formed a very.

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Distinct impression of him.

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Shy, polight, a man of strict habits, altogether, not the

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sort of person to act irresponsibly.

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So then, just what is going on.

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The plot will thicken decidedly when I return with Act two.

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Successful marriages are based on many things, compromise, consideration, caring.

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There is no reason thus far it anyway to think

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Janet and Robert's marriage was not successful.

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But then what was it that.

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Lured Robert away from his home late one night, leaving

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his wife frantic and distraught? Let us return to our story,

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for it has been said that there is an explanation

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for everything under the sun.

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Robert didn't do anything to that old woman. I'll bet

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he wasn't even here. Someone planted this pin.

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Well that's possible.

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Of course, Robert has been kidnapped and someone's planning to

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black man old.

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Chat that you're being exotic, am I.

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There's a great deal of money still in the Pandenis family,

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isn't there.

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I'm going to call the police.

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Who will of cause you're right, chat At the police

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have to be told about this.

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Come.

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I'll take you, hope, and then take care of calling

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Lieutenant Warren. If that's all right with you? What here

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that I'll call the police?

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Oh yes, yes, of course, thank you Douglas. Oh it's

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such a relief at a time like this, to have

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someone I can trusts.

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Hello, lieutenant, have you heard from your husband? No?

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I came here to make a confession.

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A confession, yes, Oh, well please I shall.

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Oh.

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I don't think I did it on purpose. I mean,

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I wasn't consciously intending to do it. I didn't even

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realize I still had it in my hand until I

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got home.

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What are you talking about?

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The tie class? Tie class, the one that was in

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missus Grady's apartment. You were probably wondering what happened to it? Well,

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here it is. It is Robert's. But I'm sure that you.

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Are whoa Would you mind taking me back a couple

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of steps. This was in Grady's apartment. How do you

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know how did you get it?

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Well, didn't mister Jimson tell you?

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Who's mister Jimson Douglas Jimson.

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He's the Pendennis family lawyer. Didn't he call you?

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No?

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Oh, he said he would. We went to that old

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woman's apartment and she's vanished too.

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And you found this tie class. These are your husband's initials, orgiantaid.

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Robert Jacob Panditis. That Jacob was for his father, the

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one who was murdered by his secretary.

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Oh. What else did you find some blood? Did you

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close the door when you left? Yes? And excuse me,

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we better get down there right away.

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Oh uh?

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What was that lawyer's name, Douglas Jimson Or what's the

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story on him?

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Or he's with an old Boston firm's reputation is in

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pack up?

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More than Why do you suppose he didn't call me? Well?

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I don't know.

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Maybe he thought he was protecting Robert, but Robert might

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be in trouble. I don't believe for one minute he'd

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hurt an old lady, and I don't think Douglas believes

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that either. That brings us back to my original question.

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Why didn't he call I? I don't know Robert?

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What?

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Oh Charity, Robert your home? Are you all right?

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Well?

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Sure, honey, I'm a lying hob.

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I've been so worried.

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I'm sorry. I tried to call you. Did you yes?

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Several times? There was never any answer.

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Well, I have been out a lot, but I was

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so concerned what happened to you.

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I've got a client in Dallas, an oil man. He

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called me said he's being audited by the government. You

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know how Texans are, and they yell you jump but

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you could.

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Have told me what are you doing with your suitcase?

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I have to go back to Dallas. Yes, it's going

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to take longer than I thought, and I needed some things,

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some stop for my file.

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Did you get what you needed?

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Yes?

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Look, darling, I've just got time to get back to

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the airport. I'll call you from Dallas.

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Your files aren't here. But how could you get something

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from your file that they aren't here?

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Do you mean they're not here?

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They're in Douglas Jimpson's office. Oh Rob, what is going on?

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I told you I have a fee.

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I don't have any clients in Dallas. I know I've

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been through your files. Why to try to find out

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what this address meant?

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How did you get this?

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He wrote it on the notepad by the phone, and

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it left an imprince for that.

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It was you who sent the police there. Yes, I

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was worried. You shouldn't have done that.

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So you were there. The tie class wasn't planted. You

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were there the whole time.

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I have got to go there. Please, I don't have

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much trap.

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What is the matter?

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What is going on? I can explain everything, but not

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now there There isn't time. I shouldn't have come home

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at all.

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Are you in trouble?

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Don't no, I'm okay greatly that you have got to

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promise me that you will stay away from the police.

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Don't go to them anymore. Why I am your husband.

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The police mustn't be brought into this.

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It's someone after you know that.

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Please listen to me. Did you say you told Douglas

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about this? He seemed the logical person to turn to

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when you went to that apartment. Did he go with you? Yes,

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and you went in you looked around.

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Yes.

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How did he react? What do you mean did he

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say anything?

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No? For sure, he told me he would take care

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of calling the police, but he never did.

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That.

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Did you mustn't see him again? Why not? It's not safe, Rob,

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He's like part of the family. Have got to go now,

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Will you trust me?

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Don't you all right?

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Yes, it's just something that's come up that I have

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to do.

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How long?

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A few days of the most, and I'll be back,

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I promise, And then you can tell me what's going on. Yes,

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If what I think is going to happen, does I

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can tell you everything?

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Oh? Lieutenant?

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May I come in? Oh? What do you want? Well,

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we've just finished our search of the apartment.

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I thought you might like to know what we found.

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May I come in?

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Oh, yes, of course, I'm sorry.

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Are you all right?

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Yes, I'm fine.

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This case has taken a rather curious turn. Missus ban Dennis.

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I'm going to have to ask you some questions about

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your husband's family.

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I'll try to be of what help I can. Did

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you find out what happened to that woman?

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Not yet, but we found out who she is.

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Her name is Elsa Grady.

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No, no, it isn't.

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Her name is Shelley Malone.

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Shelley Malone, But that's the woman who killed Robert's father,

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the secretary.

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That's right.

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Did your husband Livers say.

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Anything to you about Shelley, Well, he told me the

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story of the murder case, but that was all.

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He never expressed any feelings about her.

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He would never talk about it.

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Do you think he harbored a hatred of her?

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You mean it enough to take revenge? No, Robert wouldn't

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just something like that.

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He couldn't. Some people are known to do exceptional things

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when family ties are involved, especially an old family like

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the Pandenicis.

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But all of this happened before Robert was even born.

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He never knew this woman. He never even knew his father.

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I think he.

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Always felt very, very removed from the whole thing. Perhaps,

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but his mother was fanatical on the subject. She tried

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for years to track Shelley Malone down. There's even evidence

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that she made it known she'd be willing to pay

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to have Shelley killed.

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Missus Pendennis was a very unstable woman, Lieutenant, especially in

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her last year.

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It's still it's possible that these feelings tried transmitted to

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a son. As I recall the story, Shelley Malone was

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Jacob Pandenis's secretary for about seven years, and then in

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January of nineteen thirty eighty fired her. Yes, but do

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you know the reason.

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I'm not sure. I think it was a question of

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her competence.

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Shelley was known as something of a hothead. After she

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was let go, she was hurt to threaten her former

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employer's life.

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Well, that was the depression years. It must have been

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a terrible time to be out of work.

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Yes, but Jacob Pandenis was murdered several months later. Missus

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Pandennis went into his study and caught Shelley there rifling

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his safe.

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Her husband was.

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Slumped over his desk, stabbed to death.

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Is that right?

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It?

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No, Douglas Jimson was with her with Missus Pendennis.

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H Jimson again, so he was involved in this.

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I believe both he and Missus Pandenis testified at the inquest.

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He was a young lawyer then he just hired by

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the family. He was at the house on business and

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Missus Pendennis was showing him into her husband's study.

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And that's how they came on showing.

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Yes, she fled before either of them could recover enough

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to stop her, and she was never found, never brought

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to trial. The case was closed.

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Until now.

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Do you really suspect Robert of doing something to her?

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That's how it looks frankly, what other business could he

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have with her?

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But how did he find her?

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Who? No, it was a good private detective or willingness

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to keep at it, to pay whatever was necessary.

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Lieutenant Robert was here when held been an hour ago

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when I came home from the police station.

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Well where is he now?

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I don't know. I caught him by surprise. He was

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packing a suitcase.

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Didn't you try to stop him? Yes?

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But I didn't know.

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Did he admit to going to Shelley's apartment. Yes, so

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he was probably there when I came to the door.

495
00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:05.960
That explains the fear in Shelley's voice when I talked

496
00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:08.480
to her. That's what she was trying to tell me.

497
00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:11.480
What was She kept saying I couldn't come in, almost

498
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:13.480
as if she wanted me to contradict her. And then

499
00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.920
as I was leaving, she told me she was going

500
00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:19.920
to die. She was trying to alert me, and I

501
00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:22.880
just wrote it off to the craziness of an old

502
00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:26.279
shut in. After your husband left, why didn't you call

503
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.480
the police? He asked me not to missus. Pandennis, we

504
00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:32.160
are talking about a possible murdered charge.

505
00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:36.960
I know, but he said he could explain what was happening. No,

506
00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:39.039
he said he would when he came back in a

507
00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:40.279
few days.

508
00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:46.799
A few days, he promised. This is Pandennis. I'm afraid

509
00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:50.319
it's very possible we may never see your husband again.

510
00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:58.759
We begin with an event, a man's disappearance, and build

511
00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:02.759
on that. Complications are added that change the direction of

512
00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.559
the story. Characters who seemed bad turn out to be

513
00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:11.160
good or vice versa. Gradually for the persons at the

514
00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.559
center of the drama and the audience. The world begins

515
00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.400
to take on the aspect of a gigantic illusion. Where

516
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:20.480
does the truth lie?

517
00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.440
And when is a lie?

518
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:27.319
The truth? The answers would seem to hang suspended somewhere

519
00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:33.200
between Lieutenant Warren's persistence and Janet Van Denis's instincts. We

520
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.480
will find out precisely where when I return with our

521
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:38.319
final act.

522
00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:46.960
Who may know you?

523
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:54.359
It takes nine months to create a man, said Pascal,

524
00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:59.039
and a lifetime to know him, and sometimes we might

525
00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:03.759
add not even for before whom do we really stand?

526
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.599
Revealed Janet pen Dennis might have wished for a bit

527
00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:10.839
more revelation from her husband before his second disappearance.

528
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:12.519
For now she finds.

529
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.359
Herself the wife of a suspected murderer.

530
00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:19.359
You're accusing Robert of killing that old woman.

531
00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:21.680
I'll have to ask for a warrant be issued for

532
00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:24.480
his arrest, and I'd appreciate it if you do me

533
00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:29.640
in favor. Don't call Douglas Jimson. Why not, I'm going

534
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:32.759
over to see him now now that we know who

535
00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:35.279
the old woman is. I'm more curious than ever why

536
00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:38.480
he didn't call the police. Anyone else still living who

537
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:42.200
worked for Jacob Pendan when his business manager was a

538
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:43.720
man named Gilbert Kleig.

539
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.319
I believe Douglas mentioned recently that he's living north of

540
00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:49.039
here in Gloucesterville.

541
00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:49.720
Well, thank you.

542
00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.559
I know this isn't easy, and I appreciate your cooperation.

543
00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:56.519
If it's any consolation, homicide will be coming onto the

544
00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.200
case now, if nothing else, that increases our chances of

545
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:08.039
finding your husband. Tell me, mister Jimson, are you still

546
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:09.920
retained by the Pandennis family.

547
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:13.839
Not really, no, he I do occasional legal work for them, but.

548
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:15.880
I'm more retired than not.

549
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:24.160
Sir, you were a witness to Jacob Pandenis's murder, won't you, Jacob, Well, yes,

550
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:29.039
oh not to the actual murder itself. No, Missus Pendennis

551
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:32.000
and I came upon the scene minutes too late to

552
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:35.920
prevent it. But what does all that have to do

553
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.720
with Robert. I'm just trying to figure this out. That

554
00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:40.920
murder received.

555
00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:41.359
A lot of press.

556
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.680
Jacob Pendennis was a distinguished man. It's an old Boston family.

557
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:48.519
The police were obliged to do their best to find

558
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:50.759
the woman who was accused of what was.

559
00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:54.359
Her name, Malone? I believe Shelley Malone.

560
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:58.799
It's the biggest man hunting Boston's history couldn't locate her,

561
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.839
And yet now, nearly forty years later, she suddenly surfaces,

562
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:04.119
and right here in Boston.

563
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.160
Really, you mean she's still alive?

564
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:12.119
How, mister Jenson, who found her?

565
00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:15.680
I don't know? Was it you?

566
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.759
I'm afraid I don't really know what you're getting at. Lieutenant.

567
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:23.519
You went to her apartment with Janet pan Dennis.

568
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:29.200
Yes, and she wasn't there, neither was Robert.

569
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.200
You told missus Pandennis not to call the police, that

570
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:33.599
you'd take care of doing it.

571
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:39.720
I see, And you want to know why I didn't call.

572
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:47.680
My first responsibility is to my client's lieutenant to protect them. Sir,

573
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:49.880
two minutes ago you told me the pandeniss were no

574
00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:50.880
longer your clients.

575
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:54.160
Well, Lieutenant, are you trying to implicate me in all this?

576
00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:58.160
You knew it was Shelley Malone's apartment, yes, but not

577
00:30:58.359 --> 00:30:59.279
before I went there.

578
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.079
I had no idea that she was still living.

579
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:04.599
How did you find out it was her apartment by

580
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:07.000
a silver picture frame on the bureau.

581
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:10.119
I remember Jacob had given her to her that Christmas?

582
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.680
What about the phone calls?

583
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:13.240
What phone calls?

584
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:13.759
The ones?

585
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.000
Janet answered, when the other party hung up. The one

586
00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:18.119
Robert answered just before he vanished.

587
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:20.160
I know nothing about them, Lieutenant.

588
00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:21.160
I assure you.

589
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:23.119
Your assurance is aren't worth a great deal to me,

590
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:25.759
mister Jimson, As far as I'm concerned, you're an accomplice

591
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:31.839
in this whole business, suspected accomplice and anyway, what business

592
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.880
Shelley Malone's abduction and possible death? Are you really that

593
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:39.920
keen on revenge after all these years? How much money

594
00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:43.240
did she steal? I just remember the exact amount, A

595
00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:46.440
few thousand dollars, perhaps hardly enough to warrant the kind

596
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:50.119
of fanatical activity or trying to lay at my Doorset,

597
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.759
we need to talk to anyone else who might still

598
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:56.119
be alive, who was part of the Pandenis household at

599
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.839
that time. Well, I'm afraid you're out of luck there.

600
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:06.440
Everyone's gone except me. Know what about Gilbert Kleeg? According

601
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:09.000
to Janet, he's living in Gloustonville already.

602
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:10.359
I didn't know.

603
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:16.079
Oh that's interesting, mister Jimson, since you're the one who

604
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:21.759
told her. Uh, Lieutenant, you spoke to Shelley Malone, didn't

605
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.519
you when you went to her apartment the first time? Yes?

606
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:31.319
What was your impression of her? Why if she was adult?

607
00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:36.000
You know, always Jacob treated her with every kindness, but

608
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.759
she was prone to the bizarre fantasies.

609
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:42.480
It finally apposed Jacob to let her go.

610
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:44.640
Are you telling me she was crazy?

611
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.559
Well, I hate to use label, and you have.

612
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.839
A particular fantasy in mind you want to tell me about?

613
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:57.039
Uh no, I see, just planting the seed for later.

614
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:57.319
Then?

615
00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:57.920
Is that it?

616
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.920
In case she has something she wants to tell us.

617
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:16.839
Good day, mister Jimson. Yes you Janet Ben Dennis. Yes,

618
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.680
Robert's wife. My name is Gilbert Creed. I worked for

619
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:26.960
Robert's father at one time. I was his business manager. Oh, yes,

620
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:28.240
please come in.

621
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:29.000
Thank you.

622
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:33.559
I hope I'm not disturbing you.

623
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:37.599
Oh no, I'm very glad. Please forgive the house, forgive

624
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.200
my appearing.

625
00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:45.319
I understand I've heard about Robert's disappearance. I gather the

626
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:51.079
police suspect Robert possibly hurting Miss Malone, so I thought

627
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.039
it might be important to come.

628
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:53.319
To see you.

629
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:59.480
Yes, you see, I always had my doubts whether it

630
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.759
really was Sheffey who killed Jacob.

631
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:04.279
Why.

632
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:10.480
Well, shortly after she was dismissed, I was going over

633
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.320
the accounts and I came up eighty five hundred dollars short.

634
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.519
I pointed this out to Jacob. He was very meticulous

635
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:23.079
about money, he had to be in those times, but

636
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:27.199
this didn't bother him. He told me to just credit

637
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:29.760
it his misladeous account.

638
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.119
That's a fair amount of money.

639
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.880
They are And after his death and when Cheffy was

640
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.360
accused of robin him as well, the amount in question

641
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:43.280
is just that eighty five hundred dollars.

642
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:46.920
It sounds like Jacob gave her the money.

643
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:51.159
Yeah, why didn't you mention this at the time. Well,

644
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:55.119
I wanted to check through the books again, and before

645
00:34:55.239 --> 00:35:00.280
I could, I was let go by missus Pendea. Yeah,

646
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:05.920
you think Shelley was framed? Possibly, But the question then

647
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:09.119
is why Jacob and Theahble the bunny tall.

648
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.880
Could Shelley have been blackmail on?

649
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:18.159
No, Shelly wasn't that kind of person, all her wildness.

650
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:21.480
She wasn't a criminal. Yet she was accused of murder

651
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:26.320
heir by missus Pendinis and Douglas Jimson.

652
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:29.760
Jemmy Janet.

653
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:33.039
How did Robert find Shelley?

654
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:36.760
I don't know. There was a phone call, a number

655
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:39.400
of phone calls, but when I answered the person hung up.

656
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:47.800
I say, I think it was Shelley herself made those calls. Shelley,

657
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:53.320
why I have an idea where they might be. It's

658
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.119
long shot, but if you're up to a drive.

659
00:35:58.079 --> 00:35:59.119
We could go there together.

660
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:02.079
Mister Cli, I'm so nervous and worried, I'll go anywhere.

661
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:05.559
The place I have in mind is Dennis Wood at

662
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:06.639
the main coast.

663
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:08.480
The old Pendennis summer estate.

664
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:11.119
M it'scluded by it.

665
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.960
Robert when he left, he took a heavy top coat

666
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.400
and gloves. It would be getting called up there this

667
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:25.119
time of year. But then you don't think Shoey's dead.

668
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:29.320
No, I got a different idea. But we can talk,

669
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:30.480
and the way up.

670
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:31.719
We can take my car.

671
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:34.239
Just give me a minute to run upstairs and throw

672
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:41.159
some things and travel bag. I'm ready with your clean I'm.

673
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:41.920
Sorry it kept you wak.

674
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.360
That's perfectly all right at it, Douglas.

675
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.119
It it gave me a chance to catch up with

676
00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:51.480
you as Robert contacted you.

677
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:56.639
Yet, No, are you telling me the truth? If you

678
00:36:56.760 --> 00:36:57.239
know nothing?

679
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:02.079
PRIs mister cleek, Well you could see he's gone.

680
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:04.800
What have you done to him?

681
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.920
I told him Robert had been found that I was

682
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.960
here to take you down to police headquarters. You've done

683
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.760
something terrible, haven't you? Why didn't you call the police?

684
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:20.239
You don't want them to find Rob. You want him

685
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.280
to kill Shelley because she knows the truth.

686
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.239
That's right, she knows the truth.

687
00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:26.880
She didn't kill Jacob, did she?

688
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:27.320
No?

689
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:33.000
What have you done? What are you trying to cover up?

690
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.400
Cleik thinks Robert might be at Dennis Wood. That's as

691
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:38.280
good a gamble as any.

692
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:39.519
You're going up there?

693
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:41.159
Yes, with you?

694
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:45.519
No, I have a gun with me, Janet, and it

695
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:48.519
is quite imperative that I get to Robert before the

696
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:57.039
police too. What are you going to do?

697
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:57.960
I don't know.

698
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.519
Did you kill Robert's father?

699
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.000
No, but I might as well have.

700
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:08.679
Who did.

701
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:12.239
Missus pen Dennis?

702
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:14.519
His wife?

703
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.920
She confessed to me. I didn't ask her to. I

704
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:18.639
didn't want her to.

705
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:20.960
Shelley.

706
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:26.280
Shelley was innocent, and for forty years she's been living

707
00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:28.880
in hiding. Did you see how she was living?

708
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:31.480
Missus Pendennis was willing to pay a great deal of

709
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:35.199
money for someone to.

710
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:39.360
Corroborate a story. I was young. It's no excuse.

711
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:44.239
My career has been beyond reproach, except for that one mistake,

712
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:45.400
one mistake.

713
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:48.800
You could have put an end to it anytime you want.

714
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:52.960
I know, I know, but out of sight, out of mind.

715
00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:57.719
Oh that's terrible, I realized. But that's how it is.

716
00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:02.199
I think Shelley had gone off somewhere, made a fresh start,

717
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:05.440
a decent life for herself. I never dreamed, but she

718
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.480
was still in Boston. But why.

719
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:12.559
Why did missus Pendemis kill her husband?

720
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.280
I can't tell you that, not yet.

721
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:19.159
What are you going to do?

722
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.360
I don't know?

723
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:21.719
Why?

724
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:22.920
Will you stop asking me?

725
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:23.079
That?

726
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:25.039
Will Robert kill me?

727
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:29.599
I have a gun, I can't use it.

728
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:30.559
I don't know how.

729
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:33.920
I don't know what I'm going to do.

730
00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:44.239
Here's the house saves the light, honor.

731
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:46.920
It's one of the downstairs rules.

732
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:48.559
When is here?

733
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.360
What it's Rob?

734
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.840
I can see him through the window. Oh no, what

735
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.280
Shelley is with him? She's lying on the sofa about

736
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.079
this mother? What yoh yo?

737
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:04.639
Stop?

738
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:09.039
Oh Robert, Robin? What have you done? He studies?

739
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:09.360
Don't you?

740
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:10.400
What is she did?

741
00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:11.440
Yes?

742
00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:15.280
She I just passed away. Oh it looked like you would.

743
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.239
You were trying to smother her.

744
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:21.480
I was outfully was sheet up to cover her face?

745
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.800
Rob, what's the matter? You're crying.

746
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:29.079
That's because.

747
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.840
Shelley Malone was his mother.

748
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:36.960
What that's right.

749
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:43.599
She and Jacob had an affair and she was dismissed because.

750
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:44.119
She was pregnant.

751
00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:48.800
Jacob thought by giving her a large sum of money,

752
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:54.280
it would discharge his obligation. But after Robert was born,

753
00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:58.320
she came back to see him. She hoped that by

754
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:03.000
showing him his son, she might persuade him to leave

755
00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:10.159
his wife. Instead, missus Pendennis discovered them, and when she

756
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.320
learned the truth, she stabbed Jacob.

757
00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:20.079
Shelley fled, and Robert was left behind.

758
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:25.639
Under the pretext of grieving for Jacob's death, Missus Pendennis

759
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:28.719
went into seclusion for a number of months, and when

760
00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:34.840
she emerged, Robert was her childhood and her place in

761
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:39.239
the lucrative bosom of the Bendennis family was insured.

762
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:41.519
And Robert never knew.

763
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:44.119
No no.

764
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:47.199
I was given the job of destroying the real birth

765
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:53.360
records and seeing that new ones were forged. Oh, Robert,

766
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:55.519
are you all right?

767
00:41:56.679 --> 00:41:59.360
She wouldn't even let me take her to a hospital.

768
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.800
She was coughing out blood. You both knew she was dying,

769
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:08.639
but she was still afraid she might be arrested.

770
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:12.039
Then it was Shelley who called you.

771
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.800
Did you realize I knew who it was. I suspected

772
00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:19.800
the whole truth a minute. I heard her voice even

773
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:20.760
before he told me.

774
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:27.199
I think that before you know. She wants to grow up.

775
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.039
She followed me even the.

776
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:32.760
Other times she went up. She was terrified she might

777
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.559
be taught. I'm going to her.

778
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:42.519
Do you know what herd you took the heart upon me?

779
00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:45.960
You know what I do?

780
00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:49.559
I can only I Martin.

781
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:56.559
You would have said that the mind registered and susings

782
00:42:56.599 --> 00:43:00.920
from the very moment of birth, that things are stored

783
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.840
away and never lost, and that under extraordinary circumstances, they

784
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:09.800
may be with THEO. All his life, Robert had told

785
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.159
your nion the knowledge of his true origin. But only

786
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:17.280
at the last possible moment had this truth reviewed itself.

787
00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:20.880
I'll return with a final word of your moment.

788
00:43:33.639 --> 00:43:37.400
Shelley Malone was given a small, dignified burial for his

789
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.440
part in the crime. Douglas Jimson was disbarred for life

790
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:43.840
and sent to jail for a number of years. As

791
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.760
for Janet and Roberts, people say they don't know a

792
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:49.599
couple more devoted to the care and raising of their

793
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:54.119
own children. Our cast included Russell Horton, Terry Keane and

794
00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:57.639
Ray Owens. The entire production was under the direction of

795
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:02.880
Hymond Brown. Until next time pleasant.

796
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:50.159
Wa ah, yes, very good, drink up. The tea is hot,

797
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:56.960
piping hot, ready to warm you in such cold, cold circumstance.

798
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:01.559
Is it just me? Or is it colder than normal?

799
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:06.599
The air has a bit of a bite even in here,

800
00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:11.840
My dear, well, don't worry. Oh what's that? No, no, no,

801
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:17.840
these walls are so thick. I worry about very very little.

802
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.760
I'm just so glad you could come and spend this

803
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.920
time with me. It means so much more than you

804
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:29.679
might imagine to be just one happy little family.

805
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:41.159
Suspense and the producer of radio is out spending.

806
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:45.480
Theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure William

807
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:49.760
and Robson. It is with pride and humility that we

808
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.119
accept the opinion of you, the listener who voted Suspense

809
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:56.159
the best dramatic show of the year. Now to the

810
00:45:56.239 --> 00:46:00.639
upcoming story. A gentle story of three gentle people with

811
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.559
modest murder in their hearts and quiet greed in their souls.

812
00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.480
Sort of people who are apt to run into almost

813
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:13.280
any place at almost any time. Listen then as Ray

814
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.880
Noble Stars with ms Lee Patrick in Just One Happy

815
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:20.760
Little Family, which begins at exactly one minute. Memo on

816
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:25.800
medals Information you may not know about our military decorations.

817
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:27.119
One of the.

818
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:31.239
Most famous holders of the Silver Star was General John J.

819
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:31.960
Pershing.

820
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:35.599
He was awarded the medal in recognition of service during

821
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:39.519
the Philippine Campaign before he went on to greater fame

822
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.360
as Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in

823
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:48.000
World War One. Bestowing a trophy of honor and recognition

824
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:51.519
of distinguished achievement goes back to the early days of

825
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:56.679
civilized man. Probably the oldest record of a decoration is

826
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:59.679
a wreath of laurel, which was used to crown winners

827
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:03.679
of act athletic contests in ancient Greece. It is interesting

828
00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:06.880
to note that versions of the laurel reef appear even

829
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:11.840
today on many modern medals of various nations. In the

830
00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:15.320
United States Navy, it is a tradition to award bonus

831
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:20.199
points for advancement and rating based on medals and citations.

832
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:24.360
For example, five extra points are given to winners of

833
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:28.639
the Medal of Honor as unique accolades for valor and

834
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:35.239
Superior Service medals symbolize our nation's recognition of individual dedication to.

835
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:36.480
The cause of freedom.

836
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:38.880
And now.

837
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:47.039
Just one happy little family starring Ray Noble with miss

838
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:47.920
Leigh Patrick.

839
00:47:48.719 --> 00:48:01.280
A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

840
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:11.079
Now I'm getting the parlor, his uncle, and catch your bres.

841
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:14.280
Yes, thank you, I believe I will. After all, one

842
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:16.960
doesn't carry a bride over the threshold every day, my

843
00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:19.800
dear Victory, and certainly never as lovely a one as

844
00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:27.400
you come way, Oh the beautiful parlor, So everygan it.

845
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:31.480
Is my idea to pass the day rooms, Victoria.

846
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:34.199
We are in the fortunate to find each other. You

847
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.679
alone in this big house, and you're alone with no house.

848
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:40.320
It does work out nice, and doesn't it? With your

849
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:43.000
money in my house we should be able to at

850
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:46.719
the lady's head at the keep It Nail friendship club,

851
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:54.199
then spend our scholden years together. How well, poor thing

852
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.480
you must be sad. Let me get you a nice

853
00:48:56.519 --> 00:48:56.880
cup of.

854
00:48:56.840 --> 00:49:01.079
TEA good idea, my wife Jane rests. You should say

855
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:03.199
it was just the thing, the perfect personal You're.

856
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:03.920
Just sitting best.

857
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:15.920
I don't see a minute, y Dunkle tell you suddingly speak.

858
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:17.159
You don't me?

859
00:49:18.119 --> 00:49:21.360
What does all left me their pease? Which time would

860
00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:21.719
you don't?

861
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:26.760
I'll just slain till be fine. What a lot of

862
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:29.159
bottles and jobs all of these teams.

863
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:34.119
Doesn't knowing I'm an herb expert, you know, just a

864
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:34.800
holiday with me?

865
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:36.400
Care?

866
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:39.079
I don't be a minute.

867
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:43.679
You have quite a collection here? H skin, Now what's

868
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:44.360
that's used for?

869
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.280
It's not enough person? Sometimes I need to.

870
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:55.719
Dream fo them hemlocks ask me, s me to Tia

871
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:57.280
aren't dangerous to have around.

872
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.559
You just have to know how to strike me and

873
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.280
answer me. Don't you give it another thought? I told

874
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.159
you I'm a mixed good coming on. We'll have team

875
00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:08.000
the parlor.

876
00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:16.000
Victoria, my dear, that was delicious tea.

877
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:19.519
Thank you, duncle. Now I'm sure you would like to

878
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:21.880
untack and get shuttled after all you.

879
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:22.400
Have to do?

880
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:23.800
Now what mine is?

881
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:24.159
Yours?

882
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:25.679
And what yours? And nine?

883
00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:29.159
Yes, the one until death?

884
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:29.920
Do us?

885
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:33.920
Please, mister duncle, let us not talk about things I care.

886
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:36.159
Oh, I'm sorry, Victoria, but one must be prepared to

887
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:38.920
face sex. I think we should make our wills. That's

888
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:39.719
so the possible.

889
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:43.280
I don't have a concision to make, mister duncle, I

890
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.079
already had nine oyer taking.

891
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:45.199
Care of it.

892
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.840
Bad the paper for it to sign the motto, my

893
00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:51.519
dear Victoria, you think of it, I tried to my dear. Now,

894
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:53.840
so we get some pack, all right, I'm gonna try

895
00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:56.320
to carry too manybody to the jungle of stairs the

896
00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:57.079
sea very.

897
00:50:56.960 --> 00:50:59.239
Well, Victoria, I'll just take this large one first, and

898
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:00.039
i'll carry.

899
00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:09.360
This black Why I'll what dishes looking at night?

900
00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:12.159
You of course of them?

901
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:15.000
What John earth are you doing with them?

902
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:15.679
Well?

903
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:18.039
When I retired, I just couldn't past with them?

904
00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:19.000
They were my favorite.

905
00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:22.239
Might I asked what your position while the whole in

906
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:22.679
the town?

907
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:25.920
I thought I told you I was a butcher.

908
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:27.239
Butcher?

909
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:31.039
Yes, my wife Mary rest her So used to say

910
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:32.880
that I was the most distinguished butcher in town.

911
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:36.760
Didn't you say your wife's name was Jane Jane?

912
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:41.119
Well it was Mary Jane, Yes, that was it, Mary Jane,

913
00:51:41.199 --> 00:51:42.119
a wonderful woman.

914
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:46.360
Mister duncle. You'll sign the guest room at the head

915
00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:49.360
of the stairs, the pretoria of the two of us,

916
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:53.000
all one much tonight, mister Dunc, my door will be

917
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:56.920
lost must and if you'll remain lost in to the

918
00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.360
lawyer comes tomorrow. Good night, seems to uncle.

919
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.199
There we are all fined and sealed.

920
00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:13.480
What is his is yours, and what is yours is his?

921
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:14.679
And hite servant.

922
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:18.079
I'm glad it's over, mister. All the time, I think

923
00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:23.480
we'll be so depressing you for so real story. And

924
00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:27.679
now you can excuse me. I've seen the scene.

925
00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:32.679
Well, uncle, I must say you are speaking that place.

926
00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:35.719
You have a fine woman for a wife, Yes, a

927
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:39.599
fine woman, Uncle, Make her happy, you can do it.

928
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:41.559
She's had such a sad.

929
00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:44.239
Life, losing her husband one after the other.

930
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:50.599
Husband, yes, all seven everyone is undage a dollar, a thirteen.

931
00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:55.880
And then one by one. God's been so hard on her.

932
00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:59.079
And now at this house mortgage to the hills morgage.

933
00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:01.400
But dunc uh, what's the matter?

934
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:03.079
Are you ill?

935
00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:07.679
Duncle Victoria quick?

936
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:16.400
I think mister duncle has think in a moment. We

937
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:18.320
continue with the second act, though.

938
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:27.639
Spence another visit with Joe and Daphne for side older ahead.

939
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:31.760
The moon is all the Daphne all of.

940
00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:33.400
Get.

941
00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:37.719
Honey, I'm trying out to be operated as what you

942
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:40.320
could have fooled me? How do you practicing one of

943
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:40.760
the song?

944
00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:42.280
Well, I don't think.

945
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:43.199
You're quite fit the role.

946
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:43.960
Why not?

947
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:46.920
Well, if this version of the student prince is like

948
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:50.119
the version I know that particular number is sung by

949
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.719
a tailer, Oh my picture don't come close. But I

950
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:55.880
think you better stick to being a house boy. But

951
00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:59.199
I want to be a singer, Daphne, Honey, a singer

952
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:02.440
you'll never be. I could take lessons, got the lessons

953
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:06.320
costs money, money, better investments for us and savings bans

954
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:06.840
you and.

955
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:08.320
Your own savings bonds.

956
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:10.760
I can't help it, honey, I just can't get over

957
00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:14.119
the way those savings bonds pay off four dollars for

958
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:15.960
every three That's.

959
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:18.920
What I call an investment. What good are they doing now?

960
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:19.800
A lot?

961
00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:23.159
The money we're putting those bonds every payday helps keep

962
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:25.800
America strong and protects you and me.

963
00:54:26.599 --> 00:54:29.760
No bonds may be no Operetta, ever think of that.

964
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:31.599
I still want to be a singer.

965
00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:34.480
Well, when those bonds start bringing in the green, If

966
00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:36.679
you still want to say you'll pay for the lessons

967
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:37.480
and more.

968
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.920
Good, gee, if those bonds. But you're a fact that

969
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:43.559
you say. I got to start practicing now, just so

970
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.079
that I'll be ready overhead.

971
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:50.760
The moon is Daphne, Daphne, did anyone ever tell you

972
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:52.039
you have a bad voice?

973
00:54:52.599 --> 00:55:00.880
Everyone and no, starting nob with miss Lee Pastick act to.

974
00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:04.440
Just one happy little family.

975
00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:11.440
Mister duncle, why are you looking at me so strangely?

976
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:17.079
Why didn't you tell me this house was mortgage baking mortgage?

977
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:19.840
Why didn't you tell me about your floor being married before.

978
00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:21.039
The past husband?

979
00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:22.800
Know about your dear departed husband.

980
00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:25.920
Let's not talk about them. We have each other now

981
00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.480
for our golden years, and let us forget the past.

982
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.400
How familiar that sounds? So there arrest her soul always

983
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:35.800
said it was better to forget the past.

984
00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:36.880
Who is Sylvia?

985
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:37.639
Who she was?

986
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:38.119
My wife?

987
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:41.239
So wonderful Lord, you said your wife's name King, then

988
00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:43.800
she was Mary, and now Sylvia. Don't tell me her

989
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:45.079
name is Mary Kane? Sylvia?

990
00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:48.719
Quite it was like this, mister duncle.

991
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:55.159
How many wives have you had? And where are they now?

992
00:55:55.599 --> 00:55:56.760
They passed on?

993
00:55:57.360 --> 00:55:57.559
Oh?

994
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:00.320
Why, oh hope? Would you?

995
00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:02.239
But you had seven husbands?

996
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:03.000
Oh?

997
00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:06.719
I right, mister dunker. Let's not crawl. Let us live

998
00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.920
for the future. That is a little second mortgage on hunt.

999
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:14.079
But with your retirement money, Victoria, there is something.

1000
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:15.440
You should know about my retirement.

1001
00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:18.599
What about it? You are retired, don't you, well, not

1002
00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:20.039
exactly retired.

1003
00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:25.000
I'm bankrupt, big cript. You don't have any money, not

1004
00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:25.440
a penny.

1005
00:56:26.559 --> 00:56:29.239
Oh, this is a tertal clow to me. I had

1006
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:30.480
such pure.

1007
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:33.480
I imagine you did, involving arsenic name and me.

1008
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:39.400
Now, mister dunker cantest, didn't you tend to parse me

1009
00:56:39.719 --> 00:56:41.639
up like a popaon well.

1010
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:44.519
Just because you per arsenic, no reason to direct name?

1011
00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:47.800
Make it tidy certain, that's not the mess you made.

1012
00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:49.159
I beg your pardon.

1013
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:50.280
I told you I'm the first start.

1014
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:54.599
I'm sure you are, mister junkle, and don't keep me

1015
00:56:54.760 --> 00:56:55.280
an idea?

1016
00:56:55.800 --> 00:56:56.719
What kind of an idea?

1017
00:56:57.400 --> 00:56:59.840
I have an idea? We might make a good team.

1018
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:00.920
Thirteen.

1019
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:04.360
Yes, we both move money, and since we're both father experts,

1020
00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:09.400
why not work together on whom we can taste any

1021
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:12.320
botisement to the papers and then forgets whom.

1022
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:14.440
It's my work off.

1023
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:17.840
There's plenty of room in the seventh, and the flowers

1024
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:20.559
are in the nice and soft. Hardly any use to

1025
00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:23.000
dig it out, Victoria. I to get the spring of ideas,

1026
00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:27.960
and better advertise at once. There is a modelertainment, dude,

1027
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:33.039
I don't know, Victoria.

1028
00:57:33.039 --> 00:57:33.960
I'll find the Africans.

1029
00:57:34.039 --> 00:57:35.880
So far, I'm not a one head any money.

1030
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:37.760
And even worse, most of them had relatives.

1031
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:41.400
He had pating sitter. Duncle will sign someone of false

1032
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:49.000
don't keep up the ship suit, duncle. Ye your false dress,

1033
00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:52.599
as I knew, and you would be so sweet and sanely.

1034
00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:56.480
You must have the wrong house, child, But I can't have. Oh,

1035
00:57:56.559 --> 00:57:59.079
I hurried so I did so want to be the

1036
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:02.199
first one year. I just know it's what I'm looking for.

1037
00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:04.280
The room.

1038
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:08.119
The advertisement in the paper said you have Why didn't

1039
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:10.000
you say so? Do come in, child?

1040
00:58:10.519 --> 00:58:10.559
You?

1041
00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:14.760
Oh it's so beautiful in here.

1042
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:21.119
But your name goldenly golden, Oh, what a lovely sound.

1043
00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:22.880
May I have the room?

1044
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:26.159
May I please? I have money, lots of it, right

1045
00:58:26.239 --> 00:58:29.800
nearly my purse. I'll show you. I keep it tied

1046
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:31.920
up in his hand. Kerchen, All that is a lot

1047
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:34.840
of money. Aren't you afraid of losing it? Goodness now?

1048
00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:37.639
And besides, I can get much more at home.

1049
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:40.079
You have a room and the family.

1050
00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:43.480
I suppose I don't have a family. My daddy and

1051
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:46.599
mommy went to heaven together, and I was so lonely

1052
00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:51.800
in that big house, a big hun oh, very big cher.

1053
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:53.960
I have a picture of it in my purse.

1054
00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:58.840
See that's a big house. You must have fourteen rooms.

1055
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:02.719
I think so too. And you have no relatives. No,

1056
00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:08.960
I'm all by myself. God, dear, what every girl needs

1057
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:12.079
to famil it? I want one more than anything. I

1058
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:17.480
please let me stay. I could be so happy. Of course,

1059
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:21.960
you can say you're just the kind of dear person

1060
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:36.159
we were hoping for. Right now, mister duncle, your breakfast

1061
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:40.119
is on the table, golden ankle, a thousand minutes, so

1062
00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:45.920
you have everything ready? Oh ideas nick chocolate. I got

1063
00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:48.840
the recipe from a woody old witches hand book, but

1064
00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:50.000
I've never tried it before.

1065
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:52.599
I do hope it worked too, my dear.

1066
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:54.760
I can't think of any other way to get her

1067
00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:55.199
out of.

1068
00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.280
Attorney, mister duncle. I was sure it would be legal.

1069
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:01.559
Of course, the same thing work with silver or want

1070
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:02.119
that marriage.

1071
01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:05.760
Let's to be careful, golden niggas such as tinted the girl.

1072
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:07.400
I couldn't dare to hurt her feelings.

1073
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:10.039
You have grown fond of her in these two weeks

1074
01:00:10.079 --> 01:00:11.079
she's been Whether it's having to.

1075
01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:13.679
I really have, I don't know what it is, but

1076
01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:17.320
something start will remind me of myself when I was

1077
01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:21.719
a girl. It's just like having a daughter. Did you

1078
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:23.840
find her a nice part in the garden?

1079
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:24.719
I'm not.

1080
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:27.559
It's all too rocky, just like.

1081
01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:29.480
Our own daughter, and we have to put her in

1082
01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:33.320
that awful cellar. A garden would be so much nicer.

1083
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:39.679
She loves flowers, so funny. Daddy, duncle, some mommy, dunkle

1084
01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:44.880
down here. I have a lovely surprise for your here.

1085
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:51.280
I made a desishing for you. Shock, What a heavenly idea.

1086
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:55.119
You'll do so much fun. Drink it while it's hot.

1087
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:02.480
It's delicious, so different tasting, diversity is quin.

1088
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:04.039
M.

1089
01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:06.039
That's good.

1090
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:11.840
Oh, making me so sleepy.

1091
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:15.559
It's works quickly, doesn't it though?

1092
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:21.000
Now we'll make sure Golden late, Golden late. Can you

1093
01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:25.280
hear me, child? I hear now, Golden link. I want

1094
01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:28.159
you to do something for me. It's very simple. I

1095
01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:33.519
want you to write your name on this piece of paper. Yes, mommy, duncle,

1096
01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:43.199
whatever you show here, you are, mister duncle, all tied

1097
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:45.079
amazing Victoria.

1098
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:46.880
But how are you going to bring her out of

1099
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:47.320
the truck?

1100
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:52.400
Simple? All potions have a counter potion, and here golden

1101
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:56.320
met my dear drink some more chocolate. It would be

1102
01:01:56.400 --> 01:02:05.920
good for you, Yes, mommy duncle golden link. But the

1103
01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:11.239
chocolate girl, Oh yes, it was werful. Such a nice

1104
01:02:11.400 --> 01:02:15.519
change from team you are always good.

1105
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:17.079
I feel won.

1106
01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:22.000
So wonderful that I think I composed some poltry today.

1107
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:23.360
Made snag.

1108
01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:25.079
Is that's what I do.

1109
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:27.960
I've write a solid about my little family.

1110
01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:31.400
Another one we must have written to just I never

1111
01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:34.239
get tired of writing about my little family.

1112
01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:41.119
Well, Victorian, now that the paper is sign and I'll

1113
01:02:41.159 --> 01:02:44.440
get my things ready, I suppose you better.

1114
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:46.840
I must say, it will feel good to slip into

1115
01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:47.800
a white coat again.

1116
01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:51.039
If only I hadn't shown away my fore head.

1117
01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:02.199
In a moment. We continue with the third act of

1118
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:04.800
time spank.

1119
01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:11.480
We have together ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom.

1120
01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:18.559
This is NATO, the North Athletic treat Organization. Day after day,

1121
01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:22.559
month after month, since April fourth, nineteen forty nine, the

1122
01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:26.079
activities of the not Atletic Treaty Organization have moved steadily

1123
01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:30.360
forward on many fronts. This complete cooperation must and will

1124
01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:34.639
continue because the concept of national self sufficiency is out

1125
01:03:34.679 --> 01:03:39.039
of date. Countries of the free world are interdependent and

1126
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:43.800
only in genuine partnership and by combining their resources, sharing

1127
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:47.400
that in many fields can progress and safety be found.

1128
01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:50.639
The United States of America is a part of NATO.

1129
01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:55.360
You should be aware of and alert to the objectives

1130
01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.239
and programs of the naut Atletic Treaty Organizations.

1131
01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:05.360
And now starring very noble with mister Lee Patrick, Act three.

1132
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:08.599
Of Just One Happy Little Family.

1133
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:16.039
Oh joke, A.

1134
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:16.679
Love to do that?

1135
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:18.760
That sounds at my teeth on edge.

1136
01:04:18.920 --> 01:04:21.840
She's might have to be raised and sharp appointed.

1137
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:24.679
Professional pride with me are already in a minute.

1138
01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:26.679
Surely you're not thinking of doing it now?

1139
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:27.599
Might as well.

1140
01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:30.360
But she's liking us, sound as to us, don't it

1141
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:33.320
wait just a while longer before we send her away?

1142
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:37.679
I suppose so after tea time? Then, Golden Lias so

1143
01:04:37.880 --> 01:04:40.039
l like tea time? And I hate to disappoint her,

1144
01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:43.000
Oh very well, I can't.

1145
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.000
Beare to say, but I did this sound.

1146
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:50.440
Goden me child? Why are you standing here by the door?

1147
01:04:52.119 --> 01:04:55.280
I wanted you to hear my sonny, oh my dear,

1148
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:58.800
and you see what you've written to her? I still

1149
01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:04.320
sunshine and the blue and purple rose. And then but

1150
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:09.519
it's not Sidney's child. I can't think right now.

1151
01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:11.639
I don't feel well.

1152
01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:14.599
Money don't go. You're poor, dear. Why don't you go

1153
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:19.400
rest in your home and maybe you'll think of something. Yeers,

1154
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:25.599
I'll do that. Maybe by tea time, i'll think of something.

1155
01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:36.320
She didn't make. That a lovely surprise. You're making tea

1156
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:39.039
for us, but you're not having any.

1157
01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:39.320
No.

1158
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:42.519
I just so love the chocolate you made this morning.

1159
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.639
I decided to have it again instead of tea. But

1160
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:48.960
it doesn't have the flavor of your hast No, I

1161
01:05:49.079 --> 01:05:49.719
imagine not.

1162
01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:52.800
I jilly sandwiches are just the way I like them,

1163
01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:54.320
or sprinkled with sugar.

1164
01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:56.119
Daddy, don't have another.

1165
01:05:56.559 --> 01:06:01.440
I believe I will to delicious. I enjoyed jelly sandwiches

1166
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:03.840
with my tea.

1167
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.360
Mister duncle, what's the matter. Do you have a touch

1168
01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:16.360
of indigestion? It's plan indigestion. He's dead, dead to pick

1169
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.239
a child, so I should be dead. I poisoned you

1170
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:23.039
poisoned him. Yes, I hope you're not angry that I

1171
01:06:23.239 --> 01:06:28.079
used so many of your urths. Couldn't how could you?

1172
01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:29.960
You were going to get rid of me.

1173
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:32.480
That's why I had to put some of your earths

1174
01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:36.239
in the sandwiches and tea. It's the tea, but I

1175
01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:40.039
don't it doo, Yes, I know you've got to hasten.

1176
01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:43.079
It's the antido so I don't think there is one. Mommy, duncle,

1177
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:48.239
your little recipe book didn't have one for him, low hemlock. Oh,

1178
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:56.199
you're right, there is no antidote. What's done done? Oh?

1179
01:06:56.519 --> 01:06:59.280
Why did you do it? Child? You were planning to

1180
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.440
send me away? Hey, I heard you. My mommy and

1181
01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:05.079
Daddy were going to send me away too. They didn't

1182
01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:07.679
love me either, but I showed them how much I

1183
01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:11.360
loved them. I sent them to heaven together, just like

1184
01:07:11.639 --> 01:07:16.360
you and Daddy, duncle, and poisoned him. Goodness, No, I

1185
01:07:16.599 --> 01:07:19.320
used an ax. This is the first time I've ever

1186
01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:23.480
poisoned anyone. But if this big house. I didn't want

1187
01:07:23.519 --> 01:07:25.880
to go to that big house. I didn't like it.

1188
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:27.079
Most of the time.

1189
01:07:27.159 --> 01:07:28.400
They kept me locked in a room.

1190
01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:31.119
But I got away and we thought.

1191
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:31.679
You were roots.

1192
01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:32.440
I am.

1193
01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:32.880
Oh.

1194
01:07:33.079 --> 01:07:35.239
Yes, a nice old man who lives in the big

1195
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:38.039
House gave me the money. He's got lots and lots

1196
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:41.199
of it. General Robertie Lee gave it to him personally.

1197
01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:47.239
Oh gold link chud No wonder you remind me of

1198
01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:57.199
myself when I was a bill. Oh, oh, don't worry,

1199
01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.840
mommy duncle. Now that you and Daddy Uncle have gone

1200
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:03.880
to heaven, I'll have to find another family to love.

1201
01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:08.880
But I'll find one. I'm sure there are lots lots

1202
01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:11.280
of people who would like to have a daughter.

1203
01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:12.519
Black Me.

1204
01:08:16.119 --> 01:08:21.239
Suspense in which mister Ray Nobles starred with Miss Lee

1205
01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:25.880
Patrick and William and Robeston's production of Just One Happy

1206
01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:31.359
Little Family and original radio play by John Thornton. Supporting

1207
01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:34.199
mister Noble and Miss Patrick and Just One Happy Little

1208
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:35.000
Family were.

1209
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:36.720
Shirley Mitchell and David Shiner.

1210
01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:42.760
Listen again next week when we return with another tale,

1211
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.920
well calculated to keep you in suspense.

1212
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:18.079
Well, my dear, I suppose that was a bit festive. Well,

1213
01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:21.880
I do try to celebrate a bit. I do try

1214
01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:28.239
to have that seasonal quality, even as time may not

1215
01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:34.520
be what it once was. Or what's that? Well, I

1216
01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:38.920
suppose it could use another log. I'll put one on

1217
01:09:39.039 --> 01:09:45.319
the fire right now. Hmm. When I imagine all the

1218
01:09:46.279 --> 01:09:54.039
travel and running around necessary to prepare a big bird dinner, well,

1219
01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:58.840
I can't help but feel like, well, when you're going

1220
01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:05.079
and going and going, you end up seven steps to murder.

1221
01:10:07.319 --> 01:10:08.439
The Whistler.

1222
01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:22.439
Presented by the United States Air Forces in Europe.

1223
01:10:25.159 --> 01:10:28.560
I am the Whistler, and I know many thinks.

1224
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:32.399
Or I walk by night. I know many strange.

1225
01:10:32.079 --> 01:10:35.079
Tales gidden in the hearts of men and women who.

1226
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:36.279
Have stepped into the shadows.

1227
01:10:37.159 --> 01:10:41.159
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare

1228
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:42.279
not speak.

1229
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:44.359
To.

1230
01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:49.680
Might transcribe that the Whistler strains story seven that's to murders.

1231
01:10:56.920 --> 01:11:00.439
The action Clayton affair was unusual for two reason.

1232
01:11:01.119 --> 01:11:02.079
In the first place, of.

1233
01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:06.479
Course, it involved a pair of famous newspaper men, Archer actors,

1234
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:10.079
the dean of New York drama critics and Everett Clayton

1235
01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:11.359
that syndicated columns.

1236
01:11:12.279 --> 01:11:15.079
But more than that, it was interesting in its fructure.

1237
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:17.279
Yeah, there were.

1238
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:22.239
Seven distinct steps between an apparently quarterial relationship and a murder.

1239
01:11:24.520 --> 01:11:27.880
The opening night of Clayton's first play, The Whirlwind, was

1240
01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:31.880
step number one. Atkins had attended, of course, with the

1241
01:11:31.960 --> 01:11:35.119
rest of the critics, and shortly after the final curtain

1242
01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:37.920
had walked across the street to the offices of the

1243
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:41.239
New York Globe with Murchison, his editor to meet the

1244
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:43.279
newspaper's deadline.

1245
01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:54.640
School. Everett Clayton's new play The Whole Wind opened.

1246
01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:57.439
Last night at the brighton Thetter, with Diana Brooks and

1247
01:11:57.640 --> 01:11:58.840
Paul Strand.

1248
01:11:58.600 --> 01:11:59.359
In the leading.

1249
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:04.399
Oh, I want to see what you did to Clayton's play.

1250
01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:08.640
I thought it was great? Or did you? Here's what

1251
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:09.239
I thought.

1252
01:12:11.720 --> 01:12:16.560
Ever at Clayton's new play, The Whirlwind is dullness itself

1253
01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:22.039
is utterly lacking, you know, originality, imagination, or even ordinary playability.

1254
01:12:22.760 --> 01:12:25.119
The death Battle was artible before the first.

1255
01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:29.560
Actress five minutes or blessed acting Jaqua, Why God, you

1256
01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:30.439
go up together?

1257
01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:33.359
You came from Texas together. You even engaged to assist.

1258
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:34.479
He's your best friend.

1259
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:37.239
Art no friendship. You're a liar.

1260
01:12:37.680 --> 01:12:41.359
You're jealous because Clayton's invading the drama, your sacred territory.

1261
01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:45.439
That's true. You should fire me, too bad, I'm too influential.

1262
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:49.680
Huh No, One of these days you'll stick your neck

1263
01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:51.600
out too far and I'll shop it off.

1264
01:12:55.199 --> 01:12:58.720
Your review of Everett clayton play The Death Number two.

1265
01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:02.319
The next day, you see Clayton in the coffee shop

1266
01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:04.399
of the Stratford Club where both of you live.

1267
01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:08.520
He walks over to your boot, his face tints and expression,

1268
01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:12.920
the paper folded in his pocket. Will ever good to

1269
01:13:13.199 --> 01:13:13.600
see you?

1270
01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:14.359
Sit down?

1271
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:18.920
Yes?

1272
01:13:19.319 --> 01:13:24.960
Coffee? Yes to no coffee for me? Milk, yes, your

1273
01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:25.880
stomach again.

1274
01:13:26.439 --> 01:13:30.920
You're getting worse, I'm afraid. But that's not why I came,

1275
01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:36.039
Is it not you? I suppose not that review watcher.

1276
01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:40.399
Nice of you. You're not the player, right every you

1277
01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:43.880
you on least saw the play, every single of course,

1278
01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:45.479
and office spends a.

1279
01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:47.640
Year writing a player, and that's the consideration he gets

1280
01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:50.319
any of your money and everything I've.

1281
01:13:50.239 --> 01:13:53.560
Got all too bad? Why didn't you consult me before let.

1282
01:13:53.520 --> 01:13:53.960
Me read it?

1283
01:13:54.159 --> 01:13:57.840
Because only when I get sarcasm? Smart Quack's not one

1284
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:02.720
bit of constructive criticism. There is all item you forgot talent.

1285
01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:06.279
No one has yet succeeded in drawing.

1286
01:14:06.079 --> 01:14:08.840
Milk from an airlifts, nor kindness from a crick. If

1287
01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:11.039
you wanted charity, you should have said so. Do you

1288
01:14:11.079 --> 01:14:12.800
want me to go over a scene by scene and

1289
01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:13.319
show you how?

1290
01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:16.960
And it is because you couldn't. That's the trouble.

1291
01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:19.359
You know. The people don't decide what's good or bad anymore.

1292
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:20.560
They wait for the critics to tell.

1293
01:14:20.439 --> 01:14:23.119
Them thanks to you.

1294
01:14:23.239 --> 01:14:25.760
I know my player is dead, Atkins, but I also

1295
01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:28.359
know you're a fake. You Metiphony all your life. If

1296
01:14:28.399 --> 01:14:31.319
the Rover Boys in Switzerland had Alan Pole's name on it,

1297
01:14:31.399 --> 01:14:32.079
you'd call it great.

1298
01:14:32.159 --> 01:14:34.479
So easy, old boy, you're getting carried away. I picked

1299
01:14:34.520 --> 01:14:35.079
on the wrong guy.

1300
01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:38.399
Arre I've got twenty million readers to before this thing's over.

1301
01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:40.239
I'm going to make you look like the Billage idiot.

1302
01:14:42.399 --> 01:14:47.399
Just do me a favorite ackings. Check my column tomorrow.

1303
01:14:48.359 --> 01:15:11.640
It'll interest you. And now back through the Whistler.

1304
01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:31.159
Yes, Archer, although you didn't know it at the time,

1305
01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.079
the case that was soon to become famous as the

1306
01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:39.600
Atkin Clayton affair fell neatly in the seventh parts seven steps.

1307
01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:43.399
The murders Clayton's play, of course, was the first step,

1308
01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:46.560
and the scathing review that appeared in the Globe the

1309
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:47.680
next day over.

1310
01:15:47.560 --> 01:15:51.680
Your signature was the second. But when you arrive at

1311
01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:52.760
your office the next.

1312
01:15:52.720 --> 01:15:55.880
Day, merchant and the editor is sitting on your debt

1313
01:15:56.039 --> 01:15:59.159
waiting for you, the afternoon edition of the Ledger in

1314
01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:08.199
his hands, hellavergerful Greek Clake was confined did not lead paragraph. Listen,

1315
01:16:09.920 --> 01:16:12.560
I am now reconciled that the fact that my play

1316
01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:15.319
The Whirlwind will close in a matter of days as

1317
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:17.399
a result of the efforts of a group of critics

1318
01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:21.359
headed by Archer Atkins. As a matter of fact, Atkins

1319
01:16:21.399 --> 01:16:23.560
is not equipped to set himself up as a critic

1320
01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:28.600
or even a writer. He has no conception of literature, dramatic, poetic,

1321
01:16:28.760 --> 01:16:29.319
or otherwise.

1322
01:16:29.840 --> 01:16:31.119
And I intend approving all.

1323
01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:34.239
Amusing, but not very You started all of this, Atkins.

1324
01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:36.359
I think you should allow ty Busy Marginson.

1325
01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:40.359
I'm sure there a few obituaries that require your keen intelligence.

1326
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:46.000
Who Clayton gives you a socker majure.

1327
01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:55.680
That depth number three arching the public challenge that went

1328
01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:59.479
out to twenty million leaders. He decided it's ridiculous. The

1329
01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:03.920
court forget about it. The play lasts five days.

1330
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:06.600
We close, then one evening.

1331
01:17:06.720 --> 01:17:10.279
Some months later, Barbara Ross, the fashion editor on the Ledger,

1332
01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:13.119
walk up to you in the lobby and taps you

1333
01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:13.960
on the shoulders.

1334
01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:15.680
A good darling.

1335
01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:20.039
I find something I thought you want A glance that.

1336
01:17:21.560 --> 01:17:23.960
Printed there nothing like that.

1337
01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:26.439
Somebody hadn't made his book of poetry.

1338
01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:29.920
Of course it was print it privately on a fifty copies.

1339
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:35.960
Fourteen by Jaafar Ahmad, what's the worst?

1340
01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:39.520
I think it's lovely. It's written by an immigrant boy

1341
01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:40.680
about his love.

1342
01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:44.800
For a little girl who saying, oh, but our poetry, Darling,

1343
01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:47.640
is as much a part of adolescence as the first shave,

1344
01:17:48.359 --> 01:17:49.840
and just about is important.

1345
01:17:49.960 --> 01:17:53.239
But it's really quite good. The boy seems to have

1346
01:17:53.399 --> 01:17:57.159
an excellent sense of meter and a good deal of insight.

1347
01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:00.119
Tool so you know so much.

1348
01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:02.960
More about poetry than anyone else I know.

1349
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:05.199
All right.

1350
01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:14.000
Ere, I look at it over through before the book

1351
01:18:14.039 --> 01:18:17.399
of poetry. Nothing to it, of course, is there, Archer.

1352
01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:20.079
But you take it home and toss it on the

1353
01:18:20.199 --> 01:18:23.560
night stand, and just before you decide to turn out

1354
01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:26.399
the lights, you pick it up and glance at.

1355
01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:33.159
The first page holds you from the start.

1356
01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:37.479
There's something about the poems of Punch, almost as if

1357
01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:38.479
you'd readen.

1358
01:18:38.279 --> 01:18:43.159
Before memory, things you'd forgotten completely spring.

1359
01:18:42.960 --> 01:18:44.399
The light death.

1360
01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:48.039
This boy has managed to capture something out of every

1361
01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:52.479
man's youth, something that gets under your scheme and stays there.

1362
01:18:53.479 --> 01:18:55.600
To finish the book, get out of.

1363
01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:57.640
Bed hurriedly and sit down at your typewriter.

1364
01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:00.600
You can't wait until tomorrow when you watch it.

1365
01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:03.680
You've got to get it on paper now.

1366
01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:12.000
Although the poems are.

1367
01:19:12.039 --> 01:19:16.039
Immature, there's something great and universal about this work. The

1368
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.159
value has been printed privately, but in my opinion, it

1369
01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:22.039
would be a wise investment for any publisher to issue

1370
01:19:22.079 --> 01:19:27.159
it in quantity. Fourteen by Java Armored should never be forgotten.

1371
01:19:28.920 --> 01:19:32.399
I ought to do it be on the bestseller list

1372
01:19:32.479 --> 01:19:33.039
in a month.

1373
01:19:44.039 --> 01:19:46.760
In the morning, you hand your article to a copyboy,

1374
01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:48.720
unaware of course, that you've.

1375
01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:51.560
Just completed Get Numbers five.

1376
01:19:52.600 --> 01:19:55.119
Although you don't know it, the minute you turn in

1377
01:19:55.239 --> 01:19:58.239
that with you, you will nearer to murder than you've

1378
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:09.239
ever been in your life. Uh it's jug twenty four

1379
01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:12.000
hours later, when the same boy walked into your office

1380
01:20:12.520 --> 01:20:15.680
places the newspaper on your death death number.

1381
01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:23.479
Think people covering the lat around time here here.

1382
01:20:24.760 --> 01:20:28.119
Three months ago, I promised to reveal Archer Atkins, the

1383
01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:31.039
so called dean of literary critics, as a pony.

1384
01:20:31.760 --> 01:20:34.479
Today I call attention to the raves he's been giving

1385
01:20:34.520 --> 01:20:34.840
the book.

1386
01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:39.479
A poem called fourteen, supposedly written by a fourteen year

1387
01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:46.399
old Iranian lab affective gentle reader. I of fourteen, what

1388
01:20:46.600 --> 01:20:47.760
a shocking.

1389
01:20:47.680 --> 01:20:50.319
I did own home? I just I didn't sit That's

1390
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:51.720
all right. You needn't hide that.

1391
01:20:52.640 --> 01:20:55.640
Some of our best people read over Clayton, including the

1392
01:20:55.680 --> 01:20:59.439
publishers of this past clash stop track analyzed two hours

1393
01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:02.600
later fourteen you haven't got enough sense. Seems to know

1394
01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:04.560
a lot about it, Archer read on.

1395
01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:07.600
He tells just how he did it. You have no

1396
01:21:07.720 --> 01:21:08.840
knowledge of poetry, he.

1397
01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:12.279
Says, just threw together the luscious and most senseless adjectives

1398
01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:15.000
he could concoct, and the whole mess printed up on

1399
01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:20.199
the quiet. You, the great Archer Atkins, praised it.

1400
01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:20.680
To the sky.

1401
01:21:21.119 --> 01:21:22.880
Why are you trying to tell me that you believe

1402
01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:26.079
this not much? What a man, a man who got readers, Archer,

1403
01:21:26.239 --> 01:21:27.119
twenty million of them.

1404
01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:27.960
So calm down.

1405
01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:29.560
Don't tell me to calm down.

1406
01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:31.760
The matter of fact, why don't you get out of here?

1407
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:34.920
Took me at a pipri logis placing his place, not

1408
01:21:35.039 --> 01:21:37.039
at a globe you award, and why not?

1409
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:41.000
I talked to the publishers. I want your resignation for

1410
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:41.640
the end of the month.

1411
01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:45.279
Now I'm editing your material, and I don't tend to

1412
01:21:45.319 --> 01:21:46.239
have any libel.

1413
01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:46.920
Suits on my hands.

1414
01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:50.199
Not able to save the great name of Archer Atkins.

1415
01:21:51.479 --> 01:21:57.600
Good day for once, sever the last word.

1416
01:21:59.159 --> 01:22:07.079
Where Archier return you never expected. And it's even worse

1417
01:22:07.159 --> 01:22:09.439
when you reach the steps of trove and learn that

1418
01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:11.399
you've suddenly been turned into.

1419
01:22:11.239 --> 01:22:12.399
A laughing stock.

1420
01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:15.039
Watch, old boy, how could you?

1421
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:16.000
What was it?

1422
01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:16.239
Now?

1423
01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:21.439
I still feel the music, the poignant expression of an

1424
01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:29.079
adulgent lull, sweetly organizing emotions, part of every man, Dude,

1425
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:30.600
I want a lot of.

1426
01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:33.560
Falling of pain on your skull by hand.

1427
01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:37.000
Helem and gentlemen, you hear the great actions is no

1428
01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:40.359
longer capable of using, is cutting down you must now

1429
01:22:40.520 --> 01:22:41.000
it's all.

1430
01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:42.000
To a kain.

1431
01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:51.000
And this thing is got to hasn't a goot you?

1432
01:22:51.399 --> 01:22:56.039
And it hurts the twisting inside you, until finally the

1433
01:22:56.199 --> 01:22:57.840
seventh step begins.

1434
01:22:57.560 --> 01:22:58.319
To take shape.

1435
01:22:59.199 --> 01:23:11.359
The seventh and final steps murder. The frightening thought, isn't it, Archer?

1436
01:23:11.680 --> 01:23:15.520
Frightening but very clear? It's all there in your mind

1437
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:18.399
as you ride up to your luxurious suite in the elevator.

1438
01:23:19.359 --> 01:23:21.680
Emerys Clayton is a man of habit.

1439
01:23:22.199 --> 01:23:24.199
One of them forced upon him by his health.

1440
01:23:25.279 --> 01:23:26.680
You know all about that, Archer.

1441
01:23:27.159 --> 01:23:30.760
How each evening it's seventh a waiter brings a large

1442
01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:34.840
glass of milk into his apartment you smile as you

1443
01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:39.279
let yourself into your rooms across the hall tonight that

1444
01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:42.199
same waiter must bring you something as well.

1445
01:23:42.760 --> 01:23:47.159
Hell our coffee shop, as mister askid, I wonder if

1446
01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:48.079
you'd send me up something.

1447
01:23:48.279 --> 01:23:53.479
Uh no, I don't know, something light as chicken, sandwich, PABs.

1448
01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:58.239
Oh no, no, hurry, well said, you have a waiter

1449
01:23:58.319 --> 01:23:59.800
coming to mister Clayton's rooms.

1450
01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:00.439
Seven.

1451
01:24:01.319 --> 01:24:06.279
It's time enough. Surely don't make a special tread thank you?

1452
01:24:18.920 --> 01:24:19.119
Wait?

1453
01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:23.039
Are yes you have a sandwich and coffee for me?

1454
01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:27.239
Or yes? But I was going to start first at

1455
01:24:27.279 --> 01:24:27.880
mister Clayton.

1456
01:24:27.960 --> 01:24:29.560
Bears were coming in a moment, and I set it

1457
01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:31.600
down there on the desk. Would and I wonder if

1458
01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:32.560
you do something for me.

1459
01:24:32.680 --> 01:24:35.319
I'll try to unlock a suitcase a moment ago, but

1460
01:24:35.319 --> 01:24:36.920
I could see the term the key.

1461
01:24:37.079 --> 01:24:40.079
Would you have a look at it? Right? Certainly? So

1462
01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:43.000
it raise it INDI bedroom? Of course, it's too much,

1463
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:45.520
not at all. So I have handled a lot of things.

1464
01:24:49.720 --> 01:24:52.520
You hesitated. The waiter starts to cross to the bedroom.

1465
01:24:52.920 --> 01:24:55.319
Then you turn quickly to the tray he sat down.

1466
01:24:55.199 --> 01:24:57.600
On your desk before he comes back to you.

1467
01:24:57.720 --> 01:25:00.680
Into the contents of a small envelope into the milk

1468
01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:01.760
intended for Clayton.

1469
01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:05.359
You stir it hastily and then return to your book.

1470
01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:10.199
Well, I got it open for you, so that lock

1471
01:25:10.319 --> 01:25:11.680
is sprung a little bit though.

1472
01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:14.079
Oh well, I'll have to have an attended to. Here

1473
01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:16.960
you go. Thanks for your trouble not adult, sir, Thank

1474
01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:24.039
you very much. Thank you. You settle back in your chair,

1475
01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:26.479
now giving you a way of time to deliver the

1476
01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:27.800
glass of milk to Clayton.

1477
01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:30.600
A few minutes later, you sit down into.

1478
01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:33.960
The corridor and down the hall, stop outside of Clayton's

1479
01:25:34.039 --> 01:25:34.760
door and listen.

1480
01:25:35.520 --> 01:25:38.520
He's talking to someone on the telephone. Yes, yes, I

1481
01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:39.319
got your lener.

1482
01:25:40.520 --> 01:25:41.640
Well, what did you expect me to do?

1483
01:25:44.039 --> 01:25:44.199
Right?

1484
01:25:44.439 --> 01:25:49.720
All right? I tell you about a first of law. Yes, yes,

1485
01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:51.479
I promised. Goodbye.

1486
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:57.960
You wait tensely after Clayton hangs up, hoping no one

1487
01:25:58.039 --> 01:25:58.520
will come.

1488
01:25:58.439 --> 01:26:03.720
Along the hall, and by his den a moment dragged by.

1489
01:26:05.399 --> 01:26:06.119
What are you doing?

1490
01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:10.119
He ever going to pick up that glass?

1491
01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:11.600
And then.

1492
01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:24.279
A moment later you whip the.

1493
01:26:24.319 --> 01:26:27.039
Door open, step inside and lock it. A glance at

1494
01:26:27.079 --> 01:26:29.960
Clayton's bodies fall on the floor assures you that he's dead.

1495
01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:33.359
Quickly you cross the room and sit down at.

1496
01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:42.760
His spattered portable typewriter. To my dear mother, comer, my sister, Comma,

1497
01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:50.159
and jingle herendos cooling. It isn't often that a man

1498
01:26:51.239 --> 01:27:01.760
gets the opportunity to write his own obituary. Here leave me, Tammas.

1499
01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:12.119
This isn't easy, Tammas, that I neal or something. You

1500
01:27:12.279 --> 01:27:15.720
type rapidly, Archer, because you know exactly what you want.

1501
01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:20.520
Clayton's suicide note to say it includes, above all else

1502
01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:21.880
the confession.

1503
01:27:21.920 --> 01:27:24.359
One in which the dead Everett Clayton.

1504
01:27:24.399 --> 01:27:27.479
Will admit to the world that he perpetrated a deliberate

1505
01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:28.399
hoax against you.

1506
01:27:29.439 --> 01:27:32.680
His note tells how he lied and claiming to have written.

1507
01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:37.159
The verses in the book fourteen, how actually he simply

1508
01:27:37.279 --> 01:27:40.399
dug up a number of anonymous ballads and revised them

1509
01:27:40.439 --> 01:27:40.680
a bit.

1510
01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:44.399
You put it all down art you your way.

1511
01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:48.840
But if Everett Clayton style, and then you add his

1512
01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:53.399
well known signature, just the too simple type written letters

1513
01:27:54.119 --> 01:27:55.359
E C.

1514
01:27:58.039 --> 01:27:59.159
Thanks my dear Everett.

1515
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:04.600
We'll see tomorrow how your twenty million readers like.

1516
01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:29.960
This water go back to the whistler.

1517
01:28:34.840 --> 01:28:39.039
Well the seven steps of past now Watchers, every Clayton

1518
01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:42.960
is dead. But more important than that, the suicide note

1519
01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:45.560
in his pipewriter will put you back at the top

1520
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:48.680
of the heat, Murchison.

1521
01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:49.479
You'll publish a.

1522
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:53.119
Handley and the whole literary world will have to admit

1523
01:28:53.640 --> 01:28:56.520
who has the right to wear the critics crowned.

1524
01:28:57.840 --> 01:29:00.680
You don't seem at all surprised at he's calling on you,

1525
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:03.319
mister erecting, Oh my dear Captain Foss.

1526
01:29:03.720 --> 01:29:05.880
But the moment the manager of this club informed me

1527
01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:09.119
of Clayton's demise, I resigned myself to a round of

1528
01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:13.600
dull question. Naturally, you've known him all his life, grew

1529
01:29:13.680 --> 01:29:14.920
up with him, sweed.

1530
01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:16.800
On his sister at one child. She want to know

1531
01:29:16.920 --> 01:29:19.920
I was an incubator. Baby weighed three pounds two of month.

1532
01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:23.359
Her answers, I'm surprised you are more interested in the

1533
01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:24.680
way Clayton dies.

1534
01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:29.399
I like to believe people, Captain. When I'm told someone

1535
01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:31.560
is dead, I assume he's dead.

1536
01:29:32.199 --> 01:29:34.359
Whether he was shot through the head with a cannon,

1537
01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:37.239
threw himself into mouth vesuviosos club to death with the

1538
01:29:37.279 --> 01:29:41.159
missing armor of Vinosimilo doesn't concern me in the least.

1539
01:29:41.399 --> 01:29:43.760
Poison. It's more to your liking isn't it.

1540
01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:46.760
I don't know what you're trying to imply.

1541
01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:47.760
Let's make it clear.

1542
01:29:47.840 --> 01:29:50.039
Then, how long did it take you to write that

1543
01:29:50.199 --> 01:29:54.399
note note the suicide note in Clayton's typewriter?

1544
01:29:54.520 --> 01:29:55.359
Who do tell him?

1545
01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:59.039
Verse It says Clayton never wrote those poems, that he

1546
01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:01.319
stole them from mononymous ballad.

1547
01:30:02.039 --> 01:30:04.760
Well, I insisted on that all the time.

1548
01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:07.520
We'd like get hold of that, And you wrote that note, Atkins,

1549
01:30:08.159 --> 01:30:11.159
You poisoned Clayton and ran the note off on his typewriter.

1550
01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:14.840
Nonsense? Who gave you that story? Some idiots from the Ledger.

1551
01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:19.279
Take a look at these papers, Atkins, ever seen them before?

1552
01:30:20.920 --> 01:30:23.560
The Yellows was very old? After their poems.

1553
01:30:23.680 --> 01:30:26.640
You wrote to Everett Clayton's sister when you were fourteen,

1554
01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:30.119
over forty years ago. Far That book of poetry you

1555
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:33.880
reviewed was not written by Jaffar Ahmed or Everett Clayton,

1556
01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:34.600
but by Archer.

1557
01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:39.560
Atkins reviewed my own poetry. So it wasn't suicide.

1558
01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:42.000
You think he still did it?

1559
01:30:42.199 --> 01:30:46.760
It was a milicious It wasn't my suicide, Atkins, because

1560
01:30:46.840 --> 01:30:49.279
Clayton's sister blew up when she read what he did

1561
01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:50.079
with those poems.

1562
01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:52.560
After she sent them to him. She phoned him last night.

1563
01:30:54.760 --> 01:30:55.960
He was talking to her sister.

1564
01:30:56.479 --> 01:31:00.399
She made him promise the public retraction, Clayton, and we're

1565
01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:11.039
going to see you about it in the morning. Join

1566
01:31:11.119 --> 01:31:14.520
us again next week, and once again the United States

1567
01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:17.640
Air Forces in Europe presents a whistler.

1568
01:31:28.560 --> 01:31:36.479
There's this air force like Don Cormi speaking, My my.

1569
01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:41.000
It is getting late, isn't it. Well, time does fly

1570
01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:48.680
when you're having fun. Well, I suppose there's just time

1571
01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:51.840
for one more, because I know while you've been so

1572
01:31:52.119 --> 01:31:57.960
generous as to spend your time with me through these times, well,

1573
01:31:59.319 --> 01:32:02.720
I also know that sooner or later you need to

1574
01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:07.520
return to your your normal life. And I don't begrudge

1575
01:32:07.560 --> 01:32:11.840
you a bit. I understand that that's who you are.

1576
01:32:13.720 --> 01:32:17.319
I think we could all, in this time of giving thanks,

1577
01:32:18.279 --> 01:32:22.000
use a little bird songs for murder.

1578
01:32:34.359 --> 01:32:38.239
Good evening, friends of the creaking door, this is your

1579
01:32:38.319 --> 01:32:41.239
host to welcome you into the inner sanctum once again.

1580
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:45.239
Come in. Our little place may not be a mansion,

1581
01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:48.239
but it has its advantages. But one thing, it's thoroughly

1582
01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:50.000
scare condition.

1583
01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:54.439
The scream pipes are always in good working order, and

1584
01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:55.920
the rent's quite reasonable.

1585
01:32:56.159 --> 01:33:13.479
We get a cut raise hall. Well, you've had your warning.

1586
01:33:14.479 --> 01:33:19.000
Whatever happens from now on you asked for, just be

1587
01:33:19.159 --> 01:33:25.479
sure the family is provided for. And now to our

1588
01:33:25.560 --> 01:33:29.439
happy little anecdote for tonight, the birds song.

1589
01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:31.159
For a murderer.

1590
01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:39.560
My name is Carl Warner. I'm not a young man

1591
01:33:39.640 --> 01:33:42.880
any longer, but I don't mind that. I wasn't very

1592
01:33:42.960 --> 01:33:48.680
happy when I was young. Now well, at least I'm

1593
01:33:48.760 --> 01:33:53.079
not unhappy. And late at night, after Elane has gone

1594
01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:57.119
upstairs to bed, but she's my wife, and she's very

1595
01:33:57.239 --> 01:34:00.479
pretty and younger than I am. Perhaps I made mistake

1596
01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:06.640
in marrying her. But well, anyway, late at nights I

1597
01:34:06.800 --> 01:34:09.439
go into the room when I keep the birds, and

1598
01:34:09.640 --> 01:34:14.760
then listening to them sing, I get as close to

1599
01:34:14.920 --> 01:34:16.880
happiness as I can expect.

1600
01:34:19.159 --> 01:34:21.720
I stay an hour and then I cover their.

1601
01:34:21.760 --> 01:34:28.159
Cages, and then they know it's time to sleep, and

1602
01:34:28.359 --> 01:34:35.359
they sleep even on the stormiest of nights. And this

1603
01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:43.439
was a stormy night. Someone knocked at the front door.

1604
01:34:43.800 --> 01:34:45.960
It was late. We know very few people.

1605
01:34:46.079 --> 01:34:48.560
We kept to ourselves, mostly a lane and I so

1606
01:34:51.039 --> 01:34:53.359
I was worried a little when I opened the door.

1607
01:34:55.439 --> 01:34:59.439
Yes, mind, if I come in, mister Warner, it's kind

1608
01:34:59.479 --> 01:35:05.319
of damn. Wow, No, of course not. You seem to

1609
01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:05.720
know me.

1610
01:35:06.760 --> 01:35:07.680
I do, don't.

1611
01:35:07.760 --> 01:35:09.000
I I don't know you.

1612
01:35:10.039 --> 01:35:15.640
My name is Brutle, Chester, Brutle, just a Bruele. I

1613
01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:19.640
still don't remember. Hey, it doesn't matter.

1614
01:35:22.039 --> 01:35:23.960
What what did you want?

1615
01:35:24.800 --> 01:35:25.439
Nice place?

1616
01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:30.520
You got here, much nicer than crag Mount. Crag Mount,

1617
01:35:31.479 --> 01:35:36.760
rag Mount Asylum for the insane. You you worked there,

1618
01:35:37.840 --> 01:35:42.079
used to work there. This is all very interesting. And

1619
01:35:42.239 --> 01:35:45.640
this thing happened just before I left. One of the

1620
01:35:45.760 --> 01:35:50.439
inmates escaped. This baby was a homicidal maniac.

1621
01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:52.920
Homicidal.

1622
01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:54.439
Yeah, that's right.

1623
01:35:55.199 --> 01:35:57.159
I don't see what all this has to do with me.

1624
01:35:57.520 --> 01:35:58.760
I didn't say it had.

1625
01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:03.159
There was one funny thing about this in me uh

1626
01:36:03.359 --> 01:36:05.279
uh loved canaries.

1627
01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:07.399
Love to listen to him sing.

1628
01:36:08.520 --> 01:36:13.439
Psychiatrists at crag Mount found it very interesting. Birds song

1629
01:36:13.760 --> 01:36:17.079
was the only thing that kept the murderer's impulses down.

1630
01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:22.119
Hi, I mister Warner, I'm out of work. It's too

1631
01:36:22.199 --> 01:36:26.880
bad you're not doing badly. Nice house furnishings.

1632
01:36:27.640 --> 01:36:32.039
Didn't I hear canaries singing before I come into the house?

1633
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:34.079
Maybe maybe you did so.

1634
01:36:36.039 --> 01:36:43.640
Five thousand in the morning, No, I think yes. Otherwise,

1635
01:36:44.000 --> 01:36:48.680
crag Mount will be happy to hear from me. Eleven

1636
01:36:48.920 --> 01:36:54.960
Crescent Place, room to B in the morning. You can

1637
01:36:55.079 --> 01:37:00.359
show me to the door now, of course, good night,

1638
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:03.239
mister Warner, until we meet again.

1639
01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:09.880
I watched him go out into the blackness, and the

1640
01:37:10.000 --> 01:37:11.880
blackness swallow him.

1641
01:37:14.199 --> 01:37:15.560
The birds were quiet.

1642
01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:18.880
I thought for a moment of taking the covers off

1643
01:37:18.920 --> 01:37:20.760
the cages, of letting the birds sing.

1644
01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:21.359
And then.

1645
01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:26.600
Then I thought that tonight it might be better if

1646
01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:30.279
I didn't let the birds sing.

1647
01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:47.960
Yeah, okay, okay, Oh, I couldn't wait till morning.

1648
01:37:48.119 --> 01:37:54.239
Eh, I didn't expect it. Wait, wait that night, No, no,

1649
01:37:57.560 --> 01:37:58.840
I shouldn't have laid it.

1650
01:38:02.079 --> 01:38:13.159
Surprise, A.

1651
01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:18.199
Bit of bad night. I couldn't have slept more than

1652
01:38:18.239 --> 01:38:19.159
two or three hours.

1653
01:38:20.239 --> 01:38:24.279
Fortunately Elena and I had separate rooms, and at breakfast

1654
01:38:24.359 --> 01:38:25.560
the next morning.

1655
01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:31.560
She was fresh and young and beautiful.

1656
01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:36.079
Carl, why are you staring at me in that funny way?

1657
01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:41.079
You really shouldn't read at meals with only the paper, so.

1658
01:38:41.159 --> 01:38:43.399
Many exciting things happen. I can't wait till I get

1659
01:38:43.439 --> 01:38:46.560
to them. Still, Oh, isn't that terrible?

1660
01:38:47.279 --> 01:38:47.600
What is?

1661
01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:51.039
A man was murdered last night not very far from

1662
01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:53.199
here Crescent Place.

1663
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:56.520
Such an odd name ches a brow.

1664
01:38:56.600 --> 01:38:58.079
Of your coffee.

1665
01:38:58.159 --> 01:38:58.279
Car.

1666
01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:01.560
Sorry, I I wish you wouldn't read the paper.

1667
01:39:01.760 --> 01:39:05.399
It says it's canary. He had a canary car was

1668
01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:07.319
singing when the landlady found the body.

1669
01:39:07.680 --> 01:39:10.520
Oh that's Elene. I told you not to read that paper.

1670
01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:11.479
Give it to me.

1671
01:39:13.199 --> 01:39:14.239
You're taking the paper up.

1672
01:39:14.279 --> 01:39:14.840
What's the next?

1673
01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:17.000
I'm nervous this morning.

1674
01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:19.520
Don't remember your ever having been like this before.

1675
01:39:19.600 --> 01:39:22.119
I told you I was nervous, Darling.

1676
01:39:22.720 --> 01:39:23.840
Why don't you go into the.

1677
01:39:23.880 --> 01:39:27.600
Aviary listen to the birds for a while. You love

1678
01:39:27.680 --> 01:39:30.840
them so and they have such a nice.

1679
01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:31.319
Effect on you.

1680
01:39:36.159 --> 01:39:40.039
I went into the aviary, she suggested, and I listened

1681
01:39:40.119 --> 01:39:40.800
to the birds.

1682
01:39:42.399 --> 01:39:49.399
It was quite a little while before eyes stopped trembling. Carl, Yes,

1683
01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:55.079
dear the kitchen all right, I've been washing the breakfast.

1684
01:39:55.159 --> 01:39:58.359
This is, darling, and found this a mooney. God, this

1685
01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:02.319
isn't that funny. Besides, look at it, the blades all

1686
01:40:02.399 --> 01:40:06.079
covered with brown. Still I see sure I've washed it

1687
01:40:06.199 --> 01:40:09.399
after dinner last night. Did you use it for anything?

1688
01:40:10.960 --> 01:40:14.600
No, Darling, and give it to me and I'll wash

1689
01:40:14.640 --> 01:40:14.960
it now.

1690
01:40:15.039 --> 01:40:18.560
Oh I should do it, I just wondered. Oh the door,

1691
01:40:18.920 --> 01:40:19.560
will you know?

1692
01:40:19.720 --> 01:40:22.600
You give me the knife, and you answered the door.

1693
01:40:24.039 --> 01:40:25.720
I said, you answer the door.

1694
01:40:26.159 --> 01:40:28.239
Right, there's nothing to shout about.

1695
01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:30.159
I don't know what's the matter with you.

1696
01:40:30.319 --> 01:40:36.720
This morning, I washed the knife quickly but carefully, Very

1697
01:40:36.840 --> 01:40:42.880
quickly but very carefully. Didn't take long. He the stains

1698
01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:50.840
hadn't hardened much. Thee the brown stay car. Yes, sum

1699
01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:53.039
one to see you. What does he want?

1700
01:40:53.319 --> 01:40:55.279
He didn't say, except that it was important.

1701
01:40:55.319 --> 01:40:56.199
I'll go see him.

1702
01:40:56.439 --> 01:40:56.760
He said.

1703
01:40:56.800 --> 01:41:00.760
He's a lieutenant, a Lieutenant Gregg from the police.

1704
01:41:02.640 --> 01:41:06.640
There are seventeen steps between the kitchen and our living room.

1705
01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:10.479
I know because I counted them while I was walking

1706
01:41:10.680 --> 01:41:19.479
to see Lieutenant Greg of the police. Seventeen steps to

1707
01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:25.399
make my face polite, relaxed, smiling, What would I be

1708
01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:27.760
able to hide the trembling of my hands?

1709
01:41:29.119 --> 01:41:33.119
Your Lieutenant Greg? My wife said, you wanted to see me. Yes,

1710
01:41:33.199 --> 01:41:39.359
that's right, mister Warner. Did you know a man named Chesterbru? Chesterbru? Why?

1711
01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:43.000
I can't say offhand. I've got such a bad memory

1712
01:41:43.039 --> 01:41:45.239
for names. I may I may not.

1713
01:41:46.319 --> 01:41:51.119
Why he's murdered last night. You see, we found your

1714
01:41:51.239 --> 01:41:55.119
name and address in Brule's address book. I see, we

1715
01:41:55.239 --> 01:41:57.119
thought you might be able to help us. The fact

1716
01:41:57.159 --> 01:41:59.439
that my name is in it a dress book doesn't.

1717
01:41:59.199 --> 01:42:01.039
Do anything, well, of course not.

1718
01:42:02.000 --> 01:42:04.800
Uh would the fact that Brule used to be an

1719
01:42:04.840 --> 01:42:07.600
attendant in an insane asylum mean anything to you?

1720
01:42:07.800 --> 01:42:09.119
Why should it mean anything to me?

1721
01:42:09.399 --> 01:42:09.560
Well?

1722
01:42:09.640 --> 01:42:12.319
I didn't say it should, mister Warner. I just thought, well,

1723
01:42:12.399 --> 01:42:15.159
it doesn't. I guess that's that.

1724
01:42:16.079 --> 01:42:16.199
You know.

1725
01:42:16.439 --> 01:42:16.960
Funny thing?

1726
01:42:17.439 --> 01:42:19.840
There was a bird cage in Brule's room with a

1727
01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:22.000
canary in it, singing its head off.

1728
01:42:22.279 --> 01:42:25.479
Huh, Well, lots of people are fond of canaries.

1729
01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:26.479
Sure, sure.

1730
01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:31.039
What was funny about it is that Brule's landlady swears Brule.

1731
01:42:30.840 --> 01:42:34.880
Never had a bird. That is funny.

1732
01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:38.319
Why it looks the killer knife Bruel and then left

1733
01:42:38.399 --> 01:42:41.239
the cage and the bird in it behind him doesn't

1734
01:42:41.279 --> 01:42:44.439
make any sense unless you figure that the guy who

1735
01:42:44.600 --> 01:42:46.239
killed Bruel was insane.

1736
01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:51.479
The birds had been quiet, but the slam of the

1737
01:42:51.560 --> 01:42:54.439
door maybe started them off.

1738
01:42:56.039 --> 01:42:59.960
And I knew that somehow I would have to get

1739
01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:04.520
the cage and the bird in it out of bull room.

1740
01:43:04.960 --> 01:43:08.680
I didn't know how I'd do it, but I'd do it,

1741
01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:13.880
no matter how winds sailing it was.

1742
01:43:23.119 --> 01:43:23.760
It was dark.

1743
01:43:23.880 --> 01:43:28.800
When I got to Crescent Place, dark on a lonely street.

1744
01:43:29.960 --> 01:43:32.279
There was no one in front of the house, nothing

1745
01:43:32.399 --> 01:43:36.079
to show that a man had died inside the night before.

1746
01:43:37.359 --> 01:43:42.000
With a knife in his throat. The door was open.

1747
01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:48.039
There was a dim light in the vestibule leading the

1748
01:43:48.159 --> 01:43:50.920
stairs beyond in darkness.

1749
01:43:52.640 --> 01:43:53.640
I went up them.

1750
01:43:55.279 --> 01:43:59.960
To the second floor. There's no one in the corriege.

1751
01:44:01.800 --> 01:44:08.479
The door of two be opened and I went in.

1752
01:44:11.000 --> 01:44:11.840
There was no light.

1753
01:44:13.560 --> 01:44:18.000
The moon cast a pale glimmer over the room, and

1754
01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:27.119
someone in a chair near the window. For a moment

1755
01:44:27.199 --> 01:44:28.560
I thought it was brawl.

1756
01:44:28.319 --> 01:44:28.399
But.

1757
01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:36.439
There was no blood, and then I realized it was

1758
01:44:36.520 --> 01:44:39.640
a policeman in the uniform asleep.

1759
01:44:41.359 --> 01:44:45.560
The cage was near the sleeping man. Would his sleep

1760
01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:52.920
be sound enough? I reached out, lifted the.

1761
01:44:53.039 --> 01:44:59.560
Cage, reached the door, and closed it.

1762
01:45:02.880 --> 01:45:05.399
I was safe.

1763
01:45:09.840 --> 01:45:14.039
Yes, I'm glad that Lieutenant Greg is here.

1764
01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:17.640
At Greg, why did you take him to the bird room?

1765
01:45:19.560 --> 01:45:25.359
All right, was Lieutenant Greg?

1766
01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:26.520
How long? Mister?

1767
01:45:26.600 --> 01:45:29.760
Why the collection of canaries you've got here?

1768
01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:30.479
Yes? I have?

1769
01:45:31.600 --> 01:45:32.920
Were you home all last night?

1770
01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:36.600
Of course, this is still about chester Bull's murder.

1771
01:45:37.119 --> 01:45:40.920
M hm, say remember my mentioning I thought that the

1772
01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:44.000
man who'd killed Brule and left the bird cage behind

1773
01:45:44.079 --> 01:45:45.079
him must be insane.

1774
01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:47.760
Well you you did say something of the sort.

1775
01:45:48.079 --> 01:45:50.840
Yeah, yeah, And then there's the fact that Brule used

1776
01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:52.920
to work with insane people.

1777
01:45:53.720 --> 01:45:56.920
Begins to measure. I know very little about police work.

1778
01:45:57.159 --> 01:45:59.600
Hope, I'm not boring you anyway. It occurs to me

1779
01:46:00.279 --> 01:46:01.520
I better take a trip up.

1780
01:46:01.479 --> 01:46:05.560
To cragmart I suppose going to asylum, so any police else.

1781
01:46:05.640 --> 01:46:06.800
It's just part of your joba.

1782
01:46:06.920 --> 01:46:13.560
Oh sure, Uh did I mention Crag Mount was an asylum?

1783
01:46:15.039 --> 01:46:17.199
You you must have.

1784
01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:17.880
Yeah.

1785
01:46:18.199 --> 01:46:20.279
Yeah, Well I'll run up there and I wouldn't be

1786
01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:22.079
surprised if I get all the answers.

1787
01:46:22.439 --> 01:46:26.279
What do you think I think I'm going to?

1788
01:46:30.039 --> 01:46:30.479
What is it?

1789
01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:31.039
Elene?

1790
01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:32.840
Well, it's so late.

1791
01:46:33.319 --> 01:46:36.840
Oh, I can take a hint, missus Warner. Don't bother

1792
01:46:36.960 --> 01:46:37.880
showing me to the door.

1793
01:46:38.920 --> 01:46:40.560
It seems like a very nice man.

1794
01:46:43.239 --> 01:46:44.640
What that's.

1795
01:46:46.520 --> 01:46:48.680
I didn't know you so well, I'd i'd say you

1796
01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:50.119
were going mad.

1797
01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:04.199
Go to bed, Elaine, all right, darling. Oh call, look

1798
01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:08.039
look at what with the window the garden. Lieutenant Gregg

1799
01:47:08.079 --> 01:47:09.600
didn't go away down there?

1800
01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:11.520
Get away from that window. Go to bed.

1801
01:47:13.680 --> 01:47:16.479
But he looks as if he's waiting down there for something.

1802
01:47:18.119 --> 01:47:22.640
For what Carl, I knew what he was waiting for.

1803
01:47:24.520 --> 01:47:26.920
I knew I mustn't go to sleep.

1804
01:47:28.359 --> 01:47:35.720
Things happen when you sleep, terrible things. But I hadn't

1805
01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:42.560
slept well the night before, not well at all, and

1806
01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:44.479
there had been the strain of the day.

1807
01:47:46.119 --> 01:47:50.920
And it was night now. Ah still.

1808
01:47:53.199 --> 01:47:55.119
Dur still.

1809
01:47:57.399 --> 01:48:14.279
A bargain, gargain be out o.

1810
01:48:19.359 --> 01:48:19.399
H.

1811
01:48:22.720 --> 01:48:28.199
I was right, I was right, Only it wasn't gargan.

1812
01:48:29.640 --> 01:48:40.800
Oh s's a lovely morning, car lovely. I looked for

1813
01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:42.479
Lieutenant Greg as soon as I got up.

1814
01:48:42.960 --> 01:48:44.399
He wasn't in the garden anymore.

1815
01:48:44.760 --> 01:48:48.359
He must have got tired, gone home or back to

1816
01:48:48.479 --> 01:48:50.960
headquarters wherever policeman go.

1817
01:48:52.119 --> 01:48:54.359
Oh dear as the Swanson's dog.

1818
01:48:55.319 --> 01:48:56.159
He's got into our.

1819
01:48:56.119 --> 01:49:02.520
Guard again, Helene.

1820
01:49:04.760 --> 01:49:10.800
Maybe maybe he won't be there, Helene.

1821
01:49:11.880 --> 01:49:12.359
Where are you?

1822
01:49:15.279 --> 01:49:15.319
What?

1823
01:49:15.960 --> 01:49:16.000
What?

1824
01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:20.479
Lieutenant in his throat?

1825
01:49:21.920 --> 01:49:28.600
Come inside the kitchen.

1826
01:49:29.600 --> 01:49:32.319
Come where you're going the kitchen?

1827
01:49:35.479 --> 01:49:36.119
What are you doing?

1828
01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:45.359
The draw silverware? Yes, bits here, that's right.

1829
01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:50.359
I got you washed it last night. I kiss you.

1830
01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:51.199
You'd be wrong.

1831
01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:54.239
I did wash it last night, but the stains are

1832
01:49:54.279 --> 01:49:56.039
still there, the brown.

1833
01:49:56.399 --> 01:50:00.960
These are fresh ones, Aline, get out of my way.

1834
01:50:01.960 --> 01:50:03.880
I've got to go to the bird room.

1835
01:50:04.239 --> 01:50:05.760
Don't go away from it.

1836
01:50:09.039 --> 01:50:12.560
I was holding the carving knife in my hand, started

1837
01:50:12.640 --> 01:50:13.920
to put it down, and then.

1838
01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:19.600
I held on to it anyway. It would pay. Taking

1839
01:50:19.680 --> 01:50:23.520
the covers off the cages awkward, but I held on

1840
01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:27.479
to it anyway. The birds were still.

1841
01:50:29.199 --> 01:50:33.640
It remained still unless I took the covers off.

1842
01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:38.399
Elaine, tell me what's wrong.

1843
01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:42.960
Don't come any closer, Elaine, Please, not any closer.

1844
01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:47.840
Yes, the one with the brown sting.

1845
01:50:48.840 --> 01:50:53.720
Oh gosh, don't say anything the night before last, Elaine.

1846
01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:55.640
Don't ask questions. That's dangerous.

1847
01:50:56.760 --> 01:51:01.640
Last you have the knife, Car, Yes, give it to me.

1848
01:51:01.840 --> 01:51:06.119
No, please, Car, No, say where you are all right?

1849
01:51:07.159 --> 01:51:12.039
You may keep the knife because look car revolver.

1850
01:51:12.840 --> 01:51:16.399
Yes, Lieutenant Gregg's revolver.

1851
01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:19.840
Elae, give that to me.

1852
01:51:20.760 --> 01:51:24.439
Oh no, I took it from Lieutenant greg last night

1853
01:51:25.880 --> 01:51:31.159
after he stopped crying. They always cry when you didn't

1854
01:51:31.439 --> 01:51:33.399
like it. The way you've been looking at me, Carl,

1855
01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:36.560
you were thinking that maybe.

1856
01:51:36.359 --> 01:51:38.720
You'd have to send me back to craig Man. I

1857
01:51:38.920 --> 01:51:43.960
wasn't you were, Car, I know it were after Chester

1858
01:51:44.039 --> 01:51:44.600
blud eyed.

1859
01:51:45.239 --> 01:51:45.960
That's where you are.

1860
01:51:47.199 --> 01:51:49.119
Keep your hands away from the backcage.

1861
01:51:49.199 --> 01:51:50.319
Don't pull off the cover.

1862
01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:59.239
Oh, oh, Carl, I've heard you never never mind, but

1863
01:51:59.399 --> 01:52:00.159
I didn't on.

1864
01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:04.159
Are you going to cry like the others?

1865
01:52:05.159 --> 01:52:12.560
It was my fault? Loved you too, well. I I

1866
01:52:12.920 --> 01:52:17.560
really kill those others, not you, my pa.

1867
01:52:18.800 --> 01:52:22.439
That's a very silly thing to say, and I'll become

1868
01:52:22.600 --> 01:52:23.359
quite angry.

1869
01:52:24.079 --> 01:52:26.479
Huh, I am quite angry.

1870
01:52:31.319 --> 01:52:31.479
Car.

1871
01:52:33.000 --> 01:52:33.520
You're silly.

1872
01:52:34.680 --> 01:52:39.720
You pull the covers off the cage. Car, Car, I'm

1873
01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:43.239
speaking to you those birds. I don't like clu.

1874
01:52:45.399 --> 01:52:45.600
Car.

1875
01:52:47.560 --> 01:52:50.119
Oh, poor Carl.

1876
01:52:51.680 --> 01:52:52.279
It's dad.

1877
01:52:53.840 --> 01:52:56.399
I loved him and now he's dead.

1878
01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:04.560
But anyway, he didn't cry, he didn't cry.

1879
01:53:14.000 --> 01:53:16.000
Well, where it is?

1880
01:53:17.119 --> 01:53:18.680
I'm so sweet?

1881
01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:23.119
The story of a couple of love birds who, instead

1882
01:53:23.159 --> 01:53:24.760
of billing and cooing, went.

1883
01:53:24.640 --> 01:53:26.479
In for killing and shooting.

1884
01:53:29.600 --> 01:53:32.720
Of course, it was all little Elaine's idea, all cal Di,

1885
01:53:32.760 --> 01:53:37.520
it was cover up our friends. It's time once again

1886
01:53:37.720 --> 01:53:41.359
to close that creaking door until next week at the

1887
01:53:41.439 --> 01:53:43.600
same time when we'll be back with a little hunk

1888
01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:44.199
of horror.

1889
01:53:46.840 --> 01:53:48.039
You'll be sure to listen, don't you.

1890
01:53:49.399 --> 01:53:50.279
Until next week?

1891
01:53:50.359 --> 01:53:56.159
And good night, pleasant dreams.

1892
01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:07.960
Ah well, my dear, I suppose it's time for you

1893
01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:10.159
to head home and for me to go to a

1894
01:54:10.920 --> 01:54:15.800
well wherever it is I come from. But I do

1895
01:54:16.000 --> 01:54:19.319
hope you'll come back soon. I'll be here at the

1896
01:54:19.399 --> 01:54:24.239
same time, the same place as if there were a choice,

1897
01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:30.159
and I'm excited to get very festive over the season

1898
01:54:30.319 --> 01:54:36.399
of yule Tide, this and that. So, but please please

1899
01:54:36.560 --> 01:54:40.199
finish your tea and head back to your beautiful home.

1900
01:54:41.199 --> 01:54:45.199
But do me one favor. As you head back to

1901
01:54:45.319 --> 01:54:51.000
your humble abode and you head into your soft, cozy bed,

1902
01:54:52.239 --> 01:54:58.960
take a moment before you gnawed away, Just one single moment,

1903
01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:04.920
and be thankful for what you have. I'll be seeing you,

1904
01:55:08.279 --> 01:55:17.720
I'm like him to following

1905
01:55:23.640 --> 01:55:25.439
Mumbling bre