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0:09 My dear, so good to see you yet again, what's that? Well? I suppose I may be lacking a bit in color. I feel a little peaked today, but nothing a hot cup of tea and some good company can't persuade. Please sit down and relax. I'll make sure you have plenty to drink and it's nice and warm by the fire. I'll even take a load off myself, although I do fancy myself a consummate host. I'll relax and breathe easy.

0:58 I'm sure in no time at all, i'll feel as good as the ghost at the gate. Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Welcome to the terrifying world of your own imagination. I would like to offer a few observations on the garys of the animal called man. Take the popular saying seeing is believing? What idiot first said that? And I idiots would since?

1:54 Do you believe in love? Tell me the color of it? Do you believe? Be eve? In truth? Goodness? Mercy? What shapes do they come in? No, my friends, seeing is not believing. Only believing is believing, and we'll prove it to you in the story that follows. Our mystery drama The Ghost at the Gate was written especially for the mystery theater by Elspethic and stars. Beatrice straited with how much ease believe we what we wish? An English playwright named Dryden wrote that in the year sixteen seventy nine, brilliant man, mister Dryden. But wait, listen to this, men freely believe that which they desire. Someone else seems to have had the same idea, and he wasn't the seventeenth century English playwright.

3:09 He was a Roman emperor named Julius Caesar, proving once again that no man in any age has a monopoly on wisdom. Now let's get on with our story. Come here, Dorothier, your chocolate, missus Emory, Oh good it? Shall I light the fire in the fireplace? Yes? Please, I think it's chilly enough for Oh Dorothy, ma'am, you forgot the other cup again? I did. I told you to always bring two cups. Oh it seems so silly.

3:51 I'll decide what's it's just you to drink it. I've explained that to you, Dorothea, more than once. I like to drink two cups of chocolate before retiring, and I don't like that. Icky sediment in the bottom. Of the cup. I'll try missus Emory now if that's all? Or do you want me to go downstairs and such up another cup? Oh no, no, go to bed. Oh good night, missus Emmy, good night, Dorothya. All right now, Darling, chocolate's all poured, fires lighted, Charles, everything's ready now, Come on, Darling, or the chocolate get cold. Don't want any chocolate, oh.

4:32 Charles, you love chocolate, You always love chocolate. Tastes like mud, but it's very good chocolate. You know what good chocolate, Dorothea makes dot. Come on, Charles, don't make me wait? You want me, want you? Oh Charles, How can you ever ask such a thing? Why? I go through the whole day thinking of you. All afternoon at the community chest, I think about you. Why, Darling? It's it's torture for me listening to those other women whose husbands are are with them in the conventional way. I want to scream at them. But I have my child, you silly females. Every night he comes to my bedroom and he's tall and handsome and brilliant and romantic and adorable and manly, and we talked together and he's.

5:22 All right, Alice. That's enough. There you are, Oh Charles missed me, Oh Darling, the days are so terrible. I can't think of anything but this moment when we're together. But you know that, my dear, I tell you every single night. I need to hear it, Alice. We who have more or less left this world can't come back unless we are wanted by someone who is still here, wanted a lot. Otherwise, we can't make the trip, as it were. We can't even purchase the ticket, so to speak, unless we have a destination that is vibrant with love and need and desire.

6:04 But I love you, and I need you, I desire you. You should know that, Charles. Well, it doesn't hurt to hear it. Here's your chocolate. Try it. I don't want it, oh Charles. The longer we're away from deserves Alice, the less we rely on our senses. The senses, in a manner of speaking, start to fade. Mashed potatoes begin to taste like cold cream, coffee tastes like iodine, and this chocolate tastes like mud. They tell me this is quite normal, Charles. When you say they, they tell you this, and they tell you that you mean.

6:46 I mean them, of course, all those the ones up there. It isn't up there, Alice. And it isn't down there either. Well, where is it? It's simply there, meaning not here? Heavens, I thought you knew that. Are there a lot of them? Of course there are a lot of them. It's all so vast, so endless, and so damnably peaceful. I know what it is to be lonely, Charles, this big house. I couldn't bed to move out of it after you weren't here all the time, because I couldn't leave the place where you and I had spent so many happy years together.

7:31 Why don't you ask us someone to move in with you? Move in? Why? I never thought. Such a large house you could have separate quarters. You wouldn't be forever buffing into each other. But who would want to move in? Who would I want to move in? Oh? Some old good friend? Well like who, Charles? Oh? Someone like Connie? Maybe Connie Lawrence, Connie Laurence. Well, I've certainly known her long enough, we were roommates at school. What do you think she'd want. To She'll jump at the chats, would be my guest. He still lives in that tiny one room apartment. I know she's saving for a retirement and with a pay school.

8:16 You just get in this town, Charles. I'll call her tomorrow. She gets home from school at three. Come in, Dorothea your breakfast, missus Emory. Thank you. You don't want two cups in the morning. Do you? Oh? No, No, coffee doesn't leave that icky stuff the way chocolate does. Actually, I think I won't have chocolate at night anymore, Dorothya. I feel like trying something else, but two cups just the same. Don't forget, yes, ma'am, don't go just yet, Dorothy. I want to talk to you about something. Sit down, won't you?

9:06 Oh, yes, ma'am Dorothy. Do you find the work too hard in this big house? No, ma'am. Or we used to have a houseman and an upstairs made and a crook. Oh, I have no complaints, missus emy. If you don't, oh, I don't. This is the only job I've ever had. I've worked here for twenty two years. I was so fond of both you and mister Emery right from the start, and. I still am of you. And goodness knows, I practically worship this house. It's so beautiful. I love taking care of. It, and I love living in it. Do you still have that little room on the third floor in the back. Oh? I love that little room, Missus Emory. I can look out and see the garden.

9:50 I was thinking, why couldn't we give you all the other rooms as well, the rooms the other servants used to have all of Why couldn't we knock out the partition between your room and what used to be the cook's room. I'd have I'd have two windows. And make one of the other rooms into a really big dressing room, and maybe put in some kind of a kitchen for you with a hot plate and a refrigerator. Oh, missus Hemmy, I. Never imagined my wildest. Drown It's all settled. Oh, I'm going to stay right here in bed all morning and make plans.

10:33 I don't know how to thank you every don't try. It's my pleasure. I just hope I deserve all this before I forget Dorothea. Yes, last night, while I was drinking your lovely chocolate, an idea came to me. You and I are are rattling around in this big house. Oh, we certainly are. And I was wondering, well, how would it be if we invited miss Lauren to stay with us. Miss Constance Lawrence, do you remember her? Isn't she the one who teaches school? Used to come to dinner once in a while, and after she'd help mister Emory with the double cross steer that Connie.

11:14 Oh, I thought we could open up the two big rooms on this floor in the back. In that way, she and I would have separate quarters and not be, you know, bumping into each other all the time. Of course, I imagine she'd expect to take care of her own room. Oh, I wouldn't mind. What's do more rooms? You wouldn't mind cooking for her? Wasn't one more person to cook for? Nothing? Well, then it's all set. My goodness. Perhaps will be kind of lively against almost like before. Not quite, of course, but well you know what I mean. I know what you mean, Dorothea.

11:55 It will be more lively, y Goldie. Let me get my code off with you. Then I'll scratch your head for you. Oh dear, you're just. Going to have to wait. I'm sorry, Goldie. Hello, honey, this is Alice Emery. Who is who are you? Long time? No? See? Well I don't get out a great deal.

12:36 Maybe we can have dinner some evening. Would you like to come here? I thought you might like to come here. Well, if you'd rather, Heaven knows your dinners are better. Than mine, Tony. I want you to come here for good. I mean to live, to live, to live with you. Why not. We've known each other practically all our lives, and I've got this huge house I got Dorothee had to look after us. You could have your own quarters overlooking the garden. We lived quite independently. Since I'm in the front and you're a school till free. And by the time you get home, I'll be at. The community chest. We'll just meet for dinner. Maybe have a little nip together first, Oh, Connie.

13:19 Say you will? Oh, Alice, I don't know. I have lived here for so. Long, that tiny little place. High time you got out. Of it, but I'm used to it. And then there's Goldie, you know, my canary. Bring Goldie with you. We'll find a nice sunny window. Alice, it's all very tempting, but I don't know. Think about having two big rooms and vegetables out of the garden and being. Waited on us and Connie, think of. The money, You'll say, well, yes, but all the same, just got to say yes, Connie, take the afternoon to think about him and call me back.

14:04 Oh will Alice, I'll call you soon. Fine, bye, by Alice. Oh dear, it all sounds so luxurious, two rooms and fresh vegetables. And someone to cook for me. But I can't leave this little place. I can't give up my afternoons. Why I couldn't live without my afternoons. I know this place is small and dark, and furniture is dingy, and the bathroom is old fashioned. But we never minded, have we, Dear?

14:46 Have we? It's a very small place. Call me. If I'm moving to Alice's house, I might lose you forever. You might never come to visit me again. In all my lovely afternoons will be really over. You're not to worry, Connie. You mean you can go on as we always have. Only we'll have more rooms. Well, if you say so, trust me, Cony, Oh. I do trust you, Charlie. Haven't I always trusted you all these Yes.

15:28 His flesh may be weak, but the spirit of Charles or Charlie is very very willing, also very inventive and very persuasive. Oh well, there's nothing like the love of a good woman, unless it's the love of two good women. We'll come back in a bit for act too. This is w OR in New York and r KO General Station.

16:09 Now we come back to our story. We seem to have uncovered a triangle here Connie, Alice and Charles, or Charlie, as Connie calls him. And the apex of the triangle is naturally, if you will pardon my chauvinism, the man, listen now to the second act of The Ghost at the Gate. What a lovely year that was, Alice? Was it? Connie? It was a wine that made everything taste so good? Whatever gave you the idea of bringing home a bottle of wine? Alice, it's the first anniversary of me moving in here.

16:50 Don't you realize I've been here a month? Well, for Heaven's sight, why it seems like a week, or it seems like you've always lived here. I don't know which it has worked out? Has has it ever worked out? I was so afraid it Wouldn't you know what? It's meeting just for dinner. That's done. It leading separate lives except for dinner. Connie. Let's have wine every night. This wine what kind is it? I can't quite make out what the label says. Oh, it's in friends. Oh never mind, she's got a picture of a house on it. If it's French, it's a chateau. I didn't know that. You're very clever.

17:32 Save the label and I'll order a case of it. Must be really nice to have money. I've always found it to be nice. I guess money is about the nicest thing in the world. Money isn't love is? Oh? Yes, first comes love, friends come second, then money. How about friends who have money? Oh, Connie, you're very. Witty to nice, so you Alice and profound ferously. Oh Connie, you have been happy here, haven't you? Oh, Alice, my beautiful room, the marvelous food, having done for you, would make. My bed and clean up? It's heavenly you're stuck with me.

18:15 Oh I am so glad, Connie. You can't imagine how glad? Is there any more of that wine? More than half a bottle? Oh good? Let's live memory? What? Oh Dorotha, what. Is it after nine o'clock? Missus Emory? You don't say? I was wondering should I bring you a clear consume upstairs to you? What clear consummet. Well, missus Emory, we talked about it last night. Remember when you decided to give up a chocolate and then we tried apple juice and prune juice and lemonade, And last night you said clear consummee because it has a nice aroma. I did say that, didn't I? Uh huh? What time did you say?

18:58 It was? Quarter passed? My goodness, it's a matter, Alice, past time, past my bedtime. You want to come to me? Okay, heck for the consummet, I'll take the wine. You don't mind, do you? Connie? Why no, Alice? Well let me have your glass too, all right, Sure, Alice, I've got my glass. Connie, forgive me for eating and running Alice at your house. I simply didn't realize the time a quarter past nine. Ever, she'd better not drink any more of that wine. She's not used to it, neither of mis Only tonight we were celebrating my being here a month.

19:38 Why did you want two glasses, Dorothea? Oh, she always wants to two cups, two bowls, two glasses, one of her little ways. But a night she took my glass. Do you suppose she wants me to join her. I wouldn't know, Miss Laurence. Maybe maybe she's always expected me to join her after dinner. Un and Water suggest it. When I moved in here, we agreed that we lead absolutely independent lives, not get each other's way. We've been very careful about that, going to our separate rooms after dinner. Maybe all this time she was hoping i'd stop by her room on my way to my room, and I never noticed, Dorothea.

20:21 That must be it. I wouldn't really know. I never guessed. Oh, how self standard, how insensitive. I'll never forgive myself. I'm going up there right now and apologize. Can I clear the table there? Do whatever you like. She's got to forgive me. That's all there is to it. Gess generous, Alice, She'll understand. You know. I didn't mean to hurt her feelings, Alice. May I come in, Come on, don have some wine, Alice. Connie and I had it for dinner. We just loved it. Try it, Charles, Oh, not at all there, nice bouquet, Charlie, Charlie.

21:10 Where did you come from? Connie? You never told me? How could you? Charlie, Charlie. Just give me a moment and I'll explain everything, But I need a moment to think. Then i'll explain. What did you think of Charlie's explanation. I've heard it all before, how he needs lots of love to make the trip. From there to hear. He always needed a lot of love even when he was just here. Well he got a lot. Did he really spend all those afternoons with you? I mean before he left here and went there? Five afternoons a week, Alice, you hate me?

21:52 I should, I know? But do you? I guess I do when it comes right down to it. I'll move out, moved back to my one room, but I don't want you. To move out. We were having such a good time. Remember how we were laughing and carrying on at dinner. I haven't laughed like that in years and years. Could have been the wine. It's half a bottle left, should we let's? You don't think we'll turn into a couple of alcoholics? Do you not on half a bottle of wine? Like white wine? Well, here's to what, Here's to Charles.

22:33 To Charlie. I feel as if I'd just buried him, said goodbye forever. Did he really come to see you five afternoons a week coming at three o'clock. You see my school in his bank let out at the same time was practically inevitable. Charlie was a no good man. He still is, only now he's a no good ghost. O Alice. There's enough wine left for a glass, apiece, fill her up, hold out your glass. All that stuff about meeting to be loved and wanted, or he couldn't make the trip.

23:14 Remember what we were saying at dinner, Connie, about love being the most important thing. And I've always believed that, and friends being the second most important thing, especially friends like you, Alice, and like you, Connie. I feel closer to you right now than I've ever felt to anybody, my mother, my father, my Candary. Even through a lot, Connie, just in the last half hours, and yet we're still friends. Isn't that amazing? Truly remarkable? It must mean something something very profound, like what like well like there are times in a person's life when love isn't the most important thing. Friends are afraid.

24:07 Yes, stupid ghost silly pompous ghost You believe in ghosts, certainly, no, neither do I never have except. Charlie, of course. Why should Charlie be an exception. He is for you too, Alice. You know he is. Tell me something, Why do you believe in him? Because why I want to. That's why I believe in him too. Get wrong, not wrong, But you've got to stop, and I got to stop. We can't have him visiting you in the back of the house from three to six and then coming to see me in the front of the house from nine to twelve. Now that we know it wouldn't be nice. We couldn't be friends anymore, Oh, Alice.

24:47 But if we don't believe in him, if we don't or don't desire him, then you have to go back there and stay there. He won't be able to come here and more, he can't make the trip. Connie, can you do it? Stop wanting him? Yes, of course I can. Well, I'm having a wonderful time. I don't need him, neither do I. We'll be better off without him. We'll be free, connic liberated women. Let's drink to thatt you. Our bottoms up.

25:34 Ah, What courage lies in the bottom of a glass? Courage for the shy, the lonely, the frightened, the frustrated, and for the two elderly ladies determined to forget a ghost. We'll return shortly with Act three. Alice and Connie are bravely resolved to forget the man both had loved so long. But what of him, poor lonely, unloved ghost, doomed to live on forever in the there, vanished forever from the here?

26:27 What of him? See Carley Collie. Speak to me, Connie. That's my sweet Goldie, that's my lovely bird. Have you seen me, Connie? I know you're here. I'm here, Charlie, but you're not. I am so I don't leave in you anymore. You do too, and I don't love you or want you. So there, Connie, you are being very cruel.

27:11 I expect I am. If you don't believe me, why are you talking to me? You don't try to confuse things, Charlie, answer my question? Why are you talking to me if you don't believe in me? Goldie? Tell that ghost to go away? How did it go today? Connie? He was around. I could hear him. What did he want? Usual be loved? To be wanted? I told him no more of that. You had a conversation with him, not much of a one.

27:53 You haven't stopped believing, have you? Stopped, Dallas. I think so you haven't with you stopped, you wouldn't say I think so you'd know, Connie? How can I know? Missus? Emory? What is it, darrothea? Do you walk to a consumin in your room tonight? Or what? Nothing? Not anything? Not a thing? Oh well, all right, I had it already. But that also show him, don't you think, Connie. Alice, it's Charles. It's Charles, Alice.

28:38 What delicious surprise do you have for me tonight? Orange crush plant? Not a blessed saint Charles. Ah, you spoke. I didn't mean to. But you did. How beautiful to hear your voice. Don't tell me out Old Malachey, Charles Malachey. I never thought i'd hear my wife use a word like that. I'm not your wife, I'm your widow, and I'm using a lot of words I never used before. Alice, say you love me still? I can't make the trip unless you love me. I loved you for thirty five years, Alice.

29:18 I'm facing eternity. What thirty five years? Maybe not much there where you are, but it's a long time here. Now. I'm going to turn off a ride and go to sleep. I was talking to him before I could stop myself. It is the same with me. But he couldn't complete the trip because I wouldn't say I loved him same here, and I really don't think I do love him, Connie. I think I just got into the habit me too. What does he want to hang around for? I can't imagine. Must be so beautiful there where he is. Why should you want to come here?

30:01 He says, it's very peaceful there, sounds heavenly, not much like here, Alice. That's why he keeps coming back. He can't stand the peacefulness. He isn't having any fun. I bet you're right, no worry, no trouble, no arguments. Or no problems. He can't stand it. That's the way he was when he was here. That's why he took up with me. Why else would he want to have a plan to still affair in the afternoon with a middle aged school teacher when he had a wonderful wife like you. He was bored. He wanted a little excitement. He still wants it. Funny. I always thought people changed when they left this terrible world. I guess they don't.

30:44 I hope I change. I'd hate to go on the same way for eternity and petty and jealous and suspicious. Oh no, how can it be so peaceful there if everyone's the same as they were here. Maybe maybe the others don't stay the same. Maybe they accept all that eternal peace and enjoy it in the meantime, Connie, but we're still here. We have a problem that must be dealt with. Let's face it, neither of us has stopped believing in Charles completely, Alice. I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop completely. Maybe There'll always be some little corner of my mind that goes on believing.

31:27 That Charlie is here. It's the same with me, And as long as we both have that last little shred of belief, he will be here wandering around the house making bleating noises. But we won't answer it. He got to be strong, use their measures. But what like like rejecting him utterly? How do we do that? I have two rooms in the front of the house, two big rooms with a big bat between. Would you consider taking one of them? Why are that would be what I call rejecting him utterly? He'd never tried to visit one of us. If the other one was there? Could I bring Goldie? Of course you can bring Goldie. I'll get a canary too, of the opposite sex. You'll hear some real singing. Then all right, let's skip this it. Let's go upstairs now and look at the room, and you can decide what furniture you want to keep and which you want to get rid of.

32:23 So terribly exciting, Oh, Alice, I don't want to be dead for a long time. There the death between the windows and the chair. Here we take out the love seat and nat to leave room for the bed. What do you think, Connie? I think it's perfect. No, Alice.

33:04 Listened to him. He sounds miserable, I expect he is you really dye your hair? Connie? Do it myself? Why don't you? I'll show you how. I wonder why I ever let myself go gray? We looked lovely, sort of a pale ash blonde. Pale ash blonde. I like the sound of that. Cannie, Honey, where are you, my darling? Poor old thing? Don't you give him? Oh I won't. I won't be strong. Oh I will I swear fari. Now you said blue for the walls. Now watch shade of blue at Marine turquise, robin egg turquoise good. And we'll put white crisscrossed curtains of the windows with turquoise tarnacs super ice, and we get a turquoise and white spread for the bed. Beautiful. How could I possibly have a white rug? A white shy rug? Why not?

34:04 Allah, Hartie, somebody do. You mean to sit there and tell me you didn't even take one peek at your new room? I wanted to wait till you got hold from community chairs right after dinner. We'll look at it together. What if the color is wrong? The painter showed me a sample pure chet was really fast. I can't wait to see it. Dorothy had the bed moved in. Oh, Connie, I hope we'll get along as well as we've been getting along. After you move in. We will, we will, and Charlie will go back there and settle down. You'll be much better, or he'll thank us.

34:51 If I know Charles, he won't. Well, if you don't know him, I don't know who does unless it's you. No, you're right there, Tony. I had a thought, what if I went to the community chest in the morning instead of the afternoon. That way, when you get through school, we could do things like I go to the movies. Hellas for fun, and you know what else? Weekends we could take a train into the city and see a play or a concert, or go to a museum. Oh, Alice, all those things I've been wanting to do, only I didn't want.

35:33 To do them alone. You know what else? Do you mean there's more? Well? You have that two months off in the summer, we could go to Europe. I'll pay, of course. I don't argue. I'm your rich friend, so I'll pay. Alice, say it again. We're doing the right thing by Charlie, aren't we. Charles must stop being a ghost and settle and be happy. He will be happy, won't we. Charles will be happy there in whatever way they are happy there, just as we will be happy here. I dare say the ways. Are different, but to each his own. Isn't that the expression?

36:14 Oh, you do have a way of making everything sound simple. It is simple if you stare at the facts in the face and don't waiver. I hope we're not being selfish, were being realistic, that's all. Sometimes realistic and selfish look like the same thing, but they're not. Thenish your coffee, Uh, huh. Then guess what we're going to do. Go look at my new room. Yes, only wait a minute, Dorothea, I think we can't wait to see. Yes, yes, missus Emory. You know that case of French wine I ordered? Did it come the one with a picture of the chateau on the label? It came last three? Well, will you uncork a bottle and bring it upstairs to my suite, to our sweet oh alice and two glasses. Yes, missus Emory, Tonnie, you and I are going to drink to a brand new life.

37:11 Three new lives, yours. Mine and his? Come along, Come in, Dorothy. Oh good, the wine arrive. Just set it down here, Dorothy. Yes, ma'am Dorothy mus Lawrence and I have decided to go to Europe for two months this summer. Oh, so you'll have a good long vacation instead of your usual two weeks. Fourth stammary. Of course, you're free to go where you like, or you can stay here.

37:51 Oh thank you, missus Emry. I don't know where i'd go exactly. We'll suit yourself. Poor the wine, Connie will let. That be all for this evening. That'll be all. Then I'll say good night to you both. Good night, sleep out, Dorothea, thank you. Two whole months, they'll be gone two whole months. What will I do with myself, Dorothea? Where would I go? Dorothea? What would I do if I stayed here in an empty house?

38:33 Dorothea, can't you hear me? Might be all by myself? No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. If there were just somebody There. Is there is if you're the only lay listen. Somebody like like him, There is me, Dorothea. Oh, Dorothea, hear me, but. He's gone, believe in me, never to return, love me, want me? And I loved him. So, Dorothea, listen and. I still do. Oh I love him.

39:17 Still, Dorothea, look at me? Why, mister Henry. I thought you'd never notice, have you? Have you been here long? Not too long. I'm so surprised. I thought I'd never see you again. Ever, Well, now you do. It's like a miracle had been performant. A lot of good hard work is more like it. I've never forgotten, really, I. Well, I know it was just one weekend when missus Emmy went to her twenties.

40:02 Fisth college reunion. But I've never forgotten. That was quite some time ago. I was younger than of course. You haven't changed, Dorothea, not an eye older. Oh, still fresh and plump and adorable. Oh you mean. That, I've never met anything so much in my life for since, Dorothea. Could you love me? But I do love you, mister Emory. You do.

40:43 I've never loved anyone else, not since that weekend. You came up to my room on the third floor. Don't you remember that tiny little room. Yes, I do remember. Oh you're going to be around for a while, a long. While, Dorothea. Practically and definitely. Will you be here this summer, this. Summer and this fall and all next wedter and next year, for as long as you want. Me, Dorothea. Oh, come on, let's go up to the third floor.

41:28 Mister Emmy. Could I ask you something. Miss anything, Dorothea, anything? H Do you mind if I call you Chuck? Of course I don't mind. Then to morn, Chuck, follow me. I'm right behind you, Dotty, right behind you. So Charles continues his mad pursuit of life after death, and I, for one wish him the best of luck and the best of luck to Connie and Alice, with their new hairdoes and their new pants suits. Good luck to them all, good luck to all of us. It's what we need the most. Our cast included Beatrice Strait, Paula Truman, Joan Loring, and John Beregrave. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

42:39 Well, I'm not sure if I'm feeling better or what exactly, but well's I'll call it an improvement. Oh what's that? Well, I'm not sure. Perhaps the tea isn't as strong as I need. I'll steep it longer, I'll steep it hotter. Good. Good. It won't be ready until it's dark, until it's black, until it's thick like the Blood of Cain.

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45:41 Our friends, London ear Tonight's story an original radio play by Robert Newman called Blood of Cain, starring two of your radio favorites, Messidies McCambridge and Kyl Swenson. A tale of blood spilled and hatred inventions that carries a curse that is as old as man. You don't believe that's possibly, And suppose you put out. All the lights, put your chair up close and listen. The small square, once fashionable on the outskirts of New Orleans. The iron balconies where elegant ladies once sat, are now rusty and sagging. The paint on the rambling houses is cracked and peeling, and grass grows between the cobblestones. The bios and the jungle are crept close to it. That night, the cries of strange birds, the croaking of giant fronts can be heard. What was formerly a living portion of the old world has become a place of decay and death.

46:55 More pigeons died see I. Saw them towering up and up into the darkening sky, as if to escape the pain gnawing at their vitals, and then fall into the square and into the garden. I still didn't believe. I couldn't let myself believe. And then I saw her standing in the shrubbery, the bag from which she had been feeding them still in her hand. I knew then that I could wait no longer, that I had to find out. Louise Eugene, the pigeons, there's something wrong with them yet dying? Yes, so how and why? And no chemist, but I'd say it was poisoning?

47:51 But who would do that? Louise. Now listen to me, dear, please listen. I love you. I've loved since I first came down here, first met you. You know that, and you know that I'll understand. Now tell me why have you been doing it? I you're the only one who feeds them, the only one who could do it. Oh no, I didn't, grandfather, grandfather, Oh, my dear child, what is it? The pigeon they're dying. It's the second day now, and you jeanged it? He said, what have you looked at any of them? Doctor Phillips examined them. Will you go into the house, My dear I'll be along.

48:35 In just a minute. Grandfather, please please, dear. Grandfather, goot, I'm very sorry you did this, or when mentioned it to her, did you examine any of the pigeons I did poison, probably from my laboratory. But then then you know, I know a great dear mister, and i'm her grandfather. I think it would be very wise if you kept away from Louise, did not see her again. What well, that's ridiculous. I love her, I'm sure you do, but perhaps I did not make myself clear. If you continue to see her, it might prove dangerous for you. I didn't need any supper that night. I went back to my room and sat there in the dark, staring at the shuttered, brooding house.

49:36 About eleven o'clock, the door of the doctor's house opened quietly, and Louise came out, without looking right or left, moving almost like a sleepwalker. She went up the street. I hesitated only a minute, and then I hurried down the stairs and after her. And just as I got downstairs, the door opened again. And is that you on? But yes, doctor, she just left the house. I was watching for the window, and I know she's done it several times. And this time I was determined to follow her and see where she goes. She's hitling a cab, my cars right across the street. Quick, Louise went in there. But what kind of a place is there? Yeah, that smell and there's the smell of death from the noise. I would say it was a navatoire, a slaughterhouse.

50:39 Good lorrd. But but why why would she come down here in the dead of night? I like you, and I. Think you know that, And it was for your own sake that I want you to keep away from her. There are things that you do not well that you cannot know about her. No, but we'll see. I'm going in the get her and find out from her just a moment that she is just inside the gate talking to the watchman. No sense arguing about it, lady, I just can't let you in. But you must. You got you, you always did before. It's just it once was all right, even twice. But then if you want to know the truth of men have been completed. Nobody exactly likes killing Steers, but they say that the way you stand there watching it, will it makes them bur.

51:24 You've got to let me in. I'll make it with. Your heart watching the killing off. That's awful, it's horrible. I'm I'm doing no, no, no, no, in the state she's in. Well, having you come on a suddenly, they would have a very bad effect. But you wait here, I'll go. No, no, don't you know. What what happened to watchman Estonia on the temple? Louise, why did you do this? I don't know. I had to get in here. She wouldn't let me out to the carro and come on, let's go.

52:05 You can't go now, leave him lying there like that. He's hurt. You may be dying. No, it's not serious. He's just done. We can phone from ambulance as soon as we get home, but we've got to get her awake from here immediately, said don Louise. Yes, grandfather, I'm sorry I ran away like that, you Jean, but I suddenly felt strange. You know that's all right. You've been feeling that way quite often lately, haven't you. Yes, yes, I have. Just what makes this feeling so strange?

52:46 Well, if it's hard to describe, it's as if I weren't myself anymore. It's the opposite of sleepwalking. It's as if I were awake, but not really conscious, and I hear voices, voices telling me to do things in whispering. A name, a name that sounds like you're not. Like you've been in my study reading my books. So but I haven't Grandfather, you're always forbad meets. And how did you know that name? Well? Whose name is it? And well what does it have to do with Louise. It's the name of a family which is almost extinct, and it is a name which means.

53:28 Death or what do you mean? I was always very interested in the You're not family for reasons of my own, and I've collected all the historical references to them that I could. These references start with the thirteenth and fourteenth century, but by the fifteenth century they had become the traditional executioners of France. Executioners and in. Those days, you know what that meant. It was as you're not. Who put the torch to John Daque, as you're not received a handsome question Louis the eleventh for services rendered, as you're not up to the gears. He endured the French Revolution. Perhaps that's why the family migrated here. After the fall of the Republic. They came hereious twenty odd years ago, there were a whole series of particularly atrocious murders here. The murderer was finally caught and executed. His name was Max Journan.

54:21 Why do you tell me all this? And why should I constantly seem to hear that name? Well, even when you were little, my dear, you used to have those strange fits spells when you were doing pleasant things. Afterwards you could never remember them. Now do you remember poisoning the pigeons and going to the slaughterhouse? What? Oh? No, Well, I've never discussed the matter with you because I thought it might actually implant the idea of your mind. I had hoped that if you. Were left alone, you'd outgrow it. But what you still haven't told me? What all this about the jon Nis has to do with me? It has a great deal to do with you, my dear.

55:02 You see next, if you're not was your father? Well that as a girl with a real tradition in her family, a murderer for her father, and a long line of ancestors who were real chiller dillers, I was beginning to get a little worried about her fooling around poisoning pigeons, and things like that. I can see now that there was method in her madness. After all, practice makes perfect good.

55:49 Gracious mister host, Louise may turn out to be a very dangerous person. Yes, marriage, it's not the kind of a character you'd like to have. Ringing your doorbell, I should say not. It's why usual as our Lipton listeners. No, a doorbell is one of the nicest, most friendly sounds there is, because so often it means friends are dropping in for a visit. Of course, your first thought is to make them welcome. So after you've taken their coats and made them comfortable, bore them a cup of flavorful spirited Lipton tea. You know it's wonderful how Lipton's adds squarkle to the conversation, For there's extra enjoyment and it's grand brisk flavor. Each sip is brimming with such lively, full bodied tanginess. Yes, serve your friend's Lipton's when they call, and when you say goodbye to them at the door, you can be sure they'll come back for another visit and another cup of Lipton tea.

56:40 That's a friendly suggestion, All right, Mary, and now are we ready to get down the business again, the kind of business that Louise's family has specialized in for a good. Many years, murder. Well, I know that what she's been invested in so far is small fry, but I think from now and you'll really be cooking with gas that a moment later, now, sitting in doctor Philip's study, Louise and Eugenia and stare at the elderly gentleman with shocked And. You mean my father was a murderer, your father and his father before him, back as far as the family's history can be traced.

57:24 Well, I don't believe it. And even if it is true, it's it's ridiculous to think this need to kill can be passed on from generation to generation. Of course, there is absolutely no scientific basis for it. Still, how else. Can you explain some of the things that Louise has been doing. Oh it's true, it's true. He spills that come over me when I don't know what I'm doing, that name, which I never heard consciously until Oh no, it can't be true, it can Alluise, don't come near me, don't touch me. There's even a chance that. I didn't want to tell you why I was never very close to your father because he was a rather strained son in law. But if you want to know more about him, there is someone you should talk to, Joel Ferguson down on Gaillard Street. He was the very last person to see your father alive.

58:28 Yes, mister Ferguson, Yes, who is it? My name is Louise Philippe. I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes. The seconds, I mean, what did you say? Your name was again Louise Philippe. At least that's what I always believed it was until yesterday, and then I discovered that my name was Louis or not. Who nurse, not mix rue nurse. He was my father. Who you were of me for all these years. It wasn't my fault, you know, it wasn't my fault. I only did what I had to do.

59:11 What you mean? I was told that you were the last person to see him alive. And perhaps you can tell me. Something about him, Yes, the things that I can tell you That he was evil, but that he knew he was evil. There was a curse on him that made him do the things he did do. Voices that whispered in. His ear told him to kill bade. Him kill voices. And in the end, at the last minute, he thanked me. He thanked you for what. For stopping him from doing any more killing in the only way he could be stopped. And when I put the.

59:51 Rope round his neck, the rope I was the state executioner. Was I who hanged it? You? You killed my father? I only carried out the sentence that was past time. M Why are you looking at me that way? I didn't know. I only came here to see you here lying to his daughter, say you were like him. You came down here to kill me, kill you said that life there in your bag, I didn't even know if it was there, lying Keep away from me, Keep away.

1:00:35 Didn't come down here to kill you things not searing at me like that? Put that life away. Don't come here me. Yeah, yeah, good evening, mister Owen. Where's miss Louise Benson? I must say her right away? I'm sorry, sir, but she's not in. She went out about a half hour ago. Oh well, where did you go? I'm afraid I don't know, sir.

1:01:17 She didn't say. Well, what about doctor Philip? He's not in either, said he left right after missus Louise as soon as he'd heard that she'd gone out. It seemed to me, sir, he looked rather worried. He said something about mister Ferguson, Ferguson Great Scott. So she went down, Hey, Joe, who is that I'm looking for? Miss Louise Philip. I was told that she. Is that you, doctor Philip. Yes, Eugene, is she here? Yes, she's here. But you're too late, just as I was too late. What what you mean inside there? See for yourself.

1:02:02 Oh, don't tell me that anything's happened. Good lord Louise, you would answer you. That's the way I found when I got here, sitting there with a knife in her hand, and Ferguson lying across the table bed. Louise, you see, oh, Louise Marling, Well, why did you do it? Do? What did yes? Dear, didn't you do it? I do know. I didn't even know who he was when I came down here, and I found out that it was he who executed my father, and I decided to hear those voice voice is telling me.

1:02:53 To chill that I had to kill. Then there was a knife in my hand. Oh I can't read voices, that's what Max said at the trial, it was the only defense of it. But that he heard voices telling him to kill didn't save him. But in your case, the woman, what do you say? There's no sense even trying to escape. That would only make things worse. You know that, yes, grandfather, except that there is only one way that things could be it worse, That is, if I were allowed to live. Louise, don't say that, you must. Oh, it's true. You gi. Centuries to be a Jean arm to bear the lack of Kane. Well, I'm the last of the jon and there must never be enough.

1:03:34 Well I had not gone quite that far, my dear, but perhaps you're right. I am right. Good bye, Grandfather, Louise, come back. Wait, no, no, let her go, Eugene. She's my own flesh and blood. But I think that may be the best way after all. Yes, well we'll say, Louise, wait please, it's no use. It's all very clear, Claire as witches brought. Yes it is. Yes. Maybe it's because of our love that I understand. Maybe that was what was wrong with those jars. They never knew love, only hatred. But there is a cure. It lies there in the There's a curse on me and all those junars that ever were.

1:04:21 You're right, there is a curse, but not the kind you think there. Listen, I was at the library all afternoon reading, and I think I understand now for the first time, you understand what the nature of the curse and how it can be ended, because it can be ended. In only one way. Oh, Eugene, is that you Eugene? No, grandfather, it's not Eugene. Louise, Well, I thought you. Why did you come back here to Ferguson's place.

1:05:07 I don't know, Grandfather, the voices to call in my blood it's too strong. I tried. I wanted to end it finally and completely, either in the river or with the police, but I couldn't. You mean, you're not going to give yourself up, No, grandfather, I'm. Not going to give myself up. But that's not all. I mean, Louise, you still thought that nice. Yes, grandfather walking up the street, realizing that I was still holding it, that. It was red with blood. I think it was then that I knew for the first time what it meant to be a genre. Louise, You're completely discharged. That's only natural. But now look, you put that knife down and let me take you home.

1:05:50 I'll give you something that will help you sleep. And then no, grandfather, you won't give me anything ever again. Louisa, you're not going to kill me. Yes, grandfather, That's just what I'm going to do. No, don't try to get away. I'm younger. One quick, No, no, no, listen to me, Listen carefully. You can't kill me. There's nothing driving you to do it. You see, you're not your lord. You see it's true. I am As. You're not Max, you're not As my son, but you're not evenly distantly related to us. You're lying, you're lying, You're just saying no, no, no, I swear it's true.

1:06:32 I changed my name when I studied medicine to avoid the stigma, but Max kept it. Your father was Luismartine, the judge. How is that possible? Because I adopted you after your father's death for a reason. It was your father who condemned Max to death. She didn't know Max was my son, and I didn't tell him until later. Your mother died when you were born, and I. Was your father's physician, and when he was desperately ill, I offered to adopt you and take care of you. And when the papers were signed, I told him who I was, what I was going to do. But I was going to destroy you to avenge my son. And that's what kills you.

1:07:15 What all those horrible things I've been doing, poisoning, the pigeons, killing, you. Haven't been doing them. It was I who did them, using drugs and suggestion to make you believe that it was you, so that you would either destroy yourself. Heaven your Jeane. You did you hear? Yes? I heard, and I told you I Jean. So it was a trick, a trick to trap me. Yes, doctor it was. I was at the library in at City Hall all day looking up the record that night. No, and this won't be as poetic a death as the one I'd plan for her. But the lights put the lights out. That won't help you, either of you. You won't get away.

1:07:59 I'll find you a light in the darkness and there you are. Die now, you'll die, die, die away. It's not you. What did the. Me around, right, Louise. Quickly, Eugene, what happened to it again? Yes, he stumbled into him in the darkness. Thought it was one of us. Then he must have. Tripped the knife.

1:08:40 He must have fallen on the knight. Somehow, it. Seems only right the last of the jong Nas who killed so many should be destroyed by the dead. Oh too bad. You were a character we certainly could use on this program. But now at least you've got the perfect answer for the rest of your family when you meet them in wherever it is that dead murderers congregate.

1:09:25 When they asked you who you were with last night. You can always say that there's no lady that. Was my knife. Well, I'm glad you could put a new point on that old joke. Oh, I like to shopen up an old sauna, and well. Let me see what I can do along those lines. How about the best things in life or team. I'm afraid your enthusiasm for Lyptuns has got the best. You're right, mister host, But it's so easy to be enthusiastic about Liptons Once you taste that marvelous brisk flavor. You can't help me being a real Lipton fan, And that lively, zestful taste is something you folks should start to enjoy right now. Next time you visit the grocers, get a package of lips and tea try, I know you'll enjoy.

1:10:24 May I add a word of advice, friends, if you should happen to bump into an elderly gentleman dressed all in black on a dark street some night, don't get into an argument with him, especially if he happens to be carrying a bloodstained knife. After all, you can end up just as stiff if you're dead, right as if you're dead brong. Oh, by the way, this month's in a Sanctum mister novel is the Pavilion I Hilda LUNs and next week's in a Sanctum Story brought to you by the makers of Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup and directed by Hymond Brown. Good Night, pleasant streams mm hmmmm mm hmm.

1:11:22 Yeah, well, my dear, perhaps I am feeling a bit better, a little more. Let's call it color in my cheeks, although I'm not sure that's particularly accurate. We can go with that. I do hope this blows over quickly. I'm not sure what it could be or how it could be, but I'm often wondering that, often wondering how, why, what, mostly how, of course, but I'm sure all can be revealed.

1:12:12 The How's What's When's Wise Wares in the statement of employee Henry. Wilson suspense, this is the man in Black. You're again to introduce Columbia's program Suspense with us in Hollywood. Denied a star is mister.

1:12:53 Jen Lockhart, whose remarkable characterizations on the screen have won him a notable following with American audience. It is with rueful satisfaction, but with satisfaction nonetheless, that the genial mister Lockhart contemplates his reputation. Because of his cinematic misdoings, his numberless treacheries, betrayals, and cowardly villainies, he is one of the most hated men in the country today. Our story this Evening by John Shaw is called statement of Employee Henry Wilson, and so with the performance of Jeen Lockhart as he relates and relives the events of the climactic moment in Henry Wilson's life, we again hope to keep you in suspense.

1:13:50 I was aware that I was trembling. I tried walking slowly back and forth in front of the desk, but even in motion by my knees felt weak and my whole body shook. I was at always eye who trembled. Never this pompous insect sitting in front of me. His voice was cool and mocking. His voice was clear and hard. Well. I sympathize with you, of course, Wilson. But the error must be brought to mister Larkin's attention. It is quite a big mistake, though quite a costly mistake. Mister Larkin must know he wouldn't cover it up. I knew that two years ago this man had come with the firm. For eight years before that, I had worked there, enjoying the work, liking the people, and then he had come there.

1:14:37 Have you have you ever stood quietly by and watched some one rob your house and steal your pocket book? I was helpless. He was ambitious, he was clever, he was fluent, and as off to night. I was his subordinate two years against ten years around the office. I had a reputation of being casual and carefree. But I hated this man. Every inch of me. Hated this man, and it was not a new hatred. Of course, there was no question of your honesty. His voice was. Patronizing, the patient teacher and the unruly pupil. I hated him. He smiled up at me, and waved his hand in dismissal.

1:15:19 He almost blushed a small iron vase off the top of the desk with a gesture. I had seen that vase so often that I had never seen it out of the eyes that I was looking at it with. Now, good night, Wilson, good night, I said, good night, clever boy. I walked out into the corridor and rang for the elevator. A terrible night, ANDed mister Wilson. I heard the boy like he was yelling at me from some distant mountain. He was talking, and I was answering, but howl either Weatherless was saying. I didn't know. I was thinking of something else. I looked at my watch as I stepped out of the car. It was eleven thirty.

1:16:10 Already I mentioned it. They ran along day, did I? Mister? Wasn't? Those were the first. Words of the boy that I heard, heard clearly, very clearly. Yes, I told him, Oh, plenty of overtime this week. I stood and looked at him for a moment. Mister Dodds is still in the opposite You might drop in and see if he wants anything. I think he'd be very great. I will, sir, I certainly will it'll help to pass the time, sir. I don't like to complain, but these nights pass awful slow. Sometimes, yes, go up and see if he wants anything, Go up and see. I walked out of the lobby and came back into the building again. When the boy had gotten into. The elevator four flights up, I took the stairs slowly.

1:16:52 I was in no rush. I must let the boy get out of the room first, he said. The nights passed slowly, this one wouldn't, and yet there would be an eternity compressed in it. When I got to the fourth floor, I stood at the top of the stairs and watched the door to DoD's office. The elevator was parked at the floor, so I knew the boy was in the room. A short while later he came out, and I crouched back in the shadows until he had gone down in the car. And then I walked into the room, not in a crouch, or moving my feet so that no sound would wake the stillness, but casually, earnestly. There was a small waiting room to mister Dodd's office. In two years he had a waiting room. In ten I had none. I felt like laughing at the symbolism.

1:17:38 Of that fact. Whozza, I called out my name and entered his office. Yes, what is it, Wilson. He was still sitting down, and the iron vase was still alongside of him, very close to him. I started to talk. I don't know what about business things in general, I've quite forgotten. I reached across and picked up the iron vas casely, very casually. But his eyes went wild suddenly, and he jumped and I hid him square on the top of the head with the vase. It wasn't a very good shot. I had no leverage, but he started to slump back in the chair. I hit him again, hard, and again and again, and a red streak ran across his forehead, and he laid him. I put my hand against his heart. For a moment, there was a soft beating, and then I could feel nothing.

1:18:36 I was very calm and very warm. I was calmer than I'd ever been before. I wiped off the vase and put it back onto the desk. I ran through the papers the dogs had been looking at until I found the one paper I was looking for. I ripped it into little bits and I put the pieces into my pocket. Outside the building, my first act would be to scatter the pieces. I'd cover my mistake myself. I moved back to the door. I wiped the door knob and. Looked once around the room before I opened the door and stepped out into the waiting room. And then God har miss Wilson. Ah. I stood there, afraid to turn, afraid to think. I slammed the door shut behind him and stood in front of it. Are you all right, mister Wilson? I tried to talk, but the words got caught somewhere in my throat.

1:19:28 It was the sweeper, Tom. He'd be the night sweeper. I almost fainted. Everything had been set so nicely. I'd left the building. The elevator boy had come up and found Dodds in good health. Someone had stolen in later and killed him. That would be the elevator boy's story. If suspicion attached to anyone, it would be the boy. I had left the building. I had left the building. But now this Are you all right, mister Wilson? I'm fine, Tom. A bit of a call that's all awakens one. How are the wife and kids? The shock was wearing off. Mister Dodds is his room now? Tom working very late tonight. You'd better, you know, let his office go for this once. Well, if you say so, mister Wilton, I could give it a quick brusher. I wouldn't disturb him none. I stood firm in front of the door for a moment. I wondered if he'd seen anything and i'd come out of the room. It was possible he could have looked over my shoulder. Ah No, No, he hadn't seen anything. He began to sweep the sitting room, and I stood and watched him. I couldn't let him get out of here.

1:20:34 I'd go to the chair if he told me about being there, and I couldn't kill him too. Oh what a quick step it had been back to normal. I was nervous again, and I felt a sickness at the bottom of my stomach. I tried to talk to talk, and I sounded stupid. Tom looked at me. I wouldn't I wouldn't have to touch him. It would be his word against mine. And I had left the building. I opened the door quickly and went back into Dot's office. I tried to keep my eyes away from from that thing at the desk. I remember that he'd kept a bottle in one of the doors, and I took it and brought it out of the sitting room with me. Oh, Tom, mister dodd says, a birthday tomorrow, and he wonders if you will drink his health with me. And I don't think you'd better take any to night. Mister dodd says, a birthday sometime tomorrow. He'll be a day old in the next world. Tom was famous for his liquor habits.

1:21:28 But he hesitated. Well, no, I poured the drinks up with it, Tom, and down with it. And here's to mister Dodds, all right here, he's kind of He drank one, he drank another, he drank a third, and still I poured them into him. He got talkative and grew very gay that he didn't pass out. I looked at my watch. It was almost half past twelve. Well, a whole hour I had wasted with him. I could stand no more. He was drunk. Any test would show that his story to morrow would be listed as a drunkard's bable. I had left the building an hour ago. I couldn't afford to wish any more time. I walked behind him, and he was laughing, and I hit him as hard as I could on the back of the neck. He pitched forward off the chair on to the floor. I dragged him into Dot's office and I lifted him into the chair facing Dots. I brought the bottle in from the sitting room and put it on the desk in front of Dots. I took the iron vase and curled Tom's hands around it for the finger prints, and I dropped it at his feet. A bottle, a fight, a killing.

1:22:40 I was sweating. I went out into the sitting room again and almost fell to my knees. I was frightened. I had to get out of here. I got to the lobby and looked out of the shadows at the elevator. The boy was sitting on a chair outside the car, and he seemed asleep. I came out of the darkness and went quickly towards the street and began to walk rapidly. I wanted to get somewhere out of the world. Who would I ever sleep again? We murders are not supposed to and I wanted to rest. Ah. I had a sudden idea. I went into a cafeteria and used the telephone. I called the building and got the elevator boy on the phone. Hello there, Hello, Jim, Oh, mister Wilson, Jim, has mister Dodds left yet? The voice that answered me was sleepy and the words were hard to make out, but I knew all the answers. Well, listen closely, Jim. Will you tell him that the address of the place we were talking about is one hundred and forty four Gray streets? Yes one for yes, that's right, or he'll know what I mean. Will you walk and tell him now, Jim? All right, thanks a lot, Jim.

1:23:51 And I was sure the sweeper would be discovered in the room with Dodds. The address was a Turkish bath. It was logical a man working all night might want to go to a Turkish bath afterwards, Jim, Jim would walk in now, and heaven only knew what came next. The sweeper would be caught like a rat in a trap, drunk and with a murdered man sitting across from him. I walked home through streets that crushed me in their shadows, between walls that whispered at me as I passed. I sat up in my room for hours, listening to the sounds Manhattan makes and the night, and finally Finally I fell asleep. Then I sat and I slept and I dreamed until sunrise. Wow Ah, I woke with a start.

1:24:39 I was shaking like some miserable, wet cur I took a drink and tried breathing deeply. Somewhere I'd read the deep breathing kill that scared feeling. What in places was I frightened about? I was safe, I was completely safe. But when I left the house, I was still shaking. I walked all around the block that the building was on before I went inside. It looked like any other morning. On the floor where my office was I I saw a policeman, and then another, and then my world was surrounded by a ring of police and playing clothes men. I must watch my nerves. I must move carefully, very carefully. None of them paid any more attention to me than they did to any of the others. They assembled all of us in the President's office, and then one of them, the sharp alert young men, began to talk.

1:25:27 Last night, please, last night, an attempt was made on the life of one of your associates, mister Charles Dodds. Oh God, murmur ran round the room. I was talking, with the rest being surprised with the rest, but he what did he mean? An attempt? Dodds had been dead, or or had he? Fortunately, however, the attack was not successful, and mister Dodds has supplied us with some rather unbelievable information, oh, information which I tried. To hold myself. I felt faint suddenly, and then something happened inside me, and I did not break. It was a trick. It was a trick. I was sure of it.

1:26:13 The detective stared at us, running his eyes across our faces, across my face, searching, staring, and then he he shrugged his shoulders well. As a matter of fact, mister Dodds was killed. And another man you might know also died last night, mister Thomas Higby, the night sweeper. Higby dead too. Again, that rustle of voices, that droning conversation that I was part of. Some of them had known Higby, liked him. I hadn't meant to kill him. Could there be some mistake? I wanted to ask one of these men. Was this some mistake? I hadn't meant to kill him?

1:26:54 Mister Dodds was clubbed to death. A night sweeper died of a heart attack. Nothing more is known as yet what happened here last night? All consider yourselves at the disposal of the police until you're told otherwise. Now lash them. Why didn't they say something? They were lying to these people? Nothing more was known, That's nonsense. Whatever it was all there for them to see. It told its own story. Higb had killed Dods poor harm. This little hig be had killed that big famous executive. And now and will you come this way please? There's a little routine questioning, that's all. Everybody here will have to doune to go it. I must watch myself. I must go very slowly.

1:27:36 Sit here, won't you? Mister Wilson? Oh, do you remember what time you left the office last night? Yes? Yes, it was eleven thirty. I remember mentioning it to the elevator boy. And what times you get home? Or somewhere about half past twelve? I guess, yes, just about that time. Is there anybody who would swear to the well the elevator boy, I don't mean man. Is there anyone who saw you go into your house at twelve thirty? I hardly think so. At that time. The streets aren't too well populated, you know, Officer, and I live in a house where people mind their own business. I really don't know anybody in the house, and I doubt if anybody saw me go into it. But you can check with the elevator boy. Though. As to my going home at eleven thirty.

1:28:20 Yes, we have already. You weren't on the best of terms with Dodge Boy and Wilson. Oh, why I was fond of him, But I don't know what right you have to say a thing like that. He kind of did you out of a job around here, didn't he? Oh he was a smart man. Mister Dodds was an exceptionally smart man. It was not a total disgrace to lose a position to him when I left him last night. He was an excellent health I killed a man every time I had a job taken away from me, I'd have quite a long line of victims behind me. Of course, I'm just joking. You know you made a phone called him last night, didn't you. Yes to the elevator boy, I remember suggesting that he go to a Turkish bath after he'd finished work to sort of tone up. They're very good, you know, And I mentioned that I knew a very good one that I could recommend, and then when he asked me the name of it, I couldn't think of the address of the place. And I thought of it later though, and I phoned the building.

1:29:13 Where'd youve paone from? From a little place in the neighborhood? And about what time did you phone? Well, it was about twelve twenty five. I guess I was getting a little mixed up. It couldn't have been then. I was still in the building at twelve thirty. Ah, they were confusing me. You called it exactly twelve fifty five, so you must have miscalculated the time of your arrival at home. However, that isn't important. None of us has expected to time ourselves from place to place our way. When we find too good an alibi, we get kind of suspicious. Well, I don't think we'll have to bother you anymore, mister Wilson. Thank you. He asked me to send somebody in to see him. As I went out, I forget who it was.

1:29:57 I was thinking very hard. I went into my own office and sat down. So keasy was it possible? The whole thing was over? And so easily? Hello there Wilson. Very sad this business, very sad. Good morning, mister Larkin, but we must go on. Mister Dodds would want it that way, yes, sir, he would. It's a responsible job he had, Wilson. But you've been with us long enough to know that. Yes. Do you think you can handle it well, sir? I yes, sir, I think I can. Good. Get your stuff together and take over Dodd's old office. You deserve this, Wilson, and I'm sure you'll reward our confidence in you. Well. Thank you very much, sir, because I hardly expected John the second thought. I think you'd better go into his office right away and sort of straighten out some of the things on his desk. I'll have one of the boys bring your things in later. Very well, sir, Good luck, Thank you, sir. The fat, pompous pig I happ'ly said those things before last night. They were all in a spot.

1:30:56 Now they needed poor stupid Wilson. They needed me to get them out of a hole. Further the thing went, the funnier it got. Books were wrong about virtue and good counting. For anything. To get ahead, you either married the boss's daughter or kill the boss. I took the pencil and a small note book and went out into the corridor. I stood for a moment outside DoD's office, just like last night, and then I pushed the door open slowly, the sitting room, and then the door to the office. I opened it and walked inside. I heard the door close softly behind me, and I stood there, smelling the death in the air. And then and then I saw it. I saw it.

1:31:40 I tried to yell, but I couldn't get the words out. There there in front of me, sitting in the chair what I'd propped him last night was Tom Higbee, his eyes open, his expression blank and staring, and at his feet was the bottle and the vase. The same bottle, the same vase. Dads was all that was missing. I turned and I bolted into the hall. Higbee, Oh, what's the matter, Wilson? You look like it's in a goost in the office, in the office, Higbee, Higbee? Why Higby's dead? Man? What's the matter? Mister Larkin? Where's mister Larkin? H Here? I am, Wilson. What's the matter? In the office? In the office.

1:32:21 What nothing? I walked in after him. There was nothing there, nothing, no Higbee, no bottle, no vase. But I saw them. I saw them. Oh, was I going crazy? Was I beginning to compare? I felt lockin'spat on my shoulder. He murmured something about everybody being a little touchy, a little jumpie, and then he left and I was alone in the room. Be careful, be careful, be careful. I stood, I stared at the desk and at the chair. No one was there, No one could have been there. I must watch myself.

1:33:04 Uh what oh? Oh, I beg your pardon. Oh, not at all. I seem to be in the wrong room. I'm missus Charles Dodgs. I'm looking for that young detective. He doesn't seem to be out here. Well, I believe he's in the end room, questioning the employees. And I don't suppose he'll be able to see me for a little while. Do you mind if I wait here for you? Well, I thank you so much. Excuse me for a second, Charlie. Will you tell the detective that Missus Dodds is waiting for him in my new office. Oh you've already seated yourself. I was going to suggest that perhaps this seat might be she was sitting in his chair. There was blood in that chair. This is quite all right, thank you, Charles.

1:33:47 Would have liked to see the way everybody's taking his death. Everyone is so kind to me. Mister Dodds was a fine man, A fine man. Mister Wilson, aren't you He used to talk about you. Thought you were a very bright person. He seemed very fond of you. I don't know how I'll be able to go on without missus Dodds. You mustn't you, you mustn't. I'm sorry. He wouldn't like to see me carrying on like this, would he. We were going to buy a home in Westchester this summer. Did he ever tell you that? Yes, just outside Yonkers. We have two lovely little ones, Toby and little Mary. He loved the New York state countryside.

1:34:32 We talked so much about it on don she rambled. He liked this. He didn't like that. The children, the children, Toby and little Mary, Toby and little Mary. She was driving me crazy. Stop it. I wanted to yell, get out of here and leave me in peace. Get out of here, you witch, get out, Get out. Missus Dodds attactive laws would like to see you now. Thank you for everything, mister Wilsam, And good. Bye, eh, good bye, good bye, and get out and leave me alone. I hadn't meant to do anything like that. I hadn't wanted to do any of the things I was doing. All I wanted to do was to kill Dods. All these other things they won't mind. I didn't kill Higby. He can't haunt me. His wife can't cry at me. Heart attack, that's it. Higby died of a heart attack.

1:35:15 I beg your pardon, sir. Have you seen missus Higby the detective is looking for? How would I see her? Am? I everybody's guardian? How can anybody get lost in this office? Sorry, sir? Stop at you, howling idiot? Can't you be looked for? Quietly? You will drag Higby from his grave? But you're yelling too. Widows, what do you manufacture? Widows? Don't you mister Wilson. Widows and oftens. Tell me, mister Wilson, is it your life's work. Or is it just a hobby with you? Tell me, mister Wilson. Who is that? Who is that talking? Do they think they can make a fool of me? Ah? The office communication?

1:35:57 It's oh stopping, mister Wilson. You'll go boy me. You've committed the perfect crime. Don't go crazy and spoil it. Perfection is instinctive with you. Isn't it. It's not a plan? Did you make spontaneous perfections? There are many good do that go on? Boy, go on? Voices can't fighten me. They deserve to die, and that's why they're dead. Wou shalt not kill, mister Wilson, Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill, not hit me. I didn't kill him. He's not stopped. You hear me, That's all. I didn't kill him. Now you voices stop you hear me? Stop it?

1:36:38 I command stop? It is something wrong, mister Wilson. What do you mean? Is there something wrong? Do you hear them too? Well? You mustn't listen. They lie? Do you hear me that I knock? Get out? Get out, get out. You must talk only to me, You understand me, Only to me, not to these others. Don't say anything to them, only to me, only to me. Well, what do you want? Well, I don't know. You think they'll say something bad about me, don't you? So you can carry me off to jail. That's what you're waiting for, isn't it. When you're going to be disappointed? You see their quiet what's quiet? Yeah, you think I'm going to tell you. They won't say anything unless I tell them to. And I'm not going to tell them to say anything, not one little word last night last night? You wanted to know all about last night? Huh? When you asked them and they won't tell you. Look at the expression on that face. Look at him, lieutenant. They saw me, hid him, but they won't say anything. They were there, but they won't tell you a thing, not one little word.

1:37:27 Now I hear around. We had gotten a lot of rooms the other way. You and your psychology. No, you should leave that stuff in college. And all I did was planning Higby in the office and wrote missus Dodson here and talked into the ventilating. Syste You know, those voices had me creepy too. Incidentally, Dons was single. Why that girls might fiance? She's an actress? Well for why did you tell him Higby was dead? No? Maybe better not explain psychology. What are we going to do with a confession? Now? We should have pinched him the moment we walked in here. You know, maybe I'm lucky I never went to college. There's no use waiting here. They won't tell you anything. They're mine, all nine. I tell them what to say.

1:38:09 Get the wagon. I'm not gonna walk this thing through the streets. I won't say, Henry Wilson, it's the judgment of this court that you be sent to the Hillview Mental Home and be kept there in close confinement. Until sud. On the voice went. I had stopped listening to voices, all but the ones that I couldn't help hearing. But but I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I tell people that, and they look at me queerly. The stupid fools, the guards here have spread the lies that I have fits. Lies, lies, I tell you, they say every night when the moon comes up, I have fits, loud, roaring fits when they lie, because it's then that I hear the voices. I hear Dods and his wife, and Toby and little Mary, and I sit quietly and I listened to them. Do you think I can have a fit in front of them?

1:39:20 Do you know? No? I'd be ashamed. I tell you why, I'm not crazy. And they lie when they tell you that, they lie, all of them. They lie, lies, lies. Lies, and so close. A statement of employee Henry Wilson, starring Jean Lockhart, The Night's Tale of Suspense.

1:40:17 How does it taste? The tea is definitely stronger than normal, and I do feel a bit more like my normal self. I suppose well, relax, enjoy the fire. I know the weather outside keeps bouncing around. Cold and warm and cold and warm. But down here it's always chilly except by the fire. The fire, the fire burning up the air. Jane Air, no weird.

1:41:08 Very in this ay right of restless eve. We are next to fall from out the pie story three, and we're randoms of. The world gone by. Speak again the Immortal Tale Jamee. Hair Still Diary, March first, eighteen sixty four. U left my aunt's house early this morning, and the roder storm fills manner.

1:41:52 At five o'clock this afternoon. The house was dark and gloomy, and the rounding poppels and the house is shadowed all too. I like old trees usually, but these trees. Are narrowed and bent, like narrow dent old then, and. The limbs which reached out over the path reminded me of long, boney singers which you were reaching out trying to choke me. My throat was dry and parched, and. My feelings a new kind of fears. I walked up the path to the steps. To the house. This is my first job of any kind. I've been hired as a governess the tenure over Della Rochester, Adela and her father Edward Rochester. Would he live alone as fall Field with two servants. I walked up the stone steps and then nervously pulled the doorbell and waited my release and my right hand. The heavy door swung slowly open.

1:42:47 Oh are you a John Ayre? Why yes, yes I am. Mister Rochester told me to expect you. Won't you come in? Thank you? I'll show you to your rover. I'm Missus carr all In, mister Rochester's housekeeper. How do you do, mister cambrad to meet you? A Are you follow me up these stairs? Course? Missus? Can mister Rochester fill up word with. Me to see that you are made comfortable, at least as comfortable as anybody can be at Thornfield. I'm sure I'll manage very nicely, very you. That's what you think now, is there? But wait, wait till you live in here a while. We've had many governesses before you, but they never stay, No, never, Why not why not.

1:43:35 You'll see this. Is you'll ron right at the head of the stairs. Make yourself at home, my dear all, and one thing dinner is served the sick never later he used be. He Diary, September first, eighteen sixty four. This is my sixth month in service. Looking back, I have no regrets. I spent many evenings talking to Edward Rochester, unforgettably present evening, happy evening, listening to the soft, present murmur of a voice.

1:44:16 But there's a shadow of some strange, remote misery that seemed to cling to the house, the shadow of something that I can't fathom. I never ask. I don't dare intrude my curiosity, idle chiosity into. A family's secret. However, strange events took place. This evening when the bell in. My student and I were sitting your living room alone. There was a warm fire burning the fireplace, and though it was well past the dollar's usual funny period, we. Were reviewing her geography. I think I remember the English supert. Time we'll get the eastern coast. Then I start with Timming Timmeth. I thought she one day a less households God there and uh.

1:45:04 Yarmouth as Yarmouth. I'm never coming, remember Zanna. Oh Adella, shame on. You might think of all the people who live in Yarmouth and feelings will be heard. Boy don't, or they most certainly would, just because. I forgot her. Yarmouth Yarmouth lost bat the switch? Howritt and Michael? How's that the sad that brilliantly executed? Young lady? Don't you're a very a pupil. That's just a battle of aln is Canda sees. I'm a naughty rich a. Simple child of the devil the dether. When did you throw over to you? Yesterday? I was or I was on the sad floor. Where you had no right to be understad floor Your father had given strict orders that no one needs to go up there, no one but missus Candle.

1:45:50 I don't see right join with shallata things going up? No doubt I didn't. Yes, they're so special anyway, I don't know the dad any way, Missus Candell tell me, yeah, you know you. Perhaps Missus Campbell says many things she doesn't mean. Indeed, miss do Indeed, I didn't know. You'd taken to interpreting my mind as well as a child's mind. Well, I'm sorry. I'm sure I didn't mean you harm, Missus Campbell. I'm sure you didn't. Time to go to bed, Adella, nine o'clock. I do want to go. That does lots now as you do, young lady. You want to go to bed because I do. I'm sleepy. Oh I sleepy too. Right off we go, I'm a there is, Missus Campbell.

1:46:34 Mister Rochester asked me to tell you to get into the study for a few seconds before you retire. He wants to see you. What about I'm not in my habit of trying into mister Rochester's private affairs. Missayre, come along, Aidela after. Bed the night, miss their good night, dear present dreams. I'll be up shortly and looking on you, Miss Ayre. We've been sitting here talking for the world. Now to Rochester, just chattering aimlessly. I don't find your chattering less. Jane, you don't mind if I call you James, No, not at all. I find it stimulating. I've learned a lot about you too. Born in orphan, brought up by a stupid maiden man.

1:47:16 You love children. You never said myn was stupidness to Rochester. Please call me Edward, Jane Edward, no, it as a matter of fact, you didn't, But I gathered as much. Let's see what else I found out. Well, you're a particularly nice person, and I love you very much. Hmm. Did you see Yes, I said I loved you. I love you, Jae Edward, Hut is that frighten you? Yes? If it doesn't a way? Why what is so much about you in the house that I don't understand her? Trust me and try to believe in me, Edward? What's bothering you?

1:47:57 Jane? Will it wood Broller. She's so frightened. She's frightened at the mystery in this house. There's no mystery in this house. But then't Why is the attic shut off that way? It saves fuel? Well, that's mom, since the outlets heated. Let's say it saves fuel and let it go. With that, Edward. Last night, I was awake in the middle of the night by shuffling footsteps over my head. That's the footsteps of the lame animal, I mean, the trem hours until the footsteps of sided. You had a knife there properly, Jane. That wasn't the first time I heard those footsteps. Probably missus Campbell rummaging up there. She hasn't summed me at times, Missus. Campbell doesn't walk on all floors over it?

1:48:38 Well probably uh, probably the wind. Adela heard it too. Let's say it's the wind. Forget a chewy sir. I shouldn't have started to talk about it, but. Ask and toust you. And you can't. You make it a little difficult, don't you? Jane? Jane? I yes, I guess I do. What are you doing to dead earlier? I'm frightenly tired. No matter what happens, James, believe this one thing. I do love you. I love you more than I have a believed I could love any good Night and sleep wet.

1:49:34 Oh I'm still scream I'm still burst. Oh. I wonder, I wonder if you want, would he James? How long would he say? Love me? What's this secret? Well? I wanted to blue start. I' prop me with the wind? My imagination runs world. It's nice. No mother room never known like that, not even the leaf on the tree outside of my window of stalls? And how can I even think it's the window? Would everybody would keeping from.

1:50:20 There? It is again? Just listen to it and walking up and down and scratching the floor. And I don't know if I'm kind of just listen to it. I'm not the wing with my imagination on a weak. No, let's not about the stop. It's got to stop, he said, Listen to that. I scared. I scare you are childcause you are, you're nice.

1:51:01 Let him Let me get off with. Don if I don't know, do. Poor Chod nothing? It all done? You see it stop? Now, I ain't scared. I'm over scared. Look all over and now day I'll come along. I'll take you back to Betty. You would put that right here, my daddy, we make it stop. I come about to bed when you make it stop? And see I wouldn't he have some scarce and. Sh not happened to Betty? Get the doll? I still love him with chain to the fallstreet. Never used to be like that, Never no want of them started, doll.

1:51:42 It's no nice years so cause there is never a low. Yet it never shouldn't sing you the cous You don't remember everything hasn't. Don't see when you go back to sleep a doll, flee doll. I'll pull the covers way up over you like m there. This door. Must be behind this door, Campbell, come as well, just ti the door. Yeah, quite a low flight of stairs.

1:52:24 Here is a cancer. I'll just walk up this story and look around. I'll just walk up and have teak. I shouldn't the last week. What are you doing here? H what are you doing here? What are you doing on these stairs? You don't look at me like that? I mean, I just can't do can't tell. Jane Darling spoke shopping. Someday I'll explain everything to you. Honestly. I will come along. I'll right to fire in the fireplace and have Missus Campbell bringing some See he's. So thoughtful, Edward, you see it. Thoughtful and be careful walking down the stairs.

1:53:08 Please forgive me, forgive you for what well I've done, being so disloyal. Any woman would have done exactly what you've done, if only it's only for only I could tell you. Everything, Jane, Why can't you trust me? Edwood, I can't trust anybody. Missus Campbell nerve Yes. Missus Campbell is the only one in the world who knows Jane. Please, Darling, trust me. Did your first wife know? No? No, she died without knowing? Oh, Darling. Edward is this secret the reason why missus Campbell hates. Me so very much? She doesn't hate you, not really, She's worried about me, that's all. There's the study.

1:53:53 Come in and sit down, Jane. Yes, Edward being alone is well, it's not good for. People, really, when two people are in love the way we're in love, yes, said would well if the obstacles which but then they're getting married can be ignored, if if they trust each other, I mean really trust each other, it would. What are you trying to say to me that I I love you? Jane? Ah? Can you well? Could you possibly believe in me enough to to be my wife?

1:54:34 Your wife? Please? Darling David? Would out trust me? Ah? I've been fighting loving you would since I arrived here, and I'm tired of fighting it. And when I'm tired of. Fighting something it's stronger than I am, you will then, Yes, it would, Rochester, I'll be your wife. You I ain't gonna name mister Rochester. Yes, Missus Camber, that rang for you. Would you bring me at the canter of wine and three glasses? Three glasses? Yes, Missus Campbell. I thought perhaps you'd be the first to congratulate the bride and bridegroom to be. Yes, yes, I'd like.

1:55:15 To be the first. Congratulations fair and a long and happy married life. Come in. The norning was there? Do you mind if I come in for a while? No? Please do? I was just brushing my hands. Campbell. You seriously intend to go through as this marriage? Was there? Why? Yes, missus Campbell? You free? Really, really, Missus Campbell. Take my advice and pack your clothes with that that you can tack them and leave this house. So I don't understand, Really you don't understand. There are a lot of friends you don't understand there. I know there are that I trestn't to watch it?

1:55:57 Do you do you? Indeed, yes, I do. And I don't like your auntitude told me to all you don't. You don't like my attitude? Eh, you've no idea what you're getting into. I came into this room with only. One idea, one idea to warn you, and you like a silly, sniveling school girl instead of a drown woman. You don't like my attitude, Missus Tempbell. If you admit that I'm a grown woman, and perhaps I'm old enough to make up my own. Mind, perhaps you are Frankly, I don't care what happens to you. A pretty face like yours has no meaning for me, even if it has practed with Rochester. Yes, Captain, but I do care what happens to him, and I warn you right now, I'll do everything within my power to see that your marriage does not go through.

1:56:46 There's nothing that you can do, missus Temple. Nothing isn't there Well, a certain mister Nason could do a lot. You won't be married for four days, and I can do a lot in foam. September sixth, eighteen sixty four. Kids, My kids splotched the page that I write to you there diary. To go with my wedding day. Guest Rid just planted five o'clock this afternoon. Minutes. It hate me doing a home because would now walk hand in hand? Told him.

1:57:30 In the wedding told. Many guys. Barely beloved. We are gathered together here. In the sight of God and in the fate of this company, to join together, this man and this woman in holy matrimony, which is an honorable estate instituted of God signifying unto watch. Isn't this holy state? These two present presents come down to the joy if any man. Can show just cause why they may not lovelly joined together. Let him now be all hereafter forever hold his fee. Wait a minute, I'll see I'll speak, although it should be obvious to others in this room, or a marriage between Edward Rochester.

1:58:14 And anybody is completely illegal. Mason, Yes, it's me Edward. How did you know I know you were intending to get married? Ask the girl housekeeper, Miss Campbell. Mister Rochester. I wrote a letter to mister Nason and then had him come to tontailed at. One, and so I came just in time to watch this pretty little farce being acted. Everybody talking to you what it's all about? Why didn't you tell them? Edward? Tell them the truth? I I what are you did with I. Can't tell them, but I'll show them. I'll show everybody what you did to me. Mason. Come along, everyone, good to be out of change. Come along, all of you, and I'll show you what he's talking about it. I'll show you why Mason can speak now and speak fairly. I'll show you what he means.

1:59:00 Ladies and gentlemen. This is the famous secret attic of my name. Follow me right here to the left. Listen, to that. Everyone, listen, do you know what that is? Whither? I open the door and you can see for yourselves. You'll see a woman running around a room like a cage animal. I'm thinking, all always like a beast, with hair on her face, in her arms, hair like a You'll see. All of you. You'll see, well, Bertha, how. Are you today? May I introduce my wife to you? This is my wife, Bertha Mason, my wife and his daughter Mason. So I was forought to marry her when I was a youngster.

1:59:51 I never met this woman before. I still the art with him. You are give him a good dowry at the time. Oh yes, yes, you provided an excellent dowry. And then then when I drew my brides. Nail off of her face, I saw this face, the face of a congenital idiot. There was nothing I could do, but the lords of. The state of the church depaid. I wasn't insane A horse for insane woman. Tells nothing, my child. She's a doctor. I need some in I needed so much care for And I. Thought I Dela would the answer to my loneliness. Until I met you, Jane. Until I met you, Edward. Edward, my darling, WoT.

2:00:32 Bet you hate me, and I don't blame don't hate you, Edward, and I don't blame her. I don't blame her at all. So Diary, So it was that I discovered the secret of the act, secret of the tragedy which come to Thornfield. It don't slip the house, hurried me. I went to my room and packed my clothes. Then I walked slowly. Downstairs, not saying goodbye to anyone, not even to a dollar. I was confused and alone, full of the stairs. Missus Campbell stopped me. He sairey, are you leaving?

2:01:12 Here's missus Kemball. He'd say goodbye to everybody for me. I had to do what I did in missay h for his sake and for you, said, I understand. Please don't say anymore, yes, you say, took and carry Missus Kemble, I. Will my dear I a real very good care of him. Goodbye and good luck. She said goodbye. For quite a while, I said out till the. Door, trying to collect myself. Then I started to walk. Down the road alone. Suddenly I turned around and. Gazed back at Stormfield.

2:01:53 The entire house was on fire. I dropped my suit case. I ran back as cr as I could missus Campbell and the dollar was standing our clubhouse. This camel cold out to the. Campbell going. We got helping hold enough to go up and help a woman get barca. The woman who got a power of match. You know the rest. You's not.

2:02:36 Telling the. Band, not the simple. Birtha base and slipped as she reached the ed edge of the room, and then hurtling over the edge into the frames below, And said Edward, somehow.

2:03:20 He managed to survive the fire and slip to safety. He took him to the hospital for immediate treatment. Now, as I sit by his bedside, writing to their diary, gaging the beloved teachers, I know. So will. I conclude the diary of Janey Ate I must, perhaps for many months, but wait, I will to become the wife of the man I love. September fifth, eighteen sixty four.

2:04:10 From the time one paged of the past, we have brought you the tale Jane eyre Bell. People all the bell, my dear, I do so appreciate you spending this time with me while I nurse myself back to well being. But now the night has gotten late and you need to return to your home and I to wherever it is I go. But do know I'll be right here waiting for you, same time, same place, so do join me. I would appreciate it very much.

2:05:17 But now, as you make your way home, as you hike through the dark, cold wind, as you lay your head on that soft, cool pillow, if I could ask one more favor before you go off to the land of Nod, take a moment and be thankful for what you have, and I'll be seeing you, remembering private incomprements for Poium