June 14, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | Gothic Horror Fiction & Graves, Gallows, Curses

Unknown Broadcast | Gothic Horror Fiction & Graves, Gallows, Curses
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Four eerie tales of gothic horror and betrayal unfold tonight. A desert archaeological dig uncovers fresh horror instead of ancient history. Then Owl Creek Bridge becomes a nightmare of illusion, escape, and doom. Witchcraft, stagecraft, and murder collide in flames and suspicion. Finally, The Whistler arrives with a crime story where the cleverest plan may already be waiting to betray you. Expert narration. Immersive darkness. Spine-tingling twists.

πŸͺ¦ Dig Me Deadly
A desert excavation turns into a murder investigation when a body is found where no fresh corpse should be. Detective Claudia Trubshaw follows the trail through sand, bones, secrets, and suspicious academics in a classic radio mysterywhere the past is not nearly as dead as everyone hoped.
πŸŒ‰ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A condemned man stands beneath the beams of Owl Creek Bridge, waiting for the rope to fall. What follows is one of the great nightmares of old-time radio suspense: a desperate escape, a race toward home, and the terrible question of how much life can pass through a mind in its final instant.
πŸ”₯ Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
Theater, superstition, jealousy, and murder stir together in this eerie Suspense drama from John Dickson Carr. A performance becomes a trap, an obsession becomes dangerous, and the old language of witchcraft seems to whisper from just behind the curtain.
πŸ”ͺ Double Cross
In this Whistler tale, a criminal scheme twists back on itself when deception becomes the deadliest weapon in the room. A robbery, a setup, and a supposed perfect plan all move toward the same destination: the moment when betrayal stops being clever and starts being fatal.

Four stories. Four graves opening. One broadcast that was never buried deep enough.

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’Ό Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
πŸŽ₯ Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Well, hello, my dear, you almost snuck up on me almost.

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Please make yourself comfortable. Well, I'm just getting the fire

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burning hot. As you know, it remains very chilly even

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in the warmer months. But I'd digress. It's still a delight.

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The air is different, not quite as delightful as the fall,

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but I'll take it. Life is certainly in the breeze,

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and that can be frustrating, But don't take that to heart.

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You wouldn't want to dig me deeply.

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A CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents come in.

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Welcome, I'm a g.

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Marshall.

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Welcome to the fear you can hear. Welcome to the

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world of terrifying imagination. It gives me a fiendish delight

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to invite you on a very unusual expedition. For in

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our tale to come, we are going to travel not

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to distant shores, not to outer space, but instead and

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backwards in time time, as the archaeologist knows it, the

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depths of time. Strange thing about archaeology. It seeks to

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understand life by the study of death.

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Can we try to uncover the rest of the body?

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Professor of course.

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Journey the three or four Fellows to help you and

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do it carefully. There's no way of telling about his position. Sure, think, professor,

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Oh this is awful.

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What are we going to do?

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Don't worry.

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Ancient bodies are your specialty. Fresh ones are mine.

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But how do you know it's murder? You surprise me.

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A suicide may dig her own grave, but you'd hardly

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expect her to pull the dirt in after her.

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Our mystery drama, dig Me Deadly, was written especially for

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the Mystery theater by S. J. Wilson and stars Louise Larabie.

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Here I was at Brown, So I tangle out my

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little lordkin, Will you tangle with me? Which row? Splendid? Dan?

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I was what that face?

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I'm a few pounds overweight, and this ball and chain

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points out how my extra weight can get in the way.

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she was a wit.

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one oh two Lemon Avenue, just three blocks north of Oaklawn.

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You and I know that death is no respector of time.

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It often comes unbidden, unexpectedly, even fiercely and murderously. Oh,

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get your fifth helmets, your sunglasses, your axes, shovels, and

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all the other paraphernalia you will need to join us

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in digmy deadly.

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Young man. Why aren't we on a road? Why do

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we have to cross the desert because it's the fastest

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way to where we're going?

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Detective Scrubshaw, not Scrubshaw, Troobshaw, Troopshaw, Detective Claudia Troubshaw.

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And I bet your last toothpick.

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Which I wish you'd take out of your mouth, that

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we're really crossing the rocky mountains.

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There, Colorado. This is Arizona.

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I know it's Arizona, Sherriff Whalley, It's where I came

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to spend my vacation with my sister before you showed

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up with all your horns spout me.

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Oh, ma'am, I did know, so I say, Now, what

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else would you call it? I came here to get

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away from La and all that smug and to breathe

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in the pure, fresh, clean air of Tucson.

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Now, thanks to you, I've got more sand in my

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mouth than the whole Sonora Desert.

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That's Mexico. This Arizona, I've got news for you. It's

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left Mexico and settled in my lungs.

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Now, you mean to tell me that in the entire

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state of Arizona there isn't a police officer anybody who

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can cover this case.

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That you had to drag me into this no woman's land.

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Those are my orders, ma'am.

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Why would my Boston, Los Angeles assign me to an

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Arizona case.

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Well, I guess you knew you were in the neighborhood.

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That makes as much sense as kissing one of those cactuses.

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They're called saguaros. Now stop changing the subject, now, will you?

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Tell me where we are going, Like I said, Western Naco.

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Good for you. You have advanced to the next plateau.

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And why are we going.

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There because that's where they're digging superb Now who are

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they the kids that are digging?

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Wiley? Did you ever have your IT tested? I say said, no,

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well don't.

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It's probably lower than Death Valley and I know that's

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in California. Now, why are they digging for dead bodies?

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I say, stop this car at once?

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Well, what's wrong? Not riding another minute until you tell

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me what this is all about? What more you want to.

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Know why I'm sitting in this rolling junk heap on

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my way to West Naco around.

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Well, there are these kids there? What kids? These kids

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from some school near LA.

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Every summer they come and they dig up things they're

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supposed to be real old.

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In other words, students working on an archaeological dig.

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Never could pronounce that word.

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Forget the pronunciation, just try and make some sense.

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Well, a few days ago, I am sitting in the

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sheriff's office when this here girl comes by.

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Excuse me, char mask one in is the sheriff here?

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Truths there's there are no sheriff, And who's in charge.

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I guess I am sorry, Definity sheriff.

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You could say, and name is Wyley. I'm looking for help,

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That's why I'm here. But what can I do for you?

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But he's not a real sheriff.

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Well, I don't get paid for it, but they give

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me the badge.

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Hey, why don't you try me.

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I'm one of the students working at the Broadfields, the dig.

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Why don't you sit that trouble here? What kind of trouble?

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But it just it.

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I can't tell exactly, but someone's following me wherever I go.

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I have the feelings someone right behind me or hiding

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and waiting to.

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Do something to me, something terrible. Isn't anyone in charge?

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Professor Wilkerson? He said, I'm imagining things?

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Well, now, have you ever rarely seen anyone following?

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No?

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But only the other day someone went through my bureau

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and my luggage.

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No, but things were all messed up. I know what's

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your name? Rogers? Edith Rogers, Miss Rogers?

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Now do you do you have any idea why somebody'd

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be telling you or looking through your things?

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I think someone's trying to kill me, kill you.

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Hey, that's serious. Why would anyone want to do that.

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Because they're afraid of me, scared of what I could do.

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Well, you don't look like you could trouble a horn.

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Told what what are they scared of? You said, No,

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I can't tell you.

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If they found out I came here, they'd do it faster.

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Anyway.

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You can't help me, maybe nobody can.

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Hey wait a minute, wait a minute, wait there, Then

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what did you do?

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I phoned that professor Wilkinson, say, detective, can we get

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this thing going again?

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All right, but only as long as you tell me

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everything you know? Well, I call up that professor and

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I told him about it.

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And he said that it was the girl's first summer there,

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and that working in the hot sun and seeing all

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those graves and skeletons was something she just wasn't used to.

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Then he said he'd take care of it and for

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me not to worry.

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Well, at first I thought I'd better leave well enough alone,

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except the whole thing just kept pacing at me. So

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a couple of days later I dropped by the Broadfield

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Spread and was told by a girl who roomed with us,

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Edith Rogers, that she.

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That is to say, that Edith Rogers here she had

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left did she say when I didn't ask? Did she

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say how? Or why? I didn't ask that either? Were

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her clothes and luggage? Gun Gosh, I didn't think to

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ask that neither. Then how come you thought to ask

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for me?

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Well, I called his friend of my father's, who was

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assistant deputy chief of police.

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Say no more, you called my boss Morgan. In other words,

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this isn't an official assignment, is it.

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Well, he told me you were in Tucson and to

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speak to you, and.

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Dragging me through this fan heap is your idea of

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speaking to me?

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Wiley? If I admit something to you, would you promise

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never to tell anyone sure a thing? Dettective. I know

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of only one person who's a bigger fool than you

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who let me me.

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A detective troop enre. I'm Jordan Wells. One of the

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students tells me, you'd like to see.

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Me only in an unofficial capacity, Professor. If you can

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be of assistants, fine, If not, I'll.

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Understand, might not try it, Professor, This is Sheriff Wiley.

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Oh yes, hi, Oh what's it all about the Rogers girl?

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I understand she's not here any longer.

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Yes, I knew that girl would be more trouble than

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it was worth to.

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Bring her out here. Then why was she here? Oh?

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She was thinking of archaeology as a major. You see,

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she family comes from a difficult home. She had nothing

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to occupy her this summer, and the dean asked me

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if we could fit her in, try to make a

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feel she belongs to something.

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A group. Apparently it didn't work out.

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No, she moped a lot, got the press suspicious. She

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wasn't wanted. I did everything I could. I got two

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of the nicest girl's room with her.

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Who are they?

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Oh?

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Rihanine Boulange, French exchange students specializes in atomic physics and

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Susan mater the straight A students, very outgoing.

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Very bright. Were there any young men?

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Yes? And I didn't like doing it, But I got

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Jimmy Trumble, who spent some of his free time with her.

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He's our prize. It's a brillant fellow. We call him

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our Libby Libby. Well, now that's a girl's name, Wiley.

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You're famous for not asking questions. Why not live up

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to your reputation. Professor Libby developed the carbon fourteen dating system.

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Oh he did, did he? Yes? Anyway?

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Edith didn't take to the work or to anyone. There's

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no surprise that you just dropped out.

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Are her belongings still here?

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Well, I wouldn't know, but Susan Wood, she's in the

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specimen shed next door.

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Let me call her so so later up.

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Yeah, yeah, Well can you come to my office room

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a minute, Wiley? Why don't you do something constructive like

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seeing if you can get me something to wash down

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this sandstorm I swallowed thanks to you.

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Sure thing to attack?

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You do anything special, just something soft, wet and cold.

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Please, I'll be back in a minute. Oh sorry, miss

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hadn't mean enough. Oh that's all right, Susan.

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I'd like her to meet Detective troop Shaw.

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A detective from the police. Yes, but not unofficial business.

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What for them? I was wondering if edith rogers belongings

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were still in her room?

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Oh, Edith, Oh no, she took everything when she left.

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When was there all about four or maybe five days ago?

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I'm not sure.

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Do you have any idea why she left?

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Not really she she didn't tell anyone she was going,

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but then she just didn't get Well, what can I say?

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Susan's trying to be discreet The fact is the girl

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just didn't belong.

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Did anyone notify her family? I know I did.

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We just assumed that she hitchedhiko way home or perhaps

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to one of the youth communes around here.

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Then at this point we don't know if she left

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or disappeared. But what would make you think she disappeared.

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She went for help to what's supposed to be the

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local sheriff's office. She was frightened, thought she was being followed,

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that someone wanted to kill her.

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That's just like her.

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She was so silly, so romantic, always making up stories

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where so and so loved her, mad land soar and

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so is terribly jealous of her.

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But of course she was always at the top of

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the trying.

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I suppose we could phone her home and see if

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she got there.

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Good call to get yourself all heated up? It just

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an old hour head that's.

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Radioactivearia, you have not that that sounds like Wiley tried

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to get me a bottle of atomic soda.

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Pottle.

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That's Shitan, Let's see what the fuss is about.

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Now, what Wiley beats me? I just picked up this

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year Aara had.

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That shed and she goes down on me like an

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eagle on austral Land. That is not an arrowhead, young fellow.

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It's a spear point that happens to be about twelve

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thousand years old, unless it's recently been through carbon fourteen dating.

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That yes, and it may still.

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Be hot like an atom bomb. Hopefully, Wiley, you'll go

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up in a mushroom any minute. I am so sorry,

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un huh, while.

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I just give that our ahibitioning. She's wearing protective clothes,

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and then follow her. She'll take you to the decontamination room.

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You'll probably be all right.

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Don't look so worried, Wiley. There's no chance of it

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affecting your brains.

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Sure, no, detective, absolutely follow me you good, quickly? So

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that stone point.

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Is twelve thousand years old, yes, one, let's cross so

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we can get within the margins given by C fourteen.

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But Jimmy is now.

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Working with radioactive potassium, which can give us an earlier reading.

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I thought ten thousand to fifteen thousand was about the

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earliest records we have of man on this continent.

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Well, we've got some surprises in store, not only a few, detective.

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But for the world. Really, care to give me a clue?

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I already have I file that one away?

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Which one?

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With C fourteen you can date back some fifty thousand years,

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but with potassium it will back to at least one

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million years. Right, Yes, that was a clue. Interesting, What

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are you hoping for?

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It's no longer a hope to take you.

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But you'll have to be patient and wait until we

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release our reports.

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What's that all about?

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I don't know. I can't seem to be heading for

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the Northwestern Bridge.

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I've got to go. All that is Wiley again? Mothering

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like this has happened before, Thing like Wiley has happened then, Susan,

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do you know what's happening?

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But it's something exciting, maybe a new fine.

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I hope they didn't have to dig as much as sad.

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As I've gotten my shoes, I'll catch up.

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With you to take it.

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Aren't you comment so much? Scream Wiley? Where have you

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been better that shed with that flat refrigerator?

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I need your shoulder or we're called it's lean on

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so I can get the sahara out of my shoes.

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Okay, but you're better hurry.

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No matter what has happened up there, you've got to

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do something for me in that shed.

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Can you remember what you saw there pretty much?

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And listen carefully?

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Oh boy, it's a woman's hug and I know who

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it is by the ring.

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The silver band?

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Whose is it?

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Idiots? Rogers?

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Oh not, no one touch anything until detective troops show gets.

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Here and detect the lady here. Okay, kids, one detective

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coming up. Let's let me throw.

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The detective throw plays well.

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From the looks of it, here's a lady who definitely

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needs the hand. Who found her?

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I did? And who are you? James Trumble?

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I told you about I remember.

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Oh, yes, you're Libby as you call him. Yes, but

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there doesn't seem to be any digging around here.

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Is this the way you found her? Just one hand

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sticking up out of the sand.

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No. I was on my way to the datum point

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to figure out what the next grid would be when

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I passed this place and noticed that someone had been

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digging around here.

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The sand wasn't as flat as.

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The surrounding area and not as compact, so I began

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to brush away the top layer until I uncovered this

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one hand.

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Professor, have I your permission to supervise this matter until

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I get official regulations? Yes, of course, thanks. Has anyone

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been able to identify the hand?

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So then she said it is rogers.

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What makes you think that the silver band I was

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with you when she brought it in town A couple

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of weeks ago.

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She bought a silver wedding math.

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I asked her why, and she said she expected to

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be married very soon. It just sounded like one of

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her crazy stories, so I forgot about it.

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I see where rings have been known to change fingers.

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Can we try and uncover the rest of the.

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Body, of course?

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Uh, Jimmy, get three or four pillows to help you.

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I do it carefully, please, there's no way of telling

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the body's position.

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Sure thing, professor, Oh.

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This is awful.

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What are we going to do?

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Don't worry, professor, ancient bodies are your specialty.

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Fresh ones, am I yes, but this.

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Is liable to stop our work, this place will be

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crawling with police, newsman, television, cruise water.

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Really, why is murder a little too common to rate

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that kind of attention? But how do you know it

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is murder? Miss Lathoop, You surprise me.

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A suicide may dig your own grave, but you'd hardly

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expect her to pull the dirt in after her.

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It's very shallop, professor, I don't think we should use shovels.

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Shall we use the brushes from you?

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Sure?

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But let's get them move on it.

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Look look the hand is it touched only to bones?

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Do scat it?

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John? Oh? Now? Will you all stop crowding? You think

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this was a Hollywood opening?

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Name is right, there is nobody. The hands are attached

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to a skeleton, fully fleshed hands attached to a body

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that is nothing more than bones, a skeleton. You know,

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Mother Earth is very miserly about giving up her secrets,

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but little by little man has dug them out of her.

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But never before has there been this kind of puzzle

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in which the hands belong to the present and the

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body to the past. We'll be back shortly with that too.

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Hi, I'm Hal Linden.

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There's a lot of talk these days about America's energy crisis,

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talk about doing without heat, about doing without our cars,

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about what's going to happen if we run out of fuel. Well,

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we may not have to run out of fuel if

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we all work together to conserve the fuel we have.

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That means turning your thermostats down to sixty eight degrees

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during the.

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Day and turning them down a sixty at night.

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It means turning off lights, TV sets and electrical appliance

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is the minute we're finished with them.

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It means driving no faster.

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Than fifty, starting or joining carpools, avoiding the kind of

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stop and go motoring that eats up gas by the gallon.

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In short, it means saving every ounce of energy we

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can every chance we get. So please do your part

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to make the fuel supply.

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Stretch a little further for your own sake.

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Don't be selfish, don't be foolish, don't be fulish. This

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message from the Federal Energy Office on the advertising console.

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You don't just make a profit in the best business.

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You work for it working to keep your feeders out

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of but growth slow, fighting the diseases and every day.

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Stress that threatens your herd, and always sweating it out

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with a tight ropet brision. Do it all.

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One name is there to help you, Teramias when the

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going gets rough. Nothing works harder more ways to give

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you the kind of protection you need.

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Terrimia, depend on it from visors more for growth and health.

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We return to our dilemma. The question is what is

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a bunch of young, bright college students it's going to

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do about a body that has fully fleshed hands attached

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to the bones of a skeleton. And what is our

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lady Detective Claudia troop Shaw going to do with this

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seemingly improbable corpse.

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Yes, captain, you've got to tell me under whose jurisdiction.

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This case belongs.

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No, there is no local police department. The hands may

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be the Roger girls, but the body. Way to get this,

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it's a skeleton, and the professor tells me is over

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two and a half thousand years old.

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Stop yelling.

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I know it sounds crazy, but they just did a

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Sea fourteen test on one of the bones and that's

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the result. Two and a half thousand years old, but

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not the hands.

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Whose case is that?

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I want to know mine by mine?

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Well, get in touch with the FBI at once.

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No, I can't use anyone here to help me that's

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already here.

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Why not because they're all under suspicion.

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That's why not, lunkhead, It's nice of you, miss Boulange,

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to take time.

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Off to have this little talk with me.

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Provis A, Wilkerson said, I should answer all real questions

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to the best that I can do. You always do

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what professor Wilkerson asks he is He is a marvelous man.

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He is so brilliant, I'm sure. Tell me, do you

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have many friends among the other students.

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I don't think so. Not even Jimmy Tumble.

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Oh he is nice, but he is such a little boy.

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And the others, I am fred, they're all too jealous.

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Do you know why do they think that the professor

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treats me like a faverete? Well? Does he? Of course not.

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But I have studied all this and done it in France,

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so I know it very well.

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And they do not.

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I think I understand this body we found. You've seen it.

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I could not dare to look. Oh but you did.

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Now tell me, in all your work, both here and

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in France, have you ever seen anything like it?

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No?

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Absolutely not, And you couldn't explain how two perfectly fleshed

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hands could be attached to a prehistoric skeleton. It's against

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all possibilities. What what did you think of Edith Rogers?

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She was very unfortunate in what way?

477
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.519
Oh? She so badly needed some kind of an attachment

478
00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:43.240
with a boy, I mean, and I think she almost

479
00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:46.000
found it, But then that Susan Lithrop got in the

480
00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:49.000
way and kept it from happening. How do you mean, Oh,

481
00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.240
I don't like talking gossip. I did it, Rogers liked

482
00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.000
very much, did Jimmy trumble? But that Susan who blows

483
00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:58.400
hot one day and called the next makes up her

484
00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:01.519
mind that Jimmy is her pretty and she says to

485
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:04.400
let Rogers go, she should stay off her property.

486
00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:09.599
Anything else, Janine, you know that is a thank you.

487
00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:18.799
You've been very helpful. Come on in.

488
00:27:20.119 --> 00:27:23.880
Oh, hello, Jimmy, Hello, Detective troop Shop Professor Wilkison says,

489
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:24.480
you want to see me.

490
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.160
I have just a few questions that may or may

491
00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:30.000
not help clear up some of your problems.

492
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.400
My problems, No, not yours personally, but the outfits. But

493
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:35.839
where's the problem?

494
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:39.480
Well, let those hands belong to Edith Rogers. That means

495
00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:42.599
she's dead, and that I'd call a problem.

496
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.920
This whole thing's crazy.

497
00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:46.359
It's some kind of gag. I mean, it's not possible

498
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:48.960
for a skeleton of someone who's been dead for over

499
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:50.160
two thousand years to have.

500
00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:51.519
The hands of someone who's alive a.

501
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:54.480
Week ago, orth less, did you see Edith Rogers about

502
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:58.440
a week ago? This man, I understood you were one

503
00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:03.240
of the very few who was sort of interested. Edith Rogers, Well,

504
00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:06.400
I was sorry for her. She was lonely and frightened.

505
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:08.799
Did any of the others talk to you about her?

506
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:11.440
No, But Edith had a lot to say about us.

507
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:12.880
Can you give me some idea?

508
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:17.480
Edith thought Susan was a fake, that Janine was phony,

509
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.720
and the rest of us pretty silly digging away in

510
00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:23.200
over one hundred degrees temperature. She just didn't understand why we.

511
00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:25.599
Were doing it. Didn't that make you wonder what she

512
00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:27.160
was doing here? Oh? Sure?

513
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.480
But she was lonely and she would have done anything

514
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:35.160
to be anywhere. Oh say, I almost forgot Something funny

515
00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:37.279
happened this morning, and I meant to tell you about it,

516
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:39.200
but with all the rumors in gossip, well, it just

517
00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:39.960
slipped my mind.

518
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:40.759
What was it?

519
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.039
On my way to the grid we're working on, I

520
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:46.519
ran into this Indian, a really strange guy. He was

521
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.000
dressed in some weird Mexican costume and had long, drooping mustaches,

522
00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:53.599
and he asked me, in this queer accent, if I

523
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:55.880
knew where Minnie Haha was buried?

524
00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.960
Minnie Haha? Was he kidding?

525
00:28:58.480 --> 00:28:59.079
Who knows?

526
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.160
Told him? I didn't know. He became very sad.

527
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.839
He said his name was topex Pan and that his

528
00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:09.079
wife had died ten thousand years ago to tax Pan.

529
00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:13.359
No less, the name's sort of familiar. Oh, come on.

530
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.359
Jimmy, even I know that for years that the Taxpan

531
00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:19.200
man was considered the earliest specimen of man found in

532
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:20.119
the United States.

533
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:24.839
Of course, what else did he say? Well, let's see, Oh.

534
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.440
I wrote it down here here it is. He said,

535
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.880
she who seeks shall find the answers in her mind

536
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:32.759
if she can find the man that is.

537
00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.240
Called topex Pan. You're putting the U not honestly.

538
00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:38.880
And Denny said that she would find the star of

539
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.799
to Pexpan in the south of Tuxpan.

540
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:46.079
Can I have that paper, Jimmy? Of course, thanks to

541
00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:48.119
Texpan my foot.

542
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.559
Wiley must be a genius to be able to drive

543
00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:58.599
this kidney buster.

544
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.920
I could just managed to keep the wheels straight. Now

545
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.160
where am i Tuxpan?

546
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.920
Tuxpan ah here is Tuxpan Avenue.

547
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:10.920
Now turn south.

548
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:16.559
I'm not supposed to find the building star Tuxpan ah

549
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.200
lo and behold a building with the star over the door.

550
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:35.680
Hit her in feace, Oh, Asia, squall.

551
00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:40.839
I'll fix that One's teepeek. I was told, who've been

552
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.759
to the ancient burial ground?

553
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:46.559
You have this whold wealth. I go to see my wife.

554
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.279
Is she one of the workers at the day? Oh? No,

555
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:54.440
she toils? No more, your people toil for her. Hit

556
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:57.279
me with that one again. She has been dead for

557
00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:01.799
over ten thousand years. I thought it was two thousand

558
00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:04.400
and five hundred. Ever, once a few years in a

559
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:06.319
romance lasted that long. Right?

560
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.400
Her spirit gives me many answers to my prayers.

561
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.319
Do the answers to mine happen to be among them?

562
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:17.079
Well, if you over a pouch, I will play some

563
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.400
magic message within gracious but the will of the gods

564
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.000
and I obey.

565
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.359
Incidentally, signor texts pan the next time you speak to

566
00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:29.440
the spirits of the gods.

567
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:31.559
Find out the name in Indian for.

568
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:36.759
Fruitcake as acious war chmez and take that silly tooth

569
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:37.880
picked out of your face?

570
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:53.160
Who's there, Chilie Holmes? Who are if you detective?

571
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:57.359
I was just being cuteeness later, Shirley Sherlock Holmes, get it?

572
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:00.680
What's there to get cute about? I see you're parking.

573
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.640
I'm leaving. I'm sorry, miss Lathwap, but you're not going anywhere.

574
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:06.119
Why not?

575
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.839
Because everyone stays pucked until I get the answers to

576
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.599
a thing or two, such as if the body we

577
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.960
found yesterday was Edith Rogers, I told you.

578
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.039
It has to be Edith.

579
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:18.400
They are her.

580
00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:21.119
Hands attached to a prehistoric skeleton.

581
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.200
I don't care what the radiocarbon dating says. I was

582
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:26.319
with her when she bought that wedding band.

583
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.160
She didn't say anything about when she planned to get married. No,

584
00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.240
and you didn't that.

585
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:35.720
I thought she was clowning. So she impressed you as

586
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.079
the sort of person who would clown about getting married.

587
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:41.160
I guess she was no fashioned enough to be serious

588
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:43.440
about it. But most of the girls here aren't into

589
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:44.960
things like getting married.

590
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:46.799
We didn't have such hang ups.

591
00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:51.519
And Edith Rodgers was a square, very square. You must

592
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.799
have founded aboard.

593
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.839
A room with her. Frankly, she was a bit of

594
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:57.839
a drag. How did Janine get along with her? They

595
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.839
hardly spoke to each other because of Wilkerson. How did

596
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:05.240
you know? Do you think either of them got anywhere

597
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:05.720
with him?

598
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:09.720
Jannine is making points, not that she's so hot, but

599
00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:13.440
her father's an important politician in France and Wilkerson is

600
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:15.039
impressed by that sort of thing.

601
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.200
Ambitious, eh, even at his age. Oh, come on, miss Lathrop,

602
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:21.519
he's not that old, old enough to have a son

603
00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:22.400
who's in college.

604
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.160
As a matter of fact, it was good old Edith

605
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.480
Rogers who told me that.

606
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.799
Did she tell you anything else? Nothing important? Have you

607
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.240
ever seen anything like that body before? Never? Think hard?

608
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.000
Maybe an experiment done on an animal in a lab

609
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:39.640
or in the dating shed.

610
00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:42.680
No, besides, I'm not allowed in shed.

611
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.400
Why not? I don't get to work on dating until

612
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:45.960
next term.

613
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.680
Oh, I guess I'll have to take my own advanced

614
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:56.960
course with Professor Wilkerson. I was waiting for the second

615
00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:58.200
moccasin to drop.

616
00:33:58.759 --> 00:33:59.160
Let's go.

617
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.920
It is written in a book of proverbs, and wisely

618
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:14.760
I believe let who's so dig a pit?

619
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:17.000
Shell fall therein?

620
00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:22.880
Our problem is that all our characters are diggers in pits.

621
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:24.480
Even our ardent.

622
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:28.719
Detective Chlodia troub Shaw has been digging through level after level,

623
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:37.800
but getting seemingly nowhere. I'll be back shortly with act Free.

624
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.280
There's nothing wrong with drinking Budweiser sip by sip, is there?

625
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:43.079
Well?

626
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.320
The Brewers of Budweiser.

627
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:45.480
Think there's a better way.

628
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.559
Sipping's fine if you're drinking wine, but Bud is the

629
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:50.920
king of beers.

630
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.800
A hearty drink.

631
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:55.599
Look, rinse a ten or twelve ounce glass with cold water.

632
00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:58.000
Then open a can or a bottle of Bud and

633
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.760
pour it right down the middle, up a good head

634
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.599
of fault. Now take a big drink and then swallow

635
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:06.280
big no SIPs.

636
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.719
That's how it should be done.

637
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.639
More taste, more beer drinking enjoyment.

638
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.960
Thanks to exclusive beechwood aging, Budweiser has a smoothness that

639
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:18.079
lets it go down especially easy.

640
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:20.199
Sure it's an expensive way to.

641
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:23.639
Brew beer, but brewing beer right does make a difference.

642
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:25.320
That's why when.

643
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:33.039
You say Budweiser, you've said it all. Anheuser, Bush Saint Louis.

644
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:38.599
There's no satisfaction quite like the satisfaction of getting a bargain.

645
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:41.840
It brings us smile to your face, partly because you've

646
00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:45.599
saved money, mainly because you've beat the system by paying

647
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.719
less when everything seems to be costing more. Hi, I'm

648
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:53.800
Frank Lieber right now. True value hardware stores have fourteen

649
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:57.519
of those smiles of satisfaction in stock. They're kitchen helpers

650
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.199
from Echo and from Fully. You can get two for

651
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:03.320
just eighty eight cents. Choose a canon bottle opener, a

652
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.480
fruit and vegetable slicer, or a serving fort or get

653
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.639
an eylon baster. It's two of us graduated for measurement,

654
00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:11.960
and there's a two and a half inch strainer for

655
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:16.360
making egg coffee, for straining loose tea, or for separating orange.

656
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.800
Juice from its pulp and seeds.

657
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:20.719
You can get two of these kitchen tools or just

658
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.280
eighty eight cents. That should make you smile with satisfaction.

659
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.079
You'll grin from ear to ear when you see the

660
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:29.760
rest of the two for eighty eight cent bargains at

661
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:45.440
the True Value hardware store near your home. Do you

662
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.239
realize that the gun shot we heard at the end

663
00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:51.840
of the second act is the first time anyone has

664
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:57.320
used a conventional weapon in our story. Well, gunshots may

665
00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:00.880
not only be used to signify someone's end. They may

666
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.400
also be fired to start something.

667
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.960
Isn't that typical of a woman? She calls for help

668
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.599
but doesn't bother to tell where she needs to live.

669
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:12.440
She counted far away, maybe from a northern great section.

670
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:14.960
Do you mean with a body who's fun? What could

671
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:18.599
anyone be doing out there? Looking for clues or maybe hiding?

672
00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:18.880
Well?

673
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:25.840
Why didn't I thinks there's a man? You mean is hey, professor?

674
00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:27.280
Detective over here?

675
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:27.719
There?

676
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:29.920
Can't you turned unsafe? Professor?

677
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.079
Hold it a minute, let me catch my breath.

678
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:33.880
Did you hear Janine call her?

679
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:34.000
No?

680
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:35.920
I was covering grit. That's forty two.

681
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:37.239
We were working late there.

682
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:39.920
I was sure I was you Meanian pretty much? Unless

683
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.199
someone's imitating her accent. We don't know from where she called.

684
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:44.719
I think it came from that North Gride.

685
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.119
First we heard what may have been a gunshot, and

686
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:49.119
then we heard love be Alganine calling for help.

687
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:51.960
Hey, has everyone run your gun banana?

688
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.480
They say they are a gun shot detective troops? Sure, say,

689
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:57.559
Janine cried for help? And where were you, mister trembull

690
00:37:58.039 --> 00:37:59.840
in the barracks doing some research?

691
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:00.400
Anyway?

692
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.119
I need to take the things that Gania is locked

693
00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:02.760
in somewhere?

694
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:06.320
How about the lampshirit a thinker in the tank? Come on,

695
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:09.119
who has the key to the shop.

696
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.039
You'll have to wait out here? What for I'll have

697
00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:14.920
to go in first to check on possible radioactivity inside?

698
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:19.440
Just one second, Professor, Janine Janine, Are you in there?

699
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.559
Yes?

700
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.400
I am he is it safe.

701
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:24.000
For us to come in?

702
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:28.239
Got my key here?

703
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:37.719
On? Professor? That girl faints easier than I can.

704
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.440
Think, Janine Janini, all right.

705
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:43.440
Don't ask her, she'll say no, get her back inside.

706
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.159
Now for the rest of you, please stay out here.

707
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:47.440
Don't go anywhere.

708
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.760
Anyone still planning to leave Susan She.

709
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:52.360
Wouldn't let me.

710
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.199
Besides, what difference would it make to you if I did?

711
00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:58.280
I'm just being friendly.

712
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.079
Isn't it a little too late? What do you mean?

713
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:05.800
Well, now that Edith Rogers is dead, do you think

714
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.239
I'd be waiting around to catch you.

715
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:11.519
On the rebound? Look? I was just being kind to her.

716
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:16.400
Kind isn't there a phrase about someone being killed with kindness?

717
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:18.760
What are you getting at now? Listen, James Trumble.

718
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.920
Because Edith Rogers was a fool doesn't mean all girls are.

719
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:24.880
No one ever said you were.

720
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:27.519
Look, the only reason.

721
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:29.199
I took her out a couple of times was because

722
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:30.519
the professor asked me to.

723
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:32.679
Aren't you the obedient student?

724
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.280
What professors say, Jimmy do?

725
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.400
I don't know how else I can convince.

726
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.119
You you can't?

727
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.400
And if I were you, I wouldn't try. Look, you

728
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:46.400
can count on my being fair and keeping quiet. I'm

729
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:49.360
not out for revenge, but I'm also not about to

730
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.719
stick my neck out for anyone, including you.

731
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.320
I still don't know what you're getting at.

732
00:39:53.679 --> 00:40:01.440
I'm getting at who killed Edith Rogers.

733
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.719
I don't know why it is, Professor, but I've never

734
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.840
seen a woman in a faint whose legs didn't look lousy.

735
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.960
Oh what happened?

736
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:11.480
That?

737
00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:13.320
Did it? It always does?

738
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.719
Janin Sanin.

739
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:19.159
I don't want to interrupt, but like a good archaeologist,

740
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:21.679
would someone please get to the bones of the matter.

741
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:26.559
Him speaking as fast as I knew, I heard a

742
00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:27.519
noise at the window.

743
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.960
What kind of noise? The window was opening?

744
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:30.920
Wasn't it locked?

745
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:32.000
It's always locked?

746
00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:35.079
Well, I went to see what could be happening, and

747
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.119
already there was this man climbing inside.

748
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:39.320
What was it like?

749
00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:42.960
He was an old Indian man with long mustaches. I

750
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:44.239
told him to get out, that he.

751
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.880
Was dangerous to be here, and then he would not

752
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:49.920
say anything but stood there. So I ran back to

753
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.320
the locker room where I have my pistol, and when

754
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:53.800
I returned, I found him.

755
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:54.639
This person in room.

756
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:57.039
He had another bag tied around his waist.

757
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.719
It was open. Did you see him put anything in it? No?

758
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.559
That I held up the pistol and told him I

759
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:05.159
would shoot if he didn't put back whatever he took.

760
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:07.760
So he put his hand in the bag and took

761
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.800
something out and threw it in my eyes.

762
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.800
Then I pressed the pistol. What did it throw? Little things?

763
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:15.639
I don't know.

764
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:18.719
Let's take a look, all right, I whit red rad

765
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.360
you're on the floor, thin slivers.

766
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:26.320
Maybe would let's take a close No, no, don't touch that,

767
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.760
for Heaven's says, fly not there?

768
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.039
Maybe hots, I'll get the color.

769
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.480
Is anything missing? Miss Boulange, I have not looked? Well,

770
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:38.599
do that little thing, and Miss Boulange, the next time

771
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:40.400
you find that you're stuck in here.

772
00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:43.679
Just open the lock and walk out.

773
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:55.800
Oh okay, folks, time has come to stop playing games.

774
00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:59.400
What kind of games? The game where one hand washes

775
00:41:59.440 --> 00:41:59.760
the other?

776
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.000
Now, since you've got seniority, professor, we'll start with you.

777
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.159
What kind of a game could I possibly be played?

778
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:08.840
Well?

779
00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:11.840
As a professor, you're a great show. As a poker player,

780
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.719
you're a stupor. Oh really, you don't know how to bluff.

781
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:18.079
Remember how you insisted that spear point Wiley took from

782
00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:21.000
the shed had to be radioactive while you were lying?

783
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.760
How dare you when it comes to the truth, professor,

784
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:29.360
I'm very daring that spear point was in perfect condition.

785
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.719
If it had been dated, a piece of it would

786
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:33.639
have had to be missing.

787
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.800
How could you know that?

788
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.400
What do you think they teach us at the Police

789
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:44.960
Academy Home Economics now, putting it simply, the less carbon

790
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.599
fourteen in an object, the older, it is right that.

791
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:50.159
It's correct, and the older the more valuable.

792
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:52.880
Sure, that's what we're here for, to find evidence leading

793
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.760
back to the first human being in America.

794
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.199
And when you can find it, well, then you can

795
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:01.159
fake it, can't you? What do you mean to take them?

796
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.679
There's no dating equipment in that shed. You are preposterous.

797
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.400
Wait till you hear how preposterous I really am.

798
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:13.440
Only two people have been allowed in that shed, you

799
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:14.719
and miss Boulange.

800
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.519
Yes, those are the rules.

801
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:21.519
Well, a certain friend of mine broke those rules. Senior

802
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:30.239
to pexpen if you please, now, if you'll just get

803
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:33.039
rid of those tired handlebars from under your nose?

804
00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:36.320
Glad do they sure it? Why?

805
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.559
Why they're hearing the one who asked me questions about it, right.

806
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:43.480
And he got into that shed not to take things,

807
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.000
but to return them, didn't you, Wiley?

808
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:49.239
I sure did, But what did you take?

809
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.800
There had to be put back? An old sphere point

810
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:53.320
and a nozzle on that machine.

811
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:56.840
They had the bombarding head. And I took them both

812
00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:59.000
to Tucson. I have the experts there take a look

813
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:01.920
at them, and they confirmed my best suspicions.

814
00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:07.280
Professor Wilkeson, you and miss Boulange were faking your specimens,

815
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:08.800
making them older.

816
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:11.239
That's one accusation I won't buy.

817
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.880
You can always return it for credit when I opened

818
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:19.000
that department. Meanwhile, you were bombarding those specimens repeatedly, trying

819
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.400
to get them to date more than fifty thousand years?

820
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:22.840
Professor?

821
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.039
Did you do that?

822
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:28.079
I just can't believe it. Why not, Trumble? You invented

823
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:31.960
the machine, but only by accident. It was a fluke, and.

824
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:35.159
You told your esteem professor about that fluke, and he

825
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:36.960
told you to keep it under wraps.

826
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:39.199
Yes, I did keep it under wraps.

827
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:41.639
I never wrote a paper. I did I know about

828
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:42.360
it in too soon?

829
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:44.960
Oh, I sent them a report, but only for their opinion.

830
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:48.199
Humble, You're a damn fool.

831
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:52.480
You know, Professor, you're just plain not nice. Here. We

832
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:54.480
girls spend fortunes trying.

833
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:59.159
To keep young while you try to make a fortune agingess.

834
00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:01.039
Which brings me to Edith Rogers.

835
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:06.440
Of those present, only Wilkerson, Trumbull and Miss Boulange knew

836
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:07.679
how to operate that machine?

837
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:10.920
Would they want to be arrested at once? You'd like that,

838
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.960
Miss Lathroo, wouldn't you? It leaves your hands clean, so

839
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.679
to speak? Now listen to take him.

840
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.360
I had no reason getting her pregnant and being blackmailed

841
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:20.960
to marry her?

842
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:24.199
Isn't the reason come of Professor?

843
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:25.239
He did?

844
00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:28.760
The professor surprised, don't you, Miss Lathrop?

845
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:32.639
But why why would I want to hurt that Edith Rogers?

846
00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:36.400
You knew she had something on the professor, else she

847
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:37.360
wouldn't have been here.

848
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.159
But when you heard about the wedding ring, you.

849
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:42.760
Thought you just might lose not only your professor, but

850
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.000
more importantly, that machine.

851
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:48.000
I'm sorry what's going on here? I'm all lot so.

852
00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.360
Am I trouble when it comes to you. I can't

853
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.599
figure what you had to do with all this. He

854
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.039
may not be that innocent. He did try and make

855
00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:58.679
time with Edith. Rogers until she dumped him.

856
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.480
That's not true, Susan.

857
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.440
You are calling me a liar. I think you and

858
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.000
your two pells are all to blame for that girl's death.

859
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.280
You all deserve to be murdered, and this time, Miss Lathrop,

860
00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:15.920
you'd do it properly, wouldn't you. What are you talking about? Trumbull?

861
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:18.559
Did you ever tell Susan here about the machine?

862
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.320
Well, yes, sort of, but not how to work it.

863
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.400
I hadn't finished it then, but she.

864
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:25.800
Was smart enough to know how it could be used.

865
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:30.039
And you're just guessing. True. But then came the monkey wrench.

866
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:34.880
Trumbull began dating Edith Rogers. I didn't care, not until

867
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:38.599
she bought that wedding band. Now why would that girl

868
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:39.599
by her own ring?

869
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:40.880
You know why?

870
00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.280
Because no woman would go to a doctor for that

871
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:46.519
kind of an examination without the necessary decoration on her finger.

872
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:47.920
What's that to do with me?

873
00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:51.239
While Janine thought it was the professor, you thought it

874
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.280
was Jimmy Trumbull, who might be the father.

875
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:56.119
First you threatened Edith Rogers.

876
00:46:56.840 --> 00:46:59.519
When Jimmy tried seeing her again, you took no chances

877
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:03.000
of using that machine, and you just removed her from

878
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:06.559
the scene. You're crazy, not crazy enough to use the

879
00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.480
machine I knew nothing about, because that's what you did.

880
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.199
You know, your biggest mistake was in tying Edith Rogers

881
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.920
hands over her head before opening that machine full glass.

882
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:20.079
Those hands were protected by the lead shield over her head.

883
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:23.239
Of course, only the lead shield could have seen those

884
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:24.719
hands kept them.

885
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:25.559
From dating back.

886
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:29.679
The result a two five hundred year old skeleton with

887
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:31.320
Edith Rogers hands.

888
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.639
Okay, detective, who saw me? Where's your proof?

889
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:40.360
Yours were the only fingerprints found on the bombarding head Wiley.

890
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:41.000
Took to Tucson.

891
00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:45.320
Susan, you didn't work that machine without gloves, without protection.

892
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:48.480
Why what's wrong with that? Oh?

893
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:50.519
Good lord, you're deadn't it.

894
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:51.679
What are you saying?

895
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.599
Oh no, your body's probably got more than six hundred

896
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:57.920
radioactive units in it right now.

897
00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:00.199
You're trying to scare me.

898
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:05.519
It's not true, Susan, four hundred units of fatal.

899
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:10.159
Help me, someone to help me, right die?

900
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:11.880
Help me?

901
00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:32.320
Obviously, Miss Susan Lath got a dose of the same

902
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.719
medicine as she gave Edith Rogers, except in our case

903
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:42.400
its effects will be much slower and very much more painful.

904
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.800
Sad, very sad.

905
00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:53.000
But it will save the state a great deal of money.

906
00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:54.800
I'll be back shortly.

907
00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:57.239
Well, it's all right to tell one, Why isn't it.

908
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:01.159
You can't then help out lying? Just leap it? Now

909
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:02.000
that a little bit?

910
00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:03.960
You mean you can never lie?

911
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:04.920
Never?

912
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.000
Well why not?

913
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:08.320
Because when you tell a lie?

914
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.679
Yeah, it gets stark inside you're hot.

915
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.480
You mean that just one lie will make your heart dark?

916
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.599
Makes you say too?

917
00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:18.840
Oh?

918
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:20.960
Then what should you do if you tell a lie?

919
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.599
Well, you say sorry?

920
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:25.320
And then what then?

921
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:27.920
Even like goes inside you're heart?

922
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:29.440
Oh the light goes on?

923
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:30.639
Yeah?

924
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.400
Oh, like doesn't really go on in your heart, does it?

925
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:35.800
Yes? It does? Well how do you know?

926
00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:41.159
Because because the light in your heart is joining your eye?

927
00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:45.039
Oh, and then you'll be happy.

928
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:45.519
Hm.

929
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:50.679
I wonder why people tell lies? I will do why too?

930
00:49:51.639 --> 00:50:07.440
From the Franciscans with Love, here's a little thought to

931
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:13.920
take to sleep with you. Never indulge in excesses, Eat moderately,

932
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:22.400
drink moderately, and murder moderately. Our cast included Louise Larabie,

933
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:28.800
Mason Adams, Ralph Bell, Correine orr And Costello, and Christopher Tabori.

934
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:32.800
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman brown.

935
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:38.559
Now I'll pred you of our next tale. I saw

936
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.840
the blowing tips of two flips cigarettes and then kiss me.

937
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:45.880
Richie crazy about stop it?

938
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:48.000
Stop it? Tom?

939
00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:49.880
Would you Marian go inside?

940
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:50.679
Go inside?

941
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.480
Why if you have anything to say, you can say

942
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:54.800
it here instead of Richard, go.

943
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:59.559
Inside it alarm you live alone with corn. He broke

944
00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:02.480
my grip, Aram who pushed me away.

945
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:04.320
The shove made me stoop to my knees.

946
00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:05.679
I came up swinging.

947
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.960
I missed its in my arms from behind.

948
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:09.159
O it?

949
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:11.400
What's the matter with you? Are you crazy?

950
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.559
I took out of his breath, stepped back from him,

951
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.800
and fell across the shovel. I grabbed the handle, jumped

952
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:23.599
out and swung at Emirates soo late for me to

953
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:26.480
stop the swing. As she rushed in between us, the

954
00:51:26.519 --> 00:51:28.039
sharp edge of the shovel hit.

955
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:29.079
Her in the back of the head.

956
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.679
I stood there, holding the shovel, unable to move. Radio

957
00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:40.599
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated,

958
00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:42.280
brewers of Budweiser.

959
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:44.360
This is E. G.

960
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:48.360
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

961
00:51:48.440 --> 00:52:00.039
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.

962
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:53.800
Wah, well, my dear, how's your evening beginning? I know

963
00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.880
when you showed up you were war, you were hot,

964
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:04.519
your brow was beaded with sweat. But now now I

965
00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:11.320
think the chills have come to greet you. You're welcome. Now,

966
00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:16.000
please take another sip of your hot tea. I'd hate

967
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.960
for you to catch your death. You just may find

968
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:36.159
yourself resembling an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

969
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:42.840
You are standing on a bridge over Owl Creek, a

970
00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:47.239
noose around your neck. You have but a few seconds

971
00:53:47.320 --> 00:54:00.360
left to live, A few seconds left to plan your escape.

972
00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:08.400
Escape produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully

973
00:54:08.440 --> 00:54:11.079
contrived to free you from the poor walls of today

974
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:13.639
for a half hour of high adventure.

975
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:21.519
To night we escaped to the war between the States

976
00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:25.920
and a muddy stream in Alabama. As we recall one

977
00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:31.239
of the great short stories in American literature, an occurrence

978
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:35.559
at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Fierce.

979
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:50.840
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama,

980
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:54.000
looking down through the ties at the swift water twenty

981
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.480
feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the

982
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:01.760
wrist bound with a cord a rope closely encircled his neck.

983
00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:05.639
It was attached to a stout cross timber above his head,

984
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:08.719
and the slack fell to the level of his knees.

985
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:12.840
He watched a piece of dancing driftwood racing down the

986
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:14.280
current beneath his feet.

987
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:19.280
He thought, if I could just breath my hands, I

988
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.639
might throw off this moose and dive into the creek.

989
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:24.960
If I swam underwater, i'd be safe from her bullet.

990
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.960
If my wind held out, I could make the southern bank,

991
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:29.920
take to the woods, and get away home.

992
00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:39.519
Dayton Farquhar, Alabama planter, stood at the end of a plank.

993
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:43.239
A captain of the Union Army and a sergeant stood

994
00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:46.239
at the other end. When they stepped aside, the plank

995
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:50.800
would tip upward, and Peyton Farquhar, Confederate spy, would slip

996
00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:55.199
between the ties to hang above the muddy water of

997
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:57.800
Owl Creek until dead.

998
00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:06.519
Even in this.

999
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:11.239
Far outpost of Sherman's march to the sea, the formalities

1000
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.199
of death are observed by these men who are most

1001
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:18.559
familiar with him. The captain's company has drawn stiffly at

1002
00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:21.559
attention along the tracks on the northern side of the bridge.

1003
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:25.559
The lieutenant stands erect on the bank of the stream,

1004
00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:29.280
the point of his bared saber scraping the gravel on

1005
00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:34.360
the roadbed. Peyton Farquhar is being ushered into the Confederate

1006
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:46.039
beyond with every Union amenity. The captain stands aside. Now

1007
00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:49.559
only the weight of the bulky sargeant counterbalances Peyton Farquhart

1008
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:52.079
at the end of his thin board.

1009
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:54.239
They say that this is a moment when all the

1010
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:57.840
piest events are your life tumble in your memory. But

1011
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.199
how could any one know who has come back from

1012
00:57:01.239 --> 00:57:04.840
the dead to tell what dying is like. I don't

1013
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:09.320
recall any childhood memories. Now the past does not engulf

1014
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:12.639
me in this naked moment. I'm only aware of what's

1015
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:17.320
here now, those Yankees lined up on the bike, his

1016
00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:21.719
captain's tired eyes, that turkey buzz had circling up there

1017
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:27.239
waitin for me. And a noise that beaten driving sound

1018
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.239
like a distant engine, a pump roll, a thunder on

1019
00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.719
the summer evening, coming closer.

1020
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:36.599
Gettin out of choking me.

1021
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.679
It's your heart, of course that you hear, stepping up

1022
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:48.559
its cadence, pounding under the forced drift of fear. Now

1023
00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:53.159
you see nothing, remember nothing, sense nothing, but this strangling,

1024
00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:57.440
suffocating beat of your own heart throbbing its final protest,

1025
00:57:57.880 --> 00:57:59.639
You stand there, erect.

1026
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:03.440
The work is nearly at an end. Now the captain

1027
00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:08.400
draws his sword, flourishes it to a carry, sings out.

1028
00:58:08.199 --> 00:58:10.159
Of command, ry.

1029
00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:11.480
Ll ry.

1030
00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:19.760
The men on the bank smartly spread their legs, thrust

1031
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:23.039
hands forward over the rifle barrels. The sergeant on the

1032
00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:25.039
end of the plank takes one step to the left.

1033
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:30.719
The plank dieps forward, and Peyton Farqueat drops between the

1034
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:38.400
timbers of oh creek bridge.

1035
00:58:41.159 --> 00:58:43.760
It takes longer to tell it. As you drop downward,

1036
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:47.519
you lose consciousness. You are as one already dead. Then

1037
00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:51.280
you awaken sharply in pain, to feel, not to think,

1038
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:54.480
just to feel the cutting pressure on your throat, the

1039
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:57.920
agonies of pulsating fire shooting from your neck downward, to

1040
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:03.280
feel the fullness the congestion ahead, bursting with suffocation, distantly

1041
00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:08.880
beyond outside of yourself. You hear a splash. Remotely, you

1042
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.400
sense cool, wet, green darkness. The rope has broken. You

1043
00:59:14.519 --> 00:59:28.639
have fallen into the stream. Now thinking returns slowly. Do

1044
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:30.800
you know for the moment you are safe from drowning?

1045
00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:33.639
Because the rope around your neck tightly keeps the water

1046
00:59:33.679 --> 00:59:34.400
from your lungs.

1047
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:37.679
Then I shall die hanging at the bottom of a river.

1048
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.599
And that's absurd. If I could get my hands free,

1049
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:46.079
I must get my hands free. Come petent. They can't

1050
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:52.599
let you Try again once more, good boy, the rope's

1051
00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:53.719
given again.

1052
00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:56.800
Try once more.

1053
00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:02.679
That does it, my boy? Now the rope around your neck, youse.

1054
01:00:02.760 --> 01:00:05.119
Breathe when you come to the surface. You must breathe quickly,

1055
01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.639
for if they haven't hanged you, and they fail to

1056
01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:10.239
drown you, you can't let em shoot you.

1057
01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:12.440
Loosen rope your neck.

1058
01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:13.960
You must get it loose.

1059
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:27.519
Now it takes so much longer to tell. You are

1060
01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:30.559
now in the fullest possession of your senses, and again

1061
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:34.599
time stops. You feel the ripples of the water upon

1062
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:38.199
your face, and hear their separate sounds as they strike.

1063
01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:41.480
You see the trees on the bank, and the leaves

1064
01:00:41.639 --> 01:00:44.480
and the veining of each leaf, and the very insects

1065
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:47.679
on them, the locusts, the brilliant bodied flies, the gray

1066
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:51.599
spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig, the prismatic

1067
01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.239
colors of the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass.

1068
01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:57.400
You hear the humming of the gnats, the beating of

1069
01:00:57.440 --> 01:01:00.960
the dragonfly's wings, the strokes of the water spider's legs.

1070
01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:04.880
A fish slides beneath your eyes, and you hear the

1071
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:10.000
rush of its body parting the water. All this you

1072
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:14.239
see and hear in an incalculably infinite instant of time.

1073
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:25.840
Then you hear something else. You dive deeply, but above

1074
01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:26.480
the ringing.

1075
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:31.199
In your ears, you hear the folly of the rifles, and.

1076
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:34.519
As you rise towards the surface, you meet shining bits

1077
01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:40.079
of metal, singularly flattened, the distorted and spent bullets oscillating

1078
01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:43.519
slowly downward past you. One catches in your color, and

1079
01:01:43.559 --> 01:01:46.840
it feels uncomfortably warm. You snatch it out, and this

1080
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:50.280
gray piece of Yankee lead reminds you of the gray

1081
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.639
uniform of the soldier who is responsible for you being here.

1082
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:57.920
You recall that it was only night before last when

1083
01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:00.039
the soldier had ridden up the driveway as you and

1084
01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:03.280
your wife's sat under the Micnodia trees in the cool twirelight.

1085
01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:09.280
Good evening, sir, good evening, Corporal, Wonder if I might

1086
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:10.760
trouble you for a glass of water?

1087
01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:11.039
Sir?

1088
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:15.360
Why of course, all disturb yourself, Peyton, I'll go fetch it.

1089
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:18.400
You're most kind man if you just indicate the.

1090
01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:23.079
Well, you just sit a spell with my husband. You

1091
01:02:23.199 --> 01:02:24.760
look as if you could do with some rest.

1092
01:02:25.400 --> 01:02:30.840
Yes, ma'am, I reckon I could. I'll be back, Thank you, ma'am.

1093
01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:32.880
Who's commanded you?

1094
01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:38.880
With Corporal Colonel Tolliver, Sir, thirteenth North Carolina. We get

1095
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:42.280
some little news down here. How are things going at

1096
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:46.800
the front? Not good, sir. The Yankees are getting ready

1097
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:51.719
for another advance. They're repairing the railroad, got it in

1098
01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:55.519
shape almost to our Creek bridge, and they got an

1099
01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.000
outpost there. Once they can run the trains beyond the bridge.

1100
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:04.079
There's nothing to stop them between here and Atlanta. Then

1101
01:03:04.199 --> 01:03:08.199
why hasn't the bridge been destroyed? The military couldn't get

1102
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:14.119
near it. A civilian might, Oh, Creek Bridge, that's not

1103
01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:17.760
far from here? Is it less than twenty miles? You

1104
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:21.000
say they have an outpost there on which side?

1105
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:22.440
T other side?

1106
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:26.920
Nothing on this side but a couple of pickets half

1107
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.960
mile out on the railroad and a single sentinel at

1108
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.719
this end of the bridge. And that bridge is important,

1109
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:40.039
sure is? What if it were destroyed pulled up.

1110
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:41.599
The Yankees for several weeks.

1111
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:46.119
Suppose a man was a civilian like myself, should elude

1112
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:49.079
the picket post and get the better of the sentinel.

1113
01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:53.400
What did he accomplish? Well, I was there, we could go.

1114
01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:57.599
Just before we had to pull out. There's a heap

1115
01:03:57.599 --> 01:04:00.440
of drift wood come down and last winter's flood and

1116
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:04.239
caught on the trestle at this end looked mighty dry

1117
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:08.239
and tender than me. I see a fella with enough

1118
01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:12.159
gumption might get through and set fire to it. It

1119
01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:16.519
ought to burn like toe, Yes, it should. Of course,

1120
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.119
a fella'd have to have plenty of gumption. A union

1121
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:23.559
commanders promised to hang in a civilian called fooling around

1122
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:24.280
the railroad.

1123
01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:27.960
Here's your water corper ed out of the springhouse.

1124
01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:31.760
Thank you kindly, ma'am.

1125
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.119
My, it's cool and nice, and here's a smidge in

1126
01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:38.960
a corn bread. I thought you might be hungry.

1127
01:04:38.920 --> 01:04:41.519
A mighty grateful ma'am.

1128
01:04:41.639 --> 01:04:44.159
It's ladies like you that keeps the saus together and

1129
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:46.159
fighting these days.

1130
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:47.599
My, what a nice com.

1131
01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:50.360
Well, reckon, I better hit the leather.

1132
01:04:51.239 --> 01:04:53.119
I get a lot of ride and hit them meet tonight.

1133
01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:54.079
Good luck.

1134
01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:56.920
Tell your car bro and thank you for the information.

1135
01:04:57.519 --> 01:04:59.920
You'd be taking a chance in but you couldn't do

1136
01:04:59.920 --> 01:05:01.440
it a greater service for your country.

1137
01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:02.920
I remember that, corporal.

1138
01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:09.639
Goodbye, then, goodbye, corporal, goodbye, sir many thanks, goodbye.

1139
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:10.760
Peyton.

1140
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:16.039
What was he talking about? What my dad, the corporal,

1141
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.920
What did he mean by service to your country and

1142
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:22.000
and taking a chance?

1143
01:05:22.039 --> 01:05:22.159
Oh?

1144
01:05:22.360 --> 01:05:24.199
Nothing, Peyton, tell me.

1145
01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:27.559
There was nothing, really, my dad, Peyton farkrour.

1146
01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:30.000
If you're fixing to take any chances for our country,

1147
01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:31.000
I want to know about it.

1148
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:31.239
Now.

1149
01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:32.639
You just speak your peace.

1150
01:05:33.679 --> 01:05:37.280
There's nothing to say except I'd be going away for

1151
01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:38.719
a day or two on a little trip.

1152
01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:46.400
Is it dangerous, Peyton, not very You'll.

1153
01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:50.800
Be back, yes, my dear, I promise you I'll be back.

1154
01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:03.920
You'll break the surface of our creek for a second time.

1155
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:07.400
And now you're much further downstream, further away from the

1156
01:06:07.480 --> 01:06:10.760
Union soldiers on the bridge reloading their guns, the ramrods

1157
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:12.000
flashing in the morning sun.

1158
01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.320
Head captain will make the same mistake again. You'll order

1159
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.559
them to fire it will Heaven help me?

1160
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:18.559
I cannot dodge him.

1161
01:06:18.559 --> 01:06:21.559
A another more terrible sound cannon.

1162
01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:23.039
They've trained a cannon on.

1163
01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:25.840
You and close next time, I'll use a charge of

1164
01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:28.920
grape rifles and grape covering the water from bank to bank.

1165
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:30.519
I'm done for Anne.

1166
01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:34.239
Then something seemed to grab you, and you're whirled round

1167
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:36.679
and round, spinning like a waterlogged top. You're caught in

1168
01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:39.880
a vortex, a whirlpool. The water, the banks, the distant bridge,

1169
01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:43.840
the soldiers become indistinct blurs, and again you're helpless. You

1170
01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.920
feel dizzy and sick to your stomach, just as you

1171
01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:49.639
felt last night when you crept up the bank toward

1172
01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:51.679
the lone sentinel on the south end of the bridge

1173
01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:54.880
and discovered that the sentinel was not alone.

1174
01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:59.039
There is boys grabby reapt I hadn't pair well, mister

1175
01:06:59.119 --> 01:06:59.800
peyton Fog.

1176
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:01.239
We've been expecting you.

1177
01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:03.400
How did you know my gude ways?

1178
01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:05.360
But look here, I'm a civilian now.

1179
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:07.920
Way they have breath. Thank you maker. We didn't shoot

1180
01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:10.559
you in the back. We don't do things that way

1181
01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:13.880
up north. You'll get a trial. Everything fair and square,

1182
01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:15.880
ring well, I man.

1183
01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:22.719
The whirlpools fins, pastor and pastor, A sharpiece of drift

1184
01:07:22.760 --> 01:07:23.679
would tasi your coat.

1185
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:25.320
The churning ground water choked you.

1186
01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:28.119
You know there is nothing you can do as you

1187
01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:30.639
had known it last night when they shoved you into

1188
01:07:30.679 --> 01:07:33.440
a tent near the bridge to face the infantry captain

1189
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:34.480
with the tired eyes.

1190
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:37.440
There is, sir, right on schedule.

1191
01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:40.920
Good work, sergeant. Is this the man, Lieutenant?

1192
01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:41.679
That's him?

1193
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.880
What you're the corporal who stopped at my plantation last night?

1194
01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:48.960
That's right, mister Farquhar. But I'm not with the thirteenth

1195
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.360
North Carolina Volunteers.

1196
01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:54.199
Mister Farquhar, this is Lieutenant Saltan Stole Intelligence Officer, fifth

1197
01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:55.480
Massachusetts Regulars.

1198
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:58.599
You've trapped me. You deliberately led me into a trap.

1199
01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:01.000
I'm a civilian and then a plant yes.

1200
01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:04.440
And also a Southern patriot according the active espionage.

1201
01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:05.199
You can't prove it.

1202
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:06.199
We don't have to.

1203
01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:10.440
This is the most despicable, the most This proves once

1204
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:12.519
more that Anna is a stranger in the North.

1205
01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:14.679
I'm too tired to listen to a recital of the

1206
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.000
code of a Southern gentleman.

1207
01:08:16.039 --> 01:08:16.720
Mister Farquhar.

1208
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:19.279
I'm afraid the distinction between your ethics and my lack

1209
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:20.720
of them would escape me in this savening.

1210
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:23.720
But why have you done this? Why have you deliberately

1211
01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:24.159
trapped me?

1212
01:08:24.479 --> 01:08:27.239
The best way to eliminate civilian resistance is to lure

1213
01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:27.960
it into the open.

1214
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.359
You fell for the baby, too bad.

1215
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.039
Now look here, it's my constitutional rights.

1216
01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:37.319
Which constitution, the Constitution of the United States, or Jeff

1217
01:08:37.439 --> 01:08:40.680
Davis's You Insultan Yankees, remember your menacer.

1218
01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:42.039
I demand to try it.

1219
01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:46.920
You've just had it past a guard over room, sergeant, Yes,

1220
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:48.800
we'll hang him.

1221
01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:59.079
In the morning, something tears at your face, scratching, and

1222
01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:02.680
you realize that a whirling has stopped you. Open your eyes.

1223
01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:05.840
You're lying on the southern bank of the stream, out

1224
01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:07.079
of sight of your enemies.

1225
01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:08.159
Safe.

1226
01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:12.600
The gravel which has scratched your cheek now seems soft

1227
01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.880
as new pick cotton. The forest around you is a

1228
01:09:15.960 --> 01:09:19.640
garden of luscious beauty, reeking with a heavy perfume of freedom.

1229
01:09:20.159 --> 01:09:22.119
Even the whiz and rattle of the final charge of

1230
01:09:22.199 --> 01:09:26.079
grape screaming through the tree tops seems a benediction from

1231
01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.159
the battle Cannoneer. You leap to your feet and run

1232
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:38.600
into the woods south towards home. Your neck has swollen

1233
01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:41.159
and frobbing with pain. You carry it cock toward your

1234
01:09:41.239 --> 01:09:44.199
left shoulder as you push through the matted brush. All morning,

1235
01:09:44.279 --> 01:09:46.800
you tear your way through the undergrowth. Your jacket is

1236
01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:49.600
tattered and your face criss crossed with bloody scratches from

1237
01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:55.239
the brambles. Every few moments you stop. You stop to

1238
01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:58.399
listen for the sound of dogs, But all you hear

1239
01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:02.920
is the sleepy buzz of the fire, and the blood

1240
01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:06.960
throbbing through your heated brain brings another thought, which is

1241
01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:11.800
an insult. No dogs, You are not even important enough

1242
01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:19.960
to the Yankees for dogs. Oh it's nearly noon now,

1243
01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.399
and for half an hour you've been plunging through a swamp,

1244
01:10:22.680 --> 01:10:27.479
waist deep in green ooze. Your neck hurts constantly, your

1245
01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:30.079
head throbs, and your tongue is thick. It tastes like

1246
01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:34.119
brown cotton, not swarm before your eyes, catching in your eyelids,

1247
01:10:34.159 --> 01:10:37.119
Busquitoes buzz in your ears, drill deep in your hands,

1248
01:10:37.199 --> 01:10:41.880
and swollen neck. You cannot go any longer. You slow down,

1249
01:10:43.159 --> 01:10:47.000
you stop, You reach toward of palmetto root for support,

1250
01:10:47.079 --> 01:10:49.520
and it slivers from your grasp and slides softly into

1251
01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:49.880
the water.

1252
01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:51.840
Water.

1253
01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:57.279
Moccasin fear finds you at last. Terror, which stood aloof

1254
01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.439
when you fled the executioner's bullets, now in raises you

1255
01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:05.239
with clammy junction. A water moccasin, the dead lake cotton Mouth.

1256
01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:09.079
Now each branch and roots seems to writhe under your glands.

1257
01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:12.600
The swamp is undulating with certain death. You plunge on

1258
01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:15.319
through the dark, stinking who's on? And on, tripping, stumbling,

1259
01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:18.000
never stopping for terror writes your back, flogging you with

1260
01:11:18.039 --> 01:11:19.000
a whiplash of fear.

1261
01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:36.199
You're gonna have my spating fills a film jig.

1262
01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:39.399
Time you just drink this, She up teams.

1263
01:11:39.239 --> 01:11:46.680
Bet, Thank you, thank you, Jethrow? What are you doing here?

1264
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:48.000
I live here?

1265
01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:51.880
Well, what happened?

1266
01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:54.800
I was paddling my dog out home through the swamp

1267
01:11:54.880 --> 01:11:56.079
with a mess of catfish.

1268
01:11:56.640 --> 01:11:59.079
I sees you lying out there on the bank in

1269
01:11:59.159 --> 01:11:59.560
front of my.

1270
01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:04.039
Cat, Jethro. I heard, I thought you were dead.

1271
01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:09.359
Of course, you thought Jethro was dead. You knew he

1272
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:12.319
had consumption when you sold him. You knew he couldn't

1273
01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.159
last long, and he wasn't earning his keep. His wife

1274
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:17.119
and his daughter had carried on some at first, but

1275
01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:18.600
after a while they calmed down.

1276
01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:19.720
At last.

1277
01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:21.560
You'd heard Jethro was dead.

1278
01:12:23.079 --> 01:12:26.840
He thought I was dead, Miss Peyton, I say, don't

1279
01:12:26.880 --> 01:12:30.600
you know what's happened to me? I'm free I'm free

1280
01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:31.119
at last.

1281
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:34.840
So news travels fast, even in the middle of his

1282
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:38.159
back would swamp. This lonely black has heard of Abe

1283
01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:43.279
Lincoln's traitorous emancipation proclamation, and they believe it with the

1284
01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:44.359
faith of children.

1285
01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:45.640
Yes, sir, I'm.

1286
01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:47.760
Free, I speak pretty soon.

1287
01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:49.439
My woman my little gal.

1288
01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:50.359
Come along join me.

1289
01:12:50.680 --> 01:12:54.520
Yes, yes, of course they will, jethro isaa, Miss Peyton,

1290
01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:57.880
they will, Yes, yes, indeed they're both fine.

1291
01:12:57.960 --> 01:12:58.000
You.

1292
01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:01.600
Your daughter's growing into a young beauty. Miss Fox was

1293
01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:04.439
brought into the kitchen beginning to training for the house.

1294
01:13:04.680 --> 01:13:09.279
Well, well, what do you think of that? And my

1295
01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.880
woman she's still seeing us.

1296
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.600
Pretty yeah, jethrow Sundays at meeting time, we can hear

1297
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:16.960
all the way up to the big House.

1298
01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:20.359
That woman's voice is put in all the angels.

1299
01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:21.560
Jeth throw out.

1300
01:13:22.199 --> 01:13:25.000
I don't know how to say this, but I really

1301
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:28.359
was sorry about having to sell you. But there wasn't

1302
01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:28.960
anything else.

1303
01:13:29.119 --> 01:13:33.079
Understand, mis don't fit, don't mind. I don't forgive you

1304
01:13:33.399 --> 01:13:37.920
long ago I have for sure. Don't the Lord tell

1305
01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.159
us to forgive those who tresp us again us God

1306
01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:44.680
Lord promises we shall be free. Why don't you worry

1307
01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:47.439
nothing about my speaking and.

1308
01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:50.239
I quite that's why quiet jigger, quiet.

1309
01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:50.119
You.

1310
01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:56.840
Must her raise her back and afresh, No, sir, ree lork,

1311
01:13:56.960 --> 01:14:02.520
Miss Peyton. There's a horse coming down the road. Look there, soldier,

1312
01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:04.279
when our soldiers.

1313
01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:06.199
Corporal look like Jethro, you got to hide me.

1314
01:14:06.960 --> 01:14:07.800
I got to hide.

1315
01:14:07.880 --> 01:14:09.079
You don't.

1316
01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:14.000
There's so many questions you answerence, you forget. I'm free

1317
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:17.239
now well, and there's an old friend of mine. Please

1318
01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:18.439
don't ask any questions.

1319
01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:20.520
Just hide me. Don't tell that soldier anything.

1320
01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:23.319
Sure, I reckon I can do that for no friend,

1321
01:14:23.399 --> 01:14:25.960
Miss Painting, Yeah, yeah, you get done on this year bit,

1322
01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:26.680
that's it.

1323
01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:31.720
Put the covers over the side. Yeah, yeah, snug is

1324
01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:32.880
a take in a rabbits here.

1325
01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:34.359
Remember, don't tell him anything.

1326
01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:37.239
Have you come this far just to be turned in

1327
01:14:37.439 --> 01:14:40.880
by a world gathering? Black O talks crazy. If Jethrow

1328
01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:43.680
knew this great clad corpor was really a Union lieutenant,

1329
01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:46.680
he guarantee his freedom by turning you in. Even so,

1330
01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:48.399
he bears you a big enough grudge to turn you

1331
01:14:48.479 --> 01:14:51.680
in anyway, unless, of course, he's planning to dispose of

1332
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:55.520
you himself. Yes, that's it. That's why he talks so

1333
01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:58.079
silly about the Lord and forgiveness. He's going to do

1334
01:14:58.159 --> 01:14:58.800
you in himself.

1335
01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:03.039
Don't tell him I was looking for him, Yes, I remember.

1336
01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:03.920
Not tell him.

1337
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:06.079
Just keep minding your own business.

1338
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:07.640
Uncle, you live.

1339
01:15:07.560 --> 01:15:10.439
Longer, yes, sir, I sure will.

1340
01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:18.199
He can come out time my speeding. I declare, I

1341
01:15:18.399 --> 01:15:21.680
don't understand none of this. You says, not tell him

1342
01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:23.960
you're here. He says, not tell you he's been here.

1343
01:15:24.720 --> 01:15:26.439
What is this all about? My speding?

1344
01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:27.159
Boy?

1345
01:15:27.640 --> 01:15:32.520
HiT's nothing, jeath throw nothing. I over the man some money.

1346
01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:34.359
I'm not ready to pay it.

1347
01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:39.079
Oh, I see, I wouldn't know about that money. Something

1348
01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:43.039
never bothered me like it bought some money and me

1349
01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:44.479
has allays been strangers?

1350
01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:47.800
What does he mean by that? Money's never bothered me

1351
01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:51.920
like it's bothered some what's he picking up that knife.

1352
01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:54.000
For, Jethro? What are you going to do that night?

1353
01:15:55.239 --> 01:15:55.359
Oh?

1354
01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:57.319
I was just fixing to slit up some of them.

1355
01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.840
Catfy she's gotten a dog out. You could do with

1356
01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:02.399
the little food mines peten.

1357
01:16:02.479 --> 01:16:05.600
Oh no, no, thank you, Jethro. I really got to

1358
01:16:05.640 --> 01:16:07.039
be on my way. I want to get home by

1359
01:16:07.079 --> 01:16:07.439
son down.

1360
01:16:07.439 --> 01:16:09.600
If I can't, sure wouldn't be no body cut up

1361
01:16:09.600 --> 01:16:10.640
a couple of cans.

1362
01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:13.279
No, thank you, old friend. If you'll just tell me

1363
01:16:13.319 --> 01:16:14.560
which way I should go to get home.

1364
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:20.520
Well, I don't rightly know, miss Peyton. I reckon from

1365
01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:23.680
the way the sun's reclining, be down the road. That

1366
01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:26.239
a way, quite a tolerable piece.

1367
01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:28.319
Yeah, they should be about right.

1368
01:16:28.680 --> 01:16:33.039
I never been back, you know, I never tried to

1369
01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:36.560
go back since I've been free. Yes, I know, but

1370
01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:41.000
I reckon it won't belong to my woman. My little gal.

1371
01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:41.640
Comes here to me.

1372
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:47.000
Of course, if you get back, mister Peyton, if and

1373
01:16:47.159 --> 01:16:51.439
you see him, you tell him I'm here waiting for him.

1374
01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:54.800
Yeah, yeah, I'll do that, Jethro, I'll do that.

1375
01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:00.560
You get away from there fast, the shells of the

1376
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:04.319
road crunching under your muddy boots, that grinning savage standing

1377
01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:06.479
in the doorway of the shack, the knife in his hands,

1378
01:17:07.279 --> 01:17:09.319
and each moment until the road bends and cuts off

1379
01:17:09.359 --> 01:17:11.800
the cabin from view, you fear he'll come after you,

1380
01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:14.199
the knife poised to plunge in your back to pay

1381
01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:16.000
you for the thrust you gave him when you send

1382
01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:19.920
him away to die. But he's still standing, grinning foolishly

1383
01:17:19.960 --> 01:17:22.760
and waving as you turn the bend. Now you feel safe,

1384
01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:25.159
but only for a moment. Then you hear a sound,

1385
01:17:26.640 --> 01:17:29.159
the sound of a horse. It must be the Corporal

1386
01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:32.079
and Gray from the fifth Massachusetts Regulars. He's coming back

1387
01:17:32.119 --> 01:17:34.319
down the road, searching for you, hounding you, coming to

1388
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:36.640
take you back to all Creek Bridge, back to a

1389
01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:37.840
rope that won't break.

1390
01:17:37.720 --> 01:17:38.279
Under your weight.

1391
01:17:38.640 --> 01:17:41.279
You walk faster and faster, and always the sound is there,

1392
01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:43.640
growing louder and louder, and you run as fast as

1393
01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:46.000
you can down the shell road, which stretches clear to

1394
01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:52.479
the horizon between the green walls of scrubby pines. How

1395
01:17:52.600 --> 01:17:55.279
long have you been running down this endless road? It's

1396
01:17:55.399 --> 01:17:55.880
dark now?

1397
01:17:56.560 --> 01:17:57.039
Is it night?

1398
01:17:57.680 --> 01:17:59.279
Or has the blood trapped in your head by the

1399
01:17:59.319 --> 01:18:02.840
suffocating room hope at last burst into your congested eyeballs

1400
01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:05.800
and blinded you will it next pour from your swollen

1401
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:09.159
and bruised neck into your brains, stopping all sensation instantly,

1402
01:18:09.239 --> 01:18:11.760
bringing to a welcome end this day of agony and flight,

1403
01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:16.359
ridiculous fantasies of fatigue and fear. You can see the

1404
01:18:16.479 --> 01:18:18.880
darkness is the black of a sudden summer storm. That

1405
01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:21.840
lightning flash clearly shows the white road ahead and the

1406
01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:24.600
black silhouettes of trees along the sides, and since you're

1407
01:18:24.680 --> 01:18:27.399
sure that you can see the other senses return you

1408
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:30.279
hear the rumble of the thunder. You'll feel the insupportable

1409
01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:32.680
ache of your straining lungs, the leaden weight of your

1410
01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:35.560
tired feet, and now the patter of rain, first washing

1411
01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:38.319
the stinging sweat from your stretched and bitten face, Now

1412
01:18:38.439 --> 01:18:41.960
pounding harder, flowing down across your hatless head, matting your hair,

1413
01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:47.680
slowing your headlong gait to a dog trot. Another flash

1414
01:18:47.720 --> 01:18:50.840
of lightning directly overhead. For an instant you see the

1415
01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:53.239
soldiers of Owl Creek Bridge standing at the side of

1416
01:18:53.279 --> 01:18:56.119
the road, rifles leveled their eyes, boring down the sights,

1417
01:18:56.199 --> 01:18:57.039
aiming at your heart.

1418
01:19:00.760 --> 01:19:01.039
Again.

1419
01:19:01.119 --> 01:19:04.159
You're running, and the rain has turned to hail. Pallas

1420
01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:06.960
as big as harmony, beat down on you, pound your swollen,

1421
01:19:07.039 --> 01:19:12.960
bruised neck, hammer at your countless cuts. Again the lightning,

1422
01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:15.199
and on the other side of the road, the great

1423
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:17.600
clad corporal sits astride his horse, waiting for you.

1424
01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:19.760
Now you take him me.

1425
01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:20.680
Now, no.

1426
01:19:22.800 --> 01:19:24.840
Rift bold of lightning strikes a tree ahead of you,

1427
01:19:25.119 --> 01:19:27.840
and then the white, blinding light stands Jethrow, black and

1428
01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:29.720
grinning knife raised in the air.

1429
01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:33.159
Not jethrow, forgive me, forgive me.

1430
01:19:34.880 --> 01:19:35.399
He's gone.

1431
01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.159
And now you see, dangling from each tree along the road,

1432
01:19:38.199 --> 01:19:40.720
a noose swinging in the wind. Wherever you turn, wherever

1433
01:19:40.720 --> 01:19:43.079
you look, a noose waiting for you, A noose which

1434
01:19:43.119 --> 01:20:01.000
wriggles like a water Moccas are standing on the green

1435
01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:05.359
lawn of your plantation, before the high columned entrance. The

1436
01:20:05.479 --> 01:20:09.039
storm is over. The clouds are black and menacing all

1437
01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:12.560
around the horizon. But through a break in the sky overhead,

1438
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:17.479
glorious sunlight streams down, bathing your garden and your house

1439
01:20:17.600 --> 01:20:18.439
in heavenly light.

1440
01:20:19.479 --> 01:20:23.600
You are home. And now you hear a rustle of crinoline,

1441
01:20:24.079 --> 01:20:27.640
and down from the wide portico steps your beloved wife.

1442
01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:31.720
She walks across the wide lawn, arms outstretched.

1443
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:39.039
Peyton, my dear, you're back, just as your promised you'd

1444
01:20:39.079 --> 01:20:41.199
be for this moment.

1445
01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:45.319
You have endured the agonies of this day. And were

1446
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:49.199
those agonies multiplied a thousand times, they would be small

1447
01:20:49.319 --> 01:20:52.600
price for the benison of this breast, the sanctuary of

1448
01:20:52.680 --> 01:20:58.640
these arms, the security of these lips. You step forward

1449
01:20:59.199 --> 01:21:05.319
to fold your wife in your embrace. The rope stretched tight,

1450
01:21:06.279 --> 01:21:11.119
sang like a bowstring. Peyton Farquhar was dead.

1451
01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:19.920
His buddy with a broken neck, swung gently from side

1452
01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:26.319
to side beneath the timbers of owl Creek Bridge.

1453
01:21:41.640 --> 01:21:44.479
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robson and

1454
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:47.560
Tonight Brought You an occurrence at owl Creek Bridge by

1455
01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:50.800
Ambrose Bierce. In a radio adaptation written by mister Robson,

1456
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:54.399
the part of Peyton Farquhar was played by Harry Bartel.

1457
01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:58.000
The narrators were Bill Conrad and Bill Johnstone. Jethro was

1458
01:21:58.039 --> 01:22:00.760
played by Louis van Rutton. The special musical score is

1459
01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:02.479
conceived and conducted by cy Fure.

1460
01:22:05.359 --> 01:22:11.119
Next week, you are trapped in the pitch darkness of

1461
01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:17.840
a ruined mansion and groping for you. Stalking you is

1462
01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:22.640
a homicidal maniac armed with a knife, from whom you

1463
01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:24.399
must escape.

1464
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:34.399
Next week we escape with Joseph Heergersheimer's gripping story Wild Oranges.

1465
01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:35.159
Good Night.

1466
01:22:35.239 --> 01:22:37.479
Then until the same time next week when we again

1467
01:22:37.560 --> 01:22:42.319
offer you escape. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1468
01:23:05.640 --> 01:23:11.359
Oh dear, I seem to have given the fire a

1469
01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:12.119
chance to.

1470
01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:14.119
Die.

1471
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:21.840
I was simply too engrossed in our little game of horrors.

1472
01:23:22.960 --> 01:23:26.560
No worry. Though, in no time at all, I'll have

1473
01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:32.800
the wood going again. Just a little tinder, a little fuel,

1474
01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:41.279
a little fear. That's good, very good, I'd say, in

1475
01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:47.239
no time flat, we'll be back to all fire burn

1476
01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:49.720
and colderin bubble.

1477
01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:00.960
Mh.

1478
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:20.199
Suspain, This is the Man in Black here again to

1479
01:24:20.319 --> 01:24:26.520
introduce Columbia's program Suspense. Our distinguished star this evening is

1480
01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.399
the stage and screen favorite mister Paul Lucas, whose performance

1481
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:33.239
is in the Lady Vantages and in the stage production

1482
01:24:33.359 --> 01:24:36.039
The Watch on the Rhine. You will recall with pleasure.

1483
01:24:37.199 --> 01:24:40.199
Tonight's tale Loves the Spints' is a story by John

1484
01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:45.840
Dixon Carr fire Burn and Cold and Bubble. If you've

1485
01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:47.960
been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know

1486
01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:51.199
that the stint is compounded of mystery and suspicion, a

1487
01:24:51.359 --> 01:24:55.520
dangerous adventures. In this series, our tales, calculated to intrigue you,

1488
01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:59.359
to stir your nerves, will offer you a carrier situation

1489
01:24:59.640 --> 01:25:03.199
and then hold a solution in the last possible moment.

1490
01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:08.760
And so with Fireburn and Cold and Bubble, the moments

1491
01:25:08.760 --> 01:25:12.079
of Paul Lucas the other members of our company, we

1492
01:25:12.199 --> 01:25:20.319
again hope to keep you in Jory Lane Theater presents

1493
01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:26.119
the distinguished American actor Byron Willard and Shakespeare's Macbeth with

1494
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:43.159
magic effects especially designed by Ludwig von Anheim, Yabo.

1495
01:25:43.359 --> 01:25:49.119
Dabble oil and travel fire hand.

1496
01:25:49.039 --> 01:25:50.760
Paul and Bard.

1497
01:25:59.239 --> 01:26:04.520
Historic Lane Theater a relic of old London. On this sight,

1498
01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:07.880
in the cramped and crooked lanes of old Witch, there

1499
01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:10.479
has been a playhouse since Nell Gwynn sold ounges of

1500
01:26:10.520 --> 01:26:15.039
the pit. The present theater, though modernized, is heavy and

1501
01:26:15.159 --> 01:26:19.920
darkened with time by daylight. It is a dinginess of

1502
01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:24.479
red plush seats haunted by old ghosts. What's it night

1503
01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:28.840
when the lights bloom or some new production when the

1504
01:26:28.920 --> 01:26:31.319
murmur of a crowd fills the carpeted aisles and the

1505
01:26:31.439 --> 01:26:34.319
orchestra begins to tune up, it is kindled with that

1506
01:26:34.520 --> 01:26:37.520
strange magic before the rise of the curtain.

1507
01:26:38.920 --> 01:26:43.399
How about this way twelve and thirteen program Pocket now

1508
01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:45.520
man and this is Rowy your seat je.

1509
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:48.600
And backstage where nerves crawl and there is a tendency

1510
01:26:48.640 --> 01:26:51.680
to scream. The three witches of the play are huddled

1511
01:26:51.720 --> 01:26:54.640
around the people and the curtain, looking out into the audience.

1512
01:26:55.359 --> 01:26:59.359
They are hideous looking creatures, these witches in gray rags

1513
01:26:59.439 --> 01:27:00.000
like cobwebs.

1514
01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:05.560
Dear, I am scared.

1515
01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:07.159
Don't let it bother you, darling.

1516
01:27:07.399 --> 01:27:09.560
You can't even see the audience when the floats are on.

1517
01:27:09.840 --> 01:27:12.720
There's nothing to worry about, nothing except the size.

1518
01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:13.800
Of the take at the box office.

1519
01:27:13.840 --> 01:27:16.079
You don't even have to worry about that tonight. Look

1520
01:27:16.159 --> 01:27:18.600
out there, you too are shaking as much as I am.

1521
01:27:18.680 --> 01:27:19.920
Now, don't pretend.

1522
01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:22.680
All right, all right, everybody's jumping on first night.

1523
01:27:23.319 --> 01:27:25.680
But I can't understand is why they want to use

1524
01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:28.359
young girls as witches and then make us talk and

1525
01:27:28.439 --> 01:27:30.479
cracked voices as though we were eighty.

1526
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:36.319
Double double tile and travel fire.

1527
01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:39.279
Burn and call and bubble.

1528
01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:44.800
Say, darling, it's only one of the ghost effects. You've

1529
01:27:44.840 --> 01:27:47.640
been hearing it for weeks at rehearsals. I will say

1530
01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:50.359
this for Iron Willard as an actor and a manager too.

1531
01:27:50.760 --> 01:27:53.479
He's the first one who's ever had a real professional

1532
01:27:53.600 --> 01:27:56.119
magician to do the ghost effects of this ham show.

1533
01:27:56.760 --> 01:27:57.640
Oh are they, Celia?

1534
01:27:57.880 --> 01:28:00.800
Look there out in the audience in the second tuffle

1535
01:28:00.840 --> 01:28:03.000
box on the left hand side. Oh don't you see

1536
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:03.800
the woman who's.

1537
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:04.079
Just coming in?

1538
01:28:04.479 --> 01:28:06.840
Yes, I can see her. Not a bad looking bit

1539
01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:07.880
of good for her age?

1540
01:28:08.279 --> 01:28:08.880
What about her?

1541
01:28:09.680 --> 01:28:11.159
But that's Marcia Blair.

1542
01:28:11.680 --> 01:28:14.359
Marcia Blair. You don't mean you've.

1543
01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:14.960
Never heard of her.

1544
01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:16.319
I can't say I have either.

1545
01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:18.399
If it comes to that, w vive, he gives us

1546
01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:18.880
a squint.

1547
01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:21.760
Marcia Blair used to be mister Willard's leading lady.

1548
01:28:22.319 --> 01:28:23.640
She was a very great actress.

1549
01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:26.359
Fifteen years ago. Oh, fifteen years ago.

1550
01:28:26.880 --> 01:28:30.199
She's had a terribly romantic history. But she's made lots

1551
01:28:30.239 --> 01:28:33.199
of money and retired from the stage. Then she married

1552
01:28:33.279 --> 01:28:36.319
some horrible no good. And to see that tall, gray

1553
01:28:36.359 --> 01:28:37.920
haired man standing beside.

1554
01:28:37.600 --> 01:28:39.840
Her, well he doesn't look much like a no good.

1555
01:28:40.159 --> 01:28:43.239
That's not the man I mean, Celia. That's Howard White,

1556
01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:45.960
her second husband. Oh, they say he loved her for

1557
01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:49.840
years and followed her about and practically worshiped her. But

1558
01:28:50.000 --> 01:28:51.880
she was married to this no good and wouldn't get

1559
01:28:51.920 --> 01:28:52.399
a divorce.

1560
01:28:52.680 --> 01:28:54.039
Then the no good died.

1561
01:28:54.159 --> 01:28:57.760
I suppose, so Marcia Blair and how faithful Howard got married.

1562
01:28:58.199 --> 01:29:01.479
Yes, I remember in the paper that they've been married

1563
01:29:01.600 --> 01:29:02.479
one year tonight.

1564
01:29:03.119 --> 01:29:05.239
I expect they're very happy.

1565
01:29:05.319 --> 01:29:07.159
Well, i'd be happy too if I had a mink

1566
01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:08.760
coat and a string of pearls like that.

1567
01:29:08.960 --> 01:29:11.680
So you've got to admit she's beautiful, all right, Katie,

1568
01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:14.600
if you say so. I used to go and see

1569
01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:15.960
her act when I was a little girl.

1570
01:29:16.560 --> 01:29:18.159
She was kind of an idol.

1571
01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:21.479
I wonder what they're saying to each other up in

1572
01:29:21.520 --> 01:29:24.520
the box now, I wonder.

1573
01:29:24.359 --> 01:29:25.279
What they're saying.

1574
01:29:37.840 --> 01:29:41.520
Master, Dear, I wish you wouldn't be so uneasy. Nothing

1575
01:29:41.600 --> 01:29:42.520
can happen to you here.

1576
01:29:42.800 --> 01:29:44.239
You're uneasy yourself, Howard.

1577
01:29:44.960 --> 01:29:47.159
Yes, I suppose I am a little Howard.

1578
01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:49.600
I know I shouldn't be talking like this on our

1579
01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:53.680
first anniversary, But that's what worries me. What if Barry

1580
01:29:53.760 --> 01:29:56.079
isn't dead? What if he isn't dead?

1581
01:29:56.359 --> 01:30:00.279
Listen to me, Darling, your late husband, heaven can damn

1582
01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:03.359
his soul died in New York more than a year ago.

1583
01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:04.359
We have proof of that.

1584
01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:06.039
And then who wrote those letters to me?

1585
01:30:06.159 --> 01:30:08.479
If you don't know, dear, somebody playing a joke on

1586
01:30:08.600 --> 01:30:09.079
your joke.

1587
01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:12.159
If you marry him, Marsha, you won't be alive a

1588
01:30:12.279 --> 01:30:13.720
year from then, joke.

1589
01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:16.399
But you're married to me, my dear, and you are alive.

1590
01:30:17.079 --> 01:30:19.840
Shall I quote you something from another play, Howard, Well,

1591
01:30:20.720 --> 01:30:25.520
the eydes of march are come aye, Caesar, but not gone.

1592
01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:29.319
And it's still two hours two hours to the time

1593
01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:30.399
we were actually married.

1594
01:30:30.479 --> 01:30:33.640
Oh look, sheer, dear, this is carrying an obsession too far.

1595
01:30:34.279 --> 01:30:36.199
It would be just like Barry to wait until the

1596
01:30:36.279 --> 01:30:37.960
last moment just to make it worse.

1597
01:30:38.640 --> 01:30:40.399
You knew him, Yes, I knew him.

1598
01:30:41.079 --> 01:30:42.840
He was a genius, sir.

1599
01:30:43.439 --> 01:30:46.640
As a mere businessman, I never quite understood this theatrical

1600
01:30:46.720 --> 01:30:47.920
temperament except yours.

1601
01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:50.600
Of course, Barry was a greater actor than Myron Mullet

1602
01:30:50.640 --> 01:30:54.119
will ever be. Barry could play anything from a company

1603
01:30:54.199 --> 01:30:57.960
to King Lear. His skillet makeup wasn't merely good, it

1604
01:30:58.119 --> 01:31:02.960
was terrifying. Oh Howard, I am frightened. Suppose he's managed

1605
01:31:02.960 --> 01:31:06.039
to get close to us tonight and and it recon't fision.

1606
01:31:07.680 --> 01:31:10.840
Well the music started, monsieur, I should have to go?

1607
01:31:11.359 --> 01:31:12.279
Must you go hard?

1608
01:31:12.680 --> 01:31:13.039
Really?

1609
01:31:13.319 --> 01:31:16.000
If I break disappointment with Serndale, Dear, the deal will

1610
01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:18.119
be called off. And since I haven't got too much

1611
01:31:18.159 --> 01:31:22.800
backing anyway, all right, dear, I understand, go ahead.

1612
01:31:22.960 --> 01:31:24.039
Unless you wanted to come with.

1613
01:31:24.119 --> 01:31:26.000
Me and miss Myron's opening tonight.

1614
01:31:26.359 --> 01:31:27.279
Oh I couldn't do that.

1615
01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:29.840
I tell you, you'll be perfectly safe here, dear.

1616
01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:32.159
Of course, Howard, I know that.

1617
01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:35.319
Will improve your three thousand people. Nobody could attack you,

1618
01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:36.520
your readose.

1619
01:31:36.600 --> 01:31:39.840
This box is guarded outside that door with Miss Tenton,

1620
01:31:39.840 --> 01:31:42.439
who's devoted to you, and the chauffeur, who's even more

1621
01:31:42.520 --> 01:31:43.159
devoted to you.

1622
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:44.640
What could happen there?

1623
01:31:44.840 --> 01:31:48.119
Nothing was cold, and I'd prefer to be alone anyway.

1624
01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:50.279
Yes, I rather guess.

1625
01:31:50.640 --> 01:31:54.000
Please, It's just that I can't endure anybody being with

1626
01:31:54.119 --> 01:31:55.600
me when I'm watching a great place.

1627
01:31:56.279 --> 01:31:58.000
But that doesn't include you, darling.

1628
01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:01.159
Then if you like step these adam in honor of

1629
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:03.439
our first anniversary, oh.

1630
01:32:03.600 --> 01:32:07.720
Howard, but they're lovely, of course, I'll accept them.

1631
01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:10.920
And she has a program that's everything else you need.

1632
01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:13.000
Yes, yes, I think so.

1633
01:32:13.239 --> 01:32:14.960
I just opened the door for the passage to make

1634
01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:17.960
sure our watch dogs are on God. Yes, that's out

1635
01:32:18.000 --> 01:32:21.640
there all right. Good night, Master, see you in an

1636
01:32:21.680 --> 01:32:22.119
hour or two.

1637
01:32:22.560 --> 01:32:24.720
Good night, Howard, and good luck.

1638
01:32:26.359 --> 01:32:31.159
The sentence Bradley, Yes, yes, sure, anything wrong this center.

1639
01:32:31.239 --> 01:32:33.960
You've been my wife's companion secretary for five or six.

1640
01:32:33.920 --> 01:32:36.560
Years, yes, mister White, and I've loved every.

1641
01:32:36.439 --> 01:32:39.319
Minute, and then you badly you haven't been my chauffeur

1642
01:32:39.319 --> 01:32:40.920
for quite so long. But they turn me.

1643
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:44.239
You're the next wrestler, that's right, champion of the Short

1644
01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:47.239
Ditch Athletic Club and in their prime. Though I says

1645
01:32:47.359 --> 01:32:49.800
I shouldn't, there's good a man as ever climbed through

1646
01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:50.239
the ropes.

1647
01:32:50.439 --> 01:32:52.720
Now you know your instructions badly. You trust me, sir.

1648
01:32:53.199 --> 01:32:55.840
Nobody gets into this year box tonight unless it's over

1649
01:32:55.960 --> 01:32:56.680
my dead body.

1650
01:32:56.840 --> 01:32:58.840
Nothing must happen, you understand nothing.

1651
01:32:59.239 --> 01:33:01.760
See as white as paper as for.

1652
01:33:01.760 --> 01:33:03.880
You, miss sent and the said it's a little awkward.

1653
01:33:04.800 --> 01:33:06.319
I know I ought to ask you to go in and.

1654
01:33:06.359 --> 01:33:09.640
Enjoin Masteria, but I you needn't apologize, mister White. I

1655
01:33:09.800 --> 01:33:11.079
know she doesn't want company.

1656
01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:14.239
She'll be leaning forward with her elbows on the box rail,

1657
01:33:14.680 --> 01:33:17.760
just as she always does. She's merely watching a play.

1658
01:33:18.279 --> 01:33:22.840
She's acting Lady Macbeth, every lie, every gesture, and I

1659
01:33:22.920 --> 01:33:23.920
don't mean to disturb her.

1660
01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:26.359
So you won't leave this door, either of your you'll

1661
01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:32.119
trush me sure if anything wrong badly. It is very

1662
01:33:32.199 --> 01:33:35.239
rummy looking cove coming along the passage, Sair wearing a

1663
01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:37.199
big black cloak with a red line.

1664
01:33:37.680 --> 01:33:40.520
Who that meant badly? Let's only have on Onheim.

1665
01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:44.439
He's a professional magician and a scape artist. He was

1666
01:33:44.520 --> 01:33:46.479
just wondering, excuse.

1667
01:33:46.079 --> 01:33:47.520
Me, don't worry, mister White.

1668
01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:51.159
We look after her, but on him, I say, but

1669
01:33:51.279 --> 01:33:54.920
on him, and not say I did it. Never shake

1670
01:33:55.000 --> 01:33:57.479
the Gordy looks at me. I beg your pardon, and

1671
01:33:57.600 --> 01:33:59.960
I beg yours. My friend, I was merely quoting your

1672
01:34:00.079 --> 01:34:02.920
line from the play. Who are not leaving the theater?

1673
01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:06.000
Surely not walking out on my Beth. I'm afraid I've

1674
01:34:06.079 --> 01:34:08.760
got to. That's a pity, my friend. You will miss

1675
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:11.279
some of my best effects, to say nothing of Shakespeare's.

1676
01:34:12.000 --> 01:34:14.600
When Banko's Ghosts appears at the table, I don't want

1677
01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:17.720
to share any more about ghosts, thanks Bankers or anybody else's.

1678
01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:20.399
I imagine you mean your wife's late husband.

1679
01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:24.439
You've heard about it, then, yes, your wife has told

1680
01:34:24.479 --> 01:34:26.720
me a good deal. She seems to think that in

1681
01:34:26.840 --> 01:34:29.399
my profession I might have some charm or the demons

1682
01:34:29.479 --> 01:34:32.560
or spell against ghosts, you know, even on him in

1683
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:35.640
a middle kind of way. That's what I've been wondering myself.

1684
01:34:36.119 --> 01:34:40.600
Unfortunately now I am all too human. But your problem.

1685
01:34:40.439 --> 01:34:42.960
Interests me, and I confess it worries me.

1686
01:34:43.479 --> 01:34:43.880
What is you?

1687
01:34:44.640 --> 01:34:48.239
What about me? As I understand it, her first.

1688
01:34:48.159 --> 01:34:51.000
Husband was a half made American actor who later went

1689
01:34:51.039 --> 01:34:55.399
completely mad and died in New York is a oh,

1690
01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:58.920
what's the word I want? Or obsession? That that's it obsession.

1691
01:34:59.279 --> 01:35:03.199
His obsession was Marcia Blair's eyes. Yes, always her eyes

1692
01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:05.159
seemed to hypnotiz him.

1693
01:35:05.199 --> 01:35:05.760
It is not new.

1694
01:35:05.840 --> 01:35:08.279
You know, you'll find the same moltive the eyes of

1695
01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:11.920
a beautiful woman all through the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Then,

1696
01:35:12.039 --> 01:35:15.319
as I understand it, after this man's death, she began

1697
01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:18.600
to receive a series of letters, how letters apparently written

1698
01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:21.840
by him and threatening her with some rather horrible form

1699
01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:23.680
of death if she married you. I'll tell you Barry

1700
01:35:23.760 --> 01:35:25.840
Lady is dead. He can't get up out of his coffin.

1701
01:35:26.119 --> 01:35:28.359
Getting out of coffins, my friend, is not so difficult.

1702
01:35:28.439 --> 01:35:30.840
I have done it myself, So please stop joking. Vannheim,

1703
01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:35.319
We don't happen to be dead. True, there is that

1704
01:35:35.520 --> 01:35:40.960
small difference. Is your wife here in the theater tonight? Yes,

1705
01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.680
she wouldn't have come here except it's Madon Wood's first night.

1706
01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.319
We haven't seen Maden either of us in years. She's

1707
01:35:48.359 --> 01:35:49.319
back there in boxing D.

1708
01:35:49.520 --> 01:35:50.000
So I hear it.

1709
01:35:51.039 --> 01:35:54.000
I was hoping that you might invite me to share

1710
01:35:54.079 --> 01:35:57.319
the box. Look here, old man, I don't want to

1711
01:35:57.319 --> 01:36:01.119
seem inhospitable, but she doesn't want to come company. Well

1712
01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:03.880
that's about it. Well, then walk back a little distance

1713
01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:06.439
with me this way, so that you can see the

1714
01:36:06.479 --> 01:36:09.760
stage from the back of the dress circle. The orchestra

1715
01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:11.479
has stopped and they'll ring up in a moment.

1716
01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:12.880
There.

1717
01:36:13.359 --> 01:36:15.840
Look at it. Look at what the stage man.

1718
01:36:16.880 --> 01:36:19.920
Lights have gone out, all except the dim yellow footlights

1719
01:36:19.960 --> 01:36:23.880
shining at the curtain. The last cough, the last murmur,

1720
01:36:24.239 --> 01:36:27.840
the last rustler. Program dies away in one bast breathing.

1721
01:36:27.560 --> 01:36:29.720
Hush, cut goes up.

1722
01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:33.039
It got my arm, went on him. I've got to leave.

1723
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:37.520
What are the stage directions? There's a place thunder and

1724
01:36:37.680 --> 01:36:56.079
lightning enter three which when indeed, I wonder my.

1725
01:36:56.119 --> 01:36:58.000
Bigger pardon went on him? Do you speak?

1726
01:36:58.279 --> 01:36:58.319
No?

1727
01:36:58.520 --> 01:36:59.079
It was nothing.

1728
01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:44.199
In the London newspapers for that year, nineteen thirty six,

1729
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:49.199
you may read how Myron Willard triumphed Drory Lane is

1730
01:37:49.239 --> 01:37:54.039
make Beth. But tonight there's the clock tis on. There

1731
01:37:54.119 --> 01:37:58.520
is another drama in the dimly lighted corridor outside Box

1732
01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:05.000
D there's it's missus Louise Senton, Marcia Blair's companion secretary.

1733
01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:10.199
Beside her, burly and broken nosed is big Jim Bradley,

1734
01:38:10.880 --> 01:38:15.159
the expressler. And when more than half an hour has.

1735
01:38:15.199 --> 01:38:21.119
Passed, there's the applause Jim that at the end of

1736
01:38:21.239 --> 01:38:21.680
her stay.

1737
01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:25.960
Yes, no things happens. Will take my words written ohing's

1738
01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:26.800
going to weapons now.

1739
01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:29.920
She's such a likable person, Jim, and I think one

1740
01:38:29.960 --> 01:38:31.640
of our greater Shakespearean actress.

1741
01:38:31.960 --> 01:38:35.439
I don't much careful is shakespeare business mission. We'll give

1742
01:38:35.479 --> 01:38:37.119
me a good movie with gags to see it.

1743
01:38:37.199 --> 01:38:37.960
It's my style.

1744
01:38:38.079 --> 01:38:39.600
Oh you don't understand, Jim.

1745
01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:40.760
I've seen her.

1746
01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:44.199
It's Juliet as ratherland as Porsche in our own drawing

1747
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.239
room without any props. I've heard a rdhom at Bath too,

1748
01:38:47.680 --> 01:38:48.640
whom you should.

1749
01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:51.880
See her eyes were eyes, Yes, you.

1750
01:38:51.880 --> 01:38:54.680
Should see her eyes when she delivers that speech. The

1751
01:38:54.840 --> 01:38:58.199
raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal.

1752
01:38:58.000 --> 01:39:01.520
Enemy wish to be What is it that foreign looking

1753
01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:06.760
cove in the black cape coming along the passage? I

1754
01:39:06.840 --> 01:39:09.079
beg your pardon. You are miss Louise Fenton, aren't you?

1755
01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:10.640
Yes, my name is Fenton.

1756
01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:11.239
What is it.

1757
01:39:11.640 --> 01:39:13.880
I am looking for Anheim, a friend of mister White's,

1758
01:39:14.439 --> 01:39:15.960
and they must see Marcia Blair at one.

1759
01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:16.600
Oh you don't.

1760
01:39:17.119 --> 01:39:18.119
You're not going in there?

1761
01:39:18.279 --> 01:39:18.600
Why not?

1762
01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:21.359
There's nobody goes in there, not if it was the

1763
01:39:21.439 --> 01:39:24.319
King himself, they told I listened to me both of you.

1764
01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:27.520
When the lights went on. I happened to be looking

1765
01:39:27.560 --> 01:39:29.479
at Box D from the other side of the theater,

1766
01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:32.119
and I think there is something wrong.

1767
01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:36.039
But I can't be anything wrong. Jim Bradley and I've

1768
01:39:36.039 --> 01:39:40.439
been sitting here the whole time, except, of course, well.

1769
01:39:40.319 --> 01:39:42.239
Except when I went in there for a few seconds.

1770
01:39:42.279 --> 01:39:44.319
You went in there, miss Fenton May.

1771
01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:46.079
I ask when that was, but it was.

1772
01:39:46.079 --> 01:39:48.640
After mister White had gone, and just before the play started.

1773
01:39:48.920 --> 01:39:51.000
I went in to ask if she wanted anything. She

1774
01:39:51.079 --> 01:39:53.239
said she didn't, so I came out again. And Brady

1775
01:39:53.239 --> 01:39:55.159
has been with me all the time, except he went

1776
01:39:55.199 --> 01:39:56.600
to get a drink of water up the corridor.

1777
01:39:56.680 --> 01:39:57.680
That just George.

1778
01:39:57.399 --> 01:40:00.600
Gorshberg one moment and listened to me. See Blair is

1779
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:02.439
leaning forward across the railing of the box.

1780
01:40:02.760 --> 01:40:04.520
But that's nothing help on Anheim.

1781
01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:07.000
That's the way she always is, does.

1782
01:40:06.920 --> 01:40:10.199
She always fall forward? With her arms held straight out

1783
01:40:10.399 --> 01:40:11.760
and her head down on her arms.

1784
01:40:12.199 --> 01:40:14.760
That they be careful, message, said Rick Rick.

1785
01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:18.039
Why not open the door and see for yourselves? Would

1786
01:40:18.079 --> 01:40:18.800
that do any harm?

1787
01:40:19.640 --> 01:40:19.680
No?

1788
01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:22.000
I I suppose it wouldn't.

1789
01:40:22.000 --> 01:40:24.800
But oh, there must be some mistake. We haven't had

1790
01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:27.600
a sound from in there. There couldn't be anything wrong.

1791
01:40:28.119 --> 01:40:31.359
You opened the door, mish entron. I'm going to old

1792
01:40:31.479 --> 01:40:39.840
titterish gentleman just in case. Quiet, please quiet fish walk

1793
01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:44.159
in there with me, Please go, cashers though nothing were wrong,

1794
01:40:44.520 --> 01:40:45.760
We don't want to attract attention.

1795
01:40:46.880 --> 01:40:48.520
Now, help on.

1796
01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:52.479
Y face.

1797
01:40:52.680 --> 01:40:55.920
Yes, and don't begin screaming again. It's sent when I

1798
01:40:56.000 --> 01:41:00.720
tell you she's dead. Ready, Yes, sirs, Blair's buddy up

1799
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.920
and getry her out into the corridor. In another minute,

1800
01:41:03.960 --> 01:41:05.960
you'll have the whole theater want you to know what's wrong.

1801
01:41:06.199 --> 01:41:10.319
Or raa you in. But what about the people in

1802
01:41:10.399 --> 01:41:11.159
the other boxes.

1803
01:41:11.640 --> 01:41:12.840
Won't they see we've.

1804
01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:14.000
Gone out of the bar to get a drink.

1805
01:41:14.119 --> 01:41:14.960
They won't see anything.

1806
01:41:15.279 --> 01:41:20.359
Honey, she ain't no right weight, The poor lady ain't.

1807
01:41:24.359 --> 01:41:26.520
All The door opened. Let's got it.

1808
01:41:27.000 --> 01:41:32.560
Yeah, close the door. Shall I put her down on

1809
01:41:32.680 --> 01:41:33.600
the floor carefully?

1810
01:41:33.760 --> 01:41:34.000
Yes?

1811
01:41:34.039 --> 01:41:37.159
Better do this I never took those threats seriously. That's

1812
01:41:37.199 --> 01:41:41.199
what I blame myself for. And if something did happen, well,

1813
01:41:41.239 --> 01:41:44.079
I thought he'd attack her, never thought he'd hide away

1814
01:41:44.119 --> 01:41:45.600
across the theater and father's shot.

1815
01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:48.319
And you were quite right, Miss Fenton. Marcia Blair was

1816
01:41:48.399 --> 01:41:52.079
not shut she she wasn't shot. No, they can look

1817
01:41:52.119 --> 01:41:52.560
at the wound.

1818
01:41:53.119 --> 01:41:53.960
I can't look at it.

1819
01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:57.560
She was stabbed, stabbed through the right eye with a narrow,

1820
01:41:57.680 --> 01:42:00.640
sharp blade which entered her brain and killed her instantly.

1821
01:42:01.239 --> 01:42:03.039
Not the pretty death, but the quick one.

1822
01:42:03.479 --> 01:42:06.199
You seem to know a lot about this, Governor. Perhaps

1823
01:42:06.199 --> 01:42:08.439
say do, my friend, and perhaps I can guess a

1824
01:42:08.520 --> 01:42:11.880
lot more. You mean somebody stood out there and threw

1825
01:42:11.920 --> 01:42:14.680
a k eye at it like a ready music hall turn. No,

1826
01:42:14.840 --> 01:42:17.239
I don't mean that either. There's no knife in the

1827
01:42:17.279 --> 01:42:19.479
wound and none in the box. The murderer took it away,

1828
01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:22.520
took it away exactly.

1829
01:42:22.439 --> 01:42:23.279
Half on anheim.

1830
01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:26.840
Please wait, you're not saying someone climbed up from outside

1831
01:42:27.279 --> 01:42:30.079
twenty or thirty feet from the floor and stabbed for

1832
01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:32.760
Marcia in full sight of three thousand people.

1833
01:42:32.920 --> 01:42:35.079
That, Miss Fenton is what The evidence seems to indicate

1834
01:42:35.159 --> 01:42:37.079
that it's impossible, yet it happened.

1835
01:42:37.399 --> 01:42:38.680
There is Marcia Blair's body.

1836
01:42:39.960 --> 01:42:41.199
What's what's the morning bell?

1837
01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:43.800
The second act? People will be coming back here anyway,

1838
01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:45.800
any minute. What are we going to do.

1839
01:42:53.359 --> 01:43:00.920
Wrong?

1840
01:43:01.039 --> 01:43:01.399
The boy?

1841
01:43:10.880 --> 01:43:13.199
I will try the last you.

1842
01:43:29.920 --> 01:43:37.439
M applause, acclaim. Triumph Byron Willard is MiG beet Allen

1843
01:43:37.520 --> 01:43:41.720
Gale is Lady in mid Bet. Magical Effects by Ludwig Banheim.

1844
01:43:43.039 --> 01:43:46.039
Very few persons knew that there is a dead woman

1845
01:43:46.119 --> 01:43:48.479
in the theater, but at the end of the play

1846
01:43:49.359 --> 01:44:06.920
it is a different story. M yeah. The crowd files

1847
01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:12.199
out past the cordon police. The lights are extinguished. The

1848
01:44:12.319 --> 01:44:18.279
great theater is dark and mumbling with echoes. See the

1849
01:44:18.399 --> 01:44:23.720
stage now only the backings are overhead lights pour down

1850
01:44:23.800 --> 01:44:29.359
a pale blaze on two men who stand grotesquely against

1851
01:44:29.439 --> 01:44:33.520
the background of Dunsanane Castle. One of these men is

1852
01:44:33.560 --> 01:44:38.000
Howard White, very near collapsed. The other is Myron Willard himself,

1853
01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:42.039
still wearing his makeup, still wearing helmet and chain mail.

1854
01:44:43.600 --> 01:44:49.960
And when Willard speaks, all.

1855
01:44:51.560 --> 01:44:52.479
Hard White.

1856
01:44:54.119 --> 01:44:55.399
Man, can't you hear what I'm saying?

1857
01:44:55.520 --> 01:44:59.239
Excuse me, this is almost finished, not that I am

1858
01:44:59.319 --> 01:45:02.800
blaming you all. Thank you, madam it's traditionally.

1859
01:45:02.279 --> 01:45:05.159
You know that macbethon unlucky play. But up to the

1860
01:45:05.279 --> 01:45:06.640
very end, I thought I'd never done better.

1861
01:45:07.079 --> 01:45:10.439
Eleven o'cockond calls No. Twelve, How did you like my

1862
01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:13.680
tomorrow and tomorrow speech? They madden and said, I didn't

1863
01:45:13.720 --> 01:45:14.000
hear it.

1864
01:45:14.840 --> 01:45:17.079
Yes, poor old Marcia, she'd have hated.

1865
01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:20.880
To die like that. Marcia was proud of her eyes

1866
01:45:21.279 --> 01:45:23.640
always near satured as an hour but two vandor ward

1867
01:45:23.680 --> 01:45:28.319
glasses as Bana. I am looking at us a under

1868
01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:29.279
the castle archway.

1869
01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:31.399
When I.

1870
01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:39.800
Did you call me my friend?

1871
01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:42.600
It have the difficult to recognize on the all that

1872
01:45:42.720 --> 01:45:45.640
Macbeth makeup. Yes, I was just thinking the same thing.

1873
01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:46.560
Never mind that.

1874
01:45:48.079 --> 01:45:50.760
Where are the police now at the moment, mister Beard,

1875
01:45:50.760 --> 01:45:52.479
The police are in your addressing room. They are using

1876
01:45:52.520 --> 01:45:56.600
you for questioning no reception tonight, of course no, But

1877
01:45:56.760 --> 01:45:58.960
I thought you might be interested in two items of

1878
01:45:59.079 --> 01:46:01.159
information that police have just discovered.

1879
01:46:01.880 --> 01:46:05.399
Oh we are a fairly full house tonight, I believe.

1880
01:46:05.600 --> 01:46:09.399
Furthervell, every saint was reserved reserved, yes, but not occupied.

1881
01:46:09.880 --> 01:46:10.600
I don't follow you.

1882
01:46:11.039 --> 01:46:13.640
One box on the ground floor, Box E, to be exact,

1883
01:46:13.800 --> 01:46:17.159
was empty, reserved and paid for but empty and box

1884
01:46:17.199 --> 01:46:19.840
e oddly enough, but just underneath the one occupied by

1885
01:46:19.920 --> 01:46:23.000
Marcia Blair all the same. I still don't say quite

1886
01:46:23.079 --> 01:46:26.199
what your now. Our next item of information comes to

1887
01:46:26.239 --> 01:46:29.319
an usher an outside. I see it in the stores

1888
01:46:29.439 --> 01:46:31.800
very close to that empty box was occupied where a

1889
01:46:31.920 --> 01:46:35.079
very curious stranger who arrived late in the dark and

1890
01:46:35.159 --> 01:46:38.000
slipped out again by a nearby exit a few minutes afterwards,

1891
01:46:38.279 --> 01:46:40.520
just from a room van Onheim. Are you saying the

1892
01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:43.239
stranger climbed up and attacked Marcia and improve view of

1893
01:46:43.279 --> 01:46:46.680
the audience. No, my friend, the murderer did not approach

1894
01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:49.399
from that direction. Then he must have reached Marcia through

1895
01:46:49.439 --> 01:46:50.720
the door guarded by bed in.

1896
01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:54.439
Miss Clinton. No, not from that direction. Night unfounded man.

1897
01:46:54.600 --> 01:46:56.079
It must have been one way or the other.

1898
01:46:56.680 --> 01:46:57.439
Not necessarily.

1899
01:46:57.600 --> 01:46:59.560
I'm telling me how, don't like I've got enough troubles

1900
01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:01.840
already out the nightmare on top of it.

1901
01:47:02.520 --> 01:47:04.720
Half one on him, half one on him.

1902
01:47:04.800 --> 01:47:06.439
You must take it easy, Miss Fenton. You must not

1903
01:47:06.520 --> 01:47:07.199
excite yourself.

1904
01:47:07.640 --> 01:47:10.560
If the police you've got to help me, they won't

1905
01:47:10.600 --> 01:47:10.960
believe me.

1906
01:47:11.159 --> 01:47:14.000
They won't believe the young ladies here, and that's affect

1907
01:47:14.520 --> 01:47:17.119
I tried to help her all I can, but there's

1908
01:47:17.199 --> 01:47:19.479
things I can swear too, and these I can't.

1909
01:47:19.640 --> 01:47:21.960
You see, I did go into that box, oh just

1910
01:47:22.039 --> 01:47:24.319
for a couple of seconds, I admitted, But no other

1911
01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:26.560
person went, you know, could have got in, so they

1912
01:47:26.720 --> 01:47:28.479
say at least a hintingman.

1913
01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:29.199
I cured her.

1914
01:47:29.720 --> 01:47:31.159
But I swear I never touched you.

1915
01:47:31.359 --> 01:47:34.760
Was questioned you miss fent, Inspector Grimes or Sergeant Blade.

1916
01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:36.840
I'm well, I'm not sure the sergeant.

1917
01:47:36.880 --> 01:47:37.560
I think then I.

1918
01:47:37.520 --> 01:47:38.600
Shouldn't worry ifever you.

1919
01:47:38.840 --> 01:47:42.279
Inspector Grimes knows better his guest, in fact, exactly what

1920
01:47:42.399 --> 01:47:44.680
I have guessed, the same one rather.

1921
01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:46.680
Familiar terms what the police might friend.

1922
01:47:46.840 --> 01:47:50.680
I am, mister Willard. I am anyone who practices escapes

1923
01:47:50.680 --> 01:47:54.960
from handcuffed sex chest and the stage boxes perhaps stage boxes.

1924
01:47:55.000 --> 01:47:59.039
If you insist, excuse me, isn't it Inspector Grimes in

1925
01:47:59.079 --> 01:47:59.520
the wings?

1926
01:47:59.560 --> 01:48:01.119
Now yes, and he's nodding his head.

1927
01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.039
Then I can tell you I think what you want

1928
01:48:04.119 --> 01:48:04.239
to know.

1929
01:48:04.520 --> 01:48:06.159
But if you don't happen to know anything, that your

1930
01:48:06.239 --> 01:48:06.960
duty to speak up.

1931
01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:11.239
Marsha seems to have had some ridiculous idea that her

1932
01:48:11.319 --> 01:48:15.640
former husband Barry Lake was still alive. Affairs were justified,

1933
01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:18.520
of course, and she wasn't killed by any dead husband.

1934
01:48:18.560 --> 01:48:19.520
I beg your pardon.

1935
01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:23.039
Her fears were justified, though not quite in the way

1936
01:48:23.079 --> 01:48:25.800
she believed, and she was killed by her husband.

1937
01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:28.560
The Lake it's still alive.

1938
01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:30.520
No Berry Lake is dead.

1939
01:48:31.960 --> 01:48:33.399
Marcia was really killed by a girl.

1940
01:48:33.560 --> 01:48:37.159
No, I mean she was killed by her devoted second husband.

1941
01:48:37.560 --> 01:48:41.640
Mister Howard White, you know, is hear what they say?

1942
01:48:42.279 --> 01:48:43.000
That's not true.

1943
01:48:43.079 --> 01:48:45.880
It's a slenderest statement. I have you in called for it.

1944
01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:48.399
Everybody knows how they voted. I was to Marcia.

1945
01:48:48.479 --> 01:48:50.800
Your devotion to my friend was devotion to her money

1946
01:48:51.159 --> 01:48:53.800
and your business affairs have been shaky for a long time.

1947
01:48:53.880 --> 01:48:56.239
That's not true, and you can't prove it. Marcia Bliir

1948
01:48:56.600 --> 01:48:58.960
was inclined to be sherby are a little close fisted

1949
01:48:59.039 --> 01:49:02.840
with money anyway, there's a willing to marry him. But

1950
01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:05.399
mister Hawd White knew he'd never touch a penny unless

1951
01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:05.880
he killed her.

1952
01:49:06.439 --> 01:49:07.720
He wrote the letters himself.

1953
01:49:07.880 --> 01:49:10.039
Tap on on Haim. He can't be guilty.

1954
01:49:10.279 --> 01:49:12.079
She was alive after he left the box.

1955
01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:15.279
He wasn't anywhere near when she died, perfectly correct, Miss Fenton.

1956
01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:18.079
He wasn't there, and yet he killed her exactly.

1957
01:49:18.800 --> 01:49:21.000
But you and Bradley can supply the clue that will

1958
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:21.439
hang him.

1959
01:49:21.680 --> 01:49:23.000
Me, sir, I don't know nothing.

1960
01:49:23.880 --> 01:49:25.640
I think you do if you put your mind to it.

1961
01:49:26.319 --> 01:49:28.239
Do you remember about how the White said to her

1962
01:49:28.479 --> 01:49:29.560
just before he left the box?

1963
01:49:30.159 --> 01:49:33.359
Yes, he said, good night, Marcia's see you in an

1964
01:49:33.399 --> 01:49:36.640
hour or two. She answered, good night and good luck.

1965
01:49:36.760 --> 01:49:40.560
No, I mean just before that, there wasn't many things.

1966
01:49:40.800 --> 01:49:44.039
You see. It's a slender statement without any proof. It's

1967
01:49:44.079 --> 01:49:46.119
an insult to my position on the stock exchange.

1968
01:49:47.000 --> 01:49:48.640
I do remember something rather queer.

1969
01:49:50.399 --> 01:49:54.800
He said to Marcia jokingly, if you'll accept these, madam,

1970
01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:58.960
in honor of our first anniversary. And Marcia said, how

1971
01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:01.319
they're lovely? Of course I'll accept them.

1972
01:50:01.479 --> 01:50:01.840
That's right.

1973
01:50:01.920 --> 01:50:02.680
Sure he did say it.

1974
01:50:03.039 --> 01:50:05.159
And what do you think he was referring to miss Senton?

1975
01:50:05.640 --> 01:50:07.039
What was he asking her to accept?

1976
01:50:07.239 --> 01:50:10.680
Well, I imagine it was flowers, corsage or something like that.

1977
01:50:10.880 --> 01:50:12.600
Did you see any flowers in the box or pin

1978
01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:13.720
to Marcia Blair's gown?

1979
01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:16.359
No, come to think that I didn't.

1980
01:50:16.720 --> 01:50:18.159
Then what did he give her?

1981
01:50:18.960 --> 01:50:19.640
Don't look at me?

1982
01:50:20.600 --> 01:50:22.520
Now here is a woman who is very near sighted.

1983
01:50:23.279 --> 01:50:26.720
Red yet refuses to wear glasses. But she can accept

1984
01:50:26.720 --> 01:50:28.399
a pair of who's a lie?

1985
01:50:28.520 --> 01:50:29.319
You can't prove it?

1986
01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:33.159
Answers. You better stay here, thank you, Bradly. But the

1987
01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:34.520
place is surrounded the police.

1988
01:50:34.600 --> 01:50:36.600
But I still don't understand.

1989
01:50:36.359 --> 01:50:38.640
Now what happens when you lift upper glasses to your

1990
01:50:38.680 --> 01:50:41.039
eyes and they are not in focus. You turned the

1991
01:50:41.079 --> 01:50:43.119
little wheel in the middle to bring them into focus.

1992
01:50:43.960 --> 01:50:48.920
For Marcia Blair, it was deadly. You mean, yes, they

1993
01:50:48.960 --> 01:50:52.319
were especially constructed glasses, miss Senton. They were invented by

1994
01:50:52.319 --> 01:50:55.199
a French criminal years ago. That little wheel is a

1995
01:50:55.239 --> 01:50:58.600
little trigger. It releases the spring of a sharp, thin

1996
01:50:58.720 --> 01:51:00.720
blade which strikes through the eye, eyes into the brain.

1997
01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:06.239
Marcia Blair died instantly. The glasses, torn from her eye

1998
01:51:06.319 --> 01:51:09.359
by their own weight, dropped over the box rail to

1999
01:51:09.479 --> 01:51:12.439
the carpeted aisle below. The only witness we might have

2000
01:51:12.600 --> 01:51:15.319
noticed would have been the people in the box just underneath.

2001
01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:19.039
And that box was helped by arrangements. Yes, even if

2002
01:51:19.079 --> 01:51:21.760
anybody did see them fall, how the wife was prepared

2003
01:51:21.760 --> 01:51:25.920
to remove the evidence instantly. You haven't forgotten the curious stranger. Curious,

2004
01:51:26.239 --> 01:51:27.720
I mean the man who slipped in after it was

2005
01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:29.720
dark took an I see just under the box and

2006
01:51:29.800 --> 01:51:31.640
slip out again. A few minutes later, the back of

2007
01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:33.920
life would start to finish a contro a word of it.

2008
01:51:34.359 --> 01:51:37.000
I beg your pardon, my friend, didn't you see Inspector

2009
01:51:37.079 --> 01:51:38.720
Grimes not to me a moment ago?

2010
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:42.000
You are going to hang my friend for one of the.

2011
01:51:42.119 --> 01:51:45.680
Neatest and cruelest crimes in my experience. The police have

2012
01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:48.680
just found those opera glasses with a neat set of

2013
01:51:48.760 --> 01:51:56.119
fingerprints in the side pocket of your motor car. And

2014
01:52:08.479 --> 01:52:13.279
so ends Fireburn and Coln Bubble, starring the distinguished actor

2015
01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:20.079
Paul Lucas Tonight's Tale of Suspense. This is your narrator,

2016
01:52:20.359 --> 01:52:23.319
ted Osburn, a man in black who conveys to you

2017
01:52:23.399 --> 01:52:26.960
Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with

2018
01:52:27.159 --> 01:52:31.560
us again next Tuesday, same time, when Nancy Coleman stars

2019
01:52:31.640 --> 01:52:33.880
in Fear Paints a Picture.

2020
01:52:34.640 --> 01:52:37.000
William Spear, the producer, John Deets.

2021
01:52:36.680 --> 01:52:41.279
The director, Bernard Herman, the composer, conductor, Robert Simmons studio technician,

2022
01:52:41.560 --> 01:52:46.760
and John Dixon Carr, the author, collaborated on to Night's Suspense.

2023
01:52:52.039 --> 01:52:54.439
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2024
01:53:14.760 --> 01:53:20.159
Well, my dear, your tea seems in the proper temperature

2025
01:53:21.199 --> 01:53:26.279
to help fend off those chills you've been experiencing. That's good,

2026
01:53:27.039 --> 01:53:33.319
that's very very good. Oh what's that well? I suppose

2027
01:53:33.399 --> 01:53:36.199
I could use a few SIPs myself.

2028
01:53:39.279 --> 01:53:41.199
Now, that is hot.

2029
01:53:44.000 --> 01:53:48.600
The tea never lets you down, It never betrays you.

2030
01:53:49.920 --> 01:53:53.640
You're not sitting and waiting for the double Cross.

2031
01:53:55.920 --> 01:54:00.119
Wait a minute, have you heard the strange tales of

2032
01:54:00.199 --> 01:54:00.760
the Whistler.

2033
01:54:18.159 --> 01:54:19.560
I'm the whistler.

2034
01:54:24.119 --> 01:54:25.640
You cops are going to be on a scene of

2035
01:54:25.720 --> 01:54:28.439
a crime instead of coming in after it's all over. Tonight,

2036
01:54:28.479 --> 01:54:34.920
I'm going to do a little exterminating Sunday night and

2037
01:54:35.119 --> 01:54:37.840
again CBS presents the Whistler.

2038
01:54:46.720 --> 01:54:50.560
I the Whistler know many things, for I walk by night.

2039
01:54:51.520 --> 01:54:54.720
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the

2040
01:54:54.800 --> 01:54:58.039
hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

2041
01:54:59.399 --> 01:55:01.680
And so I have you to night the story of

2042
01:55:02.039 --> 01:55:07.760
the Double Cross. It is Christmas Eve in the big,

2043
01:55:07.920 --> 01:55:12.119
lonely city of New York. Outside, the snow falls in

2044
01:55:12.239 --> 01:55:16.640
huge floating flakes. Inside an apartment, young Joe Blake sits

2045
01:55:16.680 --> 01:55:19.479
on the floor before a small Christmas tree with his

2046
01:55:19.640 --> 01:55:24.239
four year old nephew, Timmy. Joe's sister died two years ago,

2047
01:55:24.880 --> 01:55:26.880
and for a while the child's father tried to look

2048
01:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.399
after Timmy, but being a detective lieutenant, the father, Steve,

2049
01:55:30.560 --> 01:55:35.159
found it almost impossible. A year ago, young Joe had

2050
01:55:35.199 --> 01:55:37.840
become involved with some hoodlums and would have gone to

2051
01:55:37.920 --> 01:55:42.359
reform school, but for Steve's intercession. Joe has kept out

2052
01:55:42.399 --> 01:55:45.079
of trouble since then and has been living with Steve

2053
01:55:45.279 --> 01:55:48.239
and taking care of the apartment and little Timmy.

2054
01:55:49.760 --> 01:55:51.760
When will Santa Claus come, Uncle Joe?

2055
01:55:52.039 --> 01:55:54.159
Well, I don't think you're come until you go to sleep, Timmy.

2056
01:55:54.439 --> 01:55:55.399
How's it gonna get in?

2057
01:55:55.760 --> 01:55:56.720
He comes down the chimney?

2058
01:55:57.119 --> 01:55:57.880
What chimney?

2059
01:55:58.560 --> 01:56:01.159
I never thought of that. Well, maybe it comes with

2060
01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:01.600
the window.

2061
01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:03.399
They're all locked, Uncle Joe.

2062
01:56:03.960 --> 01:56:06.119
I'll open one after you go to bed. Kid, he'll

2063
01:56:06.119 --> 01:56:09.359
get in. Don't worry about that. Open the biggest one, biggest.

2064
01:56:09.399 --> 01:56:13.199
And why well I saw Center Claus and he's fat

2065
01:56:13.760 --> 01:56:15.119
and a pony is big too.

2066
01:56:15.800 --> 01:56:19.920
Oh, I see, Well, I don't know about the pony, Timmy,

2067
01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:23.199
and of scarce these days, hum, the ponies are kind

2068
01:56:23.239 --> 01:56:24.520
of kind of extinct.

2069
01:56:25.159 --> 01:56:27.920
Well, I could keep my window open. No one would

2070
01:56:27.960 --> 01:56:28.479
smell him.

2071
01:56:29.079 --> 01:56:30.800
Wouldn't you like to have a train just as well?

2072
01:56:31.119 --> 01:56:32.000
If you don't get a pony?

2073
01:56:32.079 --> 01:56:32.239
Huh?

2074
01:56:33.600 --> 01:56:34.199
Had a boy?

2075
01:56:34.319 --> 01:56:37.039
Timmy, you better go to bed now. It's after eleven

2076
01:56:37.079 --> 01:56:39.319
and old Nick won't come, and I say, sure, you're asleep.

2077
01:56:39.880 --> 01:56:40.279
How about it?

2078
01:56:40.720 --> 01:56:41.880
When is daddy coming?

2079
01:56:42.279 --> 01:56:45.079
Oh, he'll be long since. Come on, Timmy, you're gonna

2080
01:56:45.119 --> 01:56:45.359
turn in.

2081
01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:51.000
Eh.

2082
01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:54.560
We are tucked in fine night, Timmy.

2083
01:56:55.039 --> 01:56:56.520
Don't forget to open the window.

2084
01:56:56.840 --> 01:57:12.319
I won't I'll open them all police calls on the

2085
01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:15.600
other end of the dial. Joe, huh, oh, hello, Steve,

2086
01:57:15.640 --> 01:57:16.399
I didn't hear you come in.

2087
01:57:16.920 --> 01:57:17.520
Let me help you.

2088
01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:20.720
I was looking for the police call. No, I just

2089
01:57:20.800 --> 01:57:22.359
put Timmy to bed. Why so late?

2090
01:57:22.680 --> 01:57:22.840
Oh?

2091
01:57:23.039 --> 01:57:25.399
He wanted to see Santa Claus. He's going to be

2092
01:57:25.479 --> 01:57:29.199
kind of disappointed in the morning. How so what's a pony? Well,

2093
01:57:29.479 --> 01:57:31.479
if you can buy him one, Joe, are you kidding?

2094
01:57:31.640 --> 01:57:31.680
No?

2095
01:57:32.680 --> 01:57:34.760
I don't get it. It's a matter with you, Steve.

2096
01:57:35.119 --> 01:57:37.159
Something go wrong tonight. Have you been here all evening?

2097
01:57:37.279 --> 01:57:37.439
Why?

2098
01:57:37.960 --> 01:57:38.960
Sure? Haven't been out?

2099
01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:40.920
Do I always stay with Timmy when you work late?

2100
01:57:41.199 --> 01:57:42.880
You didn't slip out for an hour or so while

2101
01:57:42.920 --> 01:57:45.680
Timmy was asleep. Oh I should I but you could have.

2102
01:57:46.039 --> 01:57:47.920
Sure I could, But I didn't.

2103
01:57:48.760 --> 01:57:48.920
Joe.

2104
01:57:48.960 --> 01:57:50.520
When I got you out of that last scrape, I

2105
01:57:50.560 --> 01:57:51.760
did it because I had a lot of faith in

2106
01:57:51.840 --> 01:57:53.279
you and your promises.

2107
01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:55.479
I still don't get it. I was the one who

2108
01:57:55.560 --> 01:57:57.479
got you that relief chab And at the popping store,

2109
01:57:57.560 --> 01:57:59.279
I vouched for you.

2110
01:57:59.479 --> 01:57:59.880
I know that.

2111
01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:01.079
What about it?

2112
01:58:01.439 --> 01:58:05.479
Somebody open this door is safe tonight, somebody with slick fingers,

2113
01:58:06.439 --> 01:58:09.079
sensitive fingers like like yours.

2114
01:58:09.199 --> 01:58:09.359
Joe.

2115
01:58:09.640 --> 01:58:12.840
What why I'm near the store since noon? You sure

2116
01:58:13.079 --> 01:58:16.640
certainly I'm not crazy. I've had my lessons. I wish

2117
01:58:16.640 --> 01:58:18.279
I could believe that. I swear I haven't been out

2118
01:58:18.319 --> 01:58:18.760
of this house.

2119
01:58:19.560 --> 01:58:21.520
Should you try to pin anything like this on me

2120
01:58:21.760 --> 01:58:24.359
just because I'm I'm working there during the holiday.

2121
01:58:24.079 --> 01:58:27.079
Season, I'm not trying to pin anything on you, just

2122
01:58:27.159 --> 01:58:29.000
as all the ms of your ability is to open

2123
01:58:29.039 --> 01:58:29.359
a safe.

2124
01:58:29.439 --> 01:58:31.640
That's not fair, Steve. I'm true with that kind of stuff.

2125
01:58:31.640 --> 01:58:34.800
I got plans. I'm gonna make something useful of myself.

2126
01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:36.920
You're sure you weren't out of this place. I swear

2127
01:58:37.000 --> 01:58:38.159
I wasn't, Steve, I swear it.

2128
01:58:39.359 --> 01:58:42.560
Okay, I'll take a chance on it. I'm not on

2129
01:58:42.640 --> 01:58:45.000
the case, but I heard about it. I looked start

2130
01:58:45.079 --> 01:58:46.560
checking on all the records of guys like you, and

2131
01:58:46.640 --> 01:58:48.119
they'll probably drop around to see you tomorrow.

2132
01:58:48.199 --> 01:58:49.960
I didn't meet the house, Steve. I didn't, okay, but

2133
01:58:50.039 --> 01:58:52.800
you got to have an alibi. Oh, Timmy was here.

2134
01:58:53.119 --> 01:59:01.199
Timmy's a baby, he won't count. Oh hello, Steve, Why evening?

2135
01:59:01.359 --> 01:59:05.119
Captain? Come money in? You know my brother in law Joan?

2136
01:59:05.720 --> 01:59:07.000
Yeah, I remember him.

2137
01:59:07.720 --> 01:59:08.560
What can I do for you?

2138
01:59:08.960 --> 01:59:09.279
Sit down?

2139
01:59:09.319 --> 01:59:11.399
I was just ready to turn in, but sitting around

2140
01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:13.960
reading for a couple of those kind of drowsy.

2141
01:59:14.279 --> 01:59:14.479
Yeah.

2142
01:59:14.920 --> 01:59:16.119
How long you been here, Steve?

2143
01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:17.000
Why?

2144
01:59:17.000 --> 01:59:19.039
I got off duty at eight, been home since eight

2145
01:59:19.079 --> 01:59:19.560
thirty one?

2146
01:59:19.840 --> 01:59:21.079
How long has Joe been here?

2147
01:59:22.039 --> 01:59:23.800
He was here when I came in. He's been here

2148
01:59:23.840 --> 01:59:25.640
all evening. Hasn't been out, certainly not.

2149
01:59:25.760 --> 01:59:26.760
What are you getting at, Captain?

2150
01:59:27.000 --> 01:59:29.720
George's been working mornings at Shelby's department store, hasn't he?

2151
01:59:30.039 --> 01:59:30.239
Yeah?

2152
01:59:30.359 --> 01:59:31.000
Yeah, that's right.

2153
01:59:31.439 --> 01:59:34.439
Well they're safe. Was open tonight around nine thirty. They

2154
01:59:34.520 --> 01:59:37.199
closed at seven thirty. I thought we'd check up on

2155
01:59:37.239 --> 01:59:38.800
the boys with sensitive fingers.

2156
01:59:38.960 --> 01:59:41.359
Joe Why, I hadn't been out of the house. I

2157
01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:45.159
swear to that you will. Certainly I will. Joe's through

2158
01:59:45.239 --> 01:59:46.079
with that kind of stuff.

2159
01:59:46.239 --> 01:59:49.000
Yeah, then how would you explain this, Steve?

2160
01:59:49.159 --> 01:59:53.880
Would you get that togarettads? Wait a minute, let's see that.

2161
01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:56.920
Sure we found it beside the safe.

2162
01:59:57.479 --> 02:00:00.399
So this is the cacious syst he gave you a

2163
02:00:00.479 --> 02:00:03.720
year before, lest he had your name engraved down it.

2164
02:00:03.840 --> 02:00:06.560
Yeah, but how to get there? I've never been near

2165
02:00:06.640 --> 02:00:10.279
the store safe. No, I suppose you just lost it someone.

2166
02:00:10.359 --> 02:00:12.960
When did you see that case last year? Yeah? I

2167
02:00:13.039 --> 02:00:15.159
had it this morning. As a matter of fact, I

2168
02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:15.800
hadn't missed it.

2169
02:00:16.640 --> 02:00:18.319
You expect me to believe that, Steve?

2170
02:00:18.960 --> 02:00:19.000
No?

2171
02:00:19.560 --> 02:00:21.279
Do you expect me to believe that you were here

2172
02:00:21.359 --> 02:00:21.880
all evening?

2173
02:00:22.560 --> 02:00:22.600
No?

2174
02:00:24.039 --> 02:00:25.319
You dirty little right?

2175
02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:27.039
You did pull that out?

2176
02:00:27.119 --> 02:00:27.159
No?

2177
02:00:27.319 --> 02:00:28.800
No, I swear I didn't see if I swear?

2178
02:00:28.920 --> 02:00:31.640
No, what this means, Steve? You haven't been here all evening.

2179
02:00:31.680 --> 02:00:33.560
You're lying. You're trying to furnish an alibi for Joe.

2180
02:00:33.600 --> 02:00:34.319
Do you know what that means?

2181
02:00:34.399 --> 02:00:34.600
Yes?

2182
02:00:34.680 --> 02:00:38.039
I know what it means. Sneaking little crook. I believed

2183
02:00:38.039 --> 02:00:41.039
in him. Get him out of here, Get him out

2184
02:00:41.079 --> 02:00:41.600
before I break.

2185
02:00:41.640 --> 02:00:44.279
It's next, Steve, Please letten ll be hearing about you,

2186
02:00:44.479 --> 02:00:53.960
Steve in the morning, but Joe can't explain how his

2187
02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:56.159
cigarette case happened to be near the safe.

2188
02:00:56.920 --> 02:00:59.359
He remember having lunch with a few of the old.

2189
02:00:59.239 --> 02:01:04.000
Gang Lady had disappeared there, but nothing can be proved,

2190
02:01:04.720 --> 02:01:08.479
so Joe is convicted and sent to prison for two years.

2191
02:01:09.720 --> 02:01:12.920
Steve is discharged from the police force and goes into seclusion,

2192
02:01:13.399 --> 02:01:17.359
his heart filled with bitter hatred for Joe. Two years

2193
02:01:17.520 --> 02:01:21.079
passed and Joe was released, determined to make a success

2194
02:01:21.119 --> 02:01:24.960
of his life, regardless of his past. Steve has disappeared,

2195
02:01:25.520 --> 02:01:28.960
but Joe meets Della Kenton, daughter of wealthy John Kenton.

2196
02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:32.920
Della persuades her father to engage Joe as his secretary.

2197
02:01:36.479 --> 02:01:38.640
Guess who, Darling, Why?

2198
02:01:38.720 --> 02:01:41.399
I can't imagine, but if I could, I guess it

2199
02:01:41.520 --> 02:01:41.920
was Bella.

2200
02:01:42.640 --> 02:01:45.039
Well you guess right? Are you going to type all.

2201
02:01:44.960 --> 02:01:45.520
Day, Joseph?

2202
02:01:45.560 --> 02:01:47.399
No, not all day, Darling, I'll be throwing a few minutes.

2203
02:01:47.439 --> 02:01:49.479
I've got a message for you. I knew you were busy,

2204
02:01:49.560 --> 02:01:52.479
so I answered the phone. It was a man, Thank Heaven,

2205
02:01:52.800 --> 02:01:55.079
and he said to tell you that he'd located your friend, Steve.

2206
02:01:55.760 --> 02:01:56.560
Did you get the address?

2207
02:01:56.720 --> 02:01:57.520
Yes, Darling, but.

2208
02:01:57.560 --> 02:02:00.800
Don't get so excited here. It is four fifty four

2209
02:02:00.960 --> 02:02:05.600
East seventeenth Street. That's certainly a dilapidated part of town.

2210
02:02:05.920 --> 02:02:07.039
Whom do you know who lives there?

2211
02:02:07.359 --> 02:02:08.119
Well, I used to know.

2212
02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:11.119
I'm trying to locate him for two years. This is

2213
02:02:11.159 --> 02:02:13.279
a sort of a cheap locality, isn't it. May I

2214
02:02:13.399 --> 02:02:15.119
go with you, oh, darling, I'd rather you didn't.

2215
02:02:15.159 --> 02:02:16.399
I'll be gone long.

2216
02:02:16.439 --> 02:02:16.920
I hope not.

2217
02:02:17.119 --> 02:02:18.039
And don't forget.

2218
02:02:18.159 --> 02:02:20.479
Father is arriving on the midnight train and he expects.

2219
02:02:20.199 --> 02:02:20.760
Us to meet him.

2220
02:02:20.920 --> 02:02:22.680
Yeah, I remember, I'll be back soon.

2221
02:02:22.640 --> 02:02:23.920
All right, darling, I'll be ready.

2222
02:02:24.039 --> 02:02:25.640
Solla, just a moment.

2223
02:02:26.119 --> 02:02:30.239
Haven't you forgotten something? What are you a married man?

2224
02:02:30.720 --> 02:02:33.399
It's certainly not. That is not yet?

2225
02:02:33.600 --> 02:02:35.960
Well, they know that's so much like one. Come back

2226
02:02:36.000 --> 02:02:36.600
here and kiss me.

2227
02:02:37.039 --> 02:02:40.880
I'm sorry, Abella, Darling, I'm.

2228
02:02:39.920 --> 02:02:41.039
So excited I forgot.

2229
02:02:42.680 --> 02:02:43.680
Hmm, that's better.

2230
02:02:44.039 --> 02:02:46.680
Now you can go go on. I'll be god, I

2231
02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:48.720
hope not, because I want to talk to you about Christmas.

2232
02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:49.439
Christmas.

2233
02:02:49.640 --> 02:02:51.399
Yes, we're going to give a Christmas party and I

2234
02:02:51.479 --> 02:02:52.159
want you to help me.

2235
02:02:52.520 --> 02:03:08.520
Yes, of course, Darling, I won't be long, timmy, Well, well,

2236
02:03:09.399 --> 02:03:10.159
how are you a baby.

2237
02:03:10.479 --> 02:03:12.199
Huh, what do you want?

2238
02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:12.359
What?

2239
02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:13.640
Timmy, don't you remember me?

2240
02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:14.720
To your uncle?

2241
02:03:14.800 --> 02:03:15.000
Joe?

2242
02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:21.079
Gee, it's good to see you, Joe, Gee.

2243
02:03:21.880 --> 02:03:24.399
Joe, Golly, I've been looking for you and your dad

2244
02:03:24.439 --> 02:03:26.840
ever since over a year.

2245
02:03:27.760 --> 02:03:28.399
Where's your dad?

2246
02:03:28.800 --> 02:03:32.319
I don't know, someplace, I guess, Yeah, how.

2247
02:03:32.239 --> 02:03:33.159
Long you been in this place?

2248
02:03:33.760 --> 02:03:34.479
A long time?

2249
02:03:35.039 --> 02:03:35.760
What's Steve doing?

2250
02:03:36.079 --> 02:03:36.439
I don't know.

2251
02:03:37.199 --> 02:03:40.560
It's almost Christmas again, Timmy. Remember that last Christmas and

2252
02:03:40.640 --> 02:03:43.840
you wanted a pony? What would you like to have

2253
02:03:43.920 --> 02:03:44.680
most of this Christmas?

2254
02:03:44.960 --> 02:03:45.159
Huh?

2255
02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:47.920
How'd you like a bicycle or a pair of skates?

2256
02:03:49.319 --> 02:03:49.520
Hey?

2257
02:03:49.760 --> 02:03:53.000
Hey, what's wrong, Timmy? Are you crying?

2258
02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:56.479
I I'd like to have a bicycle.

2259
02:03:56.560 --> 02:03:57.920
Say what are you doing in bed at this time

2260
02:03:57.960 --> 02:03:58.600
of the afternoon?

2261
02:03:59.239 --> 02:03:59.960
I couldn't rune?

2262
02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:01.680
No bicycle, Timmy? What is it?

2263
02:04:02.880 --> 02:04:03.159
Tell me?

2264
02:04:03.239 --> 02:04:03.520
Babby?

2265
02:04:04.119 --> 02:04:07.319
I don't know, Uncle Joe. I just can't walk.

2266
02:04:08.279 --> 02:04:08.720
When did this.

2267
02:04:08.800 --> 02:04:11.119
Happen last summers?

2268
02:04:11.279 --> 02:04:12.319
My foot wouldn't work.

2269
02:04:12.920 --> 02:04:15.239
Then my leg wouldn't working, Timmy.

2270
02:04:15.880 --> 02:04:18.960
But I'll be all right pretty soon, as soon as

2271
02:04:19.119 --> 02:04:20.880
pop get some money for the operation.

2272
02:04:21.159 --> 02:04:23.560
Of course you will, Timmy, You'll be all right no

2273
02:04:23.680 --> 02:04:26.960
time at all. Well, that must be Steve now, I'll

2274
02:04:26.960 --> 02:04:28.359
close your door for a minute. Timmy, I want to

2275
02:04:28.359 --> 02:04:28.840
talk to Steve.

2276
02:04:29.479 --> 02:04:30.720
You'll come back, uncle, Joe.

2277
02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:32.000
Yeah, I'll be back a lot.

2278
02:04:32.079 --> 02:04:32.239
Now.

2279
02:04:33.279 --> 02:04:35.520
Hello, Steve, what are you doing here?

2280
02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:36.880
I'll let you win.

2281
02:04:37.119 --> 02:04:40.000
I walked in. The door was open, let's still open.

2282
02:04:40.439 --> 02:04:40.840
Get out.

2283
02:04:41.000 --> 02:04:42.680
I've been looking for you ever since I got out.

2284
02:04:42.800 --> 02:04:43.119
What for?

2285
02:04:43.600 --> 02:04:47.399
I wanted to explain things. I'm sorry about what happened

2286
02:04:47.399 --> 02:04:49.600
to you, Steve. I don't want any explanations. What's wrong

2287
02:04:49.640 --> 02:04:51.960
with Timmy? How you going?

2288
02:04:52.720 --> 02:04:54.640
It looked like you'd been drinking a lot, Steve, So

2289
02:04:55.479 --> 02:04:56.920
you wouldn't be living in a place.

2290
02:04:56.760 --> 02:04:57.600
Like this if you were working.

2291
02:04:57.680 --> 02:05:01.239
I'm getting by all right. What about Timmy's opera? Can

2292
02:05:01.319 --> 02:05:01.920
you take care of that?

2293
02:05:02.079 --> 02:05:02.800
I will, I will.

2294
02:05:02.960 --> 02:05:05.119
Maybe I could help Steve while you've feeve a little red.

2295
02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:07.399
I wouldn't take anything from you. I Timmy and I

2296
02:05:07.520 --> 02:05:09.479
both started a day. Don't be a fool, Steve. I

2297
02:05:09.560 --> 02:05:11.800
haven't got anything, but I may be able to raise

2298
02:05:11.840 --> 02:05:16.319
some money. Oh, open another safe. I get out of

2299
02:05:16.359 --> 02:05:17.399
here before I throw you out.

2300
02:05:17.960 --> 02:05:19.800
You're drunks. I'm not drunk and I don't need Joe.

2301
02:05:19.840 --> 02:05:25.640
Get out, okay, Steve, Okay, I'll go, but if you don't.

2302
02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:27.279
Care about Timmy, I do how Lord, Timmy's got to

2303
02:05:27.279 --> 02:05:30.439
be operated on within thirty days. It'll take two thousand dollars,

2304
02:05:30.520 --> 02:05:33.039
maybe more, and I'll get it. I won't stay it

2305
02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:35.119
the way you would, and I'll get it. I get

2306
02:05:35.159 --> 02:05:36.199
out of here before I brain you.

2307
02:05:37.279 --> 02:05:39.760
So a long steve, I'll be seeing you.

2308
02:05:47.359 --> 02:05:50.600
Dusk has descended as Joe leaves the chief apartment and

2309
02:05:50.800 --> 02:05:54.319
drives to the palatial estate of his fiance Della. He

2310
02:05:54.439 --> 02:05:56.880
has decided to ask Della's father to lend him the

2311
02:05:56.960 --> 02:06:00.439
two thousand dollars. As he turns into the drive, a

2312
02:06:00.560 --> 02:06:02.560
man steps out in the side the gate and stands

2313
02:06:02.640 --> 02:06:03.439
before his car.

2314
02:06:06.720 --> 02:06:07.239
What do you want?

2315
02:06:07.399 --> 02:06:08.600
I want to talk to you, Joe.

2316
02:06:09.119 --> 02:06:10.680
Oh you Freddie Elsa.

2317
02:06:11.119 --> 02:06:11.920
You remember me, Joe?

2318
02:06:12.439 --> 02:06:12.840
What do you want?

2319
02:06:12.920 --> 02:06:13.199
Buddy?

2320
02:06:13.760 --> 02:06:16.640
Mike Slaviage wants that little gam fast with you. Mike Slavage?

2321
02:06:17.279 --> 02:06:18.920
Where is it? Turn out your lights and turn out

2322
02:06:18.960 --> 02:06:19.239
your mother?

2323
02:06:20.159 --> 02:06:21.159
What are you doing here, Mike?

2324
02:06:21.199 --> 02:06:21.640
I'll tell you.

2325
02:06:21.840 --> 02:06:22.479
Are you, Joe?

2326
02:06:23.000 --> 02:06:24.960
How you doing? What are you doing around here?

2327
02:06:25.039 --> 02:06:25.199
Mike?

2328
02:06:25.439 --> 02:06:27.920
I want to talk to you friend if I get in.

2329
02:06:30.119 --> 02:06:32.279
You've been doing all right since you got out, having you, Joe,

2330
02:06:32.439 --> 02:06:35.680
Well enough, I'll see living in this big joint gage

2331
02:06:35.720 --> 02:06:37.920
to a man Kenton's daughter. That's what I call climbing

2332
02:06:38.960 --> 02:06:40.640
the old man secretary and she yeah, I get to

2333
02:06:40.720 --> 02:06:43.520
the point. Old man Kenton's got a safe in that house.

2334
02:06:43.680 --> 02:06:44.720
It's got a lot of rocks in it.

2335
02:06:45.079 --> 02:06:45.560
What about it?

2336
02:06:46.159 --> 02:06:48.439
We thought you might help us get them, you know,

2337
02:06:48.520 --> 02:06:49.520
the combination of the safe.

2338
02:06:49.600 --> 02:06:50.079
You're crazy.

2339
02:06:50.079 --> 02:06:51.840
I wouldn't think of it. We could change a mind,

2340
02:06:52.720 --> 02:06:53.119
couldn't we.

2341
02:06:53.159 --> 02:06:53.359
Friend?

2342
02:06:53.479 --> 02:06:55.319
Yeah, more ways than what, get out of this car.

2343
02:06:56.319 --> 02:07:00.239
You don't scare angel? No, well, we mean business. I

2344
02:07:00.319 --> 02:07:01.000
bet don't scare you.

2345
02:07:01.039 --> 02:07:03.199
Maybe something else will think so we know, a quiet

2346
02:07:03.199 --> 02:07:06.880
little spot, no one would find you for weeks if ever.

2347
02:07:07.680 --> 02:07:11.840
Well, a real gun, shoulder, wholestir and everything come a

2348
02:07:11.840 --> 02:07:14.319
long way since we were kids. Mike started out of

2349
02:07:14.399 --> 02:07:16.239
cap pistols and not the real thing.

2350
02:07:16.479 --> 02:07:20.319
Eh. All you do is squeeze it. It's what's lad

2351
02:07:20.399 --> 02:07:22.000
instead of ward. How hard do you think you'd get

2352
02:07:22.000 --> 02:07:22.760
if you did squeeze it?

2353
02:07:23.359 --> 02:07:27.159
We've never been pinched yet, no record, no finger prints,

2354
02:07:27.960 --> 02:07:29.640
no nothing, first.

2355
02:07:29.399 --> 02:07:35.199
Time for everything, eh, cigarette Mike, Yeah, thanks, jo.

2356
02:07:36.680 --> 02:07:41.279
Oh, get a load of a cigarette case ready, Joseph

2357
02:07:41.399 --> 02:07:43.520
from Della fancy stuff.

2358
02:07:45.479 --> 02:07:50.119
Well, how about it, Joe looks like I'm stuck. I

2359
02:07:50.199 --> 02:07:53.159
think you guys mean business. What's your plan?

2360
02:07:53.680 --> 02:07:55.680
Old man, kitten's out of time? We walk in with you.

2361
02:07:55.680 --> 02:07:57.560
You open the safe, take the rocks and we'll leave.

2362
02:07:57.600 --> 02:07:57.960
All leave.

2363
02:07:58.000 --> 02:07:59.680
We'll take you with us. We'll hide out for day

2364
02:07:59.760 --> 02:08:01.600
so they start looking for you. You'll be accused. You

2365
02:08:01.640 --> 02:08:04.600
now wait a morn, get gone, Joe, out of that car.

2366
02:08:04.560 --> 02:08:12.399
And up that drive. Open it up, Joe, quit stalling.

2367
02:08:12.520 --> 02:08:13.960
Okay, okay, it's open.

2368
02:08:14.079 --> 02:08:14.760
Hand me the stuff.

2369
02:08:15.600 --> 02:08:21.319
Here you are. Thanks, Now let's go. Are you in

2370
02:08:21.399 --> 02:08:24.479
the library and talk to her? Sending a leading town

2371
02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:26.279
for a few days. No monkey business will be watching.

2372
02:08:26.439 --> 02:08:28.760
Oh yes, Ella, I'll be right out.

2373
02:08:31.359 --> 02:08:32.439
Where have you been, darling?

2374
02:08:32.479 --> 02:08:33.800
We've got to meet that train.

2375
02:08:33.840 --> 02:08:38.479
Well, I dea, I was, Well, I'm sorry, but you'll

2376
02:08:38.479 --> 02:08:40.760
have to meet your father alone. I got to run

2377
02:08:40.800 --> 02:08:43.399
out of town tonight on business. I'll be back in

2378
02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:43.920
a few days.

2379
02:08:44.039 --> 02:08:45.680
What when did this come on?

2380
02:08:46.279 --> 02:08:48.239
Just a few minutes ago? I'm going to drive.

2381
02:08:48.760 --> 02:08:52.000
Well, well, all right, darling, if you must, will you

2382
02:08:52.079 --> 02:08:53.640
be back in town to the Christmas party?

2383
02:08:53.800 --> 02:08:54.680
I hope?

2384
02:08:54.720 --> 02:08:57.399
So Dyla well, i'd better get to the station. The

2385
02:08:57.479 --> 02:09:00.720
train will be in in a few minutes. Yeah, goodbye, goodbye,

2386
02:09:00.840 --> 02:09:03.079
and take care of yourself, Joseph.

2387
02:09:02.840 --> 02:09:06.640
I'll try, Darling. Since she gets out the drive, we'll

2388
02:09:06.720 --> 02:09:09.159
leave you. Take my cross ready, I'll drive with Joe.

2389
02:09:09.319 --> 02:09:09.600
Come on.

2390
02:09:18.319 --> 02:09:18.479
Now.

2391
02:09:18.680 --> 02:09:21.880
Two days later, the story of the jewel theft breaks

2392
02:09:21.920 --> 02:09:25.880
in the newspapers. Joe Blake is suspected. Old Man Kenton

2393
02:09:25.920 --> 02:09:28.359
has offered a reward for the recovery of the stones

2394
02:09:28.439 --> 02:09:30.159
and apprehension of Joe.

2395
02:09:30.880 --> 02:09:31.399
Gee Mike.

2396
02:09:31.479 --> 02:09:33.760
He's offering ten thousand dollars for the recovery of the

2397
02:09:33.840 --> 02:09:35.960
rocks and twenty five hundred for the capture of Joe.

2398
02:09:36.239 --> 02:09:40.479
I see I see well, lailo for a few more days,

2399
02:09:40.520 --> 02:09:42.439
then skip the Chicago and unload this stuff.

2400
02:09:42.439 --> 02:09:42.880
Why do that?

2401
02:09:43.560 --> 02:09:45.680
You got a better deal right here in town. How

2402
02:09:45.720 --> 02:09:47.840
do you mean, Joe, you'd make a lot more by

2403
02:09:47.880 --> 02:09:49.960
collecting this reward than you would from a fence out

2404
02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:50.279
of town.

2405
02:09:50.960 --> 02:09:52.720
You mean we go back to Kenton and hand over

2406
02:09:52.760 --> 02:09:53.159
the stuff?

2407
02:09:53.199 --> 02:09:53.479
Why not?

2408
02:09:54.159 --> 02:09:57.039
Not a bad idea. We'd have to take you with

2409
02:09:57.239 --> 02:09:59.880
us and turn in. Certainly you'd have to do that

2410
02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:02.239
to prove all you found the jewels. What's your plan?

2411
02:10:02.760 --> 02:10:06.520
Oh look, you guys are a couple of private detectives

2412
02:10:06.840 --> 02:10:09.680
and you read about the rewards. See it just happened

2413
02:10:09.680 --> 02:10:12.399
to spot me and grab me, brought me back to Kenton,

2414
02:10:13.399 --> 02:10:16.119
turn over the stuff, and he pays off. I'll make

2415
02:10:16.159 --> 02:10:18.239
a break for the door. Got to take a few

2416
02:10:18.279 --> 02:10:19.920
shots at me to make it look real, which your

2417
02:10:19.920 --> 02:10:22.880
shoot wild. I got away, and later on, when the

2418
02:10:22.920 --> 02:10:25.720
coast is square, I'll drop around. I leave you on

2419
02:10:25.760 --> 02:10:27.640
the clear, and I don't get locked up.

2420
02:10:28.279 --> 02:10:29.520
I think it's a nutty idea.

2421
02:10:30.079 --> 02:10:31.199
What if it don't work? Shut up?

2422
02:10:32.560 --> 02:10:35.920
That ain't a bad idea, Joe, and take you up

2423
02:10:36.000 --> 02:10:36.279
on that.

2424
02:10:47.159 --> 02:10:49.880
So, mister Kenton, I and my partner right about the

2425
02:10:49.960 --> 02:10:52.319
theft and saw this guy's picture and happened to spot

2426
02:10:52.399 --> 02:10:53.279
him in this lunch room.

2427
02:10:53.359 --> 02:10:56.560
So we nabbed him. Well, here he is, and there's

2428
02:10:56.640 --> 02:10:57.439
all your jewelry.

2429
02:10:57.640 --> 02:10:57.960
He is?

2430
02:10:58.520 --> 02:10:59.319
Is this all here?

2431
02:11:00.039 --> 02:11:00.359
Bit of it?

2432
02:11:01.079 --> 02:11:03.560
Check it over, della. See if your jewels are all there?

2433
02:11:03.840 --> 02:11:05.600
Yes, father, nothing of mine is missing.

2434
02:11:06.159 --> 02:11:08.520
Very well, I suppose you want the reward.

2435
02:11:09.199 --> 02:11:13.159
Well, after all, I'll give you this check for ten

2436
02:11:13.239 --> 02:11:15.960
thousand dollars of the return of the stones and I'll

2437
02:11:16.039 --> 02:11:18.319
withhold the twenty five hundred until.

2438
02:11:18.159 --> 02:11:22.079
He is booked by the police and locked up. Well, okay,

2439
02:11:22.279 --> 02:11:25.680
but we captured him. What more do you one? I

2440
02:11:25.800 --> 02:11:26.680
prefer it that way.

2441
02:11:27.079 --> 02:11:28.840
I want to be sure that he's locked up, and

2442
02:11:28.920 --> 02:11:30.720
if he gets out in twenty years, it will be

2443
02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:34.560
too soon for me. You certainly pulled the wool over

2444
02:11:34.680 --> 02:11:37.399
my eyes when I think that Della might have married

2445
02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:38.760
you an next convict.

2446
02:11:38.880 --> 02:11:40.479
You can't always judge a book let's cover.

2447
02:11:40.720 --> 02:11:42.640
It doesn't seem possible. I could have been such an

2448
02:11:42.680 --> 02:11:43.279
utter fool.

2449
02:11:43.359 --> 02:11:44.840
You got a lot of things to learn, Della.

2450
02:11:45.000 --> 02:11:46.600
The sooner you get him out of here, the better.

2451
02:11:46.880 --> 02:11:49.720
Well, here's your check, and Len, Della, he get away

2452
02:11:50.000 --> 02:11:57.399
back here. He's locked it from the other side.

2453
02:11:57.520 --> 02:11:58.359
He won't get fat.

2454
02:11:58.600 --> 02:11:59.279
I must have hit it.

2455
02:11:59.399 --> 02:11:59.960
Call the police.

2456
02:12:00.079 --> 02:12:02.640
Never mind, we'll get him twenty five hundred long stars.

2457
02:12:02.720 --> 02:12:04.359
Come on, Freddy, I'm this spinter. He will get far.

2458
02:12:07.239 --> 02:12:07.680
You're hear him?

2459
02:12:07.720 --> 02:12:10.840
Really, no, I missed him deliberately shut high. Now that

2460
02:12:10.920 --> 02:12:12.760
I think about it, I'm just a sap. That was

2461
02:12:12.800 --> 02:12:14.680
our chance to get rid of him, sort of legally.

2462
02:12:15.039 --> 02:12:15.720
He knows too much.

2463
02:12:15.760 --> 02:12:17.800
I don't press him, but we ain't really costs or

2464
02:12:17.880 --> 02:12:19.880
what any citizens got a right to catch a future that.

2465
02:12:19.960 --> 02:12:21.159
Come on, we're going to get that baby.

2466
02:12:28.640 --> 02:12:31.359
Joe makes a getaway and heads for a little hotel

2467
02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:35.039
where he hides out for another day. Then the papers

2468
02:12:35.079 --> 02:12:38.560
break with another story and Kenon has increased the reward

2469
02:12:38.720 --> 02:12:42.840
for Joe's capture. Joe studies this over for a while

2470
02:12:42.920 --> 02:12:46.560
and realizes the possibility of Mike's double crossing him for

2471
02:12:46.680 --> 02:12:50.279
the additional reward. He slips out for a while, then

2472
02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:52.560
returns to his room around eight in the evening.

2473
02:12:58.680 --> 02:12:59.119
Who is it?

2474
02:12:59.520 --> 02:12:59.920
Open up?

2475
02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:00.800
Kick it down?

2476
02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:01.479
Steve?

2477
02:13:04.239 --> 02:13:07.439
Well so, he yeah, the rad himself. What do you want, Steve?

2478
02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:08.199
What do you think?

2479
02:13:08.840 --> 02:13:09.760
Are you back on the force?

2480
02:13:09.840 --> 02:13:10.079
Steve?

2481
02:13:10.319 --> 02:13:11.720
I will be when I get through with you.

2482
02:13:12.479 --> 02:13:15.079
Because of you, I got kicked out and now you're

2483
02:13:15.119 --> 02:13:17.000
the one who's gonna set me back in harness again.

2484
02:13:17.720 --> 02:13:20.279
Funny how things work on. Oh you know about the reward,

2485
02:13:20.319 --> 02:13:20.479
do you?

2486
02:13:20.880 --> 02:13:21.119
Yeah?

2487
02:13:21.439 --> 02:13:21.680
I do.

2488
02:13:23.600 --> 02:13:26.640
Once a crook, always a crook. I knew you'd pull

2489
02:13:26.720 --> 02:13:27.600
something sooner or later.

2490
02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:31.880
As Timmy, he's just going to be fine in a

2491
02:13:31.960 --> 02:13:33.880
few days. What do you mean he can have that

2492
02:13:34.000 --> 02:13:37.199
operation now? I'm good glad to hear that Ye're not

2493
02:13:37.279 --> 02:13:37.720
half as.

2494
02:13:37.640 --> 02:13:40.079
Glad as I am. And the thing that pleases me

2495
02:13:40.199 --> 02:13:42.760
most is the way I'm getting the dough boy. This

2496
02:13:42.960 --> 02:13:45.319
rap is gonna send you away for twenty years. So watch,

2497
02:13:45.439 --> 02:13:48.479
get your hat and start walking, and don't try that

2498
02:13:48.560 --> 02:13:50.800
fade out stuff on me. Because I like you so much.

2499
02:13:50.880 --> 02:14:05.039
I'd as soon plug is look at you. Thanks mister Kenton,

2500
02:14:05.279 --> 02:14:07.920
Thanks very much. I wouldn't have come out so soon.

2501
02:14:08.039 --> 02:14:10.880
But well, this money is a lifesaving how's that, Bradley?

2502
02:14:11.079 --> 02:14:13.720
My kid Timmy's got to have an operation I had

2503
02:14:13.840 --> 02:14:16.000
never sent. It has to be done in a few

2504
02:14:16.079 --> 02:14:20.000
days where he won't live checks a real Christmas present.

2505
02:14:20.039 --> 02:14:22.720
Mister Bradley, What do you think they will do with Joseph?

2506
02:14:22.800 --> 02:14:26.760
Oh, he'll get twenty years two time losing shame. I

2507
02:14:26.840 --> 02:14:28.279
had a lot of faith in that boy.

2508
02:14:28.760 --> 02:14:31.600
So the Della. I just can't understand that there's been

2509
02:14:31.640 --> 02:14:32.760
some others who felt that way.

2510
02:14:33.039 --> 02:14:34.560
Who what did he have to gain?

2511
02:14:34.960 --> 02:14:37.439
He was engaged at Della, he could have had everything,

2512
02:14:38.039 --> 02:14:40.239
and he was very stupid to do what he did.

2513
02:14:40.520 --> 02:14:42.279
What do you mean, well, he took a chance on

2514
02:14:42.399 --> 02:14:44.520
his life when he escaped from this room.

2515
02:14:45.079 --> 02:14:46.079
He knew those two men.

2516
02:14:46.119 --> 02:14:48.760
I had guns. Good thing for him that the big

2517
02:14:48.840 --> 02:14:49.920
fella couldn't shoot straight.

2518
02:14:50.000 --> 02:14:52.560
They fired, and the big man did as he went

2519
02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:53.399
right through that door.

2520
02:14:53.479 --> 02:14:59.159
A couple above the door, all three shots near the ceiling. Yeah, yeah,

2521
02:14:59.159 --> 02:14:59.600
I see.

2522
02:15:01.359 --> 02:15:03.119
You know, I'd say there was either very good shooting

2523
02:15:03.199 --> 02:15:04.600
or he had a gun that kicked like a mule.

2524
02:15:04.720 --> 02:15:08.279
It wasn't a big gun. The snubnosed gerbalbo.

2525
02:15:07.960 --> 02:15:11.520
Snubnose not a service pistol. No, I'm sure it wasn't.

2526
02:15:13.039 --> 02:15:14.520
And they drop in on you in a few days

2527
02:15:14.560 --> 02:15:25.640
of the canon, said Bradley. Anytime, I want to ask

2528
02:15:25.680 --> 02:15:26.399
you a few questions.

2529
02:15:26.520 --> 02:15:28.760
Joe, did you collect the reward? I did last night?

2530
02:15:29.119 --> 02:15:31.000
As Timmy? He went to the hospital this morning.

2531
02:15:31.119 --> 02:15:32.640
Oh that's swell Jem.

2532
02:15:34.399 --> 02:15:36.279
Well, what do you want to know? He didn't pull

2533
02:15:36.319 --> 02:15:38.560
his job alone, Joe? How did you arrive at that time?

2534
02:15:38.600 --> 02:15:40.439
Who were those guys who captured you? Said?

2535
02:15:40.479 --> 02:15:41.720
They were private detectives.

2536
02:15:41.840 --> 02:15:44.279
One of them was a swell shut He placed every

2537
02:15:44.359 --> 02:15:46.560
slug in the same spot above the door.

2538
02:15:46.680 --> 02:15:47.199
Deliberately.

2539
02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:49.640
They were in this with you a gig, the cup,

2540
02:15:49.680 --> 02:15:51.800
the reward that was sure to be offered otherwise they

2541
02:15:51.800 --> 02:15:53.279
had popped you in the doorway, you would to get

2542
02:15:53.279 --> 02:15:55.079
away in the all meat later and shared the proceeds.

2543
02:15:55.399 --> 02:15:57.399
But in the meantime they changed their minds, Joe, and

2544
02:15:57.479 --> 02:16:00.279
decided to cut you out. They double crossed. You mean,

2545
02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:01.840
how do you suppose I knew where.

2546
02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:02.199
You were hiding?

2547
02:16:02.840 --> 02:16:04.840
A guy phoned me and tipped me off. They figured

2548
02:16:05.399 --> 02:16:07.359
they had no police record, nothing you could say, we'll

2549
02:16:07.359 --> 02:16:07.920
implicate him.

2550
02:16:08.279 --> 02:16:08.840
They're safe.

2551
02:16:09.720 --> 02:16:11.279
Why attempt the shield a deuble cross it?

2552
02:16:11.479 --> 02:16:14.000
That's just what I figured those rats are do. Might

2553
02:16:14.039 --> 02:16:16.760
as well spile it, Joe, and determined to crack this case. Yeah,

2554
02:16:18.039 --> 02:16:20.199
what would happen if you cracked this one and another one?

2555
02:16:20.279 --> 02:16:22.920
Besides set you up as a lieutenant again?

2556
02:16:23.600 --> 02:16:23.800
Yeah?

2557
02:16:24.399 --> 02:16:26.640
Okay, I was forced to open that safe at the

2558
02:16:26.680 --> 02:16:27.279
point of a gun.

2559
02:16:27.520 --> 02:16:27.720
Ha ha.

2560
02:16:28.560 --> 02:16:30.000
Tell me another one, Joe, If you want to grab

2561
02:16:30.039 --> 02:16:31.359
the other two guys, I'll make a deal with you,

2562
02:16:31.479 --> 02:16:31.840
a deal.

2563
02:16:32.040 --> 02:16:34.079
Let me talk to your fingerprint experts and get me

2564
02:16:34.120 --> 02:16:34.719
out of this selle.

2565
02:16:34.760 --> 02:16:35.360
Are you kidding?

2566
02:16:35.399 --> 02:16:37.040
I want you to take me to Old Man Kenton's.

2567
02:16:37.639 --> 02:16:39.280
Is a Christmas Eve party going on there tonight.

2568
02:16:39.399 --> 02:16:41.440
I wouldn't trust you across the hall. It means just

2569
02:16:41.520 --> 02:16:42.680
as much to you as it does of me, and

2570
02:16:42.760 --> 02:16:47.399
probably more. I'll guarantee results. Okay, what you're playing, I'll

2571
02:16:47.399 --> 02:16:48.760
tell you on the way off to the Kenton place.

2572
02:16:49.000 --> 02:16:51.360
All right, A sergeant, let us out of here.

2573
02:16:59.040 --> 02:17:01.120
Come with me, gentlemen, toob is waiting for you in

2574
02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:01.719
the library.

2575
02:17:02.079 --> 02:17:04.239
Looks like you're going to have quite a party here tonight,

2576
02:17:04.280 --> 02:17:04.799
Miss Kenny.

2577
02:17:05.040 --> 02:17:08.239
Sure here are the two detective father Oh.

2578
02:17:08.239 --> 02:17:11.120
Yes, yes, come in, gentlemen, Come in close the door bella.

2579
02:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.040
I sent for you men because you did a good

2580
02:17:14.159 --> 02:17:16.559
job of capturing Joe Blake and returning the jewels.

2581
02:17:16.680 --> 02:17:18.520
Eh. I'm having quite a number.

2582
02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:21.559
Of guests here tonight, and I've just received some disturbing news.

2583
02:17:22.079 --> 02:17:23.360
Joe Blake is escaped.

2584
02:17:23.520 --> 02:17:23.840
Escape.

2585
02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:27.319
He may make another try to steal the jewels while

2586
02:17:27.360 --> 02:17:28.840
we are occupied with our guests.

2587
02:17:29.440 --> 02:17:32.440
I see you want us to see that nothing happened.

2588
02:17:32.520 --> 02:17:34.799
I want you fellas to stay here near the safe

2589
02:17:34.840 --> 02:17:36.559
and if he does come grab it.

2590
02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:39.479
Sure, sure you won't have a thing to worry about. Good,

2591
02:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.639
come along, della, I guess the beginning to die. All right, everybody,

2592
02:17:43.680 --> 02:17:44.239
don't make a move.

2593
02:17:45.079 --> 02:17:48.120
Lay your guns on the desk, boys, thanks, get on

2594
02:17:48.200 --> 02:17:50.440
the other side of the room, Della YouTube kitting things

2595
02:17:50.520 --> 02:17:53.079
might happen. What's on your mind, Joel, pret your hands

2596
02:17:53.120 --> 02:17:55.559
flat on that desktop, Mike YouTube Freddy and keep them there.

2597
02:17:56.040 --> 02:17:57.479
Make one moving out. Pready your bolt.

2598
02:17:57.520 --> 02:18:01.079
Your dirty double crossing rats forced me to open the

2599
02:18:01.120 --> 02:18:02.719
safe at the point of a gun and tipped off

2600
02:18:02.760 --> 02:18:04.440
the cops sort of find me because.

2601
02:18:04.239 --> 02:18:06.000
You were afraid I might horn in on the reward.

2602
02:18:06.159 --> 02:18:06.799
This guy must be.

2603
02:18:06.879 --> 02:18:07.600
That's mister Kenton.

2604
02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:10.680
One of your phone Steve Bradley. Come on, I didn't Joe.

2605
02:18:10.719 --> 02:18:12.719
I thought you was gonna contact little Dog.

2606
02:18:12.760 --> 02:18:14.559
But he's mad. Mike, I wanted to think I tipped

2607
02:18:14.559 --> 02:18:17.120
the comp shut You did it, Freddy, You're the one honest, Joe.

2608
02:18:17.200 --> 02:18:17.520
I didn't.

2609
02:18:17.559 --> 02:18:18.600
I didn't please Joe.

2610
02:18:20.040 --> 02:18:23.000
I'm really taking those jewels this time, but I won't

2611
02:18:23.040 --> 02:18:24.680
be bothered by Mike and Fredick.

2612
02:18:24.879 --> 02:18:25.559
Joe, I didn't do it.

2613
02:18:25.879 --> 02:18:29.360
I'm gonna place on right between your eyes, Freddy, right

2614
02:18:29.600 --> 02:18:30.719
between your eyes.

2615
02:18:32.600 --> 02:18:37.079
Anybody moves, I'll open the door. Hell on, mister Kenton.

2616
02:18:37.159 --> 02:18:39.479
Hello Bradley, which trays Joe Blake at the edge of

2617
02:18:39.520 --> 02:18:39.959
your estate.

2618
02:18:40.000 --> 02:18:40.959
I thought would look in.

2619
02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:43.520
Just in time. Steve, put up your hands and step

2620
02:18:43.559 --> 02:18:44.000
into the room.

2621
02:18:44.280 --> 02:18:45.280
What goes on here?

2622
02:18:45.479 --> 02:18:47.159
The cops are gonna be in on the scene of

2623
02:18:47.200 --> 02:18:49.559
the crime instead of coming in after the crime's over.

2624
02:18:50.639 --> 02:18:53.280
I'm gonna take some jewels and do a little exterminating.

2625
02:18:54.200 --> 02:18:55.200
But first I'm gonna make.

2626
02:18:55.159 --> 02:18:57.559
These guys do a little talking. I want to know

2627
02:18:57.600 --> 02:18:57.959
which one.

2628
02:18:57.920 --> 02:19:02.920
Of you guys tipped off Steve above me, say something, Mike,

2629
02:19:03.040 --> 02:19:04.760
this guy's crazy, says.

2630
02:19:04.559 --> 02:19:06.239
We made him steal his stuff. At the voice you

2631
02:19:06.280 --> 02:19:08.200
heard on the phone, Steve, No, all of you got

2632
02:19:08.239 --> 02:19:10.200
to say, Freddy, it wasn't me. I tell you it wasn't.

2633
02:19:10.239 --> 02:19:12.319
It must be him. Yeah, certainly sounds like it.

2634
02:19:12.479 --> 02:19:16.000
I thought so right between the eyes, Freddy, I please,

2635
02:19:16.079 --> 02:19:17.600
Joe doones he won't soot.

2636
02:19:17.399 --> 02:19:19.280
Hand over that gun. Joe give it him me show

2637
02:19:20.920 --> 02:19:21.159
he did.

2638
02:19:21.719 --> 02:19:24.159
I told you a minutes you're crazy, Joe. You're crazy.

2639
02:19:24.200 --> 02:19:25.760
I killed a cop, so why should I worry about

2640
02:19:25.799 --> 02:19:27.799
killing a couple of rats like you? Start talking, Mike,

2641
02:19:28.719 --> 02:19:30.239
tell him you guys forced me to open that sceat.

2642
02:19:30.319 --> 02:19:31.079
You can't bluff me.

2643
02:19:31.280 --> 02:19:32.479
There's no proof of such a thing.

2644
02:19:32.639 --> 02:19:35.840
No, all right, sergeant, check my fingerprints on the glass top.

2645
02:19:35.760 --> 02:19:36.600
Disc step on it.

2646
02:19:36.760 --> 02:19:38.639
Yeah, sure, lit again? Look at the second drawer of

2647
02:19:38.680 --> 02:19:41.520
the safe. You'll find my cigarette case wrapped in a handkerchief.

2648
02:19:41.600 --> 02:19:45.319
What bye, George, He's right. I put it there the

2649
02:19:45.440 --> 02:19:46.239
night I opened the safe.

2650
02:19:46.920 --> 02:19:48.639
Let the sergeant compare the prince of the ones on

2651
02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:51.319
the desktop. I have miner that safe since the night

2652
02:19:51.360 --> 02:19:52.319
the stones disappeared.

2653
02:19:52.360 --> 02:19:53.399
What are you trying to pull, Joe?

2654
02:19:53.559 --> 02:19:56.360
You have no police record, Mike. I didn't want you

2655
02:19:56.440 --> 02:19:58.200
to go through life like that, so I fixed one

2656
02:19:58.280 --> 02:20:00.680
up for you. Remember the night you forced me into this,

2657
02:20:01.280 --> 02:20:04.600
offered your cigarette. Well you got a record now, Mike,

2658
02:20:06.000 --> 02:20:07.760
Mikes princes on the desk, check with the ones of

2659
02:20:07.799 --> 02:20:10.239
the cigarette case. How about that photo prince you found

2660
02:20:10.280 --> 02:20:12.360
on that safe I was supposed to open several years ago.

2661
02:20:12.600 --> 02:20:16.440
He brought him along. Shame Why they're all the same?

2662
02:20:16.600 --> 02:20:17.319
They all check.

2663
02:20:17.479 --> 02:20:19.879
Now you guys start talking, go on, tell it all.

2664
02:20:19.920 --> 02:20:20.600
I'll tell nothing.

2665
02:20:20.680 --> 02:20:21.760
I don't know what you're talking about.

2666
02:20:21.799 --> 02:20:25.319
Right between the eyes, fready, right between the eyes.

2667
02:20:25.879 --> 02:20:26.559
Tell him he means it.

2668
02:20:26.639 --> 02:20:29.719
I'll tell him nothing, Joe.

2669
02:20:30.079 --> 02:20:34.920
Well that finishes, Freddy. Are you ready to talk? Mike? Yeah, yeah,

2670
02:20:35.000 --> 02:20:36.639
I'll talk, Joe, I'll talk.

2671
02:20:36.680 --> 02:20:39.799
You robbed that department store. You planted my cigarette case there.

2672
02:20:40.000 --> 02:20:42.079
You copped it at the lunch room, didn't Joe. Yeah, yeah,

2673
02:20:42.159 --> 02:20:43.760
that's right. I had nothing to do with that job.

2674
02:20:44.319 --> 02:20:46.239
And you did force me to open this safe, didn't, Joe.

2675
02:20:46.719 --> 02:20:47.920
My cigarette case proves that.

2676
02:20:48.719 --> 02:20:51.719
Yeah, that's right. All a minute, you're innocent. Joke. All right,

2677
02:20:53.079 --> 02:20:55.399
Hey are Steve? You can get up now?

2678
02:20:55.639 --> 02:20:55.879
Yeah?

2679
02:20:56.440 --> 02:21:01.040
Very nicely handled, Joe. Hey, I thought you was. I've

2680
02:21:01.040 --> 02:21:03.040
been pray. Pour some water on Freddie.

2681
02:21:03.159 --> 02:21:09.079
Joe is using blanks, Hey, Joe, don't, Joe.

2682
02:21:09.120 --> 02:21:11.559
I'll tell everything everything, nothing more to tell Freddie.

2683
02:21:11.600 --> 02:21:12.399
It's all been told.

2684
02:21:13.000 --> 02:21:16.520
Well, it certainly leaves you in the clear, Joe and Joe.

2685
02:21:17.760 --> 02:21:23.520
I wouldn't apologize for every Okay, Senna, apologies accepted.

2686
02:21:24.000 --> 02:21:27.639
Merry Christmas, Joe. Same to you, Steve, and tell Timmy

2687
02:21:27.719 --> 02:21:30.120
that Della and I'll be down the same in the morning.

2688
02:21:33.799 --> 02:21:35.680
Well there you are.

2689
02:21:36.639 --> 02:21:40.559
Everything worked out very nicely, just as everything should but

2690
02:21:40.760 --> 02:21:47.159
seldom does. But there's something I should explain about the

2691
02:21:47.239 --> 02:21:50.360
person who tipped Steve off as to where to find Joe.

2692
02:21:51.040 --> 02:21:55.360
It wasn't Mike, and it wasn't Freddy. No, it was

2693
02:21:55.520 --> 02:21:59.520
Joe himself. It was Joe who phoned Steve, knowing it

2694
02:21:59.520 --> 02:22:02.440
would give Steve and Impetus a new start in his

2695
02:22:02.680 --> 02:22:03.959
career of sleuthing.

2696
02:22:05.159 --> 02:22:06.760
And it really worked.

2697
02:22:07.719 --> 02:22:10.840
It saved Timmy's life and Joe's too.

2698
02:22:11.559 --> 02:22:11.799
For that.

2699
02:22:11.959 --> 02:22:40.159
Satter CBS has presented The Whistler.

2700
02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:51.520
Original music for this production was composed and conducted by

2701
02:22:51.639 --> 02:22:55.200
Wilbur Hatch. The Whistler has written and directed by Jay

2702
02:22:55.319 --> 02:22:59.879
Donald Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood.

2703
02:23:01.200 --> 02:23:03.319
Next week at nine thirty, I.

2704
02:23:03.719 --> 02:23:07.920
The Whistler will return to tell you another unusual tale.

2705
02:23:09.000 --> 02:23:09.479
Good world.

2706
02:23:10.559 --> 02:23:12.719
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2707
02:23:25.319 --> 02:23:32.040
Well, my dear, I suppose another night has extinguished itself

2708
02:23:32.840 --> 02:23:37.319
as the sun decides it wants the skies back, and

2709
02:23:37.520 --> 02:23:42.559
it'll take them by force. I do so enjoy our visits,

2710
02:23:43.040 --> 02:23:46.680
and I do hope you'll come back very very soon.

2711
02:23:47.639 --> 02:23:54.879
I'll be right here, same time, same place, waiting for

2712
02:23:55.040 --> 02:23:59.760
your company. But if I could ask just one more

2713
02:24:00.280 --> 02:24:03.879
favor of you, as you make your way home, as

2714
02:24:03.959 --> 02:24:07.719
you enter your well appointed living room and make your

2715
02:24:07.799 --> 02:24:12.079
way through the stairs to your comfy bed, and you

2716
02:24:12.200 --> 02:24:15.319
blink away the day to head to the land of

2717
02:24:15.479 --> 02:24:20.840
na just take one moment for me and be thankful

2718
02:24:21.399 --> 02:24:25.920
for what you have, and I'll be seeing you soon.