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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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It is sponsored in part by the Kellogg Company, makers
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of Kellogg's special k Cereal. I'll be back shortly with
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that one now and the jail of the ball.
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Change Kalog's special case.
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That's ago in Pittsburgh.
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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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I'm pointing you back to your chair.
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actually and one hundred percent list Just after a while,
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she was a wit.
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At the Bolden Chain and back at.
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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?
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Oh? She so badly needed some kind of an attachment
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with a boy, I mean, and I think she almost
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found it, But then that Susan Lithrop got in the
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way and kept it from happening. How do you mean, Oh,
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I don't like talking gossip. I did it, Rogers liked
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very much, did Jimmy trumble? But that Susan who blows
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hot one day and called the next makes up her
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mind that Jimmy is her pretty and she says to
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let Rogers go, she should stay off her property.
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Anything else, Janine, you know that is a thank you.
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You've been very helpful. Come on in.
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Oh, hello, Jimmy, Hello, Detective troop Shop Professor Wilkison says,
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you want to see me.
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I have just a few questions that may or may
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not help clear up some of your problems.
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My problems, No, not yours personally, but the outfits. But
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where's the problem?
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Well, let those hands belong to Edith Rogers. That means
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she's dead, and that I'd call a problem.
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This whole thing's crazy.
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It's some kind of gag. I mean, it's not possible
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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 she51200:28:25.720 --> 00:28:27.160
was doing here? Oh? Sure?51300:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.480
But she was lonely and she would have done anything51400:28:30.480 --> 00:28:35.160
to be anywhere. Oh say, I almost forgot Something funny51500:28:35.160 --> 00:28:37.279
happened this morning, and I meant to tell you about it,51600:28:37.319 --> 00:28:39.200
but with all the rumors in gossip, well, it just51700:28:39.240 --> 00:28:39.960
slipped my mind.51800:28:40.160 --> 00:28:40.759
What was it?51900:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.039
On my way to the grid we're working on, I52000:28:43.119 --> 00:28:46.519
ran into this Indian, a really strange guy. He was52100:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.000
dressed in some weird Mexican costume and had long, drooping mustaches,52200:28:51.319 --> 00:28:53.599
and he asked me, in this queer accent, if I52300:28:53.680 --> 00:28:55.880
knew where Minnie Haha was buried?52400:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.960
Minnie Haha? Was he kidding?52500:28:58.480 --> 00:28:59.079
Who knows?52600:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.160
Told him? I didn't know. He became very sad.52700:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.839
He said his name was topex Pan and that his52800:29:05.960 --> 00:29:09.079
wife had died ten thousand years ago to tax Pan.52900:29:09.240 --> 00:29:13.359
No less, the name's sort of familiar. Oh, come on.53000:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.359
Jimmy, even I know that for years that the Taxpan53100:29:16.440 --> 00:29:19.200
man was considered the earliest specimen of man found in53200:29:19.200 --> 00:29:20.119
the United States.53300:29:20.440 --> 00:29:24.839
Of course, what else did he say? Well, let's see, Oh.53400:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.440
I wrote it down here here it is. He said,53500:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.880
she who seeks shall find the answers in her mind53600:29:30.960 --> 00:29:32.759
if she can find the man that is.53700:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.240
Called topex Pan. You're putting the U not honestly.53800:29:36.759 --> 00:29:38.880
And Denny said that she would find the star of53900:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.799
to Pexpan in the south of Tuxpan.54000:29:41.720 --> 00:29:46.079
Can I have that paper, Jimmy? Of course, thanks to54100:29:46.279 --> 00:29:48.119
Texpan my foot.54200:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.559
Wiley must be a genius to be able to drive54300:29:57.640 --> 00:29:58.599
this kidney buster.54400:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.920
I could just managed to keep the wheels straight. Now54500:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.160
where am i Tuxpan?54600:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.920
Tuxpan ah here is Tuxpan Avenue.54700:30:09.039 --> 00:30:10.920
Now turn south.54800:30:12.240 --> 00:30:16.559
I'm not supposed to find the building star Tuxpan ah54900:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.200
lo and behold a building with the star over the door.55000:30:32.440 --> 00:30:35.680
Hit her in feace, Oh, Asia, squall.55100:30:35.599 --> 00:30:40.839
I'll fix that One's teepeek. I was told, who've been55200:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.759
to the ancient burial ground?55300:30:42.880 --> 00:30:46.559
You have this whold wealth. I go to see my wife.55400:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.279
Is she one of the workers at the day? Oh? No,55500:30:49.440 --> 00:30:54.440
she toils? No more, your people toil for her. Hit55600:30:54.480 --> 00:30:57.279
me with that one again. She has been dead for55700:30:57.480 --> 00:31:01.799
over ten thousand years. I thought it was two thousand55800:31:01.799 --> 00:31:04.400
and five hundred. Ever, once a few years in a55900:31:04.519 --> 00:31:06.319
romance lasted that long. Right?56000:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.400
Her spirit gives me many answers to my prayers.56100:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.319
Do the answers to mine happen to be among them?56200:31:13.960 --> 00:31:17.079
Well, if you over a pouch, I will play some56300:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.400
magic message within gracious but the will of the gods56400:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.000
and I obey.56500:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.359
Incidentally, signor texts pan the next time you speak to56600:31:28.359 --> 00:31:29.440
the spirits of the gods.56700:31:29.480 --> 00:31:31.559
Find out the name in Indian for.56800:31:31.599 --> 00:31:36.759
Fruitcake as acious war chmez and take that silly tooth56900:31:36.799 --> 00:31:37.880
picked out of your face?57000:31:46.400 --> 00:31:53.160
Who's there, Chilie Holmes? Who are if you detective?57100:31:53.519 --> 00:31:57.359
I was just being cuteeness later, Shirley Sherlock Holmes, get it?57200:31:57.799 --> 00:32:00.680
What's there to get cute about? I see you're parking.57300:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.640
I'm leaving. I'm sorry, miss Lathwap, but you're not going anywhere.57400:32:05.680 --> 00:32:06.119
Why not?57500:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.839
Because everyone stays pucked until I get the answers to57600:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.599
a thing or two, such as if the body we57700:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.960
found yesterday was Edith Rogers, I told you.57800:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.039
It has to be Edith.57900:32:17.440 --> 00:32:18.400
They are her.58000:32:18.359 --> 00:32:21.119
Hands attached to a prehistoric skeleton.58100:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.200
I don't care what the radiocarbon dating says. I was58200:32:24.279 --> 00:32:26.319
with her when she bought that wedding band.58300:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.160
She didn't say anything about when she planned to get married. No,58400:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.240
and you didn't that.58500:32:32.440 --> 00:32:35.720
I thought she was clowning. So she impressed you as58600:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.079
the sort of person who would clown about getting married.58700:32:38.440 --> 00:32:41.160
I guess she was no fashioned enough to be serious58800:32:41.200 --> 00:32:43.440
about it. But most of the girls here aren't into58900:32:43.480 --> 00:32:44.960
things like getting married.59000:32:45.319 --> 00:32:46.799
We didn't have such hang ups.59100:32:47.319 --> 00:32:51.519
And Edith Rodgers was a square, very square. You must59200:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.799
have founded aboard.59300:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.839
A room with her. Frankly, she was a bit of59400:32:54.880 --> 00:32:57.839
a drag. How did Janine get along with her? They59500:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.839
hardly spoke to each other because of Wilkerson. How did59600:33:01.880 --> 00:33:05.240
you know? Do you think either of them got anywhere59700:33:05.240 --> 00:33:05.720
with him?59800:33:05.960 --> 00:33:09.720
Jannine is making points, not that she's so hot, but59900:33:09.799 --> 00:33:13.440
her father's an important politician in France and Wilkerson is60000:33:13.480 --> 00:33:15.039
impressed by that sort of thing.60100:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.200
Ambitious, eh, even at his age. Oh, come on, miss Lathrop,60200:33:19.480 --> 00:33:21.519
he's not that old, old enough to have a son60300:33:21.559 --> 00:33:22.400
who's in college.60400:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.160
As a matter of fact, it was good old Edith60500:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.480
Rogers who told me that.60600:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.799
Did she tell you anything else? Nothing important? Have you60700:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.240
ever seen anything like that body before? Never? Think hard?60800:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.000
Maybe an experiment done on an animal in a lab60900:33:38.440 --> 00:33:39.640
or in the dating shed.61000:33:39.880 --> 00:33:42.680
No, besides, I'm not allowed in shed.61100:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.400
Why not? I don't get to work on dating until61200:33:45.440 --> 00:33:45.960
next term.61300:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.680
Oh, I guess I'll have to take my own advanced61400:33:48.720 --> 00:33:56.960
course with Professor Wilkerson. I was waiting for the second61500:33:57.039 --> 00:33:58.200
moccasin to drop.61600:33:58.759 --> 00:33:59.160
Let's go.61700:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.920
It is written in a book of proverbs, and wisely61800:34:11.079 --> 00:34:14.760
I believe let who's so dig a pit?61900:34:15.639 --> 00:34:17.000
Shell fall therein?62000:34:18.519 --> 00:34:22.880
Our problem is that all our characters are diggers in pits.62100:34:23.400 --> 00:34:24.480
Even our ardent.62200:34:24.320 --> 00:34:28.719
Detective Chlodia troub Shaw has been digging through level after level,62300:34:29.679 --> 00:34:37.800
but getting seemingly nowhere. I'll be back shortly with act Free.62400:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.280
There's nothing wrong with drinking Budweiser sip by sip, is there?62500:34:42.840 --> 00:34:43.079
Well?62600:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.320
The Brewers of Budweiser.62700:34:44.360 --> 00:34:45.480
Think there's a better way.62800:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.559
Sipping's fine if you're drinking wine, but Bud is the62900:34:49.679 --> 00:34:50.920
king of beers.63000:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.800
A hearty drink.63100:34:52.199 --> 00:34:55.599
Look, rinse a ten or twelve ounce glass with cold water.63200:34:55.840 --> 00:34:58.000
Then open a can or a bottle of Bud and63300:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.760
pour it right down the middle, up a good head63400:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.599
of fault. Now take a big drink and then swallow63500:35:04.639 --> 00:35:06.280
big no SIPs.63600:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.719
That's how it should be done.63700:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.639
More taste, more beer drinking enjoyment.63800:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.960
Thanks to exclusive beechwood aging, Budweiser has a smoothness that63900:35:16.079 --> 00:35:18.079
lets it go down especially easy.64000:35:18.800 --> 00:35:20.199
Sure it's an expensive way to.64100:35:20.239 --> 00:35:23.639
Brew beer, but brewing beer right does make a difference.64200:35:24.039 --> 00:35:25.320
That's why when.64300:35:25.119 --> 00:35:33.039
You say Budweiser, you've said it all. Anheuser, Bush Saint Louis.64400:35:34.880 --> 00:35:38.599
There's no satisfaction quite like the satisfaction of getting a bargain.64500:35:39.000 --> 00:35:41.840
It brings us smile to your face, partly because you've64600:35:41.840 --> 00:35:45.599
saved money, mainly because you've beat the system by paying64700:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.719
less when everything seems to be costing more. Hi, I'm64800:35:49.719 --> 00:35:53.800
Frank Lieber right now. True value hardware stores have fourteen64900:35:53.840 --> 00:35:57.519
of those smiles of satisfaction in stock. They're kitchen helpers65000:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.199
from Echo and from Fully. You can get two for65100:36:00.320 --> 00:36:03.320
just eighty eight cents. Choose a canon bottle opener, a65200:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.480
fruit and vegetable slicer, or a serving fort or get65300:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.639
an eylon baster. It's two of us graduated for measurement,65400:36:09.960 --> 00:36:11.960
and there's a two and a half inch strainer for65500:36:12.000 --> 00:36:16.360
making egg coffee, for straining loose tea, or for separating orange.65600:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.800
Juice from its pulp and seeds.65700:36:18.159 --> 00:36:20.719
You can get two of these kitchen tools or just65800:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.280
eighty eight cents. That should make you smile with satisfaction.65900:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.079
You'll grin from ear to ear when you see the66000:36:27.119 --> 00:36:29.760
rest of the two for eighty eight cent bargains at66100:36:29.760 --> 00:36:45.440
the True Value hardware store near your home. Do you66200:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.239
realize that the gun shot we heard at the end66300:36:48.280 --> 00:36:51.840
of the second act is the first time anyone has66400:36:51.960 --> 00:36:57.320
used a conventional weapon in our story. Well, gunshots may66500:36:57.360 --> 00:37:00.880
not only be used to signify someone's end. They may66600:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.400
also be fired to start something.66700:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.960
Isn't that typical of a woman? She calls for help66800:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.599
but doesn't bother to tell where she needs to live.66900:37:09.679 --> 00:37:12.440
She counted far away, maybe from a northern great section.67000:37:12.519 --> 00:37:14.960
Do you mean with a body who's fun? What could67100:37:14.960 --> 00:37:18.599
anyone be doing out there? Looking for clues or maybe hiding?67200:37:18.679 --> 00:37:18.880
Well?67300:37:18.960 --> 00:37:25.840
Why didn't I thinks there's a man? You mean is hey, professor?67400:37:26.360 --> 00:37:27.280
Detective over here?67500:37:27.480 --> 00:37:27.719
There?67600:37:28.000 --> 00:37:29.920
Can't you turned unsafe? Professor?67700:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.079
Hold it a minute, let me catch my breath.67800:37:32.559 --> 00:37:33.880
Did you hear Janine call her?67900:37:33.920 --> 00:37:34.000
No?68000:37:34.199 --> 00:37:35.920
I was covering grit. That's forty two.68100:37:35.960 --> 00:37:37.239
We were working late there.68200:37:37.800 --> 00:37:39.920
I was sure I was you Meanian pretty much? Unless68300:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.199
someone's imitating her accent. We don't know from where she called.68400:37:43.280 --> 00:37:44.719
I think it came from that North Gride.68500:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.119
First we heard what may have been a gunshot, and68600:37:47.159 --> 00:37:49.119
then we heard love be Alganine calling for help.68700:37:49.599 --> 00:37:51.960
Hey, has everyone run your gun banana?68800:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.480
They say they are a gun shot detective troops? Sure, say,68900:37:54.559 --> 00:37:57.559
Janine cried for help? And where were you, mister trembull69000:37:58.039 --> 00:37:59.840
in the barracks doing some research?69100:38:00.039 --> 00:38:00.400
Anyway?69200:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.119
I need to take the things that Gania is locked69300:38:02.119 --> 00:38:02.760
in somewhere?69400:38:03.280 --> 00:38:06.320
How about the lampshirit a thinker in the tank? Come on,69500:38:08.119 --> 00:38:09.119
who has the key to the shop.69600:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.039
You'll have to wait out here? What for I'll have69700:38:12.079 --> 00:38:14.920
to go in first to check on possible radioactivity inside?69800:38:15.199 --> 00:38:19.440
Just one second, Professor, Janine Janine, Are you in there?69900:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.559
Yes?70000:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.400
I am he is it safe.70100:38:23.239 --> 00:38:24.000
For us to come in?70200:38:27.599 --> 00:38:28.239
Got my key here?70300:38:28.280 --> 00:38:37.719
On? Professor? That girl faints easier than I can.70400:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.440
Think, Janine Janini, all right.70500:38:40.400 --> 00:38:43.440
Don't ask her, she'll say no, get her back inside.70600:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.159
Now for the rest of you, please stay out here.70700:38:46.599 --> 00:38:47.440
Don't go anywhere.70800:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.760
Anyone still planning to leave Susan She.70900:38:51.679 --> 00:38:52.360
Wouldn't let me.71000:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.199
Besides, what difference would it make to you if I did?71100:38:57.159 --> 00:38:58.280
I'm just being friendly.71200:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.079
Isn't it a little too late? What do you mean?71300:39:02.559 --> 00:39:05.800
Well, now that Edith Rogers is dead, do you think71400:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.239
I'd be waiting around to catch you.71500:39:08.119 --> 00:39:11.519
On the rebound? Look? I was just being kind to her.71600:39:11.760 --> 00:39:16.400
Kind isn't there a phrase about someone being killed with kindness?71700:39:16.559 --> 00:39:18.760
What are you getting at now? Listen, James Trumble.71800:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.920
Because Edith Rogers was a fool doesn't mean all girls are.71900:39:23.599 --> 00:39:24.880
No one ever said you were.72000:39:25.400 --> 00:39:27.519
Look, the only reason.72100:39:27.199 --> 00:39:29.199
I took her out a couple of times was because72200:39:29.239 --> 00:39:30.519
the professor asked me to.72300:39:30.760 --> 00:39:32.679
Aren't you the obedient student?72400:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.280
What professors say, Jimmy do?72500:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.400
I don't know how else I can convince.72600:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.119
You you can't?72700:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.400
And if I were you, I wouldn't try. Look, you72800:39:43.440 --> 00:39:46.400
can count on my being fair and keeping quiet. I'm72900:39:46.400 --> 00:39:49.360
not out for revenge, but I'm also not about to73000:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.719
stick my neck out for anyone, including you.73100:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.320
I still don't know what you're getting at.73200:39:53.679 --> 00:40:01.440
I'm getting at who killed Edith Rogers.73300:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.719
I don't know why it is, Professor, but I've never73400:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.840
seen a woman in a faint whose legs didn't look lousy.73500:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.960
Oh what happened?73600:40:11.280 --> 00:40:11.480
That?73700:40:11.639 --> 00:40:13.320
Did it? It always does?73800:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.719
Janin Sanin.73900:40:16.199 --> 00:40:19.159
I don't want to interrupt, but like a good archaeologist,74000:40:19.159 --> 00:40:21.679
would someone please get to the bones of the matter.74100:40:22.320 --> 00:40:26.559
Him speaking as fast as I knew, I heard a74200:40:26.599 --> 00:40:27.519
noise at the window.74300:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.960
What kind of noise? The window was opening?74400:40:30.239 --> 00:40:30.920
Wasn't it locked?74500:40:31.119 --> 00:40:32.000
It's always locked?74600:40:32.599 --> 00:40:35.079
Well, I went to see what could be happening, and74700:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.119
already there was this man climbing inside.74800:40:38.679 --> 00:40:39.320
What was it like?74900:40:39.679 --> 00:40:42.960
He was an old Indian man with long mustaches. I75000:40:43.039 --> 00:40:44.239
told him to get out, that he.75100:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.880
Was dangerous to be here, and then he would not75200:40:47.039 --> 00:40:49.920
say anything but stood there. So I ran back to75300:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.320
the locker room where I have my pistol, and when75400:40:52.320 --> 00:40:53.800
I returned, I found him.75500:40:53.679 --> 00:40:54.639
This person in room.75600:40:55.039 --> 00:40:57.039
He had another bag tied around his waist.75700:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.719
It was open. Did you see him put anything in it? No?75800:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.559
That I held up the pistol and told him I75900:41:02.599 --> 00:41:05.159
would shoot if he didn't put back whatever he took.76000:41:05.639 --> 00:41:07.760
So he put his hand in the bag and took76100:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.800
something out and threw it in my eyes.76200:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.800
Then I pressed the pistol. What did it throw? Little things?76300:41:15.119 --> 00:41:15.639
I don't know.76400:41:15.880 --> 00:41:18.719
Let's take a look, all right, I whit red rad76500:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.360
you're on the floor, thin slivers.76600:41:23.400 --> 00:41:26.320
Maybe would let's take a close No, no, don't touch that,76700:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.760
for Heaven's says, fly not there?76800:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.039
Maybe hots, I'll get the color.76900:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.480
Is anything missing? Miss Boulange, I have not looked? Well,77000:41:34.519 --> 00:41:38.599
do that little thing, and Miss Boulange, the next time77100:41:38.639 --> 00:41:40.400
you find that you're stuck in here.77200:41:41.079 --> 00:41:43.679
Just open the lock and walk out.77300:41:44.280 --> 00:41:55.800
Oh okay, folks, time has come to stop playing games.77400:41:56.320 --> 00:41:59.400
What kind of games? The game where one hand washes77500:41:59.440 --> 00:41:59.760
the other?77600:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.000
Now, since you've got seniority, professor, we'll start with you.77700:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.159
What kind of a game could I possibly be played?77800:42:08.679 --> 00:42:08.840
Well?77900:42:08.880 --> 00:42:11.840
As a professor, you're a great show. As a poker player,78000:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.719
you're a stupor. Oh really, you don't know how to bluff.78100:42:15.440 --> 00:42:18.079
Remember how you insisted that spear point Wiley took from78200:42:18.119 --> 00:42:21.000
the shed had to be radioactive while you were lying?78300:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.760
How dare you when it comes to the truth, professor,78400:42:25.079 --> 00:42:29.360
I'm very daring that spear point was in perfect condition.78500:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.719
If it had been dated, a piece of it would78600:42:32.760 --> 00:42:33.639
have had to be missing.78700:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.800
How could you know that?78800:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.400
What do you think they teach us at the Police78900:42:38.400 --> 00:42:44.960
Academy Home Economics now, putting it simply, the less carbon79000:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.599
fourteen in an object, the older, it is right that.79100:42:47.760 --> 00:42:50.159
It's correct, and the older the more valuable.79200:42:50.320 --> 00:42:52.880
Sure, that's what we're here for, to find evidence leading79300:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.760
back to the first human being in America.79400:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.199
And when you can find it, well, then you can79500:42:58.280 --> 00:43:01.159
fake it, can't you? What do you mean to take them?79600:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.679
There's no dating equipment in that shed. You are preposterous.79700:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.400
Wait till you hear how preposterous I really am.79800:43:10.159 --> 00:43:13.440
Only two people have been allowed in that shed, you79900:43:13.800 --> 00:43:14.719
and miss Boulange.80000:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.519
Yes, those are the rules.80100:43:17.159 --> 00:43:21.519
Well, a certain friend of mine broke those rules. Senior80200:43:21.880 --> 00:43:30.239
to pexpen if you please, now, if you'll just get80300:43:30.320 --> 00:43:33.039
rid of those tired handlebars from under your nose?80400:43:33.239 --> 00:43:36.320
Glad do they sure it? Why?80500:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.559
Why they're hearing the one who asked me questions about it, right.80600:43:40.960 --> 00:43:43.480
And he got into that shed not to take things,80700:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.000
but to return them, didn't you, Wiley?80800:43:46.159 --> 00:43:49.239
I sure did, But what did you take?80900:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.800
There had to be put back? An old sphere point81000:43:51.840 --> 00:43:53.320
and a nozzle on that machine.81100:43:53.719 --> 00:43:56.840
They had the bombarding head. And I took them both81200:43:56.880 --> 00:43:59.000
to Tucson. I have the experts there take a look81300:43:59.039 --> 00:44:01.920
at them, and they confirmed my best suspicions.81400:44:03.239 --> 00:44:07.280
Professor Wilkeson, you and miss Boulange were faking your specimens,81500:44:07.679 --> 00:44:08.800
making them older.81600:44:09.199 --> 00:44:11.239
That's one accusation I won't buy.81700:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.880
You can always return it for credit when I opened81800:44:14.000 --> 00:44:19.000
that department. Meanwhile, you were bombarding those specimens repeatedly, trying81900:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.400
to get them to date more than fifty thousand years?82000:44:22.199 --> 00:44:22.840
Professor?82100:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.039
Did you do that?82200:44:24.960 --> 00:44:28.079
I just can't believe it. Why not, Trumble? You invented82300:44:28.079 --> 00:44:31.960
the machine, but only by accident. It was a fluke, and.82400:44:31.840 --> 00:44:35.159
You told your esteem professor about that fluke, and he82500:44:35.199 --> 00:44:36.960
told you to keep it under wraps.82600:44:37.679 --> 00:44:39.199
Yes, I did keep it under wraps.82700:44:39.519 --> 00:44:41.639
I never wrote a paper. I did I know about82800:44:41.679 --> 00:44:42.360
it in too soon?82900:44:42.519 --> 00:44:44.960
Oh, I sent them a report, but only for their opinion.83000:44:46.239 --> 00:44:48.199
Humble, You're a damn fool.83100:44:48.280 --> 00:44:52.480
You know, Professor, you're just plain not nice. Here. We83200:44:52.679 --> 00:44:54.480
girls spend fortunes trying.83300:44:54.199 --> 00:44:59.159
To keep young while you try to make a fortune agingess.83400:44:58.519 --> 00:45:01.039
Which brings me to Edith Rogers.83500:45:02.199 --> 00:45:06.440
Of those present, only Wilkerson, Trumbull and Miss Boulange knew83600:45:06.480 --> 00:45:07.679
how to operate that machine?83700:45:08.079 --> 00:45:10.920
Would they want to be arrested at once? You'd like that,83800:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.960
Miss Lathroo, wouldn't you? It leaves your hands clean, so83900:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.679
to speak? Now listen to take him.84000:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.360
I had no reason getting her pregnant and being blackmailed84100:45:20.360 --> 00:45:20.960
to marry her?84200:45:21.079 --> 00:45:24.199
Isn't the reason come of Professor?84300:45:24.559 --> 00:45:25.239
He did?84400:45:25.719 --> 00:45:28.760
The professor surprised, don't you, Miss Lathrop?84500:45:29.119 --> 00:45:32.639
But why why would I want to hurt that Edith Rogers?84600:45:33.559 --> 00:45:36.400
You knew she had something on the professor, else she84700:45:36.440 --> 00:45:37.360
wouldn't have been here.84800:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.159
But when you heard about the wedding ring, you.84900:45:40.119 --> 00:45:42.760
Thought you just might lose not only your professor, but85000:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.000
more importantly, that machine.85100:45:45.679 --> 00:45:48.000
I'm sorry what's going on here? I'm all lot so.85200:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.360
Am I trouble when it comes to you. I can't85300:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.599
figure what you had to do with all this. He85400:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.039
may not be that innocent. He did try and make85500:45:56.119 --> 00:45:58.679
time with Edith. Rogers until she dumped him.85600:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.480
That's not true, Susan.85700:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.440
You are calling me a liar. I think you and85800:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.000
your two pells are all to blame for that girl's death.85900:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.280
You all deserve to be murdered, and this time, Miss Lathrop,86000:46:11.400 --> 00:46:15.920
you'd do it properly, wouldn't you. What are you talking about? Trumbull?86100:46:16.239 --> 00:46:18.559
Did you ever tell Susan here about the machine?86200:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.320
Well, yes, sort of, but not how to work it.86300:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.400
I hadn't finished it then, but she.86400:46:23.440 --> 00:46:25.800
Was smart enough to know how it could be used.86500:46:25.840 --> 00:46:30.039
And you're just guessing. True. But then came the monkey wrench.86600:46:30.719 --> 00:46:34.880
Trumbull began dating Edith Rogers. I didn't care, not until86700:46:34.960 --> 00:46:38.599
she bought that wedding band. Now why would that girl86800:46:38.639 --> 00:46:39.599
by her own ring?86900:46:40.199 --> 00:46:40.880
You know why?87000:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.280
Because no woman would go to a doctor for that87100:46:43.400 --> 00:46:46.519
kind of an examination without the necessary decoration on her finger.87200:46:46.880 --> 00:46:47.920
What's that to do with me?87300:46:48.360 --> 00:46:51.239
While Janine thought it was the professor, you thought it87400:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.280
was Jimmy Trumbull, who might be the father.87500:46:54.079 --> 00:46:56.119
First you threatened Edith Rogers.87600:46:56.840 --> 00:46:59.519
When Jimmy tried seeing her again, you took no chances87700:46:59.519 --> 00:47:03.000
of using that machine, and you just removed her from87800:47:03.000 --> 00:47:06.559
the scene. You're crazy, not crazy enough to use the87900:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.480
machine I knew nothing about, because that's what you did.88000:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.199
You know, your biggest mistake was in tying Edith Rogers88100:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.920
hands over her head before opening that machine full glass.88200:47:16.920 --> 00:47:20.079
Those hands were protected by the lead shield over her head.88300:47:20.360 --> 00:47:23.239
Of course, only the lead shield could have seen those88400:47:23.280 --> 00:47:24.719
hands kept them.88500:47:24.519 --> 00:47:25.559
From dating back.88600:47:25.800 --> 00:47:29.679
The result a two five hundred year old skeleton with88700:47:29.920 --> 00:47:31.320
Edith Rogers hands.88800:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.639
Okay, detective, who saw me? Where's your proof?88900:47:35.639 --> 00:47:40.360
Yours were the only fingerprints found on the bombarding head Wiley.89000:47:40.159 --> 00:47:41.000
Took to Tucson.89100:47:41.400 --> 00:47:45.320
Susan, you didn't work that machine without gloves, without protection.89200:47:45.840 --> 00:47:48.480
Why what's wrong with that? Oh?89300:47:48.519 --> 00:47:50.519
Good lord, you're deadn't it.89400:47:50.920 --> 00:47:51.679
What are you saying?89500:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.599
Oh no, your body's probably got more than six hundred89600:47:55.679 --> 00:47:57.920
radioactive units in it right now.89700:47:58.199 --> 00:48:00.199
You're trying to scare me.89800:48:00.920 --> 00:48:05.519
It's not true, Susan, four hundred units of fatal.89900:48:05.599 --> 00:48:10.159
Help me, someone to help me, right die?90000:48:11.360 --> 00:48:11.880
Help me?90100:48:28.280 --> 00:48:32.320
Obviously, Miss Susan Lath got a dose of the same90200:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.719
medicine as she gave Edith Rogers, except in our case90300:48:36.840 --> 00:48:42.400
its effects will be much slower and very much more painful.90400:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.800
Sad, very sad.90500:48:48.079 --> 00:48:53.000
But it will save the state a great deal of money.90600:48:53.719 --> 00:48:54.800
I'll be back shortly.90700:48:55.039 --> 00:48:57.239
Well, it's all right to tell one, Why isn't it.90800:48:57.519 --> 00:49:01.159
You can't then help out lying? Just leap it? Now90900:49:01.239 --> 00:49:02.000
that a little bit?91000:49:02.400 --> 00:49:03.960
You mean you can never lie?91100:49:04.639 --> 00:49:04.920
Never?91200:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.000
Well why not?91300:49:06.599 --> 00:49:08.320
Because when you tell a lie?91400:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.679
Yeah, it gets stark inside you're hot.91500:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.480
You mean that just one lie will make your heart dark?91600:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.599
Makes you say too?91700:49:18.199 --> 00:49:18.840
Oh?91800:49:19.320 --> 00:49:20.960
Then what should you do if you tell a lie?91900:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.599
Well, you say sorry?92000:49:24.159 --> 00:49:25.320
And then what then?92100:49:25.400 --> 00:49:27.920
Even like goes inside you're heart?92200:49:28.559 --> 00:49:29.440
Oh the light goes on?92300:49:30.039 --> 00:49:30.639
Yeah?92400:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.400
Oh, like doesn't really go on in your heart, does it?92500:49:33.760 --> 00:49:35.800
Yes? It does? Well how do you know?92600:49:36.320 --> 00:49:41.159
Because because the light in your heart is joining your eye?92700:49:41.800 --> 00:49:45.039
Oh, and then you'll be happy.92800:49:45.360 --> 00:49:45.519
Hm.92900:49:46.639 --> 00:49:50.679
I wonder why people tell lies? I will do why too?93000:49:51.639 --> 00:50:07.440
From the Franciscans with Love, here's a little thought to93100:50:07.519 --> 00:50:13.920
take to sleep with you. Never indulge in excesses, Eat moderately,93200:50:14.760 --> 00:50:22.400
drink moderately, and murder moderately. Our cast included Louise Larabie,93300:50:22.679 --> 00:50:28.800
Mason Adams, Ralph Bell, Correine orr And Costello, and Christopher Tabori.93400:50:29.960 --> 00:50:32.800
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman brown.93500:50:35.119 --> 00:50:38.559
Now I'll pred you of our next tale. I saw93600:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.840
the blowing tips of two flips cigarettes and then kiss me.93700:50:42.960 --> 00:50:45.880
Richie crazy about stop it?93800:50:47.079 --> 00:50:48.000
Stop it? Tom?93900:50:48.119 --> 00:50:49.880
Would you Marian go inside?94000:50:50.280 --> 00:50:50.679
Go inside?94100:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.480
Why if you have anything to say, you can say94200:50:53.480 --> 00:50:54.800
it here instead of Richard, go.94300:50:54.880 --> 00:50:59.559
Inside it alarm you live alone with corn. He broke94400:50:59.599 --> 00:51:02.480
my grip, Aram who pushed me away.94500:51:02.800 --> 00:51:04.320
The shove made me stoop to my knees.94600:51:04.760 --> 00:51:05.679
I came up swinging.94700:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.960
I missed its in my arms from behind.94800:51:08.960 --> 00:51:09.159
O it?94900:51:09.519 --> 00:51:11.400
What's the matter with you? Are you crazy?95000:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.559
I took out of his breath, stepped back from him,95100:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.800
and fell across the shovel. I grabbed the handle, jumped95200:51:19.840 --> 00:51:23.599
out and swung at Emirates soo late for me to95300:51:23.599 --> 00:51:26.480
stop the swing. As she rushed in between us, the95400:51:26.519 --> 00:51:28.039
sharp edge of the shovel hit.95500:51:27.920 --> 00:51:29.079
Her in the back of the head.95600:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.679
I stood there, holding the shovel, unable to move. Radio95700:51:36.719 --> 00:51:40.599
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated,95800:51:41.159 --> 00:51:42.280
brewers of Budweiser.95900:51:43.719 --> 00:51:44.360
This is E. G.96000:51:44.599 --> 00:51:48.360
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for96100:51:48.440 --> 00:52:00.039
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.96200:52:25.199 --> 00:52:53.800
Wah, well, my dear, how's your evening beginning? I know96300:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.880
when you showed up you were war, you were hot,96400:52:57.039 --> 00:53:04.519
your brow was beaded with sweat. But now now I96500:53:04.599 --> 00:53:11.320
think the chills have come to greet you. You're welcome. Now,96600:53:11.360 --> 00:53:16.000
please take another sip of your hot tea. I'd hate96700:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.960
for you to catch your death. You just may find96800:53:20.000 --> 00:53:36.159
yourself resembling an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.96900:53:39.599 --> 00:53:42.840
You are standing on a bridge over Owl Creek, a97000:53:43.000 --> 00:53:47.239
noose around your neck. You have but a few seconds97100:53:47.320 --> 00:54:00.360
left to live, A few seconds left to plan your escape.97200:54:04.400 --> 00:54:08.400
Escape produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully97300:54:08.440 --> 00:54:11.079
contrived to free you from the poor walls of today97400:54:11.480 --> 00:54:13.639
for a half hour of high adventure.97500:54:18.440 --> 00:54:21.519
To night we escaped to the war between the States97600:54:21.840 --> 00:54:25.920
and a muddy stream in Alabama. As we recall one97700:54:25.960 --> 00:54:31.239
of the great short stories in American literature, an occurrence97800:54:31.440 --> 00:54:35.559
at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Fierce.97900:54:46.880 --> 00:54:50.840
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama,98000:54:51.119 --> 00:54:54.000
looking down through the ties at the swift water twenty98100:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.480
feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the98200:54:57.519 --> 00:55:01.760
wrist bound with a cord a rope closely encircled his neck.98300:55:02.719 --> 00:55:05.639
It was attached to a stout cross timber above his head,98400:55:06.440 --> 00:55:08.719
and the slack fell to the level of his knees.98500:55:09.880 --> 00:55:12.840
He watched a piece of dancing driftwood racing down the98600:55:12.880 --> 00:55:14.280
current beneath his feet.98700:55:15.639 --> 00:55:19.280
He thought, if I could just breath my hands, I98800:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.639
might throw off this moose and dive into the creek.98900:55:22.639 --> 00:55:24.960
If I swam underwater, i'd be safe from her bullet.99000:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.960
If my wind held out, I could make the southern bank,99100:55:28.320 --> 00:55:29.920
take to the woods, and get away home.99200:55:34.840 --> 00:55:39.519
Dayton Farquhar, Alabama planter, stood at the end of a plank.99300:55:40.320 --> 00:55:43.239
A captain of the Union Army and a sergeant stood99400:55:43.239 --> 00:55:46.239
at the other end. When they stepped aside, the plank99500:55:46.239 --> 00:55:50.800
would tip upward, and Peyton Farquhar, Confederate spy, would slip99600:55:50.800 --> 00:55:55.199
between the ties to hang above the muddy water of99700:55:55.320 --> 00:55:57.800
Owl Creek until dead.99800:56:05.880 --> 00:56:06.519
Even in this.99900:56:06.639 --> 00:56:11.239
Far outpost of Sherman's march to the sea, the formalities100000:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.199
of death are observed by these men who are most100100:56:14.280 --> 00:56:18.559
familiar with him. The captain's company has drawn stiffly at100200:56:18.559 --> 00:56:21.559
attention along the tracks on the northern side of the bridge.100300:56:22.400 --> 00:56:25.559
The lieutenant stands erect on the bank of the stream,100400:56:25.840 --> 00:56:29.280
the point of his bared saber scraping the gravel on100500:56:29.320 --> 00:56:34.360
the roadbed. Peyton Farquhar is being ushered into the Confederate100600:56:34.440 --> 00:56:46.039
beyond with every Union amenity. The captain stands aside. Now100700:56:46.119 --> 00:56:49.559
only the weight of the bulky sargeant counterbalances Peyton Farquhart100800:56:50.119 --> 00:56:52.079
at the end of his thin board.100900:56:52.239 --> 00:56:54.239
They say that this is a moment when all the101000:56:54.320 --> 00:56:57.840
piest events are your life tumble in your memory. But101100:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.199
how could any one know who has come back from101200:57:01.239 --> 00:57:04.840
the dead to tell what dying is like. I don't101300:57:04.840 --> 00:57:09.320
recall any childhood memories. Now the past does not engulf101400:57:09.440 --> 00:57:12.639
me in this naked moment. I'm only aware of what's101500:57:12.719 --> 00:57:17.320
here now, those Yankees lined up on the bike, his101600:57:17.519 --> 00:57:21.719
captain's tired eyes, that turkey buzz had circling up there101700:57:22.159 --> 00:57:27.239
waitin for me. And a noise that beaten driving sound101800:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.239
like a distant engine, a pump roll, a thunder on101900:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.719
the summer evening, coming closer.102000:57:34.360 --> 00:57:36.599
Gettin out of choking me.102100:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.679
It's your heart, of course that you hear, stepping up102200:57:44.679 --> 00:57:48.559
its cadence, pounding under the forced drift of fear. Now102300:57:48.639 --> 00:57:53.159
you see nothing, remember nothing, sense nothing, but this strangling,102400:57:53.239 --> 00:57:57.440
suffocating beat of your own heart throbbing its final protest,102500:57:57.880 --> 00:57:59.639
You stand there, erect.102600:58:00.159 --> 00:58:03.440
The work is nearly at an end. Now the captain102700:58:03.599 --> 00:58:08.400
draws his sword, flourishes it to a carry, sings out.102800:58:08.199 --> 00:58:10.159
Of command, ry.102900:58:11.159 --> 00:58:11.480
Ll ry.103000:58:17.199 --> 00:58:19.760
The men on the bank smartly spread their legs, thrust103100:58:19.800 --> 00:58:23.039
hands forward over the rifle barrels. The sergeant on the103200:58:23.119 --> 00:58:25.039
end of the plank takes one step to the left.103300:58:25.440 --> 00:58:30.719
The plank dieps forward, and Peyton Farqueat drops between the103400:58:30.800 --> 00:58:38.400
timbers of oh creek bridge.103500:58:41.159 --> 00:58:43.760
It takes longer to tell it. As you drop downward,103600:58:43.800 --> 00:58:47.519
you lose consciousness. You are as one already dead. Then103700:58:48.039 --> 00:58:51.280
you awaken sharply in pain, to feel, not to think,103800:58:51.800 --> 00:58:54.480
just to feel the cutting pressure on your throat, the103900:58:54.519 --> 00:58:57.920
agonies of pulsating fire shooting from your neck downward, to104000:58:58.000 --> 00:59:03.280
feel the fullness the congestion ahead, bursting with suffocation, distantly104100:59:03.920 --> 00:59:08.880
beyond outside of yourself. You hear a splash. Remotely, you104200:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.400
sense cool, wet, green darkness. The rope has broken. You104300:59:14.519 --> 00:59:28.639
have fallen into the stream. Now thinking returns slowly. Do104400:59:28.760 --> 00:59:30.800
you know for the moment you are safe from drowning?104500:59:31.079 --> 00:59:33.639
Because the rope around your neck tightly keeps the water104600:59:33.679 --> 00:59:34.400
from your lungs.104700:59:35.519 --> 00:59:37.679
Then I shall die hanging at the bottom of a river.104800:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.599
And that's absurd. If I could get my hands free,104900:59:42.119 --> 00:59:46.079
I must get my hands free. Come petent. They can't105000:59:46.159 --> 00:59:52.599
let you Try again once more, good boy, the rope's105100:59:52.599 --> 00:59:53.719
given again.105200:59:54.719 --> 00:59:56.800
Try once more.105300:59:58.559 --> 01:00:02.679
That does it, my boy? Now the rope around your neck, youse.105401:00:02.760 --> 01:00:05.119
Breathe when you come to the surface. You must breathe quickly,105501:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.639
for if they haven't hanged you, and they fail to105601:00:07.719 --> 01:00:10.239
drown you, you can't let em shoot you.105701:00:10.320 --> 01:00:12.440
Loosen rope your neck.105801:00:12.880 --> 01:00:13.960
You must get it loose.105901:00:14.840 --> 01:00:27.519
Now it takes so much longer to tell. You are106001:00:27.559 --> 01:00:30.559
now in the fullest possession of your senses, and again106101:00:30.800 --> 01:00:34.599
time stops. You feel the ripples of the water upon106201:00:34.639 --> 01:00:38.199
your face, and hear their separate sounds as they strike.106301:00:38.800 --> 01:00:41.480
You see the trees on the bank, and the leaves106401:00:41.639 --> 01:00:44.480
and the veining of each leaf, and the very insects106501:00:44.480 --> 01:00:47.679
on them, the locusts, the brilliant bodied flies, the gray106601:00:47.760 --> 01:00:51.599
spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig, the prismatic106701:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.239
colors of the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass.106801:00:54.840 --> 01:00:57.400
You hear the humming of the gnats, the beating of106901:00:57.440 --> 01:01:00.960
the dragonfly's wings, the strokes of the water spider's legs.107001:01:01.599 --> 01:01:04.880
A fish slides beneath your eyes, and you hear the107101:01:04.960 --> 01:01:10.000
rush of its body parting the water. All this you107201:01:10.159 --> 01:01:14.239
see and hear in an incalculably infinite instant of time.107301:01:15.159 --> 01:01:25.840
Then you hear something else. You dive deeply, but above107401:01:25.880 --> 01:01:26.480
the ringing.107501:01:26.280 --> 01:01:31.199
In your ears, you hear the folly of the rifles, and.107601:01:31.199 --> 01:01:34.519
As you rise towards the surface, you meet shining bits107701:01:34.559 --> 01:01:40.079
of metal, singularly flattened, the distorted and spent bullets oscillating107801:01:40.159 --> 01:01:43.519
slowly downward past you. One catches in your color, and107901:01:43.559 --> 01:01:46.840
it feels uncomfortably warm. You snatch it out, and this108001:01:46.960 --> 01:01:50.280
gray piece of Yankee lead reminds you of the gray108101:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.639
uniform of the soldier who is responsible for you being here.108201:01:54.519 --> 01:01:57.920
You recall that it was only night before last when108301:01:57.920 --> 01:02:00.039
the soldier had ridden up the driveway as you and108401:02:00.039 --> 01:02:03.280
your wife's sat under the Micnodia trees in the cool twirelight.108501:02:05.039 --> 01:02:09.280
Good evening, sir, good evening, Corporal, Wonder if I might108601:02:09.360 --> 01:02:10.760
trouble you for a glass of water?108701:02:10.840 --> 01:02:11.039
Sir?108801:02:11.199 --> 01:02:15.360
Why of course, all disturb yourself, Peyton, I'll go fetch it.108901:02:15.599 --> 01:02:18.400
You're most kind man if you just indicate the.109001:02:18.360 --> 01:02:23.079
Well, you just sit a spell with my husband. You109101:02:23.199 --> 01:02:24.760
look as if you could do with some rest.109201:02:25.400 --> 01:02:30.840
Yes, ma'am, I reckon I could. I'll be back, Thank you, ma'am.109301:02:31.800 --> 01:02:32.880
Who's commanded you?109401:02:33.000 --> 01:02:38.880
With Corporal Colonel Tolliver, Sir, thirteenth North Carolina. We get109501:02:38.960 --> 01:02:42.280
some little news down here. How are things going at109601:02:42.320 --> 01:02:46.800
the front? Not good, sir. The Yankees are getting ready109701:02:46.840 --> 01:02:51.719
for another advance. They're repairing the railroad, got it in109801:02:51.800 --> 01:02:55.519
shape almost to our Creek bridge, and they got an109901:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.000
outpost there. Once they can run the trains beyond the bridge.110001:03:00.280 --> 01:03:04.079
There's nothing to stop them between here and Atlanta. Then110101:03:04.199 --> 01:03:08.199
why hasn't the bridge been destroyed? The military couldn't get110201:03:08.239 --> 01:03:14.119
near it. A civilian might, Oh, Creek Bridge, that's not110301:03:14.239 --> 01:03:17.760
far from here? Is it less than twenty miles? You110401:03:17.920 --> 01:03:21.000
say they have an outpost there on which side?110501:03:21.800 --> 01:03:22.440
T other side?110601:03:23.840 --> 01:03:26.920
Nothing on this side but a couple of pickets half110701:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.960
mile out on the railroad and a single sentinel at110801:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.719
this end of the bridge. And that bridge is important,110901:03:35.519 --> 01:03:40.039
sure is? What if it were destroyed pulled up.111001:03:40.000 --> 01:03:41.599
The Yankees for several weeks.111101:03:42.119 --> 01:03:46.119
Suppose a man was a civilian like myself, should elude111201:03:46.159 --> 01:03:49.079
the picket post and get the better of the sentinel.111301:03:49.639 --> 01:03:53.400
What did he accomplish? Well, I was there, we could go.111401:03:54.320 --> 01:03:57.599
Just before we had to pull out. There's a heap111501:03:57.599 --> 01:04:00.440
of drift wood come down and last winter's flood and111601:04:00.519 --> 01:04:04.239
caught on the trestle at this end looked mighty dry111701:04:04.320 --> 01:04:08.239
and tender than me. I see a fella with enough111801:04:08.320 --> 01:04:12.159
gumption might get through and set fire to it. It111901:04:12.280 --> 01:04:16.519
ought to burn like toe, Yes, it should. Of course,112001:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.119
a fella'd have to have plenty of gumption. A union112101:04:20.239 --> 01:04:23.559
commanders promised to hang in a civilian called fooling around112201:04:23.639 --> 01:04:24.280
the railroad.112301:04:24.360 --> 01:04:27.960
Here's your water corper ed out of the springhouse.112401:04:28.119 --> 01:04:31.760
Thank you kindly, ma'am.112501:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.119
My, it's cool and nice, and here's a smidge in112601:04:35.159 --> 01:04:38.960
a corn bread. I thought you might be hungry.112701:04:38.920 --> 01:04:41.519
A mighty grateful ma'am.112801:04:41.639 --> 01:04:44.159
It's ladies like you that keeps the saus together and112901:04:44.199 --> 01:04:46.159
fighting these days.113001:04:46.280 --> 01:04:47.599
My, what a nice com.113101:04:48.880 --> 01:04:50.360
Well, reckon, I better hit the leather.113201:04:51.239 --> 01:04:53.119
I get a lot of ride and hit them meet tonight.113301:04:53.639 --> 01:04:54.079
Good luck.113401:04:54.159 --> 01:04:56.920
Tell your car bro and thank you for the information.113501:04:57.519 --> 01:04:59.920
You'd be taking a chance in but you couldn't do113601:04:59.920 --> 01:05:01.440
it a greater service for your country.113701:05:01.599 --> 01:05:02.920
I remember that, corporal.113801:05:03.000 --> 01:05:09.639
Goodbye, then, goodbye, corporal, goodbye, sir many thanks, goodbye.113901:05:10.360 --> 01:05:10.760
Peyton.114001:05:12.719 --> 01:05:16.039
What was he talking about? What my dad, the corporal,114101:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.920
What did he mean by service to your country and114201:05:20.000 --> 01:05:22.000
and taking a chance?114301:05:22.039 --> 01:05:22.159
Oh?114401:05:22.360 --> 01:05:24.199
Nothing, Peyton, tell me.114501:05:24.679 --> 01:05:27.559
There was nothing, really, my dad, Peyton farkrour.114601:05:27.599 --> 01:05:30.000
If you're fixing to take any chances for our country,114701:05:30.039 --> 01:05:31.000
I want to know about it.114801:05:31.079 --> 01:05:31.239
Now.114901:05:31.280 --> 01:05:32.639
You just speak your peace.115001:05:33.679 --> 01:05:37.280
There's nothing to say except I'd be going away for115101:05:37.320 --> 01:05:38.719
a day or two on a little trip.115201:05:40.840 --> 01:05:46.400
Is it dangerous, Peyton, not very You'll.115301:05:46.199 --> 01:05:50.800
Be back, yes, my dear, I promise you I'll be back.115401:06:01.440 --> 01:06:03.920
You'll break the surface of our creek for a second time.115501:06:04.480 --> 01:06:07.400
And now you're much further downstream, further away from the115601:06:07.480 --> 01:06:10.760
Union soldiers on the bridge reloading their guns, the ramrods115701:06:10.760 --> 01:06:12.000
flashing in the morning sun.115801:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.320
Head captain will make the same mistake again. You'll order115901:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.559
them to fire it will Heaven help me?116001:06:17.599 --> 01:06:18.559
I cannot dodge him.116101:06:18.559 --> 01:06:21.559
A another more terrible sound cannon.116201:06:21.920 --> 01:06:23.039
They've trained a cannon on.116301:06:23.039 --> 01:06:25.840
You and close next time, I'll use a charge of116401:06:25.880 --> 01:06:28.920
grape rifles and grape covering the water from bank to bank.116501:06:29.360 --> 01:06:30.519
I'm done for Anne.116601:06:31.559 --> 01:06:34.239
Then something seemed to grab you, and you're whirled round116701:06:34.239 --> 01:06:36.679
and round, spinning like a waterlogged top. You're caught in116801:06:36.719 --> 01:06:39.880
a vortex, a whirlpool. The water, the banks, the distant bridge,116901:06:39.920 --> 01:06:43.840
the soldiers become indistinct blurs, and again you're helpless. You117001:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.920
feel dizzy and sick to your stomach, just as you117101:06:47.000 --> 01:06:49.639
felt last night when you crept up the bank toward117201:06:49.679 --> 01:06:51.679
the lone sentinel on the south end of the bridge117301:06:52.039 --> 01:06:54.880
and discovered that the sentinel was not alone.117401:06:55.000 --> 01:06:59.039
There is boys grabby reapt I hadn't pair well, mister117501:06:59.119 --> 01:06:59.800
peyton Fog.117601:07:00.199 --> 01:07:01.239
We've been expecting you.117701:07:01.719 --> 01:07:03.400
How did you know my gude ways?117801:07:03.800 --> 01:07:05.360
But look here, I'm a civilian now.117901:07:05.400 --> 01:07:07.920
Way they have breath. Thank you maker. We didn't shoot118001:07:07.920 --> 01:07:10.559
you in the back. We don't do things that way118101:07:10.639 --> 01:07:13.880
up north. You'll get a trial. Everything fair and square,118201:07:14.800 --> 01:07:15.880
ring well, I man.118301:07:19.559 --> 01:07:22.719
The whirlpools fins, pastor and pastor, A sharpiece of drift118401:07:22.760 --> 01:07:23.679
would tasi your coat.118501:07:23.920 --> 01:07:25.320
The churning ground water choked you.118601:07:25.719 --> 01:07:28.119
You know there is nothing you can do as you118701:07:28.199 --> 01:07:30.639
had known it last night when they shoved you into118801:07:30.679 --> 01:07:33.440
a tent near the bridge to face the infantry captain118901:07:33.519 --> 01:07:34.480
with the tired eyes.119001:07:35.519 --> 01:07:37.440
There is, sir, right on schedule.119101:07:37.760 --> 01:07:40.920
Good work, sergeant. Is this the man, Lieutenant?119201:07:41.280 --> 01:07:41.679
That's him?119301:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.880
What you're the corporal who stopped at my plantation last night?119401:07:46.159 --> 01:07:48.960
That's right, mister Farquhar. But I'm not with the thirteenth119501:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.360
North Carolina Volunteers.119601:07:50.480 --> 01:07:54.199
Mister Farquhar, this is Lieutenant Saltan Stole Intelligence Officer, fifth119701:07:54.280 --> 01:07:55.480
Massachusetts Regulars.119801:07:55.639 --> 01:07:58.599
You've trapped me. You deliberately led me into a trap.119901:07:59.239 --> 01:08:01.000
I'm a civilian and then a plant yes.120001:08:01.079 --> 01:08:04.440
And also a Southern patriot according the active espionage.120101:08:04.519 --> 01:08:05.199
You can't prove it.120201:08:05.599 --> 01:08:06.199
We don't have to.120301:08:06.880 --> 01:08:10.440
This is the most despicable, the most This proves once120401:08:10.519 --> 01:08:12.519
more that Anna is a stranger in the North.120501:08:12.679 --> 01:08:14.679
I'm too tired to listen to a recital of the120601:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.000
code of a Southern gentleman.120701:08:16.039 --> 01:08:16.720
Mister Farquhar.120801:08:16.880 --> 01:08:19.279
I'm afraid the distinction between your ethics and my lack120901:08:19.319 --> 01:08:20.720
of them would escape me in this savening.121001:08:21.039 --> 01:08:23.720
But why have you done this? Why have you deliberately121101:08:23.800 --> 01:08:24.159
trapped me?121201:08:24.479 --> 01:08:27.239
The best way to eliminate civilian resistance is to lure121301:08:27.239 --> 01:08:27.960
it into the open.121401:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.359
You fell for the baby, too bad.121501:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.039
Now look here, it's my constitutional rights.121601:08:33.000 --> 01:08:37.319
Which constitution, the Constitution of the United States, or Jeff121701:08:37.439 --> 01:08:40.680
Davis's You Insultan Yankees, remember your menacer.121801:08:41.079 --> 01:08:42.039
I demand to try it.121901:08:42.119 --> 01:08:46.920
You've just had it past a guard over room, sergeant, Yes,122001:08:48.000 --> 01:08:48.800
we'll hang him.122101:08:48.800 --> 01:08:59.079
In the morning, something tears at your face, scratching, and122201:08:59.199 --> 01:09:02.680
you realize that a whirling has stopped you. Open your eyes.122301:09:03.359 --> 01:09:05.840
You're lying on the southern bank of the stream, out122401:09:05.880 --> 01:09:07.079
of sight of your enemies.122501:09:07.840 --> 01:09:08.159
Safe.122601:09:09.039 --> 01:09:12.600
The gravel which has scratched your cheek now seems soft122701:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.880
as new pick cotton. The forest around you is a122801:09:15.960 --> 01:09:19.640
garden of luscious beauty, reeking with a heavy perfume of freedom.122901:09:20.159 --> 01:09:22.119
Even the whiz and rattle of the final charge of123001:09:22.199 --> 01:09:26.079
grape screaming through the tree tops seems a benediction from123101:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.159
the battle Cannoneer. You leap to your feet and run123201:09:29.199 --> 01:09:38.600
into the woods south towards home. Your neck has swollen123301:09:38.640 --> 01:09:41.159
and frobbing with pain. You carry it cock toward your123401:09:41.239 --> 01:09:44.199
left shoulder as you push through the matted brush. All morning,123501:09:44.279 --> 01:09:46.800
you tear your way through the undergrowth. Your jacket is123601:09:46.840 --> 01:09:49.600
tattered and your face criss crossed with bloody scratches from123701:09:49.640 --> 01:09:55.239
the brambles. Every few moments you stop. You stop to123801:09:55.319 --> 01:09:58.399
listen for the sound of dogs, But all you hear123901:09:58.520 --> 01:10:02.920
is the sleepy buzz of the fire, and the blood124001:10:03.000 --> 01:10:06.960
throbbing through your heated brain brings another thought, which is124101:10:07.000 --> 01:10:11.800
an insult. No dogs, You are not even important enough124201:10:11.840 --> 01:10:19.960
to the Yankees for dogs. Oh it's nearly noon now,124301:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.399
and for half an hour you've been plunging through a swamp,124401:10:22.680 --> 01:10:27.479
waist deep in green ooze. Your neck hurts constantly, your124501:10:27.560 --> 01:10:30.079
head throbs, and your tongue is thick. It tastes like124601:10:30.319 --> 01:10:34.119
brown cotton, not swarm before your eyes, catching in your eyelids,124701:10:34.159 --> 01:10:37.119
Busquitoes buzz in your ears, drill deep in your hands,124801:10:37.199 --> 01:10:41.880
and swollen neck. You cannot go any longer. You slow down,124901:10:43.159 --> 01:10:47.000
you stop, You reach toward of palmetto root for support,125001:10:47.079 --> 01:10:49.520
and it slivers from your grasp and slides softly into125101:10:49.520 --> 01:10:49.880
the water.125201:10:51.600 --> 01:10:51.840
Water.125301:10:52.000 --> 01:10:57.279
Moccasin fear finds you at last. Terror, which stood aloof125401:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.439
when you fled the executioner's bullets, now in raises you125501:11:00.520 --> 01:11:05.239
with clammy junction. A water moccasin, the dead lake cotton Mouth.125601:11:06.159 --> 01:11:09.079
Now each branch and roots seems to writhe under your glands.125701:11:09.560 --> 01:11:12.600
The swamp is undulating with certain death. You plunge on125801:11:12.720 --> 01:11:15.319
through the dark, stinking who's on? And on, tripping, stumbling,125901:11:15.399 --> 01:11:18.000
never stopping for terror writes your back, flogging you with126001:11:18.039 --> 01:11:19.000
a whiplash of fear.126101:11:32.520 --> 01:11:36.199
You're gonna have my spating fills a film jig.126201:11:36.439 --> 01:11:39.399
Time you just drink this, She up teams.126301:11:39.239 --> 01:11:46.680
Bet, Thank you, thank you, Jethrow? What are you doing here?126401:11:47.159 --> 01:11:48.000
I live here?126501:11:50.000 --> 01:11:51.880
Well, what happened?126601:11:52.000 --> 01:11:54.800
I was paddling my dog out home through the swamp126701:11:54.880 --> 01:11:56.079
with a mess of catfish.126801:11:56.640 --> 01:11:59.079
I sees you lying out there on the bank in126901:11:59.159 --> 01:11:59.560
front of my.127001:11:59.640 --> 01:12:04.039
Cat, Jethro. I heard, I thought you were dead.127101:12:06.640 --> 01:12:09.359
Of course, you thought Jethro was dead. You knew he127201:12:09.399 --> 01:12:12.319
had consumption when you sold him. You knew he couldn't127301:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.159
last long, and he wasn't earning his keep. His wife127401:12:15.199 --> 01:12:17.119
and his daughter had carried on some at first, but127501:12:17.199 --> 01:12:18.600
after a while they calmed down.127601:12:19.319 --> 01:12:19.720
At last.127701:12:19.760 --> 01:12:21.560
You'd heard Jethro was dead.127801:12:23.079 --> 01:12:26.840
He thought I was dead, Miss Peyton, I say, don't127901:12:26.880 --> 01:12:30.600
you know what's happened to me? I'm free I'm free128001:12:30.640 --> 01:12:31.119
at last.128101:12:31.399 --> 01:12:34.840
So news travels fast, even in the middle of his128201:12:34.960 --> 01:12:38.159
back would swamp. This lonely black has heard of Abe128301:12:38.239 --> 01:12:43.279
Lincoln's traitorous emancipation proclamation, and they believe it with the128401:12:43.399 --> 01:12:44.359
faith of children.128501:12:44.680 --> 01:12:45.640
Yes, sir, I'm.128601:12:45.640 --> 01:12:47.760
Free, I speak pretty soon.128701:12:47.880 --> 01:12:49.439
My woman my little gal.128801:12:49.319 --> 01:12:50.359
Come along join me.128901:12:50.680 --> 01:12:54.520
Yes, yes, of course they will, jethro isaa, Miss Peyton,129001:12:55.159 --> 01:12:57.880
they will, Yes, yes, indeed they're both fine.129101:12:57.960 --> 01:12:58.000
You.129201:12:58.560 --> 01:13:01.600
Your daughter's growing into a young beauty. Miss Fox was129301:13:01.640 --> 01:13:04.439
brought into the kitchen beginning to training for the house.129401:13:04.680 --> 01:13:09.279
Well, well, what do you think of that? And my129501:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.880
woman she's still seeing us.129601:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.600
Pretty yeah, jethrow Sundays at meeting time, we can hear129701:13:15.680 --> 01:13:16.960
all the way up to the big House.129801:13:17.239 --> 01:13:20.359
That woman's voice is put in all the angels.129901:13:20.960 --> 01:13:21.560
Jeth throw out.130001:13:22.199 --> 01:13:25.000
I don't know how to say this, but I really130101:13:25.199 --> 01:13:28.359
was sorry about having to sell you. But there wasn't130201:13:28.399 --> 01:13:28.960
anything else.130301:13:29.119 --> 01:13:33.079
Understand, mis don't fit, don't mind. I don't forgive you130401:13:33.399 --> 01:13:37.920
long ago I have for sure. Don't the Lord tell130501:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.159
us to forgive those who tresp us again us God130601:13:41.239 --> 01:13:44.680
Lord promises we shall be free. Why don't you worry130701:13:44.800 --> 01:13:47.439
nothing about my speaking and.130801:13:47.640 --> 01:13:50.239
I quite that's why quiet jigger, quiet.130901:13:50.039 --> 01:13:50.119
You.131001:13:51.680 --> 01:13:56.840
Must her raise her back and afresh, No, sir, ree lork,131101:13:56.960 --> 01:14:02.520
Miss Peyton. There's a horse coming down the road. Look there, soldier,131201:14:02.960 --> 01:14:04.279
when our soldiers.131301:14:03.920 --> 01:14:06.199
Corporal look like Jethro, you got to hide me.131401:14:06.960 --> 01:14:07.800
I got to hide.131501:14:07.880 --> 01:14:09.079
You don't.131601:14:09.119 --> 01:14:14.000
There's so many questions you answerence, you forget. I'm free131701:14:14.079 --> 01:14:17.239
now well, and there's an old friend of mine. Please131801:14:17.279 --> 01:14:18.439
don't ask any questions.131901:14:18.560 --> 01:14:20.520
Just hide me. Don't tell that soldier anything.132001:14:21.000 --> 01:14:23.319
Sure, I reckon I can do that for no friend,132101:14:23.399 --> 01:14:25.960
Miss Painting, Yeah, yeah, you get done on this year bit,132201:14:26.319 --> 01:14:26.680
that's it.132301:14:27.199 --> 01:14:31.720
Put the covers over the side. Yeah, yeah, snug is132401:14:31.760 --> 01:14:32.880
a take in a rabbits here.132501:14:33.039 --> 01:14:34.359
Remember, don't tell him anything.132601:14:35.039 --> 01:14:37.239
Have you come this far just to be turned in132701:14:37.439 --> 01:14:40.880
by a world gathering? Black O talks crazy. If Jethrow132801:14:40.960 --> 01:14:43.680
knew this great clad corpor was really a Union lieutenant,132901:14:43.760 --> 01:14:46.680
he guarantee his freedom by turning you in. Even so,133001:14:46.840 --> 01:14:48.399
he bears you a big enough grudge to turn you133101:14:48.479 --> 01:14:51.680
in anyway, unless, of course, he's planning to dispose of133201:14:51.720 --> 01:14:55.520
you himself. Yes, that's it. That's why he talks so133301:14:55.640 --> 01:14:58.079
silly about the Lord and forgiveness. He's going to do133401:14:58.159 --> 01:14:58.800
you in himself.133501:15:00.119 --> 01:15:03.039
Don't tell him I was looking for him, Yes, I remember.133601:15:03.199 --> 01:15:03.920
Not tell him.133701:15:04.560 --> 01:15:06.079
Just keep minding your own business.133801:15:06.159 --> 01:15:07.640
Uncle, you live.133901:15:07.560 --> 01:15:10.439
Longer, yes, sir, I sure will.134001:15:13.640 --> 01:15:18.199
He can come out time my speeding. I declare, I134101:15:18.399 --> 01:15:21.680
don't understand none of this. You says, not tell him134201:15:21.720 --> 01:15:23.960
you're here. He says, not tell you he's been here.134301:15:24.720 --> 01:15:26.439
What is this all about? My speding?134401:15:26.880 --> 01:15:27.159
Boy?134501:15:27.640 --> 01:15:32.520
HiT's nothing, jeath throw nothing. I over the man some money.134601:15:32.600 --> 01:15:34.359
I'm not ready to pay it.134701:15:34.680 --> 01:15:39.079
Oh, I see, I wouldn't know about that money. Something134801:15:39.159 --> 01:15:43.039
never bothered me like it bought some money and me134901:15:43.199 --> 01:15:44.479
has allays been strangers?135001:15:44.840 --> 01:15:47.800
What does he mean by that? Money's never bothered me135101:15:48.000 --> 01:15:51.920
like it's bothered some what's he picking up that knife.135201:15:51.680 --> 01:15:54.000
For, Jethro? What are you going to do that night?135301:15:55.239 --> 01:15:55.359
Oh?135401:15:55.479 --> 01:15:57.319
I was just fixing to slit up some of them.135501:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.840
Catfy she's gotten a dog out. You could do with135601:16:01.000 --> 01:16:02.399
the little food mines peten.135701:16:02.479 --> 01:16:05.600
Oh no, no, thank you, Jethro. I really got to135801:16:05.640 --> 01:16:07.039
be on my way. I want to get home by135901:16:07.079 --> 01:16:07.439
son down.136001:16:07.439 --> 01:16:09.600
If I can't, sure wouldn't be no body cut up136101:16:09.600 --> 01:16:10.640
a couple of cans.136201:16:10.600 --> 01:16:13.279
No, thank you, old friend. If you'll just tell me136301:16:13.319 --> 01:16:14.560
which way I should go to get home.136401:16:15.920 --> 01:16:20.520
Well, I don't rightly know, miss Peyton. I reckon from136501:16:20.560 --> 01:16:23.680
the way the sun's reclining, be down the road. That136601:16:23.840 --> 01:16:26.239
a way, quite a tolerable piece.136701:16:26.680 --> 01:16:28.319
Yeah, they should be about right.136801:16:28.680 --> 01:16:33.039
I never been back, you know, I never tried to136901:16:33.119 --> 01:16:36.560
go back since I've been free. Yes, I know, but137001:16:36.800 --> 01:16:41.000
I reckon it won't belong to my woman. My little gal.137101:16:40.920 --> 01:16:41.640
Comes here to me.137201:16:41.880 --> 01:16:47.000
Of course, if you get back, mister Peyton, if and137301:16:47.159 --> 01:16:51.439
you see him, you tell him I'm here waiting for him.137401:16:51.479 --> 01:16:54.800
Yeah, yeah, I'll do that, Jethro, I'll do that.137501:16:58.640 --> 01:17:00.560
You get away from there fast, the shells of the137601:17:00.640 --> 01:17:04.319
road crunching under your muddy boots, that grinning savage standing137701:17:04.319 --> 01:17:06.479
in the doorway of the shack, the knife in his hands,137801:17:07.279 --> 01:17:09.319
and each moment until the road bends and cuts off137901:17:09.359 --> 01:17:11.800
the cabin from view, you fear he'll come after you,138001:17:11.880 --> 01:17:14.199
the knife poised to plunge in your back to pay138101:17:14.239 --> 01:17:16.000
you for the thrust you gave him when you send138201:17:16.039 --> 01:17:19.920
him away to die. But he's still standing, grinning foolishly138301:17:19.960 --> 01:17:22.760
and waving as you turn the bend. Now you feel safe,138401:17:23.000 --> 01:17:25.159
but only for a moment. Then you hear a sound,138501:17:26.640 --> 01:17:29.159
the sound of a horse. It must be the Corporal138601:17:29.199 --> 01:17:32.079
and Gray from the fifth Massachusetts Regulars. He's coming back138701:17:32.119 --> 01:17:34.319
down the road, searching for you, hounding you, coming to138801:17:34.359 --> 01:17:36.640
take you back to all Creek Bridge, back to a138901:17:36.720 --> 01:17:37.840
rope that won't break.139001:17:37.720 --> 01:17:38.279
Under your weight.139101:17:38.640 --> 01:17:41.279
You walk faster and faster, and always the sound is there,139201:17:41.319 --> 01:17:43.640
growing louder and louder, and you run as fast as139301:17:43.680 --> 01:17:46.000
you can down the shell road, which stretches clear to139401:17:46.079 --> 01:17:52.479
the horizon between the green walls of scrubby pines. How139501:17:52.600 --> 01:17:55.279
long have you been running down this endless road? It's139601:17:55.399 --> 01:17:55.880
dark now?139701:17:56.560 --> 01:17:57.039
Is it night?139801:17:57.680 --> 01:17:59.279
Or has the blood trapped in your head by the139901:17:59.319 --> 01:18:02.840
suffocating room hope at last burst into your congested eyeballs140001:18:03.000 --> 01:18:05.800
and blinded you will it next pour from your swollen140101:18:05.880 --> 01:18:09.159
and bruised neck into your brains, stopping all sensation instantly,140201:18:09.239 --> 01:18:11.760
bringing to a welcome end this day of agony and flight,140301:18:13.439 --> 01:18:16.359
ridiculous fantasies of fatigue and fear. You can see the140401:18:16.479 --> 01:18:18.880
darkness is the black of a sudden summer storm. That140501:18:19.039 --> 01:18:21.840
lightning flash clearly shows the white road ahead and the140601:18:21.880 --> 01:18:24.600
black silhouettes of trees along the sides, and since you're140701:18:24.680 --> 01:18:27.399
sure that you can see the other senses return you140801:18:27.560 --> 01:18:30.279
hear the rumble of the thunder. You'll feel the insupportable140901:18:30.319 --> 01:18:32.680
ache of your straining lungs, the leaden weight of your141001:18:32.720 --> 01:18:35.560
tired feet, and now the patter of rain, first washing141101:18:35.600 --> 01:18:38.319
the stinging sweat from your stretched and bitten face, Now141201:18:38.439 --> 01:18:41.960
pounding harder, flowing down across your hatless head, matting your hair,141301:18:42.239 --> 01:18:47.680
slowing your headlong gait to a dog trot. Another flash141401:18:47.720 --> 01:18:50.840
of lightning directly overhead. For an instant you see the141501:18:50.920 --> 01:18:53.239
soldiers of Owl Creek Bridge standing at the side of141601:18:53.279 --> 01:18:56.119
the road, rifles leveled their eyes, boring down the sights,141701:18:56.199 --> 01:18:57.039
aiming at your heart.141801:19:00.760 --> 01:19:01.039
Again.141901:19:01.119 --> 01:19:04.159
You're running, and the rain has turned to hail. Pallas142001:19:04.159 --> 01:19:06.960
as big as harmony, beat down on you, pound your swollen,142101:19:07.039 --> 01:19:12.960
bruised neck, hammer at your countless cuts. Again the lightning,142201:19:13.399 --> 01:19:15.199
and on the other side of the road, the great142301:19:15.239 --> 01:19:17.600
clad corporal sits astride his horse, waiting for you.142401:19:17.760 --> 01:19:19.760
Now you take him me.142501:19:19.880 --> 01:19:20.680
Now, no.142601:19:22.800 --> 01:19:24.840
Rift bold of lightning strikes a tree ahead of you,142701:19:25.119 --> 01:19:27.840
and then the white, blinding light stands Jethrow, black and142801:19:27.960 --> 01:19:29.720
grinning knife raised in the air.142901:19:30.439 --> 01:19:33.159
Not jethrow, forgive me, forgive me.143001:19:34.880 --> 01:19:35.399
He's gone.143101:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.159
And now you see, dangling from each tree along the road,143201:19:38.199 --> 01:19:40.720
a noose swinging in the wind. Wherever you turn, wherever143301:19:40.720 --> 01:19:43.079
you look, a noose waiting for you, A noose which143401:19:43.119 --> 01:20:01.000
wriggles like a water Moccas are standing on the green143501:20:01.119 --> 01:20:05.359
lawn of your plantation, before the high columned entrance. The143601:20:05.479 --> 01:20:09.039
storm is over. The clouds are black and menacing all143701:20:09.079 --> 01:20:12.560
around the horizon. But through a break in the sky overhead,143801:20:13.159 --> 01:20:17.479
glorious sunlight streams down, bathing your garden and your house143901:20:17.600 --> 01:20:18.439
in heavenly light.144001:20:19.479 --> 01:20:23.600
You are home. And now you hear a rustle of crinoline,144101:20:24.079 --> 01:20:27.640
and down from the wide portico steps your beloved wife.144201:20:28.239 --> 01:20:31.720
She walks across the wide lawn, arms outstretched.144301:20:32.720 --> 01:20:39.039
Peyton, my dear, you're back, just as your promised you'd144401:20:39.079 --> 01:20:41.199
be for this moment.144501:20:41.840 --> 01:20:45.319
You have endured the agonies of this day. And were144601:20:45.399 --> 01:20:49.199
those agonies multiplied a thousand times, they would be small144701:20:49.319 --> 01:20:52.600
price for the benison of this breast, the sanctuary of144801:20:52.680 --> 01:20:58.640
these arms, the security of these lips. You step forward144901:20:59.199 --> 01:21:05.319
to fold your wife in your embrace. The rope stretched tight,145001:21:06.279 --> 01:21:11.119
sang like a bowstring. Peyton Farquhar was dead.145101:21:12.800 --> 01:21:19.920
His buddy with a broken neck, swung gently from side145201:21:20.159 --> 01:21:26.319
to side beneath the timbers of owl Creek Bridge.145301:21:41.640 --> 01:21:44.479
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robson and145401:21:44.560 --> 01:21:47.560
Tonight Brought You an occurrence at owl Creek Bridge by145501:21:47.600 --> 01:21:50.800
Ambrose Bierce. In a radio adaptation written by mister Robson,145601:21:51.239 --> 01:21:54.399
the part of Peyton Farquhar was played by Harry Bartel.145701:21:54.760 --> 01:21:58.000
The narrators were Bill Conrad and Bill Johnstone. Jethro was145801:21:58.039 --> 01:22:00.760
played by Louis van Rutton. The special musical score is145901:22:00.800 --> 01:22:02.479
conceived and conducted by cy Fure.146001:22:05.359 --> 01:22:11.119
Next week, you are trapped in the pitch darkness of146101:22:11.199 --> 01:22:17.840
a ruined mansion and groping for you. Stalking you is146201:22:17.880 --> 01:22:22.640
a homicidal maniac armed with a knife, from whom you146301:22:23.119 --> 01:22:24.399
must escape.146401:22:30.319 --> 01:22:34.399
Next week we escape with Joseph Heergersheimer's gripping story Wild Oranges.146501:22:34.800 --> 01:22:35.159
Good Night.146601:22:35.239 --> 01:22:37.479
Then until the same time next week when we again146701:22:37.560 --> 01:22:42.319
offer you escape. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.146801:23:05.640 --> 01:23:11.359
Oh dear, I seem to have given the fire a146901:23:11.560 --> 01:23:12.119
chance to.147001:23:13.920 --> 01:23:14.119
Die.147101:23:15.880 --> 01:23:21.840
I was simply too engrossed in our little game of horrors.147201:23:22.960 --> 01:23:26.560
No worry. Though, in no time at all, I'll have147301:23:26.800 --> 01:23:32.800
the wood going again. Just a little tinder, a little fuel,147401:23:34.000 --> 01:23:41.279
a little fear. That's good, very good, I'd say, in147501:23:41.880 --> 01:23:47.239
no time flat, we'll be back to all fire burn147601:23:47.640 --> 01:23:49.720
and colderin bubble.147701:24:00.720 --> 01:24:00.960
Mh.147801:24:04.960 --> 01:24:20.199
Suspain, This is the Man in Black here again to147901:24:20.319 --> 01:24:26.520
introduce Columbia's program Suspense. Our distinguished star this evening is148001:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.399
the stage and screen favorite mister Paul Lucas, whose performance148101:24:30.479 --> 01:24:33.239
is in the Lady Vantages and in the stage production148201:24:33.359 --> 01:24:36.039
The Watch on the Rhine. You will recall with pleasure.148301:24:37.199 --> 01:24:40.199
Tonight's tale Loves the Spints' is a story by John148401:24:40.279 --> 01:24:45.840
Dixon Carr fire Burn and Cold and Bubble. If you've148501:24:45.880 --> 01:24:47.960
been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know148601:24:48.039 --> 01:24:51.199
that the stint is compounded of mystery and suspicion, a148701:24:51.359 --> 01:24:55.520
dangerous adventures. In this series, our tales, calculated to intrigue you,148801:24:56.000 --> 01:24:59.359
to stir your nerves, will offer you a carrier situation148901:24:59.640 --> 01:25:03.199
and then hold a solution in the last possible moment.149001:25:04.279 --> 01:25:08.760
And so with Fireburn and Cold and Bubble, the moments149101:25:08.760 --> 01:25:12.079
of Paul Lucas the other members of our company, we149201:25:12.199 --> 01:25:20.319
again hope to keep you in Jory Lane Theater presents149301:25:20.840 --> 01:25:26.119
the distinguished American actor Byron Willard and Shakespeare's Macbeth with149401:25:26.359 --> 01:25:43.159
magic effects especially designed by Ludwig von Anheim, Yabo.149501:25:43.359 --> 01:25:49.119
Dabble oil and travel fire hand.149601:25:49.039 --> 01:25:50.760
Paul and Bard.149701:25:59.239 --> 01:26:04.520
Historic Lane Theater a relic of old London. On this sight,149801:26:05.000 --> 01:26:07.880
in the cramped and crooked lanes of old Witch, there149901:26:07.920 --> 01:26:10.479
has been a playhouse since Nell Gwynn sold ounges of150001:26:10.520 --> 01:26:15.039
the pit. The present theater, though modernized, is heavy and150101:26:15.159 --> 01:26:19.920
darkened with time by daylight. It is a dinginess of150201:26:20.000 --> 01:26:24.479
red plush seats haunted by old ghosts. What's it night150301:26:25.159 --> 01:26:28.840
when the lights bloom or some new production when the150401:26:28.920 --> 01:26:31.319
murmur of a crowd fills the carpeted aisles and the150501:26:31.439 --> 01:26:34.319
orchestra begins to tune up, it is kindled with that150601:26:34.520 --> 01:26:37.520
strange magic before the rise of the curtain.150701:26:38.920 --> 01:26:43.399
How about this way twelve and thirteen program Pocket now150801:26:43.520 --> 01:26:45.520
man and this is Rowy your seat je.150901:26:45.720 --> 01:26:48.600
And backstage where nerves crawl and there is a tendency151001:26:48.640 --> 01:26:51.680
to scream. The three witches of the play are huddled151101:26:51.720 --> 01:26:54.640
around the people and the curtain, looking out into the audience.151201:26:55.359 --> 01:26:59.359
They are hideous looking creatures, these witches in gray rags151301:26:59.439 --> 01:27:00.000
like cobwebs.151401:27:04.000 --> 01:27:05.560
Dear, I am scared.151501:27:05.840 --> 01:27:07.159
Don't let it bother you, darling.151601:27:07.399 --> 01:27:09.560
You can't even see the audience when the floats are on.151701:27:09.840 --> 01:27:12.720
There's nothing to worry about, nothing except the size.151801:27:12.479 --> 01:27:13.800
Of the take at the box office.151901:27:13.840 --> 01:27:16.079
You don't even have to worry about that tonight. Look152001:27:16.159 --> 01:27:18.600
out there, you too are shaking as much as I am.152101:27:18.680 --> 01:27:19.920
Now, don't pretend.152201:27:19.680 --> 01:27:22.680
All right, all right, everybody's jumping on first night.152301:27:23.319 --> 01:27:25.680
But I can't understand is why they want to use152401:27:25.720 --> 01:27:28.359
young girls as witches and then make us talk and152501:27:28.439 --> 01:27:30.479
cracked voices as though we were eighty.152601:27:30.680 --> 01:27:36.319
Double double tile and travel fire.152701:27:36.479 --> 01:27:39.279
Burn and call and bubble.152801:27:40.840 --> 01:27:44.800
Say, darling, it's only one of the ghost effects. You've152901:27:44.840 --> 01:27:47.640
been hearing it for weeks at rehearsals. I will say153001:27:47.720 --> 01:27:50.359
this for Iron Willard as an actor and a manager too.153101:27:50.760 --> 01:27:53.479
He's the first one who's ever had a real professional153201:27:53.600 --> 01:27:56.119
magician to do the ghost effects of this ham show.153301:27:56.760 --> 01:27:57.640
Oh are they, Celia?153401:27:57.880 --> 01:28:00.800
Look there out in the audience in the second tuffle153501:28:00.840 --> 01:28:03.000
box on the left hand side. Oh don't you see153601:28:03.039 --> 01:28:03.800
the woman who's.153701:28:03.640 --> 01:28:04.079
Just coming in?153801:28:04.479 --> 01:28:06.840
Yes, I can see her. Not a bad looking bit153901:28:06.880 --> 01:28:07.880
of good for her age?154001:28:08.279 --> 01:28:08.880
What about her?154101:28:09.680 --> 01:28:11.159
But that's Marcia Blair.154201:28:11.680 --> 01:28:14.359
Marcia Blair. You don't mean you've.154301:28:14.279 --> 01:28:14.960
Never heard of her.154401:28:15.119 --> 01:28:16.319
I can't say I have either.154501:28:16.359 --> 01:28:18.399
If it comes to that, w vive, he gives us154601:28:18.399 --> 01:28:18.880
a squint.154701:28:19.319 --> 01:28:21.760
Marcia Blair used to be mister Willard's leading lady.154801:28:22.319 --> 01:28:23.640
She was a very great actress.154901:28:23.640 --> 01:28:26.359
Fifteen years ago. Oh, fifteen years ago.155001:28:26.880 --> 01:28:30.199
She's had a terribly romantic history. But she's made lots155101:28:30.239 --> 01:28:33.199
of money and retired from the stage. Then she married155201:28:33.279 --> 01:28:36.319
some horrible no good. And to see that tall, gray155301:28:36.359 --> 01:28:37.920
haired man standing beside.155401:28:37.600 --> 01:28:39.840
Her, well he doesn't look much like a no good.155501:28:40.159 --> 01:28:43.239
That's not the man I mean, Celia. That's Howard White,155601:28:43.279 --> 01:28:45.960
her second husband. Oh, they say he loved her for155701:28:46.119 --> 01:28:49.840
years and followed her about and practically worshiped her. But155801:28:50.000 --> 01:28:51.880
she was married to this no good and wouldn't get155901:28:51.920 --> 01:28:52.399
a divorce.156001:28:52.680 --> 01:28:54.039
Then the no good died.156101:28:54.159 --> 01:28:57.760
I suppose, so Marcia Blair and how faithful Howard got married.156201:28:58.199 --> 01:29:01.479
Yes, I remember in the paper that they've been married156301:29:01.600 --> 01:29:02.479
one year tonight.156401:29:03.119 --> 01:29:05.239
I expect they're very happy.156501:29:05.319 --> 01:29:07.159
Well, i'd be happy too if I had a mink156601:29:07.199 --> 01:29:08.760
coat and a string of pearls like that.156701:29:08.960 --> 01:29:11.680
So you've got to admit she's beautiful, all right, Katie,156801:29:11.760 --> 01:29:14.600
if you say so. I used to go and see156901:29:14.640 --> 01:29:15.960
her act when I was a little girl.157001:29:16.560 --> 01:29:18.159
She was kind of an idol.157101:29:19.479 --> 01:29:21.479
I wonder what they're saying to each other up in157201:29:21.520 --> 01:29:24.520
the box now, I wonder.157301:29:24.359 --> 01:29:25.279
What they're saying.157401:29:37.840 --> 01:29:41.520
Master, Dear, I wish you wouldn't be so uneasy. Nothing157501:29:41.600 --> 01:29:42.520
can happen to you here.157601:29:42.800 --> 01:29:44.239
You're uneasy yourself, Howard.157701:29:44.960 --> 01:29:47.159
Yes, I suppose I am a little Howard.157801:29:47.800 --> 01:29:49.600
I know I shouldn't be talking like this on our157901:29:49.680 --> 01:29:53.680
first anniversary, But that's what worries me. What if Barry158001:29:53.760 --> 01:29:56.079
isn't dead? What if he isn't dead?158101:29:56.359 --> 01:30:00.279
Listen to me, Darling, your late husband, heaven can damn158201:30:00.399 --> 01:30:03.359
his soul died in New York more than a year ago.158301:30:03.520 --> 01:30:04.359
We have proof of that.158401:30:04.520 --> 01:30:06.039
And then who wrote those letters to me?158501:30:06.159 --> 01:30:08.479
If you don't know, dear, somebody playing a joke on158601:30:08.600 --> 01:30:09.079
your joke.158701:30:09.720 --> 01:30:12.159
If you marry him, Marsha, you won't be alive a158801:30:12.279 --> 01:30:13.720
year from then, joke.158901:30:13.920 --> 01:30:16.399
But you're married to me, my dear, and you are alive.159001:30:17.079 --> 01:30:19.840
Shall I quote you something from another play, Howard, Well,159101:30:20.720 --> 01:30:25.520
the eydes of march are come aye, Caesar, but not gone.159201:30:26.600 --> 01:30:29.319
And it's still two hours two hours to the time159301:30:29.399 --> 01:30:30.399
we were actually married.159401:30:30.479 --> 01:30:33.640
Oh look, sheer, dear, this is carrying an obsession too far.159501:30:34.279 --> 01:30:36.199
It would be just like Barry to wait until the159601:30:36.279 --> 01:30:37.960
last moment just to make it worse.159701:30:38.640 --> 01:30:40.399
You knew him, Yes, I knew him.159801:30:41.079 --> 01:30:42.840
He was a genius, sir.159901:30:43.439 --> 01:30:46.640
As a mere businessman, I never quite understood this theatrical160001:30:46.720 --> 01:30:47.920
temperament except yours.160101:30:48.000 --> 01:30:50.600
Of course, Barry was a greater actor than Myron Mullet160201:30:50.640 --> 01:30:54.119
will ever be. Barry could play anything from a company160301:30:54.199 --> 01:30:57.960
to King Lear. His skillet makeup wasn't merely good, it160401:30:58.119 --> 01:31:02.960
was terrifying. Oh Howard, I am frightened. Suppose he's managed160501:31:02.960 --> 01:31:06.039
to get close to us tonight and and it recon't fision.160601:31:07.680 --> 01:31:10.840
Well the music started, monsieur, I should have to go?160701:31:11.359 --> 01:31:12.279
Must you go hard?160801:31:12.680 --> 01:31:13.039
Really?160901:31:13.319 --> 01:31:16.000
If I break disappointment with Serndale, Dear, the deal will161001:31:16.000 --> 01:31:18.119
be called off. And since I haven't got too much161101:31:18.159 --> 01:31:22.800
backing anyway, all right, dear, I understand, go ahead.161201:31:22.960 --> 01:31:24.039
Unless you wanted to come with.161301:31:24.119 --> 01:31:26.000
Me and miss Myron's opening tonight.161401:31:26.359 --> 01:31:27.279
Oh I couldn't do that.161501:31:27.560 --> 01:31:29.840
I tell you, you'll be perfectly safe here, dear.161601:31:30.079 --> 01:31:32.159
Of course, Howard, I know that.161701:31:32.359 --> 01:31:35.319
Will improve your three thousand people. Nobody could attack you,161801:31:36.000 --> 01:31:36.520
your readose.161901:31:36.600 --> 01:31:39.840
This box is guarded outside that door with Miss Tenton,162001:31:39.840 --> 01:31:42.439
who's devoted to you, and the chauffeur, who's even more162101:31:42.520 --> 01:31:43.159
devoted to you.162201:31:43.560 --> 01:31:44.640
What could happen there?162301:31:44.840 --> 01:31:48.119
Nothing was cold, and I'd prefer to be alone anyway.162401:31:49.000 --> 01:31:50.279
Yes, I rather guess.162501:31:50.640 --> 01:31:54.000
Please, It's just that I can't endure anybody being with162601:31:54.119 --> 01:31:55.600
me when I'm watching a great place.162701:31:56.279 --> 01:31:58.000
But that doesn't include you, darling.162801:31:58.359 --> 01:32:01.159
Then if you like step these adam in honor of162901:32:01.199 --> 01:32:03.439
our first anniversary, oh.163001:32:03.600 --> 01:32:07.720
Howard, but they're lovely, of course, I'll accept them.163101:32:07.960 --> 01:32:10.920
And she has a program that's everything else you need.163201:32:11.600 --> 01:32:13.000
Yes, yes, I think so.163301:32:13.239 --> 01:32:14.960
I just opened the door for the passage to make163401:32:15.000 --> 01:32:17.960
sure our watch dogs are on God. Yes, that's out163501:32:18.000 --> 01:32:21.640
there all right. Good night, Master, see you in an163601:32:21.680 --> 01:32:22.119
hour or two.163701:32:22.560 --> 01:32:24.720
Good night, Howard, and good luck.163801:32:26.359 --> 01:32:31.159
The sentence Bradley, Yes, yes, sure, anything wrong this center.163901:32:31.239 --> 01:32:33.960
You've been my wife's companion secretary for five or six.164001:32:33.920 --> 01:32:36.560
Years, yes, mister White, and I've loved every.164101:32:36.439 --> 01:32:39.319
Minute, and then you badly you haven't been my chauffeur164201:32:39.319 --> 01:32:40.920
for quite so long. But they turn me.164301:32:40.960 --> 01:32:44.239
You're the next wrestler, that's right, champion of the Short164401:32:44.279 --> 01:32:47.239
Ditch Athletic Club and in their prime. Though I says164501:32:47.359 --> 01:32:49.800
I shouldn't, there's good a man as ever climbed through164601:32:49.840 --> 01:32:50.239
the ropes.164701:32:50.439 --> 01:32:52.720
Now you know your instructions badly. You trust me, sir.164801:32:53.199 --> 01:32:55.840
Nobody gets into this year box tonight unless it's over164901:32:55.960 --> 01:32:56.680
my dead body.165001:32:56.840 --> 01:32:58.840
Nothing must happen, you understand nothing.165101:32:59.239 --> 01:33:01.760
See as white as paper as for.165201:33:01.760 --> 01:33:03.880
You, miss sent and the said it's a little awkward.165301:33:04.800 --> 01:33:06.319
I know I ought to ask you to go in and.165401:33:06.359 --> 01:33:09.640
Enjoin Masteria, but I you needn't apologize, mister White. I165501:33:09.800 --> 01:33:11.079
know she doesn't want company.165601:33:11.479 --> 01:33:14.239
She'll be leaning forward with her elbows on the box rail,165701:33:14.680 --> 01:33:17.760
just as she always does. She's merely watching a play.165801:33:18.279 --> 01:33:22.840
She's acting Lady Macbeth, every lie, every gesture, and I165901:33:22.920 --> 01:33:23.920
don't mean to disturb her.166001:33:24.039 --> 01:33:26.359
So you won't leave this door, either of your you'll166101:33:26.439 --> 01:33:32.119
trush me sure if anything wrong badly. It is very166201:33:32.199 --> 01:33:35.239
rummy looking cove coming along the passage, Sair wearing a166301:33:35.279 --> 01:33:37.199
big black cloak with a red line.166401:33:37.680 --> 01:33:40.520
Who that meant badly? Let's only have on Onheim.166501:33:41.159 --> 01:33:44.439
He's a professional magician and a scape artist. He was166601:33:44.520 --> 01:33:46.479
just wondering, excuse.166701:33:46.079 --> 01:33:47.520
Me, don't worry, mister White.166801:33:47.720 --> 01:33:51.159
We look after her, but on him, I say, but166901:33:51.279 --> 01:33:54.920
on him, and not say I did it. Never shake167001:33:55.000 --> 01:33:57.479
the Gordy looks at me. I beg your pardon, and167101:33:57.600 --> 01:33:59.960
I beg yours. My friend, I was merely quoting your167201:34:00.079 --> 01:34:02.920
line from the play. Who are not leaving the theater?167301:34:03.640 --> 01:34:06.000
Surely not walking out on my Beth. I'm afraid I've167401:34:06.079 --> 01:34:08.760
got to. That's a pity, my friend. You will miss167501:34:08.800 --> 01:34:11.279
some of my best effects, to say nothing of Shakespeare's.167601:34:12.000 --> 01:34:14.600
When Banko's Ghosts appears at the table, I don't want167701:34:14.600 --> 01:34:17.720
to share any more about ghosts, thanks Bankers or anybody else's.167801:34:18.319 --> 01:34:20.399
I imagine you mean your wife's late husband.167901:34:21.479 --> 01:34:24.439
You've heard about it, then, yes, your wife has told168001:34:24.479 --> 01:34:26.720
me a good deal. She seems to think that in168101:34:26.840 --> 01:34:29.399
my profession I might have some charm or the demons168201:34:29.479 --> 01:34:32.560
or spell against ghosts, you know, even on him in168301:34:32.640 --> 01:34:35.640
a middle kind of way. That's what I've been wondering myself.168401:34:36.119 --> 01:34:40.600
Unfortunately now I am all too human. But your problem.168501:34:40.439 --> 01:34:42.960
Interests me, and I confess it worries me.168601:34:43.479 --> 01:34:43.880
What is you?168701:34:44.640 --> 01:34:48.239
What about me? As I understand it, her first.168801:34:48.159 --> 01:34:51.000
Husband was a half made American actor who later went168901:34:51.039 --> 01:34:55.399
completely mad and died in New York is a oh,169001:34:55.520 --> 01:34:58.920
what's the word I want? Or obsession? That that's it obsession.169101:34:59.279 --> 01:35:03.199
His obsession was Marcia Blair's eyes. Yes, always her eyes169201:35:03.880 --> 01:35:05.159
seemed to hypnotiz him.169301:35:05.199 --> 01:35:05.760
It is not new.169401:35:05.840 --> 01:35:08.279
You know, you'll find the same moltive the eyes of169501:35:08.319 --> 01:35:11.920
a beautiful woman all through the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Then,169601:35:12.039 --> 01:35:15.319
as I understand it, after this man's death, she began169701:35:15.439 --> 01:35:18.600
to receive a series of letters, how letters apparently written169801:35:18.640 --> 01:35:21.840
by him and threatening her with some rather horrible form169901:35:21.880 --> 01:35:23.680
of death if she married you. I'll tell you Barry170001:35:23.760 --> 01:35:25.840
Lady is dead. He can't get up out of his coffin.170101:35:26.119 --> 01:35:28.359
Getting out of coffins, my friend, is not so difficult.170201:35:28.439 --> 01:35:30.840
I have done it myself, So please stop joking. Vannheim,170301:35:31.520 --> 01:35:35.319
We don't happen to be dead. True, there is that170401:35:35.520 --> 01:35:40.960
small difference. Is your wife here in the theater tonight? Yes,170501:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.680
she wouldn't have come here except it's Madon Wood's first night.170601:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.319
We haven't seen Maden either of us in years. She's170701:35:48.359 --> 01:35:49.319
back there in boxing D.170801:35:49.520 --> 01:35:50.000
So I hear it.170901:35:51.039 --> 01:35:54.000
I was hoping that you might invite me to share171001:35:54.079 --> 01:35:57.319
the box. Look here, old man, I don't want to171101:35:57.319 --> 01:36:01.119
seem inhospitable, but she doesn't want to come company. Well171201:36:01.439 --> 01:36:03.880
that's about it. Well, then walk back a little distance171301:36:03.920 --> 01:36:06.439
with me this way, so that you can see the171401:36:06.479 --> 01:36:09.760
stage from the back of the dress circle. The orchestra171501:36:09.760 --> 01:36:11.479
has stopped and they'll ring up in a moment.171601:36:12.640 --> 01:36:12.880
There.171701:36:13.359 --> 01:36:15.840
Look at it. Look at what the stage man.171801:36:16.880 --> 01:36:19.920
Lights have gone out, all except the dim yellow footlights171901:36:19.960 --> 01:36:23.880
shining at the curtain. The last cough, the last murmur,172001:36:24.239 --> 01:36:27.840
the last rustler. Program dies away in one bast breathing.172101:36:27.560 --> 01:36:29.720
Hush, cut goes up.172201:36:30.640 --> 01:36:33.039
It got my arm, went on him. I've got to leave.172301:36:33.439 --> 01:36:37.520
What are the stage directions? There's a place thunder and172401:36:37.680 --> 01:36:56.079
lightning enter three which when indeed, I wonder my.172501:36:56.119 --> 01:36:58.000
Bigger pardon went on him? Do you speak?172601:36:58.279 --> 01:36:58.319
No?172701:36:58.520 --> 01:36:59.079
It was nothing.172801:37:40.800 --> 01:37:44.199
In the London newspapers for that year, nineteen thirty six,172901:37:45.119 --> 01:37:49.199
you may read how Myron Willard triumphed Drory Lane is173001:37:49.239 --> 01:37:54.039
make Beth. But tonight there's the clock tis on. There173101:37:54.119 --> 01:37:58.520
is another drama in the dimly lighted corridor outside Box173201:37:58.640 --> 01:38:05.000
D there's it's missus Louise Senton, Marcia Blair's companion secretary.173301:38:06.199 --> 01:38:10.199
Beside her, burly and broken nosed is big Jim Bradley,173401:38:10.880 --> 01:38:15.159
the expressler. And when more than half an hour has.173501:38:15.199 --> 01:38:21.119
Passed, there's the applause Jim that at the end of173601:38:21.239 --> 01:38:21.680
her stay.173701:38:21.800 --> 01:38:25.960
Yes, no things happens. Will take my words written ohing's173801:38:26.000 --> 01:38:26.800
going to weapons now.173901:38:26.960 --> 01:38:29.920
She's such a likable person, Jim, and I think one174001:38:29.960 --> 01:38:31.640
of our greater Shakespearean actress.174101:38:31.960 --> 01:38:35.439
I don't much careful is shakespeare business mission. We'll give174201:38:35.479 --> 01:38:37.119
me a good movie with gags to see it.174301:38:37.199 --> 01:38:37.960
It's my style.174401:38:38.079 --> 01:38:39.600
Oh you don't understand, Jim.174501:38:40.239 --> 01:38:40.760
I've seen her.174601:38:40.800 --> 01:38:44.199
It's Juliet as ratherland as Porsche in our own drawing174701:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.239
room without any props. I've heard a rdhom at Bath too,174801:38:47.680 --> 01:38:48.640
whom you should.174901:38:48.399 --> 01:38:51.880
See her eyes were eyes, Yes, you.175001:38:51.880 --> 01:38:54.680
Should see her eyes when she delivers that speech. The175101:38:54.840 --> 01:38:58.199
raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal.175201:38:58.000 --> 01:39:01.520
Enemy wish to be What is it that foreign looking175301:39:01.600 --> 01:39:06.760
cove in the black cape coming along the passage? I175401:39:06.840 --> 01:39:09.079
beg your pardon. You are miss Louise Fenton, aren't you?175501:39:09.439 --> 01:39:10.640
Yes, my name is Fenton.175601:39:10.840 --> 01:39:11.239
What is it.175701:39:11.640 --> 01:39:13.880
I am looking for Anheim, a friend of mister White's,175801:39:14.439 --> 01:39:15.960
and they must see Marcia Blair at one.175901:39:16.079 --> 01:39:16.600
Oh you don't.176001:39:17.119 --> 01:39:18.119
You're not going in there?176101:39:18.279 --> 01:39:18.600
Why not?176201:39:18.960 --> 01:39:21.359
There's nobody goes in there, not if it was the176301:39:21.439 --> 01:39:24.319
King himself, they told I listened to me both of you.176401:39:25.119 --> 01:39:27.520
When the lights went on. I happened to be looking176501:39:27.560 --> 01:39:29.479
at Box D from the other side of the theater,176601:39:30.239 --> 01:39:32.119
and I think there is something wrong.176701:39:32.720 --> 01:39:36.039
But I can't be anything wrong. Jim Bradley and I've176801:39:36.039 --> 01:39:40.439
been sitting here the whole time, except, of course, well.176901:39:40.319 --> 01:39:42.239
Except when I went in there for a few seconds.177001:39:42.279 --> 01:39:44.319
You went in there, miss Fenton May.177101:39:44.359 --> 01:39:46.079
I ask when that was, but it was.177201:39:46.079 --> 01:39:48.640
After mister White had gone, and just before the play started.177301:39:48.920 --> 01:39:51.000
I went in to ask if she wanted anything. She177401:39:51.079 --> 01:39:53.239
said she didn't, so I came out again. And Brady177501:39:53.239 --> 01:39:55.159
has been with me all the time, except he went177601:39:55.199 --> 01:39:56.600
to get a drink of water up the corridor.177701:39:56.680 --> 01:39:57.680
That just George.177801:39:57.399 --> 01:40:00.600
Gorshberg one moment and listened to me. See Blair is177901:40:00.680 --> 01:40:02.439
leaning forward across the railing of the box.178001:40:02.760 --> 01:40:04.520
But that's nothing help on Anheim.178101:40:04.800 --> 01:40:07.000
That's the way she always is, does.178201:40:06.920 --> 01:40:10.199
She always fall forward? With her arms held straight out178301:40:10.399 --> 01:40:11.760
and her head down on her arms.178401:40:12.199 --> 01:40:14.760
That they be careful, message, said Rick Rick.178501:40:15.680 --> 01:40:18.039
Why not open the door and see for yourselves? Would178601:40:18.079 --> 01:40:18.800
that do any harm?178701:40:19.640 --> 01:40:19.680
No?178801:40:20.000 --> 01:40:22.000
I I suppose it wouldn't.178901:40:22.000 --> 01:40:24.800
But oh, there must be some mistake. We haven't had179001:40:24.800 --> 01:40:27.600
a sound from in there. There couldn't be anything wrong.179101:40:28.119 --> 01:40:31.359
You opened the door, mish entron. I'm going to old179201:40:31.479 --> 01:40:39.840
titterish gentleman just in case. Quiet, please quiet fish walk179301:40:39.880 --> 01:40:44.159
in there with me, Please go, cashers though nothing were wrong,179401:40:44.520 --> 01:40:45.760
We don't want to attract attention.179501:40:46.880 --> 01:40:48.520
Now, help on.179601:40:50.119 --> 01:40:52.479
Y face.179701:40:52.680 --> 01:40:55.920
Yes, and don't begin screaming again. It's sent when I179801:40:56.000 --> 01:41:00.720
tell you she's dead. Ready, Yes, sirs, Blair's buddy up179901:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.920
and getry her out into the corridor. In another minute,180001:41:03.960 --> 01:41:05.960
you'll have the whole theater want you to know what's wrong.180101:41:06.199 --> 01:41:10.319
Or raa you in. But what about the people in180201:41:10.399 --> 01:41:11.159
the other boxes.180301:41:11.640 --> 01:41:12.840
Won't they see we've.180401:41:12.640 --> 01:41:14.000
Gone out of the bar to get a drink.180501:41:14.119 --> 01:41:14.960
They won't see anything.180601:41:15.279 --> 01:41:20.359
Honey, she ain't no right weight, The poor lady ain't.180701:41:24.359 --> 01:41:26.520
All The door opened. Let's got it.180801:41:27.000 --> 01:41:32.560
Yeah, close the door. Shall I put her down on180901:41:32.680 --> 01:41:33.600
the floor carefully?181001:41:33.760 --> 01:41:34.000
Yes?181101:41:34.039 --> 01:41:37.159
Better do this I never took those threats seriously. That's181201:41:37.199 --> 01:41:41.199
what I blame myself for. And if something did happen, well,181301:41:41.239 --> 01:41:44.079
I thought he'd attack her, never thought he'd hide away181401:41:44.119 --> 01:41:45.600
across the theater and father's shot.181501:41:45.760 --> 01:41:48.319
And you were quite right, Miss Fenton. Marcia Blair was181601:41:48.399 --> 01:41:52.079
not shut she she wasn't shot. No, they can look181701:41:52.119 --> 01:41:52.560
at the wound.181801:41:53.119 --> 01:41:53.960
I can't look at it.181901:41:54.399 --> 01:41:57.560
She was stabbed, stabbed through the right eye with a narrow,182001:41:57.680 --> 01:42:00.640
sharp blade which entered her brain and killed her instantly.182101:42:01.239 --> 01:42:03.039
Not the pretty death, but the quick one.182201:42:03.479 --> 01:42:06.199
You seem to know a lot about this, Governor. Perhaps182301:42:06.199 --> 01:42:08.439
say do, my friend, and perhaps I can guess a182401:42:08.520 --> 01:42:11.880
lot more. You mean somebody stood out there and threw182501:42:11.920 --> 01:42:14.680
a k eye at it like a ready music hall turn. No,182601:42:14.840 --> 01:42:17.239
I don't mean that either. There's no knife in the182701:42:17.279 --> 01:42:19.479
wound and none in the box. The murderer took it away,182801:42:20.479 --> 01:42:22.520
took it away exactly.182901:42:22.439 --> 01:42:23.279
Half on anheim.183001:42:23.359 --> 01:42:26.840
Please wait, you're not saying someone climbed up from outside183101:42:27.279 --> 01:42:30.079
twenty or thirty feet from the floor and stabbed for183201:42:30.319 --> 01:42:32.760
Marcia in full sight of three thousand people.183301:42:32.920 --> 01:42:35.079
That, Miss Fenton is what The evidence seems to indicate183401:42:35.159 --> 01:42:37.079
that it's impossible, yet it happened.183501:42:37.399 --> 01:42:38.680
There is Marcia Blair's body.183601:42:39.960 --> 01:42:41.199
What's what's the morning bell?183701:42:41.359 --> 01:42:43.800
The second act? People will be coming back here anyway,183801:42:43.920 --> 01:42:45.800
any minute. What are we going to do.183901:42:53.359 --> 01:43:00.920
Wrong?184001:43:01.039 --> 01:43:01.399
The boy?184101:43:10.880 --> 01:43:13.199
I will try the last you.184201:43:29.920 --> 01:43:37.439
M applause, acclaim. Triumph Byron Willard is MiG beet Allen184301:43:37.520 --> 01:43:41.720
Gale is Lady in mid Bet. Magical Effects by Ludwig Banheim.184401:43:43.039 --> 01:43:46.039
Very few persons knew that there is a dead woman184501:43:46.119 --> 01:43:48.479
in the theater, but at the end of the play184601:43:49.359 --> 01:44:06.920
it is a different story. M yeah. The crowd files184701:44:06.960 --> 01:44:12.199
out past the cordon police. The lights are extinguished. The184801:44:12.319 --> 01:44:18.279
great theater is dark and mumbling with echoes. See the184901:44:18.399 --> 01:44:23.720
stage now only the backings are overhead lights pour down185001:44:23.800 --> 01:44:29.359
a pale blaze on two men who stand grotesquely against185101:44:29.439 --> 01:44:33.520
the background of Dunsanane Castle. One of these men is185201:44:33.560 --> 01:44:38.000
Howard White, very near collapsed. The other is Myron Willard himself,185301:44:38.279 --> 01:44:42.039
still wearing his makeup, still wearing helmet and chain mail.185401:44:43.600 --> 01:44:49.960
And when Willard speaks, all.185501:44:51.560 --> 01:44:52.479
Hard White.185601:44:54.119 --> 01:44:55.399
Man, can't you hear what I'm saying?185701:44:55.520 --> 01:44:59.239
Excuse me, this is almost finished, not that I am185801:44:59.319 --> 01:45:02.800
blaming you all. Thank you, madam it's traditionally.185901:45:02.279 --> 01:45:05.159
You know that macbethon unlucky play. But up to the186001:45:05.279 --> 01:45:06.640
very end, I thought I'd never done better.186101:45:07.079 --> 01:45:10.439
Eleven o'cockond calls No. Twelve, How did you like my186201:45:10.560 --> 01:45:13.680
tomorrow and tomorrow speech? They madden and said, I didn't186301:45:13.720 --> 01:45:14.000
hear it.186401:45:14.840 --> 01:45:17.079
Yes, poor old Marcia, she'd have hated.186501:45:16.840 --> 01:45:20.880
To die like that. Marcia was proud of her eyes186601:45:21.279 --> 01:45:23.640
always near satured as an hour but two vandor ward186701:45:23.680 --> 01:45:28.319
glasses as Bana. I am looking at us a under186801:45:28.359 --> 01:45:29.279
the castle archway.186901:45:31.079 --> 01:45:31.399
When I.187001:45:38.760 --> 01:45:39.800
Did you call me my friend?187101:45:40.560 --> 01:45:42.600
It have the difficult to recognize on the all that187201:45:42.720 --> 01:45:45.640
Macbeth makeup. Yes, I was just thinking the same thing.187301:45:46.000 --> 01:45:46.560
Never mind that.187401:45:48.079 --> 01:45:50.760
Where are the police now at the moment, mister Beard,187501:45:50.760 --> 01:45:52.479
The police are in your addressing room. They are using187601:45:52.520 --> 01:45:56.600
you for questioning no reception tonight, of course no, But187701:45:56.760 --> 01:45:58.960
I thought you might be interested in two items of187801:45:59.079 --> 01:46:01.159
information that police have just discovered.187901:46:01.880 --> 01:46:05.399
Oh we are a fairly full house tonight, I believe.188001:46:05.600 --> 01:46:09.399
Furthervell, every saint was reserved reserved, yes, but not occupied.188101:46:09.880 --> 01:46:10.600
I don't follow you.188201:46:11.039 --> 01:46:13.640
One box on the ground floor, Box E, to be exact,188301:46:13.800 --> 01:46:17.159
was empty, reserved and paid for but empty and box188401:46:17.199 --> 01:46:19.840
e oddly enough, but just underneath the one occupied by188501:46:19.920 --> 01:46:23.000
Marcia Blair all the same. I still don't say quite188601:46:23.079 --> 01:46:26.199
what your now. Our next item of information comes to188701:46:26.239 --> 01:46:29.319
an usher an outside. I see it in the stores188801:46:29.439 --> 01:46:31.800
very close to that empty box was occupied where a188901:46:31.920 --> 01:46:35.079
very curious stranger who arrived late in the dark and189001:46:35.159 --> 01:46:38.000
slipped out again by a nearby exit a few minutes afterwards,189101:46:38.279 --> 01:46:40.520
just from a room van Onheim. Are you saying the189201:46:40.600 --> 01:46:43.239
stranger climbed up and attacked Marcia and improve view of189301:46:43.279 --> 01:46:46.680
the audience. No, my friend, the murderer did not approach189401:46:46.720 --> 01:46:49.399
from that direction. Then he must have reached Marcia through189501:46:49.439 --> 01:46:50.720
the door guarded by bed in.189601:46:50.680 --> 01:46:54.439
Miss Clinton. No, not from that direction. Night unfounded man.189701:46:54.600 --> 01:46:56.079
It must have been one way or the other.189801:46:56.680 --> 01:46:57.439
Not necessarily.189901:46:57.600 --> 01:46:59.560
I'm telling me how, don't like I've got enough troubles190001:46:59.560 --> 01:47:01.840
already out the nightmare on top of it.190101:47:02.520 --> 01:47:04.720
Half one on him, half one on him.190201:47:04.800 --> 01:47:06.439
You must take it easy, Miss Fenton. You must not190301:47:06.520 --> 01:47:07.199
excite yourself.190401:47:07.640 --> 01:47:10.560
If the police you've got to help me, they won't190501:47:10.600 --> 01:47:10.960
believe me.190601:47:11.159 --> 01:47:14.000
They won't believe the young ladies here, and that's affect190701:47:14.520 --> 01:47:17.119
I tried to help her all I can, but there's190801:47:17.199 --> 01:47:19.479
things I can swear too, and these I can't.190901:47:19.640 --> 01:47:21.960
You see, I did go into that box, oh just191001:47:22.039 --> 01:47:24.319
for a couple of seconds, I admitted, But no other191101:47:24.439 --> 01:47:26.560
person went, you know, could have got in, so they191201:47:26.720 --> 01:47:28.479
say at least a hintingman.191301:47:28.560 --> 01:47:29.199
I cured her.191401:47:29.720 --> 01:47:31.159
But I swear I never touched you.191501:47:31.359 --> 01:47:34.760
Was questioned you miss fent, Inspector Grimes or Sergeant Blade.191601:47:34.800 --> 01:47:36.840
I'm well, I'm not sure the sergeant.191701:47:36.880 --> 01:47:37.560
I think then I.191801:47:37.520 --> 01:47:38.600
Shouldn't worry ifever you.191901:47:38.840 --> 01:47:42.279
Inspector Grimes knows better his guest, in fact, exactly what192001:47:42.399 --> 01:47:44.680
I have guessed, the same one rather.192101:47:44.640 --> 01:47:46.680
Familiar terms what the police might friend.192201:47:46.840 --> 01:47:50.680
I am, mister Willard. I am anyone who practices escapes192301:47:50.680 --> 01:47:54.960
from handcuffed sex chest and the stage boxes perhaps stage boxes.192401:47:55.000 --> 01:47:59.039
If you insist, excuse me, isn't it Inspector Grimes in192501:47:59.079 --> 01:47:59.520
the wings?192601:47:59.560 --> 01:48:01.119
Now yes, and he's nodding his head.192701:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.039
Then I can tell you I think what you want192801:48:04.119 --> 01:48:04.239
to know.192901:48:04.520 --> 01:48:06.159
But if you don't happen to know anything, that your193001:48:06.239 --> 01:48:06.960
duty to speak up.193101:48:08.359 --> 01:48:11.239
Marsha seems to have had some ridiculous idea that her193201:48:11.319 --> 01:48:15.640
former husband Barry Lake was still alive. Affairs were justified,193301:48:15.680 --> 01:48:18.520
of course, and she wasn't killed by any dead husband.193401:48:18.560 --> 01:48:19.520
I beg your pardon.193501:48:20.039 --> 01:48:23.039
Her fears were justified, though not quite in the way193601:48:23.079 --> 01:48:25.800
she believed, and she was killed by her husband.193701:48:26.159 --> 01:48:28.560
The Lake it's still alive.193801:48:28.800 --> 01:48:30.520
No Berry Lake is dead.193901:48:31.960 --> 01:48:33.399
Marcia was really killed by a girl.194001:48:33.560 --> 01:48:37.159
No, I mean she was killed by her devoted second husband.194101:48:37.560 --> 01:48:41.640
Mister Howard White, you know, is hear what they say?194201:48:42.279 --> 01:48:43.000
That's not true.194301:48:43.079 --> 01:48:45.880
It's a slenderest statement. I have you in called for it.194401:48:46.479 --> 01:48:48.399
Everybody knows how they voted. I was to Marcia.194501:48:48.479 --> 01:48:50.800
Your devotion to my friend was devotion to her money194601:48:51.159 --> 01:48:53.800
and your business affairs have been shaky for a long time.194701:48:53.880 --> 01:48:56.239
That's not true, and you can't prove it. Marcia Bliir194801:48:56.600 --> 01:48:58.960
was inclined to be sherby are a little close fisted194901:48:59.039 --> 01:49:02.840
with money anyway, there's a willing to marry him. But195001:49:03.000 --> 01:49:05.399
mister Hawd White knew he'd never touch a penny unless195101:49:05.399 --> 01:49:05.880
he killed her.195201:49:06.439 --> 01:49:07.720
He wrote the letters himself.195301:49:07.880 --> 01:49:10.039
Tap on on Haim. He can't be guilty.195401:49:10.279 --> 01:49:12.079
She was alive after he left the box.195501:49:12.319 --> 01:49:15.279
He wasn't anywhere near when she died, perfectly correct, Miss Fenton.195601:49:15.680 --> 01:49:18.079
He wasn't there, and yet he killed her exactly.195701:49:18.800 --> 01:49:21.000
But you and Bradley can supply the clue that will195801:49:21.039 --> 01:49:21.439
hang him.195901:49:21.680 --> 01:49:23.000
Me, sir, I don't know nothing.196001:49:23.880 --> 01:49:25.640
I think you do if you put your mind to it.196101:49:26.319 --> 01:49:28.239
Do you remember about how the White said to her196201:49:28.479 --> 01:49:29.560
just before he left the box?196301:49:30.159 --> 01:49:33.359
Yes, he said, good night, Marcia's see you in an196401:49:33.399 --> 01:49:36.640
hour or two. She answered, good night and good luck.196501:49:36.760 --> 01:49:40.560
No, I mean just before that, there wasn't many things.196601:49:40.800 --> 01:49:44.039
You see. It's a slender statement without any proof. It's196701:49:44.079 --> 01:49:46.119
an insult to my position on the stock exchange.196801:49:47.000 --> 01:49:48.640
I do remember something rather queer.196901:49:50.399 --> 01:49:54.800
He said to Marcia jokingly, if you'll accept these, madam,197001:49:54.880 --> 01:49:58.960
in honor of our first anniversary. And Marcia said, how197101:49:59.319 --> 01:50:01.319
they're lovely? Of course I'll accept them.197201:50:01.479 --> 01:50:01.840
That's right.197301:50:01.920 --> 01:50:02.680
Sure he did say it.197401:50:03.039 --> 01:50:05.159
And what do you think he was referring to miss Senton?197501:50:05.640 --> 01:50:07.039
What was he asking her to accept?197601:50:07.239 --> 01:50:10.680
Well, I imagine it was flowers, corsage or something like that.197701:50:10.880 --> 01:50:12.600
Did you see any flowers in the box or pin197801:50:12.680 --> 01:50:13.720
to Marcia Blair's gown?197901:50:14.119 --> 01:50:16.359
No, come to think that I didn't.198001:50:16.720 --> 01:50:18.159
Then what did he give her?198101:50:18.960 --> 01:50:19.640
Don't look at me?198201:50:20.600 --> 01:50:22.520
Now here is a woman who is very near sighted.198301:50:23.279 --> 01:50:26.720
Red yet refuses to wear glasses. But she can accept198401:50:26.720 --> 01:50:28.399
a pair of who's a lie?198501:50:28.520 --> 01:50:29.319
You can't prove it?198601:50:29.680 --> 01:50:33.159
Answers. You better stay here, thank you, Bradly. But the198701:50:33.239 --> 01:50:34.520
place is surrounded the police.198801:50:34.600 --> 01:50:36.600
But I still don't understand.198901:50:36.359 --> 01:50:38.640
Now what happens when you lift upper glasses to your199001:50:38.680 --> 01:50:41.039
eyes and they are not in focus. You turned the199101:50:41.079 --> 01:50:43.119
little wheel in the middle to bring them into focus.199201:50:43.960 --> 01:50:48.920
For Marcia Blair, it was deadly. You mean, yes, they199301:50:48.960 --> 01:50:52.319
were especially constructed glasses, miss Senton. They were invented by199401:50:52.319 --> 01:50:55.199
a French criminal years ago. That little wheel is a199501:50:55.239 --> 01:50:58.600
little trigger. It releases the spring of a sharp, thin199601:50:58.720 --> 01:51:00.720
blade which strikes through the eye, eyes into the brain.199701:51:02.520 --> 01:51:06.239
Marcia Blair died instantly. The glasses, torn from her eye199801:51:06.319 --> 01:51:09.359
by their own weight, dropped over the box rail to199901:51:09.479 --> 01:51:12.439
the carpeted aisle below. The only witness we might have200001:51:12.600 --> 01:51:15.319
noticed would have been the people in the box just underneath.200101:51:15.479 --> 01:51:19.039
And that box was helped by arrangements. Yes, even if200201:51:19.079 --> 01:51:21.760
anybody did see them fall, how the wife was prepared200301:51:21.760 --> 01:51:25.920
to remove the evidence instantly. You haven't forgotten the curious stranger. Curious,200401:51:26.239 --> 01:51:27.720
I mean the man who slipped in after it was200501:51:27.800 --> 01:51:29.720
dark took an I see just under the box and200601:51:29.800 --> 01:51:31.640
slip out again. A few minutes later, the back of200701:51:31.760 --> 01:51:33.920
life would start to finish a contro a word of it.200801:51:34.359 --> 01:51:37.000
I beg your pardon, my friend, didn't you see Inspector200901:51:37.079 --> 01:51:38.720
Grimes not to me a moment ago?201001:51:39.600 --> 01:51:42.000
You are going to hang my friend for one of the.201101:51:42.119 --> 01:51:45.680
Neatest and cruelest crimes in my experience. The police have201201:51:45.920 --> 01:51:48.680
just found those opera glasses with a neat set of201301:51:48.760 --> 01:51:56.119
fingerprints in the side pocket of your motor car. And201401:52:08.479 --> 01:52:13.279
so ends Fireburn and Coln Bubble, starring the distinguished actor201501:52:13.960 --> 01:52:20.079
Paul Lucas Tonight's Tale of Suspense. This is your narrator,201601:52:20.359 --> 01:52:23.319
ted Osburn, a man in black who conveys to you201701:52:23.399 --> 01:52:26.960
Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with201801:52:27.159 --> 01:52:31.560
us again next Tuesday, same time, when Nancy Coleman stars201901:52:31.640 --> 01:52:33.880
in Fear Paints a Picture.202001:52:34.640 --> 01:52:37.000
William Spear, the producer, John Deets.202101:52:36.680 --> 01:52:41.279
The director, Bernard Herman, the composer, conductor, Robert Simmons studio technician,202201:52:41.560 --> 01:52:46.760
and John Dixon Carr, the author, collaborated on to Night's Suspense.202301:52:52.039 --> 01:52:54.439
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.202401:53:14.760 --> 01:53:20.159
Well, my dear, your tea seems in the proper temperature202501:53:21.199 --> 01:53:26.279
to help fend off those chills you've been experiencing. That's good,202601:53:27.039 --> 01:53:33.319
that's very very good. Oh what's that well? I suppose202701:53:33.399 --> 01:53:36.199
I could use a few SIPs myself.202801:53:39.279 --> 01:53:41.199
Now, that is hot.202901:53:44.000 --> 01:53:48.600
The tea never lets you down, It never betrays you.203001:53:49.920 --> 01:53:53.640
You're not sitting and waiting for the double Cross.203101:53:55.920 --> 01:54:00.119
Wait a minute, have you heard the strange tales of203201:54:00.199 --> 01:54:00.760
the Whistler.203301:54:18.159 --> 01:54:19.560
I'm the whistler.203401:54:24.119 --> 01:54:25.640
You cops are going to be on a scene of203501:54:25.720 --> 01:54:28.439
a crime instead of coming in after it's all over. Tonight,203601:54:28.479 --> 01:54:34.920
I'm going to do a little exterminating Sunday night and203701:54:35.119 --> 01:54:37.840
again CBS presents the Whistler.203801:54:46.720 --> 01:54:50.560
I the Whistler know many things, for I walk by night.203901:54:51.520 --> 01:54:54.720
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the204001:54:54.800 --> 01:54:58.039
hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.204101:54:59.399 --> 01:55:01.680
And so I have you to night the story of204201:55:02.039 --> 01:55:07.760
the Double Cross. It is Christmas Eve in the big,204301:55:07.920 --> 01:55:12.119
lonely city of New York. Outside, the snow falls in204401:55:12.239 --> 01:55:16.640
huge floating flakes. Inside an apartment, young Joe Blake sits204501:55:16.680 --> 01:55:19.479
on the floor before a small Christmas tree with his204601:55:19.640 --> 01:55:24.239
four year old nephew, Timmy. Joe's sister died two years ago,204701:55:24.880 --> 01:55:26.880
and for a while the child's father tried to look204801:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.399
after Timmy, but being a detective lieutenant, the father, Steve,204901:55:30.560 --> 01:55:35.159
found it almost impossible. A year ago, young Joe had205001:55:35.199 --> 01:55:37.840
become involved with some hoodlums and would have gone to205101:55:37.920 --> 01:55:42.359
reform school, but for Steve's intercession. Joe has kept out205201:55:42.399 --> 01:55:45.079
of trouble since then and has been living with Steve205301:55:45.279 --> 01:55:48.239
and taking care of the apartment and little Timmy.205401:55:49.760 --> 01:55:51.760
When will Santa Claus come, Uncle Joe?205501:55:52.039 --> 01:55:54.159
Well, I don't think you're come until you go to sleep, Timmy.205601:55:54.439 --> 01:55:55.399
How's it gonna get in?205701:55:55.760 --> 01:55:56.720
He comes down the chimney?205801:55:57.119 --> 01:55:57.880
What chimney?205901:55:58.560 --> 01:56:01.159
I never thought of that. Well, maybe it comes with206001:56:01.199 --> 01:56:01.600
the window.206101:56:01.920 --> 01:56:03.399
They're all locked, Uncle Joe.206201:56:03.960 --> 01:56:06.119
I'll open one after you go to bed. Kid, he'll206301:56:06.119 --> 01:56:09.359
get in. Don't worry about that. Open the biggest one, biggest.206401:56:09.399 --> 01:56:13.199
And why well I saw Center Claus and he's fat206501:56:13.760 --> 01:56:15.119
and a pony is big too.206601:56:15.800 --> 01:56:19.920
Oh, I see, Well, I don't know about the pony, Timmy,206701:56:20.239 --> 01:56:23.199
and of scarce these days, hum, the ponies are kind206801:56:23.239 --> 01:56:24.520
of kind of extinct.206901:56:25.159 --> 01:56:27.920
Well, I could keep my window open. No one would207001:56:27.960 --> 01:56:28.479
smell him.207101:56:29.079 --> 01:56:30.800
Wouldn't you like to have a train just as well?207201:56:31.119 --> 01:56:32.000
If you don't get a pony?207301:56:32.079 --> 01:56:32.239
Huh?207401:56:33.600 --> 01:56:34.199
Had a boy?207501:56:34.319 --> 01:56:37.039
Timmy, you better go to bed now. It's after eleven207601:56:37.079 --> 01:56:39.319
and old Nick won't come, and I say, sure, you're asleep.207701:56:39.880 --> 01:56:40.279
How about it?207801:56:40.720 --> 01:56:41.880
When is daddy coming?207901:56:42.279 --> 01:56:45.079
Oh, he'll be long since. Come on, Timmy, you're gonna208001:56:45.119 --> 01:56:45.359
turn in.208101:56:50.800 --> 01:56:51.000
Eh.208201:56:51.119 --> 01:56:54.560
We are tucked in fine night, Timmy.208301:56:55.039 --> 01:56:56.520
Don't forget to open the window.208401:56:56.840 --> 01:57:12.319
I won't I'll open them all police calls on the208501:57:12.359 --> 01:57:15.600
other end of the dial. Joe, huh, oh, hello, Steve,208601:57:15.640 --> 01:57:16.399
I didn't hear you come in.208701:57:16.920 --> 01:57:17.520
Let me help you.208801:57:18.119 --> 01:57:20.720
I was looking for the police call. No, I just208901:57:20.800 --> 01:57:22.359
put Timmy to bed. Why so late?209001:57:22.680 --> 01:57:22.840
Oh?209101:57:23.039 --> 01:57:25.399
He wanted to see Santa Claus. He's going to be209201:57:25.479 --> 01:57:29.199
kind of disappointed in the morning. How so what's a pony? Well,209301:57:29.479 --> 01:57:31.479
if you can buy him one, Joe, are you kidding?209401:57:31.640 --> 01:57:31.680
No?209501:57:32.680 --> 01:57:34.760
I don't get it. It's a matter with you, Steve.209601:57:35.119 --> 01:57:37.159
Something go wrong tonight. Have you been here all evening?209701:57:37.279 --> 01:57:37.439
Why?209801:57:37.960 --> 01:57:38.960
Sure? Haven't been out?209901:57:39.159 --> 01:57:40.920
Do I always stay with Timmy when you work late?210001:57:41.199 --> 01:57:42.880
You didn't slip out for an hour or so while210101:57:42.920 --> 01:57:45.680
Timmy was asleep. Oh I should I but you could have.210201:57:46.039 --> 01:57:47.920
Sure I could, But I didn't.210301:57:48.760 --> 01:57:48.920
Joe.210401:57:48.960 --> 01:57:50.520
When I got you out of that last scrape, I210501:57:50.560 --> 01:57:51.760
did it because I had a lot of faith in210601:57:51.840 --> 01:57:53.279
you and your promises.210701:57:53.800 --> 01:57:55.479
I still don't get it. I was the one who210801:57:55.560 --> 01:57:57.479
got you that relief chab And at the popping store,210901:57:57.560 --> 01:57:59.279
I vouched for you.211001:57:59.479 --> 01:57:59.880
I know that.211101:58:00.560 --> 01:58:01.079
What about it?211201:58:01.439 --> 01:58:05.479
Somebody open this door is safe tonight, somebody with slick fingers,211301:58:06.439 --> 01:58:09.079
sensitive fingers like like yours.211401:58:09.199 --> 01:58:09.359
Joe.211501:58:09.640 --> 01:58:12.840
What why I'm near the store since noon? You sure211601:58:13.079 --> 01:58:16.640
certainly I'm not crazy. I've had my lessons. I wish211701:58:16.640 --> 01:58:18.279
I could believe that. I swear I haven't been out211801:58:18.319 --> 01:58:18.760
of this house.211901:58:19.560 --> 01:58:21.520
Should you try to pin anything like this on me212001:58:21.760 --> 01:58:24.359
just because I'm I'm working there during the holiday.212101:58:24.079 --> 01:58:27.079
Season, I'm not trying to pin anything on you, just212201:58:27.159 --> 01:58:29.000
as all the ms of your ability is to open212301:58:29.039 --> 01:58:29.359
a safe.212401:58:29.439 --> 01:58:31.640
That's not fair, Steve. I'm true with that kind of stuff.212501:58:31.640 --> 01:58:34.800
I got plans. I'm gonna make something useful of myself.212601:58:34.880 --> 01:58:36.920
You're sure you weren't out of this place. I swear212701:58:37.000 --> 01:58:38.159
I wasn't, Steve, I swear it.212801:58:39.359 --> 01:58:42.560
Okay, I'll take a chance on it. I'm not on212901:58:42.640 --> 01:58:45.000
the case, but I heard about it. I looked start213001:58:45.079 --> 01:58:46.560
checking on all the records of guys like you, and213101:58:46.640 --> 01:58:48.119
they'll probably drop around to see you tomorrow.213201:58:48.199 --> 01:58:49.960
I didn't meet the house, Steve. I didn't, okay, but213301:58:50.039 --> 01:58:52.800
you got to have an alibi. Oh, Timmy was here.213401:58:53.119 --> 01:59:01.199
Timmy's a baby, he won't count. Oh hello, Steve, Why evening?213501:59:01.359 --> 01:59:05.119
Captain? Come money in? You know my brother in law Joan?213601:59:05.720 --> 01:59:07.000
Yeah, I remember him.213701:59:07.720 --> 01:59:08.560
What can I do for you?213801:59:08.960 --> 01:59:09.279
Sit down?213901:59:09.319 --> 01:59:11.399
I was just ready to turn in, but sitting around214001:59:11.439 --> 01:59:13.960
reading for a couple of those kind of drowsy.214101:59:14.279 --> 01:59:14.479
Yeah.214201:59:14.920 --> 01:59:16.119
How long you been here, Steve?214301:59:16.840 --> 01:59:17.000
Why?214401:59:17.000 --> 01:59:19.039
I got off duty at eight, been home since eight214501:59:19.079 --> 01:59:19.560
thirty one?214601:59:19.840 --> 01:59:21.079
How long has Joe been here?214701:59:22.039 --> 01:59:23.800
He was here when I came in. He's been here214801:59:23.840 --> 01:59:25.640
all evening. Hasn't been out, certainly not.214901:59:25.760 --> 01:59:26.760
What are you getting at, Captain?215001:59:27.000 --> 01:59:29.720
George's been working mornings at Shelby's department store, hasn't he?215101:59:30.039 --> 01:59:30.239
Yeah?215201:59:30.359 --> 01:59:31.000
Yeah, that's right.215301:59:31.439 --> 01:59:34.439
Well they're safe. Was open tonight around nine thirty. They215401:59:34.520 --> 01:59:37.199
closed at seven thirty. I thought we'd check up on215501:59:37.239 --> 01:59:38.800
the boys with sensitive fingers.215601:59:38.960 --> 01:59:41.359
Joe Why, I hadn't been out of the house. I215701:59:41.520 --> 01:59:45.159
swear to that you will. Certainly I will. Joe's through215801:59:45.239 --> 01:59:46.079
with that kind of stuff.215901:59:46.239 --> 01:59:49.000
Yeah, then how would you explain this, Steve?216001:59:49.159 --> 01:59:53.880
Would you get that togarettads? Wait a minute, let's see that.216101:59:54.119 --> 01:59:56.920
Sure we found it beside the safe.216201:59:57.479 --> 02:00:00.399
So this is the cacious syst he gave you a216302:00:00.479 --> 02:00:03.720
year before, lest he had your name engraved down it.216402:00:03.840 --> 02:00:06.560
Yeah, but how to get there? I've never been near216502:00:06.640 --> 02:00:10.279
the store safe. No, I suppose you just lost it someone.216602:00:10.359 --> 02:00:12.960
When did you see that case last year? Yeah? I216702:00:13.039 --> 02:00:15.159
had it this morning. As a matter of fact, I216802:00:15.239 --> 02:00:15.800
hadn't missed it.216902:00:16.640 --> 02:00:18.319
You expect me to believe that, Steve?217002:00:18.960 --> 02:00:19.000
No?217102:00:19.560 --> 02:00:21.279
Do you expect me to believe that you were here217202:00:21.359 --> 02:00:21.880
all evening?217302:00:22.560 --> 02:00:22.600
No?217402:00:24.039 --> 02:00:25.319
You dirty little right?217502:00:26.119 --> 02:00:27.039
You did pull that out?217602:00:27.119 --> 02:00:27.159
No?217702:00:27.319 --> 02:00:28.800
No, I swear I didn't see if I swear?217802:00:28.920 --> 02:00:31.640
No, what this means, Steve? You haven't been here all evening.217902:00:31.680 --> 02:00:33.560
You're lying. You're trying to furnish an alibi for Joe.218002:00:33.600 --> 02:00:34.319
Do you know what that means?218102:00:34.399 --> 02:00:34.600
Yes?218202:00:34.680 --> 02:00:38.039
I know what it means. Sneaking little crook. I believed218302:00:38.039 --> 02:00:41.039
in him. Get him out of here, Get him out218402:00:41.079 --> 02:00:41.600
before I break.218502:00:41.640 --> 02:00:44.279
It's next, Steve, Please letten ll be hearing about you,218602:00:44.479 --> 02:00:53.960
Steve in the morning, but Joe can't explain how his218702:00:54.039 --> 02:00:56.159
cigarette case happened to be near the safe.218802:00:56.920 --> 02:00:59.359
He remember having lunch with a few of the old.218902:00:59.239 --> 02:01:04.000
Gang Lady had disappeared there, but nothing can be proved,219002:01:04.720 --> 02:01:08.479
so Joe is convicted and sent to prison for two years.219102:01:09.720 --> 02:01:12.920
Steve is discharged from the police force and goes into seclusion,219202:01:13.399 --> 02:01:17.359
his heart filled with bitter hatred for Joe. Two years219302:01:17.520 --> 02:01:21.079
passed and Joe was released, determined to make a success219402:01:21.119 --> 02:01:24.960
of his life, regardless of his past. Steve has disappeared,219502:01:25.520 --> 02:01:28.960
but Joe meets Della Kenton, daughter of wealthy John Kenton.219602:01:29.560 --> 02:01:32.920
Della persuades her father to engage Joe as his secretary.219702:01:36.479 --> 02:01:38.640
Guess who, Darling, Why?219802:01:38.720 --> 02:01:41.399
I can't imagine, but if I could, I guess it219902:01:41.520 --> 02:01:41.920
was Bella.220002:01:42.640 --> 02:01:45.039
Well you guess right? Are you going to type all.220102:01:44.960 --> 02:01:45.520
Day, Joseph?220202:01:45.560 --> 02:01:47.399
No, not all day, Darling, I'll be throwing a few minutes.220302:01:47.439 --> 02:01:49.479
I've got a message for you. I knew you were busy,220402:01:49.560 --> 02:01:52.479
so I answered the phone. It was a man, Thank Heaven,220502:01:52.800 --> 02:01:55.079
and he said to tell you that he'd located your friend, Steve.220602:01:55.760 --> 02:01:56.560
Did you get the address?220702:01:56.720 --> 02:01:57.520
Yes, Darling, but.220802:01:57.560 --> 02:02:00.800
Don't get so excited here. It is four fifty four220902:02:00.960 --> 02:02:05.600
East seventeenth Street. That's certainly a dilapidated part of town.221002:02:05.920 --> 02:02:07.039
Whom do you know who lives there?221102:02:07.359 --> 02:02:08.119
Well, I used to know.221202:02:08.279 --> 02:02:11.119
I'm trying to locate him for two years. This is221302:02:11.159 --> 02:02:13.279
a sort of a cheap locality, isn't it. May I221402:02:13.399 --> 02:02:15.119
go with you, oh, darling, I'd rather you didn't.221502:02:15.159 --> 02:02:16.399
I'll be gone long.221602:02:16.439 --> 02:02:16.920
I hope not.221702:02:17.119 --> 02:02:18.039
And don't forget.221802:02:18.159 --> 02:02:20.479
Father is arriving on the midnight train and he expects.221902:02:20.199 --> 02:02:20.760
Us to meet him.222002:02:20.920 --> 02:02:22.680
Yeah, I remember, I'll be back soon.222102:02:22.640 --> 02:02:23.920
All right, darling, I'll be ready.222202:02:24.039 --> 02:02:25.640
Solla, just a moment.222302:02:26.119 --> 02:02:30.239
Haven't you forgotten something? What are you a married man?222402:02:30.720 --> 02:02:33.399
It's certainly not. That is not yet?222502:02:33.600 --> 02:02:35.960
Well, they know that's so much like one. Come back222602:02:36.000 --> 02:02:36.600
here and kiss me.222702:02:37.039 --> 02:02:40.880
I'm sorry, Abella, Darling, I'm.222802:02:39.920 --> 02:02:41.039
So excited I forgot.222902:02:42.680 --> 02:02:43.680
Hmm, that's better.223002:02:44.039 --> 02:02:46.680
Now you can go go on. I'll be god, I223102:02:46.760 --> 02:02:48.720
hope not, because I want to talk to you about Christmas.223202:02:49.000 --> 02:02:49.439
Christmas.223302:02:49.640 --> 02:02:51.399
Yes, we're going to give a Christmas party and I223402:02:51.479 --> 02:02:52.159
want you to help me.223502:02:52.520 --> 02:03:08.520
Yes, of course, Darling, I won't be long, timmy, Well, well,223602:03:09.399 --> 02:03:10.159
how are you a baby.223702:03:10.479 --> 02:03:12.199
Huh, what do you want?223802:03:12.319 --> 02:03:12.359
What?223902:03:12.520 --> 02:03:13.640
Timmy, don't you remember me?224002:03:14.239 --> 02:03:14.720
To your uncle?224102:03:14.800 --> 02:03:15.000
Joe?224202:03:17.319 --> 02:03:21.079
Gee, it's good to see you, Joe, Gee.224302:03:21.880 --> 02:03:24.399
Joe, Golly, I've been looking for you and your dad224402:03:24.439 --> 02:03:26.840
ever since over a year.224502:03:27.760 --> 02:03:28.399
Where's your dad?224602:03:28.800 --> 02:03:32.319
I don't know, someplace, I guess, Yeah, how.224702:03:32.239 --> 02:03:33.159
Long you been in this place?224802:03:33.760 --> 02:03:34.479
A long time?224902:03:35.039 --> 02:03:35.760
What's Steve doing?225002:03:36.079 --> 02:03:36.439
I don't know.225102:03:37.199 --> 02:03:40.560
It's almost Christmas again, Timmy. Remember that last Christmas and225202:03:40.640 --> 02:03:43.840
you wanted a pony? What would you like to have225302:03:43.920 --> 02:03:44.680
most of this Christmas?225402:03:44.960 --> 02:03:45.159
Huh?225502:03:45.840 --> 02:03:47.920
How'd you like a bicycle or a pair of skates?225602:03:49.319 --> 02:03:49.520
Hey?225702:03:49.760 --> 02:03:53.000
Hey, what's wrong, Timmy? Are you crying?225802:03:53.800 --> 02:03:56.479
I I'd like to have a bicycle.225902:03:56.560 --> 02:03:57.920
Say what are you doing in bed at this time226002:03:57.960 --> 02:03:58.600
of the afternoon?226102:03:59.239 --> 02:03:59.960
I couldn't rune?226202:04:00.119 --> 02:04:01.680
No bicycle, Timmy? What is it?226302:04:02.880 --> 02:04:03.159
Tell me?226402:04:03.239 --> 02:04:03.520
Babby?226502:04:04.119 --> 02:04:07.319
I don't know, Uncle Joe. I just can't walk.226602:04:08.279 --> 02:04:08.720
When did this.226702:04:08.800 --> 02:04:11.119
Happen last summers?226802:04:11.279 --> 02:04:12.319
My foot wouldn't work.226902:04:12.920 --> 02:04:15.239
Then my leg wouldn't working, Timmy.227002:04:15.880 --> 02:04:18.960
But I'll be all right pretty soon, as soon as227102:04:19.119 --> 02:04:20.880
pop get some money for the operation.227202:04:21.159 --> 02:04:23.560
Of course you will, Timmy, You'll be all right no227302:04:23.680 --> 02:04:26.960
time at all. Well, that must be Steve now, I'll227402:04:26.960 --> 02:04:28.359
close your door for a minute. Timmy, I want to227502:04:28.359 --> 02:04:28.840
talk to Steve.227602:04:29.479 --> 02:04:30.720
You'll come back, uncle, Joe.227702:04:31.000 --> 02:04:32.000
Yeah, I'll be back a lot.227802:04:32.079 --> 02:04:32.239
Now.227902:04:33.279 --> 02:04:35.520
Hello, Steve, what are you doing here?228002:04:36.159 --> 02:04:36.880
I'll let you win.228102:04:37.119 --> 02:04:40.000
I walked in. The door was open, let's still open.228202:04:40.439 --> 02:04:40.840
Get out.228302:04:41.000 --> 02:04:42.680
I've been looking for you ever since I got out.228402:04:42.800 --> 02:04:43.119
What for?228502:04:43.600 --> 02:04:47.399
I wanted to explain things. I'm sorry about what happened228602:04:47.399 --> 02:04:49.600
to you, Steve. I don't want any explanations. What's wrong228702:04:49.640 --> 02:04:51.960
with Timmy? How you going?228802:04:52.720 --> 02:04:54.640
It looked like you'd been drinking a lot, Steve, So228902:04:55.479 --> 02:04:56.920
you wouldn't be living in a place.229002:04:56.760 --> 02:04:57.600
Like this if you were working.229102:04:57.680 --> 02:05:01.239
I'm getting by all right. What about Timmy's opera? Can229202:05:01.319 --> 02:05:01.920
you take care of that?229302:05:02.079 --> 02:05:02.800
I will, I will.229402:05:02.960 --> 02:05:05.119
Maybe I could help Steve while you've feeve a little red.229502:05:05.840 --> 02:05:07.399
I wouldn't take anything from you. I Timmy and I229602:05:07.520 --> 02:05:09.479
both started a day. Don't be a fool, Steve. I229702:05:09.560 --> 02:05:11.800
haven't got anything, but I may be able to raise229802:05:11.840 --> 02:05:16.319
some money. Oh, open another safe. I get out of229902:05:16.359 --> 02:05:17.399
here before I throw you out.230002:05:17.960 --> 02:05:19.800
You're drunks. I'm not drunk and I don't need Joe.230102:05:19.840 --> 02:05:25.640
Get out, okay, Steve, Okay, I'll go, but if you don't.230202:05:25.520 --> 02:05:27.279
Care about Timmy, I do how Lord, Timmy's got to230302:05:27.279 --> 02:05:30.439
be operated on within thirty days. It'll take two thousand dollars,230402:05:30.520 --> 02:05:33.039
maybe more, and I'll get it. I won't stay it230502:05:33.119 --> 02:05:35.119
the way you would, and I'll get it. I get230602:05:35.159 --> 02:05:36.199
out of here before I brain you.230702:05:37.279 --> 02:05:39.760
So a long steve, I'll be seeing you.230802:05:47.359 --> 02:05:50.600
Dusk has descended as Joe leaves the chief apartment and230902:05:50.800 --> 02:05:54.319
drives to the palatial estate of his fiance Della. He231002:05:54.439 --> 02:05:56.880
has decided to ask Della's father to lend him the231102:05:56.960 --> 02:06:00.439
two thousand dollars. As he turns into the drive, a231202:06:00.560 --> 02:06:02.560
man steps out in the side the gate and stands231302:06:02.640 --> 02:06:03.439
before his car.231402:06:06.720 --> 02:06:07.239
What do you want?231502:06:07.399 --> 02:06:08.600
I want to talk to you, Joe.231602:06:09.119 --> 02:06:10.680
Oh you Freddie Elsa.231702:06:11.119 --> 02:06:11.920
You remember me, Joe?231802:06:12.439 --> 02:06:12.840
What do you want?231902:06:12.920 --> 02:06:13.199
Buddy?232002:06:13.760 --> 02:06:16.640
Mike Slaviage wants that little gam fast with you. Mike Slavage?232102:06:17.279 --> 02:06:18.920
Where is it? Turn out your lights and turn out232202:06:18.960 --> 02:06:19.239
your mother?232302:06:20.159 --> 02:06:21.159
What are you doing here, Mike?232402:06:21.199 --> 02:06:21.640
I'll tell you.232502:06:21.840 --> 02:06:22.479
Are you, Joe?232602:06:23.000 --> 02:06:24.960
How you doing? What are you doing around here?232702:06:25.039 --> 02:06:25.199
Mike?232802:06:25.439 --> 02:06:27.920
I want to talk to you friend if I get in.232902:06:30.119 --> 02:06:32.279
You've been doing all right since you got out, having you, Joe,233002:06:32.439 --> 02:06:35.680
Well enough, I'll see living in this big joint gage233102:06:35.720 --> 02:06:37.920
to a man Kenton's daughter. That's what I call climbing233202:06:38.960 --> 02:06:40.640
the old man secretary and she yeah, I get to233302:06:40.720 --> 02:06:43.520
the point. Old man Kenton's got a safe in that house.233402:06:43.680 --> 02:06:44.720
It's got a lot of rocks in it.233502:06:45.079 --> 02:06:45.560
What about it?233602:06:46.159 --> 02:06:48.439
We thought you might help us get them, you know,233702:06:48.520 --> 02:06:49.520
the combination of the safe.233802:06:49.600 --> 02:06:50.079
You're crazy.233902:06:50.079 --> 02:06:51.840
I wouldn't think of it. We could change a mind,234002:06:52.720 --> 02:06:53.119
couldn't we.234102:06:53.159 --> 02:06:53.359
Friend?234202:06:53.479 --> 02:06:55.319
Yeah, more ways than what, get out of this car.234302:06:56.319 --> 02:07:00.239
You don't scare angel? No, well, we mean business. I234402:07:00.319 --> 02:07:01.000
bet don't scare you.234502:07:01.039 --> 02:07:03.199
Maybe something else will think so we know, a quiet234602:07:03.199 --> 02:07:06.880
little spot, no one would find you for weeks if ever.234702:07:07.680 --> 02:07:11.840
Well, a real gun, shoulder, wholestir and everything come a234802:07:11.840 --> 02:07:14.319
long way since we were kids. Mike started out of234902:07:14.399 --> 02:07:16.239
cap pistols and not the real thing.235002:07:16.479 --> 02:07:20.319
Eh. All you do is squeeze it. It's what's lad235102:07:20.399 --> 02:07:22.000
instead of ward. How hard do you think you'd get235202:07:22.000 --> 02:07:22.760
if you did squeeze it?235302:07:23.359 --> 02:07:27.159
We've never been pinched yet, no record, no finger prints,235402:07:27.960 --> 02:07:29.640
no nothing, first.235502:07:29.399 --> 02:07:35.199
Time for everything, eh, cigarette Mike, Yeah, thanks, jo.235602:07:36.680 --> 02:07:41.279
Oh, get a load of a cigarette case ready, Joseph235702:07:41.399 --> 02:07:43.520
from Della fancy stuff.235802:07:45.479 --> 02:07:50.119
Well, how about it, Joe looks like I'm stuck. I235902:07:50.199 --> 02:07:53.159
think you guys mean business. What's your plan?236002:07:53.680 --> 02:07:55.680
Old man, kitten's out of time? We walk in with you.236102:07:55.680 --> 02:07:57.560
You open the safe, take the rocks and we'll leave.236202:07:57.600 --> 02:07:57.960
All leave.236302:07:58.000 --> 02:07:59.680
We'll take you with us. We'll hide out for day236402:07:59.760 --> 02:08:01.600
so they start looking for you. You'll be accused. You236502:08:01.640 --> 02:08:04.600
now wait a morn, get gone, Joe, out of that car.236602:08:04.560 --> 02:08:12.399
And up that drive. Open it up, Joe, quit stalling.236702:08:12.520 --> 02:08:13.960
Okay, okay, it's open.236802:08:14.079 --> 02:08:14.760
Hand me the stuff.236902:08:15.600 --> 02:08:21.319
Here you are. Thanks, Now let's go. Are you in237002:08:21.399 --> 02:08:24.479
the library and talk to her? Sending a leading town237102:08:24.520 --> 02:08:26.279
for a few days. No monkey business will be watching.237202:08:26.439 --> 02:08:28.760
Oh yes, Ella, I'll be right out.237302:08:31.359 --> 02:08:32.439
Where have you been, darling?237402:08:32.479 --> 02:08:33.800
We've got to meet that train.237502:08:33.840 --> 02:08:38.479
Well, I dea, I was, Well, I'm sorry, but you'll237602:08:38.479 --> 02:08:40.760
have to meet your father alone. I got to run237702:08:40.800 --> 02:08:43.399
out of town tonight on business. I'll be back in237802:08:43.439 --> 02:08:43.920
a few days.237902:08:44.039 --> 02:08:45.680
What when did this come on?238002:08:46.279 --> 02:08:48.239
Just a few minutes ago? I'm going to drive.238102:08:48.760 --> 02:08:52.000
Well, well, all right, darling, if you must, will you238202:08:52.079 --> 02:08:53.640
be back in town to the Christmas party?238302:08:53.800 --> 02:08:54.680
I hope?238402:08:54.720 --> 02:08:57.399
So Dyla well, i'd better get to the station. The238502:08:57.479 --> 02:09:00.720
train will be in in a few minutes. Yeah, goodbye, goodbye,238602:09:00.840 --> 02:09:03.079
and take care of yourself, Joseph.238702:09:02.840 --> 02:09:06.640
I'll try, Darling. Since she gets out the drive, we'll238802:09:06.720 --> 02:09:09.159
leave you. Take my cross ready, I'll drive with Joe.238902:09:09.319 --> 02:09:09.600
Come on.239002:09:18.319 --> 02:09:18.479
Now.239102:09:18.680 --> 02:09:21.880
Two days later, the story of the jewel theft breaks239202:09:21.920 --> 02:09:25.880
in the newspapers. Joe Blake is suspected. Old Man Kenton239302:09:25.920 --> 02:09:28.359
has offered a reward for the recovery of the stones239402:09:28.439 --> 02:09:30.159
and apprehension of Joe.239502:09:30.880 --> 02:09:31.399
Gee Mike.239602:09:31.479 --> 02:09:33.760
He's offering ten thousand dollars for the recovery of the239702:09:33.840 --> 02:09:35.960
rocks and twenty five hundred for the capture of Joe.239802:09:36.239 --> 02:09:40.479
I see I see well, lailo for a few more days,239902:09:40.520 --> 02:09:42.439
then skip the Chicago and unload this stuff.240002:09:42.439 --> 02:09:42.880
Why do that?240102:09:43.560 --> 02:09:45.680
You got a better deal right here in town. How240202:09:45.720 --> 02:09:47.840
do you mean, Joe, you'd make a lot more by240302:09:47.880 --> 02:09:49.960
collecting this reward than you would from a fence out240402:09:50.000 --> 02:09:50.279
of town.240502:09:50.960 --> 02:09:52.720
You mean we go back to Kenton and hand over240602:09:52.760 --> 02:09:53.159
the stuff?240702:09:53.199 --> 02:09:53.479
Why not?240802:09:54.159 --> 02:09:57.039
Not a bad idea. We'd have to take you with240902:09:57.239 --> 02:09:59.880
us and turn in. Certainly you'd have to do that241002:10:00.000 --> 02:10:02.239
to prove all you found the jewels. What's your plan?241102:10:02.760 --> 02:10:06.520
Oh look, you guys are a couple of private detectives241202:10:06.840 --> 02:10:09.680
and you read about the rewards. See it just happened241302:10:09.680 --> 02:10:12.399
to spot me and grab me, brought me back to Kenton,241402:10:13.399 --> 02:10:16.119
turn over the stuff, and he pays off. I'll make241502:10:16.159 --> 02:10:18.239
a break for the door. Got to take a few241602:10:18.279 --> 02:10:19.920
shots at me to make it look real, which your241702:10:19.920 --> 02:10:22.880
shoot wild. I got away, and later on, when the241802:10:22.920 --> 02:10:25.720
coast is square, I'll drop around. I leave you on241902:10:25.760 --> 02:10:27.640
the clear, and I don't get locked up.242002:10:28.279 --> 02:10:29.520
I think it's a nutty idea.242102:10:30.079 --> 02:10:31.199
What if it don't work? Shut up?242202:10:32.560 --> 02:10:35.920
That ain't a bad idea, Joe, and take you up242302:10:36.000 --> 02:10:36.279
on that.242402:10:47.159 --> 02:10:49.880
So, mister Kenton, I and my partner right about the242502:10:49.960 --> 02:10:52.319
theft and saw this guy's picture and happened to spot242602:10:52.399 --> 02:10:53.279
him in this lunch room.242702:10:53.359 --> 02:10:56.560
So we nabbed him. Well, here he is, and there's242802:10:56.640 --> 02:10:57.439
all your jewelry.242902:10:57.640 --> 02:10:57.960
He is?243002:10:58.520 --> 02:10:59.319
Is this all here?243102:11:00.039 --> 02:11:00.359
Bit of it?243202:11:01.079 --> 02:11:03.560
Check it over, della. See if your jewels are all there?243302:11:03.840 --> 02:11:05.600
Yes, father, nothing of mine is missing.243402:11:06.159 --> 02:11:08.520
Very well, I suppose you want the reward.243502:11:09.199 --> 02:11:13.159
Well, after all, I'll give you this check for ten243602:11:13.239 --> 02:11:15.960
thousand dollars of the return of the stones and I'll243702:11:16.039 --> 02:11:18.319
withhold the twenty five hundred until.243802:11:18.159 --> 02:11:22.079
He is booked by the police and locked up. Well, okay,243902:11:22.279 --> 02:11:25.680
but we captured him. What more do you one? I244002:11:25.800 --> 02:11:26.680
prefer it that way.244102:11:27.079 --> 02:11:28.840
I want to be sure that he's locked up, and244202:11:28.920 --> 02:11:30.720
if he gets out in twenty years, it will be244302:11:30.800 --> 02:11:34.560
too soon for me. You certainly pulled the wool over244402:11:34.680 --> 02:11:37.399
my eyes when I think that Della might have married244502:11:37.439 --> 02:11:38.760
you an next convict.244602:11:38.880 --> 02:11:40.479
You can't always judge a book let's cover.244702:11:40.720 --> 02:11:42.640
It doesn't seem possible. I could have been such an244802:11:42.680 --> 02:11:43.279
utter fool.244902:11:43.359 --> 02:11:44.840
You got a lot of things to learn, Della.245002:11:45.000 --> 02:11:46.600
The sooner you get him out of here, the better.245102:11:46.880 --> 02:11:49.720
Well, here's your check, and Len, Della, he get away245202:11:50.000 --> 02:11:57.399
back here. He's locked it from the other side.245302:11:57.520 --> 02:11:58.359
He won't get fat.245402:11:58.600 --> 02:11:59.279
I must have hit it.245502:11:59.399 --> 02:11:59.960
Call the police.245602:12:00.079 --> 02:12:02.640
Never mind, we'll get him twenty five hundred long stars.245702:12:02.720 --> 02:12:04.359
Come on, Freddy, I'm this spinter. He will get far.245802:12:07.239 --> 02:12:07.680
You're hear him?245902:12:07.720 --> 02:12:10.840
Really, no, I missed him deliberately shut high. Now that246002:12:10.920 --> 02:12:12.760
I think about it, I'm just a sap. That was246102:12:12.800 --> 02:12:14.680
our chance to get rid of him, sort of legally.246202:12:15.039 --> 02:12:15.720
He knows too much.246302:12:15.760 --> 02:12:17.800
I don't press him, but we ain't really costs or246402:12:17.880 --> 02:12:19.880
what any citizens got a right to catch a future that.246502:12:19.960 --> 02:12:21.159
Come on, we're going to get that baby.246602:12:28.640 --> 02:12:31.359
Joe makes a getaway and heads for a little hotel246702:12:31.479 --> 02:12:35.039
where he hides out for another day. Then the papers246802:12:35.079 --> 02:12:38.560
break with another story and Kenon has increased the reward246902:12:38.720 --> 02:12:42.840
for Joe's capture. Joe studies this over for a while247002:12:42.920 --> 02:12:46.560
and realizes the possibility of Mike's double crossing him for247102:12:46.680 --> 02:12:50.279
the additional reward. He slips out for a while, then247202:12:50.359 --> 02:12:52.560
returns to his room around eight in the evening.247302:12:58.680 --> 02:12:59.119
Who is it?247402:12:59.520 --> 02:12:59.920
Open up?247502:13:00.319 --> 02:13:00.800
Kick it down?247602:13:01.119 --> 02:13:01.479
Steve?247702:13:04.239 --> 02:13:07.439
Well so, he yeah, the rad himself. What do you want, Steve?247802:13:07.600 --> 02:13:08.199
What do you think?247902:13:08.840 --> 02:13:09.760
Are you back on the force?248002:13:09.840 --> 02:13:10.079
Steve?248102:13:10.319 --> 02:13:11.720
I will be when I get through with you.248202:13:12.479 --> 02:13:15.079
Because of you, I got kicked out and now you're248302:13:15.119 --> 02:13:17.000
the one who's gonna set me back in harness again.248402:13:17.720 --> 02:13:20.279
Funny how things work on. Oh you know about the reward,248502:13:20.319 --> 02:13:20.479
do you?248602:13:20.880 --> 02:13:21.119
Yeah?248702:13:21.439 --> 02:13:21.680
I do.248802:13:23.600 --> 02:13:26.640
Once a crook, always a crook. I knew you'd pull248902:13:26.720 --> 02:13:27.600
something sooner or later.249002:13:28.439 --> 02:13:31.880
As Timmy, he's just going to be fine in a249102:13:31.960 --> 02:13:33.880
few days. What do you mean he can have that249202:13:34.000 --> 02:13:37.199
operation now? I'm good glad to hear that Ye're not249302:13:37.279 --> 02:13:37.720
half as.249402:13:37.640 --> 02:13:40.079
Glad as I am. And the thing that pleases me249502:13:40.199 --> 02:13:42.760
most is the way I'm getting the dough boy. This249602:13:42.960 --> 02:13:45.319
rap is gonna send you away for twenty years. So watch,249702:13:45.439 --> 02:13:48.479
get your hat and start walking, and don't try that249802:13:48.560 --> 02:13:50.800
fade out stuff on me. Because I like you so much.249902:13:50.880 --> 02:14:05.039
I'd as soon plug is look at you. Thanks mister Kenton,250002:14:05.279 --> 02:14:07.920
Thanks very much. I wouldn't have come out so soon.250102:14:08.039 --> 02:14:10.880
But well, this money is a lifesaving how's that, Bradley?250202:14:11.079 --> 02:14:13.720
My kid Timmy's got to have an operation I had250302:14:13.840 --> 02:14:16.000
never sent. It has to be done in a few250402:14:16.079 --> 02:14:20.000
days where he won't live checks a real Christmas present.250502:14:20.039 --> 02:14:22.720
Mister Bradley, What do you think they will do with Joseph?250602:14:22.800 --> 02:14:26.760
Oh, he'll get twenty years two time losing shame. I250702:14:26.840 --> 02:14:28.279
had a lot of faith in that boy.250802:14:28.760 --> 02:14:31.600
So the Della. I just can't understand that there's been250902:14:31.640 --> 02:14:32.760
some others who felt that way.251002:14:33.039 --> 02:14:34.560
Who what did he have to gain?251102:14:34.960 --> 02:14:37.439
He was engaged at Della, he could have had everything,251202:14:38.039 --> 02:14:40.239
and he was very stupid to do what he did.251302:14:40.520 --> 02:14:42.279
What do you mean, well, he took a chance on251402:14:42.399 --> 02:14:44.520
his life when he escaped from this room.251502:14:45.079 --> 02:14:46.079
He knew those two men.251602:14:46.119 --> 02:14:48.760
I had guns. Good thing for him that the big251702:14:48.840 --> 02:14:49.920
fella couldn't shoot straight.251802:14:50.000 --> 02:14:52.560
They fired, and the big man did as he went251902:14:52.640 --> 02:14:53.399
right through that door.252002:14:53.479 --> 02:14:59.159
A couple above the door, all three shots near the ceiling. Yeah, yeah,252102:14:59.159 --> 02:14:59.600
I see.252202:15:01.359 --> 02:15:03.119
You know, I'd say there was either very good shooting252302:15:03.199 --> 02:15:04.600
or he had a gun that kicked like a mule.252402:15:04.720 --> 02:15:08.279
It wasn't a big gun. The snubnosed gerbalbo.252502:15:07.960 --> 02:15:11.520
Snubnose not a service pistol. No, I'm sure it wasn't.252602:15:13.039 --> 02:15:14.520
And they drop in on you in a few days252702:15:14.560 --> 02:15:25.640
of the canon, said Bradley. Anytime, I want to ask252802:15:25.680 --> 02:15:26.399
you a few questions.252902:15:26.520 --> 02:15:28.760
Joe, did you collect the reward? I did last night?253002:15:29.119 --> 02:15:31.000
As Timmy? He went to the hospital this morning.253102:15:31.119 --> 02:15:32.640
Oh that's swell Jem.253202:15:34.399 --> 02:15:36.279
Well, what do you want to know? He didn't pull253302:15:36.319 --> 02:15:38.560
his job alone, Joe? How did you arrive at that time?253402:15:38.600 --> 02:15:40.439
Who were those guys who captured you? Said?253502:15:40.479 --> 02:15:41.720
They were private detectives.253602:15:41.840 --> 02:15:44.279
One of them was a swell shut He placed every253702:15:44.359 --> 02:15:46.560
slug in the same spot above the door.253802:15:46.680 --> 02:15:47.199
Deliberately.253902:15:48.079 --> 02:15:49.640
They were in this with you a gig, the cup,254002:15:49.680 --> 02:15:51.800
the reward that was sure to be offered otherwise they254102:15:51.800 --> 02:15:53.279
had popped you in the doorway, you would to get254202:15:53.279 --> 02:15:55.079
away in the all meat later and shared the proceeds.254302:15:55.399 --> 02:15:57.399
But in the meantime they changed their minds, Joe, and254402:15:57.479 --> 02:16:00.279
decided to cut you out. They double crossed. You mean,254502:16:00.479 --> 02:16:01.840
how do you suppose I knew where.254602:16:01.680 --> 02:16:02.199
You were hiding?254702:16:02.840 --> 02:16:04.840
A guy phoned me and tipped me off. They figured254802:16:05.399 --> 02:16:07.359
they had no police record, nothing you could say, we'll254902:16:07.359 --> 02:16:07.920
implicate him.255002:16:08.279 --> 02:16:08.840
They're safe.255102:16:09.720 --> 02:16:11.279
Why attempt the shield a deuble cross it?255202:16:11.479 --> 02:16:14.000
That's just what I figured those rats are do. Might255302:16:14.039 --> 02:16:16.760
as well spile it, Joe, and determined to crack this case. Yeah,255402:16:18.039 --> 02:16:20.199
what would happen if you cracked this one and another one?255502:16:20.279 --> 02:16:22.920
Besides set you up as a lieutenant again?255602:16:23.600 --> 02:16:23.800
Yeah?255702:16:24.399 --> 02:16:26.640
Okay, I was forced to open that safe at the255802:16:26.680 --> 02:16:27.279
point of a gun.255902:16:27.520 --> 02:16:27.720
Ha ha.256002:16:28.560 --> 02:16:30.000
Tell me another one, Joe, If you want to grab256102:16:30.039 --> 02:16:31.359
the other two guys, I'll make a deal with you,256202:16:31.479 --> 02:16:31.840
a deal.256302:16:32.040 --> 02:16:34.079
Let me talk to your fingerprint experts and get me256402:16:34.120 --> 02:16:34.719
out of this selle.256502:16:34.760 --> 02:16:35.360
Are you kidding?256602:16:35.399 --> 02:16:37.040
I want you to take me to Old Man Kenton's.256702:16:37.639 --> 02:16:39.280
Is a Christmas Eve party going on there tonight.256802:16:39.399 --> 02:16:41.440
I wouldn't trust you across the hall. It means just256902:16:41.520 --> 02:16:42.680
as much to you as it does of me, and257002:16:42.760 --> 02:16:47.399
probably more. I'll guarantee results. Okay, what you're playing, I'll257102:16:47.399 --> 02:16:48.760
tell you on the way off to the Kenton place.257202:16:49.000 --> 02:16:51.360
All right, A sergeant, let us out of here.257302:16:59.040 --> 02:17:01.120
Come with me, gentlemen, toob is waiting for you in257402:17:01.200 --> 02:17:01.719
the library.257502:17:02.079 --> 02:17:04.239
Looks like you're going to have quite a party here tonight,257602:17:04.280 --> 02:17:04.799
Miss Kenny.257702:17:05.040 --> 02:17:08.239
Sure here are the two detective father Oh.257802:17:08.239 --> 02:17:11.120
Yes, yes, come in, gentlemen, Come in close the door bella.257902:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.040
I sent for you men because you did a good258002:17:14.159 --> 02:17:16.559
job of capturing Joe Blake and returning the jewels.258102:17:16.680 --> 02:17:18.520
Eh. I'm having quite a number.258202:17:18.280 --> 02:17:21.559
Of guests here tonight, and I've just received some disturbing news.258302:17:22.079 --> 02:17:23.360
Joe Blake is escaped.258402:17:23.520 --> 02:17:23.840
Escape.258502:17:24.799 --> 02:17:27.319
He may make another try to steal the jewels while258602:17:27.360 --> 02:17:28.840
we are occupied with our guests.258702:17:29.440 --> 02:17:32.440
I see you want us to see that nothing happened.258802:17:32.520 --> 02:17:34.799
I want you fellas to stay here near the safe258902:17:34.840 --> 02:17:36.559
and if he does come grab it.259002:17:37.079 --> 02:17:39.479
Sure, sure you won't have a thing to worry about. Good,259102:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.639
come along, della, I guess the beginning to die. All right, everybody,259202:17:43.680 --> 02:17:44.239
don't make a move.259302:17:45.079 --> 02:17:48.120
Lay your guns on the desk, boys, thanks, get on259402:17:48.200 --> 02:17:50.440
the other side of the room, Della YouTube kitting things259502:17:50.520 --> 02:17:53.079
might happen. What's on your mind, Joel, pret your hands259602:17:53.120 --> 02:17:55.559
flat on that desktop, Mike YouTube Freddy and keep them there.259702:17:56.040 --> 02:17:57.479
Make one moving out. Pready your bolt.259802:17:57.520 --> 02:18:01.079
Your dirty double crossing rats forced me to open the259902:18:01.120 --> 02:18:02.719
safe at the point of a gun and tipped off260002:18:02.760 --> 02:18:04.440
the cops sort of find me because.260102:18:04.239 --> 02:18:06.000
You were afraid I might horn in on the reward.260202:18:06.159 --> 02:18:06.799
This guy must be.260302:18:06.879 --> 02:18:07.600
That's mister Kenton.260402:18:07.719 --> 02:18:10.680
One of your phone Steve Bradley. Come on, I didn't Joe.260502:18:10.719 --> 02:18:12.719
I thought you was gonna contact little Dog.260602:18:12.760 --> 02:18:14.559
But he's mad. Mike, I wanted to think I tipped260702:18:14.559 --> 02:18:17.120
the comp shut You did it, Freddy, You're the one honest, Joe.260802:18:17.200 --> 02:18:17.520
I didn't.260902:18:17.559 --> 02:18:18.600
I didn't please Joe.261002:18:20.040 --> 02:18:23.000
I'm really taking those jewels this time, but I won't261102:18:23.040 --> 02:18:24.680
be bothered by Mike and Fredick.261202:18:24.879 --> 02:18:25.559
Joe, I didn't do it.261302:18:25.879 --> 02:18:29.360
I'm gonna place on right between your eyes, Freddy, right261402:18:29.600 --> 02:18:30.719
between your eyes.261502:18:32.600 --> 02:18:37.079
Anybody moves, I'll open the door. Hell on, mister Kenton.261602:18:37.159 --> 02:18:39.479
Hello Bradley, which trays Joe Blake at the edge of261702:18:39.520 --> 02:18:39.959
your estate.261802:18:40.000 --> 02:18:40.959
I thought would look in.261902:18:41.200 --> 02:18:43.520
Just in time. Steve, put up your hands and step262002:18:43.559 --> 02:18:44.000
into the room.262102:18:44.280 --> 02:18:45.280
What goes on here?262202:18:45.479 --> 02:18:47.159
The cops are gonna be in on the scene of262302:18:47.200 --> 02:18:49.559
the crime instead of coming in after the crime's over.262402:18:50.639 --> 02:18:53.280
I'm gonna take some jewels and do a little exterminating.262502:18:54.200 --> 02:18:55.200
But first I'm gonna make.262602:18:55.159 --> 02:18:57.559
These guys do a little talking. I want to know262702:18:57.600 --> 02:18:57.959
which one.262802:18:57.920 --> 02:19:02.920
Of you guys tipped off Steve above me, say something, Mike,262902:19:03.040 --> 02:19:04.760
this guy's crazy, says.263002:19:04.559 --> 02:19:06.239
We made him steal his stuff. At the voice you263102:19:06.280 --> 02:19:08.200
heard on the phone, Steve, No, all of you got263202:19:08.239 --> 02:19:10.200
to say, Freddy, it wasn't me. I tell you it wasn't.263302:19:10.239 --> 02:19:12.319
It must be him. Yeah, certainly sounds like it.263402:19:12.479 --> 02:19:16.000
I thought so right between the eyes, Freddy, I please,263502:19:16.079 --> 02:19:17.600
Joe doones he won't soot.263602:19:17.399 --> 02:19:19.280
Hand over that gun. Joe give it him me show263702:19:20.920 --> 02:19:21.159
he did.263802:19:21.719 --> 02:19:24.159
I told you a minutes you're crazy, Joe. You're crazy.263902:19:24.200 --> 02:19:25.760
I killed a cop, so why should I worry about264002:19:25.799 --> 02:19:27.799
killing a couple of rats like you? Start talking, Mike,264102:19:28.719 --> 02:19:30.239
tell him you guys forced me to open that sceat.264202:19:30.319 --> 02:19:31.079
You can't bluff me.264302:19:31.280 --> 02:19:32.479
There's no proof of such a thing.264402:19:32.639 --> 02:19:35.840
No, all right, sergeant, check my fingerprints on the glass top.264502:19:35.760 --> 02:19:36.600
Disc step on it.264602:19:36.760 --> 02:19:38.639
Yeah, sure, lit again? Look at the second drawer of264702:19:38.680 --> 02:19:41.520
the safe. You'll find my cigarette case wrapped in a handkerchief.264802:19:41.600 --> 02:19:45.319
What bye, George, He's right. I put it there the264902:19:45.440 --> 02:19:46.239
night I opened the safe.265002:19:46.920 --> 02:19:48.639
Let the sergeant compare the prince of the ones on265102:19:48.719 --> 02:19:51.319
the desktop. I have miner that safe since the night265202:19:51.360 --> 02:19:52.319
the stones disappeared.265302:19:52.360 --> 02:19:53.399
What are you trying to pull, Joe?265402:19:53.559 --> 02:19:56.360
You have no police record, Mike. I didn't want you265502:19:56.440 --> 02:19:58.200
to go through life like that, so I fixed one265602:19:58.280 --> 02:20:00.680
up for you. Remember the night you forced me into this,265702:20:01.280 --> 02:20:04.600
offered your cigarette. Well you got a record now, Mike,265802:20:06.000 --> 02:20:07.760
Mikes princes on the desk, check with the ones of265902:20:07.799 --> 02:20:10.239
the cigarette case. How about that photo prince you found266002:20:10.280 --> 02:20:12.360
on that safe I was supposed to open several years ago.266102:20:12.600 --> 02:20:16.440
He brought him along. Shame Why they're all the same?266202:20:16.600 --> 02:20:17.319
They all check.266302:20:17.479 --> 02:20:19.879
Now you guys start talking, go on, tell it all.266402:20:19.920 --> 02:20:20.600
I'll tell nothing.266502:20:20.680 --> 02:20:21.760
I don't know what you're talking about.266602:20:21.799 --> 02:20:25.319
Right between the eyes, fready, right between the eyes.266702:20:25.879 --> 02:20:26.559
Tell him he means it.266802:20:26.639 --> 02:20:29.719
I'll tell him nothing, Joe.266902:20:30.079 --> 02:20:34.920
Well that finishes, Freddy. Are you ready to talk? Mike? Yeah, yeah,267002:20:35.000 --> 02:20:36.639
I'll talk, Joe, I'll talk.267102:20:36.680 --> 02:20:39.799
You robbed that department store. You planted my cigarette case there.267202:20:40.000 --> 02:20:42.079
You copped it at the lunch room, didn't Joe. Yeah, yeah,267302:20:42.159 --> 02:20:43.760
that's right. I had nothing to do with that job.267402:20:44.319 --> 02:20:46.239
And you did force me to open this safe, didn't, Joe.267502:20:46.719 --> 02:20:47.920
My cigarette case proves that.267602:20:48.719 --> 02:20:51.719
Yeah, that's right. All a minute, you're innocent. Joke. All right,267702:20:53.079 --> 02:20:55.399
Hey are Steve? You can get up now?267802:20:55.639 --> 02:20:55.879
Yeah?267902:20:56.440 --> 02:21:01.040
Very nicely handled, Joe. Hey, I thought you was. I've268002:21:01.040 --> 02:21:03.040
been pray. Pour some water on Freddie.268102:21:03.159 --> 02:21:09.079
Joe is using blanks, Hey, Joe, don't, Joe.268202:21:09.120 --> 02:21:11.559
I'll tell everything everything, nothing more to tell Freddie.268302:21:11.600 --> 02:21:12.399
It's all been told.268402:21:13.000 --> 02:21:16.520
Well, it certainly leaves you in the clear, Joe and Joe.268502:21:17.760 --> 02:21:23.520
I wouldn't apologize for every Okay, Senna, apologies accepted.268602:21:24.000 --> 02:21:27.639
Merry Christmas, Joe. Same to you, Steve, and tell Timmy268702:21:27.719 --> 02:21:30.120
that Della and I'll be down the same in the morning.268802:21:33.799 --> 02:21:35.680
Well there you are.268902:21:36.639 --> 02:21:40.559
Everything worked out very nicely, just as everything should but269002:21:40.760 --> 02:21:47.159
seldom does. But there's something I should explain about the269102:21:47.239 --> 02:21:50.360
person who tipped Steve off as to where to find Joe.269202:21:51.040 --> 02:21:55.360
It wasn't Mike, and it wasn't Freddy. No, it was269302:21:55.520 --> 02:21:59.520
Joe himself. It was Joe who phoned Steve, knowing it269402:21:59.520 --> 02:22:02.440
would give Steve and Impetus a new start in his269502:22:02.680 --> 02:22:03.959
career of sleuthing.269602:22:05.159 --> 02:22:06.760
And it really worked.269702:22:07.719 --> 02:22:10.840
It saved Timmy's life and Joe's too.269802:22:11.559 --> 02:22:11.799
For that.269902:22:11.959 --> 02:22:40.159
Satter CBS has presented The Whistler.270002:22:48.079 --> 02:22:51.520
Original music for this production was composed and conducted by270102:22:51.639 --> 02:22:55.200
Wilbur Hatch. The Whistler has written and directed by Jay270202:22:55.319 --> 02:22:59.879
Donald Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood.270302:23:01.200 --> 02:23:03.319
Next week at nine thirty, I.270402:23:03.719 --> 02:23:07.920
The Whistler will return to tell you another unusual tale.270502:23:09.000 --> 02:23:09.479
Good world.270602:23:10.559 --> 02:23:12.719
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.270702:23:25.319 --> 02:23:32.040
Well, my dear, I suppose another night has extinguished itself270802:23:32.840 --> 02:23:37.319
as the sun decides it wants the skies back, and270902:23:37.520 --> 02:23:42.559
it'll take them by force. I do so enjoy our visits,271002:23:43.040 --> 02:23:46.680
and I do hope you'll come back very very soon.271102:23:47.639 --> 02:23:54.879
I'll be right here, same time, same place, waiting for271202:23:55.040 --> 02:23:59.760
your company. But if I could ask just one more271302:24:00.280 --> 02:24:03.879
favor of you, as you make your way home, as271402:24:03.959 --> 02:24:07.719
you enter your well appointed living room and make your271502:24:07.799 --> 02:24:12.079
way through the stairs to your comfy bed, and you271602:24:12.200 --> 02:24:15.319
blink away the day to head to the land of271702:24:15.479 --> 02:24:20.840
na just take one moment for me and be thankful271802:24:21.399 --> 02:24:25.920
for what you have, and I'll be seeing you soon.
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