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June 7, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | Time and Again & Wild Oranges — Cursed Time, Island Terror & Murder

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Unknown Broadcast presents Haunted Time & Vintage Radio Horror Stories, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in ghost lore and supernatural suspense, old-time radio suspense, and murder, disappearance, and investigation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama.

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense dramas, and strange little nightmares that sound as though they were never meant to be transmitted at all.

Tonight, the signal begins with a clock that should not exist, moves through the perfume of wild oranges on a deadly Southern shore, follows a woman into a murder mystery wrapped in danger and inheritance, and ends with The Whistler watching a clever crime collapse beneath its own shadow.

🕰️ Time and Again
A clockmaker takes possession of a strange hourglass-shaped clock marked with the number 13, and soon discovers that time can be stopped… but never stolen without payment. This is classic radio horror at its most deliciously cruel: a cursed object, a bargain with time, and a machine that seems to beat like a living heart.
🍊 Wild Oranges
A lonely Georgia island. A ruined plantation house. The heavy scent of oranges in the dark. What begins as an eerie coastal discovery turns into a claustrophobic tale of survival horror, obsession, and a knife-wielding threat hidden beneath the Spanish moss.
🐻 The Cross-Eyed Bear
A mysterious classified ad offers danger, money, and employment to a beautiful woman willing to risk her life. But the deeper she goes, the more the job becomes tangled in murder, hidden heirs, secret identities, and the kind of suspense that keeps smiling until the trap snaps shut.
⚖️ The Penalty
A vanished man, a suspicious family, a supposed kidnapping, and a body that may not be what it appears to be. In this Whistler mystery, guilt hides behind clever paperwork, old letters, false identities, and one fatal assumption: that no one will look closely enough.

Four stories. Four doors. One broadcast that insists it found you by accident.

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Ah my dear, it feels like it's been so long.

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I'm so happy to see you. Oh what's that Well,

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I don't quite know, but I recommend you don't look

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at it for very long.

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I mean it.

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Please, please have a seat on my favorite chair. Get comfortable,

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get cozy. The fire is so delightful, even in the

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dead of summer, because the cold never truly leaves, It

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just waits and hides. But of course it is time and.

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Again come in. Welcome, I'm e G. Marshall.

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Welcome to the fear you can hear, Welcome to the

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sounds of suspense. It was the ill fated Prince of Denmark, Hamlet,

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who lamented the time is out of joint, Oh cursed

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spite that ever, I was born to set it right.

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Many people before and since have echoed the same cry

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of despair, but none with more compelling justice and reason

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than Ethan vigil clockmaker and destroyer, Ethan Vidual, for whom

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a special clock struck, a magic and an evil hour.

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Got your boxed in. You'll move, Jake, No, don't crush me.

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I'm thinking. I'm thinking, God, Dian Heaven, eaton. How can

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you stand that infernal rackety?

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What why?

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Oh you're in the clock stracking. I don't even know anymore?

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Gonna go ahead? What do you want to give up?

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No?

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No, who can think of a chest move with all

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terl will breaking loose? Now on start our games after midnight?

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You can drive a man's stocks, tanman, I swear to

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Sam Hilty?

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Can you to live? Sall?

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Two living things left in the room with a terrifying

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moment as stood still self le machine actors.

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Our mystery drama Time and Again was written especially for

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the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars John Beal.

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It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers

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of Budweiser, and by the Kellogg Company, makers of Kellogg's

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special k Cereal. I'll return shortly with Act one.

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When you drink beer, do you tilt the glass for

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long haughty swallows or just tip it and sip it? Well,

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sipping's the thing for wine, but Budweiser beer is a

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hearty drink, brood for zest and character. The best way

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to enjoy Bud is to drink it, not chug a lug,

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just man sized beer drinker swallows.

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That's when that.

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Famous Budweiser taste, smoothness and drinkability really come through smoothness

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and drinkability that come only from natural carbination and exclusive

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beechwood aging. Smoothness and drink ability too good for any

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half hearted sipping, So drink up.

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You'll see that brewing.

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Beer right does make a difference, and that when you

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say Budweiser, you've said it all and isaa Bush Saint Louis.

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No matter what you saving for, that's what Suburban Saving.

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Suburban Savings offers you. A regular savings account with flexibility.

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You can add any amounts of your account whenever you wish,

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withdraw whenever you want. Suburban Savings pays a five point

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twenty five percent annual interest rate on regular savings paid quarterly,

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which earns an annual effective yield of five point forty

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seven percent. Interest is compounded continuously from day of deposit

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to day of withdrawal, as long as fifty dollars is

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maintained in the account to the end of the quarter.

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Come into Suburban Savings and open an account with flexibility

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our regular savings account. In New Jersey at they owned Edgewater,

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Elmwood Park, Emerson, Packettstown, Morris Plains, Nutley, Paramus and Sparta.

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Few of us can resist the fascination of an auction,

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and I'm no different than most, which is how and

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why I happen to possess this curious document, which reveals

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a bone chilling account of how many lives were lost,

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so manly and eerily to the inhuman demands of what

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Ethan Vigil called that damnable machine, the tale I'm about

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to take. No, no, wait, if you can manage to

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decipher his cramped long hand, let Ethan Vigil confess for himself.

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Hi Ethan Vigil, clockmaker by trade. I'm writing this in

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case when the moment comes, I failed to destroy the

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hour glass clock. For if I failed, someone must destroy it,

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kill it and.

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Its ghastly existence.

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Before God knows how many innocent people will die satisfy

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its to say she will first. The clock itself came

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into my possession, more or less by accident. I was

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working late at my shop one night about a year ago,

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and I heard it tapping on the closed glass door. Sons, nations,

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some people can't read signs. Who was like to break

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the glass?

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Stop back there you see and close and pop there?

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Let be, I'll get on with you. You want me sorry,

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give me a chance.

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I'll give you the charms that.

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I live times.

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Look, it was raining heavily, the water streaming down the glass,

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but the object he had drawn from the cover of

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his pea jacket drew my eyes like a magnet. It

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was a clock, the life of which I've never seen,

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shaped like an hour glass, with a strange appearing pendulum

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hanging in the lower half in the face, and the

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upper had in the place of the figure twelve at

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the top of the face.

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There's the new move thirteen.

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I had to see that clock more closely. Grish your governess.

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You're a life saver.

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You are.

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What do you want?

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I want you to have a look at this here clock.

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The clock is the only reason I let you in.

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I'd like to have a look at it myself. Let's

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take it over, the bitch. You want this clock prepared?

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I want to send it to you. It's what I want.

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I hope I don't regret this, But come on to

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my place in the back room. There's a fire and

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then dry effort. Better back up that fire. What do

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you get this clock? Why it came into my possession

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when its owner died? It does a run well, now

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that their clocket doesn't run. I'd be the first to

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admit it. I'll give you twenty dollars now, look weary dollars.

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Take it or leave it?

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Maybe down and now. But I know a good thing

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when I see it, and I don't intend to be

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taking advantage.

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O why somebody would be any question of who's being

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taken advantage of?

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Harry is Ethan?

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Who is this person?

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He's a customer more or less. Here's my sister in law.

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It's near on the midnight.

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My poor six sister is pining upstairs for her husband

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to bring her a little faith and consolation.

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Oh now, Mama, certainly I'm sorry to intrude on family.

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Probably, don't Ethan get rid of this man?

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You better go over the water about our business and

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the clock. Twenty dollars is all I have to my name,

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Oh tanking, don't you do it? Ethan? Though, mind your

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own business for once, Harriet, I had little doubt my sailor,

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who called himself Harry Stubbs, had dubious title to that

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strange clock. But like all collectors, to own something totally

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and unreservedly unique is an overriding obsession.

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Is he gone, yes, Oh, look at this place after

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you had that that derelict in here, lights on all

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over the place, eating up money, to say nothing of

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good heart cash thrown away on that piece of junk

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on the table.

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It was my own money.

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What own money?

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You and Henrietta wouldn't even have a roof over your heads,

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let alone a piece of business if it weren't for me.

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Oh no, it's my money to keep you going. And

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don't you forget it now you locked the door of

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the shop.

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I still have some repairs left to do.

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You have to get up early tomorrow and do them.

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I just wanted to have another look at this clock.

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You'll waste no more time or light or fuel down

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here tonight. It wasn't a good money paid out. I

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take that piece of junk on the table and dump

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it in the rupt.

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Oh I wish she'd done just that.

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Let the city collected with the morning crash and bury

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it forever. But fate hadn't planned it that way. So

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I went upstairs from Harriet to face another problem I

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didn't know how to resolve my ailing wife, Henrietta.

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Is that you, Yes, Henrietta, where have you been working?

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There?

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Are you hurting. When don't I heard? How's your back?

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It is in my back, it's my stomach, Ethan. I've

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been I'm scared. I've been afraid to think of it.

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But I know Harriet's sure.

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I've got eyes.

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No, no, none of that. You just get off to sleep.

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That's what you need.

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You just don't know how it is to be suffering

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every blessed minute of every day.

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As I slipped under the covers and lay wide awake

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beside Henrietta, snoring away, my mind went back to the

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strange clock on the table downstairs, the intriguing mystery of

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a mechanism I had never even imagined in forty years

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of clockmaking, and the enigma of white thirteen replaced the

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new Moll twelve on the face.

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All the next.

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Morning between my infrequent customers, I puzzled Pope Pride to reveal.

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The workings of this bizarre clock.

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But by one o'clock in the afternoon, when I was

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completely stymy my wife surprised me by coming out to

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the bench in her bathroom.

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Henrietta, what's wrong, I've been calling for someone?

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Where's Harry?

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As she went to market. I'm sorry I didn't hear you.

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I've got those blinding headaches again. Could we send for

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doctor Royce? Is that the old clock that Harriet told

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me you threw a way hard earned money on.

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It's a very valuable antique and original.

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And it was my money.

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Does it run? And what good is it?

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It's worth twenty dollars as it is at least in

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working conditions, could be personalist. Can you fix it?

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Nor?

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Why not?

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Won't look at it?

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In me?

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Have you ever seen anything like it?

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First of all, our glass shape of the keys.

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That's inside, well, that's the problem.

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Except for the two round glass windows and they're not

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even glass.

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I don't know what they are.

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What window one for the clock face in the upper

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cop if you want to call it that, and the

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one in the lord inverted cup where you can see

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what looks like a pendul all.

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It can't just shake it and get that to swing.

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It doesn't seem to be the way it's activated.

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It's quite stationary, funny lopsided shape.

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Maybe it melted or something.

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Can't you get into.

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The works and through this lid on the top. Hell, look,

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there's all you can see the works, very old wooden

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gearsed wooden pinion, wooden axes, no way to.

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Lift it out.

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I can't even get my hand in there to truck.

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Let me.

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It's so silly.

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There must be some with out. What is it?

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A silly old clock is done?

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What's a murder? My finger is bleeding?

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It it sound like something bit me.

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Come on, let me see it. Just a scratch.

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Scarcely drew blood.

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Saying I'm not taking any chances with that dirty old clock.

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I could end up with blood poisoning. I'm going to

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run this underwater. Now you get me a bandage and

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some disinfected.

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Right, it was you.

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I was suddenly aware that the clock was running and

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its beat was the sound of the human heart.

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But Ethan didn't.

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Follow his wife right away, because suddenly he had become

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conscious that the dead clock had come to life, that

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it had started to record time again, and that the

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sound of its beat was very different from all other clocks.

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It was a sound an, if not completely similar to

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the beat of the human heart. I shall return shortly

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with that too.

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And now another tail of the ball and Change as Kalok.

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Special case presents the good, the bad, and the heavy.

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Why is that cowboy wearing a ball and chang?

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Because carrying around extra pounds.

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To be just like carrying around a fallen chain.

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Hopped in bolot.

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Well, what it is?

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You aren't give me a special cave breakfort here?

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You won't special?

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Okay, it's mean you thank coffee?

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Hey done?

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I annoy you from some place.

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You probably don't recognize me with my ball and shine.

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I used to be ten pounds ladder, but I'm getting

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back that way. I exercise with an even smarter than

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every mere, starting with this year special cave breakfast.

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What's a special?

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It's less than two hundred four the calories because not

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a nine percent fat, free and delicious.

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It's going to.

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Help me get rid of this year fall and change.

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I bet your horse will be glad to get off.

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And how's the ball and change?

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Like that?

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Gust your happy ending would begin with the Killogg's special

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Cave breakfasts.

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Kellogg Special k that rhyme, Nick.

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This is w O R New York your mystery theater station?

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Aymen? What's for dinner? Amen?

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What she get?

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Amen? Will it be much longer? My hunger get stronger?

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Man?

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I can't wait. She loves the family, she wants the best.

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She does all the cheek.

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Candy she lets shot right to the red.

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Hey my, what's for dinner? How about armor?

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Canham three pounds, size three ninety nine Shopwright great A

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Frozen green Beans, nine ounce packages, six dollars. Shopwright gairy

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k'se Holmestyle Biscuits eight ounce packages, five for forty nine cents.

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Dude, do you see she ain't loved the family.

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She wants the best.

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She does, all the cheek candy she lets shop right

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to the rest.

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Hey man, what's for dinner? Shopride has the answer.

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Whatever his wife had accidentally touched, the clock had begun

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to run, and remained running steadily without any sign of stopping.

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Ethan checked that Henrietta's wound was little more than a

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surface scratch, and returned to observe. But let him tell

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his own story for himself. As he wrote it in

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his confession.

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My examination of the clock as it ran made it

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even more of lilignant.

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Behind the face beneath the lid, the gears I so engage,

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second by second operated the hands that told the time.

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What motivated them was obvious the strange mass that I

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had supposed a pendulum weight, but which.

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Now quite clearly was a dina fa or pump.

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Opening and closing to create energy in a motion like

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a human fist or f Yes. Suddenly I knew why

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the irregular shape was familia, like the human heart. But

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what in turn motivated that or fueled it.

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Was the ultimate mystery.

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Everything about this clock was different and exotic, strange. Even

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its chime for the hours planned plaintive, almost the sound

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of a human voice.

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I watched it.

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It resisted all day, all during the night, while I

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waited for doctor Jacob Royce to come and examine my wife,

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even while I waited for the.

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Result of that examination. What differ do I hear?

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The poor pup, sorry Jake, just observing this clock. It's

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got a mesmerized pauls Henriette. Oh what am I going.

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To tell you? Eton same thing as usual?

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Yep.

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Not a trace of any physiological problem. Never is. Oh

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there's a name for it if it's of any help.

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Chronic inadequate, someone who just can't handle the simple process

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of life and has to make excuses for it.

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I'd better go.

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There's no need I gave her a sedative, Lord hot Un,

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but it might do you some good. Come on, now,

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let's play chess. If I set us up out here,

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all right, with all those clocks rattling away, I want

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to keep my eye on this baby here. If you

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can't sit up with one, sake, friend, you gotta sit

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up with another. And for the next ten or fifteen minutes,

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I did forget the clock that was to haunt the

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rest of my days inexorably. As we concentrated on the chessboard,

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all of the clocks ticked on towards twelve o'clock, and

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the moment when the explanation of that substitute number thirteen

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was about to be.

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Made, the clock itself.

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Don't think much of your king's pawn variation, Jake, got

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you boxed in? Don't move, don't rush me, don't rush me.

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I'm thinking, good Nord Dehan, How can you stand that

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infinal racket?

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Hot racket?

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Oh? I mean the clock's tracking. I don't even notice

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him anymore.

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Huh, go ahead, what do you want to give up? No?

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But who can think of a chess move with all

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hell breaking? Who's now on? We start our games after midnight,

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after drive a man's stock staring mad, I swear to

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Sam Hill, eat and you deliver. After the twelfth stroke

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of the hour glass clock's chime. There was no sound

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but the beat of the clock and my own heart.

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Everything else had stopped dead. My friend's mouth was frozen

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in the act of speaking, his hand poised over at chessman,

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as though cast in bronze. Outside, like the old child's game,

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people had turned to statues. A car backing into a

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parking space was stopped in tracks. The very rain drops

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hung motionless in the air like a spangled curtain. For

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everyone else in the world save only me and that

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damnable clock, time was standing still.

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The next hour was a strange.

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Delirium, my brain with new ideas for achieving my lifelong dream,

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a perpetual motion time past.

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My legs were.

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As sup on tireless as an eighteen yeuros as I

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climbed the stairs to look at my wife, frozen in

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the act of turning in her sleep, my sister in

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law caught in the middle of the snow. Towards the

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end of the hour, I returned to the shop, a

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quick stab of terror parting at me.

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Was this to be forever?

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Poor Jake still sat in the middle of the move

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he had started almost an hour ago. The hands of

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all the clocks pointed to exactly twelve, except the hour

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class There the small hands stood directly at thirteen, while

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the minute hand swept closer and closer to join it.

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With a sense of mounting excitement, I waited for their junction.

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Like the other clocks, my strange new one had only

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struck before. Now I felt I knew the reason for thirteen,

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the extra magic hour of precious time that twice a

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day it offered to its owner. With baited breath. I

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waited for the proof, the missing chime, and then it

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came directly set us up here tonight to get me

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off my game, I concede it.

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Don't you want some more time to think it?

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Old?

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Oh, Heed, wouldn't matter if you gave me an hour

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to consider it tonight. I'm to wush to think just

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one minute after twelve. We've only been at the game

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ten minutes or so, and I feel as if i'd

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been here for seventy.

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Is it really only ten minutes?

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You're the clockmaker, eagon, no call around you at your

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little knockers. Yes, yes, you're right. So it's true. You're

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feeling all right.

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Even never better?

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Why you look little strange for a minute, and in

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fact Ethan, I've been meaning to mention it. I'd like

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to have you drop around to the office someday. So

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what for, Well, you are not as young as you were,

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you know, and you've been pushing yourself pretty hardly to him.

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I want to make a date.

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Now, I'll call you.

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I don't forget hey, Now there's something I wish all

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my patients were as healthy as forty years since I

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started that old avocado tree. And like topsy, it just grows.

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And don't you believe it.

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It took a lot of tender, loving care, water just right,

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pinching it back, bring it along to grow up right,

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just like the child.

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I love that old tree.

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Yon. Man, he's got to have something to learn. And

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I reckon, you don't think there's anything really long? And no, no,

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I don't just another of her eternal spells. No, night,

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old Friend.

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I didn't stop night Jake for a long time.

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After my old friend drove away, I stood by the door,

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gazing into the cool, crisp night. I didn't notice the cold.

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I was too full of a kind of welling.

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Excitement inside me.

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What a gift that.

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Clock had brought me. The dreams were building like castles

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in my head.

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Why I was richer and more powerful than a king?

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Well, now I knew no matter what, for.

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Two blessed hours every day from a on I was

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a free man.

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And the last thing.

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I heard that nice as my head hit the pillow,

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was the trial from the beat of the block sounding?

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Or was it the sound of my old heart?

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How is she? Doctor?

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I don't know, Harriet. Now, I don't mean to alarm you,

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but I think we'll put your sister Henrietta in the

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hospital for a few days for observation.

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What's the matter with her?

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That's what I wanted to put her in the hospital

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for find out.

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What do you suspect it is.

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I don't suspect it's anything. I just want to reassure myself. Now,

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why don't you go up and keep our company while

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I talk to Ethan.

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You won't have any trouble convincing him. I don't see

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why I can't take away.

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Well, you can't this time, Harriet. If you want to help,

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go sit with her. I'll make the arrangements with Eaton.

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I uh, I want to put her in the hospital

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for a few days, even she's that sick. I'm not

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sure whatever it is this is not just one of

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her spells. I want her un her observation for a while.

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Whatever you say, Jake, I wish I knew what to say.

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I feel a little guilty since that night a few

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weeks ago and we were playing chess.

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What do you mean guilty?

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Well, damn it.

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For twenty years I've been medicating her, majuriels. I wonder

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if maybe I got careless that night. There's no doubt

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that from then on, this debility, anemia, whatever it is, started. Well,

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I'll get along and make all the arrangements. I'll follow

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you and to expect the ambulance. I had my own

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guilty lagging at me. In the months since I'd discovered

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the secret of the clock. I'd thought of pretty in

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nothing else. I waited as eager as a child for

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those two stolen hours every day, not only for the

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relief from Harriet's nagging and poor Henrietta's everlasting complaints, but

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for the lift, the joy, the youth, and vigor that

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they brought me. For I'd gone one better than Ponza

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de Leon for part of the day, anyway.

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I had found the fountain of youth.

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But a wave of shocks was about to joke me

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back to reality.

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The first was Henny's being taken to the hospital. The

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second it was the morning the clock stopped.

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Oh no, no, no, what is it?

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You can't you can't stop?

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What is it, Ethan, what's wrong?

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The clock has stopped?

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That get started?

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You shake it like that and land up in pieces.

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Good riddance.

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I told you it was a waste of money.

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Yeah here, How dare you talk to me like that?

476
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:12.119
I certainly will.

477
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.160
Nobody's going to talk to me like that, particularly not Joe.

478
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:21.799
I was, frankly, my golden hours of solitude gone, my

479
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:26.079
extra gifted precious time and the rebirth of youth. I

480
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.920
couldn't let them go. There must be some way to

481
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:33.039
bring them back. Start that damned intricate mechanism again.

482
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:37.119
Flock was dead.

483
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:40.599
It's life blood somehow drained.

484
00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:47.680
Oh blood, but that's what started in the first place. Maybe,

485
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.960
Oh damn nation, I'll let it ring. I've got I've

486
00:29:50.960 --> 00:30:01.400
got to find something. Oh all right, hello, oh oh, Jake, look,

487
00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:02.720
I don't want to talk now.

488
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:07.200
Oh then you've heard heard what about Henrietta?

489
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:10.799
She's not she's not.

490
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:13.640
I I just got back to my office and got

491
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:18.880
a message from marvel. I'm uh, I'm afraid she's passed away.

492
00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:21.240
Are you sure?

493
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:23.440
I'm on my way to off from now you just

494
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.079
saw on the outside, chaps be there.

495
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:32.440
I'm on my way.

496
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.039
We were, we were too late, and he was gone

497
00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:43.079
with no goodbyes. I sat by a nurse's desk, waiting

498
00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:44.680
for Jake to complete arrangements and.

499
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.319
Drive me home.

500
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:48.880
A young nurse came down the hall with a tray

501
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.359
of blood samples, putting them on the desk.

502
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.599
She came towards me. Yes, nurse, Doctor.

503
00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:58.200
Royce asked me to tell you he'll only be a

504
00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:58.720
minute or two.

505
00:30:58.759 --> 00:30:59.759
Oh, thank you nurse.

506
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:06.920
As she walked away, my eyes following her blindly. Then

507
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:10.880
I was looking at that tray of blood samples.

508
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:12.160
Blood.

509
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.799
It was Henny's cutting her finger that started the clock.

510
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:20.279
Would that be the answer? I acted without thinking.

511
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:22.839
In a moment, I had slipped one of the tubes

512
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:25.240
into my pocket, and I was back in my seat

513
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:32.440
before Jake came striding down the hall. I was back

514
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.000
in the shop at last, a whoa. With shaking fingers,

515
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.559
I lifted the lid, exposing.

516
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.000
The brain or whatever it was of the clock. Uncapping

517
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:42.920
the tube, I poured in the blood.

518
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:45.920
We looked at the dial.

519
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:50.880
The hands were spinning around to the proper tide, and

520
00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:53.880
then the clock was alive again.

521
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.240
It's heart was beating.

522
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.480
It would have been better, far better, and Ethan left

523
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:13.799
it for dead, as we will see. When we returned

524
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:17.039
shortly with Act three, we knew we had a good

525
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.119
thing going. But we're absolutely delighted that you know it too.

526
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551
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over WOR Radio. Yours truly, Joe Franklin hosting Memory Lane

557
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:33.920
tunin which of us could resist the temptation of perpetual youth, or,

558
00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:38.760
short of that, any extension of life. Two extra hours

559
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.400
a day is seven hundred and thirty a year, almost

560
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:48.079
exactly an extra month in our lifetime six or more years.

561
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:52.000
But what Eastern vigil forgot is that for every action

562
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:57.039
there is a reaction, for every gift a recompense.

563
00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:06.400
The saddest part of my confession is that after my

564
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.400
wife's death, I became completely blind to everything but my

565
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:11.800
two periods of escape.

566
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:14.960
Every day, more and more my sister.

567
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.119
In law, Harriet took over the ordinary part of life,

568
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:21.239
transforming my beloved clock shop into a nightmare against which

569
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:22.960
I preferred to close my eyes.

570
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:26.719
Ethan, Ethan, what, Harriet, do.

571
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:28.159
You mind helping me dress this one? U?

572
00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:28.480
Please?

573
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:30.599
Well, what's the matter with it? As it is?

574
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:32.800
You Just get away from that bench of yours for

575
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:33.559
a moment and come here.

576
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:34.559
Perhaps I can show you.

577
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:38.760
All right, Harriet, you know.

578
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:41.559
How I'm branching out now that I'm the actor Parker.

579
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:41.559
In the Star.

580
00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:45.320
Oh you yours, Jim crackle, Well, you might.

581
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:48.440
Know you'd lag a mile behind the times. This is

582
00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:51.320
novelty jewelry, and to sell it we must display.

583
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:52.559
It cheap clap trap.

584
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.239
First off, I want you to get this cheap silly

585
00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:56.440
rubber plant out of the window.

586
00:35:56.679 --> 00:35:59.480
Rubber plant, that's my avocado tree, and I grew with.

587
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:00.000
My old hair.

588
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:01.920
Well, whatever it is, it takes up the whole window.

589
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:03.599
I want it out of here, most swear and off.

590
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:05.679
My tree needs the sunshine gets.

591
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:07.079
But what use is it?

592
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:07.639
Tall?

593
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:12.400
Does everything have to have a function. It's beautiful, it's

594
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:16.719
bombed my soul. That's enough reason for its existence. Besides,

595
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:20.119
it don't cost nothing, so you leave it alone very well.

596
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.239
But I must have somewhere to display my costume jewelry.

597
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.679
Oh, let's move.

598
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.159
That ugly old hourglass clock somewhere else. Why does it

599
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.159
have to be right beside your bench where every customer

600
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:31.599
comes out.

601
00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:33.840
I'm wanting you you leave that clock where it is.

602
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:36.400
Won't you ever dare lay a hand on you?

603
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.639
Hear me? Why aren't we touching?

604
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:42.800
We'll just let me remind you of something. Even with

605
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:46.199
Henrietta gone, her share goes to me. So I am

606
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:48.599
two thirds of this star. I can have it anyway

607
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.159
I want to.

608
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:50.880
Over my dead buddy.

609
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.440
You can do what you want, all your cheap, tinsely stuff,

610
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:55.639
but you keep your hand.

611
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:56.039
Off that clock.

612
00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:02.079
Heaven's sake, all right, don't you have an appointment with

613
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:04.960
doctor Royces and.

614
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:16.639
Get right over to his office. Okay, and you can

615
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:19.679
put your shirt back on. I'm all finished examining you.

616
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:24.199
Oh it's the verdict. I couldn't be more pleased. You

617
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:25.280
prove the shape of me.

618
00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:25.559
Huh.

619
00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:28.719
Before Henriette died, I don't mind telling you, I was

620
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:30.039
plumb worried about you.

621
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:31.760
Your heart was acting up you.

622
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:34.719
I didn't like your blood pressure, and there was a

623
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.039
lump in your belly. I could pout paint big as

624
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:40.239
a grapefruit all hour. Now I don't even need the

625
00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:44.880
x rays I took know it before I see him

626
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.440
practically Noon, I'll go on. You don't need a doctor.

627
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:48.239
Get out of here.

628
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:50.760
Let me get around to the sick people outside who

629
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:59.360
do As I went into the outer office, I glanced

630
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:00.920
at the electric clock on the wall.

631
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:05.239
My hands clocked to noon as I did so, and.

632
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:09.960
I was looking at a by now familiar scene. The

633
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:12.559
nurse who had risen to escort the next patient in,

634
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:14.920
was suddenly transfixed.

635
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:17.039
Halfway up from the chair.

636
00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:22.119
A child about to scream remained with face comported, the

637
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:23.360
scream not yet uttered.

638
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:26.880
A thought crossed my mind.

639
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:30.480
It was a month since I had fed the clock

640
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.679
that first transfusion. I went into Jake's small lab, opened

641
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.559
the refrigerator, I helped myself to a blood sample, and left.

642
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:47.239
Back at the store.

643
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:50.320
The only sound was the beat of my clock.

644
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:52.000
It seemed a.

645
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.480
Little labored to me, but for the moment I was

646
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:56.199
too furious to see what Harriet had.

647
00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.719
Been at since I left. Draped all over.

648
00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:03.039
My avocado tree festoons of cheap tin and glass jeweler

649
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:06.920
in Harriet, the superior smirk on her face was caught

650
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:11.800
immobile in the act of adding more. I choked back

651
00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:16.519
my anger because suddenly, before I could move, the clockbeat died.

652
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.159
Why Ethan, how'd you get back so soon?

653
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:26.039
Why what are you doing to the avocado will I? I?

654
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:27.920
Since I can't take it out of the window, I

655
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:31.239
thought I just use it as a display tree alone.

656
00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:34.079
As long as it's there, no one moves.

657
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:35.199
Out of touches it except me.

658
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:38.000
You understand that you certainly don't have to be so abusive.

659
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:40.199
Leave me alone.

660
00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:43.880
You're in a mood like this, I'm glad to I'm

661
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.920
sorry to tell you that joke. Precious clock seems to

662
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:46.760
be out of order again.

663
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:48.760
I hope this time is broken for good.

664
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:51.280
Good Rittance.

665
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:58.360
World tree, but first on special oil, magic length.

666
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:01.719
Please God, You'll still run again?

667
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:17.639
And time stood still again. The pattern for the next

668
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:20.679
months of my life was set. The part of it

669
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:24.519
in my waking moments was only a necessary bridge between

670
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:29.440
the long hours of infinite relief and accomplishments my clock

671
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:33.519
brought me each noon and midnight. My designs for my

672
00:40:33.559 --> 00:40:37.480
perpetual motion mechanism were completed. I had already started to

673
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:42.480
build it. That was my real life. Oh. I found,

674
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.000
to my dismay that the clock seemed to demand more

675
00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:50.639
and more frequent transfusions to stay running, that these were

676
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:54.079
easy to steal from Jake's office in the hours when

677
00:40:54.440 --> 00:41:02.159
time stood still, and once again events caught up with Oh, Jake,

678
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.840
just a moment, what are you doing here this time

679
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.400
of night? Early a young I thought a chess game

680
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:13.559
might get some things up my mind? What were you

681
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:14.840
frowning out in the window when.

682
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.880
I passed a plant there?

683
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:18.920
Avocata? Oh?

684
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:21.159
Yeah, looks my think it.

685
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:25.320
I can't understand it. It's been wielding and drooping day

686
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:26.960
by day. No reason.

687
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:31.199
Are you any good at diagnosing vegetable life, Jake? No,

688
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:34.880
I'm beginning to think I'm not much better with humans.

689
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:37.119
I wish I knew the secret of yours.

690
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:37.599
Part of you.

691
00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:39.519
I think I'm getting old.

692
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:43.679
Should not yourself, Jake, what's wrong?

693
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:49.280
I don't know. In a way it goes back to

694
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:54.119
Henrietta's death or she's done? What does And I never

695
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:56.159
said too much about the way she died at the time.

696
00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:59.920
He couldn't have congestive heart failures. Oh, that's true enough,

697
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:01.960
that's a condition that produces an end.

698
00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:02.280
To live in.

699
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:07.760
But what carget are you asking me now? I am

700
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:12.400
asking myself and I have no answer. Oh, tests will run,

701
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:16.519
and the pathological evidence was clear enough. But in spite

702
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:23.840
of massive transfusions, we couldn't stop Henrietta's blood from simply disintegrating,

703
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:29.079
quite literally turn into order. Well, that's unusually have normal,

704
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:32.239
never seen a case like it before. In the last

705
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:34.840
three months, I've lost three of my patients to the

706
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.199
same sort of oh what shall I say, same sort

707
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:41.599
of malady. I might have seen it developing except for

708
00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:45.920
a strange thing. What All of them had been to

709
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.239
my office and had had routine blood samples drawn for physical.

710
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:53.840
Checker And the samples didn't warn you.

711
00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:59.360
There weren't any samples to examine unaccountably, they disappeared from

712
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:04.159
my office. And one other strange coincidence, the night your

713
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:07.320
wife died, a blood sample for a patient in the

714
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:13.679
hospital disappeared and that patient died later about four weeks later.

715
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.480
But I don't know why I'm worrying you with all this.

716
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:20.840
It's none of your business, but it is. Huh, oh,

717
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.360
you mean as far as Henriette is concerned.

718
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:26.079
Don't know why. I mean, I mean much more than that.

719
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:30.960
At death and what is it? I didn't mean to upset.

720
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.079
You like this all upset. I mean, I just want

721
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:34.400
you to.

722
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:35.960
Understand, understand what.

723
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:45.639
Good Well, I'm sorry, Oh, I'm so sorry. Well, you're

724
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.280
a good friendly sent and I guess I don't feel

725
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:56.639
like any chests and I have I run along, Jake. Yeah,

726
00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:58.199
I I.

727
00:43:58.280 --> 00:43:59.440
Never asked before.

728
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:05.639
But do you remember exactly what time Henny died? Ooh

729
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:07.360
out twenty five to twelve?

730
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:08.920
I think.

731
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:17.199
I didn't have to think. I knew it all now.

732
00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:22.719
That was the precise moment that that evil clock first stopped.

733
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:29.519
So it was a monster insatiable that, once having tasted blood,

734
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:33.039
continued to suck on its victim till it had drained

735
00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:38.719
all life away and I was no better, no less evil.

736
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:44.079
I had been feeding this mechanical vampire at the cost

737
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:49.599
of other human lives. In a daze, unable to explain

738
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.599
to him, I saw my old friend jake out and

739
00:44:52.719 --> 00:45:00.599
turned to face what I had to face. The shop

740
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.119
was dark as I walked to the clock. My ears

741
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:06.519
were so attuned to it by now that I'd been

742
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:08.840
aware that it had started to labor and needed a

743
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:12.440
fresh transfusion. I was more than a little mad by now,

744
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:16.679
as in the dark I said to it, die.

745
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:17.519
Damn you, you devil.

746
00:45:18.119 --> 00:45:22.880
Die.

747
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:25.480
My moment of triumph was brief.

748
00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:30.079
I still had my own expiation to make, not only

749
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:34.599
for my wife, but for all those others. And there

750
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:38.039
was a personal sadness because my hands, in the darkness

751
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:42.000
traced the form of my perpetual motion machine, which would

752
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:47.760
never be completed. Now, a man without love, wife or

753
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.400
children would like to leave a small footprint on the sands,

754
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:57.639
his gauge to immortality. All I would leave now was

755
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:02.000
a sick avocado tree I had nourished for twenty years

756
00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:08.719
for nothing. And then suddenly I heard stealthy footsteps and

757
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:09.480
pulled back.

758
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:13.679
Into the shadows.

759
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.039
Harry, I thought you had gone to bed.

760
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:23.679
What are you doing to the plant?

761
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:26.159
Oh, it's just some food to make it easy.

762
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:32.400
It's a weed killer. You've been poisoning my tree. Why

763
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:34.239
you don't you touch me your way?

764
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:42.480
Look what you've done. I've cut my hand, your fault,

765
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:45.920
and finally you've smashed up this ugly old pot for good.

766
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:49.360
It's dead, just as dead as your prices have.

767
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:50.679
A cud of tree is gonna be.

768
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:55.760
And don't think you can save it. I knew you'd

769
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.000
never agree to take it out of the window, so

770
00:46:58.119 --> 00:46:59.840
I've been poisoning.

771
00:46:59.320 --> 00:46:59.920
It for weeks.

772
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:01.920
It's as good as.

773
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:02.920
Dead right now.

774
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:11.719
And so were you, Harriet, So were you?

775
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:18.079
Her blood had started the damn thing again, But this

776
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:19.400
was to be the last time.

777
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:25.079
What is there left to say? I have to watch.

778
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:30.679
Another human being die slowly, inexorably, unable to arrest the inevitable,

779
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.000
And even though it is someone I despise, my guilt

780
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:39.639
is in no way lessened. The only pleasure I can

781
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:45.400
take is that as Harriet sinks, so does that remorseless, evil,

782
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:51.960
damnable machine. And once its heart is still I shall

783
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:57.280
destroy it forever. The one element I have not tried

784
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:02.639
against it is the enemy, the devil. I shall take

785
00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:07.719
it chain to my body when we go to our

786
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:15.840
grave in the river, to share it for eternity. As

787
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.880
I finished this confession to mail to my good friend

788
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:27.360
doctor Jacob Royce, I can hear the evil labor about

789
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:45.159
to die. It's time for me to write, and so

790
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:45.920
be warned.

791
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:49.159
If you should buy any chance, come across a clock

792
00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:53.039
in a curio shop shaped like an hourglass with a

793
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:58.000
dial that bears the number thirteen instead of twelve. Shun

794
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:01.000
it like the plague. I'll be back shortly.

795
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:23.679
Hello, mystery fans, this is a Creeping Claw. Yes, this

796
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:25.800
is the claw coming your way.

797
00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:32.719
I'm coming your way and I'm gonna get you.

798
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:36.079
Oh, I'd like to play the lead in one of

799
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:36.880
those mysteries.

800
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.840
This is a Geene Shepherd gang, and I'm here to

801
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:43.159
tell you that there's been a great time change here

802
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:46.400
on wr and from here on in. I'm going to

803
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:48.559
be heard every night. There's been all kinds of phone

804
00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:50.840
calls about it. So here's the answer. Every night at

805
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:55.639
nine fifteen Monday through Friday. Jeane Shepherd, better known as

806
00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.719
Creeping Claw.

807
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:01.039
Good evening.

808
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:03.960
I'm Patricia McCann, Dora McCann, and I hope to have

809
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.719
the pleasure of your company this week from eleven fifteen

810
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:09.000
a m To twelve Monday through Friday. And let me

811
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:11.639
tell you what we've got planned. Food prices have gone

812
00:50:11.719 --> 00:50:14.199
up again, so tomorrow we'll talk good sheep food and

813
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.880
how to make a taste. Then Tuesday, the day we've

814
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.119
set aside for our ongoing nutrition series, our guests will

815
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:22.519
be Diane Buckman and she'll tell you how to use

816
00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.639
herbs to make everything from your own cosmetics and perfume

817
00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:29.239
to a natural tranquilizer. Then on Wednesday, we're going to

818
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:32.079
get tough. Our guest will be Ralph Shaw, a lawyer,

819
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:34.559
a consumer and a complainer, and he wants to tell

820
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.840
us all how to get satisfaction from mob Bell, Kaned

821
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:41.880
and the local TV repairman. Thursday, Dora mccannn interviews a

822
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:43.960
lady who does a lot of ad libbing in the kitchen,

823
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:46.079
who doesn't think you should be uptight about a lot

824
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:47.559
of the old rules and regulations.

825
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:48.880
Her name is Glen Anders.

826
00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:52.840
She's author of Impromptu Cooking and their Last but not nast.

827
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:56.159
On Friday, you'll hear Mohammed Salan. We'll talk about his

828
00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:59.639
middle Eastern Restaurant, the Tripoli Restaurant here in New York,

829
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.880
the best have we got a date Monday through Friday,

830
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.199
the McCann program right here on w O r.

831
00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:17.119
Oh.

832
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.679
The fascination of time, and man's never ending quest to

833
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:25.679
hoard it, to stretch it, to borrow an extra portion

834
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:31.599
for himself alone. As I sit watching the clock ticking away,

835
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:35.000
I too have that irrational impulse. All of us have

836
00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:39.480
felt sometime to hold back the hands and bring time

837
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:44.199
itself to stop. And then I remember Ethan vigil and

838
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:46.800
I decide that once around is.

839
00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:48.000
Enough for all of us.

840
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:53.159
Our cast included John Beale, Grace Matthews, Briana Rayburn, and

841
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:56.840
Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of

842
00:51:56.920 --> 00:52:06.320
Hyman Brown, and now a preview of our next tale. Deeply, hopelessly,

843
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:10.119
irrevocably in love Now, my boy.

844
00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:13.239
I've been a publisher a long time. I've talked to

845
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:17.079
dozens of authors. They all fall in love with characters

846
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:17.760
they've created.

847
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:18.800
It happens all the time.

848
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.199
She didn't exist before you created her, that Jack.

849
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:25.840
She exists now, good heavens man, she came.

850
00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:26.840
Out of your mind.

851
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:29.840
She has no life except the one you gave her.

852
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:31.440
Maybe she did come out of my mind.

853
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:33.239
But now she's got a life.

854
00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:35.760
Of her own will in a manner of speaking, of course,

855
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:38.880
she has, and I want to prolong that life, Stephen.

856
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:42.920
I predict great successful Clarissa. And for you. You and

857
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:46.719
Clarissa are one. You might say, no, no, we are

858
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:51.639
not one. We must ever be one.

859
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:53.960
I want her dad, missus E. G.

860
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:57.400
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for

861
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:51.320
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.

862
00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:55.400
Ah, well, my dear, I hope this has started your

863
00:53:55.519 --> 00:54:00.440
evening off correctly. I want you to enjoy yourself as

864
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:06.840
much as I enjoy sharing your company. Oh what's that? Well,

865
00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:13.519
I suppose you're right. Hold on, let me freshen up

866
00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:20.480
your tea. There you go, there you go, get that

867
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:25.480
good and hot again. Good to your soul, good to

868
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:31.960
your body, and it even smells like wild oranges.

869
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:46.519
You are trapped in the dank darkness of a ruined

870
00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:49.960
plantation house, and somewhere in the pitch black room is

871
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:53.079
a homicidal maniac armed with a knife, groping for you,

872
00:54:53.760 --> 00:55:05.079
trying to prevent your escape.

873
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:10.320
Escape Produced by William N. Robson, directed tonight by Richard Sandville,

874
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:13.360
and carefully plotted to free you from the four walls

875
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:20.320
of today for a half hour of high adventure. To night,

876
00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:22.960
we escaped to a deserted sand pit off the coast

877
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:25.039
of Georgia, where terror.

878
00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:28.840
Stalks under the Spanish moss. As Joseph Hergesheimer tells it,

879
00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:41.039
in wild Oranges, What.

880
00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:44.239
Could have appeared more innocent of danger than that barren,

881
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:48.199
low lying shore of southern Georgia. What could have seemed

882
00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:52.039
less laden with terror than that lovely little cove, so

883
00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:56.480
tranquil and well sheltered, so warmly bathed in late afternoon sun,

884
00:55:56.840 --> 00:55:59.079
as we dropped the anchor of our catch and prepared

885
00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:04.280
our mooring. And yet there was something. First it was

886
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:07.599
an odor of a grove of wild orange trees in

887
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:11.800
late bloom, growing defiantly amid the tangled undergrowth of the shore.

888
00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:16.320
The scent was strong and exotic and heavy, and as

889
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:19.880
I smelled it, I felt a vague uneasiness. Then, as

890
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:23.039
I watched the shore and Halvard's sole member of my crew,

891
00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:26.039
hurled the sails, the mirror of the cove was shattered

892
00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:28.679
by a movement. First I thought it was a fish

893
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:31.599
leaping and playing in the water, came round a spit

894
00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:34.639
of land from an inner bay, and then halved was

895
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:35.199
beside me.

896
00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:38.159
That's squeer, sir. Well, it would have bet there was

897
00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:40.679
nobody but than miles of here. But there's someone swimming.

898
00:56:41.079 --> 00:56:43.159
Huh. Yes, it's a girl.

899
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:46.360
Ay, she'll be surprised when she discovers us, no doubt.

900
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:50.599
Huh and embarrassed. Oh she swims, well, doesn't she? If

901
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:51.719
she's been born in the water.

902
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:53.679
Ah, yeah, she's seen us.

903
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:57.639
Yes, Now she's running away. That sprint would win an

904
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:01.199
Olympic race? What what she's doing here? Where she comes from?

905
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:04.199
Perhaps there where two to three years ago.

906
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:07.239
There's a house. You can hardly see it. He spotted

907
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:10.679
it a moment ago. Yes, so there is. Oh, but

908
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:12.199
it's a ruin. It's rotting away.

909
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:14.519
No one could have lived in that since the Civil War.

910
00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:17.159
There may be others back there, Yes, but this coast

911
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:20.599
is deserted, marked a swamp on the chart. Hey don't know, sir,

912
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:27.800
m it's strange, very strange. Yes, it was strange and strangers.

913
00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:31.960
Still was this vague uneasiness I felt as twilight fell

914
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:35.960
The Aroma of the wild Oranges was overpowering. Suddenly, without

915
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:38.920
knowing why, I slipped on a jacket, went to the side,

916
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:42.559
and dropped into the tender. Halbert stood by the cast off.

917
00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:47.800
He asked no questions, and I said nothing. What could

918
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:50.880
I say? I didn't know myself why I was going.

919
00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:57.440
I pulled the tender up on the soft sand of

920
00:57:57.480 --> 00:57:59.400
the beach and walked up a dim path through the

921
00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:02.519
orange grove. The scent of the blossoms was full of

922
00:58:02.559 --> 00:58:06.320
such wild sweetness that I picked an orange and tasted it.

923
00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:09.079
It was bitterb of a pungence that was new and

924
00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:14.000
rare and strangely delicious. The dim moonlight only accentuated the

925
00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:17.760
ruin of the house. There were others, smaller, ramshackled buildings

926
00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:22.320
scattered about, overgrown with weeds and creeping vines. This had

927
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:26.719
once been a great plantation. Now it lay still and lifeless.

928
00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:29.800
Then I saw the light round the side, where a

929
00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:33.039
smaller portico held off the weeds. A single doorway was

930
00:58:33.079 --> 00:58:35.320
framed in the pale light of an inner lamp. As

931
00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:38.599
I approached, I saw a shadow move across it, so swiftly,

932
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:41.079
so furtively, that it was gone Before I realized it

933
00:58:41.079 --> 00:58:44.440
had been a man then I saw her sitting on

934
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:46.760
the portico, rocking softly in her chair.

935
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:48.079
What do you want?

936
00:58:48.440 --> 00:58:48.480
Er?

937
00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:51.360
Nothing? When I came ashore, I thought no one was

938
00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:51.880
living here.

939
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:56.119
You're from the white boat that sailed in at sunset.

940
00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:57.519
Yes, and I'm returning immediately.

941
00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:03.920
Isn't like magic? Suddenly, without a sound, you were anchored

942
00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:04.480
in the bay.

943
00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:08.239
I I've robbed you too. Some of your oranges are

944
00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:08.920
in my pocket.

945
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:11.639
You won't like them. They've run wild. We can't sell them.

946
00:59:11.800 --> 00:59:14.599
They have a distinct flavor of their own. I should

947
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:17.000
be glad to have some on my boat. All you want,

948
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:18.719
my man will get them and pay you.

949
00:59:18.840 --> 00:59:24.800
Please don't, oh, Nicholas attends to that. Won't you sit down?

950
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:27.639
My father was here when you came up, but he

951
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:30.320
went in. Strangers troubled him.

952
00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:34.000
Right, I should be getting back. I'm sorry to have

953
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:35.039
disturbed you and your father.

954
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:38.039
No, no, it was nothing.

955
00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:41.719
Goodness, good night, then good night.

956
00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:47.119
That was all fragment of commonplace conversation. But it was enough.

957
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:47.760
Now.

958
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:50.559
The uneasiness I felt the strangeness of this place took

959
00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:53.559
shape for me. I saw it in her lovely, fragile face.

960
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:56.480
I heard it in her voice. There'd been a hidden terror,

961
00:59:56.519 --> 00:59:59.880
a terrible controlled fright that approached hysteria that had been

962
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:03.960
warning in it, and something else a plea. By the

963
01:00:03.960 --> 01:00:06.159
time I got back to the boat, I was completely unnerved,

964
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:07.760
and Calvert made matters worse.

965
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:09.079
Do you find anything, sir?

966
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:10.920
There are people living there.

967
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:12.880
Well, there'll be watered and maybe we could stay here

968
01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:13.519
a couple of days.

969
01:00:13.559 --> 01:00:14.320
Huh, what do you mean?

970
01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:15.760
Oh, this is good anchorage.

971
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:17.880
I'd like to unship the propeller and the top side

972
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:19.320
could do with a coat of varnish.

973
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:25.039
No, we're going on south er ay, sir. No, no, wait, Alvert,

974
01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:27.960
of course you're right. We need a couple of days

975
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:31.199
work before we head into blue water. We'll do it here,

976
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:41.280
and so we stayed in the light of morning. The

977
01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:44.800
strange dread I felt seemed foolish, and especially when I

978
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:47.559
went ashore and found the girl, looking young and fresh

979
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:50.800
and fragile, fishing off the little pier in the inner bay.

980
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:54.480
She had a pathetic little rod and line. So I

981
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.679
got our tackle from the boat and landed a big

982
01:00:56.760 --> 01:01:00.199
rock fish for her, enough for several dinners. We were

983
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:02.280
carrying the fish to the house when we came on

984
01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:05.280
a pail thin ghost of a man sitting on the portico.

985
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:07.880
He started a swift retreat, but too late.

986
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:11.199
Father. Wait, this is my father, litch Fields, stoopid.

987
01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:12.000
How do you do mearly?

988
01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:12.559
Rely?

989
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:15.400
You are no, I can't strangers.

990
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:18.480
No mother. You must manage yourself better. You know I

991
01:01:18.480 --> 01:01:20.880
wouldn't bring any one to the house who had hurt us.

992
01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:24.519
And see we're fetching you a splendid rock fish.

993
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:26.280
Ah, yes, so you are?

994
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:29.920
We all alone here, sir. The man is away, my

995
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:34.480
daughter and I the fish. Yes, acceptable, if.

996
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.599
You will carry it in for me. Nicholas would do it,

997
01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:41.400
but he's the way, and a father isn't strong this way.

998
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.000
We have no eye. Come and put it in water

999
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:50.559
in here right there. Thank you. You've been very nice.

1000
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:54.000
Now I suppose you'll go on across the world.

1001
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:57.159
Not tonight. We're staying here making repairs.

1002
01:01:57.360 --> 01:02:00.679
Where do you come from? And where you go from?

1003
01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:02.679
Cape Cod? I'm going to the Guianas.

1004
01:02:03.079 --> 01:02:08.079
Isn't that South America? I've traveled far on maps. I

1005
01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:10.079
was born here in this house, and I've never been

1006
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:11.039
fifty miles away.

1007
01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:14.719
Well that's incredible. But you seem like a girl who's

1008
01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:17.639
been everywhere in the world and had the best education everything.

1009
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:19.840
My father has many books in there, that's all.

1010
01:02:20.239 --> 01:02:21.920
Hude.

1011
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:28.880
Your eyes are remarkable, gray green like olive leaves, and magnetic.

1012
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:32.920
I I I came ashore to ask you if you

1013
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:36.079
had a large water supply, and I might fill my casks.

1014
01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:38.360
Of course, rain water, the systems.

1015
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:43.480
I'll send my man Helva. Then, yes, there's something else

1016
01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:44.960
in your eyes, in your voice.

1017
01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:46.679
What is it?

1018
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:47.840
Fear?

1019
01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:48.639
Fear?

1020
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:49.960
Why?

1021
01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:53.360
No, of course not. What should I be afraid of?

1022
01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:56.119
I don't know, but I saw it in your father's

1023
01:02:56.119 --> 01:02:56.639
face too.

1024
01:02:57.400 --> 01:02:59.360
It's only your imagination.

1025
01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:05.559
Yes, no doubt. Goodbye. Then, thank you for the fishing.

1026
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:13.960
Strange how this girl should upset me? So I tried

1027
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.800
to resist, but that evening I found myself going back

1028
01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:20.079
to her, tying the tender to the little peer. I

1029
01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:21.559
watched as she came to meet me.

1030
01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:23.679
I'm glad you came the fish.

1031
01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:25.920
Wah, don't tell me. I'd rather not know. I might

1032
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:28.119
be tempted to mention it in the future, and I'm

1033
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:30.360
sure it would sound like a fish story, but.

1034
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:35.760
It was imposant. Nicholas waited, he's our man, he's back.

1035
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:40.199
Let's stay here by the sea. It's so lovely in

1036
01:03:40.239 --> 01:03:40.840
the moonlight.

1037
01:03:41.079 --> 01:03:44.920
All right, Oh, it is nice here.

1038
01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:51.800
I like you today. About fear, I suppose I am afraid.

1039
01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:54.920
I suppose my father has passed some of his fear

1040
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:55.440
on to me.

1041
01:03:56.239 --> 01:03:57.159
Why is he afraid?

1042
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.320
Well, that's a long story, going back to the First War.

1043
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:01.159
Please tell me.

1044
01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:06.599
Well, he was a young man then, and he didn't

1045
01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:09.960
go to war. It wasn't that he was a coward exactly.

1046
01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:14.920
He just couldn't adjust to it mentally. People mocked him,

1047
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:19.119
laughed at him, and threatened him. That's when a sort

1048
01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:24.360
of perpetual fear started. He ran away. He met my

1049
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:29.039
mother and married her. They came here. None of us

1050
01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:34.679
has ever left this lonely place never will. Perhaps your

1051
01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:40.360
mother she's dead. Loneliness killed her. Perhaps there's no wonder

1052
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:44.840
that I sound timid or afraid. Perhaps I am.

1053
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:46.199
Aren't you lonely too?

1054
01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:50.960
I don't know anything else. But what about you? Who

1055
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:53.480
are you that you go sailing about the world with

1056
01:04:53.559 --> 01:04:54.920
only you a sailor for company?

1057
01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:58.840
Oh, I'm nobody. My name is John Wolfolk and you.

1058
01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:00.480
Do nothing but sail about.

1059
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.840
The world nothing. Why well, let's say I don't like

1060
01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:07.480
modern society. Let's say I don't like entanglement.

1061
01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:10.079
I see, Oh.

1062
01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:11.000
I didn't mean.

1063
01:05:11.159 --> 01:05:16.079
You needn't apologize. I envy you your freedom. I sit

1064
01:05:16.159 --> 01:05:19.599
here a great deal and watch the ships far out

1065
01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:25.559
there on their water roads. You are enviable, sailing where

1066
01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:27.880
you like, safe and free.

1067
01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:31.960
Safe, I'm free.

1068
01:05:32.519 --> 01:05:35.280
There is something more than you've told me, more behind

1069
01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:39.960
the sphere in your voice. No, but perhaps I can help. No, no, please,

1070
01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:41.199
let's say.

1071
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:43.960
It's Nicholas going on the car. I've got to go in.

1072
01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:44.840
I'll come with you.

1073
01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:52.880
No, no, please, no, don't come. You'll be going soon tomorrow,

1074
01:05:52.920 --> 01:06:00.239
perhaps then goodbye, goodbye.

1075
01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:06.599
Now I knew the terror I had only sensed was real.

1076
01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:10.000
This girl was possessed by fear. This house held some

1077
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:14.760
terrible secret. What could it be? Next morning, Halvard suggested

1078
01:06:14.840 --> 01:06:18.199
we repaint the engines, and I agreed we'd stay another

1079
01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:20.800
day or two. Later, Halfard went in to fill a

1080
01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:23.159
cask of water. He came back without the cask and

1081
01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:24.280
livid with rage.

1082
01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:26.719
I was an idiot in that house. Next time, I'll

1083
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:27.440
take the pistol.

1084
01:06:27.519 --> 01:06:28.599
What do you mean was the cask?

1085
01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:29.320
It was broken?

1086
01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.559
How he was feeling it at the cistern, and the

1087
01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:34.360
idiot the huge holking brute came out of the house.

1088
01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:36.360
He told me to get away when I tried to

1089
01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:38.280
explain that we had permission, but he came at me

1090
01:06:38.360 --> 01:06:41.000
for the knife jipper, but I hit him, but it

1091
01:06:41.039 --> 01:06:42.000
was like hitting an ox.

1092
01:06:42.320 --> 01:06:44.440
He put his foot on the cask and crushed it.

1093
01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:47.159
I'll see about this. You'll be careful, sir. The man's

1094
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:56.480
not right. He's dangerous, plenty dangerous. I went ashore and

1095
01:06:56.519 --> 01:06:59.039
around to the back door of the house. Millie wasn't

1096
01:06:59.079 --> 01:07:02.000
inside when I knocked. A lumbering giant with pig like

1097
01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:02.719
eyes came.

1098
01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:04.639
To the door. What do you want, I take it

1099
01:07:04.679 --> 01:07:07.199
you're Nicholas, the man who broke my water cask was

1100
01:07:07.239 --> 01:07:09.320
full of all water. I'm not going to argue with you.

1101
01:07:09.599 --> 01:07:11.440
I came ashore to instruct you to keep your hands

1102
01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:14.440
off my property, in my sale, not water. I told

1103
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:16.239
you I wouldn't discuss the matter. I don't have to

1104
01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:18.639
justify myself to you. Just remember, keep your hands on

1105
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:20.840
me starting. What do you mean started there?

1106
01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:23.960
Don't get me started mine. I want you. Don't put

1107
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.599
down the knife go away now, don't get.

1108
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:28.519
Me started away, don't get me shoted.

1109
01:07:28.559 --> 01:07:30.920
I'm telling you Nicholas stopped.

1110
01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:31.880
What is this?

1111
01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:32.639
What's the matter.

1112
01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:36.760
Nothing, Nicholas and I've had a little misunderstanding, that's all.

1113
01:07:37.599 --> 01:07:41.039
It's nothing to worry about, Nothing to worry about, I said.

1114
01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:43.280
When I got back to the boat, I couldn't help

1115
01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:46.599
asking myself why I'd left her with that brute. I

1116
01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:48.800
just about made up my mind to go ashore again

1117
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:50.840
to check up. When I saw her waving on the beach.

1118
01:07:51.599 --> 01:07:54.159
She wanted to visit the boat. I went and got her.

1119
01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:57.000
There was no hint of terror in her face, now,

1120
01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:01.079
just shining girlish wonderment at the polished metal and the

1121
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:03.920
gleaming wood of the catch. I offered to take her

1122
01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:06.519
for a sail, and her face lighted up like a child's.

1123
01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:09.920
But when we reached the heavy swells outside the reef,

1124
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:12.880
her face got white and she froze.

1125
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:15.280
It's so big.

1126
01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:17.279
Are you frightened? I'll turn back.

1127
01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:22.479
I'd rather you didn't. I must learn I'm not a child.

1128
01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:30.680
No, we're going back. Before we got to the anchorage,

1129
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.880
her panic was almost out of control, But safely moored

1130
01:08:33.920 --> 01:08:36.279
once more, she calmed slowly and said.

1131
01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:39.600
How strange to be forced back to this place I

1132
01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:41.159
loathed by my own cowardice.

1133
01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.199
It's not cowardice. The sea is frightening for those unused

1134
01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:46.640
to it. Come, you must forget it now, how aboud

1135
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:47.920
we'll have tea for us in a moment.

1136
01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:49.239
Uh.

1137
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:50.239
How do you like our boat?

1138
01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:55.319
It's quite wonderful. Have you nothing else to care for?

1139
01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:58.680
No place or people on land?

1140
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:00.439
None?

1141
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.039
And you are satisfied hardly.

1142
01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:06.359
All the things most men value were taken from me

1143
01:09:06.399 --> 01:09:07.119
in an instant.

1144
01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:08.760
Can you talk about it?

1145
01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:16.920
Why? I haven't for twelve years, not anybody, But now, yes,

1146
01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:21.039
I I think I can. You see, we were just married,

1147
01:09:21.800 --> 01:09:25.359
only a few days, and we were very, very happy.

1148
01:09:26.439 --> 01:09:30.960
Then in one instant she was dead. It was a silly,

1149
01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:34.760
stupid accident, thrown from a horse, without rhyme or reason.

1150
01:09:35.399 --> 01:09:39.399
So you left everything, taking your revenge on the world.

1151
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:42.640
You could put it that way. I suppose. I simply

1152
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.159
don't want to take a second chance to become involved

1153
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:45.720
and be hurt.

1154
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:50.439
But that's living to be hurt. Do you think you

1155
01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:51.920
can escape so easily?

1156
01:09:52.640 --> 01:09:53.119
I don't know.

1157
01:09:54.199 --> 01:09:57.560
Oh, I must go, father, We'll be waiting.

1158
01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:01.520
Why so suddenly there's why? I see that's Nicholas on

1159
01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:02.560
the beach looking out here.

1160
01:10:02.600 --> 01:10:04.319
Isn't it, Yes, will be ready.

1161
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:06.399
Why do you have a servant like that? That man's dangerous.

1162
01:10:07.880 --> 01:10:11.319
Please don't just take me in. Please.

1163
01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.000
Now I knew that she too was afraid of Nicholas.

1164
01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.600
I could see it in her eyes. Why then, did

1165
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:27.119
I let her go to him? I don't know. I

1166
01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:27.920
was confused.

1167
01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:28.680
I guess.

1168
01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:39.000
That night a storm broke, a raging wind and rain,

1169
01:10:39.119 --> 01:10:42.880
and to match my tortured mood, I hardly slept. Her

1170
01:10:42.920 --> 01:10:45.359
face was always before my eyes, and by morning I

1171
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:48.359
knew that I must do something. I rode the tender

1172
01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:50.720
in through a drizzling rain. I went up through the

1173
01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:53.039
orange Glove and stopped in the bushes by the house.

1174
01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:55.720
Someone was coming out of the house, and I crouched down.

1175
01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:59.800
Out of sight was Milly. I rose and calledworth, Milly.

1176
01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:02.840
Oh, it's you. I was just coming out to look.

1177
01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:06.119
I was afraid you're gone out. The sea is like

1178
01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:07.039
a pack of wolves.

1179
01:11:07.039 --> 01:11:08.439
I won't go along, not without you.

1180
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:11.079
What do you say? That's madness.

1181
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:13.399
No, I've got to talk to you, Millie. There's a

1182
01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:15.600
lot that needs explaining, things that I have a right

1183
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:15.920
to know.

1184
01:11:16.520 --> 01:11:18.239
No, not here, come.

1185
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:23.800
She led me into one of the smaller ruined buildings,

1186
01:11:24.039 --> 01:11:25.640
but must have been a store in the days of

1187
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:28.840
the Great plantation. We crouched far back in the dripping

1188
01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:33.119
shadows of the corner. No, Milly, Millie, I love you

1189
01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:35.720
for the first time in twelve years. I'm living again,

1190
01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:36.960
and I love you.

1191
01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:39.159
I know nothing of love.

1192
01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:40.359
It's easily learned.

1193
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:47.159
Well, perhaps if things were different someplace else, I might

1194
01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:48.199
care very much.

1195
01:11:48.279 --> 01:11:50.399
Then I'm going to take you away someplace else, make

1196
01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:52.159
things different, give you the chance.

1197
01:11:52.239 --> 01:11:56.720
No, it's too late. You came too late.

1198
01:11:57.079 --> 01:11:59.520
Why, Milly, Why what is it? What is it you

1199
01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:05.640
fear Nicholas. Oh, he's nothing, nothing to be afraid of.

1200
01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:07.359
Has he been bothering you?

1201
01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:11.359
He says he's crazy about me. He says I must

1202
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:11.680
marry you.

1203
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:12.359
Where is he now?

1204
01:12:13.119 --> 01:12:16.439
No, you mustn't, John, something frightful would happen.

1205
01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:19.439
Not frightful, just unfortunate for Nicholas, who don't understand.

1206
01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:23.840
He's not not human. There's something about him?

1207
01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:24.479
What about him?

1208
01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:27.800
He came here in April. We were glad to get him,

1209
01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:30.760
serving her impossible to get back here in the wilderness.

1210
01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:34.399
He would work for the smallest wages. Only a few

1211
01:12:34.520 --> 01:12:36.720
days ago I found out why he was glad to

1212
01:12:36.760 --> 01:12:40.560
be here. I was cleaning his room and I found this.

1213
01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:47.319
Let's see, wanted for murder? Is kun Nicholas homicidal mania.

1214
01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:50.279
He knows I found it. He knows, and he's been furious.

1215
01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:53.079
Then you came, and he ran and hid in the pines.

1216
01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:56.800
But he told me if I spoke about him, then

1217
01:12:56.840 --> 01:12:59.279
it would happen to me. If I left with you,

1218
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:02.239
it would happen to father. You see, he thinks I'm

1219
01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:04.920
in love with you. He told me to send you away.

1220
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:06.520
He said you must leave today, Milly.

1221
01:13:06.600 --> 01:13:07.720
I should have realized.

1222
01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:09.840
He says, I must not be away for longer than

1223
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:10.239
an hour.

1224
01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:11.279
I must go.

1225
01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:13.800
Look, Milly, you'll take us a couple of hours to

1226
01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:16.000
get the book ready. I'll come for you tonight at eight.

1227
01:13:16.359 --> 01:13:18.560
Now tell him you saw me and I promised to

1228
01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:22.640
go and act quietly. Say you well, say you've been upset.

1229
01:13:22.880 --> 01:13:25.560
You'll give him his answer tomorrow. Then at eight, bring

1230
01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:27.319
your father and walk out to the wharf.

1231
01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:28.159
That's all.

1232
01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.319
But do it without hesitation or preparation.

1233
01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:31.680
Don't let him hurt it.

1234
01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:36.159
Oh, please, don't not. Now he's finished, Milly, But do

1235
01:13:36.279 --> 01:13:39.079
as I say. It won't be long, hardly three hours

1236
01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:49.439
and then freedom. Now that I knew now that there

1237
01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:52.039
was to be action, I felt better. Alvin and I

1238
01:13:52.079 --> 01:13:54.479
got the catch ready for sailing, and eight o'clock we

1239
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:56.840
tied it up to the little pier. The storm had

1240
01:13:56.840 --> 01:13:59.920
abated slightly, but it was still raining. I got up

1241
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:03.399
on the dark and waited for Milly. Ten minutes passed,

1242
01:14:03.960 --> 01:14:07.960
then twenty. Something was wrong. I told Halbert to wait

1243
01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:10.119
there with the tender. Then I walked slowly up to

1244
01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:12.720
the house. It was dark. I went up to the

1245
01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:15.520
side portico to the heavy door. A tiny crack of

1246
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:19.079
light showed under it. I pushed it open. The light

1247
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:20.520
came from a parlor to the right.

1248
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:21.880
I looked in.

1249
01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:26.760
On the floor lay a body old Litchfield Stope. He

1250
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:31.000
was dead, crushed, his arm twisted grotesquely under him. There

1251
01:14:31.079 --> 01:14:34.000
was not a sound in the house. Slowly I walked

1252
01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:37.600
through the downstairs rooms nothing and back in the hall

1253
01:14:37.640 --> 01:14:41.239
I heard a slight creak up stairs. Someone had moved.

1254
01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:46.159
Was it Milly alive? On Nicholas lying in wait? I

1255
01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:49.560
grooked slowly up the stairs. I dared not use my flashlight.

1256
01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:51.479
It would have made me a target for his knife.

1257
01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:55.119
The upstairs hall was pitch black, and still there was

1258
01:14:55.119 --> 01:14:59.600
no sid I inched my way along the wall slowly.

1259
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:03.199
Then I stumbled on a loose board. The pistol flew

1260
01:15:03.239 --> 01:15:05.000
out of my hand, but the stumble saved my life.

1261
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:08.000
The same instant I felt Nicholas Lunch, heard the knife sing,

1262
01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.079
plow my earwn thud into the wall, fell his great bulk,

1263
01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:14.319
smashing on my shoulders. My gun was somewhere on the

1264
01:15:14.399 --> 01:15:17.039
dark floor. He's knife was embedded in the wall. Now

1265
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:21.159
we were grappling hand to hand, rolling on the floor, chicking, tearing, gauting,

1266
01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:24.600
crushing my strength and win against the massy bulk of

1267
01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:25.680
a maniacal killer.

1268
01:15:26.079 --> 01:15:27.439
I head.

1269
01:15:29.199 --> 01:15:31.920
How many minutes did that unequal struggle last time? I

1270
01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:35.880
don't know. It seemed an hour several times, as if

1271
01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:39.279
by common consent. We rested for minutes at a time,

1272
01:15:39.399 --> 01:15:42.720
locked in tight embraced. Once we rolled apart and lay panding,

1273
01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:46.000
the breath aching in my throat. Then I heard him

1274
01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:48.760
groping along the wall, searching for the knife, for the gun.

1275
01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:52.119
I threw myself on him again, but it was too big,

1276
01:15:52.239 --> 01:15:55.039
too curious. I felt my strength ebbing away.

1277
01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:57.640
His fingers were closing over my throat.

1278
01:15:58.239 --> 01:15:59.880
With won my step and I tried to throw it

1279
01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:11.479
roll off. I. I staggered daysly to my feet and

1280
01:16:11.479 --> 01:16:14.399
looked up. He had fallen through the banister down the stair.

1281
01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:18.279
Nicholas had landed on the bottom. He lay there on

1282
01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:22.119
the stairs, sprawled his head at a grotesque angle. But

1283
01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:25.479
it was not dead, only stunned. I leaned against the

1284
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:30.199
wall looked at him stupidly. There was something, There was something.

1285
01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:33.439
I was trying to remember what was it? When she

1286
01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:36.159
came down the steps, and I remembered Millie.

1287
01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:38.920
I had to walk right past him. There was no

1288
01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:44.000
other way right patted head and my skirt. I think

1289
01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:46.720
we better go away. It's quite impossible here with him

1290
01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:47.199
in the hall.

1291
01:16:47.439 --> 01:16:49.319
You have to pass it O close Millie. Yes, we'll

1292
01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:49.880
leave it once.

1293
01:16:50.279 --> 01:16:52.319
I must tell you about my father. You know in

1294
01:16:52.399 --> 01:16:54.640
Virginia the woman tied an apron on the door because

1295
01:16:54.680 --> 01:16:56.640
he would not go to war, and that preyed on

1296
01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.039
his mind, and he was afraid of the slightest pair.

1297
01:16:59.119 --> 01:17:00.479
Yes, yes, I know, but we must go.

1298
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:03.560
He's upset him, so he had no strength.

1299
01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:05.359
To hear talk like this like a sidon child. Was

1300
01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:08.119
almost more than I could there. But now I heard something.

1301
01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:11.239
Nicholas had gotten up. He stood there and stared for

1302
01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:14.199
a moment sat us. Then he started slowly up the stairs.

1303
01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:16.760
He was going for the nice little thing. Upset to him, Millie,

1304
01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:17.479
we've got to go.

1305
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:20.800
I was to meet a man. We were going away

1306
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:25.680
someplace where it'd be peaceful, he said, at eight o'clock.

1307
01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:29.479
But Nicholas suspected. You see, he asked why Father had

1308
01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:32.000
put on his heavy window clothes. Then when I tried

1309
01:17:32.039 --> 01:17:34.560
to go out, he pushed me. And you know what

1310
01:17:34.600 --> 01:17:38.199
father did to him. He came up and he said,

1311
01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:43.000
don't do that. Take your hands off my daughter. His

1312
01:17:43.159 --> 01:17:47.520
lips shook him little, but he said it that's the

1313
01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:48.439
important thing.

1314
01:17:48.640 --> 01:17:50.640
Yes, yes, of course your father was a brave man

1315
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:53.399
after all. Now come, that man is waiting for you.

1316
01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:54.479
There's no time to lose.

1317
01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:59.680
Father said, take your hands off my daughter. Nicholas killed him,

1318
01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:04.199
crushed him like a little mosquito. But it was a

1319
01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:05.680
brave thing to do.

1320
01:18:05.960 --> 01:18:08.399
I couldn't wait any longer. I had to risk whatever

1321
01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:10.600
injury it might do to her mind. I could hear

1322
01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:13.119
Nicholas coming back. I swept her up in my arms

1323
01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:15.199
and carried her out into the night. Down the path

1324
01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.039
to the little pier. Behind me, I could hear Nicholas

1325
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:20.720
crashing through the brush like a giant animal in pursuit.

1326
01:18:21.159 --> 01:18:22.279
Are you all right, sir?

1327
01:18:22.439 --> 01:18:25.399
Yes, go done in, but all right here? Help me

1328
01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:26.119
get her in the book.

1329
01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:31.199
Yes, sir, there eh, somebody's coming here.

1330
01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:32.840
It's Nicholas. He's got a knife.

1331
01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:35.520
Good. He wanted to get back at him.

1332
01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:43.439
You get into her, hey, take care of him.

1333
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:45.960
Albert went to intercept Nicholas on the path. I heard

1334
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:48.560
them meet and struggle for a moment. Then a stoop

1335
01:18:48.680 --> 01:18:51.880
figure came walking slowly onto the pier. I prepared to

1336
01:18:51.880 --> 01:18:54.560
shove the boat out into the water, and then all.

1337
01:18:54.560 --> 01:18:56.560
Right, sir, it's me.

1338
01:18:57.159 --> 01:18:59.079
Oh Helbert, where's Nicholas?

1339
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:02.840
He stopped, heaves all pumpt Are you hurt?

1340
01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:03.239
Now?

1341
01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:06.359
Used to scratch. He missed his knife at first in

1342
01:19:06.479 --> 01:19:10.439
the dark. It's nothing good, let's get away from here.

1343
01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:13.319
Then I held Milly in my arms. As Halvard wrote

1344
01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:16.039
to the catch erratically. I suppose, because of the storm

1345
01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:18.880
we were ready to cast off in two minutes. The

1346
01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:21.640
last obstacle would be the narrow passing out of the cobe.

1347
01:19:22.199 --> 01:19:25.199
In this storm, it would be dangerous, very dangerous. I

1348
01:19:25.319 --> 01:19:26.960
started to take Milly into the cabin.

1349
01:19:27.159 --> 01:19:30.279
No, Nicholas in the doorway.

1350
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:34.720
Nonsense, Nicholas is dead. You're on my boat, Milly. You're safe,

1351
01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:36.720
Milly safe.

1352
01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:40.119
Will John Wolf?

1353
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:43.640
I am John Woolfolk, but he.

1354
01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:46.560
You didn't come?

1355
01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:50.159
Yes, I did, Milly, and you're safe. Come.

1356
01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:53.439
I want to stay here, all right.

1357
01:19:54.000 --> 01:19:56.560
You sit here beside Halvard. I'm going up front to

1358
01:19:56.640 --> 01:19:57.319
take soundings.

1359
01:19:57.479 --> 01:19:59.600
In this VENU won't be able to hear me if

1360
01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:00.600
I call no, but.

1361
01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:01.239
You can hear me.

1362
01:20:02.159 --> 01:20:04.880
Remember, we've only three feet clearance. We'll have to hold

1363
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:06.079
it steady through the passage.

1364
01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:07.119
I'll manage it.

1365
01:20:07.439 --> 01:20:11.039
Albert, this is no time for pretense. How do you feel,

1366
01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:11.920
all right?

1367
01:20:12.840 --> 01:20:15.720
If taken knives before us to scratch?

1368
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:18.520
All right, we'll fix it as soon as we get outside. Now,

1369
01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:26.199
let's go turn over the engines, pull up anchor. The

1370
01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:29.039
boat headed into the tearing wind of the storm, sped

1371
01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:32.000
swiftly toward the narrow inlet. A foot too far on

1372
01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:34.600
either side and we would hit in the sea. That

1373
01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:37.479
would mean death for us. All I stood far up

1374
01:20:37.520 --> 01:20:41.399
on the bow, taking soundings, feeling out the passage. All

1375
01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:45.479
the howling wind carried my call back to Halvard. The

1376
01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:47.920
boat veered. I realized he must have lost a lot

1377
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:53.439
of blood. Albot al about steady here, slowly, haltingly. It

1378
01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:59.000
came around win a half steady now it was anything

1379
01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:01.880
blood steady. The boat waving swung as if an eMate.

1380
01:21:01.920 --> 01:21:04.119
Her hand were on the wheel. In a moment we

1381
01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:08.279
might hit three in a quarter. We're in the passage.

1382
01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:16.720
Oh, steady, Harbard, steady, But just another moment, just one moment, rinner,

1383
01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:19.319
we're crue.

1384
01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:30.680
Good boy, Halbard, good boy, Albert, I called. But when

1385
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:34.119
I went back, it was not Helvin at the wheel.

1386
01:21:35.039 --> 01:21:38.800
It was Milly. Milly, her hands steady, her eyes washed

1387
01:21:38.880 --> 01:21:42.079
clear of any madness, Milly with a tight little smile

1388
01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:45.960
on her face, but no fear. And Halvard lay rolling

1389
01:21:46.039 --> 01:21:48.199
with the swells in the bottom of the cockpit.

1390
01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:51.760
I'm afraid he's dead, John.

1391
01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:55.720
He was wounded, worse than your thought, Alvid did.

1392
01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:59.640
He told me to take the wheel, said it was

1393
01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:05.199
nice for the Denny slid down like that? When when

1394
01:22:05.439 --> 01:22:08.800
was this back then on the patty, just when you

1395
01:22:08.920 --> 01:22:13.359
said three and a half. I'm afraid I wasn't very good,

1396
01:22:14.279 --> 01:22:15.119
but I held on.

1397
01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:21.199
Oh, Milly, you were wonderful no, not.

1398
01:22:21.439 --> 01:22:28.079
Yet, but I'll learn, John, I'll learn.

1399
01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:48.000
Escape is produced by William N. Robson and was directed

1400
01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:51.479
tonight by Richard Sandville. You've just heard Wild Oranges by

1401
01:22:51.560 --> 01:22:55.439
Joseph Hergersheimer, adapted for radio by John Duncle, with Paul

1402
01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:59.119
Frieze as John Wolfolk, Jeanette Nolan as Millie Stops, Bill

1403
01:22:59.239 --> 01:23:02.680
Conrad as how Jack Crushan as Nicholas, and Sherry Hall

1404
01:23:02.760 --> 01:23:06.119
as Litchfield Stops. The special musical score was conceived and

1405
01:23:06.199 --> 01:23:13.960
conducted by Sifure. Next week, You've planned it very well.

1406
01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:18.600
She's dead and you feel no remorse. Her escape has

1407
01:23:18.680 --> 01:23:22.600
worked out perfectly. There's nothing to worry about, except perhaps

1408
01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:37.760
an unexpected Christmas present. Next week we escape with John

1409
01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:40.199
Collier's grim story back for Christmas.

1410
01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:41.159
Good Night.

1411
01:23:41.199 --> 01:23:43.600
Then until this same time next week, when once again

1412
01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:51.439
we offer you escape. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1413
01:23:55.840 --> 01:24:14.880
You know, my dear, Many times in life and other circumstances,

1414
01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:21.439
I find myself feeling relatively. I don't want to say lost,

1415
01:24:21.560 --> 01:24:30.159
that's almost too dramatic. No, no, no, but wandering listless, aimless,

1416
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:37.279
hoping to find whatever it is you're looking for. Yes,

1417
01:24:37.520 --> 01:24:44.159
sometimes it feels like in life, and well, you know,

1418
01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:51.800
I'm wandering and chasing my tail, sort of like The

1419
01:24:52.840 --> 01:24:54.319
Cross Eyed Bear.

1420
01:25:07.039 --> 01:25:07.840
Suspense.

1421
01:25:17.239 --> 01:25:20.039
This is the Man in Black here again to introduce

1422
01:25:20.119 --> 01:25:24.960
Columbia's program Suspense to Night Our stars from Hollywood, and

1423
01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:28.680
it's Virginia Bruce and mister John Loder. Miss Bruce appears

1424
01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:31.560
as a beautiful and adventurous young lady who went in

1425
01:25:31.720 --> 01:25:34.640
search of the bright face of danger and risked her

1426
01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:38.039
life while finding it. Mister Loder's role is that of

1427
01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:41.279
the smooth and charming gentleman who granted her employment in

1428
01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:45.640
a perilous enterprise. The story called The Cross Eyed Bear

1429
01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:51.520
by Dorothy B. Hughes is Tonight's tale of suspense. If

1430
01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:54.399
you've been with us before, you will know that suspense

1431
01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:58.680
has compounded of mystery and suspicion of dangerous adventure in

1432
01:25:58.840 --> 01:26:01.840
this series. Her tales ca alkylated to intrigue you, to

1433
01:26:01.920 --> 01:26:05.239
stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and

1434
01:26:05.319 --> 01:26:11.079
then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And

1435
01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:13.760
so it is with the performances of Virginia Bruce as

1436
01:26:13.880 --> 01:26:18.319
Lizan Stepan and John Loder as Belle Falker, We again

1437
01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:26.479
hope to keep you in suspense. The cross eyed bear

1438
01:26:36.119 --> 01:26:39.159
in the subway train, Midtown, New York. A tall blonde

1439
01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:41.880
girl reading an item in her newspaper, reading it over

1440
01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:45.159
and over. An advertisement, A personal advertisement.

1441
01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:50.279
I wanted a beautiful girl, no special training required, but

1442
01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:52.399
must not be afraid to look upon the bright face

1443
01:26:52.479 --> 01:26:56.159
of danger, full war job and liberal expenses, good salary.

1444
01:26:56.720 --> 01:27:01.279
Applying person whom one thousand, the Lorenzo Hotel East fifty.

1445
01:27:01.000 --> 01:27:03.600
First drink, fiftyvice, fiftyvice strap.

1446
01:27:14.960 --> 01:27:15.359
How do you do?

1447
01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:20.399
I came to answer, and ad, oh is this the place? Yes,

1448
01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:23.319
so this is the place I should think. Well, am

1449
01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:25.159
I the only one? I'm not quiet?

1450
01:27:25.279 --> 01:27:29.359
But just now you're the only one I see, I thought, listen,

1451
01:27:29.439 --> 01:27:33.640
miss whatever your name is, Louisanne Uzanne Stefferson, take my advice.

1452
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:34.640
Done before it's.

1453
01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:39.000
Two lydia about that? Oh, someone to see me?

1454
01:27:39.359 --> 01:27:41.520
This young lady came in answer to the end, mister Foker,

1455
01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:43.840
Miss Lizanne Stefferson.

1456
01:27:43.560 --> 01:27:46.439
I see, well, won't you come in, Miss Steffson? Thank

1457
01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:50.479
you in here? Please my office? Please sit down?

1458
01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:56.119
Won't you thank you? Ben not bed?

1459
01:27:56.319 --> 01:27:59.520
Oh excuse me, Miss steveson this is my my associate,

1460
01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:01.279
mister Hugh a bodyguard.

1461
01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:03.000
She might as well know these little things.

1462
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:03.279
Bill.

1463
01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:06.640
He was not really rude, Miss Steverson, It's just a mannerism.

1464
01:28:06.720 --> 01:28:08.920
Well, Bill did advertise for a beautiful girl.

1465
01:28:09.319 --> 01:28:12.439
I've always considered myself sort of an authority on that subject.

1466
01:28:12.560 --> 01:28:15.880
I see, perhaps, mister Foker, you'd be good enough to explain.

1467
01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:18.800
What Perhaps I might tell you something about the job. Eh, Well,

1468
01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:21.920
why did you apply for this position? Miss Stefferson?

1469
01:28:22.600 --> 01:28:24.520
Are you I needed the work?

1470
01:28:24.880 --> 01:28:27.039
And you're quite sure you're not afraid of danger?

1471
01:28:27.720 --> 01:28:31.319
As a matter of fact, I suppose I am. I

1472
01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:32.359
told you I need the work.

1473
01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:35.960
Well, that makes two of us, Miss Steffson. Have you

1474
01:28:36.039 --> 01:28:41.720
ever heard of the cross eyed Bear? Yes? Where why

1475
01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:43.199
are you in the papers?

1476
01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:46.640
Wasn't that what they called newt Vilius the Swedish nickel King?

1477
01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:48.279
Did you know he was dead?

1478
01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:51.159
Yes, that's how I happened to hear about him, when

1479
01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:52.880
they had it all in the papers about a year ago.

1480
01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:55.039
And did you know he had three sons?

1481
01:28:55.720 --> 01:28:58.319
No, I didn't read much beyond the headlines.

1482
01:28:58.520 --> 01:28:58.880
He did.

1483
01:28:59.199 --> 01:29:02.319
One of them is dead. His name was Dean, the youngest.

1484
01:29:02.920 --> 01:29:07.199
The oldest, Stephan is still in Sweden. The third Lance Villiers,

1485
01:29:07.479 --> 01:29:08.680
is where your job comes in.

1486
01:29:09.600 --> 01:29:12.159
I see what she obviously doesn't.

1487
01:29:12.279 --> 01:29:14.720
I want you to meet Lance Villiers to get acquainted

1488
01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:16.720
with him. When is confidence? Do you understand?

1489
01:29:17.239 --> 01:29:17.680
I think so?

1490
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:19.800
We know where he is, who he is, but he

1491
01:29:19.800 --> 01:29:22.840
won't admit it. He pretends he's a piano player named

1492
01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:26.359
Lance Vort at Jim and Jack's nightclub. We're pretty sure

1493
01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:29.479
that Lance Vault is actually Lars Villiers, the second son

1494
01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:30.680
of the Cross Eyed Bear.

1495
01:29:31.279 --> 01:29:33.680
Am I supposed to know why you want this done?

1496
01:29:34.000 --> 01:29:35.640
You might as well tell her bell she is in

1497
01:29:35.800 --> 01:29:37.119
for it now anyway.

1498
01:29:37.039 --> 01:29:38.239
Infra, how who means?

1499
01:29:38.279 --> 01:29:38.319
It?

1500
01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:39.159
Seems you're hired?

1501
01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:39.960
You are?

1502
01:29:40.199 --> 01:29:40.359
Oh?

1503
01:29:41.039 --> 01:29:41.359
Thank you?

1504
01:29:41.920 --> 01:29:42.439
You accept?

1505
01:29:42.680 --> 01:29:43.039
Yes? Oh?

1506
01:29:43.119 --> 01:29:43.279
Yes?

1507
01:29:43.359 --> 01:29:44.439
I well?

1508
01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:47.359
Then the background, Miss Stefferson, is this? When the cross

1509
01:29:47.399 --> 01:29:50.239
Eyed Bear, that is Old Knute Villias died, he left

1510
01:29:50.239 --> 01:29:50.560
a will.

1511
01:29:51.359 --> 01:29:52.079
The will was.

1512
01:29:52.159 --> 01:29:55.000
Consciously designed to bring about the murder of at least

1513
01:29:55.039 --> 01:29:55.600
two people.

1514
01:29:55.960 --> 01:29:56.199
Mud.

1515
01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:00.560
Yes, he left his estate, which in so did several

1516
01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:04.279
important minds. Divided equally among his three sons. He left

1517
01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:07.560
a check for three million dollars, one check torn in

1518
01:30:07.640 --> 01:30:11.439
three pieces, one piece for each of his sons, and

1519
01:30:11.600 --> 01:30:14.199
all three pieces must be presented together before the check

1520
01:30:14.279 --> 01:30:14.640
is valid.

1521
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:16.680
A check corn in three pieces.

1522
01:30:16.880 --> 01:30:17.279
For sure.

1523
01:30:17.359 --> 01:30:19.640
It's an old gag, but it's effective. If you want

1524
01:30:19.680 --> 01:30:20.640
a house, divide him.

1525
01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:23.119
You see, the old Man knew that one son would

1526
01:30:23.119 --> 01:30:25.199
eventually kill the others for their shares.

1527
01:30:25.319 --> 01:30:27.359
And he knew which one, Stephan, the.

1528
01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:30.319
One in Sweden. Yes, why do such a thing?

1529
01:30:30.359 --> 01:30:33.319
If he knew survival of the fitters, chum the Fitters

1530
01:30:33.399 --> 01:30:35.760
to run his empire. The old Boy is what is

1531
01:30:35.840 --> 01:30:37.920
known as a rugged individualist.

1532
01:30:38.279 --> 01:30:41.600
And because he hated all of his sons and wanted

1533
01:30:41.680 --> 01:30:44.920
them to hate each other, they weren't even brought up together.

1534
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:47.119
Why they've never even seen each other.

1535
01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:50.239
But it seems so can't someone bring them together? Isn't

1536
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:50.960
there some way?

1537
01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:51.279
Sure?

1538
01:30:51.880 --> 01:30:54.920
Stephan's way Frosty killed Dean, and of course there's no

1539
01:30:55.039 --> 01:30:57.399
proof it happened somewhere up in Vermont.

1540
01:30:57.720 --> 01:30:59.479
I thought you said Stephan was in Sweden.

1541
01:31:00.079 --> 01:31:03.079
Think he is, But there are ways of doing these things.

1542
01:31:03.199 --> 01:31:05.239
Now he's on the trail of Lance, the second brother,

1543
01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:07.479
and that's where you come in. We want to get

1544
01:31:07.520 --> 01:31:08.720
to him before Stephans does.

1545
01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:10.720
But if you think you know where he is and

1546
01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:13.079
who he is, why don't run. Have you talked to him?

1547
01:31:13.119 --> 01:31:15.600
Because he's scared. He doesn't trust anyone. He won't talk

1548
01:31:15.640 --> 01:31:19.479
to anyone. Now, maybe he'll trust you and mister King Yes,

1549
01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:23.880
is neutral and so they're scared to do anything about it. Officially,

1550
01:31:24.399 --> 01:31:26.439
a bill here is like one of those spies in

1551
01:31:26.479 --> 01:31:29.239
the movies. If he gets caught, his own government is

1552
01:31:29.239 --> 01:31:30.560
the one to throw the first stone.

1553
01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:33.159
Besides that, my government is afraid that if Stefan gets

1554
01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:35.520
control of the minds, he'll turn them over completely to

1555
01:31:35.600 --> 01:31:36.079
the Germany.

1556
01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:39.319
Yes, Stephen's pro Nazi, among his other virtues.

1557
01:31:39.840 --> 01:31:42.039
Well, miss Stefferson, will you be ready to go to

1558
01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:42.560
work tonight?

1559
01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:44.359
Yes, I'll be ready.

1560
01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:47.039
I'll reserve a table at Jim and Jack's to in fact,

1561
01:31:47.479 --> 01:31:50.600
for say ten o'clark. We'll meet you around the corner

1562
01:31:50.640 --> 01:31:52.399
from the bar. I don't want Lance to see us together.

1563
01:31:52.680 --> 01:31:57.720
I'll be there very well then, Miss Stefferson. Oh, by

1564
01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.199
the way, here's a little cash you may want by

1565
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:03.039
yourself an evening dress or two. Thank you, but oh

1566
01:32:03.119 --> 01:32:05.840
not at all part of the bargain. Goodbye, see you later.

1567
01:32:07.000 --> 01:32:09.399
Heavens it's a thousand dollars.

1568
01:32:09.880 --> 01:32:15.079
Well, so you got the job, Yes, you were trying

1569
01:32:15.119 --> 01:32:17.039
to warn me about something before I went in went

1570
01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:18.119
to It's no use.

1571
01:32:18.239 --> 01:32:18.359
Now.

1572
01:32:18.640 --> 01:32:20.800
I only hope you're better luck with it than I had,

1573
01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:25.279
will you? Oh, I'm so sorry, Luckily, Dan. I don't

1574
01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:27.720
know who you are, but you must be somebody. You

1575
01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:29.640
must be mixed up in this thing somehow.

1576
01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:31.000
I must be somebody.

1577
01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:33.159
If you're not, get out of it while you can.

1578
01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:36.079
You are, of course, but get out of it anyway.

1579
01:32:36.239 --> 01:32:39.640
Why it ever occurred to you the dead? You answered,

1580
01:32:39.680 --> 01:32:42.279
maybe they've been in the papers for weeks, and that

1581
01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:44.720
there are thousands of beautiful girls in New York, and

1582
01:32:44.800 --> 01:32:46.840
that hundreds of them must have come up here and

1583
01:32:46.960 --> 01:32:50.359
been turned away. I wondered, yes, And why do you

1584
01:32:50.439 --> 01:32:52.840
think out of all those you were chosen?

1585
01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:53.720
That's it?

1586
01:32:55.000 --> 01:33:09.640
I don't know, Diarren October twelfth, Yes, why was I chosen?

1587
01:33:10.479 --> 01:33:13.560
Who are they really more important? What do they know

1588
01:33:13.640 --> 01:33:16.840
about me? There's no answer except to work with them

1589
01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:19.520
and wait. At least I know that at last I

1590
01:33:19.640 --> 01:33:22.880
found the trail of the cross eyed. There it's true, then,

1591
01:33:23.079 --> 01:33:26.439
about the torn check divided among the three sons, and

1592
01:33:26.600 --> 01:33:30.880
one is already dead, Dean the second the man I'm

1593
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:35.000
supposed to meet tonight to travel. I'm sure now that

1594
01:33:35.079 --> 01:33:36.880
I was right to come to New York, and I'm

1595
01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:39.760
sure I was right to answer the strange ad. As

1596
01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:42.680
for danger, I always knew it would be there.

1597
01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:52.399
You're sure Ance hasn't come in yet, Miss Stefferson.

1598
01:33:52.600 --> 01:33:55.279
Positive. I've asked the head waited twice. I don't think

1599
01:33:55.279 --> 01:33:56.479
it'd be wise to ask again.

1600
01:33:56.720 --> 01:33:58.800
Perhaps not? Does he do this often?

1601
01:33:59.079 --> 01:33:59.920
Is stay away like that?

1602
01:34:00.199 --> 01:34:02.600
No, that's the funny part. They say. He's been at

1603
01:34:02.600 --> 01:34:04.520
that piano every night for a year. This is the

1604
01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:05.119
first time.

1605
01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:09.279
Do you mind if I call you an No, you

1606
01:34:09.319 --> 01:34:11.680
didn't buy any chance strip by our friend or that

1607
01:34:11.760 --> 01:34:12.920
people were looking more?

1608
01:34:13.159 --> 01:34:13.439
Did you?

1609
01:34:14.560 --> 01:34:16.760
I should I when I'm working for you, I'm sorry.

1610
01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:18.880
Skip it just a habit.

1611
01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:21.079
Nobody trust anybody in this thing anymore.

1612
01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:23.960
But if you don't trust me, because we trust you, Liza.

1613
01:34:24.239 --> 01:34:25.479
He was a little nervous, that's all.

1614
01:34:26.399 --> 01:34:29.399
I'm not nervous. I like sitting around nightclubs with a

1615
01:34:29.479 --> 01:34:30.159
beautiful girl.

1616
01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:33.840
You do look very charming tonight, Lisan it would be

1617
01:34:33.920 --> 01:34:34.279
hard not.

1618
01:34:34.359 --> 01:34:35.640
Two hundred thousand dollars.

1619
01:34:35.680 --> 01:34:39.199
Hey, don't look around now, but our boys just come in.

1620
01:34:41.319 --> 01:34:43.000
I just happened to be looking around the corner, so

1621
01:34:43.159 --> 01:34:45.319
his back. He's heading for the orchestra.

1622
01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:46.840
All right, Lizanne, here you go.

1623
01:34:47.359 --> 01:34:49.680
Don't be nervous, just talk with him, chat along you

1624
01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:52.439
know what should I not say? And be as frank

1625
01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:53.880
as you like, as nothing to conceal.

1626
01:34:54.199 --> 01:34:58.640
All right, Oh, waiter, see you later, on, waiter, I

1627
01:34:58.760 --> 01:34:59.880
have a table reserved tonight.

1628
01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:01.800
My escort will be along shortly.

1629
01:35:02.039 --> 01:35:04.760
Yes, madame, what is the name Stepson?

1630
01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:08.960
It's table number twenty four. I think everybody orchestra this way?

1631
01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:19.960
Please and here we are, madame, am happy and you

1632
01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:22.920
wish to order now? Later I'll wait, Thank you, Thank you, madam?

1633
01:35:25.800 --> 01:35:26.319
Excuse me?

1634
01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:26.960
Yes?

1635
01:35:27.680 --> 01:35:28.840
May I ask you a question?

1636
01:35:29.479 --> 01:35:29.760
Why not?

1637
01:35:30.399 --> 01:35:31.840
Won't you sit down for a minute?

1638
01:35:32.439 --> 01:35:32.800
All right?

1639
01:35:35.920 --> 01:35:39.560
Well, I I wanted to ask your name?

1640
01:35:39.920 --> 01:35:43.800
My name is what via ught board and your first

1641
01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:44.600
name LUs?

1642
01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:45.119
Why?

1643
01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:49.000
It's only because you look like someone I someone whose

1644
01:35:49.039 --> 01:35:50.359
picture I thought on the paper once.

1645
01:35:50.840 --> 01:35:52.880
Yeah, don't you believe me?

1646
01:35:53.039 --> 01:35:56.199
Why should I I guess another one of these people

1647
01:35:56.239 --> 01:35:58.560
who've been going around here lately with a bad case

1648
01:35:58.600 --> 01:35:59.560
of mistaken identity.

1649
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:03.000
Well you are wrong too, you know about it then,

1650
01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:08.239
But the cross eyed bear, of course, I don't it's

1651
01:36:08.239 --> 01:36:11.720
been following me long enough. They think I'm man civilias,

1652
01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:14.479
that I'm mad or a lot of Swedish though, well

1653
01:36:14.520 --> 01:36:14.760
I'm not.

1654
01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:18.000
You still look like the picture I saw on the paper?

1655
01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:19.039
Who are you working for?

1656
01:36:19.159 --> 01:36:19.520
Stepan?

1657
01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:19.720
No?

1658
01:36:20.720 --> 01:36:23.319
No, that's just it. Don't you see? Your life's in danger?

1659
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:25.640
Not as long as I keep my face shut, it

1660
01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:26.520
isn't look.

1661
01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:28.279
You must trust me. I can help.

1662
01:36:28.439 --> 01:36:29.680
I don't need any help.

1663
01:36:30.279 --> 01:36:33.399
Are you sure you don't say who are you working for?

1664
01:36:34.479 --> 01:36:35.600
I noticed you duck that one?

1665
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:36.239
No, I didn't.

1666
01:36:36.720 --> 01:36:38.880
I don't have to lie well.

1667
01:36:40.319 --> 01:36:40.720
Poison.

1668
01:36:41.239 --> 01:36:42.720
His name is Bill Falka.

1669
01:36:43.800 --> 01:36:44.439
I never heard of it.

1670
01:36:44.600 --> 01:36:47.319
He's working for the Swedish government. He wants to help

1671
01:36:47.359 --> 01:36:47.680
you too.

1672
01:36:49.000 --> 01:36:50.600
A lot of people seem to want to help me.

1673
01:36:50.760 --> 01:36:52.840
Won't you talk to him? Am I?

1674
01:36:53.119 --> 01:36:56.119
Tonight? They're here at another table, they Bill and his

1675
01:36:56.239 --> 01:36:57.439
body god, Hugh King.

1676
01:36:58.199 --> 01:37:01.359
Since when the representatives of neutral governments need bodyguards?

1677
01:37:01.840 --> 01:37:04.920
Apparently when they become involved with the cross Eye there?

1678
01:37:05.520 --> 01:37:10.800
Please call all right for a couple of minutes. I'll

1679
01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:13.239
admit I'm I'm rather.

1680
01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:15.359
Curious obi here.

1681
01:37:16.520 --> 01:37:18.960
I I didn't tell you my name, did I? It's

1682
01:37:19.239 --> 01:37:25.359
Zangann steps nice here we are, mister mister King, This

1683
01:37:25.439 --> 01:37:26.520
is mister land Spot.

1684
01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:29.600
I won't you sit down, mister Vaught please?

1685
01:37:29.800 --> 01:37:30.119
Thanks?

1686
01:37:33.159 --> 01:37:33.520
Uh huh.

1687
01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:38.199
I thought perhaps i'd recognize you. Oh, yes, I've been

1688
01:37:38.239 --> 01:37:43.000
in here several times. Pleasure own business, a little of both. Look,

1689
01:37:43.079 --> 01:37:45.399
mister Bot, I'll speak frankly if you can save it.

1690
01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:48.840
You're Miss Stepperson has told me all about it. My

1691
01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:52.039
name is Bot. You're barking up the wrong tree. Got

1692
01:37:52.159 --> 01:37:53.119
a birth certificate?

1693
01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:54.399
Why should I show it to you?

1694
01:37:56.800 --> 01:37:57.560
There comes something?

1695
01:37:57.840 --> 01:37:58.039
Yeah?

1696
01:37:58.199 --> 01:38:02.199
Hell here Hi Toby. Oh, don't let me distribute, but

1697
01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:05.279
you better make some introductions to you. Well, this is

1698
01:38:05.399 --> 01:38:09.640
Inspector Tobin of the homicide squad. Miss Steffenson.

1699
01:38:09.920 --> 01:38:12.279
Mister, how do you do?

1700
01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:13.439
What's up?

1701
01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:13.880
Toby?

1702
01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:14.520
Oh?

1703
01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:17.319
I just thought i'd like to ask a few questions. Well,

1704
01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:20.840
I'm sure you don't want me. I've got to get back.

1705
01:38:20.960 --> 01:38:22.279
You better stick around, son.

1706
01:38:23.439 --> 01:38:23.600
Oh.

1707
01:38:24.600 --> 01:38:27.279
I don't suppose any of you can give a satisfactory

1708
01:38:27.279 --> 01:38:30.399
account of your movements between say, eight and ten, this

1709
01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:32.279
evening with witnesses.

1710
01:38:35.119 --> 01:38:37.960
I thought, so how about you, Miss Stefferson.

1711
01:38:38.359 --> 01:38:41.119
You're a new one. I thought you might at least well.

1712
01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:43.640
It took me quite a long time to dress.

1713
01:38:44.199 --> 01:38:47.399
It looks as though it might have. Well, it's better

1714
01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:50.600
to have too many suspects than none, I guess. Come on, Toby,

1715
01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:56.479
give there's been a murder. That's right, A certain Lydia Vinton.

1716
01:38:56.760 --> 01:39:03.359
You're secretary, mister Walker, Lydia surprised. Why, of course, where

1717
01:39:03.359 --> 01:39:04.119
do I come in on this?

1718
01:39:04.479 --> 01:39:05.399
Well, now, mister.

1719
01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:08.119
Wah, the New York Police know a lot more about

1720
01:39:08.159 --> 01:39:10.600
what's going on in the world than you think, all

1721
01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:14.159
sorts of things like the cross eyed bear, for instance.

1722
01:39:14.199 --> 01:39:15.760
I've got nothing to do with the cross eyed bear.

1723
01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:18.640
Maybe you have, maybe you haven't, but there are a

1724
01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:21.479
lot of people who think you have, including me.

1725
01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:24.720
But Lydia, poor Lydia, she was only my secretary. She

1726
01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:25.640
had nothing to do with it.

1727
01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:27.720
She had nothing to do with the cross eyed bear,

1728
01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:31.800
whether you knew it or not, mister Faulker, Lydia Vinton

1729
01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:33.920
was in the cross eyed Bear thing up to her neck.

1730
01:39:34.760 --> 01:39:37.159
She knew the Villia set up. She knew the Villiers family.

1731
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:40.239
In fact, she was one of the heirs of the

1732
01:39:40.359 --> 01:39:43.000
Villiau's fortune. Lydia was Lydia.

1733
01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:47.279
Mister Polker was the wife of Stephen Villias, And that's why.

1734
01:39:47.199 --> 01:39:48.159
She was killed.

1735
01:39:58.000 --> 01:40:03.840
October fourteen. Lydia, poor Lydia will try to worry me,

1736
01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:08.439
and no, wonder Lydia was an heir to the Cross

1737
01:40:08.439 --> 01:40:13.520
Eyed Dare's estate, and she is Deadly Dean was the

1738
01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:15.600
youngest son and heir, and he is dead.

1739
01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:20.960
The next plan, of course, he has.

1740
01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:24.439
Learned silas his disappearing is as good as signing a

1741
01:40:24.520 --> 01:40:28.399
concession that he has lines. He disappeared not because he

1742
01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:32.479
was a murderer of Lydia or anyone else. He is

1743
01:40:32.520 --> 01:40:36.079
afraid of being murdered because he is the second son

1744
01:40:36.239 --> 01:40:39.760
of the cross eyed Bear. And that means I've got

1745
01:40:39.800 --> 01:40:40.439
to find him.

1746
01:40:40.920 --> 01:40:41.520
Before they do.

1747
01:40:48.520 --> 01:40:50.039
What lands what?

1748
01:40:50.640 --> 01:40:52.640
No, I don't know anybody by that name.

1749
01:40:53.199 --> 01:40:55.399
He might be using some other name, but he's at

1750
01:40:55.439 --> 01:41:00.600
piano player. No, you don't have any I've got piano

1751
01:41:00.680 --> 01:41:02.800
player one who's just recently come with him.

1752
01:41:03.319 --> 01:41:12.560
Ma'am. Sure he belonged to the musician Junion. They all

1753
01:41:12.720 --> 01:41:12.960
do it.

1754
01:41:13.279 --> 01:41:15.720
He hasn't worked for over a week, and I'm if

1755
01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:17.840
he didn't leave any forwarding address at his hotel.

1756
01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:18.920
I'm sorry.

1757
01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:21.600
Some of these piano players are funny guys.

1758
01:41:23.279 --> 01:41:25.159
Oh yees, yes, I know who you mean.

1759
01:41:25.239 --> 01:41:25.600
Alright.

1760
01:41:26.199 --> 01:41:27.039
I used to go buy this.

1761
01:41:27.119 --> 01:41:29.600
Corner every evening. Oh but that fella's wanted.

1762
01:41:30.199 --> 01:41:32.479
You don't think you're gonna find it before us cops do,

1763
01:41:32.640 --> 01:41:32.920
do you.

1764
01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:35.960
Know?

1765
01:41:36.159 --> 01:41:36.319
Ma'am?

1766
01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:39.199
I'm sorry nobody answering that description every registered.

1767
01:41:39.399 --> 01:41:51.439
Yeah, I know you feel mighty bad about not finding

1768
01:41:51.520 --> 01:41:55.239
that man. I can see that you want a little advice.

1769
01:41:55.680 --> 01:41:56.399
Yes, yes, I do.

1770
01:41:56.720 --> 01:41:59.079
You have be here the forty eighth Club of Mahalem.

1771
01:41:59.319 --> 01:42:02.079
No, you go up there now, I'll tell you how

1772
01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:05.000
to get there, and you just hang around. You're sure

1773
01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:06.239
affair one of these nights.

1774
01:42:06.560 --> 01:42:10.279
Why because nobody that's a real musician, and I know

1775
01:42:10.439 --> 01:42:12.079
that boy is a real musician.

1776
01:42:12.680 --> 01:42:15.880
Nobody could stay away from there very long. They got

1777
01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:20.239
a piano team up there. You just got to hear

1778
01:42:20.319 --> 01:42:23.239
him ever so often? Are you just going up there

1779
01:42:23.319 --> 01:42:24.000
like I kid? You?

1780
01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:46.920
Are you sure?

1781
01:42:47.359 --> 01:42:48.920
I think I know who you mean.

1782
01:42:49.640 --> 01:42:52.399
I've been keeping my eye out ever since you told me.

1783
01:42:52.920 --> 01:42:55.199
I see, well, thank you.

1784
01:42:55.640 --> 01:42:58.640
Uh, the man you want to wouldn't have a good with.

1785
01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:00.760
I don't know.

1786
01:43:01.319 --> 01:43:02.720
There's the gentleman right over there.

1787
01:43:04.039 --> 01:43:05.159
Oh here.

1788
01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:08.600
I'm not sure, but I think I'll take a table

1789
01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:09.439
for a while anyway.

1790
01:43:11.960 --> 01:43:14.279
Man man, Why are you a little pool?

1791
01:43:14.800 --> 01:43:15.159
Come here?

1792
01:43:16.359 --> 01:43:16.600
Land?

1793
01:43:16.680 --> 01:43:19.000
I'm so glad I found you. I don't know whether

1794
01:43:19.039 --> 01:43:23.159
to laugh or cry, and I had to do something. Okay, good,

1795
01:43:23.239 --> 01:43:24.600
I recognize all right?

1796
01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:26.479
What are you here for?

1797
01:43:27.640 --> 01:43:28.479
Put on me?

1798
01:43:29.880 --> 01:43:30.800
No, that isn't true.

1799
01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:33.239
Why not you trust me?

1800
01:43:33.399 --> 01:43:33.680
Don't you?

1801
01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:35.119
Well?

1802
01:43:36.720 --> 01:43:38.319
Yes, for some reason?

1803
01:43:38.920 --> 01:43:40.960
I know why, because I trust you?

1804
01:43:41.399 --> 01:43:42.640
Know you trust me? Oh?

1805
01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:45.359
Don't you see? We're all in this together. We're all

1806
01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:46.000
in danger.

1807
01:43:46.319 --> 01:43:47.199
How does that apply to you?

1808
01:43:47.479 --> 01:43:50.600
I'll tell you first listening. Don't you see what you've done?

1809
01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:53.319
By running away? You've all but made an open confession

1810
01:43:53.359 --> 01:43:56.239
that you are ladies. The police may think you ran

1811
01:43:56.279 --> 01:43:59.039
away because you don't kill Lydia. Whoever did kill her

1812
01:43:59.159 --> 01:44:00.840
knows why you ran way, don't you see?

1813
01:44:01.279 --> 01:44:04.000
I know I thought of that after a couple of days,

1814
01:44:04.039 --> 01:44:04.720
but it was too late.

1815
01:44:04.800 --> 01:44:07.159
Now you are lance studinous, aren't you?

1816
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:09.000
Why should I tell you?

1817
01:44:09.520 --> 01:44:11.720
Because we can help each other, because if we don't,

1818
01:44:11.760 --> 01:44:12.800
we're both helpless.

1819
01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:14.079
How do I know you're not with them?

1820
01:44:14.239 --> 01:44:16.399
I'm not with anybody. I'm trying to find out just

1821
01:44:16.439 --> 01:44:17.199
as much as you are.

1822
01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:20.000
Oh, sister, I don't know if you are or none.

1823
01:44:21.399 --> 01:44:22.720
I'm gambling with my life.

1824
01:44:23.079 --> 01:44:25.880
Listen, if you're Lance Dullius, you have a torn piece

1825
01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.520
of a check made out by your father Canoe Business

1826
01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:31.039
the Cross Eyed Bear, for one third of his estate.

1827
01:44:31.479 --> 01:44:35.039
There are two others exactly alike, and all three must

1828
01:44:35.039 --> 01:44:38.960
be presented together before any are valid. I show you

1829
01:44:39.039 --> 01:44:40.520
another of those pieces of that check.

1830
01:44:41.000 --> 01:44:41.880
Then will you believe me?

1831
01:44:44.039 --> 01:44:45.560
Yes? I will.

1832
01:44:46.439 --> 01:44:48.159
At first, we've got to find a place for you

1833
01:44:48.239 --> 01:44:48.600
to hide.

1834
01:44:49.079 --> 01:44:50.359
Where did you get part of that check?

1835
01:44:50.439 --> 01:44:52.840
Never mind that? Now, where have you've been staying.

1836
01:44:53.079 --> 01:44:55.960
Here and there? One broken down hotel after another.

1837
01:44:56.359 --> 01:44:59.039
I know my place. He's got two rooms, and you

1838
01:44:59.079 --> 01:45:02.039
can have one of them. No, don't you see? It's

1839
01:45:02.119 --> 01:45:03.840
like the story of the man who left the Valuable

1840
01:45:03.920 --> 01:45:06.520
letter and playing sight on his desk. The simplest place

1841
01:45:06.560 --> 01:45:09.119
to find you is the last place they'll look. Come on,

1842
01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:20.439
here we are.

1843
01:45:21.079 --> 01:45:21.680
How do you like it?

1844
01:45:22.279 --> 01:45:25.039
Well, it's a lot better than I've been used to lately.

1845
01:45:25.239 --> 01:45:27.279
And there are bolts on the doors. I had that

1846
01:45:27.399 --> 01:45:29.199
done the second day. I got mixed up in this thing.

1847
01:45:30.319 --> 01:45:31.600
Which room do you want me to take?

1848
01:45:32.359 --> 01:45:32.560
Oh?

1849
01:45:32.680 --> 01:45:34.920
You might as well have this one, I guess phone

1850
01:45:35.000 --> 01:45:37.039
in the next room. You won't want to be answering

1851
01:45:37.119 --> 01:45:40.720
that anyway, we can work and plan here. It'll be

1852
01:45:40.800 --> 01:45:41.520
our headquarters.

1853
01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:41.920
We can.

1854
01:45:43.800 --> 01:45:49.359
There's the phone, now make yourself comfortable. Why don't you

1855
01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:50.159
drive the piano?

1856
01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:51.039
Okay?

1857
01:45:52.800 --> 01:45:53.039
Hello?

1858
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:54.359
Hello?

1859
01:45:55.600 --> 01:45:56.319
Hello? Who is it?

1860
01:45:57.399 --> 01:45:57.560
Hello?

1861
01:45:57.760 --> 01:45:58.000
Hello?

1862
01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:06.600
Bill?

1863
01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:07.760
How'd you get here? What happened?

1864
01:46:08.079 --> 01:46:09.079
You can see for yourself.

1865
01:46:09.119 --> 01:46:09.880
You've killed him?

1866
01:46:10.399 --> 01:46:12.760
Bill, callow me. He's right behind me.

1867
01:46:12.840 --> 01:46:19.039
I can't help that. Come in, Come in the doors open? Yeah,

1868
01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:22.399
I don't know. I walked in and pandom like that

1869
01:46:23.000 --> 01:46:27.880
lovers quarrel. I guess Bill, what are you saying? You

1870
01:46:28.039 --> 01:46:28.640
better take her in.

1871
01:46:28.720 --> 01:46:30.560
Inspector, come along with Jefferson.

1872
01:46:38.479 --> 01:46:42.520
Yeah, here we are, Miss.

1873
01:46:44.359 --> 01:46:47.199
Don't fresh Now, it's no use trying to get a

1874
01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:48.199
good night's sleep.

1875
01:46:49.520 --> 01:46:53.000
You can call a lawyer, sure you can. You want

1876
01:46:53.079 --> 01:46:55.239
me to get intact with someone for you? Who do

1877
01:46:55.279 --> 01:46:56.079
you want me to call?

1878
01:46:57.159 --> 01:46:57.880
I don't know.

1879
01:46:59.079 --> 01:46:59.920
I don't know who to call.

1880
01:47:01.000 --> 01:47:12.600
Good October twenty eighth. At least they will let me write.

1881
01:47:13.439 --> 01:47:17.960
But what I've been such a fool? They asked, Jepain's

1882
01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:19.199
agents your poker.

1883
01:47:18.960 --> 01:47:19.439
And who king?

1884
01:47:19.800 --> 01:47:23.199
And I walked into the trap? You have to followed me,

1885
01:47:24.079 --> 01:47:27.479
see me locate lines. Perhaps you even heard what we said.

1886
01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:32.199
Now Lance is dead. The police believe I killed him,

1887
01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:33.479
and they.

1888
01:47:33.399 --> 01:47:36.239
Will sweat with with all the power of money, even

1889
01:47:36.279 --> 01:47:40.039
foreign governments behind them. The worst of all, they must.

1890
01:47:39.920 --> 01:47:40.560
Know who I am.

1891
01:47:41.600 --> 01:47:43.600
You must know where the third piece of the carfie

1892
01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:47.439
bears checking. That is why I am to be next

1893
01:47:48.479 --> 01:48:04.000
jean Lydia Lance and now the zan yea she is,

1894
01:48:04.119 --> 01:48:06.680
mister poker, Phil.

1895
01:48:07.159 --> 01:48:10.399
Lizn I'm so sorry I couldn't come to you sooner.

1896
01:48:10.720 --> 01:48:12.399
It was a matter of your life and mine.

1897
01:48:12.239 --> 01:48:13.399
Too, your life.

1898
01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:14.680
Didn't you see through it?

1899
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:15.279
Oh?

1900
01:48:15.359 --> 01:48:18.000
You poor child, I've been so blind. But it's all

1901
01:48:18.079 --> 01:48:21.000
right now we're safe. Oh, come along and I'll tell

1902
01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:23.079
you about it on the way. Everything's in order, is

1903
01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:28.760
in the meitron. You didn't really think I'd done such

1904
01:48:28.760 --> 01:48:31.000
a thing to you, did you. Didn't you see him

1905
01:48:31.119 --> 01:48:31.760
standing there?

1906
01:48:31.960 --> 01:48:32.159
Oh?

1907
01:48:32.800 --> 01:48:35.479
King, you king? Don't you see it now?

1908
01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:36.680
He?

1909
01:48:37.359 --> 01:48:41.039
Of course, he's been Stephan's man all the time, watching me,

1910
01:48:41.640 --> 01:48:45.279
protecting me, waiting for me, for us to lead him

1911
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:46.800
to the answer and then strike him.

1912
01:48:48.880 --> 01:48:51.319
This way please, and then you can get out right

1913
01:48:51.399 --> 01:48:52.199
through the courtyard.

1914
01:48:52.560 --> 01:48:56.159
Thank you. You see now why I had to do it.

1915
01:48:57.079 --> 01:48:59.119
I didn't actually see him kill Lance. I got there

1916
01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:02.199
a second later. If I'd accused him, he'd have denied it.

1917
01:49:02.720 --> 01:49:04.640
They wouldn't have arrested him for a few hours at least,

1918
01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:07.520
and in those few hours, with the power of Stephan

1919
01:49:07.600 --> 01:49:10.840
behind him, it would have been you and I next, Lisan.

1920
01:49:11.399 --> 01:49:13.319
But why did you let me be sent to jail

1921
01:49:13.479 --> 01:49:16.239
to make him think I believed him? But chiefly because

1922
01:49:16.239 --> 01:49:18.560
I knew you'd be safe here. And only if I

1923
01:49:18.640 --> 01:49:21.239
knew you were safe could I do what I have

1924
01:49:21.399 --> 01:49:25.760
to do? What you won't trouble us again, Lizanne, it's

1925
01:49:25.800 --> 01:49:27.000
finished at last.

1926
01:49:29.119 --> 01:49:33.239
It's so hardly believe that you've who has been so horrible?

1927
01:49:33.479 --> 01:49:36.279
I know, my poor child. Come along, I'm going to

1928
01:49:36.319 --> 01:49:42.760
take you home taxi. Razanne. You should have told me

1929
01:49:42.840 --> 01:50:02.079
who you were gone in. Yeah, just relaxed for a while,

1930
01:50:03.600 --> 01:50:07.439
like a drink. No, you don't mind if I do go.

1931
01:50:09.359 --> 01:50:10.000
As a matter of.

1932
01:50:10.079 --> 01:50:12.399
Fact, there are still a few things I haven't told.

1933
01:50:12.239 --> 01:50:14.159
You about this little business of the card.

1934
01:50:14.439 --> 01:50:17.439
There there must be quite a lot of things.

1935
01:50:17.840 --> 01:50:20.199
For instance, you never knew I had a wall safe

1936
01:50:20.239 --> 01:50:21.479
behind this bar, did you.

1937
01:50:23.439 --> 01:50:23.479
No?

1938
01:50:25.439 --> 01:50:27.520
And of course you didn't know what I kept in it.

1939
01:50:29.359 --> 01:50:31.079
Perhaps you'd be interested.

1940
01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:37.600
To see acrossside Bear's check all three pieces, Yes, Lances

1941
01:50:38.199 --> 01:50:41.159
who had his part in his pocket, the full yours

1942
01:50:42.000 --> 01:50:42.760
and my own.

1943
01:50:43.840 --> 01:50:43.880
You.

1944
01:50:46.439 --> 01:50:49.039
You know, I rather marvel that my poor brother Dean

1945
01:50:49.159 --> 01:50:52.800
managed to marry such a naive girl. You believed in

1946
01:50:52.880 --> 01:50:55.840
me all the way, haven't you, Lizan, even this afternoon?

1947
01:50:56.880 --> 01:50:57.479
When did you know?

1948
01:50:58.319 --> 01:51:00.479
Really, my dear, you don't think you were that beautiful,

1949
01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:03.920
do you. I knew my younger brother had a wife, someone.

1950
01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:06.319
I knew she'd turn up eventually if I used the

1951
01:51:06.399 --> 01:51:10.439
right bait, the a the ad. But you weren't quite

1952
01:51:10.439 --> 01:51:12.560
as innocent about that ad as you pretended, were you?

1953
01:51:13.600 --> 01:51:17.239
The beautiful girl went looking for danger. You were trying

1954
01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:20.039
to find the man who killed Dean, weren't you. Yes?

1955
01:51:20.560 --> 01:51:22.960
Didn't you realize that he'd only married you for protection

1956
01:51:23.359 --> 01:51:25.439
so there'd be one more heir to the villier's fortune,

1957
01:51:25.479 --> 01:51:27.520
so they couldn't all be killed, or so he thought?

1958
01:51:28.000 --> 01:51:30.439
Yes, sir, I realized that I've tried married him.

1959
01:51:31.560 --> 01:51:33.880
Then I have a private plane waiting for me, and

1960
01:51:33.960 --> 01:51:36.319
I have the check. By the way, I got your

1961
01:51:36.359 --> 01:51:38.720
part out of your safe deposit, Bault copies of your keys,

1962
01:51:39.640 --> 01:51:41.640
so there's no use, prolonging the agony.

1963
01:51:42.479 --> 01:51:43.640
You understand.

1964
01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:45.920
You're going to kill me.

1965
01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:53.399
I'm afraid I must Dean Lance, my poor silly wife, Lydia,

1966
01:51:53.439 --> 01:51:56.720
who became a little two panic stricken. And now, since

1967
01:51:56.760 --> 01:52:01.079
as Dean's wife, you're the last heir to the villier's fortune, you'll.

1968
01:52:00.960 --> 01:52:01.800
Never get away with it.

1969
01:52:02.199 --> 01:52:02.640
I will.

1970
01:52:03.399 --> 01:52:05.920
Oh, it will look like suicide. Naturally. I've even forged

1971
01:52:05.920 --> 01:52:07.600
a little note in which you confess to the other

1972
01:52:07.720 --> 01:52:13.199
murders remorse, and do I make myself clear? Oh, my

1973
01:52:13.399 --> 01:52:15.439
poor child, you mustn't think you can deceive me by

1974
01:52:15.479 --> 01:52:17.920
that ancient trick of staring over my shoulder a non

1975
01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:18.840
existent intruder.

1976
01:52:19.000 --> 01:52:21.479
Drop it, Bill, you, I said, drop it.

1977
01:52:23.600 --> 01:52:23.640
You?

1978
01:52:24.600 --> 01:52:25.359
You are you all right?

1979
01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:25.880
Sure?

1980
01:52:25.920 --> 01:52:28.920
I am all right. It was a close one for you, though, baby.

1981
01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:31.039
I told total to keep you there.

1982
01:52:31.079 --> 01:52:32.680
When I got back, I'll call a doctor.

1983
01:52:32.760 --> 01:52:37.079
Oh that could wait with this kid, O you.

1984
01:52:46.640 --> 01:52:51.680
November seventeenth, This is the end of you, darling. I'm

1985
01:52:51.720 --> 01:52:53.640
a married woman now, and.

1986
01:52:53.680 --> 01:52:55.600
The most appropriate end I can think of is this

1987
01:52:55.680 --> 01:53:00.560
clipping from Today's Time tainted on the last page, King

1988
01:53:01.600 --> 01:53:05.840
Villius Eiris wed FBI agent Hugh King, who shatowed notorious

1989
01:53:05.880 --> 01:53:07.680
Stephen Vilias for six months to.

1990
01:53:07.760 --> 01:53:11.680
Break international murder mystery by special distentation of Justice and

1991
01:53:11.720 --> 01:53:15.159
War Departments. Couple will honeymoon in Sweden.

1992
01:53:30.359 --> 01:53:34.520
And so closes The Cross Eyed Bears starring Virginia Bruce

1993
01:53:34.600 --> 01:53:43.920
and John Loder. The Knight's Tale of Suspense. This is

1994
01:53:44.000 --> 01:53:46.760
your narrator, the Man in Black, who conveys to you

1995
01:53:46.920 --> 01:53:49.880
Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour with us again

1996
01:53:49.960 --> 01:53:53.680
next week, when Orson Wells will begin a four week engagement.

1997
01:53:53.920 --> 01:53:56.239
This is our very welcome guest on suspense.

1998
01:53:57.119 --> 01:53:59.600
During the next weeks, mister Wells will star in three

1999
01:53:59.720 --> 01:54:03.720
on you usual and spectacular suspense plays, The Most Dangerous

2000
01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:07.119
Game by Richard Connell, The Lost Special by Sir Arthur

2001
01:54:07.239 --> 01:54:11.720
Conan Doyle, and Donovan's Brain by Curtsey Oddmack, the last

2002
01:54:11.800 --> 01:54:14.720
of which will be done in two parts on successive weeks.

2003
01:54:16.039 --> 01:54:19.279
The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear, who, with

2004
01:54:19.439 --> 01:54:23.560
Ted Bliss, the director, Bernard Herman and Lucian Merrowick conductor

2005
01:54:23.640 --> 01:54:28.159
and composer, and Robert L. Richards, the radio author, collaborated

2006
01:54:28.199 --> 01:54:30.399
on Tonight's Suspense.

2007
01:54:34.359 --> 01:54:38.279
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting system.

2008
01:54:50.119 --> 01:54:56.880
My dear, Sometimes the mind likes to run along and

2009
01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:03.199
do what it does best, which is dig if you

2010
01:55:03.319 --> 01:55:08.399
will now, I try not to hand it a spade

2011
01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:13.840
too often. But well, as they say, a mind is

2012
01:55:13.960 --> 01:55:19.079
a terrible thing to waste, so restricting it can only

2013
01:55:19.319 --> 01:55:26.479
lead to negative outcomes. I worry if I can handle

2014
01:55:27.720 --> 01:55:28.479
the penalty.

2015
01:55:31.800 --> 01:55:54.560
Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler. I'm

2016
01:55:54.960 --> 01:55:55.560
the whistler.

2017
01:55:59.560 --> 01:56:02.840
I know John Blake isn't here. I know because he's disappeared.

2018
01:56:03.479 --> 01:56:04.720
I know you're trying to keep it out of the

2019
01:56:04.760 --> 01:56:06.760
press because you think he's been kidnapped.

2020
01:56:10.880 --> 01:56:14.760
Another Sunday night, and again Babs presents love Whistler.

2021
01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:26.399
I a whistler, know many things, or I walk by night.

2022
01:56:27.520 --> 01:56:31.720
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the

2023
01:56:31.840 --> 01:56:35.199
hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

2024
01:56:36.399 --> 01:56:40.680
And so I tell you tonight the amazing story of

2025
01:56:40.840 --> 01:56:46.880
the penalty. Young Alan Harper stands at the window of

2026
01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:49.800
his small office and stares gloomily out over the city

2027
01:56:50.239 --> 01:56:51.520
as the lights flicker.

2028
01:56:51.279 --> 01:56:52.000
On in the dusk.

2029
01:56:52.880 --> 01:56:57.039
Alan has troubles. Perhaps he should have kept his job

2030
01:56:57.119 --> 01:57:01.960
as a private detective. Perhaps he shouldn't have taken my law. Course, Well,

2031
01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:04.159
he hasn't had a single client since the day he

2032
01:57:04.239 --> 01:57:07.800
passed the bar examination. Better to give up and go

2033
01:57:07.920 --> 01:57:11.159
back to the detective ation, saying. Then the door opens

2034
01:57:11.199 --> 01:57:13.119
and the figure steps into the dimly lighted room.

2035
01:57:16.960 --> 01:57:18.439
Are you the attorney?

2036
01:57:18.840 --> 01:57:20.840
Oh, yes, yes, I'm Alan Hopper.

2037
01:57:21.079 --> 01:57:24.159
I have a little business for you. Business.

2038
01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:26.079
But what kind of business?

2039
01:57:26.279 --> 01:57:29.319
I want you to draw a will and later deliver

2040
01:57:29.439 --> 01:57:32.319
a letter for me a will? Oh yes, yes, of course,

2041
01:57:32.399 --> 01:57:33.960
of course. Do you know who I am?

2042
01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:36.399
Well, I've certainly seen you before, but I just can't

2043
01:57:36.439 --> 01:57:36.760
place you.

2044
01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:39.680
I'm John Blake, cousin of the Plymouth Building and Loan.

2045
01:57:39.960 --> 01:57:42.960
Oh. Yes, yes, of course, I've seen your picture many times. Yes,

2046
01:57:43.399 --> 01:57:46.239
but I have you come to me. You have a

2047
01:57:46.279 --> 01:57:47.760
staff of the best attorneys in town.

2048
01:57:47.880 --> 01:57:51.399
I know, But because of the moment peculiar nature of

2049
01:57:51.439 --> 01:57:54.840
the business at hand, I prefer an unknown, a lawyer

2050
01:57:55.399 --> 01:57:57.600
who had no previous interest in me or my affairs

2051
01:57:57.960 --> 01:58:00.920
I see, and also one who was not doing any

2052
01:58:01.000 --> 01:58:01.359
two will.

2053
01:58:01.880 --> 01:58:04.039
Well, I'll have to admit that you pick a good example.

2054
01:58:04.439 --> 01:58:06.279
In a few moments you'll have guessed what I have

2055
01:58:06.399 --> 01:58:06.800
in mind.

2056
01:58:07.640 --> 01:58:10.520
You'll know why I can't have my own attorney's handle this.

2057
01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:11.720
Why not?

2058
01:58:12.039 --> 01:58:13.960
You have no personal interest in me, Hafer.

2059
01:58:14.600 --> 01:58:17.039
This is a cold business proposition, and I'll make it

2060
01:58:17.119 --> 01:58:19.920
worth your file. Yes, when I walk out of here,

2061
01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:21.439
and I want you to forget the whole thing for

2062
01:58:21.479 --> 01:58:26.600
a few days. I agreed, very well. Then take down

2063
01:58:26.680 --> 01:58:30.359
what I say, and I'll sign it to my daughter

2064
01:58:31.479 --> 01:58:36.880
Anita Blake. I leave all my property, personal and real,

2065
01:58:37.960 --> 01:58:43.319
including the painting of her mother Marcia Blake. This will

2066
01:58:44.039 --> 01:58:48.680
supersedes any and all instruments of this nature previously drawn.

2067
01:58:50.399 --> 01:59:01.720
Yes, that's all. Oh, yes, I'll sign it now now here.

2068
01:59:02.079 --> 01:59:05.399
He's a letter addressed to my brother Hillary in this city.

2069
01:59:06.279 --> 01:59:10.159
He's recently returned after twenty five years in Australia, so

2070
01:59:10.279 --> 01:59:12.720
he has written me several times lately. We've been exchanged

2071
01:59:12.720 --> 01:59:16.319
all these years over a situation which this letter will

2072
01:59:16.359 --> 01:59:21.039
clear up very well, mister Blake. But just what, no questions,

2073
01:59:21.079 --> 01:59:24.000
mister Harper. Please, I I want you to keep the will,

2074
01:59:24.079 --> 01:59:26.840
and better you'll know what to do with him when

2075
01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:28.039
the time arrives.

2076
01:59:28.159 --> 01:59:32.159
Are you, I mean, mister Blake, are you afraid of

2077
01:59:32.239 --> 01:59:32.760
being murdered?

2078
01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:36.279
No, Harper, there was a time but not now. It

2079
01:59:36.359 --> 01:59:38.840
sounds so crazy to me. Tell you are, young man.

2080
01:59:39.560 --> 01:59:42.159
Your fee what a thousand dollars?

2081
01:59:43.039 --> 01:59:45.119
But that's most unusual. Why all that.

2082
01:59:45.319 --> 01:59:47.720
I'm paying you that much because I know you need

2083
01:59:47.800 --> 01:59:50.600
it badly, and your need will make you keep our

2084
01:59:50.680 --> 01:59:53.279
agreement that you'll forget all this for a few days

2085
01:59:53.319 --> 01:59:53.720
and say.

2086
01:59:53.600 --> 01:59:56.199
Nothing to anyone your planning commits suicide, mister Blake.

2087
01:59:56.760 --> 01:59:58.399
If I were, and it's my duty to stop you,

2088
01:59:58.479 --> 01:59:59.920
what would my death matter to you?

2089
02:00:00.600 --> 02:00:02.520
People die every day, commits suicide.

2090
02:00:02.520 --> 02:00:03.039
I'm murdered.

2091
02:00:03.079 --> 02:00:04.960
It means nothing to you, yes, But this is difference

2092
02:00:05.079 --> 02:00:05.560
to Harper.

2093
02:00:05.600 --> 02:00:08.720
I'm not planning to commit suicide. You're sure, yes, I

2094
02:00:08.840 --> 02:00:09.239
assure you.

2095
02:00:09.840 --> 02:00:09.880
So.

2096
02:00:09.960 --> 02:00:11.920
If you don't care to go through with the agreement,

2097
02:00:11.960 --> 02:00:13.840
I'll take the money back and find someone else.

2098
02:00:14.600 --> 02:00:19.439
No, now I believe you, miss Blake. I'll keep the agreement.

2099
02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:23.079
I've got you very well. Good Bye Harper, and good luck.

2100
02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:24.000
Goodbye, mister Blake.

2101
02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:35.840
Young Alan Harper sits pondering over the strange events the

2102
02:00:35.960 --> 02:00:39.840
will the later. He drops the role of attorney and

2103
02:00:39.960 --> 02:00:42.359
his mind works from the angle of the detective. What

2104
02:00:42.520 --> 02:00:49.479
a strange situation. Another day has passed and toward noon,

2105
02:00:49.960 --> 02:00:52.359
and he's a blake. Talks to her fiancee Wilber Martin.

2106
02:00:52.960 --> 02:00:54.760
I'm sorry to call you out here, Wilburn, how I

2107
02:00:54.920 --> 02:00:55.680
just have to talk to you.

2108
02:00:55.920 --> 02:00:56.960
What is it's wrong?

2109
02:00:57.239 --> 02:00:58.000
It's about father?

2110
02:00:58.119 --> 02:00:58.760
If you're a father.

2111
02:00:59.079 --> 02:01:01.279
He left the office late yesterday afternoon, but he didn't

2112
02:01:01.319 --> 02:01:01.680
come home.

2113
02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:03.640
Well, maybe he went to his club.

2114
02:01:03.880 --> 02:01:05.920
No, Wilber, I mean he didn't come home at all.

2115
02:01:06.000 --> 02:01:08.720
He still hasn't come. I called his club, I call

2116
02:01:08.840 --> 02:01:11.560
every place, but way Blood terribly worried.

2117
02:01:11.840 --> 02:01:12.039
Why.

2118
02:01:12.479 --> 02:01:16.119
Well, father's been acting strangely of lady. He's somew morosa.

2119
02:01:17.039 --> 02:01:21.520
I'm afraid, afraid, afraid of what. I'm afraid. Something's happened to.

2120
02:01:21.600 --> 02:01:23.279
Him, Anita.

2121
02:01:24.039 --> 02:01:26.560
Maybe maybe he's been kidnapped.

2122
02:01:26.199 --> 02:01:30.560
Well then kidnapped. What has that it happened? Wouldn't someone

2123
02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:31.720
contact us by this time?

2124
02:01:32.119 --> 02:01:34.319
Maybe not? Have you called every place that he might

2125
02:01:34.359 --> 02:01:35.319
be had to call.

2126
02:01:35.279 --> 02:01:36.920
A police No, I wanted to wait till I talk

2127
02:01:36.960 --> 02:01:37.119
to you.

2128
02:01:37.760 --> 02:01:39.880
Have you called his brother, Hilary.

2129
02:01:39.760 --> 02:01:41.680
No, I haven't been. I don't think he'd be there.

2130
02:01:41.720 --> 02:01:44.399
You know about that situation. They haven't been on good

2131
02:01:44.479 --> 02:01:46.720
terms for years and years. They've only seen each other

2132
02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:48.800
once since Uncle Hillary came back from Australia.

2133
02:01:50.840 --> 02:01:54.319
He's a strange sort of presson that Hillary. I've only

2134
02:01:54.399 --> 02:01:55.960
seen him once, the time I went to his apartment

2135
02:01:56.000 --> 02:01:58.479
with you. He's certainly strange, I know.

2136
02:01:58.680 --> 02:01:59.960
But perhaps that's to me natural.

2137
02:02:00.560 --> 02:02:02.880
What was it that caused them to become so bitter

2138
02:02:02.920 --> 02:02:03.520
towards each other?

2139
02:02:04.119 --> 02:02:06.720
Really don't know. Father never told me, but I think

2140
02:02:06.760 --> 02:02:08.520
it had something to do with a girl they were

2141
02:02:08.520 --> 02:02:09.199
both in love with.

2142
02:02:11.560 --> 02:02:14.119
Did your father know Hillary was coming back to the States.

2143
02:02:14.039 --> 02:02:16.800
Of course, Hillary wrote him several times that father did

2144
02:02:16.800 --> 02:02:17.399
announce him.

2145
02:02:18.159 --> 02:02:19.720
Is your uncle Hillary well fixed?

2146
02:02:20.000 --> 02:02:23.520
Certainly you became wealthy in Australia. What are you trying

2147
02:02:23.560 --> 02:02:23.880
to say?

2148
02:02:24.600 --> 02:02:26.520
Are you sure he made money over there?

2149
02:02:26.680 --> 02:02:28.600
Of course? Father told me that many times.

2150
02:02:29.000 --> 02:02:32.199
Well, your father could have been misled about Hillary being

2151
02:02:32.239 --> 02:02:32.560
well off.

2152
02:02:33.159 --> 02:02:35.279
Well, but I don't know what you mean. I think

2153
02:02:35.359 --> 02:02:37.399
Uncle Hillary is all right, I rather than like him,

2154
02:02:38.000 --> 02:02:39.960
and I don't care what the differences were between me.

2155
02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:42.840
Are you insine that Uncle Hillary.

2156
02:02:42.880 --> 02:02:46.640
I'm not infairing anything, huh, just asking why not call

2157
02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:48.319
Hillary and ask him to come over here?

2158
02:02:49.279 --> 02:02:49.600
All right?

2159
02:02:49.800 --> 02:02:51.840
Don't tell him about your father, Just ask him to

2160
02:02:51.880 --> 02:02:53.159
come over here. As soon as possible.

2161
02:02:53.399 --> 02:02:56.079
You're all wrong about this, Wilbert. I know now what

2162
02:02:56.159 --> 02:02:58.319
you're thinking, but I'm sure you're wrong.

2163
02:02:58.600 --> 02:03:01.039
You call him Anita and let him think your father

2164
02:03:01.199 --> 02:03:04.960
is here. Then we talked to him, call the police.

2165
02:03:11.000 --> 02:03:14.680
Wilburgh is very clever. He may be right about Hillary.

2166
02:03:15.439 --> 02:03:19.760
Maybe Hillary knows something about his brother's strange disappearance. But

2167
02:03:19.920 --> 02:03:24.479
then Hillary is clever too, quite clever. A half hour later,

2168
02:03:24.600 --> 02:03:25.359
Hillary arrives.

2169
02:03:26.439 --> 02:03:27.479
What on earth is this all?

2170
02:03:27.560 --> 02:03:27.840
The fact?

2171
02:03:27.920 --> 02:03:31.000
I'm not too glad you could come to still, Uncle Hillary? Johnny, Oh,

2172
02:03:31.560 --> 02:03:33.720
you remember Wilbur Martin, Uncle might fancy?

2173
02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:34.640
Yes, yes, of course.

2174
02:03:35.159 --> 02:03:38.840
What's wrong with you too, mister Blake? How long since

2175
02:03:38.880 --> 02:03:39.720
you've seen your brother?

2176
02:03:39.880 --> 02:03:42.399
I have been about four or five months, shortly after

2177
02:03:42.399 --> 02:03:43.560
I came here from saying.

2178
02:03:43.319 --> 02:03:45.760
That Wilbur, would you like to have a few words

2179
02:03:45.800 --> 02:03:45.960
with you?

2180
02:03:46.279 --> 02:03:47.760
Certainly she will be.

2181
02:03:47.840 --> 02:03:51.880
Stopped this Monton. Uncle Hillary fother, Well, he isn't here.

2182
02:03:52.000 --> 02:03:55.520
He disappeared. Disappear, Yes, Wilbur thought maybe you knew where

2183
02:03:55.560 --> 02:03:55.880
he was.

2184
02:03:56.239 --> 02:03:58.119
I see, well, wilberd I don't know.

2185
02:03:59.439 --> 02:04:01.800
I know that now, and I just want to make

2186
02:04:01.840 --> 02:04:03.680
sure your imagination away with you.

2187
02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:06.199
Father didn't come home. Last night from the office. I

2188
02:04:06.359 --> 02:04:10.479
called every police, everything things to kill of him. Well,

2189
02:04:11.439 --> 02:04:16.279
he's been acting very strangely. I'm afraid that he committed suicide.

2190
02:04:16.319 --> 02:04:18.359
You were sorry, but Wilby, thinking that somebody may have

2191
02:04:18.479 --> 02:04:19.520
kidnapped him for ransom.

2192
02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:22.359
We could both see he could have been murdered.

2193
02:04:22.439 --> 02:04:25.159
I suggested you call the police and checked the hospitals

2194
02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:25.920
among everything.

2195
02:04:28.000 --> 02:04:29.079
You call, wilbur plea.

2196
02:04:31.760 --> 02:04:32.399
Now attend to it.

2197
02:04:41.800 --> 02:04:45.840
Wilburgh calls the police and the hospital and the morgue,

2198
02:04:46.439 --> 02:04:49.800
but he learns nothing of value. Two days passed by

2199
02:04:49.920 --> 02:04:52.720
and still not a sign of John Blake or his body.

2200
02:04:53.680 --> 02:04:58.239
Then Alan Harper, the attorney, visits for John Blake home coming.

2201
02:04:58.319 --> 02:05:00.800
Mister Harper, thank you, miss Blake, it is my fiance.

2202
02:05:04.159 --> 02:05:05.039
Is your father here?

2203
02:05:05.159 --> 02:05:06.680
This Blake my father?

2204
02:05:08.359 --> 02:05:08.520
Why?

2205
02:05:08.600 --> 02:05:08.640
No?

2206
02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:11.199
Well, what did you want to see him about? Harper?

2207
02:05:11.319 --> 02:05:11.520
Why?

2208
02:05:11.560 --> 02:05:14.279
I wanted to see him on some uh personal business?

2209
02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:16.680
Why don't you try to find him in his office?

2210
02:05:16.760 --> 02:05:17.800
I did, but he isn't there.

2211
02:05:17.920 --> 02:05:19.319
He hasn't been there for several days.

2212
02:05:20.079 --> 02:05:23.079
What is your business, mister Harper? Why do you want

2213
02:05:23.119 --> 02:05:23.920
to see mister Blake.

2214
02:05:25.039 --> 02:05:27.720
I don't want to see mister Blake because I don't

2215
02:05:27.760 --> 02:05:30.079
think he's here. I came to see miss Blake.

2216
02:05:30.520 --> 02:05:32.560
What do you want, mister Harper? Who are you?

2217
02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:37.359
I'm a detective detective. Yes, go on, mister Harper. I

2218
02:05:37.479 --> 02:05:40.600
know John Blake isn't here. I know because he's disappeared.

2219
02:05:40.960 --> 02:05:42.199
And I know you're trying to keep it out of

2220
02:05:42.199 --> 02:05:44.439
the press because you think he's been kidnapped. We call

2221
02:05:44.520 --> 02:05:47.640
the police, we asked them to keep it quiet. Yes, yes,

2222
02:05:47.720 --> 02:05:50.359
I know that, but I'm I'm working in the background.

2223
02:05:50.600 --> 02:05:53.000
But if you don't think he's here, then where do

2224
02:05:53.119 --> 02:05:53.720
you think he is?

2225
02:05:55.159 --> 02:05:56.119
I think he's dead.

2226
02:05:58.439 --> 02:05:59.079
Why do you think that?

2227
02:06:00.319 --> 02:06:02.399
Just what do you know? Mister Harper?

2228
02:06:07.880 --> 02:06:08.039
Oh?

2229
02:06:08.119 --> 02:06:08.520
Here you are.

2230
02:06:09.319 --> 02:06:10.720
I wanted to talk to you and Blake?

2231
02:06:11.399 --> 02:06:13.119
What and who is this?

2232
02:06:13.479 --> 02:06:17.600
Mister Blake? What you were? You seems startled, young man?

2233
02:06:18.199 --> 02:06:18.680
What's wrong?

2234
02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:19.239
Oh?

2235
02:06:19.359 --> 02:06:23.119
Yes, I am sir that I thought did you think? Well,

2236
02:06:23.159 --> 02:06:25.359
I thought you were DN sir, that is hees as

2237
02:06:25.359 --> 02:06:29.920
a detective. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, mister blakefer Well, I

2238
02:06:29.960 --> 02:06:31.520
guess curiosity got the better of me.

2239
02:06:31.600 --> 02:06:32.760
What are you talking about?

2240
02:06:33.279 --> 02:06:35.319
Well, you remember the agreement?

2241
02:06:35.680 --> 02:06:36.399
What agreement?

2242
02:06:36.479 --> 02:06:38.680
Wait a minute, do you know who you're talking to?

2243
02:06:39.079 --> 02:06:40.520
Yes? Yes, of course John Blake.

2244
02:06:40.640 --> 02:06:43.479
No, mister Harper, this is my uncle, my father's brother.

2245
02:06:43.399 --> 02:06:48.279
Hillary Hillary Hillary Blake. Yes, my father's twin brother, twins,

2246
02:06:49.399 --> 02:06:50.640
John and Hillary were twins.

2247
02:06:50.880 --> 02:06:54.600
Because I didn't know that.

2248
02:06:55.079 --> 02:06:57.640
And apparently you know my father, John Blake.

2249
02:06:57.920 --> 02:07:00.600
Yes, what did you know about him?

2250
02:07:01.319 --> 02:07:02.000
You know where he is?

2251
02:07:02.319 --> 02:07:05.840
Well, I excuse me just a moment. I've never been

2252
02:07:05.880 --> 02:07:06.840
so startled.

2253
02:07:06.479 --> 02:07:07.119
In all my life.

2254
02:07:08.760 --> 02:07:12.119
Yes, yes, now that I look at him, now that.

2255
02:07:12.199 --> 02:07:13.960
I recall his beech stairs a difference.

2256
02:07:14.520 --> 02:07:16.720
And why do you think John Blake is dead?

2257
02:07:16.800 --> 02:07:20.920
Mister Harland, I've just come from police headquarters.

2258
02:07:22.479 --> 02:07:23.680
You mean he's been murdered.

2259
02:07:23.800 --> 02:07:25.520
No, No, not murdered.

2260
02:07:26.199 --> 02:07:29.199
From all indications, he's committed suicide suicide?

2261
02:07:30.279 --> 02:07:31.119
Are you sure?

2262
02:07:32.880 --> 02:07:33.760
I was afraid of this?

2263
02:07:34.000 --> 02:07:36.760
This morning? A hatton coat and overcoat were found on

2264
02:07:36.920 --> 02:07:39.239
the river docks in the coast. Was the type of

2265
02:07:39.399 --> 02:07:42.000
uncopy of a will made the day before yesterday? The

2266
02:07:42.079 --> 02:07:46.199
half fairs the initials JD. There was a wild you're saying, yes,

2267
02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:49.119
could you identify the hatton coat and spray?

2268
02:07:49.199 --> 02:07:49.720
Of course?

2269
02:07:50.399 --> 02:07:57.520
Very well, Kevin Sarger, this is Sergeant Henley. Do you

2270
02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:01.840
recognize this coach and Hapten spray kids if.

2271
02:08:01.760 --> 02:08:03.960
I don't live the father.

2272
02:08:05.479 --> 02:08:10.319
Oh well, sir, I conferd, but the hadn't crow to

2273
02:08:10.399 --> 02:08:13.279
not conclusive evidence. What about the will found in the park?

2274
02:08:13.600 --> 02:08:16.279
Showed them the will? Sergeant, you read it will book.

2275
02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:22.680
To my daughter Anita Blake. I leave all my property,

2276
02:08:22.920 --> 02:08:27.000
personal and real, including the painting of her mother, Marcia Blake.

2277
02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:30.399
This will supersedes.

2278
02:08:29.840 --> 02:08:33.760
Any and all instruments of this nature previously drawn for

2279
02:08:33.880 --> 02:08:34.560
no signature.

2280
02:08:34.720 --> 02:08:37.159
I have the original here you are.

2281
02:08:39.199 --> 02:08:43.680
It's the original and sign Where did you get this?

2282
02:08:43.840 --> 02:08:44.159
Harper?

2283
02:08:44.600 --> 02:08:49.359
Look at the signature of the witness, Alan Harper, you witnessed.

2284
02:08:48.960 --> 02:08:50.520
The signature I did.

2285
02:08:50.800 --> 02:08:53.000
And how do you explain that, mister Harper?

2286
02:08:53.399 --> 02:08:55.520
Because I typed the will for John Blake the night

2287
02:08:55.560 --> 02:08:58.439
he disappeared, he signed, and I witnessed the signature.

2288
02:08:58.720 --> 02:08:59.600
Why should he come to you.

2289
02:09:00.439 --> 02:09:02.239
It's true that I'm a detective, but I'm also an

2290
02:09:02.279 --> 02:09:03.000
attorney's law.

2291
02:09:03.119 --> 02:09:04.720
But mister Blake has his own attorney.

2292
02:09:04.800 --> 02:09:06.880
Nevertheless, he came to me to draw this will, and

2293
02:09:06.960 --> 02:09:09.079
if I hadn't recognized him from his pictures, I wouldn't

2294
02:09:09.079 --> 02:09:10.000
have witnessed the signature.

2295
02:09:10.439 --> 02:09:12.359
You recognize your father's signature?

2296
02:09:12.479 --> 02:09:16.119
Needed is because it is like I still can't have

2297
02:09:16.239 --> 02:09:17.880
a stand the reason for his doing such a thing.

2298
02:09:18.000 --> 02:09:20.079
He's did everything in the world, everything that lived on

2299
02:09:20.279 --> 02:09:23.399
money position. He must have been out of his name. Well.

2300
02:09:23.439 --> 02:09:25.199
I didn't know if he did act very strangely, but

2301
02:09:25.640 --> 02:09:27.079
he seemed to be rational enough.

2302
02:09:27.239 --> 02:09:28.640
But this still isn't proof.

2303
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:28.960
That he did.

2304
02:09:29.159 --> 02:09:31.960
There's no body, no proof that he committed suicide.

2305
02:09:32.039 --> 02:09:34.159
The body may not be found for days, but this

2306
02:09:34.319 --> 02:09:37.239
evidence at hands certainly indicates that our body will be found.

2307
02:09:37.279 --> 02:09:43.279
Investor maybe not, mister Harper, It's possible they could have er.

2308
02:09:44.319 --> 02:09:47.720
What do you want to say, nothing.

2309
02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:50.840
Miss Blake. In a way, I blame myself for your

2310
02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:53.920
father's death side him. While he was dictating the will,

2311
02:09:53.960 --> 02:09:56.000
I had a premonission he was planning to kill himself.

2312
02:09:56.359 --> 02:09:58.800
When I confronted him with my suspicion, he was able

2313
02:09:58.880 --> 02:10:01.239
to convince me that he had no such intentions. It's

2314
02:10:01.359 --> 02:10:04.199
obvious now why he came to me. Why he wanted

2315
02:10:04.239 --> 02:10:06.680
someone who didn't know him personally. His own attendants would

2316
02:10:06.680 --> 02:10:08.439
have been able to see through his plan and prevent

2317
02:10:08.520 --> 02:10:09.319
his carrying it out.

2318
02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:11.479
Why did he make this new will if he'd already

2319
02:10:11.560 --> 02:10:11.920
made one.

2320
02:10:12.039 --> 02:10:13.520
Yes, that's what I'd like to know.

2321
02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:16.279
Well, I'm still not convinced that he committed suicide.

2322
02:10:16.399 --> 02:10:20.159
No, well, maybe this will help. Here's the letter he

2323
02:10:20.239 --> 02:10:24.319
asked me to deliver to Hillary Blake, a letter to me. Yes,

2324
02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:26.680
he said it would clear up a few things.

2325
02:10:27.319 --> 02:10:31.640
Mmmm, well what does it say?

2326
02:10:31.760 --> 02:10:32.000
Uncle?

2327
02:10:32.920 --> 02:10:38.079
It says several things things he'd never have said unless

2328
02:10:38.119 --> 02:10:39.399
he were going to die.

2329
02:10:40.560 --> 02:10:41.680
Suppose you read his driver.

2330
02:10:42.600 --> 02:10:49.239
Yes, Hillary, for twenty five years now, jealousy bitterness have

2331
02:10:49.399 --> 02:10:52.319
kept us across. I know why you stayed over there

2332
02:10:52.359 --> 02:10:55.560
in a spare all these years. I know you loved Marcia,

2333
02:10:55.880 --> 02:10:58.560
which he was rightfully yours. But I loved her too,

2334
02:10:59.199 --> 02:11:01.800
and I couldn't go on without her. I know you

2335
02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:05.680
despised us both all these years, and I've pretended to

2336
02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:09.640
despise you. I had to pretend because I lied to Marcia.

2337
02:11:10.199 --> 02:11:12.840
I told her you were engaged to a woman in Australia.

2338
02:11:13.720 --> 02:11:14.760
Marcia is innocent.

2339
02:11:15.239 --> 02:11:16.079
I was to blame.

2340
02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:19.800
When Marcia died last year, he wrote that you were

2341
02:11:19.840 --> 02:11:22.920
coming back. I knew that your resentment had faded, but

2342
02:11:23.359 --> 02:11:26.520
I didn't answer. I've kept away from you because I

2343
02:11:26.880 --> 02:11:30.479
just couldn't face it. I told you all this because

2344
02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:34.399
things have happened, which you will learn soon enough. That

2345
02:11:34.560 --> 02:11:37.479
have decided me to close my book and write for

2346
02:11:37.479 --> 02:11:41.119
the need. I have made a new will, leading everything

2347
02:11:41.159 --> 02:11:44.600
I possessed to when meet her. Anita is young, only

2348
02:11:45.640 --> 02:11:47.960
I beg of you to watch after her as though

2349
02:11:48.039 --> 02:11:51.960
she were your own, which but for myselfness, she might

2350
02:11:52.000 --> 02:12:00.359
well have dined. Forgive me, John well this letter in

2351
02:12:00.479 --> 02:12:01.279
the case suicide?

2352
02:12:01.640 --> 02:12:04.079
What does he mean by things have happened?

2353
02:12:04.399 --> 02:12:07.439
That's, miss Blake, is the motive for which we just

2354
02:12:07.560 --> 02:12:12.159
have to wait, Yes for that and no body.

2355
02:12:18.039 --> 02:12:21.760
Everyone seems to be convinced that John Blake has convinced suicide,

2356
02:12:22.319 --> 02:12:25.920
that is, everyone except Wilde Martin. But still the body

2357
02:12:26.000 --> 02:12:32.520
has not been found. Then one morning, four days later,

2358
02:12:32.840 --> 02:12:35.800
Alan Harper calls Anita and Hillary to police headquarters.

2359
02:12:37.199 --> 02:12:41.439
Morning, miss Blake, mister Blake, what have you found?

2360
02:12:41.520 --> 02:12:44.760
John? I hope you don't mind my coming along, mister Harper.

2361
02:12:45.439 --> 02:12:47.720
No, no, not at all.

2362
02:12:47.840 --> 02:12:49.199
Mister Martin, what's happened?

2363
02:12:49.880 --> 02:12:51.680
They found a body this morning on the rocks at

2364
02:12:51.720 --> 02:12:55.720
the mouth of the river. It's rather badly bruised and shuttered. Well,

2365
02:12:55.760 --> 02:12:57.359
it's in a bad condition that I think you should

2366
02:12:57.399 --> 02:12:59.760
look at it. Oh, I know how you feel, miss Blake,

2367
02:12:59.800 --> 02:13:01.600
But I afraid it's necessary.

2368
02:13:02.000 --> 02:13:04.680
There you won Oh all right, I come true?

2369
02:13:05.000 --> 02:13:06.680
Please do it this way, please.

2370
02:13:11.319 --> 02:13:14.880
M here we are.

2371
02:13:20.520 --> 02:13:21.399
What are you saying, miss Brake?

2372
02:13:24.159 --> 02:13:26.720
No, now, get hold yourself, Neather, it's please you money.

2373
02:13:27.560 --> 02:13:29.800
Yeah, that's fun and you.

2374
02:13:30.079 --> 02:13:33.920
Mister Blake really certainly can't to say it to take

2375
02:13:33.960 --> 02:13:36.760
It might be John, but often no means of identification

2376
02:13:36.880 --> 02:13:37.399
on his body.

2377
02:13:37.479 --> 02:13:38.840
I'm sure never would.

2378
02:13:39.319 --> 02:13:41.279
There was nothing but the suit here, nothing in the

2379
02:13:41.319 --> 02:13:43.640
pockets will be fatherhood?

2380
02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:48.640
All right, it's father right? No, but why why did

2381
02:13:48.720 --> 02:13:49.119
he do it?

2382
02:13:49.279 --> 02:13:51.079
Come alongest Blake? I needn't stay here any longer.

2383
02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:53.640
No, no, don.

2384
02:13:56.880 --> 02:13:58.600
Well, I still can't understand.

2385
02:13:58.800 --> 02:13:59.760
I have a word with you.

2386
02:14:00.600 --> 02:14:01.600
Yes, all right?

2387
02:14:01.880 --> 02:14:04.159
Oh would you your uncle wait here for a moment?

2388
02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:11.720
This way, Martin? All right, Martin, why did you phone me?

2389
02:14:11.760 --> 02:14:13.000
I want a permission to see the body.

2390
02:14:13.319 --> 02:14:14.520
Do you think it was John Blake?

2391
02:14:16.000 --> 02:14:16.800
LA certainly should know.

2392
02:14:16.960 --> 02:14:18.880
Well we're from the start. You've been skeptical about the

2393
02:14:18.960 --> 02:14:22.840
suicide theory. Why why, well, who are you trying to frame?

2394
02:14:23.159 --> 02:14:24.960
You're crazy? I'm not trying to frame anybody.

2395
02:14:25.000 --> 02:14:26.760
You think he was murdered, Yes I do, but not

2396
02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:27.079
by you.

2397
02:14:27.159 --> 02:14:28.439
Of course, certainly not.

2398
02:14:28.600 --> 02:14:30.079
But how do you account for the fact that John

2399
02:14:30.159 --> 02:14:32.199
came to my office, signed the will he dictated, and

2400
02:14:32.239 --> 02:14:35.039
gave me the letter to Hillary. He must have contemplated suicide.

2401
02:14:35.119 --> 02:14:37.640
Are you sure it was John Blake who made the will?

2402
02:14:38.840 --> 02:14:40.319
You think Hillary?

2403
02:14:40.720 --> 02:14:43.359
It could have been, But John's temples were quite great,

2404
02:14:43.479 --> 02:14:44.800
and he had no trace of an accent.

2405
02:14:45.039 --> 02:14:47.600
Hillary could have dropped the accent and grated temples.

2406
02:14:47.640 --> 02:14:47.840
Go on.

2407
02:14:48.119 --> 02:14:49.960
He could have gotten hold of John's clothes and hat.

2408
02:14:50.279 --> 02:14:52.359
And after we left you, he could have killed John

2409
02:14:52.399 --> 02:14:54.119
and thrown him in the river and left the evidence

2410
02:14:54.119 --> 02:14:54.760
of the riverfront.

2411
02:14:54.880 --> 02:14:56.840
And why would Hillary kill John?

2412
02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:00.800
Well, I'm there been several reasons, Maybe because of Marsher

2413
02:15:00.920 --> 02:15:02.800
maybe well, several reasons.

2414
02:15:02.880 --> 02:15:05.159
Did John Blake object to your engagement to Anita?

2415
02:15:05.319 --> 02:15:05.359
No?

2416
02:15:05.800 --> 02:15:06.520
Why should he?

2417
02:15:07.079 --> 02:15:09.840
Anita Blake identified her father's handwriting on the will and

2418
02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:12.439
the letter to Hillary. She identified the body, But you

2419
02:15:12.640 --> 02:15:13.840
keep hopping about murder.

2420
02:15:14.039 --> 02:15:16.520
Maybe she only thought it was his handwriting.

2421
02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:19.880
You better be careful, Wilbur If you're trying to make

2422
02:15:19.920 --> 02:15:23.760
a murder out of this, you may hang yourself. How

2423
02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:26.800
false accusation. I've still got the will and the letter

2424
02:15:26.840 --> 02:15:29.359
to Hillary. I checked the papers of John's office. The

2425
02:15:29.399 --> 02:15:33.920
writing is the same. Maybe Hillary is clever and forgery.

2426
02:15:34.279 --> 02:15:37.560
Maybe did you have the experts check the writing? Not yet?

2427
02:15:37.720 --> 02:15:39.199
Well, then how can you tell them that you had

2428
02:15:39.239 --> 02:15:40.319
a sample of Hillary's writing?

2429
02:15:41.359 --> 02:15:43.520
I think if you have a sample of Hilary writing.

2430
02:15:44.479 --> 02:15:46.159
You found the letters from Hillary to John.

2431
02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:49.239
Yes, found a packet of John's desk.

2432
02:15:49.439 --> 02:15:49.680
Good.

2433
02:15:50.479 --> 02:15:53.119
Good that Wilburg I was waiting for.

2434
02:15:53.520 --> 02:15:56.279
Well, now they are several of them tied together.

2435
02:15:56.359 --> 02:15:59.880
Now I'll tell you something. I never thought John from suicide.

2436
02:16:01.079 --> 02:16:04.520
I think he was murdered. You you do, yes, And

2437
02:16:04.960 --> 02:16:06.840
before you go, Wilbert, I'd like to have a same

2438
02:16:07.000 --> 02:16:12.359
with your handwriting here on his head. Hm. Very well,

2439
02:16:14.439 --> 02:16:26.399
thank you, Wilbur. I'll see you tomorrow. Well, Sawting, have

2440
02:16:26.479 --> 02:16:27.159
you finished checking?

2441
02:16:27.359 --> 02:16:28.399
Yes, Harper, have finished.

2442
02:16:28.439 --> 02:16:29.359
And what's the Betty?

2443
02:16:29.800 --> 02:16:31.920
Well, this is the cleverest bit of forgery I've ever

2444
02:16:32.040 --> 02:16:35.399
come across. This would have passed any place question had

2445
02:16:35.559 --> 02:16:38.719
come up, So this will and the letter to Hillary

2446
02:16:38.760 --> 02:16:41.079
would certainly get by anyone as having been written by

2447
02:16:41.159 --> 02:16:44.959
John Blake. Yes on comparing the suicide letter from John

2448
02:16:45.000 --> 02:16:48.399
to Hillary with this letter Hillary wrote from Australia, we

2449
02:16:48.559 --> 02:16:50.639
notice a difference, but a basic similarity.

2450
02:16:50.879 --> 02:16:52.840
Would the fact that their twins be the reason for that?

2451
02:16:53.239 --> 02:16:53.280
No.

2452
02:16:53.559 --> 02:16:57.559
On closer examination, we find characteristics which couldn't appear in

2453
02:16:57.639 --> 02:16:59.280
both letters if they were twins.

2454
02:16:59.680 --> 02:17:01.639
Then you agree with me that Hillary must have written

2455
02:17:01.680 --> 02:17:03.440
the suicide letter and signed the will.

2456
02:17:03.600 --> 02:17:04.239
I certainly do.

2457
02:17:04.319 --> 02:17:06.879
It's a tough thing to prove. I think you're on

2458
02:17:06.959 --> 02:17:08.920
the right track, but well.

2459
02:17:09.120 --> 02:17:10.479
All I can do is left it.

2460
02:17:10.559 --> 02:17:12.840
Truly, I'm afraid you'll have to work on forcing a

2461
02:17:12.920 --> 02:17:13.920
confession on this case.

2462
02:17:14.319 --> 02:17:16.959
Did you did you check all these letters from Hillary?

2463
02:17:17.159 --> 02:17:17.200
No?

2464
02:17:17.440 --> 02:17:18.239
Just those on top.

2465
02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:20.280
Well, i'd appreciate it to check them all. Just as

2466
02:17:20.319 --> 02:17:24.000
you're saying, now, what about young Wilburmartin, Well.

2467
02:17:23.959 --> 02:17:26.200
So far I can't see much in him to worry

2468
02:17:26.239 --> 02:17:28.159
about the Then you never can tell.

2469
02:17:28.920 --> 02:17:31.280
I think Hillary's the man, all right, I thought that

2470
02:17:31.360 --> 02:17:33.760
for some time. But I'll just phone out to the

2471
02:17:33.799 --> 02:17:36.319
house and tell Wilbur Martin that we've uncovered the whole thing.

2472
02:17:36.399 --> 02:17:38.399
And if Wilbur's in on it, he'll be gone when

2473
02:17:38.440 --> 02:17:38.920
I get there.

2474
02:17:39.319 --> 02:17:40.479
He can be picked up later.

2475
02:17:40.920 --> 02:17:43.239
Okay, I'll check the rest of Hillary's letters.

2476
02:17:43.040 --> 02:17:45.280
Go ahead, I won't phone out there until you'll finished.

2477
02:17:49.920 --> 02:17:52.760
Ten minutes later, a startling piece of news breaks. The

2478
02:17:52.799 --> 02:17:56.840
headlines are screamed by newsboys. Extras flood the streets, and

2479
02:17:56.959 --> 02:17:59.799
Wilbur Martin rushes to the Blake home and faces Anita

2480
02:17:59.840 --> 02:18:00.639
and Hillary Blake.

2481
02:18:01.959 --> 02:18:02.360
What is it?

2482
02:18:02.479 --> 02:18:02.680
Will?

2483
02:18:02.719 --> 02:18:03.440
But what rooms?

2484
02:18:03.520 --> 02:18:03.639
Yes?

2485
02:18:03.799 --> 02:18:05.120
For heaven's sake, what's happened?

2486
02:18:05.280 --> 02:18:07.000
You haven't heard? You don't know when he is?

2487
02:18:07.159 --> 02:18:07.200
No?

2488
02:18:07.319 --> 02:18:10.040
What do you mean? Well, look look at these headlines.

2489
02:18:10.280 --> 02:18:12.280
Him building and loan cracious.

2490
02:18:14.520 --> 02:18:15.159
But what does it mean?

2491
02:18:15.360 --> 02:18:17.840
I'll tell you John Blake and batrel of the company

2492
02:18:17.879 --> 02:18:20.040
funds and they've gone to the war. What, yes, close

2493
02:18:20.120 --> 02:18:20.360
the door?

2494
02:18:20.680 --> 02:18:21.799
But no, I can't believe that.

2495
02:18:21.920 --> 02:18:24.840
I'm sorry. Here, it is black and white and that's

2496
02:18:24.879 --> 02:18:26.120
the multi pretty suicide.

2497
02:18:26.280 --> 02:18:26.840
Why why?

2498
02:18:27.239 --> 02:18:28.840
Because he knew he was caught?

2499
02:18:28.879 --> 02:18:31.000
What else he could have put the money back? Couldn't he?

2500
02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:31.280
Yes?

2501
02:18:31.399 --> 02:18:33.520
But maybe he lost it by trying to make more

2502
02:18:33.639 --> 02:18:33.959
to cover.

2503
02:18:33.959 --> 02:18:34.559
Up the shortage.

2504
02:18:34.719 --> 02:18:35.920
I don't think he lost.

2505
02:18:35.959 --> 02:18:39.719
You don't know, nonsense, he must have. Why would kill himself?

2506
02:18:39.840 --> 02:18:45.040
Maybe he didn't kill himself? Please, and you mustn't worry.

2507
02:18:46.079 --> 02:18:48.239
I know this is very embarrassing for you, but it

2508
02:18:48.399 --> 02:18:51.600
isn't your fault. Let me take you away for a fire,

2509
02:18:51.639 --> 02:18:52.639
recommend that in Mexico.

2510
02:18:52.760 --> 02:18:53.399
This blows over.

2511
02:18:53.600 --> 02:18:55.840
You won't take her to Mexico. You won't take her anyplace.

2512
02:18:55.959 --> 02:18:56.840
Just what do you mean?

2513
02:18:56.959 --> 02:18:57.600
What's wrong with you?

2514
02:18:57.680 --> 02:18:58.840
Will be your acting? Stupid?

2515
02:18:59.000 --> 02:19:01.399
Do you want to go to make ago with a murderer?

2516
02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:04.280
What? Your father may have built the company, but I

2517
02:19:04.319 --> 02:19:06.159
don't believe he lost the money. Well, he hit it,

2518
02:19:06.559 --> 02:19:08.719
and your uncle Hillary found out where he hit it,

2519
02:19:08.760 --> 02:19:11.000
and he set up the suicide to cover your father's murder.

2520
02:19:11.280 --> 02:19:12.440
Crazy out of your mind.

2521
02:19:12.520 --> 02:19:13.600
This doesn't make sense.

2522
02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:15.799
I have all the money I need. Yes, you have

2523
02:19:16.239 --> 02:19:19.920
now a fool tech of things anything, and yeah for

2524
02:19:20.120 --> 02:19:20.639
the reservation.

2525
02:19:20.840 --> 02:19:23.399
You won't leave this room. Do you know what to

2526
02:19:23.520 --> 02:19:26.200
be done to you for affecting people with hire arms?

2527
02:19:26.280 --> 02:19:27.440
I don't call the police.

2528
02:19:27.600 --> 02:19:29.360
You don't need to call the police. They're on away

2529
02:19:29.360 --> 02:19:32.600
here now. Just talk to that detective, mister Harper. They've

2530
02:19:32.719 --> 02:19:36.040
proved that you wrote the John's will and the suicide letter.

2531
02:19:36.600 --> 02:19:38.559
You kill John and you have the money will.

2532
02:19:38.719 --> 02:19:40.239
You're crazy, You're out of your mind.

2533
02:19:40.399 --> 02:19:41.440
I know what I'm talking about.

2534
02:19:41.559 --> 02:19:43.879
Get out here, get out, get out.

2535
02:19:44.000 --> 02:19:55.280
No, I won't leave. No one will leave till they come. Yeah,

2536
02:19:55.360 --> 02:19:58.159
you got here just in time, mister Harper. Hillary was

2537
02:19:58.200 --> 02:20:00.879
going to Mexico and the next plain and taking Anita

2538
02:20:01.040 --> 02:20:02.959
with him Mexico. Yes, he knows everything.

2539
02:20:03.719 --> 02:20:06.639
I just told him about the handwriting discovery. John Blake

2540
02:20:06.680 --> 02:20:09.360
stole the money from the loan company. Hillary here found

2541
02:20:09.399 --> 02:20:11.559
out about it and learned where it was hidden and

2542
02:20:12.040 --> 02:20:13.040
chilled John.

2543
02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:15.959
He's talking not mister Blake. Sergeant Evans here is the

2544
02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:19.479
police handwriting expert. He's examined the will and the suicide

2545
02:20:19.520 --> 02:20:22.239
letter from John. He's also checked them with your recent

2546
02:20:22.319 --> 02:20:25.440
letters from Australia. What and Jue letters from Australia show

2547
02:20:25.440 --> 02:20:28.680
a definite resemblance the same characteristics which appear in the

2548
02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:30.159
will and the suicide letter.

2549
02:20:30.280 --> 02:20:31.879
You brought the still side letter.

2550
02:20:33.000 --> 02:20:36.159
Definitely we can get a conviction on ridiculous that.

2551
02:20:36.600 --> 02:20:40.639
There's something else. The will mentions painting of Marcia Blake

2552
02:20:40.719 --> 02:20:42.040
and Eata's mother. U.

2553
02:20:42.360 --> 02:20:43.079
Where's that painting?

2554
02:20:44.399 --> 02:20:44.600
There?

2555
02:20:44.639 --> 02:20:45.559
It is on the wall.

2556
02:20:47.000 --> 02:20:47.920
Just a moment.

2557
02:20:48.680 --> 02:20:51.399
I hope you don't mind this Slake you're tearing off

2558
02:20:51.440 --> 02:20:51.799
the betch.

2559
02:20:51.959 --> 02:20:54.680
Yes, yes, and there you are.

2560
02:20:55.799 --> 02:20:56.959
There's the reason why.

2561
02:20:57.559 --> 02:21:02.920
What thousands in the negotiable Barnes. Then Hillary did know

2562
02:21:03.000 --> 02:21:05.479
about the money. He did kill John for all that.

2563
02:21:05.719 --> 02:21:06.959
I did no such thing.

2564
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:10.559
No, No, that's right. You didn't kill John Blake for that?

2565
02:21:11.159 --> 02:21:11.719
Then who did?

2566
02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:13.879
Look at these two letters from Hillary Blake to John

2567
02:21:14.479 --> 02:21:14.879
What are the.

2568
02:21:14.959 --> 02:21:18.559
Dates Stamber and in November nineteen.

2569
02:21:18.280 --> 02:21:21.399
Forty Those were Hillary's last letters to John. Now look

2570
02:21:21.440 --> 02:21:25.639
at these June and July nineteen twenty, you notice any difference.

2571
02:21:26.040 --> 02:21:30.600
We're all are signed by Hillary, But the ones dated

2572
02:21:30.719 --> 02:21:33.520
nineteen twenty are not at all like the ones written

2573
02:21:33.559 --> 02:21:34.319
in nineteen.

2574
02:21:34.079 --> 02:21:37.559
Forty, not the least similarity. We just discovered these old letters.

2575
02:21:37.600 --> 02:21:39.959
The ones dated nineteen twenty were written by Hillary, but

2576
02:21:40.239 --> 02:21:43.079
the ones dated nineteen forty were written by John.

2577
02:21:43.200 --> 02:21:44.440
John, what do you mean?

2578
02:21:45.079 --> 02:21:47.479
You're under arrest as to Blake. Not for murder, because

2579
02:21:47.479 --> 02:21:49.799
there's been no murder. You're under arrest on a charge

2580
02:21:49.799 --> 02:21:53.280
of embezzlement, and you, miss Blake, are under arrest as

2581
02:21:53.319 --> 02:21:53.920
an accomplice.

2582
02:21:54.360 --> 02:21:55.600
But what are you saying?

2583
02:21:55.719 --> 02:21:57.879
At first, we overlooked the earlier letters of Hillary Blake,

2584
02:21:57.959 --> 02:21:59.760
but when we saw them, we knew they were not

2585
02:21:59.799 --> 02:22:03.959
the same. Hand, we knew John Ford's the recent ones. Furthermore,

2586
02:22:04.120 --> 02:22:08.639
I checked with auspilian. Hillary Blake died in Sydney ten

2587
02:22:08.760 --> 02:22:12.440
years ago. This man is John Blake, posing as Hillary

2588
02:22:12.520 --> 02:22:15.760
to escape the penalty for looting the company. Nea, you,

2589
02:22:16.959 --> 02:22:20.440
Anita knew all about it. She's an on the plan. Oh,

2590
02:22:20.559 --> 02:22:22.479
it was a clever one and they might have gotten

2591
02:22:22.520 --> 02:22:27.280
away with the phony suicide. But he picked the wrong attorney. Oh,

2592
02:22:27.719 --> 02:22:30.559
here's your thousand dollars, Blake. But I'm afraid it won't

2593
02:22:30.600 --> 02:22:37.479
do either of you much good. Now, Well that's the story.

2594
02:22:38.600 --> 02:22:41.000
John had gone to great length in laying his plan,

2595
02:22:41.840 --> 02:22:44.200
but he made a mistake by failing to destroy the

2596
02:22:44.280 --> 02:22:48.440
early letters from Hillary, and he underestimated Wilbur's intelligence.

2597
02:22:49.280 --> 02:22:52.000
John had covered every point. He had even.

2598
02:22:51.920 --> 02:22:55.440
Established residence in an apartment as Hillary had used the

2599
02:22:55.479 --> 02:22:59.200
story of estrangements as an excuse for not associating with Hillary.

2600
02:23:00.200 --> 02:23:03.000
And what of the body in the morgue? That's where

2601
02:23:03.040 --> 02:23:06.479
they slipped again. The police knew the identity of the body.

2602
02:23:07.159 --> 02:23:09.559
That was merely a trap laid by Alan Hopper.

2603
02:23:10.280 --> 02:23:13.280
Anita was too quick and identifying the first body she

2604
02:23:13.399 --> 02:23:15.000
saw too anxious.

2605
02:23:15.799 --> 02:23:18.479
It was obviously not her father, but the.

2606
02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:21.959
Finding of an unidentified body seemed so convenient that she

2607
02:23:22.120 --> 02:23:24.639
jumped at the chance to declare it was John Blake.

2608
02:23:26.000 --> 02:23:30.319
Yes, there's many a slip TwixT, but you know the rest.

2609
02:23:54.680 --> 02:23:55.159
Sebs.

2610
02:23:55.280 --> 02:23:56.799
I've presented The Whistler.

2611
02:24:00.200 --> 02:24:00.360
Oh.

2612
02:24:04.079 --> 02:24:07.360
Original music for this production was composed and conducted by

2613
02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:10.840
Wilbur Hatch. The Whistler is written and directed by J.

2614
02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:17.040
Donald Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. Next week,

2615
02:24:17.479 --> 02:24:21.200
same time, I the Whistler will return to tell you

2616
02:24:21.280 --> 02:24:34.000
another unusual story. Good night, This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2617
02:24:41.680 --> 02:24:47.120
Well, my dear, the evening has run its course. The

2618
02:24:47.319 --> 02:24:52.520
darkness will soon have to retreat as the tyranny of

2619
02:24:52.680 --> 02:24:58.000
the day returns. But you must be heading home, and

2620
02:24:58.159 --> 02:25:04.000
I too, Well it's not important, but please do join

2621
02:25:04.120 --> 02:25:09.280
me again and soon. I enjoy your presence more than

2622
02:25:09.319 --> 02:25:16.040
you could imagine. I'll be right here, same time, same place,

2623
02:25:17.159 --> 02:25:23.520
ready to share something delightful with you. But if I

2624
02:25:23.639 --> 02:25:28.079
may ask one more favor, as you make your way home,

2625
02:25:28.239 --> 02:25:32.719
as you wander through the twilight, as you enter your door,

2626
02:25:32.799 --> 02:25:36.639
as you lay your head on that soft, cool pillow,

2627
02:25:37.479 --> 02:25:42.079
take one moment as you gnawed away and be thankful

2628
02:25:42.719 --> 02:25:47.319
for what you have. I'll be seeing you soon.

2629
02:25:51.280 --> 02:26:03.719
You remumbling privately of favent for

2630
02:26:05.479 --> 02:26:06.639
Pollium