Aug. 2, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | Classic Old Time Radio Horror: Leiningen vs the Ants, CBS Radio Mystery Theater & Suspense

Unknown Broadcast | Classic Old Time Radio Horror: Leiningen vs the Ants, CBS Radio Mystery Theater & Suspense
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Key Takeaways

  • Weekly Spooky delivers a thrilling night of classic old-time radio horror and vintage suspense across four legendary programs.
  • The featured classic audio drama 'Leiningen vs the Ants' from Escape brings listeners deep into the Amazon jungle for a harrowing tale of survival against a relentless army of insects.
  • Listeners also experience the chilling CBS Radio Mystery Theater episode 'A Choice of Witnesses,' exploring the dark psychological depths of blackmail and murder.
  • Suspense transports audiences to Nazi-occupied Denmark in 'The King’s Birthday,' weaving a tense story of secret resistance and political intrigue.
  • The episode rounds out with The Whistler's bone-chilling medical mystery 'Patients for the Doctor,' set high in the isolated Snoqualmie Mountains.

Unknown Broadcast returns with a full night of classic old time radio horror, vintage radio suspense, OTR mystery, Golden Age radio drama, and eerie anthology storytelling from four legendary radio programs: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler.

Tonight’s transmission features “A Choice of Witnesses,” “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” “The King’s Birthday,” and “Patients for the Doctor” — four classic radio dramas about blackmail, murder, moral corruption, survival horror, killer army ants, Nazi-occupied Europe, hidden resistance, psychological suspense, medical horror, and a lonely mountain doctor whose patients may not be there by accident.

📸 “A Choice of Witnesses” — CBS Radio Mystery Theater / Henry Slesar
Gordon Bailey is a respectable married man with one secret mistake in his past. Unfortunately, a blackmailing photographer named Kellerman has proof — and he is not blackmailing Gordon alone. When another victim proposes the “perfect” murder, Gordon is pulled into a nightmare of guilt, conspiracy, eyewitness testimony, and the deadly question at the heart of every great CBS Radio Mystery Theater thriller: if murder could solve your problem, would you still say no?
🐜 “Leiningen Versus the Ants” — Escape / Carl Stephenson
One of the most famous survival thrillers in old time radio history. Deep in the Amazon jungle, plantation owner Leiningen refuses to flee when a massive army of ravenous ants marches toward his land. The district commissioner warns him that nothing can stop them, but Leiningen believes human intelligence can defeat any force of nature. What follows is a tense Escape radio drama of jungle terror, siege warfare, fire, water, courage, obsession, and millions of crawling killers.
👑 “The King’s Birthday” — Suspense / Louis Pelletier
Suspense takes us to Nazi-occupied Denmark, where Kronwald Castle becomes the stage for a strange and dangerous act of resistance. Anonymous notes claim that Count Victor will kill himself on the night of the king’s birthday, turning a private threat into a political weapon. With the Gestapo watching, a Nazi Gauleiter circling, and the Danish underground moving in secret, this vintage radio thriller becomes a story of betrayal, patriotism, false appearances, and one unforgettable midnight deception.
🩺 “Patients for the Doctor” / “Patience for the Doctor” — The Whistler
High in the Snoqualmie Mountains, Dr. James Harris lives with his wife Mary in an isolated cabin at the end of a dangerous road. When a storm, a landslide, and a sick traveler bring strangers to his door, they discover that something is terribly wrong with the doctor’s house, his welcome sign, his missing bridge, and his desperate need for patients. The Whistler turns medical duty into psychological horror, revealing a disturbing tale of obsession, injury, pyromania, and madness.

This episode is perfect for listeners searching for old time radio horror, classic OTR suspense, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape radio show, Suspense radio drama, The Whistler, E.G. Marshall, Henry Slesar, Carl Stephenson, Leiningen Versus the Ants, William Conrad, Dolores Costello, Martin Kosleck, George Zucco, Ian Wolfe, vintage horror radio, classic radio mystery, noir radio drama, supernatural suspense, psychological thriller, and Golden Age radio anthologies.

Four dramas. Four traps. A blackmailer takes the wrong picture, a jungle plantation faces a living flood of ants, a castle hides the truth behind a patriotic legend, and a doctor waits in the mountains for patients who may never leave.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is 'Leiningen vs the Ants' about?

Originally featured on the classic radio program Escape, 'Leiningen vs the Ants' follows a stubborn Amazon plantation owner who refuses to flee when a massive, ravenous army of millions of killer ants marches toward his land, relying on human intelligence and sheer willpower to fight a terrifying siege.

Which classic radio shows are featured in this episode of Weekly Spooky?

This episode features vintage broadcasts from four legendary Golden Age radio programs: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler.

What is the plot of 'A Choice of Witnesses'?

'A Choice of Witnesses' is a CBS Radio Mystery Theater thriller about a respectable married man named Gordon Bailey who gets caught in a blackmail scheme by a photographer named Kellerman, ultimately leading to a dark discussion about the 'perfect' murder.

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My dear, so good to see you yet again. Oh

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what's that? Well, thank you for saying so. I've been

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trying my best. Please come in, relax, make yourself at home.

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I know the days are so hot, or at least

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that's what I hear, But in here the chill is real.

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Have a seat in my favorite chair, and I'll make

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you a little pot of tea, something warm and nourishing

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to keep the chill out of your bones. The fire

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it's bright, We have the whole night, and of course

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we have a choice of witnesses.

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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in and welcome.

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I meet you, marshall. Welcome to the sound of suspense,

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Welcome to the fear you can hear, but mostly welcome

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to the world of terrifying imagination. In this story, you're

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going to meet what some people call a shutter bug.

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You know what a shutter bug is the kind of

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person who never goes anywhere without a camera swinging from

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a strap around his neck, who is never content unless

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they're aiming a lens in your direction, whether you want

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to be photographed or not. But unfortunately, this particular bug

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is the kind that many people want to crush under

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their feet. We all want to get rid of Kellerman.

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We want to kill him, and so do you. That's

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a lie. You hate his guts as much as we do,

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mister Bailey. Why don't you admit it? Of course I

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hate him, but that doesn't mean I'm ready to commit murder.

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Well we're ready, mister Bailey, and you'd better be too.

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Our Mystery drama Our Choice of Witnesses, was written especially

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for the Mystery Theater by Henry Slesser and stars Paul Hecht.

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It is sponsored in part by the Kellogg Company, makers

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of Kellogg's special k Cereal. I'll be back shortly with

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that one.

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After the ball and change.

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I cannot special case the good, the bad and the heavy.

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Why is that cowboy wearing a ball and chang?

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Cause tying around ex few pounds to be just like

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tying around a fallen chain popped in block. What it

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is you are? Give me a special cave breakfast here

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you won't special cage remains juice and coffee.

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Un Hey, do I know you come some playing?

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

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

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back that way I exercised with anything smarter ever me

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or starting with this year a special cave rick. What's

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how special? It's less than two hundred four of the calories.

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It's not a nund percent fat, free and delicious. It's

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going to help me get rid of this year fall

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and change. I bet your horse will be backing at

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off and the chain by that desk you're happy ending

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could begin with the Killogg's special cave breakfast. Cannot okay

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that rhyme. Everybody needs under wall floors and musing doors

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with its own mastress outside, and so your art tree

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cann't bet on the breeze that you want such the.

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In your home that you.

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Filled with love and probing.

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Everybody need say no, because Centennial wants to be number

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one with you. They're offering the lowest interest rates seven

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and three quarter percent on Holmes purchased s A H.

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A or B A checks Ally's newspaper, or call Centennial

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at four three four sixteen sixty one. It begins on

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a warm day in early spring, the kind of day

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which tempts office workers to leave their desks and stroll

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through the nearest park on the noon hour. Among the

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strollers is an amiable young man named Gordon Bailey who

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is enjoying the sunshine so much that he's taken a

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sandwich lunch to a park bench. He knows it's not

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going to be a very good sandwich. His wife, Pam

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prepared it with her own loving hands, and even after

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two years of marriage, Pam seems unable to cope with

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even a hard boiled egg. Oh surely, mister, Okay if

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I sit down here? Oh yeah, sure, plenty of room, thanks.

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Oh, nice day in it.

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Yeah, it's about time we had some good weather.

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That's a good idea. I mean, not bringing you a

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lunch of the part.

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Well, that's my wife's idea. We're on an economy drive. Yeah,

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money's tank these days, very tight. And one line of

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work did you say you were in?

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Oh?

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I think I said I was in the insurance business.

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No kidding, Well now that's what I call a good business.

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Oh excuse me, Hey, that ought of the acute picture? Eh?

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That little squirrel up the acute as a buck? Eh?

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You like to take pictures of squirrels? Oh?

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Man, I like to take pictures of everything.

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In fact, I do this for a living. Or you're

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a professional photographer, the.

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Kind of I make a buck out of it. Sometimes.

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I suppose you sell pictures of the newspapers.

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Oh no, no, I never saw no pictures of papers.

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I saw the people. Well, well, I guess I'll be

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heading back for work.

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Wait just a minute, mister.

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Bailey, I don't remember telling you my name.

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Well, I guess I know your name on a kind.

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Of the badge. What are you talking about the bags

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you wore at the convention at the hotel in Atlantic City.

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Oh wait a minute. You were at the insurance convention

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last month?

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Yeah, I was there. I did a lot of good

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pictures at conventions, some of my best.

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You see, maybe I don't.

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Play you or not.

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How there's a bunch of guys get away from home,

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away from the wife. They do a lot of crazy things.

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Oh would you like to see the picture of the

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insurance convention. I'll tell you the truth. Mister.

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My name is Calliman Frankly.

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I just don't understand why you're be carrying around pictures

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of a bunch of drunken insurance men. Hey, you were

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gassed though, all right? I never seen anybody what gas

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than you were. Mister Bailey, You don't mean you have

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pictures of me.

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Yeah, that's how I was trying to tell it. You

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like to see them?

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They're real beaut I think I have a better mister Bailey,

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all right, let me see this. Oh yeah, sir head, Yeah,

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I'm not tired here.

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Yeah, look at that's what.

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Oh no, she was really stacked her. How did you

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get this? Well? I told you were my trusty little

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can what how? Hey, come, what do you think? I'm

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not giving away no professional secret. You were in that

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hotel room. She let you into that room, didn't she.

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You must have been hiding someplace.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey, don't go.

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I don't care that. I think I'm going to go

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with a flock.

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Come, mister barely.

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You know I got negatives. I can pen up two

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thousand of them if I want.

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What is this blackmail or something?

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Nah? Nah, No, it's like a business deal, that's all.

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I figured. I got some pictures that you want to buy,

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and I got to miss out. How much did you

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pay her for the privilege of being in that room?

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The question is how much are you wanting to pay?

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I mean, say, your wife don't get a complete set.

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Are you willing to sell me the negatives? I didn't

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say that.

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I got a different kind of deal of mine.

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You know what would happen if I told the police.

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About this, Well, A guy did that to me once.

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It was a meat Factors convention. He called the cops,

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they brought me in.

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I said, I was just a photographer, like in a convention.

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That's all. I was selling pictures of the guys there.

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He couldn't pull nothing against me, and a county in

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a wife. It was true. I am a photographer. I

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do wait conventions. I saw regular type pictures too, but

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they're not as profitable as these are they. You know,

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God became one of my study as customers only done

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his wife divorced them many way.

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He wouldn't make no more payment savings.

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Are you saying this is a regular thing?

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How much you ay in at that insurance company? I

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forget a young guy like you to pay about fifteen eighteen.

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Thousand a year.

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And my wife listened to me.

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Calvin, the woman at that convention, I didn't want to

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get mixed up with her. I was just so tight.

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I didn't know what I was doing. A Hey, you

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don't have to tell me about up my b Mister

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Balley have been around funny. I know how guys, I

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don't know. You don't understand. Look, I'm only married two years.

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I loved my wife very much and the only reason

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I got into that stupid mess was it was because

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of my boss. I didn't want to insult him. He

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was drunker than I was. Oh, come mom, mister Bailey,

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you don't have to explain nothing to me. I know

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you don't want that nice little wife and yours to

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see these daiy pinches, and I don't want to show

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him to believe. She'd never understand. Pam would never listen. Listen,

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I'll tell you what. I'll give you a flat price

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for the negatives, and that would be an understand I

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got a nice bonus recently. I'll give you a three

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hundred cash tomorrow afternoon. How does that sound.

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Listen to me, mister Bailey.

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People are real funny about this kind of business. They

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never believe it.

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Guy like me can well might be honest.

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You know, honest that's some word. But what I mean

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is they always.

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Think that if they pay me a flat fee, I'll

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be coming back at them again.

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Do you see what I mean?

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Even if I.

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Did give you the negatives, you'd figure if I had

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copy someplace that I can hit you again anytime, right, Look,

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I'm willing to take your word for nah, mister Bailly, Nah,

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you just spend the rest of your life worrying about

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me coming back am I life? Put this way, you

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just make one small timent to me every month, like

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you pay the electric bullet a let? You know how

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much how much to have to pay?

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I figure, if about forty bucks a month? Now, that's

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not so terrible.

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Is it?

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Just forty bucks a month?

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Do you collect the money?

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In person, mister Bailey, I just go around or my

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customers once a month and I collect them patients. It's

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better that way.

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Blame me forty dollars smaller any a year. You never

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miss it. Another thing will just be fine between you

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and the missus.

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Cat you honey, Hey, hey, shut.

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Up, you much Hidalli, I'll be quiet. Lockjaw r Lloyd Master,

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I'm sorry.

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I I decided to do a little Christmas shopping after work.

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I forgot how long it takes to fight those clowns.

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Oh a gorgeous package that that ain't for me?

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Never mind? Just in case today he's a big kissing van.

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Oh you smell good is that any of you for

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a few to say?

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Old stuff? The one I'm practically out of.

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Pop cut out that hinting, and I've already spent more

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money than I should.

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Oh well, speaking of money, that man was here, man,

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you know, the one that comes around every month, that

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mister Kellerman Kellerman.

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What the heck was he doing here?

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It's only the nineteenth, no Gordon, but he was here

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just to say looking for you?

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What did he say?

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Nothing?

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Did?

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He'd be back later later today, you know, going.

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I just can't bear that awful little man. Did you

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ever get a look at his eyes? And that camera

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he wears around his neck?

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Listen?

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Is he going to be coming around every single month?

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I told you, honey, he's collecting payments on the car.

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Well, why can't you make the payments?

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Yet?

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That's the way he likes it. Maybe he moves around

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a lot.

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Well, he gives me the creep. You want to get

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the honey after a job?

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Okay, I got it. Oh it's you. I heard you

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came earlier today.

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Yeah, but you're on home yet. I hope I didn't

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decide your wife so much.

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But we'll talk in the hallway.

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Oh yeah, course, all right, what's this early visit all about?

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You're know any way for the holidays?

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Oh no, I never go anywhere. There's time a year.

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That's one of my busiest times a year.

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You know.

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I can imagine I get some of my best pictures around.

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Now you'd be surprised, you know, there's people you're all

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filled up with a Christmas spurrow at all? Right, guess

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at the point you want your payment now? Well, I

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wouldn't mind, of course, But that's not the reason I

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came around, mister Bailey. You see, I want to tell

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you that the payments are going to go out. What

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I really hate to do it, but it's the inflation.

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You know, everything costs more, full clothing, film, gasoline. I

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just got to have an increase, mister Bailly, I'm sorry.

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How much of an increase? Wow?

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Just another fifteen dollars a month?

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Fifteen terrific? Now it's fifty five. What's it going to

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be a couple of months from now? Shut up a lot?

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Excuse me, mister Bailey. Yeah, but what can I do

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for you?

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May I talk to you from?

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What do I know you?

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No?

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I don't think you do.

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My name is Bliz and Dave Blitz. You know, look,

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can we sit down and talk about it when it's

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kind of chilly?

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When we talked.

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Standing up trying to walk my dog, and so far

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he's think has been a non performer. Well, I want

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to talk to you about Ed Kellerman. I don't know

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any Ed Kellerman. I know you do, mister Bailly. I

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made it my business to find out. Now I'm not

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asking what he's got on you. Mister Bailey, I'm sorry

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you're making a mistake.

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It doesn't matter.

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I won't ask you why Kellerman is blackmailing you know,

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I expect you to do as much for me. Only

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would you mind telling me how much you pay him?

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He hits me for sixty a month history forty first

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one of last month fifty five? You mind paying it?

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Of course? I mind? So do I I'd mind if

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it was ten bucks a month, and not just because

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of the money. I hate that slimy man, and I'm

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sure you hate him as much as I do. That's

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why I wanted to talk to you about putting a

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stop to him, A prominent stop. You mean going to

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the police. No, that's not good enough. I'm talking about

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killing him. Every problem has a solution, they say, and

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mister Dave Bliss seems to have arrived at his. The

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obvious question here is do two wrongs make a right.

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We'll find out what mister Gordon Bailey thinks about that

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dilemma when we return shortly with that too. In nineteen nineteen,

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someone had a big idea, let's help youth understand big

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business by starting them in small businesses of their own,

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and Junior Achievement was born. Each group elected a board

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of directors, chose a product, set up a production line, sold, stopped,

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and went into business. That year three hundred and fourteen

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students made and sold products and learned the business of business. Today,

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Junior Achievement has grown to nearly two hundred thousand members.

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Junior Achievers are designing and marketing their own products and services,

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from cutting boards to printing. They're organizing sales efforts, writing

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marketing plans, calculating profit and loss. Running these small businesses

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helps junior achievers understand how big business works. Support Junior

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Achievement where youth learns the business of business, and all

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your local Junior Achievement office the Dallas Times Herald, You're

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doing more. We're doing more with one hundred thousand people

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in Dallas playing tennis. You can imagine there's a lot

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of interest in the kind of coverage tennis gets in

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the newspaper, and how much attention is What is the

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Dallas Times Harold doing to satisfy the growing number of

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tennis fans and players and Dallas listen to sportswriter Tim Tinnors,

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So we don't treat tennis as at three times a

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year sports to be covered only when there's a major

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professional tournament in town. We try to emphasize what's happening

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in Dallas at the grassroots level, with stories that range

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from developing junior players to high schools and colleges to

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the average players who may not belong to the tennis

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clever or league. And what this does, of course, is

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you're doing more to learn what's going on. We're doing

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more to tell you. And there's a simple way to

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prove it. If you're not a Times Herold subscriber, call

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this number seven four four sixty one oh one, the

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Dallas Times Herald. You're doing more, We're doing more. Blackmail

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is an interesting, if dishonorable crime. It has the unusual

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facility of making the criminal feel virtuous himself. After all,

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he's only punishing wrongdoers by making them pay for their sins.

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But the profession has some serious drawbacks. For one thing,

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it inspires one's victims to think in drastic terms. And

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when there are more than one victim and they meet, well,

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mister Bliss, I know how you must feel about Calluman,

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And you're right. He is one of the slimiest characters

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who ever crawled out from under a rock. Those eyes.

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Never a look at his eyes, mister Bailey, My wife

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can't stand the side of him. Well, I'm not married.

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It's my job is threatening marriage. He's after Never mind,

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I don't want to know any details. None of us

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know each other's problems, none of us. You mean you

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know others beside me? I know others. Oh, come well,

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I made it my business to find others. One day,

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when I got fed to the teeth with mister Kellaman

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and his payments and his wet eyes, I decided to

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find out more about our friend. So when he left

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one day, I followed him. I followed him on his Wow,

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And that's how you found me. Yeah, that's right. You're

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in the root book, mister Bailey, just like all the

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rest of us, how many order and there's no way

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of telling for sure. All I managed to find was

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a dozen, an even dozen. Man really gets shot out.

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He keeps raising his price. Do you know that he's

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only had me in his bag for about six months?

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This is my fifth But others I've spoken to they

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say he raises the ante every few months. Three of

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the people I talked to are paying well over one hundred.

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Mister Kellerman does very well, that's obvious. Yeah too, Well,

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you know something that's funny, but well, it's kind of

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a relief to know that I'm not alone. Yeah, that's

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what I felt at first. Misery loves company. But the

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satisfaction doesn't last. Mister Bailey, you still live every day

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of your life with that sort over here. I know,

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I know, but it's still not a reason for using

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words like killing. Don't you know that's the only possible

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way to deal with a blackmail? I wouldn't know. Kellerman's

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my first I'll think about it now. No, you must

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have thought about it already. It wouldn't be human if

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you hadn't thought about it. Crossed my mind. Not that

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I should kill Kellerman, just the wish that he were dead,

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and that someone else would kill him. Yeah, I guess

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I wouldn't shed too many tears. You just didn't want

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to dirty your own hands. I didn't want to take

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care of one problem and have another one even worse.

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And don't tell me that doesn't make sense. The only

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thing that makes sense is making Killerman a curt I'm sorry,

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I'm just not interested in anything like that. The other

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is writ either, not at first, but now now they

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all are. Oh but what are you talking about? We

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all want to get rid of Kellerman. We want to

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kill him, and so do you. That's a lie. You

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hate his guts as much as we do, mister Bailey,

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Why don't you admit it? Of course I hate him,

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but that doesn't mean it doesn't mean I'm ready to

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commit murder. Well we're ready, mister Bailey, and you better

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be two ready for what to commit murder if you

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don't mind my saying. And a perfect murder, perfect fool proof.

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I'm sorry. Look, that's a stupid dreaming, you know it.

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You won't say that after you've heard the idea. Everybody

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who sets out to commit a crime thinks it's fool proof.

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They wouldn't commit it otherwise. Right now, all I want

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to know is if you'll cooperate. That's easy.

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No, why not?

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Because murder is worse than blackmail. That's why. Well, this

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isn't murder. We're going to erase the human mistake, forget it.

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But I'll make believe I never heard you say, come on,

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come on without you, come on your let's go our

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business over world. There wasn't one person on the list.

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I didn't have to convince. But when I told them

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that there was no chance of any of us being caught,

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that's when they dropped their objections. All right, what fool

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proof scheme for murder do you have? It's fool proof

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because it won't be murder. It'll be an accident. If

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anyone gets into trouble, it'll be me, just me. I'm

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going to kill Kellerman with my car when he's making

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the rounds one night. I have the time and place

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all figured out, just before midnight on Carroll Street. An accident. Right,

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So now you know the favor I'm doing you. I'm

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taking the rich all by myself getting the police. So

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that's stupid. Murderers get caught even when they frame accident. Oh,

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this is different. Why because of the witnesses. What I'm

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going to have witnesses, a lot of them, all disinterested parties,

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nothing to connect them with each other, and they all

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tell exactly the same story what they saw, how it

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was all Kellerman's fault getting hit by my card. All right,

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all right, stopped, don't tell me anymore. You've already told

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me too much. Oh You've got to hear the rest

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of it. You're a part of this like everyone else.

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Don't you see the beauty of it? Safety in numbers,

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you ask me, you'll all get caught now. Now, don't

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you understand when a group of citizens all testify exactly

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the same way? I mean, reliable citizens from every walk

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of life. You ought to meet some of Kellerman's victims.

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One is a college professor, to a doctors and four housewives,

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a bartender who owns his own joint, one working staff,

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one person in city government. I see, you might as

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well know. That's me Bliss. Wait a minute, I've seen

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your name, something about the transportation authority. One of them

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is in the insurance business. They're all with me, mister Bailey.

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Every one of them has agreed. So many witnesses to

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one accident well, we won't meet everyone. Some of them

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won't be asked any questions a boy the police, but

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they'll all be there just the same. We'd like you

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there too. You're nuts, do you know that? You and

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the rest of it. I won't have any part of this,

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don't you see it can't mean, it doesn't matter. I

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00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:36.799
don't want to have any part in killing a man.

442
00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:41.680
I'll come, mister Bailey, you've got religious scruples or something.

443
00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:46.960
Maybe you've got scruples, but you did something rotten enough

444
00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:51.599
to make you a blackmail as victim. I didn't commit murder. Look,

445
00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:55.079
you got a good idea about getting everyone together. Maybe

446
00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.359
if we all went to the police. Oh, no way,

447
00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.279
whatever it is you don't want about yourself, my friend,

448
00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:06.079
it'll come out the minute Kellerman gets arrested. Now, no,

449
00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.400
my way is better. I can't buy it. Like I'm sorry.

450
00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:11.480
My dog is getting tired, and so my come on,

451
00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:13.119
come on launch them now wait a minute, and now

452
00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:16.759
I want my advice, bliss, don't go through with this.

453
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:22.720
Find some other way. There has to be one. Goodbye, Bailey. Yeah,

454
00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:26.559
what if we do it, you'll be sorry, that's what.

455
00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:27.799
Sorry?

456
00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.839
Why? Because you'll tell the police the truth. I didn't

457
00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:36.119
say that. Goodbye, mister Bliss.

458
00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.480
Hello, I'm all right, Bliss.

459
00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:48.200
What do you want?

460
00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:50.640
You're going to be busy tomorrow night?

461
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:52.039
What do you mean busy?

462
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.200
Getting together tomorrow night at the corner of Carroll Street

463
00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:01.039
and Ninth Avenue about nine thirty. How about coming down?

464
00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:03.279
You might see something interesting.

465
00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:05.240
You can't go through with this.

466
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:07.240
We're all in it together.

467
00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:10.279
Remember, YO might not have to do a thing.

468
00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:14.720
Just stand there and see it happen. That'll be satisfying

469
00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:15.480
all myself.

470
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.839
I won't be there. Well, we'd sure like to have you.

471
00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:21.559
You won't get away with this, nobody ever does?

472
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.079
You're on about that? But I won't get in an argument.

473
00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:28.279
Can we count on you?

474
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:31.119
No, you can't. I won't be there and I won't

475
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:40.559
help you in any way. Oh, shut up, Lockjow?

476
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:41.400
What's the now?

477
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:42.240
You tonight?

478
00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:43.680
Good?

479
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:44.359
Yeah?

480
00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:46.319
Do you think Lockjaw's all right?

481
00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:50.599
She keeps staring at the door and growlings.

482
00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.079
Hear the neighbors or something.

483
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:55.680
Maybe she's waiting to back at that man, the collector,

484
00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:01.480
you know, isn't he coming to night? He usually comes

485
00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:02.880
on the last Sunday of the month.

486
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:03.160
Doesn't it?

487
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:03.799
Yeah?

488
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.319
Yeah, usually, I daught if.

489
00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.319
You'll be here tonight. It's almost eleven.

490
00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:11.759
Now, I didn't realize it was that late.

491
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:16.279
You hadn't done much to see me, did you feel Yeah?

492
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:17.720
Sure, sure, I'm all right.

493
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.279
Well you you just seemed to be waiting.

494
00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:22.839
Was it for that name?

495
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.680
Because if it was, well, I'm sure he's not coming home.

496
00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:29.160
We think we had to go to bed, listen to

497
00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:30.119
the news or something.

498
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:32.119
Oh the news. Yeah, I guess it's on right.

499
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:32.599
Now, isn't it.

500
00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:35.200
It's about you want me to turn it on here?

501
00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:36.640
Yeah? Sure would okay.

502
00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:43.799
The conference, now postponed until February, will include.

503
00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.119
Top officials from both nations.

504
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:46.960
I'm the local fire.

505
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.279
A man who has been identified as Edward Kellerman of

506
00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:57.400
eighteen tonight on the corner of Caroll Street and Ninth Avenue,

507
00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:01.799
the driver of a car. City of Administration official David Bliss,

508
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:03.839
was released after questioning.

509
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:05.559
I witnessed on the.

510
00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:09.759
Scene of the accident, testified but Kellerman had stepped into

511
00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:15.359
the automobile's path in sports the Golden War shut it out?

512
00:29:16.599 --> 00:29:16.799
Good?

513
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:21.640
Do you suppose it's that man the collector? You think

514
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:23.599
that's the reason he didn't come around tonight.

515
00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:27.359
It would be a good enough reason, wouldn't it? He

516
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:31.599
was dead, lying in the middle of the street dead.

517
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:38.079
He looks so strange? Goodn't did you like that?

518
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:41.680
Man? Do you want to know the truth? Pam? I

519
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:46.440
hated him. He did just on general principles.

520
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:53.920
I really don't understand you sometimes, Gordon Handy the film book.

521
00:29:54.519 --> 00:30:00.680
Okay, here the call somebody?

522
00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:03.640
Honey, why don't you go to bed. I'll be in

523
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:04.319
in a few minutes.

524
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:05.440
But who are you calling?

525
00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.720
Someone? I know, someone who knew Caleman.

526
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.759
Oh, I see to find out if they know.

527
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:14.039
About what happened to the Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

528
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:17.720
Okay, honey, I'll go in there. Are you feeling okay?

529
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:19.079
Yeah? Some right, I'll be right.

530
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:33.799
Good night, good night, Hello, every bliss?

531
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:34.880
Yes?

532
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:36.599
Who's this? Gordon Bailey?

533
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:38.599
What do you want?

534
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:41.960
I had the news tonight about Kellerman.

535
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:43.839
Oh, you don't have to thank me.

536
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:46.559
I did it for myself and you did go through

537
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:47.119
with it. Eh.

538
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:50.680
You're can all luck style friend. You've just saved yourself fifty.

539
00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:54.440
Five bucks a month, maybe a lot more. You're Remitstessman

540
00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:56.119
won't be coming around again.

541
00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:58.039
You want to go out and celebrate.

542
00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:01.279
I know what I ought to do. What's that along

543
00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:11.359
with I just wanted to make sure ally. Obviously, there's

544
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:14.680
one thing you can say for David Bliss. He's a

545
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:18.839
man of his word. And because mister Bliss kept his word,

546
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.279
two indifferent interns are now lifting the mortal remains of

547
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:27.599
mister Edward Kellerman and depositing them in the efficient, cold

548
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:31.920
filing cabinet of the city morgue a waiting for someone

549
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:37.279
to claim the body. But who cares about a dead blackmailer?

550
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:43.799
Possibly mister Gordon Bailey. We'll find out shortly when I

551
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:52.200
return with Act three. Ever had a tall, frosty glass

552
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.799
of amplitude, Well, if you're beer is Budweiser, you've had

553
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.400
it often. Amplitude is a fancy word for the tired

554
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.039
taste phenomenon, the total experience of flavor. Next time you

555
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.000
take a healthy swallow of bud. That's what happened. You

556
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.880
Think about the sensations, your experience. Notice how the flavor

557
00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:15.319
of bud comes on nice and easy, not too strong,

558
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:20.480
not too quick, just right. Notice the clean, crisp togetherness

559
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:24.359
of blood's taste. Everything in perfect balance, with no single

560
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.279
element jumping out at you. And there'll be no aftertaste

561
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.880
either no hanging on and you'll be refreshed and ready

562
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:34.200
for another glass bow. And actually, butt drinkers have been

563
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.319
experiencing amplitude for years, but they never phrase it that way.

564
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:43.160
They just say Budweiser, and that says it all. And

565
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:48.440
isaer Busch Saint Louis, your first power tool was probably

566
00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:52.039
a power drill. It was really useful even for simple jobs.

567
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.799
It's still useful even now that you've gone on the

568
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:58.079
more difficult projects. Hi, Pumpery, We're here for true value

569
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:01.279
hardware stores and they've gotten a sense companion for your

570
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:05.200
power drill. Block and Duckers Electric drill Bit Shoppener. As

571
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:08.680
your workshop skills become shopper and shopper, your drills bits

572
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:12.079
become duller and dullar. Buying new ones time and time

573
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:15.279
again is expensive. Black and Deckers Grill Bit Shoppener will

574
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:18.079
make them shops new again. It works like an electric

575
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:21.440
pencil shoppener. It fits eleven bit sizes from one eighth

576
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.720
to three eighths of an inch, and it's double insulated

577
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:27.200
for electrical safety. Right now, true value hardware stores at

578
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:29.519
the Black and Ducker drill Bit Shoppener at a new

579
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:32.680
low price. It was nineteen ninety nine. Now it's four

580
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:36.720
dollars less, just fifteen ninety nine. Get the block Andducker

581
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.440
Electric drill bit Shoppener for just fifteen dollars and ninety

582
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.440
nine cents at the true value hardware store nearest your home,

583
00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.759
as David Bliz and Company managed to commit the perfect crime,

584
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.839
so it seems. Since the death certificate for Edward Kellerman

585
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:09.000
simply states the cause of death as accidental, at least

586
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:13.679
a dozen people know otherwise, but they remain silent, feeling

587
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:18.280
not grief but relief. The only one who finds it

588
00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:21.960
difficult to maintain that silence is the one victim of

589
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.559
ed Kellerman who was knocked on the corner of Carroll

590
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:28.519
Street and Ninth Avenue that fateful night. Toney, do you

591
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:30.800
know it's almost two o'clock in the morning. Oh is

592
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:32.599
it really? Yeah?

593
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.159
You know, I honestly think you're a coming down with something.

594
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.400
Will you please stop fussing? Your beginning to sound like

595
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:39.840
my mother?

596
00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:43.760
Then you wouldn't want to do that. I'm just trying

597
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.719
to get you to go to sleep. You've got to

598
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:46.920
jack to go to tomorrow.

599
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:50.840
It's funny about my mother when I was growing up.

600
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:54.159
She made me feel that there was something I don't know,

601
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.719
something so profound about religion, And if you ask me,

602
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.079
she just likes the bingo game. My father was that

603
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:03.840
way too, But neither one of them really seemed to

604
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.199
live their religion, do you know what I mean? They

605
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:08.760
talked about loving their neighbors and so forth, but they

606
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:10.559
didn't love them at all. They were always saying the

607
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:12.000
nastiest things about them.

608
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:13.840
We tell people are.

609
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:15.440
When I was in my teens, I used to call

610
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:20.679
them hypocrites. Now I just wonder how many different than

611
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:27.360
they were? Really, don't think I am different? How about

612
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:32.239
things like the Ten Commandments, for instance, I wonder if

613
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:33.559
there's one I haven't broken.

614
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.679
You hope you haven't covered a your neighbor's wife. It's

615
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:39.159
about the only one I can remember.

616
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:42.400
I remember them all you do. I want a prize

617
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:44.840
in Bible class when I was only eight for reciting

618
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:48.760
all of them. Our shalt not our shalt not that

619
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:52.360
they're only eight, shalt not. I shalt have no other

620
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.280
gods beside me. Thou shalt not worship any grave of

621
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:58.440
an image. Thou shalt not take the name of the

622
00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:12.639
Lord I God in vain, I'll shout not to kill. Yeah. Sure,

623
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.760
I'll have that full completed in time for the meeting. Right,

624
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:23.280
I'll fall bye. Oh Sylvia, did you read that number yet? Now? Okay,

625
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.719
well buzz me if you do. Right now, let's see

626
00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:36.320
about that actuarial table. Hello, all right, Bailey, Hello, mister bless.

627
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.119
I've been having a lot of trouble reaching here this morning.

628
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.960
I was wondering if you might be free for lunch.

629
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.119
I'd really like a chance to talk to you. How

630
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:48.880
about some mutual friends of ours.

631
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:51.920
If we're talking about the same thing, Bailey, they're not

632
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:56.360
mutual friends. All strangers, complete strangers, just like.

633
00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:57.000
You and me.

634
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.559
Well, that's something i'd like to rectify. Would you have

635
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:01.599
lunch with me? All right?

636
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:03.239
All right?

637
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.679
Where I suppose we meet somewhere halfway? I know you're

638
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:11.800
in the City Hall area. I'm on Wall Street about Mercury's,

639
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:22.679
do you know it? That's fine, all right, day, let's

640
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:26.480
you don't want a social lunch. You have something on

641
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:29.679
your mind, You're right, something I can't get off my

642
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:34.400
mind about our old friend Kellerman. I suppose you remember

643
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.519
what you said about him? He was a sword hanging

644
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:41.679
over your head. So he's still let for me, mister Bliss,

645
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:47.400
he is exactly that Kellerman is dead. He won't be

646
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:51.559
ringing your doorbell anymore. I'll come. You're not grateful for that.

647
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:54.760
If Keleman had really been hit by a car, if

648
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:59.400
he had a heart attack or something, I admit, I

649
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:01.440
would be glad about it. I would have gone out

650
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:04.920
and celebrated. I would have slept very well at night.

651
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:08.920
But the way things are, I'm not sleeping at all.

652
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:13.039
Try pills. I'm just sorry you ever came up to

653
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:16.360
me in that part. If I didn't, if I didn't

654
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:18.719
know it was going to happen the way it happened,

655
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:21.920
it never would have bothered me. But I do know,

656
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.599
and it bothers me too much. So the thing is,

657
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:31.320
I don't know if I can live with it. You

658
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.320
want to be more specific, I don't know if I

659
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:38.000
can spend the rest of my life with this thing

660
00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:45.000
on my conscious. You are conscious. Look, you have nothing

661
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.639
to do with Callerman's death. I don't know what you

662
00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:51.159
think Caleman had on me, Bliss, but it wasn't anything illegal.

663
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:55.599
Just immore right. It was something stupid I did. Wow,

664
00:38:56.239 --> 00:39:00.280
there's nothing stupid about what we did. Wasn't it. Are

665
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:03.320
you really so sure you've committed the perfect murder?

666
00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:03.639
Shop?

667
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.159
Don't you ever use that word in front of me.

668
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.199
They're still afraid, aren't you afraid of being found out?

669
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:14.360
It can't happen, not as long as we all stick together,

670
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:16.239
safety in numbers.

671
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:16.519
Right.

672
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.760
When the police came, they only questioned four of them.

673
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:24.320
Every single one told the same story. There was no

674
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:27.159
reason to doubt their word. Why should there be, because

675
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.679
there was no connection between them, right, They were all stranging,

676
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.599
nothing to tie them to each other except Kellerman. What

677
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:37.960
about the records he might have kept his little black

678
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:41.760
nookbook for instance. We thought of that too. The first

679
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:43.360
thing we did when we went to his body was

680
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.719
lift that book right out of his pocket. What about

681
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:47.679
the apartment? What about all the stuff he had there?

682
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.960
The second thing we lifted was the key to his apartment.

683
00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:55.079
One of our guys, Joe the Bartender, went straight there.

684
00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:58.440
He cleaned out every scrap of paper in the place.

685
00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:01.920
Every single one of them is rocking photographs. You were

686
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:06.159
very thorough, weren't you. Yeah, we're thorough, Bailey, and you

687
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:11.320
ought to be grateful, not worried. I am worried. I'm

688
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:17.559
worrying about whether or not I should god, whether or

689
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:24.079
not you should want Bailey, are you thinking about going

690
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.079
to the police that occurred to me? You mean you'd

691
00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:28.639
turn me in?

692
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.360
I don't know.

693
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:32.239
I just don't know. Did it ever occur to you

694
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:35.719
to turn Klemin in? Yes? Often? But did you know

695
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:41.400
why not? Wasn't he committing a crime? Wasn't he disturbing

696
00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:43.039
your precious sleep too?

697
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:43.480
Yes?

698
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.480
Yes, but you didn't turn him in because you were

699
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:52.119
afraid for yourself. Isn't that the truth? I suppose? So,

700
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:56.880
so all this morality of yours, this conscience you talk about,

701
00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:01.159
you didn't discover your had any So Kellerman was gone

702
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:04.320
until he was no longer a threat to you. Isn't

703
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:09.960
that true? I still say blackmail isn't murdered, Bailey. I've

704
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.599
got news for you. I wasn't going to tell you

705
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:18.480
this unless it was absolutely necessary. Told me what. Kellerman

706
00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:23.639
may be gone, but his photographs are still around. What

707
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:28.440
you heard me, We have all of Kellerman's negatives, all

708
00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:32.639
the dirty pictures he ever took. Most of them have

709
00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:38.000
been returned to his victims, everyone who cooperated with us.

710
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:42.840
I see that means we have your pictures too, my friend.

711
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:47.400
Do you understand? And if I don't cooperate, I get

712
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:50.599
a new blackmailer. No, no, no, that isn't the way

713
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:54.639
it is at all. Callerman bled you, Bailey. Every month

714
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:57.159
he came whistling up to your front door, asking for money,

715
00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:01.800
more and more money all the time. But that's over now,

716
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:04.960
don and finished. So what you're saying is if I

717
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:09.400
go to the police, the photographs go where I don't

718
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:14.079
want them to go. I'm sorry to use Kellerman's own tactics,

719
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:21.280
but forcing my hand, Bailey, Please use your head. You've

720
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.440
got nothing to gain and everything to lose. Somebody's done

721
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.519
you a favor. The only way to show your gratitude

722
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:33.440
is to forget it. Well, you say, well, I'll think

723
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:36.280
about it. That's all I can tell you.

724
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:44.840
Weren't any more coffee, Henny, No, thanks.

725
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:47.000
For taint.

726
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:47.519
Correct.

727
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:48.039
Yeah.

728
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:50.400
I guess I have been acting pretty jumpy tonight.

729
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:53.079
He said to work to me since you came home.

730
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:58.480
The thing is, I've been thinking a lot, Pam, about

731
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.960
when I had the nerve to tell you something, something

732
00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:06.800
that happened about well seven months ago. What do you mean?

733
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:11.920
And you remember that insurance convention I went to back

734
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:14.079
in July in Atlantic City.

735
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:18.119
I couldn't go with you because your mother being in

736
00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:18.719
a hospital.

737
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:21.159
I wish you had been with me. Then nothing would

738
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:21.639
have happened.

739
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:23.800
What did happen?

740
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:26.320
Did you get into some kind of trouble?

741
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:30.559
Yeah? Yeah, I got myself into trouble by by being stupid,

742
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:33.559
by drinking too much and letting how Emmons drink too much?

743
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:35.719
You mean you're supervised.

744
00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:37.800
I was still new on the job, you remember, Pam.

745
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:38.719
I wanted to make good.

746
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:39.079
Yeah.

747
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:41.480
I was afraid of Emmons taking a dislike to me,

748
00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:45.559
afraid of crossing him. We both got drunk that second night.

749
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.960
Emmans insisted that we pick up these girls. Honey. I

750
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.280
swear I didn't want anything to do with it. I

751
00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:55.920
wasn't at least a bit interested. But you know, Emmons

752
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.119
is the kind of guy who uses conventions to swing

753
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.960
a little. You know, it's home. I was crazy about

754
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:03.800
my wife at home. Cooking was good enough for me,

755
00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:07.719
but he just pressured me. Pam, Pam can make you understand.

756
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:12.199
Go on what happened.

757
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.000
We brought the girls upstairs. They had joining rooms. They

758
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:23.440
were professionals, Honey, I have to tell me, I wouldn't

759
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:26.800
have known of you to me on my conscience, Pami,

760
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.320
Oh sure, I could have kept my mouth shovel. I

761
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:32.920
needed to tell you, I guess I wanted you to

762
00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:36.760
know so that you can forgive me. I've been tortured

763
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.880
about it for months and you have no idea what

764
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:45.480
torture it's been for me. Say I would have been

765
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:56.840
given you oda. It will never happen again, honey.

766
00:44:56.639 --> 00:45:04.559
I swear, yeah, yeah, we're just getting cozy.

767
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:06.039
I'm getting.

768
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.199
Hello, mister Bailey, Dave was here.

769
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:11.320
What do you want?

770
00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:13.679
I have something for you? A present?

771
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:15.599
What is it about?

772
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:16.440
Half a dozen.

773
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:22.360
Photographs and the original negatives. I decided they really belonged

774
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.880
to you, that if you knew you were really out

775
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:27.760
of danger, you'd sleep a great deal better.

776
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:29.599
Do you want them?

777
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:33.559
All right? Put them in my mail to my office

778
00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:34.400
and have some.

779
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.519
Secretary open them. My mistake, Now, I don't think you'd

780
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:37.840
care for.

781
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.159
That good market personal.

782
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:43.199
Suppose I hand them over in person tonight?

783
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:44.280
Whereabouts?

784
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.320
Well, right now, I'm in a body called Adam and

785
00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:50.400
Eves on twelfth and the lawn. I'll be here for

786
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:51.760
another hour if you can make it.

787
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:54.840
Otherwise, well, it will.

788
00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:56.400
Have to be some other time that's all.

789
00:45:56.719 --> 00:45:58.840
Oh well, all right, all right, I'll be there in

790
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:03.480
half an hour. You're not going out just for a

791
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:07.000
little while, honey, I got some client business. Besides, I

792
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:08.199
can use a little fresh air.

793
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.159
You're not feel feeling that?

794
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:13.440
I am no, No, I feel just fine. I never

795
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:23.960
felt better. Maybe I'm crazy to do this daily. Maybe

796
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.400
I'm putting my neck into a noose giving you back

797
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.480
these photographs? And why are you doing it? Because of

798
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:33.199
what you said to me. You said I was just

799
00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:37.639
becoming another blackmail or another calemer, And I guess you're right.

800
00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:40.480
If I held on to these, I have become the

801
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:44.559
very thing I despise. Well, I'll give you credit for honesty, Bliss.

802
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:48.400
I hope that having these will change your mind about

803
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:52.199
going to the police. I hope you'll realize that I

804
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.320
did the right thing, that we all did.

805
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:54.800
The right thing.

806
00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.599
I can't answer that then you're still thinking about it.

807
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:00.480
You want to know.

808
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:06.079
Something I told my wife tonight about these. What I

809
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:08.639
know all about the girl in Atlantic City. She knows

810
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:11.239
exactly what happened. Oh that doesn't mean to say she

811
00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:13.400
wouldn't be horrified to see it in black and white.

812
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:17.360
That's why I'm glad to have these pictures. What else

813
00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.719
can I say that? Thanks? You could say that you

814
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:26.320
won't go to the police ever. Sorry, I can't make

815
00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:33.280
any promises. Ah yeah, I was afraid you felt that way. Well,

816
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:36.920
let's have another drink. Okay, no, no, not for me,

817
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:41.599
Just one more. Hey, Joey, really I have to be going.

818
00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:44.000
My wife's waiting at home for me. Well, i'll be

819
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:49.880
mister blush. It's trouble, Joey. All the trouble we can handle.

820
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.679
Damn, I freed it had to be.

821
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:57.960
Hey, hey, what is this set right there?

822
00:47:58.119 --> 00:47:58.559
Mystery?

823
00:47:58.639 --> 00:47:59.400
Put that gun away?

824
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:01.079
Oh my god?

825
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:13.880
What are you doing on? Joey? All all right, let's

826
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.119
get the story straight now we'll help me at Joey.

827
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.960
A look, sergeant, you know you know I don't like

828
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:20.840
trouble my joint. Well, what a guy do?

829
00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:21.679
Try to hold you up?

830
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:22.639
Let's try to come in.

831
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.719
He sat down on the bike, pulled out a forty

832
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:26.119
five and struck into my gun.

833
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:28.519
Well it's a transmit, all right, I mean the guy

834
00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:30.760
with some kind of insurance executive, that's.

835
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:30.920
All I had.

836
00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:33.199
Well, he lost the guard off his nut signe.

837
00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:36.039
Look, you're gonna ask anybody? Oh my customers. This gentleman

838
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:39.039
right here was at the bar. Yes, iic heer. My

839
00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:42.280
name is David Bliss. I'm with the city off there

840
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.199
and the market is right. The guy just sat down

841
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:46.840
and pulled out the gun.

842
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:49.679
Too, and then the bartender tried to grab it away

843
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:50.119
from him.

844
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:50.920
He went on.

845
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:53.079
He did.

846
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.039
It was a pure case of self defense. Side.

847
00:48:56.199 --> 00:48:58.039
I'm just glare nobody else got hurt, you know.

848
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:05.039
Yeah, Look, be enjoy. You're all lucky, okay, honor second

849
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:13.760
fowl from some of your other witnesses, and so for

850
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:18.719
for Gordon Bailey, there was no safety in numbers, only extinction.

851
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:22.760
We admit that this is a grim demonstration of the

852
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:27.119
old saying that in union there is strength, but we

853
00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:32.559
sincerely trust that justice finally prevailed. I'll be back shortly.

854
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:59.760
When she asked, can you help me to do this outla,

855
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.880
I'm busy, you know about most of the time.

856
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:11.559
If all they hear is your business signals, some very

857
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:14.440
important people might stop calling you, and there are messages

858
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:26.360
you can't afford to miss. Lane above from the Church

859
00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:42.559
of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, the Mormons. If

860
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.880
there's a morrow to this story, it might be that

861
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:51.280
eye witnesses can't always be trusted, even when they're being honest.

862
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:56.559
Of course, we don't worry about your eyes on this program.

863
00:50:57.519 --> 00:51:01.639
We're interested in your ears, and we have good news

864
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:05.800
for you. Many thousands of years are now listening to

865
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:11.400
these exercises in imagination. We hope you continued to be

866
00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:17.800
an ear witness. Our cast included Paul hect E, v Chester,

867
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:22.559
Ralph Bell and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under

868
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:27.760
the direction of Hyman Brown and now a preview of

869
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:28.800
our next tale.

870
00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:33.480
Even if all you say is true that this man

871
00:51:33.760 --> 00:51:38.039
was Richardson's murderer, you can't help John Lendale any longer.

872
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:39.000
He's beyond that.

873
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:40.039
But his name?

874
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:41.480
Don't you what his name?

875
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:46.320
Have you any proof any living witness this myself?

876
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.440
But you'd be willing to involve yourself, not a whole

877
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:54.679
new investigation, open up the whole dreadful miss again, missus

878
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.199
cambrid You know that John Lyndale.

879
00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:58.320
Had a daughter, you.

880
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.480
Me all the more reason to do something.

881
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:06.679
His daughter's married, living in Minneapolis, a husband and three children.

882
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.159
People have forgotten about her father by now.

883
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:13.159
Would you want that poor woman to see his name

884
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.320
drag through the newspapers.

885
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:15.840
A second time.

886
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:17.440
I never thought it was infant.

887
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:20.599
Forget it, missus Canby. That's my advice to you.

888
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:22.559
The old wound is.

889
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:25.480
Healed, don't reopen it.

890
00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:29.559
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch

891
00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:34.360
Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. This is E. G. Marshall inviting

892
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:37.760
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure

893
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:44.480
in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant read.

894
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:35.400
My dear, seems we've gotten the night half on the

895
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:42.519
right foot. Wouldn't you say? How's your tea? I hope

896
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:49.079
it tastes soothing and familiar, but also a little on

897
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:55.440
the hot side for that joyful challenge we all so

898
00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:05.079
crave in our lives. For me, being put to battle

899
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:11.360
makes me feel like well, like lim Engen versus the ants.

900
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:27.599
You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling

901
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:31.840
Amazon jungle, and an immense army of ravenous ants is

902
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:36.440
closing in on you, swarming into each you alive, a

903
00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:40.480
deadly black army from which there is no escape.

904
00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:56.280
Escape produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully

905
00:54:56.360 --> 00:54:59.000
contrived to free you from the four walls of today.

906
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.320
For a half power of high adventure.

907
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:11.239
Tonight we escaped to the Amazon jungle and to a creeping,

908
00:55:11.480 --> 00:55:15.440
crawling terror. As Carl Stevenson told her that his gripping

909
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:19.119
story liningen Versus the Ants.

910
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.320
I first met Liningen while performing my duty as district Commissioner.

911
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:37.719
As my boat near his plantation landing, I saw him

912
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:41.400
upon the river bank, regarding me with mild interest. A

913
00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:45.360
great hulk of a man with bristling gray hair, bulky nose,

914
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:50.119
and pale eyes. His entire appearance somehow suggested an aging

915
00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:51.679
and shabby eagle.

916
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.679
He escorted me to the terrace and had a drink brought.

917
00:55:55.400 --> 00:55:57.079
I came quickly to the point of my visit and

918
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:01.480
issued my warning, Lining and puffed placidly at a huge cigar,

919
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:05.000
and listened as I told him. Unless they alter their course,

920
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:07.519
and there's no reason why they should, they'll reach your

921
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:09.199
plantation in two days at the latest.

922
00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:13.920
Well, it was decent of you paddling all this way

923
00:56:14.039 --> 00:56:17.440
just to give me the tip tip, Commissioner. Even a

924
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:19.280
herd of crocodiles couldn't.

925
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:20.880
Drive me from this plantation of mine.

926
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.960
But these aren't creatures you can fight. They're an elemental force,

927
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:31.320
a gigantic catastrophe, ten miles long, two miles wide. Ants

928
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:34.360
nothing but ants, and each one as big as your thumb,

929
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:38.320
and each of them have fiend from hell. Unless you

930
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:40.159
clear out at once, there'll be nothing left of you

931
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:42.760
but a skeleton picked as clean as your own plantation

932
00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:43.119
will be.

933
00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:47.079
I'm not getting out. But you can't fight? Yes I can.

934
00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:51.960
I've got the best weapon there is, Commissioner intelligence. But

935
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.480
can't I make you understand the hitting I think it

936
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:57.599
is you who do not understand. In the three years

937
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:02.559
I've been here, I've met and defeated more than one catastrophe, flood, drought,

938
00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:06.280
the plague, events which caused many of my neighbors to

939
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:09.760
flee for the lives now, Commissioner, all my life I

940
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:13.840
have lived with one creed. The human brain needs only

941
00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:17.079
to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even

942
00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:17.800
the elements.

943
00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:22.559
Leningen, your obstinacy is endangering not only your own life,

944
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:25.480
but the lives of your workers and their families. You

945
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:28.840
don't know these ants. I tell you, you don't know

946
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:39.280
these ants. But Leningen merely sat there, puffing at his

947
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:42.360
cigar and regarding me with a smug grin and I

948
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:49.199
knew it was hopeless. As I boarded my launch and

949
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:51.920
cast off, I realized I'd never met a man like that,

950
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:54.760
and I could not help wondering.

951
00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:57.559
About the strange look and the Commissioner's eyes as he

952
00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:04.239
bought it his launch and cast off, undoubtedly thought me insane. Ah, well,

953
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:05.840
he would not have been the first to think so.

954
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:10.679
But I lennge and knew my own powers. I was

955
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:11.599
sure of myself.

956
00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:16.079
I knew that intelligence directed a right always makes man

957
00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:20.599
the master of his fate. That night, I called my

958
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:24.239
Indian workers together in front of the plantation house. I

959
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:27.480
saw their faces go ashen with terror as I told

960
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.760
them that the ants were coming. Watched them as they

961
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:36.639
mowed around, muttering. I said nothing more to them. Finally

962
00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:41.079
one of the men stepped forward, blast the foemans Et patron.

963
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:46.360
We have worked hard here for these three years, all

964
00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:50.840
of us. We have built the finest plantation in this district,

965
00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:54.840
we all sharing it. It has been a home for

966
00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:59.519
all of us and our families. Now the ants come.

967
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:04.960
So those ditches we dug last year, the pipe we

968
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:07.840
put in the ground, that was for the nts.

969
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:09.480
Yes, that was for the ends.

970
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.679
If we moved our families across the river. The ens

971
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:14.599
could not reach them.

972
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:21.760
That's right, and you h the answer, mighty, we.

973
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:24.840
Know what they can do. All of us think that

974
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:28.840
you are mighty. But Ron, we will stay with you

975
00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:30.599
and fight against the ants.

976
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:33.440
I knew that the men would give me that answered.

977
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:35.000
I counted on it.

978
00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:39.239
I thought of the commissioner and wondered what he would

979
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:43.360
say at such unquestioning confidence. Would he still think I

980
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:47.039
was in sane? Had he dismissed out of my mind?

981
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:51.440
One man who calmly evaluated his chances against the deadly

982
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:54.480
menace coolly decided he could win and was willing to

983
00:59:54.519 --> 00:59:56.960
stake his life on it, to risk a horrible death

984
00:59:57.039 --> 00:59:57.239
for it.

985
00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:03.400
It was terrifying, and yet it was fascinating. The next

986
01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:04.840
morning I sent for my assistant.

987
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:06.960
Together we went to the huge map of the district

988
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:08.920
which hung from a wall of my office, and checked

989
01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:10.840
the last reported position of the ants.

990
01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:11.639
Last night.

991
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:15.280
They had reached Tea, about seventy miles above this fork

992
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:19.199
in the river, traveling southeast yes directly toward lining toward

993
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.639
the Holmsht. That plantation at the band in the river

994
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:27.000
belongs to a man named Bleningen. When would you say

995
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:28.000
the ants will reach there.

996
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:32.039
Oh yeah, I don't know. I mentioned about tomorrow noon.

997
01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:35.159
Tomorrow noon, still time, there's still the time. What do

998
01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:43.800
you mean to hi? Why? Nothing? But what did I mean?

999
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.000
Still time for? What for Liningen to flee? Or still

1000
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:47.679
time for me to.

1001
01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:51.559
Even as I rejected the thought with horror, I knew

1002
01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:53.519
that the fascination of that man was more than I

1003
01:00:53.559 --> 01:00:57.480
could resist. But Liningen's fight was drawing me back toward

1004
01:00:57.559 --> 01:01:02.519
that plantation and death. I knew now, past all doubt,

1005
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:03.880
that I was going back.

1006
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:05.880
I had to.

1007
01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:23.320
It was ten o'clock in the morning when I rounded

1008
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:25.719
the bend and saw lan Engine's plantation before me.

1009
01:01:26.599 --> 01:01:28.440
I put in at the dock and tied up the lunch.

1010
01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:31.840
Then I saw him standing on the bank above me,

1011
01:01:32.119 --> 01:01:35.599
arms folded, stubby cigar in his mouth and that same

1012
01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:39.280
smug grin on his face. I made my way up

1013
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:45.199
to him, back with another warning, Commissioner, no back to

1014
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:49.719
stay a wild Yes, you don't seem surprised.

1015
01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:50.559
I have not.

1016
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:54.960
You expected me. I thought you'll be back. He come along,

1017
01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:57.920
We'll get some horses. I want to ride around the plantation,

1018
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.199
take a look at the defenses. I rigged up yes,

1019
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:02.960
I'll want to see the defense and the ants will

1020
01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:05.400
be getting a glimpse of them before long, I should think.

1021
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:08.480
Yes, the ant.

1022
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:23.760
The defence's lin Engene had devised were quite impressive. Surrounding

1023
01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:26.400
three sides of the plantation like a huge horseshoe, was

1024
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:30.159
a ditch twelve feet wide. The ends of this horseshoe

1025
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:32.239
shaped ditch ran into the river, which formed the fore

1026
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:33.199
side of the plantation.

1027
01:02:33.800 --> 01:02:35.320
That the up river entrance to the ditch.

1028
01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:37.599
Line Engine had constructed the dam by which the river

1029
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:41.320
water could be diverted into the ditch. A large handwheel

1030
01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:44.000
controlled the floodgate of the dam, and apparently land Engine

1031
01:02:44.039 --> 01:02:47.239
had ordered it open immediately after my arrival. Whereas we

1032
01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:50.400
now approached the ditch and rode along it, I could see.

1033
01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:51.320
That it was nearly full.

1034
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:55.480
Ah, how do you like my first line of defense, Commissioner.

1035
01:02:55.679 --> 01:02:58.840
It's reassuring, like a motor around a castle.

1036
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:02.400
Unless the ads know how to build rafts, they won't

1037
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:06.000
reach the plantation. But this is only the automotive. There's

1038
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.280
a better one than this. Now, come along, we'll go

1039
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.000
up to the high ground where the buildings are.

1040
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:11.760
I can get a view from there.

1041
01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:16.559
Leningen h I didn't see any women or children around

1042
01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:18.159
the plantation, or any animals.

1043
01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:18.920
Yes, that's right.

1044
01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:20.079
Moved them across the river.

1045
01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:21.559
And even you think there is danger.

1046
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:26.239
Not because of danger, Commissioner, outter of efficiency. Efficiency, Yes,

1047
01:03:26.360 --> 01:03:28.239
cuts down on the efficiency of the men if they're

1048
01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:32.719
worried about their families. Critical situations only become crises when

1049
01:03:33.159 --> 01:03:34.920
oxen and women get excited.

1050
01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:39.960
I see, ah, here we are. Ye see the ditch.

1051
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:42.360
It's much smaller than the others.

1052
01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:44.320
As you've noticed, how all the buildings are on this

1053
01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:47.000
piece of high ground in the ditch surrounds them, and

1054
01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:48.599
it's lined with concrete.

1055
01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:51.559
But even filled with water, this is no barrier. It's

1056
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:52.280
not big enough.

1057
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:55.000
Why if they get this farther there don't get no farther.

1058
01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.159
This ditch wasn't built for water, Commissioner. You see the

1059
01:03:58.199 --> 01:04:02.880
pipes leading into it. See storage tanks on the hill petrol.

1060
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:06.639
They can throw up a wall of flame, GoTab, They

1061
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:07.239
won't like that.

1062
01:04:07.719 --> 01:04:10.360
I hope you're right. Landing to look over at the

1063
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:12.199
edge of the jungle. All those animals.

1064
01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:17.280
Running like the wind, everything from jaguars and monkeys. Remember

1065
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:20.320
they don't have any ditches, But can they escape they'll

1066
01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:21.840
be all right as long as they don't get caught

1067
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:24.559
between the river and the ants. They can outrun the crawlers.

1068
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:27.239
But if they get trapped, it's either the ants or

1069
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:28.159
the crocodiles.

1070
01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:29.519
Huh.

1071
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:34.559
Look, look up there over the horizon, there are your ants.

1072
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:35.800
Look at them.

1073
01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:51.880
It was a sight I will never forget.

1074
01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:55.480
Over the range of hills, as far as I could see,

1075
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:59.280
crept a darkening hem ever longer and broader, until the

1076
01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:04.440
shadows across the entire slope, then downward, downward, uncannily swift,

1077
01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:07.119
and all the green herbage on the entire slope was

1078
01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:10.360
being mowed as by a giant sickle, leaving only the

1079
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.719
vast moving shadow extending, deepening.

1080
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:18.119
And or was moving nearer. There are lots line engine

1081
01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:20.400
We can't last against that. Look at them, but they

1082
01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:21.199
will figure.

1083
01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:23.239
Ditches with their corpses and still have enough to destroy.

1084
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.079
Every one of us. We've got to run. Well.

1085
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:29.760
Hey, No, they haven't gotten towards yet, and they never will.

1086
01:05:42.719 --> 01:05:45.559
The hostile army was approaching in perfect formation.

1087
01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:49.280
No human battalions, however well drilled, could ever hope to

1088
01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:52.960
rival the precision of that advance along a front that

1089
01:05:53.079 --> 01:05:55.840
moved forward as uniformly as a straight line. The ants

1090
01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:58.760
drew nearer and nearer to the water ditch. As they

1091
01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:01.760
approached to outlining, the wings of the army detached themselves

1092
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:04.079
from the main body and started marching along the sides

1093
01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:06.719
of the ditch, no doubt expecting at some point to

1094
01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:11.039
find a crossing. And during this hour long flanking movement,

1095
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:13.039
the main army remained still.

1096
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.039
Across the scant twelve feet of ditch.

1097
01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:19.119
I stared at them, and they stared back at me,

1098
01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:24.400
solid mass, everyone as big as my thumb, with reddish

1099
01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:25.960
black body and long legs.

1100
01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:29.639
Suddenly, a sound so.

1101
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:31.639
Unearthly as to freeze our blood jerked my heads from

1102
01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:33.119
the direction of the jungle. On the far side of

1103
01:06:33.159 --> 01:06:36.199
the ditch, coming toward the ditch at a stumbling gallop,

1104
01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:39.519
was a singular being, a writhing animal like blackened statue

1105
01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:41.599
with a shapeless head and four quivering feet.

1106
01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:45.440
It was a stag covered over and over with ants.

1107
01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:49.960
Lin engine threw up his rifle and the stag fell

1108
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:54.679
lifeless to the ground, its agonies at an end. Horrified

1109
01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:57.360
as I was, my curiosity impelled me to glance at

1110
01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:00.440
my watch. I had to know how long the ants

1111
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:00.960
would tape.

1112
01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:17.039
After six long minutes, only the white, polished bones of

1113
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:24.840
the stag remained. Now I could see a change in landing,

1114
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:28.679
and gone was the sporting zest of the novel contest.

1115
01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:33.719
In its place was a cold, violent purpose. He had

1116
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:36.679
to beat the ants because he now knew how long

1117
01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:37.519
it would take them.

1118
01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:39.119
Once they got to us.

1119
01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:47.760
Around four in the afternoon, the ant scouts having found

1120
01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:50.719
no crossing, there was a stirring among the main army,

1121
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.719
and then an immense flood of ants about one hundred

1122
01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:56.880
yards in width, commenced touring and a glimmering black cataract

1123
01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.960
down the fla slope of the ditch. Thousands drowned into

1124
01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:01.800
and play, but the rest began using the bodies as

1125
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:04.159
bridges landings, and immediately swung into action.

1126
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:08.320
Up in the plot a little more. We've got to

1127
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.639
get the water in the ditch moving passer. Look at

1128
01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:13.239
them drowned, but they.

1129
01:08:13.280 --> 01:08:15.719
Keep coming, even though the current carries many from the

1130
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:16.920
way they're And fancy.

1131
01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:17.439
We'll pick them.

1132
01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:21.359
How about those shovels and petrol stricklers. You pass them

1133
01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:21.800
out to the men.

1134
01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:23.840
It has been done, and get all hands here in

1135
01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:27.760
a hurry. That looked like the spot reaction. Commissioner, Yes,

1136
01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:30.439
you're getting to see what I was talking about. What

1137
01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:33.159
do you mean about intelligence being more than a match

1138
01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:36.960
for anything in tackles? Deke leants, they've got no intelligence.

1139
01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:39.680
If they had, they have attacked along the whole length

1140
01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:41.640
of the ditch instead of a narrow cront like this

1141
01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:46.079
they have been across by now. No feel bad, I'm

1142
01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:47.760
not running their campaign for them.

1143
01:08:48.079 --> 01:08:50.760
You can joke about it like that with hands halfway across,

1144
01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:51.159
all right.

1145
01:08:51.239 --> 01:08:54.520
Then listen for the shovels now up some sand and

1146
01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:57.359
plods on them. See how they like that here with

1147
01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:02.319
the petrol stricklers not popping, ha ha ha.

1148
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:05.399
They don't like it, Commissioner, they don't like it a bit.

1149
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:07.560
Look at them, yes, but look at the ones on

1150
01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:09.359
the fast side of the ditch, whole clumps of them

1151
01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:10.159
rolling into the water.

1152
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:13.640
The rest are using them for bridgers, smarter than I thought.

1153
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:15.239
Now widening the front.

1154
01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:16.720
Some of them are getting across.

1155
01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:24.119
Uh, grab a shovel, the commissioner, come regret, lit out

1156
01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:28.000
my eyes and handful hands to the petroom.

1157
01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:30.159
Don't stop now the rest of it.

1158
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:31.479
Have them, have them.

1159
01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:32.199
We cannot hold it.

1160
01:09:32.279 --> 01:09:36.119
Baked it on, stomp down.

1161
01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:40.239
The water, and y'all got the cloud beach open hairs.

1162
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:43.479
They can't hold her on against the curl. Now look

1163
01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:46.199
at them, Commissioner, the waters carrying them away.

1164
01:09:47.199 --> 01:09:49.399
We've feed them, We've won out.

1165
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:06.199
It was true Liningen had won at least the opening round.

1166
01:10:07.159 --> 01:10:09.840
The floodgates were left open the four stall any night crossing,

1167
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:13.319
But when dawn came, the dark blanket was still there,

1168
01:10:13.479 --> 01:10:17.479
motionless across the ditch. Then we noticed a feverish activity

1169
01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:20.279
on the other side of the plantation. Here a grove

1170
01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:22.840
of Cameron trees lined the far end of the ditch,

1171
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:27.079
and every tree swarmed with the crawling insects. But instead

1172
01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:30.239
of eating the leaves, they were merely gnawing through the stems,

1173
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:35.039
so that a thick green shower fell steadily to the ground. Well,

1174
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:38.199
it looks as if it's feeding time for our friends,

1175
01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:39.439
eh blass.

1176
01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:42.239
Have all the petrol prompts brought here.

1177
01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:44.640
Get everyone over here except the lookouts on the other side,

1178
01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:46.439
and pass out the shoulders.

1179
01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:49.640
Going to deprive them of a meal?

1180
01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:50.800
A meal?

1181
01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:53.720
Aren't they cutting down the leaves for food?

1182
01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:54.359
No?

1183
01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:58.359
I wish they were. Looks like I underestimated them. When

1184
01:10:58.359 --> 01:11:00.640
I said they didn't have intelligence, what do you mean?

1185
01:11:01.159 --> 01:11:02.960
I said, if they wanted to get across, they'd have

1186
01:11:03.039 --> 01:11:08.239
to have rats. And that's just what they've got, those leaves,

1187
01:11:08.439 --> 01:11:09.039
the rats.

1188
01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:15.680
Even as he spoke, the leaves went tumbling down the

1189
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:18.359
far bank by the thousands. The current threw them away

1190
01:11:18.399 --> 01:11:21.000
from the bank, and each leaf carried several ends.

1191
01:11:21.119 --> 01:11:22.880
I don't worry. As long as you can keep spraying

1192
01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:24.920
them and showing God on the raft, they can't land.

1193
01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:27.399
It will be too many, it's true. Look more leaves

1194
01:11:27.439 --> 01:11:28.880
in the ditch all the time. Why they'll have a

1195
01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:30.800
solid carpet to walk across in a minute, and.

1196
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:32.840
Not so vast, Commissioner, I've still got to trigg up

1197
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:33.560
my slave for them.

1198
01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:36.880
The water the ditch is drying up. Of course it's

1199
01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:37.399
drying up.

1200
01:11:37.800 --> 01:11:39.560
That's the plan. Those are the orders I said to

1201
01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:39.920
the dam.

1202
01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:40.680
Are you mad?

1203
01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:43.199
This is the empty what's to prevent the end? Look,

1204
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:45.680
the water's way down, it's almost dry. They'll be able

1205
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:46.600
to come across the bottom.

1206
01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:47.720
They'll not make it.

1207
01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:49.279
The man at the dam will have opened the gates

1208
01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:49.800
by now to.

1209
01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:53.079
Flood the ends. Right, what a chance to take? If

1210
01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:53.960
anything should happen.

1211
01:11:56.600 --> 01:11:59.680
Here comes the water as we'll give the crawlers that

1212
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:04.039
rider right up the river a look at them.

1213
01:12:04.079 --> 01:12:13.840
Go. Line Engine's tactics were successful.

1214
01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:16.680
At first, the violent floor of water at the original

1215
01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:19.600
depth raced through the ditch, overwhelming leaves and ants and

1216
01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:20.600
sweeping them along.

1217
01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:25.000
Three times the ditch was emptied, three times the ants.

1218
01:12:24.760 --> 01:12:27.560
Raced across its bottom, and three times the rushing water,

1219
01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:32.119
arriving just in time, carried them away. But the fourth

1220
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:34.560
times the water lord nearly to the bottom of the ditch.

1221
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:37.600
We waited in vain for the rushing waters, and then.

1222
01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:40.199
What's the matter? What's going wrong to them?

1223
01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:43.920
Just as it did, then them lord the water almost

1224
01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:47.000
to the bottom the astec Before he could open the

1225
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:47.439
flood it.

1226
01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:51.079
He was almost surrounded. Here run the unskipped coming.

1227
01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:52.760
They are across the ditch.

1228
01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:59.079
Line Engine stood motionless, absorbing the news of his defeat

1229
01:12:59.199 --> 01:12:59.800
without a word.

1230
01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:03.640
Then he raised his pistol and fired three shots.

1231
01:13:03.359 --> 01:13:06.079
In the air, the pre arranged signal for all the

1232
01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:08.439
men to retreat instantly to the second line of defence,

1233
01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:11.119
the concrete ditches more than a mile from the point

1234
01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:14.479
of the invasion. Soon after we arrived there, the natives commenced,

1235
01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:18.319
straggling in silently. Lanningsen waited until all of them had gathered.

1236
01:13:18.399 --> 01:13:20.600
Then he spoke to them, Oh, lads.

1237
01:13:21.399 --> 01:13:24.680
I won the first round. What's the second. But we'll

1238
01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:28.640
smash the crawls yet. Anyone who thinks otherwise can draw

1239
01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:30.680
us pain and push off. There are wraps en up

1240
01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:32.640
on the river and plenty of time still to region.

1241
01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:39.920
You'll stay that good age, lads, and you, Commissioner.

1242
01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:42.600
I can't persuade you to give up the fight.

1243
01:13:42.880 --> 01:13:43.479
You cannot.

1244
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:51.000
Then I stayed too, eh, I knew you would. They

1245
01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:54.279
are trying to get across. I didn't think they would.

1246
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:57.640
There's plenty of food out there for them. I fields

1247
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:01.600
and orchards, the work of three years, not to last

1248
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:10.880
of them until morning. Anyway, Yes, we were safe for

1249
01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:11.399
that night.

1250
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:14.560
But the next morning the black swarm was solid around us,

1251
01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:16.880
and their shock troops were hard at work. They were

1252
01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:19.279
dropping shreds of bark and twigs and leaves into the

1253
01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:22.560
petrol filled ditches, forming a floating bridge across the surface

1254
01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:26.000
of the liquid. Liningen stood silently watching this operation, and

1255
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:28.479
I could see a grudging admiration in his face.

1256
01:14:29.399 --> 01:14:44.399
Then, after several hours the attack came down the ditch.

1257
01:14:44.479 --> 01:14:46.760
They poured millions of them and across the bridge of twigs,

1258
01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:48.199
rapidly approaching the inner side.

1259
01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:51.800
Liningen sat motionless, watching watching them.

1260
01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:54.439
Linagen, for the love of God, don't sit there like

1261
01:14:54.479 --> 01:14:55.840
a statue. There'll be on us in a moment.

1262
01:14:56.119 --> 01:14:57.359
Let him pull the ditch first.

1263
01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:08.880
Ah ah, all right, everyone back, add the torch. Oh,

1264
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:11.479
we'll see how our friends like A little.

1265
01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:15.600
Heat lames from the ditch, hot into the air, devouring

1266
01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:18.000
ants by the millions. It was some time before the

1267
01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:19.920
petrol burned down to the bed of the ditch, but

1268
01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:22.159
when it did, the devils came back for more.

1269
01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:23.560
Again.

1270
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:26.159
Lioneton fired the ditch to destroy them, and still again

1271
01:15:26.239 --> 01:15:28.479
they came on. But in each success of firing, the

1272
01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:30.720
task of the ants grew easier because of the film

1273
01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:33.319
of ash which now covered the petrol. And as they

1274
01:15:33.359 --> 01:15:36.079
returned to the assault time after time, a slow, sickening

1275
01:15:36.319 --> 01:15:39.079
horror crept into my mind, and a quickly a fan

1276
01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:40.520
engine then at the petrol tanks.

1277
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:42.960
He read my gaze and nodded slowly.

1278
01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:46.840
That's right, Commissioner. They could hold him off forever if

1279
01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:51.359
our supply of petrel was unlimited. But it isn't We've

1280
01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:53.840
got enough to fill the ditch once more.

1281
01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:57.039
Liningen, isn't there any way anyway at all? We've got

1282
01:15:57.119 --> 01:15:59.079
to do something. We know. I know there must be

1283
01:15:59.199 --> 01:15:59.920
a way. There must be.

1284
01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:06.399
Yes, yes, we'll plood the whole plantation. But the river's

1285
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:08.720
higher than any point except this high ground we're on now.

1286
01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:10.640
If the river was damned all the way and to

1287
01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:14.319
overflow that stone breakwater and flood the whole plantation, we've

1288
01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:15.720
got to close the flood gate of the damn.

1289
01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:18.079
That'll do it, Oh, mad damn is more than a

1290
01:16:18.119 --> 01:16:19.640
mile away, more than a mile of heads.

1291
01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:24.000
Listen to me, listens, I'm proud of you.

1292
01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:27.039
How there's still a chance. By shutting the.

1293
01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:29.319
Flood gates from the dam and plotting the whole plantation

1294
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:32.399
from the river the moment I'm over the dead, set

1295
01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:35.159
fire to it. That'll allow time for the flood to

1296
01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:37.640
wash away the ants. Then all you'll have.

1297
01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:38.720
To do is wait for me.

1298
01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:41.600
It's impossible. You can't get to the damn, let alone back.

1299
01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:46.159
That's why you're wrong, Commissioner. I'll get them, I'll get back,

1300
01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:49.039
take care of things while I'm gone.

1301
01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:57.560
I watched him as He calmly pulled on high level boots,

1302
01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:00.920
drew gauntlets over his hand, and stuff the spaces between

1303
01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:05.199
breeches and boots, gauntlets and arms with petrol soaked rags.

1304
01:17:06.319 --> 01:17:09.279
He sealed his eyes with close fitting mosquito goggles and

1305
01:17:09.359 --> 01:17:13.000
plugged his nostrils and ears with cotton. Then the natives

1306
01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:16.960
drenched his clothes with petrol. Blass, who acted as doctor

1307
01:17:17.000 --> 01:17:18.880
to the men's smear the salve over him, and finally

1308
01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:22.399
Linington was ready. As he stood calmly saying ready for

1309
01:17:22.520 --> 01:17:23.000
the run, I.

1310
01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:24.800
Realized that this as it should be.

1311
01:17:26.039 --> 01:17:29.119
A Linagen would meet the ants and up beat them

1312
01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:36.079
or be defeated by them. Hu Liningchen versus the ants. Yes,

1313
01:17:36.159 --> 01:17:39.039
it was right that it should be like this. But

1314
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:42.199
now there was no more time for thought, only action.

1315
01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:45.520
I took a deep breath and then bounded across the

1316
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:46.920
ditch and among the ants.

1317
01:17:49.000 --> 01:17:49.399
I ran.

1318
01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:52.439
I ran in long, equal strides with one thought, one

1319
01:17:52.560 --> 01:17:55.840
sensation of my being. I must get through. I dodged

1320
01:17:55.880 --> 01:17:58.760
the trees and shrubs except for the split seconds my

1321
01:17:58.880 --> 01:18:01.479
souls touched the ground. Ants would have no opportunity to

1322
01:18:01.560 --> 01:18:02.119
alide on me.

1323
01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:03.439
I ran on.

1324
01:18:04.279 --> 01:18:06.119
I was half way to the dam before I felt

1325
01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:08.520
ants under my clothes and a few on my face.

1326
01:18:09.239 --> 01:18:12.119
I struck under the mechanically, scarcely, conscious of their bites,

1327
01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:15.960
and the dam drew toward me slowly, and the distance

1328
01:18:16.159 --> 01:18:22.520
grew less less badly, only one hundred yards away fifty.

1329
01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:24.520
Then I was there.

1330
01:18:25.840 --> 01:18:29.119
I gripped the aunt covered wheel, but oddly had I

1331
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:30.960
seized it when a hoard of ants flowed over my

1332
01:18:31.079 --> 01:18:34.840
hands and arms. I strained, and slowly the wheel turned

1333
01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:42.439
and turned more. The bloodgate was swinging slowly shut. Then

1334
01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:48.760
it was shut, and the water was rising, rising behind

1335
01:18:48.800 --> 01:18:53.960
the breakwater, closer to the top, closer, and then it

1336
01:18:54.159 --> 01:18:57.760
was filling over, flooding of the plantation of the garden.

1337
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:01.119
I let go of the wheel and started back through

1338
01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:03.840
the ants. I was coated from head to foot with

1339
01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:06.560
the fiends. Tongues of fire stabbed at me as they

1340
01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:09.279
bit into my flesh. I almost lost my head with

1341
01:19:09.359 --> 01:19:11.640
a pain as I ran, knocking ants from my body,

1342
01:19:11.720 --> 01:19:15.760
brushing them from my bloody face, and then one hit

1343
01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:16.600
me just below the.

1344
01:19:16.600 --> 01:19:17.479
Rim of my goggles.

1345
01:19:17.960 --> 01:19:20.760
I managed to tear him away, but the agony of

1346
01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:22.880
the bite and its venom drilled into the I nerds

1347
01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:26.800
I saw now through circles of fire into a milky mist.

1348
01:19:27.439 --> 01:19:30.119
I was almost blinded, but I knew that if I

1349
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:35.039
tripped and fell, I ran on my heart pounding as

1350
01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:37.960
if it would burst, blood roaring in my ears, a

1351
01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:42.600
giant's fist battering my lungs. And then I could see

1352
01:19:42.680 --> 01:19:44.760
dimly in a wall of flame at the ditch, but

1353
01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:49.079
it was too far away. I could not last half

1354
01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:55.079
ad distance. I stumbled and fell, felt myself being swarmed

1355
01:19:55.119 --> 01:20:00.560
over them. Old tried to rise a great weight, but

1356
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:04.199
then suddenly the vision of the half the vowed stag

1357
01:20:04.359 --> 01:20:10.199
in my brain. Six minutes then nothing bones. I couldn't

1358
01:20:10.239 --> 01:20:10.479
let that.

1359
01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:12.600
Happen to me. I couldn't die like that.

1360
01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:20.119
To my feet, time feet dragged myself forward to the plane,

1361
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:25.119
the ditch, the ring of flight.

1362
01:20:26.479 --> 01:20:32.960
Curse enough, only little, it seemed we had waited for hours,

1363
01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:34.960
when all at once for the blazing ring around us,

1364
01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:37.760
an apparition hurtled and fell full length on the ground.

1365
01:20:38.239 --> 01:20:42.239
It was lininghen, alive with ants, unconscious, with glazing eyes

1366
01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:45.720
and lacerated face. We rushed to him, stripped off his clothes,

1367
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:48.479
and tore at the ants that covered him. His body

1368
01:20:48.560 --> 01:20:52.680
seemed almost one open wound. In one place, I could

1369
01:20:52.720 --> 01:21:07.079
see a white bone. Later, as the curtain of flame lord,

1370
01:21:07.159 --> 01:21:09.119
I looked out where the blanket of ants had been,

1371
01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:12.960
and sawnly a vast expanse of water, covering the entire

1372
01:21:13.079 --> 01:21:15.720
plantation and working its way to within a few feet

1373
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:16.840
of the concrete ditch.

1374
01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:23.159
The ants were gone, drowned, and line engine had won.

1375
01:21:35.800 --> 01:21:38.520
He lay on his bed, his body swathed from head

1376
01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:42.960
to foot with bandages, but alive and still in command.

1377
01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:52.319
Everything in order, Everything's in order. Told you I'd come

1378
01:21:52.439 --> 01:21:59.359
back even if I am it.

1379
01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:21.439
Streamlined Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robson

1380
01:22:21.560 --> 01:22:25.199
and Tonight brought you Liningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson,

1381
01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:28.800
adapted for radio by Robert Rife, with William Conrad as

1382
01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:32.279
Liningen and lou Merrill as the commissioner. Music was conceived

1383
01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:33.680
and conducted by Cy Fure.

1384
01:22:36.560 --> 01:22:42.039
Next week, you are groping through a dark alleyway in

1385
01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:45.800
the French quarter of New Orleans, with terror driving you on,

1386
01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:49.479
and always before your eyes is the malevolent stare of

1387
01:22:49.560 --> 01:22:50.520
a voodoo man.

1388
01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:55.760
Striking you with a deadly curse from which you must escape.

1389
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:12.159
Next week we escape with William Irish's eerie story of

1390
01:23:12.199 --> 01:23:16.319
a voodoo haunted bandleader Papa Benjamin. Good Night, then until

1391
01:23:16.359 --> 01:23:20.159
this same time next week, when we again offer you escape.

1392
01:23:27.199 --> 01:23:29.880
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1393
01:23:47.119 --> 01:23:53.039
My dear, my dear, the night is still young, and

1394
01:23:53.239 --> 01:23:57.479
we're making the most of it right here. I do

1395
01:23:57.800 --> 01:24:01.560
so enjoy your visits. I'm so glad you could be

1396
01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:02.319
here tonight.

1397
01:24:03.720 --> 01:24:04.039
Hm.

1398
01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:11.159
The fire is dampening a bit. I'll get another long

1399
01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:17.960
right there. Ah, the heat is really pouring out now.

1400
01:24:21.439 --> 01:24:27.199
Hot cup of tea comfortable chair, a darkness to share,

1401
01:24:27.479 --> 01:24:32.359
and I start to feel like like I'm having a

1402
01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:36.760
a King's birthday.

1403
01:24:55.760 --> 01:24:56.640
Suspense.

1404
01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:15.800
This is the Man in Black here again to introduce

1405
01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:21.760
Columbia's program Suspense. Tonight, in one of her rare radio appearances,

1406
01:25:22.199 --> 01:25:25.760
we bring you one of Hollywood's most idolized personalities, mister

1407
01:25:25.880 --> 01:25:30.159
Laura's Costello, with such noteworthy and distinguished players as mister

1408
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:34.000
Martin Coslick, mister George Zuko, and mister Ian Wooldon. Miss

1409
01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:37.319
Costello appears in a story of Today played against the

1410
01:25:37.399 --> 01:25:40.479
background of the New Order in Europe. The story of

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01:25:40.520 --> 01:25:43.840
an oppressed people who use strange and defective methods in

1412
01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:48.720
dealing with their oppressors and with traitors. The story tonight

1413
01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:52.039
is called The King's Birthday and was written by Corporal

1414
01:25:52.119 --> 01:25:53.880
Lewis Pelletier a us.

1415
01:25:55.239 --> 01:25:57.359
And with the performances of Dolaura's.

1416
01:25:56.920 --> 01:26:00.600
Costello as the Danish Countess, Elsa of Martin as the

1417
01:26:00.680 --> 01:26:05.239
Nazi go Lighter right Man of George Soko as doctor

1418
01:26:05.279 --> 01:26:08.880
Erickson of a Young Wolf as Old Peter of Cronwall Castle.

1419
01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:12.399
We again hope to keep you in suspense.

1420
01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:20.560
They come to the castle almost every day now, the

1421
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:25.359
Gestapo trying to question me. But it seems I'm very stupid.

1422
01:26:26.039 --> 01:26:30.199
Somehow I don't give the right answer. Perhaps it's my

1423
01:26:30.319 --> 01:26:33.880
advanced age. When they questioned me about the night of

1424
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:36.640
the King's Birthday, I get confused.

1425
01:26:37.319 --> 01:26:39.600
I ramble on in the fashion of old people.

1426
01:26:40.479 --> 01:26:45.600
Gentlemen, Cronwall Castle is three hundred years old. For all

1427
01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:50.680
those years, Cronwaald has been a symbol of Danish liberty. Gentlemen,

1428
01:26:51.159 --> 01:26:55.119
the sea waves beat against the rocks of Cronwall. The

1429
01:26:55.279 --> 01:27:01.800
sea is deep, the sea knows everything. Ask her, stop

1430
01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:05.039
bubbling nonsense, your fool answer my question.

1431
01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:06.960
Did you know about those notes?

1432
01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:10.680
But of course Heir Lieutenant. Everybody in the district knows

1433
01:27:10.760 --> 01:27:13.920
about them. The notes said Count Victor would kill himself

1434
01:27:14.279 --> 01:27:16.000
on the night of the King's birthday.

1435
01:27:16.199 --> 01:27:17.319
Did you see the notes?

1436
01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:20.880
Oh no, heir lieutenant. But the notes said that Count

1437
01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:23.479
Victor would kill himself because of his great shame.

1438
01:27:24.159 --> 01:27:24.960
That I do know.

1439
01:27:25.760 --> 01:27:29.520
And the note said the exact time twelve midnight. So

1440
01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:32.960
so you know the exact time is is I'm fond

1441
01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:35.960
of clocks, you see. My father had a clock that

1442
01:27:36.159 --> 01:27:38.920
told the time with the bird jumping out. The bird

1443
01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:46.720
whistled like this, stop that in Saint shopping. Yes, Heir Lieutenant,

1444
01:27:47.119 --> 01:27:50.279
I'll take care of you later. Perhaps I'll have something

1445
01:27:50.359 --> 01:27:53.920
that will improve your memory. Stay there till I call you. Yes,

1446
01:27:54.039 --> 01:28:00.880
Heir Lieutenant, there's nothing the matter with my memory. I

1447
01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:02.720
could tell them a thing or two if I wanted.

1448
01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:07.119
I could tell them how it all happened. It began

1449
01:28:07.359 --> 01:28:11.399
two days before the King's birthday. That was the day

1450
01:28:11.520 --> 01:28:14.920
the new Nazi gariightter her Reikman came to the castle

1451
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:18.000
to see the Countess Elsa. I was told to show

1452
01:28:18.079 --> 01:28:21.640
him to the library. It was cold and gray, and

1453
01:28:21.760 --> 01:28:25.079
the sea was pounding on the rocks. Very angry like

1454
01:28:25.239 --> 01:28:28.880
it always is in November. The new gariter sat by

1455
01:28:28.960 --> 01:28:31.920
the fireplace and warmed his hands and called for a

1456
01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:33.239
glass of brandy.

1457
01:28:33.479 --> 01:28:34.960
And bring some sola too, please.

1458
01:28:35.319 --> 01:28:37.439
Yes, hair rykmanw soon?

1459
01:28:37.520 --> 01:28:39.000
Did your mister say she would see.

1460
01:28:38.920 --> 01:28:41.960
Me in a few minutes? Hair Rykman, you told her

1461
01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:45.119
it was most urgent? Yes, yes, I told her she'll

1462
01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:46.000
be with you soon.

1463
01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:48.840
I doubt it most women's idea of soon as the

1464
01:28:48.920 --> 01:28:52.000
best part of an hour. In my country we train

1465
01:28:52.079 --> 01:28:55.359
our women to the brandy, hair Rekman, Oh, thank you.

1466
01:28:56.399 --> 01:28:56.560
Yes.

1467
01:28:56.760 --> 01:29:01.880
In Germany we hm curvasier ready to get brandy like this.

1468
01:29:02.359 --> 01:29:04.720
Cant Victor can get many things as if forbidden to

1469
01:29:04.800 --> 01:29:07.760
his countryman, hair Reckman cont Victor's.

1470
01:29:07.399 --> 01:29:09.479
Seller is well stopped, is it really?

1471
01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:10.239
Yes?

1472
01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:14.199
Yes, we have meet at the castle. Nobody in Denmark

1473
01:29:14.279 --> 01:29:18.479
has meet only Kronwell Castle. You're lucky, so they say,

1474
01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:20.600
Shall I leave the brandy?

1475
01:29:20.680 --> 01:29:20.840
Sir?

1476
01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:25.239
Yes, but you stay here a minute. Tell me what's

1477
01:29:25.279 --> 01:29:25.720
your name?

1478
01:29:26.159 --> 01:29:26.800
Peter? Sir?

1479
01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:30.239
Ah, Yes, Peter. You have been at Cronvat since you

1480
01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:32.600
were a child sixty three years?

1481
01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:33.800
Am I correct?

1482
01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:34.319
Why?

1483
01:29:34.840 --> 01:29:35.039
Why?

1484
01:29:35.159 --> 01:29:35.399
Yes?

1485
01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:37.640
How did you miss my business to know a lot

1486
01:29:37.720 --> 01:29:38.079
of things?

1487
01:29:38.159 --> 01:29:38.399
Peter.

1488
01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:40.920
You don't approve of Convictor, do you.

1489
01:29:41.560 --> 01:29:43.000
It's not my place, sir.

1490
01:29:43.159 --> 01:29:45.800
To three days ago in the marketplace, you were to

1491
01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:49.159
make an indiscreet remark concerning Convictor's collaboration with Berlin.

1492
01:29:50.159 --> 01:29:52.640
I think a word very close to traitor was yours?

1493
01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:53.680
Was it? Sir?

1494
01:29:54.199 --> 01:29:56.239
What do you think? I think?

1495
01:29:56.319 --> 01:29:59.960
Air Rackman, the fire is in need of some more

1496
01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:02.399
would if you'll excuse me, I'll get some.

1497
01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:03.720
Too, by all means.

1498
01:30:04.159 --> 01:30:07.239
And Peter, yes, sir, tell your mistress, and I do

1499
01:30:07.359 --> 01:30:10.760
not intend to spend all afternoon here. My business is urgent,

1500
01:30:10.840 --> 01:30:16.319
and yourself, sir, excuse me.

1501
01:30:16.439 --> 01:30:22.479
I was just saying, yes, sit down, please, thank you.

1502
01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:26.359
Peter told me your business was urgent. I hope I

1503
01:30:26.399 --> 01:30:27.039
haven't kept you.

1504
01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:27.880
No, not at all.

1505
01:30:28.359 --> 01:30:29.600
My business is urgent.

1506
01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:32.319
But as a new Garl of this district, I might

1507
01:30:32.439 --> 01:30:34.119
combine social pleasure with business.

1508
01:30:34.199 --> 01:30:35.680
And I had very kind of you.

1509
01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:37.920
I had hoped that my wife Rechman.

1510
01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:40.359
Of course you must ask her to call sometimes.

1511
01:30:40.560 --> 01:30:41.159
Yes, I will.

1512
01:30:41.680 --> 01:30:43.960
Although I never had the pleasure of meeting Convictor, it

1513
01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:45.880
would be a great honor if we may call as

1514
01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:47.239
soon as he returns from Berlin.

1515
01:30:47.399 --> 01:30:51.720
In certainly here, Rakman, thank you, and this urgent business.

1516
01:30:52.079 --> 01:30:55.319
Yes, we come to that. Do your mind if I

1517
01:30:55.399 --> 01:30:59.960
smoke a good cigar? All this makes unpleasant things easier

1518
01:31:00.079 --> 01:31:00.359
to tell.

1519
01:31:01.239 --> 01:31:03.399
It sounds almost as if you had rehearsed that line

1520
01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:04.960
on the way to the castle here Reichmann.

1521
01:31:05.119 --> 01:31:08.600
I did, and since it was ineffective, I'll be blunt, Countess,

1522
01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:13.439
I'd prefer it three days ago, Countess, to be exact.

1523
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:15.680
On the day I ride at Kronwald to begin my

1524
01:31:15.800 --> 01:31:19.239
duties as Garlt of this district, I found this note

1525
01:31:19.279 --> 01:31:19.840
on my desk.

1526
01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:21.439
Read it, Please.

1527
01:31:22.840 --> 01:31:27.000
Count Victor of grand Bold will kill himself on the

1528
01:31:27.159 --> 01:31:28.680
night of the King's birthday.

1529
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:31.600
That note was on my desk in the morning when

1530
01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:33.279
I found this one, Read it.

1531
01:31:33.319 --> 01:31:39.000
Please Count Victory of grand World will repudiate his Nazi collaborators.

1532
01:31:40.159 --> 01:31:42.720
He will choose the night of the King's birthday for

1533
01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:43.279
his death.

1534
01:31:43.399 --> 01:31:45.600
I thought that first it was some crank, but the

1535
01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:48.439
notes kept coming, and I heard that everybody in the

1536
01:31:48.479 --> 01:31:51.680
district believed what the note said. In every house and

1537
01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:53.960
shop and farm, they are saying that Convictor is going

1538
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:56.960
to kill himself. We'll see why I said my business

1539
01:31:57.039 --> 01:31:59.439
was urgent yes, yes, I see. It's not that I

1540
01:31:59.520 --> 01:32:01.720
had the slag. It's fear for the Count's safety. But

1541
01:32:01.880 --> 01:32:04.319
the writer of these notes must be found and treated

1542
01:32:04.359 --> 01:32:05.439
with severest penalties.

1543
01:32:06.039 --> 01:32:07.960
You have no fear for my husband's safety.

1544
01:32:08.159 --> 01:32:11.600
Of course, Certainly no anonymous letter writer could force the

1545
01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:12.800
Count to take his own life.

1546
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:17.399
I wonder, what do you mean? You wish me to

1547
01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:21.399
be frank with you? Naturally, you know that my husband

1548
01:32:21.479 --> 01:32:22.960
is hated by the whole countryside.

1549
01:32:23.079 --> 01:32:23.520
What of it?

1550
01:32:24.239 --> 01:32:26.159
People? He are too stupid to know what's good.

1551
01:32:26.039 --> 01:32:29.880
For them, perhaps, But the writer of these notes seems

1552
01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:32.600
to be a little less than stupid, you think, sir,

1553
01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:36.840
if you knew Danish history, here Reichman, you might agree.

1554
01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:39.960
For hundreds of years, the night of the King's Birthday

1555
01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:43.560
has been a special occasion at grandvald On that night

1556
01:32:43.880 --> 01:32:46.159
the Castle Ring used its pledge of loyalty to the

1557
01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:48.319
King into Denmark's.

1558
01:32:47.800 --> 01:32:50.399
Freedom, a very theatrical gestion.

1559
01:32:50.760 --> 01:32:54.399
Quite, But if anyone wished to remind Count Victor.

1560
01:32:54.960 --> 01:32:57.119
If someone wished to remind the Count that he had

1561
01:32:57.159 --> 01:33:00.720
chosen our glorious fur for his leader, yes, the.

1562
01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:03.239
Knight of the King's Birthday would be shall we say

1563
01:33:04.039 --> 01:33:06.239
the psychologically correct time to do it?

1564
01:33:06.720 --> 01:33:08.119
You reason well, Countess.

1565
01:33:08.520 --> 01:33:09.560
I know my countrymen.

1566
01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:11.560
Evidently I can.

1567
01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:15.079
See how these notes would inflame their imagination if Count

1568
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:17.119
Victor were to take his own life as a public

1569
01:33:17.199 --> 01:33:21.279
repudiation of his present political bonds, and the whole country

1570
01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:22.800
would be stirred to its death.

1571
01:33:23.000 --> 01:33:26.439
I see you seem to view the possibility of your

1572
01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:27.600
husband's death rather.

1573
01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:31.640
Calmly, Countess, like you here Raikman, I have no fear

1574
01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:36.560
for his safety. I am only presenting the political possibilities quite, sir.

1575
01:33:37.520 --> 01:33:40.119
And since you grasp the full significance of the notes,

1576
01:33:40.199 --> 01:33:42.960
you understand that I must take certain liberties.

1577
01:33:42.600 --> 01:33:44.039
In order to track down the writer.

1578
01:33:44.279 --> 01:33:44.760
Liberties.

1579
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:48.479
Yes, I shall ask your permission to talk with doctor Erickson.

1580
01:33:49.119 --> 01:33:52.960
Oh, doctor Erickson, I'm told he lives here at the castle.

1581
01:33:53.279 --> 01:33:55.960
Yes, but I should like to talk with doctor Ellison.

1582
01:33:55.880 --> 01:34:00.520
As you wish. Peter will show you to the doctor's study. However,

1583
01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:01.640
I assure you that I'm a.

1584
01:34:01.640 --> 01:34:04.399
Short countess, and the standard doctor Alexen is one of

1585
01:34:04.479 --> 01:34:07.600
your countries able psychiatris, and the standard of the Alexon

1586
01:34:07.720 --> 01:34:09.319
is an authority on mass suggestion.

1587
01:34:10.079 --> 01:34:26.880
His health should be invaluable. Docter Erickson.

1588
01:34:27.800 --> 01:34:34.560
Yes, Peter, show the gentleman in. I'll sit down here, Rakman.

1589
01:34:35.560 --> 01:34:38.159
Don't be alarmed about these mice. I'll remove them just

1590
01:34:38.239 --> 01:34:42.920
as soon as hermon here gets through the maze. Watch him.

1591
01:34:43.359 --> 01:34:46.039
He's really quite clever. I've been trying him on liver

1592
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:52.359
extract and ah he made it. Good night, Herman, now

1593
01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:54.560
after bed.

1594
01:34:56.520 --> 01:34:59.920
I've been expecting you, her Rakman, please sit down. Thank you.

1595
01:35:01.199 --> 01:35:03.680
You come to see me about the notes? Am I right? Yes,

1596
01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:04.520
you're right doctor.

1597
01:35:05.039 --> 01:35:06.880
When I first heard about him, I said to myself,

1598
01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:09.159
then you go. Light will want my theory concerning the

1599
01:35:09.199 --> 01:35:12.640
type of mind which would be prompted to write such notes.

1600
01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:15.439
I'll tell you my theory, hair Rachman.

1601
01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:17.880
I don't want your theory, doctor, I want you to

1602
01:35:17.960 --> 01:35:19.000
answer some questions.

1603
01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:21.760
Oh so it's like that, and perhaps you want to

1604
01:35:21.800 --> 01:35:24.520
sample of my handwriting too. I'm not a fool, doctor.

1605
01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:26.159
That's very possible.

1606
01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:30.640
How long have you been treating Convictor for certain nervous disorder?

1607
01:35:31.279 --> 01:35:33.439
Five years? What would you say is his condition?

1608
01:35:33.560 --> 01:35:33.680
Now?

1609
01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:37.119
You've never met Convictor, have your hair Rakman?

1610
01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:39.920
No, when you talk with him, you've see now outfit

1611
01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:44.199
sign of his maladate manifest itself only during periods of despondency.

1612
01:35:45.039 --> 01:35:47.199
In the last few years, I am happy to say

1613
01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:49.119
that these periods have been infrequent.

1614
01:35:49.479 --> 01:35:51.880
Convictor depends a good deal on you, doesn't he, Doctor.

1615
01:35:52.239 --> 01:35:55.800
Perhaps I've almost cured him in return, he's given me

1616
01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:58.239
this laboratory and money for my experiments.

1617
01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:00.319
But you do have a dated of influence on his

1618
01:36:00.479 --> 01:36:04.319
mental processes. Yes, he rightman, I do.

1619
01:36:05.439 --> 01:36:07.760
In fact, if I decided to, shall we say, liquidate

1620
01:36:07.920 --> 01:36:10.960
Count Victor, I would have written the notes exactly as

1621
01:36:11.000 --> 01:36:14.319
the people say they are written. Like all nervous people,

1622
01:36:14.359 --> 01:36:17.119
the Count would be highly susceptible to such mental attack.

1623
01:36:18.680 --> 01:36:20.680
That's what you wanted me to say, isn't it? Yes,

1624
01:36:21.720 --> 01:36:22.760
you know them where we stand.

1625
01:36:23.039 --> 01:36:27.319
Almost one thing more, I'll ask your doctor. Convictor had

1626
01:36:27.319 --> 01:36:29.960
a brother who left Kronbach and Denmark was occupied for

1627
01:36:30.039 --> 01:36:33.600
our troops. That brother, Christian, is now known to be

1628
01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:36.920
working with a Danish underground. Formerly, he was one of

1629
01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:38.560
your students at the university.

1630
01:36:39.319 --> 01:36:39.760
Is that right?

1631
01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:42.760
Christian was one of my most brilliant students. Do you

1632
01:36:42.840 --> 01:36:43.560
know where he is now?

1633
01:36:43.760 --> 01:36:43.800
No?

1634
01:36:43.960 --> 01:36:48.560
I don't, and neither does your guest Starper. That's the

1635
01:36:48.680 --> 01:36:50.840
only thing we share in common. You are a very

1636
01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:53.960
outspoken man, Doctor, I find it the best form of deception.

1637
01:36:54.199 --> 01:36:56.159
Do you think it wise to try to deceive the

1638
01:36:56.239 --> 01:36:57.680
lawful government of your country?

1639
01:36:58.119 --> 01:37:02.039
Lawful government? You have a quaint sense of humor, hair right, man, you.

1640
01:37:02.079 --> 01:37:04.880
May not find it so quaint. If Convictor ever removes

1641
01:37:04.880 --> 01:37:05.840
this protection from.

1642
01:37:05.720 --> 01:37:09.520
You, he won't when you informed him of his impending suicide,

1643
01:37:09.560 --> 01:37:12.479
as I presume you will, you'll see he needs me

1644
01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:13.359
more than ever.

1645
01:37:14.359 --> 01:37:15.880
You do intend to show the notes of the count,

1646
01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:19.760
don't you? Yes, I will present myself to his excellency tonight,

1647
01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:21.159
and it's a turn from Berlin.

1648
01:37:21.399 --> 01:37:24.319
Is His reactions to the notes will be most interesting?

1649
01:37:25.079 --> 01:37:27.600
Would it inconvenience you? If I would be present on

1650
01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:28.479
the occasion or not.

1651
01:37:28.560 --> 01:37:32.199
At all, Doctor, I'd be delighted. Your own reactions should

1652
01:37:32.199 --> 01:37:33.520
be most interesting, too.

1653
01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:43.840
Dead that's what the people think. Hey, they think they

1654
01:37:43.880 --> 01:37:44.720
can kill me with words.

1655
01:37:45.159 --> 01:37:46.279
They can't do that to me, can they?

1656
01:37:46.319 --> 01:37:46.600
Doctor?

1657
01:37:46.760 --> 01:37:51.399
Easy? It's easy, childish note Contvictor will kill himself on

1658
01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:53.600
the night of the King's birthday because of his great

1659
01:37:53.640 --> 01:38:01.600
shame here. I'll great shame them, all right, they'll see that, doctor,

1660
01:38:01.680 --> 01:38:04.680
little the brandy please, yes, of course, convictor, now you

1661
01:38:04.800 --> 01:38:06.119
mustn't upset yourself.

1662
01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:06.760
Who's upset?

1663
01:38:07.359 --> 01:38:10.039
The whole thing is completely nonsensible, completely, of course it

1664
01:38:10.279 --> 01:38:10.760
is ask.

1665
01:38:10.680 --> 01:38:11.239
Her a rchman.

1666
01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:13.640
His police acted to becall the rifle of the notes.

1667
01:38:13.680 --> 01:38:16.439
Help them bear her right practically, doctor, you have nothing

1668
01:38:16.479 --> 01:38:17.079
to worry about.

1669
01:38:17.119 --> 01:38:18.760
Contact there, you see doctor?

1670
01:38:19.399 --> 01:38:22.880
Tonight if I need acidative, certainly conflict, I'll show them.

1671
01:38:23.039 --> 01:38:24.319
I'll give them a dinner here on the night of

1672
01:38:24.359 --> 01:38:26.479
the King's birthday. Everyone will hear about it, and they'll

1673
01:38:26.479 --> 01:38:30.560
see who's afraid. I'll give a dinner, he rockman, will

1674
01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:31.560
you be my guest to dinner?

1675
01:38:31.680 --> 01:38:32.720
A pleasure of contact there?

1676
01:38:32.720 --> 01:38:34.800
And I'll light up this whole castle like a like

1677
01:38:34.880 --> 01:38:37.159
a Christmas tree. And also you'll wear that gown you

1678
01:38:37.239 --> 01:38:39.399
are at the palace and your jewels. You understand, you'll

1679
01:38:39.439 --> 01:38:42.920
wear all your jewels. Kill me with words, eh, it's words.

1680
01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:45.920
There after I'll give them words Herrekman, I'll make a

1681
01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:48.800
statement here newspapers the night of the King's birthday. I'll

1682
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:52.680
stuff words down the people's throat. Yes, and there's someone

1683
01:38:52.720 --> 01:38:55.399
in particular who'll read what I have to say, My

1684
01:38:55.600 --> 01:39:01.720
brother Christian. I want him especially to read it. Have

1685
01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:04.680
you ever seen my brother love contactor? His picture wasn't

1686
01:39:04.720 --> 01:39:07.159
that empty frame up there next to mine? I destroyed

1687
01:39:07.199 --> 01:39:07.680
his picture.

1688
01:39:07.880 --> 01:39:10.800
Doctor, you're getting excited, Doctor Rickson.

1689
01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:13.600
You're right, Elsa. Sometimes the strain of my work is

1690
01:39:13.640 --> 01:39:17.680
too much. Doctor Erickson, you'll you'll talk to me for

1691
01:39:17.720 --> 01:39:19.760
a while before I go to bed, won't, of course

1692
01:39:20.319 --> 01:39:23.560
talk to you. Convictor, Yesley, doctor has a way of

1693
01:39:23.640 --> 01:39:26.960
calming my nerves. It's slightly hypnotic, isn't that any doctor?

1694
01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:30.800
You might call it that, convict convict, Oh no, it's

1695
01:39:30.840 --> 01:39:33.439
the only thing that helps me. I just go quietly

1696
01:39:33.560 --> 01:39:36.600
to sleep. I'll the doctor talk. That's Convictor. Good night,

1697
01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:39.079
hair Rachman, and I'll expect you here for dinner on

1698
01:39:39.119 --> 01:39:42.880
the night of the King's birthday, of course, Convictor, Elsa, Yes, Victor.

1699
01:39:43.239 --> 01:39:46.079
They can't hurt me with words, Canny, No, Victor, they

1700
01:39:46.079 --> 01:39:47.680
can't hurt me if I don't listen. Can If I

1701
01:39:47.720 --> 01:39:48.800
shut my ears, I'll be all right.

1702
01:39:50.000 --> 01:39:50.279
That's it.

1703
01:39:51.479 --> 01:39:52.199
Shut my ears.

1704
01:39:53.359 --> 01:39:54.000
I won't listen.

1705
01:39:55.359 --> 01:39:58.079
I won't listen. I won't listen.

1706
01:39:59.199 --> 01:39:59.840
I won't listen.

1707
01:40:01.399 --> 01:40:11.560
Listen her dow writer, Yes, Latin, while you were out

1708
01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:11.960
to lunch.

1709
01:40:12.000 --> 01:40:15.039
You needn't tell me it's another note, yes, her go writer,

1710
01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:15.840
Where did you find it?

1711
01:40:15.920 --> 01:40:16.319
This time?

1712
01:40:16.520 --> 01:40:19.680
I hesitate to speak up?

1713
01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:20.319
Speak up?

1714
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:23.439
I found it, her go Writer, in the pocket of

1715
01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:26.439
my own tunic, when I was about to go on duty.

1716
01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:29.279
Never man the details. I found one of them under

1717
01:40:29.319 --> 01:40:29.720
my pillow.

1718
01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:30.199
This morning.

1719
01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:32.720
Coron Victor called me and said there was one delivered

1720
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:35.279
with this morning paper. The farmer came in here at

1721
01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:38.399
eight o'clock. He found one nail to his door. Pr

1722
01:40:38.560 --> 01:40:40.560
and it has got to stop, yes, he go writer.

1723
01:40:41.239 --> 01:40:43.600
Just as our Feara says, if you tell a lie

1724
01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:45.119
often enough, everybody believes it.

1725
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:48.039
That's true, her go writer, is it? Well as the

1726
01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:51.439
go writer says, you believe Convictor will kill himself? Who

1727
01:40:51.600 --> 01:40:52.399
know her go writer?

1728
01:40:52.720 --> 01:40:53.159
Rather do I?

1729
01:40:54.079 --> 01:40:55.720
The Countess was right about one thing.

1730
01:40:56.560 --> 01:40:59.560
If he did kill himself after all these notes sect

1731
01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:00.960
on the people would be electrifying.

1732
01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:02.399
But you just said that.

1733
01:41:02.640 --> 01:41:05.840
I'm talking about effects like non From what I have

1734
01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:07.560
seen of the count he is too much of a

1735
01:41:07.680 --> 01:41:10.960
coward to take its own life. But if someone else

1736
01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:14.359
killed him and made it look like suicide, yes, yes

1737
01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:18.840
it could be done. But how I don't know before

1738
01:41:18.840 --> 01:41:21.479
I've got a dinner, I have ordered fifty guards to

1739
01:41:21.520 --> 01:41:24.079
but throw the grounds. Four guards will be stationed in

1740
01:41:24.119 --> 01:41:26.479
the dining room while we eat. No one can get

1741
01:41:26.560 --> 01:41:28.840
near the Count. It's impossible to kill him. But in

1742
01:41:28.920 --> 01:41:31.720
this strange country you can't even trust the impossible.

1743
01:41:37.640 --> 01:41:40.600
They say. The castle is guarded the night fifty soldiers.

1744
01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:41.079
They say.

1745
01:41:41.119 --> 01:41:43.439
The Count locked himself in his room all day writing

1746
01:41:43.800 --> 01:41:45.279
a message to the people, they say.

1747
01:41:45.560 --> 01:41:47.760
They say the gall lighter has five kistapp women at

1748
01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:48.119
the castle.

1749
01:41:48.199 --> 01:41:51.479
Besides the soldiers. One mistappleman is watching the food for poison.

1750
01:41:56.880 --> 01:41:59.479
Wait a minute, two, taste that wine before you break

1751
01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:02.199
it into the What did you say, sir, I said,

1752
01:42:02.319 --> 01:42:03.800
taste that wine? Oh?

1753
01:42:03.960 --> 01:42:04.399
Taste it?

1754
01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:05.560
Why? Of course?

1755
01:42:08.159 --> 01:42:10.039
Ah, it's very good, sir.

1756
01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:12.319
Did you doubt it's quality?

1757
01:42:14.239 --> 01:42:17.119
All right, let me take it in, Thank you, sir,

1758
01:42:18.520 --> 01:42:21.399
And if there's any left after that through I take

1759
01:42:21.479 --> 01:42:27.399
care of you. Sir. Ah more wine, Good boy, Peter,

1760
01:42:27.840 --> 01:42:29.840
right here, we'll drink another toast of the King.

1761
01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:30.479
Victor.

1762
01:42:30.800 --> 01:42:33.399
I think we've drunk called nonsense. This is the King's

1763
01:42:33.399 --> 01:42:35.079
birthday dinner. We've got to drink of the King.

1764
01:42:35.439 --> 01:42:38.720
Oh, Peter, Yes, sir, did they make you taste that

1765
01:42:38.840 --> 01:42:39.880
wine before you brought it in.

1766
01:42:40.279 --> 01:42:41.359
Yes, doctor, they did.

1767
01:42:42.760 --> 01:42:45.920
That's just about tasting wine. Simple precaution of man contactor.

1768
01:42:46.119 --> 01:42:49.119
I hope you don't mind mine. No, no, I don't mind.

1769
01:42:49.159 --> 01:42:51.920
But you don't think that now, Victor, don't get upset.

1770
01:42:52.720 --> 01:42:55.199
Haven't stopped repeating that in name phrase and saying that

1771
01:42:55.239 --> 01:42:59.159
all through dinner. I'm not upset, not upset. I just

1772
01:42:59.199 --> 01:43:01.640
want to know what's going on. But if I got

1773
01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:05.960
to be upset about I, you become more nervous than

1774
01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:06.239
I am.

1775
01:43:06.800 --> 01:43:08.760
I can understand the Countess is feeling.

1776
01:43:08.920 --> 01:43:10.880
If this is the first thing I've ever had with

1777
01:43:11.039 --> 01:43:16.079
four soldiers observing my digestive processes, don't you think? Hell right?

1778
01:43:16.319 --> 01:43:19.000
I must insist doctor that the sow just remain well.

1779
01:43:19.199 --> 01:43:21.720
The police ask them to sit down the flatter.

1780
01:43:21.960 --> 01:43:24.000
Yes here, god righter, you know a man may be seated,

1781
01:43:24.119 --> 01:43:25.840
Thank you hair, god righter because that.

1782
01:43:26.399 --> 01:43:30.199
Yes, sir, and Peter, Peter, go get some wine for

1783
01:43:30.279 --> 01:43:34.079
the soldier. Yes, yes, everyone will have more wine. Peter.

1784
01:43:34.119 --> 01:43:35.479
Where we're going to toast the king?

1785
01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:36.119
They?

1786
01:43:37.319 --> 01:43:40.359
What time is it that? Five minutes to twelve? Cons victim,

1787
01:43:42.520 --> 01:43:45.239
I'm still alive, Peter, it's it's five minutes to twelve

1788
01:43:45.279 --> 01:43:47.359
and I'm still alive. Go get the wine.

1789
01:43:47.399 --> 01:43:51.880
Peter, Yes, sir, you know, you know Peter.

1790
01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:54.119
Peter tells me everything they say down at the village.

1791
01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:56.960
The people say I have five minutes to live. So

1792
01:43:57.560 --> 01:44:01.560
Peter teared to the village gossip. Oh yes, he knows everything.

1793
01:44:02.279 --> 01:44:04.159
Was Peter who discovered most of the notes and brought

1794
01:44:04.199 --> 01:44:06.319
them to me. He brought you the note, Oh yes,

1795
01:44:06.439 --> 01:44:08.119
and the last one said that the.

1796
01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:10.680
Now what did it say?

1797
01:44:11.640 --> 01:44:13.199
Can't we talk about something else?

1798
01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:16.439
Why, asked the doctor. He and I discussed it for hours.

1799
01:44:17.239 --> 01:44:19.680
But the doctor told me about some sect over in

1800
01:44:19.720 --> 01:44:21.880
the West Indies. It disposes of an enemy by simply

1801
01:44:21.920 --> 01:44:23.720
writing the victim's name on a piece of paper and

1802
01:44:23.760 --> 01:44:26.680
sending it to her. Same sort of nonsense being tried

1803
01:44:26.760 --> 01:44:29.359
on me. Isn't that your theory?

1804
01:44:29.439 --> 01:44:32.159
Not well? I, doctor Arison, And you have to count

1805
01:44:32.279 --> 01:44:33.239
nervous condition, don't you?

1806
01:44:33.560 --> 01:44:35.439
God? And my private life is my own affair, And

1807
01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:36.239
you walk the.

1808
01:44:36.279 --> 01:44:39.600
Rise convict or you have no private life, I repeat,

1809
01:44:39.640 --> 01:44:42.439
Doctor Axon, if you have to CONT's nervous disorder.

1810
01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.359
Has the CONT's personal position. I prescribe my own remedies.

1811
01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:48.479
Know the truth about occull practices are the best way

1812
01:44:48.520 --> 01:44:49.279
to guard against them.

1813
01:44:49.560 --> 01:44:50.560
Surely you don't think that.

1814
01:44:50.760 --> 01:44:55.119
In Hirety, right, I saw a man die after receiving

1815
01:44:55.199 --> 01:44:56.319
a note with his name on it.

1816
01:44:57.239 --> 01:45:01.640
I don't explain it. I tell you a fact. You see,

1817
01:45:02.600 --> 01:45:04.520
it's possible. It's a fact.

1818
01:45:05.399 --> 01:45:07.479
Well, I could be murdered with penany It could be

1819
01:45:07.560 --> 01:45:11.640
done in exactly three minutes of my watch, is right? Yes?

1820
01:45:12.800 --> 01:45:13.720
Three minutes to live?

1821
01:45:14.920 --> 01:45:16.039
Where's Peter with that one?

1822
01:45:16.479 --> 01:45:19.640
Victor? If you will excuse me, I have a headache.

1823
01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:22.079
You stay here, Elsa, No one leaves this room till midnight.

1824
01:45:22.239 --> 01:45:25.039
Fighter, Yes, heir gard Lighter, locked the door, Hold all

1825
01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:26.920
the window, yes, shair Goard lighter two season.

1826
01:45:27.560 --> 01:45:31.079
Yes, yes, that's right. Hold everything. They won't come in

1827
01:45:31.159 --> 01:45:32.359
here after me. They won't touch me.

1828
01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:34.079
Victor, you're being absurd, I.

1829
01:45:34.199 --> 01:45:36.840
As I think it best to comply with convictors wishes.

1830
01:45:37.119 --> 01:45:38.800
Humor me, my dear, humor me.

1831
01:45:39.720 --> 01:45:42.319
You never forgive yourself if you treated me unkindly during

1832
01:45:42.359 --> 01:45:45.840
the last two minutes of my life, especially since you

1833
01:45:45.880 --> 01:45:48.760
wish me dead so many times. It's the truth, isn't it.

1834
01:45:48.840 --> 01:45:49.399
Con Victor?

1835
01:45:49.479 --> 01:45:51.479
Two minutes to live, doctor, this is a good time

1836
01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:52.600
to hear else's confession.

1837
01:45:52.760 --> 01:45:56.399
I may say, well you may Elsea.

1838
01:45:56.439 --> 01:45:59.520
It's the truth, isn't it? Isn't it?

1839
01:46:00.199 --> 01:46:05.600
H Yes, Victor, that's the truth. I wish you were did.

1840
01:46:07.119 --> 01:46:10.640
I hate every minute I live under your roof. I

1841
01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:15.720
hate the thing you've become. I'm Nazi puppet. I hate

1842
01:46:15.720 --> 01:46:18.680
your sniveling, goose stepping mind, just as I loath this

1843
01:46:18.920 --> 01:46:21.479
fat decimen of a super race you've invited to dinner.

1844
01:46:25.279 --> 01:46:26.079
Go on, Elsa.

1845
01:46:26.960 --> 01:46:30.840
I despise you as a man. Your countrymen despise you.

1846
01:46:31.960 --> 01:46:34.199
Even before the Nazis came, you were planning to sell

1847
01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:37.800
us out all that Cronwaald has fought for down through

1848
01:46:37.840 --> 01:46:41.840
the years. The Dane should be a proud and free people.

1849
01:46:42.840 --> 01:46:45.760
You sold all that for a cast iron Nazi cross.

1850
01:46:46.960 --> 01:46:50.920
I wish you were dead, Victor. I wish your soul

1851
01:46:51.000 --> 01:46:53.199
were rotting in the grave that's waiting for all these

1852
01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:54.720
mad men of Europe.

1853
01:46:58.399 --> 01:47:13.960
Doctor listen, five o'clock. May God grant wisdom to our

1854
01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:16.720
king and freedom to our people.

1855
01:47:17.279 --> 01:47:19.960
May Cronbold always keep the faith.

1856
01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:24.600
Who tell out the lights, who tell out the lights

1857
01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:26.840
the fighter.

1858
01:47:27.319 --> 01:47:29.600
I hear the door opening, No heck lighter behind to

1859
01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:30.880
send the door. It is not moving.

1860
01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:39.199
Mumm, yes the fighter. I hear you.

1861
01:47:39.720 --> 01:47:40.680
Who is speaking?

1862
01:47:41.479 --> 01:47:41.840
Victor?

1863
01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:44.119
This is your time?

1864
01:47:45.479 --> 01:47:46.359
Are you ready?

1865
01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:47.399
I am ready?

1866
01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:50.720
Now you die like what's auld Victor?

1867
01:47:51.680 --> 01:47:52.439
What's your name?

1868
01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:54.119
Will live on?

1869
01:47:55.119 --> 01:47:55.439
Victor?

1870
01:47:56.159 --> 01:47:57.880
Don't do it or buy us.

1871
01:48:10.680 --> 01:48:13.119
If they found the body, they say the body was

1872
01:48:13.239 --> 01:48:15.560
washed out to see for yesterday on the rocks they

1873
01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:17.560
found the counter ristwatch and a handkerchief with the.

1874
01:48:17.560 --> 01:48:18.319
Initial D on it.

1875
01:48:18.600 --> 01:48:19.760
They'll never find the body.

1876
01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:22.720
Say what you will, Count Victor was a brave man

1877
01:48:22.800 --> 01:48:23.640
to take his own life.

1878
01:48:23.880 --> 01:48:26.960
Yes, he showed those Nazis the Dane could die for honor.

1879
01:48:27.199 --> 01:48:28.279
You know what the Nazis say?

1880
01:48:28.840 --> 01:48:30.840
They say someone forced the Count to kill himself.

1881
01:48:31.039 --> 01:48:31.920
How could you force?

1882
01:48:32.159 --> 01:48:33.039
What the Nazi say?

1883
01:48:33.479 --> 01:48:36.800
And listen, they've arrested Old Peter. They're trying to make

1884
01:48:36.880 --> 01:48:41.119
Old Peter talk. Peter won't talk. But if he did,

1885
01:48:41.720 --> 01:48:43.479
I bet he could tell them a thing or two.

1886
01:48:49.319 --> 01:48:52.359
Yes, I could tell them a thing or two. I

1887
01:48:52.479 --> 01:48:55.239
could tell them why they'll never find Count Victor's body.

1888
01:48:55.800 --> 01:48:59.359
You know why? Because Count Victor didn't jump out of

1889
01:48:59.439 --> 01:48:59.880
the window.

1890
01:49:00.399 --> 01:49:00.920
How could he.

1891
01:49:01.640 --> 01:49:10.079
Count Victor was dead six days before the King's birthday. No,

1892
01:49:10.880 --> 01:49:13.520
I didn't kill him. He was shot through the head

1893
01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:16.159
by his own brother, Christian the night he came home

1894
01:49:16.239 --> 01:49:21.199
unexpectedly from Berlin, six days before the King's birthday. Yes,

1895
01:49:21.720 --> 01:49:24.359
I worked with the underground, and so did the Countess

1896
01:49:24.399 --> 01:49:28.000
and doctor Ericson. That's why Christian came here to see us.

1897
01:49:28.800 --> 01:49:32.399
When the Count returned unexpectedly, Christian decided to try to.

1898
01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:33.199
Reason with him.

1899
01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:39.039
They quarreled, and well, Christian eliminated the slimiest traitor then

1900
01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:42.119
Mark has ever known. It was then that doctor Erickson

1901
01:49:42.159 --> 01:49:43.399
got the idea for the notes.

1902
01:49:44.119 --> 01:49:46.800
Christian, we've got to try it. Christ Newcoleetter has never

1903
01:49:46.840 --> 01:49:49.640
seen Count Victor. You oppose as the Count and we'll

1904
01:49:49.680 --> 01:49:52.560
stay to your suicide. The moral effects on the people

1905
01:49:52.600 --> 01:49:53.359
will be tremendous.

1906
01:49:53.640 --> 01:49:57.479
Christian agreed, and we started sending the notes. The rest

1907
01:49:57.640 --> 01:50:01.039
was easy. We all played our parts, and doctor Ericson

1908
01:50:01.119 --> 01:50:03.920
coached us on the exact thing to do. At twelve

1909
01:50:04.079 --> 01:50:05.199
midnight at.

1910
01:50:05.119 --> 01:50:07.239
The last book of twelve, Peter will t on up

1911
01:50:07.239 --> 01:50:08.239
the lights from downstairs.

1912
01:50:09.359 --> 01:50:12.079
You've got that beetle. Yes, Doctor, then what do you do?

1913
01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:14.680
I go through the passageway that leads to the hidden

1914
01:50:14.760 --> 01:50:17.800
door in the dining room fireplace. I open the door

1915
01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:23.880
and call out, Count Victor, this is your time. Hire

1916
01:50:24.199 --> 01:50:28.439
you ready, and you Christim, I say I am ready.

1917
01:50:29.039 --> 01:50:32.279
I call out, don't do it, Victor, don't do it.

1918
01:50:32.600 --> 01:50:35.439
Then I break one of the windows, and you Christim,

1919
01:50:35.560 --> 01:50:39.199
I go through the fireplace door and disappear. Yes, and

1920
01:50:39.439 --> 01:50:42.960
Count Victor of Cronvald has died for his country.

1921
01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:53.479
Well that's how it was done. We planned it well,

1922
01:50:53.960 --> 01:50:56.640
even to putting Count Victor's wristwatch and handkerchief on the

1923
01:50:56.720 --> 01:50:59.920
rock where the knazes would find them. Presently, the girl

1924
01:51:00.000 --> 01:51:04.359
will question me some more, But soon soon there will

1925
01:51:04.439 --> 01:51:07.640
be a note on his desk, and I can hear him.

1926
01:51:07.520 --> 01:51:12.359
Saying that London, how did this note get him a desk?

1927
01:51:12.560 --> 01:51:15.840
A note? I don't know how? A letter? What does

1928
01:51:15.880 --> 01:51:16.199
it say?

1929
01:51:16.279 --> 01:51:21.840
It says says remember the night of the King's Birthday.

1930
01:51:22.960 --> 01:51:26.800
Your turn is next? About that, your turn is next?

1931
01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:46.960
And so closes The King's Birthday, starring Delaura's Castello with

1932
01:51:47.079 --> 01:51:50.039
Martin cars like George Zuko and I and Wolf Tonight's

1933
01:51:50.079 --> 01:51:55.560
Tale of Suspense. The producer of these broadcasters William Spear,

1934
01:51:55.640 --> 01:51:59.039
who with Ted Bliss, director lud Gluskin and Lucian Marrowick

1935
01:51:59.079 --> 01:52:03.560
conductor and composed corporal Lewis Paletteer radio author, collaborated on

1936
01:52:03.680 --> 01:52:07.920
tonight's suspense. This is your narrator, the Man in Black,

1937
01:52:07.960 --> 01:52:10.960
who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half

1938
01:52:11.039 --> 01:52:15.800
hour in suspense with us again. Next week, suspense will

1939
01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:18.560
be heard at a new time, Thursday's at ten thirty

1940
01:52:18.680 --> 01:52:21.520
Eastern wartime and seven thirty Pacific wartime.

1941
01:52:22.319 --> 01:52:23.960
Perhaps you will want to note this down.

1942
01:52:24.680 --> 01:52:27.520
The new time for suspense will be Thursdays beginning next

1943
01:52:27.600 --> 01:52:33.079
Thursday at ten thirty Eastern wartime and seven thirty Pacific wartime.

1944
01:52:34.239 --> 01:52:36.880
Our play next Thursday will be The Singing Walls, based

1945
01:52:36.920 --> 01:52:38.680
on a story by Cornell Wooldrich.

1946
01:52:42.479 --> 01:52:45.880
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1947
01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:03.039
My dear, you've seen a little I'm not sure how

1948
01:53:03.159 --> 01:53:06.359
to describe it, but maybe a little.

1949
01:53:07.960 --> 01:53:08.279
Hmmm.

1950
01:53:09.760 --> 01:53:12.520
I suppose it's just the night.

1951
01:53:14.199 --> 01:53:14.560
It is.

1952
01:53:16.199 --> 01:53:20.800
Past the depths of darkness. Now the sun will come

1953
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:27.199
soon and take back all its territory using its iron

1954
01:53:27.560 --> 01:53:35.560
fist of gas and rays, and we well, we'll just

1955
01:53:35.720 --> 01:53:39.319
be patience for the doctor.

1956
01:53:44.760 --> 01:53:48.079
Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler.

1957
01:54:06.960 --> 01:54:13.720
I'm the whistler, but all.

1958
01:54:14.319 --> 01:54:15.319
It's a pitch dark.

1959
01:54:15.880 --> 01:54:18.600
I was feeling my way along the wall. Then it

1960
01:54:18.720 --> 01:54:22.479
seemed to me that something fast and funner crossed from

1961
01:54:22.520 --> 01:54:25.399
one wall to the other. I don't think I really

1962
01:54:25.560 --> 01:54:29.199
heard anything, but almost more though I felt it.

1963
01:54:33.920 --> 01:54:37.439
Another Sunday night, and again see the ass present the whittler.

1964
01:54:49.439 --> 01:54:53.359
I the whistler know many things, for I walk by night.

1965
01:54:54.439 --> 01:54:58.399
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the

1966
01:54:58.520 --> 01:55:01.640
hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

1967
01:55:02.880 --> 01:55:06.399
And so to night I tell you the strange story

1968
01:55:06.600 --> 01:55:16.640
of patience for the doctor. Have you any idea what

1969
01:55:16.800 --> 01:55:20.640
a burning desire to practice one's profession may lead to?

1970
01:55:22.079 --> 01:55:24.279
A man whom I know can tell you of such

1971
01:55:24.279 --> 01:55:29.039
a desire. He is doctor James Harris, and he lives

1972
01:55:29.119 --> 01:55:32.319
with his wife Mary in an isolated cabin at the

1973
01:55:32.520 --> 01:55:34.880
end of a lonely road high up in.

1974
01:55:34.920 --> 01:55:39.199
The snow Qualmie Martains. The snow Qualmi is a treacherous

1975
01:55:40.000 --> 01:55:44.520
especially in winter. Many people find themselves in need of

1976
01:55:44.600 --> 01:55:48.279
a doctor throughout the year in these martins. But winter

1977
01:55:48.479 --> 01:55:52.720
snows falling with the spring rains can also prove treacherous,

1978
01:55:53.560 --> 01:55:56.560
treacherous enough to keep a doctor rather busy.

1979
01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:06.279
James, Yes, my dear, what are you doing?

1980
01:56:06.840 --> 01:56:06.880
Er?

1981
01:56:08.119 --> 01:56:09.640
I was just what have you there?

1982
01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:11.560
Just my medical kid.

1983
01:56:11.960 --> 01:56:12.920
Where do you think you're going?

1984
01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:16.600
My patient is very badly hurt. I I must go

1985
01:56:16.760 --> 01:56:17.119
to him.

1986
01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:19.720
You will not set one foot out of his house

1987
01:56:19.760 --> 01:56:22.039
to night, not in a storm like this.

1988
01:56:22.359 --> 01:56:24.720
But, my dear, a man's life may depend upon me.

1989
01:56:25.399 --> 01:56:28.119
A doctor's places with his patient storm or shine.

1990
01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:29.840
James, did you understand me?

1991
01:56:30.800 --> 01:56:32.199
I said, you're not going.

1992
01:56:32.039 --> 01:56:32.600
Out to night.

1993
01:56:32.680 --> 01:56:34.720
Look, Mary, my patient may die.

1994
01:56:35.039 --> 01:56:39.439
You are not going out very well married. But some

1995
01:56:39.680 --> 01:56:40.760
day you will be sorry.

1996
01:56:41.479 --> 01:56:43.880
It isn't right to keep a doctor from doing his duty.

1997
01:56:43.920 --> 01:56:51.760
It's James, very well, my dear. That's a strange thing.

1998
01:56:52.960 --> 01:56:56.800
Mary seems bent on keeping the doctor from doing his duty.

1999
01:56:57.760 --> 01:57:02.199
And that's too bad. For there are people who needed

2000
01:57:02.319 --> 01:57:06.760
up to the night, People such as the three riding

2001
01:57:06.800 --> 01:57:10.199
along the snow quality past highway. Riding there in that

2002
01:57:10.399 --> 01:57:13.439
car under the jutting buttresses of that glacier which hang

2003
01:57:13.640 --> 01:57:16.920
dangerously out over the highway hang.

2004
01:57:17.119 --> 01:57:20.920
They are ready to come roaring down at the slightest provocation.

2005
01:57:22.079 --> 01:57:28.800
Such provocations, for example, as rain, rain, the import of

2006
01:57:28.880 --> 01:57:34.079
which is not immediately apparent to Paul Errands, his wife Jane,

2007
01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:38.479
and his mother in law, Missus Whitcombe. Anything is awesome

2008
01:57:38.520 --> 01:57:41.159
as the giant glacier would be dangerous to Missus Whitcomb,

2009
01:57:41.560 --> 01:57:45.960
even though quiet, for she is suffering from an extremely

2010
01:57:46.199 --> 01:57:51.039
weak heart, a heart which must not be subjected to shock.

2011
01:57:55.159 --> 01:57:56.159
Look up their heads.

2012
01:57:56.600 --> 01:57:57.319
There's a sign.

2013
01:57:57.479 --> 01:57:59.680
Maybe you'll give them miles to the next sound. Can't

2014
01:57:59.680 --> 01:58:01.560
say much, father, Can you read it?

2015
01:58:01.640 --> 01:58:01.880
Paul?

2016
01:58:02.079 --> 01:58:03.560
Oh, wait till I get the spotlight on it.

2017
01:58:04.600 --> 01:58:06.840
Oh, it just marks that little side road.

2018
01:58:07.800 --> 01:58:09.720
Doctor James Harris.

2019
01:58:10.039 --> 01:58:12.079
What do you suppose the doctor's doing way up there?

2020
01:58:12.199 --> 01:58:15.520
He couldn't possibly have any patience, hardly that there's not

2021
01:58:15.600 --> 01:58:17.760
another house five miles in any direction.

2022
01:58:18.399 --> 01:58:19.920
Well, perhaps he's retired.

2023
01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:21.239
Yes, that's probably.

2024
01:58:22.920 --> 01:58:25.800
Oh that's slidell stop the car ship.

2025
01:58:35.920 --> 01:58:39.760
Oh Oh, thank goodness, faith.

2026
01:58:40.039 --> 01:58:45.840
Oh hit wasn't too close, mother, mother, what's the matter

2027
01:58:45.920 --> 01:58:50.399
with that? This is Wickham, Miss Wickham, she's painted.

2028
01:58:50.560 --> 01:59:04.600
Oh, but missus wickhamb is more hardy than her daughter imagined.

2029
01:59:06.000 --> 01:59:09.319
Five minutes later, Paul has hurriedly turned the car down

2030
01:59:09.960 --> 01:59:13.119
and drives back up the road to the turn off mark.

2031
01:59:13.880 --> 01:59:16.279
Doctor James Harris.

2032
01:59:19.119 --> 01:59:20.680
Oh, oh.

2033
01:59:22.439 --> 01:59:24.239
What is but fly?

2034
01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:24.880
Mother?

2035
01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:27.239
It's all right, we're face We're all right.

2036
01:59:27.560 --> 01:59:29.840
Oh I'm not a spainted Do you feel all right?

2037
01:59:29.920 --> 01:59:30.079
Now?

2038
01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:32.880
I don't know what. Don't try to talk missus Wickham.

2039
01:59:33.199 --> 01:59:34.479
We're taking you to the doctor.

2040
01:59:35.199 --> 01:59:37.079
Oh, Paul, try to drive more carefully.

2041
01:59:37.319 --> 01:59:39.680
I'm being as careful as I can. Jane, this is

2042
01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:40.479
much of a road.

2043
01:59:40.760 --> 01:59:42.119
Does the bumping bother your mother?

2044
01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:42.359
No?

2045
01:59:42.800 --> 01:59:46.760
No, hmm. Bridge up ahead. We're on the right track.

2046
01:59:47.600 --> 01:59:51.640
I see the sign. Doctor James Harris, welcome, Paul, be careful.

2047
01:59:51.359 --> 01:59:52.399
Going up onto the bridge.

2048
01:59:52.520 --> 02:00:04.680
He made jar mother all right? Oh, oh, Paul, for

2049
02:00:04.800 --> 02:00:07.600
Heaven's take on stuff? So sure, what's the matter.

2050
02:00:07.920 --> 02:00:08.960
Take a look at that bridge?

2051
02:00:10.000 --> 02:00:12.520
Oh but it doesn't look very safe.

2052
02:00:12.319 --> 02:00:15.640
I'll say it doesn't. Two planks out rail gone. If

2053
02:00:15.680 --> 02:00:17.000
he asked me the way that the car would have

2054
02:00:17.039 --> 02:00:18.359
been enough to bring the whole thing down.

2055
02:00:18.520 --> 02:00:19.359
That ought to be mart.

2056
02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:21.960
That's just what I was thinking. Perhaps it happened so

2057
02:00:22.079 --> 02:00:25.079
recently though, those aren't new breaks. Now, this bridge has

2058
02:00:25.119 --> 02:00:28.760
been out a long time, maybe all winter and no sign.

2059
02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:34.640
But doctor James Harris welcome hmm, well, welcome starts on

2060
02:00:34.720 --> 02:00:35.520
your head and the crick.

2061
02:00:36.039 --> 02:00:38.560
But if the bridge is be not all winter, Well,

2062
02:00:38.680 --> 02:00:40.600
how's the people in the house gotten in and out?

2063
02:00:40.960 --> 02:00:44.520
That's a good question. Well suppose we back up a little.

2064
02:00:54.479 --> 02:00:56.359
Look, Paul, stay on the right hand side.

2065
02:00:56.399 --> 02:00:56.760
Uh huh.

2066
02:00:57.159 --> 02:00:59.479
I thought it might be something like this a way

2067
02:00:59.520 --> 02:01:01.359
a driver. We missed it coming up.

2068
02:01:01.840 --> 02:01:04.720
So it has been a while and they didn't. Oh,

2069
02:01:04.760 --> 02:01:06.760
they haven't even put up the slide of barricade.

2070
02:01:06.880 --> 02:01:10.359
No, and they speak to us. Do you notice, almost

2071
02:01:10.439 --> 02:01:21.520
as if it were intentionally concealed. Well, let's go on. Oh,

2072
02:01:23.399 --> 02:01:23.800
I don't know.

2073
02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:25.239
Maybe we better not go on.

2074
02:01:26.000 --> 02:01:28.520
What else can we do? We can't risk going back

2075
02:01:28.560 --> 02:01:31.720
to the highway. Might be another slide. Anyway, it'll be

2076
02:01:31.760 --> 02:01:34.000
tomorrow afternoon before they can get the road cleared, even

2077
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:35.039
if the storm lets up.

2078
02:01:35.119 --> 02:01:36.800
But maybe strangers are on board.

2079
02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:37.800
Is here in spite of.

2080
02:01:37.840 --> 02:01:40.399
That sign o? That's the chance we take.

2081
02:01:50.279 --> 02:01:56.239
But strangers I wanted, wanted very much, indeed, in spite

2082
02:01:56.279 --> 02:01:59.479
of any appearance to the contrary, Even though it may

2083
02:01:59.560 --> 02:02:02.319
see a long time to wait for someone to answer

2084
02:02:02.399 --> 02:02:07.119
the door as you three stand there, Hm.

2085
02:02:07.800 --> 02:02:10.239
Funny they'd have a fancy door knocker like this way

2086
02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:10.560
up here.

2087
02:02:10.960 --> 02:02:11.760
Nobody answers.

2088
02:02:12.039 --> 02:02:13.119
Perhaps there's no one here.

2089
02:02:13.760 --> 02:02:16.479
That's possible. But I've got an idea there is. I'll

2090
02:02:16.520 --> 02:02:21.079
give it another try. Yes, it sounds like someone's coming.

2091
02:02:21.359 --> 02:02:22.079
Yes it does.

2092
02:02:22.840 --> 02:02:29.600
I wonder if, oh hello, your sign said welcome. So

2093
02:02:29.680 --> 02:02:31.000
we thought that this sign is wrong.

2094
02:02:32.000 --> 02:02:32.920
You aren't welcome here.

2095
02:02:33.399 --> 02:02:36.399
We don't mean you in true, but the highways closed off.

2096
02:02:36.680 --> 02:02:37.520
There was a slide.

2097
02:02:38.319 --> 02:02:42.079
I heard it. Well, then you know we wouldn't insist.

2098
02:02:42.159 --> 02:02:44.600
But my mother in law isn't well. We'd like to

2099
02:02:44.640 --> 02:02:46.800
see the doctor if we could. He's asleep. I wouldn't

2100
02:02:46.800 --> 02:02:51.359
disturb him. I see, well, but he wouldn't see you anyway.

2101
02:02:52.359 --> 02:02:54.000
I'm his wife. I can speak for him.

2102
02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:57.880
It's mother's heart. Missus Harris. It's really serious, so much.

2103
02:02:57.800 --> 02:02:58.680
More of the reason not to come.

2104
02:02:58.760 --> 02:02:58.880
Much.

2105
02:02:58.880 --> 02:02:59.479
He's not wanted.

2106
02:02:59.640 --> 02:03:05.880
Oh all right, just as you say, Missus Harris, Come on, Jane, mother, Harry.

2107
02:03:06.399 --> 02:03:08.159
Now you see you see what happens?

2108
02:03:08.359 --> 02:03:08.640
Harry?

2109
02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:12.159
Yes, Jane, is there someone down there?

2110
02:03:12.840 --> 02:03:12.880
No?

2111
02:03:13.239 --> 02:03:13.600
No one.

2112
02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:17.239
But if that's the doctor, No, there's no one here

2113
02:03:17.840 --> 02:03:20.760
is a patient. There's no one here.

2114
02:03:20.960 --> 02:03:21.279
Jane.

2115
02:03:22.239 --> 02:03:22.880
Now will you go?

2116
02:03:23.800 --> 02:03:24.680
You see you're not daughter.

2117
02:03:24.880 --> 02:03:27.800
I'm not so sure. Hello, doctor, Yes, there is a

2118
02:03:27.880 --> 02:03:31.840
patient here. There's a patient here. Will you come down

2119
02:03:31.920 --> 02:03:33.000
and fear your fool?

2120
02:03:34.319 --> 02:03:38.920
All right, I'll go get the doctor just a minute, Jane.

2121
02:03:39.039 --> 02:03:51.199
You mind if we step inside, please yourself. Well you'd

2122
02:03:51.279 --> 02:03:52.119
better take the chair.

2123
02:03:52.199 --> 02:03:54.159
Mother, Thank you, Hoddyfielder.

2124
02:03:54.479 --> 02:03:57.439
A little beats all good in the living room, Jane,

2125
02:03:57.880 --> 02:03:58.359
did they come?

2126
02:04:04.560 --> 02:04:05.279
Which one of you?

2127
02:04:05.439 --> 02:04:09.920
Is the paper by my mother in law? Missus while?

2128
02:04:10.640 --> 02:04:15.520
Oh yeah, now what's your complaintness?

2129
02:04:16.399 --> 02:04:20.079
Oh doctor, it's my heart.

2130
02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:22.720
Please don't be alarmed my appearance.

2131
02:04:23.399 --> 02:04:24.800
Oh no, of course not.

2132
02:04:25.399 --> 02:04:28.239
Doctor Harris was burned several years ago when our house

2133
02:04:28.319 --> 02:04:29.560
in Seattle was destroyed.

2134
02:04:29.960 --> 02:04:35.479
Yes, it was a serious fire. We lost everything. Fortunately

2135
02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:40.359
we had insurance. But insurance can't bring back old keepsakes,

2136
02:04:41.399 --> 02:04:46.439
mementos accumulated through a lifetime. No, no, that's true, but

2137
02:04:46.600 --> 02:04:49.479
I saved very Heavy's our daughter?

2138
02:04:49.880 --> 02:04:51.079
Never mind that, James.

2139
02:04:51.560 --> 02:04:59.039
No, Well, now, missus wickam uh about the heart condition?

2140
02:04:59.720 --> 02:05:02.520
Do you I think you could sketch the case before me?

2141
02:05:12.359 --> 02:05:15.800
Half an hour later, doctor Herbers gives Missus Whitcombe a

2142
02:05:15.920 --> 02:05:18.880
senitive and sends her off in the care of his

2143
02:05:19.000 --> 02:05:21.720
wife to be shown the room where she will be

2144
02:05:21.880 --> 02:05:27.960
able to enjoy a long and peaceful sleep. Later, when

2145
02:05:28.039 --> 02:05:31.000
Paul and Jane are in their room, Jane goes out

2146
02:05:31.079 --> 02:05:31.880
and down the hall.

2147
02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:34.279
A few moments past then.

2148
02:05:36.199 --> 02:05:39.840
But Jane, Jane, what is it? What's the matter? Oh,

2149
02:05:40.119 --> 02:05:42.039
Jane darling, you're trembling?

2150
02:05:43.279 --> 02:05:44.000
Is so frightened?

2151
02:05:44.199 --> 02:05:45.399
Frightened? What happened?

2152
02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:46.680
I hardly know?

2153
02:05:46.800 --> 02:05:50.439
It was so dark in the hall, but there was

2154
02:05:50.479 --> 02:05:51.640
a light on a few minutes ago.

2155
02:05:51.920 --> 02:05:53.880
I know that there was of an out.

2156
02:05:54.279 --> 02:05:57.479
Did someone turn it off? Yes, well, maybe they were

2157
02:05:57.520 --> 02:05:58.760
just closing things up for the night.

2158
02:05:59.119 --> 02:06:01.960
It wasn't they turned it off on purpose?

2159
02:06:02.439 --> 02:06:03.000
Are you sure?

2160
02:06:03.239 --> 02:06:03.439
Yes?

2161
02:06:04.279 --> 02:06:05.960
When I came out into the hall again, it was

2162
02:06:06.159 --> 02:06:09.920
pitch dark. I couldn't see a thing, right, I thought

2163
02:06:09.960 --> 02:06:12.039
I heard a sort of creaking sound.

2164
02:06:12.840 --> 02:06:15.760
I don't know how to describe. It was like like

2165
02:06:16.079 --> 02:06:17.680
forwards being tried up.

2166
02:06:18.239 --> 02:06:20.479
So I don't suppose I thought of it that way

2167
02:06:20.479 --> 02:06:24.079
at the time, But it was very slight, and I stopped,

2168
02:06:24.119 --> 02:06:26.800
and then I thought my mind was playing a trick

2169
02:06:26.880 --> 02:06:29.640
on me, that there wasn't a sound, just the rain

2170
02:06:29.760 --> 02:06:31.720
dashing against the window down at the far end.

2171
02:06:31.640 --> 02:06:35.159
Of the hall, So so I tarted forward again. I

2172
02:06:35.319 --> 02:06:37.239
was feeling my way along the wall.

2173
02:06:37.079 --> 02:06:40.920
And then it seemed to me that something passed in

2174
02:06:41.039 --> 02:06:43.000
fun of me, crossed from.

2175
02:06:42.960 --> 02:06:46.479
One wall to the other. I don't think I really

2176
02:06:46.600 --> 02:06:50.399
heard anything. It was almost more as though I felt it.

2177
02:06:50.960 --> 02:06:51.680
Help the person.

2178
02:06:52.079 --> 02:06:55.880
No, it's not really sense, then I should say it.

2179
02:06:56.319 --> 02:06:58.359
Oh, Jane, Oh no, no, Paul.

2180
02:06:58.439 --> 02:07:02.039
There was someone and and just then, just after they

2181
02:07:02.079 --> 02:07:05.760
passed in front of me, I stumbled. I fell forward

2182
02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:11.760
him and one hand Paul, part of the floor was missing.

2183
02:07:12.840 --> 02:07:14.640
I felt the hole with my hands.

2184
02:07:14.840 --> 02:07:15.439
Good, Heavens.

2185
02:07:15.920 --> 02:07:18.720
I was on my hands and knees and I fell

2186
02:07:18.800 --> 02:07:21.920
across the gap. It was only a foot of sewing.

2187
02:07:22.960 --> 02:07:26.640
Then I heard someone move behind me. I didn't stop

2188
02:07:26.680 --> 02:07:28.439
to think. I was too frightened.

2189
02:07:28.520 --> 02:07:30.920
I scrambled to my feet and I ran And did

2190
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:31.640
the person follow you?

2191
02:07:31.880 --> 02:07:32.560
I don't think so.

2192
02:07:32.680 --> 02:07:33.239
I don't know.

2193
02:07:33.439 --> 02:07:34.520
I will soon find out.

2194
02:07:34.560 --> 02:07:36.199
Oh, Paul, don't go up to your fleet.

2195
02:07:36.680 --> 02:07:40.359
I'm going out there. Get my jacket on. Its lucky.

2196
02:07:40.399 --> 02:07:41.600
I brought the place light from the car.

2197
02:07:41.920 --> 02:07:43.279
Paul, I'm going with you.

2198
02:07:43.680 --> 02:07:44.600
I don't think you'd better come.

2199
02:07:44.800 --> 02:07:46.000
I don't want to be left alone.

2200
02:07:47.800 --> 02:07:54.359
Maybe you're right, all right? Come on? He keep back

2201
02:07:54.600 --> 02:08:01.600
while I opened the door. Yes, ye, all right, step

2202
02:08:01.640 --> 02:08:02.000
past me.

2203
02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:09.359
This way, yeah, comb all.

2204
02:08:14.960 --> 02:08:24.880
Mm oh here much right about here? Well, there's no

2205
02:08:25.000 --> 02:08:29.680
gap there that I can see. No, wait, this section

2206
02:08:29.800 --> 02:08:42.560
right here. Watch this, so that's what it. Just get

2207
02:08:42.640 --> 02:08:44.920
it in here, lift it right out.

2208
02:08:45.479 --> 02:08:46.960
If someone did lift it out.

2209
02:08:47.520 --> 02:08:50.600
No, no, I'm sure enough, missus Harry.

2210
02:08:51.199 --> 02:08:52.640
Don't shine that light on my face.

2211
02:08:55.479 --> 02:08:55.800
Thank you.

2212
02:08:56.840 --> 02:08:57.359
That's better.

2213
02:08:58.199 --> 02:09:00.439
No, I'm sure no one would careless an to leave

2214
02:09:00.520 --> 02:09:01.720
the section of floor out.

2215
02:09:02.000 --> 02:09:05.760
Oh, but it was, go on, missus Harris.

2216
02:09:06.199 --> 02:09:07.319
This is an old house.

2217
02:09:08.399 --> 02:09:11.640
Once the board fitted so perfectly it was impossible.

2218
02:09:11.119 --> 02:09:12.079
To see the jumpsture.

2219
02:09:13.000 --> 02:09:16.239
There was a little place to cash valuables beneath it

2220
02:09:16.359 --> 02:09:18.199
was an earlier owner's idea.

2221
02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:18.760
I see.

2222
02:09:19.600 --> 02:09:21.800
Not exactly the place anyone would look for things to

2223
02:09:21.840 --> 02:09:22.600
be hidden, was that it?

2224
02:09:23.199 --> 02:09:23.760
I suppose?

2225
02:09:23.840 --> 02:09:27.399
So the man was very rich and this is a

2226
02:09:27.520 --> 02:09:28.359
lonely neighborhood.

2227
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:31.800
Yes it is. You don't have many visitors, do you.

2228
02:09:32.600 --> 02:09:32.640
No?

2229
02:09:33.720 --> 02:09:38.199
I gathered that from the condition of the bridge. Oh yes,

2230
02:09:38.840 --> 02:09:43.760
the bridge. Well, good night, good night.

2231
02:09:45.560 --> 02:09:45.720
Hum.

2232
02:09:46.560 --> 02:09:49.680
How do you like that, Paul, something's awfully funny.

2233
02:09:49.920 --> 02:09:53.800
Yeah, I think so too. She walks along in.

2234
02:09:53.800 --> 02:09:54.720
The dark like a cat.

2235
02:09:55.439 --> 02:09:56.840
Do you suppose Mother's all right?

2236
02:09:57.640 --> 02:09:59.399
I was just wondering about that myself.

2237
02:10:07.439 --> 02:10:12.359
But someone else also seems concerned about Missus Wickam's safety.

2238
02:10:15.439 --> 02:10:22.039
Missus Wickham, Missus Wickhamba, who is it's missus Harris?

2239
02:10:22.640 --> 02:10:22.840
Oh?

2240
02:10:23.279 --> 02:10:23.800
All that?

2241
02:10:27.600 --> 02:10:28.039
Come with me?

2242
02:10:29.039 --> 02:10:30.039
But what for?

2243
02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:32.920
Hurry hurry, I'm going to take you to a room

2244
02:10:33.000 --> 02:10:33.720
down the hall.

2245
02:10:33.960 --> 02:10:34.600
Down the hall?

2246
02:10:36.119 --> 02:10:39.640
Why I don't understand, never mind, just come with them.

2247
02:10:51.039 --> 02:10:55.479
So when Jane and Paul arrive at Missus Whitcomb's door.

2248
02:10:57.279 --> 02:11:05.239
Missus Wickham missus who oh, why doesn't she answer? Missus Wickham.

2249
02:11:06.479 --> 02:11:07.159
That's not mother?

2250
02:11:07.600 --> 02:11:08.119
Who is it?

2251
02:11:08.439 --> 02:11:10.840
It must be the daughter? Open the door?

2252
02:11:10.880 --> 02:11:11.119
Abby?

2253
02:11:11.479 --> 02:11:13.119
No, I don't want you.

2254
02:11:14.039 --> 02:11:14.880
I'm afraid of you.

2255
02:11:15.239 --> 02:11:18.359
No, no, We're not going to hurt you. You promise, yes, yes,

2256
02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:24.840
of course we promise you. Uh you are heavy, aren't you? Yes?

2257
02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:25.039
Sir?

2258
02:11:25.840 --> 02:11:29.920
Oh what a terrible scar on your arm? Did that

2259
02:11:30.000 --> 02:11:31.199
happen when your house burned down?

2260
02:11:31.680 --> 02:11:31.840
Yes?

2261
02:11:31.880 --> 02:11:32.039
Sir?

2262
02:11:32.800 --> 02:11:33.760
And what happened after that?

2263
02:11:34.399 --> 02:11:36.119
Daddy and mother brought me here?

2264
02:11:37.039 --> 02:11:38.520
Does any company ever come heavy?

2265
02:11:39.119 --> 02:11:39.319
Well?

2266
02:11:39.640 --> 02:11:42.479
Sometimes hurt people do hurt people?

2267
02:11:43.319 --> 02:11:45.600
I see? And then what happened?

2268
02:11:46.159 --> 02:11:46.960
Fairy? Fix you?

2269
02:11:47.119 --> 02:11:49.840
Then he does? And did he fix you.

2270
02:11:50.600 --> 02:11:53.399
Yes, sir, Everie, how did you get in this room?

2271
02:11:53.840 --> 02:11:54.880
It isn't your room, is it?

2272
02:11:55.479 --> 02:11:55.520
No?

2273
02:11:56.119 --> 02:11:58.439
No, mother brought me here. She said I was to

2274
02:11:58.520 --> 02:11:59.000
sleep here.

2275
02:11:59.199 --> 02:12:00.800
Did she say why? He said?

2276
02:12:00.840 --> 02:12:03.199
The sick lady was to use my room? Which is

2277
02:12:03.279 --> 02:12:05.479
your room? Heavy, it's down the hall.

2278
02:12:06.000 --> 02:12:08.159
Well, Levy, you get back into bed and go to sleep.

2279
02:12:08.199 --> 02:12:10.800
We'll see you in the morning, Yes, sir, Good night, Evie.

2280
02:12:11.560 --> 02:12:17.000
Come on, James, this must be the door.

2281
02:12:17.600 --> 02:12:19.760
Why do you suppose Missus Harris moves mother in here?

2282
02:12:19.840 --> 02:12:26.079
I don't know, but we'll soon find out. Missus Wickham, Oh,

2283
02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:27.439
try the door?

2284
02:12:27.880 --> 02:12:28.520
Is something wrong?

2285
02:12:28.640 --> 02:12:28.840
Yeah?

2286
02:12:28.880 --> 02:12:29.399
Maybe you're right.

2287
02:12:30.560 --> 02:12:32.680
I come on, don't come any father?

2288
02:12:32.920 --> 02:12:36.359
You your mother isn't here, Missus Evans isn't here?

2289
02:12:36.560 --> 02:12:37.079
What do you mean?

2290
02:12:37.119 --> 02:12:38.800
I will here? Missus Harris, say where you are?

2291
02:12:40.279 --> 02:12:42.359
I have a gun, please don't force me to use it.

2292
02:12:42.960 --> 02:12:45.640
All right, But suppose you tell us just what's going on?

2293
02:12:46.119 --> 02:12:47.680
Where is Missus Wickham? I don't know.

2294
02:12:48.479 --> 02:12:49.279
I just came in here.

2295
02:12:49.479 --> 02:12:51.560
If she was all right, she was gone. You expect

2296
02:12:51.640 --> 02:12:53.680
us to believe that Heavy told us you brought her

2297
02:12:53.720 --> 02:12:54.000
in here?

2298
02:12:54.199 --> 02:12:54.359
Yes?

2299
02:12:54.479 --> 02:12:54.920
I brought her?

2300
02:12:55.039 --> 02:12:55.199
Well?

2301
02:12:55.279 --> 02:12:56.279
Where is she? He's gone?

2302
02:12:56.560 --> 02:12:59.319
Gone, yes, And now you mustn't delay me any longer.

2303
02:12:59.560 --> 02:13:03.239
I must whim stand back, don't try to follow me.

2304
02:13:03.399 --> 02:13:04.760
Now, wait a minute, say where you are?

2305
02:13:07.800 --> 02:13:09.159
She does look like a cat?

2306
02:13:09.640 --> 02:13:13.960
Well, come on, where Paul? Downstairs? Downstairs to that room

2307
02:13:14.039 --> 02:13:16.159
doctor Harris has rigged up like an examining room.

2308
02:13:16.520 --> 02:13:26.039
I've got a hunch, a hunch, or have you, Paul? Well,

2309
02:13:26.239 --> 02:13:29.520
the door of the examining room stands a few inches open.

2310
02:13:30.359 --> 02:13:34.119
There's a light on the inside, and a thin golden

2311
02:13:34.239 --> 02:13:36.880
shaft shines out through the clack of the door into

2312
02:13:36.960 --> 02:13:38.720
the dark downstairs of.

2313
02:13:38.760 --> 02:13:43.960
The old house. So listen, Paul, listen to the.

2314
02:13:44.079 --> 02:13:50.079
Sound coming through that open door, the sound of someone

2315
02:13:50.640 --> 02:13:55.439
happily at work. Come on, we'll have a look before yours.

2316
02:13:55.479 --> 02:13:57.640
We're here. Oh, I don't know.

2317
02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:01.720
What are you doing?

2318
02:14:02.359 --> 02:14:04.359
Looks to me like he's fixing a hyper.

2319
02:14:06.399 --> 02:14:10.119
Oh, mother, sketch down on the table is come on?

2320
02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:12.520
Oh hello?

2321
02:14:12.760 --> 02:14:15.279
What's going on down here? What's the matter with missus Wickham?

2322
02:14:17.279 --> 02:14:17.560
Why not?

2323
02:14:17.920 --> 02:14:18.920
The hearts and mother?

2324
02:14:19.319 --> 02:14:19.560
Mother?

2325
02:14:19.800 --> 02:14:21.359
No, please, you really mustn't.

2326
02:14:21.880 --> 02:14:24.000
It might be seeing So maybe he's right, Jane, you

2327
02:14:24.119 --> 02:14:25.720
mustn't be disturbed to be aroused.

2328
02:14:25.960 --> 02:14:27.159
Roughly, the right shock.

2329
02:14:27.279 --> 02:14:30.439
All right. Oh she'll be a right Jane, Yes she will.

2330
02:14:30.600 --> 02:14:32.399
If you'll just permit me to go ahead. We'll permit

2331
02:14:32.479 --> 02:14:34.279
you to do nothing. What I want to know is

2332
02:14:34.319 --> 02:14:35.840
how did Missus Wickham get down here?

2333
02:14:36.119 --> 02:14:36.239
Right?

2334
02:14:36.680 --> 02:14:37.359
I carried her?

2335
02:14:37.680 --> 02:14:38.119
Carried her?

2336
02:14:38.359 --> 02:14:40.600
Yes, I found her unconscious on the floor in the

2337
02:14:40.720 --> 02:14:41.359
upstairs hall.

2338
02:14:41.760 --> 02:14:43.560
And how do you suppose she happened to be out

2339
02:14:43.600 --> 02:14:44.000
in the hall.

2340
02:14:44.680 --> 02:14:46.079
My wife may have disturbed her.

2341
02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:48.760
Yeah, your wife is a little art or.

2342
02:14:48.800 --> 02:14:51.520
You mustn't mind her. She's just a nervous paper.

2343
02:14:51.600 --> 02:14:52.359
He's that all right?

2344
02:14:52.600 --> 02:14:55.520
Perhaps she frightened missus wistms. She'd have meant nothing dire

2345
02:14:56.239 --> 02:14:59.079
that with Missus Wickton's heart so bad, And then you

2346
02:14:59.199 --> 02:15:00.640
found her and carry her down here?

2347
02:15:00.720 --> 02:15:01.039
Is that it?

2348
02:15:01.359 --> 02:15:04.640
That's right, mister irvis. I see I wanted to care

2349
02:15:04.760 --> 02:15:05.640
for her properly.

2350
02:15:06.359 --> 02:15:09.239
You like caring for people, don't you?

2351
02:15:09.439 --> 02:15:09.560
Oh?

2352
02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:11.359
Yes, Oh, look at mother.

2353
02:15:11.680 --> 02:15:12.199
She's stirring.

2354
02:15:12.760 --> 02:15:15.279
Oh, she's regaining consciousness.

2355
02:15:15.800 --> 02:15:16.880
You seem disappointed?

2356
02:15:16.960 --> 02:15:17.239
Doctor?

2357
02:15:17.800 --> 02:15:19.800
Oh oh.

2358
02:15:21.560 --> 02:15:23.000
Where am I mother?

2359
02:15:24.039 --> 02:15:24.199
Oh?

2360
02:15:24.479 --> 02:15:25.159
Oh, Jane?

2361
02:15:25.319 --> 02:15:27.520
If I were to administer the hyperdulity out of it?

2362
02:15:28.239 --> 02:15:29.399
How did I get down here?

2363
02:15:29.520 --> 02:15:32.079
Who are not quite sure? Doctor Herrick says he carried

2364
02:15:32.159 --> 02:15:35.199
you doctor Harris. Yes, try to think. How can you

2365
02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:36.800
remember what happened before you fainted?

2366
02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:38.560
Yes, yes, that.

2367
02:15:39.479 --> 02:15:42.680
Doctor Harris came to the room. Oh never mind, mother,

2368
02:15:42.800 --> 02:15:43.920
never mind, don't.

2369
02:15:43.760 --> 02:15:44.760
Try to tell us anymore.

2370
02:15:44.800 --> 02:15:47.239
Now, if you just permit me, I could quiet get you.

2371
02:15:47.800 --> 02:15:49.359
You've treated your last patient?

2372
02:15:49.479 --> 02:15:52.920
No, no, you mustn't say that. You wouldn't interfere with

2373
02:15:53.039 --> 02:15:55.720
my work, would you? A doctor's work must not be

2374
02:15:55.880 --> 02:15:56.399
interfered with.

2375
02:15:56.680 --> 02:15:59.479
No, wait till I get down to Seattle tomorrow and

2376
02:15:59.600 --> 02:16:00.680
look up authorities.

2377
02:16:07.880 --> 02:16:11.560
Well, someone's planned and not working out quite right. It

2378
02:16:11.680 --> 02:16:16.960
seems just what those plans are. Paul isn't certain, but

2379
02:16:17.079 --> 02:16:20.239
he does know that something is wrong, so wrong that

2380
02:16:20.319 --> 02:16:23.199
he feels he must sit up and keep guard outside

2381
02:16:23.279 --> 02:16:26.479
one of the upstairs rooms where Jane and her mother

2382
02:16:26.640 --> 02:16:27.680
are preparing for bed.

2383
02:16:29.000 --> 02:16:30.840
Now just ride their quietly, Mother.

2384
02:16:31.319 --> 02:16:34.079
Jane, I'm frightened.

2385
02:16:34.360 --> 02:16:35.399
You must be quiet.

2386
02:16:35.520 --> 02:16:35.719
Mother.

2387
02:16:36.559 --> 02:16:40.600
Here, I'll put another cover over you. Fair now feel better?

2388
02:16:41.159 --> 02:16:44.159
Yes, I I'll tell you what happened Jane.

2389
02:16:44.479 --> 02:16:46.680
All right, mother, I'd like to know what happened, but

2390
02:16:47.000 --> 02:16:49.680
please try to be calm, but I feel you must know.

2391
02:16:49.920 --> 02:16:52.479
All right, all right, that's what did happen.

2392
02:16:53.159 --> 02:16:56.239
Well, I was here in my room preparing for bed.

2393
02:16:57.000 --> 02:17:00.440
I heard a noise and I turned around and follow

2394
02:17:00.479 --> 02:17:02.680
myself face to face with doctor Harrison.

2395
02:17:02.799 --> 02:17:04.639
Possibly just came into checking your condition.

2396
02:17:05.079 --> 02:17:06.639
No, no, I don't think so.

2397
02:17:07.559 --> 02:17:10.719
He started walking slowly toward me, and he had the

2398
02:17:10.799 --> 02:17:14.360
most strange look on his face. Yes, he came closer,

2399
02:17:15.000 --> 02:17:16.920
and then he raised his arms though he was reaching

2400
02:17:17.000 --> 02:17:22.440
out fly and and I guess I must have fainted.

2401
02:17:22.520 --> 02:17:26.719
I don't remember anything more of lice became consciousness down here.

2402
02:17:27.440 --> 02:17:31.360
Oh, it was a very shocking experience. Yes, mother, I know. Now,

2403
02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:33.239
I try not to think of it anymore.

2404
02:17:33.840 --> 02:17:35.600
I'll stay here with you for the rest of the night.

2405
02:17:36.360 --> 02:17:37.719
Now you try to go to sleep.

2406
02:17:45.000 --> 02:17:50.239
Yes, a very shocking experience. But missus Whitcomb does go

2407
02:17:50.360 --> 02:17:54.840
to sleep, sleep from sheer exhaustion, and the venture of

2408
02:17:54.840 --> 02:17:59.280
the Jane leaps too outside the door of Paul doses

2409
02:17:59.760 --> 02:18:04.120
then awaken. The storm is seized, and it's quiet, quiet,

2410
02:18:04.159 --> 02:18:11.040
that is, until that's a familiar sound, isn't it fall?

2411
02:18:13.040 --> 02:18:17.159
It's coming from that window there. Now you can see

2412
02:18:17.200 --> 02:18:20.959
better that half moon cast a dim light from behind

2413
02:18:21.040 --> 02:18:24.120
those scudding clouds, but enough for you to see what's

2414
02:18:24.200 --> 02:18:27.159
happening on the roof of the wind to the left

2415
02:18:27.479 --> 02:18:28.079
and below?

2416
02:18:29.399 --> 02:18:31.639
The doctor seems very busy up.

2417
02:18:31.559 --> 02:18:36.280
There, busy driving bundles of faggot against the upper wall

2418
02:18:36.319 --> 02:18:40.319
of the house. And what's that He's boiling something over

2419
02:18:40.399 --> 02:18:46.000
the faggot. It's kerosene. Do you hear anything?

2420
02:18:46.120 --> 02:18:46.360
Fall?

2421
02:18:47.239 --> 02:18:51.040
No, your wife and the mother are still asleep. It's

2422
02:18:51.079 --> 02:18:53.840
all right to leave them now fall Leave them and

2423
02:18:53.959 --> 02:18:58.000
climb out of the window, and if you're careful, you

2424
02:18:58.079 --> 02:19:00.760
can edge along the eaves to a to that each

2425
02:19:00.840 --> 02:19:05.319
point you'll soon find out.

2426
02:19:06.479 --> 02:19:09.840
Hey, put that there, you see, I would too freak

2427
02:19:10.000 --> 02:19:13.000
for you now that I have to, like it talks

2428
02:19:13.040 --> 02:19:16.840
in my hands. You be more patient, won't you, because if.

2429
02:19:16.719 --> 02:19:22.959
You don't, I'll part to the tag like, hey, don't

2430
02:19:23.079 --> 02:19:23.639
be trying.

2431
02:19:24.600 --> 02:19:26.440
If you try to jump down, that's what I'll do,

2432
02:19:27.079 --> 02:19:29.399
and everything will be.

2433
02:19:29.639 --> 02:19:32.639
Tiny and including you car.

2434
02:19:33.319 --> 02:19:36.440
And you're responsible because you're going to interfere with.

2435
02:19:36.520 --> 02:19:38.000
My active So that's it.

2436
02:19:38.760 --> 02:19:43.000
You know what it means to me to care for beginnin.

2437
02:19:42.399 --> 02:19:44.840
I've got an idea it means enough to you to

2438
02:19:44.959 --> 02:19:46.879
keep you from putting up a barricade at the bridge,

2439
02:19:47.360 --> 02:19:50.360
maybe even weaken the bridge on purpose. It means enough

2440
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:51.760
so that you tried to see to it that my

2441
02:19:51.840 --> 02:19:53.360
wife woud step in that hole in the floor and

2442
02:19:53.440 --> 02:19:55.719
fall and break awag, and that my mother in law.

2443
02:19:56.120 --> 02:19:56.760
It's true.

2444
02:19:57.479 --> 02:19:59.920
All those things and more you don't know about.

2445
02:20:00.600 --> 02:20:01.719
But there's a reason.

2446
02:20:01.840 --> 02:20:04.319
Sure. The reason is you're crazy as alone.

2447
02:20:04.520 --> 02:20:08.879
No, no, that's a mistake. Although I can understand.

2448
02:20:08.479 --> 02:20:10.319
Why you make it no sense.

2449
02:20:10.799 --> 02:20:12.440
The world is at all not I.

2450
02:20:13.559 --> 02:20:16.760
I'm not a madman saying that everyone is fazy, but myself,

2451
02:20:17.440 --> 02:20:20.760
I'm saying the world is center metals and metals.

2452
02:20:21.200 --> 02:20:25.639
I was a great curtain one that's great curtains. Why

2453
02:20:25.719 --> 02:20:30.479
it's my very life. I have sacrificed everything to attain myselfagancy.

2454
02:20:30.799 --> 02:20:32.399
You will laugh when I tell you that I was

2455
02:20:32.440 --> 02:20:35.920
an artist, that you're artist, But that's the truth. Nothing

2456
02:20:36.120 --> 02:20:38.600
mattered to me but by work, the art of surgery.

2457
02:20:39.200 --> 02:20:43.360
The house burned in and I was distiguous. If you

2458
02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:46.479
see me now, and you know what happened. They didn't

2459
02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:49.879
want me anymore. My skill was unimpaired, but they didn't

2460
02:20:49.920 --> 02:20:53.440
want my skills because they couldn't tolerate my appearance.

2461
02:20:54.000 --> 02:20:54.559
So that's it.

2462
02:20:54.680 --> 02:20:56.399
And now that you've set away My.

2463
02:20:56.520 --> 02:20:59.639
Last refuse came back to no swagon, No, you've blessed me,

2464
02:20:59.760 --> 02:21:03.200
not hy stay back her, I'll jump I'll jump down there, Danane. No,

2465
02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:08.840
get back from the window. Missus Harris, put on it done,

2466
02:21:08.920 --> 02:21:10.440
put it down. You know what you're doing?

2467
02:21:10.680 --> 02:21:12.399
Yes, I know, I know very well?

2468
02:21:15.000 --> 02:21:16.239
Are you you?

2469
02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:16.879
Yes?

2470
02:21:17.040 --> 02:21:17.799
I show him?

2471
02:21:18.760 --> 02:21:19.920
What else could I do?

2472
02:21:31.280 --> 02:21:35.959
Missus Harris was right? What else could she do? Her

2473
02:21:36.079 --> 02:21:39.639
husband had finally driven her to the last extreme. She

2474
02:21:39.719 --> 02:21:43.239
had seen his inept care disfigure the little daughter from

2475
02:21:43.319 --> 02:21:45.440
a burn scar that would mark her the rest.

2476
02:21:45.280 --> 02:21:45.760
Of her life.

2477
02:21:46.159 --> 02:21:47.920
She had seen him so happy in doing it that

2478
02:21:48.000 --> 02:21:50.920
he'd begun to think he was a real doctor. In

2479
02:21:51.000 --> 02:21:53.920
support of this belief, he'd made up a story about

2480
02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:57.520
being a great surgeon before having been scarred by fire,

2481
02:21:58.040 --> 02:22:00.639
and then he'd begun to invent ways of getting people injured,

2482
02:22:01.079 --> 02:22:03.079
so if he might have patience to care for.

2483
02:22:04.360 --> 02:22:06.000
She'd stood all these things.

2484
02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:09.520
But when she saw him lean toward the kerosene soaked

2485
02:22:09.559 --> 02:22:13.600
faggot's torch in hand, she realized that he had lit

2486
02:22:13.719 --> 02:22:16.600
the fire, which had burned and disfigured both himself and

2487
02:22:16.760 --> 02:22:20.799
the child, and so she shot him, bringing to an

2488
02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:24.719
end eighteen terrible years of life as the wife of

2489
02:22:24.840 --> 02:22:27.959
a hopelessly crazy pyromania.

2490
02:22:51.959 --> 02:22:54.079
Maybe as has presented the Whistler.

2491
02:23:00.000 --> 02:23:02.879
Original music for this production was composed and conducted by

2492
02:23:02.959 --> 02:23:06.159
Wilbur Hatch. The night Story was written by William Pifield,

2493
02:23:06.559 --> 02:23:09.239
directed by Ted Bliss, and came to you from Columbia

2494
02:23:09.319 --> 02:23:10.319
Square in Hollywood.

2495
02:23:12.799 --> 02:23:14.000
Next week, same.

2496
02:23:13.799 --> 02:23:18.040
Time, I the Whistler will return to tell you another

2497
02:23:18.280 --> 02:23:21.000
unus you will tell you good night.

2498
02:23:21.559 --> 02:23:24.920
This is BBS, the Columbia Broadcasting.

2499
02:23:24.440 --> 02:23:33.319
That's my dear.

2500
02:23:34.440 --> 02:23:39.200
The evening has run its course, unfortunately, and soon the

2501
02:23:39.360 --> 02:23:44.399
sun will return and take over again. It's about time

2502
02:23:44.559 --> 02:23:48.639
you head home and I go to where it is

2503
02:23:48.920 --> 02:23:54.159
I go, But please do come back and soon. I

2504
02:23:54.319 --> 02:23:58.440
do always enjoy our time together so much. I'll be

2505
02:23:58.639 --> 02:24:05.159
right here, say time, same place, happy to have your

2506
02:24:05.360 --> 02:24:11.280
time and company. But if I could ask just one

2507
02:24:11.440 --> 02:24:14.440
more thing of you, if I may be so bold,

2508
02:24:15.319 --> 02:24:18.120
when you make your way home and march through the dark,

2509
02:24:18.559 --> 02:24:21.159
head through the front door of your home and lay

2510
02:24:21.239 --> 02:24:25.879
your head on that cool pillow to nod away, take

2511
02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:29.760
just one moment and be thankful for what you have,

2512
02:24:30.799 --> 02:24:33.200
and I'll be seeing you soon.