Oct. 12, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Scary Horror Stories for the Spooky Season

Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Scary Horror Stories for the Spooky Season
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It's time for horror stories! When the clock forgets your name, my dear, the night remembers. In this episode of Unknown Broadcast, we summon six chilling old-time radio horror stories—tales of cursed strangers, haunted houses, ghost makers, and books that bleed. These macabre fictions echo the golden age of radio—dark, vintage, and unforgettable.

  • 👴 A Very Old Man — A kindly stranger wanders in from the cold… but time clings to him like grave-moss. Every kindness here has a cost.
  • 🌘 A Terrible Night — A sleepless hour stretches thin as a blade; something in the hallway counts your breaths… and hungers for the last one.
  • 🏚️ House of Murder — A home with a heartbeat and a habit: it keeps what enters. Doors close softly; the house does the rest.
  • 🪄 The Ghost Maker — A craftsman sells impossible reunions, one coin at a time. The dead return—polite, grateful… and wrong.
  • 🐍 Snake Doctor — Remedies brewed in swamps and whispers; a healer with patient hands and venom in the fine print.
  • 🩸 The Blood Red Ink — A manuscript writes back, correcting its readers in strokes of crimson. The ending will have you.

If you crave the uncanny, the Unknown Broadcast will be your companion: a place where classic OTR horror storiesand modern unease meet. Listen with the lights low and the locks firm; the night dislikes an audience that looks away.

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📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!

🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
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Ah, my dear, so good to see you. Why, yes,

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I am a bit jovial still as the witching season

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continues to be in full swing as it were? Or

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what's that? Well, Well, of course, of course you shouldn't

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worry one bit about that. There's nothing of your concern.

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In fact, all you should worry about, besides avoiding a

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dangerous stomach ache from too much sweet goods and cider

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is getting cozy. Now, sit down, relax, put your feet up.

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The tea is steeping as we speak, my dear, and well,

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I'm excited to share something chilling with you before we

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warm back up. It's times like these and company like

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yours that keeps me from feeling like a very old man.

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Man.

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Come in, Welcome, I'm e. G.

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Marshall.

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Welcome to the sound of suspense, to the fear you

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can hear. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination. Our

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story is about a very old man living just outside

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a tiny village, a very old man whose long life

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has been lived close to the soil and close to

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the people he loved, people still living and people long dead.

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High skill, high still girl, is it very bad? I

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don't know, She's very dear to me if I should

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lose his trying to raise her head. She knows I

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want to help. Do you think you can?

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Young men?

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I never said I was a duct, but I thought

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I mean the William Just an old man, A very

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old man.

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Our mystery drama A Very Old Man was written especially

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for the Mystery Theater by Elsbeth Eric and stars Santos Ortega.

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I'll be back shortly with that one.

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Look long and carefully at the face of a tiny baby,

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Look carefully and long into the face of someone who

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is very old. Do you see the wisdom in both

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the very young and they're very old? Have wisdom in between?

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There is only accumulated information.

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Oh your home, good, he's done it again.

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Who's done?

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What are you talking about? My father?

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You know I am.

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I warned him, I said, Stephan, if it ever gets around,

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you'll ruin my medical practice.

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People won't believe in me.

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The only Manfred comes it down. Now, what's he done?

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The same thing?

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Where is he?

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Isn't he home yet?

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He went to the cemetery as usual. But you still

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haven't told me what happened.

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Anna Brandt came to see me about a month ago.

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Severe attacks of pain in the upper abdomen. All the

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symptoms indicated appendicitis. I sent her a car wise for

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the operation. Of course, he examined her too, and he

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agreed with me, no doubt about it. Inflamed appendix had

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to come out for the operator the next day, and

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that night.

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That same night, she had another attack.

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So it wasn't how could she have had another appendicitis

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attack when he'd just taken her appendix out.

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But he was as flabbergasted as I was.

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But what's it all got to do with my father?

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Stephan happened to be in my office the day Anna

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Brandt first came to see me. You know how he

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loves to hang around the office.

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Anna Brandt wasn't ten feet out of the office when

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he told me there's nothing wrong with her appendix.

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Oh not again.

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I can't have my father in law, who's been a

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farmer all his life, telling me a doctor with a

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reputation that I don't know what's wrong with my own patient.

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Source.

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You can't.

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For a minute, I did think back to that boy,

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the one with the asthma what seemed to be asthma anyway.

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The rothbird boy. I was right about him.

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I know, I know he made a lucky guess.

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Father went to see him every day, talked to him,

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rubbed his chest, his throat.

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In two weeks, boy was all right. The boy was hysterical,

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over aspirated. Nothing more but this business with Anna Brandt.

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The day she came to see me, Stephan was asleep

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in the waiting room. I was explaining to Anna that

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I couldn't perform the operation, simple as it is, because

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of my hands, my arthritis. But I would send her

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to car Wise. But she accepted that everybody knows about

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my arthritis, and she said something pleasant to Stephan. That

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was the first I knew that he wasn't asleep. But

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he didn't answer. He just stared at her as though

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he'd never seen her before. I reached for the phone

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to call Carl Wise. Stephan got up, came over to

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the desk and took the receiver out of my hand

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and Fred, Stephan, don't.

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It's not so, not so. Have you had a bad dream,

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old man.

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It's not so what you said to Hannah brand Nothing

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wrong with Anna Brand's appendix.

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Stephan, don't start diagnosing again. You're not a doctor.

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There's nothing wrong.

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We had enough trouble after you diagnosed the Rothburg boy.

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The Rothburg boy never had asthma.

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All right. It turned out that he didn't.

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But that was a lucky guess, and it didn't do

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my reputation any good when word went around that you'd

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been right.

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I never told anybody that's what.

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The boy did and his mother did. People started coming

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to the house, coming here, all of them, wanting to

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see you. But I told them to go away. It's

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not always that I can help. I keep hoping, expecting

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God knows what miracles. Now are you going to start

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the whole thing up again with Anna Brandt? There are

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three of them, Come on, now, get your coat, Stephan.

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Heir dark brown or black and hard heart's getting laid.

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They're the size of olive pits. Are you talking about,

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Anna Brandt? I saw them close together. Who were hiring?

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No body about here? Three of them?

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You saw them, three of them, the size of olive pits,

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lying here above the stomach.

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About here?

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Have you got X ray eyes?

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Stephan?

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Is that it?

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No?

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No, My eyes are like everybody's.

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Well, then, what do you mean you saw them?

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Her body was transparent. I could see right through it,

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as though the skin had been removed. I could see everything.

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Carl Wise was as confident as I was before the operation,

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and he was as confused as I was after. I swear,

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I don't know what made me say it, but I

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said it. I said, Carlwise, could it be a stone?

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A gallstone? Perhaps he was taken aback a little, but

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he couldn't deny a possibility, maybe a remote one, but

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a possible. I felt like a fool, but I told

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him I thought he should go ahead, and he did

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this morning, and he found golfstones, three of them, the

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size of olive pits.

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I still, is it very bad? I don't know. She's

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very dear to me.

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She turned to raise her head.

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She's trying to tell you something she knows. I want

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to help. Do you think you can, doctor, young man?

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I never said I was a doctor, but the way

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you I'm just an old man, the very old man.

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Why I took it for granted, the way you SPA

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son in law's a doctor, Manfred Godlib I live with

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him and my daughter birth.

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Then you know something you've you've learned from him.

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No, I know nothing, only what I.

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See, what I feel. When I passed you by the cemetery.

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What were you doing?

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My wife is bury there? Did I hum?

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No?

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No, I even think she said a little better. Her

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eyes they look brighter, not so full of pain. You

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did nothing but touch her, struggle a little, and talked

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to her. Let me look at your hands now, they're

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just hands.

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What should they be?

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Now?

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Let me.

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Well?

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Your hands are warm on a night like this, more

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than warm, hot, very hot, as though they were burning,

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burning from inside.

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If it should get around about Anna, Brad, you don't

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think i'd tell anyone now?

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These things have a way of leaking out.

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Look, you're not going to tell father, are you that

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Carl Weis found the three stories?

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You think I shouldn't.

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He wouldn't tell anym He didn't tell anyone about the

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Rothberg boy. It was the boy's mother who shouted it

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from the housetops.

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And look what happened, people showing up here.

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When he saw them, he hid in his room, And

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when they left, he went to the cemetery, sat by

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my mother's grave.

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Do you think that he's there now?

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I suppose sometimes he stays for hours. I wish he'd

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get home before the rain starts.

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Emily, my dear, come to Emily, my precious.

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I need you.

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You are my strength. I can do nothing without you.

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Come to me, my darling, Come to me, my darling.

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And I don't want him to start thinking that any

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of this is real. He mustn't think that he has

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some magical power. List If you treat him as though

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he were possessed.

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In some way, he might begin to believe it, and

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then his mind. Who knows what might happen.

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Bertha, have you thought that, well, perhaps it's already happened,

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that he is derayed.

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I won't believe that he's my father.

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I love him, He's He's old and childish, and sometimes

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I'm impatient. I am too often, but only the way

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i'd be with a child. In many ways, he is

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my child, the only child I have, My.

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Dear, I thought you'd stop brute about that.

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Oh I have, I have.

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I I stopped last year when I turned forty. But

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that's why, Because I have no child. He's he's twice

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as precious to me.

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I understand, I do understand.

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You know that I'm fond of him.

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Then let's leave.

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Him as he is.

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Don't don't let him think he's different from other people.

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Whatever you say, you know the widow holder has been

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asking for him. Widow holder, why they keep telling me

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in the.

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Village that she has this great swelling on her head,

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big as an age.

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Yes, I've heard about it.

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She's afraid of doctors, Berthie.

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You don't suppose.

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The rain started.

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It's coming down. I'm crazy, Oh.

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Father, Oh, thank goodness, I made it just in time.

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You shouldn't take such chances. Why weren't you home for dinner?

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Where have you been?

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I kept something hot for you?

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Thank you? Thank you me your coat, I said, Now,

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where were you all this time?

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I didn't birtha tell you at the cemetery.

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You didn't go to see anybody?

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No, I didn't go to see anybody.

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Here's a place for your father, nice pot roasting to take.

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Thank you.

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I'm sorry. I wasn't here for dinner, and asked track.

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At the time, I ran into somebody. We talked a

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little man.

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Let's go up to bed, father, you'll be.

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All right, good, she'll be all right, Go to bed.

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Good night, good night, daughter. Oh memory, How is Anna brand?

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Anna brand?

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I thought about it tonight in the cemetery. Is she

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all right?

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Yes, she's fine.

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I thought you was. I had a feeling.

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Good night, enjoy your dinner.

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Good night.

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He is asking about Anna Brandt. He hasn't even mentioned

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her since that day in the office, Bertha. Could he

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have heard about Carl Weiss finding the gallstones?

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Oh, he'd have said, so. He always says precisely what's

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on his mind.

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There are times when I wish he didn't.

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Listen.

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He's talking to himself in the kitchen.

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Sounds as though he's calling someone Nenver.

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He's an old man leaving me, Please close the door,

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come to bed.

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It sounds like Emily.

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What did you say, Emily?

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Wasn't that your mother's name?

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No? No, it was my sister's.

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Oh, Bertha, I never knew you had a sister.

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You never told me.

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It was so long ago before I was born, their

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first child. She only lived an hour. My mother told

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me they just agreed on a name. Father leaned over

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the crypt to kiss her.

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She was dead.

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But that was forty five years ago. All these years

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he's never mentioned her. What was that The door opened

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downstairs before he's gone on. There's only one place he's gone,

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to the cemetery.

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When those around us cannot understand, where do we turn

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when the world is dark. Where do we go to

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the unknown or to the once familiar, the once well known,

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the once well loved, to those who have left the

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dark earth and moved into light. I'll be back shortly

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with that too. Now come back with me to the

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story of a very old man and the people who

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loved him and could not comprehend him, or could not

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comprehend him because they loved him, or because they tried.

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Too hide.

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Breakfast on the table, Manfred, Well, did you talk to him?

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He's still asleep.

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Oh, let him sleep after last night.

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Yes, we're lucky if he doesn't come down with pneumonia.

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He was drenched birth a soaked clear through, lying across

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your mother's grave with a rain beating down on him,

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crying Emily, Emily, as though his heart was broken.

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Emily is buried next to mother Bertha.

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Are you going to ask him about her?

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Oh? It's been so long, forty five years, you know,

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in all that time, I've never heard him say her name. Naturally,

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I never mentioned it. She died years before.

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I was born.

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Your mother never talked about her, just at.

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Once when she told me she wanted to be buried

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near her, and how she died. Manford she was only

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one hour old.

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Yes, crib deaths, they happened.

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We don't know why they thought of naming me Emily.

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At first my mother said, it's a pretty name. Who's

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that so early in the morning?

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Yes?

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Is this the Gobleeb house? Yes it is, and you're

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Manfred Godlieb, doctor Godlieb.

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Yes, I am, but I don't see patients at home.

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My office is Oh no, no, no, no, I'm not

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a patient the patients outside.

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Well, bring the patient to my office and about it.

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No, no, there's no need.

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She's quite well, completely cured. Well, what's the point I

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hoped I could see the old man? Your father in law?

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Is he Stephan?

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What's this about my father?

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Madam? Good morning, beautiful morning, isn't it after last night

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all that rain?

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You he wanted to see my father if I may, Well,

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what about he's asleep?

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Oh oh, I'm sorry. Well, when he does wake up,

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would you tell him? The patient recovered and is better

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than ever, lively, frisky, enjoying life to the full, romping

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in the fields.

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What patient is this?

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You said?

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She's outside? Yes, right there, Look look the picture of health.

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You don't mean, well, not the horse. Yes, my prize mayor,

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my favorite. I thought I might have to have her

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put away. But your father, madam, Oh, yes, it's all

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due to him.

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Or when was this? When did you meet Stephan last night,

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just before the rain started?

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Didn't he tell you, oh, come inside, have some coffee

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with us?

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Oh, thank you, thank you.

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Sit down, a man, forget another copy?

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May I introduce myself Otto.

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Krauss, Well, I'm Bertha Guttlieb. This is my husband. But

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then my father must have told you he lives with us.

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Your father is quite a man. Yep, coffee, Oh, thank you,

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thank you. M Yes, you see. I was returning to

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the village and I was passing the cemetery. Suddenly the

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mayor sank to her knees. Her legs seemed to give

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way completely, and there she lay on her side in

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the middle of the road.

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I I was frantic. I thought perhaps a stone bruise.

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But I looked at all four hoofs nothing And there

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I was half a mile from home, my precious horse

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stretched out on the road, and a storm coming up.

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And then I heard a sound coming from the cemetery,

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someone calling a name. Was it Emily, Emily, Yes, yes, yes,

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something like that. I shouted for help. In a minute,

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an old man appeared. Yes, I asked him to help me,

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but I wasn't sure he even heard. He he seemed

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very distraught. He went straight to the mayor, knelt down

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and took her fore leg in his hands and started

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rubbing it very gently. He knew which one was hurting her,

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and after a while the pain went out of her eyes.

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Couldn't understand it. It was something about the way he

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he touched her. I I asked to see his hands,

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and he held them out, and even before I touched them,

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I could feel the heat spreading out from them.

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Heat.

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What heat?

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Haven't you ever noticed the extraordinary heat from his hands? I?

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I can't say that I have. Oh, but it's true

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his hands give off all warmth. I I can't believe

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you've never noticed it.

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But it could have been on such a wet, cold night.

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It only seemed that way to you. You imagined it.

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Oh.

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I suppose that's possible, But I didn't imagine it. When

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the Mayor got to her feet were she was all right.

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I walked her home. I couldn't quite believe it all.

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I bedded her down, and this morning all I could

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think was I must tell the old man about it.

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There are stories going around about him in the village.

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Perhaps you've heard some of them.

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Well, I'm only here on a visit to see my aunt.

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I don't live here.

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Well, he doesn't really do anything. He's just around and

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people love him.

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They like to think because he's such a sweet old

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man that he can do things doctors can't do.

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And because he's such a very old man. We wouldn't

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want him to start thinking that there was anything miraculous

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about well, about anything that happened quite naturally.

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Well, you think it might might affect him, might affect

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his mind in some way.

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He's a very old man. It could happen.

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Well, I suppose it's possible. She wasn't really lame, of course,

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it's possible. Only ask him, will you about his hands,

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those amazing hands?

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Yes, yes, we'll ask him.

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I mean giving off that heat. I felt it, you know. Well,

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i'll be getting long, my aunts expected.

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Well, will tell him you stop by?

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Yes, yes, I wish you would tell him, and please

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tell him.

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Thanks, we'll tell him. Do you think we should wake up?

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Come on, it's time. Yes, we have to tell him

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about the young man and the horse. But we won't

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make anything out of nothing at all, Just to say that.

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He dropped by to say thanks, yes, father, Stephan, are

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you awake.

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What time is it?

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Oh, it's almost nine o'clock.

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Aren't you your office?

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Well it uh, it seems that a young man stopped

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by to see us, Stephan.

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Actually, father, he wanted to see you, but we told

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him you were sleeping. Why me, Well, it seems he

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met you on the road last night.

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Mary.

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It was.

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That's right, the horse that is swelling.

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Do you feel well enough to get up now?

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Father?

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I think so, you're sure after last night? I'm all right, all.

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Right now, just let me help you out of bed.

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Steffan, give your hand, Come on, that's it.

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Yeah, curious slippers. Yeah, I will splash some water on

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my fish and then you'll have breakfast.

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Birtha, birtha. His hands are as cold as mine.

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Cold that young man did imagine it about his hands?

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It is if your hands are cold any once, feel warmer,

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even if they're only a little warmer than you're all.

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And he'd been riding back from the village on horseback.

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So of course his hands were very cold.

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Of course, of course it is clearing, how good I'll

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go down and have some coffee ready for you and

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two eggs for mean.

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Your clothes are on the bed, father, thank you Bertha. Father.

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Last night when Manfred and I came up to bed

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and you were eating your supper. Anyway, that's what we

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thought you were doing.

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It's what I was doing.

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Well, we heard you talking?

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Was I talking?

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Well?

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You kept saying. We heard you say Emily.

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I said what, over and over?

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Father?

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Were you talking to Emily? But do you know about

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Emily only what mother told me? What did your mother

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tell her that Emily died, That she only lived an hour.

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She was her first child, forty five years ago.

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Father, she died in the crib. I remember her so well.

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Why do you talk to her now?

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Father?

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Why do you call her?

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Because because she comes back to me when I call her.

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Father, you don't mean that she comes back to me,

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to me, not to anyone else, only to me when

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I call her.

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You don't believe in ghosts.

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Emily is not a ghost. Her spirit comes back to

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me when I call her.

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Father, you can't believe I'm the.

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Only person left on earth. She remembers, her mother is dead,

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the midwife is dead. When I am dead it will

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be no one for her to come back to, no

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reason to come back.

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You can't believe what I don't have to believe, will

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not believe.

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I know.

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I won't let you.

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You have nothing to say about it. Nothing.

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We're not stay in this house and listen to you

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tell me that my Emily will not come when I call.

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I'm going to her now.

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Father, Wait, father, come back, Steven.

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What's the matter my way?

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Steven?

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F Oh fuck?

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He came tearing down the stairs. He brushed right past me.

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What's what's the matter with him?

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I talked to him about Emily. I made him angry.

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Where's he gone?

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Do you know.

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Her?

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To Emily?

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Emily? I need you, darling with me and my darling

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your father needs I need you, my sweet Emily.

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Old man, oh my moly, Stefan. No, no, you remember me,

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don't you? From last night?

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The man young man with the mayor who's lame.

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Ah.

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You should see her now. They told me she's better,

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better than better. Come come have a look, please, please come.

488
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:36.359
Look there. Look look at her.

489
00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:41.000
And a sign of lame.

490
00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:42.920
I came to your house a little while ago. You

491
00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:43.920
were sleeping, and.

492
00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.079
They told me you were there to say thanks, there

493
00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:47.160
was no need for them.

494
00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:49.519
Oh, I'd like to do more than just leave my thanks.

495
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:52.279
I'd like to invite you to my aunt's place. Oh no, no,

496
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:54.640
I couldn't. No, no, I'd like you to meet my aunt.

497
00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:58.400
Please your end won no, not a bit.

498
00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:01.200
Come on, we'll both ride mayor here. I'll give you

499
00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:01.720
a leg up.

500
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.319
You're sure about your aunt now, Oh.

501
00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:07.200
She'll be delighted.

502
00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:09.319
She doesn't get out much these days.

503
00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:10.839
Is she.

504
00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:12.759
Very old?

505
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:16.279
Well, she's not young, but that's not why she stays home.

506
00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:19.799
She has this disfiguring growth on her head. It makes

507
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:22.880
her shy. You should see your doctor. No, no, she won't,

508
00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:25.680
absolutely refuses, won't hear of it, hates them all.

509
00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:27.279
Oh it's there.

510
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:29.720
Oh yes, yes, all the money in the world and

511
00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:32.119
won't go to a doctor. So she sits in her

512
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:33.480
parlor and reads her bible.

513
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:34.359
Ah.

514
00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:39.839
There there's the house, Yes, the big stone eyes. You

515
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:43.880
know the house I've admired since I was a boy.

516
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:46.279
My aunt bought it with my uncle died. My uncle

517
00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:48.960
was Fritz Holder. You've heard of him, the manufacturer.

518
00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:50.960
I don't think so.

519
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:54.319
Around here, I understand my aunt is known as the

520
00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:55.240
widow Holder.

521
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.039
Some folks are afraid of one thing, some are afraid

522
00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.440
of another. Everyone who's afraid wants to run and hide.

523
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:16.799
That's natural, most natural thing in the world. But what

524
00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:21.079
may be hiding in the hiding place, that's the question.

525
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:27.119
It could be something else to be afraid of. I'll

526
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:43.000
be back shortly. With Act three. A very old man

527
00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:47.039
is mounting the steps of a big stone house in

528
00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:50.319
the company of a very young man whose aunt is

529
00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:53.200
known to the village as the widow Holder.

530
00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:59.680
Listen now, my aunt is in Uh huh, there you are,

531
00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:00.720
just where I knew you'd be.

532
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:01.880
Come in, Come in, stuff.

533
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:04.640
Where have you been all morning?

534
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.000
Otto?

535
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:09.759
I missed you at breakfast? Oh you brought someone with you.

536
00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:12.759
Yes, this is the very wonderful man I met here

537
00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:15.920
the cemetery last night when my mayor went lame Stefan.

538
00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:18.000
This is my aunt, missus Holden.

539
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.960
How good of you to come by, Madam.

540
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:27.839
I don't have many visitors, not anymore, and I seldom

541
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.920
go out because of this.

542
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.200
On my head. I don't like to be seen. I

543
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:36.160
hope it doesn't offend you.

544
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:41.480
No, doesn't offend me at all.

545
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:46.519
Well, it offends me. Perhaps I'm too sensitive, but that's

546
00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:50.640
the way I am. So I sit here and read

547
00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:51.400
my Bible.

548
00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:54.200
And that bible's too heavy for you'd hold in your

549
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:54.839
lap all day.

550
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:58.440
But it's the family Bible. It's the one i'm used to.

551
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.160
All right, all right, sit down, Stephan, I'm all right her.

552
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:05.359
Stand both of you.

553
00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:10.039
Sit down, and otto you tell me where you've been

554
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.240
all morning and why you weren't at breakfast.

555
00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:14.960
I told you last night how the mayor went lame,

556
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:17.119
and how I met Stephan near the cemetery.

557
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:19.960
Well, this morning I let her out of her stall

558
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.559
and she was dancing on her toes. I couldn't believe it.

559
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:25.720
Stephan hadn't done a thing.

560
00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:26.839
But rub her pastern a bit.

561
00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.079
Is that really all you did?

562
00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:32.319
I did nothing.

563
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:35.720
Well, he talked to her, rubbed her fore leg and talked.

564
00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:40.279
To her, how remarkable you're a remarkable man.

565
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:44.640
No, no, you're staring at me.

566
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.319
I apologize this awful growth.

567
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:50.920
To fetch me my shoulder, I'll cover my head.

568
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:55.119
No, no, please please hit in my bed program. I

569
00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:58.039
am not offended. I give you my word. I do

570
00:30:58.200 --> 00:30:58.480
don't go.

571
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:00.440
No, it's all right, I'll be right now, miss Older.

572
00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.640
I am not offended. I am sorry. I stared, So

573
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:09.039
I will not stare again. Please forgive me, It's.

574
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.960
Quite all right. Please be calm, sit down.

575
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:18.160
I can't Arto mentioned that you live with your daughter

576
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:23.359
ste right, my daughter Bertha, and your son in law Manfred.

577
00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:29.640
They have children, no children. Oh sad, here comes otto

578
00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:30.039
with my.

579
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:32.240
Forgive me, but I.

580
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.119
Must take the Bible from you.

581
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.839
Forgive me. I could not help my sonds. Are you

582
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:41.279
all right?

583
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:43.319
I think so.

584
00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:45.839
I saw him take the Bible off your life.

585
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:50.559
He hit me with it, he brought it down on

586
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:52.480
my head with all his strength.

587
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:52.960
Forgive me.

588
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:54.240
I didn't know what I was doing.

589
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:58.720
I wouldn't hurt you, missus Older, I wouldn't hurt anybody.

590
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:04.359
When I feel this way, I see things, I feel things.

591
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:08.640
The Bible seemed to put itself in my hands. I

592
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:11.240
didn't think what I was doing. I could not think.

593
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:14.440
The feeling was so great that I must smash this

594
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:17.839
this thing on your head. That's all I wanted to do,

595
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:19.279
missus Holder, to get rid of it.

596
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.000
And it looks to me as though you've done that stuff.

597
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.440
And I and go look in the mirror.

598
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:27.440
I know I am not always in control of myself.

599
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:31.880
I do things I don't know why. I see things.

600
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:35.839
I don't know why, but I would never hurt anyone.

601
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:42.319
It's unbelievable that growth is gone.

602
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.319
Will you forgive me?

603
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:48.680
There's no blood, no blood at too.

604
00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:49.559
All the same.

605
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:51.759
I'm going to get you to a doctor. No doctor's

606
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.559
no blow on the head like that.

607
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:54.640
I'm all right.

608
00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.039
My head is clearing now. It was just a shock,

609
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:04.759
and that awful, ugly thing is gone.

610
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:07.559
I don't need a doctor.

611
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.640
Let me take you to my son in law. He's

612
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:12.880
a fine doctor, a nice man. Maybe you've heard of him.

613
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:15.200
Manfred Gottlieb.

614
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:22.359
Gottlieb, Gottlieb, you like him. Manfred Gottlieb is your son

615
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:22.759
in law.

616
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.279
A wonderful man, good doctor.

617
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:30.599
But you must be Bertha Gottlieb's father. You you cure

618
00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:34.319
the roughbird boy, and i've heard talk about Anna Brand.

619
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:39.599
Look what you did for Otto's mayor, Look what you've

620
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:45.240
done for me. Why you're the man I've been trying

621
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:45.880
to find.

622
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.160
I've been asking for you. It was God's hand.

623
00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:49.880
Let you hear.

624
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.039
Let me take you to Manfred's office.

625
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:57.839
I don't need him. I only need you.

626
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.920
If I've hurt your aunt in any way, we'll soon

627
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:18.000
know oh, I don't want these spellrows that I have.

628
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.800
I don't ask for them. Only Sometimes a pain gets

629
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:26.400
so great, what pain, with the pain of living?

630
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:28.719
It seems more than I can bear.

631
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.239
I go to the grave of my wife and my

632
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:35.159
baby daughter, my family, and I called to her, my

633
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:38.960
little one who only had one hour of life, and

634
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:42.480
she comes to me and gives me comfort and courage

635
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:43.519
and believe.

636
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:46.039
I believe that even though I can do.

637
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:49.320
Nothing about the great pain of living, there are other pains,

638
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:54.119
and I can do something about them. I know I'm

639
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:57.440
not quite myself when I'm like that. I know I'm

640
00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:02.159
not really strong courageous. Doing the spell is on me.

641
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:09.480
The people in pain, they become transparent. You you mean

642
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:14.280
you can see through them? I do see through them.

643
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.079
How do you explain your hands? Hey, it's just hands.

644
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.480
Oh no, no, no. The night you massaged them there,

645
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:26.159
I took hold of your hands, and they gave off

646
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.320
a glow, a sort of radiating warmth. I know I

647
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:33.440
felt it. They burned like a steady flame.

648
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:38.679
Perhaps they grow feverish when Emily is with me.

649
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:40.360
Now you go home and rest.

650
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:41.039
This is older.

651
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:43.360
Come back in a few days and I'll change the bandage,

652
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:44.360
or you can do it yourself.

653
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:46.159
I'll do it myself.

654
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.719
She's all right, doctor, Well what was it? I mean

655
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:50.840
the growth on her head?

656
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:54.760
It was a when a common ordinary win a hard insist.

657
00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:56.920
If you'd come to see meanness is older, I might

658
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.000
have recommended that you have it removed by surgery.

659
00:35:59.239 --> 00:35:59.400
Oh.

660
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.400
On the other hand, I might have done precisely what

661
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:05.320
my father in law did, broken it with some heavy object,

662
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:06.960
probably not the Bible.

663
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.559
Come at, I'll take you home and thank you, doctor gotire.

664
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.320
You may get more of these growths, these winds on

665
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:17.760
your head, missus holder, or someplace else on your body.

666
00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:21.400
Now if you do call me and I oh, no, no,

667
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:22.039
thank you.

668
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:28.440
I know whom to call, and you'll come, won't you. Stefan,

669
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:33.719
Of course you will. No offense doctor, But I put

670
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:35.199
my faith in Stefan.

671
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:40.760
Goodbye, goodbye, Thank you, goodbye Stefan.

672
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.679
No offense, doctor, but I put my faith in Stephan.

673
00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:47.960
Why did I bother to become a doctor at all?

674
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:50.000
Why all those years at school?

675
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:52.719
Why did I take examinations get my license? What good

676
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:52.920
is it?

677
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:55.719
If everyone would rather put their faith in a farmer Manfred,

678
00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:57.840
I'll never do it again.

679
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:02.400
Come in the door's open. Oh you again, a doctor.

680
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:05.360
Those pains are back. Well, of course those pains are

681
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:07.079
back because you've been drunk day and night.

682
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:07.760
What do you expect.

683
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:11.320
Can't you do something, doctor, No, I can't.

684
00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:13.280
Only you can stop drinking.

685
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:15.639
You've been drinking steadily for thirty years and you have

686
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:16.639
cirrhosis of a liver.

687
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:18.679
But the paines are off.

688
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.320
Stop drinking for a month and then come back and

689
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:24.639
see me, and don't come back before. Silly old fool

690
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.360
hasn't been sober for ten minutes since he was sixteen.

691
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:29.199
I can't help him anymore.

692
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:33.840
Then he has an obstruction of some kind. He has

693
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:37.559
a diseased liver, but he has an obstruction in the intestine.

694
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:38.960
You're not starting all over again.

695
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:39.800
I saw.

696
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:42.599
I could see it's getting to be more than I

697
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:44.079
can take, Steph, And you're interfering.

698
00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:47.480
I saw he was standing in the doorway, and I

699
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.800
saw his body was transparent. I could see everything in

700
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:56.719
his intestine. There is an obstruction and that's what gives

701
00:37:56.800 --> 00:37:57.320
him pain.

702
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.960
But Stephan, I'm warning you saw so clear. I'm not

703
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:09.519
going to stop it if I have to take the

704
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:10.599
hurt of my thought.

705
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:22.239
Stephan, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do. Stepan, really well,

706
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:28.239
let me loosen your shirt. Oh Stephen, I don't know

707
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:36.360
what possessed me. I lost control, all right, Stephan, Stephan,

708
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.840
Look look at my hands. Look how they move? My fingers.

709
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:49.199
No pain from the arthritis. What does it mean? It means, well,

710
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:53.440
it must mean the arthritis is better. It's gone. Perhaps

711
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:54.719
dreads away.

712
00:38:55.119 --> 00:39:00.800
I unbuttoned your shirt so fast, no trouble, no pain

713
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:01.760
as it passed.

714
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:02.519
It's true.

715
00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:05.880
Look look how I can move them, Stephan?

716
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:08.079
Who were you used to Stefan?

717
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:16.039
Stephan? I I felt the warmth. Otto was talking about

718
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:20.639
the heat from your hands when you were trying to

719
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:25.039
tear my hands from your throat. I felt it a

720
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:35.119
warm glow you really felt? Yes, a glow, a radiance, Stefan,

721
00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:45.320
give me your hands. Yes, there it is. It's a fire, a.

722
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:57.360
Fire burther burther please, I think you're wrong.

723
00:39:57.599 --> 00:39:59.280
How can I be wrong? Look at these fingers, Look

724
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.559
how they move? Watch me on button my coat? Oh Stephan,

725
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:04.639
I had to lose my temper try to choke you

726
00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.800
in order to touch you. I might have killed you,

727
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:11.760
or you wouldn't care. Birtha birtha Manfred I'm delirious.

728
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.039
I can go back to surgery. We'll be rich again.

729
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:17.840
Our lives will change. I don't want my life change, Manpread.

730
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.800
It means my daughter thinks me mad.

731
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:22.880
She won't.

732
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:25.559
It's only when my Emily is with me, my little one,

733
00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:29.039
that I seem Termily, who gives me the path.

734
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:31.679
Bertha, Whether where are you are you upsets.

735
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:32.639
Nothing without Emily.

736
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:36.639
It's her innocent soul that enters into me. What are

737
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:37.079
you doing?

738
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:38.280
Birth?

739
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:39.159
Where were you?

740
00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:40.599
I was taking a.

741
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:47.599
Nap, Bertha. Look my hands, Look, Look how my fingers move.

742
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:52.679
What hack you with your father? Your father happened his

743
00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:53.960
wonderful hands.

744
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.719
Bertha. You remember the young man with the mayor. How

745
00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:59.320
Stephan put his hands on the Mayor's foreleg and the

746
00:40:59.360 --> 00:40:59.840
mare got up.

747
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:01.920
And we don't know that it's true.

748
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:02.599
It's true.

749
00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:03.760
You haven't seen the mayor.

750
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:04.440
It happened to me.

751
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:06.800
To me, believe me, I can't.

752
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:09.480
I didn't believe it either. But then Missus Holder came

753
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:10.119
to the office.

754
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:11.000
Missus Hard.

755
00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:13.519
Yes, she's the aunt of the young man with the mayor.

756
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:17.199
Stefan went to see Missus Holder. He didn't her nephew

757
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:20.280
took him there. Bertha and Stephan broke the when on

758
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:24.199
her head with a big bible. Oh no, you did right, Bertha. Right,

759
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:26.559
it was only a win, and he was right. He

760
00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.239
didn't know what he was doing, and he was right.

761
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.119
You mussa stop this this talk, Berth.

762
00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.960
But after missus Halder left, an old patient of mine

763
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:38.960
came in. The man has been a drunk for years.

764
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:42.079
I was sure his liver was enlarged, diseased. But I

765
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.840
send him away. And then your father said, Manfred, you

766
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.039
are wrong. The man has an obstruction. His intestines are blocked.

767
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.360
You believed him, though I didn't believe him. I was

768
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:55.159
out of my mind with rage that he would dare

769
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:57.800
to tell me that I was wrong. And I but, Bertha,

770
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:00.199
I took him by the throat. He tried to tear

771
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:03.440
my hands away. And it was then, Bertha, it was

772
00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:07.239
it was then that I felt the heat, the blessed

773
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:08.400
heat from his.

774
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:11.039
Hands, entering into mind.

775
00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:17.159
And now look, look, Bertha, if he can use his hands,

776
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:20.239
be happy, father.

777
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:22.840
How long will it last?

778
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:27.280
How can I know your moods, your your spells?

779
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.039
They bewitched us all.

780
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:31.199
I never meant harm.

781
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:34.119
But I've got to stop. I want you to stay

782
00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:35.280
away from the cemetery.

783
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:37.079
I'm stay away.

784
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.320
I've watched you every minute. If you know, I won't

785
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:41.920
let you out of my sight. I'll treat you like

786
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:42.719
a child.

787
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.599
As you were, because you are a child. I am

788
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:48.119
a very old man.

789
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:51.400
You're my child.

790
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:57.000
No, from now on, you will have your own child,

791
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:01.239
a real child, not me.

792
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.559
What I can see. The child is growing inside you.

793
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:14.440
Soon you'll know it yourself. Next spring you will bear

794
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:18.519
your child, and it will be beautiful, a little girl,

795
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:24.119
and you will I hope you will give her the

796
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:25.239
beautiful name.

797
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:27.119
Of Emily.

798
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:29.199
Father.

799
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:36.239
Then my family can rest. I won't have to call

800
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:37.519
her anymore.

801
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:50.920
She can rest. Did you believe our story? For that matter,

802
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:53.239
did I now? Really?

803
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:56.880
What difference does it make if you believe it? If

804
00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:00.559
I do, For the truth is that none of us

805
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.480
knows what transpires in the mind and heart of a

806
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:19.360
very old man. I'll be back shortly. Ever, happened to

807
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:25.039
look up the word murder in a dictionary? No, then

808
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:28.519
I'll tell you how. The dictionary defines it to kill

809
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:34.599
with premeditated malice, the wrongful, intentional slaying of one human

810
00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:38.559
being by another. But don't let a wee bit of

811
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:42.280
murder upsets you friends. The people on Mystery Theater don't

812
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:46.360
mind being killed, not a bit, because every one of

813
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:51.800
them is a dead head. Our cast included Santas Otega,

814
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:57.440
Norman Rose, Briana Rayburn and Billy Redfield. The entire production

815
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.320
was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

816
00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:06.719
Well, my dear, I feel like we've started things off

817
00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:11.960
on the right foot, as it were. What's that, Well,

818
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:18.559
I'm not entirely sure. I haven't considered wearing a costumes.

819
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:25.400
Perhaps I should. I mean, there's no law against it,

820
00:45:26.039 --> 00:45:26.679
at least not.

821
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:29.159
Man's law.

822
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:30.400
Hmm.

823
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.239
That is something to chew on, of course, no matter

824
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:40.679
how I dress. Sowyn will be, of course, a wonderful

825
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:47.199
time for me, truly, a joyous, fun and terrible night.

826
00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:10.920
The weird Circle, in this cave with the restless sea,

827
00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:13.760
we are meant to call from out of the past.

828
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:16.239
Stories, strange and weird.

829
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:20.559
Bell keeper told the bell so that all may know

830
00:46:20.880 --> 00:47:03.519
we are gathered again in the weird Circle, out of

831
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:04.440
the past.

832
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:09.320
Sentence of a world gone by, Speak again, the immortal tale.

833
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.079
A terrible night.

834
00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:19.119
Mm hmmmmm.

835
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:27.320
Silence in the cough.

836
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:29.920
Next witness, please.

837
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:31.199
If you're on a please.

838
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:35.280
The next witness is Charles Gastar, the defendant in this case,

839
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:38.400
Will mister Gasta please take a stamp.

840
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:42.159
Silence in the cour.

841
00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:46.840
Place your left hand on the Bible. Do you swear

842
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:49.159
to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

843
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:54.119
I do suppose, mister Gastar, you tell this court your

844
00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:54.960
story and your.

845
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:58.480
Own words from the the very beginning.

846
00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.400
And don't be afraid from the very beginning.

847
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:05.079
Well, I I don't know where to start, to be honest,

848
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:11.320
I feel like a man that's drowning. I guess it

849
00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:14.159
started the night my wife Bertha and her brother Dick

850
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:17.440
Linton were helping me to pack my suitcase. Dick and

851
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:19.440
I were preparing to go on a hunting trip in

852
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:21.760
Canada in the Northwest section.

853
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:26.559
When don't forget to put the conference in Charlie, hunting

854
00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:28.199
man needs a conference? Sure he does.

855
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:29.400
Keeps him from getting lost.

856
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.280
See how bright my wife is, Dick, he knows all.

857
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:34.039
Yeah, I didn't mean it that way.

858
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:35.079
I know, Bertha.

859
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:35.320
I know.

860
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.480
It's just that when a gal's brother and husband go

861
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:40.840
galavanding off on a hunting trip to the north Woods,

862
00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:42.760
a gal wants to know they're coming back.

863
00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:45.199
Say do you worry about Charles Berth. You know me,

864
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:48.039
I never get lost. Remember the camping trips we used

865
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:50.000
to take when we were kids. You were a boy, Scott,

866
00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:53.760
He's no boys. God. Now kay, Well let's see, darling.

867
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:55.599
Have I got everything packed in here?

868
00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:55.960
Yes?

869
00:48:56.039 --> 00:48:56.599
They're everything.

870
00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:59.719
Well an underwear, lucky man. I have a wife for

871
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:00.320
both guns.

872
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:03.320
The cottages for the hunting gun are in the rear

873
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:05.480
pocket of the suitcase, and for the thirty eight they're

874
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:06.079
in your homestack.

875
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.119
Oh, good girl, where's your suitcase stick?

876
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:10.199
Or it's checked at the station? Hey, what time is it?

877
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:13.079
Well it's almost ten pm. Oh we better be going along, Darling.

878
00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:14.679
I like to catch my trains with ease.

879
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:16.079
I'll have to close the suitcase.

880
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:20.239
Chuv the best suitcase sitter, honner in the world. Yeah,

881
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:22.119
see what you mean? There?

882
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:22.639
That does it.

883
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:23.239
You can get off.

884
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:26.519
Now, have a nice trip. Both of you bring back

885
00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:27.880
at least two deer.

886
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:30.400
Or at least says by any bye.

887
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.079
Oh, don't forget your muffla, Darling.

888
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:33.440
It's in the closet downstairs.

889
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:37.960
And please please be careful when little boys play with guns.

890
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:40.159
Well, you know how dangerous guns can be.

891
00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.760
So we left Dick and I we took the Express

892
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:49.880
to Montreal and then traveled by train west of the

893
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:53.639
Hudson Bay to the Northwest Territory, specifically to a small

894
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.960
town known as Fort Ray. What equipment we hadn't already purchased,

895
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:02.400
we purchased there, mostly foo visions, some plenty of coffee. Then,

896
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:05.320
on the morning of September third, Dick and I started

897
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:09.119
out on foot. It was a clear, brisk morning and

898
00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:13.000
the air was alive with sounds, birds chirping, a constant

899
00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:16.440
crunch of leaves underfoot. We were both in high spirits,

900
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:19.039
as Dick said, Ah, this is the life.

901
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:22.079
Oh boy, this is what a man needs. Get away

902
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:25.719
from civilization and breathe again, back to nature, Back to

903
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.440
Nature's right. You know, there's something the matter with modern civilization.

904
00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:33.079
You get all jogged up inside, begin to think all

905
00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:37.280
sorts of strange things. Strange, Dick, in what way, Oh,

906
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:42.119
morbid thoughts, Hating yourself, hating everybody else, hating the world.

907
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:45.440
You know that's bad for a ride in his work

908
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:48.159
becomes bitter and he pours the gall out in words,

909
00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:51.199
paints the world he sees in gray overtone. You mean,

910
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:54.280
like that last story you sold. Yeah, it was a

911
00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:57.760
depressing story, but that was my mood. Both you and

912
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:01.280
Bertha have morbid emotional streaks. Well, Sis and I very

913
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:04.840
much like in many ways. Funny am I marrying brother?

914
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:08.000
What's so funny about it? You know I engineered it?

915
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:09.000
You did?

916
00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:09.800
Why?

917
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.480
Well, Bertha and I've always been pretty close, you know,

918
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:16.199
much closer than ordinary brother and sister. I didn't want

919
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:19.400
to see a marry some clark. Well, thanks, Dick, you'll

920
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:21.719
be my roommate at college. I got to know you

921
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:24.960
pretty well. Yes, Sis and I have the same likes

922
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:27.760
and dislikes, and I just knew you were right for her.

923
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:29.519
You mean to tell me I didn't have anything at

924
00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:32.599
all to say about it? Sort of sort of. Well,

925
00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:36.840
birth is beauty, her chemistry, if you like, and youth

926
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:39.440
took care of the rest. You sound like an old

927
00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:42.960
old man airing philosophy. I told you I've been civilized

928
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:43.360
too long.

929
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:45.840
You've been a bachelor too long. I think I'll dig

930
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:48.880
up a nice young girl for you. Marriage is a sensation, Dick,

931
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:49.800
well worth a trial.

932
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.199
Well, I don't quite like the idea of digging up

933
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.960
a girl for me. Sounds like she's been buried already.

934
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:58.039
And here we turned this way to the north. Now,

935
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.199
are you sure? Of course, I'm sure. I know these

936
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.519
north Woods like a like a book, Yes, like a book.

937
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.000
You'll never get lost with me, would be at the

938
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:09.159
next fort by six this evening. I still think we

939
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:11.920
ought to have taken a guide along. All nonsense, nothing

940
00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:15.000
to worry about, nothing to worry about, it all. Just

941
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:19.880
stick to Dick Letton and you can't go. Nothing to

942
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:20.519
worry about.

943
00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:26.000
That's the way writers are so sure of themselves, except

944
00:52:26.039 --> 00:52:27.880
they ought to stick a paper and pencil not to

945
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:31.480
their memories of north Woods. At six o'clock in the evening,

946
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:34.239
there wasn't a fourt in sight, and by ten o'clock

947
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:36.840
that night, even die hard Dick had to admit.

948
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:43.440
Well, we're lost. No, yeah, we're lost. I'm sorry, Charles.

949
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:47.840
You're being pretty monosyllabic about the whole thing. Normal under

950
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:53.239
the circumstances. Hey, that wasn't the wind, was it, Dick?

951
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:54.000
No?

952
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:58.320
Wolves, wolves, I'm not afraid of them, are you?

953
00:52:59.159 --> 00:52:59.199
No?

954
00:52:59.599 --> 00:53:02.239
I love them, especially at night when I'm cold and

955
00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.199
hungry and they are too. Well, we'll have to sleep

956
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.360
in the tree. You'll have to sleep in the trees.

957
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.760
I wasn't built that way. You can't sleep on the ground,

958
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:10.800
You'll never live through the night.

959
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:13.360
I'm not sleeping on the ground, Dick. I am walking

960
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:14.800
until we find someplace.

961
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:17.159
We might not find the fort till tomorrow morning.

962
00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:19.280
Or tomorrow evening, but whenever it is, I'm going to

963
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:22.320
find it as soon as possible, even sooner than that.

964
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:24.639
If that keeps up, you're coming with me? Sure, I'm

965
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:29.519
with you, boy, I'm hungry. Say, wouldn't a nice, thick,

966
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.559
luscious steak taste good? You know, one of the charcoal

967
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:36.000
broiled variety, dripping with butter and fried on your stop it?

968
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:39.920
Or want of Breatha's lamb stews with mashed potatoes, rich tomato, grape.

969
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:42.599
If you want to die, just keep on talking. It's

970
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.199
the thought of food, and I'm a murdering maniac. Oh,

971
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:48.199
how about a real English roast beef with Yorkshire pudding.

972
00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:53.079
You're asking for it? H I wonder just how hungry

973
00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:56.119
that wolf is. Maybe he won't mind if his meat

974
00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:59.039
isn't cooked. Huh, I'm sure he won't. They can never eye,

975
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:04.760
which means in carnivorous or man eater. Hey, Charlie, look

976
00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:08.519
straight ahead of you. You got a light over there. Well, yeah,

977
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:11.360
I think so. Maybe it's the fort. No, it's not

978
00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:13.639
the fort here when miles off the beating tray, Oh

979
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:17.280
what is it then? No, looks like a cabin from here.

980
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:21.400
I'm not particular. Let's find out. Oh no, you led

981
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:23.400
the way so far. But this time, dick, my boy,

982
00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:25.920
I'm leading, Follow Charlie and see some food.

983
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:27.119
Food food.

984
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:30.239
Whoever lives there must eat. Maybe it's not steak, but

985
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:38.840
it's something. It is a cabin, all right? Shall I

986
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:41.039
knock on the door. You can't get in any other way?

987
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:41.920
Who can't?

988
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:44.159
This rickety old shack could be blown down by a good,

989
00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:49.400
strong breath. Fine looking place, isn't I'm not amused. Knock

990
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.400
on the door, such a timid knock.

991
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:56.679
My hands numb. Yeah, we'll try it again. I hope

992
00:54:56.719 --> 00:55:01.760
this guy's friendly h friends are sniffing about again, and

993
00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:05.559
I don't look at all. Well and tomato sauce, Oh.

994
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:09.239
Good evening.

995
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:14.519
Something I can do for you, gentlemen?

996
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:20.480
Uh we managed to We hope to find some place

997
00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:23.480
to stay for the nights, or we're completely off the

998
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:24.119
beaten track.

999
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:34.039
You don't say come in, Come in, gentlemen. Yes, I'd

1000
00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:35.480
be delighted.

1001
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.280
To put you up this evening if you don't mind

1002
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.840
sleeping on the floor in the attic.

1003
00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:43.119
Well, at this point, we don't mind anything, don't you.

1004
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:48.519
My name is Charles Costarser and my friend is Dick Linton.

1005
00:55:48.599 --> 00:55:55.039
How do you do My name is Joel, just Joel?

1006
00:55:56.239 --> 00:56:01.679
At least they used to call me Joel. Have you

1007
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:03.039
eaten yet this evening?

1008
00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:06.440
No, as a matter of fact, and we're starving.

1009
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:09.320
I mean, and sit down and I'll fix you some dinner,

1010
00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:13.159
that is, if you don't mind my meager rations.

1011
00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:16.159
Oh, we don't mind anything at this point, do we dig?

1012
00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:16.400
Oh?

1013
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:19.440
No, no, definitely not. There's an whole American saying, you know,

1014
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:21.800
food is food. Let's eat.

1015
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:24.599
I'll fry some deer steak for you, and I have

1016
00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:25.360
some wine.

1017
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:30.159
Oh wonderful. Tell me, mister Joel, do you live here

1018
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:30.719
all alone?

1019
00:56:31.039 --> 00:56:31.840
Unfortunately?

1020
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:38.000
Yes, you see, I'm an outcast from your society. But

1021
00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:41.639
a man be different and automatically becomes an outcast.

1022
00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:43.920
Yeah, there's something in what you say.

1023
00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:46.920
Look a little different, or think a little different, or

1024
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:48.119
speak a little different.

1025
00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:50.440
It becomes a marked man.

1026
00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:57.320
The individual is not allowed the privilege of individuality. Mankind

1027
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:02.280
doesn't permit it. Oh, why I don't think so. Really, Tue,

1028
00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:05.679
I'll just set the table and you can sit down

1029
00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:09.079
over here and eat. Come along, chance I can prove

1030
00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:15.400
my point. Look at me, I'm different, larger than most men.

1031
00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:22.079
I unfortunately grew too tall. I'm too ugly for the

1032
00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:23.000
average man.

1033
00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:28.159
To the stomach. I was hated, he is hated by

1034
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:30.079
your civilization and feared too.

1035
00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:35.199
Not because I was cruel, of vindictive or dishonest, but

1036
00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:42.559
because I was different. Yes, yes, I'm a giant and stature. Well,

1037
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:48.039
I don't feel badly for me. I've had my revenge

1038
00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:53.920
on society, and I'll have even more revenge on little

1039
00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:55.800
people like yourselves.

1040
00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:01.239
Yes, it's quite understandable that you feel that way.

1041
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:06.960
Gentlemen, before you sit down to dinner, allow me to

1042
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:10.679
hang your hunting guns up here. They will bother you

1043
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:11.920
if you carry them around.

1044
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:14.519
Oh, well, we really don't mind.

1045
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:22.840
Your hunting gun, sir. And your hunting gun, yeah, now

1046
00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:25.480
I both have Just hang them up here.

1047
00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:32.079
You say you live alone, Joel, Yes, that shoe in

1048
00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:36.320
the corner that was never your shoe. It's too small

1049
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:36.599
for you.

1050
00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:40.599
You're very observant, mister Linton. No, that wasn't my shoe.

1051
00:58:41.519 --> 00:58:43.239
I found it in the forest one day and brought

1052
00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:45.239
it home for the purpose of remaking it like that

1053
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:47.239
coat hanging over there.

1054
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:51.840
Found a coat and a shoe lying in this outlandish district.

1055
00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.960
Yes, it's a coat and a shoe. Of course they

1056
00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:58.360
were not a man. But he was dead.

1057
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:02.519
He died of h I don't quite know what he

1058
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:06.199
died of. His legs had been gnawed off by some

1059
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:08.559
prowling beasts.

1060
00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:12.280
Oh he he must have become a lost out here

1061
00:59:12.960 --> 00:59:13.519
like ourselves.

1062
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:21.000
Exactly like yourselves, gentlemen, exactly like yourselves.

1063
00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:23.719
Dinner is ready.

1064
00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:51.960
Yeah, Silence in the car, Silence in the car.

1065
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:54.719
Go ahead with your testimony, mister Gastar.

1066
00:59:55.639 --> 00:59:58.239
Well you can see what a spot Dick and I

1067
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:00.960
were in. We we didn't truy that man for a second.

1068
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:05.079
Believe me, he was well, donnod anyway, The man was unbalanced.

1069
01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:08.920
It was well after we finished eating dinner that joe

1070
01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:11.320
a litle good, warm, roaring fire in the fireplace.

1071
01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:18.239
And then, well, gentlemen, it's time to retire. I'm sleepy here,

1072
01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:20.199
and I'm sure you two are.

1073
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:22.199
Yes, very sleepy here.

1074
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:25.079
But if we take our guns upstairs, I'd like to

1075
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:25.480
clean you.

1076
01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:28.280
Don't need them this evening. You can clean them in

1077
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:32.119
the morning. Come along, please, yeah.

1078
01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:32.960
Come on, Charlie.

1079
01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:34.440
Right behind you, Dick the.

1080
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:37.880
Cable of this step ladder. It's rickety, to say the least,

1081
01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:42.159
so I notice. I'll go first and get the blankets

1082
01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:46.440
out as Fortunately I have two blankets up here, although

1083
01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:48.079
they're musty enough.

1084
01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:53.360
Don't worry about us, all right, I'm up now, right away.

1085
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:56.119
I'd feel a lot better if I had those hunting guns.

1086
01:00:56.119 --> 01:00:56.880
And I don't blame you.

1087
01:00:57.239 --> 01:00:58.320
You can see for yourself.

1088
01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:04.039
Mister Linton Attic is not accustomed the guests musty and

1089
01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:09.760
the spiders are troublesome to strangers. Spiders, they are my friends,

1090
01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:14.440
my only friends, they say. He who shares a roof

1091
01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:19.760
with you automatically becomes your friend. They have shared this

1092
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:28.800
roof with me for many years. Good night, gentlemen, sleep well, Good.

1093
01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:32.800
Night, great Scott. What kind of a mess have we

1094
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:35.840
gotten ourselves into? I don't know. He's got a cognoose

1095
01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:37.679
in his mind somewhere, that's very certain.

1096
01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:38.880
What do we do?

1097
01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:41.599
I'll tell you one sleeps in the other stands guard.

1098
01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:43.679
That won't do us any good. Dick, he's ten times

1099
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:46.679
our size, And besides, we're unarmed. I've got your thirty

1100
01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:48.639
eight in my pocket. You forget about it?

1101
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:51.880
Huh, yeah, I did look through these boards in the attic.

1102
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:54.599
You can watch you all very easily. If by a

1103
01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:56.559
place throws a nice light on him. How will we

1104
01:01:56.639 --> 01:01:58.719
arrange the watch? Well, you've got to sleep for an

1105
01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:00.880
hour and i'll wake you up, give you the gun,

1106
01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:02.440
and I'll go to sleep for an hour and you

1107
01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:06.519
stand guard. Okay, yeah, what time is it now? One am?

1108
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.960
What's he doing down there? Curling up on the floor

1109
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:13.360
near the fireplace? About to go to sleep?

1110
01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:17.159
I hope he sleeps well, too well to wake.

1111
01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:19.800
Up a see, doesn't. I hope your gun works, that's all.

1112
01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:22.639
I'm so sleepy, and I.

1113
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:27.079
Mistakes down.

1114
01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:30.480
Yes, I put my head on the floor and slept,

1115
01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:35.079
But I slept a troubled sleep, a restless sleep, and

1116
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:38.480
my hands kept clawing the floor, a floor that was

1117
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:42.119
alive with insect life. Then no sooner had I put

1118
01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.360
my head on the floor than it seemed. Dick nudged me,

1119
01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:47.159
wake up, wake up? It's two am?

1120
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:49.400
Hum?

1121
01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:56.480
Oh, okay, okay, what happened? Nothing? It's your turn now.

1122
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:01.360
Oh I'm really licked really licked so much walking in

1123
01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:04.760
all this, he was quite right.

1124
01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:09.239
All this, He lay down on the floor, and soon

1125
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.639
he was sound asleep, sleeping like he was drugged.

1126
01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:14.719
Poor Dick was all in.

1127
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:19.480
I sat upright, concentrating on sitting upright to keep my

1128
01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:23.719
eyes from closing. I was so tired, and my blood

1129
01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:25.760
ran cold as I kept my eyes glued to the

1130
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:29.119
still figure which lay beneath us. The hut was so

1131
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:31.440
quiet that my wrist watch sounded like the beating of

1132
01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:37.440
Tom Tom's in that silence tick, beating off the seconds,

1133
01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:41.159
perhaps slicing off the seconds left of our lives. And

1134
01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:45.719
I waited and watched, waited and watched. Then suddenly, the

1135
01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:49.360
huge thigure beneath me stretched his huge form in front

1136
01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:53.280
of the fireplace and yawned. His large, expressionless eyes sought

1137
01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:55.599
mine through the planks of the floor, and I thought

1138
01:03:55.639 --> 01:03:55.840
for a.

1139
01:03:55.880 --> 01:03:58.079
Moment he saw me sitting there.

1140
01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:01.519
Perhaps my crouched figure in the attic somehow threw a

1141
01:04:01.559 --> 01:04:04.360
shadow down on the floor of the hot below. Then

1142
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:08.519
he rose, keptlike that huge farmer rose gracefully and quietly.

1143
01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.639
He eased himself up and walked to the door, as

1144
01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:15.280
if listening for someone or something.

1145
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:19.760
Then just as quietly, he opened the door and.

1146
01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:28.800
Yes, yes, yes, come back shortly, shortly, he.

1147
01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:32.599
Said, come back shortly. Who was he talking to? And

1148
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:36.320
what was he talking about? Come back? Come back to

1149
01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:36.880
murder us.

1150
01:04:39.760 --> 01:04:41.639
He shut the door just as gently as he opened it,

1151
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:44.280
and then, returning to the place before the fire, he

1152
01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:47.400
again curled up near the warmth of the blaze. I

1153
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:50.239
glanced down at my watch. It was three o'clock.

1154
01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:55.239
I nudged Dick gently at first, and then harder. Hey, Dick,

1155
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:57.639
your turn, Dick, Dick?

1156
01:04:58.519 --> 01:04:58.920
Wake up?

1157
01:04:59.320 --> 01:04:59.480
Oh?

1158
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:01.639
Oh up so soon? Yes?

1159
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:07.639
Here, here's the gun. Okay, I'm awake. Anything happened? Listener,

1160
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:11.239
he's got an accomplished that. Somebody was standing outside the door.

1161
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:13.960
While back, he told him to come back shortly and

1162
01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:15.599
explains this small shoe.

1163
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:19.760
Maybe maybe I'm so tired. I don't think I can sleep.

1164
01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:22.440
I don't think I can sleep.

1165
01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:26.920
You'll sleep, just relax, I don't think so. Really, I.

1166
01:05:34.119 --> 01:05:36.039
Come in, come in?

1167
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:37.039
Yeah?

1168
01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:40.199
Are they sleep now?

1169
01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:40.800
Yes?

1170
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.239
Fast asleep? The poor fools. One of them thought he

1171
01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:48.559
could stay awake. I could see them taking turns staying awake.

1172
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:51.360
But I put enough dope in their wine and knock

1173
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:52.239
them out completely.

1174
01:05:52.800 --> 01:05:54.960
Have they much money with them?

1175
01:05:55.159 --> 01:05:58.599
Who knows? But whatever they have we need.

1176
01:05:59.679 --> 01:05:59.920
Yeah.

1177
01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:03.679
Give me that log you brought in here you are no,

1178
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:10.639
I'll splinter it and light one end of us. Nothing

1179
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:13.800
like this wood burning to dope them completely?

1180
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:15.679
What should we do with them?

1181
01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:16.079
Later?

1182
01:06:17.320 --> 01:06:19.079
Put them outside for the animals.

1183
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:23.800
I'll wait down here for you. You go upstairs.

1184
01:06:24.159 --> 01:06:28.400
I won't be long. These things never take very long.

1185
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:35.159
Dick, Dick, give me the gun. Give me the gun, Dick, Dick.

1186
01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:37.760
Have you fallen asleep, Dick, Wake up, Dick, of your

1187
01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:41.079
doped Dick. He's coming at us. Give me the gun.

1188
01:06:41.519 --> 01:06:43.039
Give me the gun, please, Dick, give me the gun.

1189
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.360
There there, I've got the gun. Now come laughing at me, laughing.

1190
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:53.159
Time to wake up now for the last time. Take this.

1191
01:06:55.239 --> 01:06:55.440
There.

1192
01:06:56.039 --> 01:06:57.800
That's got you, that's got you, that's got you.

1193
01:06:58.000 --> 01:06:59.760
Where's your friend? Where's the little man? Dick?

1194
01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:00.679
Help we find the little man?

1195
01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:00.840
Now?

1196
01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:07.400
Help me help me, Dick, Dick.

1197
01:07:11.079 --> 01:07:16.760
I was stunned, completely stunned. The room looked strange to me.

1198
01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:20.079
The smoking gun in my hand looked strange to me.

1199
01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:23.280
The whole world seemed to blot out in front of

1200
01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:26.880
my eyes, and suddenly I looked down at the dark

1201
01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:30.480
mass lying at my feet, and then I looked up.

1202
01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:35.000
My eyes were absolutely level with Joel's eyes as he climbed.

1203
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:35.360
Up into the attic.

1204
01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:39.400
Then, in a voice filled with horror, he said, great.

1205
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:44.079
Lord, sir, what have you done? You've killed him and

1206
01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:46.079
he was just about to wake you.

1207
01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:55.679
Yes, I killed Dick Linton, my best friend, when he

1208
01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:57.360
was just about to wake me.

1209
01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:01.639
I'd been dreaming and I killed him.

1210
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:07.280
Thank you, mister Gastar. My next witness is doctor Harding. Now,

1211
01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:09.519
Doctor Harding, will you please take the stand? Yes, sir,

1212
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:11.559
place your left.

1213
01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:14.119
Hand on the bible. Do you swear to tell the truth,

1214
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:15.280
the whole truth, nothing.

1215
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:15.599
But the truth?

1216
01:08:16.520 --> 01:08:16.720
I do.

1217
01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:20.439
You heard the testimony of the defendant, doctor Harding.

1218
01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:21.359
I did, sir.

1219
01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:25.039
Is it possible for a man, a man asleep as

1220
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:28.079
he was, to fire the gunload at his best friend

1221
01:08:28.159 --> 01:08:29.119
because of a nightmare?

1222
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:30.800
It was more than a nightmare.

1223
01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:36.880
It was sound lencia sleep, drunkenness overtired as mister Costair was.

1224
01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:40.159
Its nerves were over text, and its fears and suspicions

1225
01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:44.560
had been aroused. This result is perfectly natural and certainly

1226
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:49.640
medically sound. The defendant was not in his right mind

1227
01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:50.840
at the time of the murder.

1228
01:08:52.039 --> 01:08:56.640
Thank you doctor Harding, gentlemen of the jury to sum

1229
01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.920
up this case. Joel the Giant had told his guests

1230
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:02.960
the truth about the shoe. At the time he opened

1231
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:05.880
the door, he was just talking to his dog, who

1232
01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:10.079
had been scratching outside. But to a man mentally exhausted

1233
01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:14.399
and filled with fear, Joe's actions were certainly those which

1234
01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:19.840
would arouse us vision. Gentlemen, in behalf of my client,

1235
01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:23.640
I beg leniency, leniency.

1236
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:31.000
Bertha, Bertha, please, Darling. It was all explained court. This

1237
01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:33.199
doesn't change anything between us, nothing at all.

1238
01:09:33.319 --> 01:09:33.720
Doesn't it.

1239
01:09:34.920 --> 01:09:37.279
I love my brother more than you can understand, Charles.

1240
01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:41.039
I know the court has ruled you innocent, but a

1241
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:43.520
court of law has very little.

1242
01:09:43.319 --> 01:09:44.279
To do with a woman's heart.

1243
01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:48.439
If you love me, Bertha, I'll always love you, but

1244
01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:49.960
I'll never be able to trust you again.

1245
01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:54.920
There are seven days in a week, Charles. Some of

1246
01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:59.079
those days I love you and forget this whole horrible affair.

1247
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:04.159
But more days my brother's face will loom up in

1248
01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:04.640
front of me.

1249
01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:06.520
But Dick would understand.

1250
01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:10.359
I wouldn't see you because his face would stand between us.

1251
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:12.479
I'd spend those days hating you.

1252
01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:20.840
So I'm leaving you. Charles, take good care of yourself.

1253
01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:24.880
I I can't help it.

1254
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:32.079
I hope you understand, Bertha. Please goodbye, Charles Brother.

1255
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:43.079
I told you, Charles Gustar, I hate civilized society. Don't

1256
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:48.600
feel badly for me. I'll have my revenge on society.

1257
01:10:50.119 --> 01:10:55.239
I'll have even more revenge than little people like you.

1258
01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:01.399
M hm hm.

1259
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:08.359
H m hmmmm.

1260
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.920
From the time worn pages of the past, we have

1261
01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:24.600
brought to you the story A terrible night, Bellkeeper all

1262
01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:25.600
the bell.

1263
01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:34.800
M mm hmmm.

1264
01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:38.119
Mmm.

1265
01:11:48.640 --> 01:11:51.479
From the time when pages of the past, we have

1266
01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:56.399
heard another immortal tale in the weird circle down Keeper

1267
01:11:56.680 --> 01:11:57.560
told the bell.

1268
01:12:04.920 --> 01:12:10.720
Well, I would say, a terrible night. Indeed, what's that? Well,

1269
01:12:11.720 --> 01:12:17.199
of course, don't you worry, your pretty little head. I'm

1270
01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:21.319
so glad you can join me in these long dark nights.

1271
01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:27.840
It brings a bit of light to an otherwise shadowy existence.

1272
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:34.239
I've tried very hard to make this place a home,

1273
01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:40.119
not just the walls and the building, but the reality

1274
01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:45.000
of it all. And a guest like you certainly makes

1275
01:12:45.079 --> 01:12:51.520
a difference. So thank you, my dear, very very much.

1276
01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:55.479
To make a house a hole even if it's a

1277
01:12:56.079 --> 01:12:57.560
house of murder.

1278
01:12:59.119 --> 01:13:17.000
Mummurder, the little theater of the air, and all the hermit.

1279
01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:34.760
Who stories weird stories and murders till.

1280
01:13:37.399 --> 01:13:38.920
The hermit knows of them.

1281
01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:45.880
All turn out your left, turn them out. Have you

1282
01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:52.560
heard the story the house of Murder scene? Then listen

1283
01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:55.000
while the hermit tells you the story.

1284
01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:13.520
Yes, mister Burton, I'd like my wages if you please.

1285
01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:16.439
What's that, yes, mister Burton.

1286
01:14:16.439 --> 01:14:19.640
Familiar you're dressed to go out. My breakfast hasn't been served.

1287
01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:21.600
That's right, mister Burton.

1288
01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:25.600
I'm leaving right now, and i'd like my wages if

1289
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:26.119
you please.

1290
01:14:26.359 --> 01:14:27.479
This is preposterous.

1291
01:14:27.640 --> 01:14:28.720
Well, it's something.

1292
01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:29.319
Bad or right.

1293
01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:31.880
You can't go without giving me more notice than this.

1294
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.479
I'm sorry, but I can't stay. What's it all about

1295
01:14:37.119 --> 01:14:39.199
this house, mister Burton. It's this house.

1296
01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:41.680
It's truly haunted.

1297
01:14:42.039 --> 01:14:44.840
Nonsense, it's just because we've only been in the.

1298
01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:46.800
House for a few days. It's strange to you.

1299
01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:51.479
Yet don't get over being strange. It gets worse every night.

1300
01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:52.600
It's ridiculous.

1301
01:14:52.760 --> 01:14:55.239
Well, you can see all you want to, mister Burton,

1302
01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:58.680
but I'm leaving. I'll work for you in the city.

1303
01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:02.119
I've been faithful to you for a good many years,

1304
01:15:02.159 --> 01:15:04.760
and I'll go right out being faithful if you've moved

1305
01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:05.960
back to the city again.

1306
01:15:06.319 --> 01:15:08.720
Mellie, I can't run my life to suit those who

1307
01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:11.640
work for me. I purchased this house in the country

1308
01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:13.600
in order that I might have peace and quiet for

1309
01:15:13.720 --> 01:15:14.159
my work.

1310
01:15:14.960 --> 01:15:20.680
There's a little peace here every night. The sounds last

1311
01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:26.680
night last night, I I don't wanna talk about it. Please,

1312
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:29.119
mister Burton, have gotta be leaving this morning.

1313
01:15:29.720 --> 01:15:30.920
How are you gonna get into town?

1314
01:15:31.359 --> 01:15:33.840
I took the liberty of calling one of the stores,

1315
01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:35.760
and the owners sending his son out.

1316
01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:36.159
To the car.

1317
01:15:37.319 --> 01:15:40.680
All right, Milly, won't you give me my wages?

1318
01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:45.479
I'll wait outside. I'm afraid to stay inside any longer.

1319
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:48.479
Why of all, you miss your value, your life.

1320
01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:49.680
You'll get out too.

1321
01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:20.960
Ah, no wind to open that door.

1322
01:16:22.079 --> 01:16:26.119
I must have left it unlatched. It was just as

1323
01:16:26.159 --> 01:16:31.239
if someone was in the room here with me. Oh now,

1324
01:16:31.319 --> 01:16:33.079
much as if something brushed past me.

1325
01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:39.359
I could swear I felt to touch my shoulder. Oh ridiculous.

1326
01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:44.760
Page is turning.

1327
01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:53.680
The pages of my ledge are turning, just as if

1328
01:16:53.720 --> 01:17:00.079
a hand moved the pages. Wind couldn't cause it. There

1329
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:04.600
isn't any wind in here. Oh, I'm dreaming things. It's

1330
01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:06.800
utter nonsense, Mammy.

1331
01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:07.720
It's got me all upset.

1332
01:17:10.399 --> 01:17:15.800
Now my test tubes, my experiment, the test tubes not

1333
01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.840
to the floor. I'm not dreaming this, this is too real.

1334
01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:26.800
I need Karmer yourself this Hello, I want to put

1335
01:17:26.840 --> 01:17:29.720
in a long distance call. I'd like to speak to

1336
01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:34.840
Lyman Karmer in New Cotton. Yes, yes, you got it right,

1337
01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:39.359
Lyman Karmer and New Cotton. The telephone number is.

1338
01:17:47.159 --> 01:17:47.600
Much farther.

1339
01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:48.600
Do we have to drive into the.

1340
01:17:48.560 --> 01:17:49.279
Wilds young man?

1341
01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:51.760
We're almost there now, life me.

1342
01:17:51.960 --> 01:17:54.640
I can't figure why you wants to hide himself away

1343
01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:56.079
Biles some siphization.

1344
01:17:56.640 --> 01:17:58.960
This new man ain't been out there but a few days.

1345
01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:01.119
A few days too many, if you ask me. I

1346
01:18:01.239 --> 01:18:02.399
drove out here yesterday.

1347
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:06.159
I picked up a woman who'd been working out there, wanted.

1348
01:18:05.920 --> 01:18:09.359
To go back to city. Not Millie, seems like that

1349
01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:10.439
was the name she give.

1350
01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:12.640
Well, what's up?

1351
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:15.359
I couldn't rightly tell you, mister, just couldn't tell you.

1352
01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:20.039
She didn't seem to be strangely urgent about something last night.

1353
01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:22.760
Look, mister, you can see the lights of the house.

1354
01:18:22.880 --> 01:18:25.800
Now see you about eight ten right away through the tree.

1355
01:18:25.960 --> 01:18:28.840
Oh yeah, sort of a place, is it.

1356
01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:32.640
It's quite a place, mister, Really something in this day

1357
01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:36.239
old house. M yes, sir, I guess no one's lived

1358
01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:40.000
in it for years. Old man Chimmer knows it. He's

1359
01:18:40.039 --> 01:18:42.840
lived in town as long as I can remember. And

1360
01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:46.039
this is the drive leading up to the house, lying

1361
01:18:46.079 --> 01:18:49.039
with trees on both sides. House never gets no real

1362
01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:54.760
daylight into it here, sir, I'll get your beg.

1363
01:18:54.720 --> 01:18:57.560
Oh, never mind, I can take it. You're young men.

1364
01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:02.039
Thank you, mister. It's moon. It's worth that's all right.

1365
01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:06.199
Anything I can do for you, just call the general

1366
01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:17.680
store and ask for mark. Thanks, I'll do that, Bliman Jim,

1367
01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:20.199
Hello Jim. I began to think you didn't make The

1368
01:19:20.279 --> 01:19:25.079
train was forty minutes late. Come on in. Nice of

1369
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:27.079
you to come, the old recluse.

1370
01:19:27.520 --> 01:19:29.760
The idea of picking a spot no man ever heard of.

1371
01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:32.600
Bring your things into the sitting room. We'll go upstairs

1372
01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:41.039
later where nice huh sit down?

1373
01:19:41.640 --> 01:19:42.000
Thanks?

1374
01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:45.000
Yes, Millie got it fixed up pretty well before she

1375
01:19:45.079 --> 01:19:48.359
went back to the city. My laboratory is right off

1376
01:19:48.439 --> 01:19:52.319
this room. Everything handy. You had dinner, lemon, here's Jim

1377
01:19:52.560 --> 01:19:53.079
on the train.

1378
01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:53.520
Good.

1379
01:19:54.119 --> 01:19:55.560
I'm not much at fixing meals.

1380
01:19:55.680 --> 01:19:59.119
The young man marked from the general store said that

1381
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:00.880
Milly had left her.

1382
01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:02.439
What's the idea?

1383
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:05.279
I'll tell you all about it. That's why I called him.

1384
01:20:05.640 --> 01:20:07.840
Well, it's nice here, Jim, but I can't see why

1385
01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:09.880
you chose a place so far away from everywhere.

1386
01:20:10.119 --> 01:20:10.760
I like it here.

1387
01:20:11.479 --> 01:20:15.279
It's the reason enough, I guess, Billy coming back.

1388
01:20:15.199 --> 01:20:15.800
To take care of you.

1389
01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:24.079
No, No, I'm afraid not, Lyman. Milly left because she

1390
01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:30.680
was certain that this house is haunted. Oh, Jim, I

1391
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:33.239
called you last night because I remember a story you

1392
01:20:33.319 --> 01:20:37.880
once told, story of a haunted house. You told it

1393
01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:40.319
as if you gave credence to the tale. Is that

1394
01:20:40.479 --> 01:20:44.960
all I remember? Well, that's why I wanted you here, Jim.

1395
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:47.560
You don't think, by any chance that this house is haunted.

1396
01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:50.319
To you, I'm not so sure. But what I do

1397
01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:55.840
absurd You think it impossible? Naturally, you didn't talk that

1398
01:20:55.920 --> 01:20:57.560
way when you were telling us that evening of a

1399
01:20:57.640 --> 01:20:58.640
place off the coast.

1400
01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:01.920
You knew that was the That was a fireside tail,

1401
01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:03.880
quite different from reality.

1402
01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:08.399
Lyman. It's only a short time until midnight. Will you

1403
01:21:08.479 --> 01:21:10.960
come into the laboratory with me. Do you sit in

1404
01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:12.760
there with me for a little while and see if

1405
01:21:12.760 --> 01:21:14.439
the same things had happened last night?

1406
01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:15.359
curR again.

1407
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:19.520
Of course, if the same things do occur again, I

1408
01:21:19.600 --> 01:21:23.640
shall be convinced that Billie was right. I shall be

1409
01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:28.039
quite sure that something does happen, does.

1410
01:21:28.039 --> 01:21:28.760
Haunt the hub?

1411
01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:40.479
Nearly midnight?

1412
01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:41.800
Jim, did you.

1413
01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:44.039
Check the door into the laboratory to see if it's

1414
01:21:44.079 --> 01:21:48.279
closed tightly? I checked it and convinced it securely fastened, dear,

1415
01:21:55.960 --> 01:21:56.920
just specking midnight?

1416
01:21:57.359 --> 01:21:59.960
Yes, this was the hour last night.

1417
01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:05.000
What are we to watch for.

1418
01:22:07.479 --> 01:22:07.880
The door?

1419
01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:18.920
First, the door into this laboratory. Okay, listen, it sounded

1420
01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:20.720
as if someone has his hand on the door.

1421
01:22:20.760 --> 01:22:24.159
Knob fucker.

1422
01:22:24.520 --> 01:22:29.520
But wait, it's opening, yes.

1423
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:31.800
Just as it did before.

1424
01:22:34.479 --> 01:22:36.960
Well, there's no wind night, no last night.

1425
01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:39.600
I'm a.

1426
01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:45.039
You feel the presence of someone in this room, someone

1427
01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:45.840
besides us.

1428
01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:49.840
No, I don't I do?

1429
01:22:52.199 --> 01:22:52.600
What is it?

1430
01:22:53.359 --> 01:22:56.119
Once again, it was as if something brushed past me,

1431
01:22:57.319 --> 01:22:58.159
touched my shoulder.

1432
01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:01.720
For what that is?

1433
01:23:05.319 --> 01:23:17.880
Look look over on the table, watch my ledger. You

1434
01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:22.920
see pages of my ledger are turning if a hand.

1435
01:23:22.840 --> 01:23:23.000
Is on.

1436
01:23:24.920 --> 01:23:27.720
JEEMI, I can't believe my eyes.

1437
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:29.319
It's incredible.

1438
01:23:30.600 --> 01:23:36.920
Now look on the workbench. See something is moving those

1439
01:23:37.079 --> 01:23:41.439
test tubes. I'm gonna stop this before all my experimental

1440
01:23:41.479 --> 01:23:41.880
walks through.

1441
01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:42.640
What are you going to do.

1442
01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:50.039
I'm gonna walk over there, put my hands on the rack, Biman.

1443
01:23:51.680 --> 01:23:56.000
Something touched my hand. Something I felt like chop nails

1444
01:23:56.079 --> 01:23:57.000
digging into the flesh.

1445
01:23:57.159 --> 01:23:59.319
Oh, it's your nerves, burden lyman.

1446
01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:03.239
Is something in this room, something that moves about in here,

1447
01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:07.159
some unseen thing that enters the door moves in this room.

1448
01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:08.920
I'd let your imagination run away with you.

1449
01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:09.239
Jim.

1450
01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:11.880
There is a thing in the house beyond scientific explanation.

1451
01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:12.560
You know it.

1452
01:24:13.520 --> 01:24:16.960
It's something vital and alive, thing of power and locomotion,

1453
01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:19.560
and it's up to us to find out.

1454
01:24:19.439 --> 01:24:19.880
What it is.

1455
01:24:28.159 --> 01:24:29.880
Well, we might as well look through this room.

1456
01:24:30.960 --> 01:24:35.479
No use overlooking anything seems silly, doesn't it. I'm not

1457
01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:37.119
going to find anybody in these rooms.

1458
01:24:37.279 --> 01:24:41.399
Didn't you say that Milly heard things upstairs? So she said, She.

1459
01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:44.000
Complained the very first night we were here that someone

1460
01:24:44.159 --> 01:24:44.800
entered the room.

1461
01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:46.000
She didn't see anyone.

1462
01:24:46.359 --> 01:24:49.319
No, she didn't see any more than we did just

1463
01:24:49.359 --> 01:24:53.039
a while ago downstairs. Now that the incident of downstairs

1464
01:24:53.079 --> 01:24:53.600
has past.

1465
01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:58.239
Seems to me that it never happened. Perhaps it was

1466
01:24:58.319 --> 01:25:00.560
your power of suggestion that made us both think we

1467
01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:05.479
saw a movement. Well, nothing out of the ordinary in

1468
01:25:05.520 --> 01:25:08.159
this room. No, what do you say we forget it

1469
01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:09.119
and get some sleeping.

1470
01:25:09.479 --> 01:25:12.399
All right, I'm not going to discover anything tonight.

1471
01:25:12.479 --> 01:25:12.800
I guess.

1472
01:25:16.399 --> 01:25:20.840
Did you talk to the man who sold you the house, Jim, Jim, Yes, sure.

1473
01:25:20.760 --> 01:25:22.960
He brought me out here after I chanced upon the place.

1474
01:25:23.359 --> 01:25:24.399
We went off through it together.

1475
01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:26.600
Of course, he didn't say why the house had stood

1476
01:25:26.680 --> 01:25:27.960
unoccupied for a long time.

1477
01:25:28.880 --> 01:25:29.359
Yes, he did.

1478
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:32.680
Said that after his wife died, he wanted to live

1479
01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:35.279
in town, but he was getting too old to keep

1480
01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:36.079
up a place like this.

1481
01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:37.039
Uh huh.

1482
01:25:37.640 --> 01:25:39.640
Said that up to this time he couldn't find anyone

1483
01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:44.199
who could afford to buy him. Oh, well, we'll go

1484
01:25:44.279 --> 01:25:46.359
downstairs and get your things and bring him up to

1485
01:25:46.399 --> 01:25:54.199
your room. Fimon, How was that something downstairs? It came

1486
01:25:54.199 --> 01:25:56.880
from the laboratory, I know it did. It's the only

1487
01:25:56.880 --> 01:25:57.640
place where there's.

1488
01:25:57.439 --> 01:25:57.960
So much class.

1489
01:25:58.000 --> 01:25:58.920
Don't get up ToxT, Jim.

1490
01:26:02.359 --> 01:26:04.359
Great, heaven's look the whole thing.

1491
01:26:04.680 --> 01:26:07.439
Everything in the room smashed, the equipment that's taken me

1492
01:26:07.520 --> 01:26:09.119
months to build everything ruined?

1493
01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:09.359
Jim.

1494
01:26:09.720 --> 01:26:12.039
Some human has been in here, someone who's trying to

1495
01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:14.439
stop your experiment by destroying your equipment.

1496
01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:14.880
Wipe out your work.

1497
01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:18.319
Oh, ruin, He'll take months to arrive at this point

1498
01:26:18.359 --> 01:26:21.960
in my experiment. Again, someone has been hiding downstairs here, Jim.

1499
01:26:22.760 --> 01:26:24.720
We've got to find out where and who it is.

1500
01:26:40.680 --> 01:26:43.159
Is it a human being who hides in the house

1501
01:26:43.399 --> 01:26:45.520
intent upon destroying all the Jim?

1502
01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:47.680
But who creates in his laboratory?

1503
01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:48.319
Oh?

1504
01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:50.199
Is it an unseen force.

1505
01:26:50.000 --> 01:26:54.439
As Jim said earlier evening, an unseen force with power

1506
01:26:54.479 --> 01:26:56.119
and locomotion that lives.

1507
01:26:55.920 --> 01:27:00.319
In the old house. The hermit will tell you before

1508
01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:01.520
the night is dumb.

1509
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:19.800
It is the following night Jim Benton and his friend Lyman.

1510
01:27:19.600 --> 01:27:21.239
Commas in the laboratory.

1511
01:27:22.560 --> 01:27:25.439
Just a few minutes ago the clock struck midnight.

1512
01:27:26.560 --> 01:27:29.079
Right now, Button is Disley engaged.

1513
01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:31.760
Building up, step by step the experiment which has been

1514
01:27:31.920 --> 01:27:33.159
ruined the night before.

1515
01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:36.680
Lyman Commas is watching him.

1516
01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:54.840
Jim, don't you think you ought to knock off for

1517
01:27:54.920 --> 01:27:55.199
the night.

1518
01:27:56.119 --> 01:27:57.319
He works steadily all day.

1519
01:27:58.079 --> 01:27:59.960
There's so much time lost that I have to make

1520
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:00.720
up Liman.

1521
01:28:01.279 --> 01:28:03.159
Certainly we aren't going to have any visitor tonight.

1522
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:05.399
There's nothing left for them to destroy.

1523
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:10.720
Now, tomorrow I'll go into town and inquire around. I

1524
01:28:10.840 --> 01:28:13.479
think I should go to see old man Chimlin, ask

1525
01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:16.479
him to tell me something about the place, or maybe

1526
01:28:16.479 --> 01:28:19.840
he can put us on the right track. I would

1527
01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:21.880
have gone to day, but I wanted to make sure.

1528
01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:25.640
I wanted to see if we'd have the same experience

1529
01:28:25.720 --> 01:28:32.000
of last night. You uh gonna work much longer leased.

1530
01:28:31.800 --> 01:28:34.920
An hour, and that's the way he passed midnight.

1531
01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:37.960
Guess I'll go upstairs.

1532
01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:42.800
I'm kay. If you want anything, call me all right lyman,

1533
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:45.039
thanks a lot for staying over.

1534
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:46.439
It's a great help.

1535
01:28:46.760 --> 01:28:48.760
Yes, if we can find out what it is or

1536
01:28:48.880 --> 01:28:51.239
who it is is causing this trouble, we'll find on

1537
01:28:52.159 --> 01:29:03.000
good night, good night. Let's see. Next step is to

1538
01:29:03.079 --> 01:29:11.239
your night. The two chemicals perform Step B. Where is

1539
01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:19.880
that ledger? I asked, And the next step I performed was, oh, wait,

1540
01:29:23.359 --> 01:29:28.439
pages and the ledger page five six. The page is

1541
01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:29.079
missing from here.

1542
01:29:30.199 --> 01:29:31.000
Every step I'd.

1543
01:29:30.880 --> 01:29:32.840
Worked out and put down is thrown out of this book.

1544
01:29:34.600 --> 01:29:38.640
Ah, oh, what is it?

1545
01:29:39.800 --> 01:29:41.199
What is it that dogs might.

1546
01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:42.640
Trail and won't let me do this?

1547
01:29:42.840 --> 01:29:43.119
Work.

1548
01:29:44.680 --> 01:29:47.439
Uh, step by step. I'd have to work it all

1549
01:29:47.560 --> 01:29:54.760
over again. What someone at the door again?

1550
01:29:59.720 --> 01:29:59.840
Is that?

1551
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:00.640
Jie lyman?

1552
01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:07.079
Oh no, I know it isn't.

1553
01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:13.039
Just as before, I feel the presence of some person

1554
01:30:13.119 --> 01:30:19.960
in this room, if they were standing over me. What

1555
01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:20.479
do you want?

1556
01:30:22.479 --> 01:30:22.920
Where is it?

1557
01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:23.359
Your brother?

1558
01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:26.079
Something around my neck?

1559
01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:30.960
Something joking man, choking man?

1560
01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:36.000
Jim, Jim, help me?

1561
01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:39.479
Hell?

1562
01:30:52.319 --> 01:30:52.880
What happened?

1563
01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:55.760
Fall on to the floor, Jim.

1564
01:30:57.840 --> 01:31:01.560
Great, Heaven's face has burned by the stuff he was

1565
01:31:01.640 --> 01:31:09.880
working with. Hello, Oh, for Heaven's sake, hurry, hello, operator,

1566
01:31:10.039 --> 01:31:12.760
Send the doctor to the old old Chimlin place right away. Hurry,

1567
01:31:13.039 --> 01:31:16.079
there's been a terrible accident. Man's face has almost burned away.

1568
01:31:23.239 --> 01:31:27.640
Well, doctor, I'm afraid it's quite hopeless. He lives. His

1569
01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:30.880
sight would be gone, his face horribly scarred.

1570
01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:34.960
Where Jim, we'd only gotten out of this place last night.

1571
01:31:35.199 --> 01:31:37.359
Did you call? He said, Chimmelin, as I asked you

1572
01:31:37.479 --> 01:31:37.640
to do.

1573
01:31:37.880 --> 01:31:39.119
Yes, he should be here any minute.

1574
01:31:39.720 --> 01:31:41.920
I'll late then sit down, Docter.

1575
01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:46.279
After the story you told me about the experience you've had,

1576
01:31:47.159 --> 01:31:49.239
I think it's up to Chimlin to tell his story.

1577
01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:54.079
He sound as if it was something very mysterious something

1578
01:31:54.159 --> 01:31:56.039
that Jim should have been told before he bought this

1579
01:31:56.159 --> 01:31:59.560
place from Chimlin. If it had been told, it would

1580
01:31:59.560 --> 01:32:01.960
have saved in the agones he's going through right now.

1581
01:32:02.159 --> 01:32:05.760
Mister Karma, what I know has given me in professional confidence.

1582
01:32:06.399 --> 01:32:09.239
What others in the town might have told you would

1583
01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:13.119
have been gossip. And no one tells gossip about Asa Chimelin.

1584
01:32:13.560 --> 01:32:17.359
How so dufty Well, he's the owner of many mortgages,

1585
01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:20.439
many notes, a man of wealth and power.

1586
01:32:20.239 --> 01:32:21.000
In our community.

1587
01:32:21.479 --> 01:32:23.319
I see, Oh, there's a car.

1588
01:32:23.279 --> 01:32:26.039
Turning in the drive. Mister Karma, must be Chimlin. I'll

1589
01:32:26.079 --> 01:32:27.279
go up to mister Burton again.

1590
01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:28.640
Call me.

1591
01:32:28.680 --> 01:32:37.439
If Chimmelin refuses to speak, I thank you, Hello, sir, Hello,

1592
01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:40.840
may where's mister Chimlin. He didn't come, sir. He called

1593
01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:42.560
at our house and got me to drive out and

1594
01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:43.399
bring you this note.

1595
01:32:43.439 --> 01:32:45.640
O come in, hy, I reckon.

1596
01:32:45.680 --> 01:32:49.159
I better not, sir, I reckon, I just as leave

1597
01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:50.600
stay outside of this house.

1598
01:32:50.439 --> 01:32:52.520
If you don't mind, well, come on in just a

1599
01:32:52.560 --> 01:32:53.840
moment while I read this note.

1600
01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:55.199
Nothing can harm you in the.

1601
01:32:55.239 --> 01:33:03.880
Daytime, all right, Just till you read the note. Come

1602
01:33:03.920 --> 01:33:08.039
in here, sit down. I wanna read the note.

1603
01:33:08.239 --> 01:33:08.399
Yes.

1604
01:33:11.399 --> 01:33:20.560
H hm, well, mart what made you say you'd rather

1605
01:33:20.640 --> 01:33:22.119
not come inside this house so.

1606
01:33:22.199 --> 01:33:22.960
I can't see?

1607
01:33:23.039 --> 01:33:23.199
Sir?

1608
01:33:23.319 --> 01:33:26.199
Really, I can't mister Chimlin to get even with my dad.

1609
01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:29.159
If I said any more, you see, he about owns

1610
01:33:29.239 --> 01:33:29.920
our store.

1611
01:33:29.880 --> 01:33:31.800
I wouldn't tell Chimlin come now.

1612
01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:37.560
Huh, Well, sir, h you see the Chimlin's the daughter

1613
01:33:37.680 --> 01:33:40.640
she wasn't quite right and she died out here, and

1614
01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:42.560
Missus Chimlin she hanged herself.

1615
01:33:43.600 --> 01:33:45.720
Folks have always been scared of this house cause of that.

1616
01:33:46.239 --> 01:33:46.720
I see.

1617
01:33:48.159 --> 01:33:49.840
Why did Missus Chimlin hang herself?

1618
01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:53.119
I don't write lyneul, Perhaps the doctor can tell us,

1619
01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:55.560
Oh my hello, Jock.

1620
01:33:55.880 --> 01:33:58.760
Chimmelin didn't come sent this note saying he would refund

1621
01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:02.560
mister Burton's money and take thee back again. Says nothing more.

1622
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:06.319
But Marty Hears volunteered to tell me that there were

1623
01:34:06.399 --> 01:34:10.439
two deaths in this old house. One hanging, that's right,

1624
01:34:11.479 --> 01:34:14.640
Missus Chimlin, yes, and the girl.

1625
01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:18.079
Her case was hopeless eighteen. She had a mind of

1626
01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:21.039
a child of four. They took her everywhere, but to

1627
01:34:21.159 --> 01:34:21.640
no avail.

1628
01:34:22.079 --> 01:34:24.920
Time after time, Missus Chimlin pleaded with me to put

1629
01:34:24.960 --> 01:34:25.760
the girl to sleep.

1630
01:34:26.319 --> 01:34:30.159
In her misery, I couldn't do that. She hated me

1631
01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:30.520
for it.

1632
01:34:31.640 --> 01:34:35.319
Her hate grew until her mind was unsettled. One day

1633
01:34:35.439 --> 01:34:37.000
she took it upon herself to when.

1634
01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:37.760
The girl's life.

1635
01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:42.399
Then, realizing what she'd done, she hanged herself in the

1636
01:34:42.439 --> 01:34:45.159
room mister Burton has been using for his laboratory. If

1637
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:48.159
mister Chimin knew, we'd told us, no, that's all right, Matt.

1638
01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:51.079
There is any truth in the fact that an unseen

1639
01:34:51.199 --> 01:34:54.159
force lives in this house, and you will see how

1640
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:55.720
hard it is for me to believe that.

1641
01:34:56.800 --> 01:34:59.199
Then why did it seek vengeance on mister Burton.

1642
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:02.760
I have never believed in supernatural force any more than you,

1643
01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:06.319
But remember I've seen it at work in this house.

1644
01:35:07.840 --> 01:35:13.800
And as for seeking vengeance on Jim doctor, he was

1645
01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:18.159
working on an experiment to prolonged life, a discovery which

1646
01:35:18.239 --> 01:35:20.199
might have added untold years to the life of a

1647
01:35:20.279 --> 01:35:24.359
human being. And this is something that the spirit of

1648
01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:28.439
the woman who hanged herself did not want. That's why

1649
01:35:28.520 --> 01:35:30.239
it destroyed the experiments.

1650
01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:33.840
And that's why it destroyed Jim Burton. He died just

1651
01:35:33.960 --> 01:35:35.319
before I came downstairs.

1652
01:36:04.119 --> 01:36:08.439
The hermits that in the old house, the unseen force

1653
01:36:08.800 --> 01:36:11.399
was the spirit of a woman who took her own life,

1654
01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:16.119
the woman who could not rest in her grave, the

1655
01:36:16.199 --> 01:36:21.279
woman who returned to destroy anything that might prolonged life. Yes,

1656
01:36:22.560 --> 01:36:26.119
she kills him. Britain, by the power of supernatural force.

1657
01:36:27.079 --> 01:36:37.439
Stayed on your lege, Turn them on all they pleasant dreams.

1658
01:36:44.520 --> 01:36:48.119
Well, well, it is getting late, isn't it. But I

1659
01:36:48.319 --> 01:36:53.279
suppose it's a special time of year. So what the heck?

1660
01:36:54.199 --> 01:36:54.560
What's that?

1661
01:36:55.399 --> 01:37:01.039
Oh well, I try not to say the other thing. Well,

1662
01:37:02.279 --> 01:37:12.760
it's unwise in my situation. Well let's move on, shall

1663
01:37:12.840 --> 01:37:19.680
we something more fun and fearful to give you an

1664
01:37:20.359 --> 01:37:27.560
earful Oh well, I suppose I just don't want to

1665
01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:37.319
run the risk of somehow crossing paths with well the ghostmaker.

1666
01:37:45.960 --> 01:38:11.680
The Seal Book. Once again, the Keeper of the Book

1667
01:38:12.359 --> 01:38:16.199
has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault, wherein

1668
01:38:16.279 --> 01:38:20.239
has kept the Great Sealed Book, in which has recorded

1669
01:38:20.279 --> 01:38:24.039
all the secrets and mysteries of mankind.

1670
01:38:23.680 --> 01:38:24.439
Through the ages.

1671
01:38:25.720 --> 01:38:30.800
Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness,

1672
01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:37.279
of dark deeds, strange and terrible. Beyond all belief. Keeper

1673
01:38:37.359 --> 01:38:40.520
of the Book, I would know what tale we tell

1674
01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:44.760
this time? Open the Great Book and let us read.

1675
01:38:46.239 --> 01:38:46.680
Slowly.

1676
01:38:47.680 --> 01:38:50.760
The great book opens.

1677
01:38:55.439 --> 01:38:56.439
One by one.

1678
01:38:57.439 --> 01:39:02.039
The keeper of the book turns the page and stops

1679
01:39:03.479 --> 01:39:08.680
ah the strange story of two scoundrels who would stop

1680
01:39:08.760 --> 01:40:06.600
at nothing for money, a tale called the Ghostmakers. Here

1681
01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:10.800
is the Tale the Ghostmakers, as it is written in

1682
01:40:10.880 --> 01:40:14.960
the pages of the sealed Book. It is an autumn

1683
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:19.000
afternoon in the ancient New England village of Wilton. In

1684
01:40:19.119 --> 01:40:22.520
an old stone house a mile from the town, Agatha

1685
01:40:22.560 --> 01:40:25.880
Wainwright is serving tea to her nephew Ned, and a

1686
01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:30.199
little man. Ned is introduced as Professor Piedmont, a friend

1687
01:40:30.359 --> 01:40:32.560
who has come to spend a few weeks with them

1688
01:40:33.039 --> 01:40:36.000
while he works on a book to be called Old

1689
01:40:36.159 --> 01:40:37.760
Graveyards of New England.

1690
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:43.960
So this is your graveyard, friend, Ned looks like a

1691
01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:46.560
man who'd be happy staring at tombstones.

1692
01:40:46.800 --> 01:40:49.199
They may professionally didn't steady, miss Waynwright.

1693
01:40:49.279 --> 01:40:52.600
Now I'll take your word for it, Professor Piedmont. Myself,

1694
01:40:52.680 --> 01:40:54.239
I'd rather read about them in a book.

1695
01:40:54.399 --> 01:40:57.039
The Professor not only writes books any but he's also

1696
01:40:57.079 --> 01:40:58.600
an expert on psychic phenomena.

1697
01:40:58.760 --> 01:41:04.199
Psychic phenomena, Oh you mean ghosts? Hmm, foolish fiddle faddle

1698
01:41:04.319 --> 01:41:06.960
dreamed up by silly people without the brains to know better.

1699
01:41:07.119 --> 01:41:10.680
Nor But miss Wingwright, I assure you you are wrong, nonsense.

1700
01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:14.399
When a person's dead, he's dead, and I see anything

1701
01:41:14.479 --> 01:41:17.079
I'm willing to call a ghost, I'll know I'm crazy,

1702
01:41:17.159 --> 01:41:17.840
and I'll admit it.

1703
01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:20.560
Why, Addie, this very house is supposed to be hearted,

1704
01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:21.880
You know that rubbish.

1705
01:41:22.079 --> 01:41:24.880
This is a perfectly normal house. I've lived here a

1706
01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:26.880
month and i haven't heard so much as a board

1707
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:27.560
squeak her.

1708
01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:30.399
But miss Wingwright, it may be only because you're new

1709
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:33.039
to the house and not yet since itized. It takes

1710
01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:35.640
time to become aware of occult influences.

1711
01:41:36.159 --> 01:41:41.319
Stuff and nonsense. Who started all this talk about ghosts? Anyway? Here? Now,

1712
01:41:41.399 --> 01:41:43.880
let's have some tea and no more talk about ghosts.

1713
01:41:57.159 --> 01:42:00.399
Well need, Now that we're alone, suppose you tell me

1714
01:42:00.479 --> 01:42:03.760
a little more than you put in your letter. I'm

1715
01:42:03.880 --> 01:42:05.600
still not sure where you sent for me.

1716
01:42:05.920 --> 01:42:09.159
All right, professor, this is the gist of it. Three

1717
01:42:09.199 --> 01:42:12.640
months ago, aunt Agatha's brother died, leaving her in estate

1718
01:42:12.800 --> 01:42:17.640
of four hundred thousand dollars, and I'm Aunt's only living relative.

1719
01:42:17.920 --> 01:42:21.479
I see, yes, light begins to do.

1720
01:42:21.760 --> 01:42:25.000
No wait, my uncle arranged his will so that aunt

1721
01:42:25.039 --> 01:42:27.960
Agatha gets only the interest about twenty thousand a year,

1722
01:42:28.439 --> 01:42:31.000
and this house to live in. On her death, the

1723
01:42:31.359 --> 01:42:34.800
entire estate goes to charity. I'm cut off about a penny.

1724
01:42:35.039 --> 01:42:39.319
I see your uncle didn't like you, nid shrewd men,

1725
01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:40.600
very shrewd.

1726
01:42:40.800 --> 01:42:42.760
Yes, she was making sure I couldn't get my hands

1727
01:42:42.800 --> 01:42:45.039
on any of it. But that's where you come in.

1728
01:42:46.399 --> 01:42:50.840
If aunt Agatha were to become shall we say ill,

1729
01:42:51.680 --> 01:42:52.760
mentally ill.

1730
01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:56.880
So that she was incompetent to administer the estate.

1731
01:42:56.720 --> 01:42:59.600
You mean exactly. If at Agatha were to lose her

1732
01:42:59.680 --> 01:43:04.159
mind through shock or fright, who but me her only

1733
01:43:04.239 --> 01:43:06.720
relative would be the logical one to administer the estate

1734
01:43:06.840 --> 01:43:08.159
for you would.

1735
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:11.159
Then then you'd have the whole income for as long

1736
01:43:11.199 --> 01:43:12.119
as she lived.

1737
01:43:12.000 --> 01:43:14.159
As part of the principle too, and no ways to

1738
01:43:14.239 --> 01:43:16.279
manage it. But I've got to get my hands on

1739
01:43:16.319 --> 01:43:18.079
some of it before the end of the year. I'm sunk.

1740
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:21.880
I owe a little money about twenty five thousand. If

1741
01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:24.960
I don't get it quickly, well, the people I owe

1742
01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:26.720
it to are rather short tempered.

1743
01:43:26.840 --> 01:43:30.439
I understand, yes, Nate, I remember when I knew you

1744
01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:34.000
in Chicago. You liked to gamble, didn't you. But that's

1745
01:43:34.119 --> 01:43:36.800
your affair. Personally, I prefer to stick to my own

1746
01:43:36.840 --> 01:43:39.039
profession creating ghosts.

1747
01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:42.399
Yes, I've heard of some of your jobs, Professor, and

1748
01:43:42.680 --> 01:43:45.159
some of the ghosts you've created to order.

1749
01:43:45.520 --> 01:43:48.680
Yes, I pride myself on having a unique occupation.

1750
01:43:48.920 --> 01:43:49.079
Ned.

1751
01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:52.399
I believe I'm the only ghost maker there is, and

1752
01:43:52.520 --> 01:43:54.520
the ghost I've created have been effective too.

1753
01:43:55.399 --> 01:43:58.279
So I understand now. What I want you to do

1754
01:43:58.399 --> 01:44:01.600
is this. I want a frightened to the point.

1755
01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:05.520
Where she sa I understand well, Ned, It's going to

1756
01:44:05.560 --> 01:44:09.000
be difficult. She's a tough minded woman, hard to scare,

1757
01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:12.159
hard to drive, insane.

1758
01:44:12.319 --> 01:44:14.359
That's got to be done. Got to get my hands

1759
01:44:14.399 --> 01:44:19.000
on the estate. If you succeed, Professor, there's five thousand

1760
01:44:19.039 --> 01:44:23.239
dollars in it for you, all right, Ned, I'll try.

1761
01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:26.880
It won't be easy, But she made Greig suddenly when

1762
01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:29.079
the time comes that type, does you know?

1763
01:44:29.319 --> 01:44:33.680
Good settled in? You brought everything you are apt to need.

1764
01:44:34.399 --> 01:44:37.119
All my apparatus and gadgets are in my trunk to

1765
01:44:37.239 --> 01:44:41.640
be here tomorrow. I'm not altogether sure I like this job, Ned.

1766
01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:44.439
I hope you're not going to turn moral on my professor.

1767
01:44:44.600 --> 01:44:47.119
No, no, no, no, there's something about this place that

1768
01:44:47.199 --> 01:44:51.119
disturbs me. Though you know, I am psychic at times,

1769
01:44:51.760 --> 01:44:52.880
not altogether a faker.

1770
01:44:53.399 --> 01:44:55.840
Neks to be scaring yourself with your own stories.

1771
01:44:56.199 --> 01:44:59.119
As we were driving past that old cemetery this afternoon,

1772
01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:03.760
s only filled the premonition, a chill, kind of chill

1773
01:45:03.800 --> 01:45:05.920
you're supposed to feel when you go near the place

1774
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:07.359
you'll suddenly be buried.

1775
01:45:07.520 --> 01:45:10.600
Hot was just the wind. We'll have to get you

1776
01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:15.319
some red flannels. Yeah, there's something that will give you

1777
01:45:15.359 --> 01:45:18.680
your courage back. Drink it down.

1778
01:45:20.800 --> 01:45:27.520
A hey, that's me good. All the different kinds of spirits.

1779
01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:29.399
I prefer those in bottles.

1780
01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:32.760
I thought you'd like it. Now let's go downstairs again.

1781
01:45:33.279 --> 01:45:37.079
We won't talk about ghosts anymore tonight, but tomorrow night,

1782
01:45:38.279 --> 01:45:39.960
who knows what may come knocking it?

1783
01:45:40.039 --> 01:46:03.279
And I get this door, SA.

1784
01:47:29.880 --> 01:47:33.199
And now to continue the story as it is written

1785
01:47:33.279 --> 01:47:38.000
in the Sealed book. The following evening ned and the

1786
01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:43.920
Professor joined Dantagatha by the fireplace, where she sat knitting outside.

1787
01:47:44.000 --> 01:47:45.479
A cold winter wind blew.

1788
01:47:47.560 --> 01:47:50.079
O listen to that wind. We may be in for

1789
01:47:50.119 --> 01:47:50.560
a storm.

1790
01:47:50.880 --> 01:47:53.760
We're in for an early winter that's what her Snow

1791
01:47:53.840 --> 01:47:54.720
will fall any day.

1792
01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:54.960
Now.

1793
01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:58.039
It's good to have a fireplace to sit by when

1794
01:47:58.079 --> 01:47:59.239
the wind blows like that.

1795
01:48:00.720 --> 01:48:02.399
Here's the cider and donuts, ma'am.

1796
01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:04.119
Very well, emmy, bring it right in.

1797
01:48:04.399 --> 01:48:06.560
Yeah, cider and donuts just what we need in a

1798
01:48:06.640 --> 01:48:07.039
night like this.

1799
01:48:07.840 --> 01:48:10.199
Will you have a glass, mister ned Yes, thank you?

1800
01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:16.479
I mean, will you have some cider? Professor Peede, ma'am.

1801
01:48:17.279 --> 01:48:19.439
Professor, and he's trying to give you some cider.

1802
01:48:19.640 --> 01:48:19.800
Yah.

1803
01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:23.600
Oh, excuse me. I was listening. I thought they heard

1804
01:48:23.680 --> 01:48:25.479
someone knocking on the front door.

1805
01:48:25.600 --> 01:48:29.159
Someone king, well, there is someone there.

1806
01:48:30.079 --> 01:48:32.199
Well, they can't be very anxious to get in. That's

1807
01:48:32.279 --> 01:48:36.359
all the noise they can make. Shall I go see

1808
01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:39.279
who it is, miss Agatha? Yes, yes, girl, go see,

1809
01:48:39.479 --> 01:48:41.720
though I can't imagine who'd be calling at this hour

1810
01:48:41.720 --> 01:48:42.119
of the night.

1811
01:48:42.720 --> 01:48:44.880
Sounded like someone who didn't expect to get in anyway,

1812
01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:48.399
a timid child who may be a ghost.

1813
01:48:49.520 --> 01:48:51.479
Yes, yes, who is it?

1814
01:48:52.600 --> 01:48:55.239
Why? Why? Miss?

1815
01:48:55.840 --> 01:48:56.039
Well?

1816
01:48:56.520 --> 01:48:59.159
There wasn't anyone there, No one there? Of course there

1817
01:48:59.319 --> 01:49:01.399
was someone, didn't they? But I opened the door and

1818
01:49:01.439 --> 01:49:04.000
there wasn't anyone there, And who was knocking? Answer me

1819
01:49:04.119 --> 01:49:09.039
that I don't know, but that wasn't anyone anyone you

1820
01:49:09.119 --> 01:49:11.960
can see emmy, I'll stand for no foolishness now.

1821
01:49:12.560 --> 01:49:13.000
No, ma'am.

1822
01:49:13.920 --> 01:49:17.199
But just the same, there's nobody at the door. Someone's

1823
01:49:17.279 --> 01:49:19.159
playing tricks on us, and I'm going to see who

1824
01:49:19.239 --> 01:49:19.479
it is.

1825
01:49:19.560 --> 01:49:20.119
I'll come with you.

1826
01:49:20.479 --> 01:49:24.119
You won't find anybody there. Well, we'll see.

1827
01:49:25.600 --> 01:49:26.680
Well what is it?

1828
01:49:27.079 --> 01:49:29.119
What do you There isn't anyone here?

1829
01:49:29.520 --> 01:49:32.239
Oh but there was. They slipped away into the bushes,

1830
01:49:32.279 --> 01:49:33.000
that's what they did.

1831
01:49:33.439 --> 01:49:35.840
Yes, yes, of course, some small boys playing tricks.

1832
01:49:35.840 --> 01:49:39.000
I suppose if I catch them, I'll tan their hides.

1833
01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:40.319
Who was it, miss Wayne Wreck?

1834
01:49:40.359 --> 01:49:43.000
And there's some boys playing tricks, professor, That's all it

1835
01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:45.720
could have been. Come on, professor, drink your side here.

1836
01:49:46.359 --> 01:49:50.520
Well oh yes, yes, of course, professor. You look like

1837
01:49:50.600 --> 01:49:52.039
a man who was listening to something.

1838
01:49:52.119 --> 01:49:53.439
Then what was it?

1839
01:49:53.720 --> 01:49:56.039
Oh no, no, sir, I'm.

1840
01:49:55.880 --> 01:49:57.760
Too old not to know when a man is lying.

1841
01:49:57.800 --> 01:50:00.439
Professor Piedmont, What were you listening to?

1842
01:50:01.159 --> 01:50:04.760
To the truth? I thought I heard voices, what kind

1843
01:50:04.840 --> 01:50:09.640
of voices? Far away voices crying something I couldn't make up. Oh,

1844
01:50:09.720 --> 01:50:11.760
but it was just the flames in the fireplace.

1845
01:50:11.800 --> 01:50:15.680
I'm sure it was of course, that's all it was. Well,

1846
01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:18.479
what do you say we all turn in this new

1847
01:50:18.479 --> 01:50:19.720
England are makes me sleepy?

1848
01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:20.319
Hmmm?

1849
01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:26.039
Knocks at the door when there's nobody there, and voices, Yes,

1850
01:50:26.239 --> 01:50:28.800
it's high time we were all in bed instead of

1851
01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:31.800
sitting around here imagining such nonsensical things.

1852
01:50:40.159 --> 01:50:43.279
Highly Pleased with their first effort in creating ghosts that

1853
01:50:43.439 --> 01:50:47.960
didn't exist, Ned and Professor Piedmont went to bed, but

1854
01:50:48.079 --> 01:50:51.439
before they retired, they held a brief, low voiced conference

1855
01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:52.319
in Ned's room.

1856
01:50:54.279 --> 01:50:57.560
Professor that door knocking act was all right. He did

1857
01:50:57.600 --> 01:50:58.279
it very nicely.

1858
01:50:58.560 --> 01:51:02.279
He snead length of blake thread runs through a crack

1859
01:51:02.319 --> 01:51:04.680
in the window station and it takes the doorknocker. Can

1860
01:51:04.760 --> 01:51:06.960
create a very setispectory ghost.

1861
01:51:07.039 --> 01:51:10.079
Indeed, now tell me what comes next on the program.

1862
01:51:10.560 --> 01:51:14.279
Well, we can't work too fast. Tomorrow the hired girl

1863
01:51:14.359 --> 01:51:17.279
Emil spread the story of tonight's happens. The whole town

1864
01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:20.560
will start talking about it good and then and tomorrow

1865
01:51:20.680 --> 01:51:26.680
night nothing happens. Aunt Amy is reassured. But tomorrow I'll

1866
01:51:26.720 --> 01:51:29.800
be busy. I notice today there's an old, hollowed tree

1867
01:51:29.840 --> 01:51:31.880
in the woods about one hundred feet from the house.

1868
01:51:31.960 --> 01:51:32.680
And what about it.

1869
01:51:33.159 --> 01:51:35.680
I'll run wise to it, hiding them under the leaves,

1870
01:51:35.720 --> 01:51:38.640
and install a small loudspeaker in it. I'll conceal the

1871
01:51:38.720 --> 01:51:41.359
microphone and batteries behind the drapes in the living room.

1872
01:51:41.720 --> 01:51:42.159
I see.

1873
01:51:42.560 --> 01:51:45.359
So two nights from now we'll hear ghostly voices, eh.

1874
01:51:45.359 --> 01:51:49.199
Exactly, they'll accompany the ghostly knocks on the door. But

1875
01:51:49.319 --> 01:51:52.720
that won't be all. There will be other surprises on

1876
01:51:52.840 --> 01:51:53.359
the program.

1877
01:51:53.800 --> 01:51:56.840
Professor, remind me to tell you sometime that you're about

1878
01:51:56.880 --> 01:51:59.319
as unpleasant an old rascal as I've ever met.

1879
01:52:08.159 --> 01:52:12.000
The next evening, Agatha Wainwright listened nervously for a repetition

1880
01:52:12.119 --> 01:52:15.560
of the ghostly knocks, but nothing happened, and she regained

1881
01:52:15.600 --> 01:52:19.800
her composure the evening following that, however, as she and

1882
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:22.720
Ned and the Professor sat in the living room around

1883
01:52:22.760 --> 01:52:28.760
the fire, nine o'clock.

1884
01:52:29.800 --> 01:52:32.319
The evening may just be starting in New York. Here

1885
01:52:32.399 --> 01:52:36.960
and Wilton, it's bedtime. Hmm. Seems to be someone at.

1886
01:52:36.840 --> 01:52:40.159
The door, so there is Shall I go?

1887
01:52:40.520 --> 01:52:40.560
No?

1888
01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:43.039
Emmy can answer the door. She does little enough to

1889
01:52:43.079 --> 01:52:48.159
earn her money. Emmy, Emmy, there's someone at the door.

1890
01:52:48.279 --> 01:52:48.880
See who it is?

1891
01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:53.199
Please must ime Asagatha.

1892
01:52:52.800 --> 01:52:57.920
Must you indeed answer the door, Emmy, I'd rather not, ma'am. Emmy,

1893
01:52:58.239 --> 01:52:59.560
see who is at the door.

1894
01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:02.199
Yes, miss Agatha, I'm going.

1895
01:53:04.119 --> 01:53:04.560
Who is it?

1896
01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:07.079
There's no one there.

1897
01:53:07.399 --> 01:53:09.560
There's no one there. Again, Amy, get control of your

1898
01:53:09.760 --> 01:53:11.239
but I tell you there's no one there, and it's

1899
01:53:11.319 --> 01:53:15.239
someone playing tricks. That's all you hear, Emmy, Yes, yes,

1900
01:53:15.319 --> 01:53:17.840
miss Agatha, I hear, but I don't believe it. Go

1901
01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:19.520
to your room, yes, ma'am.

1902
01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:24.079
I'm sorry, miss Agatha, but there wasn't anyone there.

1903
01:53:24.760 --> 01:53:25.159
I hope.

1904
01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:27.439
I'm not going to have to discharge that girl.

1905
01:53:28.800 --> 01:53:29.680
Shall I go this time?

1906
01:53:29.760 --> 01:53:30.039
Auntie?

1907
01:53:30.239 --> 01:53:30.399
Oh?

1908
01:53:30.600 --> 01:53:30.800
Ned?

1909
01:53:31.119 --> 01:53:33.800
If the rascals play their tricks, whoever they are, they'll

1910
01:53:33.880 --> 01:53:35.800
soon stop when they see we pay no attention.

1911
01:53:36.039 --> 01:53:37.960
I wonder if I could see them from the window,

1912
01:53:38.159 --> 01:53:39.640
maybe we could trap them, if we were to go

1913
01:53:39.720 --> 01:53:41.800
quietly out the back door and step around of the front.

1914
01:53:46.359 --> 01:53:46.840
What was that.

1915
01:53:54.680 --> 01:53:55.680
Someone calling?

1916
01:53:56.159 --> 01:53:57.720
Really, I don't hear anyone.

1917
01:53:58.119 --> 01:53:59.960
It's someone calling to us to let him in.

1918
01:54:00.840 --> 01:54:01.399
Strange.

1919
01:54:01.560 --> 01:54:02.199
I can't hear it.

1920
01:54:02.319 --> 01:54:04.560
You must have heard it, Ned, It was perfectly plain.

1921
01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:08.359
There's some voices certain people can hear and others can't.

1922
01:54:08.760 --> 01:54:10.800
If there's someone calling we better take a look.

1923
01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:19.479
Come on, addie, we'll see what goes on. Who's there?

1924
01:54:19.880 --> 01:54:21.039
Show yourself, whoever you are.

1925
01:54:21.359 --> 01:54:22.640
Yeah, it's perfectly empty.

1926
01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:25.119
There's no soul in sight.

1927
01:54:25.560 --> 01:54:28.039
Booths and looking, and the voices seem too stoked.

1928
01:54:28.479 --> 01:54:31.479
Perhaps we ought to search the yard and Agatha, look

1929
01:54:31.840 --> 01:54:32.880
down at the edge of the trees.

1930
01:54:33.439 --> 01:54:37.680
Lights, three balls of light moving around just above the ground.

1931
01:54:38.279 --> 01:54:41.560
Three spheres of light, and give me luminous spheres of

1932
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:43.960
common manifestations of spiritual presences.

1933
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:46.920
Nonsense, they're just too will of the wisps, that's all.

1934
01:54:47.039 --> 01:54:49.079
Whatever they are, we're going to see. Come on, professor,

1935
01:54:49.199 --> 01:54:50.159
it's a trick. Will soon know.

1936
01:54:50.359 --> 01:54:52.680
Yes, Ned, wait for me, don't scare them away.

1937
01:54:52.840 --> 01:54:54.079
I want to see what they look like.

1938
01:54:54.319 --> 01:54:58.039
Ned, Ned, they're rising, they're floating away, but the trees.

1939
01:54:58.880 --> 01:55:01.800
And all right, so I get a doctor for you.

1940
01:55:01.880 --> 01:55:03.279
What do we want with a doctor?

1941
01:55:04.000 --> 01:55:07.399
I'm all right, an old fool carrying on like that

1942
01:55:08.039 --> 01:55:10.239
just because of some will of the whists of whatever

1943
01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:13.079
it was. I shan't do it again. I promise you you.

1944
01:55:13.560 --> 01:55:16.960
Need not be ashamed of Wainwright, unless I'm much mistaken.

1945
01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:20.359
We've witnessed a psychic visitation of a kind unsuppressed in

1946
01:55:20.439 --> 01:55:21.520
my suspirit.

1947
01:55:21.239 --> 01:55:25.079
Oh stuff and nonsense. Professor, you may believe in spirits,

1948
01:55:25.119 --> 01:55:28.119
but I don't. I never have believed in ghosts, and

1949
01:55:28.199 --> 01:55:30.840
I'm not going to start now. It was just that

1950
01:55:31.000 --> 01:55:33.079
it was well unexpected.

1951
01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:49.159
In the days that followed, Ned Wainwright and Professor Piedmont

1952
01:55:49.680 --> 01:55:54.439
found it impossible to shake Agatha Wainwright's iron nerves. Emmy,

1953
01:55:54.520 --> 01:56:00.720
the hired girl, resigned in terror, but Agatha remained seemingly unmoved. Resolutely,

1954
01:56:00.880 --> 01:56:05.119
she ignored the ghostly knocks, voices, and footsteps that Professor

1955
01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:09.720
Piedmont's ingenuity devised. The whole town buzzed with tales of

1956
01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:13.079
her haunted house, but she refused to pay any attention

1957
01:56:13.239 --> 01:56:17.119
to them. After a month had gone by, Ned was

1958
01:56:17.199 --> 01:56:18.279
ready to admit defeat.

1959
01:56:19.560 --> 01:56:22.720
Well, Professor, you're a washout, and Agata hasn't turned a

1960
01:56:22.800 --> 01:56:24.479
hair at your ghost now, Ned, I.

1961
01:56:24.640 --> 01:56:26.840
Told you it might take a long time. She's a

1962
01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:30.279
very strong minded woman. Believe me, anyone else would have

1963
01:56:30.359 --> 01:56:31.000
cracked by now.

1964
01:56:31.199 --> 01:56:32.760
Well, she hasn't, and she's not going to.

1965
01:56:33.079 --> 01:56:35.960
I still say it may happen all at once. She's

1966
01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:39.600
nervous and distruged. She doesn't sleep well. Every evening she

1967
01:56:39.680 --> 01:56:42.840
sits listening for ghostly voices. She won't admit it, but

1968
01:56:42.960 --> 01:56:45.039
she's made up her mind not to believe in ghosts,

1969
01:56:45.239 --> 01:56:46.439
and I'm afraid she never will.

1970
01:56:46.600 --> 01:56:48.760
Well, what do you suggest. It's the middle of December.

1971
01:56:48.840 --> 01:56:50.239
I've got to get my hands on her money by

1972
01:56:50.279 --> 01:56:51.239
the end of the year and sunk.

1973
01:56:51.760 --> 01:56:55.880
We must play our last card, you me. Do you

1974
01:56:56.000 --> 01:56:58.920
mean she's fond of you? You're her only relative?

1975
01:56:59.199 --> 01:56:59.920
What are you getting at?

1976
01:57:00.439 --> 01:57:03.760
How would she feel if you, her only relative, would

1977
01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:06.319
die and come back here as a ghost?

1978
01:57:06.600 --> 01:57:07.359
I don't follow you.

1979
01:57:07.840 --> 01:57:10.840
My plan is simple. We'll say good bye to your

1980
01:57:10.880 --> 01:57:14.319
aunt and drive off as if we were going away. Then,

1981
01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:17.119
secretly in the night, we will return to the house. Yes,

1982
01:57:17.560 --> 01:57:20.239
and then what we'll see to it that she receives

1983
01:57:20.279 --> 01:57:22.319
a phone call from a friend of mine in Boston.

1984
01:57:22.760 --> 01:57:24.720
He'll announce to your aunt that you and I have

1985
01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:27.560
been in an automobile accident, that we've been killed.

1986
01:57:28.279 --> 01:57:31.119
I see, yes, I begin to understand.

1987
01:57:31.800 --> 01:57:35.720
Immediately after the phone call, we'll knock. She'll come to

1988
01:57:35.840 --> 01:57:38.119
the door and see us standing.

1989
01:57:37.760 --> 01:57:40.880
There and having just heard that we're both dead exactly.

1990
01:57:41.560 --> 01:57:44.800
And if that doesn't work, ned we are defeated. But

1991
01:57:44.960 --> 01:57:47.880
it'll be a strong mind indeed that can withstand such

1992
01:57:47.880 --> 01:58:35.680
a shock. A strong mind, indeed, ye.

1993
01:59:38.279 --> 01:59:41.479
And now to continue the story as it is written

1994
01:59:41.560 --> 01:59:47.279
in the sealed book. Two days later, Naden Professor Piedmont

1995
01:59:47.359 --> 01:59:51.000
said good bye to Agatha and drove away. It was

1996
01:59:51.039 --> 01:59:53.199
starting to snow as they left, so they made their

1997
01:59:53.279 --> 01:59:56.920
way by a roundabout route to an isolated road house,

1998
01:59:57.039 --> 02:00:01.960
and there they spent the day waiting. After darkness had fallen,

1999
02:00:02.399 --> 02:00:06.479
they started back towards Antiagatha's house. By now there was

2000
02:00:06.720 --> 02:00:10.199
snow feet deep on the road, and the cold blast

2001
02:00:10.239 --> 02:00:12.760
of the north wind made even the heated interior of

2002
02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:14.520
the car uncomfortable.

2003
02:00:15.960 --> 02:00:18.960
Boo, I'll be dead when this is OpenD.

2004
02:00:19.479 --> 02:00:20.000
That's the moment.

2005
02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:23.039
You must be down to zero ns at least, well

2006
02:00:23.199 --> 02:00:26.239
almost there. We'll drive up to within one hundred yards

2007
02:00:26.279 --> 02:00:27.600
of the house and wait in the car with a

2008
02:00:27.640 --> 02:00:30.199
heater on What time did you arrange to have that

2009
02:00:30.319 --> 02:00:33.000
phone call made from Boston at nine o'clock exactly?

2010
02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:36.560
We want to knock the instant after she gets it right.

2011
02:00:37.680 --> 02:00:38.319
Isn't that our turn?

2012
02:00:38.399 --> 02:00:38.560
There?

2013
02:00:38.800 --> 02:00:39.560
I think so?

2014
02:00:40.359 --> 02:00:42.840
This snow makes it so hard to see that Professor

2015
02:00:42.920 --> 02:00:44.119
look up. We're going up the road.

2016
02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:50.479
Head.

2017
02:00:51.840 --> 02:00:54.640
D Are you hurt my ankle?

2018
02:00:55.399 --> 02:00:56.119
I'll be out of here.

2019
02:00:58.119 --> 02:01:03.399
Come on, hurry, Ned, I smelled gasoline. Call me catch

2020
02:01:03.479 --> 02:01:04.520
on fire, all right.

2021
02:01:05.039 --> 02:01:05.920
Help me out of the road.

2022
02:01:06.520 --> 02:01:11.119
Yes, yes, what happened. We skidded down a ten foot

2023
02:01:11.199 --> 02:01:12.760
bank and turn completely over.

2024
02:01:12.960 --> 02:01:14.800
If you'd watched where you were going, it wouldn't have happened.

2025
02:01:14.960 --> 02:01:17.680
I couldn't tell who was ice under the snow. I

2026
02:01:17.680 --> 02:01:19.840
would never mind that. We've got to get the shelter.

2027
02:01:20.239 --> 02:01:24.159
And I think my ankle's broken. Yes, I can't step

2028
02:01:24.199 --> 02:01:24.359
on it.

2029
02:01:25.560 --> 02:01:26.399
You can lean on me.

2030
02:01:28.119 --> 02:01:30.960
Where are we a quarter of a mile from aunt Agathus?

2031
02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:32.960
There'sn't another house within a mile.

2032
02:01:33.079 --> 02:01:35.119
And then come on, we've got to get there quick.

2033
02:01:35.720 --> 02:01:38.600
Lean on me. Help while you can. We don't get

2034
02:01:38.640 --> 02:01:40.239
there soon, we'll freeze to death.

2035
02:01:50.359 --> 02:01:54.000
Half an hour later, numb with cold and scarcely able

2036
02:01:54.039 --> 02:01:57.640
to struggle, on, Ned and Professor Piedmont staggered up to

2037
02:01:57.720 --> 02:02:02.279
Agatha Wainwright's house. The windows all had heavy wooden shutters

2038
02:02:02.319 --> 02:02:05.680
over them, shutters they themselves had helped Tagata put in

2039
02:02:05.760 --> 02:02:09.159
place to keep out anything that might come knocking at

2040
02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:12.760
the door, and the night, but through the small pane

2041
02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:15.880
of glass in the front door, light showed as they

2042
02:02:15.920 --> 02:02:17.680
stumbled thankfully up the steps.

2043
02:02:20.920 --> 02:02:24.159
Keaven, we're here. We couldn't have gone another hundred George,

2044
02:02:24.960 --> 02:02:27.079
I'm almost frozen.

2045
02:02:27.920 --> 02:02:31.079
You've got to get inside, ye help me.

2046
02:02:32.760 --> 02:02:33.159
All right?

2047
02:02:34.479 --> 02:02:42.920
One worship there? Ned? The phone call from Boston? What

2048
02:02:43.079 --> 02:02:43.520
time is it?

2049
02:02:43.600 --> 02:02:43.720
Now?

2050
02:02:44.079 --> 02:02:48.560
Time like it's nine nine o'clock exactly, and not quickly.

2051
02:02:48.920 --> 02:02:50.600
We've got to get inside before.

2052
02:02:50.399 --> 02:02:51.960
That phone call comes.

2053
02:03:02.159 --> 02:03:02.680
Inside.

2054
02:03:02.760 --> 02:03:05.920
Agatha Wainwright heard the knocking, but before she could go

2055
02:03:06.000 --> 02:03:08.840
to the door, the telephone rang and she answered it first.

2056
02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:15.479
Hello, Yes, this is Wilton three one seven Boston calling

2057
02:03:15.560 --> 02:03:22.880
long distance. Yes, I'll hold on just a minute. Hello, Yes,

2058
02:03:23.000 --> 02:03:28.000
this is miss Wainwright speaking the Boston General Hospital. My

2059
02:03:28.119 --> 02:03:28.680
nephew Ned.

2060
02:03:29.119 --> 02:03:29.479
What is it?

2061
02:03:29.760 --> 02:03:30.680
What's happened to him?

2062
02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:33.079
Dead?

2063
02:03:33.640 --> 02:03:36.520
An nomobile accident? Both of them killed?

2064
02:03:37.319 --> 02:03:37.359
No?

2065
02:03:38.159 --> 02:03:42.720
Oh no, yes, yes, I'm all right. Thank you for

2066
02:03:42.800 --> 02:03:47.159
letting me know. I'll come in the morning. Ned killed.

2067
02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:50.239
Oh no, no, no, it can't be.

2068
02:03:52.199 --> 02:03:52.399
Ned.

2069
02:03:53.039 --> 02:03:55.159
Let me here, Let me here, Ned.

2070
02:03:56.039 --> 02:03:58.000
Ned's dead. He's been killed.

2071
02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:04.000
Thee No, it's dead, it's dead.

2072
02:04:05.479 --> 02:04:07.159
No, you can't be Ned.

2073
02:04:07.800 --> 02:04:08.479
Ned was killed.

2074
02:04:08.520 --> 02:04:08.960
He's dead.

2075
02:04:10.960 --> 02:04:12.239
It must be ghost.

2076
02:04:12.920 --> 02:04:15.000
The professor was right, there are her ghosts.

2077
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:16.960
It's Ned's ghosts out there.

2078
02:04:21.880 --> 02:04:23.479
No, no, you can't come in.

2079
02:04:24.119 --> 02:04:26.720
You're a ghost, your nets ghost. You can't come in.

2080
02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:28.279
I won't let a ghost in.

2081
02:04:28.319 --> 02:04:28.960
Here, I won't.

2082
02:04:39.159 --> 02:04:43.359
The next morning, Ned and Professor Piedmont were found frozen

2083
02:04:43.439 --> 02:04:47.279
to death beside the house. But they made a vain

2084
02:04:47.319 --> 02:04:50.359
effort to pry open the heavy wooden shutters that covered

2085
02:04:50.399 --> 02:04:54.359
the windows. You see, Agatha never did let them in.

2086
02:04:55.439 --> 02:04:59.199
She knew better than to open the door to ghosts.

2087
02:05:26.560 --> 02:05:52.520
It is.

2088
02:05:54.439 --> 02:06:10.000
And now, keeper of the book, before you close the

2089
02:06:10.079 --> 02:06:13.520
great book, show us the tale we tell next time?

2090
02:06:15.039 --> 02:06:15.479
This one.

2091
02:06:16.560 --> 02:06:21.560
Ah, yes, why this is amazing. It's a tale of murder.

2092
02:06:22.600 --> 02:06:28.520
We're unexpected, fiendish murder, murder of a very different and

2093
02:06:28.680 --> 02:06:34.640
unusual kind, a tale such as you've never heard before.

2094
02:06:57.840 --> 02:06:59.359
My my mind.

2095
02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:05.880
The weather sure has gotten chilly, very quickly, you know,

2096
02:07:06.800 --> 02:07:12.399
during this brutal summer of yours. I was surprised how

2097
02:07:12.600 --> 02:07:18.279
warm it could get, how hot and sticky it would

2098
02:07:18.319 --> 02:07:23.720
be at times, and at night, sometimes there wasn't even

2099
02:07:23.800 --> 02:07:27.680
a respite from it. The heat would remain even as

2100
02:07:27.760 --> 02:07:32.760
the sun was hiding. I would be lying if I

2101
02:07:32.840 --> 02:07:37.159
said it hadn't made me feel a bit peaked, a

2102
02:07:37.279 --> 02:07:42.520
bit less than perfect, less than ideal. Whenever I feel

2103
02:07:42.560 --> 02:07:47.119
a little under the weather, I'm always glad I can

2104
02:07:47.199 --> 02:07:49.840
head straight to the Snake Doctor.

2105
02:07:50.880 --> 02:07:54.039
Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights,

2106
02:07:54.199 --> 02:07:58.279
is taking its customary summer holiday suspense returns to the

2107
02:07:58.319 --> 02:08:02.079
air two weeks from to night. On Thursday September.

2108
02:08:01.560 --> 02:08:16.960
One, you were standing at the doorway of a cabin

2109
02:08:17.079 --> 02:08:18.239
on Cashier Creek.

2110
02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:19.560
Upon the ridge.

2111
02:08:19.600 --> 02:08:22.720
The bloodhounds have caught your scent, and between you and

2112
02:08:22.840 --> 02:08:26.479
the fortune, between you and escape you on the white

2113
02:08:26.680 --> 02:08:28.720
jaws of the deadly Cottonmouth.

2114
02:08:38.199 --> 02:08:41.239
We offer you escape designed to free you from the

2115
02:08:41.359 --> 02:08:45.279
four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure.

2116
02:08:55.079 --> 02:08:58.000
Tonight we escape to the worn out acres of a

2117
02:08:58.119 --> 02:09:01.760
poor farm somewhere in the Southern Mountains, with Irvin S.

2118
02:09:01.840 --> 02:09:05.720
COB's great tale of vengeance Snake Doctor.

2119
02:09:11.159 --> 02:09:14.479
Far back in the Southern Mountains, it's quiet and hot

2120
02:09:15.039 --> 02:09:18.119
and lonely. One pine Scott Hill is very much like

2121
02:09:18.199 --> 02:09:21.279
the next, and one winding Creek differs little from another.

2122
02:09:22.239 --> 02:09:25.079
The area through which Cashier Creek twisted was the same

2123
02:09:25.159 --> 02:09:31.479
as all the rest, except for the snakes, deadly, venomous,

2124
02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:36.640
cotton mouths, moccasins. They have probably more snakes along Cashier

2125
02:09:36.760 --> 02:09:40.680
Creek and anywhere else. Most people lived in constant, deadly

2126
02:09:40.840 --> 02:09:43.039
fear of these snakes. But there was one man who

2127
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:46.880
even seemed to like them, a man they called snake Doctor.

2128
02:09:47.680 --> 02:09:49.960
His cabin was near the creek bottom where the cotton

2129
02:09:50.039 --> 02:09:52.720
moles were the commonist, and he earned his megal living

2130
02:09:52.800 --> 02:09:55.239
by rendering down their soft fetch bottle of the oil

2131
02:09:55.319 --> 02:10:00.359
and selling it. Snake Doctor seemed harmless enough. There was

2132
02:10:00.479 --> 02:10:03.479
one man who believed he was a colleague of the devil,

2133
02:10:03.640 --> 02:10:07.119
who hated him because he wasn't afraid of the snakes.

2134
02:10:11.760 --> 02:10:14.920
This man was Jaf Mourner, the snake Doctor's nearest neighbor.

2135
02:10:15.880 --> 02:10:18.720
Jaff was that dangerous kind of man who suspected, feared,

2136
02:10:18.760 --> 02:10:22.960
and hated anything he didn't understand, And he understood neither

2137
02:10:23.079 --> 02:10:28.039
cotton MOUs nor the snake doctor. Jaf was ornerary, ignorant, shiftless.

2138
02:10:28.279 --> 02:10:30.840
He'd rather shoot squirrels in chop cotton. He'd rather fish

2139
02:10:30.880 --> 02:10:35.119
and whole corn. And that's what he's doing now, fishing

2140
02:10:35.279 --> 02:10:38.079
down at the big hole with his son and heir Finney,

2141
02:10:38.159 --> 02:10:41.159
who's old enough but not quite bright enough to handle

2142
02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.720
the gun, missed him.

2143
02:10:43.800 --> 02:10:45.520
Dogg any, you blame fool.

2144
02:10:45.560 --> 02:10:47.199
I told you not to touch my gun.

2145
02:10:47.560 --> 02:10:49.439
Tromp on him five for he gets in the creed.

2146
02:10:49.600 --> 02:10:52.479
Huh the cotton MoU tromp on front of you.

2147
02:10:55.000 --> 02:10:55.359
Varmit.

2148
02:10:56.079 --> 02:10:59.720
Honestly you got him. He could put on him with.

2149
02:11:02.199 --> 02:11:02.239
You.

2150
02:11:02.359 --> 02:11:03.359
Don't eat to son.

2151
02:11:04.680 --> 02:11:05.279
He's dead.

2152
02:11:07.159 --> 02:11:10.199
Now come here, Paul.

2153
02:11:11.079 --> 02:11:13.640
How'd he hit anything with that rifle? I had a

2154
02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:16.439
beat drawer right on him, and I dan folk that

2155
02:11:16.600 --> 02:11:17.319
for Paul.

2156
02:11:17.720 --> 02:11:20.239
Turn about, filthy snake. Whilst I'm a fishing.

2157
02:11:20.279 --> 02:11:23.119
Becky was sunning himself not more two feet from you.

2158
02:11:23.439 --> 02:11:24.359
He was just two feet.

2159
02:11:24.479 --> 02:11:27.640
Never mind, I kind of talk. There'll be no fish

2160
02:11:27.640 --> 02:11:33.840
around little Federation after all that racket. Well, come on,

2161
02:11:34.039 --> 02:11:35.079
let's go home and get.

2162
02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:35.880
Us some victuals.

2163
02:11:39.439 --> 02:11:42.159
Jaf Morner tossed his bait can into the creek and

2164
02:11:42.239 --> 02:11:45.279
threw a stick after him. He stood there, watching the

2165
02:11:45.359 --> 02:11:48.039
stick drift slowly toward the big hole, where the creek

2166
02:11:48.119 --> 02:11:52.079
widened behind a jam at drift boarding. Jaff watched as

2167
02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:54.680
the eddie caught the stick and sucked it beneath the dawn.

2168
02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:57.640
Jaff was curious.

2169
02:11:58.359 --> 02:12:01.279
He moved downstream eroda to and waited, watching the water

2170
02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:02.960
boil up from under the drift wood.

2171
02:12:04.199 --> 02:12:06.199
But the stick didn't come up.

2172
02:12:07.319 --> 02:12:08.239
That was strange.

2173
02:12:08.279 --> 02:12:10.319
It must have caught under there and a tangle of

2174
02:12:10.479 --> 02:12:14.039
water soaked and sunken logs. Probably it did stayed there

2175
02:12:14.119 --> 02:12:16.960
for months. Perhaps stay there always.

2176
02:12:17.359 --> 02:12:18.640
Let's get some bills, Paul.

2177
02:12:19.000 --> 02:12:22.199
They thought about this, and an idea began to form

2178
02:12:22.239 --> 02:12:25.319
in his slow mind as he and Finnish started for home.

2179
02:12:26.920 --> 02:12:30.960
How much are your reckons in this? And Paul, Daddy,

2180
02:12:31.600 --> 02:12:35.279
what you john about this old cotton man? How much

2181
02:12:35.359 --> 02:12:36.079
all your wrecks?

2182
02:12:36.079 --> 02:12:36.760
Ow it down?

2183
02:12:37.640 --> 02:12:38.199
Throw it down?

2184
02:12:38.319 --> 02:12:38.800
Why far?

2185
02:12:38.920 --> 02:12:40.560
I'm throw it down, like I say.

2186
02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:45.039
Oh, I was aiming on rendering the old cotton mouth's

2187
02:12:45.079 --> 02:12:46.600
fat like the snake doctor does.

2188
02:12:47.279 --> 02:12:49.279
I was in the selling make myself some money.

2189
02:12:49.600 --> 02:12:51.520
I don't like a squirm of things around me.

2190
02:12:51.720 --> 02:12:53.640
But it's dead. Leave it word dropped?

2191
02:12:56.800 --> 02:13:00.279
You scared on cotton mouths, Paul, I know better get

2192
02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:01.399
myself bit by him?

2193
02:13:01.800 --> 02:13:04.960
Hip Bailey. Know the fella got hisself bit one. We're

2194
02:13:05.000 --> 02:13:06.479
in a draft of liquor from mines.

2195
02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:09.399
He goes to work, and he cuts open a life chicken,

2196
02:13:09.760 --> 02:13:11.680
and he put on his leg where the butte was.

2197
02:13:12.000 --> 02:13:12.840
Bella lived too.

2198
02:13:14.840 --> 02:13:18.319
Reckon Mister Rives ever gets herself bit, I mean handling

2199
02:13:18.399 --> 02:13:19.199
cotton maths.

2200
02:13:19.119 --> 02:13:19.600
Like he does.

2201
02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:25.119
Who mister Rives. Who mister Rives. That's old snake Doctor's

2202
02:13:25.159 --> 02:13:28.319
real name. Ma says, I out and call him snake doctor.

2203
02:13:28.479 --> 02:13:31.159
Never mind what your mos says. Nobody in my family's

2204
02:13:31.159 --> 02:13:33.399
calling those snake loving scum. Mister Rives.

2205
02:13:34.079 --> 02:13:39.000
Heck, that's what I say, all right, So made myself

2206
02:13:39.079 --> 02:13:42.640
some money renting the cotton mouth fat down in the oil.

2207
02:13:44.239 --> 02:13:46.479
How at your wreckon old snake Doctor makes out and

2208
02:13:46.520 --> 02:13:47.319
all he sells.

2209
02:13:47.880 --> 02:13:51.000
I don't know, Hip Bailey says, Old snake doctors got

2210
02:13:51.359 --> 02:13:53.039
more than thousand dollars hit away.

2211
02:13:52.920 --> 02:13:55.640
Somewhere is in his cabin more than that, most likely

2212
02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:00.199
cussing old miser. Don't spend nothing, ain't got nothing. They've

2213
02:14:00.239 --> 02:14:01.479
that rack of bones mass.

2214
02:14:02.319 --> 02:14:05.279
Tip Bailey says, whenever Old snake Doctor sets foot out

2215
02:14:05.319 --> 02:14:08.359
in his place, he's got the granddaddy of all cotton mouths.

2216
02:14:08.439 --> 02:14:10.319
And he leaves out in the cabin to stand God

2217
02:14:10.399 --> 02:14:13.800
over his money. Tip Bailey says he'd seet old snake

2218
02:14:13.880 --> 02:14:15.199
doctor put him in his pocket.

2219
02:14:15.680 --> 02:14:16.399
Live ones too.

2220
02:14:17.119 --> 02:14:19.359
Snake doctor ain't fitting to be live hisself.

2221
02:14:19.800 --> 02:14:22.159
Ma says he ain't so bad, says he don't mean

2222
02:14:22.239 --> 02:14:22.880
nobody harm.

2223
02:14:23.119 --> 02:14:25.359
Yr Mar better be careful who she's associating with.

2224
02:14:25.880 --> 02:14:28.800
She says he just don't have good sands had the

2225
02:14:28.880 --> 02:14:35.399
fever too much. Baddy, you ever been in snake Doctor's place.

2226
02:14:35.960 --> 02:14:37.399
I don't have nothing more and I have to to

2227
02:14:37.439 --> 02:14:39.079
do with that snake loving hohodoo.

2228
02:14:39.439 --> 02:14:40.600
Dip Bailey says he better.

2229
02:14:40.600 --> 02:14:42.880
It wouldn't be no task at all for some no

2230
02:14:43.079 --> 02:14:45.920
good to poke around the snake doctors shack and maybe

2231
02:14:46.039 --> 02:14:52.880
find all the money and make off with it. Blame

2232
02:14:52.960 --> 02:14:56.199
the son's during there, rendering me doing look my head

2233
02:14:56.960 --> 02:15:01.680
full of sweat, Look daddy, see full of sweat?

2234
02:15:02.039 --> 02:15:07.640
During near God full of sweat? Come on, why turning

2235
02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:11.079
down that way? Paul coming on noon dinner? Be most ready.

2236
02:15:11.439 --> 02:15:13.600
I'm gonna tell the snake loving hoodoo that there's some

2237
02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:15.359
of them cotton males on the quick side of it,

2238
02:15:15.399 --> 02:15:18.439
doesn't it. Yeah, he knows that I'm gonna tell him.

2239
02:15:18.479 --> 02:15:21.119
He's got my leave to catch him. You don't need

2240
02:15:21.199 --> 02:15:21.560
to come.

2241
02:15:21.520 --> 02:15:24.880
Along if you're going over there his place, I'd kind

2242
02:15:24.920 --> 02:15:26.159
of like to see it for my own.

2243
02:15:26.119 --> 02:15:47.680
Saying, go on there, Paul, he ain't a home else.

2244
02:15:47.720 --> 02:15:49.079
Why is he to show himself by?

2245
02:15:49.159 --> 02:15:49.359
Now?

2246
02:15:50.039 --> 02:15:50.560
I reckon?

2247
02:15:51.920 --> 02:15:53.600
Can you see any sneaks?

2248
02:15:53.760 --> 02:15:56.119
I told you to keep an eye out for I

2249
02:15:56.199 --> 02:15:58.439
bet it's in one of them chinks, Paul, Paul, bet

2250
02:15:58.479 --> 02:15:59.359
the money's in one of the.

2251
02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:07.199
Honey must be a dang snake itself living in a

2252
02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:07.880
place like it.

2253
02:16:08.720 --> 02:16:10.840
I know you ain't looking for any money, Paul, But

2254
02:16:11.000 --> 02:16:13.319
ifing you was, wouldn't you look at at the chink

2255
02:16:13.399 --> 02:16:13.920
right up there?

2256
02:16:14.520 --> 02:16:15.479
Where right there?

2257
02:16:15.560 --> 02:16:18.399
Second log brother fireplace on the right. You see that

2258
02:16:18.520 --> 02:16:18.960
the hole?

2259
02:16:20.039 --> 02:16:22.960
Yeah, I reckon, I would look up there.

2260
02:16:23.279 --> 02:16:27.399
Since we're here, I might as well see for myself, Paul,

2261
02:16:28.119 --> 02:16:30.920
I wouldn't be my surprise if old snake doctor had him.

2262
02:16:32.879 --> 02:16:39.600
Huh, pau Bo, Was you looking for something, Jake mana

2263
02:16:39.959 --> 02:16:40.799
snake doctor?

2264
02:16:41.680 --> 02:16:41.920
Yeah?

2265
02:16:42.680 --> 02:16:44.319
Huh, I was looking for you.

2266
02:16:45.600 --> 02:16:50.760
I won't here, Yeah, yeah, uh, look here your hudo?

2267
02:16:50.799 --> 02:16:51.799
What's side here? Sneaking up on?

2268
02:16:51.879 --> 02:16:52.120
Folks?

2269
02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:53.760
Who's tooking trouble to come all the way down here

2270
02:16:53.799 --> 02:16:54.479
to do you a favor?

2271
02:16:54.600 --> 02:16:54.760
Huh?

2272
02:16:56.719 --> 02:17:15.280
Eh, Come on Finny, we're getting out of here, yes,

2273
02:17:16.360 --> 02:17:16.760
like as not.

2274
02:17:16.879 --> 02:17:19.440
They had a dang old marcus in scratching around in

2275
02:17:19.520 --> 02:17:21.360
his pocket whilse he was talking.

2276
02:17:21.120 --> 02:17:26.799
To you, daddy. Do you mind how his eyes was

2277
02:17:26.879 --> 02:17:27.559
when he come in?

2278
02:17:29.120 --> 02:17:30.479
Do you mind how I kept looking up at the

2279
02:17:30.559 --> 02:17:32.120
wall where I said, I bet he had the money

2280
02:17:32.159 --> 02:17:32.840
between the chinks.

2281
02:17:33.000 --> 02:17:36.639
Nny, what don't you say nothing to you more about

2282
02:17:36.719 --> 02:17:38.959
us being at the snake doctors? Please you understand why

2283
02:17:38.959 --> 02:17:42.840
I should just don't? And don't you go night again?

2284
02:17:44.879 --> 02:17:48.239
Cuss old vomits. You thought we was proud as way active?

2285
02:17:48.479 --> 02:17:55.440
Yeah, prowleus Ma said about already your Paul with your time.

2286
02:17:55.920 --> 02:17:58.680
Yeah, I got time up for dinner.

2287
02:17:58.440 --> 02:17:59.600
And go down the spring.

2288
02:17:59.719 --> 02:18:03.440
And if you tell you stumps you can.

2289
02:18:07.120 --> 02:18:09.959
Catch innoc and Jeff, how you think I can catch

2290
02:18:10.079 --> 02:18:12.360
fish with fetty fine off my gun and cut miles

2291
02:18:12.399 --> 02:18:15.479
all the time. Hint his heat on.

2292
02:18:15.639 --> 02:18:20.760
The buddy can bear in a corner of the creek.

2293
02:18:21.840 --> 02:18:25.760
Uh had poured on Miss Rives, come buy here, spell

2294
02:18:25.840 --> 02:18:28.000
of gold? My knight shook the pieces.

2295
02:18:27.639 --> 02:18:28.200
With a chill.

2296
02:18:29.600 --> 02:18:31.680
Uh Uh he come by?

2297
02:18:31.920 --> 02:18:32.200
Did he?

2298
02:18:33.200 --> 02:18:36.120
What did he come in just for men? Just for

2299
02:18:36.159 --> 02:18:39.159
a minute? What do he want he.

2300
02:18:39.239 --> 02:18:42.680
Wanted to, could have given some furze ailment, jezbu. I

2301
02:18:42.760 --> 02:18:46.239
could drag one sorr fort for the other many could

2302
02:18:46.280 --> 02:18:48.840
make it up here from his place. I'll give him

2303
02:18:48.840 --> 02:18:52.440
my dost out now butler's egga drops water, give him

2304
02:18:52.440 --> 02:18:57.040
a little smidge and liquor on him. You would, please don't, Jeff,

2305
02:18:57.479 --> 02:19:02.040
don't walk me, don't Jeff, don't want me just poured

2306
02:19:02.159 --> 02:19:02.920
on mister?

2307
02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:11.879
Mister, mister, how many times I gotta tell you that

2308
02:19:12.120 --> 02:19:13.840
Hudo's name is snake doctor.

2309
02:19:14.760 --> 02:19:16.680
You don't mean nobody know.

2310
02:19:17.760 --> 02:19:19.520
He made his skin of last? What's hide?

2311
02:19:19.559 --> 02:19:21.760
And tell her you call her him mister Rives.

2312
02:19:23.200 --> 02:19:29.239
Mmhmm, you'll be calling him honey and sugar next with that.

2313
02:19:30.280 --> 02:19:35.040
Lot you call please Jeff, please bad names?

2314
02:19:35.159 --> 02:19:35.319
Eh?

2315
02:19:36.959 --> 02:19:46.159
Why I aimed? What's his name?

2316
02:19:46.479 --> 02:19:46.680
Now?

2317
02:19:49.840 --> 02:19:55.520
Well, what's your poor mister Rives name?

2318
02:19:56.000 --> 02:19:56.200
Now?

2319
02:19:58.959 --> 02:20:01.200
Snee God.

2320
02:20:06.760 --> 02:20:07.200
Kiss him.

2321
02:20:07.239 --> 02:20:10.319
Morna rubbed the ugly red weld on her scrony arm

2322
02:20:10.399 --> 02:20:12.959
and gave the frying pan full of sizzling side meat

2323
02:20:13.000 --> 02:20:16.879
a hopeless nudge. She prayed that time and food might

2324
02:20:16.959 --> 02:20:20.840
take the edge off Jae's temper. Phinneys slouched in from

2325
02:20:20.879 --> 02:20:22.879
the spring, saw the mark on her arm.

2326
02:20:23.879 --> 02:20:27.920
Hab been wamping you again, mau. What'd you do this time?

2327
02:20:28.879 --> 02:20:31.920
She silently dished up the hog back and corn bread

2328
02:20:32.000 --> 02:20:34.760
for her two men. While they sat at the table,

2329
02:20:34.959 --> 02:20:38.040
She ate on her feet, serving them between bites, as

2330
02:20:38.239 --> 02:20:45.719
was the custom in the morning household. After dinner, Finny

2331
02:20:45.760 --> 02:20:49.040
stretched out under the chinabered tree. Kissy sat on the porch,

2332
02:20:49.159 --> 02:20:51.840
fanning herself and dipping snuff with a peach twig, scourring

2333
02:20:51.879 --> 02:20:55.200
it back and forth on her gums. Jave took his

2334
02:20:55.319 --> 02:20:58.079
ease on the floor of the back room, but he

2335
02:20:58.159 --> 02:21:02.600
didn't sleep. This was stirring in him and his hatred

2336
02:21:02.680 --> 02:21:05.159
of the man. He couldn't understand, the man who'd got

2337
02:21:05.280 --> 02:21:08.879
rich off a cotton mosk. His mind was working on

2338
02:21:09.079 --> 02:21:12.000
something he'd seen that day and another thing he'd heard.

2339
02:21:13.120 --> 02:21:17.280
He was adding them together. That stick could have disappeared

2340
02:21:17.440 --> 02:21:22.319
under the log jam and the snake doctor's money. It

2341
02:21:22.440 --> 02:21:24.920
was four o'clock before any of moved, and then Jave

2342
02:21:25.000 --> 02:21:27.239
spoke to his wife for the first time since noon.

2343
02:21:27.799 --> 02:21:31.840
It where is that the violet drinking liquor by the window?

2344
02:21:32.280 --> 02:21:34.719
He took it out in your pocket before you lead down.

2345
02:21:35.159 --> 02:21:37.000
I ought to carry a bottle of liquor with me,

2346
02:21:37.719 --> 02:21:39.239
I might get bit by a moccasin.

2347
02:21:39.319 --> 02:21:43.479
Suis Paul Wood better, none of them may kitch you

2348
02:21:43.600 --> 02:21:44.399
find a day.

2349
02:21:45.639 --> 02:21:48.040
I just remembered, I won't be needing to told no

2350
02:21:48.120 --> 02:21:49.520
special along with me while I'm going.

2351
02:21:50.120 --> 02:21:53.239
I wouldn't take no chance. Dave just one cotton married

2352
02:21:53.319 --> 02:21:54.440
by gott mouse.

2353
02:21:54.319 --> 02:21:57.399
Doll down the slashers. Else along a creek where I'll

2354
02:21:57.479 --> 02:21:59.440
be all this evening's up along Bailey's Ridge and a

2355
02:21:59.520 --> 02:22:03.399
high ground. You're xing the ghost sugar and the gummy

2356
02:22:03.520 --> 02:22:06.879
chancey young square switch non Dutch time red and bucking

2357
02:22:06.959 --> 02:22:09.239
al Rami this morning, reckon, I come along.

2358
02:22:09.440 --> 02:22:13.559
You staying here, son, Oh dang it, you'll be steaming

2359
02:22:13.600 --> 02:22:16.360
in the place when the rain comes down, or you.

2360
02:22:16.479 --> 02:22:17.079
Might be neathing me.

2361
02:22:17.319 --> 02:22:21.760
You stay here, dang killy, You set me up a

2362
02:22:21.760 --> 02:22:26.159
snacker col sep on the chef right laire. We'll get

2363
02:22:26.200 --> 02:22:27.799
back to this plumb duck.

2364
02:22:41.520 --> 02:22:43.920
In just a moment. We'll return to the second act

2365
02:22:43.959 --> 02:22:47.760
of escape. But first, that wonderful variety show with a

2366
02:22:47.799 --> 02:22:50.719
Purpose CBS is one hour long program. This is Broadway

2367
02:22:50.799 --> 02:22:52.840
will be round again tomorrow night on most of these

2368
02:22:52.879 --> 02:22:57.040
same stations, comedian a Boroughs Broadway play right, George S. Kaufman,

2369
02:22:57.200 --> 02:23:00.360
Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fatiman, will all be here playing

2370
02:23:00.440 --> 02:23:03.040
host to the top stars of show business. Here are

2371
02:23:03.079 --> 02:23:06.120
these top stars and their top acts. Then listen closely

2372
02:23:06.319 --> 02:23:08.799
as the expert showman on this has Broadway helped them

2373
02:23:08.879 --> 02:23:13.159
with show business problems. And now we returned to the

2374
02:23:13.200 --> 02:23:17.840
second act of Escape and tonight's story. Snake doctor.

2375
02:23:22.719 --> 02:23:25.959
Jaf Mourner turned north to his struggling corn rolls, and

2376
02:23:26.319 --> 02:23:28.799
in a minute he was lost from sight. He kept

2377
02:23:28.879 --> 02:23:30.559
on for nearly a mile till he came to a

2378
02:23:30.639 --> 02:23:34.200
wild red mulberry tree. Where there are mulberry's, there are

2379
02:23:34.360 --> 02:23:42.319
bound toby squirrels. Very neatly, he shot two young graves

2380
02:23:44.639 --> 02:23:50.079
right through the head. Jaffe was a master marksman and

2381
02:23:50.399 --> 02:23:53.639
unsuspected by any who knew him. Jave had another quality,

2382
02:23:54.239 --> 02:23:56.399
one that made him more dangerous than the rest of

2383
02:23:56.479 --> 02:24:00.840
his kindness. Jave had an imagination day. It was an

2384
02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:04.159
excellent working order. He tied the brain squirrels together and

2385
02:24:04.239 --> 02:24:06.760
swung them over his shoulder. If needed, they'd be his alibi.

2386
02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:09.959
And then he sat down under a tree for a

2387
02:24:10.079 --> 02:24:16.520
while got plenty of time.

2388
02:24:17.600 --> 02:24:19.600
Don't need to get down the snake doctor's place will

2389
02:24:19.600 --> 02:24:22.239
about dust and when he comes out to feed that

2390
02:24:22.399 --> 02:24:24.000
sway back mare, hisn't.

2391
02:24:26.399 --> 02:24:27.440
Misty ride.

2392
02:24:30.399 --> 02:24:33.760
He sat out two brisk thundershowers and the influence between them.

2393
02:24:34.559 --> 02:24:37.440
Then he set off in a wide arc down Bailey's Branch,

2394
02:24:37.520 --> 02:24:40.479
along the skirts a little cypress slash down to the

2395
02:24:40.559 --> 02:24:41.600
sunken flats.

2396
02:24:41.360 --> 02:24:42.520
Edge in Cashier Creek.

2397
02:24:43.440 --> 02:24:46.040
It took more than an hour a careful traveling before

2398
02:24:46.079 --> 02:24:49.200
he came to his destination, a screen of how bushes

2399
02:24:49.879 --> 02:24:53.799
less than fifty yards behind the snake Doctor's cabin.

2400
02:24:55.719 --> 02:24:57.760
No matter how healen he is, you get up and

2401
02:24:57.840 --> 02:25:03.799
come out to feed that rackaboons man mysteries, we'll I

2402
02:25:04.079 --> 02:25:06.920
learned him to go call. He get around another man's.

2403
02:25:06.639 --> 02:25:11.319
Woman jaff morning lady's jealousy heat him the white hatred.

2404
02:25:12.000 --> 02:25:14.719
At this moment he was a vengeaneer's honor. Didn't admit

2405
02:25:14.840 --> 02:25:17.040
even to himself, but the real reason he was here

2406
02:25:17.239 --> 02:25:19.719
was a snake doctor's money. Hitt him behind the line

2407
02:25:19.760 --> 02:25:21.120
by the fireplace.

2408
02:25:20.799 --> 02:25:24.959
Home wrecking snake loving varment round ten minutes from now,

2409
02:25:25.000 --> 02:25:26.719
I'll chunk him down a big hole in a creek.

2410
02:25:26.840 --> 02:25:29.479
Like I did that stick this morning, and he'd go

2411
02:25:29.799 --> 02:25:34.040
down and never come up, and nobody will miss him. Nobody,

2412
02:25:34.120 --> 02:25:36.840
you know. He's gone for leastwise a week, maybe a month,

2413
02:25:37.959 --> 02:25:41.000
and maybe if I can get around to it, might

2414
02:25:41.079 --> 02:25:44.360
come back this way someday. Look around that cabin at

2415
02:25:44.399 --> 02:25:48.639
hisn' just to see if it's true he's having all

2416
02:25:48.719 --> 02:25:49.719
that money hid away.

2417
02:25:53.159 --> 02:25:56.399
Jaff Morning's speculations were cut short. The cabin door opened

2418
02:25:56.440 --> 02:25:58.360
and a figure stepped out into the growing dusk and

2419
02:25:58.440 --> 02:26:01.360
walked toward the stable. He saw the snake Doctor's loppy,

2420
02:26:01.440 --> 02:26:03.760
old straw hat and his dog coat drawn over a pit.

2421
02:26:04.079 --> 02:26:08.600
At this distance he couldn't miss, and he didn't. The

2422
02:26:08.680 --> 02:26:11.840
figure jerked backward and then one face forward. Jae started

2423
02:26:11.840 --> 02:26:13.920
for him. Then he stopped. His eyes bugged, his mouth

2424
02:26:14.000 --> 02:26:16.079
formed a scream that he couldn't utter. His rifle dropped

2425
02:26:16.079 --> 02:26:16.559
to the ground.

2426
02:26:18.000 --> 02:26:20.239
He had just killed a snake doctor, killed him.

2427
02:26:20.120 --> 02:26:22.200
Dead with a thirty two caliber slug through the head.

2428
02:26:22.600 --> 02:26:25.280
And there on his door still stood snake doctor hole

2429
02:26:25.399 --> 02:26:26.799
and sound staring at him.

2430
02:26:27.399 --> 02:26:31.079
Jee MANA, what have you done?

2431
02:26:36.000 --> 02:26:38.760
The scream came at last for Jaf Morner had seen

2432
02:26:38.840 --> 02:26:41.760
the devil. The snake doctor who arose alive from his

2433
02:26:41.879 --> 02:26:48.520
bullet riddled body. Jeaff whirled and ran into the deep

2434
02:26:48.639 --> 02:26:51.399
dock in the woods, whimpering like a whip puppy as

2435
02:26:51.440 --> 02:26:52.440
he tore through the brush.

2436
02:26:53.040 --> 02:26:53.440
Escape.

2437
02:26:53.600 --> 02:26:56.440
He must escape this thing. He must get under the

2438
02:26:56.520 --> 02:26:58.719
shutter of a sound roof. He must have the protection

2439
02:26:58.879 --> 02:27:04.000
of four walls around him. He ran and ran for hours.

2440
02:27:08.399 --> 02:27:10.440
It was close to midnight when he came out on

2441
02:27:10.520 --> 02:27:13.319
a dirt road a short distance southeast of his own land.

2442
02:27:14.079 --> 02:27:16.040
Beyond the next bend, they'd be in sight of home.

2443
02:27:17.120 --> 02:27:17.879
And then he stopped.

2444
02:27:18.280 --> 02:27:20.639
Around the bend. Coming toward him was a joggling lighter

2445
02:27:20.920 --> 02:27:23.920
landing hanging on a buggy. Jake flatted himself in a

2446
02:27:23.959 --> 02:27:26.319
clump of brush to hide until the traveler passed, and then,

2447
02:27:26.600 --> 02:27:28.319
just as the rig was opposite him, he heard a

2448
02:27:28.399 --> 02:27:29.639
call coming from the other direction.

2449
02:27:31.040 --> 02:27:37.520
Oh joy, oh there, oh Stity boy me, Davis, ware

2450
02:27:38.239 --> 02:27:39.239
that you tip Bailey?

2451
02:27:39.680 --> 02:27:43.680
Yeah, get that from the junction. Carrible tide?

2452
02:27:44.760 --> 02:27:46.440
What brings you out this time of night?

2453
02:27:46.600 --> 02:27:46.920
Davis?

2454
02:27:47.280 --> 02:27:48.600
Somebody's sick, sick.

2455
02:27:48.799 --> 02:27:49.120
Nothing.

2456
02:27:49.559 --> 02:27:52.000
It's been a postl of trouble of popping in these

2457
02:27:52.040 --> 02:27:53.879
bottoms tonight, Stity or.

2458
02:27:55.600 --> 02:27:58.319
What do you mean a killing? That's what I mean.

2459
02:27:58.719 --> 02:28:01.440
You don't see who got killed?

2460
02:28:01.680 --> 02:28:05.360
My fixing to tell you it happened just around dusk

2461
02:28:05.719 --> 02:28:08.000
time at down an old snake doctor's place.

2462
02:28:08.280 --> 02:28:09.280
Yeah was it?

2463
02:28:09.399 --> 02:28:10.120
He was killed?

2464
02:28:10.399 --> 02:28:13.719
Give me a time tip. It seems like snake doctor

2465
02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:14.719
has been a chilling lately.

2466
02:28:15.159 --> 02:28:18.799
It was pretty bad off today, so miss Kissing Morna

2467
02:28:19.040 --> 02:28:21.000
she footed it down from her place to his, and

2468
02:28:21.239 --> 02:28:24.040
fetching some physic with her and a plate of hot bittles.

2469
02:28:24.200 --> 02:28:24.920
Am I have thought it?

2470
02:28:25.000 --> 02:28:27.440
Miss morning Mighty, you want to hear this?

2471
02:28:27.559 --> 02:28:32.559
He go out, Oh boy, Well, pretty soon after she

2472
02:28:32.680 --> 02:28:36.360
got there, it seemed like he was tired, and he

2473
02:28:36.559 --> 02:28:38.239
tried to get up out of his bed to go

2474
02:28:38.360 --> 02:28:42.479
and feed that old crowbait nagotism. It started in again

2475
02:28:42.559 --> 02:28:45.479
by then, pouring down hide. So she made him stay

2476
02:28:45.520 --> 02:28:47.879
where he was, and she put on his old hat

2477
02:28:47.959 --> 02:28:51.719
and throwed his old coat around her, and she wanted

2478
02:28:51.719 --> 02:28:53.440
to keep out of the wet and no more. And

2479
02:28:53.559 --> 02:28:56.319
she got outside and a shot came from the age

2480
02:28:56.360 --> 02:28:58.879
of the woods, and down she went with a bullet,

2481
02:28:58.959 --> 02:29:00.760
though brains killed it.

2482
02:29:01.280 --> 02:29:02.840
This is a dog. It was.

2483
02:29:05.159 --> 02:29:07.120
That low flung husband or hers done it.

2484
02:29:07.200 --> 02:29:09.200
That's who they shot him.

2485
02:29:09.840 --> 02:29:13.000
Sure thing, Oh boy, sure thing, that's certain.

2486
02:29:13.639 --> 02:29:15.760
Snake Doctor jumped up when he heard the shot, and

2487
02:29:16.159 --> 02:29:17.920
he catched a quick look at Chafe.

2488
02:29:17.639 --> 02:29:18.239
Over the fence.

2489
02:29:18.840 --> 02:29:22.079
There wasn't no long streak and kiss his arm where

2490
02:29:22.079 --> 02:29:23.600
he must have whopped her during the day.

2491
02:29:23.959 --> 02:29:25.760
Why hanging just shot you?

2492
02:29:25.920 --> 02:29:26.120
Good?

2493
02:29:26.479 --> 02:29:27.239
Did they kitch him?

2494
02:29:27.440 --> 02:29:27.479
No?

2495
02:29:27.719 --> 02:29:30.319
But they're going to shef get they gig.

2496
02:29:30.959 --> 02:29:34.000
But he's due any minute with his pack of hound dogs.

2497
02:29:35.159 --> 02:29:38.000
A lot of lay good ground being damp the way

2498
02:29:38.040 --> 02:29:40.200
it is, share, old snake doctor.

2499
02:29:40.559 --> 02:29:42.920
He's just saying, the lord's going to strike the murder

2500
02:29:43.000 --> 02:29:46.280
down in his track. But Nia, I'm gonna put my

2501
02:29:46.479 --> 02:29:48.200
main dependence on their bloodhound.

2502
02:29:48.840 --> 02:29:50.120
Poor miss Mona.

2503
02:29:50.600 --> 02:29:53.079
She always was a good hearted, heart working woman.

2504
02:29:53.239 --> 02:29:54.360
Kissing might.

2505
02:29:56.120 --> 02:30:01.840
Stuck shut kissy, j Did you hear something just there?

2506
02:30:02.360 --> 02:30:02.959
See I did?

2507
02:30:04.120 --> 02:30:07.319
Oh, probably a rabbit breaking through the breash And listen.

2508
02:30:07.479 --> 02:30:10.479
And sheriffs are coming.

2509
02:30:11.120 --> 02:30:11.799
You can hear them.

2510
02:30:11.840 --> 02:30:14.159
Hounds are Hisn't I gotta hurry?

2511
02:30:15.120 --> 02:30:18.079
Yeah, I'll see you back in the marner.

2512
02:30:18.200 --> 02:30:19.000
You're sure real.

2513
02:30:24.159 --> 02:30:26.559
Jeff didn't waste no time more than his dead wife.

2514
02:30:27.440 --> 02:30:29.479
He had a chance against a pack of bloodhounds if

2515
02:30:29.479 --> 02:30:32.520
he started right away, But Jake's imagination went to work again,

2516
02:30:32.600 --> 02:30:34.440
as if backtracked along the creek, but him in the

2517
02:30:34.479 --> 02:30:35.799
spotty MOONLIGHTE.

2518
02:30:38.399 --> 02:30:42.040
Gotta throw those dogs off the trail. He got a

2519
02:30:42.120 --> 02:30:45.600
way to creak, even if it is full of cotton.

2520
02:30:45.760 --> 02:30:53.239
Mountains must be all around me. Now, folks say, don't

2521
02:30:53.239 --> 02:30:57.920
strike no water hoping folks is right. I've gotta get

2522
02:30:57.959 --> 02:31:01.000
back to the snake ductors his money while he's still

2523
02:31:01.079 --> 02:31:04.799
up at my place. Who kisses remains, get his money

2524
02:31:04.840 --> 02:31:07.799
and the rest will be easy. Make for the deep

2525
02:31:07.879 --> 02:31:12.159
timber cross country to the river. Make it for tomorrow sundown.

2526
02:31:13.159 --> 02:31:14.840
I mean a shanty boarder to ferry me to the

2527
02:31:14.959 --> 02:31:17.280
arkansaus side, will get me your haircut and catch me

2528
02:31:17.319 --> 02:31:21.520
a train for someone's else. I got to get snake

2529
02:31:21.600 --> 02:31:22.719
Doctor's money first.

2530
02:31:26.079 --> 02:31:29.040
Snake Doctor's cabin was dark and empty when Jay reached it,

2531
02:31:29.159 --> 02:31:31.840
only a few dull embers in the fireplace. But he

2532
02:31:31.920 --> 02:31:32.879
knew where the chinkhoss.

2533
02:31:32.920 --> 02:31:33.319
He'd find it.

2534
02:31:33.399 --> 02:31:35.799
In the dark, he scrabbled the logs, felt some bark,

2535
02:31:35.920 --> 02:31:38.520
He felt the clay more to crumble under his fingernails.

2536
02:31:38.959 --> 02:31:41.680
There it was a hole big enough for a man's arm.

2537
02:31:42.079 --> 02:31:44.920
He plunged his hand into it, touched something slick and smooth,

2538
02:31:44.959 --> 02:31:48.799
and then something sharp plunged into his thumb. At that moment,

2539
02:31:48.840 --> 02:31:51.000
the fire flickered to life. Jay yanked his hand out

2540
02:31:51.040 --> 02:31:53.440
of the hole, saw two tiny bleating punctures in his thumb.

2541
02:31:53.680 --> 02:31:55.760
At the mouth of the hole stretched the wide open

2542
02:31:55.879 --> 02:31:57.000
jaws of a cotton mouse.

2543
02:31:58.399 --> 02:31:59.120
It worked fast.

2544
02:31:59.200 --> 02:32:01.399
He felt the pain leaping from his thumb to his hand,

2545
02:32:01.479 --> 02:32:03.959
seeping up his arm. If only he had some liquor,

2546
02:32:04.079 --> 02:32:05.959
if he had a fresh kilt chicken to slap on

2547
02:32:06.040 --> 02:32:08.760
the wound, but he had nothing. Then a sharp, horrible

2548
02:32:08.840 --> 02:32:11.360
pain wrenched his heart, and in a second, and there,

2549
02:32:11.440 --> 02:32:14.840
in the firelight, the huge cotton mouth poised in its crevice.

2550
02:32:17.280 --> 02:32:20.920
Jay fleaped out of the shack, started blindly for the temper.

2551
02:32:21.319 --> 02:32:22.760
His stagger tumbled.

2552
02:32:23.079 --> 02:32:25.600
Then he pitched forward on his face, his open mouth

2553
02:32:25.840 --> 02:32:30.520
full of weeds and muddy grass stems. The cramping fingers

2554
02:32:30.559 --> 02:32:34.639
of his outstretched right hand almost touched a reddish black

2555
02:32:34.760 --> 02:32:37.399
smear on the wet, trampled grass.

2556
02:32:45.879 --> 02:32:46.920
Written by Gravy.

2557
02:32:47.360 --> 02:32:49.360
I'd call it that one't you, doc? I reckon.

2558
02:32:49.440 --> 02:32:52.079
There's a sort of rough justice in the way he died.

2559
02:32:52.719 --> 02:32:56.600
Look his hand reaching out just about touching the blood

2560
02:32:56.639 --> 02:33:00.120
where his woman fell. Read In all my life, I

2561
02:33:00.280 --> 02:33:03.120
I've never known but two or three people actually was

2562
02:33:03.159 --> 02:33:06.319
bitten by water moccasins, And until the night, I've never

2563
02:33:06.440 --> 02:33:09.040
had personal knowledge of anybody dying from the bite of

2564
02:33:09.120 --> 02:33:10.040
any kind of snake.

2565
02:33:10.639 --> 02:33:11.280
Is a fact.

2566
02:33:14.120 --> 02:33:15.479
I'm working it right for off.

2567
02:33:16.520 --> 02:33:20.559
I'm gonna kill the dang repertilent, kill my mourner's boy

2568
02:33:20.719 --> 02:33:23.440
kicking up the first yeap, no good like his paw,

2569
02:33:23.879 --> 02:33:26.440
Call me, boss man, what's the trouble?

2570
02:33:26.520 --> 02:33:29.760
Tip Finny Hears went out and he's Hey, I'm to

2571
02:33:29.879 --> 02:33:32.879
kill a snake that bitten my paw. Then I'm nigging

2572
02:33:32.959 --> 02:33:36.879
that snake doctor humping for keeping a repertile.

2573
02:33:36.360 --> 02:33:37.000
In this place.

2574
02:33:37.200 --> 02:33:38.760
Your paw, God, what was his do?

2575
02:33:38.959 --> 02:33:39.280
Finney?

2576
02:33:39.360 --> 02:33:40.680
Snake doctor ain't to blink.

2577
02:33:40.840 --> 02:33:44.479
He's a who double Look here, Barr, mister Rives, give

2578
02:33:44.559 --> 02:33:46.959
me all his savings, nearly one hundred dollars to pay

2579
02:33:46.959 --> 02:33:48.239
for billing your mother decent.

2580
02:33:48.600 --> 02:33:49.719
That's how much he thought about.

2581
02:33:49.959 --> 02:33:51.760
Now go on home, behave yourself.

2582
02:33:51.959 --> 02:33:53.799
I'm in ther on, Finny.

2583
02:33:54.399 --> 02:33:56.559
There ain't no reason for your hanging around here.

2584
02:33:57.000 --> 02:33:58.879
Some of the hoard to killer reptile.

2585
02:34:00.440 --> 02:34:03.360
Doc, just a minute ago, you started to say something

2586
02:34:03.399 --> 02:34:07.840
about snake bite, not killing, about them two marks on

2587
02:34:07.879 --> 02:34:11.280
his thumb, then snake's gashes like some I've seen.

2588
02:34:11.479 --> 02:34:16.399
Oh, that dude explains, it's finny morning.

2589
02:34:16.479 --> 02:34:17.959
He's in the cabin, a fool kid.

2590
02:34:18.040 --> 02:34:19.360
Come on, doc, he's probably shot.

2591
02:34:19.440 --> 02:34:20.079
There were too far.

2592
02:34:24.360 --> 02:34:26.879
Let's go get me like you got my what said.

2593
02:34:26.719 --> 02:34:27.959
He shot at something in the cabin.

2594
02:34:28.399 --> 02:34:35.280
Come on, doc, let's go see. All right, I don't

2595
02:34:35.280 --> 02:34:35.799
see anything.

2596
02:34:36.520 --> 02:34:39.319
And he's had enough happened to him yesterday and today

2597
02:34:39.360 --> 02:34:41.959
to upset even a bright boy, so we can't.

2598
02:34:43.120 --> 02:34:47.479
Oh there it is what that cotton mouth up there

2599
02:34:47.520 --> 02:34:48.840
in that hole in the log.

2600
02:34:50.159 --> 02:34:53.879
Sneak doctor told me about that vombit look at him close,

2601
02:34:53.920 --> 02:34:57.520
Sir David, No, sir, not me, Go ahead, it's.

2602
02:34:57.520 --> 02:34:59.200
Just a stuffed sneak stuff.

2603
02:35:00.440 --> 02:35:03.479
Snake Doctor believes in precautions because that holes where he

2604
02:35:03.559 --> 02:35:04.239
hides his money.

2605
02:35:04.879 --> 02:35:07.120
That snake would scare away anybody who didn't know it

2606
02:35:07.200 --> 02:35:07.680
was stirred.

2607
02:35:07.959 --> 02:35:10.799
But just to be sure, old snake Doctor lined the

2608
02:35:10.879 --> 02:35:12.680
hole with coils of barbed wire.

2609
02:35:13.559 --> 02:35:16.840
I see you mean them marks and Jeff's thumb.

2610
02:35:16.680 --> 02:35:18.120
Was got off to barbed wire.

2611
02:35:18.399 --> 02:35:22.159
That's right, sir, lots strong our hearts and Jeff mourners

2612
02:35:22.200 --> 02:35:24.399
would stop beating at a scare like that.

2613
02:35:26.719 --> 02:35:28.319
I'll be switched.

2614
02:35:29.479 --> 02:35:32.200
Old. Snake Doctor is a cute one any.

2615
02:35:47.079 --> 02:35:47.440
Escape.

2616
02:35:47.639 --> 02:35:50.680
Produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight brought You Snake

2617
02:35:50.760 --> 02:35:53.680
Doctor by Irvin s. Carb adapted for radio by Fred Howard,

2618
02:35:53.760 --> 02:35:57.360
starring Bill Conrad as jaf with Paul Freeze's Finney featured

2619
02:35:57.399 --> 02:36:00.319
in the cast, where Ira Grossell is a narrator, Bill Lally,

2620
02:36:00.440 --> 02:36:03.680
Ruth Parrot, Wilms Herbert, and Edgar Barrier. Music is conducted

2621
02:36:03.719 --> 02:36:04.559
by Wilbur Hatch.

2622
02:36:09.639 --> 02:36:12.479
Next week, you are groping through the midnight dimness of

2623
02:36:12.559 --> 02:36:16.200
a gigantic department store, and suddenly you realize that a

2624
02:36:16.319 --> 02:36:19.040
hundred eyes are staring at you from the shadows, and

2625
02:36:19.159 --> 02:36:22.079
a hundred hands are reaching for your throat, and your

2626
02:36:22.159 --> 02:36:25.840
most urgent desire is to escape.

2627
02:36:39.639 --> 02:36:45.280
This time of year often makes me consider some unfinished business,

2628
02:36:45.959 --> 02:36:51.360
if you will. I try not to lurk in the

2629
02:36:51.479 --> 02:36:56.319
realm of the past, but it's often easier said than done,

2630
02:36:56.440 --> 02:37:03.000
my dear, But I certainly do try and try and try,

2631
02:37:04.840 --> 02:37:08.600
But sometimes it's hard to let go. It's hard to

2632
02:37:08.719 --> 02:37:14.719
let by guys be by guys, especially when the trespass

2633
02:37:15.040 --> 02:37:21.879
is not up to debate or interpretation. No, no, when

2634
02:37:21.959 --> 02:37:28.200
you've been wronged clearly and deliberately, and it's all written

2635
02:37:28.760 --> 02:37:31.719
in blood red ink.

2636
02:37:48.600 --> 02:37:58.559
In they are they agreed, driving on the collar.

2637
02:38:00.040 --> 02:38:04.799
And interestine philosophers and psychologists have told us that the

2638
02:38:04.879 --> 02:38:08.079
one desire that remains with us after everything else is

2639
02:38:08.159 --> 02:38:11.239
burned to ashes, it is the need for recognition.

2640
02:38:12.319 --> 02:38:15.520
It is the compulsion to make the world recognize our work.

2641
02:38:16.239 --> 02:38:20.959
Socrates, Galileo, Einstein have left their increase on the pages

2642
02:38:21.000 --> 02:38:22.399
of our history, and.

2643
02:38:22.479 --> 02:38:24.479
The world is better for their having been here.

2644
02:38:25.319 --> 02:38:28.479
On the natuive side of the ledger and blood red ink,

2645
02:38:29.159 --> 02:38:31.920
we find the same driving ambition in the names of

2646
02:38:32.000 --> 02:38:36.959
our Tilever, hun Jack, the Ripper, Adolf Hipper. This is

2647
02:38:37.000 --> 02:38:40.280
a tale of ambition. It is for you to judge

2648
02:38:40.600 --> 02:38:46.200
on what side of the ledger it is to be recorded. Huh,

2649
02:38:46.680 --> 02:38:51.079
of course, is wye a drink your mind? Hey, look, mister,

2650
02:38:51.719 --> 02:38:53.360
I came in here of ance quiet.

2651
02:38:54.760 --> 02:38:56.520
Harry Blash is my name?

2652
02:38:57.079 --> 02:38:59.479
Blas, That's right, you know me?

2653
02:39:00.200 --> 02:39:00.399
Yeah?

2654
02:39:01.479 --> 02:39:03.200
He take your free drink and.

2655
02:39:03.239 --> 02:39:06.000
Squat, mister, get your grubby pays off me cover.

2656
02:39:06.639 --> 02:39:09.079
I only thought you could use a little running.

2657
02:39:09.360 --> 02:39:10.799
He beat it pump.

2658
02:39:11.120 --> 02:39:15.799
You'll becoming the Maiberg begging for my help. Maybe then

2659
02:39:16.360 --> 02:39:27.479
I won't want to listen, mister Dramma.

2660
02:39:27.879 --> 02:39:31.239
The Black Red Ink was written especially for mystery theater

2661
02:39:31.360 --> 02:39:35.399
by Sydney Lane and stars Fred Green. It is sponsored

2662
02:39:35.479 --> 02:39:37.719
in fact by Katspa here.

2663
02:39:37.920 --> 02:39:50.040
And so I'll be back shortly with act one. Mick

2664
02:39:50.120 --> 02:39:51.200
Gilbert wasn't.

2665
02:39:51.120 --> 02:39:53.040
In a very good mood that evening when he came

2666
02:39:53.120 --> 02:39:56.040
home to supper. It had been a long and tiring

2667
02:39:56.159 --> 02:39:59.920
day full of dull police routine. The meeting with Harry

2668
02:40:00.079 --> 02:40:03.760
Glaus upset him. Glass was a small time rocketeer mixed

2669
02:40:03.840 --> 02:40:06.639
up in a dozen of more dirty beer, but thought

2670
02:40:06.719 --> 02:40:08.840
later that perhaps he should have played along with him,

2671
02:40:09.399 --> 02:40:12.200
found out what how his angle was. But he was

2672
02:40:12.239 --> 02:40:15.159
too worried to play corp. There was something else in

2673
02:40:15.200 --> 02:40:17.840
the back of his mind that bothered him. He had

2674
02:40:17.920 --> 02:40:22.120
recently taken the examination for detective. As yet he had

2675
02:40:22.159 --> 02:40:22.639
received no.

2676
02:40:22.760 --> 02:40:23.280
Word on it.

2677
02:40:23.879 --> 02:40:25.799
I'll have the food on the table in a minute

2678
02:40:25.840 --> 02:40:27.399
for don't get.

2679
02:40:27.360 --> 02:40:30.559
Himpatient, okay, okay, No hurry.

2680
02:40:30.360 --> 02:40:33.040
To what another beer? Were you waiting?

2681
02:40:33.799 --> 02:40:33.959
Uh?

2682
02:40:34.120 --> 02:40:36.840
No, thanks, might drop me off at the pub when

2683
02:40:36.920 --> 02:40:37.799
we finished our tour.

2684
02:40:38.360 --> 02:40:39.799
A wondered why you were late.

2685
02:40:40.559 --> 02:40:43.440
I was only twenty minutes later coming on the door.

2686
02:40:44.360 --> 02:40:46.879
I mean, and I got a right to relax after

2687
02:40:46.920 --> 02:40:48.719
a day driving around in a squad car.

2688
02:40:49.719 --> 02:40:53.399
A super I'm sorry. I didn't mean to criticize you.

2689
02:40:55.120 --> 02:40:59.799
Here's the beef stew your favorite, eh, beef stew.

2690
02:41:00.719 --> 02:41:00.920
Eh.

2691
02:41:01.200 --> 02:41:04.120
Thanks, Helen, That's just what I needed. Get past me

2692
02:41:04.200 --> 02:41:08.719
your plate. I'm I'm sorry I yelled at you.

2693
02:41:08.959 --> 02:41:11.079
Forget it. You feel better out to dinner?

2694
02:41:11.520 --> 02:41:14.559
Yeah, I've got to be a better couldn't be a

2695
02:41:14.600 --> 02:41:16.959
worse thinking about that exam.

2696
02:41:18.360 --> 02:41:19.159
Why have I heard?

2697
02:41:20.079 --> 02:41:20.280
Oh?

2698
02:41:21.000 --> 02:41:23.719
Oh, I just remember you have a letter from the board.

2699
02:41:23.799 --> 02:41:24.559
Came this morning.

2700
02:41:25.479 --> 02:41:26.479
What where is it?

2701
02:41:26.719 --> 02:41:28.120
Is it right where you are? I'll get it?

2702
02:41:29.319 --> 02:41:29.440
Uh?

2703
02:41:30.600 --> 02:41:31.280
Yeah, here it is.

2704
02:41:32.840 --> 02:41:33.600
There you are, Brady.

2705
02:41:37.680 --> 02:41:38.760
So what does it say?

2706
02:41:39.920 --> 02:41:40.120
Yeah?

2707
02:41:41.159 --> 02:41:41.639
You read it?

2708
02:41:44.200 --> 02:41:50.719
Ah, urch what don't be discouraged?

2709
02:41:51.280 --> 02:41:54.360
Discouraged? I gotta jump up and down with joy. Huh

2710
02:41:54.520 --> 02:41:56.319
open the windows and tell the whole neighborhood.

2711
02:41:56.399 --> 02:41:58.600
Right next year, you can take it again.

2712
02:41:58.959 --> 02:42:02.959
I'm thirty five. I've been in the four seven years.

2713
02:42:03.479 --> 02:42:05.200
I haven't moved one inch of the latter since I

2714
02:42:05.280 --> 02:42:08.959
graduated from the Academy. Thirty five isn't Oh yeah, it's

2715
02:42:09.239 --> 02:42:12.159
when you're not moving ahead. Come on, eat your dinner.

2716
02:42:12.159 --> 02:42:14.399
It's getting cold. You'll be in a better mood after

2717
02:42:14.440 --> 02:42:14.879
you've eaten.

2718
02:42:15.479 --> 02:42:16.440
Yeah, I'll get it.

2719
02:42:16.639 --> 02:42:20.879
Sure wants me to play bridge with the girl Wednesday

2720
02:42:21.000 --> 02:42:21.680
our club day.

2721
02:42:22.639 --> 02:42:23.959
Hello, myrna, Helen.

2722
02:42:24.840 --> 02:42:27.280
Oh, I'm sorry, Mike.

2723
02:42:27.360 --> 02:42:28.360
I thought you're there.

2724
02:42:29.559 --> 02:42:30.280
Yeah, he's here.

2725
02:42:31.360 --> 02:42:32.200
Bert, it's Mike.

2726
02:42:32.680 --> 02:42:37.239
Okay, Okay, I'm coming, Yeah, I might.

2727
02:42:37.879 --> 02:42:38.760
What's up for me?

2728
02:42:39.399 --> 02:42:40.719
I'm up. I've got it.

2729
02:42:41.200 --> 02:42:44.319
You're talking to Mike Cullagan, Detective third Class.

2730
02:42:44.840 --> 02:42:48.159
Hey, Mike, congratulations you deserve it.

2731
02:42:48.319 --> 02:42:50.239
And congratulations to you, old buddy.

2732
02:42:50.639 --> 02:42:53.879
Bert Gilbert and Mike Cullagan together Defenders of the bab

2733
02:42:54.040 --> 02:43:00.079
Spoilers of Crooks. Mike, I didn't get it, what I

2734
02:43:00.319 --> 02:43:00.879
washed out.

2735
02:43:01.799 --> 02:43:05.719
What you couldn't have You coached me. You were the

2736
02:43:05.760 --> 02:43:07.600
one who knew all the answers. You think you should

2737
02:43:07.600 --> 02:43:08.600
have been on top of the list.

2738
02:43:08.920 --> 02:43:11.840
There should have been here. I'm still flat for Mike.

2739
02:43:12.280 --> 02:43:14.000
Come on, you can't let it get you down.

2740
02:43:15.040 --> 02:43:17.600
Look, why don't you and Helen come out with Gretchen

2741
02:43:17.639 --> 02:43:17.879
and me.

2742
02:43:17.959 --> 02:43:19.040
And we'll celebrate.

2743
02:43:19.760 --> 02:43:23.280
Thanks, Mike, but I don't think tonight i'd be good company.

2744
02:43:35.200 --> 02:43:35.440
Hello.

2745
02:43:36.479 --> 02:43:39.360
Yeah, there's patrol in thirty four twenty ninety seven book, Gail.

2746
02:43:39.440 --> 02:43:47.760
But I'm calling Captain Sullivan. Yeah right, I'll hold what No,

2747
02:43:47.959 --> 02:43:51.600
it's a personal matter. No, no, no, I'd like to

2748
02:43:51.600 --> 02:43:56.319
tell it to Captain Sullivan Himselfie, okay, okay, I'll put

2749
02:43:56.360 --> 02:44:02.559
it in writing to him. Thanks, he talked to you, No, Mike.

2750
02:44:03.559 --> 02:44:05.920
His secretary says for me to put it in writing

2751
02:44:06.120 --> 02:44:09.840
to him. Yeah, well but sure, sure, he's a busy man.

2752
02:44:10.200 --> 02:44:13.239
Yeah right, busy man, Mike, all right, put it in

2753
02:44:13.360 --> 02:44:14.120
writing here.

2754
02:44:14.200 --> 02:44:14.760
Well why not?

2755
02:44:15.959 --> 02:44:18.719
I'll tell you why not? Because I wanted to see

2756
02:44:18.799 --> 02:44:20.959
him face to face and ask him why I got

2757
02:44:21.079 --> 02:44:24.920
passed over Seven years, Mike, seven years out of my

2758
02:44:25.000 --> 02:44:26.440
life and I can't get in to see the boss

2759
02:44:26.479 --> 02:44:28.559
and ask a simple question. Come on, you're making too

2760
02:44:28.639 --> 02:44:31.479
much out of this, Bert, you're a fine one to talk.

2761
02:44:32.280 --> 02:44:34.159
In seven eight days, you'll be out of this dull

2762
02:44:34.239 --> 02:44:36.879
rat race. No more writing around the squad car for you,

2763
02:44:37.639 --> 02:44:42.120
no more dull routine. You'll be wearing playing clothes, getting detectives.

2764
02:44:42.360 --> 02:44:44.200
Look, come on, get back in the car. You're making

2765
02:44:44.239 --> 02:44:45.479
your scene out here on the street.

2766
02:44:45.680 --> 02:44:46.840
So what do I care?

2767
02:44:47.600 --> 02:44:50.319
You get back in the car and leave me alone.

2768
02:44:50.920 --> 02:44:53.520
I can't leave you, hear me. We haven't completed a

2769
02:44:53.639 --> 02:44:54.520
tour of duty.

2770
02:44:54.559 --> 02:44:55.239
To a duty.

2771
02:44:55.559 --> 02:44:56.799
I hate that coppling of.

2772
02:44:58.360 --> 02:44:58.399
This.

2773
02:44:58.719 --> 02:45:02.079
Nobody you complete our tour of duty?

2774
02:45:02.200 --> 02:45:04.920
Huh? I need a drink?

2775
02:45:12.079 --> 02:45:12.319
Fairy?

2776
02:45:13.440 --> 02:45:13.920
You a sleep?

2777
02:45:14.600 --> 02:45:14.639
No?

2778
02:45:16.760 --> 02:45:19.040
Can I get you something in a glass of warm milk?

2779
02:45:19.319 --> 02:45:19.360
No?

2780
02:45:19.600 --> 02:45:20.399
No, no, Helen?

2781
02:45:20.479 --> 02:45:24.079
Thanks, you keep tossing and turning. You've got to get

2782
02:45:24.120 --> 02:45:24.600
your rest.

2783
02:45:25.040 --> 02:45:25.399
What for?

2784
02:45:26.399 --> 02:45:28.360
You won't be sick for work tomorrow if you don't

2785
02:45:28.360 --> 02:45:29.399
get some sleep.

2786
02:45:29.559 --> 02:45:36.120
Helen, I've been suspended? What suspended? You know what the

2787
02:45:36.159 --> 02:45:36.719
word means?

2788
02:45:37.520 --> 02:45:37.959
How long?

2789
02:45:38.719 --> 02:45:39.319
Five days?

2790
02:45:40.479 --> 02:45:40.840
What for?

2791
02:45:42.360 --> 02:45:44.399
I quit work a little early last Tuesday?

2792
02:45:45.680 --> 02:45:45.920
So what?

2793
02:45:47.559 --> 02:45:49.639
I just felt like I couldn't work a minute more

2794
02:45:49.760 --> 02:45:53.760
so early thirty five minutes.

2795
02:45:54.600 --> 02:45:55.559
I don't understand.

2796
02:45:56.440 --> 02:45:57.319
Yeah I do.

2797
02:45:58.319 --> 02:46:00.200
I'm tired and I'm fed up.

2798
02:46:00.360 --> 02:46:02.600
But you could have applied for a leave if you

2799
02:46:02.680 --> 02:46:04.920
weren't feeling well. I'm sure they'd have given you time

2800
02:46:04.959 --> 02:46:05.840
to get yourself together.

2801
02:46:05.920 --> 02:46:12.559
Yeah, well I got the time. Five days suspended without pay? Oh, Helen,

2802
02:46:12.639 --> 02:46:15.840
don't get upset. It got me what I wanted, what

2803
02:46:16.639 --> 02:46:19.440
I wanted to see Captain Sullivan. Ask him why I

2804
02:46:19.520 --> 02:46:22.000
got passed over when the commissions were being handed out.

2805
02:46:22.799 --> 02:46:24.600
He finally saw me and I had a chance to

2806
02:46:24.639 --> 02:46:26.200
tell him what I thought of the whole business.

2807
02:46:26.680 --> 02:46:29.399
You didn't see anything in selting, No, no, no no.

2808
02:46:29.799 --> 02:46:33.360
I didn't insult them, but I got a little hat up.

2809
02:46:34.399 --> 02:46:34.559
Well.

2810
02:46:34.680 --> 02:46:36.920
He listened to everything, and he sat down his desk

2811
02:46:36.959 --> 02:46:41.280
and said he thought I needed a vacation without pay.

2812
02:46:41.760 --> 02:46:44.639
Oh, birch, it's going to be on your record.

2813
02:46:45.040 --> 02:46:48.280
So what up to now? Towing the line hasn't got

2814
02:46:48.440 --> 02:46:52.399
me much, Helen, What if I got to lose?

2815
02:46:58.639 --> 02:46:58.879
Huh?

2816
02:46:59.319 --> 02:47:00.559
What's the idea I didn't know?

2817
02:47:00.719 --> 02:47:03.719
Another buying you a drink? Copper, Listen, I told you

2818
02:47:03.799 --> 02:47:05.319
the last time what you could do with your drink.

2819
02:47:05.399 --> 02:47:09.120
Mister Blash is the name Copper Harry to my friends?

2820
02:47:09.559 --> 02:47:12.760
Why do I always find you calling up my battle Copper.

2821
02:47:12.920 --> 02:47:15.959
I'm not gonna stop calling me Copper, But you are

2822
02:47:16.079 --> 02:47:20.159
a cop a you're ashamed of you get lost. I

2823
02:47:20.239 --> 02:47:23.000
know a lot about you. I had my eyes on

2824
02:47:23.159 --> 02:47:24.559
you for a long time.

2825
02:47:24.760 --> 02:47:26.479
I'm beginning to lose my patience.

2826
02:47:26.520 --> 02:47:29.159
Now wait a minute. I can help you.

2827
02:47:30.799 --> 02:47:34.280
And you watch something from me in return. Huh, listen,

2828
02:47:34.799 --> 02:47:38.600
come to the wrong guy. I have just spent suspended.

2829
02:47:39.440 --> 02:47:39.639
I know.

2830
02:47:41.520 --> 02:47:42.040
How do you know that?

2831
02:47:42.239 --> 02:47:45.399
I got friends in the right places. I'm getting you

2832
02:47:45.479 --> 02:47:48.680
back to work and the suspension wiped.

2833
02:47:48.360 --> 02:47:49.239
Off your record?

2834
02:47:50.399 --> 02:47:51.360
Big time operator.

2835
02:47:51.479 --> 02:47:53.520
Uh yeah, I just.

2836
02:47:55.000 --> 02:47:58.879
Like to do your favor. What one hand washes the other?

2837
02:48:01.040 --> 02:48:04.799
Who writes your material? Many writes my wife together.

2838
02:48:05.239 --> 02:48:07.399
Look, I'm serious. You want to shake on it?

2839
02:48:07.760 --> 02:48:12.120
Look, Harry, if I shake hands with you, I count

2840
02:48:12.200 --> 02:48:13.440
my fingers afterwards.

2841
02:48:14.920 --> 02:48:17.959
You gotta sentire you where I like dad, or we're

2842
02:48:18.040 --> 02:48:20.639
going to get along. I'm gonna make you glad. I'm

2843
02:48:20.680 --> 02:48:23.600
your friend. I got great plans for you.

2844
02:48:30.760 --> 02:48:36.319
Cut up, yeah where I'll be there in ten minutes.

2845
02:48:37.600 --> 02:48:38.440
Who is that Bert?

2846
02:48:39.319 --> 02:48:39.440
Uh?

2847
02:48:40.520 --> 02:48:43.280
Friend wants me to come up with a bowling alley

2848
02:48:43.319 --> 02:48:45.879
for an hour or so. You don't mind?

2849
02:48:45.920 --> 02:48:47.799
You you never bowl?

2850
02:48:49.760 --> 02:48:52.520
I just took it up. Uh say a pool there

2851
02:48:52.719 --> 02:48:54.600
to it? If we get tired of bowling, we can

2852
02:48:54.639 --> 02:48:55.360
show a little pool.

2853
02:48:57.200 --> 02:48:58.280
He didn't like you.

2854
02:49:00.120 --> 02:49:02.319
Do you realize this is the third time this week

2855
02:49:02.360 --> 02:49:04.680
you've had some reason to go out after dinner.

2856
02:49:05.079 --> 02:49:09.520
Third time. Huh, I really wasn't counting, Helen. How many

2857
02:49:09.639 --> 02:49:11.520
weeks have I just sat here reading the paper or

2858
02:49:11.559 --> 02:49:13.600
looking at the boottoo? How many times?

2859
02:49:13.600 --> 02:49:13.920
All right?

2860
02:49:14.040 --> 02:49:16.600
All right, I don't mean to argue, so go out.

2861
02:49:17.559 --> 02:49:20.120
It don't be too late. Got to be out of

2862
02:49:20.159 --> 02:49:21.360
here tomorrow morning at seven.

2863
02:49:21.600 --> 02:49:24.840
Remember, Look, it just occurred to me that you might

2864
02:49:25.440 --> 02:49:28.879
have something on your mind. You don't think I'm running

2865
02:49:28.920 --> 02:49:31.920
around with another woman, dear bird.

2866
02:49:33.319 --> 02:49:34.680
That never entered my mind.

2867
02:49:35.079 --> 02:49:38.680
Yeah, well good, I'm not chasing around Helen. You're still

2868
02:49:38.760 --> 02:49:41.559
my girl after eight years. Don't you forget it?

2869
02:49:42.760 --> 02:49:44.239
I know, Darling, I know that.

2870
02:49:46.799 --> 02:49:46.879
Now.

2871
02:49:46.959 --> 02:49:47.520
Who can that be?

2872
02:49:50.120 --> 02:49:54.280
High stranger? Hey, Mike, where in the well have you been?

2873
02:49:55.639 --> 02:49:57.799
I haven't heard from you or seen it over two weeks.

2874
02:49:57.840 --> 02:49:59.440
That's why I came over.

2875
02:50:00.040 --> 02:50:02.680
You know, there's you, big shot.

2876
02:50:02.760 --> 02:50:05.600
The Tectives don't cross our paths too often. You're too

2877
02:50:05.639 --> 02:50:06.920
busy with important assignments.

2878
02:50:07.360 --> 02:50:09.040
Come on, hold by, are you putting me on?

2879
02:50:09.440 --> 02:50:10.360
Aren't you gonna ask me in?

2880
02:50:10.920 --> 02:50:11.120
Mike?

2881
02:50:11.239 --> 02:50:14.280
Come in, please come in. Bert's only kidding, but I'm

2882
02:50:14.440 --> 02:50:16.799
not kidding. Look.

2883
02:50:17.159 --> 02:50:19.479
The reason I came over was to ask you guys

2884
02:50:19.559 --> 02:50:22.520
to go to the movies with us. Gretchen's waiting in

2885
02:50:22.559 --> 02:50:25.600
the car and we might. I've got another another engagement,

2886
02:50:26.399 --> 02:50:29.120
but maybe Helen would like to go. But I've got

2887
02:50:29.200 --> 02:50:32.040
a run right now. I'm teminously. Can't you break that

2888
02:50:32.159 --> 02:50:34.360
other engagement? I wanted to see you, talk to you.

2889
02:50:34.600 --> 02:50:38.399
Can't gotta go? Bye, see leader, Helen.

2890
02:50:38.920 --> 02:50:39.079
Mike.

2891
02:50:41.319 --> 02:50:45.520
Oh, well, that's what I call kind of abrupt.

2892
02:50:46.159 --> 02:50:49.479
I'm sorry, Mike. I'm sure Bert didn't mean to be rude.

2893
02:50:49.639 --> 02:50:50.520
I was a good invitation.

2894
02:50:52.600 --> 02:50:53.479
Well, hu, what about it?

2895
02:50:54.200 --> 02:50:55.559
Do you want to go to the movies with us?

2896
02:50:56.360 --> 02:50:56.520
Uh?

2897
02:50:57.120 --> 02:51:02.719
No, thank you, Mike. Good. Please forgive Bert. He's upset

2898
02:51:02.799 --> 02:51:04.559
because he didn't make Detective with you.

2899
02:51:04.799 --> 02:51:07.440
Yeah, yeah, I know, and I'm worried.

2900
02:51:07.559 --> 02:51:11.600
Well, he'll get over It isn't what I'm worried about, Helen.

2901
02:51:13.879 --> 02:51:16.920
I'm going to tell you something I shouldn't. Bert is

2902
02:51:17.000 --> 02:51:20.760
my best friend, and well, look, Helen, he's in trouble,

2903
02:51:21.079 --> 02:51:23.120
or he will be if he continues as he's going.

2904
02:51:24.000 --> 02:51:28.680
I don't understand he's hanging around being palsy Wolsey with

2905
02:51:28.799 --> 02:51:30.879
a slimy character by the name of Blast.

2906
02:51:31.280 --> 02:51:31.520
Mike.

2907
02:51:32.840 --> 02:51:33.760
I'm sure you're wrong.

2908
02:51:33.959 --> 02:51:37.319
Hey, I wish I was This Harry Blast guy's mixed

2909
02:51:37.360 --> 02:51:39.920
up with a thousand crooked deals, and he manages to

2910
02:51:40.000 --> 02:51:42.719
slip out and around the law every single time the

2911
02:51:42.719 --> 02:51:43.719
police catch up with him.

2912
02:51:44.280 --> 02:51:47.040
And you think Bert is involved with this man, I know.

2913
02:51:47.159 --> 02:51:47.440
He is.

2914
02:51:49.200 --> 02:51:52.399
As a friend. I'm asking you to get him to

2915
02:51:52.440 --> 02:51:59.719
stop seeing blasts immediately. Oh good lord, Please remember I

2916
02:51:59.840 --> 02:52:03.520
know ever said a word to you. He mustn't know

2917
02:52:03.840 --> 02:52:04.959
that I talked to you.

2918
02:52:06.719 --> 02:52:12.799
Okay, Mike, your friend, a real friend.

2919
02:52:14.760 --> 02:52:18.600
Bert Gilbert has taken a dangerous stake. His association with

2920
02:52:18.680 --> 02:52:22.680
Harry Blast can only lead to dishonor in prison. He

2921
02:52:22.799 --> 02:52:24.959
seems to believe that he can beat the law by

2922
02:52:25.120 --> 02:52:28.840
jumping in, getting what he wants and then quickly getting out.

2923
02:52:29.879 --> 02:52:34.000
In his frustration and disappointment, he is forgetting the irreparable

2924
02:52:34.079 --> 02:52:36.760
damage he will be doing to himself and his wife,

2925
02:52:37.760 --> 02:52:49.200
who will be back shortly with that too. When Helen

2926
02:52:49.239 --> 02:52:53.200
Gilbert heard that her husband was associating with Underworld characters,

2927
02:52:53.600 --> 02:52:57.079
she couldn't believe it. Bert had been an honest, hardworking

2928
02:52:57.159 --> 02:53:00.959
police officer until he met with a big disappointment. He

2929
02:53:01.079 --> 02:53:04.440
had junk his e domination for detective despite the fact

2930
02:53:04.479 --> 02:53:06.959
that he had worked hard and knew all the answers

2931
02:53:07.000 --> 02:53:10.760
well enough to coach his friends and fellow officer Mike Tulligan,

2932
02:53:11.040 --> 02:53:11.680
who passed.

2933
02:53:12.360 --> 02:53:15.319
He's out, cheated, angry and reckless.

2934
02:53:16.639 --> 02:53:18.200
I tell you it's a piece of cake.

2935
02:53:18.319 --> 02:53:20.799
I got it all laid out, only one hit you

2936
02:53:20.920 --> 02:53:23.520
gentle minute, Hold, I'm blessed. Aren't you making a big

2937
02:53:23.639 --> 02:53:26.040
mistake spelling all this to me? I'm a cop?

2938
02:53:26.280 --> 02:53:29.399
So what you wouldn't like to grab off your pension

2939
02:53:29.479 --> 02:53:30.680
money with one little job?

2940
02:53:31.239 --> 02:53:31.879
Pension money?

2941
02:53:32.040 --> 02:53:35.040
Look, you gotta wait thirteen more years before you begin.

2942
02:53:34.920 --> 02:53:37.319
To collect, right, How do you know how long?

2943
02:53:37.440 --> 02:53:37.760
I know?

2944
02:53:39.040 --> 02:53:41.280
So you wait thirteen years and you get your dough.

2945
02:53:41.559 --> 02:53:44.000
They dribble it out through you and crumbs a little

2946
02:53:44.040 --> 02:53:47.959
piece of bread each month. Eh, and you're away big

2947
02:53:48.239 --> 02:53:52.639
pieces of bread now three or four times, and you're rich.

2948
02:53:53.280 --> 02:53:56.040
In six months or last. You'll retire from the force.

2949
02:53:56.399 --> 02:53:57.840
You can forget the pension.

2950
02:53:58.399 --> 02:53:59.440
Yeah, you got more.

2951
02:53:59.319 --> 02:54:02.440
Money than yet ever thought you would have in your dreams,

2952
02:54:02.959 --> 02:54:05.200
and you got it nice and safe when.

2953
02:54:05.040 --> 02:54:08.239
No one can touch it in a private Swiss bank

2954
02:54:08.319 --> 02:54:08.719
of town.

2955
02:54:09.079 --> 02:54:13.040
You make it sound easy, it is, and it pays big.

2956
02:54:13.760 --> 02:54:17.000
That you said there was a hitch, A little one, little,

2957
02:54:17.920 --> 02:54:21.200
a little someone has got to walk out with the

2958
02:54:21.280 --> 02:54:27.639
stuff in his pocket. Stuff diamonds burnt a bag form, uncut,

2959
02:54:28.319 --> 02:54:31.959
big expensive diamonds, impossible to trace.

2960
02:54:32.760 --> 02:54:36.120
Look, uh, you know forty seven Street between fifty six.

2961
02:54:36.079 --> 02:54:38.200
Right, she's the biggest diamond center in the world.

2962
02:54:38.440 --> 02:54:42.280
Maybe Amps Damps the biggest. But here's the layout. You

2963
02:54:42.360 --> 02:54:44.280
will be in the neighborhood in your squad car.

2964
02:54:45.239 --> 02:54:47.159
How come I explain my being there.

2965
02:54:47.200 --> 02:54:50.959
Well, it's in the general area. You're patrol, right, it's

2966
02:54:51.000 --> 02:54:53.280
in the area. Well, you will get a call on

2967
02:54:53.440 --> 02:54:56.600
your car radio sending you to the scene of the crime.

2968
02:54:57.040 --> 02:54:58.479
Call, a phony call.

2969
02:54:59.120 --> 02:55:02.000
It'll be on our own own short wave transmitter, right

2970
02:55:02.040 --> 02:55:04.959
in the neighborhood. No one will be hearing it but you.

2971
02:55:05.680 --> 02:55:08.200
It'll sound official. We got it all set up and

2972
02:55:08.280 --> 02:55:11.559
we've tested it. It can't be heard in the next block.

2973
02:55:12.040 --> 02:55:13.399
Yeah, it'll be hard to explain.

2974
02:55:13.520 --> 02:55:13.680
Later.

2975
02:55:13.920 --> 02:55:15.639
That's where your partner comes in.

2976
02:55:16.440 --> 02:55:18.639
You're not gold include him in the deal, of.

2977
02:55:18.799 --> 02:55:23.200
Course not, but he becomes your alibi.

2978
02:55:23.399 --> 02:55:23.799
You get it.

2979
02:55:24.440 --> 02:55:27.920
You'll swear the call came from the official police dispatcher.

2980
02:55:28.360 --> 02:55:30.000
He will think it's the real thing.

2981
02:55:30.920 --> 02:55:31.840
So how do I get the loot?

2982
02:55:32.000 --> 02:55:34.879
You go in, you catch the thief, arrest him. He

2983
02:55:35.079 --> 02:55:38.520
slips the diamonds into your pocket. You get him outside

2984
02:55:38.760 --> 02:55:41.239
and push him into the police car and call in

2985
02:55:41.399 --> 02:55:42.680
and tell him you made an arrest.

2986
02:55:43.159 --> 02:55:43.959
What about the thief?

2987
02:55:44.200 --> 02:55:45.239
He's clean as the snow.

2988
02:55:45.760 --> 02:55:46.559
They got nothing on.

2989
02:55:46.680 --> 02:55:51.040
Him, can't be identified, fake wig eyeglasses, He won't have

2990
02:55:51.120 --> 02:55:54.280
the loot on him, no evidence. The wigging glasses get

2991
02:55:54.319 --> 02:55:56.479
dumped into the garbage before you hit the street with

2992
02:55:56.600 --> 02:55:59.440
him in cuffs. He's got the record. He spends the

2993
02:55:59.559 --> 02:56:02.600
night in the slammer. Next day his lawyer springs him

2994
02:56:02.920 --> 02:56:03.719
and you turn the.

2995
02:56:03.799 --> 02:56:04.719
Diamonds over to me.

2996
02:56:05.399 --> 02:56:08.399
Oh, there'll be a hot dog stand in front of

2997
02:56:08.440 --> 02:56:11.760
the precinct station. You slip it to him as you pass.

2998
02:56:12.319 --> 02:56:14.040
We'll take care of your cut as soon as we

2999
02:56:14.120 --> 02:56:18.600
dispose of the diamonds. How do I know that I

3000
02:56:18.680 --> 02:56:21.399
won't be the fall guy? Do all the dirty work

3001
02:56:21.399 --> 02:56:23.399
and then get the blunt end of the stick.

3002
02:56:23.280 --> 02:56:27.760
For You've gotta trust me. We're a big organization. We

3003
02:56:27.920 --> 02:56:32.120
do business in a legitimate way. We got help in

3004
02:56:32.280 --> 02:56:34.879
the right place in case of trouble.

3005
02:56:35.520 --> 02:56:41.399
Okay, but listen, blast, yeah, don't try to pull a

3006
02:56:41.559 --> 02:56:56.319
fast one on me. Hello, Helen, I won't be able

3007
02:56:56.319 --> 02:56:58.319
to make it home for supper. I'm I'm gonna be

3008
02:56:58.360 --> 02:57:04.040
a little late. Don't ask me any questions. I'm with

3009
02:57:04.159 --> 02:57:06.719
a friend. We're talking business.

3010
02:57:07.360 --> 02:57:09.319
But do you want me to hold supper till you come?

3011
02:57:09.600 --> 02:57:09.639
No?

3012
02:57:09.840 --> 02:57:13.799
No, I said no. Don't you understand me? Yes?

3013
02:57:13.879 --> 02:57:14.040
Bert?

3014
02:57:15.559 --> 02:57:17.000
So when will you get home?

3015
02:57:19.159 --> 02:57:23.760
When you see me come in the front door, Helen.

3016
02:57:24.079 --> 02:57:29.959
Are you still on the line, Yes, you crying. I'm

3017
02:57:29.959 --> 02:57:32.000
all right, Helen.

3018
02:57:32.040 --> 02:57:33.040
I'm sorry. I short with you.

3019
02:57:33.319 --> 02:57:34.159
I'm a little tired.

3020
02:57:34.719 --> 02:57:36.280
It's okay, I understand.

3021
02:57:36.559 --> 02:57:39.559
Yeah, okay, I'll see you later.

3022
02:57:39.840 --> 02:57:40.120
Bert.

3023
02:57:41.040 --> 02:57:44.200
Yeah, Mike was here about twenty minutes ago.

3024
02:57:44.280 --> 02:57:46.280
He called twice before to talk to you.

3025
02:57:47.120 --> 02:57:49.600
He said for you to call him and meet him someplace.

3026
02:57:49.639 --> 02:57:54.000
He said it was urgent, good old Mike. Huh So

3027
02:57:54.159 --> 02:57:55.760
what's he doing playing Sherlock Holmes.

3028
02:57:56.120 --> 02:57:59.200
He's your friend, you said it yourself, your best friend.

3029
02:58:00.200 --> 02:58:06.440
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, I'll call him, Helen by see

3030
02:58:06.479 --> 02:58:06.799
you later.

3031
02:58:09.879 --> 02:58:11.680
Hey, bird, I thought you were just going to call

3032
02:58:11.760 --> 02:58:12.280
your wife.

3033
02:58:12.680 --> 02:58:13.319
That's what I did.

3034
02:58:13.799 --> 02:58:15.760
Took you an awfully long time.

3035
02:58:17.000 --> 02:58:19.879
You checking up on me, Because if you are the

3036
02:58:19.920 --> 02:58:22.319
whole deal's off. How do you trust me?

3037
02:58:22.440 --> 02:58:22.719
You might?

3038
02:58:23.280 --> 02:58:25.440
You got a short fuse, Take it easy.

3039
02:58:26.079 --> 02:58:27.600
We'll stop reading down my back. Uh.

3040
02:58:28.000 --> 02:58:29.959
I said we had a deal, and I meant.

3041
02:58:29.840 --> 02:58:36.760
It just naturally. Careful bird, sit down. You know you

3042
02:58:36.959 --> 02:58:38.200
do look a little wearied.

3043
02:58:38.840 --> 02:58:45.000
Maybe my old partner Mike Callaghan. Yeah, he's caught on that.

3044
02:58:45.280 --> 02:58:46.719
You and I seen a lot of each other.

3045
02:58:47.000 --> 02:58:47.200
Yeah.

3046
02:58:48.120 --> 02:58:51.959
So now he's a new detective, So you want to

3047
02:58:52.000 --> 02:58:54.040
look like one. You talked to him?

3048
02:58:54.840 --> 02:58:58.040
Why not? Oh? Nothing about our business?

3049
02:58:58.159 --> 02:59:01.840
You sure, because if you did, he wouldn't like it.

3050
02:59:03.159 --> 02:59:05.639
He who is?

3051
02:59:05.719 --> 02:59:07.000
He never murdered?

3052
02:59:08.079 --> 02:59:10.680
Look bless If you want me in on this thing,

3053
02:59:11.399 --> 02:59:13.479
don't hold out of me. Eh, I got to know

3054
02:59:13.520 --> 02:59:16.280
who's involved. I thought I was working with you.

3055
02:59:17.600 --> 02:59:18.280
Now you let me know.

3056
02:59:18.399 --> 02:59:19.079
You got a boss.

3057
02:59:19.200 --> 02:59:23.000
I can't tell you that Bert. He'll let you know

3058
02:59:23.159 --> 02:59:25.079
who he is when he feels the time is right.

3059
02:59:25.399 --> 02:59:28.000
As for your buddy, Mike, I'm leaving it up to

3060
02:59:28.120 --> 02:59:29.840
you to keep him out.

3061
02:59:30.520 --> 02:59:33.479
He's my friend. You wouldn't spill it if he didn't know.

3062
02:59:33.760 --> 02:59:34.680
You're sure of him.

3063
02:59:35.120 --> 02:59:39.840
Absolutely? Have you settled on the date. There's a big

3064
02:59:39.959 --> 02:59:43.520
shipman coming in from South Africa on the twentieth. We'll

3065
02:59:43.520 --> 02:59:48.319
give him two days to check it out. The twenty second, Yeah, definitely.

3066
02:59:49.200 --> 02:59:50.959
So how's your man going to get into the place.

3067
02:59:51.879 --> 02:59:53.879
It is pretty tough in that business. We've been in.

3068
02:59:53.959 --> 02:59:57.280
Touch from San Francisco. Phony set up from out there

3069
02:59:57.639 --> 03:00:01.040
with a fancy letterhead. I will be arriving in New

3070
03:00:01.120 --> 03:00:03.040
York on the night of the twenty first.

3071
03:00:03.559 --> 03:00:06.239
The next morning, he will arrive at dead door with

3072
03:00:06.399 --> 03:00:09.399
all his forged credentials and go ride in.

3073
03:00:10.120 --> 03:00:11.000
And so when do I come?

3074
03:00:11.239 --> 03:00:14.000
When you answer the call from the police's.

3075
03:00:13.520 --> 03:00:17.680
Dispatching, the one that you got set up? The fake right?

3076
03:00:18.399 --> 03:00:21.159
Like I told you the other day, I just want

3077
03:00:21.200 --> 03:00:21.879
to be sure.

3078
03:00:23.799 --> 03:00:29.040
Keep checking. Then, Hey, keep an eye on your old buddy, Mike.

3079
03:00:36.479 --> 03:00:39.559
Another cup of coffee, birth No, No, I've had all

3080
03:00:39.600 --> 03:00:40.280
the coffee I want.

3081
03:00:40.920 --> 03:00:42.120
I got a run.

3082
03:00:42.920 --> 03:00:44.360
What time is it? My watch slow?

3083
03:00:44.879 --> 03:00:46.559
About four minutes to seven.

3084
03:00:47.000 --> 03:00:48.799
That gives me four minutes to get down the stairs.

3085
03:00:48.879 --> 03:00:49.440
Another car.

3086
03:00:50.399 --> 03:00:52.079
My new partner, Pete will be picking me up.

3087
03:00:52.639 --> 03:00:56.520
Good Bye, Darling, I have a good day and try

3088
03:00:56.559 --> 03:00:57.319
to come home early.

3089
03:00:57.799 --> 03:01:06.639
Okay, darling. If you say something hello, Bert, imagine meeting

3090
03:01:06.719 --> 03:01:10.079
you on the stairs. Mike what's up, detective.

3091
03:01:11.360 --> 03:01:13.799
I don't know what you're up to, Bert, but I

3092
03:01:13.840 --> 03:01:15.360
can make a good guesser.

3093
03:01:15.600 --> 03:01:20.360
Mike, you're my friend, my good friend, and I am

3094
03:01:20.440 --> 03:01:22.200
now going to ask you to butt out of something

3095
03:01:23.040 --> 03:01:24.840
that is no business of yours. Look, I think it

3096
03:01:24.959 --> 03:01:28.239
is my business. Number one, I'm a cop, a detective.

3097
03:01:28.520 --> 03:01:30.159
Look are you sor at me? Because I got it

3098
03:01:30.319 --> 03:01:32.639
you didn't, not at all. I'm your friend. Once you

3099
03:01:32.719 --> 03:01:35.360
said your best friend, Mike, I know you're mixed up

3100
03:01:35.399 --> 03:01:38.479
in some rotten business with Blast, and I swear to you,

3101
03:01:38.639 --> 03:01:43.280
friend or not, I'll get you. You're even getting to

3102
03:01:43.319 --> 03:01:49.200
talk like a detective. Hey, you're terrific, good hunting Sherlock.

3103
03:02:02.319 --> 03:02:05.079
All right, what I told you never to come here?

3104
03:02:05.399 --> 03:02:07.120
You left the telephone message with my wife.

3105
03:02:07.239 --> 03:02:09.479
I didn't want to meet you here at the bowling Alley,

3106
03:02:09.520 --> 03:02:10.479
I told her, Yeah, I.

3107
03:02:10.520 --> 03:02:14.000
Know, but I wanted to see your place, see how

3108
03:02:14.120 --> 03:02:18.559
the better class lives. Hey, I'm joint you got here.

3109
03:02:18.639 --> 03:02:24.520
Blast a little flashy, but quite elegant, all in great tastes.

3110
03:02:24.600 --> 03:02:27.239
Okay, Okay, you've seen and I'll get out. I'll meet

3111
03:02:27.280 --> 03:02:29.760
you in five minutes. I'll let you out through the cellar.

3112
03:02:29.840 --> 03:02:30.479
Door in the back.

3113
03:02:30.920 --> 03:02:34.920
What's all this cloak and dagger stuff? Hey you jumpy here?

3114
03:02:35.360 --> 03:02:37.840
Yeah, I'm jumpy, and you want to know why your

3115
03:02:37.879 --> 03:02:40.319
buddy Mike Culligan has got a tap on.

3116
03:02:40.440 --> 03:02:44.200
My phone and yours a tap. You must be kidding.

3117
03:02:44.799 --> 03:02:46.280
It's hard to get permission for a tap.

3118
03:02:46.760 --> 03:02:47.399
How do you how do you know?

3119
03:02:47.600 --> 03:02:48.120
Never mind?

3120
03:02:48.680 --> 03:02:49.040
I know?

3121
03:02:49.799 --> 03:02:51.440
Oh that's right, you have connections.

3122
03:02:52.319 --> 03:02:53.959
Still, it's hard to believe it's real.

3123
03:02:54.680 --> 03:02:57.040
I got it from a source I can trust who

3124
03:02:57.319 --> 03:03:00.360
don't ask questions, and you'll live a lot longer.

3125
03:03:01.200 --> 03:03:03.399
Funk. Are you threatening me?

3126
03:03:03.639 --> 03:03:07.360
No, but I ain't threatening you. You're important. The scam

3127
03:03:07.440 --> 03:03:09.959
won't work without you. But don't ask me to tell

3128
03:03:09.959 --> 03:03:12.040
you things that I can't give out. I told you

3129
03:03:12.120 --> 03:03:15.440
that before. When it's the right time, you'll meet the

3130
03:03:15.600 --> 03:03:16.120
key man.

3131
03:03:16.600 --> 03:03:19.760
Okay, that all you got to say that you think

3132
03:03:19.840 --> 03:03:20.920
our phones have been tapped?

3133
03:03:21.360 --> 03:03:23.559
No, think it's for sure.

3134
03:03:25.000 --> 03:03:31.600
Now there is one other little thing, recover what Detective Colorgance.

3135
03:03:32.159 --> 03:03:34.079
Okay, I'll handle it.

3136
03:03:34.559 --> 03:03:37.000
Be sure you want to take care of it.

3137
03:03:38.360 --> 03:03:40.920
Wait a minute, what does that mean?

3138
03:03:41.719 --> 03:03:44.600
Well, he's getting too close, But to blow the whole thing.

3139
03:03:45.399 --> 03:03:47.600
I told you I'll take care of him.

3140
03:03:47.639 --> 03:03:50.840
How talk to him, cut him into a small piece.

3141
03:03:51.120 --> 03:03:51.719
It won't work.

3142
03:03:51.959 --> 03:03:55.559
He's straight, he won't pray, he's my friend, he won't

3143
03:03:55.600 --> 03:03:58.760
do anything. Yeah, he's got a bug on your phone.

3144
03:03:59.200 --> 03:04:01.600
I tell you it doesn't know other way. But listen,

3145
03:04:01.719 --> 03:04:05.799
blash Bert, we don't take chances. I'll get to him,

3146
03:04:06.200 --> 03:04:06.840
talk to him.

3147
03:04:06.920 --> 03:04:09.639
Nor there's only one way to stop him.

3148
03:04:09.840 --> 03:04:13.840
Okay, that's it. I'm through. You're asking me to be

3149
03:04:14.000 --> 03:04:16.639
party to a murder, the murder of a man I

3150
03:04:16.719 --> 03:04:19.159
have known. So let me tell that wasn't what I

3151
03:04:19.319 --> 03:04:19.840
agreed to.

3152
03:04:20.120 --> 03:04:21.200
And I don't want it.

3153
03:04:22.079 --> 03:04:25.520
Find somebody else, all right, all right, And look, personally,

3154
03:04:26.600 --> 03:04:28.840
I ain't so hot about that kind of business either.

3155
03:04:29.120 --> 03:04:32.000
It could be trouble. The boss wanted it, I didn't.

3156
03:04:32.799 --> 03:04:35.280
You don't like we should take chances.

3157
03:04:35.799 --> 03:04:39.040
Look, I respect your feelings, Bert, it's it's something that's

3158
03:04:39.799 --> 03:04:40.760
we're kind of hard to.

3159
03:04:40.840 --> 03:04:42.319
Live with after you know what I mean.

3160
03:04:42.440 --> 03:04:44.440
You talk about murder as though you were planning a

3161
03:04:44.479 --> 03:04:47.120
little fix on a horse race. I tell you it's

3162
03:04:47.159 --> 03:04:48.520
out or I.

3163
03:04:48.600 --> 03:04:51.200
Am okay, okay, it's out.

3164
03:04:51.399 --> 03:04:51.719
Bert?

3165
03:04:52.319 --> 03:04:53.559
You sure my word?

3166
03:04:53.840 --> 03:04:57.319
I give you my word, your word.

3167
03:04:57.559 --> 03:04:58.920
I've been on the up and up with you.

3168
03:04:59.120 --> 03:05:04.040
You know it, Harry, I'm gonna take your word and

3169
03:05:04.120 --> 03:05:06.239
I'm going to hold you to it. You and your

3170
03:05:06.319 --> 03:05:09.200
boss both, you know what I mean?

3171
03:05:09.399 --> 03:05:13.479
Sure, Sure, no problem. All I got to do is

3172
03:05:13.559 --> 03:05:14.319
tell the boss.

3173
03:05:14.360 --> 03:05:15.360
Tell him how you feel.

3174
03:05:15.799 --> 03:05:19.559
You'll go along, Hey, Bert, he needs you.

3175
03:05:25.879 --> 03:05:28.319
Despite the fact that everything was working out as he

3176
03:05:28.360 --> 03:05:31.479
had wanted it to, but it was nervous. He had

3177
03:05:31.559 --> 03:05:34.319
never in his life got involved in anything so upsetting.

3178
03:05:35.159 --> 03:05:37.159
Even though he'd been on the police force for seven

3179
03:05:37.280 --> 03:05:40.159
years and had faced dangers so regularly that it was

3180
03:05:40.239 --> 03:05:41.360
almost commonplace.

3181
03:05:42.159 --> 03:05:42.840
This was different.

3182
03:05:43.520 --> 03:05:45.639
He was mixed up in a dirty business.

3183
03:05:46.120 --> 03:05:51.000
Something that all his moral values found repugnant. Nevertheless, he

3184
03:05:51.079 --> 03:05:54.440
seemed determined to see it through. I'll be back shortly

3185
03:05:54.719 --> 03:06:06.920
with Act three. It is the night before the day

3186
03:06:07.079 --> 03:06:10.360
set for the rubbery. Bert met Harry Blast on the

3187
03:06:10.360 --> 03:06:13.719
street corner, and he held a cap. Since Harry knew

3188
03:06:13.760 --> 03:06:16.399
that his phone and Bert's were tapped, he varied his

3189
03:06:16.520 --> 03:06:19.079
meeting place with Bert to make it impossible to set

3190
03:06:19.159 --> 03:06:20.239
up any kind of trap.

3191
03:06:21.639 --> 03:06:24.360
They ride in silence for some minutes, and then Harry.

3192
03:06:24.159 --> 03:06:27.120
Begins to give Bert his final instructions.

3193
03:06:27.600 --> 03:06:31.559
Now burned at eighteen minutes before eleven tomorrow morning, you

3194
03:06:31.600 --> 03:06:34.520
will be turning off Fifth into forty seventh Street. I

3195
03:06:34.639 --> 03:06:37.680
understand you will get the call on your radio at

3196
03:06:37.760 --> 03:06:41.520
exactly sixteen minutes before eleven, the one were setting.

3197
03:06:41.280 --> 03:06:43.159
Up the funny one.

3198
03:06:43.280 --> 03:06:46.399
Yeah, it will come in maybe five minutes before the

3199
03:06:46.479 --> 03:06:47.760
official car will come in.

3200
03:06:48.239 --> 03:06:52.520
Five minutes that it's not much time with traffic before

3201
03:06:52.600 --> 03:06:55.520
we answer it. Get up the elevator. It might might

3202
03:06:55.600 --> 03:06:58.239
take ten minutes or more. It's gotta be five minutes,

3203
03:06:58.360 --> 03:07:00.639
no more or the rest of them. The police will

3204
03:07:00.680 --> 03:07:01.079
be right in.

3205
03:07:01.120 --> 03:07:01.639
There with us.

3206
03:07:02.120 --> 03:07:03.239
Okay, I'll try to move.

3207
03:07:03.319 --> 03:07:05.840
I want to warn you you'll have a different partner

3208
03:07:05.879 --> 03:07:06.799
in your car tomorrow.

3209
03:07:07.440 --> 03:07:10.520
Wait a minute, what about Pete. He's been Mike's replacement.

3210
03:07:10.639 --> 03:07:12.159
He's off on another assignment.

3211
03:07:12.840 --> 03:07:14.600
Uh, I see you manage that.

3212
03:07:16.120 --> 03:07:16.440
What for?

3213
03:07:17.079 --> 03:07:18.479
I thought it might be better if you got a

3214
03:07:18.600 --> 03:07:21.879
temporary new partner just out of the academy. Just got

3215
03:07:21.920 --> 03:07:25.920
a badge and her revolver. We could go Friday her. Well,

3216
03:07:25.959 --> 03:07:27.879
you don't mind, do you? Oh A good look of

3217
03:07:27.959 --> 03:07:30.000
Dame twenty seven twenty eight?

3218
03:07:30.360 --> 03:07:33.120
Uh huh? And we got her through your friend.

3219
03:07:33.399 --> 03:07:37.680
Yeah, I told you I have connections in the right places,

3220
03:07:38.600 --> 03:07:38.879
and she.

3221
03:07:38.959 --> 03:07:39.639
Knows what's going on.

3222
03:07:39.959 --> 03:07:43.680
She ain't in on nothing. Oh yeah, yeah, something else.

3223
03:07:44.200 --> 03:07:47.440
Your friend Mike Culligan won't be around when all this happens.

3224
03:07:48.040 --> 03:07:49.120
What do you mean, Relax?

3225
03:07:49.280 --> 03:07:52.959
We got a good break. Culligan is in Arizona. Left

3226
03:07:53.000 --> 03:07:56.799
this afternoon extradition business. He was sent to pick up

3227
03:07:56.840 --> 03:07:59.399
a can out of Arizona State prisoner. Won't be back

3228
03:07:59.440 --> 03:07:59.959
till monday.

3229
03:08:00.360 --> 03:08:00.799
That's good.

3230
03:08:01.399 --> 03:08:01.600
Yeah.

3231
03:08:01.799 --> 03:08:04.319
Thanks, Hey, don't thank me. Just coincidence.

3232
03:08:04.600 --> 03:08:06.280
Yeah, yeah, I bet.

3233
03:08:06.559 --> 03:08:09.399
Okay, Yeah, give the Cabby your address and the word.

3234
03:08:09.360 --> 03:08:11.600
No, no, no, no better drop me at the pub.

3235
03:08:12.360 --> 03:08:14.959
I'll have a beer and I'll have an excuse for

3236
03:08:15.040 --> 03:08:26.239
coming home late. Oh, Helen, I am sorry for being

3237
03:08:26.280 --> 03:08:26.600
so late.

3238
03:08:26.680 --> 03:08:28.159
There, I'm all right.

3239
03:08:28.239 --> 03:08:29.360
Bert, I'm getting used to.

3240
03:08:29.440 --> 03:08:32.200
It, Helen, don't take that kind of tone.

3241
03:08:32.840 --> 03:08:36.040
I waited dinner for you. Then Mike arrived.

3242
03:08:37.079 --> 03:08:42.319
Mike, he came here, but he couldn't have He left

3243
03:08:42.360 --> 03:08:46.360
for Arizona. As a change of plans, Bert and Mike.

3244
03:08:46.799 --> 03:08:48.719
I called the warden in Arizona and told him I

3245
03:08:48.840 --> 03:08:52.600
was delayed. I hope my change of plans hasn't disturbed

3246
03:08:52.639 --> 03:08:57.079
you too much. Change of plans, uh, what plans drop it?

3247
03:08:57.200 --> 03:08:57.440
Bert?

3248
03:08:58.239 --> 03:09:00.319
You know I was scheduled to go to Arizona, and

3249
03:09:00.479 --> 03:09:02.360
you know why I was being sent out of town.

3250
03:09:03.159 --> 03:09:09.399
No, no, why e book. I didn't invite you into

3251
03:09:09.479 --> 03:09:14.120
my home, Detective Collagan, but I'm inviting you out right.

3252
03:09:14.200 --> 03:09:15.920
I don't say anything you're going to regret.

3253
03:09:16.000 --> 03:09:21.840
Staarut of this, Helen, you Clagan out. Please pardon me, Detective.

3254
03:09:21.959 --> 03:09:24.200
I forgot to ask if you had a warrant to

3255
03:09:24.319 --> 03:09:25.760
enter my house, have you?

3256
03:09:26.120 --> 03:09:26.520
Albert?

3257
03:09:26.639 --> 03:09:30.079
You know I have no search warrant, no warrant for

3258
03:09:30.200 --> 03:09:30.680
my arrest.

3259
03:09:30.879 --> 03:09:32.799
Bert, Then what are you doing here?

3260
03:09:34.719 --> 03:09:37.079
The door is open, mister Cullaghan.

3261
03:09:38.680 --> 03:09:41.040
Good night, Helen. Bert.

3262
03:09:41.799 --> 03:09:44.559
You know you once said to me nothing worse than

3263
03:09:44.600 --> 03:09:48.319
a dirty cop. Well you were right, friend.

3264
03:09:57.559 --> 03:10:00.559
Turn into forty seventh place again, But we just came

3265
03:10:00.600 --> 03:10:02.440
around the brock. Come on, come on, come on, turn

3266
03:10:02.479 --> 03:10:03.520
before the light changes out.

3267
03:10:03.520 --> 03:10:05.200
Okay, that's what you want.

3268
03:10:06.879 --> 03:10:09.000
Traffic so heavy you'll take us ten minutes to get

3269
03:10:09.000 --> 03:10:09.639
to sixth again.

3270
03:10:11.239 --> 03:10:14.159
You're doing piece work, race or you work by the day.

3271
03:10:15.159 --> 03:10:16.239
I'm working by the day.

3272
03:10:17.280 --> 03:10:19.280
This is certainly a dull business.

3273
03:10:19.680 --> 03:10:22.760
What time you got, Gracey and fifteen minutes to eleven

3274
03:10:23.319 --> 03:10:23.879
you're fast.

3275
03:10:24.440 --> 03:10:25.479
I've got nineteen minutes.

3276
03:10:26.000 --> 03:10:27.120
A little too early for lunch.

3277
03:10:27.159 --> 03:10:27.360
Brot.

3278
03:10:27.399 --> 03:10:28.680
Don't you say check?

3279
03:10:28.760 --> 03:10:31.159
You're able twelve sect diorable twelve.

3280
03:10:31.680 --> 03:10:33.040
You have a ten to thirty three?

3281
03:10:33.719 --> 03:10:36.760
Hey, he do's it? Ten thirty three Robbery and property.

3282
03:10:39.520 --> 03:10:44.079
You learned your lessons, good Officer Street twenty five eight.

3283
03:10:44.000 --> 03:10:45.399
West tenth fall.

3284
03:10:45.840 --> 03:10:48.920
Hey, hit the lights in the siren. That's just right ahead.

3285
03:10:53.280 --> 03:10:58.399
He hit the bricks. You stay in the car, Call

3286
03:10:58.479 --> 03:10:59.600
in and tell them where we spond.

3287
03:11:00.000 --> 03:11:00.680
Hey, you'll keep her.

3288
03:11:05.479 --> 03:11:08.159
Come on, come in, come in, come in only five minutes.

3289
03:11:08.680 --> 03:11:13.799
You gotta do it. Okay, he went that way.

3290
03:11:13.840 --> 03:11:15.120
Office up, he got a gun.

3291
03:11:15.360 --> 03:11:18.040
Okay, okay, stay away, are stay out of the hall.

3292
03:11:18.319 --> 03:11:19.840
Oh yeah, out of the hall.

3293
03:11:20.680 --> 03:11:23.879
Hey, hey, hey, come here right here in the closet.

3294
03:11:24.799 --> 03:11:28.159
Oh yeah, money, come on, he shut the door. Okay,

3295
03:11:28.239 --> 03:11:29.399
put the cuffs on. Here, let's go.

3296
03:11:29.920 --> 03:11:33.280
Hey, where'd you fetch the wicking glasses and garbage can?

3297
03:11:33.399 --> 03:11:34.799
Garbage will be picked up by the morning.

3298
03:11:35.079 --> 03:11:36.440
Not to worry. Come on, let's go.

3299
03:11:36.559 --> 03:11:39.479
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, where's the loot? You're

3300
03:11:39.479 --> 03:11:40.920
supposed to give it to me and I Hey, you

3301
03:11:41.200 --> 03:11:44.040
the signals changed. The stuff is already mailed in four

3302
03:11:44.120 --> 03:11:46.559
pre stamped mental envelopes. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

3303
03:11:46.840 --> 03:11:49.079
Plass told me he got to change where's mind. He

3304
03:11:49.159 --> 03:11:51.760
didn't want to put you in any trouble. Look, if

3305
03:11:51.799 --> 03:11:53.600
you don't have the stuff and I don't have it,

3306
03:11:53.639 --> 03:11:56.559
we're in the clear. So so where was the mail

3307
03:11:56.639 --> 03:11:57.399
to where?

3308
03:11:57.760 --> 03:11:58.280
I don't know.

3309
03:11:58.879 --> 03:12:00.000
I didn't look at the address.

3310
03:12:00.040 --> 03:12:02.079
Yes, I just filled the ambulose like I was told

3311
03:12:02.120 --> 03:12:04.239
to seal them, drop them in the mailbox at the

3312
03:12:04.280 --> 03:12:06.120
end of the hall, goes right out down on the

3313
03:12:06.159 --> 03:12:09.239
first floor. Three o'clock mail pickup. I see what are

3314
03:12:09.280 --> 03:12:09.719
we waiting for?

3315
03:12:09.920 --> 03:12:10.200
Copper?

3316
03:12:10.639 --> 03:12:12.520
Kick me out of here, Throw me in the slammer.

3317
03:12:12.920 --> 03:12:14.159
Come on, I'm your prisoner.

3318
03:12:20.319 --> 03:12:24.479
Come in. Oh, come in, Bert, Yeah, come on in.

3319
03:12:25.719 --> 03:12:28.719
I'm on a long distance to San Francisco. I'll be

3320
03:12:28.799 --> 03:12:29.399
within a minute.

3321
03:12:30.079 --> 03:12:32.479
Hello. Yeah, Yes, I was over here.

3322
03:12:33.319 --> 03:12:33.840
You got them?

3323
03:12:34.680 --> 03:12:39.280
How many six Good Jewels International Limited?

3324
03:12:39.360 --> 03:12:41.159
Eh? Fancy name?

3325
03:12:42.120 --> 03:12:44.239
And then now we want you to send us all

3326
03:12:44.319 --> 03:12:46.319
you've got on them, and we'll send you what we've.

3327
03:12:46.239 --> 03:12:48.520
Got right now, by inspector.

3328
03:12:50.000 --> 03:12:53.440
Yeah, sit down, sit down, Bert, Thank you, captain, And

3329
03:12:53.479 --> 03:12:55.399
I want to tell you I think you've done a

3330
03:12:55.520 --> 03:12:59.399
superb job. Thank you. Best kept secret in all the

3331
03:12:59.479 --> 03:13:02.719
years I've on the force. Had to let Lieutenant Mcinernie

3332
03:13:02.760 --> 03:13:05.879
in on it at the last minute, Mike Culligan's new boss,

3333
03:13:05.920 --> 03:13:09.120
you know, to get his cooperation on the Arizona thing.

3334
03:13:09.319 --> 03:13:14.079
But outside of that, leaving your wife didn't know thought

3335
03:13:14.120 --> 03:13:14.959
you were in trouble.

3336
03:13:15.840 --> 03:13:17.040
She was about to divorce me.

3337
03:13:17.200 --> 03:13:19.440
When I spoke to her just ten minutes ago, she

3338
03:13:19.559 --> 03:13:23.360
sort of broke down. Well, then she laughed and came

3339
03:13:23.440 --> 03:13:26.760
immediately to your defense and said she never believed you

3340
03:13:26.840 --> 03:13:28.479
were anything but good and decent.

3341
03:13:28.959 --> 03:13:32.399
It sounds like I did give her a bad time, though,

3342
03:13:32.520 --> 03:13:33.280
And I think.

3343
03:13:33.200 --> 03:13:35.879
We have the whole case wrapped up. You heard my

3344
03:13:36.040 --> 03:13:40.000
conversation with San Francisco. Your thief is going to get

3345
03:13:40.120 --> 03:13:43.680
a little surprise when his lawyer gets here. We found

3346
03:13:43.719 --> 03:13:48.680
the wagon glasses and there'll be no trouble getting absolute identification.

3347
03:13:49.559 --> 03:13:54.120
Postal authorities cooperated and found the envelopes containing the diamonds,

3348
03:13:54.559 --> 03:13:59.440
all seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth. Well I help.

3349
03:13:59.479 --> 03:14:02.959
You're proud of your efforts, yes, sir, But I still

3350
03:14:03.040 --> 03:14:07.280
have one worry, sir. Maybe we jump too quick and

3351
03:14:07.440 --> 03:14:12.479
the big shot. Blass's boss will be won and take off. No, no, no,

3352
03:14:13.120 --> 03:14:16.680
Your idea to flush him out worked. Sending out word

3353
03:14:16.799 --> 03:14:20.959
that Mike was going to Arizona trapped him. He immediately

3354
03:14:21.120 --> 03:14:25.000
got that information back to Blass. What he didn't know

3355
03:14:25.479 --> 03:14:28.520
is that we had suspicions he might be the leak

3356
03:14:28.600 --> 03:14:31.200
and put the arm on him right after he got

3357
03:14:31.280 --> 03:14:31.879
the word out.

3358
03:14:32.360 --> 03:14:32.840
Who was it?

3359
03:14:33.239 --> 03:14:36.200
A man but the name of Reach works for the

3360
03:14:36.280 --> 03:14:40.479
company who handles our electronic maintenance sear at headquarters. He

3361
03:14:40.639 --> 03:14:45.639
had access to all our information and he yielded to temptation.

3362
03:14:46.639 --> 03:14:50.639
Then he wasn't the big boss. No no, I'd say

3363
03:14:50.639 --> 03:14:56.799
a small but important cog in Blass's operations. Blass is

3364
03:14:56.879 --> 03:14:59.879
the big man, and we'll have him within the hour.

3365
03:15:00.399 --> 03:15:02.840
He doesn't know that he's in any trouble, not an inkling.

3366
03:15:03.520 --> 03:15:07.719
Everything was done so swiftly and without fuss that Blass

3367
03:15:07.799 --> 03:15:10.559
couldn't possibly know. Lieutenant mcinnern.

3368
03:15:10.639 --> 03:15:12.479
He sent Mike Culligan to make the pinch.

3369
03:15:13.200 --> 03:15:17.319
Mike, oh, any backup? Mag didn't think he needed any.

3370
03:15:17.920 --> 03:15:21.079
Blass would be taken by a surprise and no, no, no, no,

3371
03:15:21.239 --> 03:15:24.920
he's dangers captain. He just assumed kills someone has talked

3372
03:15:24.920 --> 03:15:25.159
to them.

3373
03:15:36.239 --> 03:15:36.719
Who's there?

3374
03:15:37.399 --> 03:15:42.879
Open up, Harry, it's me right, my y quick.

3375
03:15:43.959 --> 03:15:45.639
Look I told you that we had to stay away

3376
03:15:45.639 --> 03:15:46.159
from each other.

3377
03:15:46.239 --> 03:15:49.239
Hey, I see you got yourself all packed like you're

3378
03:15:49.639 --> 03:15:50.159
going away.

3379
03:15:50.879 --> 03:15:51.200
Hmmm.

3380
03:15:51.520 --> 03:15:53.520
Shame to leave this gorgeous appartment.

3381
03:15:53.639 --> 03:15:55.879
Yeah, yeah, warriors from the boss.

3382
03:15:56.000 --> 03:15:57.000
What's up, trouble.

3383
03:15:57.120 --> 03:16:00.520
Look, don't be worried about your cuts. See you'll get

3384
03:16:00.559 --> 03:16:02.399
it as soon as they get the stuff in Frisco

3385
03:16:02.520 --> 03:16:03.840
and you dispose of it.

3386
03:16:04.000 --> 03:16:04.879
I'm not worried.

3387
03:16:05.000 --> 03:16:06.280
You know it went off perfect.

3388
03:16:06.760 --> 03:16:10.040
Look, I know how you feel about the bread. I

3389
03:16:10.079 --> 03:16:13.479
can give you a kind of down payment on your share. Yeah,

3390
03:16:14.000 --> 03:16:15.319
I got some cash right here.

3391
03:16:15.799 --> 03:16:20.239
Yeah, don't touch that drawer. Blast, turn around nice and

3392
03:16:20.399 --> 03:16:21.799
slow with your hands up.

3393
03:16:22.120 --> 03:16:23.200
What's the matter with you?

3394
03:16:23.360 --> 03:16:23.680
Bert?

3395
03:16:24.280 --> 03:16:28.760
Mike Culligan came here, not more than ten fifteen minutes ago,

3396
03:16:28.959 --> 03:16:33.639
came here. Why don't give me up performance, Blast. He

3397
03:16:33.799 --> 03:16:35.079
came here to pick you up.

3398
03:16:35.760 --> 03:16:36.319
What happened?

3399
03:16:36.479 --> 03:16:39.239
Look, but you were me, we're partners.

3400
03:16:40.040 --> 03:16:41.799
Whatever gave you that idea?

3401
03:16:42.440 --> 03:16:42.719
Punk?

3402
03:16:43.360 --> 03:16:46.799
You walked into a setup. We've got all of you,

3403
03:16:47.399 --> 03:16:53.159
including your plant. You're moral at headquarters. Now, where's my colleague?

3404
03:16:53.360 --> 03:16:53.559
Mike?

3405
03:16:53.600 --> 03:16:54.000
Colagan.

3406
03:16:54.159 --> 03:16:54.799
How should I know?

3407
03:16:56.000 --> 03:16:58.120
A little while ago somebody came to the door. He

3408
03:16:58.280 --> 03:17:00.719
banged on it, but I didn't answer. He went away.

3409
03:17:01.159 --> 03:17:04.000
He would have never gone away. He is in this apartment.

3410
03:17:04.079 --> 03:17:07.200
Oh yeah, well go ahead, look around here.

3411
03:17:07.319 --> 03:17:07.879
He isn't here.

3412
03:17:08.639 --> 03:17:09.559
What's in this other room?

3413
03:17:09.680 --> 03:17:09.959
Nothing?

3414
03:17:10.360 --> 03:17:10.680
Take him?

3415
03:17:10.680 --> 03:17:16.319
Look, don't move. I'll open the door. Oh Berth, Brian hit,

3416
03:17:16.559 --> 03:17:20.239
I'm hitting Mike Blast. He's gonna get away. Get him,

3417
03:17:20.280 --> 03:17:23.319
birth Mike. I can't leave you like this, but I'll

3418
03:17:23.360 --> 03:17:26.040
call for him. You're a cop, vert, get him for me.

3419
03:17:26.600 --> 03:17:27.280
I'll be all right.

3420
03:17:27.959 --> 03:17:28.479
Okay, my.

3421
03:17:31.440 --> 03:17:35.760
Blast, I say, yeah, down the stairwell stop or a shoot.

3422
03:17:36.920 --> 03:17:37.239
Stop.

3423
03:17:40.959 --> 03:17:53.360
Mh Mike, Come on in Bert, I'm awake, Doctor says

3424
03:17:53.360 --> 03:17:54.479
I can only stay a few minutes.

3425
03:17:55.040 --> 03:17:57.959
Boy, you a big apology? Man, Was I wrong?

3426
03:17:59.079 --> 03:18:03.360
Captain Sullivan, Well, he was in this morning. He told

3427
03:18:03.440 --> 03:18:07.200
me you made detective Yeah, the slow way. You got

3428
03:18:07.239 --> 03:18:10.120
a big citation too. Mayor is going to present it

3429
03:18:10.159 --> 03:18:12.040
in front of city Hall with everyone watching.

3430
03:18:12.840 --> 03:18:13.079
Yeah.

3431
03:18:13.760 --> 03:18:16.280
That's something I tried to get out of, but Helen

3432
03:18:16.360 --> 03:18:17.879
said I got her. You know what the mayor is

3433
03:18:17.920 --> 03:18:20.280
going to say to you, nothing's worse than a dirty cop.

3434
03:18:21.239 --> 03:18:21.680
No Bert.

3435
03:18:22.440 --> 03:18:24.799
He was here today and I talked to him. He's

3436
03:18:24.840 --> 03:18:27.959
going to say, there's nothing better than a clean cop.

3437
03:18:33.680 --> 03:18:36.760
Detective third Class brit Gilbert stood on the steps of

3438
03:18:36.840 --> 03:18:38.159
City Hall with his.

3439
03:18:38.239 --> 03:18:40.239
Head slightly bowed while the.

3440
03:18:40.280 --> 03:18:41.319
Mayor of reg the citation.

3441
03:18:42.360 --> 03:18:45.760
He was embarrassed by all the ceremony. Then he danced

3442
03:18:45.840 --> 03:18:49.479
up and coffee look in Helen's eyes as she watched

3443
03:18:49.520 --> 03:18:53.079
her husband being honored, and he knew then that the

3444
03:18:53.159 --> 03:18:56.559
look was worth all the embarrassment in discomfort.

3445
03:18:57.440 --> 03:19:09.239
I'll be back shortly, so ends that tale.

3446
03:19:09.280 --> 03:19:10.200
The blood Red ink.

3447
03:19:11.159 --> 03:19:14.000
Bert Gilbert and Mike Hullagan had the fire and ambition

3448
03:19:14.200 --> 03:19:17.239
in them to make something of their lives, to gain

3449
03:19:17.319 --> 03:19:20.600
recognition from their fellow men. Their names were not to

3450
03:19:20.680 --> 03:19:23.559
be found on the negative side, the blood red side

3451
03:19:23.600 --> 03:19:26.799
of the ledger. Their names, in great block letters could

3452
03:19:26.799 --> 03:19:27.479
be found.

3453
03:19:27.399 --> 03:19:28.520
On the positive side.

3454
03:19:29.479 --> 03:19:32.680
They had achieved what most men want, the knowledge that

3455
03:19:32.799 --> 03:19:36.000
they had received the recognition for a job bring down.

3456
03:19:37.040 --> 03:19:38.799
Our cast included Fred.

3457
03:19:38.639 --> 03:19:43.760
Grinn, Terry Keane, Rode Baptista, and Bob Caliban. The entire

3458
03:19:43.799 --> 03:19:46.120
production was under the direction of Heinen Brown.

3459
03:19:47.879 --> 03:19:53.479
Well, my dear, another night has come and gone again again.

3460
03:19:54.200 --> 03:19:58.399
But I got to be here with you, so no loss,

3461
03:19:59.239 --> 03:20:03.920
only gave. And of course I'll be right here, waiting,

3462
03:20:05.040 --> 03:20:10.639
same place, same time, whenever you care to join me.

3463
03:20:11.920 --> 03:20:16.159
The witching season is now in full bloom. It's only

3464
03:20:16.280 --> 03:20:20.159
half way over, so please make sure I'm not the

3465
03:20:20.319 --> 03:20:26.840
only one having a special time. Enjoy yourself, find something

3466
03:20:27.040 --> 03:20:32.840
scary to love, and I'll be right here. But please,

3467
03:20:32.879 --> 03:20:36.559
if you could do me just one kindness, as you

3468
03:20:36.719 --> 03:20:39.799
make your way home, as you go through the threshold

3469
03:20:39.920 --> 03:20:42.680
of your front door, as you lay your head on

3470
03:20:42.799 --> 03:20:47.040
your soft yet cool pillow, take one moment and be

3471
03:20:47.239 --> 03:20:51.200
thankful for what you have, and I'll be seeing.

3472
03:21:00.719 --> 03:21:09.479
Surrounding sundling mumbling private things of rage.

3473
03:21:10.360 --> 03:21:12.680
Ou