May 10, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | Black Magic, Killer Cargo & Classic Radio Terror: Four Old-Time Horror Stories

Unknown Broadcast | Black Magic, Killer Cargo & Classic Radio Terror: Four Old-Time Horror Stories
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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying a midnight cargo of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, supernatural mystery, occult terror, and dreadful little accidents that refuse to stay buried.

Tonight’s transmission gathers four vintage nightmares from the shadowed side of the dial: black magic on a college campus, death crawling loose aboard a ship, a lonely woman’s diary curdling into terror, and a fatal road accident that becomes something far more twisted. The host is here. The tea is warm. The room is waiting. And if the stories sound like they were meant for you… well, perhaps they were.

🕯️ The Sending — A university lecture on ancient magic opens the door to something older than reason, as youth, power, and blood become part of a terrible bargain.
🐍 A Shipment of Mute Fate — A ship carries deadly cargo across the sea, but when that cargo escapes, every dark corner becomes a hiding place for death.
📖 The Diary of Sophronia Winters — A lonely woman believes romance has finally found her, but the pages of her diary begin to reveal a much colder, crueler destiny.
🚗 Blind Alley — A drunken accident, a hidden body, and a wealthy family’s secrets twist into a trap where guilt may not be the only thing waiting in the dark.

Four classic OTR horror stories drift through Unknown Broadcast tonight… and somewhere between the static, the shadows, and the old radio glow, something may already be drifting back toward you.

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Ah my dear, so good to see you again. Your

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face truly is a sight for sore eyes, as they say,

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what's that? Well, of course, have a seat. I've saved

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you the best spot in the path of the fireplace.

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The tea is almost done steeping now I think it's

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time for something chilly before our cups are hot. Because

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sometimes in life we worry about the going, we worry

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about the comings, But why not really worry about the sending.

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Come in, welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.

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Sit down and try to make yourself comfortable. Yes, it

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is quite warm in here, but don't worry about it,

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because in just a moment we'll bring you a tale

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that will chill your blood. A tale of black magic

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that may have begun centuries ago, but which takes place today.

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A tale in which one of the dark powers of

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the Pits is released on the campus of a Midwestern university.

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You hear that it's just the wind. No it's not,

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it's something else. I don't hear anything. I do kind

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of humming, singing sound. Look over there near Brewster Hall.

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It's only a shadow moving. It's coming this way. You

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want to stop at Teddy, you're getting your stuff ither

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without coming this way. It's not us, it's that thing

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I saw in the mirror. Get out of here. R

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every way, or don't go that way, this way.

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Robert towards me.

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Whoo our mystery drama.

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The sending was written this face victually for the Mystery

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Theater by Robert Neumann and stars Mandel Kramer and Marion.

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Selvis in New.

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Is there such a thing as black magic? The ancients

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thought there was. For centuries there were those who were

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willing to trade their souls for the power to call

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up and control the dark forces of the pit to

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what end, sometimes for power or wealth, sometimes, as in

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this tale, to achieve eternal youth, eternal life.

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But as we will.

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See, there is always great danger involved, and the price

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is always high and usually paid in blood. Our spine

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Tingler begins in a large rambling house on the edge

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of the campus of a Midwestern university. A gray haired woman,

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strangely shrunken but with intense gleaming eyes, sits in a

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chair in a sparsely furnished room, waiting and listening.

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Arnold, Yes, well, I you know where I am in

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my room?

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Hello, Mia, how are you you know that too? Where

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have you been at a faculty meeting and then in

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my office and.

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You couldn't get home before this.

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I had several conferences. I had to arrange my schedule.

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That's what you said yesterday me. It always takes a

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few days when you're starting in a new place. Why

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are you so impatient?

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Why have you forgotten how I get when my time

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is running out? Do you realize I've only got about

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two weeks left.

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I told you to relax, Mia. Classes will be starting tomorrow,

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and you know how quickly I can work when I

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have to. I should have someone for you within a

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few days. So to sum up our first session, what

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we're dealing with them is a tradition that goes back

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to the dawn of time, man's belief that he can

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control not the forces of nature, but the forces that

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shape nature, and can give him power over other men

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and even over life and death. That will be all

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for today. You have your reading list and your assignment

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for the next time. However, if any of you are

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interested in any of the many fields I covered in

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my outline, by all means, come talk to me and

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I'll give you some additional reading for a special report.

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Well, what do you think bet Will is quite a lecture.

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I think it's going to be very interesting. I'm not

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talking about the course. I'm talking about him. He's really something,

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isn't he. Oh? Come on, Debby, he's married, isn't he?

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Sure he has all the really attractive ones are But

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his wife is about twenty years older than he is.

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Not only that, but she's not well. How do you

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know that? I made it my business to find out

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since he just got here. It wasn't easy. But if

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you really wants up, there be cathy, no reason why

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you should care. You've got someone for yourself. If you're

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talking about Bill, I haven't got him. He just has

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the room across the hall from me, which he made

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a point of getting left spring. So so give me

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your hand, come on up and talk to Lancing with me.

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All right.

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As a matter of fact, I was going to do

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it anyway. I thought I might do one of those

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special reports. Oh great, Then you talk to him and

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I'll tag along, okay, Professor Lancing. Yes, I'm Bess Howard.

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I like to do one of the special reports.

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You talked about. Oh I'm delighted, Massah. He usually takes

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three or four secsions before anyone volunteers. Was this something

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you were particularly interested in? Well, yes, the towel. I

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should have known. That's usually one of the first assignments

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to be requested. Tell me, do you have a set

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of tarot cards? No, I haven't. Well, after you do

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your report, I'm sure the bookstore will have to order them.

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But in the meantime, if you'll stop by my office

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this afternoon, i'll give you my set and also a

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supplementary reading this.

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Oh, thank you, professor. What about your friend, I'm sorry,

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I don't believe.

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I know your name, Debbie Ross. Would you like to

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take on one of the special assignments to Miss Ross?

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Oh?

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Well, not right now, professor, but I'll probably ask for

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one after the next session or two. But in the meantime,

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I wanted to tell you that I think the course

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is absolutely fascinating.

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Thank you, Miss Ross.

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Today's lecture was very general, of course, an attempt to

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indicate approach, and sketchy in background. But I hope you'll

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continue to find it interesting. Oh I'm sure I will.

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All right, Mire, I told you you could relax, and

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you can. You've got one several too. In particular, I'm sure,

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you'll be delighted without of one of them. Yes, sure, Miyah.

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Haven't I done it oft enough so that I can

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tell you?

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Yes, we both have.

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But Arnold, it will have to be soon or I'll

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be so weak I won't be able to help.

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Don't worry, Mire, it will be soon, not more than

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another few days.

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All the power that ever was or wilbe is here now. Yes,

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who is it?

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Who would you like it to be?

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Hi?

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High yourself? So you're into the tarot?

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How did you know that?

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I heard you're in Tony.

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Oh yes, But how did you know that that had

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anything to do with the tarot?

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I'm not exactly an ignoratus, but I did a lot

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of it on my own, and in practically everything that

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was related to it. He never cease to astonish me

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if I'm quite an astonishing guy.

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Uh huh.

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But how come you're not just studying it but working

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with the cards.

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It's for Professor Lansing's course. I'm doing a special report

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for him.

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Oh, good old witchcraft one too.

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Come on, Bill, We.

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Were a little surprised when we heard he was going

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to be giving it.

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No, I don't know why.

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We should have been quite a few of the universities

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of giving courses like it. After all, this is the

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age of Aquarius.

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It happens to be a very interesting course.

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Yeah, sure it is. And Lancing's a fascinating man.

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Yes he is.

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You know him.

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I've never met him officially, but I've seen him at

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the pool.

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The pool.

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Yeah, he's a very good swimmer.

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Oh, I'll have to tell that to Debby.

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Why.

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Well, she's taking the course too, and she's got quite

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a thing about him.

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Well, just tell her to watch your step because he's married.

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No, because I've got a funny feeling about him.

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Yes, come in.

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Good afternoon, Professor Lansing.

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Good afternoon. It's uh, miss Ross, isn't it.

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Yes, Oh, I hope this is all right, my coming

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here to your offer.

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Well, that's what I'm here for. What can I do

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for you?

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Well, I told you after your first lecture that one

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of these days i'd like to do one of your

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special reports.

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Yes, I remember, and you're ready to do one, now,

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are you.

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I've gotten pretty well straight away in all my other courses,

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so I do have time for you.

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Well, I'm delighted. Now, is there any area that you're

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particularly interested in?

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No?

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Oh, then how about divination.

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For telling the future?

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That's right.

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That's a big field, isn't it.

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Yes it is.

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There must be a hundred ways people have used to

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look into the future. I'll give you a reading list

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on it. And why don't I give you this too?

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What's that?

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It's called a speculum. It's an old bronze mirror.

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Well, fascinating looking see.

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Yes it is, isn't it.

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I got it in Paris years ago. I've never been

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able to date it, but it's probably Roman Mithraic.

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But what is this strange looking head on it?

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That's chronus or eternal time. It was an important figure

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in the mysteries of mithra And what.

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Do I do with it?

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Well, it was undoubtedly used not just in Roman times,

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but all through the Middle Ages to foretell the future

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by looking into a mirror. Oh, why don't you try it?

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You'll find the technique described in Zella, one of the

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first books on the reading list.

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It sounds very exciting, thank you very much, professor.

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Not at all.

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It's a very rare and unusual thing. So I wouldn't

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give it to just anyone. But I know you'll take

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good care of it, and we'll all be looking forward

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to your report. Yeah, I've got the girl, one of the.

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Two I told you about. Her name is Debbie Ross.

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She has the mirror.

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I just gave it to her.

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Go ahead, When can we do it?

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You are impatient? Cho yes, all, Ran, We'll do it tonight.

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I hope you're approaching the occult with a proper amount

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of skepticism, said Professor Lansing, But somehow he didn't sound

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very skeptical himself. Just now, exactly what are he and

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his wife planning to do tonight? And what does that

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have to do with the mirror he gave Debbi. We'll

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find out shortly, and you, unto all things, there is

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a season, and of course, the proper time for one

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of the darkest aspects of the occult, black magic, is night.

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Well it's night now, about ten o'clock, and Beth Howard

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has just arrived at Debbie's.

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Rooming house, which is only a block or.

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So from the campus.

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I was afraid you weren't coming. Well, you said it

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was important that you had something to show me. I have.

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Look. Oh wow, what is it? A speculum? What's that?

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An old bronze mirror? Probably Roman. Where did you get it,

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ha haha, Professor Lansing.

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I went to see him this afternoon, Beth. I think

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he likes me. He said he wouldn't give it to

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just anyone. I'm sure he wouldn't. It's a very unusual thing.

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What are you supposed to do with me?

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Ho?

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It's all here in this book.

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The room should be dark, lit only by one candle,

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and you sit with your back to the candle, and

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you stare into the mirror, keeping your mind a blank.

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Ah.

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Have you done it yet?

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No?

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Well, I I started to and I felt a little

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funny about it, just funny. It's a wonderful looking thing,

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but it's pretty weird, you know, all those figures around

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the edge of it. Is that why you called me?

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Yes?

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I thought maybe you wouldn't mind staying here with me

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while I tried it? O, of course I don't mind.

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Are you going to do it now?

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Oh?

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Yes? I light the candle, get the light switch, all right.

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It's strange, but I know how you feel. I felt

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very much the same way when I was working with

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the tarot cards. We don't really believe in any of

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the things we're doing, but for centuries people did believe

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in them.

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Keep quiet.

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I'm going to look and concentrate. All right, Well, well

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do you see anything? I don't know, I think.

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Maybe what do you see?

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Wait?

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I'm not sure.

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It's probably just a shadow, but I I do think

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I see something in there? What does it look like?

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Hard to tell. It's dark, very dark and shapeless. It's moving,

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it's burning, it's got eyes flaming. Oh come on, now

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it's looking at me. Put on the light as I'm

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not gonna look anymore. Okay, Oh you really did think

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you saw something? Yes? Well, as you said, it was

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probably just a shadow. The candle flickering. Really are shook up,

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aren't you? Yes? I am. You want to come over

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to my place and stay overnight with me?

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Could? I?

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Of course bills out too giving a seminar, but he

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should be back soon and and if my light's on

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and he'll come in for a while.

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Oh good.

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Just let me get my coat and wrap this up again.

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You're taking them here?

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Oh I better.

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Maybe a scary thing, but it's very valuable, and I

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said i'd take care of it.

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Alright, men, is it time?

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Yes, let's go into my study.

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You'll have to help me, of course, take my arm oh,

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slowly the NLD. I really am weak. I've never felt

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a week before. It doesn't matter. We'll all be over

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in a little while in a sitan. Yes, I'll get

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the box. Yeah, I'll hold it while I like the.

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Incense I have it.

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Where do you think she is?

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What is the difference?

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She has the mirror. No matter where she is, it

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will find her. Are you ready?

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Yeah?

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Give me the rod here all right? Now, you'll be

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quick with the art fame when I needed. Yes, wherever

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you are hear me?

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Do you hear me?

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Pay with this rod, and in the names of God

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get him a Martin old air and I got Suddenly.

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It it coming, hanld.

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There it is over there, I see it. Take the rod,

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give me the art.

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I must be wrapped this way, you know why? Must

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watch you.

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Till it's needed.

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Quickly hurry, Yes, stay where you are. I hold the

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art theme, whose hilt is signed with the seal of Solomon,

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which is more powerful than you are. Now hearken to me.

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We have a life for you.

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Will know her as you've always had it before, because

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she has your mirror. I give her to you, and

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that's by another year of life for me?

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Is it agreed.

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Good, be gone then and take her.

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Then fulfill your part of the bargain.

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Yes, it's gone. Yes, Are you all right?

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Yes?

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Yes, somehow I always forget how much it takes out

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of me. Yeah, it's the item. Wrap it up again carefully,

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they'll get a spot some brandy.

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Why are you going this way? I thought we'd cut

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across the canvas.

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Why you're still, it's said, aren't you?

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Yes.

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Look, I'm not going to say it's silly. I've gotten

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anxious myself at times when there was no real reason

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for it. But you know, the whole thing was just

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your imagination. Even doing a lot of reading about things

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that are strange, and you think you saw something in

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the mirror, probably one of those heads that are on it.

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I guess you're right. I'm sure I am. But it's

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going to affect you this way. Maybe you should give

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up the course altogether. No, that seems silly. Besides, you've

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always came. One of my troubles was I was too literal,

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or I didn't have any imagination. Well it's beginning to

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look as if I was wrong. Well, why don't we

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talk to Bill about it? It turns out he knows

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a lot about this sort of thing.

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How come?

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Well, he got interested in it through his work in

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English lit The Tarror, when he was writing a paper

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on the Wasteland and black Magic, when he was doing

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an analysis of the Gothic novels. You two are really

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an item, aren't you. I don't know what you mean. Oh,

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of course you do. You never see anyone else, neither,

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is he?

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Well?

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I like him and he likes me. You just like him?

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Okay, I more than like him.

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If he asked me to marry him, I do it

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in a minute.

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He will, How do you know?

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I just think he will. Well, it's not all that simple.

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He's just an instructor now, and it'll be a while

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before he gets his up. What is it? Don't you

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hear that?

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Good?

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It's just the way though it isn't it's something else.

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I don't hear anything. Well, I do a kind of

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humming singing sound. Look over there near Brewster Hall, and it's.

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Only a shadow.

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It's coming this, But no, he tavy, you're getting yourself

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all worked up about. Tell you what's coming this?

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It's got eyes.

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It's that thing I saw in the mirror.

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Come home, nor any way you've been going about.

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To go that way. I'll come this way over.

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Oh god, I'm looking at now. H m hmmm, that's darling.

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Open your eyes. Yes, good girl. I was starting to

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think I should call a doctor. I take you over

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to the infirmary.

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Oh yeah, yes, how are you?

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I don't know.

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What haven't I'm not sure her.

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I found you lying on the sidewalk at the edge

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of the campus. I brought you a beauty your room.

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Oh my head hurts. I'm not surprised. You've got a

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nasty bump. You must have fallen and banged it. Now,

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get a wet towel up and a compress and then.

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Wait, Debbie, what happened to Debbie?

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Debbie, Yes, she was with me.

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We were going across the campus when suddenly we saw it,

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the thing from the mirror, and we started to run it.

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Wait a minute, thing, I told you, the thing from

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the mirror. It came after us, after her, and I

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heard her scream, Oh, Bill, did you gotta go look

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for her?

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Yeah, sure, sure, Look, let me let me get that.

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No, I'm all right, you gotta go find her.

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I quiet down, Beth.

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And when I found you, you were all alone.

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Because I ran one way toward the house here and

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she ran the other end, and it was apt.

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You don't believe me, Well, it's a little hard when

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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I mean, what was this thing that came after you?

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And what was the mirror?

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The mirror that Professor Lansing gave her. She was going

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to do a report for him on divination, like like

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the one I'm doing.

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On the tower.

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And no, you hold it a minute. When when I

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left you to go to my seminar, you were still here.

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Huh.

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You said you were going to stay here and do

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some reading, right, And.

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Then Davy called and asked me to come to her place,

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and she said she had something to show me. The mirror, Yes,

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an old bronzeln uh speculum, speculum, she called it. She

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was supposed to look into it describe what she saw.

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Specula lomancy, that's right.

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But she felt funny about it, nervous, so she wanted

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me there while she did it.

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Yeah.

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And did she do it?

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Yes, yes. We put out the light and lit a

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candle and she saw well, no, no, she thought she

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saw something in it, a dark shape with flaming eyes,

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and that made him more jumpy than ever saw. I

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told her to come back here and stay overnight with me.

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So you started to walk across the campus together.

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That's right. And there was no one around. And then

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we heard something, a strange sound the wind. Oh that's

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what I thought too at first, but it wasn't. It

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was a kind of a musical note. And then we

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saw it, this dark shape.

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Did she see it or did you?

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We both did? She saw it first, And Bill, you

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think I just imagined.

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It, don't you?

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I don't know.

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Well, let's go back over it again. She was tense, nervous.

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Thought she saw something in the mirror, and that made

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her more nervous, so she decided to come over here

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with you. Then she saw something, a shadow of some sort,

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which she identified with the thing she thought she'd seen.

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In the mirror.

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But I saw it too, Bill, after she described it

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to you.

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But I'm sure I did see it. It was it

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was huge, dark and all right, if I did imagine it.

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Where's Debbie.

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She's probably in the room, embarrassed to death at the

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fuss she made. I suppose that's possible.

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When I think about it, it does sound a little silly.

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I mean, two grown women getting hysterical, you know, would

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you call her and make sure I remembers in the

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book next to the phone.

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Sure, let's see.

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Here we are, you know, I think maybe she ought

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to come over here anyway, so that we can talk

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about this, because if the two of you are going

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to get all worked up about that ridiculous course of lands.

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Not ridiculous, it's very interesting, just because we got a

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little silly about it.

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Well, there's no answer.

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I don't like this.

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I think we should go and look for her, to

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look where. If she's not in the room and she

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didn't come up here, she could be anywhere. I mean,

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with another phone.

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I don't care.

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I still want to look for her. I'll show you

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where it happened, where we started running, and.

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What good will that do unless she fell and hurt herself. Also,

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like I'll tell you what, I'll call the campus police

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and see if they came across or or heard or

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saw anything. All right, Hello, Security, this is William Taylor

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of the English Department. This is a rather odd call.

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But I wonder if any of your men ran into

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an undergraduate by the name.

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Of Debbie Ross within the last hour or so.

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Well, another student Beth Howard was with her. They were

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walking across campus and they were frightened by something.

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No, no, it wasn't a man.

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It was what?

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Oh?

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No, where was this?

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Let me see?

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All right, I'll come right over now, what is it?

485
00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:57.000
One of the gods tuns her about ten minutes ago?

486
00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:58.599
What do you mean?

487
00:26:59.000 --> 00:26:59.480
Found her?

488
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:02.960
Found her body in the bushes near Brewster Hall.

489
00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:04.960
She's dead.

490
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.519
Man is a rational act, and we always look for

491
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:19.920
a rational explanation of anything that puzzles us. But what

492
00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:23.839
if there is no rational explanation for it? Do we

493
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.920
admit that there may be things we don't know about,

494
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:32.519
things that we've refused to recognize because the idea terrifies us.

495
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:35.240
Debbie Ross is dead?

496
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:37.599
But how did she die?

497
00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:54.480
It's several days later. Many things have happened in that time.

498
00:27:55.519 --> 00:28:02.720
There have been questions, investigations, explanations, and recriminations. There has

499
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.799
also been a funeral. As far as Beth is concerned,

500
00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:11.240
that is the only thing that really mattered. That And

501
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:13.359
what has happened between her and Bill?

502
00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:16.359
Yes? Who is it?

503
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:17.440
Bill?

504
00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:18.359
Oh?

505
00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:20.440
Just a second?

506
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:22.880
Hi?

507
00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:25.319
So you're still lucking your door?

508
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.720
Yes, which is very silly of me?

509
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:32.200
Right, I didn't say that it's certainly understandable.

510
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:36.359
Ah huh, it's still pretty child. You've been treating me

511
00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.400
as if I were a hysterical female.

512
00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:39.279
That's not true.

513
00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:41.279
I've been perfectly willing to talk to you about it.

514
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:42.680
But you know what the facts are.

515
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.759
Of course, there were no marks on Debbie's body, at

516
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:48.279
least none that could have killed her.

517
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.039
She died of a heart attack, that's right.

518
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.920
But they checked back on the physical she took when

519
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.119
she was admitted here, and there was nothing wrong with

520
00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:01.359
her heart. Look, Bill, we've been through this before. Debbie

521
00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:04.279
thought she saw something in the mirror, thought she saw

522
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:06.359
it again out on that campus, and that made me

523
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.519
think I saw it too.

524
00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:12.559
Look, darling, don't call me darling. Why not, because I

525
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:13.440
don't want you to.

526
00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.839
When I first signed up for the course, you teached

527
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:18.599
me about it, even though you've done a lot of

528
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:20.319
reading in that same field yourself.

529
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:20.759
I didn't.

530
00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:24.119
Yes, you did, Bill, and you made a few remarks

531
00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:26.640
about Lancing, saying you had a funny feeling about him.

532
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.160
But now, oh, I have a funny feeling about him.

533
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:31.240
As a matter of fact, I feel funnier about him

534
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.119
now than ever. Why Well, because I did a little

535
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:36.359
checking up on him this afternoon. You know, we taught

536
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.079
the same course at State last year.

537
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:38.920
Yes, I know.

538
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:39.880
What of it?

539
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.720
Well, there was an incident there that was very similar

540
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:45.200
to what happened to Debbie. I mean, a student, a

541
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.799
member of the swimming team and therefore presumably very healthy,

542
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.279
died suddenly one night of a heart attack.

543
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:52.400
Weren't it his students?

544
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:57.559
No, that's the only difference. He wasn't one of Lancing's students.

545
00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:01.200
Why do you call it similar? And why are you

546
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:04.119
making a point of it if there was no connection

547
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:04.960
between them?

548
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:07.359
The great I don't know if there was or not,

549
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:09.400
but I thought perhaps I ought to look into it

550
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.559
a little further. And I'm going to go see Lancing.

551
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.720
We'll talk to him. No, No, Bill, why not?

552
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:19.000
Because I feel odd about him too, I have ever

553
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:21.559
since Debbie died, and I'm afraid.

554
00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:39.440
Yes, good afternoon. Is Professor Lansing at home?

555
00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:40.519
Yes, he is.

556
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.359
Do you think I could see him?

557
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.440
My name's Taylor, Bill Taylor, and I'm an instructor in

558
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.240
the English department.

559
00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:48.079
I stopped by his office, but he wasn't there.

560
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.960
No, he's been very upset about the death of his students,

561
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:53.319
so he's been working at home.

562
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.880
I see it was an unfortunate thing.

563
00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:57.359
Yes, it was.

564
00:30:58.480 --> 00:30:59.880
Uh, you're not missus Lansing, are you?

565
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:01.079
Yes?

566
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:01.839
I am why?

567
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:07.480
Oh uh, Well, it's just that I thought I heard.

568
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:08.119
That I wasn't.

569
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.079
Well, yes, that's right, I wasn't.

570
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.519
But I'm fine. Now you want to come with me,

571
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.200
I'm sure I will be glad to talk to you.

572
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:18.319
Thank you.

573
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:26.519
Yeah, Arnold, this is mister Taylor of the English Department here.

574
00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.599
Come in, look in, sit down.

575
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:29.680
Thank you.

576
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:33.680
First of all, I uh, I'd like to tell you

577
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:35.799
how pleased I am that you agreed to stay and

578
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:36.880
continue with your course.

579
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:37.559
Well.

580
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.759
I was reluctant too, but the faculty committee felt that

581
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:41.519
I should.

582
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:43.319
What happened was very unfortunate.

583
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.079
But I don't see how you could have been considered

584
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:46.440
responsible for it in any way.

585
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.720
Well, I felt I was.

586
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.319
Seems Miss Ross was a very imaginative person that opened

587
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.359
to suggestion which I should have realized. I don't think

588
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.519
anyone would have realized it. I I wonder if you

589
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:01.759
could help me in a project of my own. If

590
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.359
I can, I'd be very happy to what's the project?

591
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.680
My doctoral thesis, which is a study of the dark

592
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.960
tradition that runs through English literature and led to the

593
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:11.759
Gothic novel.

594
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:14.680
Yes, yes, yes, very interesting. Just how can I help you?

595
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.079
Well, I've done a certain amount of reading in the field,

596
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.880
but I've wondered if you could give me a copy

597
00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:20.720
of the bibliography you used for your course.

598
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:21.680
Well, i'll be glad to.

599
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.799
Unfortunately I don't have any copies here, but I'll send

600
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:26.240
you whatever I have as soon as I get to

601
00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:29.119
my office. What's your address, twenty one Maple Street.

602
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.559
No, right, I'll get it off to you tomorrow.

603
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.640
I'm very grateful to you.

604
00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:34.240
Not at all.

605
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.559
You gave the same course at State last year, didn't you. Yes,

606
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:39.079
matter of.

607
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:39.599
Fact, I did.

608
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.119
Did you know Tom Wallace when you were at State Wallace?

609
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:49.119
No, I'm afraid not. Was he a member of the faculty.

610
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.359
No, no, he was an undergraduate on the swimming team.

611
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:54.759
He died very suddenly near the end of the term.

612
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.960
Yes, yes, I do seem to remember that was a

613
00:32:59.039 --> 00:32:59.640
friend of yours.

614
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:03.680
No, no, a friend of a friend. Well, I think

615
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:06.960
I'll be running along and I do. Thank you, Professor Lansing.

616
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.319
Oh not at all, goodbye, mister Taylor.

617
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:16.240
Did he go?

618
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.559
Yes? What did you think of him.

619
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.759
He seemed like quite a pleasant young man, very attractive.

620
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:27.440
Well I'm glad you think so, because he's going to

621
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.480
be on next Oh, well you don't have to worry

622
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:34.359
about that for a while. You've got another four month. Yes,

623
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:38.519
I know, but I'm a little concerned about him. As

624
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:40.759
you said, he seems quite pleasant and very plausible. But

625
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.880
he asked me some rather strange questions. What kind of questions?

626
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.440
But where i'd been before I told it? State also

627
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.720
about your young friend Tom Wallace. Do you think he

628
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:53.240
suspects I don't see how I can.

629
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:56.119
We can't afford to take any chances.

630
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.720
No, I suppose not.

631
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.759
I wasn't going to mention it. But he had to

632
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:04.680
draw this strangely with me too. He seemed surprised that

633
00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:06.079
I was up and around.

634
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.840
Oh that settles it.

635
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.639
Then when are you going to do it as soon

636
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.280
as possible?

637
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:27.159
Well, yes, Bill, I've been waiting for you. You want

638
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:28.239
to come in here for a minute, and I want

639
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:28.880
to show you something.

640
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:30.480
Of course, what is it.

641
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:32.960
This?

642
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:39.320
Oh it's the mirror, the mirror Lancing gave Debby.

643
00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:41.199
That's what I thought.

644
00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:42.039
Where did you get it?

645
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.039
I found it in my desk drawer about a half

646
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:45.679
an hour ago.

647
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.320
Well how did he get there?

648
00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:51.280
Obviously somebody put it there. I was out all morning

649
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:52.960
and I never locked my door.

650
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.079
Professor Lancing, who else?

651
00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:59.599
It's his? And the police must have given it back

652
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:00.920
to him after Debbie died.

653
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.480
For why would he put it in your desk?

654
00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:07.519
That's a very interesting question. I I think I can

655
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.480
answer it. But if I do, you're going to think

656
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:11.280
I've flipped out.

657
00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:12.360
No, I won't.

658
00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:16.800
Well you should, because it's completely impossible. Do you know

659
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.719
what I'm sending is No, when someone who's involved in

660
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.719
black magic knows enough and is powerful enough to raise

661
00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:31.679
an evil spirit, he can send that spirit to destroy someone.

662
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:36.079
Oh no, you mean that that thing that Debbie saw

663
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:40.400
in the mirror, that that I saw out on the canvas. Yes,

664
00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:44.159
and it's here now in the mirror.

665
00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:48.119
No, but the spirit has to be guided to the victim,

666
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:50.920
and in this case, it's being done with the mirror.

667
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:52.800
It will go where the mirror is.

668
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:56.360
I still don't understand Bill. I can understand why he

669
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.360
might want to get rid of you, But what did

670
00:35:59.400 --> 00:35:59.559
he have?

671
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.800
Again? Dead be He didn't have anything against her, but

672
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:08.039
there was something of hers he wanted her life, her

673
00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:12.079
life during the mom I told you about missus Lansing yesterday.

674
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.000
Than While the story was that she was quite old

675
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:18.000
and ill, she turned out to be young and well.

676
00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:22.039
In the tract, yes well, according to the grim was

677
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.440
the books of black Magic. When you raise a spirit,

678
00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:28.800
you can also make a bargain with it, give it

679
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:31.639
the life of someone else in exchange for some more

680
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.559
time for yourself or someone close to you.

681
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.239
I told you it was impossible.

682
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.079
I would have said so too a week or so ago.

683
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:44.000
But no, I don't think so. I think it's true.

684
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.840
What are you going to do about it? I've not

685
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.079
got to get rid of the mirror, destroy it.

686
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:52.360
No, No, I'm not sure I can do that.

687
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:56.039
I'm going to act as if it were all true,

688
00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:59.800
all possible, and fight fire with.

689
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:03.039
I'm going to get the mirror back.

690
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.119
To Lansing, give it back to him.

691
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.760
No no, put it in his house without his knowing it.

692
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:10.800
How can you do that?

693
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.840
I think I can. He has a class this afternoon.

694
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:15.880
Ye, But what about his wife?

695
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:17.519
We should probably go out sometime.

696
00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.199
If she doesn't a phone her, I'll give her a message.

697
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:21.239
It'll get her out of the house.

698
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:23.960
Bill, I'm coming with you?

699
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.559
All right, Beth, come ony?

700
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:40.320
How did you get in?

701
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:42.679
The back door was open?

702
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:44.599
You're sure knowing's home?

703
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.400
You saw his wife leave a minute ago.

704
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:49.719
Yes, what do you want me to do?

705
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.039
Wait here with the door open a crack so you

706
00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:53.679
can see out?

707
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:54.280
All right?

708
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:55.599
But where are you going?

709
00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:58.400
And do his study even belong?

710
00:37:59.079 --> 00:37:59.719
I'm frightened.

711
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.719
No, no, no, I'll be back as quick as I can.

712
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:03.199
All right, go ahead?

713
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:08.960
What is it?

714
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:14.800
Nothing? The clock started me? Will you be much longer?

715
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:15.159
No?

716
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:20.760
No, you hear a man? You think it's safe? Yeah?

717
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:23.360
What is it?

718
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:26.519
I hid the mirror behind the books on one of

719
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.119
the shelves.

720
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:29.880
But while I was here, I thought i'd look at

721
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:36.320
his desk and I found this box, this rod it's

722
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:37.519
used for raising.

723
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:41.119
Spirits and that other thing that it's all wrapped up.

724
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:44.360
Yeah, I was just going to look at it. I

725
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:44.719
think it.

726
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:49.280
Yes, it's an our fame.

727
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:53.239
What's that? Well, that's a that's a magic knife that's

728
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:55.920
used to control a spirit once it's been evoked.

729
00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:59.880
This is the seam of Solomon here on the hilt.

730
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:03.079
And it is all true as yeah.

731
00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.159
Yeah, yeah it looks that way, Phil.

732
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.000
You got rid of the mirror, so so let's go just.

733
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:11.039
A second day. I want to think. I don't want

734
00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:13.119
him to be able to do anything like this again.

735
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.000
But I can't take the whole box. I mean, if

736
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.400
I do, he'll know someone was here. On the other hand, yes,

737
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:22.079
I can take the yell.

738
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:23.239
Don't I do the same thing?

739
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:23.519
Bill?

740
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:24.519
Let him know we were here.

741
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:25.519
No, not right away.

742
00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:29.519
See when I was here yesterday, I saw, Well, there

743
00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:33.639
it is a dagger. I'll wrap that up and I'll

744
00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:35.559
put it in the box instead of the r fame.

745
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:37.760
What will happen if he tries to use it?

746
00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:40.280
I don't know.

747
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:53.639
All right, man, is it time we said midnight? You

748
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.320
are sure he's there in his room now? He has

749
00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:01.000
an early class tomorrow, so I would assume. So I

750
00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:03.159
hold the box while I like the incense.

751
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.519
Arnold, I don't like this.

752
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:06.199
Why not?

753
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:10.800
We've never done anything like it before twice, not just

754
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:13.119
in the same place, but within a few weeks.

755
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.639
We have no choice mire be suspicious.

756
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.440
And if he goes on Prime asking questions, yeah, all right,

757
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:25.800
give me the rod here, pile.

758
00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:28.800
Wherever you are.

759
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:35.320
Hear me, do you hear me?

760
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:37.840
Pile with this rod?

761
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:42.239
And in the names, don't get them I'm ut ill

762
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.960
God and Old Gustna, I summon thee.

763
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.599
There it is Arnold over there near the bookcase.

764
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:51.199
I see it.

765
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:56.400
Give me the off him here, stay where you are.

766
00:40:58.199 --> 00:40:59.320
I hold the off him.

767
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.039
I have another life for a man in this style.

768
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.199
He has your mirror.

769
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:15.760
Go to him and destroy him. Why are you looking

770
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.360
at me that way? Why aren't you going? I tell

771
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:20.639
you he has your mirror?

772
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:25.039
Bill, we are famo.

773
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:27.840
It's my person, dagger, quick find it.

774
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:31.119
If you don't, no, no give.

775
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:31.559
Away from me.

776
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:32.119
Please?

777
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:46.039
What time is it now?

778
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:47.679
Quarter after twelve?

779
00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:50.000
Do you think he's tried to do anything?

780
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.559
I don't know, and I don't know how we'll be

781
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.320
able to find out.

782
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:54.840
What's that?

783
00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.280
It's a police car. It's going that way at the

784
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:09.880
Lancing House. Why let me see if I can find out? Well, Security,

785
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:13.639
This is William Taylor on Maple Street. One of your

786
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.519
squad cars just went by, going over towards Willow Road.

787
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:17.280
Do you know why?

788
00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:25.320
I mean that you know? Is there anything wrong? I? Oh, oh,

789
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:31.639
I see, thank you. They're not sure what's wrong.

790
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.039
Someone on Willow Road called and said they heard terrible

791
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.480
screams coming from number forty five.

792
00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:45.039
Is there someone with being murdered. Oh, yes, their.

793
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.960
House with you. What are you going to do?

794
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:50.400
Are you going to say anything?

795
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.599
What would be the point? Do you think anyone would

796
00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:05.440
believe it? Of course no one would believe it. Things

797
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:10.519
like that don't happen, at least not today. Oh, people

798
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.280
may have thought they were possible once. There are many

799
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:17.880
medieval tales of men who tried to use the powers

800
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:21.719
of evil for their own ends and were finally destroyed

801
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:34.320
by them. And you, as I told you, the tale

802
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:39.440
you just heard was a work of fiction, completely imaginary.

803
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.119
But I am reminded of what Shakespeare said, Why do

804
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.400
I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image that unfix

805
00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:53.280
my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs?

806
00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:58.000
Against the use of nature present fears are less than

807
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:05.599
horrible imaginings. Our cast included Mendel Kramer, Marion Seldis, Tony Roberts,

808
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:07.079
and Phoebe Dorian.

809
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:11.039
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

810
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:12.599
This is E. G.

811
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:16.119
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

812
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:18.559
another adventure in the macabre.

813
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:24.039
Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.

814
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:29.280
The preceding Mystery Theater program was furnished by the CBS

815
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:33.639
Radio Network invites you stay tuned now for fifteen minutes

816
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:36.559
of the latest news from the WR Newsroom with John Scott.

817
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:39.519
This is WR in New York and RKO General Station.

818
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:55.519
My dear, you look a bit peakd Have you not

819
00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:02.119
been sleeping at night? I find those little slices of

820
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:10.920
death to be quite disappointing. Some nights it may be

821
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:14.480
a joy, other nights it may be terror.

822
00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:16.440
Hmmm.

823
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.880
I suppose in a way they feel mostly like a

824
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.760
shipment of mute fate.

825
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:42.599
Did you miss out on that big football game last week?

826
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:47.000
Can't get rid of that head cold? When they get

827
00:45:47.000 --> 00:46:01.840
away from it all? CBS offers your Escape. You are

828
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:04.199
groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a

829
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:09.559
ship at sea, moving carefully step by step, searching intently

830
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:12.679
for something you dread to find, because you know that

831
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.199
this ship carries a cargo of death.

832
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.039
The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape,

833
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.920
produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully plotted

834
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:26.519
to free you from the four walls of today for

835
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:28.320
a half hour of high adventure.

836
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:38.000
Tonight, we escape to a harbor front in Venezuela and

837
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:41.639
a grim voyage that started there, As told by Martin

838
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:45.559
Storm and his gripping story, A shipment of mute fate.

839
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.760
Stopped on the wharf at Laguira, looked up the gang

840
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.480
plank toward the liner Chan Cave, standing quietly there at

841
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:10.480
her moorings. The day was warm under a bright tropic sun,

842
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.960
when the harbor beyond the ship lay drowsy and silent.

843
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:17.920
But all at once, in the midst of these peaceful surroundings,

844
00:47:18.199 --> 00:47:21.480
a cold chill gripped me, and I shivered with sudden dread,

845
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.039
dread of the thing I was doing and was about

846
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:30.400
to do. But too much had happened to turn back.

847
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.920
Now I'd gone too far to stop well. I set

848
00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.079
the box down on the edge of the wharf, placed

849
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.079
it carefully so as to be in plain sight and

850
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.039
within gunshot of the captain's bridge, and then I turned

851
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.599
and started up the gang plank. I knew what I

852
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.480
was going to do, but I couldn't forget that a

853
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:50.880
certain pair of beady eyes were watching every move I made,

854
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:56.920
eyes that never blinked and never closed, just watched and waited.

855
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.239
Oh, my big pot, it's mister Warner.

856
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:03.519
Hello, mother Willis. How's the best looking stewardess on the

857
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:04.079
Seventh Sea.

858
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.440
I'm fine, mister Warner, I guess better run along, now get.

859
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:10.800
On, now, Wait a minute, that's a fine greeting after

860
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:11.440
two months.

861
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:13.079
Well, it's just that I'm so busy.

862
00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.519
I don't believe a word of it. Sailing days tomorrow.

863
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:16.800
You're simply avoiding me, that's all.

864
00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:17.920
Oh no, really, I'm not.

865
00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:19.599
And on the trip down from New York you said

866
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:21.639
I was your favorite pastor, but I'm only a wait

867
00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:23.239
a minute, what's that you're carrying in your career?

868
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:23.719
Nothing?

869
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.599
Just supplies, supplies. Let's have a lucky No, please, what

870
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:30.119
do you know? It's a cat?

871
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.000
It's Clara, mister Warner. Mister Bowman said I had to

872
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:36.079
leave her ashore and I just couldn't.

873
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:38.199
Who's mister Bowman, the new chief steward.

874
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:41.599
Clara has been aboard with me for two years and

875
00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:43.880
I just can't leave her here in a foreign country,

876
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:46.320
especially with her condition.

877
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:47.519
It's a delicate no.

878
00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:51.039
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, I hope you

879
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.920
get away with it. You won't tell anyone, not a soul.

880
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:57.559
As a matter of fact, if things don't work out right,

881
00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:59.440
we may both end up smuggling.

882
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.199
I was happy to have you on board on the

883
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:11.559
trip down two months ago. Christopher, I'm very glad you're

884
00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:13.559
coming along with this on the run back to New York.

885
00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:16.760
Thanks, Captain. When there is one thing though, I'm having

886
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:18.559
a little trouble with the customs men here, and I

887
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:19.480
wondered if you might.

888
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.920
Just can't do it, Christopher, I just cabled your father

889
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:25.519
this morning, told him I've done it for you if

890
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:28.679
I possibly could send it a question new York.

891
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:31.199
You know, yeah, I thought he would. I wired him

892
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:32.239
from upriver last week.

893
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.840
I hate to refuse, but it's absolutely out of the.

894
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:37.039
Question, the captain, when I'm afraid, I don't follow you.

895
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.880
There responsibility to the passengers, Son, But have women and

896
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:44.679
children aboard on a liner. The safety the passenger comes

897
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:48.199
ahead of anything. But with proper precaution, something might happen.

898
00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:52.639
I don't know what, but something might. You've carried worse things,

899
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.639
there isn't anything worse. Then you skip it a float

900
00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:59.719
to bare me out. Now, Christopher, I simply can take

901
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.440
the that's final.

902
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:10.800
Final. Well, it wasn't final. If I could do anything

903
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:13.000
about it, I hadn't come down here to spend two

904
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.119
months in that stinking back country and then be stopped

905
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:19.599
on the edge of the wharf two months of it heat, rain, insects, malaria.

906
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.559
I'd gone clear in past the headwaters of the Orinoco,

907
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:25.320
traveled through country where every step along the jungle trail

908
00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:30.760
might be the last one. Oh, Sanchez, you better start

909
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:31.760
looking for a place to camp.

910
00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:34.440
Be dark in a little while, sor very soon we

911
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.039
turned the river camp on rocks by water.

912
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:38.679
This very bad.

913
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:41.000
Country, this very bad country. You've been saying that for

914
00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:42.599
ten days. Now, very bad country.

915
00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:45.280
We wonder this very bad country.

916
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.440
I'll skip it. For all the luck we've had so far,

917
00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:48.800
it might as well be Central.

918
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.559
Park, the central Bike. I understand.

919
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.440
I'll never mind if we don't find something here.

920
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:56.599
What's the matter? Quiet?

921
00:50:56.679 --> 00:51:04.760
Now, sexus? What's wrong in the bath? See bush Master,

922
00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:08.800
the deadliest snake in the world. Bush Master. Its Latin

923
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:12.880
name was lacasis muto mute fate. It lay there in

924
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.079
the center of the path, a ten foot length of

925
00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:19.079
silent death, coiled loosely in an undulent loop, ready to

926
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.599
strike violently at the least movement. Here was the one

927
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.079
snake that would go after any animal that walks or

928
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:28.480
any man. It lay there and watched us, not moving,

929
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:33.199
not afraid, ready for anything. The splotch of its colors

930
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:36.480
stood out like some horrible, gaudy floor man, lying there

931
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:39.639
on the brown background of the jungle, waiting for someone

932
00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:42.159
to step on it. Here was what I'd come two

933
00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:46.280
thousand miles for a bush master, Sanchez. I didn't want

934
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:46.920
that snake kill.

935
00:51:48.159 --> 00:51:51.599
He gone bush Muster A very smart, very quick must

936
00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:53.639
always see bullet in time to dodge.

937
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:55.480
Well, anyway, he's gone, and the only one we've seen

938
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:56.199
in five weeks.

939
00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:59.559
Oh, we find the others this very bad country.

940
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.599
Off that gun the next time. Don't shoot you understand?

941
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:03.800
Why are you saying no?

942
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:04.320
Shoot?

943
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:06.280
You want bush muster?

944
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:10.320
Sure, but I want it alive, Marisa Cristo.

945
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:14.440
Senor Wonner. You tell me you want bush muster, but

946
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:15.840
you not say alive.

947
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:17.360
You're getting two hundred dollars for it?

948
00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:21.960
Or dead man? What is two hundred dollars? Tomorrow we

949
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:23.079
go back to Caracas.

950
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:24.719
I'll make it five hundred sentences.

951
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:29.320
I catch water, snake, rattlesnake, any other kind, but I

952
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:30.559
know catch bush.

953
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.400
Muster, Sachs. I'll give you one thousand dollars.

954
00:52:32.519 --> 00:52:34.079
We go back to Caracas.

955
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.199
What cost me fifteen hundred American dollars. But three days

956
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:40.400
later Scianceus brought me the snake in a rubber bag.

957
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:42.880
It was shaking so hard I thought for a moment

958
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:43.800
the thing had struck him.

959
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:47.440
One thing, you make sure, Senor Wonder, not turn him

960
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:51.159
loose in Venezuela, because he know either one who catch him,

961
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:53.320
and he know where I live.

962
00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:55.440
All right, Sciences, I'll keep an eye on him.

963
00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:58.159
Come then, he know you pay me to catch him

964
00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:02.559
all the time he wants. And wait, you'll no forget that,

965
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.599
Senor Warner, because he no forget not ever.

966
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:17.440
Well, after going through all that trouble and danger and

967
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:20.360
laying out fifteen hundred bucks, I wasn't going to let

968
00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.760
a pigheaded ship captain stop me at the last minute,

969
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:24.800
at least not as long as the cables were still

970
00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:29.159
in operation. Between Laguira and New York. Good morning, Captain Wood.

971
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:30.960
The boy at the hotel says, you want to see me.

972
00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.920
That's right, Christopher, sit down, thank you. It seems you

973
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.119
weren't willing to let matters turn the way we left

974
00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:38.760
them yesterday.

975
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:40.840
I'm sorry to go over your head Captain Wood. But

976
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:43.159
I had to The museum sent me all the way

977
00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:44.960
down here for it, and I'm not going to be

978
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.320
stopped by red tape. This will be the only live

979
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:49.199
Bushmaster ever brought to the United States.

980
00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:49.679
Mmmm.

981
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:55.280
Yes, And if I had my woeve it well orders

982
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.320
or orders, I got a cable from the head office

983
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:03.320
this morning. All right, I suppose we talk about precautions.

984
00:54:03.519 --> 00:54:04.440
I'll handle it any way.

985
00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:07.880
You say, got to have a stronger box. That creates

986
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:08.480
too flimsy.

987
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:11.000
What's stronger than it looks. And that wire screen on

988
00:54:11.079 --> 00:54:13.280
top it hold a wildcat. But anyway, I bought a

989
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.719
heavy sea chest this morning. I will put the crate

990
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:16.280
inside of it.

991
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:17.320
It sounds all right.

992
00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:20.119
You got a lock on it, heavy padlock. It's fixed

993
00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.079
so that the lid can be propped open the crack

994
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:24.400
without unlocking it. The snake's gotta have air.

995
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:28.760
But in dirty weather that lid stays shut. And take

996
00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:32.000
no chances. Fair enough, We'll keep the thing in my

997
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:35.360
inside cabin where I sleep. I can have it in

998
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:39.280
the baggage room and nobody on boards to.

999
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:39.880
Know about it.

1000
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:42.639
Whatever you say, captain, But we won't have any trouble

1001
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:45.159
after all, It's only an animal. It doesn't have any

1002
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:46.119
magical powers.

1003
00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:49.599
I saw a bushmaster in the zoo crack Us once

1004
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:54.599
headed in a glass cage with double walls. It had

1005
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:59.000
never moved, just lay there, look at yours as long

1006
00:54:59.039 --> 00:54:59.880
as you would insight.

1007
00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:02.639
Do you a man? The creeps.

1008
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:05.239
I didn't know they had a bushmaster at the Caracas zoo.

1009
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:10.119
They don't now. Found a glass broken one morning, the

1010
00:55:10.199 --> 00:55:15.400
snake gone night watchman was dead. I never found out

1011
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:15.960
what happened.

1012
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:18.559
Well, the watchman must have broken the glass by accident

1013
00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:19.000
in some way.

1014
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.119
The way they figured it, the glass was broken from

1015
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:27.360
the inside. We sailed in four hours.

1016
00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:36.679
We steamed north into the Caribbean, with perfect weather and

1017
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:39.800
a sea as smooth as an inland lake. The barometer

1018
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:41.880
dropped a little on the third day, but cleared up

1019
00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:46.000
overnight and left nothing worse than a heavy swell. But

1020
00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:48.159
in spite of the calm seas and the pleasant weather,

1021
00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:53.119
I found myself feeling more and more often an ominous foreboding.

1022
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:57.159
I was developing an almost unnatural fear of that snake.

1023
00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.039
I stayed clear of the passengers, pretty much got the

1024
00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:03.760
habit of dropping into Captain Wood's quarter several times a day.

1025
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:07.960
He kept the heavy box underneath his berth. I'd approach

1026
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.199
it quietly and shine my flashlight through the open crack.

1027
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:14.960
Never once could I catch that twelve foot devil asleep

1028
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.079
or even excited. He'd be lying there, half coiled, his

1029
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.679
head raised a little, staring out of those beady black eyes,

1030
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:26.679
waiting and still be like that when I'd turn away

1031
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:30.800
to leave. Maybe that's what bothered me, A horrible and

1032
00:56:31.039 --> 00:56:34.599
constant watchful waiting. What the name of heaven was he

1033
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:35.000
waiting for?

1034
00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:37.079
Well, hello there, mister Warner.

1035
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:38.760
Oh how are you, mother Willis?

1036
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:39.039
Why?

1037
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:40.760
But you and the Captain spend an awful lot of

1038
00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:43.760
time around this cabin. I'm beginning to think that two

1039
00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:45.639
of you must have some guilty secret.

1040
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:48.159
Oh nothing like that, mother Willis. I don't know about

1041
00:56:48.159 --> 00:56:50.360
Captain Wood, but I well, I certainly don't have any

1042
00:56:50.400 --> 00:57:04.159
guilty secret. Well, she's running quite a swell out there,

1043
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:04.760
mister Bowman.

1044
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:08.239
Yeah, it's a little heavy, all right, mister Warner. Yes,

1045
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:10.320
a storm passed through to the west of us yesterday.

1046
00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:12.800
When the glass dropped, I think it missed us then, huh, Yeah,

1047
00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:16.079
that's that's what the mate figures sure stirred up some water.

1048
00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:19.119
Though this will put half the passengers in their bunks,

1049
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:20.920
makes it great for my department.

1050
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:23.320
Two thirds of them will want a steward to hold

1051
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:23.760
their heads.

1052
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:26.840
He'll keep mother willis so busy, she'll have wait. Look

1053
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:27.719
at the size of that wave.

1054
00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:29.679
Huh great Jehosapan.

1055
00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:31.199
We're gonna take it on the port bow.

1056
00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:40.719
Hang on, Well, that was a freak if there ever

1057
00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:43.119
was one, not another wave in sight.

1058
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:46.159
To see him like that sometimes, even in a calm sea.

1059
00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:50.039
And I gotta get below, mister Warner. That water probably

1060
00:57:50.079 --> 00:57:51.480
did some damage on the officer's deck.

1061
00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:52.280
Yey, suppose it?

1062
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:53.440
What did you say?

1063
00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:56.639
The wheel companion way was open on the port side.

1064
00:57:57.119 --> 00:57:59.360
Rich Cabins must have taken a pretty bad smashing up

1065
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:04.599
the right below the Here is something wrong, mister Warner.

1066
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:07.880
No, no, nothing at all, mister woman, at least I

1067
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:17.480
hope not. I looked first for Captain Wood and couldn't

1068
00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:19.320
find him. Of course, I know it was only one

1069
00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:21.360
chance in the thousand, but the chances against that freak

1070
00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:23.360
wave were one on a thousand and two. But I

1071
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:25.360
couldn't waste any more time, so I stumbled down the

1072
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:29.599
companionway and along the passage to the captain's cabin. Oh, oh,

1073
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:31.719
come on in, mister Warner, brother willis hi?

1074
00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:33.920
Isn't this cabin a mess? Trying to get some of

1075
00:58:33.960 --> 00:58:34.960
these things out to drive?

1076
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.679
Yeah? Well, I just wanted to check where's that box

1077
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:38.960
that was under the captain's bunk.

1078
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:39.760
Shrewd out on that.

1079
00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:48.079
But where we didn't know? It was nearly dark when

1080
00:58:48.079 --> 00:58:49.440
we met together, and get on a chart.

1081
00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:53.159
I don't all the way around it. We've risked all

1082
00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:56.079
the time we can. We up to wall in the passengers. Oh,

1083
00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.400
we do it, Captain, call them all together in the lounge. O.

1084
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:00.360
If we did anything like that, we'd be asking for

1085
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:02.320
a panic. We'll get one, whether we ask for it

1086
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:04.199
or not. I pick a few men and go through

1087
00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:08.480
the cabin decks, tell them individually inside deck cabins. Watch

1088
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.800
but any act that looks as though it might cause trouble,

1089
00:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.480
and we will keep an eye on them. Handle the

1090
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.119
crew will go the same way, right right, Okay, As

1091
00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:18.960
soon as you've finished all the deck offices and start

1092
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:21.800
searching again, our only chance of preventing a root is

1093
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:23.280
to find that damnable snake.

1094
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:31.880
The slow nightmare that followed grew worse. For the hour,

1095
00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:35.719
none of us slept. All the ship's officers not on

1096
00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:40.079
duty kept on with that endless search. Passengers locked themselves

1097
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:43.599
in their cabins, were huddled together in the lounges, knowing

1098
00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:45.639
all the time that no spot on board could be

1099
00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:49.280
called safe. Fear was a heavy fog, and the lungs

1100
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.320
of all of us and every light on the vessel

1101
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:55.679
burned throughout the night. Morning came and brought no relief.

1102
00:59:56.559 --> 00:59:58.280
Terror and tension mounted by the hour.

1103
01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.159
Now, missus Crane, stop getting yourself all work tappen. Go

1104
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.960
back to your cabin. The hurried thing's probably crawled overboard anyway.

1105
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:10.400
You're just saying that you're paid to say it.

1106
01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:11.360
You don't know.

1107
01:00:11.719 --> 01:00:12.360
Nobody does.

1108
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:14.239
Now, Now everything's gonna be all right.

1109
01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:17.079
If you could only do something, if all of us

1110
01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:18.119
could only get off.

1111
01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.840
The ship, they could umilicate it. Yes, that's what they've

1112
01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:22.239
got to do.

1113
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:23.719
We've got to get up.

1114
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:26.840
Wait, mister Bowman, he's gonna jump.

1115
01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:28.599
Let me go.

1116
01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:33.920
Nice work with a woman.

1117
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:35.280
Get it out our cabin.

1118
01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:36.719
Whatever you do, don't turn a loose.

1119
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:43.760
You never know when it might strike you.

1120
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:45.840
You can't put on a cod and move a chair

1121
01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:46.880
without risking your life.

1122
01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:48.280
Now, something's got to be done.

1123
01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:52.360
It might be right here in the solouth A got

1124
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:54.079
a quiet down, take an easy, take your knees and

1125
01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:55.760
h you're a great officer.

1126
01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:57.239
Why don't you know something about it?

1127
01:00:57.559 --> 01:00:59.440
Something might be crawling around here, right on.

1128
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:00.480
Our feet somewhere.

1129
01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:02.599
I said, shut up, are you're trying to start a panic?

1130
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:03.639
I gotta right to talk.

1131
01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:04.400
I don't want to die.

1132
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:05.239
No one's gonna check.

1133
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:15.840
The second night passed, and morning came around again, a

1134
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:19.280
gray and rainy day, just as grim and tense dragged

1135
01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.880
passed and the night came down again, third night of

1136
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:26.360
the terror. Again, every light burned, and the whole ship

1137
01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:29.920
seethed in the throes of incipient panic, faced by a

1138
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.360
horror they never met on the sea before. Crew and

1139
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.800
officers alike were on the verge of revolt. Passengers sat

1140
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:38.079
huddled in a trance like stupor, ready to scream at

1141
01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:41.920
the slightest unknown sound. At seven bells, I made my

1142
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.400
way forward to the chart room and found Captain Wood

1143
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:45.199
bent over a desk.

1144
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:51.519
H Hello, Christopher, come on in and sit down.

1145
01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.079
It's got to be somewhere, Captain Wood. It's got to be.

1146
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:55.239
I don't know.

1147
01:01:55.559 --> 01:01:57.800
You could search this ship for six months and never

1148
01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:01.239
touch all the places aboard. You can only hold out

1149
01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:02.320
for two more days.

1150
01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:04.039
We'll be in what's the home office?

1151
01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:04.239
Say?

1152
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.760
Oh, here's the lady's wireless from them? Keep quiet and

1153
01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:12.880
keep coming. Else can we do? How is it on

1154
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:13.360
the decks?

1155
01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:14.119
Pretty bad?

1156
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:15.400
Anything could happen.

1157
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:18.079
That's why I took the guns away from the men

1158
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:21.519
on pistol shopping. We'd never write on our hands.

1159
01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:23.679
Oh the whole thing's my fault, Captain, That's what I

1160
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:27.280
can't forget. There's only some way I could pay for

1161
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:28.360
it myself alone.

1162
01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:32.599
No, I know how you feel, but it's no more

1163
01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:35.280
your fault than mine. Not the man who asked you

1164
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:40.679
to bring the snake back alive. Nobody planned this. You'd

1165
01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:42.039
better try and a little sleep.

1166
01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:42.840
Sleep.

1167
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:46.119
Mister Bowman made some coffee down the stewarts Gally a

1168
01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:49.599
while ago. Better go down, get yourself a cup, and

1169
01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:51.119
then rest up for a couple of hours.

1170
01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:51.760
Rest.

1171
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:54.960
I can't rest, Christopher, it's no good going.

1172
01:02:55.519 --> 01:02:56.199
What are you going to do?

1173
01:02:56.360 --> 01:02:59.960
You can't help anything this tumble through a hatch, half asleep,

1174
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:00.960
breaking nicker.

1175
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:03.159
Go on and get some coffee.

1176
01:03:03.960 --> 01:03:05.840
One way or another. We've got to hold out for

1177
01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:06.760
two more days.

1178
01:03:17.239 --> 01:03:19.840
The light was on in the stewards gallon. My coffee

1179
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.920
pot was standing on the stove was still warm, so

1180
01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:25.880
I didn't bother to heat it. I poured out a cup,

1181
01:03:26.679 --> 01:03:28.840
carried it over, and set it on the porcelain tabletop

1182
01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:32.159
in the center of the room. I started to light

1183
01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:35.320
a cigarette. The door of the pan cupboard beneath the

1184
01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:39.000
sink was standing slightly ajar, and I happened to glance

1185
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:42.360
down toward it. Out from the dark interior the cupboard

1186
01:03:42.440 --> 01:03:46.320
shone two glittering points of light two inches apart. I

1187
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:50.920
dropped a cigarette and moved slowly backward. I'd found the Bushmaster.

1188
01:03:56.519 --> 01:03:58.679
As I moved, the snake slid out of the cupboard

1189
01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:01.599
in a single, sinuous plo and drew back into a

1190
01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:04.760
loose coil on the galley floor, never taking his eyes

1191
01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:08.480
off me. I moved slowly back, waiting any moment for

1192
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:12.199
that deadly, slithering strike. How had he known it was me?

1193
01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:16.159
He'd stayed quiet when Bowman was here. How did he

1194
01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:17.920
know it? It picked the first time in three days

1195
01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:20.840
when I didn't have a gun. Well, my hands touched

1196
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:23.599
the wall behind me, and I stopped. Only then I

1197
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:26.719
realized in terror what I'd done. The call button and

1198
01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:28.320
the door were on the far side of the room.

1199
01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:32.039
I backed into a dead end. I stared at the

1200
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.239
snake in fascination, expecting any moment the ripping slash of

1201
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:40.360
those poisoned fangs. The horrid coils tightened a little and

1202
01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:44.000
then were still again. Ten million years of evolution to

1203
01:04:44.039 --> 01:04:48.679
produce this moment. Homo sapiens versus lacasis muta man against

1204
01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:52.920
mute fate, and all the odds were on fate. I

1205
01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:58.559
knew then that I was going to die. I could

1206
01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:00.440
feel a sweat run down between the pain the wall,

1207
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:03.480
and palms of my hands pressed against it. My skin

1208
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:06.280
crawled and twitched, and the pit of my stomach was

1209
01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:08.719
as cold as ice. There was no sound but the

1210
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.639
rush of blood in my ears. The snake shifted again,

1211
01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:15.760
drawing into a tighter coil, always tighter. Why the devil

1212
01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:18.800
didn't get it over with? And then for just an

1213
01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:22.360
instant his head veered away. Something moved over by the stove.

1214
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:24.639
I didn't dare turn to look at it. Slowly it

1215
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:27.480
moved out into my line of vision. There was a

1216
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.519
cat that scrawny cat Clara that Mother Willis had sneaked

1217
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:37.000
aboard in Laguira. Its back was arched and every hair

1218
01:05:37.039 --> 01:05:39.719
stood on end. It moved stiff legged, now walking in

1219
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.280
a half circle around the snake. The bushmaster shifted slowly

1220
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:46.199
and kept watching the cat. He tightened, he was going

1221
01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:50.800
to strike. At any second. He struck and miss. The

1222
01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:53.159
cat was barely out of reach. Now she was walking

1223
01:05:53.199 --> 01:06:01.000
back and forth again. She was asking to die, missed

1224
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.159
again by a fraction of an inch. He was striking

1225
01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:06.719
now without even going to a full coil, miss again

1226
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:09.519
and again, always missing for the barest margin. Each time

1227
01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:11.400
the cat danced barely out of reach, and each time

1228
01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:13.440
she conned with one precise spat of a dairy paw

1229
01:06:13.719 --> 01:06:16.280
bracing her skinny frame and three stiff legs. And then

1230
01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:21.519
suddenly I realized what she was doing. The bushmaster was tiring,

1231
01:06:22.079 --> 01:06:24.360
and one strike was just an instant slow and in

1232
01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:26.719
that split second, sharp claws raked across the evelhead and

1233
01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:28.960
ripped out both of the lidless eyes. That cat had

1234
01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:30.239
deliberately blinded the snake.

1235
01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:33.320
Well.

1236
01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:35.199
He didn't bother to coil now, but slid after in

1237
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:37.760
a fury striking wildly and rapidly, always missing, and every

1238
01:06:37.800 --> 01:06:40.639
strike was a little slower than the last one, until finally,

1239
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:42.559
as the snake's neck stretched out at the end of

1240
01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:44.400
a strike, the cat made one leap and sank her

1241
01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:46.239
razor sharp teeth just back of the ugly head, sank

1242
01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:48.639
them in until they crunch bone with tooth and claws.

1243
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:50.679
She clung as the monster's snake flailed and lashed on

1244
01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:52.679
the floor, striving to get those hideous coils around her,

1245
01:06:52.840 --> 01:06:54.800
trying to break her hold, to shake off the slow

1246
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:57.000
and certain paralyzed death that gradually crept over him, and

1247
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:07.119
at last still his struggles forever. I took a deep breath,

1248
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:12.599
and first in minutes, the cat lay on her side

1249
01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:16.119
on the floor, panting, resting from the fight, just over

1250
01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:21.440
why she had a right to rest. That mangy, brave,

1251
01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:25.639
beautiful alley cat had just saved my life and maybe

1252
01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.719
others as well. But as I turned toward the stove,

1253
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:34.199
I suddenly became very humble, and I knew all at

1254
01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:37.360
once what a small thing a human being really is.

1255
01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.320
I and others aboard were still alive, only by the

1256
01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:46.239
merest accident. There were three reasons why that cat had

1257
01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:49.400
fought and killed the world's deadliest snake, and those three

1258
01:07:49.480 --> 01:07:52.639
reasons came tottering out from under the stove on shaky

1259
01:07:52.679 --> 01:07:57.320
little legs, three kittens with her eyes bright with wonder

1260
01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:01.360
and their tails stiff as pokers. Up on the decks,

1261
01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:04.519
hundreds of passengers were waiting for the news that the

1262
01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:08.000
days and nights of terror were ended. I could wait

1263
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:12.280
a little longer. I pulled open the doors of the cabinet,

1264
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:17.279
found a can of milk, and then I dropped down

1265
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:19.640
on my knees on the floor of the galley.

1266
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:42.840
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson and

1267
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.920
Tonight brought you a shipment of mute Fate by Martin Storm,

1268
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.119
adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield, with Jack Webb as

1269
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:53.279
Chris Warner, Raymond Lawrence as Captain Wood, and d. J.

1270
01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:56.760
Thompson as Mother Willis. The special musical score was conceived

1271
01:08:56.800 --> 01:09:01.720
and conducted by cy Fure. Next week.

1272
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:06.920
At the same time, when you're tired from a hard

1273
01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:10.119
day at the office or leaning over a hot stove

1274
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:13.039
all day, when you want to get away from it all,

1275
01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:16.159
CBS again offers you escape.

1276
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.319
Good night then until the same time next week. When

1277
01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:37.560
CBS again brings you escape. This is CBS, the Columbia

1278
01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:38.600
Broadcasting System.

1279
01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:06.239
Well, my dear, I suppose it's getting late, but I

1280
01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:12.039
feel like, hm, like the vibe is just right.

1281
01:10:13.319 --> 01:10:13.800
Oh what's that?

1282
01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:21.479
Well, I suppose one could go mad worrying about such things,

1283
01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:28.800
but I try not to enjoy your tea. It's fresh,

1284
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:36.840
and it's hot, the night is still growing. For some

1285
01:10:37.239 --> 01:10:42.239
the night is like a good novel, ready to rile

1286
01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:48.479
you up. And for others, well, they get the Diary

1287
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:50.920
of Sophrina Winters.

1288
01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:16.560
Suspense. Wow, this is the man in Black here again

1289
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:21.920
to introduce Columbia's program Suspense. Our stars denied of Miss

1290
01:11:22.039 --> 01:11:25.359
Agnes Moorehead and mister Ray Collins. We have seen these

1291
01:11:25.399 --> 01:11:29.960
two expert and resourceful players in Citizen Kan The Magnificent Amberson,

1292
01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:33.239
in which Miss Morehead's performance won her the nineteen forty

1293
01:11:33.279 --> 01:11:37.199
two Film Critics Award. Mister Collins will soon be seen

1294
01:11:37.239 --> 01:11:40.760
in the Metro Golden Mayor Technicolor film Salute to the Marines.

1295
01:11:41.960 --> 01:11:44.399
Ms Morehead and mister Collins returned this evening to their

1296
01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:48.600
first love, the CBS Microphone, to appear in a study

1297
01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:54.399
in Terror by Lucille Fletcher called the Diary of Sophronia Winters.

1298
01:11:55.760 --> 01:11:58.640
The story told by this diary is to night's tale

1299
01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:02.439
of suspense. If you have been with us on these

1300
01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:05.680
Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded of

1301
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:11.000
mystery and suspicion, dangerous adventure. In this series, our tails

1302
01:12:11.079 --> 01:12:14.640
calculated to entreat you, to stir your nerves, to offer

1303
01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:19.479
you a precarious situation, and then withhold a solution until

1304
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.239
the last possible moments. And so it is with the

1305
01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:26.960
Diary of Sophronia Winters and the performances of Magnus Morehead

1306
01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:31.399
and Ray Collins, we again hope to keep you in suspense.

1307
01:12:40.920 --> 01:12:45.399
February first, Saint Petersburg, Florida, I, Sophronia Winters, have hereby

1308
01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:47.760
begun this diary because on this date I feel for

1309
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:50.880
the first time that I begun to live. Diaries are

1310
01:12:50.920 --> 01:12:54.279
no good unless one has thrilling experiences. For forty years,

1311
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:57.000
I've never had what could really be called a thrilling experience.

1312
01:12:57.520 --> 01:13:00.439
The Papa's death has changed everything. Where I am in

1313
01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:03.159
beautiful Saint Peter's Burg with everything to start life in you,

1314
01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:05.840
money in my purse, two suitcases full of new clothes

1315
01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:09.560
and a gorgeous new permanent wave, and Florida is really

1316
01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:12.520
the land of romance. It doesn't matter whether you're seventeen

1317
01:13:12.640 --> 01:13:15.199
or seventy. There are parties and dances and bingo games

1318
01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.600
and flirtations for all. My landlady, in fact, tells me

1319
01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:21.760
that people often become engaged and even married to perfect

1320
01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:25.880
strangers overnight. I'm still shy, of course, but just the same,

1321
01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:29.560
it's such fun and so thrilling to think one's fate

1322
01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:39.000
maybe just around the corner. February third, Oh, Diary, it

1323
01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:41.159
is beginning this morning. When I came out of my

1324
01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:42.960
lodging house to go down to the beach, I noticed

1325
01:13:43.000 --> 01:13:46.159
a man, a thrilling looking man, sitting across the street

1326
01:13:46.199 --> 01:13:48.239
on a bench, which just as though he were waiting

1327
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:50.039
for me, because when I came out, he sort of

1328
01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:52.399
started up as though he knew me. Of course I

1329
01:13:52.680 --> 01:13:54.680
didn't speak first, but I knew the minute I started

1330
01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:57.159
down the street that he was following me. Well, I

1331
01:13:57.279 --> 01:13:59.319
got to the beach and sat down with my magazines,

1332
01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:01.920
and suddenly there he was, strolling towards me with a

1333
01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:02.720
broad smile.

1334
01:14:03.039 --> 01:14:07.840
Well, sitting out here all by your lunss, Yes, yes,

1335
01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:10.039
I am nice to see you last night over at

1336
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:11.199
the Starfish Tea Room.

1337
01:14:11.520 --> 01:14:12.600
The Starfish Tea Room.

1338
01:14:13.159 --> 01:14:16.159
Oh, yes, yes, I was there yesterday, but it was

1339
01:14:16.199 --> 01:14:18.520
so crowded. I'm afraid I don't recall.

1340
01:14:19.039 --> 01:14:22.680
Write a nice cuisine they've got over there. Mind if

1341
01:14:22.720 --> 01:14:24.600
I sit down beside you, not at all?

1342
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:27.560
Oh, just a minute, sit on this magazine. The beach

1343
01:14:27.640 --> 01:14:28.319
is so sandy.

1344
01:14:28.399 --> 01:14:30.840
Oh, sand doesn't bother me. I'm from Maine. You know

1345
01:14:31.640 --> 01:14:33.039
we got plenty of sand up there.

1346
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:33.520
Do you?

1347
01:14:34.520 --> 01:14:36.680
You've been down here at Saint Pete Long, Oh just

1348
01:14:36.760 --> 01:14:40.520
three days. Three days. That's a long time. So wonder

1349
01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:45.640
I didn't spot you before. Oh, mister Johnson's name Hiram Johnson.

1350
01:14:46.159 --> 01:14:48.239
I come from Green Harbor, Maine. Run a big hotel

1351
01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:52.039
up there summers. Well, that's my whole history of the nutshell.

1352
01:14:52.760 --> 01:14:55.039
My name is Sophronia, Sopronia Winners.

1353
01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:01.319
Sophronia. You know that's quite a coincidence. My sister in

1354
01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:05.800
law's name was Sophronia. Oh, Sophronia Johnson. You ever heard

1355
01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:07.760
of her? She looked quite a bit like.

1356
01:15:07.800 --> 01:15:09.560
You too, Sotronia Johnson.

1357
01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:13.720
No, I'm afraid I haven't. Who was she somemon very famous.

1358
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.119
I'm so ignorant about these things.

1359
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:19.960
Oh that's all right. Say look at that sun, will you?

1360
01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:23.039
I'd say it was pretty nearly time for lot.

1361
01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:29.039
Diarry Darling. He is wonderful, strong and kind of worn hearted,

1362
01:15:29.479 --> 01:15:32.119
so generous. I don't want to be like the other

1363
01:15:32.199 --> 01:15:34.319
silly women in this town. But Hiram is different. There's

1364
01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:38.840
something almost poetic about him, something sad and deep.

1365
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:42.840
You know, Sophronia, it's kind of mysterious us finding that

1366
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:46.960
nine point starfish on the beach together. My sister in law,

1367
01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:51.439
Sophronia used to collect nine point starfishes. You'll think your

1368
01:15:51.560 --> 01:15:54.800
name is Sophronia and you find a nine point starfish

1369
01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:59.119
with me, Well, it kind of draws us together. Eh

1370
01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:06.399
m hmm. What do you think if there?

1371
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:09.800
I had known him all my life? My land lady

1372
01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:13.039
says it's foolish, But look at Romo and Juliet. Weren't

1373
01:16:13.039 --> 01:16:13.640
they foolish.

1374
01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:20.439
What's the good of waiting, Sophronia, I've got to be

1375
01:16:20.520 --> 01:16:22.800
back at the hotel in a week. We may never

1376
01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:23.760
see each other again.

1377
01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:26.159
Oh, Hiram, don't say that I couldn't bear.

1378
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.399
Then let's do it right, away tomorrow. There's a parson

1379
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:31.359
not on Coral Avenue who'll do the job for us.

1380
01:16:31.560 --> 01:16:33.159
We can take a nice moon light drive out to

1381
01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:35.640
the Alligator farm. Afterward, have a nice short dinner, then

1382
01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:38.000
climb on board the Orange Blossom to borrow night from me.

1383
01:16:39.279 --> 01:16:43.319
Just think of Maine, the big dark pine woods, the sand,

1384
01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:47.520
the bay, the two of us alone together.

1385
01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:50.600
The two of us alone together.

1386
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.680
His seventh on board the Orange Blossom. I was married

1387
01:17:03.720 --> 01:17:06.479
in a wedding dress of alice blue moiree, with a

1388
01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:08.960
frill of white organ he at the caring wrists and

1389
01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:13.359
a rhinestone dolf buckle. Hiram sent me tawsand roses. I'm

1390
01:17:13.399 --> 01:17:16.119
pressing one precious flower between the pages of this diary

1391
01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:16.840
for luck.

1392
01:17:23.319 --> 01:17:27.039
If you understand. In a couple of minutes, bags heavy, No.

1393
01:17:27.319 --> 01:17:31.800
Not particularly dearest. Oh, I can't get over that taxi manifestation.

1394
01:17:31.960 --> 01:17:34.279
Imagine his incidents saying he couldn't drive us over.

1395
01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:37.159
Maybe he didn't have any gas. It's happened sometimes around here.

1396
01:17:37.359 --> 01:17:40.359
Well, anyway, I'm glad the weather is so mild. Can

1397
01:17:40.399 --> 01:17:42.159
you imagine what it would be like in a blizzard.

1398
01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:44.199
There's a place, Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.

1399
01:17:44.199 --> 01:17:46.239
I don't want to look till I put down his bags.

1400
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:51.479
Now where where through those big pine trees.

1401
01:17:52.279 --> 01:17:55.319
Oh? Oh, it is big, isn't it.

1402
01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:57.520
One hundred and twenty five rooms, so many.

1403
01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:04.520
Fire escapes and balconies and porches and towers. I stayed

1404
01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:06.840
in a hotel like that once years ago with Papa.

1405
01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:08.359
It was very fashionable.

1406
01:18:08.399 --> 01:18:11.039
Then my grandfather built that place fifty years ago. Hasn't

1407
01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:11.960
been changed much since?

1408
01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:15.600
No, Well, of course you've put in modern plumbing.

1409
01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:19.960
Not yet here we are walk in.

1410
01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:23.239
Oh, what's there?

1411
01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:26.840
Just a fog horn of the day. We get it

1412
01:18:26.920 --> 01:18:28.359
almost every night in this kind of weather.

1413
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:30.359
What are you locking the gate for?

1414
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:35.159
Why not? There's nobody coming in after us or going

1415
01:18:35.199 --> 01:18:35.800
out again.

1416
01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:36.159
For a while.

1417
01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:38.960
But I thought you said the hotel.

1418
01:18:40.159 --> 01:18:41.520
The hotel is empty.

1419
01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:51.119
H Hiram, What is it now, Hiram, darling. I know

1420
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:53.720
it sounds silly, but let's not go in there tonight.

1421
01:18:53.880 --> 01:18:57.039
Let's let's wait until morning. Why oh, just because it's

1422
01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:59.239
so dark and empty. There's not a light in the.

1423
01:18:59.239 --> 01:19:00.840
Whole place, and no one's expecting this.

1424
01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:01.800
What do we eat?

1425
01:19:01.920 --> 01:19:04.600
Where we sleep? Let's stay in the village just for

1426
01:19:04.640 --> 01:19:04.920
to night.

1427
01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:07.479
I've got things to eat, the place to sleep. Come on, Oh,

1428
01:19:07.600 --> 01:19:14.840
my arm him. If you remember my telling you down

1429
01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:21.239
in Florida about my sister in law Sophronia, Well that's

1430
01:19:21.319 --> 01:19:28.000
her over there on the wall. Take a look at her, Hirom,

1431
01:19:28.079 --> 01:19:28.720
you hurt me.

1432
01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:35.119
Oh glasses, very dusty.

1433
01:19:36.479 --> 01:19:40.199
She must have died many years ago. But her face

1434
01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:45.399
is sweet, very sweet. When her eyes it was something

1435
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:46.880
very sad and wistful.

1436
01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:47.199
About her eyes.

1437
01:19:47.319 --> 01:19:50.039
She was a murderess. She was hanged in Portland twenty

1438
01:19:50.079 --> 01:19:51.840
five years ago for the murder of my brother from

1439
01:19:52.119 --> 01:19:54.279
here in the lobby of this hotel. She murdered in

1440
01:19:54.359 --> 01:19:57.640
the cold blood with an axe, that fire axe hanging

1441
01:19:57.640 --> 01:20:00.439
over there on the wall. Was the summer day, sitting

1442
01:20:00.479 --> 01:20:02.000
out on the front porch and the rockers. Was just

1443
01:20:02.079 --> 01:20:04.199
after lunch. My brother Ethan was sitting at the desk

1444
01:20:04.279 --> 01:20:07.239
counting his loose change. My mother was crocheting in that

1445
01:20:07.319 --> 01:20:11.359
old wicker rocking chair. Sophronia came downstairs.

1446
01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:15.199
Oh don't, Hiram, please please don't tell me anymore. Well,

1447
01:20:15.279 --> 01:20:17.359
it makes me nervous to hear it like this in

1448
01:20:17.479 --> 01:20:23.800
this big, shadowy lobby. And your eyes, Hiram, your eyes Hiram,

1449
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:25.199
you're acting so strange.

1450
01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:27.640
What's the matter with you, dear?

1451
01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.359
I know it was a terrible tragedy, but it happened

1452
01:20:30.359 --> 01:20:31.439
twenty five years ago.

1453
01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:36.279
Don't touch me, Sophronia, Don't touch you. Do you remember

1454
01:20:36.359 --> 01:20:38.079
what I said to you in Florida?

1455
01:20:39.279 --> 01:20:39.920
What did you say?

1456
01:20:40.760 --> 01:20:41.000
Will you?

1457
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:45.239
You said a million sweet and wonderful things to meet, Hiram.

1458
01:20:45.119 --> 01:20:49.880
I said, he resembled my dead sister in law. Look

1459
01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:55.399
at her again, look at her closely, Sophronia.

1460
01:20:55.840 --> 01:20:58.479
Why, oh no, no, I can't.

1461
01:20:58.479 --> 01:21:00.399
It's too horrible. I can't look at her face of

1462
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:01.880
any pleasure now knowing she was emergent.

1463
01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:02.920
You're afraid to look at it?

1464
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:04.159
No, no, I'm not afraid.

1465
01:21:05.199 --> 01:21:06.199
I don't please my.

1466
01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:18.239
Oh very well, Hello, stand there quietly like that. Take

1467
01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:27.119
off your glasses. That's all I wanted to see. That's

1468
01:21:27.479 --> 01:21:28.439
all I wanted.

1469
01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:42.359
Jebruary thirteenth, Green Harbor Hotel name. I can't understand it.

1470
01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:45.800
I try to fathom it, but my headaches and my

1471
01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:50.199
heart is heavy. The hotel is deserted, has been for

1472
01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:54.880
twenty five years. Everything is covered with spiders and cobwebs.

1473
01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:58.439
Great dining room with its oak woodwork is alive with

1474
01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:01.640
rats in a row of broken rocking chairs on the

1475
01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:04.359
front porch faces antill we out to see.

1476
01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:11.159
That's a meanness to be my home. We's downstairs in

1477
01:22:11.279 --> 01:22:14.640
the shabby parlor off the lobby, playing the harmony.

1478
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:32.880
Yes, yes, haram sleeping and oh, dear years old or not?

1479
01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:37.000
Come out. I want to show in around the place.

1480
01:22:38.079 --> 01:22:41.399
It's it's all right, dear, I've seen it. I've seen

1481
01:22:41.479 --> 01:22:42.239
just about everything.

1482
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.800
No, you haven't. You haven't seen the grounds at all

1483
01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:47.359
the grounds.

1484
01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:50.439
But Horram, it's after midnight.

1485
01:22:51.399 --> 01:22:53.279
I want to show you where my sister in law

1486
01:22:53.399 --> 01:22:55.079
Sophronia is bay.

1487
01:22:56.159 --> 01:22:58.760
Not tonight, dear, please, it's so late and I have

1488
01:22:58.880 --> 01:22:59.359
a headache.

1489
01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:02.760
Open the door, Sonia, I want you to come down.

1490
01:23:03.000 --> 01:23:04.199
No, no, I sha'n't.

1491
01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:06.720
Oh go away, let me alone.

1492
01:23:07.520 --> 01:23:08.039
I won't.

1493
01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:09.239
I won't.

1494
01:23:09.359 --> 01:23:10.279
I won't.

1495
01:23:12.279 --> 01:23:16.520
Carrying on like that. See, I have pass keys to

1496
01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:28.039
all the doors beyond where those four virtues are standing.

1497
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:30.720
It's where my sister in law, Sophronia was laid away

1498
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:33.399
twenty five years ago. It was the biggest funeral in

1499
01:23:33.439 --> 01:23:35.840
the neighborhood. Folks crowded outside the gate of the dozens

1500
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:37.640
trying to get a look that we wouldn't let them

1501
01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:41.239
buried her ourselves without a service, out here by herself

1502
01:23:41.279 --> 01:23:44.800
on the grounds. Ephraim was buried in town, but not Sophronia.

1503
01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:47.319
I had a feeling I'd have to keep an eye

1504
01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:47.640
on her.

1505
01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:48.159
Even then.

1506
01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:52.439
I knew she was one of those restless sleepers who

1507
01:23:52.479 --> 01:23:55.439
wouldn't stay quiet in her own grave. I knew before

1508
01:23:55.479 --> 01:23:57.159
the year was out, she'd find some way to start

1509
01:23:57.319 --> 01:23:59.880
roaming around, hunting from mischief again. She was a young

1510
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:02.520
she deviled to the course of Bronia. They've got hanger

1511
01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:04.760
he Doomsday wouldn't do any good.

1512
01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:11.279
Mm you mean you think she haunts this hotel.

1513
01:24:11.479 --> 01:24:14.520
No, no, not this hotel. She never had any use

1514
01:24:14.560 --> 01:24:15.479
for it, alive or dead.

1515
01:24:16.760 --> 01:24:16.800
No.

1516
01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:21.560
She makes for the warmer climates. She was always a

1517
01:24:21.720 --> 01:24:24.399
cold blooded little fish, freezing and shivering all the time,

1518
01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:29.800
places like California and Texas and Florida.

1519
01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:32.399
She makes for Florida.

1520
01:24:32.720 --> 01:24:36.159
Yes, that's one of her favorite haunts, particularly around Saint Pete.

1521
01:24:36.720 --> 01:24:40.520
She likes the flowers and the sun and the Romanceim.

1522
01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:42.399
I feel cold, You mind if I go inside.

1523
01:24:43.279 --> 01:24:48.800
I haven't explained everything. You think I'm crazy. I guess

1524
01:24:49.800 --> 01:24:53.159
crazy but I'm a lot smarter than some people give

1525
01:24:53.199 --> 01:24:57.640
me credit for the cause. You see, I have found

1526
01:24:57.720 --> 01:25:05.560
her now times. You see that grove of birches over there,

1527
01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:10.640
under every one of them's a grave. I've found her

1528
01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:15.520
wandering the earth in disguise three times, and I've killed

1529
01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:19.760
her three times. It still doesn't do any good. She's

1530
01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:20.760
still restless.

1531
01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:22.279
Hmm.

1532
01:25:23.039 --> 01:25:27.119
You mean, who killed three different women?

1533
01:25:27.399 --> 01:25:29.760
So now I keep another open grave to remind her

1534
01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:35.760
it's waiting now. Would you like to see it, Sophronia?

1535
01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:38.079
No harm, No, no please?

1536
01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:40.640
I are you afraid to see it? Sophronia, No.

1537
01:25:42.239 --> 01:25:44.199
Haram, You don't mean to say that.

1538
01:25:44.359 --> 01:25:47.119
You think just because my name happened to be Sophronian,

1539
01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:47.600
And did.

1540
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:48.680
I look a little like to think?

1541
01:25:48.800 --> 01:25:48.840
What?

1542
01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:52.000
Sophronia messy?

1543
01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:04.279
I'm very fourteen. My mind is made up. I made

1544
01:26:04.319 --> 01:26:06.560
a terrible mistake, and I must get away from this place.

1545
01:26:08.680 --> 01:26:10.319
I must get away from hire room as quickly as

1546
01:26:10.319 --> 01:26:10.560
I can.

1547
01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:14.840
It should be easy.

1548
01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:18.920
There's no fog today. If I can only escape from

1549
01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:23.880
the hotel, I can run and hide in the pine woods. No, no,

1550
01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:27.079
I shall wait for dusk. When he generally sits down

1551
01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:32.720
in the parlor and plays the harmonium. I can hide

1552
01:26:33.439 --> 01:26:36.680
a little earlier in one of the deserted rooms, and

1553
01:26:37.199 --> 01:26:39.880
then when his back is toward the lobby, step out

1554
01:26:39.920 --> 01:26:40.439
the front door.

1555
01:26:51.239 --> 01:27:02.560
Bia Bronia sia, Oh there you are. What does the matter?

1556
01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:03.239
Anything wrong?

1557
01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:05.000
No harm?

1558
01:27:05.800 --> 01:27:09.920
You didn't want anything outside, did you? Because if you do,

1559
01:27:10.479 --> 01:27:12.119
you'll have to ask me to get it for you.

1560
01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:17.279
You see, I always keep the front door locked. Yes, yes,

1561
01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:19.960
the back door too, and all the doors leading out

1562
01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:22.560
into the porches and fire escapes the good many of

1563
01:27:22.600 --> 01:27:25.840
the windows. It makes one feel safe from thieves and

1564
01:27:26.039 --> 01:27:31.600
teeping toms. All. You've got a cold, that's too bad.

1565
01:27:33.680 --> 01:27:37.199
I must have caught it last night out doors there.

1566
01:27:37.359 --> 01:27:40.880
You ought to be in bed, a good bed. The

1567
01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:43.079
only good bed in the house is in my sister

1568
01:27:43.119 --> 01:27:44.560
in law, Sophronia's old room.

1569
01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:46.439
No, no, Harramer, I'm all right.

1570
01:27:46.720 --> 01:27:50.199
Is this little head goals off and develop into pneumonia?

1571
01:27:51.279 --> 01:27:53.520
Why it's too bad? I didn't think of that before.

1572
01:27:54.520 --> 01:27:57.039
You might have slept in it from the beginning here

1573
01:27:57.479 --> 01:27:58.600
up these stairs.

1574
01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:00.439
It's the matter?

1575
01:28:00.520 --> 01:28:01.279
Are you so weak?

1576
01:28:01.439 --> 01:28:01.479
No?

1577
01:28:03.119 --> 01:28:03.720
No, I'm are.

1578
01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:10.479
This rooming is the cleanest in the hotel too. I've

1579
01:28:10.600 --> 01:28:15.479
always had a sort of suspicion about it. You see,

1580
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:21.520
I've kept everything as it was. What's the matter, nothing,

1581
01:28:22.520 --> 01:28:24.720
It's just it seems kind of familiar.

1582
01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.119
No, No, it's just it's so clean. Thing is though

1583
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:31.319
someone were living here. No, they It only just stepped

1584
01:28:31.359 --> 01:28:32.039
out for a moment.

1585
01:28:32.960 --> 01:28:35.279
It's as she left it that afternoon when she walked

1586
01:28:35.319 --> 01:28:39.159
down to murder my brother. You see her needlework on

1587
01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:42.479
the table with the needlesticking in it, and her hymn

1588
01:28:42.479 --> 01:28:46.600
books still open. She was very fond of singing hymns

1589
01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:50.439
of Folium. Was had a nice voice too. I used

1590
01:28:50.439 --> 01:28:54.079
to accompany her. I'll turn down the bed for you,

1591
01:28:54.520 --> 01:28:56.279
and you can get undressed while I go and make

1592
01:28:56.319 --> 01:28:57.000
you some hot tea.

1593
01:28:57.279 --> 01:28:58.359
No, I don't want any.

1594
01:28:59.039 --> 01:29:02.159
Here's the closet. We can put on one of Sophronia's

1595
01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:03.000
dressing down.

1596
01:29:08.800 --> 01:29:12.920
Diary. I'm beside myself. I shall go mad.

1597
01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:15.000
I shall go mad.

1598
01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:18.159
Two hours of pack and they locked the door upon me.

1599
01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:23.439
Right's falling, and I'm alone alone in this horrible room

1600
01:29:23.479 --> 01:29:28.359
with its hideous little momentos of death. I'm sitting here

1601
01:29:28.399 --> 01:29:31.000
at her little wicker table, trying to become trying to

1602
01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:34.479
write this somehow and one writes about a thing.

1603
01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:39.039
It doesn't appear so real. My hand is just brushed

1604
01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:42.880
against an needle work for him book, But they still

1605
01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:46.840
lie rady. I can bear heavy them near me, no

1606
01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:50.560
long I'll just get them out of sight anywhere.

1607
01:29:51.119 --> 01:29:51.800
In my closet.

1608
01:29:52.439 --> 01:30:03.399
I'm your door, little for your teas. No, yes, why

1609
01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:06.239
aren't you in bed? You take worse cools, you know.

1610
01:30:06.399 --> 01:30:07.640
I'll get in bed in a minute.

1611
01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:13.439
First of all, brushing up on your needlework again? Bye,

1612
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:17.560
you've got in your hand, heather, Holy oh.

1613
01:30:17.479 --> 01:30:21.680
Yes, yes so I but I wasn't working on it, Hiram,

1614
01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:23.520
I swear I wasn't. I I've never done a stitch.

1615
01:30:23.560 --> 01:30:24.720
I need to work in my whole life. I don't

1616
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:26.720
know one am brodery stitch for another. Let me show

1617
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:27.079
you look.

1618
01:30:27.239 --> 01:30:27.840
I don't even know.

1619
01:30:27.880 --> 01:30:29.640
How to hold the needle. Get into bed, Sophronia.

1620
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:32.479
Before we go on, Haram, Before you go on thinking

1621
01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:35.399
we've got to heaven understanding, You've got to let me explain.

1622
01:30:35.800 --> 01:30:38.880
I was born in eighteen ninety two, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

1623
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:40.079
My name is the Pronia.

1624
01:30:40.079 --> 01:30:41.760
That's true, but they name lots of people, Sopronia.

1625
01:30:41.840 --> 01:30:43.239
I was named for my grandmother.

1626
01:30:43.399 --> 01:30:44.119
She had just died.

1627
01:30:44.479 --> 01:30:46.359
No, no, no, You've got to listen to me. I've

1628
01:30:46.399 --> 01:30:47.319
lived in Calamas.

1629
01:30:47.000 --> 01:30:47.720
Who all my life.

1630
01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:50.000
If you don't just write a letter of send a wire, well,

1631
01:30:50.039 --> 01:30:52.039
I've never heard of green Hobborn my whole life. I

1632
01:30:52.479 --> 01:30:55.079
never went anywhere For almost ten years. I stayed home,

1633
01:30:55.159 --> 01:30:56.680
day in and day out, nursing Papa.

1634
01:30:57.119 --> 01:30:57.840
He had his stroke.

1635
01:30:57.880 --> 01:30:58.880
I was none of the house.

1636
01:30:59.359 --> 01:31:00.560
He was a red break god.

1637
01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:19.760
February fifteenth. Now I live only from moment to moment,

1638
01:31:20.760 --> 01:31:27.720
listening to each creak upon the stairs. I've been in

1639
01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.880
bed all day. It's night now.

1640
01:31:32.199 --> 01:31:34.079
Her fog cortn has begun to blow again.

1641
01:31:38.920 --> 01:31:39.199
M h.

1642
01:31:39.880 --> 01:31:44.239
February nineteenth. I woke up early this morning after a

1643
01:31:44.279 --> 01:31:46.840
wretched night, and the date was burning in letters of

1644
01:31:46.880 --> 01:31:50.439
fire in my brain. If he's planning to kill me,

1645
01:31:50.479 --> 01:31:53.560
it'll be today. But the eyes have been crawling on

1646
01:31:54.920 --> 01:31:55.880
It's almost midnight.

1647
01:31:57.199 --> 01:31:58.720
Oh why is he going to kill me?

1648
01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:00.239
Does he does it once? H?

1649
01:32:01.079 --> 01:32:02.479
Why is he torture me like this?

1650
01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:05.000
I'd rather be desert sitting here, and it's for one

1651
01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:05.680
moment longer.

1652
01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:10.720
I can't bear it. It doesn't come in five minutes.

1653
01:32:10.720 --> 01:32:12.640
I shall force him become. I shall be down the door.

1654
01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:19.560
No, no, Rather, let me say a quiet frame that

1655
01:32:19.680 --> 01:32:23.920
it doesn't come. Oh, I want to live.

1656
01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:26.800
I wanna live.

1657
01:32:37.760 --> 01:32:47.880
P Bronia, it's gone, Pa Bronia. Come downstairs. I want

1658
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:48.880
you to sing me a hymn.

1659
01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:53.159
See sing?

1660
01:32:53.279 --> 01:32:58.199
He he never asked me a singer before, But she said,

1661
01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:03.600
I I can't sing, dear, I.

1662
01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:07.560
Told you that long ago, did you well, I've forgotten.

1663
01:33:09.000 --> 01:33:12.880
And besides, how can I come downstairs when my door

1664
01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:13.399
is locked?

1665
01:33:13.800 --> 01:33:14.560
It's gonna locked?

1666
01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:15.960
Try it?

1667
01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:18.359
I'm locked?

1668
01:33:19.640 --> 01:33:21.560
Oh no, how could it be?

1669
01:33:23.560 --> 01:33:23.720
Oh?

1670
01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:26.039
It is, it is, and I never know it.

1671
01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:27.520
I never know it.

1672
01:33:29.239 --> 01:33:29.560
Coming.

1673
01:33:30.079 --> 01:33:33.840
He unlocked it sometime when I was just sitting. Oh

1674
01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:36.760
what did my try a few more times?

1675
01:33:37.000 --> 01:33:38.119
Why did I just sit there?

1676
01:33:38.199 --> 01:33:38.560
Assume?

1677
01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:40.520
So?

1678
01:33:41.600 --> 01:33:44.520
No, he's coming anyway, he'd have known, but I might.

1679
01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:47.399
Oh no, it's tweet.

1680
01:33:48.600 --> 01:33:49.520
He's gonna kill me.

1681
01:33:52.840 --> 01:34:10.000
Yes, Hiram, I'm coming, Hiram.

1682
01:34:10.039 --> 01:34:13.760
Where are you in here in the parlor?

1683
01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:15.520
What are you doing there, Hiram?

1684
01:34:17.039 --> 01:34:18.439
Waiting to hear you sing?

1685
01:34:20.119 --> 01:34:21.199
You're at the harmonium?

1686
01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:26.000
Yes, all right, I'll sing.

1687
01:34:27.640 --> 01:34:30.560
I haven't sung in years, but I might as well.

1688
01:34:32.279 --> 01:34:33.960
I'll sing for you out here in the hall.

1689
01:34:35.199 --> 01:34:36.600
My voice will carry better.

1690
01:34:37.359 --> 01:34:40.600
It always did carry better in the hall, didn't bit Sophronia?

1691
01:34:41.880 --> 01:34:46.520
So you remember that too. Of course, you know both

1692
01:34:46.600 --> 01:34:48.199
the front and back doors are locked.

1693
01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:52.159
Play a few bars, hiram dear to warm me out?

1694
01:34:53.159 --> 01:34:57.039
Shall I sing too, Sopronium? Would you like me to

1695
01:34:57.119 --> 01:34:57.960
sing along with you?

1696
01:34:58.960 --> 01:34:59.920
If it pleases you?

1697
01:35:00.039 --> 01:35:00.760
You hunt.

1698
01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:06.399
Work or the nightti is.

1699
01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:19.720
Working the mony time work for the night is cold,

1700
01:35:22.319 --> 01:35:26.319
when man's work is done.

1701
01:35:28.319 --> 01:35:31.880
Work while the daylight.

1702
01:35:35.039 --> 01:35:44.399
Work in the sun, work called the nightties.

1703
01:35:52.680 --> 01:36:21.199
When boos, there is only one more page?

1704
01:36:22.680 --> 01:36:23.720
Shall I read it to you?

1705
01:36:24.079 --> 01:36:24.319
Yes?

1706
01:36:25.199 --> 01:36:30.079
Yes, go ahead, March twenty second. I've been sick, I

1707
01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:33.600
think for a very long time. The pages of my

1708
01:36:33.800 --> 01:36:36.159
diary are blank. But I shall take you out again

1709
01:36:36.359 --> 01:36:42.640
for a diary today and start you over again. No, no,

1710
01:36:42.800 --> 01:36:46.479
I shall never look back at the other pages. I

1711
01:36:46.520 --> 01:36:49.560
shall only write on and on about this beautiful place,

1712
01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:52.279
so that no one reading.

1713
01:36:52.079 --> 01:36:57.319
This diary will ever know that I did it.

1714
01:37:05.319 --> 01:37:08.479
But I did do it, Darry, I was smarter than

1715
01:37:08.520 --> 01:37:10.920
he when I opened that door at the head of

1716
01:37:10.960 --> 01:37:13.159
the stairs and heard the music, When I saw the

1717
01:37:13.239 --> 01:37:14.760
fire acte still hanging on the wall.

1718
01:37:19.119 --> 01:37:19.760
I was so.

1719
01:37:20.000 --> 01:37:23.159
Cautious, so terribly cautious.

1720
01:37:23.840 --> 01:37:26.680
I tiptoed like a little mouse even as I sang

1721
01:37:26.760 --> 01:37:28.880
the hymn into that room where he was playing.

1722
01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:30.960
But I was clever.

1723
01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:33.119
It's so much cleverer than he.

1724
01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:39.359
I kept on singing. And now I'm free, Free is

1725
01:37:39.399 --> 01:37:39.960
a bird.

1726
01:37:40.840 --> 01:37:42.239
I'm free, and shall never catch me.

1727
01:37:42.319 --> 01:37:43.640
No, not this time of river again.

1728
01:37:43.800 --> 01:37:46.920
Because because he's dead.

1729
01:37:49.560 --> 01:37:56.159
Isn't he, nurse, nurse? Isn't my dear brother in law

1730
01:37:57.199 --> 01:37:59.520
him really dead?

1731
01:38:04.399 --> 01:38:05.640
Yes, miss, he's dead.

1732
01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:08.600
And now I'll thank you to hand me that diary.

1733
01:38:09.000 --> 01:38:11.960
The doctor doesn't approve of the patient's writing anything.

1734
01:38:24.239 --> 01:38:27.399
And so closes The Diary of Sophronio Winter starring Agnes

1735
01:38:27.479 --> 01:38:31.680
Moorehead and Ray Collins Tonight's Tale of the Spens. The

1736
01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:34.840
producer of these broadcast is William Spear, who is Ted Bliss.

1737
01:38:34.880 --> 01:38:37.760
The director Lud Glusk and the musical director. Lucian Mohowick.

1738
01:38:37.840 --> 01:38:41.319
The composer, and Lucy will Fletcher, the author, collaborated on

1739
01:38:41.479 --> 01:38:43.319
Tonight's suspense.

1740
01:38:56.680 --> 01:38:59.119
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1741
01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:13.119
HM.

1742
01:39:14.680 --> 01:39:17.039
I can tell that one may have had a bit

1743
01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:21.039
more of an effect on you than some of the others,

1744
01:39:22.079 --> 01:39:29.520
and that's good. After all, fear is anything if not subjective.

1745
01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:36.119
Wouldn't you agree? Well, there are many fun things to

1746
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:41.159
think about other than fear, but I've yet to find

1747
01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:41.760
one of them.

1748
01:39:43.760 --> 01:39:43.800
No.

1749
01:39:44.199 --> 01:39:51.119
No, a life without fear, without the blood pumping at

1750
01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:57.960
that expedited rate. It's like living in a blind alley.

1751
01:39:59.479 --> 01:40:02.000
Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler.

1752
01:40:19.439 --> 01:40:20.760
I'm the whistler.

1753
01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:26.800
I didn't see the man, I swear I didn't. He

1754
01:40:26.960 --> 01:40:28.000
just appeared out of nowhere.

1755
01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:28.840
I didn't see a thing.

1756
01:40:29.479 --> 01:40:31.800
I only heard that awful thump when the car hit it.

1757
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:34.119
It was an accident. I tell you.

1758
01:40:37.239 --> 01:40:45.760
Friday night and again, CBS presents the Whistler. I the

1759
01:40:45.840 --> 01:40:49.119
whistler know many things, for I walk by night.

1760
01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:53.600
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the

1761
01:40:53.680 --> 01:40:56.199
hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

1762
01:40:57.119 --> 01:40:58.039
And so I tell you.

1763
01:40:58.119 --> 01:41:01.880
Tonight the odd story of blind Alleys.

1764
01:41:06.199 --> 01:41:09.760
Young Henry Carteret the third his widowed mother live with

1765
01:41:09.840 --> 01:41:14.720
Henry's paternal grandfather. Grandfather Carterret, is immensely wealthy and lives

1766
01:41:14.760 --> 01:41:18.199
on a vast estate in the suburbs. Young Henry after

1767
01:41:18.359 --> 01:41:21.159
graduation seemed to follow in the footsteps of his late father.

1768
01:41:22.000 --> 01:41:24.439
Is a weak sort and quite the playboy of the city,

1769
01:41:25.000 --> 01:41:28.920
gambling and drinking. So Grandfather, though inclined to be generous,

1770
01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:32.079
finds it necessary to cut down on Henry's allowance.

1771
01:41:32.920 --> 01:41:36.000
But Grandfather, I can't get along now. I can hardly

1772
01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:40.560
make ends meet. But it's embarrassed thing for a whole year. Now,

1773
01:41:40.600 --> 01:41:42.439
all you've done is get about all night and drink

1774
01:41:42.479 --> 01:41:44.920
and gamble, and I've paid all the debt. I'm going

1775
01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:46.600
to Well, what can I do on one hundred dollars?

1776
01:41:46.640 --> 01:41:48.359
When I was your age, I got along.

1777
01:41:48.119 --> 01:41:50.319
On ten dollars? What times have changed since you were

1778
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:50.720
a boy?

1779
01:41:51.079 --> 01:41:51.239
You know?

1780
01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:53.920
Just like your father, physical wreck and in his grave

1781
01:41:54.000 --> 01:41:55.720
before he was thirty five. All well, he did everything

1782
01:41:55.760 --> 01:41:56.279
to like set.

1783
01:41:56.359 --> 01:41:58.000
He was my son. I know what he did.

1784
01:41:58.479 --> 01:42:00.840
Started out just like you, but each day he got

1785
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:04.119
a little worse. He was smart too, he knew just

1786
01:42:04.239 --> 01:42:06.600
when to slow down. I know how to handle myself.

1787
01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:08.600
And got nothing around you but a bunch of leach.

1788
01:42:08.680 --> 01:42:10.920
Oh, you've got towered on everything and everybody. Some of

1789
01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:13.159
your friends you've head around here would sicken anybody with

1790
01:42:13.279 --> 01:42:15.159
horse scents. And you refuse to give me an extra

1791
01:42:15.279 --> 01:42:16.079
hundred dollars to night.

1792
01:42:16.199 --> 01:42:17.520
I won't give you ten cents.

1793
01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:19.600
I'd rather die before I'm for it than be like you.

1794
01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:22.079
Keep on the way you are and you would get

1795
01:42:22.159 --> 01:42:24.720
your wish. Can I have fifty dollars? If you say

1796
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:26.920
another word, I'll stop your allowance completely. Do you hear?

1797
01:42:27.239 --> 01:42:28.159
What is it, Henry?

1798
01:42:28.359 --> 01:42:28.800
What's wrong?

1799
01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:29.119
Oh?

1800
01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:30.279
Nothing, mother, nothing at all.

1801
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:34.119
Grandfather's on one of his economy ram pages. Oh but darling,

1802
01:42:34.520 --> 01:42:37.920
your grandfather is right. You're only harming your Well. What

1803
01:42:38.119 --> 01:42:40.159
good is money if you can't use it? Depends on

1804
01:42:40.319 --> 01:42:42.159
how you use Oh, he couldn't spend his money in

1805
01:42:42.159 --> 01:42:44.199
the next fifty years if you tried. Oh but you

1806
01:42:44.319 --> 01:42:44.880
certainly could.

1807
01:42:44.920 --> 01:42:45.960
Well, what are you gonna do with it?

1808
01:42:46.039 --> 01:42:48.439
Leave it to you, providing you get some tents in

1809
01:42:48.520 --> 01:42:50.840
your head. If you don't, I'll leave it to a

1810
01:42:50.880 --> 01:42:53.439
home for indigent catsus. What you need is a good,

1811
01:42:53.479 --> 01:42:55.720
solid joke in the solar plexus, and that's just what

1812
01:42:55.840 --> 01:42:59.399
you're heading for. Please, Henry, run along. I can't stand anymore.

1813
01:42:59.640 --> 01:42:59.680
What.

1814
01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:01.560
I can't even take our girl to dinner?

1815
01:43:01.760 --> 01:43:03.319
Oh not the kind you know.

1816
01:43:03.520 --> 01:43:06.720
Please go all, my mother, And if I get lost

1817
01:43:06.760 --> 01:43:08.359
in the big city. I promise I'll go to the

1818
01:43:08.439 --> 01:43:12.319
big policeman and tell him who I am. Oh, if

1819
01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:14.760
he only knew what I went through with his father.

1820
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:18.239
I know, Mary, some fellows just have to be beaten

1821
01:43:18.239 --> 01:43:21.520
over their head with the club before they wake up. Well,

1822
01:43:22.239 --> 01:43:23.479
I'll do my best, Mary.

1823
01:43:33.760 --> 01:43:36.119
For several weeks, Henry has been making the rounds of

1824
01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:39.760
the nightclubs and gambling places with his latest girlfriend, Nella

1825
01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:43.520
Goodwin of the Boston Goodwins. Nella and her brother Jerry

1826
01:43:43.560 --> 01:43:46.199
have been vacationing in the Vicinity. The three of them

1827
01:43:46.239 --> 01:43:48.600
have made the rounds and have dropped into Nella's apartment

1828
01:43:48.720 --> 01:43:49.319
for the night.

1829
01:43:49.479 --> 01:43:53.800
Captain well I said he had a wonderful time tonight.

1830
01:43:53.640 --> 01:43:58.119
Henry did Janella most so did I. I was so

1831
01:43:58.520 --> 01:44:00.399
sure I'd clean up on it, rule this.

1832
01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:03.399
Wall again when all the time. Here here's your drinks.

1833
01:44:05.119 --> 01:44:06.600
I see how much did I borrow from you?

1834
01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:07.000
Jerry?

1835
01:44:07.560 --> 01:44:09.920
Just a hundred Let you have it in a couple

1836
01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:10.359
of days.

1837
01:44:10.560 --> 01:44:13.520
No hurry, I really think you should drink anymore tonight, Henry,

1838
01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:15.079
why not have some coffee?

1839
01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:15.680
Coffee?

1840
01:44:16.199 --> 01:44:18.039
Perish to start? Who wants coffee?

1841
01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:21.159
How far do you have to drive? Twenty mons, isn't it.

1842
01:44:21.319 --> 01:44:23.239
Oh, he'll be all right when he gets off from me. Yeah,

1843
01:44:23.720 --> 01:44:24.079
I don't know.

1844
01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:26.520
Jerry isn't safer. I wouldn't want you.

1845
01:44:26.520 --> 01:44:30.600
To get into trouble. Henry. Please drink some coffee, please, darling.

1846
01:44:30.720 --> 01:44:33.640
Don't worry. I've driven that strip along the coast one

1847
01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:34.479
hundred times, but.

1848
01:44:34.520 --> 01:44:37.039
You've drunk more than usual tonight, Mabe. I wouldn't be

1849
01:44:37.039 --> 01:44:37.960
able to sleep a wink.

1850
01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:39.720
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll phone you

1851
01:44:39.760 --> 01:44:40.359
when I get home.

1852
01:44:40.720 --> 01:44:42.039
Why not stay in town tonight?

1853
01:44:42.359 --> 01:44:44.439
No, why don't you let him alone? He'll be all right.

1854
01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:46.319
Henry.

1855
01:44:46.520 --> 01:44:48.399
Let Jerry and me drive you home in our car.

1856
01:44:48.600 --> 01:44:50.399
How about it, Jerry? Whatever you no?

1857
01:44:50.560 --> 01:44:52.159
No, no, I'll tell you well, I got a better idea.

1858
01:44:52.760 --> 01:44:55.039
You two get your things and drive home with me

1859
01:44:55.159 --> 01:44:56.119
and stay over the weekend.

1860
01:44:56.359 --> 01:44:58.119
The weekend, surest as long as you like.

1861
01:44:58.199 --> 01:45:00.560
It's a regular resort, lots of things, so have plenty

1862
01:45:00.600 --> 01:45:00.920
of fun.

1863
01:45:01.800 --> 01:45:02.640
Do you come with me?

1864
01:45:03.039 --> 01:45:05.800
And if you're afraid of my driving, then you can

1865
01:45:05.920 --> 01:45:08.720
drive fair enough? Okay, how about it? Now?

1866
01:45:10.439 --> 01:45:14.000
If Henry insists on driving home tonight, I'd see.

1867
01:45:13.840 --> 01:45:14.680
That he gets it right.

1868
01:45:14.920 --> 01:45:16.920
That's wonderful. Go and get your things. Let's be on

1869
01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:32.319
our way. Well how am I doing at a factory?

1870
01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:34.800
Well, i'd feel better if you slow down.

1871
01:45:34.880 --> 01:45:36.960
If it's beginning to miss let it take it easy, Henry.

1872
01:45:43.159 --> 01:45:45.600
If that suit you take us about an hour, I

1873
01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:49.880
more snails, Let me drive. No, I'm all right, I

1874
01:45:49.960 --> 01:45:55.000
feel swell. No, no, no, Claire sailing from here on.

1875
01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:58.359
I like me a cigarette and ella. My case is

1876
01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:03.399
in my right pocket. Here all right, mare stig read Jerry. Yeah, thanks,

1877
01:46:03.399 --> 01:46:11.800
you can look out. But we hit something. Yes, it

1878
01:46:11.920 --> 01:46:14.239
was a man, a man. Oh good lord, I very

1879
01:46:14.359 --> 01:46:16.640
is at the edge of the road, Henry, I see him.

1880
01:46:16.640 --> 01:46:17.039
Stay in the car.

1881
01:46:17.079 --> 01:46:24.640
I'll have a look, all right, Harry, just a second

1882
01:46:25.960 --> 01:46:34.960
m hm, Jerry, I a sign of a po he's dead.

1883
01:46:36.159 --> 01:46:37.319
But I wasn't going fast.

1884
01:46:37.319 --> 01:46:38.560
I couldn't have hit him very hard.

1885
01:46:38.840 --> 01:46:40.359
Nobody. He's an only guy, Jerry.

1886
01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:40.840
What we do.

1887
01:46:41.359 --> 01:46:42.319
He's gotta do something.

1888
01:46:42.479 --> 01:46:44.920
Yeah, here, there's a car coming way back there. Look,

1889
01:46:45.079 --> 01:46:46.720
we gotta get out of here. They'll smell a liquor

1890
01:46:46.760 --> 01:46:48.720
if they stop. And Henry's driving and he's tight totally too.

1891
01:46:48.760 --> 01:46:50.640
Look it's a red light poleice. We've got to get

1892
01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:52.560
that body off the road. You'll see it and chase es.

1893
01:46:52.680 --> 01:46:54.239
Get out, Henry. I'll drik a while loose on the

1894
01:46:54.279 --> 01:46:59.840
distributor having trouble. See, take it easy and don't get

1895
01:46:59.840 --> 01:47:02.159
ex I'll carry this guy over behind that big signs.

1896
01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:03.800
When you find the trouble to to a good drive on.

1897
01:47:04.239 --> 01:47:05.960
I'll meet you back at the apartment. I'll get there

1898
01:47:05.960 --> 01:47:06.640
as soon as I can.

1899
01:47:09.039 --> 01:47:11.560
Here they come, I'll be there with Henry.

1900
01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:20.039
I feel kind of stick. That's trouble here by.

1901
01:47:20.680 --> 01:47:21.079
I don't know.

1902
01:47:21.479 --> 01:47:22.640
Mother, just cut out on me.

1903
01:47:23.039 --> 01:47:24.479
Yeah that is all right.

1904
01:47:24.479 --> 01:47:26.600
It's got light. I got a left.

1905
01:47:27.920 --> 01:47:30.479
The wires. Yeah, wait a minute, here it is. I

1906
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:33.800
think that wire was loose on top of the distributor.

1907
01:47:35.159 --> 01:47:41.800
Oh I tried now Hey yeah, oh thanks, thanks very much.

1908
01:47:41.880 --> 01:47:43.479
Officer out kind of late?

1909
01:47:43.560 --> 01:47:45.199
An't you one why?

1910
01:47:45.319 --> 01:47:46.359
I'm on my way home.

1911
01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:48.159
Yeah, it's your car?

1912
01:47:48.840 --> 01:47:53.319
Is Henry Carter at the third you young cutter.

1913
01:47:54.359 --> 01:47:55.399
Let's see you up with his life.

1914
01:47:56.600 --> 01:48:02.720
Thanks. You've been drinking a bit, haven't you, car? Well, yes,

1915
01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:07.039
but I'm a careful driver. But your narness nell a

1916
01:48:07.119 --> 01:48:10.960
goodwin and you better step over here and drive this car.

1917
01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:16.159
I did not Carter take it easiness, Yes, thank you,

1918
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:25.399
John Carteret had a loose wire.

1919
01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:27.039
Let's get going, Joe.

1920
01:48:34.760 --> 01:48:37.920
In a few minutes, the police car passes, Nella, leaves

1921
01:48:37.960 --> 01:48:40.119
the highway, cuts over to the boulevard, and heads back

1922
01:48:40.159 --> 01:48:43.880
to town. In Nella's apartment, they wait for Jerry. Three

1923
01:48:43.960 --> 01:48:46.079
hours passed, and finally Jerry walks in.

1924
01:48:47.960 --> 01:48:50.319
Jerry, wellness, who's been? Because you'd never get here.

1925
01:48:50.560 --> 01:48:52.800
I stayed behind that big signed for over an hour,

1926
01:48:53.079 --> 01:48:54.880
every time I started out of carking along.

1927
01:48:55.279 --> 01:48:57.520
Finally I made it over at the boulevard. I couldn't

1928
01:48:57.520 --> 01:48:59.920
find a cab, so walked back down the side street.

1929
01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:02.079
Don't want anybody to seeming.

1930
01:49:01.880 --> 01:49:03.159
Like, way, did you get all that mud on you?

1931
01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:04.199
What did you do with it?

1932
01:49:04.880 --> 01:49:05.960
Don't worry, everything's all right.

1933
01:49:06.119 --> 01:49:08.000
Why did you do it with the body?

1934
01:49:08.239 --> 01:49:10.720
I'm bury at the tack of the sign, found the

1935
01:49:10.760 --> 01:49:13.399
small board. The dirt is soft and the brush is thick.

1936
01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:16.439
No one will ever find him, very sure if we

1937
01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:18.640
reported it now, or anyone found him on the road,

1938
01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:20.439
those cops would be after Henry in a second.

1939
01:49:20.840 --> 01:49:21.880
Who was the man?

1940
01:49:22.119 --> 01:49:24.159
Maybe he didn't have anything on him, only a few

1941
01:49:24.199 --> 01:49:27.359
cents in his pocket, no identification. I gathered from his

1942
01:49:27.479 --> 01:49:29.720
appearance and his clothes that he was just a trenchet

1943
01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:32.600
Obbo probably stepped out in front of us the bom

1944
01:49:32.640 --> 01:49:35.479
a ride. Do you know, man, I'd say about fifty

1945
01:49:35.560 --> 01:49:36.640
a mon. Oh, it's awful.

1946
01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:37.800
I didn't see him.

1947
01:49:37.840 --> 01:49:39.119
It just seemed to come out of nowhere.

1948
01:49:39.359 --> 01:49:40.199
I didn't see a thing.

1949
01:49:40.279 --> 01:49:42.119
I only heard that thump when the car hit him,

1950
01:49:42.680 --> 01:49:45.520
which was an accident. In me, we know that it

1951
01:49:45.680 --> 01:49:46.960
was a lucky thing for you. I got him off

1952
01:49:47.000 --> 01:49:47.279
the road.

1953
01:49:47.680 --> 01:49:50.279
Those cops had found him, and with you drinking and

1954
01:49:50.560 --> 01:49:53.319
you get stuck for manslaughter, it might be lucky I

1955
01:49:53.439 --> 01:49:55.359
was along side. No, I appreciate it.

1956
01:49:55.520 --> 01:49:57.199
You don't think we should have reported it.

1957
01:49:57.520 --> 01:49:59.840
You'd like to see Henry sentenced to prison for accidentally

1958
01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:00.920
into some old bomb.

1959
01:50:01.239 --> 01:50:04.359
No, no, Jerry, but right was a straight as something

1960
01:50:04.479 --> 01:50:06.720
like this. That's why I didn't want him to drive.

1961
01:50:06.920 --> 01:50:09.439
Sorry, Nell, I should have listened to you call what

1962
01:50:09.520 --> 01:50:11.880
a mess. It's terrible. You relax, but you're sure they

1963
01:50:11.920 --> 01:50:14.159
won't find them. When they do, they'll have forgotten about

1964
01:50:14.199 --> 01:50:17.920
you being stalled there by the way. Just where was it, Well,

1965
01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:21.199
it's practically at the intersection of Ocean Drive and Valley Boulevard.

1966
01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:23.760
It was in front of that big billboard that bread. Yeah,

1967
01:50:24.640 --> 01:50:26.560
all right, let's forget about it. It's done, and the

1968
01:50:26.560 --> 01:50:28.800
worst said about the better. Better have a drink, Henry.

1969
01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:30.279
And as soon as I changed my clothes, we'll go

1970
01:50:30.359 --> 01:50:32.560
into your place. Who he was spoiling that weakend? How

1971
01:50:32.600 --> 01:50:34.880
do I want to drink? Okay, I'll be ready in

1972
01:50:34.880 --> 01:50:46.560
a few minutes. All the rest of the night and morning,

1973
01:50:46.680 --> 01:50:50.399
Henry is shaken. He cannot close his eyes, and finally

1974
01:50:50.520 --> 01:50:54.680
he must have sufficient strength to dress. Downstairs, his grandfather

1975
01:50:54.840 --> 01:50:57.760
is talking to Jerry and Nella. And what did you say?

1976
01:50:57.800 --> 01:51:00.760
Your name was good one, Gerald Goodwin, Boston Goodwins. You

1977
01:51:00.800 --> 01:51:03.359
know the Boston Goodwins. This is my sister Nella, I

1978
01:51:03.399 --> 01:51:06.199
see came down with Henry. Eh, what time did you

1979
01:51:06.279 --> 01:51:09.439
get here? Well, it was late, it is early this morning.

1980
01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:12.399
It was about six of the exact six. Don't you

1981
01:51:12.479 --> 01:51:15.520
people ever asleep? Who? Certainly we sleep? But well, youth

1982
01:51:15.560 --> 01:51:17.439
doesn't require them, hon of sleep at age needs? And

1983
01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:19.920
what are you doing here? Henry invited us to spend

1984
01:51:19.960 --> 01:51:22.479
a week or so with him. That's all, Well, that's

1985
01:51:22.640 --> 01:51:23.640
mighty decent of him.

1986
01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:26.479
Henry's a wonderful boy. He really is, mister Conriy.

1987
01:51:26.560 --> 01:51:28.039
All depends on how you look at it. Who you

1988
01:51:28.079 --> 01:51:30.800
should think well of Henry? I do believe me, I

1989
01:51:31.000 --> 01:51:31.800
think constantly.

1990
01:51:32.159 --> 01:51:32.760
Good morning.

1991
01:51:32.960 --> 01:51:38.439
I well, I don't think I know these people, or

1992
01:51:38.479 --> 01:51:41.239
do I? No, you don't, Marry, but you will, you will.

1993
01:51:41.760 --> 01:51:44.560
Henry's guests came in at six this morning here for

1994
01:51:44.640 --> 01:51:46.920
a bit of a stay from Boston, Jerry Goodwin and

1995
01:51:47.000 --> 01:51:49.680
his sister, Nella Goodwin of the Boss and Goodwin's.

1996
01:51:50.079 --> 01:51:50.960
This is Henry's mother.

1997
01:51:51.039 --> 01:51:52.760
How do you do, missus Cary, Well.

1998
01:51:53.199 --> 01:51:56.079
You're quite welcome. We really didn't want to impose on you,

1999
01:51:56.159 --> 01:51:59.680
but Henry was so insistent. Well, we really came.

2000
01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:02.239
Because because Henry wouldn't take no for an answer. And

2001
01:52:02.720 --> 01:52:03.680
where is Henry?

2002
01:52:03.840 --> 01:52:06.640
Well, I don't think Henry is feeling well this morning.

2003
01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:09.199
You mean Henry has been drinking?

2004
01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:13.279
Well, yes, a little. As a matter of fact, that's

2005
01:52:13.359 --> 01:52:15.079
why we came with him. I was afraid for him

2006
01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:16.119
to drive home last night.

2007
01:52:16.239 --> 01:52:19.399
She's exaggerating, Missus Carter. Tell me, how long have you

2008
01:52:19.520 --> 01:52:20.760
known Henry, miss Goodwin?

2009
01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:23.239
About three weeks going on four.

2010
01:52:23.479 --> 01:52:25.840
Are you the one who's been taking to dinners and nightclubs.

2011
01:52:26.439 --> 01:52:27.960
Yes, I've seen him nearly every evening.

2012
01:52:28.640 --> 01:52:33.159
Good morning, mother, morning everybody. Well, I see you've all

2013
01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:34.479
gotten equator. Henry.

2014
01:52:35.079 --> 01:52:37.159
Why why you're pail as a sheet.

2015
01:52:37.319 --> 01:52:39.399
I've never seen you like this. I'm quite all right, mother,

2016
01:52:39.479 --> 01:52:41.760
I'd have sworn it as your father coming down those steps.

2017
01:52:42.199 --> 01:52:43.000
Want your hands out?

2018
01:52:43.800 --> 01:52:48.399
Huh? Look at that? The jitters you're doing? All right?

2019
01:52:48.520 --> 01:52:48.720
Boy?

2020
01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:52.279
Don't you worry about being a sour old title? Shut up?

2021
01:52:52.319 --> 01:52:53.880
Shut up and let me alone with Henry.

2022
01:52:54.079 --> 01:52:54.640
What is it?

2023
01:52:54.760 --> 01:52:55.600
What's wrong with you?

2024
01:52:55.640 --> 01:52:58.239
Nothing wrong? He'll be alright. He had a very bad night,

2025
01:52:58.279 --> 01:52:59.000
didn't you, Henry.

2026
01:52:59.560 --> 01:52:59.840
Jerry?

2027
01:53:00.479 --> 01:53:02.640
Well, first he lost too much, then he drank too

2028
01:53:02.720 --> 01:53:05.039
much to cover up the losses. I'll pay you the

2029
01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:08.119
hundredth Oh, don't be silly. I'm not worried. I'm only kidding.

2030
01:53:08.479 --> 01:53:10.239
Come on, let's have some breakfast and forget about it.

2031
01:53:10.279 --> 01:53:13.520
Come on, everybody, pardon me? Would I be intruding? I

2032
01:53:13.680 --> 01:53:16.479
haven't had breakfast yet? Do you mind? I certainly not

2033
01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:17.800
come along.

2034
01:53:25.520 --> 01:53:29.319
Before the day is over. Grandfather is boiling. He can't

2035
01:53:29.399 --> 01:53:32.560
stand the impudence of Jerry. But Henry is still unable

2036
01:53:32.600 --> 01:53:35.319
to control his nerves. He can't get the highway accident

2037
01:53:35.399 --> 01:53:38.399
off his mind, and Jerry becomes bolder and bolder.

2038
01:53:39.000 --> 01:53:42.439
Jerry has the upper hand now, and Henry realizes he

2039
01:53:42.520 --> 01:53:44.479
is completely at the mercy of Mella's brother.

2040
01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:47.199
But you've got to get hold of yourself, Henry, You

2041
01:53:47.279 --> 01:53:48.000
got I.

2042
01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:49.039
Can't tell it off my mind.

2043
01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:52.199
Calm down and quit prancing about. What good does it do, Chorried?

2044
01:53:52.239 --> 01:53:53.840
You have nothing to worry about. No one knows, but

2045
01:53:53.880 --> 01:53:54.479
the three of us.

2046
01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:57.199
Police didn't see you there, that's right, just you and Mella,

2047
01:53:57.359 --> 01:53:59.000
and obviously you were driving.

2048
01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:00.600
Jerry.

2049
01:54:00.760 --> 01:54:02.760
You didn't have a thing to worry about for me, Henry,

2050
01:54:02.840 --> 01:54:05.720
not a thing. I'm perfectly satisfied with things the way

2051
01:54:05.760 --> 01:54:08.920
they are. Of course I may ask a little favor

2052
01:54:08.960 --> 01:54:12.800
of you now and then, but nothing to worry about favor.

2053
01:54:14.039 --> 01:54:15.880
What do you mean? Why don't you forget about it?

2054
01:54:15.920 --> 01:54:16.039
Now?

2055
01:54:16.039 --> 01:54:18.159
You'll drive yourself crazy? What do you mean by favors?

2056
01:54:18.359 --> 01:54:22.199
Forget about it? Just forget I mentioned it. I wouldn't

2057
01:54:22.239 --> 01:54:24.560
dream of saying anything about what happened last night to

2058
01:54:24.640 --> 01:54:29.119
your grandfather or your mother. Kind of a rat do

2059
01:54:29.159 --> 01:54:33.319
you think I am? That'd be terrible family name like

2060
01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:36.439
yours were they wouldn't be able to stand such a thing.

2061
01:54:37.039 --> 01:54:38.680
Oh no, Henry, you've nothing to worry about.

2062
01:54:39.520 --> 01:54:43.680
No, Jerry hasn't made himself clear.

2063
01:54:43.800 --> 01:54:46.960
He's trying to tell you that he wants to help you,

2064
01:54:47.880 --> 01:54:48.239
aren't you?

2065
01:54:48.359 --> 01:54:51.079
Jerry's certainly? What else? For? What on earth?

2066
01:54:53.319 --> 01:54:54.000
I get it now?

2067
01:54:54.199 --> 01:54:56.720
Henry thought that off of a love of Mike. Pull

2068
01:54:56.760 --> 01:55:00.680
yourself together, Henry, don't be so ridiculous. I'll run along.

2069
01:55:01.880 --> 01:55:04.000
Maybe if I take some tablets, I'll be able to sleep.

2070
01:55:05.640 --> 01:55:08.359
Jerry, you're at it again, so please get out of

2071
01:55:08.359 --> 01:55:09.720
here and leave these poor people alone.

2072
01:55:10.079 --> 01:55:10.680
Poor people.

2073
01:55:10.800 --> 01:55:13.279
I like Henry. I'm crazy about him, and I want

2074
01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:15.960
you to leave him alone. I know what you're planning.

2075
01:55:16.039 --> 01:55:17.880
Oh shut up, poor you to talk the good ones

2076
01:55:17.920 --> 01:55:20.600
of Boston. Sure, but what have we got nothing for

2077
01:55:20.680 --> 01:55:22.199
the living? For years of our name, we win her

2078
01:55:22.239 --> 01:55:23.880
in Florid and summer in Maine with a hundred dollar

2079
01:55:24.760 --> 01:55:26.720
Here we are again. I mean, this time is a

2080
01:55:26.760 --> 01:55:29.800
little better. This old grandpa is going to kick off

2081
01:55:29.920 --> 01:55:35.520
and leave millions to Henry. With what we know, we

2082
01:55:35.640 --> 01:55:37.800
can stay here forever. I won't you will?

2083
01:55:38.279 --> 01:55:39.479
I like Henry too much.

2084
01:55:41.079 --> 01:55:45.720
I love Henry. Ah Well, I can't see a thing

2085
01:55:45.840 --> 01:55:50.960
wrong with that. No, not a single thing. In fact,

2086
01:55:51.039 --> 01:55:52.079
I approve.

2087
01:55:54.600 --> 01:55:55.520
See you later, Ella.

2088
01:56:04.439 --> 01:56:05.960
Poor Henry is lick.

2089
01:56:06.720 --> 01:56:09.560
He knows Jerry has him by the nose, but he's helpless,

2090
01:56:10.079 --> 01:56:14.840
completely helpless. Finally Monday comes and grandfather called Henry to

2091
01:56:14.880 --> 01:56:15.479
the library.

2092
01:56:16.600 --> 01:56:18.960
Did you want me, grandfather? I certainly did.

2093
01:56:19.439 --> 01:56:20.119
Fy what's wrong?

2094
01:56:20.319 --> 01:56:22.159
The bank just called me and said you'd overdrawn your

2095
01:56:22.159 --> 01:56:25.319
account one thousand dollars one thousand dollars? Well, I haven't.

2096
01:56:25.359 --> 01:56:26.479
I did you do with the money?

2097
01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:28.920
What did the bank pay it?

2098
01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:29.840
Certainly they paid it.

2099
01:56:30.319 --> 01:56:33.399
What did you do with that money? Well?

2100
01:56:33.439 --> 01:56:36.319
I ordered debt to Jerry Goodwin. I heard him say

2101
01:56:36.319 --> 01:56:37.760
you owe him one hundred dollars. Well, he was just

2102
01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:40.159
going easy. It was really a thousand, Henry, you're lying,

2103
01:56:40.560 --> 01:56:42.760
you hear me. No, I owed it to him because

2104
01:56:42.800 --> 01:56:46.439
of well gambling. I don't believe you, not this time.

2105
01:56:46.479 --> 01:56:49.000
It's something else. I've been suspicious from the moment they

2106
01:56:49.000 --> 01:56:52.199
walked into this house. There's something going on that Jerry

2107
01:56:52.319 --> 01:56:54.920
is too smart, too cocky. There's something of what and

2108
01:56:55.000 --> 01:56:56.720
I want to know what it is? Nothing? Nothing, Please

2109
01:56:56.760 --> 01:56:57.600
believe I don't.

2110
01:56:57.439 --> 01:56:59.840
Believe you, and you will tell or get out of this.

2111
01:57:00.039 --> 01:57:00.800
Out and stay out.

2112
01:57:03.079 --> 01:57:03.359
Henry.

2113
01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:05.560
Now, let you keep out of this. Then out till

2114
01:57:06.319 --> 01:57:08.680
he gave that money to my brother. Then I think

2115
01:57:08.760 --> 01:57:09.760
I know why, why?

2116
01:57:10.039 --> 01:57:12.479
Because Jerry knows something that Henry doesn't want told.

2117
01:57:12.760 --> 01:57:13.560
What keeps Hill?

2118
01:57:13.760 --> 01:57:14.960
Get out of him? Nolla, get out?

2119
01:57:15.199 --> 01:57:16.159
This is black mail?

2120
01:57:16.279 --> 01:57:16.720
What else?

2121
01:57:16.960 --> 01:57:20.319
And why do you tell me this? Because I love

2122
01:57:20.439 --> 01:57:23.039
Henry with all his faults and crazy about him.

2123
01:57:23.600 --> 01:57:25.520
I know my brother and I can guess why Henry

2124
01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:26.119
gave him the mind.

2125
01:57:26.159 --> 01:57:28.239
I owe it to him. I owe thousands more. I'll

2126
01:57:28.279 --> 01:57:29.079
get out of here, smell.

2127
01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:31.479
Henry had to pay him, mister Carter, and he had to.

2128
01:57:32.119 --> 01:57:33.560
Jerry knows too much about Henry.

2129
01:57:33.760 --> 01:57:34.159
Blackmail.

2130
01:57:34.159 --> 01:57:34.800
I'll call the police.

2131
01:57:34.840 --> 01:57:36.760
No, no, please, please, don't do that.

2132
01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:39.159
Please. What's going on? What's all the right?

2133
01:57:39.239 --> 01:57:41.560
You will find out? Blackmail. I'll have you in, Joel,

2134
01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:47.000
I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Jerry saved me from prison.

2135
01:57:48.760 --> 01:57:51.920
I killed a man, accidentally ran over him on the

2136
01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:57.720
Ocean road. What yes, And I was drinking. We saw

2137
01:57:57.760 --> 01:57:59.560
a police car coming and Jerry got the body off

2138
01:57:59.600 --> 01:58:01.359
the road just in time. He pulled a wire in

2139
01:58:01.399 --> 01:58:04.880
the motor and the officers helped me tax it. And Jerry, Well,

2140
01:58:05.319 --> 01:58:09.079
Jerry got me on it. I see, and where does

2141
01:58:09.079 --> 01:58:12.680
this happen? On Ocean Drive near Valley Boulevard. I buried

2142
01:58:12.680 --> 01:58:15.359
the body back of the big billboard a bread sign

2143
01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:19.359
on Ocean Drive. You see, everything's all right. I did

2144
01:58:19.479 --> 01:58:21.720
my best, and no one will discover the body for

2145
01:58:21.800 --> 01:58:26.479
a long time. There's no identification on it. Good lord,

2146
01:58:26.920 --> 01:58:29.119
it was an accident, mister Carter, it really it was.

2147
01:58:29.880 --> 01:58:31.840
Henry didn't see him. I swear he didn't.

2148
01:58:31.880 --> 01:58:32.760
It was missing.

2149
01:58:33.880 --> 01:58:36.560
I wanted to report it, but the police were almost there,

2150
01:58:36.600 --> 01:58:40.960
and Henry was drinking, and well, it would have meant manslaughter.

2151
01:58:41.439 --> 01:58:45.760
I've never been so shocked in my life. Your mother

2152
01:58:45.840 --> 01:58:49.199
must not know of this. I've really done you a favor,

2153
01:58:49.319 --> 01:58:49.880
mister Carter.

2154
01:58:50.199 --> 01:58:52.239
Leave me alone, all of you.

2155
01:58:52.399 --> 01:58:54.520
I want to think.

2156
01:58:55.479 --> 01:59:10.000
Damn a deathlike silence falls over the household. Very little

2157
01:59:10.119 --> 01:59:14.680
is said until afternoon of the next day. The grandfather calls.

2158
01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:16.920
The three young people to the library, but at that

2159
01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:20.479
very moment a visitor is announced. The visitor steps into

2160
01:59:20.520 --> 01:59:24.159
the library him, mister Catred, do you wish to see me?

2161
01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:28.479
Well, not exactly, I want to see your grandson here,

2162
01:59:29.039 --> 01:59:33.000
Henry credit O you and Lieutenant Jones Police Department.

2163
01:59:34.039 --> 01:59:36.279
Well, what can we do for your lieutenant?

2164
01:59:36.479 --> 01:59:37.399
Who are these people?

2165
01:59:38.359 --> 01:59:41.319
This is mister Goodwin and now a Goodwin our guest

2166
01:59:41.399 --> 01:59:42.119
at the moment.

2167
01:59:42.399 --> 01:59:46.199
You're another good one. Yes, well, I have a little

2168
01:59:46.239 --> 01:59:50.039
report here. On the morning of August seventeenth about twe am,

2169
01:59:51.000 --> 01:59:53.600
a patrol car came upon Henry Credit and assisted him

2170
01:59:53.600 --> 01:59:56.600
to get his car started. The girl with him. You

2171
01:59:56.600 --> 01:59:59.279
gave her name as Nella Goodwin. It was near the

2172
01:59:59.319 --> 02:00:03.079
intersection of Driving Valley Boulevard. Is that right? Yes?

2173
02:00:03.960 --> 02:00:07.279
Yes, I did have trouble with this. How long were

2174
02:00:07.279 --> 02:00:09.520
you there? About ten minutes?

2175
02:00:09.920 --> 02:00:10.279
I see.

2176
02:00:11.479 --> 02:00:13.359
Did you happen to notice another car leave as you

2177
02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:15.079
pulled up? Or did you see anyone else in a

2178
02:00:15.199 --> 02:00:15.640
sent why?

2179
02:00:17.640 --> 02:00:18.359
I don't remember?

2180
02:00:19.680 --> 02:00:20.720
And did you miss Goodman?

2181
02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:23.760
I can't remember? But they.

2182
02:00:25.720 --> 02:00:28.159
Did either of you step off the highway during that time?

2183
02:00:29.319 --> 02:00:30.720
No, no, that is that.

2184
02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:32.560
I may have, but I don't think we did.

2185
02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:36.159
You stopped wrecking in front of that big billboard, the

2186
02:00:36.239 --> 02:00:37.199
one advertising bread.

2187
02:00:37.760 --> 02:00:38.920
What is this all about?

2188
02:00:40.079 --> 02:00:43.079
Well, they removed that billboard and started excavating for a

2189
02:00:43.119 --> 02:00:48.119
new project. Today they discovered a body man about fifty

2190
02:00:48.439 --> 02:00:51.479
and did several days at least ruck by a car,

2191
02:00:52.159 --> 02:00:53.159
might have internal injuries.

2192
02:00:54.000 --> 02:00:54.920
We didn't see a thing.

2193
02:00:56.319 --> 02:00:58.600
You know nothing about it, Miss No, certainly not.

2194
02:00:59.600 --> 02:01:00.960
What's your relation to Henry Creter?

2195
02:01:02.960 --> 02:01:03.520
No relation?

2196
02:01:04.039 --> 02:01:07.159
See well, let me ask you to drop down a

2197
02:01:07.159 --> 02:01:10.560
headquarters for a little talk. Miss Goodwill. Good afternoon, folks.

2198
02:01:11.479 --> 02:01:13.479
He's wise. They're gonna get Nella down there and make

2199
02:01:13.520 --> 02:01:13.800
a talk.

2200
02:01:14.199 --> 02:01:14.720
You'll have to go.

2201
02:01:15.000 --> 02:01:15.479
I won't go.

2202
02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:16.840
I won't talk if they kill me.

2203
02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:18.720
I know you were with Henry, and they'll hammer you

2204
02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:21.439
until Wait a minute, I've got it.

2205
02:01:22.039 --> 02:01:24.439
There's one way they can't make you say a word.

2206
02:01:24.520 --> 02:01:24.840
How's that?

2207
02:01:25.199 --> 02:01:26.920
Nella and Henry have got to get married at once?

2208
02:01:27.199 --> 02:01:29.279
A wife cannot be made to testify against her husband.

2209
02:01:29.359 --> 02:01:31.439
Married Jerry, he doesn't want to marry.

2210
02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:33.479
No choice, it's the only chance. Come on, let's get going.

2211
02:01:33.840 --> 02:01:36.479
He'll be back. Grandfather, what'll I do? Figure it out

2212
02:01:36.520 --> 02:01:36.960
to yourself?

2213
02:01:37.680 --> 02:01:39.439
This there's that joke in the middle you've had.

2214
02:01:39.359 --> 02:01:41.920
Coming to you. Oh what have I ever done to

2215
02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:45.000
deserve this? Come on, Mella, hurry, hurry.

2216
02:01:45.479 --> 02:01:58.159
Oh Henry Darling married.

2217
02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:01.840
I can't believe. Why didn't you tell me why? I'm

2218
02:02:01.880 --> 02:02:03.600
don Mary? He's married and that's all.

2219
02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:03.840
That is too.

2220
02:02:04.199 --> 02:02:05.319
I never heard of such a thing.

2221
02:02:05.640 --> 02:02:07.039
Was the rush we had to get married?

2222
02:02:07.079 --> 02:02:09.560
This is Carter if we had to, don't worry. I

2223
02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:14.439
love him Mary married. Oh I think I shall say yes, yes, yes,

2224
02:02:14.520 --> 02:02:15.399
but I'll explain later.

2225
02:02:15.520 --> 02:02:15.760
Mary.

2226
02:02:15.880 --> 02:02:16.239
Pardon me.

2227
02:02:16.279 --> 02:02:18.239
There's a mister Johns to see. You're saying, went to

2228
02:02:18.359 --> 02:02:20.800
back again? Mary, Please go to your room. I'll come

2229
02:02:20.840 --> 02:02:22.159
to you in a little while. I'll explain.

2230
02:02:22.399 --> 02:02:24.000
Yes, yes, father.

2231
02:02:24.640 --> 02:02:27.359
Oh, I've never been so shocked.

2232
02:02:27.079 --> 02:02:27.840
In all my life.

2233
02:02:28.239 --> 02:02:31.560
Henry, your father was sad enough, but isn't beyond all

2234
02:02:31.680 --> 02:02:32.359
sense of See.

2235
02:02:34.319 --> 02:02:36.119
Well, what do you want now, Lieutenant.

2236
02:02:36.479 --> 02:02:39.680
I'd like to have a talk with Hims Goodwin Donald headquarters.

2237
02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:43.439
But that isn't possible, Lieutenant, No, Lieutenant, You see, miss

2238
02:02:43.600 --> 02:02:47.319
Goodwin is really missus Carteret. The wife cannot be forced

2239
02:02:47.359 --> 02:02:48.840
to testify against her husband.

2240
02:02:49.079 --> 02:02:53.039
I see. Oh, maybe that won't be necessary, after all,

2241
02:02:54.479 --> 02:02:55.800
it's your cigarette case, Henry.

2242
02:02:57.359 --> 02:03:00.319
What I don't know? Think?

2243
02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:04.840
Oh, well, this has sound a few feet from the grave.

2244
02:03:04.920 --> 02:03:08.000
On the other side of the billboard, there's littles on it.

2245
02:03:08.439 --> 02:03:08.640
Hc.

2246
02:03:10.000 --> 02:03:11.760
Of course, we have ways of tracing the owners of

2247
02:03:11.800 --> 02:03:12.119
the joe.

2248
02:03:12.199 --> 02:03:16.920
Maybe it belonged to the dead man. He's been identified

2249
02:03:16.960 --> 02:03:20.359
as Peter Lunn Trenches. And suppose you couldn't find the

2250
02:03:20.479 --> 02:03:23.239
owner of that case. We'll find the owner. I see

2251
02:03:23.279 --> 02:03:28.359
the case, thank you. Rather expenses had made just about

2252
02:03:28.359 --> 02:03:29.640
one hundred dollars, I'd say.

2253
02:03:29.840 --> 02:03:31.399
I did man's fingerprints wearing on it.

2254
02:03:31.520 --> 02:03:34.239
I imagine this case is worth considerably more now than

2255
02:03:34.279 --> 02:03:38.239
it cost originally. Prices have gone sky high. Yes, I

2256
02:03:38.279 --> 02:03:40.640
wouldn't be surprised if a case like this wouldn't be

2257
02:03:40.720 --> 02:03:45.920
worth well pretty penny. Yes, I imagine some people would

2258
02:03:45.960 --> 02:03:48.199
pay up in the thousands for a case like that.

2259
02:03:49.720 --> 02:03:51.800
Did you ever hear of bribery, mister Catter? It's now

2260
02:03:52.199 --> 02:03:54.159
they have a couple of friends heading the police commission,

2261
02:03:54.319 --> 02:03:57.880
and I've heard of shake ups and pounding the pavement. Well,

2262
02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:02.479
can I see you alone, mister Cutter, Yes, sir Tenant,

2263
02:04:03.039 --> 02:04:04.039
step into the library.

2264
02:04:07.000 --> 02:04:07.720
Work at your cutter.

2265
02:04:08.399 --> 02:04:11.720
I know you're a big shot, Miss Kenny, and well,

2266
02:04:13.119 --> 02:04:15.439
I'm trying to do my duty. I want to cause

2267
02:04:15.439 --> 02:04:16.039
you any trouble.

2268
02:04:16.119 --> 02:04:18.960
But then if there is anyone other than you know

2269
02:04:19.039 --> 02:04:24.039
about this cigarette case as headquarters, oh Jones, here is

2270
02:04:24.119 --> 02:04:26.479
fifteen hundred dollars for that cigarette case.

2271
02:04:27.199 --> 02:04:32.479
How about it. Well, I don't want to go back

2272
02:04:32.520 --> 02:04:37.720
to pounting a bait. I guess you've got me stuck.

2273
02:04:39.199 --> 02:04:40.439
Poor guy hasn't got a chance.

2274
02:04:41.640 --> 02:04:45.399
Okay, here's the case, here's your money, and I'll see

2275
02:04:45.439 --> 02:04:46.560
about a promotion for you.

2276
02:04:47.000 --> 02:04:50.840
I'm satisfied. If I can just stay where I am, well,

2277
02:04:50.880 --> 02:04:52.199
I'll be running along with your cutter.

2278
02:04:53.560 --> 02:04:55.399
Don't do it, Please, don't what, don't do what.

2279
02:04:55.680 --> 02:04:57.199
Henry didn't leave the pavement that night.

2280
02:04:57.239 --> 02:05:01.199
I swear he didn't. Someone platted that cigarette. I know

2281
02:05:01.319 --> 02:05:02.399
who did it, and I know why.

2282
02:05:02.560 --> 02:05:03.079
You crazy.

2283
02:05:03.239 --> 02:05:06.439
You had the case last Yarry. Henry did hit the man.

2284
02:05:06.520 --> 02:05:08.680
It was an accident, but you carried the body behind

2285
02:05:08.760 --> 02:05:10.960
the sign and buried it. You put the case there

2286
02:05:11.039 --> 02:05:13.560
purpose shop stick and tired of living by your rotten

2287
02:05:13.640 --> 02:05:17.279
schemes from hand them off on other people for years, blackmail, extortion,

2288
02:05:17.399 --> 02:05:19.640
anything you could think of. But I'm through with you,

2289
02:05:19.920 --> 02:05:20.720
brother or no brother.

2290
02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:23.680
You're a pool hella. You've just sentenced Henry to the penitentiary,

2291
02:05:23.840 --> 02:05:24.399
all three of us.

2292
02:05:24.479 --> 02:05:26.199
Then we'll all three go to prison. I don't care.

2293
02:05:26.239 --> 02:05:28.560
Please please, Henry, you're a weakneyed jellyfish.

2294
02:05:28.560 --> 02:05:30.359
If you had any gumption you poke him in the jar.

2295
02:05:30.439 --> 02:05:31.479
You know he's a crowd up.

2296
02:05:31.840 --> 02:05:34.439
And there's something phony about that cigarette case.

2297
02:05:35.279 --> 02:05:37.199
I don't know what it is, but well, if you

2298
02:05:37.319 --> 02:05:38.159
planted it there.

2299
02:05:38.039 --> 02:05:40.399
You were stupid, and if you drop it, you're stupidest

2300
02:05:40.399 --> 02:05:41.279
still and I don't think you.

2301
02:05:41.319 --> 02:05:44.319
Did anym you shut up. Wait a minute.

2302
02:05:45.520 --> 02:05:45.680
Wait.

2303
02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:47.920
If that cigarette case was there when they tore the

2304
02:05:48.000 --> 02:05:51.399
sign down, why didn't Lieutenant Jones mention.

2305
02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:52.560
It when he first came here.

2306
02:05:52.720 --> 02:05:54.520
Oh, we didn't fight it till the next.

2307
02:05:54.439 --> 02:05:57.960
Day, Lieutenant Jones. That cigarette case was never near that sign.

2308
02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:01.439
My brother gave you that case. You're in with him

2309
02:06:01.439 --> 02:06:02.479
on this more black.

2310
02:06:02.319 --> 02:06:05.319
Man, girl, good girl, your wonderful marvels cooking with Gash.

2311
02:06:05.359 --> 02:06:05.880
He's crazy.

2312
02:06:05.960 --> 02:06:07.800
Come in, Captain Gibson, you step.

2313
02:06:07.680 --> 02:06:09.680
In here, please, Hey, did you hear this? Did you

2314
02:06:09.760 --> 02:06:10.479
hear what they said?

2315
02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:13.319
Captain? I heard and sold the sart and take them away,

2316
02:06:13.680 --> 02:06:14.960
take both of them away and put them on the

2317
02:06:15.000 --> 02:06:17.319
first train out of town. Let them keep the money,

2318
02:06:17.520 --> 02:06:20.000
but put him on the first train. I'll prefer no charges,

2319
02:06:20.039 --> 02:06:21.920
providing they get out of town. And saying grand father,

2320
02:06:21.960 --> 02:06:25.239
I don't understand Jones isn't a police lieutenant, and there's

2321
02:06:25.319 --> 02:06:28.840
nobody buried back of that billboard. I suddenly remembered that

2322
02:06:28.960 --> 02:06:31.760
whole block belonged to me. I hadn't sold it, so

2323
02:06:31.920 --> 02:06:36.159
why would they be excavating no body. I checked with

2324
02:06:36.279 --> 02:06:39.560
Captain Gibson here and there was no Lieutenant Jones. There

2325
02:06:39.640 --> 02:06:40.119
was not even a.

2326
02:06:40.159 --> 02:06:41.520
Trace of a grave back of that time.

2327
02:06:41.960 --> 02:06:43.640
Full on what became of the man I hit, I'll

2328
02:06:43.680 --> 02:06:45.720
explained that in just a minute, Son, just a minute.

2329
02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:49.680
And what about the girl, mister Cardonella, my granddaughter. He's

2330
02:06:49.760 --> 02:06:51.359
the first bit of red blood we've had in this

2331
02:06:51.479 --> 02:06:54.359
family for years. I'll put that phony Lieutenant Jones and

2332
02:06:54.439 --> 02:06:56.720
Jerry in the cooler for twenty four hours and put

2333
02:06:56.760 --> 02:06:59.359
them on trains going in different directions. If they come

2334
02:06:59.399 --> 02:07:02.079
back and less than ten years, they're crazy list I'll

2335
02:07:02.159 --> 02:07:13.319
show had a monkey with the president of the police Commission. Well,

2336
02:07:14.039 --> 02:07:16.159
there's very little to explain this time.

2337
02:07:16.960 --> 02:07:19.880
Jerry Goodwin discovered the man was not dead the moment

2338
02:07:20.000 --> 02:07:23.239
he felt his pulse, and when he regained consciousness back

2339
02:07:23.319 --> 02:07:26.520
of the big billboard, Well, Jerry took him across town

2340
02:07:26.600 --> 02:07:29.720
to a hotel. Later he arranged with him to pose

2341
02:07:29.720 --> 02:07:32.800
as a detective and frightened Henry and Nelly into marriage.

2342
02:07:33.359 --> 02:07:35.520
And the supposed victim and Jerry would carry on a

2343
02:07:35.600 --> 02:07:39.640
lucrative blackmail scheme from then on. But they never dreamed

2344
02:07:39.680 --> 02:07:41.720
that the grandfather owned a lot where the corpse was

2345
02:07:41.760 --> 02:07:44.840
supposed to have been buried, and that was where they slipped.

2346
02:07:45.560 --> 02:07:48.560
But grandfather is proud of his spunky granddaughter in law,

2347
02:07:49.199 --> 02:07:50.760
and Henry will be a good boy.

2348
02:07:50.600 --> 02:07:51.079
From now on.

2349
02:08:15.520 --> 02:08:28.560
CBS has presented The Whistler. Original music for this production

2350
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:32.600
was composed by Wilbur Hatch and conducted by Ivan Dittmars.

2351
02:08:33.000 --> 02:08:35.840
The Whistler is written and directed by Jay Donald Wilson

2352
02:08:36.079 --> 02:08:49.439
and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. This is CBS,

2353
02:08:49.600 --> 02:08:51.439
the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2354
02:09:01.159 --> 02:09:05.880
Well, my dear, it looks like the evening has played

2355
02:09:05.960 --> 02:09:12.479
out its scheme for now. I suppose it's about time

2356
02:09:12.600 --> 02:09:14.880
for you to return to your home and for me

2357
02:09:15.159 --> 02:09:20.199
to wherever it is I come from. But I do

2358
02:09:20.520 --> 02:09:24.840
hope you'll be back. I do so enjoy this time

2359
02:09:24.960 --> 02:09:31.479
together we spend. I'll be here, same time, same place,

2360
02:09:33.079 --> 02:09:38.239
ready to share with you. But if I may ask

2361
02:09:38.479 --> 02:09:43.119
one more favor of your as you head home as

2362
02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:46.800
you make your way through the woods and across the

2363
02:09:46.960 --> 02:09:51.680
railroad tracks, as you lay your head on your soft,

2364
02:09:52.000 --> 02:09:58.039
cool pillow and gnawed away, take one moment and be

2365
02:09:58.239 --> 02:10:02.039
thankful for what you you have, and I will be

2366
02:10:02.239 --> 02:10:05.760
seeing you soon begin to.

2367
02:10:05.960 --> 02:10:08.479
Follow into.

2368
02:10:10.600 --> 02:10:11.920
Again.

2369
02:10:13.720 --> 02:10:21.960
Rombring do bring, rombling, rumbling you bring