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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?
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One of the gods tuns her about ten minutes ago?
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What do you mean?
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Found her?
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Found her body in the bushes near Brewster Hall.
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She's dead.
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Man is a rational act, and we always look for
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a rational explanation of anything that puzzles us. But what
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if there is no rational explanation for it? Do we
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admit that there may be things we don't know about,
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things that we've refused to recognize because the idea terrifies us.
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Debbie Ross is dead?
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But how did she die?
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It's several days later. Many things have happened in that time.
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There have been questions, investigations, explanations, and recriminations. There has
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also been a funeral. As far as Beth is concerned,
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that is the only thing that really mattered. That And
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what has happened between her and Bill?
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Yes? Who is it?
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Bill?
504
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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.51300:28:39.319 --> 00:28:41.279
I've been perfectly willing to talk to you about it.51400:28:41.359 --> 00:28:42.680
But you know what the facts are.51500:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.759
Of course, there were no marks on Debbie's body, at51600:28:46.839 --> 00:28:48.279
least none that could have killed her.51700:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.039
She died of a heart attack, that's right.51800:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.920
But they checked back on the physical she took when51900:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.119
she was admitted here, and there was nothing wrong with52000:28:56.240 --> 00:29:01.359
her heart. Look, Bill, we've been through this before. Debbie52100:29:01.480 --> 00:29:04.279
thought she saw something in the mirror, thought she saw52200:29:04.319 --> 00:29:06.359
it again out on that campus, and that made me52300:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.519
think I saw it too.52400:29:07.880 --> 00:29:12.559
Look, darling, don't call me darling. Why not, because I52500:29:12.720 --> 00:29:13.440
don't want you to.52600:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.839
When I first signed up for the course, you teached52700:29:16.880 --> 00:29:18.599
me about it, even though you've done a lot of52800:29:18.680 --> 00:29:20.319
reading in that same field yourself.52900:29:20.359 --> 00:29:20.759
I didn't.53000:29:21.079 --> 00:29:24.119
Yes, you did, Bill, and you made a few remarks53100:29:24.119 --> 00:29:26.640
about Lancing, saying you had a funny feeling about him.53200:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.160
But now, oh, I have a funny feeling about him.53300:29:29.200 --> 00:29:31.240
As a matter of fact, I feel funnier about him53400:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.119
now than ever. Why Well, because I did a little53500:29:34.200 --> 00:29:36.359
checking up on him this afternoon. You know, we taught53600:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.079
the same course at State last year.53700:29:38.359 --> 00:29:38.920
Yes, I know.53800:29:39.480 --> 00:29:39.880
What of it?53900:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.720
Well, there was an incident there that was very similar54000:29:42.759 --> 00:29:45.200
to what happened to Debbie. I mean, a student, a54100:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.799
member of the swimming team and therefore presumably very healthy,54200:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.279
died suddenly one night of a heart attack.54300:29:51.519 --> 00:29:52.400
Weren't it his students?54400:29:52.960 --> 00:29:57.559
No, that's the only difference. He wasn't one of Lancing's students.54500:29:58.440 --> 00:30:01.200
Why do you call it similar? And why are you54600:30:01.319 --> 00:30:04.119
making a point of it if there was no connection54700:30:04.319 --> 00:30:04.960
between them?54800:30:05.000 --> 00:30:07.359
The great I don't know if there was or not,54900:30:07.640 --> 00:30:09.400
but I thought perhaps I ought to look into it55000:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.559
a little further. And I'm going to go see Lancing.55100:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.720
We'll talk to him. No, No, Bill, why not?55200:30:15.519 --> 00:30:19.000
Because I feel odd about him too, I have ever55300:30:19.079 --> 00:30:21.559
since Debbie died, and I'm afraid.55400:30:35.960 --> 00:30:39.440
Yes, good afternoon. Is Professor Lansing at home?55500:30:39.880 --> 00:30:40.519
Yes, he is.55600:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.359
Do you think I could see him?55700:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.440
My name's Taylor, Bill Taylor, and I'm an instructor in55800:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.240
the English department.55900:30:46.279 --> 00:30:48.079
I stopped by his office, but he wasn't there.56000:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.960
No, he's been very upset about the death of his students,56100:30:52.000 --> 00:30:53.319
so he's been working at home.56200:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.880
I see it was an unfortunate thing.56300:30:56.640 --> 00:30:57.359
Yes, it was.56400:30:58.480 --> 00:30:59.880
Uh, you're not missus Lansing, are you?56500:31:00.880 --> 00:31:01.079
Yes?56600:31:01.160 --> 00:31:01.839
I am why?56700:31:03.440 --> 00:31:07.480
Oh uh, Well, it's just that I thought I heard.56800:31:07.319 --> 00:31:08.119
That I wasn't.56900:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.079
Well, yes, that's right, I wasn't.57000:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.519
But I'm fine. Now you want to come with me,57100:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.200
I'm sure I will be glad to talk to you.57200:31:18.039 --> 00:31:18.319
Thank you.57300:31:20.920 --> 00:31:26.519
Yeah, Arnold, this is mister Taylor of the English Department here.57400:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.599
Come in, look in, sit down.57500:31:29.440 --> 00:31:29.680
Thank you.57600:31:31.720 --> 00:31:33.680
First of all, I uh, I'd like to tell you57700:31:33.759 --> 00:31:35.799
how pleased I am that you agreed to stay and57800:31:35.920 --> 00:31:36.880
continue with your course.57900:31:37.359 --> 00:31:37.559
Well.58000:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.759
I was reluctant too, but the faculty committee felt that58100:31:40.839 --> 00:31:41.519
I should.58200:31:41.839 --> 00:31:43.319
What happened was very unfortunate.58300:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.079
But I don't see how you could have been considered58400:31:45.119 --> 00:31:46.440
responsible for it in any way.58500:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.720
Well, I felt I was.58600:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.319
Seems Miss Ross was a very imaginative person that opened58700:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.359
to suggestion which I should have realized. I don't think58800:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.519
anyone would have realized it. I I wonder if you58900:31:59.599 --> 00:32:01.759
could help me in a project of my own. If59000:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.359
I can, I'd be very happy to what's the project?59100:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.680
My doctoral thesis, which is a study of the dark59200:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.960
tradition that runs through English literature and led to the59300:32:11.039 --> 00:32:11.759
Gothic novel.59400:32:11.880 --> 00:32:14.680
Yes, yes, yes, very interesting. Just how can I help you?59500:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.079
Well, I've done a certain amount of reading in the field,59600:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.880
but I've wondered if you could give me a copy59700:32:18.920 --> 00:32:20.720
of the bibliography you used for your course.59800:32:20.839 --> 00:32:21.680
Well, i'll be glad to.59900:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.799
Unfortunately I don't have any copies here, but I'll send60000:32:24.839 --> 00:32:26.240
you whatever I have as soon as I get to60100:32:26.319 --> 00:32:29.119
my office. What's your address, twenty one Maple Street.60200:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.559
No, right, I'll get it off to you tomorrow.60300:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.640
I'm very grateful to you.60400:32:33.799 --> 00:32:34.240
Not at all.60500:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.559
You gave the same course at State last year, didn't you. Yes,60600:32:38.799 --> 00:32:39.079
matter of.60700:32:39.079 --> 00:32:39.599
Fact, I did.60800:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.119
Did you know Tom Wallace when you were at State Wallace?60900:32:46.319 --> 00:32:49.119
No, I'm afraid not. Was he a member of the faculty.61000:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.359
No, no, he was an undergraduate on the swimming team.61100:32:52.720 --> 00:32:54.759
He died very suddenly near the end of the term.61200:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.960
Yes, yes, I do seem to remember that was a61300:32:59.039 --> 00:32:59.640
friend of yours.61400:33:00.200 --> 00:33:03.680
No, no, a friend of a friend. Well, I think61500:33:03.720 --> 00:33:06.960
I'll be running along and I do. Thank you, Professor Lansing.61600:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.319
Oh not at all, goodbye, mister Taylor.61700:33:15.839 --> 00:33:16.240
Did he go?61800:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.559
Yes? What did you think of him.61900:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.759
He seemed like quite a pleasant young man, very attractive.62000:33:25.519 --> 00:33:27.440
Well I'm glad you think so, because he's going to62100:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.480
be on next Oh, well you don't have to worry62200:33:31.519 --> 00:33:34.359
about that for a while. You've got another four month. Yes,62300:33:34.759 --> 00:33:38.519
I know, but I'm a little concerned about him. As62400:33:38.559 --> 00:33:40.759
you said, he seems quite pleasant and very plausible. But62500:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.880
he asked me some rather strange questions. What kind of questions?62600:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.440
But where i'd been before I told it? State also62700:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.720
about your young friend Tom Wallace. Do you think he62800:33:50.880 --> 00:33:53.240
suspects I don't see how I can.62900:33:54.599 --> 00:33:56.119
We can't afford to take any chances.63000:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.720
No, I suppose not.63100:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.759
I wasn't going to mention it. But he had to63200:34:01.839 --> 00:34:04.680
draw this strangely with me too. He seemed surprised that63300:34:04.759 --> 00:34:06.079
I was up and around.63400:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.840
Oh that settles it.63500:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.639
Then when are you going to do it as soon63600:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.280
as possible?63700:34:22.079 --> 00:34:27.159
Well, yes, Bill, I've been waiting for you. You want63800:34:27.199 --> 00:34:28.239
to come in here for a minute, and I want63900:34:28.239 --> 00:34:28.880
to show you something.64000:34:29.039 --> 00:34:30.480
Of course, what is it.64100:34:32.920 --> 00:34:32.960
This?64200:34:34.400 --> 00:34:39.320
Oh it's the mirror, the mirror Lancing gave Debby.64300:34:40.519 --> 00:34:41.199
That's what I thought.64400:34:41.280 --> 00:34:42.039
Where did you get it?64500:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.039
I found it in my desk drawer about a half64600:34:45.079 --> 00:34:45.679
an hour ago.64700:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.320
Well how did he get there?64800:34:48.000 --> 00:34:51.280
Obviously somebody put it there. I was out all morning64900:34:51.320 --> 00:34:52.960
and I never locked my door.65000:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.079
Professor Lancing, who else?65100:34:56.800 --> 00:34:59.599
It's his? And the police must have given it back65200:34:59.639 --> 00:35:00.920
to him after Debbie died.65300:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.480
For why would he put it in your desk?65400:35:04.079 --> 00:35:07.519
That's a very interesting question. I I think I can65500:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.480
answer it. But if I do, you're going to think65600:35:10.480 --> 00:35:11.280
I've flipped out.65700:35:11.760 --> 00:35:12.360
No, I won't.65800:35:12.599 --> 00:35:16.800
Well you should, because it's completely impossible. Do you know65900:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.719
what I'm sending is No, when someone who's involved in66000:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.719
black magic knows enough and is powerful enough to raise66100:35:26.760 --> 00:35:31.679
an evil spirit, he can send that spirit to destroy someone.66200:35:31.880 --> 00:35:36.079
Oh no, you mean that that thing that Debbie saw66300:35:36.159 --> 00:35:40.400
in the mirror, that that I saw out on the canvas. Yes,66400:35:41.360 --> 00:35:44.159
and it's here now in the mirror.66500:35:44.480 --> 00:35:48.119
No, but the spirit has to be guided to the victim,66600:35:49.000 --> 00:35:50.920
and in this case, it's being done with the mirror.66700:35:51.239 --> 00:35:52.800
It will go where the mirror is.66800:35:53.039 --> 00:35:56.360
I still don't understand Bill. I can understand why he66900:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.360
might want to get rid of you, But what did67000:35:59.400 --> 00:35:59.559
he have?67100:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.800
Again? Dead be He didn't have anything against her, but67200:36:02.960 --> 00:36:08.039
there was something of hers he wanted her life, her67300:36:08.159 --> 00:36:12.079
life during the mom I told you about missus Lansing yesterday.67400:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.000
Than While the story was that she was quite old67500:36:15.159 --> 00:36:18.000
and ill, she turned out to be young and well.67600:36:18.199 --> 00:36:22.039
In the tract, yes well, according to the grim was67700:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.440
the books of black Magic. When you raise a spirit,67800:36:26.039 --> 00:36:28.800
you can also make a bargain with it, give it67900:36:28.880 --> 00:36:31.639
the life of someone else in exchange for some more68000:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.559
time for yourself or someone close to you.68100:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.239
I told you it was impossible.68200:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.079
I would have said so too a week or so ago.68300:36:40.280 --> 00:36:44.000
But no, I don't think so. I think it's true.68400:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.840
What are you going to do about it? I've not68500:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.079
got to get rid of the mirror, destroy it.68600:36:50.719 --> 00:36:52.360
No, No, I'm not sure I can do that.68700:36:53.880 --> 00:36:56.039
I'm going to act as if it were all true,68800:36:56.920 --> 00:36:59.800
all possible, and fight fire with.68900:37:01.719 --> 00:37:03.039
I'm going to get the mirror back.69000:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.119
To Lansing, give it back to him.69100:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.760
No no, put it in his house without his knowing it.69200:37:10.079 --> 00:37:10.800
How can you do that?69300:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.840
I think I can. He has a class this afternoon.69400:37:14.719 --> 00:37:15.880
Ye, But what about his wife?69500:37:16.079 --> 00:37:17.519
We should probably go out sometime.69600:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.199
If she doesn't a phone her, I'll give her a message.69700:37:20.239 --> 00:37:21.239
It'll get her out of the house.69800:37:21.679 --> 00:37:23.960
Bill, I'm coming with you?69900:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.559
All right, Beth, come ony?70000:37:39.559 --> 00:37:40.320
How did you get in?70100:37:41.440 --> 00:37:42.679
The back door was open?70200:37:43.280 --> 00:37:44.599
You're sure knowing's home?70300:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.400
You saw his wife leave a minute ago.70400:37:46.719 --> 00:37:49.719
Yes, what do you want me to do?70500:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.039
Wait here with the door open a crack so you70600:37:53.079 --> 00:37:53.679
can see out?70700:37:53.880 --> 00:37:54.280
All right?70800:37:54.800 --> 00:37:55.599
But where are you going?70900:37:56.280 --> 00:37:58.400
And do his study even belong?71000:37:59.079 --> 00:37:59.719
I'm frightened.71100:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.719
No, no, no, I'll be back as quick as I can.71200:38:02.000 --> 00:38:03.199
All right, go ahead?71300:38:08.559 --> 00:38:08.960
What is it?71400:38:10.280 --> 00:38:14.800
Nothing? The clock started me? Will you be much longer?71500:38:15.119 --> 00:38:15.159
No?71600:38:15.760 --> 00:38:20.760
No, you hear a man? You think it's safe? Yeah?71700:38:22.880 --> 00:38:23.360
What is it?71800:38:24.440 --> 00:38:26.519
I hid the mirror behind the books on one of71900:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.119
the shelves.72000:38:27.239 --> 00:38:29.880
But while I was here, I thought i'd look at72100:38:29.920 --> 00:38:36.320
his desk and I found this box, this rod it's72200:38:36.440 --> 00:38:37.519
used for raising.72300:38:37.360 --> 00:38:41.119
Spirits and that other thing that it's all wrapped up.72400:38:41.480 --> 00:38:44.360
Yeah, I was just going to look at it. I72500:38:44.440 --> 00:38:44.719
think it.72600:38:46.360 --> 00:38:49.280
Yes, it's an our fame.72700:38:49.719 --> 00:38:53.239
What's that? Well, that's a that's a magic knife that's72800:38:53.360 --> 00:38:55.920
used to control a spirit once it's been evoked.72900:38:57.440 --> 00:38:59.880
This is the seam of Solomon here on the hilt.73000:39:00.079 --> 00:39:03.079
And it is all true as yeah.73100:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.159
Yeah, yeah it looks that way, Phil.73200:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.000
You got rid of the mirror, so so let's go just.73300:39:08.039 --> 00:39:11.039
A second day. I want to think. I don't want73400:39:11.079 --> 00:39:13.119
him to be able to do anything like this again.73500:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.000
But I can't take the whole box. I mean, if73600:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.400
I do, he'll know someone was here. On the other hand, yes,73700:39:20.960 --> 00:39:22.079
I can take the yell.73800:39:22.119 --> 00:39:23.239
Don't I do the same thing?73900:39:23.360 --> 00:39:23.519
Bill?74000:39:23.639 --> 00:39:24.519
Let him know we were here.74100:39:24.719 --> 00:39:25.519
No, not right away.74200:39:26.519 --> 00:39:29.519
See when I was here yesterday, I saw, Well, there74300:39:29.559 --> 00:39:33.639
it is a dagger. I'll wrap that up and I'll74400:39:33.639 --> 00:39:35.559
put it in the box instead of the r fame.74500:39:35.840 --> 00:39:37.760
What will happen if he tries to use it?74600:39:39.719 --> 00:39:40.280
I don't know.74700:39:49.480 --> 00:39:53.639
All right, man, is it time we said midnight? You74800:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.320
are sure he's there in his room now? He has74900:39:57.360 --> 00:40:01.000
an early class tomorrow, so I would assume. So I75000:40:01.119 --> 00:40:03.159
hold the box while I like the incense.75100:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.519
Arnold, I don't like this.75200:40:05.880 --> 00:40:06.199
Why not?75300:40:06.519 --> 00:40:10.800
We've never done anything like it before twice, not just75400:40:10.960 --> 00:40:13.119
in the same place, but within a few weeks.75500:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.639
We have no choice mire be suspicious.75600:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.440
And if he goes on Prime asking questions, yeah, all right,75700:40:21.480 --> 00:40:25.800
give me the rod here, pile.75800:40:27.719 --> 00:40:28.800
Wherever you are.75900:40:30.599 --> 00:40:35.320
Hear me, do you hear me?76000:40:35.519 --> 00:40:37.840
Pile with this rod?76100:40:38.079 --> 00:40:42.239
And in the names, don't get them I'm ut ill76200:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.960
God and Old Gustna, I summon thee.76300:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.599
There it is Arnold over there near the bookcase.76400:40:50.800 --> 00:40:51.199
I see it.76500:40:52.360 --> 00:40:56.400
Give me the off him here, stay where you are.76600:40:58.199 --> 00:40:59.320
I hold the off him.76700:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.039
I have another life for a man in this style.76800:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.199
He has your mirror.76900:41:09.320 --> 00:41:15.760
Go to him and destroy him. Why are you looking77000:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.360
at me that way? Why aren't you going? I tell77100:41:19.400 --> 00:41:20.639
you he has your mirror?77200:41:23.719 --> 00:41:25.039
Bill, we are famo.77300:41:25.039 --> 00:41:27.840
It's my person, dagger, quick find it.77400:41:28.320 --> 00:41:31.119
If you don't, no, no give.77500:41:30.960 --> 00:41:31.559
Away from me.77600:41:31.840 --> 00:41:32.119
Please?77700:41:45.000 --> 00:41:46.039
What time is it now?77800:41:46.760 --> 00:41:47.679
Quarter after twelve?77900:41:48.440 --> 00:41:50.000
Do you think he's tried to do anything?78000:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.559
I don't know, and I don't know how we'll be78100:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.320
able to find out.78200:41:54.039 --> 00:41:54.840
What's that?78300:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.280
It's a police car. It's going that way at the78400:42:00.320 --> 00:42:09.880
Lancing House. Why let me see if I can find out? Well, Security,78500:42:10.800 --> 00:42:13.639
This is William Taylor on Maple Street. One of your78600:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.519
squad cars just went by, going over towards Willow Road.78700:42:16.639 --> 00:42:17.280
Do you know why?78800:42:18.360 --> 00:42:25.320
I mean that you know? Is there anything wrong? I? Oh, oh,78900:42:25.440 --> 00:42:31.639
I see, thank you. They're not sure what's wrong.79000:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.039
Someone on Willow Road called and said they heard terrible79100:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.480
screams coming from number forty five.79200:42:39.800 --> 00:42:45.039
Is there someone with being murdered. Oh, yes, their.79300:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.960
House with you. What are you going to do?79400:42:49.119 --> 00:42:50.400
Are you going to say anything?79500:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.599
What would be the point? Do you think anyone would79600:42:55.639 --> 00:43:05.440
believe it? Of course no one would believe it. Things79700:43:05.599 --> 00:43:10.519
like that don't happen, at least not today. Oh, people79800:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.280
may have thought they were possible once. There are many79900:43:14.519 --> 00:43:17.880
medieval tales of men who tried to use the powers80000:43:17.920 --> 00:43:21.719
of evil for their own ends and were finally destroyed80100:43:21.800 --> 00:43:34.320
by them. And you, as I told you, the tale80200:43:34.360 --> 00:43:39.440
you just heard was a work of fiction, completely imaginary.80300:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.119
But I am reminded of what Shakespeare said, Why do80400:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.400
I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image that unfix80500:43:49.559 --> 00:43:53.280
my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs?80600:43:53.320 --> 00:43:58.000
Against the use of nature present fears are less than80700:43:58.480 --> 00:44:05.599
horrible imaginings. Our cast included Mendel Kramer, Marion Seldis, Tony Roberts,80800:44:06.159 --> 00:44:07.079
and Phoebe Dorian.80900:44:08.079 --> 00:44:11.039
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.81000:44:12.039 --> 00:44:12.599
This is E. G.81100:44:12.800 --> 00:44:16.119
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for81200:44:16.280 --> 00:44:18.559
another adventure in the macabre.81300:44:19.960 --> 00:44:24.039
Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.81400:44:25.480 --> 00:44:29.280
The preceding Mystery Theater program was furnished by the CBS81500:44:29.679 --> 00:44:33.639
Radio Network invites you stay tuned now for fifteen minutes81600:44:33.679 --> 00:44:36.559
of the latest news from the WR Newsroom with John Scott.81700:44:36.760 --> 00:44:39.519
This is WR in New York and RKO General Station.81800:44:47.280 --> 00:44:55.519
My dear, you look a bit peakd Have you not81900:44:55.719 --> 00:45:02.119
been sleeping at night? I find those little slices of82000:45:02.360 --> 00:45:10.920
death to be quite disappointing. Some nights it may be82100:45:11.119 --> 00:45:14.480
a joy, other nights it may be terror.82200:45:16.039 --> 00:45:16.440
Hmmm.82300:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.880
I suppose in a way they feel mostly like a82400:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.760
shipment of mute fate.82500:45:40.079 --> 00:45:42.599
Did you miss out on that big football game last week?82600:45:43.840 --> 00:45:47.000
Can't get rid of that head cold? When they get82700:45:47.000 --> 00:46:01.840
away from it all? CBS offers your Escape. You are82800:46:01.920 --> 00:46:04.199
groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a82900:46:04.280 --> 00:46:09.559
ship at sea, moving carefully step by step, searching intently83000:46:09.679 --> 00:46:12.679
for something you dread to find, because you know that83100:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.199
this ship carries a cargo of death.83200:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.039
The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape,83300:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.920
produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully plotted83400:46:23.960 --> 00:46:26.519
to free you from the four walls of today for83500:46:26.639 --> 00:46:28.320
a half hour of high adventure.83600:46:34.800 --> 00:46:38.000
Tonight, we escape to a harbor front in Venezuela and83700:46:38.119 --> 00:46:41.639
a grim voyage that started there, As told by Martin83800:46:41.760 --> 00:46:45.559
Storm and his gripping story, A shipment of mute fate.83900:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.760
Stopped on the wharf at Laguira, looked up the gang84000:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.480
plank toward the liner Chan Cave, standing quietly there at84100:47:06.519 --> 00:47:10.480
her moorings. The day was warm under a bright tropic sun,84200:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.960
when the harbor beyond the ship lay drowsy and silent.84300:47:15.320 --> 00:47:17.920
But all at once, in the midst of these peaceful surroundings,84400:47:18.199 --> 00:47:21.480
a cold chill gripped me, and I shivered with sudden dread,84500:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.039
dread of the thing I was doing and was about84600:47:25.079 --> 00:47:30.400
to do. But too much had happened to turn back.84700:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.920
Now I'd gone too far to stop well. I set84800:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.079
the box down on the edge of the wharf, placed84900:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.079
it carefully so as to be in plain sight and85000:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.039
within gunshot of the captain's bridge, and then I turned85100:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.599
and started up the gang plank. I knew what I85200:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.480
was going to do, but I couldn't forget that a85300:47:47.599 --> 00:47:50.880
certain pair of beady eyes were watching every move I made,85400:47:52.000 --> 00:47:56.920
eyes that never blinked and never closed, just watched and waited.85500:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.239
Oh, my big pot, it's mister Warner.85600:48:01.280 --> 00:48:03.519
Hello, mother Willis. How's the best looking stewardess on the85700:48:03.599 --> 00:48:04.079
Seventh Sea.85800:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.440
I'm fine, mister Warner, I guess better run along, now get.85900:48:08.360 --> 00:48:10.800
On, now, Wait a minute, that's a fine greeting after86000:48:10.920 --> 00:48:11.440
two months.86100:48:11.599 --> 00:48:13.079
Well, it's just that I'm so busy.86200:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.519
I don't believe a word of it. Sailing days tomorrow.86300:48:15.559 --> 00:48:16.800
You're simply avoiding me, that's all.86400:48:16.880 --> 00:48:17.920
Oh no, really, I'm not.86500:48:18.039 --> 00:48:19.599
And on the trip down from New York you said86600:48:19.599 --> 00:48:21.639
I was your favorite pastor, but I'm only a wait86700:48:21.639 --> 00:48:23.239
a minute, what's that you're carrying in your career?86800:48:23.480 --> 00:48:23.719
Nothing?86900:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.599
Just supplies, supplies. Let's have a lucky No, please, what87000:48:28.719 --> 00:48:30.119
do you know? It's a cat?87100:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.000
It's Clara, mister Warner. Mister Bowman said I had to87200:48:34.079 --> 00:48:36.079
leave her ashore and I just couldn't.87300:48:36.280 --> 00:48:38.199
Who's mister Bowman, the new chief steward.87400:48:38.880 --> 00:48:41.599
Clara has been aboard with me for two years and87500:48:41.719 --> 00:48:43.880
I just can't leave her here in a foreign country,87600:48:44.679 --> 00:48:46.320
especially with her condition.87700:48:46.599 --> 00:48:47.519
It's a delicate no.87800:48:48.519 --> 00:48:51.039
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, I hope you87900:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.920
get away with it. You won't tell anyone, not a soul.88000:48:55.480 --> 00:48:57.559
As a matter of fact, if things don't work out right,88100:48:58.000 --> 00:48:59.440
we may both end up smuggling.88200:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.199
I was happy to have you on board on the88300:49:08.239 --> 00:49:11.559
trip down two months ago. Christopher, I'm very glad you're88400:49:11.559 --> 00:49:13.559
coming along with this on the run back to New York.88500:49:13.639 --> 00:49:16.760
Thanks, Captain. When there is one thing though, I'm having88600:49:16.800 --> 00:49:18.559
a little trouble with the customs men here, and I88700:49:18.639 --> 00:49:19.480
wondered if you might.88800:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.920
Just can't do it, Christopher, I just cabled your father88900:49:23.039 --> 00:49:25.519
this morning, told him I've done it for you if89000:49:25.559 --> 00:49:28.679
I possibly could send it a question new York.89100:49:28.800 --> 00:49:31.199
You know, yeah, I thought he would. I wired him89200:49:31.199 --> 00:49:32.239
from upriver last week.89300:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.840
I hate to refuse, but it's absolutely out of the.89400:49:34.920 --> 00:49:37.039
Question, the captain, when I'm afraid, I don't follow you.89500:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.880
There responsibility to the passengers, Son, But have women and89600:49:41.039 --> 00:49:44.679
children aboard on a liner. The safety the passenger comes89700:49:44.679 --> 00:49:48.199
ahead of anything. But with proper precaution, something might happen.89800:49:48.519 --> 00:49:52.639
I don't know what, but something might. You've carried worse things,89900:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.639
there isn't anything worse. Then you skip it a float90000:49:55.679 --> 00:49:59.719
to bare me out. Now, Christopher, I simply can take90100:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.440
the that's final.90200:50:08.480 --> 00:50:10.800
Final. Well, it wasn't final. If I could do anything90300:50:10.840 --> 00:50:13.000
about it, I hadn't come down here to spend two90400:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.119
months in that stinking back country and then be stopped90500:50:15.119 --> 00:50:19.599
on the edge of the wharf two months of it heat, rain, insects, malaria.90600:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.559
I'd gone clear in past the headwaters of the Orinoco,90700:50:23.039 --> 00:50:25.320
traveled through country where every step along the jungle trail90800:50:25.400 --> 00:50:30.760
might be the last one. Oh, Sanchez, you better start90900:50:30.800 --> 00:50:31.760
looking for a place to camp.91000:50:31.960 --> 00:50:34.440
Be dark in a little while, sor very soon we91100:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.039
turned the river camp on rocks by water.91200:50:37.639 --> 00:50:38.679
This very bad.91300:50:38.599 --> 00:50:41.000
Country, this very bad country. You've been saying that for91400:50:41.119 --> 00:50:42.599
ten days. Now, very bad country.91500:50:42.599 --> 00:50:45.280
We wonder this very bad country.91600:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.440
I'll skip it. For all the luck we've had so far,91700:50:47.480 --> 00:50:48.800
it might as well be Central.91800:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.559
Park, the central Bike. I understand.91900:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.440
I'll never mind if we don't find something here.92000:50:55.679 --> 00:50:56.599
What's the matter? Quiet?92100:50:56.679 --> 00:51:04.760
Now, sexus? What's wrong in the bath? See bush Master,92200:51:05.559 --> 00:51:08.800
the deadliest snake in the world. Bush Master. Its Latin92300:51:08.880 --> 00:51:12.880
name was lacasis muto mute fate. It lay there in92400:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.079
the center of the path, a ten foot length of92500:51:15.199 --> 00:51:19.079
silent death, coiled loosely in an undulent loop, ready to92600:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.599
strike violently at the least movement. Here was the one92700:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.079
snake that would go after any animal that walks or92800:51:25.159 --> 00:51:28.480
any man. It lay there and watched us, not moving,92900:51:29.079 --> 00:51:33.199
not afraid, ready for anything. The splotch of its colors93000:51:33.320 --> 00:51:36.480
stood out like some horrible, gaudy floor man, lying there93100:51:36.519 --> 00:51:39.639
on the brown background of the jungle, waiting for someone93200:51:39.679 --> 00:51:42.159
to step on it. Here was what I'd come two93300:51:42.239 --> 00:51:46.280
thousand miles for a bush master, Sanchez. I didn't want93400:51:46.280 --> 00:51:46.920
that snake kill.93500:51:48.159 --> 00:51:51.599
He gone bush Muster A very smart, very quick must93600:51:51.719 --> 00:51:53.639
always see bullet in time to dodge.93700:51:53.679 --> 00:51:55.480
Well, anyway, he's gone, and the only one we've seen93800:51:55.519 --> 00:51:56.199
in five weeks.93900:51:56.320 --> 00:51:59.559
Oh, we find the others this very bad country.94000:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.599
Off that gun the next time. Don't shoot you understand?94100:52:02.920 --> 00:52:03.800
Why are you saying no?94200:52:04.000 --> 00:52:04.320
Shoot?94300:52:04.800 --> 00:52:06.280
You want bush muster?94400:52:06.559 --> 00:52:10.320
Sure, but I want it alive, Marisa Cristo.94500:52:11.000 --> 00:52:14.440
Senor Wonner. You tell me you want bush muster, but94600:52:14.599 --> 00:52:15.840
you not say alive.94700:52:16.000 --> 00:52:17.360
You're getting two hundred dollars for it?94800:52:18.000 --> 00:52:21.960
Or dead man? What is two hundred dollars? Tomorrow we94900:52:22.079 --> 00:52:23.079
go back to Caracas.95000:52:23.280 --> 00:52:24.719
I'll make it five hundred sentences.95100:52:24.840 --> 00:52:29.320
I catch water, snake, rattlesnake, any other kind, but I95200:52:29.519 --> 00:52:30.559
know catch bush.95300:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.400
Muster, Sachs. I'll give you one thousand dollars.95400:52:32.519 --> 00:52:34.079
We go back to Caracas.95500:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.199
What cost me fifteen hundred American dollars. But three days95600:52:38.280 --> 00:52:40.400
later Scianceus brought me the snake in a rubber bag.95700:52:41.119 --> 00:52:42.880
It was shaking so hard I thought for a moment95800:52:42.960 --> 00:52:43.800
the thing had struck him.95900:52:44.199 --> 00:52:47.440
One thing, you make sure, Senor Wonder, not turn him96000:52:47.480 --> 00:52:51.159
loose in Venezuela, because he know either one who catch him,96100:52:51.760 --> 00:52:53.320
and he know where I live.96200:52:53.760 --> 00:52:55.440
All right, Sciences, I'll keep an eye on him.96300:52:55.559 --> 00:52:58.159
Come then, he know you pay me to catch him96400:52:58.719 --> 00:53:02.559
all the time he wants. And wait, you'll no forget that,96500:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.599
Senor Warner, because he no forget not ever.96600:53:15.079 --> 00:53:17.440
Well, after going through all that trouble and danger and96700:53:17.519 --> 00:53:20.360
laying out fifteen hundred bucks, I wasn't going to let96800:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.760
a pigheaded ship captain stop me at the last minute,96900:53:23.159 --> 00:53:24.800
at least not as long as the cables were still97000:53:24.840 --> 00:53:29.159
in operation. Between Laguira and New York. Good morning, Captain Wood.97100:53:29.360 --> 00:53:30.960
The boy at the hotel says, you want to see me.97200:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.920
That's right, Christopher, sit down, thank you. It seems you97300:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.119
weren't willing to let matters turn the way we left97400:53:38.199 --> 00:53:38.760
them yesterday.97500:53:39.119 --> 00:53:40.840
I'm sorry to go over your head Captain Wood. But97600:53:40.920 --> 00:53:43.159
I had to The museum sent me all the way97700:53:43.199 --> 00:53:44.960
down here for it, and I'm not going to be97800:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.320
stopped by red tape. This will be the only live97900:53:47.400 --> 00:53:49.199
Bushmaster ever brought to the United States.98000:53:49.280 --> 00:53:49.679
Mmmm.98100:53:51.079 --> 00:53:55.280
Yes, And if I had my woeve it well orders98200:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.320
or orders, I got a cable from the head office98300:53:58.360 --> 00:54:03.320
this morning. All right, I suppose we talk about precautions.98400:54:03.519 --> 00:54:04.440
I'll handle it any way.98500:54:04.480 --> 00:54:07.880
You say, got to have a stronger box. That creates98600:54:07.920 --> 00:54:08.480
too flimsy.98700:54:08.639 --> 00:54:11.000
What's stronger than it looks. And that wire screen on98800:54:11.079 --> 00:54:13.280
top it hold a wildcat. But anyway, I bought a98900:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.719
heavy sea chest this morning. I will put the crate99000:54:15.760 --> 00:54:16.280
inside of it.99100:54:16.480 --> 00:54:17.320
It sounds all right.99200:54:17.760 --> 00:54:20.119
You got a lock on it, heavy padlock. It's fixed99300:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.079
so that the lid can be propped open the crack99400:54:22.159 --> 00:54:24.400
without unlocking it. The snake's gotta have air.99500:54:24.800 --> 00:54:28.760
But in dirty weather that lid stays shut. And take99600:54:28.840 --> 00:54:32.000
no chances. Fair enough, We'll keep the thing in my99700:54:32.119 --> 00:54:35.360
inside cabin where I sleep. I can have it in99800:54:35.400 --> 00:54:39.280
the baggage room and nobody on boards to.99900:54:39.320 --> 00:54:39.880
Know about it.100000:54:40.199 --> 00:54:42.639
Whatever you say, captain, But we won't have any trouble100100:54:43.079 --> 00:54:45.159
after all, It's only an animal. It doesn't have any100200:54:45.239 --> 00:54:46.119
magical powers.100300:54:46.840 --> 00:54:49.599
I saw a bushmaster in the zoo crack Us once100400:54:50.840 --> 00:54:54.599
headed in a glass cage with double walls. It had100500:54:54.719 --> 00:54:59.000
never moved, just lay there, look at yours as long100600:54:59.039 --> 00:54:59.880
as you would insight.100700:55:01.480 --> 00:55:02.639
Do you a man? The creeps.100800:55:02.920 --> 00:55:05.239
I didn't know they had a bushmaster at the Caracas zoo.100900:55:05.559 --> 00:55:10.119
They don't now. Found a glass broken one morning, the101000:55:10.199 --> 00:55:15.400
snake gone night watchman was dead. I never found out101100:55:15.440 --> 00:55:15.960
what happened.101200:55:16.119 --> 00:55:18.559
Well, the watchman must have broken the glass by accident101300:55:18.559 --> 00:55:19.000
in some way.101400:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.119
The way they figured it, the glass was broken from101500:55:22.159 --> 00:55:27.360
the inside. We sailed in four hours.101600:55:33.400 --> 00:55:36.679
We steamed north into the Caribbean, with perfect weather and101700:55:36.760 --> 00:55:39.800
a sea as smooth as an inland lake. The barometer101800:55:39.920 --> 00:55:41.880
dropped a little on the third day, but cleared up101900:55:41.920 --> 00:55:46.000
overnight and left nothing worse than a heavy swell. But102000:55:46.119 --> 00:55:48.159
in spite of the calm seas and the pleasant weather,102100:55:48.840 --> 00:55:53.119
I found myself feeling more and more often an ominous foreboding.102200:55:53.880 --> 00:55:57.159
I was developing an almost unnatural fear of that snake.102300:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.039
I stayed clear of the passengers, pretty much got the102400:56:01.079 --> 00:56:03.760
habit of dropping into Captain Wood's quarter several times a day.102500:56:04.719 --> 00:56:07.960
He kept the heavy box underneath his berth. I'd approach102600:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.199
it quietly and shine my flashlight through the open crack.102700:56:12.360 --> 00:56:14.960
Never once could I catch that twelve foot devil asleep102800:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.079
or even excited. He'd be lying there, half coiled, his102900:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.679
head raised a little, staring out of those beady black eyes,103000:56:23.480 --> 00:56:26.679
waiting and still be like that when I'd turn away103100:56:26.679 --> 00:56:30.800
to leave. Maybe that's what bothered me, A horrible and103200:56:31.039 --> 00:56:34.599
constant watchful waiting. What the name of heaven was he103300:56:34.679 --> 00:56:35.000
waiting for?103400:56:35.639 --> 00:56:37.079
Well, hello there, mister Warner.103500:56:37.239 --> 00:56:38.760
Oh how are you, mother Willis?103600:56:38.880 --> 00:56:39.039
Why?103700:56:39.119 --> 00:56:40.760
But you and the Captain spend an awful lot of103800:56:40.800 --> 00:56:43.760
time around this cabin. I'm beginning to think that two103900:56:43.800 --> 00:56:45.639
of you must have some guilty secret.104000:56:45.800 --> 00:56:48.159
Oh nothing like that, mother Willis. I don't know about104100:56:48.159 --> 00:56:50.360
Captain Wood, but I well, I certainly don't have any104200:56:50.400 --> 00:57:04.159
guilty secret. Well, she's running quite a swell out there,104300:57:04.239 --> 00:57:04.760
mister Bowman.104400:57:04.920 --> 00:57:08.239
Yeah, it's a little heavy, all right, mister Warner. Yes,104500:57:08.320 --> 00:57:10.320
a storm passed through to the west of us yesterday.104600:57:10.360 --> 00:57:12.800
When the glass dropped, I think it missed us then, huh, Yeah,104700:57:12.920 --> 00:57:16.079
that's that's what the mate figures sure stirred up some water.104800:57:16.199 --> 00:57:19.119
Though this will put half the passengers in their bunks,104900:57:19.280 --> 00:57:20.920
makes it great for my department.105000:57:21.360 --> 00:57:23.320
Two thirds of them will want a steward to hold105100:57:23.360 --> 00:57:23.760
their heads.105200:57:23.880 --> 00:57:26.840
He'll keep mother willis so busy, she'll have wait. Look105300:57:26.840 --> 00:57:27.719
at the size of that wave.105400:57:27.840 --> 00:57:29.679
Huh great Jehosapan.105500:57:29.800 --> 00:57:31.199
We're gonna take it on the port bow.105600:57:31.480 --> 00:57:40.719
Hang on, Well, that was a freak if there ever105700:57:40.880 --> 00:57:43.119
was one, not another wave in sight.105800:57:43.280 --> 00:57:46.159
To see him like that sometimes, even in a calm sea.105900:57:47.079 --> 00:57:50.039
And I gotta get below, mister Warner. That water probably106000:57:50.079 --> 00:57:51.480
did some damage on the officer's deck.106100:57:51.559 --> 00:57:52.280
Yey, suppose it?106200:57:52.800 --> 00:57:53.440
What did you say?106300:57:53.960 --> 00:57:56.639
The wheel companion way was open on the port side.106400:57:57.119 --> 00:57:59.360
Rich Cabins must have taken a pretty bad smashing up106500:57:59.599 --> 00:58:04.599
the right below the Here is something wrong, mister Warner.106600:58:04.880 --> 00:58:07.880
No, no, nothing at all, mister woman, at least I106700:58:08.000 --> 00:58:17.480
hope not. I looked first for Captain Wood and couldn't106800:58:17.519 --> 00:58:19.320
find him. Of course, I know it was only one106900:58:19.440 --> 00:58:21.360
chance in the thousand, but the chances against that freak107000:58:21.400 --> 00:58:23.360
wave were one on a thousand and two. But I107100:58:23.360 --> 00:58:25.360
couldn't waste any more time, so I stumbled down the107200:58:25.400 --> 00:58:29.599
companionway and along the passage to the captain's cabin. Oh, oh,107300:58:29.679 --> 00:58:31.719
come on in, mister Warner, brother willis hi?107400:58:31.840 --> 00:58:33.920
Isn't this cabin a mess? Trying to get some of107500:58:33.960 --> 00:58:34.960
these things out to drive?107600:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.679
Yeah? Well, I just wanted to check where's that box107700:58:37.719 --> 00:58:38.960
that was under the captain's bunk.107800:58:39.000 --> 00:58:39.760
Shrewd out on that.107900:58:44.760 --> 00:58:48.079
But where we didn't know? It was nearly dark when108000:58:48.079 --> 00:58:49.440
we met together, and get on a chart.108100:58:50.480 --> 00:58:53.159
I don't all the way around it. We've risked all108200:58:53.199 --> 00:58:56.079
the time we can. We up to wall in the passengers. Oh,108300:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.400
we do it, Captain, call them all together in the lounge. O.108400:58:58.559 --> 00:59:00.360
If we did anything like that, we'd be asking for108500:59:00.400 --> 00:59:02.320
a panic. We'll get one, whether we ask for it108600:59:02.440 --> 00:59:04.199
or not. I pick a few men and go through108700:59:04.239 --> 00:59:08.480
the cabin decks, tell them individually inside deck cabins. Watch108800:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.800
but any act that looks as though it might cause trouble,108900:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.480
and we will keep an eye on them. Handle the109000:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.119
crew will go the same way, right right, Okay, As109100:59:16.159 --> 00:59:18.960
soon as you've finished all the deck offices and start109200:59:19.000 --> 00:59:21.800
searching again, our only chance of preventing a root is109300:59:21.840 --> 00:59:23.280
to find that damnable snake.109400:59:28.800 --> 00:59:31.880
The slow nightmare that followed grew worse. For the hour,109500:59:33.159 --> 00:59:35.719
none of us slept. All the ship's officers not on109600:59:35.880 --> 00:59:40.079
duty kept on with that endless search. Passengers locked themselves109700:59:40.159 --> 00:59:43.599
in their cabins, were huddled together in the lounges, knowing109800:59:43.719 --> 00:59:45.639
all the time that no spot on board could be109900:59:45.760 --> 00:59:49.280
called safe. Fear was a heavy fog, and the lungs110000:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.320
of all of us and every light on the vessel110100:59:51.400 --> 00:59:55.679
burned throughout the night. Morning came and brought no relief.110200:59:56.559 --> 00:59:58.280
Terror and tension mounted by the hour.110301:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.159
Now, missus Crane, stop getting yourself all work tappen. Go110401:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.960
back to your cabin. The hurried thing's probably crawled overboard anyway.110501:00:08.039 --> 01:00:10.400
You're just saying that you're paid to say it.110601:00:10.840 --> 01:00:11.360
You don't know.110701:00:11.719 --> 01:00:12.360
Nobody does.110801:00:12.480 --> 01:00:14.239
Now, Now everything's gonna be all right.110901:00:14.519 --> 01:00:17.079
If you could only do something, if all of us111001:00:17.119 --> 01:00:18.119
could only get off.111101:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.840
The ship, they could umilicate it. Yes, that's what they've111201:00:21.880 --> 01:00:22.239
got to do.111301:00:22.840 --> 01:00:23.719
We've got to get up.111401:00:24.159 --> 01:00:26.840
Wait, mister Bowman, he's gonna jump.111501:00:28.199 --> 01:00:28.599
Let me go.111601:00:32.960 --> 01:00:33.920
Nice work with a woman.111701:00:34.400 --> 01:00:35.280
Get it out our cabin.111801:00:35.320 --> 01:00:36.719
Whatever you do, don't turn a loose.111901:00:42.320 --> 01:00:43.760
You never know when it might strike you.112001:00:43.760 --> 01:00:45.840
You can't put on a cod and move a chair112101:00:45.880 --> 01:00:46.880
without risking your life.112201:00:47.079 --> 01:00:48.280
Now, something's got to be done.112301:00:48.559 --> 01:00:52.360
It might be right here in the solouth A got112401:00:52.440 --> 01:00:54.079
a quiet down, take an easy, take your knees and112501:00:54.199 --> 01:00:55.760
h you're a great officer.112601:00:55.960 --> 01:00:57.239
Why don't you know something about it?112701:00:57.559 --> 01:00:59.440
Something might be crawling around here, right on.112801:00:59.559 --> 01:01:00.480
Our feet somewhere.112901:01:00.840 --> 01:01:02.599
I said, shut up, are you're trying to start a panic?113001:01:02.760 --> 01:01:03.639
I gotta right to talk.113101:01:03.719 --> 01:01:04.400
I don't want to die.113201:01:04.480 --> 01:01:05.239
No one's gonna check.113301:01:12.639 --> 01:01:15.840
The second night passed, and morning came around again, a113401:01:15.920 --> 01:01:19.280
gray and rainy day, just as grim and tense dragged113501:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.880
passed and the night came down again, third night of113601:01:22.960 --> 01:01:26.360
the terror. Again, every light burned, and the whole ship113701:01:26.519 --> 01:01:29.920
seethed in the throes of incipient panic, faced by a113801:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.360
horror they never met on the sea before. Crew and113901:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.800
officers alike were on the verge of revolt. Passengers sat114001:01:35.880 --> 01:01:38.079
huddled in a trance like stupor, ready to scream at114101:01:38.079 --> 01:01:41.920
the slightest unknown sound. At seven bells, I made my114201:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.400
way forward to the chart room and found Captain Wood114301:01:44.440 --> 01:01:45.199
bent over a desk.114401:01:47.760 --> 01:01:51.519
H Hello, Christopher, come on in and sit down.114501:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.079
It's got to be somewhere, Captain Wood. It's got to be.114601:01:54.719 --> 01:01:55.239
I don't know.114701:01:55.559 --> 01:01:57.800
You could search this ship for six months and never114801:01:57.920 --> 01:02:01.239
touch all the places aboard. You can only hold out114901:02:01.280 --> 01:02:02.320
for two more days.115001:02:02.400 --> 01:02:04.039
We'll be in what's the home office?115101:02:04.079 --> 01:02:04.239
Say?115201:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.760
Oh, here's the lady's wireless from them? Keep quiet and115301:02:08.039 --> 01:02:12.880
keep coming. Else can we do? How is it on115401:02:12.960 --> 01:02:13.360
the decks?115501:02:13.559 --> 01:02:14.119
Pretty bad?115601:02:14.559 --> 01:02:15.400
Anything could happen.115701:02:16.400 --> 01:02:18.079
That's why I took the guns away from the men115801:02:19.000 --> 01:02:21.519
on pistol shopping. We'd never write on our hands.115901:02:21.559 --> 01:02:23.679
Oh the whole thing's my fault, Captain, That's what I116001:02:23.760 --> 01:02:27.280
can't forget. There's only some way I could pay for116101:02:27.400 --> 01:02:28.360
it myself alone.116201:02:29.639 --> 01:02:32.599
No, I know how you feel, but it's no more116301:02:32.719 --> 01:02:35.280
your fault than mine. Not the man who asked you116401:02:35.360 --> 01:02:40.679
to bring the snake back alive. Nobody planned this. You'd116501:02:40.719 --> 01:02:42.039
better try and a little sleep.116601:02:42.519 --> 01:02:42.840
Sleep.116701:02:43.400 --> 01:02:46.119
Mister Bowman made some coffee down the stewarts Gally a116801:02:46.159 --> 01:02:49.599
while ago. Better go down, get yourself a cup, and116901:02:49.639 --> 01:02:51.119
then rest up for a couple of hours.117001:02:51.519 --> 01:02:51.760
Rest.117101:02:52.360 --> 01:02:54.960
I can't rest, Christopher, it's no good going.117201:02:55.519 --> 01:02:56.199
What are you going to do?117301:02:56.360 --> 01:02:59.960
You can't help anything this tumble through a hatch, half asleep,117401:03:00.199 --> 01:03:00.960
breaking nicker.117501:03:01.760 --> 01:03:03.159
Go on and get some coffee.117601:03:03.960 --> 01:03:05.840
One way or another. We've got to hold out for117701:03:05.960 --> 01:03:06.760
two more days.117801:03:17.239 --> 01:03:19.840
The light was on in the stewards gallon. My coffee117901:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.920
pot was standing on the stove was still warm, so118001:03:23.039 --> 01:03:25.880
I didn't bother to heat it. I poured out a cup,118101:03:26.679 --> 01:03:28.840
carried it over, and set it on the porcelain tabletop118201:03:28.920 --> 01:03:32.159
in the center of the room. I started to light118301:03:32.159 --> 01:03:35.320
a cigarette. The door of the pan cupboard beneath the118401:03:35.360 --> 01:03:39.000
sink was standing slightly ajar, and I happened to glance118501:03:39.079 --> 01:03:42.360
down toward it. Out from the dark interior the cupboard118601:03:42.440 --> 01:03:46.320
shone two glittering points of light two inches apart. I118701:03:46.400 --> 01:03:50.920
dropped a cigarette and moved slowly backward. I'd found the Bushmaster.118801:03:56.519 --> 01:03:58.679
As I moved, the snake slid out of the cupboard118901:03:58.719 --> 01:04:01.599
in a single, sinuous plo and drew back into a119001:04:01.679 --> 01:04:04.760
loose coil on the galley floor, never taking his eyes119101:04:04.840 --> 01:04:08.480
off me. I moved slowly back, waiting any moment for119201:04:08.559 --> 01:04:12.199
that deadly, slithering strike. How had he known it was me?119301:04:13.320 --> 01:04:16.159
He'd stayed quiet when Bowman was here. How did he119401:04:16.239 --> 01:04:17.920
know it? It picked the first time in three days119501:04:17.920 --> 01:04:20.840
when I didn't have a gun. Well, my hands touched119601:04:20.840 --> 01:04:23.599
the wall behind me, and I stopped. Only then I119701:04:23.719 --> 01:04:26.719
realized in terror what I'd done. The call button and119801:04:26.760 --> 01:04:28.320
the door were on the far side of the room.119901:04:28.639 --> 01:04:32.039
I backed into a dead end. I stared at the120001:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.239
snake in fascination, expecting any moment the ripping slash of120101:04:35.280 --> 01:04:40.360
those poisoned fangs. The horrid coils tightened a little and120201:04:40.440 --> 01:04:44.000
then were still again. Ten million years of evolution to120301:04:44.039 --> 01:04:48.679
produce this moment. Homo sapiens versus lacasis muta man against120401:04:48.760 --> 01:04:52.920
mute fate, and all the odds were on fate. I120501:04:53.000 --> 01:04:58.559
knew then that I was going to die. I could120601:04:58.559 --> 01:05:00.440
feel a sweat run down between the pain the wall,120701:05:00.480 --> 01:05:03.480
and palms of my hands pressed against it. My skin120801:05:03.599 --> 01:05:06.280
crawled and twitched, and the pit of my stomach was120901:05:06.320 --> 01:05:08.719
as cold as ice. There was no sound but the121001:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.639
rush of blood in my ears. The snake shifted again,121101:05:11.800 --> 01:05:15.760
drawing into a tighter coil, always tighter. Why the devil121201:05:15.760 --> 01:05:18.800
didn't get it over with? And then for just an121301:05:18.840 --> 01:05:22.360
instant his head veered away. Something moved over by the stove.121401:05:22.400 --> 01:05:24.639
I didn't dare turn to look at it. Slowly it121501:05:24.760 --> 01:05:27.480
moved out into my line of vision. There was a121601:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.519
cat that scrawny cat Clara that Mother Willis had sneaked121701:05:30.519 --> 01:05:37.000
aboard in Laguira. Its back was arched and every hair121801:05:37.039 --> 01:05:39.719
stood on end. It moved stiff legged, now walking in121901:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.280
a half circle around the snake. The bushmaster shifted slowly122001:05:43.360 --> 01:05:46.199
and kept watching the cat. He tightened, he was going122101:05:46.280 --> 01:05:50.800
to strike. At any second. He struck and miss. The122201:05:50.920 --> 01:05:53.159
cat was barely out of reach. Now she was walking122301:05:53.199 --> 01:06:01.000
back and forth again. She was asking to die, missed122401:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.159
again by a fraction of an inch. He was striking122501:06:03.199 --> 01:06:06.719
now without even going to a full coil, miss again122601:06:06.800 --> 01:06:09.519
and again, always missing for the barest margin. Each time122701:06:09.599 --> 01:06:11.400
the cat danced barely out of reach, and each time122801:06:11.480 --> 01:06:13.440
she conned with one precise spat of a dairy paw122901:06:13.719 --> 01:06:16.280
bracing her skinny frame and three stiff legs. And then123001:06:16.400 --> 01:06:21.519
suddenly I realized what she was doing. The bushmaster was tiring,123101:06:22.079 --> 01:06:24.360
and one strike was just an instant slow and in123201:06:24.440 --> 01:06:26.719
that split second, sharp claws raked across the evelhead and123301:06:26.800 --> 01:06:28.960
ripped out both of the lidless eyes. That cat had123401:06:28.960 --> 01:06:30.239
deliberately blinded the snake.123501:06:33.199 --> 01:06:33.320
Well.123601:06:33.360 --> 01:06:35.199
He didn't bother to coil now, but slid after in123701:06:35.239 --> 01:06:37.760
a fury striking wildly and rapidly, always missing, and every123801:06:37.800 --> 01:06:40.639
strike was a little slower than the last one, until finally,123901:06:40.840 --> 01:06:42.559
as the snake's neck stretched out at the end of124001:06:42.599 --> 01:06:44.400
a strike, the cat made one leap and sank her124101:06:44.440 --> 01:06:46.239
razor sharp teeth just back of the ugly head, sank124201:06:46.320 --> 01:06:48.639
them in until they crunch bone with tooth and claws.124301:06:48.679 --> 01:06:50.679
She clung as the monster's snake flailed and lashed on124401:06:50.719 --> 01:06:52.679
the floor, striving to get those hideous coils around her,124501:06:52.840 --> 01:06:54.800
trying to break her hold, to shake off the slow124601:06:54.840 --> 01:06:57.000
and certain paralyzed death that gradually crept over him, and124701:06:57.000 --> 01:07:07.119
at last still his struggles forever. I took a deep breath,124801:07:08.320 --> 01:07:12.599
and first in minutes, the cat lay on her side124901:07:12.599 --> 01:07:16.119
on the floor, panting, resting from the fight, just over125001:07:17.519 --> 01:07:21.440
why she had a right to rest. That mangy, brave,125101:07:21.679 --> 01:07:25.639
beautiful alley cat had just saved my life and maybe125201:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.719
others as well. But as I turned toward the stove,125301:07:30.760 --> 01:07:34.199
I suddenly became very humble, and I knew all at125401:07:34.239 --> 01:07:37.360
once what a small thing a human being really is.125501:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.320
I and others aboard were still alive, only by the125601:07:41.360 --> 01:07:46.239
merest accident. There were three reasons why that cat had125701:07:46.280 --> 01:07:49.400
fought and killed the world's deadliest snake, and those three125801:07:49.480 --> 01:07:52.639
reasons came tottering out from under the stove on shaky125901:07:52.679 --> 01:07:57.320
little legs, three kittens with her eyes bright with wonder126001:07:57.400 --> 01:08:01.360
and their tails stiff as pokers. Up on the decks,126101:08:01.599 --> 01:08:04.519
hundreds of passengers were waiting for the news that the126201:08:04.639 --> 01:08:08.000
days and nights of terror were ended. I could wait126301:08:08.000 --> 01:08:12.280
a little longer. I pulled open the doors of the cabinet,126401:08:13.239 --> 01:08:17.279
found a can of milk, and then I dropped down126501:08:17.319 --> 01:08:19.640
on my knees on the floor of the galley.126601:08:39.840 --> 01:08:42.840
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson and126701:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.920
Tonight brought you a shipment of mute Fate by Martin Storm,126801:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.119
adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield, with Jack Webb as126901:08:50.199 --> 01:08:53.279
Chris Warner, Raymond Lawrence as Captain Wood, and d. J.127001:08:53.479 --> 01:08:56.760
Thompson as Mother Willis. The special musical score was conceived127101:08:56.800 --> 01:09:01.720
and conducted by cy Fure. Next week.127201:09:03.560 --> 01:09:06.920
At the same time, when you're tired from a hard127301:09:07.000 --> 01:09:10.119
day at the office or leaning over a hot stove127401:09:10.199 --> 01:09:13.039
all day, when you want to get away from it all,127501:09:13.840 --> 01:09:16.159
CBS again offers you escape.127601:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.319
Good night then until the same time next week. When127701:09:30.439 --> 01:09:37.560
CBS again brings you escape. This is CBS, the Columbia127801:09:37.600 --> 01:09:38.600
Broadcasting System.127901:10:01.239 --> 01:10:06.239
Well, my dear, I suppose it's getting late, but I128001:10:06.439 --> 01:10:12.039
feel like, hm, like the vibe is just right.128101:10:13.319 --> 01:10:13.800
Oh what's that?128201:10:14.880 --> 01:10:21.479
Well, I suppose one could go mad worrying about such things,128301:10:21.640 --> 01:10:28.800
but I try not to enjoy your tea. It's fresh,128401:10:28.920 --> 01:10:36.840
and it's hot, the night is still growing. For some128501:10:37.239 --> 01:10:42.239
the night is like a good novel, ready to rile128601:10:42.399 --> 01:10:48.479
you up. And for others, well, they get the Diary128701:10:49.239 --> 01:10:50.920
of Sophrina Winters.128801:11:05.560 --> 01:11:16.560
Suspense. Wow, this is the man in Black here again128901:11:16.640 --> 01:11:21.920
to introduce Columbia's program Suspense. Our stars denied of Miss129001:11:22.039 --> 01:11:25.359
Agnes Moorehead and mister Ray Collins. We have seen these129101:11:25.399 --> 01:11:29.960
two expert and resourceful players in Citizen Kan The Magnificent Amberson,129201:11:30.439 --> 01:11:33.239
in which Miss Morehead's performance won her the nineteen forty129301:11:33.279 --> 01:11:37.199
two Film Critics Award. Mister Collins will soon be seen129401:11:37.239 --> 01:11:40.760
in the Metro Golden Mayor Technicolor film Salute to the Marines.129501:11:41.960 --> 01:11:44.399
Ms Morehead and mister Collins returned this evening to their129601:11:44.560 --> 01:11:48.600
first love, the CBS Microphone, to appear in a study129701:11:48.680 --> 01:11:54.399
in Terror by Lucille Fletcher called the Diary of Sophronia Winters.129801:11:55.760 --> 01:11:58.640
The story told by this diary is to night's tale129901:11:58.760 --> 01:12:02.439
of suspense. If you have been with us on these130001:12:02.520 --> 01:12:05.680
Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded of130101:12:05.840 --> 01:12:11.000
mystery and suspicion, dangerous adventure. In this series, our tails130201:12:11.079 --> 01:12:14.640
calculated to entreat you, to stir your nerves, to offer130301:12:14.720 --> 01:12:19.479
you a precarious situation, and then withhold a solution until130401:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.239
the last possible moments. And so it is with the130501:12:23.359 --> 01:12:26.960
Diary of Sophronia Winters and the performances of Magnus Morehead130601:12:27.000 --> 01:12:31.399
and Ray Collins, we again hope to keep you in suspense.130701:12:40.920 --> 01:12:45.399
February first, Saint Petersburg, Florida, I, Sophronia Winters, have hereby130801:12:45.479 --> 01:12:47.760
begun this diary because on this date I feel for130901:12:47.840 --> 01:12:50.880
the first time that I begun to live. Diaries are131001:12:50.920 --> 01:12:54.279
no good unless one has thrilling experiences. For forty years,131101:12:54.319 --> 01:12:57.000
I've never had what could really be called a thrilling experience.131201:12:57.520 --> 01:13:00.439
The Papa's death has changed everything. Where I am in131301:13:00.479 --> 01:13:03.159
beautiful Saint Peter's Burg with everything to start life in you,131401:13:03.520 --> 01:13:05.840
money in my purse, two suitcases full of new clothes131501:13:05.880 --> 01:13:09.560
and a gorgeous new permanent wave, and Florida is really131601:13:09.640 --> 01:13:12.520
the land of romance. It doesn't matter whether you're seventeen131701:13:12.640 --> 01:13:15.199
or seventy. There are parties and dances and bingo games131801:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.600
and flirtations for all. My landlady, in fact, tells me131901:13:18.680 --> 01:13:21.760
that people often become engaged and even married to perfect132001:13:21.800 --> 01:13:25.880
strangers overnight. I'm still shy, of course, but just the same,132101:13:26.000 --> 01:13:29.560
it's such fun and so thrilling to think one's fate132201:13:29.640 --> 01:13:39.000
maybe just around the corner. February third, Oh, Diary, it132301:13:39.199 --> 01:13:41.159
is beginning this morning. When I came out of my132401:13:41.199 --> 01:13:42.960
lodging house to go down to the beach, I noticed132501:13:43.000 --> 01:13:46.159
a man, a thrilling looking man, sitting across the street132601:13:46.199 --> 01:13:48.239
on a bench, which just as though he were waiting132701:13:48.279 --> 01:13:50.039
for me, because when I came out, he sort of132801:13:50.079 --> 01:13:52.399
started up as though he knew me. Of course I132901:13:52.680 --> 01:13:54.680
didn't speak first, but I knew the minute I started133001:13:54.680 --> 01:13:57.159
down the street that he was following me. Well, I133101:13:57.279 --> 01:13:59.319
got to the beach and sat down with my magazines,133201:13:59.359 --> 01:14:01.920
and suddenly there he was, strolling towards me with a133301:14:01.960 --> 01:14:02.720
broad smile.133401:14:03.039 --> 01:14:07.840
Well, sitting out here all by your lunss, Yes, yes,133501:14:07.920 --> 01:14:10.039
I am nice to see you last night over at133601:14:10.039 --> 01:14:11.199
the Starfish Tea Room.133701:14:11.520 --> 01:14:12.600
The Starfish Tea Room.133801:14:13.159 --> 01:14:16.159
Oh, yes, yes, I was there yesterday, but it was133901:14:16.199 --> 01:14:18.520
so crowded. I'm afraid I don't recall.134001:14:19.039 --> 01:14:22.680
Write a nice cuisine they've got over there. Mind if134101:14:22.720 --> 01:14:24.600
I sit down beside you, not at all?134201:14:25.239 --> 01:14:27.560
Oh, just a minute, sit on this magazine. The beach134301:14:27.640 --> 01:14:28.319
is so sandy.134401:14:28.399 --> 01:14:30.840
Oh, sand doesn't bother me. I'm from Maine. You know134501:14:31.640 --> 01:14:33.039
we got plenty of sand up there.134601:14:33.199 --> 01:14:33.520
Do you?134701:14:34.520 --> 01:14:36.680
You've been down here at Saint Pete Long, Oh just134801:14:36.760 --> 01:14:40.520
three days. Three days. That's a long time. So wonder134901:14:40.560 --> 01:14:45.640
I didn't spot you before. Oh, mister Johnson's name Hiram Johnson.135001:14:46.159 --> 01:14:48.239
I come from Green Harbor, Maine. Run a big hotel135101:14:48.359 --> 01:14:52.039
up there summers. Well, that's my whole history of the nutshell.135201:14:52.760 --> 01:14:55.039
My name is Sophronia, Sopronia Winners.135301:14:56.159 --> 01:15:01.319
Sophronia. You know that's quite a coincidence. My sister in135401:15:01.399 --> 01:15:05.800
law's name was Sophronia. Oh, Sophronia Johnson. You ever heard135501:15:05.800 --> 01:15:07.760
of her? She looked quite a bit like.135601:15:07.800 --> 01:15:09.560
You too, Sotronia Johnson.135701:15:10.439 --> 01:15:13.720
No, I'm afraid I haven't. Who was she somemon very famous.135801:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.119
I'm so ignorant about these things.135901:15:16.199 --> 01:15:19.960
Oh that's all right. Say look at that sun, will you?136001:15:21.199 --> 01:15:23.039
I'd say it was pretty nearly time for lot.136101:15:24.760 --> 01:15:29.039
Diarry Darling. He is wonderful, strong and kind of worn hearted,136201:15:29.479 --> 01:15:32.119
so generous. I don't want to be like the other136301:15:32.199 --> 01:15:34.319
silly women in this town. But Hiram is different. There's136401:15:34.800 --> 01:15:38.840
something almost poetic about him, something sad and deep.136501:15:39.960 --> 01:15:42.840
You know, Sophronia, it's kind of mysterious us finding that136601:15:43.039 --> 01:15:46.960
nine point starfish on the beach together. My sister in law,136701:15:47.000 --> 01:15:51.439
Sophronia used to collect nine point starfishes. You'll think your136801:15:51.560 --> 01:15:54.800
name is Sophronia and you find a nine point starfish136901:15:54.880 --> 01:15:59.119
with me, Well, it kind of draws us together. Eh137001:16:00.920 --> 01:16:06.399
m hmm. What do you think if there?137101:16:06.439 --> 01:16:09.800
I had known him all my life? My land lady137201:16:09.840 --> 01:16:13.039
says it's foolish, But look at Romo and Juliet. Weren't137301:16:13.039 --> 01:16:13.640
they foolish.137401:16:18.000 --> 01:16:20.439
What's the good of waiting, Sophronia, I've got to be137501:16:20.520 --> 01:16:22.800
back at the hotel in a week. We may never137601:16:22.880 --> 01:16:23.760
see each other again.137701:16:23.880 --> 01:16:26.159
Oh, Hiram, don't say that I couldn't bear.137801:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.399
Then let's do it right, away tomorrow. There's a parson137901:16:29.439 --> 01:16:31.359
not on Coral Avenue who'll do the job for us.138001:16:31.560 --> 01:16:33.159
We can take a nice moon light drive out to138101:16:33.199 --> 01:16:35.640
the Alligator farm. Afterward, have a nice short dinner, then138201:16:35.680 --> 01:16:38.000
climb on board the Orange Blossom to borrow night from me.138301:16:39.279 --> 01:16:43.319
Just think of Maine, the big dark pine woods, the sand,138401:16:43.680 --> 01:16:47.520
the bay, the two of us alone together.138501:16:47.680 --> 01:16:50.600
The two of us alone together.138601:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.680
His seventh on board the Orange Blossom. I was married138701:17:03.720 --> 01:17:06.479
in a wedding dress of alice blue moiree, with a138801:17:06.560 --> 01:17:08.960
frill of white organ he at the caring wrists and138901:17:09.039 --> 01:17:13.359
a rhinestone dolf buckle. Hiram sent me tawsand roses. I'm139001:17:13.399 --> 01:17:16.119
pressing one precious flower between the pages of this diary139101:17:16.239 --> 01:17:16.840
for luck.139201:17:23.319 --> 01:17:27.039
If you understand. In a couple of minutes, bags heavy, No.139301:17:27.319 --> 01:17:31.800
Not particularly dearest. Oh, I can't get over that taxi manifestation.139401:17:31.960 --> 01:17:34.279
Imagine his incidents saying he couldn't drive us over.139501:17:34.560 --> 01:17:37.159
Maybe he didn't have any gas. It's happened sometimes around here.139601:17:37.359 --> 01:17:40.359
Well, anyway, I'm glad the weather is so mild. Can139701:17:40.399 --> 01:17:42.159
you imagine what it would be like in a blizzard.139801:17:42.239 --> 01:17:44.199
There's a place, Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.139901:17:44.199 --> 01:17:46.239
I don't want to look till I put down his bags.140001:17:47.560 --> 01:17:51.479
Now where where through those big pine trees.140101:17:52.279 --> 01:17:55.319
Oh? Oh, it is big, isn't it.140201:17:55.560 --> 01:17:57.520
One hundred and twenty five rooms, so many.140301:17:57.439 --> 01:18:04.520
Fire escapes and balconies and porches and towers. I stayed140401:18:04.560 --> 01:18:06.840
in a hotel like that once years ago with Papa.140501:18:07.199 --> 01:18:08.359
It was very fashionable.140601:18:08.399 --> 01:18:11.039
Then my grandfather built that place fifty years ago. Hasn't140701:18:11.079 --> 01:18:11.960
been changed much since?140801:18:12.239 --> 01:18:15.600
No, Well, of course you've put in modern plumbing.140901:18:15.680 --> 01:18:19.960
Not yet here we are walk in.141001:18:21.600 --> 01:18:23.239
Oh, what's there?141101:18:24.079 --> 01:18:26.840
Just a fog horn of the day. We get it141201:18:26.920 --> 01:18:28.359
almost every night in this kind of weather.141301:18:29.199 --> 01:18:30.359
What are you locking the gate for?141401:18:30.760 --> 01:18:35.159
Why not? There's nobody coming in after us or going141501:18:35.199 --> 01:18:35.800
out again.141601:18:35.680 --> 01:18:36.159
For a while.141701:18:36.800 --> 01:18:38.960
But I thought you said the hotel.141801:18:40.159 --> 01:18:41.520
The hotel is empty.141901:18:47.399 --> 01:18:51.119
H Hiram, What is it now, Hiram, darling. I know142001:18:51.199 --> 01:18:53.720
it sounds silly, but let's not go in there tonight.142101:18:53.880 --> 01:18:57.039
Let's let's wait until morning. Why oh, just because it's142201:18:57.039 --> 01:18:59.239
so dark and empty. There's not a light in the.142301:18:59.239 --> 01:19:00.840
Whole place, and no one's expecting this.142401:19:01.159 --> 01:19:01.800
What do we eat?142501:19:01.920 --> 01:19:04.600
Where we sleep? Let's stay in the village just for142601:19:04.640 --> 01:19:04.920
to night.142701:19:04.960 --> 01:19:07.479
I've got things to eat, the place to sleep. Come on, Oh,142801:19:07.600 --> 01:19:14.840
my arm him. If you remember my telling you down142901:19:14.960 --> 01:19:21.239
in Florida about my sister in law Sophronia, Well that's143001:19:21.319 --> 01:19:28.000
her over there on the wall. Take a look at her, Hirom,143101:19:28.079 --> 01:19:28.720
you hurt me.143201:19:31.000 --> 01:19:35.119
Oh glasses, very dusty.143301:19:36.479 --> 01:19:40.199
She must have died many years ago. But her face143401:19:40.319 --> 01:19:45.399
is sweet, very sweet. When her eyes it was something143501:19:45.520 --> 01:19:46.880
very sad and wistful.143601:19:46.520 --> 01:19:47.199
About her eyes.143701:19:47.319 --> 01:19:50.039
She was a murderess. She was hanged in Portland twenty143801:19:50.079 --> 01:19:51.840
five years ago for the murder of my brother from143901:19:52.119 --> 01:19:54.279
here in the lobby of this hotel. She murdered in144001:19:54.359 --> 01:19:57.640
the cold blood with an axe, that fire axe hanging144101:19:57.640 --> 01:20:00.439
over there on the wall. Was the summer day, sitting144201:20:00.479 --> 01:20:02.000
out on the front porch and the rockers. Was just144301:20:02.079 --> 01:20:04.199
after lunch. My brother Ethan was sitting at the desk144401:20:04.279 --> 01:20:07.239
counting his loose change. My mother was crocheting in that144501:20:07.319 --> 01:20:11.359
old wicker rocking chair. Sophronia came downstairs.144601:20:12.880 --> 01:20:15.199
Oh don't, Hiram, please please don't tell me anymore. Well,144701:20:15.279 --> 01:20:17.359
it makes me nervous to hear it like this in144801:20:17.479 --> 01:20:23.800
this big, shadowy lobby. And your eyes, Hiram, your eyes Hiram,144901:20:23.840 --> 01:20:25.199
you're acting so strange.145001:20:26.359 --> 01:20:27.640
What's the matter with you, dear?145101:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.359
I know it was a terrible tragedy, but it happened145201:20:30.359 --> 01:20:31.439
twenty five years ago.145301:20:31.600 --> 01:20:36.279
Don't touch me, Sophronia, Don't touch you. Do you remember145401:20:36.359 --> 01:20:38.079
what I said to you in Florida?145501:20:39.279 --> 01:20:39.920
What did you say?145601:20:40.760 --> 01:20:41.000
Will you?145701:20:41.640 --> 01:20:45.239
You said a million sweet and wonderful things to meet, Hiram.145801:20:45.119 --> 01:20:49.880
I said, he resembled my dead sister in law. Look145901:20:49.920 --> 01:20:55.399
at her again, look at her closely, Sophronia.146001:20:55.840 --> 01:20:58.479
Why, oh no, no, I can't.146101:20:58.479 --> 01:21:00.399
It's too horrible. I can't look at her face of146201:21:00.399 --> 01:21:01.880
any pleasure now knowing she was emergent.146301:21:02.000 --> 01:21:02.920
You're afraid to look at it?146401:21:03.039 --> 01:21:04.159
No, no, I'm not afraid.146501:21:05.199 --> 01:21:06.199
I don't please my.146601:21:09.199 --> 01:21:18.239
Oh very well, Hello, stand there quietly like that. Take146701:21:18.560 --> 01:21:27.119
off your glasses. That's all I wanted to see. That's146801:21:27.479 --> 01:21:28.439
all I wanted.146901:21:37.359 --> 01:21:42.359
Jebruary thirteenth, Green Harbor Hotel name. I can't understand it.147001:21:43.640 --> 01:21:45.800
I try to fathom it, but my headaches and my147101:21:45.920 --> 01:21:50.199
heart is heavy. The hotel is deserted, has been for147201:21:50.319 --> 01:21:54.880
twenty five years. Everything is covered with spiders and cobwebs.147301:21:56.000 --> 01:21:58.439
Great dining room with its oak woodwork is alive with147401:21:58.600 --> 01:22:01.640
rats in a row of broken rocking chairs on the147501:22:01.680 --> 01:22:04.359
front porch faces antill we out to see.147601:22:05.880 --> 01:22:11.159
That's a meanness to be my home. We's downstairs in147701:22:11.279 --> 01:22:14.640
the shabby parlor off the lobby, playing the harmony.147801:22:25.439 --> 01:22:32.880
Yes, yes, haram sleeping and oh, dear years old or not?147901:22:33.880 --> 01:22:37.000
Come out. I want to show in around the place.148001:22:38.079 --> 01:22:41.399
It's it's all right, dear, I've seen it. I've seen148101:22:41.479 --> 01:22:42.239
just about everything.148201:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.800
No, you haven't. You haven't seen the grounds at all148301:22:46.840 --> 01:22:47.359
the grounds.148401:22:48.640 --> 01:22:50.439
But Horram, it's after midnight.148501:22:51.399 --> 01:22:53.279
I want to show you where my sister in law148601:22:53.399 --> 01:22:55.079
Sophronia is bay.148701:22:56.159 --> 01:22:58.760
Not tonight, dear, please, it's so late and I have148801:22:58.880 --> 01:22:59.359
a headache.148901:22:59.439 --> 01:23:02.760
Open the door, Sonia, I want you to come down.149001:23:03.000 --> 01:23:04.199
No, no, I sha'n't.149101:23:05.199 --> 01:23:06.720
Oh go away, let me alone.149201:23:07.520 --> 01:23:08.039
I won't.149301:23:08.760 --> 01:23:09.239
I won't.149401:23:09.359 --> 01:23:10.279
I won't.149501:23:12.279 --> 01:23:16.520
Carrying on like that. See, I have pass keys to149601:23:16.640 --> 01:23:28.039
all the doors beyond where those four virtues are standing.149701:23:28.600 --> 01:23:30.720
It's where my sister in law, Sophronia was laid away149801:23:30.760 --> 01:23:33.399
twenty five years ago. It was the biggest funeral in149901:23:33.439 --> 01:23:35.840
the neighborhood. Folks crowded outside the gate of the dozens150001:23:35.880 --> 01:23:37.640
trying to get a look that we wouldn't let them150101:23:38.319 --> 01:23:41.239
buried her ourselves without a service, out here by herself150201:23:41.279 --> 01:23:44.800
on the grounds. Ephraim was buried in town, but not Sophronia.150301:23:45.800 --> 01:23:47.319
I had a feeling I'd have to keep an eye150401:23:47.399 --> 01:23:47.640
on her.150501:23:47.720 --> 01:23:48.159
Even then.150601:23:50.079 --> 01:23:52.439
I knew she was one of those restless sleepers who150701:23:52.479 --> 01:23:55.439
wouldn't stay quiet in her own grave. I knew before150801:23:55.479 --> 01:23:57.159
the year was out, she'd find some way to start150901:23:57.319 --> 01:23:59.880
roaming around, hunting from mischief again. She was a young151001:24:00.079 --> 01:24:02.520
she deviled to the course of Bronia. They've got hanger151101:24:02.600 --> 01:24:04.760
he Doomsday wouldn't do any good.151201:24:05.800 --> 01:24:11.279
Mm you mean you think she haunts this hotel.151301:24:11.479 --> 01:24:14.520
No, no, not this hotel. She never had any use151401:24:14.560 --> 01:24:15.479
for it, alive or dead.151501:24:16.760 --> 01:24:16.800
No.151601:24:18.199 --> 01:24:21.560
She makes for the warmer climates. She was always a151701:24:21.720 --> 01:24:24.399
cold blooded little fish, freezing and shivering all the time,151801:24:26.000 --> 01:24:29.800
places like California and Texas and Florida.151901:24:30.800 --> 01:24:32.399
She makes for Florida.152001:24:32.720 --> 01:24:36.159
Yes, that's one of her favorite haunts, particularly around Saint Pete.152101:24:36.720 --> 01:24:40.520
She likes the flowers and the sun and the Romanceim.152201:24:39.800 --> 01:24:42.399
I feel cold, You mind if I go inside.152301:24:43.279 --> 01:24:48.800
I haven't explained everything. You think I'm crazy. I guess152401:24:49.800 --> 01:24:53.159
crazy but I'm a lot smarter than some people give152501:24:53.199 --> 01:24:57.640
me credit for the cause. You see, I have found152601:24:57.720 --> 01:25:05.560
her now times. You see that grove of birches over there,152701:25:06.880 --> 01:25:10.640
under every one of them's a grave. I've found her152801:25:10.720 --> 01:25:15.520
wandering the earth in disguise three times, and I've killed152901:25:15.560 --> 01:25:19.760
her three times. It still doesn't do any good. She's153001:25:19.840 --> 01:25:20.760
still restless.153101:25:22.000 --> 01:25:22.279
Hmm.153201:25:23.039 --> 01:25:27.119
You mean, who killed three different women?153301:25:27.399 --> 01:25:29.760
So now I keep another open grave to remind her153401:25:30.680 --> 01:25:35.760
it's waiting now. Would you like to see it, Sophronia?153501:25:35.960 --> 01:25:38.079
No harm, No, no please?153601:25:38.119 --> 01:25:40.640
I are you afraid to see it? Sophronia, No.153701:25:42.239 --> 01:25:44.199
Haram, You don't mean to say that.153801:25:44.359 --> 01:25:47.119
You think just because my name happened to be Sophronian,153901:25:47.199 --> 01:25:47.600
And did.154001:25:47.520 --> 01:25:48.680
I look a little like to think?154101:25:48.800 --> 01:25:48.840
What?154201:25:49.600 --> 01:25:52.000
Sophronia messy?154301:26:00.000 --> 01:26:04.279
I'm very fourteen. My mind is made up. I made154401:26:04.319 --> 01:26:06.560
a terrible mistake, and I must get away from this place.154501:26:08.680 --> 01:26:10.319
I must get away from hire room as quickly as154601:26:10.319 --> 01:26:10.560
I can.154701:26:14.039 --> 01:26:14.840
It should be easy.154801:26:15.640 --> 01:26:18.920
There's no fog today. If I can only escape from154901:26:18.920 --> 01:26:23.880
the hotel, I can run and hide in the pine woods. No, no,155001:26:24.680 --> 01:26:27.079
I shall wait for dusk. When he generally sits down155101:26:27.119 --> 01:26:32.720
in the parlor and plays the harmonium. I can hide155201:26:33.439 --> 01:26:36.680
a little earlier in one of the deserted rooms, and155301:26:37.199 --> 01:26:39.880
then when his back is toward the lobby, step out155401:26:39.920 --> 01:26:40.439
the front door.155501:26:51.239 --> 01:27:02.560
Bia Bronia sia, Oh there you are. What does the matter?155601:27:02.640 --> 01:27:03.239
Anything wrong?155701:27:04.399 --> 01:27:05.000
No harm?155801:27:05.800 --> 01:27:09.920
You didn't want anything outside, did you? Because if you do,155901:27:10.479 --> 01:27:12.119
you'll have to ask me to get it for you.156001:27:13.199 --> 01:27:17.279
You see, I always keep the front door locked. Yes, yes,156101:27:17.359 --> 01:27:19.960
the back door too, and all the doors leading out156201:27:20.000 --> 01:27:22.560
into the porches and fire escapes the good many of156301:27:22.600 --> 01:27:25.840
the windows. It makes one feel safe from thieves and156401:27:26.039 --> 01:27:31.600
teeping toms. All. You've got a cold, that's too bad.156501:27:33.680 --> 01:27:37.199
I must have caught it last night out doors there.156601:27:37.359 --> 01:27:40.880
You ought to be in bed, a good bed. The156701:27:41.000 --> 01:27:43.079
only good bed in the house is in my sister156801:27:43.119 --> 01:27:44.560
in law, Sophronia's old room.156901:27:44.640 --> 01:27:46.439
No, no, Harramer, I'm all right.157001:27:46.720 --> 01:27:50.199
Is this little head goals off and develop into pneumonia?157101:27:51.279 --> 01:27:53.520
Why it's too bad? I didn't think of that before.157201:27:54.520 --> 01:27:57.039
You might have slept in it from the beginning here157301:27:57.479 --> 01:27:58.600
up these stairs.157401:28:00.000 --> 01:28:00.439
It's the matter?157501:28:00.520 --> 01:28:01.279
Are you so weak?157601:28:01.439 --> 01:28:01.479
No?157701:28:03.119 --> 01:28:03.720
No, I'm are.157801:28:05.680 --> 01:28:10.479
This rooming is the cleanest in the hotel too. I've157901:28:10.600 --> 01:28:15.479
always had a sort of suspicion about it. You see,158001:28:15.560 --> 01:28:21.520
I've kept everything as it was. What's the matter, nothing,158101:28:22.520 --> 01:28:24.720
It's just it seems kind of familiar.158201:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.119
No, No, it's just it's so clean. Thing is though158301:28:28.159 --> 01:28:31.319
someone were living here. No, they It only just stepped158401:28:31.359 --> 01:28:32.039
out for a moment.158501:28:32.960 --> 01:28:35.279
It's as she left it that afternoon when she walked158601:28:35.319 --> 01:28:39.159
down to murder my brother. You see her needlework on158701:28:39.199 --> 01:28:42.479
the table with the needlesticking in it, and her hymn158801:28:42.479 --> 01:28:46.600
books still open. She was very fond of singing hymns158901:28:46.680 --> 01:28:50.439
of Folium. Was had a nice voice too. I used159001:28:50.439 --> 01:28:54.079
to accompany her. I'll turn down the bed for you,159101:28:54.520 --> 01:28:56.279
and you can get undressed while I go and make159201:28:56.319 --> 01:28:57.000
you some hot tea.159301:28:57.279 --> 01:28:58.359
No, I don't want any.159401:28:59.039 --> 01:29:02.159
Here's the closet. We can put on one of Sophronia's159501:29:02.199 --> 01:29:03.000
dressing down.159601:29:08.800 --> 01:29:12.920
Diary. I'm beside myself. I shall go mad.159701:29:14.199 --> 01:29:15.000
I shall go mad.159801:29:16.119 --> 01:29:18.159
Two hours of pack and they locked the door upon me.159901:29:19.359 --> 01:29:23.439
Right's falling, and I'm alone alone in this horrible room160001:29:23.479 --> 01:29:28.359
with its hideous little momentos of death. I'm sitting here160101:29:28.399 --> 01:29:31.000
at her little wicker table, trying to become trying to160201:29:31.039 --> 01:29:34.479
write this somehow and one writes about a thing.160301:29:34.520 --> 01:29:39.039
It doesn't appear so real. My hand is just brushed160401:29:39.039 --> 01:29:42.880
against an needle work for him book, But they still160501:29:42.960 --> 01:29:46.840
lie rady. I can bear heavy them near me, no160601:29:46.920 --> 01:29:50.560
long I'll just get them out of sight anywhere.160701:29:51.119 --> 01:29:51.800
In my closet.160801:29:52.439 --> 01:30:03.399
I'm your door, little for your teas. No, yes, why160901:30:03.399 --> 01:30:06.239
aren't you in bed? You take worse cools, you know.161001:30:06.399 --> 01:30:07.640
I'll get in bed in a minute.161101:30:08.039 --> 01:30:13.439
First of all, brushing up on your needlework again? Bye,161201:30:14.239 --> 01:30:17.560
you've got in your hand, heather, Holy oh.161301:30:17.479 --> 01:30:21.680
Yes, yes so I but I wasn't working on it, Hiram,161401:30:21.720 --> 01:30:23.520
I swear I wasn't. I I've never done a stitch.161501:30:23.560 --> 01:30:24.720
I need to work in my whole life. I don't161601:30:24.720 --> 01:30:26.720
know one am brodery stitch for another. Let me show161701:30:26.760 --> 01:30:27.079
you look.161801:30:27.239 --> 01:30:27.840
I don't even know.161901:30:27.880 --> 01:30:29.640
How to hold the needle. Get into bed, Sophronia.162001:30:30.239 --> 01:30:32.479
Before we go on, Haram, Before you go on thinking162101:30:32.960 --> 01:30:35.399
we've got to heaven understanding, You've got to let me explain.162201:30:35.800 --> 01:30:38.880
I was born in eighteen ninety two, Kalamazoo, Michigan.162301:30:39.199 --> 01:30:40.079
My name is the Pronia.162401:30:40.079 --> 01:30:41.760
That's true, but they name lots of people, Sopronia.162501:30:41.840 --> 01:30:43.239
I was named for my grandmother.162601:30:43.399 --> 01:30:44.119
She had just died.162701:30:44.479 --> 01:30:46.359
No, no, no, You've got to listen to me. I've162801:30:46.399 --> 01:30:47.319
lived in Calamas.162901:30:47.000 --> 01:30:47.720
Who all my life.163001:30:47.840 --> 01:30:50.000
If you don't just write a letter of send a wire, well,163101:30:50.039 --> 01:30:52.039
I've never heard of green Hobborn my whole life. I163201:30:52.479 --> 01:30:55.079
never went anywhere For almost ten years. I stayed home,163301:30:55.159 --> 01:30:56.680
day in and day out, nursing Papa.163401:30:57.119 --> 01:30:57.840
He had his stroke.163501:30:57.880 --> 01:30:58.880
I was none of the house.163601:30:59.359 --> 01:31:00.560
He was a red break god.163701:31:16.199 --> 01:31:19.760
February fifteenth. Now I live only from moment to moment,163801:31:20.760 --> 01:31:27.720
listening to each creak upon the stairs. I've been in163901:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.880
bed all day. It's night now.164001:31:32.199 --> 01:31:34.079
Her fog cortn has begun to blow again.164101:31:38.920 --> 01:31:39.199
M h.164201:31:39.880 --> 01:31:44.239
February nineteenth. I woke up early this morning after a164301:31:44.279 --> 01:31:46.840
wretched night, and the date was burning in letters of164401:31:46.880 --> 01:31:50.439
fire in my brain. If he's planning to kill me,164501:31:50.479 --> 01:31:53.560
it'll be today. But the eyes have been crawling on164601:31:54.920 --> 01:31:55.880
It's almost midnight.164701:31:57.199 --> 01:31:58.720
Oh why is he going to kill me?164801:31:58.800 --> 01:32:00.239
Does he does it once? H?164901:32:01.079 --> 01:32:02.479
Why is he torture me like this?165001:32:03.039 --> 01:32:05.000
I'd rather be desert sitting here, and it's for one165101:32:05.079 --> 01:32:05.680
moment longer.165201:32:06.680 --> 01:32:10.720
I can't bear it. It doesn't come in five minutes.165301:32:10.720 --> 01:32:12.640
I shall force him become. I shall be down the door.165401:32:14.600 --> 01:32:19.560
No, no, Rather, let me say a quiet frame that165501:32:19.680 --> 01:32:23.920
it doesn't come. Oh, I want to live.165601:32:25.960 --> 01:32:26.800
I wanna live.165701:32:37.760 --> 01:32:47.880
P Bronia, it's gone, Pa Bronia. Come downstairs. I want165801:32:47.960 --> 01:32:48.880
you to sing me a hymn.165901:32:50.800 --> 01:32:53.159
See sing?166001:32:53.279 --> 01:32:58.199
He he never asked me a singer before, But she said,166101:33:00.079 --> 01:33:03.600
I I can't sing, dear, I.166201:33:03.760 --> 01:33:07.560
Told you that long ago, did you well, I've forgotten.166301:33:09.000 --> 01:33:12.880
And besides, how can I come downstairs when my door166401:33:12.960 --> 01:33:13.399
is locked?166501:33:13.800 --> 01:33:14.560
It's gonna locked?166601:33:15.600 --> 01:33:15.960
Try it?166701:33:17.800 --> 01:33:18.359
I'm locked?166801:33:19.640 --> 01:33:21.560
Oh no, how could it be?166901:33:23.560 --> 01:33:23.720
Oh?167001:33:23.920 --> 01:33:26.039
It is, it is, and I never know it.167101:33:26.239 --> 01:33:27.520
I never know it.167201:33:29.239 --> 01:33:29.560
Coming.167301:33:30.079 --> 01:33:33.840
He unlocked it sometime when I was just sitting. Oh167401:33:34.319 --> 01:33:36.760
what did my try a few more times?167501:33:37.000 --> 01:33:38.119
Why did I just sit there?167601:33:38.199 --> 01:33:38.560
Assume?167701:33:40.479 --> 01:33:40.520
So?167801:33:41.600 --> 01:33:44.520
No, he's coming anyway, he'd have known, but I might.167901:33:45.399 --> 01:33:47.399
Oh no, it's tweet.168001:33:48.600 --> 01:33:49.520
He's gonna kill me.168101:33:52.840 --> 01:34:10.000
Yes, Hiram, I'm coming, Hiram.168201:34:10.039 --> 01:34:13.760
Where are you in here in the parlor?168301:34:14.239 --> 01:34:15.520
What are you doing there, Hiram?168401:34:17.039 --> 01:34:18.439
Waiting to hear you sing?168501:34:20.119 --> 01:34:21.199
You're at the harmonium?168601:34:21.359 --> 01:34:26.000
Yes, all right, I'll sing.168701:34:27.640 --> 01:34:30.560
I haven't sung in years, but I might as well.168801:34:32.279 --> 01:34:33.960
I'll sing for you out here in the hall.168901:34:35.199 --> 01:34:36.600
My voice will carry better.169001:34:37.359 --> 01:34:40.600
It always did carry better in the hall, didn't bit Sophronia?169101:34:41.880 --> 01:34:46.520
So you remember that too. Of course, you know both169201:34:46.600 --> 01:34:48.199
the front and back doors are locked.169301:34:49.000 --> 01:34:52.159
Play a few bars, hiram dear to warm me out?169401:34:53.159 --> 01:34:57.039
Shall I sing too, Sopronium? Would you like me to169501:34:57.119 --> 01:34:57.960
sing along with you?169601:34:58.960 --> 01:34:59.920
If it pleases you?169701:35:00.039 --> 01:35:00.760
You hunt.169801:35:03.840 --> 01:35:06.399
Work or the nightti is.169901:35:10.239 --> 01:35:19.720
Working the mony time work for the night is cold,170001:35:22.319 --> 01:35:26.319
when man's work is done.170101:35:28.319 --> 01:35:31.880
Work while the daylight.170201:35:35.039 --> 01:35:44.399
Work in the sun, work called the nightties.170301:35:52.680 --> 01:36:21.199
When boos, there is only one more page?170401:36:22.680 --> 01:36:23.720
Shall I read it to you?170501:36:24.079 --> 01:36:24.319
Yes?170601:36:25.199 --> 01:36:30.079
Yes, go ahead, March twenty second. I've been sick, I170701:36:30.199 --> 01:36:33.600
think for a very long time. The pages of my170801:36:33.800 --> 01:36:36.159
diary are blank. But I shall take you out again170901:36:36.359 --> 01:36:42.640
for a diary today and start you over again. No, no,171001:36:42.800 --> 01:36:46.479
I shall never look back at the other pages. I171101:36:46.520 --> 01:36:49.560
shall only write on and on about this beautiful place,171201:36:50.880 --> 01:36:52.279
so that no one reading.171301:36:52.079 --> 01:36:57.319
This diary will ever know that I did it.171401:37:05.319 --> 01:37:08.479
But I did do it, Darry, I was smarter than171501:37:08.520 --> 01:37:10.920
he when I opened that door at the head of171601:37:10.960 --> 01:37:13.159
the stairs and heard the music, When I saw the171701:37:13.239 --> 01:37:14.760
fire acte still hanging on the wall.171801:37:19.119 --> 01:37:19.760
I was so.171901:37:20.000 --> 01:37:23.159
Cautious, so terribly cautious.172001:37:23.840 --> 01:37:26.680
I tiptoed like a little mouse even as I sang172101:37:26.760 --> 01:37:28.880
the hymn into that room where he was playing.172201:37:30.039 --> 01:37:30.960
But I was clever.172301:37:31.680 --> 01:37:33.119
It's so much cleverer than he.172401:37:33.880 --> 01:37:39.359
I kept on singing. And now I'm free, Free is172501:37:39.399 --> 01:37:39.960
a bird.172601:37:40.840 --> 01:37:42.239
I'm free, and shall never catch me.172701:37:42.319 --> 01:37:43.640
No, not this time of river again.172801:37:43.800 --> 01:37:46.920
Because because he's dead.172901:37:49.560 --> 01:37:56.159
Isn't he, nurse, nurse? Isn't my dear brother in law173001:37:57.199 --> 01:37:59.520
him really dead?173101:38:04.399 --> 01:38:05.640
Yes, miss, he's dead.173201:38:06.640 --> 01:38:08.600
And now I'll thank you to hand me that diary.173301:38:09.000 --> 01:38:11.960
The doctor doesn't approve of the patient's writing anything.173401:38:24.239 --> 01:38:27.399
And so closes The Diary of Sophronio Winter starring Agnes173501:38:27.479 --> 01:38:31.680
Moorehead and Ray Collins Tonight's Tale of the Spens. The173601:38:31.760 --> 01:38:34.840
producer of these broadcast is William Spear, who is Ted Bliss.173701:38:34.880 --> 01:38:37.760
The director Lud Glusk and the musical director. Lucian Mohowick.173801:38:37.840 --> 01:38:41.319
The composer, and Lucy will Fletcher, the author, collaborated on173901:38:41.479 --> 01:38:43.319
Tonight's suspense.174001:38:56.680 --> 01:38:59.119
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.174101:39:12.960 --> 01:39:13.119
HM.174201:39:14.680 --> 01:39:17.039
I can tell that one may have had a bit174301:39:17.159 --> 01:39:21.039
more of an effect on you than some of the others,174401:39:22.079 --> 01:39:29.520
and that's good. After all, fear is anything if not subjective.174501:39:30.239 --> 01:39:36.119
Wouldn't you agree? Well, there are many fun things to174601:39:36.279 --> 01:39:41.159
think about other than fear, but I've yet to find174701:39:41.279 --> 01:39:41.760
one of them.174801:39:43.760 --> 01:39:43.800
No.174901:39:44.199 --> 01:39:51.119
No, a life without fear, without the blood pumping at175001:39:51.199 --> 01:39:57.960
that expedited rate. It's like living in a blind alley.175101:39:59.479 --> 01:40:02.000
Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler.175201:40:19.439 --> 01:40:20.760
I'm the whistler.175301:40:24.640 --> 01:40:26.800
I didn't see the man, I swear I didn't. He175401:40:26.960 --> 01:40:28.000
just appeared out of nowhere.175501:40:28.000 --> 01:40:28.840
I didn't see a thing.175601:40:29.479 --> 01:40:31.800
I only heard that awful thump when the car hit it.175701:40:32.720 --> 01:40:34.119
It was an accident. I tell you.175801:40:37.239 --> 01:40:45.760
Friday night and again, CBS presents the Whistler. I the175901:40:45.840 --> 01:40:49.119
whistler know many things, for I walk by night.176001:40:50.119 --> 01:40:53.600
I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the176101:40:53.680 --> 01:40:56.199
hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.176201:40:57.119 --> 01:40:58.039
And so I tell you.176301:40:58.119 --> 01:41:01.880
Tonight the odd story of blind Alleys.176401:41:06.199 --> 01:41:09.760
Young Henry Carteret the third his widowed mother live with176501:41:09.840 --> 01:41:14.720
Henry's paternal grandfather. Grandfather Carterret, is immensely wealthy and lives176601:41:14.760 --> 01:41:18.199
on a vast estate in the suburbs. Young Henry after176701:41:18.359 --> 01:41:21.159
graduation seemed to follow in the footsteps of his late father.176801:41:22.000 --> 01:41:24.439
Is a weak sort and quite the playboy of the city,176901:41:25.000 --> 01:41:28.920
gambling and drinking. So Grandfather, though inclined to be generous,177001:41:29.319 --> 01:41:32.079
finds it necessary to cut down on Henry's allowance.177101:41:32.920 --> 01:41:36.000
But Grandfather, I can't get along now. I can hardly177201:41:36.039 --> 01:41:40.560
make ends meet. But it's embarrassed thing for a whole year. Now,177301:41:40.600 --> 01:41:42.439
all you've done is get about all night and drink177401:41:42.479 --> 01:41:44.920
and gamble, and I've paid all the debt. I'm going177501:41:44.960 --> 01:41:46.600
to Well, what can I do on one hundred dollars?177601:41:46.640 --> 01:41:48.359
When I was your age, I got along.177701:41:48.119 --> 01:41:50.319
On ten dollars? What times have changed since you were177801:41:50.359 --> 01:41:50.720
a boy?177901:41:51.079 --> 01:41:51.239
You know?178001:41:51.479 --> 01:41:53.920
Just like your father, physical wreck and in his grave178101:41:54.000 --> 01:41:55.720
before he was thirty five. All well, he did everything178201:41:55.760 --> 01:41:56.279
to like set.178301:41:56.359 --> 01:41:58.000
He was my son. I know what he did.178401:41:58.479 --> 01:42:00.840
Started out just like you, but each day he got178501:42:00.840 --> 01:42:04.119
a little worse. He was smart too, he knew just178601:42:04.239 --> 01:42:06.600
when to slow down. I know how to handle myself.178701:42:06.720 --> 01:42:08.600
And got nothing around you but a bunch of leach.178801:42:08.680 --> 01:42:10.920
Oh, you've got towered on everything and everybody. Some of178901:42:11.000 --> 01:42:13.159
your friends you've head around here would sicken anybody with179001:42:13.279 --> 01:42:15.159
horse scents. And you refuse to give me an extra179101:42:15.279 --> 01:42:16.079
hundred dollars to night.179201:42:16.199 --> 01:42:17.520
I won't give you ten cents.179301:42:17.520 --> 01:42:19.600
I'd rather die before I'm for it than be like you.179401:42:20.159 --> 01:42:22.079
Keep on the way you are and you would get179501:42:22.159 --> 01:42:24.720
your wish. Can I have fifty dollars? If you say179601:42:24.720 --> 01:42:26.920
another word, I'll stop your allowance completely. Do you hear?179701:42:27.239 --> 01:42:28.159
What is it, Henry?179801:42:28.359 --> 01:42:28.800
What's wrong?179901:42:29.000 --> 01:42:29.119
Oh?180001:42:29.199 --> 01:42:30.279
Nothing, mother, nothing at all.180101:42:30.720 --> 01:42:34.119
Grandfather's on one of his economy ram pages. Oh but darling,180201:42:34.520 --> 01:42:37.920
your grandfather is right. You're only harming your Well. What180301:42:38.119 --> 01:42:40.159
good is money if you can't use it? Depends on180401:42:40.319 --> 01:42:42.159
how you use Oh, he couldn't spend his money in180501:42:42.159 --> 01:42:44.199
the next fifty years if you tried. Oh but you180601:42:44.319 --> 01:42:44.880
certainly could.180701:42:44.920 --> 01:42:45.960
Well, what are you gonna do with it?180801:42:46.039 --> 01:42:48.439
Leave it to you, providing you get some tents in180901:42:48.520 --> 01:42:50.840
your head. If you don't, I'll leave it to a181001:42:50.880 --> 01:42:53.439
home for indigent catsus. What you need is a good,181101:42:53.479 --> 01:42:55.720
solid joke in the solar plexus, and that's just what181201:42:55.840 --> 01:42:59.399
you're heading for. Please, Henry, run along. I can't stand anymore.181301:42:59.640 --> 01:42:59.680
What.181401:43:00.279 --> 01:43:01.560
I can't even take our girl to dinner?181501:43:01.760 --> 01:43:03.319
Oh not the kind you know.181601:43:03.520 --> 01:43:06.720
Please go all, my mother, And if I get lost181701:43:06.760 --> 01:43:08.359
in the big city. I promise I'll go to the181801:43:08.439 --> 01:43:12.319
big policeman and tell him who I am. Oh, if181901:43:12.399 --> 01:43:14.760
he only knew what I went through with his father.182001:43:15.279 --> 01:43:18.239
I know, Mary, some fellows just have to be beaten182101:43:18.239 --> 01:43:21.520
over their head with the club before they wake up. Well,182201:43:22.239 --> 01:43:23.479
I'll do my best, Mary.182301:43:33.760 --> 01:43:36.119
For several weeks, Henry has been making the rounds of182401:43:36.159 --> 01:43:39.760
the nightclubs and gambling places with his latest girlfriend, Nella182501:43:39.840 --> 01:43:43.520
Goodwin of the Boston Goodwins. Nella and her brother Jerry182601:43:43.560 --> 01:43:46.199
have been vacationing in the Vicinity. The three of them182701:43:46.239 --> 01:43:48.600
have made the rounds and have dropped into Nella's apartment182801:43:48.720 --> 01:43:49.319
for the night.182901:43:49.479 --> 01:43:53.800
Captain well I said he had a wonderful time tonight.183001:43:53.640 --> 01:43:58.119
Henry did Janella most so did I. I was so183101:43:58.520 --> 01:44:00.399
sure I'd clean up on it, rule this.183201:44:00.479 --> 01:44:03.399
Wall again when all the time. Here here's your drinks.183301:44:05.119 --> 01:44:06.600
I see how much did I borrow from you?183401:44:06.760 --> 01:44:07.000
Jerry?183501:44:07.560 --> 01:44:09.920
Just a hundred Let you have it in a couple183601:44:09.960 --> 01:44:10.359
of days.183701:44:10.560 --> 01:44:13.520
No hurry, I really think you should drink anymore tonight, Henry,183801:44:14.039 --> 01:44:15.079
why not have some coffee?183901:44:15.279 --> 01:44:15.680
Coffee?184001:44:16.199 --> 01:44:18.039
Perish to start? Who wants coffee?184101:44:18.439 --> 01:44:21.159
How far do you have to drive? Twenty mons, isn't it.184201:44:21.319 --> 01:44:23.239
Oh, he'll be all right when he gets off from me. Yeah,184301:44:23.720 --> 01:44:24.079
I don't know.184401:44:24.199 --> 01:44:26.520
Jerry isn't safer. I wouldn't want you.184501:44:26.520 --> 01:44:30.600
To get into trouble. Henry. Please drink some coffee, please, darling.184601:44:30.720 --> 01:44:33.640
Don't worry. I've driven that strip along the coast one184701:44:33.680 --> 01:44:34.479
hundred times, but.184801:44:34.520 --> 01:44:37.039
You've drunk more than usual tonight, Mabe. I wouldn't be184901:44:37.039 --> 01:44:37.960
able to sleep a wink.185001:44:38.119 --> 01:44:39.720
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll phone you185101:44:39.760 --> 01:44:40.359
when I get home.185201:44:40.720 --> 01:44:42.039
Why not stay in town tonight?185301:44:42.359 --> 01:44:44.439
No, why don't you let him alone? He'll be all right.185401:44:46.000 --> 01:44:46.319
Henry.185501:44:46.520 --> 01:44:48.399
Let Jerry and me drive you home in our car.185601:44:48.600 --> 01:44:50.399
How about it, Jerry? Whatever you no?185701:44:50.560 --> 01:44:52.159
No, no, I'll tell you well, I got a better idea.185801:44:52.760 --> 01:44:55.039
You two get your things and drive home with me185901:44:55.159 --> 01:44:56.119
and stay over the weekend.186001:44:56.359 --> 01:44:58.119
The weekend, surest as long as you like.186101:44:58.199 --> 01:45:00.560
It's a regular resort, lots of things, so have plenty186201:45:00.600 --> 01:45:00.920
of fun.186301:45:01.800 --> 01:45:02.640
Do you come with me?186401:45:03.039 --> 01:45:05.800
And if you're afraid of my driving, then you can186501:45:05.920 --> 01:45:08.720
drive fair enough? Okay, how about it? Now?186601:45:10.439 --> 01:45:14.000
If Henry insists on driving home tonight, I'd see.186701:45:13.840 --> 01:45:14.680
That he gets it right.186801:45:14.920 --> 01:45:16.920
That's wonderful. Go and get your things. Let's be on186901:45:17.000 --> 01:45:32.319
our way. Well how am I doing at a factory?187001:45:32.920 --> 01:45:34.800
Well, i'd feel better if you slow down.187101:45:34.880 --> 01:45:36.960
If it's beginning to miss let it take it easy, Henry.187201:45:43.159 --> 01:45:45.600
If that suit you take us about an hour, I187301:45:45.640 --> 01:45:49.880
more snails, Let me drive. No, I'm all right, I187401:45:49.960 --> 01:45:55.000
feel swell. No, no, no, Claire sailing from here on.187501:45:56.279 --> 01:45:58.359
I like me a cigarette and ella. My case is187601:45:58.359 --> 01:46:03.399
in my right pocket. Here all right, mare stig read Jerry. Yeah, thanks,187701:46:03.399 --> 01:46:11.800
you can look out. But we hit something. Yes, it187801:46:11.920 --> 01:46:14.239
was a man, a man. Oh good lord, I very187901:46:14.359 --> 01:46:16.640
is at the edge of the road, Henry, I see him.188001:46:16.640 --> 01:46:17.039
Stay in the car.188101:46:17.079 --> 01:46:24.640
I'll have a look, all right, Harry, just a second188201:46:25.960 --> 01:46:34.960
m hm, Jerry, I a sign of a po he's dead.188301:46:36.159 --> 01:46:37.319
But I wasn't going fast.188401:46:37.319 --> 01:46:38.560
I couldn't have hit him very hard.188501:46:38.840 --> 01:46:40.359
Nobody. He's an only guy, Jerry.188601:46:40.399 --> 01:46:40.840
What we do.188701:46:41.359 --> 01:46:42.319
He's gotta do something.188801:46:42.479 --> 01:46:44.920
Yeah, here, there's a car coming way back there. Look,188901:46:45.079 --> 01:46:46.720
we gotta get out of here. They'll smell a liquor189001:46:46.760 --> 01:46:48.720
if they stop. And Henry's driving and he's tight totally too.189101:46:48.760 --> 01:46:50.640
Look it's a red light poleice. We've got to get189201:46:50.680 --> 01:46:52.560
that body off the road. You'll see it and chase es.189301:46:52.680 --> 01:46:54.239
Get out, Henry. I'll drik a while loose on the189401:46:54.279 --> 01:46:59.840
distributor having trouble. See, take it easy and don't get189501:46:59.840 --> 01:47:02.159
ex I'll carry this guy over behind that big signs.189601:47:02.279 --> 01:47:03.800
When you find the trouble to to a good drive on.189701:47:04.239 --> 01:47:05.960
I'll meet you back at the apartment. I'll get there189801:47:05.960 --> 01:47:06.640
as soon as I can.189901:47:09.039 --> 01:47:11.560
Here they come, I'll be there with Henry.190001:47:12.039 --> 01:47:20.039
I feel kind of stick. That's trouble here by.190101:47:20.680 --> 01:47:21.079
I don't know.190201:47:21.479 --> 01:47:22.640
Mother, just cut out on me.190301:47:23.039 --> 01:47:24.479
Yeah that is all right.190401:47:24.479 --> 01:47:26.600
It's got light. I got a left.190501:47:27.920 --> 01:47:30.479
The wires. Yeah, wait a minute, here it is. I190601:47:30.760 --> 01:47:33.800
think that wire was loose on top of the distributor.190701:47:35.159 --> 01:47:41.800
Oh I tried now Hey yeah, oh thanks, thanks very much.190801:47:41.880 --> 01:47:43.479
Officer out kind of late?190901:47:43.560 --> 01:47:45.199
An't you one why?191001:47:45.319 --> 01:47:46.359
I'm on my way home.191101:47:46.720 --> 01:47:48.159
Yeah, it's your car?191201:47:48.840 --> 01:47:53.319
Is Henry Carter at the third you young cutter.191301:47:54.359 --> 01:47:55.399
Let's see you up with his life.191401:47:56.600 --> 01:48:02.720
Thanks. You've been drinking a bit, haven't you, car? Well, yes,191501:48:03.079 --> 01:48:07.039
but I'm a careful driver. But your narness nell a191601:48:07.119 --> 01:48:10.960
goodwin and you better step over here and drive this car.191701:48:12.000 --> 01:48:16.159
I did not Carter take it easiness, Yes, thank you,191801:48:23.199 --> 01:48:25.399
John Carteret had a loose wire.191901:48:26.159 --> 01:48:27.039
Let's get going, Joe.192001:48:34.760 --> 01:48:37.920
In a few minutes, the police car passes, Nella, leaves192101:48:37.960 --> 01:48:40.119
the highway, cuts over to the boulevard, and heads back192201:48:40.159 --> 01:48:43.880
to town. In Nella's apartment, they wait for Jerry. Three192301:48:43.960 --> 01:48:46.079
hours passed, and finally Jerry walks in.192401:48:47.960 --> 01:48:50.319
Jerry, wellness, who's been? Because you'd never get here.192501:48:50.560 --> 01:48:52.800
I stayed behind that big signed for over an hour,192601:48:53.079 --> 01:48:54.880
every time I started out of carking along.192701:48:55.279 --> 01:48:57.520
Finally I made it over at the boulevard. I couldn't192801:48:57.520 --> 01:48:59.920
find a cab, so walked back down the side street.192901:49:00.600 --> 01:49:02.079
Don't want anybody to seeming.193001:49:01.880 --> 01:49:03.159
Like, way, did you get all that mud on you?193101:49:03.479 --> 01:49:04.199
What did you do with it?193201:49:04.880 --> 01:49:05.960
Don't worry, everything's all right.193301:49:06.119 --> 01:49:08.000
Why did you do it with the body?193401:49:08.239 --> 01:49:10.720
I'm bury at the tack of the sign, found the193501:49:10.760 --> 01:49:13.399
small board. The dirt is soft and the brush is thick.193601:49:13.880 --> 01:49:16.439
No one will ever find him, very sure if we193701:49:16.560 --> 01:49:18.640
reported it now, or anyone found him on the road,193801:49:18.680 --> 01:49:20.439
those cops would be after Henry in a second.193901:49:20.840 --> 01:49:21.880
Who was the man?194001:49:22.119 --> 01:49:24.159
Maybe he didn't have anything on him, only a few194101:49:24.199 --> 01:49:27.359
cents in his pocket, no identification. I gathered from his194201:49:27.479 --> 01:49:29.720
appearance and his clothes that he was just a trenchet194301:49:30.000 --> 01:49:32.600
Obbo probably stepped out in front of us the bom194401:49:32.640 --> 01:49:35.479
a ride. Do you know, man, I'd say about fifty194501:49:35.560 --> 01:49:36.640
a mon. Oh, it's awful.194601:49:37.000 --> 01:49:37.800
I didn't see him.194701:49:37.840 --> 01:49:39.119
It just seemed to come out of nowhere.194801:49:39.359 --> 01:49:40.199
I didn't see a thing.194901:49:40.279 --> 01:49:42.119
I only heard that thump when the car hit him,195001:49:42.680 --> 01:49:45.520
which was an accident. In me, we know that it195101:49:45.680 --> 01:49:46.960
was a lucky thing for you. I got him off195201:49:47.000 --> 01:49:47.279
the road.195301:49:47.680 --> 01:49:50.279
Those cops had found him, and with you drinking and195401:49:50.560 --> 01:49:53.319
you get stuck for manslaughter, it might be lucky I195501:49:53.439 --> 01:49:55.359
was along side. No, I appreciate it.195601:49:55.520 --> 01:49:57.199
You don't think we should have reported it.195701:49:57.520 --> 01:49:59.840
You'd like to see Henry sentenced to prison for accidentally195801:50:00.159 --> 01:50:00.920
into some old bomb.195901:50:01.239 --> 01:50:04.359
No, no, Jerry, but right was a straight as something196001:50:04.479 --> 01:50:06.720
like this. That's why I didn't want him to drive.196101:50:06.920 --> 01:50:09.439
Sorry, Nell, I should have listened to you call what196201:50:09.520 --> 01:50:11.880
a mess. It's terrible. You relax, but you're sure they196301:50:11.920 --> 01:50:14.159
won't find them. When they do, they'll have forgotten about196401:50:14.199 --> 01:50:17.920
you being stalled there by the way. Just where was it, Well,196501:50:18.079 --> 01:50:21.199
it's practically at the intersection of Ocean Drive and Valley Boulevard.196601:50:21.600 --> 01:50:23.760
It was in front of that big billboard that bread. Yeah,196701:50:24.640 --> 01:50:26.560
all right, let's forget about it. It's done, and the196801:50:26.560 --> 01:50:28.800
worst said about the better. Better have a drink, Henry.196901:50:28.840 --> 01:50:30.279
And as soon as I changed my clothes, we'll go197001:50:30.359 --> 01:50:32.560
into your place. Who he was spoiling that weakend? How197101:50:32.600 --> 01:50:34.880
do I want to drink? Okay, I'll be ready in197201:50:34.880 --> 01:50:46.560
a few minutes. All the rest of the night and morning,197301:50:46.680 --> 01:50:50.399
Henry is shaken. He cannot close his eyes, and finally197401:50:50.520 --> 01:50:54.680
he must have sufficient strength to dress. Downstairs, his grandfather197501:50:54.840 --> 01:50:57.760
is talking to Jerry and Nella. And what did you say?197601:50:57.800 --> 01:51:00.760
Your name was good one, Gerald Goodwin, Boston Goodwins. You197701:51:00.800 --> 01:51:03.359
know the Boston Goodwins. This is my sister Nella, I197801:51:03.399 --> 01:51:06.199
see came down with Henry. Eh, what time did you197901:51:06.279 --> 01:51:09.439
get here? Well, it was late, it is early this morning.198001:51:09.520 --> 01:51:12.399
It was about six of the exact six. Don't you198101:51:12.479 --> 01:51:15.520
people ever asleep? Who? Certainly we sleep? But well, youth198201:51:15.560 --> 01:51:17.439
doesn't require them, hon of sleep at age needs? And198301:51:17.560 --> 01:51:19.920
what are you doing here? Henry invited us to spend198401:51:19.960 --> 01:51:22.479
a week or so with him. That's all, Well, that's198501:51:22.640 --> 01:51:23.640
mighty decent of him.198601:51:23.680 --> 01:51:26.479
Henry's a wonderful boy. He really is, mister Conriy.198701:51:26.560 --> 01:51:28.039
All depends on how you look at it. Who you198801:51:28.079 --> 01:51:30.800
should think well of Henry? I do believe me, I198901:51:31.000 --> 01:51:31.800
think constantly.199001:51:32.159 --> 01:51:32.760
Good morning.199101:51:32.960 --> 01:51:38.439
I well, I don't think I know these people, or199201:51:38.479 --> 01:51:41.239
do I? No, you don't, Marry, but you will, you will.199301:51:41.760 --> 01:51:44.560
Henry's guests came in at six this morning here for199401:51:44.640 --> 01:51:46.920
a bit of a stay from Boston, Jerry Goodwin and199501:51:47.000 --> 01:51:49.680
his sister, Nella Goodwin of the Boss and Goodwin's.199601:51:50.079 --> 01:51:50.960
This is Henry's mother.199701:51:51.039 --> 01:51:52.760
How do you do, missus Cary, Well.199801:51:53.199 --> 01:51:56.079
You're quite welcome. We really didn't want to impose on you,199901:51:56.159 --> 01:51:59.680
but Henry was so insistent. Well, we really came.200001:51:59.600 --> 01:52:02.239
Because because Henry wouldn't take no for an answer. And200101:52:02.720 --> 01:52:03.680
where is Henry?200201:52:03.840 --> 01:52:06.640
Well, I don't think Henry is feeling well this morning.200301:52:06.960 --> 01:52:09.199
You mean Henry has been drinking?200401:52:09.399 --> 01:52:13.279
Well, yes, a little. As a matter of fact, that's200501:52:13.359 --> 01:52:15.079
why we came with him. I was afraid for him200601:52:15.079 --> 01:52:16.119
to drive home last night.200701:52:16.239 --> 01:52:19.399
She's exaggerating, Missus Carter. Tell me, how long have you200801:52:19.520 --> 01:52:20.760
known Henry, miss Goodwin?200901:52:21.119 --> 01:52:23.239
About three weeks going on four.201001:52:23.479 --> 01:52:25.840
Are you the one who's been taking to dinners and nightclubs.201101:52:26.439 --> 01:52:27.960
Yes, I've seen him nearly every evening.201201:52:28.640 --> 01:52:33.159
Good morning, mother, morning everybody. Well, I see you've all201301:52:33.199 --> 01:52:34.479
gotten equator. Henry.201401:52:35.079 --> 01:52:37.159
Why why you're pail as a sheet.201501:52:37.319 --> 01:52:39.399
I've never seen you like this. I'm quite all right, mother,201601:52:39.479 --> 01:52:41.760
I'd have sworn it as your father coming down those steps.201701:52:42.199 --> 01:52:43.000
Want your hands out?201801:52:43.800 --> 01:52:48.399
Huh? Look at that? The jitters you're doing? All right?201901:52:48.520 --> 01:52:48.720
Boy?202001:52:49.239 --> 01:52:52.279
Don't you worry about being a sour old title? Shut up?202101:52:52.319 --> 01:52:53.880
Shut up and let me alone with Henry.202201:52:54.079 --> 01:52:54.640
What is it?202301:52:54.760 --> 01:52:55.600
What's wrong with you?202401:52:55.640 --> 01:52:58.239
Nothing wrong? He'll be alright. He had a very bad night,202501:52:58.279 --> 01:52:59.000
didn't you, Henry.202601:52:59.560 --> 01:52:59.840
Jerry?202701:53:00.479 --> 01:53:02.640
Well, first he lost too much, then he drank too202801:53:02.720 --> 01:53:05.039
much to cover up the losses. I'll pay you the202901:53:05.199 --> 01:53:08.119
hundredth Oh, don't be silly. I'm not worried. I'm only kidding.203001:53:08.479 --> 01:53:10.239
Come on, let's have some breakfast and forget about it.203101:53:10.279 --> 01:53:13.520
Come on, everybody, pardon me? Would I be intruding? I203201:53:13.680 --> 01:53:16.479
haven't had breakfast yet? Do you mind? I certainly not203301:53:16.960 --> 01:53:17.800
come along.203401:53:25.520 --> 01:53:29.319
Before the day is over. Grandfather is boiling. He can't203501:53:29.399 --> 01:53:32.560
stand the impudence of Jerry. But Henry is still unable203601:53:32.600 --> 01:53:35.319
to control his nerves. He can't get the highway accident203701:53:35.399 --> 01:53:38.399
off his mind, and Jerry becomes bolder and bolder.203801:53:39.000 --> 01:53:42.439
Jerry has the upper hand now, and Henry realizes he203901:53:42.520 --> 01:53:44.479
is completely at the mercy of Mella's brother.204001:53:45.359 --> 01:53:47.199
But you've got to get hold of yourself, Henry, You204101:53:47.279 --> 01:53:48.000
got I.204201:53:48.000 --> 01:53:49.039
Can't tell it off my mind.204301:53:49.159 --> 01:53:52.199
Calm down and quit prancing about. What good does it do, Chorried?204401:53:52.239 --> 01:53:53.840
You have nothing to worry about. No one knows, but204501:53:53.880 --> 01:53:54.479
the three of us.204601:53:54.560 --> 01:53:57.199
Police didn't see you there, that's right, just you and Mella,204701:53:57.359 --> 01:53:59.000
and obviously you were driving.204801:54:00.319 --> 01:54:00.600
Jerry.204901:54:00.760 --> 01:54:02.760
You didn't have a thing to worry about for me, Henry,205001:54:02.840 --> 01:54:05.720
not a thing. I'm perfectly satisfied with things the way205101:54:05.760 --> 01:54:08.920
they are. Of course I may ask a little favor205201:54:08.960 --> 01:54:12.800
of you now and then, but nothing to worry about favor.205301:54:14.039 --> 01:54:15.880
What do you mean? Why don't you forget about it?205401:54:15.920 --> 01:54:16.039
Now?205501:54:16.039 --> 01:54:18.159
You'll drive yourself crazy? What do you mean by favors?205601:54:18.359 --> 01:54:22.199
Forget about it? Just forget I mentioned it. I wouldn't205701:54:22.239 --> 01:54:24.560
dream of saying anything about what happened last night to205801:54:24.640 --> 01:54:29.119
your grandfather or your mother. Kind of a rat do205901:54:29.159 --> 01:54:33.319
you think I am? That'd be terrible family name like206001:54:33.479 --> 01:54:36.439
yours were they wouldn't be able to stand such a thing.206101:54:37.039 --> 01:54:38.680
Oh no, Henry, you've nothing to worry about.206201:54:39.520 --> 01:54:43.680
No, Jerry hasn't made himself clear.206301:54:43.800 --> 01:54:46.960
He's trying to tell you that he wants to help you,206401:54:47.880 --> 01:54:48.239
aren't you?206501:54:48.359 --> 01:54:51.079
Jerry's certainly? What else? For? What on earth?206601:54:53.319 --> 01:54:54.000
I get it now?206701:54:54.199 --> 01:54:56.720
Henry thought that off of a love of Mike. Pull206801:54:56.760 --> 01:55:00.680
yourself together, Henry, don't be so ridiculous. I'll run along.206901:55:01.880 --> 01:55:04.000
Maybe if I take some tablets, I'll be able to sleep.207001:55:05.640 --> 01:55:08.359
Jerry, you're at it again, so please get out of207101:55:08.359 --> 01:55:09.720
here and leave these poor people alone.207201:55:10.079 --> 01:55:10.680
Poor people.207301:55:10.800 --> 01:55:13.279
I like Henry. I'm crazy about him, and I want207401:55:13.319 --> 01:55:15.960
you to leave him alone. I know what you're planning.207501:55:16.039 --> 01:55:17.880
Oh shut up, poor you to talk the good ones207601:55:17.920 --> 01:55:20.600
of Boston. Sure, but what have we got nothing for207701:55:20.680 --> 01:55:22.199
the living? For years of our name, we win her207801:55:22.239 --> 01:55:23.880
in Florid and summer in Maine with a hundred dollar207901:55:24.760 --> 01:55:26.720
Here we are again. I mean, this time is a208001:55:26.760 --> 01:55:29.800
little better. This old grandpa is going to kick off208101:55:29.920 --> 01:55:35.520
and leave millions to Henry. With what we know, we208201:55:35.640 --> 01:55:37.800
can stay here forever. I won't you will?208301:55:38.279 --> 01:55:39.479
I like Henry too much.208401:55:41.079 --> 01:55:45.720
I love Henry. Ah Well, I can't see a thing208501:55:45.840 --> 01:55:50.960
wrong with that. No, not a single thing. In fact,208601:55:51.039 --> 01:55:52.079
I approve.208701:55:54.600 --> 01:55:55.520
See you later, Ella.208801:56:04.439 --> 01:56:05.960
Poor Henry is lick.208901:56:06.720 --> 01:56:09.560
He knows Jerry has him by the nose, but he's helpless,209001:56:10.079 --> 01:56:14.840
completely helpless. Finally Monday comes and grandfather called Henry to209101:56:14.880 --> 01:56:15.479
the library.209201:56:16.600 --> 01:56:18.960
Did you want me, grandfather? I certainly did.209301:56:19.439 --> 01:56:20.119
Fy what's wrong?209401:56:20.319 --> 01:56:22.159
The bank just called me and said you'd overdrawn your209501:56:22.159 --> 01:56:25.319
account one thousand dollars one thousand dollars? Well, I haven't.209601:56:25.359 --> 01:56:26.479
I did you do with the money?209701:56:26.680 --> 01:56:28.920
What did the bank pay it?209801:56:29.039 --> 01:56:29.840
Certainly they paid it.209901:56:30.319 --> 01:56:33.399
What did you do with that money? Well?210001:56:33.439 --> 01:56:36.319
I ordered debt to Jerry Goodwin. I heard him say210101:56:36.319 --> 01:56:37.760
you owe him one hundred dollars. Well, he was just210201:56:37.880 --> 01:56:40.159
going easy. It was really a thousand, Henry, you're lying,210301:56:40.560 --> 01:56:42.760
you hear me. No, I owed it to him because210401:56:42.800 --> 01:56:46.439
of well gambling. I don't believe you, not this time.210501:56:46.479 --> 01:56:49.000
It's something else. I've been suspicious from the moment they210601:56:49.000 --> 01:56:52.199
walked into this house. There's something going on that Jerry210701:56:52.319 --> 01:56:54.920
is too smart, too cocky. There's something of what and210801:56:55.000 --> 01:56:56.720
I want to know what it is? Nothing? Nothing, Please210901:56:56.760 --> 01:56:57.600
believe I don't.211001:56:57.439 --> 01:56:59.840
Believe you, and you will tell or get out of this.211101:57:00.039 --> 01:57:00.800
Out and stay out.211201:57:03.079 --> 01:57:03.359
Henry.211301:57:03.800 --> 01:57:05.560
Now, let you keep out of this. Then out till211401:57:06.319 --> 01:57:08.680
he gave that money to my brother. Then I think211501:57:08.760 --> 01:57:09.760
I know why, why?211601:57:10.039 --> 01:57:12.479
Because Jerry knows something that Henry doesn't want told.211701:57:12.760 --> 01:57:13.560
What keeps Hill?211801:57:13.760 --> 01:57:14.960
Get out of him? Nolla, get out?211901:57:15.199 --> 01:57:16.159
This is black mail?212001:57:16.279 --> 01:57:16.720
What else?212101:57:16.960 --> 01:57:20.319
And why do you tell me this? Because I love212201:57:20.439 --> 01:57:23.039
Henry with all his faults and crazy about him.212301:57:23.600 --> 01:57:25.520
I know my brother and I can guess why Henry212401:57:25.560 --> 01:57:26.119
gave him the mind.212501:57:26.159 --> 01:57:28.239
I owe it to him. I owe thousands more. I'll212601:57:28.279 --> 01:57:29.079
get out of here, smell.212701:57:29.520 --> 01:57:31.479
Henry had to pay him, mister Carter, and he had to.212801:57:32.119 --> 01:57:33.560
Jerry knows too much about Henry.212901:57:33.760 --> 01:57:34.159
Blackmail.213001:57:34.159 --> 01:57:34.800
I'll call the police.213101:57:34.840 --> 01:57:36.760
No, no, please, please, don't do that.213201:57:36.840 --> 01:57:39.159
Please. What's going on? What's all the right?213301:57:39.239 --> 01:57:41.560
You will find out? Blackmail. I'll have you in, Joel,213401:57:41.600 --> 01:57:47.000
I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Jerry saved me from prison.213501:57:48.760 --> 01:57:51.920
I killed a man, accidentally ran over him on the213601:57:51.960 --> 01:57:57.720
Ocean road. What yes, And I was drinking. We saw213701:57:57.760 --> 01:57:59.560
a police car coming and Jerry got the body off213801:57:59.600 --> 01:58:01.359
the road just in time. He pulled a wire in213901:58:01.399 --> 01:58:04.880
the motor and the officers helped me tax it. And Jerry, Well,214001:58:05.319 --> 01:58:09.079
Jerry got me on it. I see, and where does214101:58:09.079 --> 01:58:12.680
this happen? On Ocean Drive near Valley Boulevard. I buried214201:58:12.680 --> 01:58:15.359
the body back of the big billboard a bread sign214301:58:15.399 --> 01:58:19.359
on Ocean Drive. You see, everything's all right. I did214401:58:19.479 --> 01:58:21.720
my best, and no one will discover the body for214501:58:21.800 --> 01:58:26.479
a long time. There's no identification on it. Good lord,214601:58:26.920 --> 01:58:29.119
it was an accident, mister Carter, it really it was.214701:58:29.880 --> 01:58:31.840
Henry didn't see him. I swear he didn't.214801:58:31.880 --> 01:58:32.760
It was missing.214901:58:33.880 --> 01:58:36.560
I wanted to report it, but the police were almost there,215001:58:36.600 --> 01:58:40.960
and Henry was drinking, and well, it would have meant manslaughter.215101:58:41.439 --> 01:58:45.760
I've never been so shocked in my life. Your mother215201:58:45.840 --> 01:58:49.199
must not know of this. I've really done you a favor,215301:58:49.319 --> 01:58:49.880
mister Carter.215401:58:50.199 --> 01:58:52.239
Leave me alone, all of you.215501:58:52.399 --> 01:58:54.520
I want to think.215601:58:55.479 --> 01:59:10.000
Damn a deathlike silence falls over the household. Very little215701:59:10.119 --> 01:59:14.680
is said until afternoon of the next day. The grandfather calls.215801:59:14.479 --> 01:59:16.920
The three young people to the library, but at that215901:59:17.079 --> 01:59:20.479
very moment a visitor is announced. The visitor steps into216001:59:20.520 --> 01:59:24.159
the library him, mister Catred, do you wish to see me?216101:59:24.600 --> 01:59:28.479
Well, not exactly, I want to see your grandson here,216201:59:29.039 --> 01:59:33.000
Henry credit O you and Lieutenant Jones Police Department.216301:59:34.039 --> 01:59:36.279
Well, what can we do for your lieutenant?216401:59:36.479 --> 01:59:37.399
Who are these people?216501:59:38.359 --> 01:59:41.319
This is mister Goodwin and now a Goodwin our guest216601:59:41.399 --> 01:59:42.119
at the moment.216701:59:42.399 --> 01:59:46.199
You're another good one. Yes, well, I have a little216801:59:46.239 --> 01:59:50.039
report here. On the morning of August seventeenth about twe am,216901:59:51.000 --> 01:59:53.600
a patrol car came upon Henry Credit and assisted him217001:59:53.600 --> 01:59:56.600
to get his car started. The girl with him. You217101:59:56.600 --> 01:59:59.279
gave her name as Nella Goodwin. It was near the217201:59:59.319 --> 02:00:03.079
intersection of Driving Valley Boulevard. Is that right? Yes?217302:00:03.960 --> 02:00:07.279
Yes, I did have trouble with this. How long were217402:00:07.279 --> 02:00:09.520
you there? About ten minutes?217502:00:09.920 --> 02:00:10.279
I see.217602:00:11.479 --> 02:00:13.359
Did you happen to notice another car leave as you217702:00:13.399 --> 02:00:15.079
pulled up? Or did you see anyone else in a217802:00:15.199 --> 02:00:15.640
sent why?217902:00:17.640 --> 02:00:18.359
I don't remember?218002:00:19.680 --> 02:00:20.720
And did you miss Goodman?218102:00:21.560 --> 02:00:23.760
I can't remember? But they.218202:00:25.720 --> 02:00:28.159
Did either of you step off the highway during that time?218302:00:29.319 --> 02:00:30.720
No, no, that is that.218402:00:30.840 --> 02:00:32.560
I may have, but I don't think we did.218502:00:33.720 --> 02:00:36.159
You stopped wrecking in front of that big billboard, the218602:00:36.239 --> 02:00:37.199
one advertising bread.218702:00:37.760 --> 02:00:38.920
What is this all about?218802:00:40.079 --> 02:00:43.079
Well, they removed that billboard and started excavating for a218902:00:43.119 --> 02:00:48.119
new project. Today they discovered a body man about fifty219002:00:48.439 --> 02:00:51.479
and did several days at least ruck by a car,219102:00:52.159 --> 02:00:53.159
might have internal injuries.219202:00:54.000 --> 02:00:54.920
We didn't see a thing.219302:00:56.319 --> 02:00:58.600
You know nothing about it, Miss No, certainly not.219402:00:59.600 --> 02:01:00.960
What's your relation to Henry Creter?219502:01:02.960 --> 02:01:03.520
No relation?219602:01:04.039 --> 02:01:07.159
See well, let me ask you to drop down a219702:01:07.159 --> 02:01:10.560
headquarters for a little talk. Miss Goodwill. Good afternoon, folks.219802:01:11.479 --> 02:01:13.479
He's wise. They're gonna get Nella down there and make219902:01:13.520 --> 02:01:13.800
a talk.220002:01:14.199 --> 02:01:14.720
You'll have to go.220102:01:15.000 --> 02:01:15.479
I won't go.220202:01:15.680 --> 02:01:16.840
I won't talk if they kill me.220302:01:16.960 --> 02:01:18.720
I know you were with Henry, and they'll hammer you220402:01:18.800 --> 02:01:21.439
until Wait a minute, I've got it.220502:01:22.039 --> 02:01:24.439
There's one way they can't make you say a word.220602:01:24.520 --> 02:01:24.840
How's that?220702:01:25.199 --> 02:01:26.920
Nella and Henry have got to get married at once?220802:01:27.199 --> 02:01:29.279
A wife cannot be made to testify against her husband.220902:01:29.359 --> 02:01:31.439
Married Jerry, he doesn't want to marry.221002:01:31.399 --> 02:01:33.479
No choice, it's the only chance. Come on, let's get going.221102:01:33.840 --> 02:01:36.479
He'll be back. Grandfather, what'll I do? Figure it out221202:01:36.520 --> 02:01:36.960
to yourself?221302:01:37.680 --> 02:01:39.439
This there's that joke in the middle you've had.221402:01:39.359 --> 02:01:41.920
Coming to you. Oh what have I ever done to221502:01:42.000 --> 02:01:45.000
deserve this? Come on, Mella, hurry, hurry.221602:01:45.479 --> 02:01:58.159
Oh Henry Darling married.221702:01:59.039 --> 02:02:01.840
I can't believe. Why didn't you tell me why? I'm221802:02:01.880 --> 02:02:03.600
don Mary? He's married and that's all.221902:02:03.439 --> 02:02:03.840
That is too.222002:02:04.199 --> 02:02:05.319
I never heard of such a thing.222102:02:05.640 --> 02:02:07.039
Was the rush we had to get married?222202:02:07.079 --> 02:02:09.560
This is Carter if we had to, don't worry. I222302:02:09.680 --> 02:02:14.439
love him Mary married. Oh I think I shall say yes, yes, yes,222402:02:14.520 --> 02:02:15.399
but I'll explain later.222502:02:15.520 --> 02:02:15.760
Mary.222602:02:15.880 --> 02:02:16.239
Pardon me.222702:02:16.279 --> 02:02:18.239
There's a mister Johns to see. You're saying, went to222802:02:18.359 --> 02:02:20.800
back again? Mary, Please go to your room. I'll come222902:02:20.840 --> 02:02:22.159
to you in a little while. I'll explain.223002:02:22.399 --> 02:02:24.000
Yes, yes, father.223102:02:24.640 --> 02:02:27.359
Oh, I've never been so shocked.223202:02:27.079 --> 02:02:27.840
In all my life.223302:02:28.239 --> 02:02:31.560
Henry, your father was sad enough, but isn't beyond all223402:02:31.680 --> 02:02:32.359
sense of See.223502:02:34.319 --> 02:02:36.119
Well, what do you want now, Lieutenant.223602:02:36.479 --> 02:02:39.680
I'd like to have a talk with Hims Goodwin Donald headquarters.223702:02:39.840 --> 02:02:43.439
But that isn't possible, Lieutenant, No, Lieutenant, You see, miss223802:02:43.600 --> 02:02:47.319
Goodwin is really missus Carteret. The wife cannot be forced223902:02:47.359 --> 02:02:48.840
to testify against her husband.224002:02:49.079 --> 02:02:53.039
I see. Oh, maybe that won't be necessary, after all,224102:02:54.479 --> 02:02:55.800
it's your cigarette case, Henry.224202:02:57.359 --> 02:03:00.319
What I don't know? Think?224302:03:00.800 --> 02:03:04.840
Oh, well, this has sound a few feet from the grave.224402:03:04.920 --> 02:03:08.000
On the other side of the billboard, there's littles on it.224502:03:08.439 --> 02:03:08.640
Hc.224602:03:10.000 --> 02:03:11.760
Of course, we have ways of tracing the owners of224702:03:11.800 --> 02:03:12.119
the joe.224802:03:12.199 --> 02:03:16.920
Maybe it belonged to the dead man. He's been identified224902:03:16.960 --> 02:03:20.359
as Peter Lunn Trenches. And suppose you couldn't find the225002:03:20.479 --> 02:03:23.239
owner of that case. We'll find the owner. I see225102:03:23.279 --> 02:03:28.359
the case, thank you. Rather expenses had made just about225202:03:28.359 --> 02:03:29.640
one hundred dollars, I'd say.225302:03:29.840 --> 02:03:31.399
I did man's fingerprints wearing on it.225402:03:31.520 --> 02:03:34.239
I imagine this case is worth considerably more now than225502:03:34.279 --> 02:03:38.239
it cost originally. Prices have gone sky high. Yes, I225602:03:38.279 --> 02:03:40.640
wouldn't be surprised if a case like this wouldn't be225702:03:40.720 --> 02:03:45.920
worth well pretty penny. Yes, I imagine some people would225802:03:45.960 --> 02:03:48.199
pay up in the thousands for a case like that.225902:03:49.720 --> 02:03:51.800
Did you ever hear of bribery, mister Catter? It's now226002:03:52.199 --> 02:03:54.159
they have a couple of friends heading the police commission,226102:03:54.319 --> 02:03:57.880
and I've heard of shake ups and pounding the pavement. Well,226202:04:00.000 --> 02:04:02.479
can I see you alone, mister Cutter, Yes, sir Tenant,226302:04:03.039 --> 02:04:04.039
step into the library.226402:04:07.000 --> 02:04:07.720
Work at your cutter.226502:04:08.399 --> 02:04:11.720
I know you're a big shot, Miss Kenny, and well,226602:04:13.119 --> 02:04:15.439
I'm trying to do my duty. I want to cause226702:04:15.439 --> 02:04:16.039
you any trouble.226802:04:16.119 --> 02:04:18.960
But then if there is anyone other than you know226902:04:19.039 --> 02:04:24.039
about this cigarette case as headquarters, oh Jones, here is227002:04:24.119 --> 02:04:26.479
fifteen hundred dollars for that cigarette case.227102:04:27.199 --> 02:04:32.479
How about it. Well, I don't want to go back227202:04:32.520 --> 02:04:37.720
to pounting a bait. I guess you've got me stuck.227302:04:39.199 --> 02:04:40.439
Poor guy hasn't got a chance.227402:04:41.640 --> 02:04:45.399
Okay, here's the case, here's your money, and I'll see227502:04:45.439 --> 02:04:46.560
about a promotion for you.227602:04:47.000 --> 02:04:50.840
I'm satisfied. If I can just stay where I am, well,227702:04:50.880 --> 02:04:52.199
I'll be running along with your cutter.227802:04:53.560 --> 02:04:55.399
Don't do it, Please, don't what, don't do what.227902:04:55.680 --> 02:04:57.199
Henry didn't leave the pavement that night.228002:04:57.239 --> 02:05:01.199
I swear he didn't. Someone platted that cigarette. I know228102:05:01.319 --> 02:05:02.399
who did it, and I know why.228202:05:02.560 --> 02:05:03.079
You crazy.228302:05:03.239 --> 02:05:06.439
You had the case last Yarry. Henry did hit the man.228402:05:06.520 --> 02:05:08.680
It was an accident, but you carried the body behind228502:05:08.760 --> 02:05:10.960
the sign and buried it. You put the case there228602:05:11.039 --> 02:05:13.560
purpose shop stick and tired of living by your rotten228702:05:13.640 --> 02:05:17.279
schemes from hand them off on other people for years, blackmail, extortion,228802:05:17.399 --> 02:05:19.640
anything you could think of. But I'm through with you,228902:05:19.920 --> 02:05:20.720
brother or no brother.229002:05:20.760 --> 02:05:23.680
You're a pool hella. You've just sentenced Henry to the penitentiary,229102:05:23.840 --> 02:05:24.399
all three of us.229202:05:24.479 --> 02:05:26.199
Then we'll all three go to prison. I don't care.229302:05:26.239 --> 02:05:28.560
Please please, Henry, you're a weakneyed jellyfish.229402:05:28.560 --> 02:05:30.359
If you had any gumption you poke him in the jar.229502:05:30.439 --> 02:05:31.479
You know he's a crowd up.229602:05:31.840 --> 02:05:34.439
And there's something phony about that cigarette case.229702:05:35.279 --> 02:05:37.199
I don't know what it is, but well, if you229802:05:37.319 --> 02:05:38.159
planted it there.229902:05:38.039 --> 02:05:40.399
You were stupid, and if you drop it, you're stupidest230002:05:40.399 --> 02:05:41.279
still and I don't think you.230102:05:41.319 --> 02:05:44.319
Did anym you shut up. Wait a minute.230202:05:45.520 --> 02:05:45.680
Wait.230302:05:45.760 --> 02:05:47.920
If that cigarette case was there when they tore the230402:05:48.000 --> 02:05:51.399
sign down, why didn't Lieutenant Jones mention.230502:05:51.359 --> 02:05:52.560
It when he first came here.230602:05:52.720 --> 02:05:54.520
Oh, we didn't fight it till the next.230702:05:54.439 --> 02:05:57.960
Day, Lieutenant Jones. That cigarette case was never near that sign.230802:05:58.640 --> 02:06:01.439
My brother gave you that case. You're in with him230902:06:01.439 --> 02:06:02.479
on this more black.231002:06:02.319 --> 02:06:05.319
Man, girl, good girl, your wonderful marvels cooking with Gash.231102:06:05.359 --> 02:06:05.880
He's crazy.231202:06:05.960 --> 02:06:07.800
Come in, Captain Gibson, you step.231302:06:07.680 --> 02:06:09.680
In here, please, Hey, did you hear this? Did you231402:06:09.760 --> 02:06:10.479
hear what they said?231502:06:10.520 --> 02:06:13.319
Captain? I heard and sold the sart and take them away,231602:06:13.680 --> 02:06:14.960
take both of them away and put them on the231702:06:15.000 --> 02:06:17.319
first train out of town. Let them keep the money,231802:06:17.520 --> 02:06:20.000
but put him on the first train. I'll prefer no charges,231902:06:20.039 --> 02:06:21.920
providing they get out of town. And saying grand father,232002:06:21.960 --> 02:06:25.239
I don't understand Jones isn't a police lieutenant, and there's232102:06:25.319 --> 02:06:28.840
nobody buried back of that billboard. I suddenly remembered that232202:06:28.960 --> 02:06:31.760
whole block belonged to me. I hadn't sold it, so232302:06:31.920 --> 02:06:36.159
why would they be excavating no body. I checked with232402:06:36.279 --> 02:06:39.560
Captain Gibson here and there was no Lieutenant Jones. There232502:06:39.640 --> 02:06:40.119
was not even a.232602:06:40.159 --> 02:06:41.520
Trace of a grave back of that time.232702:06:41.960 --> 02:06:43.640
Full on what became of the man I hit, I'll232802:06:43.680 --> 02:06:45.720
explained that in just a minute, Son, just a minute.232902:06:45.880 --> 02:06:49.680
And what about the girl, mister Cardonella, my granddaughter. He's233002:06:49.760 --> 02:06:51.359
the first bit of red blood we've had in this233102:06:51.479 --> 02:06:54.359
family for years. I'll put that phony Lieutenant Jones and233202:06:54.439 --> 02:06:56.720
Jerry in the cooler for twenty four hours and put233302:06:56.760 --> 02:06:59.359
them on trains going in different directions. If they come233402:06:59.399 --> 02:07:02.079
back and less than ten years, they're crazy list I'll233502:07:02.159 --> 02:07:13.319
show had a monkey with the president of the police Commission. Well,233602:07:14.039 --> 02:07:16.159
there's very little to explain this time.233702:07:16.960 --> 02:07:19.880
Jerry Goodwin discovered the man was not dead the moment233802:07:20.000 --> 02:07:23.239
he felt his pulse, and when he regained consciousness back233902:07:23.319 --> 02:07:26.520
of the big billboard, Well, Jerry took him across town234002:07:26.600 --> 02:07:29.720
to a hotel. Later he arranged with him to pose234102:07:29.720 --> 02:07:32.800
as a detective and frightened Henry and Nelly into marriage.234202:07:33.359 --> 02:07:35.520
And the supposed victim and Jerry would carry on a234302:07:35.600 --> 02:07:39.640
lucrative blackmail scheme from then on. But they never dreamed234402:07:39.680 --> 02:07:41.720
that the grandfather owned a lot where the corpse was234502:07:41.760 --> 02:07:44.840
supposed to have been buried, and that was where they slipped.234602:07:45.560 --> 02:07:48.560
But grandfather is proud of his spunky granddaughter in law,234702:07:49.199 --> 02:07:50.760
and Henry will be a good boy.234802:07:50.600 --> 02:07:51.079
From now on.234902:08:15.520 --> 02:08:28.560
CBS has presented The Whistler. Original music for this production235002:08:28.800 --> 02:08:32.600
was composed by Wilbur Hatch and conducted by Ivan Dittmars.235102:08:33.000 --> 02:08:35.840
The Whistler is written and directed by Jay Donald Wilson235202:08:36.079 --> 02:08:49.439
and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. This is CBS,235302:08:49.600 --> 02:08:51.439
the Columbia Broadcasting System.235402:09:01.159 --> 02:09:05.880
Well, my dear, it looks like the evening has played235502:09:05.960 --> 02:09:12.479
out its scheme for now. I suppose it's about time235602:09:12.600 --> 02:09:14.880
for you to return to your home and for me235702:09:15.159 --> 02:09:20.199
to wherever it is I come from. But I do235802:09:20.520 --> 02:09:24.840
hope you'll be back. I do so enjoy this time235902:09:24.960 --> 02:09:31.479
together we spend. I'll be here, same time, same place,236002:09:33.079 --> 02:09:38.239
ready to share with you. But if I may ask236102:09:38.479 --> 02:09:43.119
one more favor of your as you head home as236202:09:43.199 --> 02:09:46.800
you make your way through the woods and across the236302:09:46.960 --> 02:09:51.680
railroad tracks, as you lay your head on your soft,236402:09:52.000 --> 02:09:58.039
cool pillow and gnawed away, take one moment and be236502:09:58.239 --> 02:10:02.039
thankful for what you you have, and I will be236602:10:02.239 --> 02:10:05.760
seeing you soon begin to.236702:10:05.960 --> 02:10:08.479
Follow into.236802:10:10.600 --> 02:10:11.920
Again.236902:10:13.720 --> 02:10:21.960
Rombring do bring, rombling, rumbling you bring
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