May 24, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | The Thing Inside: Four Horror Stories of Hidden Evil, Dark Love and Death at Sea

Unknown Broadcast | The Thing Inside: Four Horror Stories of Hidden Evil, Dark Love and Death at Sea
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Dive into the unsettling world of "Unknown Broadcast" on Weekly Spooky, featuring four chilling old time radio horror stories. Explore tales of ancient evil in glass, hidden secrets in department stores, murderous pasts in charming cottages, and foggy mysteries at sea, all delivered with vintage suspense.

Key Takeaways

  • Unknown Broadcast presents a curated collection of four distinct old-time radio horror stories, each with unique themes of suspense and mystery.
  • The episode delves into narratives of "The Thing Inside" involving a cursed glass ball, "Evening Primrose" about a poet trapped in a department store after dark, "Philomel Cottage" where a woman suspects her lover's deadly past, and "The Body Off Billingsgate" a Scotland Yard investigation.
  • These stories explore recurring elements in classic OTR horror, such as hidden evil, dark love, perilous secrets, and the lingering dread found within static.
  • The episode is produced by Daniel Wilder and features music by Ray Mattis, with executive producers Rob Fields and Bobbletopia.com.
Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with another uneasy collection of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, gothic crime, and strange little broadcasts that seem to know exactly what you are afraid to touch.

Tonight’s transmission carries four shadowed tales from the darker shelves of the dial: a glass ball that may contain something ancient and wicked, a department store where the mannequins are not the only ones waiting after dark, a romantic cottage hiding a murderous secret, and a body pulled from Billingsgate that leads into a web of crime, greed, and fate. The room is warm. The chair is ready. The host is smiling again. But whatever is inside the story… may not stay there.

🔮 The Thing Inside — A mysterious glass ball from an antique shop awakens something deadly in a quiet New England village, as desire, jealousy, and hidden evil begin to twist one man toward destruction.
🌙 Evening Primrose — A poet flees ordinary life by hiding inside a department store after closing, only to discover a secret society of night dwellers who may never let him leave.
🏚️ Philomel Cottage — A woman believes she has found love and safety in a charming country cottage, but the man beside her may be hiding a past written in murder.
⚓ The Body Off Billingsgate — A corpse on the dock pulls Scotland Yard into a cold, foggy mystery of stolen money, false identities, and a killer who thinks he has already escaped.

Four classic OTR horror stories drift through Unknown Broadcast tonight… and whether the terror is sealed in glass, hidden after closing, waiting in a cottage, or floating in from the fog, something inside the static is still moving.

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🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the four horror stories in this episode?

This episode features four tales: 'The Thing Inside,' about a cursed glass ball; 'Evening Primrose,' where a poet encounters night dwellers in a department store; 'Philomel Cottage,' revealing a partner's murderous past; and 'The Body Off Billingsgate,' a Scotland Yard mystery.

What is 'The Thing Inside' story about?

'The Thing Inside' tells of a mysterious glass ball from an antique shop that unleashes something deadly in a New England village, fueled by desire and hidden evil.

What kind of old time radio horror is featured?

The episode includes classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, gothic crime, and strange broadcasts that tap into primal fears.

What mystery unfolds in 'The Body Off Billingsgate'?

Scotland Yard investigates a corpse found on the dock, leading them into a foggy mystery involving stolen money, false identities, and an elusive killer.

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My dear happy to see you as always, of course,

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please please make yourself at home, but only figuratively, trust me. Now, Now,

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let's get you a hot cup of something and a

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nice warm chair to sit in, because even as the

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weather turns warm, it's always so chilly in the night.

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What's that? Well, of course, I mean, we've been friends

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a long time. I suppose there's no reason to keep

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anything from you. But are you sure? Are you certain

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you want to know about the thing inside?

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Come in.

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Welcome, I'm e g. Marshall.

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I'm afraid the chairs aren't very comfortable, but that doesn't matter,

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because in just a moment you'll be sitting on the

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edge of them, for we'll be bringing you the tale

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of the thing inside, A strange and potent force sealed

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up and held in check, that cried to be released,

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and once it was freed, brought terror and death to

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a whole countryside.

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Sergeant, what's it all about? Has there been any trouble

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over at Ezra's place?

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I guess you could call it trouble missus Ferrara.

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He was killed last night, he was wat killed, murdered.

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His nephew went over there early this morning and found.

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Him hope, But that's awful. I thought he was a

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dreadful man. But well, have you any idea who did it?

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Not yet?

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That's why I stopped by here to find out if

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you had seen or heard anything.

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I'm sorry, I wish we could help you. But well,

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how was he killed? And he was pretty bad?

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Whoever did it must have really hated him or else

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been out of his mind.

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Because it was done with an axe.

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Our mystery drama The Thing Inside was written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Robert Newman and stars Ralph Bell

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and brianer Ray.

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What is evil?

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Is it abstract or concrete? Does it seek us out?

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Or do we seek it? Either way, there is something

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in all of us that senses its presence, and when

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we do, most of us draw back from it in fear.

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But occasionally, for reasons we do not always understand, we

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are attracted to it and come under its spell, thus

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freeing it to work.

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Its destruction on an unsuspecting world.

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Our story begins as John and Sarah Ferrar get out

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of their car and walk towards a rather shabby and

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run down antique shop in a small New England village.

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It's not much of a plague.

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No. Still, you never know. Paul's picked up some pretty

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nice things and places like this that avan Sandrance, that's true.

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Good afternoon, Oh, good afternoon.

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Do you mind if we look around?

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Nope, not at all.

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You're looking for anything in particular?

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No, not really, possibly some dishes. Do you have any

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white iron stew No? Raight enough, it doesn't matter. That's

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a rather nice painting.

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There the school. Now, yeescars.

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Do you know anything about it?

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No, Shet the rich.

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American early nineteenth century?

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John, look at this?

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What?

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Oh?

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Yes? Did you say early nineteenth century?

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Yeah?

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I don't think so. I'd say it was wasn't more

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than twenty years old? A copy of something earlier? Why

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you say that because of the condition of the canvas

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and the varnish. You a dealer, No, I'm a painter.

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Oh well yeah maybe right, Well I'm sure i am.

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Oh you know, have you found something?

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Yes?

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Hm? Can you tell us any about this.

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Lash paper eight? Or is that what it is? Yeah?

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I used to think show. What do you think that, Sarah?

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No, it's it's interesting.

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Yes, it is, especially when you hold it up to

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the light, when you turn the ball that it moves

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I've never seen anything quite like.

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It, neither of I Paul would probably know what it is.

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How much do you want for it?

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Five dollars?

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What do you say, Sarah? Shall we buy it?

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Oh?

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I don't know, John. It just looks like a glass

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ball to me.

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Oh, I like it. I like looking at it.

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Here's the five dollars for something that may be nothing

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at all.

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Why do you say it's nothing when I say I

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like it?

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Because five dollars is a lot of money for us.

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Anyway, you don't have to rub it in.

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I'm sorry, Darmie. I just might know what you man.

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If you really want it, you can have it for

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three dollars.

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I do want it. I'll take it, John, I said,

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I'll take it.

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Hello.

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Anybody home?

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Is that you Paul?

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Yes, I'll be right down.

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Hi.

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Hello Sarah.

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Well what's all this?

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My brother sent me a case of fruit from Florida

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and I thought you and John might like some.

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That's hopefully nice of your fool.

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No, not really, I'd never finish it all by myself.

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Well, I still think it's very nice of you. Thank you.

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Well, you're very welcome. Where's John in the studio? Oh?

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How is he?

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Not the same, not not very good.

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Still not working.

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Eh, Now he's trying. He goes in there every day.

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Well, it's happened almost every painter at some time or another.

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He hit a bad period, just can't seem to do anything.

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Faw. I thought, I heard your voice. Oh a fine John,

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and you Okay? Where all this food come from?

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Pull brought it over.

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My brother sent me a whole case of it, and

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I thought you might like something.

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Oh, it's very nice of him. I was hoping you'd

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stop by. There's something I wanted to show you, to

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ask you about. Oh what's that this glass ball? Oh?

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Where'd you get it? Coming to atlantique shop and Preston? Oh, yes,

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I know the place. The guy said it was a

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paper win.

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No, it can't be. It doesn't have a base. It

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isn't even flat on one side.

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And that's what I thought. What do you think it is? Then?

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Yeah, I have no idea. The only thing I've ever

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seen that's even vaguely like this are witch balls. Witch

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balls you sometimes find them down in Pennsylvania. They're like

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heck signs, supposed to keep witches away.

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Ah.

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Yes, it's a very interesting thing, beautiful piece of glass blowing.

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Yes, isn't it. Take it out of the light and

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look at it more closely. There's something inside it, kind

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of shadow.

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Oh, I don't see anything.

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We'll hold it up Tennant. Well you mean that kind

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of a swirl.

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I think that's just an air bubble or maybe an

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imperfection in the glass.

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I don't I think there's something inside it that the

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glass was blown around it. Hey, give it a me, Oh, John,

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stuck out of my hands. It didn't break it, did

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it crank? Ah? Look at that dropped a fireplace and

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there's not a mark or a scratch on it. But

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that's impossible. But look at it. You're right. I've never seen.

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Anything like it. It can't be ordinary glass. I'll tell

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you what, Johnna, I've got a friend who's an expert

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collects paper weights.

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If you like, I'll take it and show it. No, No,

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it's not leaving this house, John, I say it's not

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leaving this house. All right, John, I'm going back inside.

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I'll say it.

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Paul.

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Yes, Joe, Well, he really has a thing about it,

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hasn't he.

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Yes?

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When did he get it?

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Oh?

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Just yesterday. I don't like it.

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Why not?

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I don't know I just have a funny feeling about it.

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I have had from the first time I saw it.

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Can you hear me?

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Mmm?

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What you can hear me? I know you can. I

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knew it the first time you kicked me up.

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Because you was the only one go could see me.

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Yes, you've got to help me, says me.

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Oh, break the ball and the free me.

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Yes, if you do, you won't be sorry. I do

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things for you one the full thing.

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But how can I break it? I dropped it and

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it didn't even crack.

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I and Walker, John, I and Walter.

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I don't understand.

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You will.

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I know you will. I know you'll help me.

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Just a second.

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Oh, hello, Pool, Sarah, Can I come in for a

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few minutes?

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Oh yes, of course.

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What hell are you a little down at the moment?

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Why?

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I just got some rather upsetting news. That's why I

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came over.

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No, I'm sorry, Pool. What's the news?

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Well, it will affect you and John more than it

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does anyone else. You know those rumors that Ezra Tate

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was going to sell that two hundred acre parcel of

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his to a developer, Well apparently they're true.

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Oh no, but how do you know?

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Oh?

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I was just at the Bank, and Peterson told me that's.

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Certainly not good that Ezra is going to sell. That

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doesn't mean that they can go ahead and build there,

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but they'd have to get the approval of the zoning board.

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Have you forgotten that Harry Walker, the board chairman, is

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his nephew.

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They wouldn't there. You mean you think it really may

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go through.

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I'm afraid, but that's awful.

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You know. We bought this place, put every cent we

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have into it, mostly because of the location of the view,

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and if the deal does go through, that will be

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the end of it. And that's not all. I wouldn't

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want to go on living here with a development right

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under on Moses, and I don't think anyone else would

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want to either.

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I'm afraid you take a bad licking if you tried

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to sell the place.

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Well, don't say anything about it to John until we

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really do know what's gonna happen. He hates says potato

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as it is, and when he hears about this, he's right.

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He has had a bit of trouble with him, hasn't he.

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Oh, From the day we moved in here, first about

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the boundary line and then.

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About oh oh oh, I didn't know you.

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Yeah, I was just passing by and I thought i'd

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drop in.

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I'm glad you did. As a matter of fact, I

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was going to coiner you. Oh my, what you know

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that glass ball I showed you yesterday? Yes, of course,

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if you wanted to break it, really break it, how'd

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you go about it?

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Well?

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Why on earth would you want to break it? It's

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a beautiful thing.

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Yes it is. Eh, but suppose I did want.

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To break it?

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I really don't know, John. Can you think of any

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way it can be done.

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With fire and water? Fire and water? Yes, well, I

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suppose if you put it in a fire and got

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it very hot we were close to its melting point,

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and then dropped it into cold water, that might do it.

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Of course, Thanks, Paul.

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Wait you mean you're really going to be yes?

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Why?

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Because I've got to I got a feeling that if

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I do break it, can break it out? What have mind?

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I'll say it for.

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Don't look that way, Sarah.

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I know it doesn't make.

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Sense, but after all, there's no harm in it.

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I'm not so sure about that.

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Why do you say that?

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I told you I had a funny feeling about the

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thing from the first time I saw it.

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Well, if he does break it, destroy it, that will

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be the end of it, I wonder.

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John, Yes, why have you got to do a lot?

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I didn't realize I had Hih. May I come in,

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of course?

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Oh it's hopefully hot in here.

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Oh no, it's the fire.

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Oh yes, then then you're really going to do it.

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Yes, I've had the ball on the fire for about

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a half hour. Now I'm just about to take it out, Darling.

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I don't like this.

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I know you don't. What would I do with the.

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Tongues over there?

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Oh? Yes, now stand back, I'm going to take it.

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Out and then drop it in the pail of water.

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Yes, come on, now, be careful, I will ready.

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Yes, here goes. Wow, I really think I did it.

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What happened to the ball?

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We'll see for yourself, practically exploded into one hundred pieces?

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Oh yes, Well are you satisfied now?

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Yes?

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Wait a minute, look at this? This is what was

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inside it.

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It's center another ball, small black one.

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Yes, but it wasn't black before the heat.

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Must have turned it black. Oh what are you going

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to do with it?

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Keep it?

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Why?

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Yes, sir, I'll stop looking so upset, Sarah. Things are

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going to be different.

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Now, what do you mean?

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Everything's going to be fine, better than they've ever been before.

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With the help of fire and water, the mysterious glass

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ball has been broken. And though he should know better,

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John Ferrar seems pleased about it, for there are some

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things that it is best to leave alone. Was he

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right in thinking there was something sealed in the ball?

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Will it give him the things he wants? And if so,

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at what cost? Dusk is that time of uncertainty. And

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though she could not have said why, Sarah Farrah was

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not just uncertain but anxious, and she stood beside her

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husband and saw the glass ball shatter. But now she's

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beginning to feel that perhaps she was mistaken. For when

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John woke this morning, he was in better spirits than

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he has been for months. He went into his studio

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early and has been in there all day. It's evening now,

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almost supper time, and he still has not come out.

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Yes, darling, it's almost six o'clock.

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And I wondered him, it's what almost six o'clock you're

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cutting a camp? But it is, Oh good lord, I

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had no idea. I kept thinking while I had it,

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I'd stay with it, keep on going for just a

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little while longer.

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Do you mean you've been working?

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Have I ever?

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How can I look?

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Of course it's not quite finished. I want to do

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were a little more of the background.

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But what do you think, Oh, darling, it's dorn it.

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It's terribly good, you really think so?

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Oh?

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Yes, it's the best thing you've ever done in some

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ways like summer morning, but different stronger.

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You're right, it is something like summer morning. And it

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is definitely.

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Well.

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It would have to be, because I'm suddenly seeing anything differently,

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feeling differently. It's as if i'd been handcuffed for months

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and I was suddenly free.

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Darlene, I'm so glad.

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Six o'clock and I wonder I'm starting.

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But didn't you have any launch? I went out around noon?

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No, I forgot about it.

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Something beef stew Oh good, and one where there's that

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bottle we were saving for a special occasion.

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I think this is it, don't you?

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Oh? I certainly, Oh darling, why don't you wash up?

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And oh I'll get it? Hello? Hello, Sarah, Oh Paul, Hello,

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Well you sound pretty good. Oh, I feel that way.

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John finally broke through and he's working, working beautifully.

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Oh, I'm glad to hear it.

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Oh, you don't sound so good. Is it anything wrong?

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I'm afraid so I just heard that the deal on

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Isra Tate's land is definitely going through the closings tomorrow.

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Oh no, And there's no way of stopping it, none

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that I know of, And I guess I'll have to

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tell John.

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Tell me what are you going to do it now?

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Yes, I'm sorry, Sarah, so am I, but it can't

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be helped. Goodbye, Paul.

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What was that all about?

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Oh, some some rather bad news, darling. You know that

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talk that Ezra Tate was going to sell the two

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hundred acres across the road to a developer.

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Yes, and apparently it's true.

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Why I can't be I'm afraid it is John, the closings.

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Tomorrow, But he can't do anything like that. It had

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ruined the town, and not just a town where we

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couldn't go on living here with a couple of hundred

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ticky tacky houses right across the road.

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I know, I'm afraid nothing can be done about it.

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Nah, we we'll see about that, John, Where are you

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going to talk to it? No?

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John, Wait, don't wait.

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Ezra, Ezra take.

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Who's there? John Ferrar.

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Wh do you work?

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I want to talk to you.

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Why can't right now suffer.

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A damn it all, Ezra? It's important?

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Okay, okay, just a second.

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Now?

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What is all?

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This is what I heard true? That you're sending my

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land across the road from us to a developer? It

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sure is.

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But you can't do that. It says, Oh, it's my land.

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I can sell it to anyone I want.

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Haven't you any feeling it off for anyone else? Don't

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you realize what it'll do not just to me my place,

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but the whole town. It can't take another couple of

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hundred people.

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The deals sack and that's that. But can't you see?

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Okay, okay, how much are they offering you for it here?

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You want to know? Because I'll buy it from you.

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I'll give you a couple of thousand over their price.

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It's really finly. What's funny about.

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It here just is you haven't got a name. You

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owe everyone in town money, and you want to.

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Mind about that.

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I'll get it somewhere, yeah, where from your friend Paul Chandler?

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What's the deal where I get it?

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Or like lor it's all just because he's got a

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thing about your wife comes around with fruit and groceries

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for Yeah, I mean, oh you people wait for me

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for hour. You thin't got to let you in here

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without precautions. He's guns loaded, many closer knowledge. You have

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a load of birdshot cents.

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He gets about what you can afford.

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Now you die here? Okay, but this isn't the end of.

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It is.

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Oh?

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John, thank Helen, you're back. I was a free Well

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what happened?

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He laughed at me.

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You should have known he would. He's a dreadful old man.

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He's a monster. He doesn't give a damn about anyone

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or anything. To see him drop, John, Well, I would

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just dropping dead would be too good for him. I'd

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like to have something really terrible happen to him.

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Just a second.

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Good morning, missus ferrar.

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Yes, my name's Osborne, a sergeant Osborne, State Police.

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Oh, how do you do?

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Is your husband around?

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Yes, he's in his studio.

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Could I talk to him for a few minutes?

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Well, he's working, but I think so come in.

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Thank you, John.

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Could you come out here for a minute.

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Okay?

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What's up, darling?

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This is Sergeant Osborn Or of the State Police.

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Morty sergeant, Good morning, mister Ferrar, I'm sorry to disturb you,

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but I wondered if.

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You could help us with one. Sergeant. Were you home

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last night? Yes, we will. We're here most nights. What

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time did you get to bed fairly? Then? About ten?

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Yes, that's right?

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And did you get up for any reason?

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Or did you sleep right through the night? We slept

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straight through at least I did what.

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I was hoping that maybe you'd gotten enough that you

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could tell me if you heard her, saw anything unusual

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a car going up the road to Ezra.

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Tate's place, for instance. Well I didn't, did you, sim No, we'd.

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Had a big day and I slept like a log.

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You know Tate, don't you? Yeah? We sure?

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Girl.

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I take it you don't like him very much.

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Well, that's the understatement of the year we've had.

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Now.

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They were trouble with him since we moved up here, Sergeant, what's.

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This all about? Has there been any trouble in his place?

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I guess you could call it trouble. He was killed

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last night. He was what killed, murdered. His nephew went

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over there early this morning and found him over That's awful.

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I thought he was a dreadful man. But have you

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any idea who did it? Not yet?

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That's why I stopped by here to find out if

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you'd seen or heard anything.

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I'm sorry, I wish we could help you. But well,

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how was he killed?

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It was pretty bad.

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Whoever did it must have really hated him or else

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been out of his mind because he was done with

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an axe.

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No, that's not a nice way to kill someone, not

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at all. And whoever or whatever did it didn't waste

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very much time, for it was only last night that

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John Ferrar said I'd like to see something really terrible

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happened to him. And what did happen was horrible enough

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to shock even him. The question is was it a coincidence?

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Or is there more to it than that?

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Could it have.

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Something to do with the shattering of the glass ball?

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There is a finality to death, even the death of

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the unloved and unmourned, that we all find sobering, for

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it reminds us of our own mortality. It's late afternoon

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now and Sarah Ferrar is in the kitchen of the

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old farmhouse. When a car drives up stops outside. She

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goes to the door, opens it.

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Hello, Paul, Hello Sarah, how are you.

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Well, I've been better.

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I gather you heard the news then about Ezra.

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Yes, who'd you hear it? From the state police? One

474
00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:16.319
of them stopped by this morning. You wanted to know

475
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:19.519
whether John or I had heard or seen anything last night.

476
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:20.680
And had you?

477
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:20.960
No.

478
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:23.480
We were both pretty tired.

479
00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:26.839
John had been working like a maniac all day and

480
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:28.200
we slept right through.

481
00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:30.599
I see that was John.

482
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:34.000
Well, of course he's upset. It's a scary thing when

483
00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:36.960
something like that happened so close by and you don't

484
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.359
know who did it or why.

485
00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:43.640
But he'll get it, I hope. So I've been worried

486
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:44.079
about him.

487
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:48.000
Why, Well, he certainly wasn't in very good shape the

488
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:52.000
other day, that whole involvement of his with that glass ball.

489
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.839
I told that I was pretty worried about that myself.

490
00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:59.119
But well, once he broke it and snapped his painting

491
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:00.559
block stopped working.

492
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:05.279
He really feels there was some connection there apparently. Well,

493
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.440
as long as he's working, I take it he still is.

494
00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:11.759
Oh, yes, see, he finished one painting and he's already

495
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:12.640
started on another.

496
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:13.559
Oh good.

497
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:16.720
The reason I stopped by was because I wanted to

498
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.559
find out if the two of you were free Friday night.

499
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:21.000
Oh, yes, we are.

500
00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:24.079
Then would you come over for dinner? Benson of the

501
00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:27.279
Benson Gallery is coming up from New York and if

502
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:31.359
John is working again, I thought you ought to meet him.

503
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:33.880
You really are a very good friend.

504
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.759
Oh, come on, Sarah, and you know how I feel

505
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:40.960
about you, both of you. You've had a pretty rough

506
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.400
time since you moved up here. And if I've done

507
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:48.720
anything to help. Oh, oh, I didn't hear your car.

508
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:49.839
You've been here long?

509
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:51.240
No, just a few minutes.

510
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:55.680
Oh, stop by and over for dinner Friday night. Benson

511
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:57.720
of the Benson Gallery is going to be there.

512
00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:01.319
Well, that's nice. What do you think of our big

513
00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:05.880
local news Azra Tates death. It's pretty shocking, Yes it is.

514
00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:08.359
On the other hand, it did take care of a

515
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.640
pretty serious problem for us. Oh what do you mean. Well,

516
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.440
know that he's gone. That's the end of that housing development.

517
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.799
I'm afraid it isn't John. Why not.

518
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:22.759
His nephew is his only living relative. He'll inherit everything

519
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.599
as we had, including his land. And he's already telling

520
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:28.720
people he intends to go through with the deal.

521
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:31.799
Or he can't do that.

522
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:35.480
He's head of the town zoning board. Yes, he is.

523
00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:37.759
But he was willing to push the thing through when

524
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:40.279
it meant money in his uncle's pocket. Don't you think

525
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.279
he'll be even more anxious to do it when it

526
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.240
means money in his own. But that's even worse a

527
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.880
little more direct and obvious, but no worse.

528
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:52.480
And nothing can be done about us. I'm afraid not.

529
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.200
The zoning board is his baby does.

530
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:01.720
Just what he says. Wow, it would serve him right

531
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.519
at the same thing happened to him, that happened to John.

532
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:07.000
That's a terrible thing to say, is.

533
00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:10.759
I don't like violence any more than you do, Sarah.

534
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:12.839
But when a man is willing to destroy a whole

535
00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:16.519
community out of sheer greed, I say, the world's better

536
00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:30.160
off without him.

537
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:30.839
John, John, Oh you are in here, Yes, of course

538
00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.000
I am. Why Well, I couldn't imagine what had happened

539
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:36.880
to you. You said you were going into work for

540
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.160
just a half hour or so, or Thomas, it's almost eleven,

541
00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:43.880
it's notice, Yes it is.

542
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.839
I must have fallen asleep again. I worked for a

543
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:51.400
while and started feeling tired and sent down here.

544
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:54.480
Well, you've really been at it these last few days,

545
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:59.720
I guess I have. John, Why are you keeping this

546
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:00.720
thing here?

547
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:02.119
What thing?

548
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:04.839
This black thing that was in the center of the

549
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:06.559
glass ball?

550
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.200
I told you I was going to keep it. But

551
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:12.640
why because I like it? I like looking at it.

552
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:16.519
What was that what you were doing before you fell asleep?

553
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:18.400
Yes?

554
00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:21.799
Oh, I wish you wouldn't. I wish you'd get rid

555
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:22.119
of him.

556
00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:25.279
Oh, don't be silly, Sarah. The day I found the ball,

557
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:28.319
rather the day I broke it open, was one of

558
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:31.599
the most important days of my life.

559
00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:33.759
Hasn't everything been different since then?

560
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.759
If you mean you've been working working, well, yes, but

561
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.079
but what?

562
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:39.559
Oh?

563
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:40.240
Never mind?

564
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:43.119
Are you coming up to bed now?

565
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.880
I guess, sir. Just let me clean my brushes and

566
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.000
put them away. Who on earth is there?

567
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:53.839
I have no idea, I'll get it.

568
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.400
Hello, Sarah, did I wake you?

569
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:04.279
No, Paula. I was upstairs reading it. Just came down

570
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:05.440
to see what was keeping John.

571
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:06.759
Is he there with you?

572
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.519
Oh, he's in the studio. Why well.

573
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:11.640
I wasn't sure whether I should call or not, but

574
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:15.559
I finally decided I would. Sarah, I've got some more

575
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:18.319
news that's just as shocking as the last.

576
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:20.480
Harry Walker was killed tonight.

577
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:22.720
What where.

578
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:27.039
In his home? His wife was out came back and

579
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:28.640
found him dead in the kitchen. O.

580
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:32.839
No, and they don't know who did it.

581
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.279
Not anymore than they do who killed Ezrarah.

582
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.880
Oh, good morning, darling. I couldn't decide whether to wake

583
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:49.279
you or let you sleep.

584
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:53.240
Oh, I've been asleep for some time, just lying there thinking.

585
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:56.920
I know, but I thought you might doze off. You

586
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:02.759
didn't sleep much last night. No, Well, how about some breakfast?

587
00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:06.160
I don't want any, John, you should eat something.

588
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:10.559
I can't. I feel awful because.

589
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:13.519
Of what you said when Paul was here about how Harry.

590
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.960
Walker deserved to die to partly.

591
00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:20.000
Well, you shouldn't, all right. It was a horrible thing

592
00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.760
to say. But you were angry upset.

593
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:26.079
Yes I was. But don't you realize that the same

594
00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:31.239
thing happened before with Ezra? I said I hope something

595
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:33.079
terrible would happen to him, and it did.

596
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:34.039
Yes it did.

597
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:37.079
But we often say things we don't really mean.

598
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:41.119
But I did mean it. I meant it both times.

599
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:44.320
That's what makes it so frightening.

600
00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:45.320
Frightening.

601
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:49.800
Look, you don't think that just saying it had anything

602
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:51.039
to do with their deaths, do you?

603
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:56.280
Yes? I do, John? Well, I do Do you remember

604
00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:58.159
what I told you about the glass.

605
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.880
Ball, that there was something in it.

606
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:08.719
Yes, what if there was? And what if when I

607
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.280
released it it began doing things for me in return?

608
00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:17.880
John, That's ridiculous. It was just a glass ball, was it.

609
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.440
I told you that I had to break it, that

610
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:25.199
it was very important, and it was right after I

611
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:27.079
did that I started working again.

612
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:29.000
But that could have happened anyway.

613
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:33.519
Maybe. But then twice after that, when I said I

614
00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:37.159
hoped something would happen to someone, it did.

615
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.079
That was just a coincidence.

616
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:41.960
When the same thing happens twice in the same way,

617
00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:43.559
it's not a coincidence.

618
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.840
But that's not the worst of it.

619
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:52.039
What if the same thing happened still again, John, And

620
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:53.599
that's insane.

621
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.079
Things don't happen just because we want them to. There's

622
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:01.519
no connection between what happened to that Ezra or Harry Walker,

623
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:03.880
And even if they were, how could the same thing

624
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:08.800
happen again? You don't feel the same way about anyone else.

625
00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:15.440
Go I, Oh, you have no idea.

626
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:18.400
No, we don't know that many people up here.

627
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:27.800
And you don't mean Paul, Yes, good old Paul. He

628
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:31.920
was always doing things for us. Well, it hasn't been

629
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:37.199
for us it's been for you. He's in love with you.

630
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:38.239
Isn't John?

631
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:39.679
John?

632
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:43.199
This is terrible. HAD been concerned about your word about

633
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:48.920
you for some time, but I've never realized you really

634
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:49.639
are sick?

635
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.360
Are you saying it's not true?

636
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.519
Of course it's not true. He's just a friend, a

637
00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:55.119
good friend.

638
00:36:55.400 --> 00:37:00.320
I wish I could believe you, meaning you don't. I

639
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:04.000
don't know. I'll have to think about it.

640
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:06.760
There's nothing to think about. I'll tell you, John, where

641
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:07.199
are you going?

642
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:10.199
You can't?

643
00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:24.239
John? Hello, Oh Paul, it's me again.

644
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:28.039
Any sign of him, No, Sarah, it's been over two hours. Well,

645
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.199
you said he didn't take the car. If he walked,

646
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:32.159
it would take him some time to get over here.

647
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:35.960
Paw. I'm scared. I told you what he said.

648
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.719
I know, but I don't think there's anything to be

649
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:42.000
concerned about. The longer he has to think about, the

650
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.880
more chance there is that he'll realize it's ridiculous.

651
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.519
I suppose it's just the opposite.

652
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:49.079
Now, don't do that, Sarah.

653
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:50.199
I'm not worried.

654
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.480
I hope he does come here. I told you there's

655
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:55.519
something I want to tell him.

656
00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.760
I don't want to go into it now, but I

657
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:00.639
think it may make a different friends.

658
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:02.360
Help him all right?

659
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:04.760
If he does come to your place.

660
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.559
When you'll call me let me know, of course, Sarah,

661
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:08.880
thank you.

662
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:22.440
Paul M a friend, she said, just a good friend.

663
00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:28.840
Can I believe he's been there all the time whenever

664
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:35.159
we needed him? Nah, not just when we needed him,

665
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:41.880
whenever he could do anything to help. Why. There's only

666
00:38:42.920 --> 00:39:00.639
one way to find out. Hello, John, I been expecting

667
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:02.280
you had him.

668
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:06.400
Yes, Sarah called twice as a matter of fact, and

669
00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:08.800
said you might be coming over here, come on in.

670
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:11.280
Thanks.

671
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:18.320
Can I get you something, some coffee or a drink. No,

672
00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:21.199
we'll sit down, and there's something I want to tell

673
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:23.840
you about you and Sarah.

674
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:26.920
What What could I tell you about that?

675
00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:31.159
How you feel about her? I feel the same way

676
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.679
about her that I do about you. I like you

677
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:36.840
both very much. What I wanted to talk to you

678
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:38.960
about was that glass ball?

679
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:41.000
What about it?

680
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.519
Well, I'm afraid I was the one who got you

681
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:47.519
started on it's saying it was something like a Pennsylvania.

682
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:49.559
Dutch witch ball. I was wrong.

683
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.159
There was nothing strange or mysterious about it.

684
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:54.119
It wasn't even old.

685
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:56.880
It was made seven or eight years ago by the

686
00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:58.559
New England glass company.

687
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:03.360
That's simple possible. How do you know that?

688
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:06.000
Because I called a friend of mine, the man I

689
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.599
wanted to show it to, and he told me the

690
00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:11.800
company was trying to develop a new kind of glass

691
00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:15.960
practically unbreakable and impervious to heat. They did it by

692
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:19.000
bonding two kinds of glass together, and the.

693
00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:20.159
Ball was one of their samples.

694
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.840
That's not true, that's a lie.

695
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:27.440
You don't just want to take Sarah away from me,

696
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.679
You want to take that away too. The feeling that

697
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.480
breaks it just gave me the freedom, the sense of

698
00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.480
power when you're not going to.

699
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:41.679
John put down that poker, John, John put it down.

700
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:43.480
I'm not finished yet.

701
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.840
I'm not denying that something happened to you after you

702
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:49.400
bought it, but I think I can explain that too.

703
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.559
And look, when you brought it home. You used to

704
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.920
sit and stare into it, didn't you? Yes, well, don't

705
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:58.960
you see what could have happened? When you stare into

706
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.440
something clear, shiny. You can hypnotize yourself. But in your case,

707
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.599
the self hypnosis took a special form.

708
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.119
You started identifying with it, and when you finally broke it,

709
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:14.960
you you released something not in the.

710
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.920
Ball, but in your cell.

711
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:21.880
At least what lies everything you've been saying it's been

712
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:22.400
a lie.

713
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:27.519
It hasn't, John, It's been the truth. John. Keep away

714
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:27.800
from me.

715
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:31.039
Nah. I came over here to find something out and

716
00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:31.519
I have.

717
00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:34.639
You're no friend of mine. You never word buck.

718
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.599
Who's that? I don't know?

719
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.679
Well, don't open the door, JOHNA stop that whoever it

720
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:43.960
is must nowhere here.

721
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:48.360
I've got to Lola. I'm wanting you, don't mister Shanley.

722
00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:53.679
Yeah, yes, I'm Osborne and State Police is mister Ferrar,

723
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:57.320
Oh it's yes, I see it is they. Good morning,

724
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:03.480
mister Ferrar. Your wife said she thought you might be here. Yes,

725
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:06.679
we stopped buy it at your place first, and mister Ferrar,

726
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:10.840
would you come with me well to the headquarters. We'd

727
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:15.519
like to talk to you about what several things, but

728
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:18.440
mostly about where you were last night about ten o'clock.

729
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:24.000
Ten of Colt. But that was that was when about

730
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:25.840
when Harry Walker was murdered.

731
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:26.880
How do you know that?

732
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.480
Because Paul called us shortly after that and told us

733
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:38.000
you're all against me, not just my wife and Paul,

734
00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:41.079
but everyone plotting against me.

735
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:43.920
No one's against you, mister Ferrar, and we're certainly not

736
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.840
plotting against you. We just want to talk to you,

737
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:49.519
and no, no, no.

738
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:51.679
Stop, come back here. What's you're going after him?

739
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:53.320
Oh, we'll catch up to him. I have another car

740
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.159
and two more men out on the road there, just

741
00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:55.880
around the curve.

742
00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:57.960
Why did you want to talk to him?

743
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:03.280
Well, someone saw in leaving Harry Walker's house last night,

744
00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:06.840
shortly before missus Walker came home. We just got a

745
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.679
general description. Weren't sure who it was at first, but.

746
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:12.159
Look, John.

747
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:28.280
Good Lore, seek and you shall find. John Ferrar came

748
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:33.360
to his friend's house seeking what the truth he tried

749
00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:36.840
to tell himself. But the truth was exactly what he

750
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:39.679
did not want to hear, not when it stripped away

751
00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:44.719
his illusions and did not confirm his jealous imaginings. And

752
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:47.440
so he found what we find so often when we

753
00:43:47.519 --> 00:44:02.960
reject the truth and everything else a value death. Now

754
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:07.840
we see through a glass darkly, says the Bible. That

755
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:11.559
was what John Ferrar was doing, seeing something and the

756
00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:16.440
strange glass ball that wasn't there. But he wasn't completely wrong.

757
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:20.960
At least it wasn't all imaginary. For as his friend

758
00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:26.239
Paul said, there was a thing inside, not inside the

759
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:31.320
glass ball, but inside John himself that never should have

760
00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:36.239
been tampered with. Our cast included Ralph Bell, Brina Rayburn,

761
00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:41.079
Bob Caliban, and Leon Janney. The entire production was under

762
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:58.239
the direction of Hyman Brown until next time Pleasant Dreams.

763
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:28.719
And Program was finished by the CBS Radio Network.

764
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:37.320
Mm hmmm. When you entered my domain this evening, you

765
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:42.599
brought in a bit of a fresh smell. I suppose

766
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:49.320
the air is fresher when you're above ground. It's very pleasant.

767
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:54.920
It's very pleasing even to feel it in my lung

768
00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:02.000
springs me something I can't quite put my finger on.

769
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:12.320
Something lively, something not like a summer's day, but more

770
00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:15.440
like evening primrose.

771
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:20.679
Get up with the everyday grind, diet, out from the

772
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:23.960
summer heat. I want to get away from it.

773
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:25.760
Aw we offer you.

774
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:35.519
Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls

775
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:38.360
of today, for a half hour of high adventure.

776
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:44.199
You are groping through the midnight dimness of a gigantic

777
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:48.559
department store, and suddenly you realize that a hundred eyes

778
00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:51.559
are staring at you from the shadows, and a hundred

779
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.239
hands are reaching for your throat, and your most urgent

780
00:46:55.360 --> 00:47:00.159
desire is to escape.

781
00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:08.639
Tonight, we Escape to a fantastic world of night dwellers,

782
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:14.920
as John Collier imagines it in his Eerie story Evening, Primrose.

783
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:43.039
H SAIDA what's the money?

784
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:43.320
It's me.

785
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:46.480
You nelist gave me to death.

786
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:47.639
What do you mean?

787
00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:51.039
Coming in so quiet, I thought you be asleep.

788
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:52.000
I don't want to wake you.

789
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:52.639
Sam.

790
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:53.800
I'm so glad you're home.

791
00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:55.039
What's the money?

792
00:47:56.239 --> 00:47:58.320
You gotta do something, Sam.

793
00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:58.519
What's terrible?

794
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.199
Just look what was terrible about?

795
00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:02.360
That?

796
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:04.360
Looks like an ordinary pair of paper to me.

797
00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.159
That just it. That's just what I thought. But it's

798
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:08.079
got writing in it.

799
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:09.440
It's awful.

800
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:11.239
And now wait a minute, maybe you better tell me

801
00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:12.239
what this is all about.

802
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:15.480
Well, today I went shopping at Bracey's department. Start.

803
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:18.119
Yeah, I needed some writing papers, so I picked this up.

804
00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:19.960
It was on top of the pile, so I bought

805
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:20.639
it and I brought.

806
00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:24.400
It home tonight. When I opened it, I thought, it's

807
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:25.199
got writing in it.

808
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:28.199
It's nothing so terrible. Just take it back tomorrow and

809
00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:29.119
make him give you a knowing.

810
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:32.280
You don't understand. It's what's written in it that's so terrible.

811
00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:33.039
What do you mean?

812
00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:35.960
What's written in it?

813
00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:36.559
All right now?

814
00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:37.440
And I'll read it.

815
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:38.159
Look Sadie.

816
00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:38.639
I'm tired.

817
00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:39.960
I've been bawling all in the night.

818
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:44.480
Sam, Please just read it, but for Pete's Sam.

819
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:45.119
All right.

820
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:48.320
October nineteenth.

821
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:53.239
Today I made my decision. I decided to say goodbye

822
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:58.719
to the world, to get out, leave, break away. And

823
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:04.559
I have done it. I say it, and now I

824
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:09.119
am free, really free. Yes, I am free at last.

825
00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:20.119
Yes, I am free at last. The world is an

826
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:24.559
intolerable place for a poet. I was broke, starving at

827
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:27.320
my wits end, and then I had the brilliant idea.

828
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.199
I'd escaped to a place where I'd had no need

829
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:32.599
to earn a living, where I could write to my

830
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:36.519
heart's content in peace and security. And where is this

831
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:40.400
place right under your nose, so close you'd never think

832
00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:44.880
of it. I am now living in Bracey's department store.

833
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:48.599
I have everything within arm's reach that anyone would need

834
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:55.519
a desire, and it's all free, absolutely free. I arrived

835
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:58.559
this afternoon. I'd spent three days looking over all the

836
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:02.280
department stores in town. I decided on Bracey's because of

837
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:03.679
the completeness.

838
00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:04.119
Of their food department.

839
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.280
Therefore, this afternoon I entered the store and went immediately

840
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:11.719
to the fourth floor to the rug department and hid

841
00:50:11.760 --> 00:50:14.320
myself in this dusty out of the way corner behind

842
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:18.480
a pile of carpets. Once I'm settled, i'll furnish it

843
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:21.480
with the best of modern pieces from the furniture department.

844
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:27.960
It's small, but it'll be cozy enough and safe. After

845
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.239
the store closed, I made my first venture out. I

846
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.039
tiptoed as far as the stationary counter and got this paper,

847
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:38.840
the writer's primary need. Now, after making my first entry,

848
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:42.360
I'll go out and get food, the wine, and the

849
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:46.400
pillars from my bed, and perhaps even a fancy dressing gown.

850
00:50:48.039 --> 00:50:49.039
This is perfect.

851
00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:58.880
Here I'll be able to write dawn October fourteenth. I

852
00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.639
am almost too one nerve to write this. The whole

853
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:06.840
thing is unbelievable. After the store was dark and completely quiet,

854
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:09.880
I crept out and started for the food department. One

855
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:12.719
steps echo hollowly in an empty department store at night,

856
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:16.159
and I found myself gliding along the floor on tiptoe,

857
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:21.400
moving as silently as possible. But the sound of footsteps persisted,

858
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:24.599
and suddenly I realized that they were not my own.

859
00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:29.800
The night watchman I was in the salon moden. So

860
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:31.800
quickly I seized a mink coat from a hangar and

861
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:32.519
drink it about my.

862
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:34.400
Shoulders and stood stock still.

863
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:43.880
I could have reached out and touched him, but he

864
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:47.599
passed without so much as a glance. I started to smile,

865
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:53.800
but the smile froze on my lips. There was someone

866
00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:59.239
else here. I was looking straight into a pair of eyes, large,

867
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:03.039
flat us in human eyes. A dozen feet away. They

868
00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:05.239
belonged to a creature dressed as a man, but he

869
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.320
was as pale as something found under a stone. His hands,

870
00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:10.719
hanging motionless at his sides, looked more like the fins

871
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.199
on a fish than human hands. And then he spoke,

872
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:20.000
not bad for a beginner. I'm sorry. I didn't know

873
00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:22.039
anybody else lived here.

874
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:26.599
Oh, yes, we live here. It's delightful. We yes, all

875
00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:28.360
of us, don't you see?

876
00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:29.199
Look around you?

877
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:34.400
I looked around and saw nothing. I looked again and

878
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.400
saw an old one come clamoring out from behind a clock.

879
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.440
And there were three elderly angeneus, incredibly emaciated, pale as

880
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:47.599
lace almost transparent, stimbering before a perfume counter and a

881
00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:49.960
chenzy lady swam out from the curtains and the drapes.

882
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:54.239
Then they came swarming thick around me, pale, thin, wispy,

883
00:52:54.400 --> 00:53:05.320
moving silently, fluttering like gauze in the wind, whispery detectiveness.

884
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:08.880
They were pressing around me, clawing, holding me, their pale

885
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:12.800
faces contorted with venomous and human hatred. I was paralyzed.

886
00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:15.159
All I could do was repeat over and over again.

887
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.440
I am not a detective.

888
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.119
I'm not a detective. I'm not.

889
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:29.719
Pla stop let him speak.

890
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:34.840
I am not a detective or a burglar.

891
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:37.599
I'm a poet.

892
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:42.079
What are you doing here? I've renounced the world.

893
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:44.679
I came here to live where I could be alone,

894
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:46.280
away from the world.

895
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:53.159
Did he come over to?

896
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:54.400
She's coming now?

897
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:57.559
I followed their eyes toward the balcony, and the hair

898
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:01.119
on my neck rose again. There, coming down the wall

899
00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:05.960
like an ancient spider, clamored an old lady, wrinkled and

900
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:09.199
crackled and emaciated. She must have been at least eighty,

901
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:14.639
a shadowy matriarch, and the things around me bowed and scraped.

902
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.519
As she reached the floor and floated toward us.

903
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.760
What's going on here? Where is that stupid girl?

904
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:23.480
What's keeping oh missus vanderpan?

905
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:24.719
What is it?

906
00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:26.320
Who's this mister?

907
00:54:26.440 --> 00:54:30.400
Rusker, Missus Vanderpant, May I present mister mister.

908
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:32.760
Snell, Charles Snell.

909
00:54:33.039 --> 00:54:36.639
Yes, mister Snell, he's a poet. He has come here

910
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:37.119
to live.

911
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:41.199
Oh he has has he That's what he says, and

912
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:42.039
I believe him.

913
00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:46.599
Well he avoided the night Watchman quite neatly for a beginner.

914
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:49.360
Thank you very well.

915
00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:55.800
We shall see a poet should find inspiration here.

916
00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:59.559
Mister Snell. Missus Vanderpant is our grand old lady.

917
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:05.079
I am quite the oldest inhabitant here, mister Snell. Three

918
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:09.719
mergers and a complete rebuilding, but they didn't.

919
00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:10.239
Get rid of me.

920
00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:12.800
Oh where is Ella?

921
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:14.559
Where is my broth?

922
00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:16.280
She's bringing in, Missus Vanderpant.

923
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:22.039
It will come, terrible little creature. She's our founding, mister Snall.

924
00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:25.199
She's not quite our sort.

925
00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:26.880
Oh is that so?

926
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:31.480
I have been here, mister Snell, ever since the terrible

927
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:35.519
times of the eighties. I was a young girl, then

928
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.800
a beauty. They said, I'm sure, and poor Papa lost

929
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:43.559
his money. Racey's meant a lot to a young girl

930
00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:47.400
in those days. So when I wasn't able to have

931
00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:52.360
a charge account, I came here to live. That's better

932
00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:56.679
than a charge account. I was quite alarmed when others

933
00:55:56.719 --> 00:55:59.920
began to come after the crash of nineteen hundred and seven.

934
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:06.760
But it was the dear judge, the colonel miss how

935
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.239
are you, missus Bilby right?

936
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:09.760
Please?

937
00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:16.880
And it comes of an old Philadelphia family. You'll find us.

938
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:20.840
Quite nice here, I'm sure I will.

939
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:25.000
And of course our dear young people came in nineteen

940
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:30.960
twenty nine. Their poor poppers jumped from skyscrapers. They couldn't

941
00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.519
bear to be without charge accounts either.

942
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:37.679
But you mean all these nice people live here.

943
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:40.880
Oh, and many more. You shall meet them all later.

944
00:56:41.079 --> 00:56:42.199
Oh, here comes.

945
00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:44.559
Ella with my bras come hear you.

946
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.199
Stupid thing, Missus vander Patters waiting.

947
00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:50.920
Ella, Yes, sir, I'm coming as fast as I can.

948
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:53.679
On the table over there.

949
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:56.000
Now, be careful, don't spill it.

950
00:56:56.480 --> 00:57:01.159
But she's young, well, of course she is a younger than.

951
00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:01.679
Most of us.

952
00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:05.320
She's different, she's beautiful.

953
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:07.519
That's right, old fellow. She's really not our sort.

954
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:09.719
Or you shouldn't say such things. She can hear you.

955
00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:12.000
Oh that doesn't matter, Missus Bilby.

956
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:16.760
Please, mister Snell, you will understand these things better after

957
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:18.000
you've been here for a while.

958
00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:19.719
But it seems to me.

959
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:26.119
We have certain rules here. They are necessary for our survival.

960
00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:29.280
I'm sure you won't find it hard.

961
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:29.960
To observe it.

962
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:32.159
Well, yes, but I should advise.

963
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:32.679
You that you try.

964
00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:37.719
If you do not, it would be most unfortunate, mister Snell,

965
00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:41.960
most unfortunate for you.

966
00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:54.440
October fifteenth. You can imagine my feelings last night. My

967
00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:57.840
first thought was to escape as quickly as possible. In fact,

968
00:57:57.920 --> 00:57:59.880
I plan to quit my hiding place and mingle with

969
00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:04.119
a crowds and leave Braceeds forever. But just at dawn,

970
00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:06.920
mister Roscoe brought me a cup of coffee, which must

971
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:10.239
have been drugged for I fell asleep, and when I awoke,

972
00:58:10.360 --> 00:58:13.719
I found that I'd slept all day and night was

973
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:22.639
closing over the store once more. Later, I have spent

974
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:30.400
my second night here. I saw Ella again, Ella, the

975
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.400
pearl of this remote, fantastic cave. She's not like the others,

976
00:58:36.199 --> 00:58:39.159
a trifle pale, but otherwise normal and human and.

977
00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:42.119
Beautiful.

978
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:48.320
A child of perhaps eighteen, she is the only thing

979
00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:59.280
that makes this nightmare bearable. October twentieth. Escape seems almost impossible.

980
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:03.039
There is a very effective burglar alarm system, and the

981
00:59:03.079 --> 00:59:07.360
doors are all carefully guarded. But that is nothing compared

982
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:08.079
to the dark men.

983
00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:10.840
Who are the dark men?

984
00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:14.920
I don't know, but the inhabitants here threaten any transgressor.

985
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:18.519
With these dark men, I shall try to discover who

986
00:59:18.519 --> 00:59:21.840
they are. I am sure I'm watched, though they've begun

987
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:24.800
to trust me. Now, speaking to the night Watchman would

988
00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:28.599
be suicide, even if he believed my fantastic story or

989
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:32.119
didn't shoot me as a burglar. I'm convinced that neither

990
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:35.639
eleanor I could get out of here alive. She and

991
00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:39.079
the night Watchmen are the only real people here. And

992
00:59:39.119 --> 00:59:41.119
how the others hate the night Watchman.

993
00:59:41.320 --> 00:59:42.840
Odious vulgar creature.

994
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:45.159
He reeks the coarse sun.

995
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:48.320
Oh, come now, Missus Bilby. He's really a very personable

996
00:59:48.360 --> 00:59:51.039
young man, very young for a night watchman.

997
00:59:51.079 --> 00:59:54.039
Mister Snow, Sometimes I wonder about your taste.

998
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:56.880
You must not stay so much to yourself. You must

999
00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:58.719
become dead acquainted with our ways.

1000
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:02.320
That's quite true, Old Oh. You must come to the

1001
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:04.920
play tonight. We're going to be entertained with one of

1002
01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:09.400
Missus Bilby's tragic comedies, Love in Shadowland. I'm sure you

1003
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:10.159
will enjoy it.

1004
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:11.880
I'm sure I will.

1005
01:00:11.920 --> 01:00:15.480
It's really a festive occasion. You know, Wannamakers is coming

1006
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:16.960
over Wannamakers.

1007
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:19.920
Yes, the entire colony over at Wannamakers is coming here

1008
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:21.559
en mass, to attend the play.

1009
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:24.639
You mean there are people living in other stores?

1010
01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:28.039
Oh dear, yes, didn't you know? Of course?

1011
01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:30.519
The best people live in Braces and Wannamakers.

1012
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:32.840
Come now, Missus Bilby, there are some very nice people

1013
01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:33.400
at Altman's.

1014
01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:39.119
Missus Bilby, Hello, Hello, good evening, mister Snall.

1015
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:41.000
Well what is it Ellen?

1016
01:00:41.760 --> 01:00:44.920
Please, ma'am? I I'd so love to see your plate tonight.

1017
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:46.599
May I have your permission?

1018
01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:47.519
Certainly not.

1019
01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:50.719
You know better than that, your stupid creature. You know

1020
01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:53.480
where you belong, in the basement by the garbage care.

1021
01:00:53.559 --> 01:00:58.239
But Missus Bilby Ella, you're becoming entirely too forward of late.

1022
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:02.320
I advise you to watch your step. Remember the dark men.

1023
01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:06.320
Oh no, please, mister Roscoe, I'll be good, I promise

1024
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.880
I will. No, please, don't send for the dark Man.

1025
01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:10.800
I'm sorry, Missus Bilby.

1026
01:01:10.679 --> 01:01:12.719
Ella, i'lla come back.

1027
01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:16.519
Charles, you forget yourself, let her go?

1028
01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:19.800
But how can you treat her like that? Why are

1029
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:23.000
you always frighten her? And what is all this about?

1030
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:23.800
The dark Men.

1031
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:27.840
Well, mister snellight, please, mister Rascale, not now.

1032
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.519
You'll spoil our whole evening. And I do so want

1033
01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:32.840
mister Snell to enjoy.

1034
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:36.880
My play very well, missus Bilby Later, Charles.

1035
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:39.199
But I want to know about the dark Men later.

1036
01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:48.280
Later October twenty first, I found an opportunity to speak

1037
01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:52.199
to Ella alone. I had not dared to speak to

1038
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:56.079
her before. Here one has a sense always of pale

1039
01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:59.079
eyes secretly watching. But last night at the play I

1040
01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:02.039
induced a fit of hick as I anticipated. I was

1041
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:04.840
sternly reprimanded and told to go and secret myself in

1042
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:06.840
the basement where the night watchman wouldn't hear me.

1043
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:09.440
This was exactly what I'd planned.

1044
01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:13.760
I went to the basement, and there in the darkness,

1045
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:24.480
among the garbage cans and the rats, I heard sobbing Ella, Ella, Oh.

1046
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:24.760
Ella, is that you?

1047
01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:26.000
Yes?

1048
01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:30.159
Why are you crying? What is it? Ella?

1049
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:33.039
He wouldn't even let me see the plane?

1050
01:02:33.400 --> 01:02:34.920
Oh is that all.

1051
01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:38.159
Mister Snellert, I'm so unhappy?

1052
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:40.760
Are there they? You mustn't cry.

1053
01:02:41.559 --> 01:02:44.639
You're the only one, the only one who is.

1054
01:02:44.679 --> 01:02:50.159
Kind, Ella. Why are you here? Why do they treat

1055
01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:51.000
you so differently?

1056
01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:55.039
Because I'm not like them. I didn't choose to come here.

1057
01:02:55.639 --> 01:02:57.400
You mean you are hell prisoner?

1058
01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:01.840
Yes, you see. I it was only six. I came

1059
01:03:01.880 --> 01:03:05.039
here on a shopping tour with my mother. I got

1060
01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:08.760
lost and fell asleep behind a counter. It was dark

1061
01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:12.159
when I awoke, and they found me. Some of them

1062
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:13.920
wanted to send for the dark men because they were

1063
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:17.320
afraid I would tell on them. Missus Vanderpant said, no,

1064
01:03:18.199 --> 01:03:22.039
I could stay and be her maid. I've been here

1065
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:22.960
ever since.

1066
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:26.000
Since you were six. But haven't you ever tried to

1067
01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:26.519
get away?

1068
01:03:26.679 --> 01:03:30.880
Oh no, I don't know anything about out there. I

1069
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:35.039
wouldn't know what to do besides her, I'm afraid to

1070
01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:38.880
take the chance. If anyone tries to get out, they

1071
01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:40.000
send for the dark men.

1072
01:03:41.079 --> 01:03:43.519
Ella, who are the dark men?

1073
01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:44.400
Don't you know?

1074
01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:46.440
Oh it's horrible.

1075
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:49.480
Tell me you know how people live in all the

1076
01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:51.960
stores at Gimbals and blooming Dales.

1077
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:52.960
Yes, yes, I know.

1078
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:58.079
Will the dark men live at the Undertakers Good Heavens.

1079
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:02.280
And whenever someone died or breaks the rules, or when

1080
01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:05.119
a burglar gets in and sees these people and might tell,

1081
01:04:05.960 --> 01:04:07.360
they send for the dark men.

1082
01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:09.039
And that's horrible.

1083
01:04:09.360 --> 01:04:11.360
They put the body in a butcher shop and the

1084
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:16.079
food department, and then the dark men come. I saw

1085
01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:16.599
them once.

1086
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:18.199
It was terrible.

1087
01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:20.119
What do they do?

1088
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:23.480
They go in where the dead person is. They have

1089
01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:27.559
wax with them and all sorts of things, and when

1090
01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:31.559
they're gone, there's just a wax model left on the counter.

1091
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:35.519
Then our people put a frock on it or a

1092
01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:37.320
bathing suit and mix it up with all the other

1093
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:41.199
wax models in the windows, and nobody ever knows.

1094
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.320
Ellie, you mean all these dummies?

1095
01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:44.559
Hut.

1096
01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:47.000
Oh no, at least.

1097
01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:48.400
Not all of them.

1098
01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:51.840
But if you displease these people, the same thing might

1099
01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:52.559
happen to you.

1100
01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:02.800
October thirtieth, I've not kept up my journal. Writing has

1101
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:06.440
been out of the question once more. I'm frozen with terror.

1102
01:05:07.079 --> 01:05:10.480
Not for myself now, but for Ella. They hate her.

1103
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.360
Any time, they might turn against her and send her

1104
01:05:13.679 --> 01:05:17.880
to the dark men. My mind is filled with her.

1105
01:05:19.199 --> 01:05:23.000
I dream of her every day. I live to see

1106
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:27.760
her at night. We've managed it several times. They trust

1107
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:31.119
me now and let me roam about without interference. And

1108
01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:39.159
finally tonight I met her again and said it, Ella,

1109
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:42.960
I love you.

1110
01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:45.320
I love you. Ella.

1111
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:48.079
Let's get married or whatever they do here and then

1112
01:05:48.079 --> 01:05:50.320
we can live together in my home in the carpet department.

1113
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:53.960
They wouldn't dare hurt you? Then, Oh, don't look so dismayed.

1114
01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:56.119
If you like, we'll go away from here. Maybe we

1115
01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:59.519
can get transferred to Bergdorf Goodman overlooking Central.

1116
01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:06.880
Park as don't you must? But I love you, Ella.

1117
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:09.719
You're not in love with someone else.

1118
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:14.039
Charles, Yes, I am.

1119
01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:17.000
But who I thought you hated them?

1120
01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:17.840
Ally?

1121
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:22.280
It must be Roscoe. He's the only one that's young enough.

1122
01:06:22.519 --> 01:06:26.360
Oh no, Charles, not Roscoe, especially not him. I do

1123
01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:28.320
hate them more. Make me shudder.

1124
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:29.599
Well who is it? Then?

1125
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:33.559
It's he who the night watchman?

1126
01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:36.400
No, it's impossible.

1127
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:39.639
Oh I love him. He smells of the sun.

1128
01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:40.119
Ella.

1129
01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:44.320
Oh it was wonderful the way it happened. Don't tell

1130
01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:47.519
on me, Charles, or they'll punishment. Oh no, no, I

1131
01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:51.559
was careless, and there he was coming around the corner

1132
01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:55.960
in the ladies lingerie department. I was caught. There were

1133
01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:59.679
only some wax models in there under things. There was

1134
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:04.840
nothing else to do. I slipped off my dressed and

1135
01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:05.639
stood still.

1136
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:10.280
I see he.

1137
01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:15.000
Stopped near me. He looked at me. Oh, Charles, he

1138
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:19.039
spoke to me. He said, say Honey, I wish they

1139
01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:23.639
made them like you on eighth Avenue. Oh, Charles, wasn't

1140
01:07:23.639 --> 01:07:25.039
that a lovely thing to say?

1141
01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:28.760
Personally? I should have said Park Avenue.

1142
01:07:29.039 --> 01:07:32.519
Charles, don't get like these people here. It doesn't matter

1143
01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:36.840
what avenue, Charles. It was just a lovely thing to say.

1144
01:07:37.119 --> 01:07:38.480
But what can you do about him?

1145
01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:38.719
Mother?

1146
01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:41.360
He belongs to another world, Yes.

1147
01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:45.360
To eighth Avenue, and I want to go there, Charles.

1148
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:47.079
Are you really my friend?

1149
01:07:47.199 --> 01:07:48.800
Oh? Yes, yes, of course I am.

1150
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:51.599
Then I'll tell you I'm going to stand there again,

1151
01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:54.719
in a laundery department so he'll see me, and then

1152
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:56.639
perhaps he'll speak to me again.

1153
01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:59.000
Oh, Ella, you're only torturing yourself.

1154
01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:00.480
No, because this.

1155
01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.000
Time I shall answer him, and he'll take me away,

1156
01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:04.760
take you away.

1157
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:09.039
Oh no, no, no, no, Ella. I couldn't bear that.

1158
01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:12.199
You don't love him. You only think you do because

1159
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:14.239
you think he'll take you out of here, But you

1160
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:17.159
don't know that he will and I will. Ella, I've

1161
01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:17.920
made up my mind.

1162
01:08:18.520 --> 01:08:19.000
Charles.

1163
01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:23.279
I couldn't let you do it, even if I loved you.

1164
01:08:23.279 --> 01:08:24.439
You couldn't do it, Charles.

1165
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:24.960
Why not?

1166
01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:30.560
Because you really belong here? You've become one.

1167
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:34.239
Of them now, Ella, Ella, you mustn't say that that's true.

1168
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:39.600
And Charles, I've got to go with someone watching.

1169
01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:45.479
Wait Hella, no Ella, come back, Ella.

1170
01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:48.000
Please, old fellow, you'll arouse the night watchman.

1171
01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:49.399
Rascoe.

1172
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:55.520
Yes, love can be very upsetting, candid you heard just

1173
01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:59.960
the last moment, or so very touching. I was rather surprised.

1174
01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:03.720
And yet it's understandable. I've been attracted to Ella myself.

1175
01:09:04.399 --> 01:09:08.479
We're still young, you know, And so she loves another

1176
01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:10.880
too bad, old fellow.

1177
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:12.479
Who could it be?

1178
01:09:13.479 --> 01:09:14.159
Could it be that.

1179
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:16.159
I am the cause of your heart break?

1180
01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:18.199
You flatter yourself too much?

1181
01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:18.600
Rascal?

1182
01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:25.600
Then who the old judge? Certainly, not the colonel, hardly.

1183
01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:29.399
None of those, not one of the customers. She loves

1184
01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:31.720
the night watchman. Can you imagine that she loves the

1185
01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:39.359
night ooh u, Rascoe. I shouldn't have said that. It's

1186
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:42.000
not true. At least I don't think it's true. You

1187
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:46.159
wouldn't you said you love her too, You wouldn't do anything,

1188
01:09:47.079 --> 01:09:50.640
tell anybody. This is a secret between us, between friends.

1189
01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:50.720
Isn't it.

1190
01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:54.319
Of course, old man, as secret as the grave.

1191
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:55.119
She's young.

1192
01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:57.880
Perhaps he'll leave and she'll forget him in time.

1193
01:09:58.399 --> 01:09:58.920
Who knows.

1194
01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:01.159
Perhaps she will learn to love you.

1195
01:10:02.600 --> 01:10:04.920
Me, of course, in time.

1196
01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:07.239
And we'll figure a way to keep her safe here.

1197
01:10:07.439 --> 01:10:11.920
Absolutely safe. Now, don't you worry about it. Well, it's

1198
01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:14.479
almost dawn. Time for bed.

1199
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:23.920
Good morning, Charles, early evening, November fourth.

1200
01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:25.640
I was a fool.

1201
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:28.840
I should have known he couldn't be trusted. You must

1202
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:32.600
have gone straight to missus. Vander Pant receivening. The atmosphere

1203
01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:38.039
has changed. People flickered to and fro, smiling nervously horribly,

1204
01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:42.319
with a sort of frightened, sadistic exultation. An informal dance

1205
01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:45.840
in the record apartment's been called off, and I can't

1206
01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:54.279
find Ella. I'm going out again now, who look for her? Roscoe?

1207
01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:55.800
What have you done with her?

1208
01:10:55.920 --> 01:10:57.720
Quiet? Watch?

1209
01:10:57.920 --> 01:10:59.279
I don't care what if you're done with her?

1210
01:10:59.279 --> 01:11:00.880
Whatever I did, I do your own good as well

1211
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:01.600
as the good of us all.

1212
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:05.479
Wait a minute, what is that?

1213
01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:11.760
What are those people carrying? White Sella? She's tied up.

1214
01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:12.680
They're carrying her.

1215
01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:20.760
Hella, hella, stop it, I'll stop it, let me go,

1216
01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:23.479
let me go, stop it.

1217
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:27.479
Watching but they're taking her into the butcher shop.

1218
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:37.239
Hella, hella, hella.

1219
01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:50.600
Yes, Charles, those are the dark men midnight.

1220
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:54.600
I am scribbling this last entry hurriedly. They are and

1221
01:11:54.680 --> 01:11:57.960
there in the butcher shop with Ella the dark Man.

1222
01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:01.039
There's only one thing to do. I'm going to find

1223
01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:03.439
the night Watchman and tell him he and I will

1224
01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:07.640
save her if we can, and if over powered, well,

1225
01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:11.720
I will leave this pad on the stationarycounter tomorrow. If

1226
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:13.399
I live, I will recover it.

1227
01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:14.439
If I do not.

1228
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:18.359
Whoever finds this and reads it, look in the windows,

1229
01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:23.479
look for three new wax dummies. Two men, one rather

1230
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.760
sensitive looking, and a girl. She has blonde hair and

1231
01:12:27.840 --> 01:12:31.399
blue eyes, and her nose turns up a little. Look

1232
01:12:31.439 --> 01:12:37.600
for us, and then find them, smoke them out, exterminate them.

1233
01:12:37.920 --> 01:12:38.600
Adventures.

1234
01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:47.760
Find them, smoke them out, and extiminate them.

1235
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:52.199
Adventures same.

1236
01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:54.279
Not horrible.

1237
01:12:55.800 --> 01:13:00.199
We gotta do something, kill somebody something, Oh Sam, little.

1238
01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:04.960
Do go not and go to bad But Sam wrote

1239
01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:08.159
this sure got a weird sense of you may probably

1240
01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:09.960
some clock down at Braces ought to be fired.

1241
01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:12.840
You mean you think it's just a storm.

1242
01:13:13.720 --> 01:13:14.279
You kidding?

1243
01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:16.520
You don't believe that stuff, do you?

1244
01:13:18.279 --> 01:13:18.720
I don't know.

1245
01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:22.680
I just thought I forget it, baby, snap out of it.

1246
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:26.439
I shouldn't leave you alone. You get too many ideas

1247
01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:27.760
when I go bowling at night.

1248
01:13:27.920 --> 01:13:32.479
Shack, Sam, don't you think maybe we ought to just

1249
01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:35.640
take it back and show some money nuts.

1250
01:13:35.720 --> 01:13:38.079
It's not what the bother the laugh at your baby,

1251
01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:39.359
think you were crazy or something?

1252
01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:42.800
Yeah, yeah, I guess you're right.

1253
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:44.720
I guess I was silly.

1254
01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:45.520
Forget it.

1255
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:47.359
Come on, let's go to bed.

1256
01:13:47.439 --> 01:13:51.479
I'm tired, Sure, Sam, Golly, you know, for a while

1257
01:13:51.479 --> 01:13:54.319
I was sure scared. I even forgot what I was

1258
01:13:54.359 --> 01:13:57.720
gonna tell you what, Sam, I found the cutest dress today,

1259
01:13:57.720 --> 01:13:58.920
only nineteen ninety five.

1260
01:13:59.039 --> 01:14:00.800
Yeah, it was.

1261
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:03.199
In the window at Bracy's. It was on a beautiful

1262
01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:13.479
little wet smarted wick John here, who I do not know?

1263
01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:17.119
Two minutes.

1264
01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:32.840
Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight we

1265
01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:35.920
have brought You Evening Primrose by John Collier, adapted for

1266
01:14:36.079 --> 01:14:39.359
radio by John Douncle. Featured in Tonight's story were Bill

1267
01:14:39.439 --> 01:14:43.520
Conrad as Charles and Constance Cavendish is Ella with Harry Bartel,

1268
01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:46.640
Lillian Bayer, Jeff Corey K. Miller and Irene ted Rose.

1269
01:14:46.760 --> 01:14:48.920
Special music by Ivan Ditmar.

1270
01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:52.439
Next Week.

1271
01:14:52.880 --> 01:14:56.760
When You've had all you can stand of routine, when

1272
01:14:56.800 --> 01:15:01.000
your every day chose offer you no release when the

1273
01:15:01.000 --> 01:15:05.560
four walls closing in on you join us for.

1274
01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:08.560
Escape.

1275
01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:17.680
Good night, then until this same time next week, when

1276
01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:19.000
once again we offer you.

1277
01:15:19.720 --> 01:15:41.600
Escape y Rawn speaking or CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1278
01:15:41.880 --> 01:15:47.319
Well, my dear, as the evening stretches further and further

1279
01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:53.239
into the Abyss, I suppose I'd like to think about

1280
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:59.960
getting away just a little bit. I don't do it

1281
01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:07.880
very often, to say the least, to go to a chalet,

1282
01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:16.239
or to a cabin, or even just on a boat.

1283
01:16:17.800 --> 01:16:26.079
Something about new places, new experiences is very intoxicating. Although

1284
01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:32.960
I don't know, perhaps I'll make my way to feel

1285
01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:37.880
a metal cottage.

1286
01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:47.479
Suspense.

1287
01:16:57.680 --> 01:17:00.119
This is the Man in Black here again to introduces

1288
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:04.960
Columbia's program Suspense with us again as star as mister

1289
01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:09.359
Orson Wells in the third of four successive appearances.

1290
01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:12.560
Or the Suspense Audience and sharing honors with mister Wells.

1291
01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:15.920
This evening is a lovely and distinguished Hollywood leading Lady,

1292
01:17:15.960 --> 01:17:20.399
Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald Our Lady Nights from a short story

1293
01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:25.079
by Agatha Christian and so with Filomel Cottage and with

1294
01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:28.880
the performances of Geraldine Fitzgerald as Alex Martin and of

1295
01:17:28.920 --> 01:17:33.560
Awston Wells as her devoted husband Gerald, We again hope

1296
01:17:33.560 --> 01:17:56.199
to keep you in suspense, fellow male continence.

1297
01:17:57.079 --> 01:18:00.279
Fair early, I'm just reading the sign over the gate.

1298
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:01.399
What a Philammon name?

1299
01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:02.520
Joy?

1300
01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:03.000
No?

1301
01:18:03.319 --> 01:18:07.000
Really, why you little cockney? Then he has for three

1302
01:18:07.000 --> 01:18:08.000
weeks and you still don't know.

1303
01:18:08.039 --> 01:18:09.159
Philael is another name.

1304
01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:09.520
Of the birds.

1305
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:13.079
It's supposed to be seeing only for lovers. You've been

1306
01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:13.880
hitting it every.

1307
01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.039
Twilight, oh nightingale.

1308
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:19.279
Of course it's signed Phillymo. Cottage is the main reason

1309
01:18:19.279 --> 01:18:20.279
I wanted to play for us.

1310
01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:22.239
Sad you bought it.

1311
01:18:22.479 --> 01:18:24.439
Yeah, this was a fifty to fifty investment.

1312
01:18:24.840 --> 01:18:27.920
Now fifty fifty one thousand pounds from me and two

1313
01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:28.199
from you.

1314
01:18:28.680 --> 01:18:31.079
Could we do? You couldn't touch anymore of your capital

1315
01:18:31.079 --> 01:18:34.319
at the time. And well, when you find a country

1316
01:18:34.319 --> 01:18:36.720
COTTI to combine an old world charm with new world

1317
01:18:36.760 --> 01:18:37.800
plumbing and want to grab it.

1318
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:41.319
And we did have to have the place, didn't we?

1319
01:18:42.119 --> 01:18:42.720
Yes, we did.

1320
01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:45.880
I've often wondered if you went a bit lonely.

1321
01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:48.279
None you, I mean well, after.

1322
01:18:48.119 --> 01:18:50.800
Living in the city all your life, pretty much to ourselves,

1323
01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:57.199
you know, two miles from the nearest neighbor, not an

1324
01:18:57.319 --> 01:18:59.439
utterly hopeless romantic I met.

1325
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:01.600
You can't get out of it now?

1326
01:19:01.840 --> 01:19:03.359
Oh Gerald, do you know what day to day is?

1327
01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:05.680
Today? It's the thirteenth.

1328
01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:09.920
Anniversary, darling. You've known each other exactly a month.

1329
01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:11.600
No, exactly thirty days?

1330
01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:14.039
Oh geral really no, no, really.

1331
01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:16.000
What is it?

1332
01:19:16.079 --> 01:19:16.279
Dear?

1333
01:19:16.720 --> 01:19:17.640
You have a paying game?

1334
01:19:19.479 --> 01:19:25.079
No, just an indigestion ay thing.

1335
01:19:28.399 --> 01:19:28.640
There?

1336
01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:29.840
Do you want me to go to your girl?

1337
01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:30.199
No?

1338
01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:30.720
No, no, no.

1339
01:19:33.319 --> 01:19:37.680
No, they is eleven twenty five to get onto the village.

1340
01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:40.479
How to get that camera equipment and the.

1341
01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:43.479
Human timetable walks to the garden gate, My deear, there's

1342
01:19:43.520 --> 01:19:45.760
nothing wrong with the system, even on a honeymoon.

1343
01:19:46.159 --> 01:19:46.760
Soon where I go?

1344
01:19:46.920 --> 01:19:47.720
Sooner I get back.

1345
01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:50.479
Oh come on, Joe, forget your little photography. Why don't

1346
01:19:50.520 --> 01:19:52.239
you stand you some gardening to be.

1347
01:19:52.199 --> 01:19:52.640
Good for you?

1348
01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:54.920
Old George he gets paid for it.

1349
01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:57.079
He's not do a game for Saturday. The place will

1350
01:19:57.079 --> 01:19:58.000
go to rack and ruin.

1351
01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:02.159
Oh, my good body, dear, don't want to fast you

1352
01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:03.479
remember the last time.

1353
01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:11.880
Be careful, Dolly, be careful.

1354
01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:13.600
It had just slipped out.

1355
01:20:13.840 --> 01:20:14.560
Be careful.

1356
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:19.159
Alex Martin swinging there on the garden gate, smiling out

1357
01:20:19.159 --> 01:20:21.680
her happiness across a part of England that was as

1358
01:20:21.720 --> 01:20:24.760
remote and placid as any you'd care to find. Wondered

1359
01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:28.399
why she'd said such a ridiculous thing. If this were London,

1360
01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:29.640
say that would have.

1361
01:20:31.720 --> 01:20:32.119
London.

1362
01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:36.239
Slowly, the smile fell away. She knew then that the

1363
01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:38.720
memory of that last week in London had never really

1364
01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:41.600
been far from my mind. That and that last talk

1365
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:44.079
would Dick on the top deck of the bus crossing

1366
01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:45.000
Profounder Square.

1367
01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:47.399
She'd never seen him like that before.

1368
01:20:47.279 --> 01:20:50.359
Gerald Martin, I'll tell you, Alex, the man's a perfect

1369
01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:50.960
stranger to you.

1370
01:20:51.279 --> 01:20:52.199
You know nothing about him.

1371
01:20:52.239 --> 01:20:53.880
I know that I love him. How can you know

1372
01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:55.439
in a week people will be messed?

1373
01:20:55.560 --> 01:20:58.279
Doesn't take everyone seven years to find out the number

1374
01:20:58.359 --> 01:20:58.840
the girl.

1375
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:01.439
Is, Alex.

1376
01:21:01.920 --> 01:21:02.720
It's holy.

1377
01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:04.560
Don't you know what it's been for me not being

1378
01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:07.000
able to tell you. I couldn't, not with the income,

1379
01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:09.600
I said, And I decided I couldn't wait anymore, and

1380
01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:11.239
I was going to tell you anyway. And do you

1381
01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:12.000
know what happened now?

1382
01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:13.520
I'm afraid I know, yes, you do.

1383
01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:16.359
That money you in house, that money from your cousin

1384
01:21:16.479 --> 01:21:18.760
or uncle or whoever, And what you didn't think I.

1385
01:21:18.680 --> 01:21:20.560
Could ask you to marry me then, did you you.

1386
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:22.079
Don't think I could live off your money?

1387
01:21:22.479 --> 01:21:25.680
I'm sorry, Dick, believe me, I am, but but it

1388
01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:27.359
really doesn't matter now. One way or the.

1389
01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:29.279
Other doesn't matter, does it then?

1390
01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:30.800
But it matters to that markham Chef.

1391
01:21:31.239 --> 01:21:34.399
That's what he's after, Mark my words, he's after your money.

1392
01:21:34.760 --> 01:21:36.399
Might interest you to know that Gerl has money of

1393
01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:38.520
his own, far more than I have, and more.

1394
01:21:38.359 --> 01:21:38.840
Than I have.

1395
01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:39.760
Maybe that's the difference.

1396
01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:42.680
I've had enough of this. I'm getting over the next stop, Alex.

1397
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:45.399
Please all right, but let me tell you something.

1398
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:47.239
If you think I'm going to let Joel cut me

1399
01:21:47.239 --> 01:21:49.439
off not do anything about it, You're very much mistaken.

1400
01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:51.720
I'll tratch up with him, do you hear? I'll tratch

1401
01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:53.319
up with him if it's the last thing I do.

1402
01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:04.560
I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing

1403
01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:04.840
I do.

1404
01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:08.239
To Alex, that threat of just one month ago was

1405
01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:10.920
merely a heat of the moment, outburst of good pride.

1406
01:22:11.520 --> 01:22:13.760
And yet is she leaned on the gate of phillamel Cotty.

1407
01:22:14.239 --> 01:22:17.520
It kept echoing in her mind, what spaded away, what

1408
01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:19.680
brought her back to the rustic idella happiness of her

1409
01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:22.399
life with Gerald, Martin was the ring of the telephone

1410
01:22:22.399 --> 01:22:23.000
inside the.

1411
01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:27.319
Cottage, who could be called Gerold Gerald.

1412
01:22:27.359 --> 01:22:29.039
I hardly had time to get beyond the turn in

1413
01:22:29.079 --> 01:22:32.319
the road, except if something had happened to him, if

1414
01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:34.600
he'd had another attack. Maybe one of the villagers was

1415
01:22:34.640 --> 01:22:37.319
trying to call to say that he or she hurried

1416
01:22:37.359 --> 01:22:38.640
in and her hand.

1417
01:22:38.479 --> 01:22:39.199
Shook a trifle.

1418
01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:47.720
Hello, Alex, Dick. What who did you say? Dick?

1419
01:22:51.239 --> 01:22:52.439
Dick us?

1420
01:22:53.840 --> 01:22:54.800
Well, where are you?

1421
01:22:56.600 --> 01:22:57.920
That isn't it?

1422
01:22:58.600 --> 01:22:59.640
Or aren't you acquainted with you?

1423
01:22:59.680 --> 01:22:59.800
Over?

1424
01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:01.520
You mean not here?

1425
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:07.319
And the objection to my looking up.

1426
01:23:05.479 --> 01:23:08.600
You No, no, no, you mustn't.

1427
01:23:10.920 --> 01:23:13.439
I beg your pardon.

1428
01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:18.439
I'm sorry, Dick. I only meant to be away this afternoon.

1429
01:23:18.760 --> 01:23:19.880
Why don't you come to see me?

1430
01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:24.359
Thanks very much, but I'll probably be away by then.

1431
01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:27.239
Turns up on Alex, good bye, Dick and I.

1432
01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:37.000
For a long moment, Alex stood quite still, the memory

1433
01:23:37.039 --> 01:23:38.560
of Dick's threat flooding her mind.

1434
01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:42.880
She walked across the spacious overbean living room. By the

1435
01:23:42.920 --> 01:23:45.319
time she reached the side porch, she'd made up her mind.

1436
01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:48.000
As much as she hated the seat, she would say

1437
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:49.479
nothing to Gerald and Dick's call.

1438
01:23:50.279 --> 01:23:51.960
She stepped out into the garden and for.

1439
01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:54.680
The second time that morning got a surprise. Their biggest

1440
01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:57.000
live was her gardener, bizzily trimming ahead.

1441
01:23:58.880 --> 01:24:02.640
Why gord I thought we agreed that Saturday was your

1442
01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:05.359
day here and he thought that he.

1443
01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:06.319
Could be surprised.

1444
01:24:06.319 --> 01:24:10.359
Missus Martin will be affair over the Squire's on Saturday,

1445
01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:11.279
he says to me.

1446
01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:14.840
He says, mister and missus Martin, they.

1447
01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:17.079
Won't take you to miss if I comes her once

1448
01:24:17.159 --> 01:24:19.279
on a Wednesday instead of a Saturday.

1449
01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:21.039
Of course not George.

1450
01:24:21.239 --> 01:24:24.159
Then I thought too, as I might as well see

1451
01:24:24.399 --> 01:24:27.039
before he goes away, so as to learn your wishes

1452
01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:30.039
with the borders, before I go away.

1453
01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:31.560
To London to Morror.

1454
01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:33.840
Going to London tomorrow.

1455
01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:38.720
Well to him, met mister Martin down the village yesterday.

1456
01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:41.680
He's told me he was both going away to London

1457
01:24:41.720 --> 01:24:43.720
to Morror. Mick was uncertain.

1458
01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:48.359
When you do better again, iidam, now you don't tell

1459
01:24:48.439 --> 01:24:51.720
me you and the Master is this agree in a already?

1460
01:24:53.840 --> 01:24:58.520
Oh well actually not just slip my mind, get all.

1461
01:24:58.479 --> 01:24:59.800
The left going listen.

1462
01:25:01.159 --> 01:25:03.920
Never could understand why anybody wanted to go.

1463
01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:07.600
Up to London. Know, like mister Rains, you used to

1464
01:25:07.600 --> 01:25:09.199
have this house, you.

1465
01:25:09.239 --> 01:25:13.880
Wind up there, I still remind yet, Yes, and after

1466
01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:19.159
fixing up this place like he did, cats all over everywhere,

1467
01:25:19.199 --> 01:25:21.279
you're going to take a loss, he says to him,

1468
01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:23.520
when I see he's the place up for sale.

1469
01:25:24.039 --> 01:25:25.279
They never run as well.

1470
01:25:25.399 --> 01:25:28.279
You were fed for washing ourselves in every room in

1471
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:32.279
this house. And the man we're speaking, but Georgie says

1472
01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:35.760
to me, they'll get every penny or two thousand pounds

1473
01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:38.000
for this house. Sure enough he did.

1474
01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:40.439
He got three thousand, two.

1475
01:25:40.319 --> 01:25:44.760
Thousand, and he was asking, was Talkbob at the time?

1476
01:25:45.560 --> 01:25:47.359
Very I forgot it was thought to be.

1477
01:25:47.640 --> 01:25:53.079
Now you see I got to render, well it really

1478
01:25:53.239 --> 01:25:54.000
was two thousand.

1479
01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:56.760
Yeah, you don't tell me that mister Rains had the

1480
01:25:56.840 --> 01:26:00.840
face to stand up to see three thousand rap in

1481
01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:01.800
a loud voice.

1482
01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:05.439
He didn't say to me, he said, it's true, my husband.

1483
01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:12.920
Guess I would lose some spreeden Now was two those.

1484
01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:23.479
As Alex strolled on across the garden, she was conscious

1485
01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:26.359
of a thin, vague force struggling to make itself heard,

1486
01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:30.000
and abruptly it was gone. Her eye had fallen upon

1487
01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:32.640
a small, dark green object lying in the firm beside

1488
01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:37.479
one of the flower beds her husband's pocket diary. She

1489
01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:39.920
picked it up and opened it, scanning the entries for

1490
01:26:40.039 --> 01:26:43.119
some amusement, once again reminded of Gerald's enslaved them to

1491
01:26:43.239 --> 01:26:46.840
time and system. It was the entry on page twenty

1492
01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:49.039
one that brought the smile from I said.

1493
01:26:49.439 --> 01:26:54.560
April fourteen, smell Alex and Peter said two thirds.

1494
01:26:55.560 --> 01:26:58.479
And it was the entry on page thirty I took

1495
01:26:58.520 --> 01:27:01.760
that smile away. She stared, puzzled at the date on

1496
01:27:01.800 --> 01:27:07.479
the page, Wednesday, May thirteen. Why that today only one

1497
01:27:07.560 --> 01:27:10.000
thing was written there in red pencil.

1498
01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:13.800
Six pm?

1499
01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:17.520
What did you mean? What was to happen at six pm?

1500
01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:19.920
And she stood there that small, vague.

1501
01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:23.640
Thought struggled to be heard once more. It was yes,

1502
01:27:23.720 --> 01:27:26.479
it was something, dick Winder that it said, not the threat,

1503
01:27:26.560 --> 01:27:28.880
not that wild, silly promise of vengeance.

1504
01:27:28.520 --> 01:27:32.039
But but something else. And then it changed.

1505
01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:37.319
Stranger to ufa and nothing. It's true.

1506
01:27:37.439 --> 01:27:38.680
What did she know about him?

1507
01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:39.279
After all?

1508
01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:44.760
He was ridiculous Gerald, my husband. I loved him, I

1509
01:27:44.920 --> 01:27:45.880
pressed him.

1510
01:27:46.039 --> 01:27:49.439
But then she thought once again of that cryptic entry.

1511
01:27:51.399 --> 01:27:58.640
Six pm. It was just three o'clock when Gerald, his

1512
01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:01.640
arms laden with packages, looked up the garden path and

1513
01:28:01.720 --> 01:28:03.079
came out of the side pork.

1514
01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:05.119
Well.

1515
01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:07.720
Nobody opened the door into the living room.

1516
01:28:08.199 --> 01:28:11.039
He noticed a rather odd kind of excitement about him.

1517
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:14.239
There you are, miss.

1518
01:28:14.039 --> 01:28:14.560
Me, darling.

1519
01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:18.039
Why wouldn't I You've had time to buy out the.

1520
01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:20.800
Whole only the camera shop.

1521
01:28:21.199 --> 01:28:21.399
Now.

1522
01:28:22.439 --> 01:28:25.039
I don't have the best equipped dark room this side

1523
01:28:25.079 --> 01:28:26.520
of London. It won't be my face.

1524
01:28:26.600 --> 01:28:27.079
If you're not.

1525
01:28:27.119 --> 01:28:29.279
Careful, that dark room of yours is going to overflow

1526
01:28:29.319 --> 01:28:32.920
the whole celler. Oh incidentally, here's something you've been watering

1527
01:28:32.960 --> 01:28:33.479
the flowers with.

1528
01:28:34.079 --> 01:28:35.199
Catch yep.

1529
01:28:36.560 --> 01:28:39.600
Diary dropped it in the garden.

1530
01:28:41.479 --> 01:28:45.920
I know all your secrets now, huh, not guilty, I'm

1531
01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:51.000
not for sure. What about Jurassic Nation at six pm today?

1532
01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:56.600
Oh that's well, you've caught me at last. It's an

1533
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:00.439
assignation with a very handsome young woman, quite remarked, like

1534
01:29:00.479 --> 01:29:03.960
you and faird you're evading the issue, not at all,

1535
01:29:04.279 --> 01:29:07.079
simply a reminder that I want you to help me

1536
01:29:07.119 --> 01:29:08.239
develop some negatives.

1537
01:29:08.239 --> 01:29:09.720
This evening at.

1538
01:29:09.600 --> 01:29:14.439
Six o'clock, I've a peculiar time, isn't it peculiar? Yes,

1539
01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:16.199
I'm usually preparing dinner at that hour.

1540
01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:21.000
Well, no harm and delay, and eventually might have a

1541
01:29:21.039 --> 01:29:22.800
sandwich or two and some coffee.

1542
01:29:22.399 --> 01:29:24.119
Out on the porch before.

1543
01:29:23.800 --> 01:29:26.000
We walk on the negative to mean, yes, it'll be pleasant,

1544
01:29:26.079 --> 01:29:26.439
won't it.

1545
01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:28.760
You know something, Alex, I.

1546
01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:32.199
Never found anybody yet who could touch your coffee that

1547
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:34.560
covers Australia and Canada.

1548
01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:36.119
And your mysterious past.

1549
01:29:38.319 --> 01:29:39.039
Why do you say that?

1550
01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:43.960
Oh reason I oh, Joe, I do wish I didn't

1551
01:29:43.960 --> 01:29:46.159
know more about you, Elsex.

1552
01:29:47.199 --> 01:29:47.920
You're serious.

1553
01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:48.920
I know it's silly, but.

1554
01:29:53.119 --> 01:29:56.279
I've told you all about me, my boyhood in Sydney,

1555
01:29:56.359 --> 01:29:57.399
my life in Canada.

1556
01:29:58.119 --> 01:30:05.079
Yes, I see, you mean love affairs. You women are

1557
01:30:05.079 --> 01:30:06.079
all alike.

1558
01:30:06.399 --> 01:30:09.199
So that there must have been there must have been

1559
01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:10.760
other women. I mean, if life.

1560
01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:13.279
You think it?

1561
01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:18.520
Why is Alex this Bluebeard's chamber of business?

1562
01:30:19.239 --> 01:30:23.800
Mhm, let's put your mind on such a subject anyway,

1563
01:30:25.199 --> 01:30:26.319
I mentioned it before.

1564
01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:30.840
I don't know, Joe, I've been not an upset all day.

1565
01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:35.000
I imagine I can thank Old George for that. He

1566
01:30:35.119 --> 01:30:36.640
had some ridiculous.

1567
01:30:36.199 --> 01:30:38.960
Idea you were going away to London. Where did you

1568
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:39.640
see him?

1569
01:30:39.960 --> 01:30:43.840
He can do work today instead of step Why Joe.

1570
01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:58.159
Down, look my down here, get some water here, darling.

1571
01:30:58.239 --> 01:31:00.239
I'm all right.

1572
01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:04.880
Oh, I'm sorry, darling getting you all upset. I'm a

1573
01:31:04.960 --> 01:31:06.000
stupid old gardener.

1574
01:31:06.359 --> 01:31:11.039
I made some weak joke to him about being off

1575
01:31:11.079 --> 01:31:12.000
to London in the morning.

1576
01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:13.319
He must have taken it seriously.

1577
01:31:13.600 --> 01:31:20.079
You didn't help you straightened him out.

1578
01:31:20.159 --> 01:31:21.359
I suppose hardly.

1579
01:31:21.680 --> 01:31:23.760
You know what a gossip is. I didn't want the

1580
01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:25.560
whole body to think my husband is leaving me in

1581
01:31:25.600 --> 01:31:28.560
the dark about his plans. Are you all right now?

1582
01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:41.960
You you told him we were going then, yes, of course. Sorry.

1583
01:31:41.960 --> 01:31:45.399
You were praised in that kind of situation, Darling. And

1584
01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:49.199
I suppose you mean to anybody else.

1585
01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:53.000
Today this staff from the world.

1586
01:31:53.039 --> 01:31:53.640
Gerald.

1587
01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:55.439
It isn't very light.

1588
01:31:57.720 --> 01:32:02.079
Not another word, no, not another word. You answer yourself now,

1589
01:32:02.079 --> 01:32:05.479
it's quite plain. I want you to have a little rest.

1590
01:32:07.439 --> 01:32:10.720
You'll be right. It's reigned by six o'clock photographed tonight

1591
01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:14.640
after all, deeah. When one sets a time to do something,

1592
01:32:14.640 --> 01:32:15.319
one should.

1593
01:32:15.039 --> 01:32:17.680
Stick to it. The only way to get through was

1594
01:32:17.800 --> 01:32:20.319
work all right?

1595
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:24.800
Up with you upstairs your bed now, well, I'll be

1596
01:32:24.840 --> 01:32:33.880
getting things are raised in the dark room.

1597
01:32:34.520 --> 01:32:38.119
Mora Ale's rest was more like a nightmare. Upstairs.

1598
01:32:38.119 --> 01:32:41.079
In her room, she told herself that there was no basis,

1599
01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:42.920
no basis whatever for her state of mind.

1600
01:32:43.600 --> 01:32:45.399
Still, the turmoil, but doubt, the.

1601
01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:49.560
Odd, unaccountable sense of dread, persisted and grew grew until

1602
01:32:52.159 --> 01:32:55.279
the door stepped out from the upstairs hallway.

1603
01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:58.880
Quite clearly, she knew what she must do. She must

1604
01:32:58.920 --> 01:33:00.359
find some testimony to her.

1605
01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:03.600
Husband's passed, something to reassure her, something to kill that

1606
01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:08.399
agonizing dread mounting within her. Strangely, she remembered that single

1607
01:33:08.479 --> 01:33:11.720
locked drawer in Gerald's bureau. She dipped over to the

1608
01:33:11.760 --> 01:33:14.359
door the head of the stairs, opened it and entered

1609
01:33:14.359 --> 01:33:18.880
her husband's room. Yes, the key, if only she could

1610
01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:20.720
find the key that locked the drawer.

1611
01:33:21.279 --> 01:33:22.119
There was none in sight.

1612
01:33:22.479 --> 01:33:24.640
She moved to the wardrobe, went through his coat pockets,

1613
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:26.159
and then there are the feet there on the floor.

1614
01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:26.960
She saw it.

1615
01:33:27.079 --> 01:33:29.760
Swiftly she stepped to the bureau, inserted the key, and

1616
01:33:29.880 --> 01:33:39.079
it wore Alex Martin opened the drawer, looked down from

1617
01:33:39.079 --> 01:33:41.520
a small packet of letters tied with a light blue ribbon.

1618
01:33:42.760 --> 01:33:46.560
When she saw the uppermost envelope, her face reddened with shade.

1619
01:33:47.239 --> 01:33:48.279
By my letter.

1620
01:33:48.319 --> 01:33:50.680
They were her own letters, love letters written to Gerald

1621
01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:55.520
before they were married. And there was nothing else in

1622
01:33:55.560 --> 01:33:58.199
the drawer save a roll of ancient fitted newspaper clippings.

1623
01:33:58.680 --> 01:34:01.279
Alex sighed with relief. She glanced at the top clipping.

1624
01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:05.159
It was from an American paper and it featured the

1625
01:34:05.159 --> 01:34:09.840
trial of one Charles Lametra, a notorious swindler and bigamis.

1626
01:34:10.039 --> 01:34:12.520
A skeleton had been found beneath the floor of his house,

1627
01:34:12.960 --> 01:34:13.600
and most of the.

1628
01:34:13.520 --> 01:34:15.479
Women he'd married had never been heard of the game.

1629
01:34:16.680 --> 01:34:19.720
Another of the clippings described Lamtra's behavior in court, his

1630
01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:22.960
interest in the cameras of the news photographers, his sensational

1631
01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:27.199
escape from prison. Another displayed his picture long bearded, scholarly

1632
01:34:27.239 --> 01:34:33.800
looking fellow. He reminded her of someone who she couldn't tell.

1633
01:34:34.039 --> 01:34:35.800
She glanced at the caption beneath.

1634
01:34:35.439 --> 01:34:39.119
The pictures, my modern bluebeard.

1635
01:34:41.119 --> 01:34:42.760
Yes, that's what she read.

1636
01:34:43.119 --> 01:34:45.359
Her eyes went back to the picture, and in a flash,

1637
01:34:45.399 --> 01:34:48.960
they saw the resemblance. She ran through the other clippings.

1638
01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:51.399
Dates had been found in the man's pocket. Diary data

1639
01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:53.560
was contended when he had done away with his victims,

1640
01:34:53.760 --> 01:34:56.239
and he was an amateur photographer. He was from Sydney,

1641
01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:58.399
from Canada. He was subject to heart attacks.

1642
01:34:58.600 --> 01:35:10.680
She was I was hearing the room whirled around her.

1643
01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:13.439
He could try to warn her. Dick had been near

1644
01:35:13.479 --> 01:35:17.039
her that morning. She turned him away. She was then

1645
01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:18.119
that she noticed her sound.

1646
01:35:18.800 --> 01:35:20.600
She turned toward the bright new pipe in the corner,

1647
01:35:20.680 --> 01:35:23.039
running up through the room from below near its base.

1648
01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:26.399
Something was fighting that pipe, as though someone were that.

1649
01:35:26.600 --> 01:35:28.600
Was it, though someone were digging.

1650
01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:31.239
The matron was preparing the dark room for the latest

1651
01:35:31.279 --> 01:35:35.760
one of his victims, six o'clock, that was sitting at

1652
01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:39.640
six o'clock, less than an hour from now. Suddenly all

1653
01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:42.600
the jigsaw pieces shot into place. The money paid for

1654
01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:45.319
the house, her money, her money, only the bars.

1655
01:35:45.399 --> 01:35:48.600
She didn't trust her for his keeping and someone.

1656
01:35:48.720 --> 01:35:49.479
She heard no sound.

1657
01:35:49.760 --> 01:35:50.720
The digging had stopped.

1658
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:52.439
She was escaping the.

1659
01:35:52.439 --> 01:35:54.720
House at once before he came up to the light

1660
01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:56.119
in the draw the blocket.

1661
01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:57.199
Don't I just get away?

1662
01:35:57.319 --> 01:35:59.199
She ursted the ball out of the hall.

1663
01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:10.279
Stopped my dea, you startled me.

1664
01:36:12.800 --> 01:36:14.560
I was just trying to find your nail file.

1665
01:36:15.279 --> 01:36:15.520
You do.

1666
01:36:18.800 --> 01:36:19.079
Well.

1667
01:36:19.079 --> 01:36:23.640
It's nothing to look so guilty about, now, is it.

1668
01:36:23.720 --> 01:36:29.359
Come on down, getting makes you know, just to have

1669
01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:31.760
time to make a coffee and sandwiches.

1670
01:36:32.680 --> 01:36:35.439
Before we do the pictures that i'd right down, Darlan,

1671
01:36:36.279 --> 01:36:37.720
really mustn't delay, must we.

1672
01:36:39.880 --> 01:36:40.159
Coming?

1673
01:36:40.199 --> 01:36:40.560
Alex.

1674
01:36:43.119 --> 01:36:47.880
Very well, hmm, that's better. Yeah, let me give you

1675
01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:51.199
a hand. Never mind, Alex, how cool you are?

1676
01:36:52.920 --> 01:36:53.159
Cool?

1677
01:36:54.239 --> 01:36:59.960
If a little soon, passive way, I'm sure. Hello, long, dear, Hi,

1678
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:04.479
into the kitchen, Alex, What is the matter.

1679
01:37:04.520 --> 01:37:07.039
Nothing, I'll be all right.

1680
01:37:08.399 --> 01:37:08.960
The kitchen.

1681
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:12.359
Yes, I'll think of something in a second. You just

1682
01:37:12.359 --> 01:37:15.439
sit here in the living room and now the porch.

1683
01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.199
Nothing the more comfortable. Can I be right with you?

1684
01:37:19.079 --> 01:37:20.159
Frended Alex Arger.

1685
01:37:23.239 --> 01:37:24.239
No course not.

1686
01:37:24.479 --> 01:37:30.319
How rotten of me not to have suggested it. Since

1687
01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:32.840
you're feeling a bit underpie, you can probably do with

1688
01:37:32.880 --> 01:37:33.359
some help.

1689
01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:35.880
I've come with you.

1690
01:37:43.439 --> 01:37:46.359
She knew then that some way, somehow she must get

1691
01:37:46.399 --> 01:37:48.800
work to Dick Winderford. The fact that he might be

1692
01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:50.920
gone by now, the memory of him telling her so,

1693
01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:53.840
she resolutely put out of her mind. There must be

1694
01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:58.319
no more panic. She must be under control of herself. Alex,

1695
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:00.720
carrying the coffee out of the porch, glanced the clock

1696
01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:03.840
from the mantel. Ten minutes till sixth Her very life

1697
01:38:03.960 --> 01:38:06.640
hang by those next ten minutes? Why her ability to

1698
01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:09.920
him cooler and swiftly the cousttanding beside her was a

1699
01:38:09.920 --> 01:38:12.439
man as determined as he was insane.

1700
01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:18.000
The pity are so abstracted, My dear, what why do

1701
01:38:18.079 --> 01:38:22.600
you say that? Well, because you are missing the loveliest

1702
01:38:22.640 --> 01:38:28.199
sight you're ever like to see again. Lookout the undergarten,

1703
01:38:29.560 --> 01:38:32.479
first soft shades of twilight.

1704
01:38:33.319 --> 01:38:41.560
Mm hmmm, twilight over fillamel cottage. Now I say, Alex,

1705
01:38:41.800 --> 01:38:43.760
you are below par What do you mean?

1706
01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:47.039
First time you've ever slept on the coffee? Must have

1707
01:38:47.119 --> 01:38:48.560
talked in the entire canister.

1708
01:38:49.680 --> 01:38:50.920
I'll be more careful after this.

1709
01:38:51.800 --> 01:38:54.920
Oh dear, where are you're going?

1710
01:38:55.239 --> 01:38:58.680
Nothing to get excited about? Gerald? I forgot to want

1711
01:38:58.720 --> 01:39:00.760
to meet for tomorrow. I'm just going to found the butcher.

1712
01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:03.119
The butcher.

1713
01:39:02.720 --> 01:39:06.800
He generally stays late on Wednesdays. I'll be right back, Darling.

1714
01:39:07.439 --> 01:39:08.319
You don't trap the door.

1715
01:39:08.840 --> 01:39:10.880
It keeps the insects out of the living room.

1716
01:39:12.119 --> 01:39:12.760
You're not afraid.

1717
01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:14.079
I'm going to make love to the butcher.

1718
01:39:14.119 --> 01:39:14.439
Are you.

1719
01:39:20.279 --> 01:39:22.880
Operator get me the traveler's arms?

1720
01:39:22.880 --> 01:39:26.159
Please hurry?

1721
01:39:26.960 --> 01:39:34.439
Hello, travels on mister Winderford. Please what you don't know

1722
01:39:34.479 --> 01:39:35.159
if he's still there?

1723
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:36.640
Won't you?

1724
01:39:37.000 --> 01:39:38.000
It's most important.

1725
01:39:40.640 --> 01:39:41.720
Don't let me disturb you?

1726
01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:45.680
Well, darling, you do I hate anyone listening when I telephone,

1727
01:39:46.720 --> 01:39:47.079
but I.

1728
01:39:47.079 --> 01:39:51.720
Do Gerald, truly, you're quite sure you're really calling the butcher.

1729
01:39:53.279 --> 01:39:57.399
Wow. As a matter of fact, I'm not.

1730
01:39:57.279 --> 01:40:01.279
Sure what I mean you're talking about.

1731
01:40:02.680 --> 01:40:07.640
I'm afraid I've got the wrong person, a perfect stranger.

1732
01:40:08.359 --> 01:40:12.000
I don't understand someone I know nothing about, you.

1733
01:40:11.960 --> 01:40:12.720
Know nothing about them.

1734
01:40:12.720 --> 01:40:13.520
Why don't you hang up?

1735
01:40:13.880 --> 01:40:15.720
It was a fan of that wirelet hello?

1736
01:40:16.439 --> 01:40:16.720
Hello?

1737
01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:22.000
Did all right?

1738
01:40:22.079 --> 01:40:22.479
My girl?

1739
01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:23.600
Do get started?

1740
01:40:23.760 --> 01:40:27.199
We're late now, three minutes past six.

1741
01:40:27.399 --> 01:40:29.960
Jeral, six o'clock for eight minutes. Look at the clock

1742
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:30.720
there on the mantel.

1743
01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:32.520
I don't go by that relic. I go by my

1744
01:40:32.560 --> 01:40:33.159
own record.

1745
01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:38.840
Listen, stop pacing and listening. I don't feel up to tonight.

1746
01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:41.039
I'm upset. I'm tired, Alex.

1747
01:40:41.159 --> 01:40:43.520
I promise you you won't be a bit tired after

1748
01:40:43.560 --> 01:40:47.039
it's over. I'm not going to wait one minute longer.

1749
01:40:47.239 --> 01:40:49.720
I'm along.

1750
01:40:51.159 --> 01:40:51.840
You will here.

1751
01:40:56.039 --> 01:41:00.800
I've got something to tell you, something to confess. Yes,

1752
01:41:01.199 --> 01:41:06.640
to confess something, something I have told you before. I've

1753
01:41:06.680 --> 01:41:12.760
had I've had my secret path too, uh, former lover

1754
01:41:13.640 --> 01:41:17.600
in a way that something else. You'd call it, Yes,

1755
01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:21.880
I expect you'd call it a crime crime.

1756
01:41:23.439 --> 01:41:24.800
Yes, I don't believe it.

1757
01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:28.760
Yes, you better sit down child.

1758
01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:36.720
Yes, I I told you I'd never been married before.

1759
01:41:37.239 --> 01:41:43.800
That wasn't entirely true. There was a marriage when I.

1760
01:41:43.720 --> 01:41:44.439
Was twenty two.

1761
01:41:45.439 --> 01:41:49.680
He was an elderly man with a little property. I

1762
01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:52.079
induced him to ensure his life in my favor. At

1763
01:41:52.119 --> 01:41:56.680
one time I was a nurse with with access to

1764
01:41:56.720 --> 01:41:59.399
a number of poisons. There's one poison in white part

1765
01:41:59.439 --> 01:41:59.600
of it.

1766
01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:03.560
You know something about poisons, perhaps, No, I know very

1767
01:42:03.560 --> 01:42:06.560
little about them.

1768
01:42:06.840 --> 01:42:11.239
This one is very much like it's absolutely untraceable. Any

1769
01:42:11.239 --> 01:42:14.039
doctor would give a certificate hot failure in that and that.

1770
01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:18.319
No, no, I can't.

1771
01:42:18.720 --> 01:42:21.279
No, No another time, another time.

1772
01:42:21.319 --> 01:42:22.119
Now I want to hear.

1773
01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:25.000
How did you get him to take it?

1774
01:42:26.359 --> 01:42:27.439
How did I get him to take it out?

1775
01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:27.840
Yes?

1776
01:42:29.720 --> 01:42:36.840
Well I always made his coffee poilon. Yes, one night

1777
01:42:36.920 --> 01:42:39.079
I put a pint of this of this poison in

1778
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:42.239
his cup. I remember that evening, How very much like

1779
01:42:42.319 --> 01:42:46.079
this it was, How peaceful he gasped a little side

1780
01:42:46.079 --> 01:42:50.319
the move from his chair, but he couldn't. Presently he died.

1781
01:42:51.720 --> 01:42:55.560
How much How much was the insurance?

1782
01:42:55.800 --> 01:42:59.640
About two thousand pounds, I speculated I lost him. It

1783
01:42:59.640 --> 01:43:02.520
was over two years before I before I married again.

1784
01:43:02.640 --> 01:43:05.439
He was a much younger man quite well. There was

1785
01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:07.640
a will in my favor. He liked me to make

1786
01:43:07.640 --> 01:43:09.920
his coffee too, just as my first husband had done.

1787
01:43:10.159 --> 01:43:13.439
I make very good coffee. It was the same along

1788
01:43:13.479 --> 01:43:17.000
about twilight. I remember it perfectly. I'm nervous and upset.

1789
01:43:17.079 --> 01:43:19.319
I've been all day wondering if it would turn out

1790
01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:22.000
all right. But it did. It was the sailing the

1791
01:43:22.079 --> 01:43:24.039
other He just sat there in his chair.

1792
01:43:23.840 --> 01:43:25.119
And he died.

1793
01:43:25.560 --> 01:43:29.239
I've been at doctor pronounced heart failure. My husband did

1794
01:43:29.319 --> 01:43:30.520
have a week card to see him.

1795
01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:31.720
That helped.

1796
01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:35.399
The great that's met with me over four thousand pounds.

1797
01:43:35.439 --> 01:43:37.000
I didn't seculate coffee.

1798
01:43:37.479 --> 01:43:39.640
That's why.

1799
01:43:42.239 --> 01:43:49.560
You yes, yea, And already the poison is working. You

1800
01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:51.760
see more from.

1801
01:43:51.560 --> 01:43:58.640
Your chair, Hill, you can't move your helpless kill you.

1802
01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:18.199
Yet?

1803
01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:22.600
What's been happening in that room? I said, you came?

1804
01:44:23.319 --> 01:44:24.399
You, didn't you hear me?

1805
01:44:24.960 --> 01:44:25.640
Silly girl?

1806
01:44:26.520 --> 01:44:26.720
Looked?

1807
01:44:26.720 --> 01:44:28.239
The couple called me up and talk about someone you

1808
01:44:28.319 --> 01:44:29.079
know nothing about it?

1809
01:44:30.880 --> 01:44:33.800
Excuse me saying what a defun constant men sitting in

1810
01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:35.199
his chair art trouble.

1811
01:44:35.239 --> 01:44:40.800
It looks like saying, yes, we'll say he's dead your husband.

1812
01:44:40.880 --> 01:44:54.079
Men might say, a perfect stranger. He was just sitting

1813
01:44:54.159 --> 01:44:55.000
in his chair, and.

1814
01:44:57.039 --> 01:45:15.399
Presently he died, and so closes Philomel Cottage, Jagatha Christie's

1815
01:45:15.399 --> 01:45:19.279
Story of Love from a Stranger, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and

1816
01:45:19.439 --> 01:45:23.439
Awson Wells, Tonight's Tale of Suspense.

1817
01:45:24.520 --> 01:45:27.119
The producer of Suspense is William Spear.

1818
01:45:27.239 --> 01:45:30.119
Who the Knight also directed the broadcast, and who with

1819
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:34.439
Wilber Hatch and Lucian Morowick, conductor and composer Harold Medford,

1820
01:45:34.880 --> 01:45:40.359
the radio author, collaborated on Tonight's Suspense.

1821
01:45:45.760 --> 01:45:49.840
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1822
01:45:59.199 --> 01:46:02.199
I suppose was one of the reasons I like these

1823
01:46:04.560 --> 01:46:13.399
stories is it's like going somewhere else, even when it

1824
01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:19.439
may not truly be an option. I like that level

1825
01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:28.439
of hope. M Sometimes I don't feel hopeful at all.

1826
01:46:30.039 --> 01:46:38.199
I feel like a statue, or maybe a painting, or

1827
01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:44.239
simply a body off Billingsgate.

1828
01:46:44.800 --> 01:47:03.239
A signal oil program, a whistler. That whistle is your

1829
01:47:03.439 --> 01:47:05.600
signal for the signal oil program.

1830
01:47:06.840 --> 01:47:29.159
The whistler, I am the whistler, and I know manything

1831
01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:33.039
For I walk by night. I know many strange.

1832
01:47:32.640 --> 01:47:35.319
Tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who

1833
01:47:35.359 --> 01:47:36.680
have stepped into the shadows.

1834
01:47:37.359 --> 01:47:41.079
Yes, I know, the nameless terrors of which they dare

1835
01:47:41.199 --> 01:47:49.079
not speak. Yes, friends, it's time for the Signal oil program.

1836
01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:52.720
The Whistler rated by independent research the most popular West

1837
01:47:52.760 --> 01:47:56.880
Coast program in radio history, and signal gasoline is tops

1838
01:47:56.920 --> 01:48:00.199
two tops in quality. It takes extra quality, you know,

1839
01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:02.920
to give you extra mile age. And signal is the

1840
01:48:03.000 --> 01:48:07.039
famous go farther gasoline. So look for the signal circle

1841
01:48:07.159 --> 01:48:10.279
sign in yellow and black that identifies Friendly Dealer owned

1842
01:48:10.399 --> 01:48:16.119
signal stations from Canada to Mexico. And now the Whistler.

1843
01:48:16.239 --> 01:48:27.359
Strange story the body off billings Gate. It was a

1844
01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:29.239
grim scene there on the dock.

1845
01:48:29.079 --> 01:48:32.880
At billings Gate, with the early morning fog swirling eerily

1846
01:48:32.960 --> 01:48:36.279
around the three figures bending over the shapeless mass and

1847
01:48:36.359 --> 01:48:40.560
the planking, the Scotland Yard inspector, the sergeant with his notebook,

1848
01:48:40.840 --> 01:48:44.239
and Peters, and the nervous little fisherman's stammering answers to

1849
01:48:44.319 --> 01:48:46.199
the inspector's methatical.

1850
01:48:45.800 --> 01:48:49.439
Questions, Oh he is Shay, the man has been dead?

1851
01:48:49.479 --> 01:48:54.119
About rivage is charging? Yes, sir, Yeah, mister Peters and Jay,

1852
01:48:54.239 --> 01:48:56.359
you'd more your boat as in the river.

1853
01:48:58.000 --> 01:48:59.039
About two hours ago.

1854
01:48:59.199 --> 01:49:01.439
It was then as I was coming in in the

1855
01:49:01.520 --> 01:49:04.319
small boat here, I spotted the body in the water

1856
01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:06.760
nearly right ran into it.

1857
01:49:06.880 --> 01:49:09.479
I did any idea who he is?

1858
01:49:09.560 --> 01:49:10.079
Inspector?

1859
01:49:10.319 --> 01:49:14.159
Looks like an American. Blow on the head, sergeant, blunt instrument.

1860
01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:19.520
Yeah, let's ever look in his pockets? Blow on the edge.

1861
01:49:20.359 --> 01:49:22.279
How do you suppose a poor bloke come.

1862
01:49:22.199 --> 01:49:26.399
To this gangster affair? Probably most of the gangsters seem

1863
01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:27.279
to end up his way.

1864
01:49:28.640 --> 01:49:30.319
Yeah, what is it, inspector?

1865
01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:33.720
A check for five thousand pounds on the back of

1866
01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:39.640
his bank, signed by Wilfred Greenwood. Stay here and look

1867
01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:43.640
after things as argent medical examiner. Be up, shorty, I'm

1868
01:49:43.680 --> 01:49:45.439
going over to have a talk with the manager of

1869
01:49:45.520 --> 01:49:45.920
that bank.

1870
01:49:46.079 --> 01:49:50.720
Yess lie, what a way to die?

1871
01:49:51.920 --> 01:49:54.960
How do you suppose you heard what the inspector said,

1872
01:49:55.079 --> 01:49:56.920
man blunt instrument.

1873
01:50:03.640 --> 01:50:06.000
Yes, it was obvious that the man had died as

1874
01:50:06.039 --> 01:50:08.880
the result of a blow from a blunt instrument. But

1875
01:50:09.039 --> 01:50:10.800
there was something more important.

1876
01:50:10.399 --> 01:50:13.520
Than that, something the inspector was to find out later

1877
01:50:13.600 --> 01:50:17.800
at Barclay's Bank, something which indicated that the most important

1878
01:50:17.920 --> 01:50:21.760
cause of the man's death was a normally harmless instrument,

1879
01:50:22.359 --> 01:50:30.880
just an ordinary fountain pen. It had been more than

1880
01:50:30.880 --> 01:50:33.520
a month before, in a fog like this one, that

1881
01:50:33.680 --> 01:50:37.680
Victor Milton groped cautiously towards the glowing yellow rectangle of

1882
01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:40.880
an outdoor telephone boot from the murky doctors listening.

1883
01:50:41.319 --> 01:50:43.399
Yes, operator, I want to put through a trunk called

1884
01:50:43.399 --> 01:50:44.239
to London keys.

1885
01:50:44.560 --> 01:50:46.199
That's right, hurry it alone, will you?

1886
01:50:47.079 --> 01:50:47.119
No?

1887
01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:47.760
Hurry?

1888
01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:53.479
Joann, Victor canceled the carl. Hang up, what the deuce, Vick.

1889
01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:54.840
I didn't know you were in Leed.

1890
01:50:55.119 --> 01:50:58.880
I thought you that I was in London. I know, Oh,

1891
01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:01.199
just a friend.

1892
01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:04.279
Don't hand me that you're the boy who's been tipping

1893
01:51:04.279 --> 01:51:05.760
off the opposition Archie Greenwood.

1894
01:51:05.800 --> 01:51:06.359
You're wrong, Dick.

1895
01:51:06.399 --> 01:51:07.800
I have nothing to do with two weeks since you

1896
01:51:07.920 --> 01:51:10.640
joined the organization, two weeks since the other mob has

1897
01:51:10.680 --> 01:51:11.800
been knocking off our trucks.

1898
01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:15.760
Funny coincidence, isn't it? Wait a minute because I can.

1899
01:51:16.079 --> 01:51:18.039
You can begin by telling me who you were calling

1900
01:51:18.119 --> 01:51:20.560
in London. I told you just a Frank Stalin. I

1901
01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:24.920
got a train to catch. Who was a john? You

1902
01:51:25.079 --> 01:51:27.960
better talk or I will know you won't drop it,

1903
01:51:29.000 --> 01:51:32.439
drop that gun. Tell me who you were calling up.

1904
01:51:33.399 --> 01:51:34.000
I won't tell you.

1905
01:51:34.840 --> 01:51:35.279
I kill you.

1906
01:51:36.239 --> 01:51:40.720
Give me get back. Yeah, that's better.

1907
01:51:53.439 --> 01:51:56.359
And that's how it began. Victory with a young man

1908
01:51:56.520 --> 01:51:59.720
named John Greenwood dead at your feet at a public telephone,

1909
01:51:59.720 --> 01:52:03.079
who then leave you bend down quickly, take his wallet

1910
01:52:03.159 --> 01:52:06.039
and gun, and hurry off into the night. It's three

1911
01:52:06.119 --> 01:52:08.319
blocks to the railroad station and the train's due in

1912
01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:09.039
five minutes.

1913
01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:11.640
You'll stop for a moment on the bridge over a.

1914
01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:15.399
Canal near the station, rapping the gun and wallet, and

1915
01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:17.760
then hurry up onto the station platform.

1916
01:52:23.399 --> 01:52:30.560
Let way happy, Thanks, thanks a million.

1917
01:52:31.560 --> 01:52:33.439
You're not tuppypy.

1918
01:52:33.920 --> 01:52:36.760
I must stand awfully silly. It's a family nickname for

1919
01:52:36.840 --> 01:52:39.399
my brother. I thought you were tuppy. You see, he

1920
01:52:39.560 --> 01:52:41.239
was never on time for train in his life.

1921
01:52:41.800 --> 01:52:42.840
I'm sorry to disappoint you.

1922
01:52:43.000 --> 01:52:44.239
Oh it's not veratorical.

1923
01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:47.520
If you'd be good enough to sit down, I shouldn't

1924
01:52:47.560 --> 01:52:49.359
wonder if I could start reading my paper.

1925
01:52:49.640 --> 01:52:50.760
Oh I'm so sorry.

1926
01:52:50.800 --> 01:52:53.600
I didn't realize we were in sure, Sure, go ahead,

1927
01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:54.399
we'll sit down over here.

1928
01:52:54.800 --> 01:52:55.039
Thank you.

1929
01:52:58.000 --> 01:52:58.800
Who's the old boy?

1930
01:52:59.520 --> 01:52:59.840
Colonel?

1931
01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:02.079
You hear you?

1932
01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:04.399
It's funny, isn't it.

1933
01:53:05.039 --> 01:53:08.760
You'll never know who you'll run into enofar Colonel Blimp

1934
01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:11.520
or oh what an angel?

1935
01:53:11.560 --> 01:53:13.399
From the first cloud on the left.

1936
01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:16.479
You Americans always comes straight to the point, don't you

1937
01:53:17.479 --> 01:53:18.680
How did you know I was an American?

1938
01:53:18.880 --> 01:53:19.039
Oh?

1939
01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:20.600
No, way you talk?

1940
01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:21.760
Oh no, wait a minute.

1941
01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:23.600
I've only been here for two weeks, but I've been

1942
01:53:23.640 --> 01:53:27.680
working hard. I say bowler instead of goodly, that polan instead.

1943
01:53:27.359 --> 01:53:30.399
Of yes, you're as bad as tuppy. He wants to

1944
01:53:30.439 --> 01:53:32.520
sound like an American and can't pull it off either.

1945
01:53:33.199 --> 01:53:34.359
I do wish you got here.

1946
01:53:34.520 --> 01:53:35.319
You're not worried, are you?

1947
01:53:35.680 --> 01:53:35.720
No?

1948
01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:37.800
But he promised to write to London with me to

1949
01:53:37.880 --> 01:53:40.279
see father. It's my first trip to town in almost

1950
01:53:40.319 --> 01:53:40.600
a year.

1951
01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:43.680
You see, I've been in school in Leeds and oh dear,

1952
01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:45.520
I must sound like an awful chatter.

1953
01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:48.520
Poor at all? What your brother doing in Leeds?

1954
01:53:48.720 --> 01:53:52.479
He's just taking on a new job, commercial traveler, paints hardware,

1955
01:53:52.560 --> 01:53:55.079
that sort of thing. He's young, of course, and a

1956
01:53:55.119 --> 01:53:57.680
little irresponsible, but he'll settle down.

1957
01:53:58.399 --> 01:54:02.359
No danger of tuppy is turning into a spib spib. Yes,

1958
01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:05.199
you see, a Steve is a welly.

1959
01:54:05.319 --> 01:54:09.479
It's a new word in a vocabulary. Shi an unfortunate addition,

1960
01:54:09.600 --> 01:54:11.840
I might add, Oh, how do you mean, colonel? Oh,

1961
01:54:12.039 --> 01:54:13.920
captain sorry, it's quite all right.

1962
01:54:14.279 --> 01:54:17.800
A stibs does no work, there's no taxes, produces nothing

1963
01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:20.399
of value, get flourishes like the green bay Tree.

1964
01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:23.720
Black Mark is hijacking, so shamefulting Chambril.

1965
01:54:25.159 --> 01:54:27.279
Well now you know what a spieve is.

1966
01:54:29.239 --> 01:54:29.359
Right?

1967
01:54:30.920 --> 01:54:31.840
When did we get to London?

1968
01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:32.560
Around midnight?

1969
01:54:32.640 --> 01:54:33.800
Oh? Wonderful asspy you home?

1970
01:54:33.920 --> 01:54:34.039
Oh?

1971
01:54:34.119 --> 01:54:37.399
I I couldn't not another word now, after all, I

1972
01:54:37.520 --> 01:54:39.840
have to do something useful now and then what do

1973
01:54:39.920 --> 01:54:53.479
you think I am a spit? Yeah, got makings route.

1974
01:54:53.880 --> 01:54:56.039
You really shouldn't have gone to all this trouble, my.

1975
01:54:56.119 --> 01:54:58.680
Dear young lady. It's after midnight. The fogs as bad

1976
01:54:58.760 --> 01:55:00.960
here as it was in me. It'll be ten bob

1977
01:55:01.039 --> 01:55:02.039
okay here you're a driver.

1978
01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:07.720
Yeah, I'm certainly grateful to you. It's the first time

1979
01:55:07.760 --> 01:55:10.119
i've been here. You see. Father just moved in last week.

1980
01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:16.359
Oh I see, well, thank your father.

1981
01:55:16.399 --> 01:55:19.119
Still, I'll be insulted if he isn't he knows I'm

1982
01:55:19.159 --> 01:55:21.399
coming Hillary father.

1983
01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:23.840
Oh, it's so good to have your home, my dear

1984
01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:26.640
and tuppy. Oh, I'm afraid I.

1985
01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:27.840
Mister trained father.

1986
01:55:28.079 --> 01:55:30.039
I thought i'd better see your daughter home. Sir. It's

1987
01:55:30.039 --> 01:55:31.399
a little late for her to be out along.

1988
01:55:31.520 --> 01:55:34.239
Well, thank you, young man, come in, come in, won't

1989
01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:37.680
thank you? No, Ki, Marie, don't you think you better?

1990
01:55:38.119 --> 01:55:41.960
Oh the telephone? Make yourself at home? Will your Hillary?

1991
01:55:42.239 --> 01:55:44.319
I'm sure the young man can do this. Father, Brandy?

1992
01:55:44.399 --> 01:55:46.800
When I see here, it's pretty late. Perhaps I you

1993
01:55:46.920 --> 01:55:47.880
heard what father said?

1994
01:55:48.600 --> 01:55:49.600
Drug call from Lee?

1995
01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:51.520
That must be Tuppy with some excuse or other.

1996
01:55:51.680 --> 01:55:54.359
Don't be too harsh with him, father, Do you prefer

1997
01:55:54.479 --> 01:55:55.399
Brandy or whiskey?

1998
01:55:55.479 --> 01:55:55.840
Mistress?

1999
01:55:57.960 --> 01:56:00.399
You know, I don't even know your name. Look up

2000
01:56:00.479 --> 01:56:02.640
all this, William. We haven't even been introduced.

2001
01:56:02.800 --> 01:56:06.039
I'm sorry. My name is Milton, Victim, Milton.

2002
01:56:06.199 --> 01:56:08.640
Well, how do you do, mister Milton? I'm Hillary?

2003
01:56:08.920 --> 01:56:09.439
How do you do?

2004
01:56:10.359 --> 01:56:10.520
Yes?

2005
01:56:10.640 --> 01:56:12.159
I'm listening after What is it?

2006
01:56:12.239 --> 01:56:12.479
Father?

2007
01:56:12.600 --> 01:56:13.159
What's the matter?

2008
01:56:13.640 --> 01:56:19.720
I see identification from mccote. Yes, yes, it's our catch

2009
01:56:19.800 --> 01:56:22.600
the first train north? Thank you, thank you very much?

2010
01:56:22.680 --> 01:56:23.079
Goodbye?

2011
01:56:24.039 --> 01:56:24.319
Father.

2012
01:56:24.680 --> 01:56:26.960
What's happened? Is it Tuppy?

2013
01:56:28.079 --> 01:56:29.880
That is the police up in Leeds?

2014
01:56:30.079 --> 01:56:32.760
He's not in another scrape, not anymore.

2015
01:56:34.359 --> 01:56:37.680
He's dead, Hillary. What His body was found of a

2016
01:56:37.800 --> 01:56:39.359
fog by a telephone booth.

2017
01:56:40.359 --> 01:56:42.239
And I can't believe.

2018
01:56:44.119 --> 01:56:47.239
I'm Marc sorry, I guess you too want to be alarm.

2019
01:56:47.520 --> 01:56:52.520
Yes, thank you for seeing Hillary home, mister Milton. If

2020
01:56:52.560 --> 01:56:54.439
there's anything I can do off it kind of you,

2021
01:56:54.560 --> 01:57:00.319
mister Milton. Our name is Greenwood Greenwood, Wilfred Greenwood. My

2022
01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:06.439
son was John John Greenwood. You always called him tuppy rob.

2023
01:57:06.960 --> 01:57:08.520
But why would anyone rob him?

2024
01:57:08.720 --> 01:57:09.800
He never had anything.

2025
01:57:11.279 --> 01:57:14.800
I think it was something else, Hillary, And I'm going

2026
01:57:14.880 --> 01:57:17.039
to find out who killed him if it's the last

2027
01:57:17.079 --> 01:57:17.520
thing I do.

2028
01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:33.479
With the prologue of the body off Billingsgate, the Signal

2029
01:57:33.520 --> 01:57:38.479
Oil Company is bringing you another strange story by the whistler.

2030
01:57:40.199 --> 01:57:41.920
But now I'd like to ask one of the ladies

2031
01:57:41.920 --> 01:57:45.520
here in the studio a question. Did you serve iced

2032
01:57:45.600 --> 01:57:46.439
tea for supper?

2033
01:57:46.840 --> 01:57:47.239
Iced tea?

2034
01:57:47.880 --> 01:57:49.800
Of course not in this weather.

2035
01:57:49.880 --> 01:57:51.000
We prefer a hot drink.

2036
01:57:51.079 --> 01:57:54.279
Precisely, and just as you choose a different diet in

2037
01:57:54.439 --> 01:57:57.920
cool weather, remember your car needs a different cold weather

2038
01:57:58.000 --> 01:58:00.199
diet too if you want to keep performance up.

2039
01:58:00.399 --> 01:58:02.159
And where dal just what do.

2040
01:58:02.199 --> 01:58:04.600
You mean by a cold weather diet for a car?

2041
01:58:05.000 --> 01:58:07.680
Well, First of all, the transmission and differential should be

2042
01:58:07.800 --> 01:58:10.960
drained and refilled with a correct winter grade of signal gear.

2043
01:58:11.039 --> 01:58:11.560
Lubricant.

2044
01:58:12.239 --> 01:58:15.079
If your front wheel bearings and spinnometer cable haven't been

2045
01:58:15.119 --> 01:58:18.000
repacked for five thousand miles, now is a good time

2046
01:58:18.000 --> 01:58:20.760
to tend to that. And of course, for a sweeter

2047
01:58:20.880 --> 01:58:23.680
running motor, the old oil should be drained and replaced

2048
01:58:23.720 --> 01:58:26.760
with a correct winter grade of Signal Premium motor oil,

2049
01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:30.840
an amazing new type oil that actually keeps motor six

2050
01:58:30.960 --> 01:58:34.159
times cleaner and reduces cylinder wear one third.

2051
01:58:34.359 --> 01:58:37.199
One more question, what is the correct winter grade of

2052
01:58:37.239 --> 01:58:40.800
oil that differs according to the make of car, its age,

2053
01:58:40.920 --> 01:58:41.640
and the climate.

2054
01:58:42.279 --> 01:58:45.399
But your signal dealer can tell you exactly because he

2055
01:58:45.520 --> 01:58:49.359
has an official factory chart which shows just what lubricant

2056
01:58:49.399 --> 01:58:52.720
the manufacturer recommends for each part on your particular car.

2057
01:58:53.880 --> 01:58:57.880
This is just another extra in signal Dealer's complete line

2058
01:58:57.920 --> 01:59:01.279
of services and products to help your car run better,

2059
01:59:02.119 --> 01:59:07.359
look better, and last longer. Now back to the whistler.

2060
01:59:31.840 --> 01:59:35.119
It's a terrible shock, isn't it, Victor, The knowledge that

2061
01:59:35.199 --> 01:59:37.439
the man you killed in Leeds was the brother of

2062
01:59:37.479 --> 01:59:41.159
the girl you met riding up to London. John Greenwood,

2063
01:59:41.319 --> 01:59:44.439
Hillary's brother. And it's hard for you to believe that

2064
01:59:44.800 --> 01:59:47.399
her brother could be like that, that he could be

2065
01:59:47.520 --> 01:59:51.720
the son of an obviously influential and respectable citizen like

2066
01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:53.000
Wilfred Greenwood.

2067
01:59:53.720 --> 01:59:55.199
But that's the way it is, Victor.

2068
01:59:55.800 --> 01:59:58.399
A thing that might happen once in a million times

2069
01:59:58.479 --> 02:00:01.840
has happened to you. It unnerves you, doesn't it, But

2070
02:00:02.000 --> 02:00:06.159
not enough to destroy your role as innocent strangers. They

2071
02:00:06.239 --> 02:00:10.000
haven't the slightest reason to suspect, Victor, and you decide

2072
02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:13.960
that their friendship might be valuable. You send flowers and

2073
02:00:14.039 --> 02:00:17.479
condolences to John Greenwood's funeral, then wait a few days

2074
02:00:17.560 --> 02:00:18.920
before telephoning Hilary.

2075
02:00:19.720 --> 02:00:23.159
Oh hello, mister Milton. Thank you so much for the flowers.

2076
02:00:23.359 --> 02:00:26.319
Oh I'm sorry I couldn't do more to help, but

2077
02:00:26.439 --> 02:00:28.199
I realized that it's such a time.

2078
02:00:28.159 --> 02:00:31.000
You've been most thoughtful. Father appreciates it too.

2079
02:00:31.760 --> 02:00:36.439
I read about some flowers this morning in the Times. Yes,

2080
02:00:36.640 --> 02:00:39.680
the carnations are blooming in Hyde Park. Say, I'll bet

2081
02:00:39.680 --> 02:00:41.479
you haven't been out in the fresh air for a week.

2082
02:00:42.920 --> 02:00:47.119
You haven't. That's right, you know. I think a stroll

2083
02:00:47.199 --> 02:00:49.199
through the park of perhaps some boating would be just

2084
02:00:49.279 --> 02:00:49.880
a thing for you.

2085
02:00:50.960 --> 02:00:55.000
Well, I I think so too, mister Milton. I'd like

2086
02:00:55.199 --> 02:00:55.920
very much to go.

2087
02:00:56.760 --> 02:01:16.000
Oh oh, it is RESTful out here, mister Milton, I

2088
02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:17.760
do feel relaxed now, That.

2089
02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:18.960
Was the general idea.

2090
02:01:19.960 --> 02:01:21.000
But it's your expense.

2091
02:01:21.359 --> 02:01:22.399
Aren't you tired of rowing?

2092
02:01:22.600 --> 02:01:22.760
Oh?

2093
02:01:23.039 --> 02:01:25.840
Not at all, and I can use the exercise.

2094
02:01:25.840 --> 02:01:27.119
I don't believe it though.

2095
02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:28.039
If you're anything like.

2096
02:01:28.199 --> 02:01:29.840
Father, you're too involved in business.

2097
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:31.159
You're all the same.

2098
02:01:31.279 --> 02:01:33.479
Oh no, no, I don't overdo it.

2099
02:01:33.760 --> 02:01:38.239
Father does lately anyway. To tell the truth, mister Milton,

2100
02:01:38.720 --> 02:01:42.239
I'm worried about him. Oh, he's taken tuppy.

2101
02:01:43.159 --> 02:01:43.439
John.

2102
02:01:43.720 --> 02:01:44.520
This so hard.

2103
02:01:45.359 --> 02:01:48.479
I really didn't expect him to be this way. John

2104
02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:51.680
always got into scrapes, and Father's been so very proper.

2105
02:01:52.279 --> 02:01:55.640
There were times when they had real differences. Father's so

2106
02:01:55.800 --> 02:01:56.319
hurt by it.

2107
02:01:57.319 --> 02:02:00.840
Haven't haven't the police any idea? Who shot your brother?

2108
02:02:01.399 --> 02:02:01.439
No?

2109
02:02:02.479 --> 02:02:03.600
But father won't give up.

2110
02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:05.920
I wish I could help some way.

2111
02:02:06.479 --> 02:02:08.279
You've done a lot already, mister Milton.

2112
02:02:08.640 --> 02:02:10.560
Make it, Victor, Willia all right?

2113
02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:10.800
Then?

2114
02:02:11.439 --> 02:02:15.840
Victor, that's very much better.

2115
02:02:23.720 --> 02:02:27.159
Yes, Victor, it's going well. And as you continue to

2116
02:02:27.199 --> 02:02:30.119
see Hillary during the days that follow, you begin to

2117
02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:31.159
feel more secure.

2118
02:02:31.920 --> 02:02:34.960
Knowing the friendship of influential people like the green Woods

2119
02:02:35.039 --> 02:02:38.760
makes everything solid. The suite of the Carlton the office

2120
02:02:38.760 --> 02:02:44.439
in Oxford Street. Your poles is the enterprising young American businessman. Yes,

2121
02:02:45.039 --> 02:02:48.199
Hillary will solve some problems, but not all of them.

2122
02:02:48.439 --> 02:02:50.079
What's wrong, Ernie? What's holding us up?

2123
02:02:50.600 --> 02:02:50.880
Money?

2124
02:02:51.399 --> 02:02:53.680
They got two of our trucks again last night on

2125
02:02:53.760 --> 02:02:58.640
the Great North Road suit in materials, tweeds, woosteds, hoost

2126
02:02:58.680 --> 02:03:01.399
a four thousand pounds. Oh, I'd like to know who's

2127
02:03:01.479 --> 02:03:04.000
tipping him off, or could be anyone. They've got a

2128
02:03:04.079 --> 02:03:06.880
man on every corner. There's no getting away from him.

2129
02:03:07.359 --> 02:03:12.119
We need money. Huh yeah, quick, all right, Annie, all right,

2130
02:03:12.159 --> 02:03:14.439
I'll get it. Oh do you know I said I

2131
02:03:14.560 --> 02:03:18.439
get it? Never mind? How all I need is a

2132
02:03:18.560 --> 02:03:32.319
little time? You like it here? Hillary?

2133
02:03:32.479 --> 02:03:33.079
It's heaven.

2134
02:03:33.840 --> 02:03:36.960
Well that's because you're here in my arms.

2135
02:03:37.239 --> 02:03:38.960
It's sweet of you to say that.

2136
02:03:40.199 --> 02:03:41.439
What are we waiting for? Hillary?

2137
02:03:41.720 --> 02:03:42.760
I don't know.

2138
02:03:42.960 --> 02:03:43.159
Vic.

2139
02:03:43.960 --> 02:03:46.199
It's the first cloud on the left and we're sitting

2140
02:03:46.359 --> 02:03:47.960
right on it together.

2141
02:03:48.359 --> 02:03:50.560
I never want to let you get away.

2142
02:03:51.479 --> 02:03:54.840
Would you would you think it's strange if I proposed

2143
02:03:54.920 --> 02:03:57.720
right here on the dance floor, Vic, you shouldn't.

2144
02:03:58.239 --> 02:03:58.960
What will Father?

2145
02:03:59.039 --> 02:04:02.079
You won't object? And what if he does? I don't know.

2146
02:04:02.359 --> 02:04:04.960
We've wasted too much time already, Hillary, Let's do it.

2147
02:04:05.079 --> 02:04:08.399
Let's see low right now, Darling. Oh, yes we can.

2148
02:04:08.479 --> 02:04:11.199
I've already got the special license. Well, oh Hillary, Hillary,

2149
02:04:11.319 --> 02:04:12.720
please please we can.

2150
02:04:12.680 --> 02:04:16.119
Talk about it on the way. On the way, yes, darling,

2151
02:04:16.720 --> 02:04:20.239
after all, you can't expect me to be married without

2152
02:04:20.319 --> 02:04:21.159
my hat and coat.

2153
02:04:35.439 --> 02:04:38.760
Well, well go ahead, missus, Milton ring the bell.

2154
02:04:39.159 --> 02:04:41.760
I feel so nervous now that we're back, sick. I

2155
02:04:41.840 --> 02:04:42.640
don't know how to say.

2156
02:04:42.680 --> 02:04:46.000
His father, why so jittery? He's all prepared.

2157
02:04:46.079 --> 02:04:52.000
You wired him, Dear, I nobody here, I'll ring, Come on,

2158
02:04:52.399 --> 02:04:53.239
shin up, darling.

2159
02:04:53.359 --> 02:04:54.880
I don't know why I'm acting like this.

2160
02:04:56.479 --> 02:04:57.159
Hello father.

2161
02:04:57.520 --> 02:05:01.279
Well Hillary, you did get back, and you, Victor married

2162
02:05:01.319 --> 02:05:01.880
to my daughter.

2163
02:05:02.560 --> 02:05:05.920
That's right, sir. Well what are we standing here for?

2164
02:05:06.119 --> 02:05:08.600
Come in you two. I've had the champagne on ice

2165
02:05:08.680 --> 02:05:09.960
ever since I got your wire.

2166
02:05:11.000 --> 02:05:20.239
You, darling, I.

2167
02:05:20.560 --> 02:05:23.399
Must say, Victor, you Americans don't let any grass go

2168
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:25.800
under your feet. Well so with a curl like Hillary.

2169
02:05:25.960 --> 02:05:28.880
Oh it's all right, my boy. I'm pleased. You must

2170
02:05:28.960 --> 02:05:29.680
know that by now.

2171
02:05:30.560 --> 02:05:33.199
The quality of the champagne certainly says something.

2172
02:05:33.359 --> 02:05:37.319
Mister Greenwood. Good Ah, But he doesn't say nearly enough. Now,

2173
02:05:37.479 --> 02:05:41.840
come over here, both of you to my desk. Now, now,

2174
02:05:42.039 --> 02:05:43.520
where's my checkbook?

2175
02:05:43.560 --> 02:05:43.680
Oh?

2176
02:05:43.760 --> 02:05:45.399
Now, father, we really didn't explain.

2177
02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:49.279
Never mind, now, dear, haven't any family heirlooms to pass along,

2178
02:05:49.399 --> 02:05:53.199
but my bank account can certainly stand a substantial present to.

2179
02:05:53.439 --> 02:05:53.920
Both of you.

2180
02:05:54.279 --> 02:06:00.880
Only where are my glasses? Hillar, mister Greenwood? Hillary's right? Heah, yeah, yeah,

2181
02:06:00.920 --> 02:06:03.159
I can't see without them, Victory, you make out the

2182
02:06:03.279 --> 02:06:05.720
check But sir, go on, go on there, you may.

2183
02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:08.119
As well do it, darling. He always gets his way.

2184
02:06:08.840 --> 02:06:14.760
Well, all right, So what's the date, darling.

2185
02:06:14.960 --> 02:06:19.079
Our wedding day? How can you forget October eleventh?

2186
02:06:19.239 --> 02:06:19.399
Oh?

2187
02:06:19.560 --> 02:06:24.199
Sure, I'm all mixed up today, darling. October eleventh, nineteen

2188
02:06:24.239 --> 02:06:30.199
forty seven. And let me see. October is the tenth month,

2189
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:37.159
isn't it? That's right? Mm hmm ten eleven forty seven.

2190
02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:40.119
Who shall I make it out to? Mister Greenwood?

2191
02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:44.000
Call me dad, won't you? And make it terrible to yourself?

2192
02:06:44.079 --> 02:06:46.359
Of course you will be the man of the house.

2193
02:06:46.439 --> 02:06:48.600
I hope are my glasses yet?

2194
02:06:48.640 --> 02:06:48.920
Hillary?

2195
02:06:49.159 --> 02:06:50.239
I don't see them anywhere?

2196
02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:53.439
Hey? To me boor the.

2197
02:06:56.279 --> 02:07:17.600
Victor Milton five thousand pounds, Yeah, five thousand pounds.

2198
02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:19.239
You sound like you don't believe me, Ornie.

2199
02:07:19.720 --> 02:07:20.960
I'll feel better when I.

2200
02:07:21.119 --> 02:07:23.279
See it skip it. You better keep your eyes on

2201
02:07:23.359 --> 02:07:26.520
the road if they hijack us again tonight with through

2202
02:07:28.479 --> 02:07:32.039
how much farther the leads? Ten miles? The boys are

2203
02:07:32.079 --> 02:07:35.760
meeting us at the warehouse, and right, what's the matter?

2204
02:07:36.159 --> 02:07:39.159
Look up ahead, it's a roadblock gunned up.

2205
02:07:39.279 --> 02:07:41.039
I can't give it a guess, I said the modes

2206
02:07:41.079 --> 02:07:42.119
to every Well, tip over?

2207
02:07:42.239 --> 02:07:44.399
Who is it? You know them? It's them again, the

2208
02:07:44.479 --> 02:07:45.079
same ones.

2209
02:07:45.479 --> 02:07:46.560
I know that, Laurie, are there?

2210
02:07:46.640 --> 02:07:48.239
That's a truckle there? Then it go jump and run

2211
02:07:48.279 --> 02:07:48.439
for it.

2212
02:07:48.560 --> 02:07:49.920
No, we ain't got a job.

2213
02:08:04.720 --> 02:08:06.359
What's the idea? Where are we?

2214
02:08:06.600 --> 02:08:07.600
Keep moving? Mate?

2215
02:08:08.159 --> 02:08:08.279
Uh?

2216
02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:11.119
What'd you do to any keep moving?

2217
02:08:12.600 --> 02:08:15.359
Nice bunch of guys pulling me off my own truck,

2218
02:08:15.680 --> 02:08:18.000
slapping a blindfold on me, driving me for miles?

2219
02:08:18.119 --> 02:08:19.399
Maybe you're wish it was further.

2220
02:08:20.000 --> 02:08:27.039
All right, hold it here, mate, come in. Where did

2221
02:08:27.079 --> 02:08:28.840
you find him? He jumped off the truck when he

2222
02:08:28.880 --> 02:08:31.560
held it up? All right, matte, you can take off

2223
02:08:31.600 --> 02:08:32.359
that blindfold.

2224
02:08:33.119 --> 02:08:39.000
Yeah, I'll do it. Fine thing shoving a guy around

2225
02:08:39.039 --> 02:08:45.119
like what the vic mister Greenwood.

2226
02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:46.800
For a moment.

2227
02:08:46.920 --> 02:08:49.760
You can't believe it, can you, Victor, that you're standing

2228
02:08:49.880 --> 02:08:53.840
face to face with your new father in law, Wilfred Greenwood.

2229
02:08:53.960 --> 02:08:58.600
It can't be there. There must be some mistake. He's mistake.

2230
02:08:58.680 --> 02:09:01.279
He was on the truck, he said, he I see,

2231
02:09:02.039 --> 02:09:04.920
all right, go back to the truck. But I'll take

2232
02:09:05.000 --> 02:09:08.000
care of him. Give us an hour alone.

2233
02:09:08.479 --> 02:09:08.640
Right?

2234
02:09:08.760 --> 02:09:15.359
Oh, so pop here in this racket too.

2235
02:09:15.520 --> 02:09:15.680
Huh.

2236
02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:20.039
You're the guy that's been hidjacking my trucks. It was you,

2237
02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:23.399
Vic you kill John. I don't know what you're talking about.

2238
02:09:23.479 --> 02:09:26.000
I've had men working on my son's matter ever since

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02:09:26.039 --> 02:09:27.600
he was killed. And I told them to bring me

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02:09:27.680 --> 02:09:29.760
the mad who did it, no matter who he was.

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02:09:30.640 --> 02:09:34.359
They brought you, Victor. And they don't make mistakes as

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02:09:34.399 --> 02:09:37.560
simple as that. Of course, mister Greenwood. Now that i'm

2243
02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:40.800
your son in law, Hillary is better off rid of you.

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02:09:41.199 --> 02:09:43.159
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You can't shoot me

2245
02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:45.239
without You didn't wait for it when it was John.

2246
02:09:45.800 --> 02:09:51.000
No Vick, I'm you're doing nothing. Give me, give it

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02:09:51.119 --> 02:09:55.720
to me. Eh, that's atter, Missuster Greenwood?

2248
02:09:56.399 --> 02:09:57.079
What are you going to do?

2249
02:09:57.279 --> 02:09:59.319
Having much choice? So you won't get away? With it, Vick,

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02:09:59.439 --> 02:10:01.159
my mental big back here, and then I can get

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02:10:01.239 --> 02:10:03.800
lost in England in Lesson, and I will never stop running.

2252
02:10:03.920 --> 02:10:06.000
I'll be alive, green Wood, and with enough money to

2253
02:10:06.079 --> 02:10:07.359
run a long ways thanks to you.

2254
02:10:07.560 --> 02:10:11.760
Watch your check for five pounds, Vick. You'll did kill him?

2255
02:10:11.840 --> 02:10:13.039
My son didn't chill?

2256
02:10:13.199 --> 02:10:16.359
Yes, yeah, I killed him touch you was smart planning

2257
02:10:16.399 --> 02:10:19.479
him in my gang as a stool pigeon. Yes, I

2258
02:10:19.680 --> 02:10:38.399
killed him, and I'll even show you how. No, no fish, yes, sir,

2259
02:10:38.680 --> 02:10:42.279
good morning, good morning. I'd like to catch this check well, sir, Oh.

2260
02:10:42.279 --> 02:10:45.359
Mister Greenwood's check pay to the order of victim Milton

2261
02:10:45.520 --> 02:10:46.800
five thousand pounds.

2262
02:10:47.119 --> 02:10:49.720
Yes, I'm his son in law of course.

2263
02:10:50.000 --> 02:10:52.239
All right, mister Milton, if you'll wait just a moment,

2264
02:10:52.279 --> 02:10:53.720
I'm sure we can honor it for you.

2265
02:11:00.079 --> 02:11:03.319
Why the whistler will return in just a moment with

2266
02:11:03.439 --> 02:11:08.199
a strange ending to tonight's story. Meantime, since tomorrow is

2267
02:11:08.279 --> 02:11:11.000
Thanksgiving Day, I want to say for Signal Oil Company

2268
02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:14.479
and the almost two thousand Signal dealers who serve the

2269
02:11:14.560 --> 02:11:18.600
seven Pacific Coast states from Canada to Mexico, we hope

2270
02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:22.520
that your Thanksgiving cornucopia will be filled to overflowing not

2271
02:11:22.760 --> 02:11:26.359
only with good food, but also with good health and

2272
02:11:26.520 --> 02:11:29.960
good cheer. Certainly all of us can be thankful from

2273
02:11:29.960 --> 02:11:32.359
the bottom of our hearts that we are living in America,

2274
02:11:32.560 --> 02:11:34.319
the land of abundance and freedom.

2275
02:11:34.359 --> 02:11:34.720
For all.

2276
02:11:36.159 --> 02:11:38.399
We of the Signal Oil family like to feel that

2277
02:11:38.520 --> 02:11:41.520
in our seventeen years of serving the West, we have

2278
02:11:41.600 --> 02:11:43.800
played a part in furthering the way of life that

2279
02:11:44.000 --> 02:11:47.960
is America. Because signal dealers own their own business, they

2280
02:11:48.000 --> 02:11:50.840
are carrying on the tradition of the independent business man

2281
02:11:51.520 --> 02:11:54.439
who has played such an important role in building America.

2282
02:11:55.520 --> 02:11:58.880
And Signal Oil Company by supplying signal service stations with

2283
02:11:59.039 --> 02:12:03.279
constantly finer products, has helped each signal dealer keep abreast

2284
02:12:03.319 --> 02:12:06.640
of that ever present healthy competition which is the key

2285
02:12:06.800 --> 02:12:11.479
to America's continuing progress, competition which helps all of us

2286
02:12:11.520 --> 02:12:14.960
here in America enjoy the highest in the world's standard

2287
02:12:15.000 --> 02:12:15.359
of living.

2288
02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:18.159
And now back to the whistler.

2289
02:12:33.680 --> 02:12:36.680
Yes, the man discovered by the fisherman at billings Gate

2290
02:12:37.239 --> 02:12:40.039
died from a blow by a blunt instrument, according to

2291
02:12:40.079 --> 02:12:43.399
the records of Scotland Yards, but in a strange way,

2292
02:12:43.960 --> 02:12:46.439
the real cause of his death was the stroke of

2293
02:12:46.479 --> 02:12:50.000
a fountain pen on the scrap of paper. If another

2294
02:12:50.119 --> 02:12:53.039
man had held a pen, the victim might never have died,

2295
02:12:53.680 --> 02:12:56.680
but the fatal pen marks could never be erased or changed.

2296
02:12:57.239 --> 02:12:59.600
They were still there on that check for five.

2297
02:12:59.520 --> 02:13:03.600
Thousand pounds bound in the dead man's pocket, signed by

2298
02:13:03.720 --> 02:13:06.840
Wilfred Greenwood, even twelve hours in.

2299
02:13:06.880 --> 02:13:09.479
The cold water of the Thames River hadn't blurred alone.

2300
02:13:10.560 --> 02:13:14.199
The Scotland yard inspector waited quietly as the cash here

2301
02:13:14.279 --> 02:13:16.640
at Berkeley's Bank examined the check carefully.

2302
02:13:17.119 --> 02:13:19.439
I say the check is wet, Inspector, it's yes.

2303
02:13:19.840 --> 02:13:22.640
The manage made out to this victor. Milton was found

2304
02:13:22.720 --> 02:13:25.159
dead at Billingsgate Duck a few hours ago. Oh, I

2305
02:13:25.279 --> 02:13:30.920
see a suicide, inspector, hardly youngster here. I'd say, revenge

2306
02:13:30.960 --> 02:13:35.319
for something that bloke it down. You've she med check before, yes,

2307
02:13:35.800 --> 02:13:38.800
only yesterday. Mister Milton was in trying to cash it, Inspector.

2308
02:13:39.159 --> 02:13:41.199
We had to refuse him, of course, why is that?

2309
02:13:41.439 --> 02:13:42.479
I felt quite badly.

2310
02:13:42.600 --> 02:13:46.920
He acted so strangely, almost desperate desay he was. It

2311
02:13:47.039 --> 02:13:50.199
seems he'd written the check himself for mister Greenwood to sign,

2312
02:13:50.359 --> 02:13:53.880
but he post dated it. I explained that the check

2313
02:13:53.920 --> 02:13:56.920
couldn't clear for another month. He post dated it. Yes,

2314
02:13:57.000 --> 02:14:00.439
it was dated ten eleven forty seven. You see, he

2315
02:14:00.560 --> 02:14:03.399
was obviously an American, and they write a day differently

2316
02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:05.800
than we do. They put the month first and the

2317
02:14:05.920 --> 02:14:08.479
day next, while here in England, of course, we put

2318
02:14:08.520 --> 02:14:09.319
the day first and.

2319
02:14:09.439 --> 02:14:10.159
The month second.

2320
02:14:10.760 --> 02:14:13.880
Then this check he wrote is just reversed. He meant

2321
02:14:13.920 --> 02:14:17.319
to indicate October the eleventh, but actually in writing ten

2322
02:14:17.479 --> 02:14:21.600
eleven he made it November tenth. Chard just a difference

2323
02:14:21.680 --> 02:14:24.199
in test heads, right, But I had to tell him

2324
02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:26.279
we couldn't honor the check until a month from now.

2325
02:14:27.079 --> 02:14:29.960
Strange fellow. You know, he seems so anxious to have

2326
02:14:30.079 --> 02:14:32.960
the money. But when I suggested he have mister Green

2327
02:14:33.000 --> 02:14:35.600
would write him another check. He didn't say a word,

2328
02:14:36.479 --> 02:14:38.520
just looked at me and walked out.

2329
02:14:59.399 --> 02:15:02.680
That be your signal for the Signal Oil program. The

2330
02:15:02.720 --> 02:15:05.880
Whistler each Wednesday night at the same time, brought to

2331
02:15:05.960 --> 02:15:09.000
you by the Signal Oil Company, marketers of Signal Gasoline

2332
02:15:09.039 --> 02:15:13.319
and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories. Signal has

2333
02:15:13.359 --> 02:15:16.560
asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure.

2334
02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:20.880
Drive at sensible speeds, Be courteous, and obey traffic regulations.

2335
02:15:21.760 --> 02:15:32.640
It may save a life, possibly your own. Featured in

2336
02:15:32.680 --> 02:15:36.880
Tonight's story were Wally Mayer and Alma Lawton. The Whistler

2337
02:15:37.000 --> 02:15:40.279
was produced by George w Allen, with story by Leslie Edgeley,

2338
02:15:40.439 --> 02:15:43.479
music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops

2339
02:15:43.520 --> 02:15:46.880
overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. This is Marvin

2340
02:15:46.920 --> 02:15:53.000
Miller speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2341
02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:07.720
Well, my dear, the evening has ran its course, and

2342
02:16:09.039 --> 02:16:13.880
soon the light will take over again. But I do

2343
02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:18.479
very much hope that you'll come back and see me

2344
02:16:18.800 --> 02:16:24.680
very soon. I do so look forward to our time together.

2345
02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:29.399
I hope it shows, and I hope to see you

2346
02:16:29.479 --> 02:16:34.520
again here, same time, same place.

2347
02:16:36.159 --> 02:16:36.799
I'll be here.

2348
02:16:38.280 --> 02:16:41.799
But if you could do me one more favor as

2349
02:16:41.879 --> 02:16:46.799
you leave tonight, as you make your way across the

2350
02:16:47.200 --> 02:16:54.760
darkened roads and the oddly voluminous woods, as you prepare

2351
02:16:54.879 --> 02:16:59.319
to go to sleep in your big, warm bed, take

2352
02:16:59.440 --> 02:17:04.639
one moment, just one, and be thankful for what you have.

2353
02:17:05.959 --> 02:17:08.719
And I'll be seeing you soon.

2354
02:17:15.280 --> 02:17:15.719
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