Aug. 23, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman

Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman

Key Takeaways

  • Weekly Spooky's 'Unknown Broadcast' brings listeners four classic old-time radio train mysteries where timetables point toward danger and the unknown.
  • The episode features eerie tales including a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a haunted railway warning, and a deadly ride to nowhere.
  • In the featured CBS Radio Mystery Theater adaptation 'The Train Stops,' a grieving small-town doctor struggles to connect with his eighteen-year-old daughter Mary as she falls for a mysterious commuter.
  • A strange woman with unsettling prescience visits the doctor to warn him that the mysterious man Mary loves is 'hers,' adding a supernatural layer of dread to the romance.
  • As the local railway system slowly decays and the 5:16 train is threatened with cancellation, the line between reality, memory, and the supernatural begins to blur in Dandridge.

Unknown Broadcast boards four old-time radio train mysteries where every timetable points toward danger. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler send us through a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a supernatural railway warning, and one very expensive ride to nowhere. Your ticket is already punched. Please do not ask who is sitting in the empty compartment.

▣ The Train Stops — At a forgotten station where no passenger train should stop, an old railway watcher hears the timetable come alive again.
✦ Orient Express — A businessman bound for Istanbul finds an armed stranger in his compartment and is pulled into a rushing night of Balkan intrigue.
⚑ The Signalman — A haunted railway worker receives impossible warnings beside a dark tunnel, each one arriving just ahead of disaster.
✉ Ticket to Nowhere — A driver hears a passenger boast of a fortune and quietly changes the destination from a country lodge to murder.

The radio suspense is over, but the last train is still approaching—and this station has not existed for years.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Weekly Spooky: Train Mysteries about?

It is an episode of the Weekly Spooky podcast featuring four vintage old-time radio train mysteries, focusing heavily on classic suspense and chilling railway stories like 'The Train Stops.'

What classic radio shows are featured in the Unknown Broadcast train mysteries episode?

The episode showcases thrillers and spine-tingling tales originally broadcast by CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler.

What happens in the featured story 'The Train Stops'?

A small-town doctor's daughter falls deeply in love with a mysterious stranger who arrives on the local 5:16 train, leading to a haunting confrontation with an enigmatic woman who claims the man belongs to her.

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Ah, my dear, so good to see you again. I've

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been patiently but excitedly waiting for this moment. I do

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so enjoy our visits together, and as much as I

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appreciate your willingness to spend time in my very humble

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abode of sorts. Now, let's get comfortable, have a hot

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cup of tea as the fire roars, and consider that

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your ticket.

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What's that, my dear?

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Well, I suppose the journey will be as exciting as

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the destination. Don't worry, you'll know exactly when the train stops.

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Come in. Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall.

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There was a day when this country was criss crossed

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by railroads. Things have changed. We have gained something, but

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we have lost much. And one of the close intimate

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things that have disappeared from.

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Our lives is our dependence on the train.

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The great embracing days of the great embracing railroads have

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come to an end. Our mystery drama, The Train Stops,

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was written especially for the Mystery theater by else But

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Eric and stars Norman Rose, sured in part by Buick

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Motor Division and Contact the twelve Hour Cold Capsule. I'll

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be back shortly with that woman. The twentieth century limited

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the chief, the commodore. These were some of the great trains,

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trains on which it was an experience to travel.

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It was not just a question of speed.

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It was the amenities they offered, the grave and solicitous

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porters and waiters that carefully prepared food, carefully served, the

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panel drawing rooms in compartments, and the berths upper and

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lower behind dark green curtains. Today the trains are only

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pathetic victims of indifference and neglect and decay. The trains

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used to stop at Dandridge, not the express trains. Of course,

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Dandridge is quite a small town. We don't even have

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a library. Still, the local trains stopped at Danbridge until

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the railroad started to decline, and then little by little

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they started taking us off their schedule, till finally we

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weren't listed at all. Old Ben Harper, who'd been station

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master since lord knows when, was out of a job.

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What are you going to do now, Ben?

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Oh, got a little tension, So what'll you do?

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I got myself room up over the.

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Ice cream parlor across from where the railroad station used

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to be.

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Never thought i'd live to see the station house torn.

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Down, and we've already grown up where it used to be.

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But Ben, what are you going to do with yourself?

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Well, there's always a chance somebody might want me to

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flag down a train.

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Not likely trains man. Two in the morning, three in

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the afternoon.

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Nothing after nine o'clock. And that's when I go to bed.

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That's all you do, watch the trains go past.

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Oh.

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I read the papers, try to keep up, and I.

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Spend time with the old railway guide that has all

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the schedules all over the country, arrival departures and makes

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good reading. I wore out my old copy. My son

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sent me an airplane guide. You can imagine what I.

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Did with that. Well, maybe someday the train will come back.

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Oh we really need them, doctor Barn. Yeah, but pick

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areas I fed off to your Oh, doctor Barn, how's Mary?

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Oh Mary's all right.

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Your girl Shall loves the old trains. See you down

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there every day, stands and watches the.

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Five sixteen go through. She really loves training. Only one train,

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then the five sixteen.

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A man shouldn't bring up a little girl by himself.

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No matter how hard he tries, he just isn't up

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to it. Still fail in little ways, ways he knows

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nothing about because he's a man. My wife died getting

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breath to our daughter.

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I never wanted to marry again. I'm a doctor and

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my office is in my house, and I thought, heck,

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I'll always be around. She can always come to me.

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And I was always around, and she did come to me,

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but I didn't always understand. I'll try and and tell

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you how.

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It was.

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Good dinner, Mary, Just a lot of leftovers thrown together.

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Sometimes lets the breast kind of dinners.

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He wants some coffee.

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Well, I shouldn't, but I do.

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There's lots of things we shouldn't do, but we do.

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Sometimes they're the best things.

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On me.

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How is everything going? Huh?

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Everything is all right? You know how everything is?

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No, I don't. I'm busy all day sometimes nights too.

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What do you want to know?

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Well about boys? For instance?

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Which boys?

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Oh, Ralph Jones, Charlie Radway of the Herb Nightsman.

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You know all those boys you.

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Went to high school with, They used to be around

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a lot.

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That was before when I was a child.

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And now you're a big grown up Rady.

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Well, I'm not a child.

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You're eight.

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Time to be thinking about boys, you know, thinking seriously.

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I can't think seriously about herb and Ted.

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Well, you meet somebody one of these days.

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I already have Papa. You have who it came to

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the store yesterday?

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Oh who is he?

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He came to town on the five sixteen.

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He's are out of town?

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We're out of town something?

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Well I know that. Well, what did he do for

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a living?

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He sells housewhare That's how I happened to meet him.

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He came to my counter and asked me where to

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find a buyer.

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And that's all that happened.

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After he saw the buyer, he came back. He hadn't

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sold anything, and he said it didn't matter.

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Didn't matter. That's a fine kind of salesman.

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It didn't matter because he'd found me. Oh Mary, he said,

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I was what he was looking for all his life.

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Sweetheart.

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That's the oldest line in the world.

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It wasn't a line, it was true, honey, because he's

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what I've been waiting for all my life.

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I mean, a woman would have known what to do,

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what to say, a woman would have known how to

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deal with.

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Something like that. But my daughter was so sick. I'm

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so dignified, so removed from me.

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My father loves his daughter, loves her dearly to him,

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she's a little princess. Well, now my little princess had

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become a queen, and she was scarcely in mine anymore.

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She was in.

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Command whatever she wanted to do. She had a sovereign

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right to do, and I didn't feel I had to

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righte to it.

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I here, for lack of.

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Anything better to do. I went to see Ben Harper,

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the station master, my old friend.

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Ben. There's something that I want to ask you.

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Sure anything at all like about it?

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Then I need your help.

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Many people need my health anymore they keep taking off

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the trains, nobody will need it.

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We'll be retired for good.

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I want to ask you about the five sixteen good

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train now what she used to be when she had

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a come down, and all the good train, good commuter's train. Ben,

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who rides it? Oh, just the regulars that work in

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the city. Engineer's a friend of mine.

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I don't know. For thirty years you watched it come

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in yesterday?

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Curse it did always go out and exchange a few

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words on my.

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Friend who got off?

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Oh, for regulars, Bob Bradway Son, Shary you.

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Know nobody else. Nobody knew. No. Then my daughter Mary

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says a man came to the store yesterday. She met him.

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She says he got off five sixteen, And if.

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He did, he must have been pretty spry about it.

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Must have lopped off while I was.

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Conversing with the engineer. And she is now coming around

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the bend. I've got to get out and say a

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lot on a friend. Oh, five sixteen is long for

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this world. They're taking ours off a schedule anything now.

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I couldn't think what to say to Mary. I didn't

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know if there was anything to say.

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A father knows how to love a daughter, or he

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knows that very well, but when it comes to her life,

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her happiness, taking the right man, he doesn't know a thing.

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I suppose, maybe because in his heart he thinks he's the.

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Really right man, and of course that's not possible, so

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he'd like mister second best to be.

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The best of all those others. It's good dinner, Mary.

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It's a new recipe.

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It's fine.

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It's the sour queen that does it.

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I think has everything going.

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I'm fine.

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Have you seen you know what's his name from Overton?

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Oh?

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Yeah?

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Have you seen him often?

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Once a week at least.

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You never told me his name.

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Do you really care what his name is?

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Cause I care.

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Any man my daughter is interested in. I want to

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know his name and a lot of other things. Besides,

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you do well, don't you not?

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Particularly?

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Oh? No, Mary, that's not right.

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Is it wrong?

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I didn't say it was wrong.

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But if you're going to go on seeing him, you,

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well you should know all about him. You should bring

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him home so I could meet him and see what

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kind of a man he is, even if you're not

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serious about him.

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Oh, I'm serious about him, all right.

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You mean you want to marry him and you don't

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even know his name or where he comes from or anything.

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I know his name and I know where he comes from.

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Well tell me.

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Not yet, Papa.

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No, look, Mary, I've got a right to know. It's

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my writer, and it's my duty. I'm your father.

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I'll tell you someday.

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I want to know now, Oh.

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Papa, Kevin's you ever had something that was that was

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your very own, very private, very personal something nobody else

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would understand because you can't understand it yourself, And if

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you tried to tell anybody about it, well, it might

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slip away from here. Right while you were telling about it.

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You might lose it.

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Oh can't you understand that, Papa.

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I can try, That's all I can do, just try.

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I know young.

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People like to keep secrets from their parents. I guess

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from the age of three or four they start hiding things.

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Maybe before that, For all I know, I think they're

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scared those big giants, the parents, those giants who have

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a last word about everything, who say yes or no

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to each last little thing. I've been poking and prying

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into my daughter's life sense the day she was born.

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Now she was eighteen, and she'd met up with something

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that was none of my business. So she thought she

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wasn't going to permit me a yes or a no, or.

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I phone me. Your mother had lived with no use

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going into that.

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I had to deal with this the best I could

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buy myself, if I could just figure out how well.

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One late afternoon, there was a knock at the door

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to my office.

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Doors open, Come on in, come in.

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The door is not locked, but the look I'm coming,

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didn't you, doctor Bonds, didn't you see besides locking ed

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her it says, well, come on in, I have a seat.

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I won't be staying.

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Well, you can't just rush off. Now what seems to

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be the trouble?

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Oh you think I knew?

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Well, that's generally why people turn up at a doctor's office.

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It's not about myself. I wanted to see you. It's

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about your daughter.

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What do you know about my daughter?

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She's in love, isn't she?

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Do you know my daughter?

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Please answer my question.

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Well, the there's a man, and she seems interested. I

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don't know that anything's going to come of it.

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Nothing will come of it. You must tell her nothing

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will come of it.

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Well, I don't know why you say.

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That, because the man is mine.

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I don't much care for people who drop in unexpectedly,

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do you. I think people should get in touch before

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times and ask if it's convenient, and.

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Set an hour.

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No matter how intimate, how attractive, even how welcome a

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visitor might be, it's always better to be expected. There

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are many happy surprises in life, but uninvited, unanticipated visitors,

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as far as I'm concerned, is not one of them.

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I'll come back in a short while with X two.

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Doctor Barnes' daughter Mary is in love with, or enthralled.

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By a man. Her father has never met.

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A man who comes to the small town of Dandridge

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each week on the five to sixteen train. The doctor's

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wife has been dead for eighteen years since the birth

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of their only child, and the father is acutely conscious

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of his own inadequacy to deal with the romantic problem

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of his only child, if indeed she will permit him

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to have any part in them at all. His perplexity

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is not eased in the least by the visit of

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a strange woman with a strange prescience.

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Of his daughter's future.

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Your daughter is in love, isn't she.

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Well, tis a man.

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I don't know that anything will come of it.

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Nothing will come of it. The man is mine, madam.

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I think you would best tell me who you are.

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You don't drink me, do you, not necessarily?

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But believe me.

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I only want to help you, help you help your daughter.

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I think we can manage by ourselves.

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Are you managing by yourself? So far?

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You don't know what lies ahead.

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It's not possible for anyone to know the future.

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No, we can only guess. But some guesses are more

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accurate than others.

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Mine, for instance, I think you had better tell me

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who you are.

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Not yet, not now, but I'll be back. Doctor bondes

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till then watch out for your daughter.

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Take care of her. There's danger ahead.

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And with facts, she was gone, simply slipped out the

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door before I could stop her. I was left standing

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in the middle of my office, open mouthed and staring.

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Is this some demented woman from off the streets of Dandridge?

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But in a town like.

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Ours, everybody knew everybody else. Was she a newcomer?

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Well? Then where'd she come from?

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And how was she another traveler on our dying railroad?

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Had she too arrived on the five sixteen?

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Sit down, Papa, everything's on the table.

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Marry child. There's something that I have to tell you.

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Help yourself to potato.

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A woman came to see me today, new patient. No.

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She wanted to talk to me about you.

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What is she?

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Some snoop?

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Really, Papa, Well she seems to know that you're interested

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in some men.

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That's nobody's business but my own. I hope you.

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Told her, honey. She said to tell you that you

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can never have this man, Papa. I hope she says

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that the man is hers.

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Maybe he was once not now.

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Mary, it doesn't bother you that some other woman has

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a claim on him.

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She thinks she has, or even thinks she has. That

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doesn't bother you.

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Well, I imagine there are a lot of women who've been

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in love with him. He's a beautiful man, very wise,

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very knowing. I look in his eyes and I can

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see everything.

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Clearly, the end of the world. I know it all.

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Oh honey, honey, you've got to let me meet him.

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You've got to tell me his name. I've got to

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get to know him. I want to protect you, to

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take care of you. I'm your father.

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I'm grown up now, Papa. I still love you, but

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I'm not your little girl anymore. I'm a grown up woman.

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Is there any feeling more helpless than loving? That is

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futile when you offer your heart to someone who get

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back to you, when you're given to understand that you

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are superfluous, extraneous, and really unwanted, that your love is

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really a nuisance. That's how I felt that night, and

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before office hours, I hurried down.

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To see Ben Harper in his room across from the

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railroad tracks.

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Come on in, doctor Bynes.

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Brings you here?

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Huh?

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I shit, hell no, I have to get back some coffee, Ben, Ben,

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did you see the five sixteen pull in yesterday. Oh,

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I sure did a woman get off just the usual

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communities regular five? No woman didn't say any.

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Then a woman came to my office, nobody from around here.

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Well I suppose she could have come on an earlier train.

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And why the no woman come in yesterday? On any

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train I have noticed, I'd have remembered. Not many trains left,

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and soon there won't be any.

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Five or sixteen.

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Oh, they're taking Dandridge half the schedule.

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Why does it mean so much to me that the

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railroad was canceling out for five sixteen?

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If this unknown man had designed on my little girl

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for father like, I could.

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Not believe he met her any good. He could come

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to town by some other train. We still had one

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that went to the city in the morning and one

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that came back in the early evening, sufficient for our

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five commuters, But that mattered.

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He might have an automobile, a motorcycle.

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There were other ways he could come to Dandridge than

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by the rick of the old five sixteen.

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They're taking off for five sixteen.

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Oh, have some butter, I didn't put any on the beans.

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That's the train your young man comes to town on,

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isn't it.

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He's not so young.

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Oh no, how old is he?

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I really don't know.

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Ask him. I never cared anyway. Isn't that the tray?

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And he comes in on the five sixteen?

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That's the one.

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I suppose he could take the six twenty two. I

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suppose he could when they cancel the five sixteen.

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I mean, it.

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Really doesn't make any difference, Papa.

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Mary, How can it not make any difference? If you

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love him the way you say you do, the way

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you seem.

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To I do love him.

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I'm going to go away with him, Mary. You cannot

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do that.

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But I'm going to a man.

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I don't know a man. I'd ever met a man.

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I know nothing about what kind of a father am I?

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If I let you?

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Papa, can't you understand that you have nothing to do

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with this. This is just between him and me.

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That is not right. Things are not done that way.

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Some things are.

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This thing is Oh, Mary, you make me feel like

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I don't count for anything. Oh you doo you do?

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You would let me help me be a part of

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this thing.

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It's just not possible, Papa. One day soon.

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He's going to give me a ring.

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He's promised you a ring.

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And then I'll go away with him.

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Everything was slipping away from me.

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All the certainties I had ever enjoyed, all the faiths

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I'd ever had, all the feelings that I put my

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trust in, all were quaking in the wind of gigantic fear.

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Something was happening that I could not comprehend, could not

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influence in the least way.

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My brain is even incapable, even useless.

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How I managed to care for my patience I cannot tell.

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Instinct and long experience told me what to do. For

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the rest, I was left to struggle with failing powers

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against something I could not in the least comprehend. It

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was with no surprise that I looked up one day

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to see the woman.

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How did you get in?

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The sign says knock and hinter? Did you knock?

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Forget me? What do you want?

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To remind you of what I told.

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You before you think I could forget?

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The man is mine?

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I told her what she said, Oh, it didn't disturb

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her in the least it should have.

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She says that he's going to give her a ring.

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What kind of ring?

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I don't know.

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She makes me feel as though I shouldn't ask that,

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though it's none of my concern.

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That must be very hard for you.

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Yes, it's very hard.

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Can't you stop her?

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Can't you stop him?

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You must have some rights, No, I haven't any Well,

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I cannot.

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Tell her not to take a ring from a man

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who wants to give it to her.

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No, you can't.

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The days are long past when the father could lock

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his daughter in her room.

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Locking her in her room wouldn't make any difference and.

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Might postpone everything so I could figure out what to do.

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There's nothing you can do. Once he gives her the ring,

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it's all over.

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I didn't really understand anything the woman was saying. For

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that matter, I hardly recognized my own words. They came

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from my mouth with no plan or volitions of my own.

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I didn't even know who the woman was. Why I

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was standing there talking.

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To her, talking as though we were old friends, as

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though we shared a common problem, a mutual concern, as

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though as though we were joined by a feeling of

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helplessness and the sense of intending doom.

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I wanted to be.

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Angry with her, indignated her interference.

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I wanted to demand explanations, excuses, but I couldn't. I

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simply accepted her presence, answered her questions the best way

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I could, and I felt grateful, but she pitied me.

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Oh that it's doctor Barnes. Then well, come in, doctor

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barr Thank you. Something I can do for you, Doctor

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ben I don't know if anybody can can do anything.

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Well, sit down, let me get you something I drink.

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No, no, take.

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Then that woman came to see me again, the one

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I told you about. I thought you might have seen

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her get off the five sixteen. Oh I didn't see

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any woman get off four.

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Perhaps she came some other time, some other way. I

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don't know. She simply showed up in my office the

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way she did before.

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She wouldn't come by the five or sixteen anymore.

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They took her up today.

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If they took it off, then maybe I'll miss that

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old train.

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Just maybe.

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Now the old five sixteen will just race on passed.

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I'll go out and salute the engineer.

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No more talking with him. He'sn't not the chainlessule. Yeah,

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and said, come on with me. Let's get man.

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I can see it coming around the bend.

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Let's go. Then then there's Mary. I can see her.

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That's her red coat. Come on, let's get down there.

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But she's standing in the middle of the chap let's go,

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ott Kane's not going to stop because she thinks she's

483
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doing They can kinds little down a little round on

484
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:21.720
the bend. When I see her bend, Red Coato helps him.

485
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:22.559
Oh, there she is.

486
00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:25.799
She's just standing there and she trying to get herself killed.

487
00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:26.960
Mary.

488
00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:30.799
Mary, the girl doesn't even hear it.

489
00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:47.880
Shut her, get off, Get a man, Mary, I've got you.

490
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:48.720
Oh, I've got you.

491
00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:53.640
Oh my dear, my dear, work on earth, Why on earth,

492
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:55.920
why would you do such a thing?

493
00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:58.960
Oh my little girl here all right? Dot you. Yeah,

494
00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.240
she's she's she's a she's awfully paying. Yeah, but she's safe,

495
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:02.880
she's all right.

496
00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:05.759
Well, I'm going to speak to the engineer and tell

497
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:07.279
him she's out old been listen.

498
00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.640
Will you thank him for me?

499
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:09.000
Yeah?

500
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.920
He did a good job breaking like that.

501
00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:16.480
Mary, Mary, my little girl, Mary, you're you're all right.

502
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.400
I'm gonna take your home, Honey. I'm gonna put you

503
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:22.759
to bed, and you're gonna have a good rest, and

504
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:24.799
then when you're feeling all right, we'll just have a.

505
00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:27.319
Good, a good long talk.

506
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:29.640
You know, I haven't been the right kind of a

507
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.559
father to you, my little one, But it's it's gonna change.

508
00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:34.160
I'm going to do better.

509
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:39.039
I'm going to be better Mary, Mary, Do you hear

510
00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:39.640
what I'm saying you?

511
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:40.519
Mary?

512
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:41.920
Oh?

513
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.880
Yeah, Yeah, what is it?

514
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:45.359
Papa?

515
00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:48.000
Did the train stop?

516
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:58.160
That's all she wanted to do now, did the train stop?

517
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:04.640
Nothing of herself, nothing about me, nothing about the two

518
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.480
of us and everything I've been trying to tell her

519
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:10.920
about how things will be different now and better Now.

520
00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:15.279
All she wanted to know was did the train stop.

521
00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:28.160
The father can never be a mother to his child,

522
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:32.119
no matter how hard he tries. He can love her,

523
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:35.799
spoil her, he can be proud of her, he can

524
00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:39.319
educate her, give her presents, and buy her pretty things,

525
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.759
but he can never understand her, no more than he

526
00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:47.519
has ever understood, or can ever understand, any other.

527
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.279
Woman on the face of the earth.

528
00:28:50.319 --> 00:29:03.160
I shall be back shortly with Act three. Our last

529
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:06.759
act ended when Mary Barnes tried to stop the five

530
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.079
sixteen train by standing in the middle of the tracks.

531
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:13.079
She was saved by her father.

532
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.079
And the now retired station master Ben Harper. As her

533
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:20.160
father held her in his arms and attempted to reassure

534
00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:23.799
her that the future would be brighter, better. Her only

535
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:36.279
response was did the train stop? The five sixteen never

536
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:40.559
stopped at Bandridge again, but every day as it rounded

537
00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:44.480
the bend, my daughter Mary and her little red coat

538
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.039
stood where the old stationed house had been and watched

539
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:57.680
it approach, watched it come on with undiminished speed, and

540
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:05.039
watched it disappear. As Mary watched the train, old Ben Harper,

541
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.599
retired now and living across the street over the ice

542
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:12.799
cream parlor, watched her. Here girls, she'll love ze old trains.

543
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:17.359
Dr Barnes only one train then, the five or sixteen.

544
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:25.960
It had been going on that way for almost a year.

545
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.440
People in town thought that Mary just dropped off at

546
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:32.000
the tracks on her way home from the store. But

547
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:35.160
I knew better, so did Ben. Though neither one of

548
00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:38.039
us knew for a certainty or any detail why she

549
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:46.240
did it. But one day Ben called me doctor Barnes,

550
00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:47.400
Ben Harper.

551
00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:48.759
Not that.

552
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:53.680
Did Mary say? I shouldn't think, But.

553
00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:54.440
What is it? Ben?

554
00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:57.440
Last a few days he's been coming over to my

555
00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:01.640
place asking me if it's possible stop any of the train?

556
00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:01.920
Uh?

557
00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:02.960
And what'd you tell her?

558
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:03.799
Well?

559
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:08.799
I had said yes, I could, I'd call her hand

560
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:10.000
a quest to stop?

561
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:13.359
Why he get out the old.

562
00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:15.279
Signal flag and flag one.

563
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.640
Down if the wasn't trying to call Uh Ben, she

564
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:20.759
didn't want her to do anything like that for her, now,

565
00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:21.039
did she?

566
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:21.359
Oh?

567
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:21.599
I R?

568
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:24.440
I told her I couldn't do it for anything except

569
00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:30.559
an emergency. It wasn't emergency like somebody's sick and dying.

570
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:35.160
Seeing the STANDARDG hasn't got a hospital like the one, man,

571
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:35.799
I could do it.

572
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.079
Uh well, when did you tell her that?

573
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:38.920
A couple of.

574
00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:43.880
Days ago and they was morning, doctor Bartles. She came

575
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:49.079
to my place, told me she was sick what and

576
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:50.880
he had to go to hospital.

577
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.079
I said, you.

578
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.960
Don't what'p sick?

579
00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:55.160
She's not sick?

580
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:58.680
And I said, what's moring? Father can take care of you.

581
00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:00.839
If you think you need to be in the hospital.

582
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.440
She can take your car. That's right, Well go with that.

583
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.039
I don't think she looked like he was sers by.

584
00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:13.759
Doctor, so I thought, I yeah, Well, Ben, was it

585
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.559
any particular trains he wanted you to flag down?

586
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:23.039
Yes, doctor Barns to the hospital. I have to work.

587
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:26.440
I'm five or sixteen, that's what I saw.

588
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.279
Well, thanks for calling me Ben. That girl doctor, I

589
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:39.599
know that Ben, and I'm fond of her too. Mary, Mary, Yes, Mary,

590
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:42.920
will you come here please? Yes, I'm in my office.

591
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:51.440
I know, h Come on over here. Now, let me

592
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.119
have a look at you.

593
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:53.720
What's the matter.

594
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:57.279
That's what I'm trying to find out. Do you feel

595
00:32:57.279 --> 00:32:57.640
all right?

596
00:32:58.359 --> 00:32:58.559
Yes?

597
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:03.599
I'd not just put this under your tongue at don't

598
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:08.839
argue with me, I said, now, Mary, Ben Harper just

599
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.799
called me. He says that you've been pestering him about

600
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:13.279
flagging down a train for you.

601
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:15.519
He said you told him that you needed to go

602
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.519
to a hospital, that you were sick.

603
00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:22.920
Now you know perfectly well that if you're sick and

604
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:26.119
you come to me, but just just nod your head.

605
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.480
Okay. Now, it's not getting to the hospital. It's on

606
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:30.960
your mind.

607
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.799
Mary, That's not why you want a train stopped. People

608
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.440
don't check into a hospital in the evening, and you'll

609
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.759
know that there's no reason.

610
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:43.519
To take a train at five sixteen, is there?

611
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:45.279
Now?

612
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.680
Mary, I have tried to understand. I have been patient.

613
00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:53.359
I think I think maybe I've been too patient. All right,

614
00:33:53.359 --> 00:34:00.160
now let me have it for mama. No fever is

615
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.599
what I thought. The pols rate is okay, Mary, you

616
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:05.559
are not sick?

617
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:09.840
Well, well, what have you got to save yourself.

618
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:12.679
Papa.

619
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:18.039
Yes, dearie, I'd like to go upstairs and lie down.

620
00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:19.480
My dear, you're not sick.

621
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:22.280
I'm very tired.

622
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.320
All right, I'll to get into bed and I'll pull

623
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:28.920
the blinds down. Don't worry about dinner, yes, Papa, all right,

624
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:29.800
I run along.

625
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.559
Now, Papa.

626
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:38.400
She promised me a ring. He promised me a ring.

627
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:48.880
Somehow the day passed. I checked on the food in

628
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:52.719
the ice box. I saw some patience. Oh, I ate

629
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:56.960
a sandwich for lunch, I answered, before I tried to

630
00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:57.559
keep busy.

631
00:34:58.039 --> 00:34:59.039
I guess I succeeded.

632
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.199
But no matter where I was or what I was doing,

633
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.159
my mind was centered on the young figure lying in

634
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:13.920
her bed upstairs, so troubled, so haunted, so in love

635
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:17.400
as only a young girl can be. In love with

636
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:20.039
a man I did not know, had not even met,

637
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.400
but he could be anyone, anyone at all. They were

638
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:28.719
tortured hours. I heard myself talk, I felt myself moved.

639
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:33.440
I saw my hands taking hold and letting go. I

640
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:37.400
looked into eyes and down throats. I wrote prescriptions I

641
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.920
think now, and then I even smiled and gave encouragement.

642
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.239
But all of it was unreal.

643
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:47.400
All done by herself, I no longer recognized. So it

644
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:51.280
was natural, the only natural thing of the whole unnatural bay.

645
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.199
When I turned and saw the.

646
00:35:54.199 --> 00:36:00.800
Woman, Doctor Barnes, you had to see you.

647
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.800
You're not looking well.

648
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:03.760
I have something to tell you about the man.

649
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:04.079
Yes.

650
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.039
Do you know that that man is ruining my daughter's life?

651
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.840
Do you know that after they took the train off,

652
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:14.519
she started haunting the tracks, That she is obsessed.

653
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.320
With the thought of stopping it.

654
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.840
That she has gone to our old station master to

655
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:19.239
get him to flag it down.

656
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.119
Gone to him with lies about be ill having to

657
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.599
get to a hospital. I know all that he is

658
00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:26.360
killing my daughter, and I don't even.

659
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:27.639
Know who he is. Buns.

660
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:30.880
The man is dying, hot.

661
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:32.960
Dying.

662
00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:34.360
You say that he's dying.

663
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:35.960
He won't last out the night.

664
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:39.760
Well, if you love him, if you love him, I'd

665
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:43.280
like to say that I'm sorry, but I can't. All

666
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.760
I can do is wonder if I should tell my daughter.

667
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:47.320
I wonder how to tell her.

668
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:49.119
You won't need to tell her, doctor.

669
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:57.559
You know, I don't remember her leaving, but when I

670
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:02.239
looked up, she'd gone. And after a while I roused myself.

671
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:06.760
I climbed the stairs to my daughter's room. I opened

672
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:13.239
the door. She was sleeping so peacefully, her young breast

673
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:18.199
rising and falling, even a little smile on her lips.

674
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.280
When whatever I had to tell her good way. I

675
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.760
closed the door, went back downstairs and my office sat.

676
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:31.079
Then Harper, Oh, Ben, what in the world.

677
00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:34.400
I'm glad you hear, doctor Barnes. I wouldn't have known

678
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.920
where to look for you. What's the matter, Ben, it's Mary.

679
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.480
She's down at the tracks. I just saw her.

680
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:42.480
Now.

681
00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:46.639
Then Mary's upstairs in her bed. She's sleeps.

682
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.320
Oh, she's not well. I just looked in on her,

683
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:50.360
and I said, at the.

684
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:53.800
Barns, I saw from my window a minute ago, caught

685
00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:56.400
the past five on the God no, that's impossible, man.

686
00:37:56.519 --> 00:38:00.320
From my window I saw she had on a red coach.

687
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.760
She stood there with her hands in her pocket, stood

688
00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:03.920
there and waited.

689
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:08.119
And then the train came in. She looked up. I

690
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:14.480
think she smiled and knew doctor Burns. The train stopped.

691
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:18.440
It stopped. I hadn't called in, I hadn't asked for it.

692
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.840
The certainly didn't flag it down.

693
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:27.280
But something must have happened, something between Mary and the engineer.

694
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:32.639
I Mary and somebody, some kind of connection. So all

695
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:36.880
she had to do was stand there and wait, and

696
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:41.559
the train stopped. All bed osra and then doctor Barnes.

697
00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:47.639
Mary gathered herself together and.

698
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.320
She got on the train and the train pulled out.

699
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.400
Hadn't been able to move to it.

700
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:58.880
When I saw that train, part Mary Aunt, I knew

701
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.559
I had to come straight to you and tell you that. Ben,

702
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.400
an old railroad man like you, sitting up there in

703
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:07.159
your room watching the trains go by, you're almost bound

704
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.559
to start seeing things I saw Mary. Now look you

705
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:13.239
come with me up to Mary's room. That is where

706
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:13.840
she is.

707
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.840
I know, I saw. I know that you're very fond

708
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:17.480
of my daughter.

709
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:21.360
Oh eh, and you now look here Ben, hanging on

710
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:25.639
a new post. Harry is a red coat, so you

711
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:30.800
see she was swearing this when she got on that train. Look,

712
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:33.360
let's go on upstairs. You'll see she's asleep.

713
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:35.440
In her bed. But I saw her, doctor, and I

714
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:36.719
had a visitor today.

715
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:39.119
Someone came to see me and told me that the

716
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:42.280
man Mary has been in love with hasn't long to live.

717
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.599
She's at certain for all I know, he's dead right

718
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:51.840
this very minute. Oh, here's Mary's room. Now look there, Ben,

719
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:53.880
dog what did I tell you.

720
00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:59.239
She's sleeping here? She's been sleeping all day.

721
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:06.239
Uh, I'm sorry, doctor, I just I'm an old man.

722
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:10.480
You're right, Oh, now, don't feel bad about Look he

723
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:13.000
why don't you? Why don't you stay and at dinner

724
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:14.599
with this? If you can stand my cooking?

725
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:15.199
I don't know.

726
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:18.280
It's Alma's time. I'll wake Mary up?

727
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.360
And what is it? Doctor?

728
00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:24.360
But may.

729
00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:36.039
Mary? Dear Mary? Doctor? She was sleeping? What is it?

730
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:36.519
Then?

731
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:45.280
Then she was sleeping, and now she's been Uh, doctor,

732
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.519
I don't understand.

733
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:49.400
Doctor, doctor.

734
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:54.239
That was something in her hand that I don't know.

735
00:40:56.039 --> 00:41:01.000
Looks like a ring, a ring. Let me see it

736
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:06.840
is a ring. Yeah, it's a ring. It's a ring.

737
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.519
It's like the one I gave her mother, the ring

738
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.320
that was on her finger when he laid her in

739
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:23.239
her grave. It wasn't the same ring, of course, that

740
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:28.400
it was very like. Lately, I've been thinking where did

741
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:32.079
it come from? Ben said? Perhaps she bought it for

742
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:35.920
herself in town. But our stories don't carry anything like that.

743
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.039
Even so, how would she know the design of her

744
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:43.880
mother's ring when she has never seen it?

745
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:47.960
Did the man she loved actually give it to her?

746
00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:51.840
And if he did, I mean, if he did, when

747
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:57.320
did it pass from his hand to hers? My mind

748
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:04.079
grows weary. Mary, She's lost to me forever, now buried

749
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:06.360
like her mother with a ring on the third finger

750
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:13.280
of her left hand. Time for speculation has past, and

751
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:19.920
yet and yet one last thought knocks at my brain.

752
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:25.000
Who was the woman who came three times to see me,

753
00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:28.559
who tried to save my daughter from a man who

754
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:31.639
rode the train, who cared enough about the tour us

755
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:37.920
to do that? Only one? Only one, my Mary's mother,

756
00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:42.320
my own wife. Oh it's all fanciful imagining, I know,

757
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:46.039
But somehow the thought consoles.

758
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:48.320
Me, and I'm able to go on. I'm a very

759
00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:50.760
old man, no older than my years.

760
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.639
Every day I close my office at five o'clock and

761
00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:57.960
go down to the tracks and watch the five sixteen

762
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.119
go by.

763
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:20.920
It never stops. There really are people who die of love.

764
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:23.400
Let nobody tell you there are not.

765
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.800
It is not a subject for jest or flippancy. Sometimes

766
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:33.599
they die because they beloved is untrue or fails them

767
00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:38.519
in little or large ways. Sometimes they die because the

768
00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:44.119
loved one dies, And sometimes they die because they.

769
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:45.280
Are in love with death.

770
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:51.119
More often than not, I suspect, I'll be back shortly.

771
00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:07.079
Don't weep for our young heroine, don't cry for her father.

772
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:13.199
Both struggled with feelings. They did not comprehend, neither their

773
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:18.719
own nor those of the other. But they struggled, They tried,

774
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.559
They loved, They gave what they had to give each

775
00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:28.320
to the other. No more should be asked of anyone.

776
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.119
Our cast included Norman Rose, Jadder Rowland, Ann Shepherd and

777
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:36.159
Jean Francis. The entire production was under the direction of

778
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:40.440
Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by

779
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:42.159
True Value hardware stores.

780
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:44.000
Missus e g.

781
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:48.199
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

782
00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:55.960
another adventure in the macabre until next time, Pleasant dream.

783
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.119
Tonight's Mystery Fitter was also brought to you in part

784
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:10.559
by a shop right Supermarkets where you get a lot

785
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:16.119
more or a little less.

786
00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:27.199
My dear, have you enjoyed your trip across the tracks? Well,

787
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:33.599
it's better to be on them than literally on them.

788
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:40.480
I'm sure you agree. What's that? Well, of course I

789
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:46.519
have another ticket right here. It's waiting to be torn,

790
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:55.679
much like spirit is waiting to be torn apart. Yes,

791
00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:04.119
it says, right here in big bold letters, mid Orient Express.

792
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:08.079
Met up with the everyday grind. Tied out by the

793
00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:09.840
dull routine.

794
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:11.960
You want to get away from it all.

795
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:16.679
We offer you Escape.

796
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:22.039
Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls of

797
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:24.599
today for a half hour of high adventure.

798
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:30.280
You're aboard the Orient Express, rushing through the European night,

799
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.360
bound for Istanbul, and in your compartment with you a

800
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:38.639
gun pointed at your head. A small, mysterious stranger is

801
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:40.679
about to take your life.

802
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:50.679
Today we escape from reality to the tense world of

803
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:54.320
Balkan intrigue, as Graham Green pictured it in his famous

804
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:59.199
novel Orient Express.

805
00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:04.239
Express.

806
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:10.079
Oh Yeah, my name is Gregory Myatt. In nineteen thirty two,

807
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:12.320
I had to go to Istanbul on business and I

808
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:16.039
decided to take the Orient Express. After an uneventful trip

809
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:19.360
across the Channel, I found myself at the station in Austin, Belgium,

810
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.639
where the Orient Express began. The porter took my bags

811
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.239
and overcoat to my first class compartment while I lingered

812
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.199
on the platform, and inevitably somebody bumped into me. Oh

813
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:31.400
I'm sorry, Oh that's quite all right.

814
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:33.880
Which way of the second class coaches pas?

815
00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:37.639
That way? I think your suitcase looks.

816
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:40.199
Heavy, may I oh, no, thanks, I can manage right.

817
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:44.920
She had a very nice figure, trim and erect. I

818
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:48.400
wondered whether she was going as far as Istanbul.

819
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:52.280
Oh yeah, express, what do you?

820
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:54.440
I made my way down the platform to my coach,

821
00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:57.800
but there was a stranger in my compartment going through

822
00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:58.360
my overcoat.

823
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:00.719
Young man, you have their wrong compartment, and you have

824
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.800
the wrong overcoat. This quote is mine. Also this compartment number.

825
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:06.599
Seven, it happens to be number eights eight.

826
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:10.239
I have made a mistake. A thousand apologies, sir.

827
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:13.239
That's all right, thank you.

828
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:17.199
You are going to Belgrade. No, no, I'm arrestable, so

829
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:20.400
allow me. My name is Richard John Are you doing?

830
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:22.079
My name's myatt Greg remied.

831
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:24.599
I am grateful you are a fellow countryman. These little

832
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:26.039
mistakes can be so difficult to.

833
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.119
Explain fellow countrymen. But I'm American.

834
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:32.559
I also I am a naturalized American all these many years.

835
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:33.960
But the accent remains.

836
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:35.840
Yes, I suppose it does.

837
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:42.880
Man, we are under way. I will go to my compartment.

838
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:46.480
A most pleasant journey, sir, and again a thousand apologies.

839
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:54.320
I looked at the landscape for a while and then

840
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.119
got out a book and settled on to read. And

841
00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:58.320
at that moment, of course, we run into a string

842
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.639
of tunnels, all of them pitch black. I'm just about

843
00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:03.119
to ring for the guard who asked to have the

844
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:07.400
lights switched on, but the train was crashing towards stop.

845
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:10.559
We were on a tonnel. I got up and groped

846
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:13.559
for the door and went into the corridor just as

847
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:17.679
the lights went on. Lying on the floor was the

848
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:22.280
girl who had bumped into me. Excuse me, please, one side,

849
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:23.800
please excuse me, please.

850
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:29.079
Madame, conductor to inform you it is not allowed for

851
00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:31.440
a passenger to stop the orient, explains.

852
00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:33.599
Mister myad if you will allow me please.

853
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.599
Oh, mister John, hadn't we got to get a doctor.

854
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:37.719
I am a doctor, mister Mayott allow me.

855
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:38.880
So.

856
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:41.800
There is nothing wrong with this young lady. She has

857
00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:42.480
only fainted.

858
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:46.039
Oh good, good, give me a hand, mister John. Let's

859
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:47.320
get her into my compartment.

860
00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:59.559
I'm all right now, really.

861
00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:03.800
I am as a kosha. Yeah yeah, drink this, it's brandy.

862
00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:05.440
Drink it, young lady, it will help you.

863
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:10.079
Good. Hello, what I fainted? I never did before.

864
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:13.119
When did you last have a decent meal? Yesterday?

865
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.679
The day before I suppose it was the day before.

866
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:16.880
That's my affair.

867
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:23.480
You have no money? No, how would you like to

868
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:24.119
have dinner with me?

869
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:24.880
Well?

870
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:25.760
Please say yes?

871
00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:26.880
I won't say no.

872
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:29.639
Fine, fine, Will you join this, mister John No, I

873
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:37.599
prefer to remain in my compartment. As we dined, I

874
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:40.679
learned her name was Carol Musker. She was a chorus

875
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:43.000
girl and she had a job waiting for her in estable.

876
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:47.000
I felt a bit sorry for her, but well, more

877
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:49.840
than that, I I remembered how she felt in my

878
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:53.039
arms when I carried her into my compartment, and I

879
00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:54.119
wanted to hold her again.

880
00:50:56.039 --> 00:50:57.960
I hate a lot, mister May. I hope you can

881
00:50:58.000 --> 00:50:58.679
afford the check.

882
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:03.920
I think I can. Now, how about breakfast tomorrow and

883
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.119
all the rest of your meals?

884
00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:06.199
So we rich estant book.

885
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:09.679
Mister myatt, I hope you don't have any ideas about me?

886
00:51:11.159 --> 00:51:11.840
Of course I have.

887
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.400
You're very attractive.

888
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.480
Well, I don't know anything about you. For all, I

889
00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:20.239
know you're married and have six children.

890
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:21.960
I am not, and I haven't.

891
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:24.920
How about you, I have no one.

892
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:28.239
Well, then there's no reason why we shouldn't have ideas

893
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:30.840
about each other, is there? And by the way, my

894
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:33.639
first name is Gregory more coffee?

895
00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:35.159
What does it? Wow?

896
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:37.679
Then as soon as I paid them myat Oh, mister.

897
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:38.840
John, excuse me?

898
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:40.480
Is this yours?

899
00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:41.079
Right?

900
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:42.920
That's my pocket book.

901
00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:46.000
I found it in the corridor outside my compartment. You

902
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:49.920
must have dropped it when you lifted this young lady.

903
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:53.880
He gave me my pocket book and left the dining car.

904
00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:57.000
All my money was there. But one thing I knew,

905
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:00.519
I had not dropped my pocket book. Mister John had

906
00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:04.119
taken it. Carol and I started through the train. It

907
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:06.400
was about nine o'clock and the lights were already dimmed,

908
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:09.760
and the second class coaches people were asleep, sitting up

909
00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:11.280
in the crowded compartments.

910
00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:15.400
Mister myatt, here's my compartment. Thank you for dinner.

911
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:18.079
It's very early.

912
00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:19.880
You have to go in.

913
00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:21.039
Oh I'm tired.

914
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:25.079
Oh it's too crowded in there for comfortable sleeping. And besides,

915
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:26.360
you never know who's next to you.

916
00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:31.039
But I do have little fat mancy. His name's Joseph Grumley.

917
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:32.400
He introduced himself.

918
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:33.519
Oh he did, did he?

919
00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:34.679
You're not jealous?

920
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:34.800
No?

921
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:37.119
But what do you know about him? He might be

922
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.599
a thief or a bigger miss ridiculous?

923
00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:49.079
We good night, mister Knight, Carol, Yes, you might kiss

924
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:49.679
me good night.

925
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.559
No one will notice, all right.

926
00:52:56.239 --> 00:53:00.159
Well, oh, mister Grumley.

927
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:02.800
If you're going somewhere, sir, why don't you go ahead?

928
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:05.239
Do not be angry, please, I was not spying.

929
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:07.960
Mister Mayer, how do you know my name?

930
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:09.280
We all heard of.

931
00:53:09.239 --> 00:53:12.159
The gentleman gallant enough to take miss mouscar to dinner

932
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:13.559
at the good doctor's suggestion.

933
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:15.960
Doctor or doctor mister John.

934
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:17.920
He's a doctor, is he not?

935
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:19.920
Now, if you'll please excuse me.

936
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.039
I must get some water. I'm quite thirsty.

937
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.800
I don't think I like that guy, Carol.

938
00:53:26.360 --> 00:53:28.639
How about taking my compartment your compartment?

939
00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:30.440
All right, I'll get you another one.

940
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:43.360
We'll speak to the conductor right now.

941
00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:41.559
The first classic compartment for young lady. Monsieur, you must

942
00:53:41.639 --> 00:53:44.719
wait until I arrived at Cologne. No tickets are sole

943
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:48.440
po the Orient Express. We arrived in Cologne in let

944
00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:51.239
me see precisely fifteen minutes.

945
00:53:57.719 --> 00:53:59.800
Are express living terminate.

946
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:01.960
As we walked up to the first class ticket when

947
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:03.880
a woman elbowed us out of the way.

948
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:04.760
Please excuse me.

949
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:06.320
You don't mind if I go first, or you might

950
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:07.719
train for Paris leaves any.

951
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:08.599
Minute in that case.

952
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:16.199
Go ahead, Thank you, Hans. My editor has got me.

953
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:19.519
She was a reporter. Apparently, while waiting for her change,

954
00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:22.039
her eyes went past me to the Orient Express.

955
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:25.519
Suddenly they widened. I followed a glance.

956
00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:28.800
Mister John was just stepping back into his compartment.

957
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:31.519
One moment, Haunts, change this ticket for us sleeper on

958
00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:32.320
the Orient Express.

959
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:33.920
Make it bell grab.

960
00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:37.039
You are lucky, Miss Warren. There is only one accommodation

961
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:38.280
on the Orient Express.

962
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:38.559
Look.

963
00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:42.280
Just a moment there, we were here. First I thought

964
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:43.280
you were going to Paris.

965
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:45.639
Not when I see doctor Zinner on the Orient Express.

966
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:49.880
Doctor Zinner. The man you were looking at was Richard John.

967
00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:52.760
That the name is using. Now okay, thank you Hans.

968
00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:56.119
Just a moment there. I'm taking that ticket, Min Hell.

969
00:54:56.199 --> 00:54:58.719
I regret, but the lady asked for it before you did,

970
00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:02.760
and she is an old Yeah, here's the ticket, Miss Warren.

971
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:20.039
Who is it, Gregory? Remind mister John, I'd like to

972
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:21.719
talk to you for a moment. May we come in?

973
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:27.000
Yes, yes, of course you are feeling better, Miss Musker.

974
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:28.119
You are getting an appress.

975
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:31.800
Yes, that's why we're here. Miss Musker is taking my

976
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:34.480
compartment and I'm staying in here with you.

977
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:37.639
I wish I could oblige, but I prefer my privacy.

978
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:39.880
Why is that, doctor Sinner?

979
00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:43.039
My name is Richard John. Where did you hear otherwise?

980
00:55:43.079 --> 00:55:45.119
I'm a newspaper reporter who saw you in the station

981
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:45.760
at Cologne.

982
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:45.920
Oh.

983
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:47.679
I don't know what it's all about, and I don't

984
00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:50.159
much care, but miss Musker is going to have my compartment.

985
00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:52.320
I'm going to move into this one with you any objections.

986
00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:55.480
In fact, both of you shall stay here with me.

987
00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:59.440
What's the double gently, mister Meyer, yes a gun. I

988
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:02.840
am an excellent and shot. Believe me, we shall all stay.

989
00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:10.000
I insist lock the door, mister Mayatt. That's fine. Now,

990
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:13.400
Just who are you, mister Myatt? Who am I police

991
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:16.719
spy here to keep me from getting to Belgrade? You

992
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:19.360
surely don't expect me to believe your story about some.

993
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:23.880
Time, mister John, it sounds like a reporter from Cologne.

994
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:27.280
Tell her she has made a mistake. Tell her Mayatt.

995
00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:32.440
Go away. You've got the wrong compartment. My name is Myatt.

996
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:33.199
I'm a reporter.

997
00:56:33.760 --> 00:56:35.840
Mabel Warren Clarian Myatt.

998
00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:38.960
Put your arm around this, Musca open the door pathway

999
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:40.639
just to knock for her to see both of you.

1000
00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:44.239
I shall be behind the door, and remember I have

1001
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:49.440
a gun. I.

1002
00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:52.199
Oh, you're not the man I'm after all you.

1003
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:55.320
My name is Myatt. I haven't the slightest idea where

1004
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:57.159
you can find your mister John.

1005
00:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.840
Well, I'll find him. He's on the Orient Express. Some

1006
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:06.639
excuse me for interrupting your Rah, excuse me for interrupting you.

1007
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:08.440
Good night, mister.

1008
00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:16.199
Miat both the door, please, ah. Perhaps you really are

1009
00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:19.760
only an American businessman, mister Mayott. In that case, I

1010
00:57:19.800 --> 00:57:21.800
owe you an explanation. Sitan.

1011
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:29.400
He told us a fantastic story. He was a political

1012
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:31.760
exile from his own country. He'd been forced to leave

1013
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:33.960
five years ago, and now he was going back to

1014
00:57:34.039 --> 00:57:37.039
lead a rebellion to overthrow the government by a Kudatar.

1015
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.320
And to me it made very little sense. Had it

1016
00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:42.440
not been for the gun in his hand, I might

1017
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:43.719
have laughed in his face.

1018
00:57:44.280 --> 00:57:47.119
If I am captured before this train gets to Belgrade,

1019
00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:51.039
I will be executed once in Belgrad. However, I am safe,

1020
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:54.039
am very popular. I know the city. There are thousands

1021
00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:54.880
ready to hide me.

1022
00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:59.079
And that's very interesting, eh. Now that you believe we're

1023
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:02.119
who we say were, you could put that gun away

1024
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:04.719
I'll bump here with you and miss Musket and go

1025
00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:05.559
to my compartment.

1026
00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:09.039
I cannot allow that. Among the passengers understrain many of

1027
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:11.719
my countrymen. Some would be loyal if they knew about me,

1028
00:58:11.840 --> 00:58:12.599
but others would not.

1029
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:14.280
Doctors will tell no one.

1030
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:17.199
I am sure you would not intentionally, but it might

1031
00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:21.000
slip out. No, I cannot permit you to leave this compartment.

1032
00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:23.440
I'm warning you. If I can, I'm going to take

1033
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:24.400
that gun away from you.

1034
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:26.000
Don't try, my friend.

1035
00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:30.920
You're older than I am, Doctor's Inner. You're tired. Just

1036
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:40.320
how long can you stay awake? I sat with Carol

1037
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:42.599
on one seat. He was across frommis, the revolver in

1038
00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:46.760
his hand, and it got later and later later.

1039
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:48.559
I'm tired, Greek.

1040
00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:50.199
I disclose your eyes with Carrol.

1041
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:55.360
Are you sleepy, Doctor's Inner?

1042
00:58:56.440 --> 00:58:58.239
Not yet, mister Mayer.

1043
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:07.039
Carol was asleep on my shoulder. I thought to keep

1044
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:10.760
my eyes open, but I dozed off, and then somehow

1045
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:13.880
I came awake. I lifted my head. Doctor Zenner was asleep.

1046
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:18.880
I reached across and grabbed the gun. It's all right, Carol,

1047
00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:23.840
I've got it well, Doctor Zenner, you're right, sir.

1048
00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:25.800
I tried to stay awake.

1049
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:27.599
But stay here, Carol. I'm going to locate the conductor.

1050
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:28.920
I'm going to tell him what's been going on. No,

1051
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:29.599
you must not.

1052
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:30.960
I shall never get the bell druve.

1053
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:34.480
No, we're still outside his country. He won't be hurt.

1054
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:37.559
But if you report me to the conductor, I shall

1055
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:38.039
be put off.

1056
00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:41.400
Portray allan shot, No harm done. I'll be back soon, Carol.

1057
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:48.679
I left the compartment and started on the corridor. I

1058
00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:50.519
heard a noise behind me, and as I turned, I

1059
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:53.079
caught a glimpse of a shadowy figure. One arm raised

1060
00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:55.519
high above my head, and then the arm swung down,

1061
00:59:55.559 --> 00:59:59.599
and something hard and heavy crashed against my skull, and

1062
00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:03.320
I fell into a pool of blackness, and I knew

1063
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:03.920
nothing more.

1064
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:17.239
In just a moment, we will return to escape, but first.

1065
01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:21.599
The blazing billboard for CBS's ten Great Sunday Night Shows

1066
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:24.000
has an especially big blaze of lights near the top

1067
01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:26.519
of the list. That's where the names of Spike Jones,

1068
01:00:26.599 --> 01:00:29.519
Jack Benny and Amos and Andy are found in succession.

1069
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:33.559
Spike Jones, Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, the most unusual

1070
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:37.119
sequence of top rating comedy in radio. Don't miss a

1071
01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:40.920
single second of their ninety NonStop minutes of mirth Tomorrow

1072
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:44.920
night on CBS's Great Sunday Night. Ten amos Andy and

1073
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:46.880
Spike Jones come to you over most of these same

1074
01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.440
CBS stations, and Jack Benny is heard over them all.

1075
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:54.480
And now with our star Bill Conrad, we returned to

1076
01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:59.280
the second act of escape and the Orient Express.

1077
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:09.760
How much later it was when I opened my eyes.

1078
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:12.639
I don't know whoever had hit me had done an

1079
01:01:12.679 --> 01:01:19.719
expert job. Might have been Zenner or or even Carol

1080
01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:23.400
had no way of knowing the gun was gone. I

1081
01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:25.760
dragged myself to my feet and stumbled down the corridor

1082
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:28.559
back to a compartment number seven. But it was empty.

1083
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:33.960
Perhaps they moved to my compartment, I hurried to it. No, no,

1084
01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:36.119
there was nothing in my compartment. My bags were gone,

1085
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:39.920
even my overcoat. Inside I began to feel a strange,

1086
01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:41.000
unreasoning fear.

1087
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:43.760
Why was it so quiet?

1088
01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:48.000
What were all the other passengers coming along the entire corridor?

1089
01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:55.400
I opened every door in the coach them was completely empty.

1090
01:01:56.400 --> 01:02:02.000
It felt as as if I were going crazy, that

1091
01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:16.400
lost consciousness again. Here here you, mister wake got we got.

1092
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:18.239
Who are you?

1093
01:02:18.840 --> 01:02:19.239
I sha?

1094
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:24.559
I am the rakeman? No tell me what happened to everyone?

1095
01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.800
This coach was full. I got on at Austin. Dozens

1096
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:29.280
of people got on at Austin.

1097
01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:33.239
Oh no, sir, this coach is empty and it comes

1098
01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:35.599
only from wagenspot Reagans.

1099
01:02:36.039 --> 01:02:37.199
No, it's it's from Austin.

1100
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:37.800
I tell you.

1101
01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:42.039
Look, Compartment eight. This was mine, my bag's my overcoat.

1102
01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:46.519
They were here and now they've disappeared. What was that?

1103
01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:50.039
That is only the switch engine beyond the yards outside Vienna.

1104
01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:51.760
This coach is a deadhead.

1105
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:54.960
It was put on at the Orient Express at Reagan's broken.

1106
01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:59.239
Now we take it off. Dead head, you mean no,

1107
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:03.280
it's not my all the regular coaches are Orient Expresses

1108
01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:04.079
in front of us.

1109
01:03:04.440 --> 01:03:06.559
If you do not wanted to leave without you, you

1110
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:08.119
had better Horiza.

1111
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:12.880
Don't worry, I'll make it. The Orient Express was just

1112
01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:14.639
getting underway when I dropped off the front of the

1113
01:03:14.679 --> 01:03:16.280
dead Head. I had plenty of time to run up

1114
01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:18.840
alongside and swing aboard, and made my way through the

1115
01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:20.800
train to my coach and knocked on the door of

1116
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:28.079
Center's compartment. Open up in there. Gregory Meyer opened the door,

1117
01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:33.840
lying on the berth bound and Gaggler's reporter, Miss Warren

1118
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:38.000
and standing beside her gun in hand was not doctor

1119
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:39.800
Zinner but Joseph Grundlish.

1120
01:03:40.519 --> 01:03:43.639
We have a very tough skull, mister Mayer, I should

1121
01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:44.960
have hit you a little harder.

1122
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:50.280
No, whereas Carol, where's doctor Sinner? Why have you tied

1123
01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:50.880
up this reporter?

1124
01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:52.440
Pase not so fast?

1125
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:55.840
First, as to Miss Warren, I have tied her to

1126
01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:59.679
prevent her from interfering with doctor Sinner, and I allowed

1127
01:03:59.679 --> 01:04:02.880
her to file a newspaper story doctor Zinner would never

1128
01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.239
get to Belograd. I happened to be a nard and

1129
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:09.880
follower of doctor Zinner. I was standing watch last night

1130
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:13.039
when you dashed into the corridor. Mister Maya, you had

1131
01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:16.280
this very gun in your hand. You had obviously broken

1132
01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:20.119
away from doctor Zinner. Fortunately I had a black chain.

1133
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:23.000
Whereas Carol and doctor Zenner, do.

1134
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:26.079
You promise to do nothing to interfere with doctor Sinna's plan?

1135
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:29.519
I promise nothing, no b reason of the Orient Express

1136
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:32.440
will soon cross the border into my own country. It

1137
01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:35.880
makes only one stub at the border for passport identification.

1138
01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:38.400
After that you are involved.

1139
01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:39.880
No longer Y be starborn.

1140
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:42.599
All right, runleichh.

1141
01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:43.480
I wanted to.

1142
01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:46.599
Say, mister Mayett, I think you may go now.

1143
01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:50.320
Doctor Zinner and Miss Mosca are next door in your compartment.

1144
01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:57.400
Doctor Zenna was seated on one birth dozing, and Carol

1145
01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:00.840
La on the opposite berth, fast asleep. Of tears on

1146
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:01.840
her cheeks.

1147
01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:03.039
She shivered.

1148
01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:05.760
I covered it with my overcoat and she woke up.

1149
01:05:06.920 --> 01:05:10.320
Gregory, Gregory, I didn't know where you wash.

1150
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:11.360
Go back to sleep.

1151
01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:11.559
Oh.

1152
01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:14.000
I searched every wheel. I didn't know what to do

1153
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.440
when I came back here. Oh, I was so tired.

1154
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:19.599
Doctors dinner made me go to sleep.

1155
01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:22.639
Everything's all right. In a few hours, everything will be fine.

1156
01:05:23.239 --> 01:05:31.079
Now close your eyes and go back to sleep. I

1157
01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:33.519
left the compartment and went to the second class coach.

1158
01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:35.679
With both Carol and Grundlichgon.

1159
01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:36.880
There was space for me.

1160
01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:40.599
I slept until I was awakened by a Hungarian passport inspector.

1161
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:44.239
The train had stopped in a town named Schubotica, just

1162
01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:47.559
inside the border. I showed him my passport and I

1163
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:50.920
went to the dining car. The breakfast rush was just starting,

1164
01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:52.599
so I gave away to a pound note and had

1165
01:05:52.679 --> 01:05:55.400
him get my breakfast for two. By the time the

1166
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.519
Orient Express was ten minutes out of Shubotica, we were

1167
01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:01.880
going down the corridor, the loaded tray tinkling as the

1168
01:06:01.880 --> 01:06:06.400
waiter followed me. We arrived at my compartments, but it

1169
01:06:06.440 --> 01:06:09.480
was empty. No sign of Senna, no sign of Carol.

1170
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:12.400
A torn piece of paper was tucked under the cuff

1171
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:16.519
of my overcoat. There was a note I have left

1172
01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:20.599
the doctor Zenna. I'm afraid this is good bye. Sign

1173
01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:23.679
Carol musket sir the breakfast.

1174
01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:27.760
Where shall I put the tray? But the breakfast.

1175
01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:31.000
Take it back?

1176
01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:32.119
I no wonders.

1177
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:37.559
I sat near the window and watched the landscape drift past.

1178
01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:42.480
My suspicions had been right all along. Doctor Zenna had

1179
01:06:42.519 --> 01:06:48.159
played me for a fool, and so had Carol. After

1180
01:06:48.199 --> 01:06:51.320
a while, I became conscious of a tapping sound on

1181
01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:54.320
the wall of my compartment. It kept on, and suddenly

1182
01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:56.360
I realized that it was coming from the compartment next

1183
01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:59.360
to mine, Someone's heel banging against the wall. It took

1184
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.159
only a minute get next door. It was Miss Warren,

1185
01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:04.199
the reporter, all tied and gagged.

1186
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:07.559
Oh thank goodness, I thought you'd never hear me.

1187
01:07:07.639 --> 01:07:09.000
Wes Grundlick, where are the others?

1188
01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:11.119
You mean you don't know what's happened. Senna's going to

1189
01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:13.480
be executed, executed? Why they took him off the train

1190
01:07:13.519 --> 01:07:16.639
at Supportica? Goodic arrange the whole thing. He's a government spy.

1191
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:17.440
It can't be bully is.

1192
01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:20.079
They're probably holding a drumhead court martial on doctor Zenna

1193
01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:21.440
back in Suportica this minute.

1194
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:26.679
I see and Carol Musker's the government spy too. The girl, no,

1195
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:28.679
she must be. They took her off the train.

1196
01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:30.800
They had to. They couldn't have any witnesses.

1197
01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:31.760
What will they do with it?

1198
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:32.760
Probably kill her?

1199
01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:34.920
But hey, here, what are you doing? You can't jump

1200
01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:36.639
out the trains going sixty at least.

1201
01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:38.480
I'm going back there to Supportico.

1202
01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:39.440
You're insane.

1203
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:41.960
Look there's a small ton up ahead. I saw it.

1204
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:43.880
When I leaned out. Some cars aparked at the station.

1205
01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:46.440
I saw them. I'm going to pull the emergency cord.

1206
01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:47.679
Take one of those cars.

1207
01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:49.320
Can you possibly do in supporta car?

1208
01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:50.440
I don't know, but I'll do something.

1209
01:07:51.320 --> 01:07:53.440
Go ahead, mister Meyer, I'm going with you.

1210
01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:56.760
I pulled the emergency cord and in the matter of seconds,

1211
01:07:56.840 --> 01:07:59.239
the Orient Express was screeching to a halt. Right at

1212
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:01.800
the station. I flung open the door, and with Miss

1213
01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:04.440
Warren close behind me, I ran toward the park. Cars

1214
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:12.320
here you you come here, you speak English, card gentleman's

1215
01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:16.399
and car very cheap. I want to go, I'll give

1216
01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:18.880
you twenty pounds yet gentleman's.

1217
01:08:18.960 --> 01:08:19.399
Get ye.

1218
01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:25.680
Were at Stubotica inside of an hour. I had the

1219
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:27.760
driver stop just before we got into the center of

1220
01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:30.199
town and told him to wait. Miss Warren and I

1221
01:08:30.279 --> 01:08:36.680
started down the main street. Mister Meyer look in the

1222
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:39.439
doorway of a small restaurant. His back to us, talking

1223
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:45.199
to a chef, was Joseph Grundlich. Just keep walking. Try

1224
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:46.079
to hear what he's saying.

1225
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:48.279
Two people have it sent to him?

1226
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:52.000
Did you hear what he said?

1227
01:08:52.159 --> 01:08:54.279
Something about a last meal for two people to be

1228
01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:55.399
taken to the railroad station.

1229
01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:57.000
Don't turn your head, just keep walking.

1230
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.960
The railroad station platform was empty, so was the ticket office,

1231
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:04.880
but through the window we could see the waiting room,

1232
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:07.079
and beyond it was a closed door to a baggage room.

1233
01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:09.640
There was a large, old fashioned key in the lock,

1234
01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:12.319
and standing beside the door was a soldier with a rifle.

1235
01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:16.159
That's why they must be in the baggage room. You

1236
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:18.800
don't have a gun, I suppose no, neither do I.

1237
01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:21.479
The keys in the lock if I can get to

1238
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:24.399
it without the soldiers noticing. We've got to get the

1239
01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:28.439
soldier away from the door, Miss Warren. Uh, Look do

1240
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:30.079
you see that telephone over there in the fire corner.

1241
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:33.159
If we could somehow get the soldier over to the telephone,

1242
01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:36.000
his view of the baggage room door would be cut off. Look,

1243
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:38.520
that'll be your job, Miss Warren. Go into the waiting

1244
01:09:38.600 --> 01:09:40.359
room and up to the telephone booth. Smile at the

1245
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:42.560
soldier as you go by. Then pretend you're having some

1246
01:09:42.600 --> 01:09:44.760
trouble with the phone. Appeal to him for help when

1247
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:46.840
he joins you with the phone booth. Keep him occupied

1248
01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:47.920
while I go in and let him out.

1249
01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:48.880
But he might go wrong.

1250
01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:51.600
Just talk to him Center and Carroll and I will

1251
01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:52.439
try to make the car.

1252
01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:55.119
You'll have to hurry green Looking that last meal may

1253
01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:55.880
be here any minute.

1254
01:09:56.039 --> 01:10:02.239
We'll hurry all right through the grimy wonder.

1255
01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:04.279
I watched as Miss Warren cross the waiting room to

1256
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:07.000
the telephone, smiling at the soldier. She left the booth

1257
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:09.319
and walked over to him. Couldn't hear what they were saying?

1258
01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:12.960
She smiled at him again, putting her hand on his arm.

1259
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:14.159
They went over the booth.

1260
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:17.600
He took a deep breath and entered the waiting room.

1261
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:19.720
I could hear them talking as I started toward the

1262
01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:36.039
baggage room. Carol, no noise, doctor's inner, Carol, go to

1263
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:37.279
the station platform.

1264
01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:42.760
No noise. Come on.

1265
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:47.039
We started back toward the open door that led to

1266
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:49.680
the station platform and went out slowly, not making a sound.

1267
01:10:50.199 --> 01:10:52.880
Miss Warren was still talking to the soldier, and then

1268
01:10:53.119 --> 01:11:00.840
suddenly their voices stopped. I glanced back. The soldier's gun

1269
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:06.279
had fallen to the floor. He was kissing Miss Warren.

1270
01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:09.680
We got out to the platform and I shut the

1271
01:11:09.680 --> 01:11:13.079
door quietly. All right, follow me. The car is two

1272
01:11:13.079 --> 01:11:15.880
blocks away. She's a reporter. They won't dare touch you.

1273
01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:16.359
Now, come on.

1274
01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:20.199
In a few moments, the station was behind us. The

1275
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:23.000
car was only a block away. Now we turned the corner,

1276
01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:26.199
and walking toward us, not ten feet away was Joseph Grundley.

1277
01:11:26.199 --> 01:11:28.399
Can have waited from the restaurant before he could collect

1278
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:31.600
his wits. I ran at him. He crumpled to the ground.

1279
01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:34.680
Then I hit the wait, all right, run for it.

1280
01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:38.399
Bronck d a few shots at us, but hit no.

1281
01:11:39.359 --> 01:11:41.920
Then we were in the car and he fired at us.

1282
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:42.359
No longer.

1283
01:11:52.039 --> 01:11:54.039
What you.

1284
01:11:56.279 --> 01:11:59.359
Goodbye, doctor Xenna. You sure you won't come along?

1285
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:03.239
I stay here in Teldrad. I shall be all right now,

1286
01:12:03.399 --> 01:12:06.119
thanks to you. Goodbye, mister Mayer.

1287
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:24.520
Goodbye, Hello, Hello, you.

1288
01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:27.880
Mind if I sit down?

1289
01:12:28.840 --> 01:12:29.359
Not at all?

1290
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:36.880
Well, we'll be in Istanbul tomorrow a day late.

1291
01:12:37.640 --> 01:12:39.600
You know I probably lost that chorus?

1292
01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:42.439
Job, have any idea what you'll do?

1293
01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:42.720
Then?

1294
01:12:43.199 --> 01:12:45.479
I think so? I have an idea.

1295
01:12:47.239 --> 01:12:49.720
Yeah, so why.

1296
01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:53.199
A very good idea?

1297
01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:56.199
Come in.

1298
01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:23.880
Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Today we

1299
01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:28.439
have presented transcribed Orient Express by Graham Green, adapted for

1300
01:13:28.560 --> 01:13:32.319
radio by Sheldon Stark and Walter Newman, with editorial supervision

1301
01:13:32.319 --> 01:13:36.039
by John Duncle starred as Gregory. Myatt was Bill Conrad.

1302
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:41.600
Featured players were Edgar Barrier, Hans Conrad, Gloria Grant, Harry Bartel,

1303
01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:46.039
Anne Morrison, Jack Krusian, and John Dayner. The special music

1304
01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:48.239
was arranged and played by Ivan at Mars.

1305
01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:53.479
Next week, you are alone in the steaming jungle with

1306
01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:56.119
three men. You know that one of them is a

1307
01:13:56.119 --> 01:13:59.520
desperate criminal, the man you've come here to arrest, but

1308
01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:02.479
you don't know which one. You'll have to find him

1309
01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:05.840
before he can save himself by killing you.

1310
01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:21.640
My dear, my dear, When you sit on a comfy

1311
01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:29.079
locomotive like the one we've manifested tonight, do you ever

1312
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:34.720
consider those who keep it all moving along? Of course,

1313
01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:39.960
you have the conductor, you have the staff in the

1314
01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:45.479
dining car, bringing you tasty treats as the nation speeds

1315
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:52.479
by in your window. But have you ever considered the

1316
01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:59.119
dark loneliness of the job that keeps you on track

1317
01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:07.000
to speak and alive? The sad and lonely plight of

1318
01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:08.479
the signalman.

1319
01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:16.119
Auto light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers bring you,

1320
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:17.359
Miss Agnes Moorehead.

1321
01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:19.520
In tonight's presentation.

1322
01:15:19.079 --> 01:15:30.399
Of suspense, Tonight Autolite presents a story in the classic

1323
01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:34.479
tradition of suspense, a new version of Charles dickens terrifying

1324
01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:39.279
short story The Signalman Our Star, the first lady of Suspense,

1325
01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:51.279
Miss Agnes Moorehead. Why it's Oscar, the super smooth and

1326
01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:53.000
scintillating sedan.

1327
01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:57.159
Super smooth right with an auto light electrical system.

1328
01:15:57.359 --> 01:15:58.800
Ah, there's none better Oscar.

1329
01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:00.119
And it's because your auto.

1330
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:02.960
By electrical system is designed to operate as a team,

1331
01:16:03.119 --> 01:16:07.039
with all units and component parts related by auto light engineering,

1332
01:16:07.079 --> 01:16:11.239
design and manufacturing skill to give you the smoothest performance

1333
01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:12.119
money can buy.

1334
01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:15.479
I know how important the electrical system is, Harlow.

1335
01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:18.039
Sure you do ask her, And you know too how

1336
01:16:18.039 --> 01:16:20.960
important it is to have only auto Light original service

1337
01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:24.920
parts used when replacements are needed, because only these parts

1338
01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:28.560
are designed by Auto Light engineers who design complete electrical

1339
01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:32.159
systems used as original equipment on many leading makes of

1340
01:16:32.159 --> 01:16:36.439
our finest cars, trucks and tractors. So friends, always insist

1341
01:16:36.560 --> 01:16:40.239
on Autolite original service parts for your auto Light equipped car.

1342
01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:44.199
It pays in performance. Remember from bumper to tail light,

1343
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:47.000
you're always right with Autolite.

1344
01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:50.199
And now auto.

1345
01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:55.079
Light presents transcribed the signal man starring Miss Agnes moorehead

1346
01:16:55.319 --> 01:16:58.840
hoping once again to keep you in suspense.

1347
01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:40.960
It smashed by like a wounded monster, screaming in pain,

1348
01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:45.880
and disappeared into the dark tunnel. In those brief seconds,

1349
01:17:46.600 --> 01:17:50.199
I had relived the emotions of my childhood. I still

1350
01:17:50.239 --> 01:17:53.159
trembled with the child's terror and fascination that had surged

1351
01:17:53.199 --> 01:17:55.760
through me the many times I stood here twenty years before.

1352
01:17:57.119 --> 01:18:01.039
Nothing had changed. The steep, dripping way, walls of jagged

1353
01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:04.159
stone that led down to the tracks, the gloomy mouth

1354
01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:07.920
of the tunnel. The small signal man's shack huddled against

1355
01:18:07.960 --> 01:18:10.960
the side of the cutting. Even the job was held

1356
01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:13.960
by the same man they told me in the village.

1357
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:16.800
He stood there, in the glow of an angry sunset,

1358
01:18:17.479 --> 01:18:21.479
firling a signal flag around a short pole. I called

1359
01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:29.159
to him, Hello, Hello. Instead of looking up at me,

1360
01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:32.920
he turned tensely to stare toward a red signal light

1361
01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:34.560
that glowed at the mouth of the tunnel.

1362
01:18:36.199 --> 01:18:36.680
Hello.

1363
01:18:37.680 --> 01:18:38.479
Hello, there.

1364
01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:44.600
He finally turned slowly, it seemed to me, even fearfully,

1365
01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:49.479
and looked up. He stared at me, unanswering. I was

1366
01:18:49.520 --> 01:18:53.800
afraid the suddenness of my call had unnerved him. I

1367
01:18:53.920 --> 01:19:00.359
tried to compensate by being overly casual. Hello, I would

1368
01:19:00.439 --> 01:19:03.359
like to spink to you. Is that a path I

1369
01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:09.399
can use to come down? He stared silently a while longer,

1370
01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:11.800
then finally pointed his flag to a spot in the

1371
01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:15.960
cutting embankment. It was a zigzag path with small footholds

1372
01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:19.359
cut through the clammy stone. The track seemed a mile below,

1373
01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:25.960
but I was determined to get down. Midway, I sensed

1374
01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:28.800
a vague vibration of earth and air, like a sound

1375
01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.479
that could be felt but not heard. I tried to

1376
01:19:31.479 --> 01:19:35.000
fight down a fear that suddenly gripped me. The air

1377
01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:37.560
was filled with a violent pulsation. It seemed to have

1378
01:19:37.600 --> 01:19:41.239
a force that could draw me down. I threw my

1379
01:19:41.359 --> 01:19:43.439
hands up to my eyes, as though to shut out

1380
01:19:43.439 --> 01:19:46.880
some terrible sight. I flattened myself against the jagged rock

1381
01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:47.880
and clutched.

1382
01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:49.119
Hard A.

1383
01:20:03.399 --> 01:20:06.560
Then I was angry with myself, ashamed of this uncontrolled,

1384
01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:10.359
childish reaction. I could see the signal man still staring

1385
01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:13.399
at me. I climbed down the rest of the way quickly, carelessly,

1386
01:20:13.800 --> 01:20:16.720
and I walked toward him with a casual smile. He

1387
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:23.840
watched me expectantly. Hello, I Amy says, I used to

1388
01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:26.239
live in the village. I was anxious to speak to you.

1389
01:20:27.880 --> 01:20:31.399
I am sorry I startled you when I called down.

1390
01:20:32.239 --> 01:20:35.800
Why did you use those words?

1391
01:20:36.199 --> 01:20:40.680
Those words I hardly remember. I I think I shouted

1392
01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:43.159
hello below there, or something to that effect.

1393
01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:47.079
Not to that effect, Miss, those were the very words.

1394
01:20:47.680 --> 01:20:48.239
I know them.

1395
01:20:48.279 --> 01:20:51.840
Well, admit those were the word all right, I admit,

1396
01:20:52.159 --> 01:20:53.279
Why did you use them?

1397
01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:56.159
You were below I wanted to attract your attention, so

1398
01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:00.000
I called hello below there. It seems logical, doesn't it.

1399
01:21:00.279 --> 01:21:03.720
I, Miss if you had no other reason.

1400
01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:05.119
What other reason could I possibly have?

1401
01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:08.319
I thought you would tell.

1402
01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:11.039
Me I'm sorry. Maybe I shouldn't have come down. I

1403
01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:11.920
think I frightened you.

1404
01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:14.920
Why would you think that, Miss Well?

1405
01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:17.359
You stare at me as though you had a dread

1406
01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:17.680
of me.

1407
01:21:18.439 --> 01:21:23.640
I miss, I was doubtful whether I had seen you before.

1408
01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:26.600
But if you have it it was when I was

1409
01:21:26.640 --> 01:21:28.920
eight years old, standing on that bridge over the tunnel

1410
01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:32.079
up there. I used to love watching the trains, and

1411
01:21:32.199 --> 01:21:34.920
my family moved to the city. This is my first

1412
01:21:34.960 --> 01:21:37.159
visit back in twenty years.

1413
01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:40.880
You don't believe me, I'm not certainly.

1414
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:42.680
But where could you have seen me?

1415
01:21:44.119 --> 01:21:45.199
Don't do you know?

1416
01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:48.039
Since I've been away for twenty years now?

1417
01:21:48.039 --> 01:21:50.920
There by the red signal light at the mouth of

1418
01:21:50.960 --> 01:21:51.720
the tunnel.

1419
01:21:52.079 --> 01:21:54.800
Oh, that's why you turned and stared there when I

1420
01:21:54.840 --> 01:21:58.439
first called I, miss What would I be doing up

1421
01:21:58.439 --> 01:21:59.199
at the signal light?

1422
01:21:59.399 --> 01:21:59.479
Hi?

1423
01:21:59.640 --> 01:22:04.039
I don't no, I wish I it is a mistake. Miss,

1424
01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:08.000
I haven't been well. What is it you wish to

1425
01:22:08.039 --> 01:22:08.880
speak to me about?

1426
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:11.840
Well, I'm a writer. I wanted to interview you me

1427
01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:16.520
Why me, Miss Well? My magazine does a weekly biographical

1428
01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:20.159
piece on interesting people and unusual occupations. It's called close up.

1429
01:22:20.520 --> 01:22:23.880
I miss, I've read you have what you seem? Surprised?

1430
01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:25.640
Oh, pleased?

1431
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:29.800
Perhaps that one so unsophisticated as I I really didn't

1432
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:33.199
mean it that way. There's a bit of a fire

1433
01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:36.039
in my shack would be more comfortable for you there.

1434
01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:41.720
Yes, thank you, Hi. This is a lonely post. Visitors

1435
01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:42.680
must be rare.

1436
01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:43.560
I miss.

1437
01:22:44.319 --> 01:22:50.159
The brand superintendent makes an annual inspection. That's all except.

1438
01:22:51.279 --> 01:22:57.800
Yes, come come in please. Oh how snug and comfortable.

1439
01:22:58.359 --> 01:23:01.159
Most of my waking life is spent here. I've tried

1440
01:23:01.199 --> 01:23:03.079
to make it pleasant, and you've succeeded.

1441
01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:07.039
You were speaking of visitors just as we came.

1442
01:23:07.239 --> 01:23:11.560
Yeah, I'll put this chair there on the fireplace. One

1443
01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:12.920
chills out there.

1444
01:23:13.640 --> 01:23:16.439
I say, you have a fine collection of books.

1445
01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:19.920
They've given me much companionship in the long night.

1446
01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:24.359
Shitty waited, companions given to decline and fall good anatomy

1447
01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:26.399
of the melancholy Darwin.

1448
01:23:26.520 --> 01:23:28.439
Do they surprise you again? Miss?

1449
01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:31.279
May I be frank? I'll have to be if I'm

1450
01:23:31.319 --> 01:23:34.920
to succeed with the article. My editor is only interested,

1451
01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:38.359
you know, in the odd, the unusual.

1452
01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:41.319
And the level of my reading seems above the level

1453
01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:42.079
of my station.

1454
01:23:42.319 --> 01:23:44.399
Not many people in any station these days.

1455
01:23:44.960 --> 01:23:47.359
Come, misters. You called for frankness.

1456
01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:51.680
Thank you, sir. Why would a man with a mind

1457
01:23:51.800 --> 01:23:54.760
capable of absorbing these subjects stay on a desolate job?

1458
01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:55.159
Liked it?

1459
01:23:55.800 --> 01:24:01.640
Goodness, And I take no offense. You see, I had,

1460
01:24:01.680 --> 01:24:05.880
when young, been very interested in the natural philosophies. Oh,

1461
01:24:06.239 --> 01:24:09.520
I set my course, I studied hard, planned the future.

1462
01:24:10.920 --> 01:24:15.319
Then I ran wild, misused. My opportunities went down. I've

1463
01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:19.439
never risen again. I I've no complaint. I've made my bed.

1464
01:24:19.479 --> 01:24:20.680
It's too late to make another.

1465
01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:22.279
Maybe you gave up too soon.

1466
01:24:22.760 --> 01:24:27.039
No, miss, there are forces beyond us that shape us.

1467
01:24:27.640 --> 01:24:31.039
One must know when not to resist. I might have

1468
01:24:31.359 --> 01:24:35.239
blooded myself a while longer, but I knew I took

1469
01:24:35.279 --> 01:24:37.880
this position thirty four years ago, and.

1470
01:24:37.920 --> 01:24:43.640
You never regretted, no er, not until won't you please

1471
01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:44.039
tell me?

1472
01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:47.359
You first tell me what brought you here?

1473
01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:50.199
But I have you said nothing of what made you

1474
01:24:50.239 --> 01:24:54.479
think of this place specifically? There are many places and people.

1475
01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:56.640
Well, I told you I used to come here as

1476
01:24:56.640 --> 01:25:02.000
a child. The train's frightened and fast. I always remembered

1477
01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:04.359
it vividly through the years. I promised myself that one

1478
01:25:04.439 --> 01:25:06.279
day I would come back and do a story on it.

1479
01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:08.479
Good subjects aren't easy to find.

1480
01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:11.600
You know, why did you choose just now to come?

1481
01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:14.600
All these ideas germinate in the writer's mind for a while,

1482
01:25:14.680 --> 01:25:15.199
and then an.

1483
01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:18.600
Impulse and you were drawn here.

1484
01:25:20.239 --> 01:25:24.239
You say that as though mystic forces were involved. It

1485
01:25:24.279 --> 01:25:26.880
was much simpler. I assure you. I've been working hard.

1486
01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:28.920
I decided that a few days in the country would

1487
01:25:28.920 --> 01:25:32.039
do me good. I planned to use them profitably by

1488
01:25:32.039 --> 01:25:33.720
doing a story on you.

1489
01:25:33.720 --> 01:25:36.079
You might have come to that decision last month or

1490
01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:36.920
last year.

1491
01:25:37.520 --> 01:25:40.680
Well, that's true, but I can't see why you attached

1492
01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:43.000
such special significance in the fact.

1493
01:25:42.800 --> 01:26:03.800
That I wh Why do they frighten you so.

1494
01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:10.159
Now? Wouldn't you think I might outrow that silly childish

1495
01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:12.800
If I was drawn here, as you say, I guess

1496
01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:16.479
it was to see whether I had The modern psychiatrist

1497
01:26:16.520 --> 01:26:18.840
would say it was a desire to relive a childhood

1498
01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:20.239
experience I miss.

1499
01:26:20.880 --> 01:26:22.319
There are many answers.

1500
01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:24.960
Why are you staring at me?

1501
01:26:25.119 --> 01:26:25.159
So?

1502
01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:26.239
Oh?

1503
01:26:26.319 --> 01:26:28.000
Would I staring at you?

1504
01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:28.399
Please?

1505
01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:29.239
Please?

1506
01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:32.920
You promised something is preying on your mind? Can't you

1507
01:26:32.960 --> 01:26:33.359
tell me?

1508
01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:39.039
It's very difficult to impartners very difficult to speak of.

1509
01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:43.199
If you ever make another trip, I will try to tell.

1510
01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:47.359
You yes, yes, of course, and I will have to

1511
01:26:47.399 --> 01:26:50.680
make several trips before the story takes shape. When may

1512
01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:54.840
I come again tomorrow, I miss? If you wish, I'll come.

1513
01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:59.800
At eleven, you won't have difficulty getting up.

1514
01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:02.399
No, no, it was only that first trip down.

1515
01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:04.800
I'll show my white light till you reach the top.

1516
01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:05.479
Thank you.

1517
01:27:06.079 --> 01:27:08.319
I'll say good night now, Miss.

1518
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:10.479
Good night, sir. I wish you a pleasant one.

1519
01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:11.560
I regret.

1520
01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:14.920
Oh, yes, I understand, I Miss.

1521
01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:15.880
I think you do.

1522
01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:19.399
May I ask, then, when you get to the top,

1523
01:27:20.239 --> 01:27:21.680
don't call out to me?

1524
01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:23.439
I beg you don't call out.

1525
01:27:23.880 --> 01:27:24.319
I won't.

1526
01:27:24.359 --> 01:27:27.359
And when you come tomorrow night, please don't call out.

1527
01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:29.680
Of course, not good night?

1528
01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:33.920
And may I ask one part in question? It certainly

1529
01:27:34.880 --> 01:27:39.720
when you came down the path earlier tonight, midway, you

1530
01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:42.039
suddenly threw your hands up to your eyes like this,

1531
01:27:42.560 --> 01:27:45.119
as though to shut out some dreadful sight.

1532
01:27:45.760 --> 01:27:51.359
Why right with that uncontrollable, childish reaction, I felt as

1533
01:27:51.359 --> 01:27:53.399
though the train would draw me down. I covered my

1534
01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:56.119
eyes like a child not to see it. You had

1535
01:27:56.159 --> 01:27:59.079
no feeling that the action was conveyed to you for

1536
01:27:59.439 --> 01:28:03.720
some rey. No, why should it see otherwise?

1537
01:28:04.560 --> 01:28:08.239
Because there has been someone at the red light the

1538
01:28:08.279 --> 01:28:11.039
mouth of the tunnel each night for a week now,

1539
01:28:11.560 --> 01:28:14.880
holding its hands up to its eyes like that so

1540
01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:15.760
to shut out.

1541
01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:16.399
Some terrible sight.

1542
01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:19.199
And you have actually seen it every night.

1543
01:28:19.920 --> 01:28:21.800
Was it there tonight when you went to the door.

1544
01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:24.479
Yes, I saw it quite clearly.

1545
01:28:25.920 --> 01:28:26.600
Who was it?

1546
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:28.239
You?

1547
01:28:29.920 --> 01:28:55.399
Auto light is bringing you Miss Agnes moorehead with Joseph

1548
01:28:55.479 --> 01:29:00.960
Kerns in the Signal Man Tonight's presentation in Radio Outstanding

1549
01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:17.960
Theater of Thrills. Suspense, Hey, Oscar, sound your horn, play

1550
01:29:17.960 --> 01:29:23.800
your radio, I'll start your engine.

1551
01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:27.319
Hey, what's all that for, Hallow?

1552
01:29:27.600 --> 01:29:31.159
Why all those operations depend on the sure smooth performance

1553
01:29:31.239 --> 01:29:34.239
of your auto light electrical system, Oscar. And so do

1554
01:29:34.319 --> 01:29:36.600
the lights, heater and electric windshield wiper.

1555
01:29:36.760 --> 01:29:39.800
They all depend on my auto light electrical system, Hollow.

1556
01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:41.279
They sure do, Oscar.

1557
01:29:41.399 --> 01:29:44.319
And what's more, your auto light electrical system works every

1558
01:29:44.399 --> 01:29:48.479
second your engine runs. That's why auto light electrical systems,

1559
01:29:48.520 --> 01:29:52.239
designed to give the smoothest performance money can buy, are

1560
01:29:52.319 --> 01:29:55.000
used as original equipment on many leading makes of our

1561
01:29:55.039 --> 01:29:56.800
finest cars, trucks, and tractors.

1562
01:29:56.800 --> 01:29:57.640
They're the best.

1563
01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:02.000
Hurrow right to our oscar friends. Treat the electrical system

1564
01:30:02.039 --> 01:30:04.640
of your car to a periodic checkup at your car

1565
01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:08.840
dealer's or authorized auto light service station. To quickly locate him,

1566
01:30:09.199 --> 01:30:11.760
look in the classified section of your phone book, or

1567
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:15.680
call Western Union by number and ask for operator twenty five.

1568
01:30:16.279 --> 01:30:19.800
And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right

1569
01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:24.960
with auto light. And now auto Light brings back to

1570
01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:30.039
our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Agnes moorehead in Elliot Lewis's production

1571
01:30:30.159 --> 01:30:34.680
of Charles Dickens. The Signal Man a tale well calculated

1572
01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:36.760
to keep you in suspense.

1573
01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:49.600
I returned the next night as the distant clocks were

1574
01:30:49.640 --> 01:30:52.880
striking eleven. The signal Man waited for me at the

1575
01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:56.039
bottom of the cutting. With his white light shining. He

1576
01:30:56.119 --> 01:30:59.079
walked silently to his shack, entered it, and sat down

1577
01:30:59.119 --> 01:31:01.800
by the fire. I didn't wish to press in, so

1578
01:31:01.840 --> 01:31:04.520
I said nothing. He stared at the burning embers for

1579
01:31:04.560 --> 01:31:06.319
a moment. Then he turned to me.

1580
01:31:06.920 --> 01:31:10.159
I I'm going to tell you, missus best I can,

1581
01:31:10.279 --> 01:31:11.279
of what troubles me.

1582
01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:12.560
I'm glad.

1583
01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:17.399
I mistook you for some one else last night. That

1584
01:31:17.520 --> 01:31:20.840
troubles me the mistake of the some one else?

1585
01:31:21.880 --> 01:31:22.399
Who is it?

1586
01:31:22.439 --> 01:31:22.640
Then?

1587
01:31:23.640 --> 01:31:28.000
I don't know what does it do? This time?

1588
01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:31.439
It stands with its left arm across its face. The

1589
01:31:31.520 --> 01:31:35.279
right arm is waved violently this way, as though to say,

1590
01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:37.520
for CAD's sake, clear the way, clear the way.

1591
01:31:37.640 --> 01:31:38.880
You've heard those words?

1592
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:42.800
Not certain, not about these specific words, But I.

1593
01:31:42.119 --> 01:31:43.800
I've heard it called before.

1594
01:31:44.399 --> 01:31:48.079
When one moonlight night, about a year ago, I was

1595
01:31:48.119 --> 01:31:49.800
sitting here when I heard a voice.

1596
01:31:49.479 --> 01:31:52.199
Cry, hallo below there.

1597
01:31:52.840 --> 01:31:55.439
Oh, that's why you were so startled when I used

1598
01:31:55.439 --> 01:31:57.039
the same words I miss.

1599
01:31:57.800 --> 01:32:00.039
I ran to the door and looked out, and I

1600
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:02.840
saw this someone else standing up there by the red

1601
01:32:02.920 --> 01:32:05.279
light near the tunnel, waving its arm as I just

1602
01:32:05.319 --> 01:32:09.239
showed you. The voice was hoarse, was shouting, and it cried, hello,

1603
01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:12.199
below there, look out, look out. I caught up my

1604
01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:14.720
lamp and ran toward the figure, calling, what's wrong? What's happened?

1605
01:32:14.760 --> 01:32:17.920
Where? And when I got to.

1606
01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:21.479
The light, first gone, did you see where?

1607
01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:24.640
The tunnel was the only place it could go without

1608
01:32:24.640 --> 01:32:28.479
passing me. I ran into the tunnel for five hundred

1609
01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:31.399
yards and searched around with my light. Then I ran

1610
01:32:31.479 --> 01:32:34.319
back here and telegraphed both ways. An alarm has been given,

1611
01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:38.439
is anything wrong? And the answer came back both ways.

1612
01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:41.479
All well, yes, of course.

1613
01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:45.600
Now I'm going to take advantage of last night's permission

1614
01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:49.920
to be frank. You've been here more than thirty years,

1615
01:32:50.039 --> 01:32:53.319
haven't you. It isn't the most cheerful place in the world,

1616
01:32:53.319 --> 01:32:55.640
with that moaning wind through the tunnel and the wild

1617
01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:59.079
harp it makes of the telegraph wires. It's understandable that

1618
01:32:59.119 --> 01:33:00.760
you could have the allue usion that you heard a

1619
01:33:00.840 --> 01:33:03.800
call and anyone staring at the dark long enough as

1620
01:33:03.840 --> 01:33:06.439
you did from the dog, and imagine seeing something you've

1621
01:33:06.479 --> 01:33:09.079
let it prey on your mind so long it seems real.

1622
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:27.560
I was not finished, miss Oh, I'm sorry.

1623
01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:32.199
Within six hours after it first appeared, the mainline flyer

1624
01:33:32.279 --> 01:33:34.880
crashed and derailed at the far end of the tunnel.

1625
01:33:35.640 --> 01:33:38.039
Within ten hours, the dead and the wounded were being

1626
01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:41.000
brought through the tunnel over the spot where the figure stood.

1627
01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:46.600
Was coincidence, a tragic, remarkable coincidence. But there is more, Oh, Oh,

1628
01:33:46.600 --> 01:33:47.399
please forgive me.

1629
01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:51.000
Six or seven months past, I had recovered from the

1630
01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:54.319
surprise and shark. One one morning, just as daylight was breaking,

1631
01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:57.880
I looked toward the red light and saw it again.

1632
01:33:58.680 --> 01:33:59.479
Did it cry out?

1633
01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:01.479
It was silent.

1634
01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:02.960
It didn't wave its arm.

1635
01:34:03.199 --> 01:34:06.279
No, miss. Now it leaned against the post with both

1636
01:34:06.359 --> 01:34:09.800
hands covering the eyes like this, as though it brought

1637
01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:11.199
out some terrible sight.

1638
01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:13.680
And that's why you asked me why I had put

1639
01:34:13.720 --> 01:34:16.119
my hands to my eyes, I miss. As I came

1640
01:34:16.119 --> 01:34:16.479
down the.

1641
01:34:16.439 --> 01:34:19.359
Path, you called out the words it used the first time.

1642
01:34:19.840 --> 01:34:23.119
You covered your eyes as it did the next time.

1643
01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:24.640
Go on, please.

1644
01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:28.720
That very day, as the train came out of the tunnel,

1645
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:32.159
I noticed a confusion of hands and heads at one

1646
01:34:32.199 --> 01:34:35.279
of the coached platforms, and something waved. I saw it

1647
01:34:35.319 --> 01:34:38.399
in time to flag down the engineer. He applied his.

1648
01:34:38.319 --> 01:34:41.079
Brake, but the train drifted past here about one hundred yards.

1649
01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:43.720
As I ran up to it, I heard terrible screams

1650
01:34:43.720 --> 01:34:47.680
and cries. A beautiful young woman had fallen between the cars.

1651
01:34:47.920 --> 01:34:51.960
Oh she was brought in here. She died on this

1652
01:34:52.159 --> 01:34:53.600
very spot between us.

1653
01:34:53.800 --> 01:34:58.359
Oh it's horrible. But I still don't wan.

1654
01:34:58.399 --> 01:35:01.039
Final word, miss, And you were judge how my mind

1655
01:35:01.119 --> 01:35:07.079
is troubled. It came back a week ago. Ever since

1656
01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:12.760
it has been here at the light. It covers its eyes,

1657
01:35:13.119 --> 01:35:15.800
it waves its arm. It shouts, for God's sake, clear away,

1658
01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:19.960
clear away. I have no rest of peace for it.

1659
01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:22.720
It calls to me many minutes together in an agonized manner.

1660
01:35:22.800 --> 01:35:26.199
Below there, look out, look out. It stands waving at me.

1661
01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:28.720
It sounds the telegraph ticker.

1662
01:35:28.960 --> 01:35:31.039
Did it sound the ticker last night while I was here?

1663
01:35:31.199 --> 01:35:32.079
Twice? Oh?

1664
01:35:32.119 --> 01:35:34.880
I assure you it did not sound. It was your imagination.

1665
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:37.560
I have never made a mistake as to that miss.

1666
01:35:38.399 --> 01:35:40.439
I don't wonder that you fail to hear it. But

1667
01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:41.439
I heard it.

1668
01:35:42.119 --> 01:35:47.840
Do you hear it now? I What does it say?

1669
01:35:49.439 --> 01:35:54.000
It isn't clear. Hey, it only warns. It doesn't say

1670
01:35:54.039 --> 01:35:57.920
against What if I only knew what it meant? What

1671
01:35:58.079 --> 01:36:01.720
is the danger? Where is the danger? There is danger

1672
01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:05.560
overhanging somewhere on the line. Some terrible calamity will happen.

1673
01:36:05.600 --> 01:36:06.720
Now you must that reason.

1674
01:36:07.039 --> 01:36:09.880
If I telegraph danger on either side of me, or

1675
01:36:09.920 --> 01:36:12.479
on both, I can give no reason for it. I

1676
01:36:12.520 --> 01:36:14.960
would get into trouble and do no good. They would

1677
01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.359
think I was mad. This is the way it would work.

1678
01:36:17.520 --> 01:36:20.479
Message danger, take care? Answer what danger?

1679
01:36:20.520 --> 01:36:20.720
Where?

1680
01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:21.800
Message? Don't know?

1681
01:36:21.920 --> 01:36:25.359
But for God's sake, take care.

1682
01:36:24.840 --> 01:36:28.960
They would displace me. What else could they do.

1683
01:36:30.479 --> 01:36:33.960
I can help you, but you must face realistically what

1684
01:36:34.039 --> 01:36:36.119
I have to say. Now, will you try?

1685
01:36:36.399 --> 01:36:38.159
Yes, Yes, I'll try.

1686
01:36:38.199 --> 01:36:38.439
Miss.

1687
01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:42.439
These accidents have shaken you deeply. You feel guilt about them,

1688
01:36:42.479 --> 01:36:45.159
even though there was nothing you could do. You've let

1689
01:36:45.199 --> 01:36:47.760
it prey on your mind until you imagine someone try

1690
01:36:47.800 --> 01:36:51.039
to warn me on her that someone, even the senses,

1691
01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:54.119
can deceive when the mind is under stress. Men dying

1692
01:36:54.159 --> 01:36:57.439
of thirst on a desert, imagine lakes and hearing running.

1693
01:36:57.119 --> 01:36:58.560
Streets, the bodies of the dead.

1694
01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:02.960
Of what you imagined after the accidents. If you let

1695
01:37:03.000 --> 01:37:04.760
me out, prove to you, step by step that the

1696
01:37:04.800 --> 01:37:06.760
specter existed only in your fantasy?

1697
01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:09.000
How can you prove that in the face.

1698
01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:11.199
Of what I've told me by appealing to the intelligent,

1699
01:37:11.319 --> 01:37:15.159
reasoning portion of your mind. Listen, you were positive when

1700
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:18.079
you first saw me that I was the specter you

1701
01:37:18.119 --> 01:37:19.920
saw up the light, Now, weren't you?

1702
01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:21.560
You used the same words.

1703
01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:24.720
Well, I listen carefully, I appeal to the intelligent, well read,

1704
01:37:24.800 --> 01:37:29.520
reasonable man. Three words hello below there I was five

1705
01:37:29.600 --> 01:37:31.520
hundred yards away at the top of the embankment, and

1706
01:37:31.560 --> 01:37:35.239
you were here below with darkness falling, and three words

1707
01:37:35.279 --> 01:37:38.479
made you positive you had seen me before. Can't you

1708
01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:40.279
see you? We're trying to fit something to what you

1709
01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:41.239
already believed.

1710
01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:43.680
But then you put your hands to your eyes.

1711
01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:47.119
Lof Oh their proof. You've allowed yourself to believe some

1712
01:37:47.159 --> 01:37:50.199
disaster is about to befall when I covered my eyes

1713
01:37:50.239 --> 01:37:52.840
because of a childish fear, you fitted that to what

1714
01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:53.920
you already believed.

1715
01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:55.239
The telegraph ticker.

1716
01:37:55.119 --> 01:37:58.359
Washington, You not tear me out? Would you at any

1717
01:37:58.439 --> 01:38:01.119
other time, or would anyone at any believe that a

1718
01:38:01.159 --> 01:38:03.359
telegraph ticker could sound in a room this small and

1719
01:38:03.399 --> 01:38:05.880
be heard by one person or not another? And now

1720
01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:09.960
the most important proof. You said that when you went

1721
01:38:10.000 --> 01:38:12.760
to the door last night it was there by the

1722
01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:15.479
red danger light it was. Will you come to the

1723
01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:17.079
door with me now and tell me if it is

1724
01:38:17.119 --> 01:38:22.720
still air shat? Do you see it?

1725
01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:29.159
No? No, miss, it is not there.

1726
01:38:29.359 --> 01:38:29.840
Agreed?

1727
01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:33.039
And now I'm going to prove that it never was there.

1728
01:38:34.159 --> 01:38:35.840
I studied the light from the top of the hill

1729
01:38:35.880 --> 01:38:38.640
before I came down the night. The post is at

1730
01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:42.039
least seven feet high. The light is shielded with a hood.

1731
01:38:42.840 --> 01:38:44.920
Even if a person stood directly under it or in

1732
01:38:44.920 --> 01:38:47.760
front of it, they would be in complete shadow. In darkness.

1733
01:38:48.439 --> 01:38:50.119
You couldn't see that person from this door, and you

1734
01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:51.880
couldn't see that person if you walked to within a

1735
01:38:51.920 --> 01:38:55.359
foot of her or him or it. I'm going to

1736
01:38:55.399 --> 01:38:57.199
walk up the incline to the light and prove that

1737
01:38:57.239 --> 01:39:02.960
to you now. I walked up the inclining tracks toward

1738
01:39:03.000 --> 01:39:05.520
the red light at the mouth of the tunnel. The

1739
01:39:05.640 --> 01:39:09.640
tune dank wind had an edge like a cold knife.

1740
01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:11.920
When I got to the light post, I stood directly

1741
01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:14.760
under it. No portion of the red glow reached me.

1742
01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:18.960
I was lost completely in the dark. I saw the

1743
01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:23.920
signal man silhouetted in the yellow light of the doorway. Hello,

1744
01:39:24.119 --> 01:39:24.880
can you see me?

1745
01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:27.920
Hello below there?

1746
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:29.479
Can you see me?

1747
01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:31.880
Oh?

1748
01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:36.319
Good? Now, stop walking toward me and tell me when

1749
01:39:36.319 --> 01:39:41.520
you can see me. He stepped between the rails of

1750
01:39:41.560 --> 01:39:45.039
the northbound track on a line with the red signal light,

1751
01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:49.960
and walked toward me. Then the icy hand of my

1752
01:39:50.119 --> 01:39:53.640
childhood dread gripped me. There was a vague vibration of

1753
01:39:53.680 --> 01:39:57.000
the earth and air far behind him, coming up the

1754
01:39:57.039 --> 01:39:59.600
grade fast, I could begin to see the glow of

1755
01:39:59.640 --> 01:40:00.479
the local It is light.

1756
01:40:01.279 --> 01:40:04.720
Look out you girls for goats They tral away.

1757
01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:05.680
Tear away.

1758
01:40:08.399 --> 01:40:10.960
She walked as though in a spell. He didn't hear me,

1759
01:40:11.159 --> 01:40:13.880
or wouldn't hear me. I threw my left arm up

1760
01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:17.119
to my eyes and waved my right arm frantically, you know,

1761
01:40:17.399 --> 01:40:18.880
the look out.

1762
01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:21.079
The dout tray the world for God's.

1763
01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:21.840
Say, trail away.

1764
01:40:54.039 --> 01:40:57.800
Long after it was over, they found me still standing there,

1765
01:40:59.079 --> 01:41:01.239
both of my hands up to my eyes to shut

1766
01:41:01.279 --> 01:41:02.640
out the terrible.

1767
01:41:02.399 --> 01:41:39.439
Sight suspense presented by Autolite to Light Star Miss Agnes Moorehead.

1768
01:41:40.800 --> 01:41:44.680
This is Harlow Wilcox again speaking for Autolite, world's largest

1769
01:41:44.720 --> 01:41:49.520
independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. Auto Light is proud

1770
01:41:49.560 --> 01:41:52.560
to serve the greatest names in the industry. That's why

1771
01:41:52.720 --> 01:41:55.479
during these early months of nineteen fifty three, the auto

1772
01:41:55.560 --> 01:41:59.359
Light Family joins again in saluting the leading manufacturers who

1773
01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:03.760
install products as original equipment. Just two weeks from tonight,

1774
01:42:03.840 --> 01:42:06.840
as a climax to this year's Autolite Family Salute program,

1775
01:42:07.359 --> 01:42:09.960
we will present the exciting story of the first and

1776
01:42:10.159 --> 01:42:13.760
only Round the World Auto Race. Our star will be

1777
01:42:13.880 --> 01:42:16.640
Van Johnson, and the program will be broadcast direct from

1778
01:42:16.720 --> 01:42:20.760
the Grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where

1779
01:42:20.760 --> 01:42:23.560
the Great Eastern Parade of Stars Auto Show will be

1780
01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:27.680
in progress. That's Monday, April sixth for the auto race

1781
01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:30.359
that stirred the world. And of course be sure to

1782
01:42:30.479 --> 01:42:43.880
join us next week for another story of suspense. Next

1783
01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:47.760
week an American legend, as we recreate the cruel murder

1784
01:42:47.920 --> 01:42:52.439
of Laura Foster by the bitter Tom Dooley, our star,

1785
01:42:52.680 --> 01:42:53.920
mister Joseph Cotton.

1786
01:42:54.600 --> 01:42:57.720
That's next week on Suspense.

1787
01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:07.079
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with music

1788
01:43:07.159 --> 01:43:10.560
composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. Portions

1789
01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:14.399
of the program were transcribed. The Signalman was adapted for

1790
01:43:14.520 --> 01:43:18.000
Suspense by Irving Reese from the short story by Charles Dickens.

1791
01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:23.920
In Tonight's story, Joseph Kerns played the Signalman. Agnes Moorehead

1792
01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:26.159
has been on the road in Don Juan in Hell

1793
01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:29.279
and can currently be seen in Metro Goldwyn Mayer's picture

1794
01:43:29.680 --> 01:43:34.560
The Story of Three Loves And remember next week mister

1795
01:43:34.760 --> 01:43:44.359
Joseph Cotton in Tom Dooley. This is the CBS Radio Network.

1796
01:43:56.159 --> 01:44:03.279
My dear, the evening is drawing deeper, and I fear

1797
01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:08.960
soon the sun will rise as it is wont to do.

1798
01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:14.920
But perhaps I have just one more ticket, oh right

1799
01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:21.119
here in my pocket, one more journey for you to enjoy.

1800
01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:27.039
Oh what's that? Well, I could tell you the destination,

1801
01:44:27.359 --> 01:44:33.479
but I feel like that might be spoiling it for you. Well,

1802
01:44:34.239 --> 01:44:38.600
my dear, if you insist, let me just get my

1803
01:44:38.720 --> 01:44:43.239
glasses on a ticket to nowhere.

1804
01:44:45.039 --> 01:44:55.000
The Whistler is entered by the United States Air Forces

1805
01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:55.880
in Europe.

1806
01:45:02.079 --> 01:45:06.000
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For

1807
01:45:06.159 --> 01:45:07.079
I walk by night.

1808
01:45:08.039 --> 01:45:11.079
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of

1809
01:45:11.159 --> 01:45:12.079
men and women who.

1810
01:45:12.000 --> 01:45:16.800
Have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless

1811
01:45:17.079 --> 01:45:19.479
terrors of which they dare not speak.

1812
01:45:32.880 --> 01:45:35.760
The Whistler will continue in just a moment, But first

1813
01:45:35.800 --> 01:45:39.079
this message from the United States Air Forces in Europe.

1814
01:45:40.239 --> 01:45:44.159
And now the Whistler's strange story ticket to nowhere.

1815
01:46:01.199 --> 01:46:04.000
The passenger and the privately owned car for hire. I

1816
01:46:04.159 --> 01:46:07.199
was talking and to the driver, Lee Korby.

1817
01:46:07.159 --> 01:46:10.399
The things his passenger was saying were more than interesting.

1818
01:46:11.159 --> 01:46:14.640
Lee didn't exactly hate his work, because owning his own

1819
01:46:14.760 --> 01:46:17.960
car and operating its individual he was in a position

1820
01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:22.000
to take advantage of certain situations. That's why the rambling

1821
01:46:22.119 --> 01:46:25.800
chatter of this particular passenger hit him so strangely. Yes,

1822
01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:29.640
you just listen closely, don't you lee without a thought

1823
01:46:29.680 --> 01:46:31.239
of interrupting as he prattles on.

1824
01:46:31.439 --> 01:46:32.600
When you tilight.

1825
01:46:32.359 --> 01:46:34.560
Talking and there's no one else around, you've got to

1826
01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:39.479
talk to a stranger hand driver, Yes, sir, I've got

1827
01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:43.159
the key to a new life. A fortune, yes, driver,

1828
01:46:43.439 --> 01:46:47.720
a fortune, something I've waited for for nearly fifteen years.

1829
01:46:48.720 --> 01:46:51.399
Oh it isn't just that I've had a few drinks. Driver,

1830
01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:53.359
I've just got a howl tonight.

1831
01:46:53.479 --> 01:46:53.880
That's all.

1832
01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:54.680
That's my night.

1833
01:46:55.159 --> 01:46:58.319
Oh hey, we hadn't the right way?

1834
01:46:58.439 --> 01:46:59.800
You said Cyprus Lodge then you?

1835
01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:01.239
Yeah, yeah, I did.

1836
01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:04.319
I thought the lodge was closed. It is, but I

1837
01:47:04.479 --> 01:47:06.800
arranged to keep my bungalow for an extra week.

1838
01:47:07.680 --> 01:47:11.119
That briefcase have anything to do with it? Briefcase? I

1839
01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:13.319
look here, This briefcase doesn't call you.

1840
01:47:13.439 --> 01:47:14.159
I are down.

1841
01:47:14.560 --> 01:47:16.680
You've been yacking like I'm your long lost buddy, and

1842
01:47:16.720 --> 01:47:18.720
you've been hugging that briefcase like it was a baby.

1843
01:47:18.880 --> 01:47:19.319
Forget it.

1844
01:47:20.359 --> 01:47:23.000
Don't make any difference to me. Do you know something?

1845
01:47:24.319 --> 01:47:28.479
You talk too much? I'm sorry, Skip. It just makes

1846
01:47:28.520 --> 01:47:30.680
a long day. That's all I said, I'm.

1847
01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:33.119
Sorry, and I'll make it a shorter day for you.

1848
01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:36.239
Make when this runs over, Joshu, No, no, I mean it.

1849
01:47:36.520 --> 01:47:39.680
And we get to the depot right now at Cypress Lodge.

1850
01:47:40.039 --> 01:47:43.840
Oh you want me to swing in? Yeah, yeah, and

1851
01:47:44.079 --> 01:47:44.520
wait for me.

1852
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:47.319
I've just got to pick up a couple of things

1853
01:47:47.359 --> 01:47:49.000
and then we'll go to Union Station.

1854
01:47:51.199 --> 01:47:52.800
I'll park right over there.

1855
01:47:52.960 --> 01:47:54.359
Yeah fine, fine.

1856
01:47:54.439 --> 01:47:56.520
You wait for me now, I'll be right back.

1857
01:47:56.920 --> 01:47:58.800
I can't miss that tree today.

1858
01:48:07.319 --> 01:48:09.439
You watch him walk away toward the lodge in its

1859
01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:12.760
row of bungalows, disappear into one. He's only gone a

1860
01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:15.119
few minutes when you're suddenly startled at the.

1861
01:48:15.119 --> 01:48:17.199
Sound of a shot. You freeze listening.

1862
01:48:17.800 --> 01:48:19.760
When you get out of the car, run to the

1863
01:48:19.800 --> 01:48:22.800
bungalow your passenger entered, and you look through the window.

1864
01:48:26.079 --> 01:48:28.520
You can't see very well that the lone court light

1865
01:48:28.680 --> 01:48:30.359
enables you to desern a man's.

1866
01:48:30.079 --> 01:48:30.960
Body on the floor.

1867
01:48:31.720 --> 01:48:34.800
It looks like your late passenger, doesn't it leave lying

1868
01:48:34.920 --> 01:48:44.960
in earth and still apparently dead. You'll hurry back to

1869
01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:47.399
your car, begin the youth turn to take you back

1870
01:48:47.439 --> 01:48:50.840
to town. As you finish, a woman emerges from the

1871
01:48:50.880 --> 01:48:54.119
shadows of the bungalows a woman carrying a breakcase you're

1872
01:48:54.159 --> 01:48:57.560
certain is the same breakcase your late passenger carried.

1873
01:49:01.079 --> 01:49:02.079
Can I drive you somewhere?

1874
01:49:02.159 --> 01:49:02.359
Lady?

1875
01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:03.880
The cars for hire?

1876
01:49:04.199 --> 01:49:05.760
That's right? See your sign?

1877
01:49:06.079 --> 01:49:06.560
Yes I do.

1878
01:49:07.800 --> 01:49:08.520
Bye, I'm lucky.

1879
01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:14.399
Yeah, sure, lady, you're lucky. Get in?

1880
01:49:16.840 --> 01:49:17.520
Where to lady?

1881
01:49:18.000 --> 01:49:18.600
Union station?

1882
01:49:18.720 --> 01:49:18.960
Please?

1883
01:49:20.640 --> 01:49:23.000
Uh? Union station? Right?

1884
01:49:41.359 --> 01:49:43.239
Are we almost there?

1885
01:49:43.359 --> 01:49:43.600
Sure?

1886
01:49:43.720 --> 01:49:46.800
Almost there? It's these traffic lights and to hold us up? Nah,

1887
01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:55.399
there's another lady. Yes, I guess this is what I've

1888
01:49:55.439 --> 01:49:55.920
been waiting for.

1889
01:49:57.479 --> 01:49:58.439
What are you talking about?

1890
01:49:58.600 --> 01:50:01.399
Right next to us at the curb squad? Two policemen?

1891
01:50:02.279 --> 01:50:05.399
So so do I yell for help? Or do you

1892
01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:07.479
toss your purse with a gun in it up here

1893
01:50:07.560 --> 01:50:09.920
on the front seat? What do you try to make

1894
01:50:10.000 --> 01:50:10.520
up your mind?

1895
01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:13.159
Lady? You last be here. You're as dead as I

1896
01:50:13.239 --> 01:50:18.159
am with those two cops sitting there. If you cooperate, well,

1897
01:50:19.560 --> 01:50:25.119
all right here? Thanks? Not a briefcase, no, lady, I

1898
01:50:25.199 --> 01:50:29.119
guess you don't hear so good? I said, take it

1899
01:50:32.239 --> 01:50:34.199
a ticket to nowhere or anywhere?

1900
01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:35.439
You know.

1901
01:50:35.680 --> 01:50:39.119
I'm burning up with curiosity about that briefcase, lady, So

1902
01:50:39.399 --> 01:50:39.720
what are you.

1903
01:50:39.760 --> 01:50:40.479
Going to do about it?

1904
01:50:40.600 --> 01:50:43.319
I'm going to find a nice, quiet, little cocktail bar,

1905
01:50:43.560 --> 01:50:48.840
and you and me we're gonna talk talk maybe, but

1906
01:50:48.960 --> 01:50:53.800
I won't miss mine. Relax, sweetheart, I may even pay

1907
01:50:53.840 --> 01:51:11.039
for the drinks. So this diary is what it's all about.

1908
01:51:12.079 --> 01:51:13.600
I think I read about him. I seen diary in

1909
01:51:13.640 --> 01:51:15.880
the newspapers. I read the papers a lot.

1910
01:51:16.520 --> 01:51:18.760
How educated you must be, No.

1911
01:51:19.920 --> 01:51:23.600
Just curious, like I said, Oh, hold enock.

1912
01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:27.399
Picking a privately operated car when there's a legitimate cab

1913
01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:29.279
stand a quarter of a mile from the lodge.

1914
01:51:30.279 --> 01:51:31.079
I should have walked.

1915
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:32.760
You didn't pick me, sweetheart.

1916
01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:36.800
I picked you when I saw you carrying your late

1917
01:51:36.920 --> 01:51:38.119
boyfriend's briefcase.

1918
01:51:38.479 --> 01:51:42.960
I didn't kill him, no, No, took a cab out there,

1919
01:51:43.000 --> 01:51:45.600
then waited for him. I only wanted to talk to.

1920
01:51:45.680 --> 01:51:47.840
Him, yeah, talking out of running out on you.

1921
01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:51.279
And when he argued that I didn't shoot him, somebody

1922
01:51:51.319 --> 01:51:52.279
shot him through the window.

1923
01:51:52.680 --> 01:51:54.479
There wasn't anybody else around, sweetheart.

1924
01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:56.399
But let's forget who killed him and talk about this

1925
01:51:56.560 --> 01:52:01.399
diary belonged to Paul Winslow, the newspaper whose body was

1926
01:52:01.439 --> 01:52:02.119
found in the bay.

1927
01:52:03.239 --> 01:52:04.039
I guess you think.

1928
01:52:03.920 --> 01:52:06.560
Frank figured out turning this diary over to the police.

1929
01:52:07.279 --> 01:52:12.319
Collect a reward. Maybe, well he didn't. The reward would

1930
01:52:12.319 --> 01:52:15.720
be peanuts. Thousand dollars Maybe that's.

1931
01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:16.640
A lot of passengers.

1932
01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:19.960
But you know what's having sweetheart, I've been reading this

1933
01:52:20.159 --> 01:52:23.760
diary while you were enjoying your drink. This stuff could

1934
01:52:23.800 --> 01:52:26.039
put some big racketeers behind bars.

1935
01:52:26.399 --> 01:52:30.079
That was reporter Winslow's idea. He was going to stop

1936
01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:32.199
a whole crime syndicate all by himself.

1937
01:52:32.359 --> 01:52:36.000
Yeah, only he got stopped and ended up floating in

1938
01:52:36.119 --> 01:52:37.119
San Pedro Bay.

1939
01:52:38.600 --> 01:52:39.960
You do read the papers.

1940
01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:43.600
Look, I'll give you two thousand dollars cash right now,

1941
01:52:43.760 --> 01:52:45.239
just forget me and let me take this diary.

1942
01:52:47.840 --> 01:52:48.920
Well, what's so funny?

1943
01:52:49.720 --> 01:52:50.920
What's your real name? Honey?

1944
01:52:52.079 --> 01:52:52.520
Elaine?

1945
01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:56.760
Elaine Brad I'm Lee Corby. All right, what do you

1946
01:52:56.880 --> 01:52:58.720
want half of what it's worth? Sweetheart?

1947
01:52:58.840 --> 01:53:00.840
Not calling me sweetheart? My name is Elaine.

1948
01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:01.479
Okay.

1949
01:53:03.399 --> 01:53:06.479
What's the next move, Elaine? I mean our next move?

1950
01:53:06.960 --> 01:53:07.840
Our next move?

1951
01:53:08.000 --> 01:53:12.439
Yeah, I'm the driver, remember, and with this diary in

1952
01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:16.279
my hands and your gun, I'm in the driver's seat too.

1953
01:53:17.399 --> 01:53:22.680
Now what's our next move? San Diego chair car stuff? Well,

1954
01:53:23.359 --> 01:53:25.000
I guess the luxury travel can wait.

1955
01:53:25.880 --> 01:53:28.199
Remember I told you I didn't kill Fresh Sure, sure

1956
01:53:28.239 --> 01:53:31.600
I remember, well, whoever did kill him? Maybe following us.

1957
01:53:32.479 --> 01:53:33.680
That's a chance I'll take.

1958
01:53:34.199 --> 01:53:37.239
Also, when we get to to the people we have

1959
01:53:37.359 --> 01:53:41.760
to do business with, well they expected Frank, they might

1960
01:53:41.840 --> 01:53:44.000
take a dim view of what happened to blame us.

1961
01:53:44.479 --> 01:53:46.319
Another chance we'll have to take.

1962
01:53:47.760 --> 01:53:51.960
Filey. Like you said, you're in the driver's seat.

1963
01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:15.520
It's something you've thought of many times, isn't it, Lee,

1964
01:54:16.119 --> 01:54:18.600
But you didn't expect it the way it happened last night.

1965
01:54:19.159 --> 01:54:22.159
The man in your car talk about the key to

1966
01:54:22.279 --> 01:54:27.640
a fortune is unexpected death. Then Elaine Brandt unwittingly stepping

1967
01:54:27.720 --> 01:54:28.560
into your car.

1968
01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:32.399
Carrying his briefcase. She has to deal with you, doesn't

1969
01:54:32.439 --> 01:54:34.039
she leave? She doesn't like it.

1970
01:54:34.560 --> 01:54:37.600
But you have the diary prepared by the dead news reporter,

1971
01:54:38.359 --> 01:54:41.119
and you don't intend to give it up until Elaine

1972
01:54:41.239 --> 01:54:43.800
contacts the underworld people who will pay off for its

1973
01:54:43.840 --> 01:54:48.079
return in destruction. The next day in San Diego, Elaine

1974
01:54:48.199 --> 01:54:50.039
is even more annoyed at what you tell her in

1975
01:54:50.079 --> 01:54:53.279
the cocktail lounge of the carlm Hotel where she is staying.

1976
01:54:53.439 --> 01:54:56.560
Put that diary in the mail, Lee, you're a bigger foolman.

1977
01:54:56.640 --> 01:54:58.199
I thought, but what if it gets lost?

1978
01:54:58.239 --> 01:54:59.560
Don't you realize its value?

1979
01:55:00.039 --> 01:55:01.640
Why did you do such a stupid thing?

1980
01:55:01.800 --> 01:55:04.760
Because I'm not stupid. I got thinking about what you said.

1981
01:55:05.279 --> 01:55:08.640
Maybe we're being followed, So what nobody's gonna hurt us.

1982
01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:11.640
If we haven't got the diary. Really, they're gonna treat

1983
01:55:11.720 --> 01:55:13.720
us real nice? Do we tell them where it is?

1984
01:55:14.359 --> 01:55:15.359
I see, good?

1985
01:55:16.920 --> 01:55:20.199
Finish your drinks, wee heart, Relax. The first mail tomorrow

1986
01:55:20.239 --> 01:55:33.920
will bring us exactly what we need to collect. Lee.

1987
01:55:34.039 --> 01:55:36.159
I talked with our man over the phone half hour ago.

1988
01:55:36.840 --> 01:55:38.880
You'll accept delivery of the diary tonight.

1989
01:55:39.119 --> 01:55:42.520
We're at a bar called Starboard in what's the payoff?

1990
01:55:43.159 --> 01:55:45.880
They won't go over five thousand dollars five thousand? I

1991
01:55:45.960 --> 01:55:46.920
figured out more too.

1992
01:55:47.279 --> 01:55:49.479
He didn't Frank tell you how much he was gonna get. Well,

1993
01:55:49.560 --> 01:55:51.159
but from the way talk, I think it was gonna

1994
01:55:51.159 --> 01:55:54.880
be one hundred thousand. Well, I'm not gonna let this

1995
01:55:55.000 --> 01:55:56.399
book go for any five grand.

1996
01:55:56.520 --> 01:55:58.880
We've got to Lee, why, because they know I was

1997
01:55:58.960 --> 01:56:01.840
Frank's girlfriends. We've got to play ball with them, or

1998
01:56:01.880 --> 01:56:03.560
the same thing will happen to us that happened to

1999
01:56:03.640 --> 01:56:04.159
that reporter.

2000
01:56:04.600 --> 01:56:07.159
Us. They don't know a thing about me.

2001
01:56:08.079 --> 01:56:11.199
Well, do'll be too sure. Like I told you, we're

2002
01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:12.439
probably being followed.

2003
01:56:12.560 --> 01:56:15.000
I doubt it, look a la if I was the hand.

2004
01:56:15.199 --> 01:56:18.800
Oh no, you already have the book. If I was

2005
01:56:18.880 --> 01:56:19.359
to give you the.

2006
01:56:19.399 --> 01:56:22.359
Name of the contact, well, trade, i'd skip out on

2007
01:56:22.399 --> 01:56:23.239
here exactly.

2008
01:56:24.399 --> 01:56:27.359
Besides, half of five thousand is much better than nothing

2009
01:56:27.399 --> 01:56:27.680
at all.

2010
01:56:28.680 --> 01:56:32.319
Ever, think of this, Elaine, Maybe I don't need you.

2011
01:56:32.960 --> 01:56:36.239
What do you mean, Maybe I can locate the contact myself.

2012
01:56:36.560 --> 01:56:39.279
Oh, running out of the newspaper murdered.

2013
01:56:39.079 --> 01:56:42.319
Report his notebook for sale a pie Lee Korby boxxx.

2014
01:56:42.600 --> 01:56:46.199
Okay, five grand isn't what we expected, but I suppose

2015
01:56:46.239 --> 01:56:48.920
we can't do anything about it. What time you meet

2016
01:56:48.920 --> 01:56:51.359
the boy with the money? Eight o'clock you'll be there

2017
01:56:51.920 --> 01:56:53.479
starboard in bar, you said.

2018
01:56:53.600 --> 01:56:56.600
Yes, he's said to come alone.

2019
01:56:56.840 --> 01:56:59.119
Okay, but I'll be in the bar too.

2020
01:57:00.720 --> 01:57:01.840
As long as you don'tate a.

2021
01:57:01.880 --> 01:57:04.800
Fear, I'll just sit close by and watch.

2022
01:57:05.880 --> 01:57:08.439
I'll have to have the diary.

2023
01:57:09.319 --> 01:57:12.399
You get it when when you reach the starboard in

2024
01:57:12.600 --> 01:57:14.960
Bar this evening, I'll be waiting at the entrance.

2025
01:57:15.479 --> 01:57:33.159
I'll give it to you then, I just like I

2026
01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:33.880
was telling.

2027
01:57:33.640 --> 01:57:36.079
You, mister, I done dodger, should have won.

2028
01:57:36.159 --> 01:57:36.520
You know that.

2029
01:57:37.239 --> 01:57:38.239
He's like, you know what I've done?

2030
01:57:38.239 --> 01:57:39.079
If I have been dressing?

2031
01:57:40.520 --> 01:57:44.560
Oh oh, excuse me, by tender, I wasn't listening. Uh

2032
01:57:45.880 --> 01:57:48.640
see a friend of yours who had door back there

2033
01:57:48.640 --> 01:57:51.520
in the boot the went with the red hat. Oh yeah, yeah,

2034
01:57:52.000 --> 01:57:54.479
slight acquaintance. You had been looking over that way ever

2035
01:57:54.560 --> 01:57:57.840
since that fat boys had done next to her. Maybe

2036
01:57:57.880 --> 01:57:58.479
I'm jealous?

2037
01:57:59.800 --> 01:58:01.840
You know him?

2038
01:58:02.239 --> 01:58:05.159
Oh, he usually drops in for beer for going to work.

2039
01:58:06.039 --> 01:58:10.640
He's a nightclerk over at the Carlon Hotel, nightclerk. Not

2040
01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:16.520
gun sure something wrong with that? No, No, I just

2041
01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:20.319
figured he was a big shot. How about another drink? Yeah,

2042
01:58:20.680 --> 01:58:23.600
scutching water? All right, and you'd better bring a martini

2043
01:58:23.680 --> 01:58:28.000
for the lady too. Huh. Her fat friend is just leaving.

2044
01:58:28.439 --> 01:58:31.479
I'm going to join it. Sure thing, mister, sure.

2045
01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:36.840
Lee.

2046
01:58:37.560 --> 01:58:41.279
Hi, everything went okay perfectly.

2047
01:58:42.000 --> 01:58:44.159
You saw it satisfied?

2048
01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:47.600
What about your fat friends? He's satisfying.

2049
01:58:48.159 --> 01:58:51.880
He has the diary. We have the money here.

2050
01:58:52.079 --> 01:58:55.439
I've already taken my share twenty five hundred.

2051
01:58:56.720 --> 01:58:59.560
Jo I have is neon b Yeah, yeah.

2052
01:58:59.399 --> 01:59:01.840
Thanks, aren't you going to con it?

2053
01:59:01.920 --> 01:59:01.960
No?

2054
01:59:03.199 --> 01:59:06.239
I trust your sweetheart. What's more, I've ordered you a drink.

2055
01:59:06.760 --> 01:59:07.159
Thanks.

2056
01:59:07.399 --> 01:59:10.680
No, oh, why don't you de ice a little? Honey?

2057
01:59:10.760 --> 01:59:13.000
What's it going to be in sore? We've made a

2058
01:59:13.039 --> 01:59:14.920
few bucks and I'm looking for some laughs and maybe

2059
01:59:14.960 --> 01:59:15.479
see the town.

2060
01:59:15.560 --> 01:59:17.439
And you've better by yourself a comic book and a

2061
01:59:17.479 --> 01:59:18.680
ticket on a sight seeing bus.

2062
01:59:18.760 --> 01:59:20.960
You'll have a ball so longly you don't think it

2063
01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:21.800
hasn't been charming.

2064
01:59:22.279 --> 01:59:25.239
Why, my dear miss brand, do you mean to say

2065
01:59:25.279 --> 01:59:26.279
that this is good bye?

2066
01:59:26.479 --> 01:59:27.000
Exactly?

2067
01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:29.079
And when I get back to La, I'll make it

2068
01:59:29.119 --> 01:59:31.800
a point never to ride in any car but my own.

2069
01:59:32.399 --> 01:59:44.800
Oh hooked o colin.

2070
01:59:45.560 --> 01:59:47.600
Yes, well, I'm on.

2071
01:59:47.680 --> 01:59:48.279
I'll connect you.

2072
01:59:49.760 --> 01:59:52.279
I started, I kept you waiting, sir. No, that's all right, clik.

2073
01:59:52.439 --> 01:59:54.600
I just wanted to leave a message. Very well, sir.

2074
01:59:54.800 --> 01:59:59.680
The messages for I'll leave that up to you, up

2075
01:59:59.720 --> 02:00:02.880
to me. I'm afraid I don't understand.

2076
02:00:03.880 --> 02:00:06.840
It's about that envelope you picked up at the Starboard

2077
02:00:06.960 --> 02:00:08.159
bar twenty minutes ago.

2078
02:00:09.439 --> 02:00:12.039
I picked up number yeah, and you can relax. I'm

2079
02:00:12.079 --> 02:00:14.600
not the law about that envelope.

2080
02:00:15.399 --> 02:00:18.960
You handed the lady another envelope containing five thousand dollars.

2081
02:00:19.960 --> 02:00:22.960
That's a lot of money to pay for a blank diary.

2082
02:00:23.760 --> 02:00:27.720
What the diary was? A blank buster? But I know

2083
02:00:27.800 --> 02:00:30.840
where the real McCoy is and I'll make a deal.

2084
02:00:32.399 --> 02:00:35.880
I see, you can relay that information to your boss.

2085
02:00:36.720 --> 02:00:39.479
I'm going back to my hotel now, the autumnom six twelve.

2086
02:00:40.079 --> 02:00:42.720
I'll expect to call in an hour or so. And remember,

2087
02:00:43.600 --> 02:00:44.279
no rough.

2088
02:00:44.119 --> 02:00:47.720
Stuff, or the diary goes straight to the cops. It's

2089
02:00:47.760 --> 02:00:48.920
all arranged.

2090
02:01:03.119 --> 02:01:03.520
Hollowly.

2091
02:01:04.680 --> 02:01:08.000
Oh Jeweliane, mind if I come in.

2092
02:01:11.399 --> 02:01:16.199
Surprised to see me only disappointed you were expecting someone else?

2093
02:01:16.319 --> 02:01:16.920
Yes, I was.

2094
02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:20.199
I'm surprised you try and pull a stunt like you did,

2095
02:01:20.600 --> 02:01:23.079
set up a phony contact to get that diary away

2096
02:01:23.119 --> 02:01:23.319
from it?

2097
02:01:23.359 --> 02:01:25.159
And what about that trick you pulled on me, having

2098
02:01:25.199 --> 02:01:27.119
me a blank diary and a sealed downvelope.

2099
02:01:27.159 --> 02:01:30.680
Okay, we're right back where we started, except that I've

2100
02:01:30.760 --> 02:01:34.079
racked up a profit of twenty five hundred bucks your money.

2101
02:01:34.800 --> 02:01:36.119
Thanks you, an that's all right.

2102
02:01:37.239 --> 02:01:39.359
You see, you still don't know who the real contact

2103
02:01:39.560 --> 02:01:41.239
is and I do, And you.

2104
02:01:41.319 --> 02:01:45.279
Don't have the diary and I do. How much is

2105
02:01:45.359 --> 02:01:51.239
it really worth it? Ling fifty fifty thousand? I wonder

2106
02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:53.560
you were so willing to shell out twenty five hundred

2107
02:01:53.640 --> 02:01:54.760
bucks to get your hand on it.

2108
02:01:55.079 --> 02:01:58.079
Luckly, let's play this straight from now on.

2109
02:01:59.000 --> 02:02:02.319
Okay, we go on double crossing each other, we'll die

2110
02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:04.039
of old age before we collect any money.

2111
02:02:04.439 --> 02:02:06.760
Now, the head of the syndicate that wants his diary

2112
02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:09.039
is waiting just across the border Tijuana.

2113
02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:12.039
He called me twenty minutes ago. I told him I

2114
02:02:12.039 --> 02:02:13.039
would have to call him back.

2115
02:02:13.399 --> 02:02:14.720
Go ahead, now, I'll get it for you.

2116
02:02:15.199 --> 02:02:18.479
Well, he called me at my hotel. I told him

2117
02:02:18.479 --> 02:02:19.359
i'd call him from there.

2118
02:02:20.199 --> 02:02:22.880
What difference does that make? You won't know where you're

2119
02:02:22.920 --> 02:02:24.239
calling from. What's the number?

2120
02:02:24.840 --> 02:02:27.880
Uh, Tijuana three seven four one?

2121
02:02:35.159 --> 02:02:38.720
Yes, mister Corby, get me Tijuana three seven four one.

2122
02:02:38.760 --> 02:02:42.520
Will you please? You wanna three seven one? Very well, sir,

2123
02:02:43.319 --> 02:02:44.640
call you back in a moment. Thank you.

2124
02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:49.159
Uh.

2125
02:02:49.640 --> 02:02:50.680
Who is this guy?

2126
02:02:51.359 --> 02:02:52.239
His name is Sanchez.

2127
02:02:52.279 --> 02:02:55.439
He's top man in the syndicate as far as I know. Huh,

2128
02:02:56.560 --> 02:03:02.319
that must be your friend? Answered Hello, Oh.

2129
02:03:02.279 --> 02:03:05.399
That's all right, I'll talk to him. Hello, Sanchez, this

2130
02:03:05.479 --> 02:03:08.000
is elame brand. Just a moment, Sancho.

2131
02:03:08.800 --> 02:03:10.560
What is it? Lee? Hold the receiver it at one

2132
02:03:10.640 --> 02:03:11.600
side so I can listen.

2133
02:03:13.680 --> 02:03:18.439
Sanchez, Susan, I have been waiting for your car quiet anxiously.

2134
02:03:19.319 --> 02:03:20.479
Everything's arranged.

2135
02:03:21.159 --> 02:03:23.680
I can be at the Cafe Ruiz with everything you

2136
02:03:23.760 --> 02:03:24.800
want by ten o'clock.

2137
02:03:25.720 --> 02:03:30.359
That agreeable. Very ten o'clock. I would be waiting.

2138
02:03:30.439 --> 02:03:31.239
So you read the brand?

2139
02:03:32.000 --> 02:03:37.199
Yes, well, ye you heard?

2140
02:03:37.560 --> 02:03:42.600
Yeah, yeah, I heard. Satisfy this time, really satisfy.

2141
02:03:43.800 --> 02:03:45.159
Well, I'll go back to my hotel.

2142
02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:47.520
You check out, read a car, and pick me up

2143
02:03:47.600 --> 02:03:48.880
out front in about a half hour.

2144
02:03:49.600 --> 02:03:51.159
We're dure to meet Sanchez until.

2145
02:03:50.920 --> 02:03:53.640
You want a ten I'll be there and remember, Lee,

2146
02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:57.720
no more tricks, neither of us can afford them.

2147
02:04:04.720 --> 02:04:06.239
You know just what you're going to do.

2148
02:04:06.439 --> 02:04:09.840
Don't you leave the moment Elane leaves, you go downstairs,

2149
02:04:10.039 --> 02:04:11.079
check out rent a car.

2150
02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:15.000
Then you hurry over to her hotel, take the stairs

2151
02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:25.399
up to a room, Lee, what's the idea, anxiety, Elaine?

2152
02:04:25.880 --> 02:04:30.399
You said you pick me up downstairs? What's the idea

2153
02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:30.960
of the gun ley?

2154
02:04:31.640 --> 02:04:35.039
You've been picked up for the last time, Elaine, But

2155
02:04:35.239 --> 02:04:38.479
why have I don't trust you. Double cross your other

2156
02:04:38.560 --> 02:04:40.199
partner and kill them, and you'll do the same thing

2157
02:04:40.279 --> 02:04:41.439
to me the first chance you get.

2158
02:04:41.720 --> 02:04:42.159
You're wrong.

2159
02:04:42.359 --> 02:04:44.039
I'm not taking chances.

2160
02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:44.800
You'll never get away with it.

2161
02:04:44.880 --> 02:04:48.119
Somebody will here, they will. That won't make any difference,

2162
02:04:48.680 --> 02:04:49.000
you See.

2163
02:04:49.079 --> 02:04:51.439
The first thing I'm gonna do is lock your door,

2164
02:04:54.119 --> 02:04:57.000
and I'm gonna leave by that fire escape outside your window.

2165
02:04:57.039 --> 02:04:58.920
By the time they forced that door, I'll be in

2166
02:04:59.000 --> 02:05:03.600
the car on the way to Juanna. No, it's pretty dark. Besides,

2167
02:05:03.680 --> 02:05:24.159
they won't be thinking of that so long. Elaine will

2168
02:05:24.239 --> 02:05:27.119
Elaine Brant dead in her hotel room and nothing to

2169
02:05:27.199 --> 02:05:30.000
connect her with you. You're certain you're in the clear

2170
02:05:30.039 --> 02:05:32.239
as you drive across the Mexican border and the car

2171
02:05:32.359 --> 02:05:35.199
you've went now you're certain you only have to meet

2172
02:05:35.239 --> 02:05:38.479
the man named Sanchez, deliver the diary you're carrying in

2173
02:05:38.560 --> 02:05:43.720
your overcoat pocket, and receive fifty thousand dollars. You arrive

2174
02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:46.680
at the cafe right on time, and a waiter points

2175
02:05:46.720 --> 02:05:48.920
out Sancha sitting at one of the rear tables.

2176
02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:54.680
What is it, senor? Mind if I sit down? Sanchez?

2177
02:05:55.520 --> 02:05:57.640
Should I? I don't think so.

2178
02:05:58.960 --> 02:06:03.560
You're expecting a brand See, yeah, she won't be here,

2179
02:06:03.680 --> 02:06:08.039
but I have the diary your syndicate once that's all

2180
02:06:08.159 --> 02:06:08.960
you're interested in.

2181
02:06:10.159 --> 02:06:11.800
That was part of the bargain.

2182
02:06:11.840 --> 02:06:15.479
See part part of her What do you mean when

2183
02:06:15.520 --> 02:06:18.279
the Senorita Brand arranged this transaction a week ago.

2184
02:06:18.439 --> 02:06:20.119
A week she promised to deliver.

2185
02:06:20.000 --> 02:06:24.319
Two things to me as representative of the syndicate the diary.

2186
02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:26.920
Second, she was to point.

2187
02:06:26.720 --> 02:06:30.159
Out a killer to the police, the killer of the

2188
02:06:30.279 --> 02:06:32.239
newspaper reporter Paul Winslow.

2189
02:06:32.920 --> 02:06:35.079
He would of course be unaware of the fact he

2190
02:06:35.239 --> 02:06:36.239
was walking into a track.

2191
02:06:36.279 --> 02:06:39.239
Wait a minute, this doesn't make sense. You're trying to

2192
02:06:39.319 --> 02:06:40.760
tell me your syndicate.

2193
02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:43.359
Would allow a Lane to put the finger on I'm

2194
02:06:43.399 --> 02:06:46.279
one of the long killers. A moment's in your I

2195
02:06:46.359 --> 02:06:47.960
am afraid you are confused.

2196
02:06:48.880 --> 02:06:53.119
I should explain that I represent a newspaper syndicate, the

2197
02:06:53.279 --> 02:06:56.560
syndicate that Paul Winslow was working for when he was murdered.

2198
02:06:57.079 --> 02:06:58.920
I would advise you to remain city SENIORA and to

2199
02:06:59.000 --> 02:07:02.039
keep both hands on the table. The police are sitting

2200
02:07:02.079 --> 02:07:07.119
all around us. They are planning to question Senorita Brand

2201
02:07:07.279 --> 02:07:10.359
very closely. They are anxious to know how she got

2202
02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:12.920
possession of the diary. She's the one you want, not me.

2203
02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:16.319
She killed Frank too. Who is this Frank?

2204
02:07:16.359 --> 02:07:18.880
He's the one that kills your reporter Winslow Elaine Brand

2205
02:07:18.920 --> 02:07:20.079
doublecross him and kill him.

2206
02:07:20.279 --> 02:07:21.960
Frank was the killer. She was going to turn in.

2207
02:07:22.680 --> 02:07:28.039
Perhaps and then again, perhaps the killer has delivered himself.

2208
02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:31.920
You sen me, Well, wait a minute, I didn't kill

2209
02:07:31.960 --> 02:07:32.399
that reporter.

2210
02:07:32.560 --> 02:07:36.239
That remains to be seen. The Senorita Brand should be

2211
02:07:36.279 --> 02:07:39.359
able to tell us. We shall go with the police

2212
02:07:39.439 --> 02:07:42.960
and call on her together at her hotel. If you

2213
02:07:43.079 --> 02:07:46.760
are not the killer, I am certain she will clear you.

2214
02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:53.000
Listen next week when once again the United States Air

2215
02:07:53.079 --> 02:08:13.239
Forces in Europe present the Whistler. The Whistler has come

2216
02:08:13.319 --> 02:08:16.800
to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States

2217
02:08:17.039 --> 02:08:19.600
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

2218
02:08:31.439 --> 02:08:36.039
Well, my dear, we've arrived back at the station. And

2219
02:08:36.239 --> 02:08:39.520
isn't that just how life is? You go round and

2220
02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:43.359
round and round on the tracks, but the train always

2221
02:08:43.479 --> 02:08:48.359
winds up just where it started. I do so enjoy

2222
02:08:48.720 --> 02:08:52.920
your visits and hope that you'll come back very soon.

2223
02:08:53.920 --> 02:09:01.159
I'll be here, same time, same place, happy to entertain

2224
02:09:01.520 --> 02:09:08.039
and frighten you in the most comfy way possible. But

2225
02:09:08.199 --> 02:09:10.960
if I could ask just one more favor of you,

2226
02:09:11.199 --> 02:09:15.079
my dear, as you wander home, as the daylight sun

2227
02:09:15.239 --> 02:09:18.479
is breaking, as you cross the railroad tracks, by the

2228
02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:22.920
bridge that seems to always be weeping, and as you

2229
02:09:23.039 --> 02:09:25.119
lay your head down to blink.

2230
02:09:24.920 --> 02:09:25.800
The day away.

2231
02:09:26.880 --> 02:09:31.760
Just take one moment and be thankful for what you have,

2232
02:09:32.800 --> 02:09:35.359
and I'll be seeing you soon