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Unknown Broadcast | Christmas Radio Horror — Dead Man’s Holiday & Four Vintage Nightmares

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Unknown Broadcast celebrates the dark side of Christmas with five complete old-time radio stories filled with snowbound roads, fugitives, haunted gifts, buried secrets, and second sight. Warm lights and family reunions sit beside ghost towns, murder, deception, and supernatural inheritance in this holiday horror marathon.
Inside this episode:
• A Holiday Visit — Joan and Skip Bartram drive through an Ohio snowstorm on their way to a long-awaited family Christmas. An unmarked detour, a crash, and an apparently deserted town turn the homecoming into a supernatural mystery. A CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama written by Bob Juhren.
• Christmas Gift — In this Whistler story, Mary Winston has spent months hiding under different names when a detective finally finds her in a Panama City nightclub. What looks like the end of her escape may instead become an unexpected chance to return home.
• Dead Man’s Holiday — A dying man looks back on the train accident and chain of deception that led him to a bloodstained room. This Inner Sanctum mystery turns the idea of a holiday into a grim reckoning with identity, guilt, and death.
• Holiday Story — Herbert Marshall stars in a Suspense tale about a seemingly eccentric Christmas project beneath a cellar floor. Wild orchids, damp earth, and a carefully maintained explanation conceal a much darker domestic secret.
• The Terrifying Gift — Second sight is not a blessing but a family curse that must pass from mother to daughter. This CBS Radio Mystery Theater story follows the terrible price of knowing the future—and the impossibility of escaping the gift.
A chilling Christmas-season collection for listeners who like supernatural mysteries, vintage radio suspense, haunted holidays, and festive stories with sharp shadows beneath the tree.

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Well, hello, my dear, So happy you can make it.

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I know, I know. It's such a busy time of year.

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The holiday is approaching every quickly. Sometimes time seems to

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move at an unfair pace. But here I hope you

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can relax and enjoy something scary with me. I've put

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together some favorites that are all festive in their own way,

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and of course a hot cup of tea. I even

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made candy canes or what's that know, they're homemade. Don't

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you worry about that? So have a seat in my

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favorite chair, because this first one is one of my

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absolute favorites, and I know you'll enjoy it too. It

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all begins simply with a holiday visit.

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It's eleven degrees in midway air for twelve above at

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the lake front, ten above at O'Hare Field, and the

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windshill index is fifteen below. In Merry Christmas. From news

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Radio seventy eight w BD Avenue, Chicago. Here's something of

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interest to all automobile owners. If you own something that's expensive,

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doesn't it make sense to try to make it last

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as long as possible? But you don't always know exactly

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what to do, or whom to believe or whom to trust.

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There is one thing you can do to find out,

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and it doesn't cost one cent. Just a few minutes

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of your time stop in at Beverly Auto Tune Up

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Service at the corner of ninety first in Kenton and o'klawn,

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two blocks east of Cicero Avenue and one block north

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of the Southwest Highway. You will see a small, unpretentious

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garage operated by one man who will welcome you immediately.

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In just a few minutes, he'll show you a clear

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picture and explanation of what a genuine factory tune up is,

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and he'll give you some literature to take home. Remember

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this doesn't cost one cent. If you like what you see,

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call Beverly for a tune up. It takes only one

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hour while you wait. Beverly is open Saturday. The phone

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number is six three six o eight. Oh wait, that's

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six three six eight eight. The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

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presents now me welcome. I'm e. G.

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Marshall with the greetings of the season. I hope you

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like the tree. I put up a bit of holly too,

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and mistletoe of course right there over the door. There

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are so many things to enjoy at this time of year,

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the warm, friendly spirit that's most important, the time to

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be with family and friends. There'll be a lot of

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holiday traffic too, as people make the rounds of visits,

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or travelers are making their way back home on the

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lonely road in Ohio. Two such travelers are about to

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have the most harrowing experience of their lives.

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No, it's getting heavier, skips.

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I wish it'd slow down.

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I hope we make it before dark.

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Oh.

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I shouldn't want to get stranded than this, Joe, what's

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the morning we're getting I can't control it.

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We're riding into that worl.

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We're doing all I can.

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Our mystery drama, A Holiday Visit was written especially for

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radio Mystery Theater by Bob Jura and stars Lloyd Batista

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and Diana Kirkwood.

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I'll be back shortly with that one.

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What are your plans for the Christmas holidays? Entertain friends

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or relatives, going home to visit parents. Perhaps this is

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always get together time, a time when people go home

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home to the families they've left behind as they've made

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their own way in the world. Joan Bartram made her

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way from a small town in Ohio to New York,

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where she worked for a while as a secretary and

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then married Skip Bartram, an oil company executive. She hadn't

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been back to a home in Ohio in twelve years,

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so it was a particular thrill for Joan when Skip

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came home one night and said, how'd you.

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Like to go home for the holidays? See your folks?

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Oh?

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Exkif, I love it, but can we afford it?

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Are The company's sending me to Toledo for a new

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training program right after the holidays. So the trip is on. Now,

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we'll just leave a little early and be with your

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folks for Christmas.

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Oh, what a surprise.

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I'm going to call mother this minute.

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You don't want to just drop in on them and.

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Make it a surprise and of them stayed away. No, no,

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I want to give them something to look forward to.

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Oh, well, maybe you're right.

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Oh it's been twelve years since i've been home and

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you've never Hello? Hello, mother?

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Oh jo How are you just fine?

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Dear mother? Mother? Are you sitting down a Hi?

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Listen?

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Mother, get Dad over to the phone. I want him

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to hear my news.

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Henry, come here, char.

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Are you pregnant?

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No?

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Mother?

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Oh my dear, your father's listening.

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I'm coming home for Christmas.

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Coming home.

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Yes, Skin has to be in Toledo after the holidays,

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So we're leaving early in time to be with you

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for Christmas.

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That's the best news time all day June.

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Your mother's doing I think.

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She's starting to cry. Do mine? I have to hang

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up now. I'll let you know when we'll arrive.

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Okay, darling, we'll be waiting.

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When can we leave?

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Well, i'd like to get away by Saturday. We'll have

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to drive. I'll need the car in Toledo. Let's see,

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we got to get to run in Bill by twenty third.

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The lap shows the end of the interstate. Well, what

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do we do when we turn off?

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Let's see we go north on eighty four. It looks

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like yes, north on eighty four to Hamilton, then forty

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two A to Blue Mountain, and we keep on that

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to Runyanville.

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I don't know. It looks as though the interstate keeps

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on going. We'll look there.

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Yeah, according to the math, so there's a proposed extension.

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It's been finished since the math came out.

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I guess what if we stayed on this would go

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straight to Runyonville. It looks as though we'd say about

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about twenty miles too.

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So we're of luck. We'll stay on it. It looks

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as though, well we may be. It's your folks a

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lot sooner than we thought.

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Fuck, it's starting to snow, but we're going to have.

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A white Christmas.

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Well I hope it doesn't get too thick before we

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hit your folks place.

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Skip.

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How far have we come on this highway?

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About forty miles?

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Have you noticed anything strange?

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You're thinking the same thing I am.

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There hasn't been a sign or a turn off since

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we got on this road.

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Yeah, I noticed that, and come to think of it,

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I don't remember seeing any cars passing us in either direction.

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Doesn't seem natural.

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Well, this road's going anywhere. They're keeping it a.

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Secret, but I'm getting a little uneasy.

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Maybe we ought to turn back and take Root eighty

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four like we planned.

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Well, I hate to do that after we've come this far. Now,

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this road's got to come out someplace. I'll say we

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got about an hour before dark.

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When the snow is getting heavier. I wish it'd slow down.

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Ope we make it before dark. I don't want to

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get stranded in this Oh, I can't control it.

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Oh, let keep doing something.

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Oh yeah, you put it in more tinsel on the tree, Harry,

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and it's going to topple over.

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I don't see how you can sit there so relaxed.

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Why are you so nervous?

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The children said they'd be here sometime today or tomorrow.

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They should have been here.

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By now, only because you think they should be. If

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anything was wrong, they'd call you know that.

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You're right.

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I'm just so excited about having our jone home for Christmas.

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I can't relax.

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Well, I think I'll take a stroll in the snow.

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You need anything from downtown?

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No, dear, I've had everything in for days. I just

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wish they'd get here.

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They will, Harriet, they will, now you stop worrying. Worrying

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isn't going to get them here any sooner.

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Yea.

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M oh, my head, joan, Joan? Are you all right?

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Well?

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What happened?

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Oh? Can you straighten up?

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My leg's go?

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Oh here here, let me see. Uh try try twisting

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it a little bit this way. Oh there, Oh there

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it's free. How do you feel? Oh? He crashed into

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the boulders.

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Can we will the car move?

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Pray?

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Oh?

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Thanks, heaven if.

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I can back or off? Yeah, I bet I better

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get out and take a look. Oh that does it?

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What's the matter?

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Two flat tires?

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Oh no, that had only one spare naturally.

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Oh dear lord, what are we gonna do? We're miles

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from anywhere.

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Uh, at least the snow is letting up a bit.

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Oh, we can't just sit here on this this ghost roade.

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Well where will we walk?

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Scared?

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Look a light?

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Oh yeah, oh about half a mile away, I'd say it.

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It must be a town.

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Hey, do you think you can make it on that leg?

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Oh?

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Yes, yes, I to hop on one foot to get

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out of here.

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Well, we can phone your folks. Tom will be a

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little delayed. We can probably get the car towed in. Well,

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it looks like we'll have to stay till morning.

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Oh maybe Jack can come pick us up. We can't

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be far from Runionville. We can pick up the car

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tomorrow or the next day.

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Oh that's Christmas day.

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Oh that's right.

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What are we sitting here chatting for? Come on, come on,

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let's move.

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It's so quiet. No car in the street at all.

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The store must have stumped the ball home.

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I guess let's try that grocery store. They're sure to

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have a phone.

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They can tell us where to find a garage too.

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At least we can get the car off the road

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for the night. So still, hello, anybody here?

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It's so dim one fair ball?

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Oh, pretty skimpy merchandise too.

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Hello.

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Wow?

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Oh the place seems deserted.

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Yeah.

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I don't see any payphone or any phone for that matter.

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Hello anybody here? Oh, well, we'll go someplace else. It's

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got to be a restaurant or a tavern in this town.

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Hey, come on, Oh, I know this isn't Runyonville.

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I hope not. Looks like a quiet little place, but

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awfully deserted or they must pull aside. Was in at

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five in the afternoon.

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The sky's clear. Oh look at those stars.

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Wow, I haven't seen them that bright in a long time.

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Yes, they don't seem to be many stories, mostly houses.

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Well we're not on the main dragon. Maybe we better

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go ask directions at that house there, No since wandering

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around a strange town.

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I guess we should. I'm sure they'll let us use

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their phone. I'll call Dad collect Hey, listen hear the singing.

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Of course, it's a cow concert. That's where everyone must be.

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Oh, come on, let's see if we can find them. Well,

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I give up. I don't know where that music's coming from.

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We've covered so many strengths and nothing.

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Yeah, no one. Oh hey, honey, you're shivering.

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I'm scared.

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Well, there's a hotel across the street. They let's go

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there and use the phone. There's got to be one there.

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This is a ghost town.

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There's no use wandering about anymore.

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It's a ghost town in the middle of Ohio.

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I wonder you know, you might? You right, it could

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be one of those restorations, an anti village. And if

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it is one, then there's got to be somebody around,

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a caretaker or a watchman or someone.

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Let's try the hotel.

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Well, that was wrong. I guess the hotel is just

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as deserted as everything else.

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And still no phone.

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I wish I had that CB radio, Paul offered me.

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I always thought they were a nuisance, but I sure

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would have gotten this out of this mess. Come on,

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come on, let's look around upstairs.

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Every room's empty. Not a stick of furniture anywhere.

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That's about what I expect.

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What was that?

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But it sounded like something hitting the roof.

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Skip's let's go back to the car I'm too frightened

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to stay here. This place is just too spooky.

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Come on, you don't believe in ghosts.

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It's not ghosts I'm afraid of.

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Here's another one. Well, here's something sailed past the window

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and landed on the ground. I'm going down and take

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a look around.

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I'll come with you.

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I'm not staying in here alone. Can you see anything yet?

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There's nothing out here except a couple of green logs

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over there. See them?

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Green logs?

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Yeah, a moss covered looks like they've been laying there

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for years.

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But skip, there's no snow on them. If they've been

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laying there for years, they'd be covered with snow.

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You think that's what hit the hotel? Or how many logs?

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It's big? Don't just fall out of the sky. Just

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take me back to the carney. There's no sense getting panicky.

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We're alone in this town or amusement park or whatever

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it is, and at least their shelter. We'll stay here

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for the night and we'll just try to get the

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civilization in the morning.

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You want to stay here, we might be murdered in

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our sleep. As if I could sleep.

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Well, dear heart, there's nothing else.

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We can do.

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We're sleeping in the car. Is foolish when we're the light.

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Every light went out.

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Well, that settles it. We're not going anywhere now.

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The whole town's out.

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There's not a light anywhere.

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Yeah, seems to be clouded over to see. The stars

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are gone. Yeah, come on, come on, let's go back inside.

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We'll be safe in there. I will curl up on

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a lobby furniture and try to sleep.

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I won't shut nigh wondering who what turned off those lights?

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To paraphrase a popular joke, where were Skip and Joan.

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When the lights went out?

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Not only in the dark, but in a strange Midwestern village,

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and just two days before Christmas, a time when they

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should have been enjoying the warmth of a friendly fireside,

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the pleasure of holiday decorations, the music of a Christmas carol,

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things that most of us are enjoying these days, but

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for them isolation in a cold and darkened hotel. We'll

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learn what this curious town holds in store for them.

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When I returned shortly with that, two Joan and Skip

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Bartram faced the prospect of spending the night in a

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deserted hotel in a strange and darkened town, a town

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apparently without inhabitants. Could it be a restoration of some kind,

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a sort of midwestern Williamsburg. Under normal circumstances, it might

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be a lovely place to spend the Christmas holiday, But

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Skip and Joan are anxious to get to her parents'

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home and friendly family warmth. They spent the night in

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the sparsely furnished lobby of the hotel. And now it's morning, Skip, I.

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Can't holme it's daylight.

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Oh oh, my taking back. Oh that's the hardest coach

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in the world.

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I didn't sleep all night. Come outside, I want to

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show you something.

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No, no, can't you bring it in here?

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Oh stop being silly. There are footprints in the snow,

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and they're not ours footprints. Yeah, look out the side

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window there.

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Yeah. Yeah, they go around the back of the hotel.

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Well that means somebody's around here. Come on, well, they're

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small prints. It must be a child.

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Or a woman.

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They lead toward that barn. It's funny. I didn't hear

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or see anyone.

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I was awake all night.

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Oh there aren't any prints leading away from the barn.

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So whoever made them is still in there.

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It's so quiet, not a sign of life anywhere.

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Well, let's go in. It's not like a private house.

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Anybody here, but so dark and dingy. Skip, skip, let's

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go back out. I don't like this. Well, somebody's got

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to be here. I mean the footsteps stopped at the door.

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Then why won't they answer us?

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Hey, listen, well that was somebody's up in the loft.

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Sip coming down from stairs down there.

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Oh good, good morning, ma'am. We're looking for someone to

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help us.

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Musty, where did you come from?

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Well, we had an access with our car last night.

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We skid it into an embankment. Oh my, we found

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the whole town deserted. So we spent the night in

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the hotel.

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Oh how curious see that? Ain't can you bention in

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that hotel?

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You know we have, or rather stayed in the lobby.

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I'm Skip bartra man. This is my wife Joan, who.

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We were wondering geez to meet you.

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I'm we were wondering if this is some sort of restoration.

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I mean, there were lights on last night and.

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We heard Christmas cow Oh yes, I think the music.

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What do you mean by a restoration. This is tay

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the town, but there's no one living here. You're the

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only person we've seen since last night.

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Yes, they've all gone each season, a few more left.

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My husband went last year. I'm the last one here.

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You live here, all alone, all alone, in a deserted town.

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It's my home.

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Uh, well, could we use your phone? Missus McGinnis. Joan

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wants to call her dad to pick us up, And well,

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I've got to get a tow truck for the car.

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Oh, mercy me, there's no gazure toe truck. Oh, but

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there's a payphone.

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It the way roached. We never headphones in any of

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the houses. And just wait till I finish upstairs, and

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I'll show you where it is. I don't know if

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it works, though.

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I see it's just there for a fit. I wonder

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what she meant by that.

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Well, who knows. I just feel better now that we've

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met another human being. She seems friendly.

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Enough, but a little strange, don't you think, naturally living

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alone in a dead town, a ghost town. I wonder

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how long she'll be We could find that railroad station ourselves.

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Oh, let her be hospitable. A few minutes won't matter. Uh,

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missus McGinnis, Missus McGinnis, are you almost finished?

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That's strange.

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Well, i'll see.

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Has something happened.

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To missus McGinnis.

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Skip, what's the matter?

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She's not here. The loft's absolutely empty. Well, there's no

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way she could have gotten out of that barn. There

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are no windows in that loft.

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Well, if she did, lett, we just imagine we saw

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and talked with her.

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No, she was there, all right, She just gave us

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the slips there.

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Look there's the railroad station. Oh, pray that that phone works.

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Well, I'm not counting on it, but it's worth a try.

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But it looks like one of Bell's first payphones. Skip.

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Have you got a dime?

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Yeah? I think so. I hear you are?

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Well here goes.

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Huh?

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So far so good?

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Oh, I got a dial town.

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At least something works in this town.

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It's only ten after nine. One of them's bound to

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be home. It's ringing.

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They're probably looking out the windows wondering where we are.

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So it is shorty on this line.

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Oh Dad, Oh, I'd thank heaven I reached you.

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Oh is this it's Joan?

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Dad?

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Joe?

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Can God be here? Speak up?

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Dad?

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It's Joan so we've had an accident with the car.

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You have to pick us up. Where are you?

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Well, you have to talk louder.

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A place called Taylor Town. It's proctically a ghost town.

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Do you know where it is?

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Taylor Town?

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The real way for you in front of the hotel.

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How long will it take you?

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Well, itch shut ten after nine though, about one hour.

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Oh, we'll be here. Oh, I can't wait to see you, Dad, Dad, that.

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The line's dead.

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What's the matter? You look concerned?

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Dad sounded so funny. I expected more of a reaction.

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He was so matter of fact. He didn't ask for

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the tales or anything.

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Oh, I'm sure he figured he'd find out the details

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when he picks us up.

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Yes, I suppose you know, dear, I have this strange feeling.

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I know this village.

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Well, not the village so much.

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But the houses.

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The houses look so familiar.

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Well, a lot of small Midwestern towns have that turn

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of the century look, I guess.

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So we used to go shopping in Fairmount and it

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was full of the same big houses we had in Runyonville,

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you know, with porches around the whole front and little

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filigrees under the eaves, like that place.

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On the corner exactly.

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And look who's on the porch.

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Missus mckinnis you there?

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Please?

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Please?

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You come from?

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How do you get many visitors anymore?

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We wondered where you went?

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Where I went?

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Hey, I've been here. Our marine sweeping the snow. You know,

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he off the porch.

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Before it freezes? Way?

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What brings you to Taylor Town?

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Skip? She doesn't remember us?

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Missus McGinnis, sweem menu.

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You know my name?

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Mercy?

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Who are you?

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Mcinness? We met you at the barn this morning and

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you said the.

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Barn you see, Oh, there's a nice one behind the hotel.

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Want to come in for some hot coffee?

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Takes that you off?

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Thanks? We'd like that.

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It's coming along even then.

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I he's up the thought.

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If I don't know what harm can it do. Look,

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we've got at least an hour to wait for your dad.

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We might as well spend it in a cozy kitchen.

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I guess you're right.

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Come out to the kitchen hop coffee in a minute,

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with some fresh scones I made myself.

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She keeps a neat house and so you know, old fashioned.

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It's lovely.

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Yeah, pretty start.

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Come in and shit down at the kitchen table. I

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don't have much, as you can see, but there's always

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something to share.

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You planning on moving here, you said, Oh.

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No, missus mcginni say, we told you we had an

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accident with our car.

486
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:13.279
Oh that's too bad. But I just called my father.

487
00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:18.240
He's coming to pick us up. You call your father, yes,

488
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.079
just now on the phone at the railroad station.

489
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:27.359
Oh, Mercy, that is a miracle. I didn't know. That's

490
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:28.319
so never worked.

491
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:31.759
Can We're happy to enjoy your hospitality while we're waiting.

492
00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.279
We still can't understand why there's no one else in town.

493
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:41.359
You live here all alone, each my home. It's not

494
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:43.839
bad living alone. I get by.

495
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:46.640
We thought it was some sort of restoration.

496
00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:49.920
I don't know what a restoration is.

497
00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:55.000
A restoration is an old town or house that's been

498
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:58.519
restored to look the way two years ago. Oh, this

499
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:02.880
town's looked like this from the beginning, every since.

500
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:04.359
It came from Scotland.

501
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.039
The town came over from Scotland.

502
00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:13.160
It's an exact duplicate of Taylortown in Scotland. The streets

503
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:17.960
and the houses, in all the furnishings came from Scotland.

504
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.960
Oh, Mercy, don't ask me. How long ago then?

505
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:24.240
You were born here?

506
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:31.279
I guess so you guess so well, I've never been

507
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:32.319
anywhere else.

508
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.759
Are you not eating the stones?

509
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:38.920
I guess we'd better get over to the hotel and

510
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.839
wait for that. Thank you so much for your hospitality,

511
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:43.680
Missus McGinnis.

512
00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:48.200
Oh, i'll come alone. I'd like to see imagine automobile.

513
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:50.680
I just get my shawl.

514
00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:54.799
It won't be a minute. She shouldn't be living alone

515
00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:57.680
like this. It's made her completely confused.

516
00:30:57.720 --> 00:30:59.920
So I know, well, there's nothing we can do.

517
00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:05.079
She kept offering us scoons and the plate was empty.

518
00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:07.200
She's living in the past.

519
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.000
I wish it's hurry. I don't want to miss dad.

520
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.039
Well, we've got lots of time. If you said an hour,

521
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:15.359
we've only been here a few minutes.

522
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:20.880
I wonder what's keeping Missus McGinnis. Look, why don't we

523
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:24.119
just go on? She'll follow us. She knows where the

524
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:24.759
hotel is.

525
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:30.960
Missus McGinnis. You about ready, Missus McGinnis.

526
00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:32.000
Oh, not again.

527
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:34.359
I'll talk about the Cheshire cat.

528
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.480
Come on, let's get out of here.

529
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.920
Do you want your eggs scrambled off fried this morning?

530
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:51.799
Will I do? Hope we hear from the children soon

531
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.559
getting awfully nervous.

532
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.759
At least arrived last night, but.

533
00:31:57.880 --> 00:31:58.440
Not to go.

534
00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.960
It's not like Joan.

535
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:04.559
Why that just means there's nothing wrong? Har Is they

536
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:05.240
got trouble?

537
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:06.440
We'd have been the first to.

538
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:10.240
Know something's not right. I just feel it.

539
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:16.880
Well, stead after nine, if they're not here by nose,

540
00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:19.559
maybe I'll call the police.

541
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:21.400
Oh, I'll get it.

542
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.960
Hello, Hello, is it Joan? Now?

543
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:33.279
There seems to be a voice that I can't make

544
00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:39.279
it out. Joan. No, it's a bad connection. I don't

545
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:46.599
know if it's Joan or no. Dear Hello, Hello, Hello,

546
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:53.440
It's no use. Whoever it was will have to call back.

547
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.640
We'll just have to wait.

548
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:10.279
Keep I'm terribly frightened. I wasn't before, but now now

549
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:14.240
I really am. There's something evil here.

550
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.480
I mean no people accept that?

551
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:19.440
Crazy missus McInnis.

552
00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:20.400
With your dad's on the way.

553
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.240
I wonder it's been two hours now, Well, maybe he

554
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:24.920
had trouble.

555
00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:29.720
At least he knows where we are, doesn't he?

556
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.799
How I know? All we do is is ask each other.

557
00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:38.480
Still we questions. I'm cold, and I'm tired, and I'm hungry.

558
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:42.319
Oh we might just die here, don't you realize?

559
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:44.759
That we might just die here.

560
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:53.400
Stop it. I'm I'm sorry, Hannah, I had to stop you.

561
00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:57.279
I'll get control of myself.

562
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.160
I'm sorry.

563
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.880
Well, well just have to wait.

564
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.239
Everyone seems to be waiting. Joan and Skip are waiting

565
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:18.679
in Tailor town or expecting her father to pick them

566
00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.679
up any minutes. But Joan's father, as we now know,

567
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.760
didn't get the call, and he and his wife.

568
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:26.079
Are waiting to hear from Joan.

569
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:29.320
It looks as though Skip and Joan won't be whether

570
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:33.559
the books for Christmas after all, or at all for

571
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:36.840
that matter. We'll just have to wait to see how

572
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.960
it turns out. When I returned shortly with Act three,

573
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:57.599
and for the way things look now, it's not going

574
00:34:57.639 --> 00:34:59.960
to be a very merry Christmas for Skip and Joan.

575
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.440
Bartram apparently marooned in a strange little Ohio tom with

576
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:09.199
only one inhabitant. After encountering the elusis Missus mcinni's for

577
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:11.920
a second time, Skip and Joan have gone to the

578
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:12.880
hotel to.

579
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.079
Wait for Jones' father.

580
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:19.079
It's a cold December afternoon and it's been a long wait.

581
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.599
What time is it ten after two?

582
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.360
I'm going to phone home again. Maybe there's a reason

583
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:27.400
Dad was delayed.

584
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:29.920
And after that, I'm going to call the state police.

585
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.679
I should have thought of it before. We're in a

586
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.440
real emergency here. They'll tow us out. Come on.

587
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.079
But suppose Dad comes after we've gone.

588
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.920
We'll ask missus McGinnis to watch for her.

589
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:48.559
Missus McInnis, missus Houdini. You mean I wouldn't trust her

590
00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.840
to give Dad a message.

591
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.719
Well, we're getting out of here as fast as we can,

592
00:35:52.920 --> 00:36:00.719
your father or the police, whichever comes first. Okay, Okay, here, folks, again,

593
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.719
it's dead. There's no dial tone. Nothing makes sense in

594
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:13.280
this place.

595
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.360
Oh it's no use, it's dead.

596
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:19.199
Stay right where you are.

597
00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.440
She's got a gun. You better be kicking off.

598
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.320
Missus McGinnis. Why the gun?

599
00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:28.480
How do you know my name?

600
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:29.360
Uh?

601
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.599
Lucky guess. Why are you pointing that gun at us?

602
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.159
I want you out of here now. I don't truss strangers.

603
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.000
Missus McGinnis, you were so hospitable to us before.

604
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:41.079
Why are you before?

605
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:46.280
I've never seen you before in my life.

606
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.440
Now get out of here, start walking Where to do?

607
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:54.760
Wherever you come from? I don't allow straight you're here.

608
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:56.280
This is a nightmare.

609
00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:58.960
You don't scare us because I know in a couple

610
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.400
of minutes you're going into disappear.

611
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:02.079
What are you talking about.

612
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:05.079
You've been popping up and vanishing all morning. In a

613
00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:08.280
few minutes you'll just disappear poop. So we are waiting

614
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:11.679
right here, will come on Jones? She means it?

615
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:13.960
But where can we go back to the car? She

616
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.239
would really shoot her.

617
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:17.039
She couldn't be doing.

618
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:19.719
We're not taking chances with that crazy old woman.

619
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.639
But we'll freeze out here and Dad won't.

620
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:24.159
Find you if you'll have to press the car on

621
00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:27.760
the highway. Nothing makes any sense.

622
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:35.599
Here, we're back. You are right, she's gone.

623
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:44.880
We'll be okay here from motor works. I'll just turn

624
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:50.559
on the here, come on hop in here. Oh, there's

625
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:54.320
more damage than I thought. The whole front end's caved in.

626
00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:57.960
What are Christmas? This is turned out to me?

627
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:00.880
Oh honey, we'll get out of this. Yeah, let me

628
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:01.679
get the hitter going.

629
00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:06.239
We might as well get some holiday spirits if the

630
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:12.639
radio still works. Oh, I am so bush.

631
00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:16.719
Oh you didn't sleep all night and I didn't get

632
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:18.440
much myself, and I wouldn't couch.

633
00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:20.400
I hope Dad come soon.

634
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:25.760
Yeah, we can't keep the motor running. All day.

635
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:29.079
So I hope missus mckinnis doesn't show up again.

636
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:33.239
Oh, she wouldn't follow us out here, but locked the

637
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:42.719
doors anyway.

638
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:52.039
So, hey, you are right in there.

639
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:57.480
Hey you too? Huh? Who's there?

640
00:38:58.079 --> 00:38:58.679
What's the mare?

641
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:00.519
Are you too?

642
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:03.280
Okay? Oh it's a stay trooper.

643
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:06.800
We sell asleep.

644
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.519
My leg.

645
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:13.119
Are we glad to see you? Anybody hurt?

646
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:13.679
No?

647
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:17.880
Oh no, we must have dozed off, dozed off.

648
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:19.000
And ran off the road.

649
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.159
A helicopter spotted your car and called us.

650
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.119
Oh, thanks the Lord for that.

651
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.119
How'd you get on this road? It's officially closed? Well,

652
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:33.440
there weren't any signs about that. It connected within the

653
00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:36.280
state forty and we just stayed on and had the

654
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.800
bad luck. It's get in the bullders. This extension isn't

655
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.960
due to open until next summer. Where are you heading?

656
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:45.320
Runionville?

657
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.000
My parents live there.

658
00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:49.519
We're going home for the holidays.

659
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.480
You wouldn't have gotten there on this road. It ends

660
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:57.119
about one hundred yards up ahead. Our radio for a

661
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.559
toe and get you folks to your onion bill. And

662
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:05.199
when did you go off road last night? You been

663
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:05.920
here all night?

664
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:06.920
Well?

665
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:12.480
No, we went into Taylor Town. Taylor Town, Yeah, right

666
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:15.039
up the road. But it's a ghost town except for

667
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:20.000
a crazy old woman who lives there. I'd better get

668
00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:24.280
you folks to the hospital first, just to check out,

669
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:27.960
you know, possible concussion. Oh no, no, no, we're all right.

670
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:31.239
My wife's ankle was twisted, but once we got out

671
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:33.760
of the car, she was okay. We do not need

672
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:36.760
a hospital. Do you say you spent the night in

673
00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:42.920
a place called Taylortown? His There is no Taylor Town

674
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:43.639
around here.

675
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:48.000
I've lived here all my lives, and there just isn't

676
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.960
any place called Taylor Town right up the road.

677
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.280
Look for yourself.

678
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:54.400
We were there all night.

679
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:01.960
I'm sorry man, and maybe us their Look ah, oh.

680
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.920
There's nothing there.

681
00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:05.239
There's no village at.

682
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:11.519
All, No man. Road ends at that vacant field, not

683
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:22.239
a town as far as you can see. How are

684
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:26.400
they doctor well, no sign of concussion at all, no injuries,

685
00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:30.360
accept abrasions on the woman's ankle. Well, what about that

686
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.159
story about spending the night in the village called Taylor Town?

687
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:39.599
Hard to say. Maybe they did. They must have imagined it.

688
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:43.559
They showed no signs of exposure. They only think they

689
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:47.960
were there through the night. They may be down the

690
00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:52.079
road only a couple of hours. The helicopters spotted them

691
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.599
two hours ago. They went to a village named Taylor Town.

692
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:04.719
They were hallosin hallucinations quite common in extreme circumstances. Mirage

693
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.039
is in the desert man, anxiety can produce them.

694
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.639
Then you think they spent the night, like they said,

695
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.599
in a village that isn't there.

696
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:19.920
They had an emotional experience. Physically they're fine. I see

697
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:23.559
no reason to keep them here. They're better off going

698
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:25.639
home to the woman's parents.

699
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:41.360
Will they're here? A police cars riding up you.

700
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:46.199
We glad to see your Oh, we were just about

701
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.760
to send her. Please start looking for you when you

702
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:50.280
call for the hospital.

703
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.199
Oh, I'm going to send that stay true for a

704
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.599
whopping Christmas gift. I got his name in badge number Skiff.

705
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.199
It's so good to see him. Same here, Thank Heaven.

706
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:03.960
Here, Come on in and everybody, no use standing here in

707
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.239
the cool And what happened?

708
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:05.599
Dad?

709
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:07.679
We thought you were coming to pick us up in

710
00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:09.199
that place called Tailor Town.

711
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:14.199
Uh, that's what puzzles me. We never heard from you.

712
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:18.440
The phone ran earlier this morning with no one was there.

713
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.480
I know I had a bad connection, but I was sure.

714
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:24.199
I heard you say you'd meet us.

715
00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:25.960
You seem to know.

716
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:26.480
Where we were.

717
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:32.320
You mentioned this table town. There's no place like that

718
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.280
around here. We exactly were you.

719
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:40.400
Well, I've never heard of it either, but we were there.

720
00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:43.840
I know that youoper thought we were looting. Oh I

721
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:48.320
don't know fuck to say about all this. Why don't

722
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:52.199
you both just relax. I've got a buffet already. We'll

723
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.320
have cocktails and you can tell us all about it.

724
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:55.320
That's I.

725
00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:59.400
I'll get your suitcases up to the guest room.

726
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.719
We had to leave all our gifts in the car,

727
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.920
but they're towing it in tonight, so we'll have them

728
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:09.280
in time for Christmas. They don't matter, Dear. Having you

729
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:13.920
here and safe is what's important. Now. You just relax

730
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.519
and enjoy the tree while I get things ready.

731
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:18.480
You won't be furnished.

732
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.360
Oh it's so good to be home again, and at

733
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.039
Christmas time everything's so pretty.

734
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:27.280
Yeah. Oh that's some tree.

735
00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:31.000
I just love the skip.

736
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:36.760
Look what under the tree? Come closer?

737
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:45.199
Oh, so little village set out under the tree, cardboard houses. Look,

738
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:51.440
Look at the hotel. It's tailor to mother and dad

739
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.000
got to set when I was a child. I've forgotten it.

740
00:44:55.960 --> 00:45:00.239
Every house, every street is just the way it was, the.

741
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.920
Railroad station, the little store, and.

742
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:06.000
Missus mckinness's house.

743
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:12.920
John, wait a minute, we weren't. We couldn't have been there.

744
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:14.920
That's what the trooper said.

745
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:22.599
What happened to us? Hey, I'm getting the chills. Look

746
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:26.360
at those pine needles from the tree. Those are the

747
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.039
green logs that hit the roof.

748
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:33.840
I wonder what Missus mckinnis. Could she be?

749
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.039
Hi, I think she disappeared for the last time.

750
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:40.880
What should we tell mother and dad?

751
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:48.719
I don't know. I think we said enough. I don't

752
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:52.480
know what happened to us last night, but we better

753
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:53.719
stop talking about it.

754
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:58.320
I guess you're right here the orders you can pour

755
00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:04.440
the wine wills a holiday toast everybody. Oh, I see

756
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:06.719
you admiring the village under the tree.

757
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.239
How we haven't set it up for years.

758
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:13.440
We used to put it up regularly when Jones child.

759
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:17.199
Lately we've just had a table tree now.

760
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:20.519
But this year, with you both coming, we went all out,

761
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:25.039
big tree everything. Yes, yes, and it's lovely.

762
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.800
The detail in those houses is exquisite, isn't it.

763
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.920
Yes, yes, very very realistic.

764
00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:36.360
It was imported from Scotland. It's been in my family

765
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:43.079
for years. Well he is to a wonderful holiday visit.

766
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:50.519
Merry Christmas everyone.

767
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.840
If there were an explanation for everything, where would the

768
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:58.480
magic in life be? I think we'd all lose interest

769
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:03.840
if everything were cut and neatly packaged. Chest right, we

770
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.559
need a bit of amazement now and then to soften

771
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:10.880
the blow of reality. Skip and Joan left reality for

772
00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.199
a brief period and it gave them something to remember.

773
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:16.360
All the lions.

774
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.599
Well, would you say, are feeling the spirit now?

775
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:21.159
My dear?

776
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:23.519
Very good.

777
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:26.360
I'm so glad you could join me tonight. I know,

778
00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:31.000
I know it's such a busy time finding the gifts,

779
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:34.639
doing all the obligations we all have, or at least

780
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.480
least had, But I'm happy to be here with you,

781
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:41.639
and of course staying up late at night. That's a

782
00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:45.400
part of Christmas that makes me remember being a young

783
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:51.679
boy waiting for the click click on the rooftop of

784
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:54.760
a strange man who would be entering my home soon,

785
00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:01.639
who watches me all year long without my knowing. Anyway,

786
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.920
My point is it all starts with a Christmas gift.

787
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.440
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is

788
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:14.039
unique among all mystery programs because even when you know

789
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:17.519
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at

790
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:21.719
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, The Whistler

791
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.599
transcribed by the Signal Oil Company to enable the entire

792
00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:28.880
production staff of The Whistler to spend the Christmas weekend

793
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:44.360
at home with their families, Signal the famous Go Farther

794
00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:48.159
Gasoline invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange

795
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:50.800
story by the Whistler.

796
00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:12.000
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.

797
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:13.239
For I walk by night.

798
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:17.440
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of

799
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:20.880
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,

800
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:25.800
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

801
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:31.679
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange

802
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:34.400
Story Christmas Gift.

803
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:49.880
Christmas was only a few hours away, and Mary Winston

804
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.800
couldn't help but marvel that its spirit could reach down

805
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:56.719
and touch a cheap night club like Pete's canteena on

806
00:49:56.760 --> 00:50:02.599
the outskirts of Panama City. Sitting alone at a table,

807
00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:06.239
she gazed at her tawdry surroundings, and then from the

808
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.280
bar at the far end of the club came the

809
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:11.840
strains of a Christmas melody, a melody which brought back

810
00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:17.880
memories of happier Christmas eves. Yes, the Christmas spirit is undying,

811
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:18.320
isn't it.

812
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:18.679
Mary.

813
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:23.119
You watch the strolling soloist Sailor Reynolds nod as he

814
00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:29.760
comes closer and passes your table. It's been three months

815
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:32.159
now since you were hired as a singing hostess at

816
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:36.880
Pete' scantina. Three months that you've been billed as candy porter,

817
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:41.440
with no one, not even the proprietor, knowing your real identity,

818
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:46.440
Mary Winston. At long last, as candy porter, you seem

819
00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:57.199
to be safely away from your past. As the music ends,

820
00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.960
you look up, aware suddenly that Pete guardinasing heavy set

821
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.360
proprietor is approaching your table candy.

822
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:08.559
Candy, that this American gentleman just came in. He wants

823
00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:11.679
to buy you some champagne. Champagne you here.

824
00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:13.000
Please, I'm not in the mood.

825
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.679
DENI okay, this looks like a peag spender if he

826
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:18.119
wants to buy champagne.

827
00:51:18.199 --> 00:51:23.320
All right, all right, You.

828
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:26.320
Turn and see the tall, heavy set American approach and

829
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:30.760
suddenly become tense. After a year of running away, you've

830
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.639
learned to spot his kind in a moment, haven't you married?

831
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:37.719
You're certain he's a detective, and now you have to

832
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:41.840
fight to remain calm as he approaches. Sit down, mister Funday,

833
00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:42.679
see down.

834
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.039
Sure you don't mind the mists supporter?

835
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:47.679
Of course not, and that.

836
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:48.360
Case I will.

837
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.199
I'll go get this champagne. I keep you more nice

838
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:52.719
eleven years.

839
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:57.719
Old too, cigarette, mister Fontaine, you don't mind if I do?

840
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:00.960
Of course not go here? Right?

841
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:01.920
Thanks?

842
00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.719
Hell, this is very unusual for me spending the Christmas

843
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:10.840
season so far away from home. How come business important business,

844
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:11.920
couldn't it?

845
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:12.159
Wait?

846
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.920
No, this business means a lot to it people I

847
00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:17.239
work for.

848
00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:19.199
Y Ye.

849
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.119
See when you say the bubble water.

850
00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:27.719
From Marseille thirty years old, you said eleven.

851
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:31.400
That was from love. This is even better now I

852
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.280
put him back in the ice. If you want some more,

853
00:52:33.679 --> 00:52:35.800
just gold, pete, I've got more.

854
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:36.119
Just like.

855
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.840
Well, I guess it's a few hours early to say

856
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:43.639
Merry Christmas, MIAs Porter, so I guess i'd better just

857
00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:45.039
say good luck.

858
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:46.199
Thanks.

859
00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:50.960
He is hoping you find whatever you came here for.

860
00:52:56.000 --> 00:53:00.480
Oh I've already found what I came for you, say

861
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:03.159
I came for you, Mary Winston.

862
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:16.480
Friends, to all of you who have opened your homes

863
00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:19.079
to The Whistler, not only throughout the year, but even

864
00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:23.400
tonight on this last busy weekend before Christmas, Signal Oil

865
00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:26.599
Company has asked me to express their sincere appreciation for

866
00:53:26.639 --> 00:53:30.280
this privilege and pleasure, and we of the cast want

867
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:33.760
to add our thank you to During the nine consecutive

868
00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:37.039
years that The Whistler has been broadcast by Signal Oil Company,

869
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:40.039
many of us have celebrated Christmas with many of you

870
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:43.559
a number of times, and believe me, we're mighty proud

871
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.280
that you consider us a part of your entertainment family.

872
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:50.920
Tonight on behalf of Signal Oil Company and the independent

873
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:57.119
Signal dealers who serve you in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona,

874
00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:02.199
and Utah. I want to convey warmest season's greetings. May

875
00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:04.880
the many blessings of living in these United States of

876
00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:09.239
America enrich your holiday season and the new year.

877
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.159
It's ironic, isn't it. Mary hasorry Christmas gift After all

878
00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.320
the months of hiding, running from one town and then another,

879
00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.400
using a different name in each place, but never your

880
00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.559
own Mary Winston. These past three months, you've been known

881
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:46.599
as Candy Porter, singing hostess in Pete's canteena here in

882
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:50.360
Panama City. And now this detective sitting across from you

883
00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:54.599
has called you by your real name, Mary Winston, and

884
00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:58.719
you can't run? Can you marry? Facing Fontaine? You decide

885
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:02.159
there's only one move you can make that you've only

886
00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:05.519
won card left well, if you play it wisely, carefully,

887
00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:07.639
it might prove to be an ace.

888
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:11.400
You say you came here after me, mister Fontaine, m

889
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:13.159
I don't know what you mean.

890
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.440
I think you do, and if I were you, I'd

891
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:17.000
be ready to leave Los Angeles in the morning.

892
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:19.960
Miss Ones, like the billing says, my name is Candy Porter.

893
00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:22.679
I know what the billing says. I know what it

894
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:24.760
said in Brooklyn when you were build as Doris Trent

895
00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:28.159
and Denver, when you were built as Gladys James. But

896
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.320
when you took a powder out of Los Angeles a

897
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.079
year ago, you were Mary Winston.

898
00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:37.679
You know it's strange you're mentioning Mary Winston. I was

899
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:41.039
even thinking about her when you came in. A lot

900
00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:44.039
of other people have mistaken me from Mary Winston. We

901
00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:47.599
could have passed the twin sisters. She was my best friend.

902
00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:51.440
I could tell you a lot about her. If you

903
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:52.880
feel like listening.

904
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:56.480
Sure, Sure I'll listen. Go ahead and talk of it will

905
00:55:56.480 --> 00:55:58.960
make you feel any better. We can't get away until

906
00:55:58.960 --> 00:55:59.440
tomorrow morning.

907
00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:02.320
Anyway. The more you tell now, the less you'll have

908
00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:03.000
to tell letter.

909
00:56:03.559 --> 00:56:11.039
Thanks you see, mister Fantee, Mary Winston was just too good.

910
00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:13.679
Kid who've got a bad break. She was in love

911
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.679
with a swell guide but scared the death.

912
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:17.199
Of a hoodlums.

913
00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:20.440
It's an unusual story, in mister Fonteine.

914
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:29.719
It was an unusual story, wasn't it.

915
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:30.159
Mary.

916
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:33.440
It began a year ago at a Christmas party given

917
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:38.559
by your employers, the Southwestern Manufacturing Company, in the pink

918
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:41.920
room of the swank Wilchester Hotel, and you were the

919
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:42.719
hit of the evening.

920
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.000
You sang three songs and went over big.

921
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:48.840
Your friends from the office hadn't known of your talent,

922
00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.000
but they all agreed you were fine. And when the

923
00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:54.800
party was over, you were feeling good, So good you

924
00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:58.519
decided to drop into the hotel cocktail low, make a

925
00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:01.559
phone call it too, and have a nightcap by yourself

926
00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:04.760
before going home when you finished your phone and you

927
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:08.519
walk to a vacant stool at the bar Scotch and soda.

928
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.960
Make mine the same, Bill got you. I heard you

929
00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:16.599
sing to night. You were terrific.

930
00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:17.280
Thanks.

931
00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:21.000
What's the matter to he stands you up? Who the

932
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:25.199
guy you were just talking to on the phone? And no,

933
00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:27.679
I guess he didn't stand you up?

934
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:29.000
Didn't he?

935
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:31.840
He's on his way here right now, lucky guy.

936
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:34.079
I take it out of here, Bill.

937
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:38.559
Dollar Radio, Well, no, look here, mister, take it easy.

938
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:39.840
It's practically Christmas.

939
00:57:39.880 --> 00:57:40.440
What's the harm?

940
00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:43.480
Am I buying you one drink? Like I said, I

941
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:45.800
liked your voice?

942
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:46.760
Thank you? Bill?

943
00:57:47.199 --> 00:57:48.000
You a detective?

944
00:57:48.079 --> 00:57:48.639
Or remind me?

945
00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:51.400
Oh you mean your name? It wasn't any trick to

946
00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:53.719
find that out. I just asked one of the boys

947
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:57.119
I saw dancing with you. My name is Joe Collins.

948
00:57:58.760 --> 00:57:59.960
I see you've never heard of me?

949
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:01.639
Should I?

950
00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:02.639
Oh?

951
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:03.360
Now I get it.

952
00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:05.880
You're a professional talent scout and won't get me into

953
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:06.400
the movies.

954
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:12.760
Nope, I'm a gambler and disapproved.

955
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:16.320
Why live and that lives my motto, and that's exactly

956
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:17.440
what I'm gonna do right now.

957
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:20.360
But live my life, and that you live yours, Good night,

958
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:21.199
mister Collins.

959
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:23.199
Just think I can tell the girls at the office

960
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:25.400
tomorrow I met a real live gambler.

961
00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:28.880
Uh wait a minute. You could tell them a lot

962
00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:32.840
more than that if you believed in your voice as

963
00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:33.559
much as I do.

964
00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.960
Really, you've heard of Domingoes out on sunset, haven't you.

965
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:40.039
It's an undercover gambling club, isn't it.

966
00:58:40.119 --> 00:58:42.559
It's more than a gambling club. There's a slow floor show.

967
00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:46.320
A lot of big people go out there, people that count.

968
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.000
And all innimate friends of yours. I'm sure no.

969
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:52.599
But I know quite a few some who could push

970
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.320
you right to the top with that voice of yours.

971
00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:56.119
Mister Collins.

972
00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.239
This is the oldest line I ever heard.

973
00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:01.400
It's not a line, but skip it. Go on home,

974
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:03.079
listen to the radio, eat candy.

975
00:59:03.199 --> 00:59:05.880
You have a terrific time. If you go to Domingo's

976
00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:08.599
with me. You can't tell what might happen. You might

977
00:59:08.679 --> 00:59:11.599
have to meet a couple of show producers, maybe even sing.

978
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:14.199
So play it safe. Go on home.

979
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:17.000
May be dull, but you'll always get to work on time.

980
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:19.119
Is that all you have to say?

981
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:21.800
Yeah, that's all except I did.

982
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:28.119
Not wait, wait a minute, yeah, could we be back early.

983
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:29.760
We'll leave any time.

984
00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:32.880
You say, well, what are we waiting for?

985
00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:34.800
Well, now you're making sense, I'll call a cat.

986
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:36.719
Well, never mind, I have a car. It's parked right

987
00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:37.440
around the corner.

988
00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:47.400
Joe Collins used just the right approach, didn't he? Marry

989
00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:50.639
You realized you were being a fool, But as the

990
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:54.519
hours passed, you told yourself your fears were groundless. Joe

991
00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:58.239
treated you with perfect courtesy, introduced you to several people,

992
00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:01.920
including the producer of the Fores. You even sang a

993
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:06.039
number which was well received. Later, you watched the gambling

994
01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:09.199
for a while and then proceeded to the Silver Room

995
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:11.039
to enjoy the second floor show.

996
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:13.519
Afterwards, you had.

997
01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:16.480
Supper in the main dining room and watched the guests dancing.

998
01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:20.840
Jane.

999
01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:22.159
Suddenly you've had.

1000
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:26.519
Enough, Joe, do you mind if we leave now?

1001
01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:30.519
I said we'd leave anytime. You said, what hits you?

1002
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:31.079
The music?

1003
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:32.440
I guess that's it.

1004
01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:38.159
Another guy, Another guy, My fiancee, doctor Frank Wilson.

1005
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:41.880
What happened to doctor Wilson?

1006
01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:46.519
He's in Korea, Marines, No doctor, it was his car.

1007
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:48.239
We drove out here in Oh.

1008
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.320
It's too bad. We could have had a lot of fun.

1009
01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:54.760
Well shall we go?

1010
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:08.039
Please hopen, unless you want me to drive no ill,

1011
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:08.800
God good.

1012
01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:20.039
We'll probably be safer that way.

1013
01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:26.360
As you drove towards your little apartment on Clinton Avenue,

1014
01:01:26.760 --> 01:01:29.920
you were glad your reckless little adventure was nearing its hid.

1015
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:33.880
Everything had been fine so far, but you couldn't throw

1016
01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:38.320
off a feeling of uneasiness. For a few miles. Jove

1017
01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:42.360
said little, and then he seemed preoccupied, and you were

1018
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.400
relieved when he finally broke his strange silence.

1019
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:48.400
Say, Mary, would you mind stopping for a minute at

1020
01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:49.000
that drive?

1021
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:49.079
In?

1022
01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:51.119
All of a sudden, I got an awful headache.

1023
01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:52.360
Maybe I can get some aspro in there.

1024
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.119
My doubt it, but we'll give it a dry.

1025
01:01:57.360 --> 01:01:59.119
You can keep the motor running while I'm gone.

1026
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.039
Huh, be gone a few seconds?

1027
01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:13.599
Okay, Joe, get going?

1028
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:14.639
Joe?

1029
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:15.119
You shot?

1030
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:17.559
I said, get going fast. It's a gun in your ribs.

1031
01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:17.760
Baby.

1032
01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:19.440
You just saw what happened to one guy that crossed me.

1033
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:30.800
Did you kill him?

1034
01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:33.039
I don't know you?

1035
01:02:33.239 --> 01:02:33.840
Why was I?

1036
01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:35.800
Did you turn right at the next corner?

1037
01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:37.679
A car has been telling us for the last five minutes.

1038
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:38.159
I'm glad.

1039
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:39.199
I ope, it's a prowl car.

1040
01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:40.840
Don't they be the trouble of phoning the police?

1041
01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:47.239
I said, turn, He didn't turn.

1042
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:47.639
Baby.

1043
01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:51.320
You know you shouldn't have said what you did about

1044
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:54.440
phoning the cops. Nobody but me and you knows about

1045
01:02:54.440 --> 01:02:58.280
that drive in job. You just better pull over and park.

1046
01:02:58.639 --> 01:03:00.360
We got a couple of things to talk. Walk over,

1047
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:03.119
I said, pull over.

1048
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.760
Please, Joe, Jo, don't kill me.

1049
01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:10.800
I know you can do it easy, but I'll never

1050
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:11.639
tell about tonight.

1051
01:03:11.760 --> 01:03:13.519
That's the way you feel now and off and now

1052
01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:14.239
you'll feel different.

1053
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:16.039
Oh no, I won't. I'm my word of honor.

1054
01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:18.920
I'll make a deal with you, Joe. I'll trade you

1055
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.239
my silence for my life. I swear I won't talk

1056
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:23.239
about it Everitt.

1057
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:25.199
It sounds like you really mean.

1058
01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:25.840
Now, do you mean?

1059
01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:30.679
Joe is swearing and swear it? You're swear enough, Yes, Joe,

1060
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:34.880
I swear it. Well, I'm not being very smart, but

1061
01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:38.559
I'm going to take a chance. You drove the getaway cast,

1062
01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:45.559
so I guess that makes us partners anyway. Yeah, you know, partner.

1063
01:03:45.639 --> 01:03:49.880
We ought to have a lot of fun to get him. Now,

1064
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:51.880
how about dropping me off at my place?

1065
01:03:51.960 --> 01:03:52.119
Huh?

1066
01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:56.239
Tell me where to go?

1067
01:03:57.119 --> 01:03:58.559
Love about six blocks from here.

1068
01:03:58.679 --> 01:03:59.559
Just turn to the ride of.

1069
01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:11.280
After you dropped Joe and reached your apartment, you were

1070
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.079
so weak you could hardly stand. You literally fell into bed.

1071
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:19.400
You tried to sleep, but sleep was impossible. Early the

1072
01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:23.360
following morning, you heard the newsboys shoving the morning paper

1073
01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:27.400
under your apartment door. You hurried across the room and

1074
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:32.039
looked at the front page headlines and stories sickened you.

1075
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:37.760
Driving managers shot in attempted hold up guys. Unidentified man

1076
01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:40.639
and woman seen fleeing from scene of crime in dark

1077
01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:44.559
green forty nine models to day in pedestrian leaves. He

1078
01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:46.159
can identify car.

1079
01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:51.199
There It was Mary. Your situation looked hopeless, didn't it.

1080
01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:54.719
You felt you must keep your word at Joe Collins,

1081
01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:58.039
but you knew you must never see him again. Only

1082
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:00.440
one avenue seemed open to you.

1083
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:02.400
You had to leave town disappear.

1084
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:07.239
You dressed hurriedly, packed a few belongings withdrew your savings

1085
01:05:07.239 --> 01:05:11.320
from the bank, and by noon were on an eastbound

1086
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:15.039
plain for New York. You decided to take advantage of

1087
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.039
your voice and become a professional entertainer. The first few

1088
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:24.000
weeks you auditioned almost daily, with negative results. But finally,

1089
01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:27.800
after three months, you were singing at the Golden Lion,

1090
01:05:28.519 --> 01:05:32.159
a prosperous little night club in Brooklyn, New York. After

1091
01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:35.559
a shaky start, you became a featured performer under the

1092
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:39.559
name of Doris Trent. As the weeks went by, your

1093
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:43.800
work improved, you became sure of yourself, and one night

1094
01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:47.880
you noticed Verne Shields, famous musical comedy producer.

1095
01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:48.119
In the audience.

1096
01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:51.760
His presence seemed to inspire you, and you went over

1097
01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:55.599
better than ever. Afterwards, in your dressing room, you wondered

1098
01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:58.760
what he thought of your voice. You were certain that

1099
01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:01.960
your visitor was Verne Shields. Weren't you married?

1100
01:06:02.480 --> 01:06:06.400
Come in, Oh long time?

1101
01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:10.239
No see missus Trent, Doris Trent, it says on the program. Yo,

1102
01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:13.280
I'm surprised you recognized me. I thought you'd forgotten me.

1103
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.519
All right, Joe, your phone me? Now, what's on your mind?

1104
01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:17.599
You double crossmad?

1105
01:06:17.639 --> 01:06:18.000
Baby?

1106
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:18.960
Were you crazy?

1107
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:21.199
That's why I left town so I wouldn't even have

1108
01:06:21.239 --> 01:06:22.119
to talk to anybody.

1109
01:06:22.199 --> 01:06:24.079
You wrote the police, though, didn't you were?

1110
01:06:24.079 --> 01:06:25.400
You're wrong, Joe, I didn't write anybody.

1111
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:27.239
It had to be you. It couldn't have been anybody else.

1112
01:06:27.239 --> 01:06:29.159
Two days after you left, they picked me up a questions.

1113
01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:29.719
It wasn't me.

1114
01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:31.039
I've kept my word with you, Joe.

1115
01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:36.159
Yeah, there's one way you can convince me. Oh, marry me, goodnight,

1116
01:06:37.480 --> 01:06:37.960
marry you.

1117
01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:38.519
Mm hmmm.

1118
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:41.880
That way I'll be sure of you. Wives can't testify

1119
01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.119
against their husbands. Besides, I'll know what you're doing all

1120
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:45.559
the time.

1121
01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:50.039
Look, Joey, I gotta do my show. Let's talk this

1122
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:51.000
over in the morning.

1123
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:54.079
To night we went up to Connecticut. Go ahead and

1124
01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:57.199
do your show. Only if you've got any ideas about

1125
01:06:57.239 --> 01:06:59.920
calling the cops. Don't forget you drove the getaway car.

1126
01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:02.840
And in case anything happens to me, there's a ridden

1127
01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:05.320
confession in my pocket telling exactly how you help me

1128
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:09.320
pull the job, how we use your boyfriend's car, how

1129
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:10.880
you kept the motor running waiting for me.

1130
01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:13.079
You've thought of everything, haven't you everything?

1131
01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:17.119
So don't try anything. I'll go ahead and do your show.

1132
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:18.079
I'll wait for you here.

1133
01:07:22.360 --> 01:07:26.719
You started down the hallway, turned toward the powder room offstage.

1134
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:30.920
Suddenly you read You realize what a fool you'd been,

1135
01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:33.360
But you made up your mind not to keep on

1136
01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:36.400
being a fool. Didn't you marry not with that wall

1137
01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:39.000
telephone just five steps ahead of you.

1138
01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:43.360
Operator, get me police headquarters.

1139
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:46.639
Harry better hang up quick, baby, I mean quick. I

1140
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:48.320
had to hunt you try to double cross me. Now

1141
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:49.960
I know for sure who wrote that note to the cop.

1142
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:51.199
Didn't you want as I didn't?

1143
01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:52.599
You just tried to call him, don't jim All of

1144
01:07:52.599 --> 01:07:54.800
a sudden, I've lost interest in getting married.

1145
01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:57.079
We're just going to take a little ride.

1146
01:07:57.199 --> 01:08:02.880
Not come on, baby, No, not an eye?

1147
01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:04.119
What's going on here?

1148
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:06.519
Such a long dars? This guy bothering you?

1149
01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:08.079
Yes he is.

1150
01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:10.880
He he wants to date me.

1151
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:13.239
Tell him leave?

1152
01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:14.159
Will you read?

1153
01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:16.279
Maybe I better take him into the office and call

1154
01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:16.880
the cops.

1155
01:08:18.119 --> 01:08:20.199
No, thanks, Eddie that there is no need for that.

1156
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:22.079
He's just another wolf.

1157
01:08:23.079 --> 01:08:23.880
Tell him to leave.

1158
01:08:23.920 --> 01:08:24.760
That's good enough.

1159
01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:27.840
You hate what the lady said, Bob, start.

1160
01:08:27.640 --> 01:08:31.800
Traveling, okay, pop anything you'll say. I'll see the lady later.

1161
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:36.720
I'll be parked right across the street from miss friend.

1162
01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:39.680
You should have let me call the cops.

1163
01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.720
I would have if he hadn't had you covered with

1164
01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:43.119
a gun.

1165
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:45.960
Oh, I see.

1166
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:51.039
She thanks kidding. I guess you saved my life.

1167
01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:55.039
Kip it, look at you. I gotta get out of

1168
01:08:55.079 --> 01:08:56.479
town and fast.

1169
01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:57.880
After what you just did for me, getting you out

1170
01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.960
of town as a cinch crab some for my wife.

1171
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:02.880
I'm bringing you home. We'll go at the rear entrance.

1172
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:04.239
My car's on a lot next door.

1173
01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:07.199
Tomorrow i'll call a friend of mine in Denver. He'll

1174
01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:10.800
put you to work right away. You better change your name, though,

1175
01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:12.479
that'll be easy.

1176
01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:27.600
I'm getting used to it, so, mister Fonteine.

1177
01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:30.800
That's where I met Mary Winston in Denver, the High

1178
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:33.840
Hat Club built his bad as James. She was there

1179
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:37.199
for quite a while, room with me. Then she left,

1180
01:09:37.720 --> 01:09:40.560
just like that. One night when a waiter told her

1181
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:43.000
some guy I wanted to interview her for a magazine.

1182
01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:46.760
She figured it was Joe'collins.

1183
01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:47.079
Again.

1184
01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:50.159
That's the last I have saw it.

1185
01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:52.239
That's the end of the story.

1186
01:09:52.600 --> 01:09:53.279
That's the end.

1187
01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:55.640
And Mary Winston told you all.

1188
01:09:56.199 --> 01:09:58.000
Well, we were close friends.

1189
01:09:58.800 --> 01:09:59.680
I'll say your work.

1190
01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:03.760
You don't believe me, do you?

1191
01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:06.840
If you were in my position, would you believe a

1192
01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:07.479
story like that?

1193
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:13.760
No, don't suppose I would.

1194
01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:31.000
With Santa's arrival only two days away, who can help

1195
01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:34.640
being in a whimsical frame of mind tonight, whimsical about

1196
01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:38.039
such things as how Santa can travel so far in

1197
01:10:38.119 --> 01:10:46.119
one night. Well, maybe here's the answer. A child asked

1198
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.960
his father one day how Saint Nick went so far

1199
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:52.479
on a sleigh. The wise father replied, he can take

1200
01:10:52.520 --> 01:10:55.159
that long ride because his reindeer drinks signal.

1201
01:10:55.279 --> 01:10:55.760
They say.

1202
01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.359
Well, I decided to check this story with Santa him himself,

1203
01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:07.680
and now I can report to you, said Santa, when

1204
01:11:07.720 --> 01:11:11.560
boarding his sled this year. I'm using my head. It's

1205
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.239
signal for me. I'll go farther you'll see and over

1206
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:19.640
the rooftops, he sped. Now, as you've no doubt guessed.

1207
01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:22.479
In addition to letting you in on Santa's mi lead secret,

1208
01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:29.640
there's also a moral to this story, which is the

1209
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:33.279
gas used by Santa, my Lassie or lad is also

1210
01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:36.520
the gas that is best for dear Dad. With signal,

1211
01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:40.000
Dad's car will not only go far, but give top

1212
01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:42.159
performance the best to be had.

1213
01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:58.680
Well, Mary, it looks as though you've lost. Doesn't it

1214
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:02.520
that your show wasn't good enough? The man across the table,

1215
01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:05.119
the detective you're certain, has come to take you back

1216
01:12:05.159 --> 01:12:08.039
to Los Angeles to stand trial for a murder you

1217
01:12:08.119 --> 01:12:12.119
had nothing to do with, doesn't believe you. You're certain, too,

1218
01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:15.199
that the jury in Los Angeles won't believe you, not

1219
01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:20.199
after your running away, your phony names, your present surroundings.

1220
01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:24.319
You're sure Joe Collins has been captured, that the authorities

1221
01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:28.199
have read his confession, that he's trumped your last card,

1222
01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.520
ruin forever, your hopes of eventual reunion with the man

1223
01:12:31.560 --> 01:12:35.840
you still love, Doctor Frank Wilson. Yes, Mary, it looks

1224
01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:38.399
as though you've lost, but you're going to play the

1225
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:45.159
game through to the end anyhow, White Christmas. If Sailor

1226
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.399
Reynolds knew what that song did to you, the memories

1227
01:12:48.439 --> 01:12:51.359
it brings back, he'd play something else, wouldn't he. Marry

1228
01:12:52.760 --> 01:12:56.520
Fontaine gazes into space and drums his fingers silently on

1229
01:12:56.560 --> 01:13:01.079
the table. You watch him closely, await his next words.

1230
01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:03.159
How long did you say you've been here?

1231
01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:06.600
I didn't say, but I got here about three months ago.

1232
01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:11.439
Call I get here? No, that's what I figured, he look.

1233
01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:12.760
Missus cigarette, mister Fonte.

1234
01:13:13.359 --> 01:13:21.760
Yeah, thanks thanks again, miss Porter.

1235
01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:25.039
Did you say Porter.

1236
01:13:25.960 --> 01:13:28.720
That you said your name wasn't? That's what the building

1237
01:13:28.760 --> 01:13:33.760
says too, And I mean you believe me it's out

1238
01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:38.359
of state to name. Well, it looks as though I

1239
01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:41.279
came a long way for nothing, doesn't it tell? I'm

1240
01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:44.039
kind of glad I came. I always figured that confession

1241
01:13:44.039 --> 01:13:46.199
they found out Joe Collins's body was a phony.

1242
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:52.000
Joe Collins did, Yeah.

1243
01:13:51.119 --> 01:13:53.800
The Brooklyn police got him one night, about five months ago.

1244
01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:56.479
A woman called the police from a little next cub,

1245
01:13:56.520 --> 01:13:59.800
the Golden Lions Club. She hung out before they answered

1246
01:13:59.800 --> 01:14:02.359
the phone, but the Brooklyn boys decided to investigate anyway.

1247
01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:04.439
One of them spotted Collins and.

1248
01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:05.720
The car park across the street.

1249
01:14:06.079 --> 01:14:08.199
He got bigger happy, and that was that.

1250
01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:12.319
Right.

1251
01:14:13.039 --> 01:14:16.159
Well, miss porter, if you ever run into Mary.

1252
01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:18.359
Winston, I'll tell her all about the Christmas gift. I

1253
01:14:18.439 --> 01:14:21.279
got this well detective named Fonte.

1254
01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:27.159
I'm just a private detectiveness porter. But the police gave

1255
01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:30.319
me the tip that you said, I mean, Mary Winston

1256
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:31.199
might be working here.

1257
01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:32.800
Oh then they.

1258
01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.680
Knew a man named Wilson tired me for the kid.

1259
01:14:36.199 --> 01:14:37.439
A doctor Frank Woods.

1260
01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:40.079
Oh.

1261
01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:44.039
He he's out of the army now, still very much

1262
01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:47.279
in love with Mary Winston. Doesn't care where she's been,

1263
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:50.640
just wants her to come back and marry him.

1264
01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:53.199
He must be quite a guy.

1265
01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:54.880
Yeah, it's okay.

1266
01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:55.760
Now.

1267
01:14:55.840 --> 01:15:01.560
Incidentally, do you think you'll ever see Miss Winston again, Yes,

1268
01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:02.239
I do.

1269
01:15:03.279 --> 01:15:03.800
Well. Do you.

1270
01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:07.960
Think she might come back to Las Anglers sometimes and

1271
01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:11.880
clear things up with the police, make the doctor happy.

1272
01:15:12.399 --> 01:15:17.119
I'm sure she will some day. You see, a girl

1273
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:21.720
like Mary gets to feel a little sore out afterwards and.

1274
01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:22.640
Around joints like this.

1275
01:15:23.920 --> 01:15:26.600
She'd probably want to spend a year or so and

1276
01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:32.840
cleaner surroundings, maybe out in the desert, started freshening up

1277
01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:37.439
before going home, seeing anyone she cared about.

1278
01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:43.159
Yeah, and what you said, I expect she would. Well,

1279
01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:48.920
I might as well be getting along. Merry Christmasmas, Porter,

1280
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:50.800
Happy New Year.

1281
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:18.159
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil

1282
01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:21.119
program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time

1283
01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:25.039
Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you there's

1284
01:16:25.079 --> 01:16:27.279
an easy way we can all help to make this

1285
01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:32.399
holiday season happier for ourselves and others. Drive at sensible speeds,

1286
01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:37.079
be courteous, and obey traffic regulations. It may save a life,

1287
01:16:37.560 --> 01:16:53.960
possibly your own. Featured in tonight's story where Bill Foreman

1288
01:16:54.039 --> 01:16:57.000
is the whistler, Betty lou Gerson, Bill Conrad, Bill Brust,

1289
01:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.960
Marvin Miller, and Brettwood on the harmonica. The Whistler was

1290
01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:03.720
produced and directed by George w Allen, with story by

1291
01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:07.520
Ed Bludworth, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transcribed and

1292
01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:11.680
transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler

1293
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:14.640
was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on The Whistler

1294
01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:18.359
are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to

1295
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:20.840
persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

1296
01:17:22.680 --> 01:17:26.199
I suppose it is better to give you than receive.

1297
01:17:28.359 --> 01:17:31.640
But of course, as you know, I consider the greatest

1298
01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:36.880
present of them all, your presence. So happy to spend

1299
01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.479
this time with you. Share a little merry, cheer and fear,

1300
01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.560
and a hot cup of tea when you need it.

1301
01:17:45.359 --> 01:17:48.399
I know, I know it's very cold out there. I

1302
01:17:48.520 --> 01:17:54.000
know that it's quite brutal as the temperatures dropped. But

1303
01:17:54.800 --> 01:18:00.520
I'm glad you came over here into my home sorts

1304
01:18:01.319 --> 01:18:07.000
to celebrate with me a dead man's holiday of sorts.

1305
01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:20.239
Lift and tea and lift and soap present in a

1306
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:40.600
sanctum mystery. Good evening, friend, this is your host of

1307
01:18:40.680 --> 01:18:43.560
the inn a Sanctum, welcoming you to another half hour

1308
01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:48.000
of mystery and terror. Guarantee to take ten years off

1309
01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:52.520
your life. Don't just stand there, Come on in. We've

1310
01:18:52.560 --> 01:18:56.079
been fixing up the place, making it more homey. Yes,

1311
01:18:56.279 --> 01:18:59.399
you see that beam over there with the rope hanging down.

1312
01:19:00.399 --> 01:19:02.800
You just stand on the table, put your head through

1313
01:19:02.800 --> 01:19:07.640
the noose, and that's right. It's for the convenience of

1314
01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:10.880
anyone who feels like hanging around after the broadcast.

1315
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:14.399
I wish you wouldn't say things like that.

1316
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:16.560
Oh you're right, Mary, I'm a bad host.

1317
01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:19.399
Yeah, I invite everybody to hang around, and there's only

1318
01:19:19.439 --> 01:19:22.239
one rope. I guess we'll have to hang together instead

1319
01:19:22.239 --> 01:19:26.279
of hanging separately. Not you, unless, of course, we want

1320
01:19:26.279 --> 01:19:28.840
to hang ourselves with a black ribbon that comes with

1321
01:19:28.920 --> 01:19:32.840
that Lipton Sterling silver medallion. We've got plenty of them,

1322
01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:34.279
haven't be marry well.

1323
01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:34.680
I don't know.

1324
01:19:35.199 --> 01:19:37.560
Thousands of women are writing in every day for that

1325
01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:41.119
special sterling silver medallion, so i'd advise all of you

1326
01:19:41.199 --> 01:19:43.159
ladies who want to own one to send in for

1327
01:19:43.239 --> 01:19:47.159
it tonight. Yes, they're going mighty fast, because this medallion

1328
01:19:47.239 --> 01:19:50.600
is made of solid sterling silver and it's decorated with

1329
01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:53.920
the Chinese symbol for good luck. The medallion is just

1330
01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:57.279
the right size too, about an inch in diameter. You

1331
01:19:57.319 --> 01:19:59.640
can wear it as a necklace or a choker because

1332
01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:02.640
it's on a narrow black gray on satin ribbon, or

1333
01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:04.319
if you wish, you can simply add it to your

1334
01:20:04.399 --> 01:20:08.319
charm bracelet. And here's how you get this handsome medallion. Listen,

1335
01:20:08.960 --> 01:20:11.640
just send twenty five cents and the box top from

1336
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:14.840
a package of Lipton's the Tea with the brisk Flavor

1337
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:19.319
to Lipton Tea Box ninety two. That's box nine to

1338
01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:20.720
New York City.

1339
01:20:21.079 --> 01:20:23.319
All right, Mary, I write down the address on the

1340
01:20:23.359 --> 01:20:24.720
cuff of my shroud.

1341
01:20:25.960 --> 01:20:27.319
And now her friends tell me.

1342
01:20:28.079 --> 01:20:29.359
Do you like holidays?

1343
01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:30.159
Right?

1344
01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:33.880
You won't after you hear tonight's story. It's called dead

1345
01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:38.119
Man's Holiday and it's an original radio play by that

1346
01:20:38.399 --> 01:20:43.560
scryptic mystic Robert Sloan s and our star tonight is

1347
01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:46.600
Myron McCormick, who plays the role of Eric.

1348
01:20:47.319 --> 01:20:48.359
Yeah.

1349
01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:52.159
Not far from the waterfront, in a gloomy shack where

1350
01:20:52.199 --> 01:20:55.600
death hour is near, a man stirs uneasily on a

1351
01:20:55.600 --> 01:21:00.159
bloodstained cut as he struggles for the last breaths of life.

1352
01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:06.439
His tortured mind forced his words to his lips. Hey,

1353
01:21:07.159 --> 01:21:08.479
they don't have to tell me.

1354
01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:13.840
I know I can't live more than a little while longer.

1355
01:21:15.960 --> 01:21:20.439
I don't want him. I want this nightmare to end.

1356
01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:25.479
It should have ended long before that day. I was

1357
01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:32.840
hurt on the train. I remember it so clearly, sitting

1358
01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:36.119
in the coach looking out the window, and then.

1359
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:40.119
Suddenly the plane shouted to a violent start.

1360
01:21:42.880 --> 01:21:44.479
As they her out of my seat and threw me

1361
01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:47.960
against the glass window, which both if I had.

1362
01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:51.680
For a moment was time.

1363
01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:55.279
In the back of my mind, I could hear the

1364
01:21:55.359 --> 01:21:59.199
conductor cuieting in the passage.

1365
01:21:58.239 --> 01:22:02.359
Right right, I tell you, nothing serious happened. You stuck

1366
01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:04.439
an empty car on the grade crossing. The engineer had

1367
01:22:04.439 --> 01:22:05.520
a jam on the bleakes.

1368
01:22:05.720 --> 01:22:06.520
Is there anybody hurt?

1369
01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:08.159
Anybody need a doctor around here?

1370
01:22:08.840 --> 01:22:13.720
The doctor was coming down the aisle, questioning passengers, looking

1371
01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:14.079
them over.

1372
01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:18.439
My head was clear now, and.

1373
01:22:18.399 --> 01:22:22.239
Immediately I thought of my wife in the seat next

1374
01:22:22.239 --> 01:22:25.600
to mine. I turned to see if she'd been injured.

1375
01:22:27.119 --> 01:22:30.560
There in the seat which she had occupied was a

1376
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:35.159
man I'd never seen before. He spoke to me, You

1377
01:22:35.199 --> 01:22:39.000
all right, Yes, I was shaking up a bit.

1378
01:22:39.439 --> 01:22:39.920
I'm all right.

1379
01:22:40.640 --> 01:22:42.680
I've got an ansty cut on your lip. All right,

1380
01:22:44.560 --> 01:22:49.319
I guess it was the glass. Excuse me, please, what's

1381
01:22:49.319 --> 01:22:50.319
the matter my wife?

1382
01:22:50.399 --> 01:22:52.239
I was looking for my wife. She was sitting right

1383
01:22:52.279 --> 01:22:58.159
next to me. Elena, Elena will as my wife.

1384
01:22:58.399 --> 01:23:01.159
She is gone, conductor, she's gone, right, don't get excited.

1385
01:23:01.199 --> 01:23:02.359
She was sitting right next to me.

1386
01:23:02.479 --> 01:23:02.640
Right.

1387
01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:03.800
Well, this man is sitting now.

1388
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:08.000
You must be mistaken. Why there wasn't any woman sitting

1389
01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:08.439
next to you?

1390
01:23:08.520 --> 01:23:12.359
What are you trying to tell me? My wife was

1391
01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:13.239
sitting in that seat.

1392
01:23:13.319 --> 01:23:15.880
All right, all right, she's on the train. We'll find

1393
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:17.960
her in the meantime. You've got to come with me

1394
01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:19.159
and have that lip of yours.

1395
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:20.880
Attempt until I find out what's happened.

1396
01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:26.239
Nothing's happened, mister, just a little days. That's your wife

1397
01:23:26.319 --> 01:23:27.119
isn't on this train.

1398
01:23:27.199 --> 01:23:27.680
That's why.

1399
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:31.079
Why would I want to die to I don't.

1400
01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:32.840
Know what your reason is, but you're trying to hide

1401
01:23:32.920 --> 01:23:33.520
something from me.

1402
01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.960
I'm willing to swear you bought this train alone.

1403
01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:39.079
How do you know that?

1404
01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:42.680
Because I've been sitting next to you ever since you

1405
01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:43.119
got on.

1406
01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:56.479
I was taken to a hospital given another stake. When

1407
01:23:56.479 --> 01:24:02.640
I came to a doctor us standing over me. He

1408
01:24:02.680 --> 01:24:04.920
said I was well enough to get dressed to leave.

1409
01:24:05.079 --> 01:24:08.760
But when I mentioned.

1410
01:24:08.399 --> 01:24:12.399
The disappearance of my wife, he acted as train you

1411
01:24:12.680 --> 01:24:16.000
had a severe shock, mister Keating, and sometimes an accident

1412
01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:18.680
like this is the way of playing tricks on the mind.

1413
01:24:19.479 --> 01:24:22.920
You don't believe that my wife was on that train.

1414
01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:25.800
I don't see how she could have been. Any number

1415
01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:29.000
of the passengers were questioned. They all told the same story.

1416
01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:33.159
You got on the train alone, so you're in on

1417
01:24:33.279 --> 01:24:33.600
it too.

1418
01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:35.439
I beg your pardon.

1419
01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:37.279
You're on the railroad and the man who was sitting

1420
01:24:37.319 --> 01:24:40.600
next to me you're on it. What are you trying

1421
01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:41.119
to do to me?

1422
01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:42.600
I don't do what you're talking about.

1423
01:24:42.680 --> 01:24:46.199
Don't sure? Are you sure this isn't some kind of

1424
01:24:46.199 --> 01:24:48.039
a plot to try and drive me out of my mind?

1425
01:24:48.079 --> 01:24:52.000
I think you need arrest, mister Keating. Just look at yourself.

1426
01:24:52.000 --> 01:24:57.520
In the merry days he had drawn you on all right, heaven?

1427
01:24:58.920 --> 01:25:00.199
Doctor? What's the matter? Yeah?

1428
01:25:01.479 --> 01:25:06.000
My face? What have you done to me? What happened

1429
01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:06.479
to my face?

1430
01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:06.960
Nothing?

1431
01:25:07.640 --> 01:25:09.680
I had to put a few stitches in your lips,

1432
01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:10.399
but off my lip.

1433
01:25:10.479 --> 01:25:17.600
It's my whole face. Why you've done something to it?

1434
01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:18.680
Step mister Keating.

1435
01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:22.720
Idea is I tell you, you've chased my face.

1436
01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:34.000
Next morning, I went straight to my house on Pine Street.

1437
01:25:35.520 --> 01:25:39.199
I had no key, so I rang the bell, hoping

1438
01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:41.439
against hope my wife would be there to answer it.

1439
01:25:43.039 --> 01:25:48.880
But when the door opened, I was face to face

1440
01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:53.119
with a gaunt, little aged woman I'd never seen before.

1441
01:25:53.920 --> 01:25:58.640
Yes, oh you, I beg you answer me?

1442
01:25:58.680 --> 01:25:59.239
Who are you?

1443
01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:01.359
I'm the housekeeper.

1444
01:26:01.439 --> 01:26:06.039
Don't lie to me. We don't have a housekeeper. What

1445
01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:06.760
are you doing here?

1446
01:26:07.479 --> 01:26:10.039
I don't see why I should answer your questions?

1447
01:26:10.199 --> 01:26:14.840
Better answer them. I'm mister Keating, Mister Keating, I live here.

1448
01:26:16.079 --> 01:26:16.960
Where's missus Keating?

1449
01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:17.920
What have you done with her?

1450
01:26:18.359 --> 01:26:20.159
You must have the wrong Andrews.

1451
01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:20.760
What do you mean?

1452
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:23.840
Nobody but the name of Keating limbs here?

1453
01:26:24.520 --> 01:26:26.119
What I work for?

1454
01:26:26.319 --> 01:26:28.960
Mister and missus Drury. Don't you see the name plate

1455
01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:29.640
on the door?

1456
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:33.000
Yes, I said, why did you put it there last night?

1457
01:26:33.640 --> 01:26:35.319
You've got the wrong adresses.

1458
01:26:38.039 --> 01:26:38.479
You see that.

1459
01:26:38.560 --> 01:26:42.159
Picture over there, the one on the hall table. Yes,

1460
01:26:43.560 --> 01:26:44.960
that's a picture of my wife.

1461
01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:50.039
I beg your pardon, sir, but that's the picture missus Drury.

1462
01:26:51.760 --> 01:26:53.880
Drury, Drory.

1463
01:26:55.760 --> 01:26:59.279
I didn't know anybody by the name of Drury. I

1464
01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:02.680
couldn't imagine why he or anybody else would go to

1465
01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:06.800
so much trouble to keep me from my wife. I

1466
01:27:06.840 --> 01:27:09.479
walked down to the corner drug store to follow the police,

1467
01:27:10.520 --> 01:27:11.199
but just as I.

1468
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:12.920
Got their card, drove.

1469
01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:16.640
Up and stopped, and it was the man who sat

1470
01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:17.720
next to me on the train.

1471
01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:22.800
I hurried over to speak to him. You remember me?

1472
01:27:23.520 --> 01:27:23.760
Why?

1473
01:27:23.920 --> 01:27:24.279
Yes?

1474
01:27:24.399 --> 01:27:29.920
Of course? Did you find your wife? No, I'm sorry

1475
01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:32.960
to hear that. Can I be of any assistance to you?

1476
01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:35.520
I worked with the railroad, you know.

1477
01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:40.720
That's I had a feeling you did. What's your name, Rory?

1478
01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:41.119
Rory?

1479
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:43.199
Uh?

1480
01:27:44.439 --> 01:27:47.880
You live in the white house around the corner, the

1481
01:27:47.960 --> 01:27:48.960
one on Pine Street.

1482
01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:50.319
That's right?

1483
01:27:51.319 --> 01:27:51.800
How did you know?

1484
01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:55.640
I was just over there? I thought it belonged to

1485
01:27:55.680 --> 01:27:56.720
a man named Katie.

1486
01:27:57.239 --> 01:28:04.000
Well it did originally You knew him, knew yes?

1487
01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:07.239
Why do you speaking the past tense? Your sounds of

1488
01:28:07.319 --> 01:28:08.479
the man were dead.

1489
01:28:09.079 --> 01:28:12.319
Didn't you know he is dead?

1490
01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:17.720
You can't imagine what it was like to have him

1491
01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:21.079
tell me that Eric Keating was dead.

1492
01:28:23.000 --> 01:28:24.680
I was Eric Keating.

1493
01:28:25.720 --> 01:28:29.039
I hurried away from him, kept walking towards the center

1494
01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:33.039
of town, but it wasn't long before I realized that

1495
01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:36.359
I was being followed by a man in a gray hat.

1496
01:28:37.600 --> 01:28:40.439
I waited until he caught up with me. Then as

1497
01:28:40.439 --> 01:28:42.479
he started to pass, I stopped to purposely.

1498
01:28:43.159 --> 01:28:44.039
He got a good look.

1499
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:44.359
At his face.

1500
01:28:45.600 --> 01:28:48.880
Excuse me? Yes? Can I trouble you for a match?

1501
01:28:49.319 --> 01:28:51.000
Certain me? Thanks?

1502
01:28:51.600 --> 01:28:55.279
And then await a minute? Why are you following me?

1503
01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:56.840
Who was his arm?

1504
01:28:56.880 --> 01:28:59.920
It's pretty obvious? Are you better tell me what your

1505
01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:00.439
game is?

1506
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:02.960
I'll call a cop that wasn't doing much good, mister,

1507
01:29:04.479 --> 01:29:08.600
I'm on the course. Think closemen. Commas is the name?

1508
01:29:10.840 --> 01:29:15.319
I don't understand. Why are you watching me? That's my business?

1509
01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:20.359
Watching people? Faced a kind of familiar to me. What's

1510
01:29:20.359 --> 01:29:20.760
your name?

1511
01:29:21.279 --> 01:29:21.840
Eric Keating?

1512
01:29:23.399 --> 01:29:23.640
Again?

1513
01:29:23.720 --> 01:29:23.960
Mister?

1514
01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:25.840
Better tell me the truth?

1515
01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:27.920
This time I am telling you the truth. Why don't

1516
01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:28.399
you believe me?

1517
01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:30.319
I happen to know what Edic Kating is right now?

1518
01:29:31.439 --> 01:29:39.520
I saw his grave just the other day. Is gray?

1519
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:43.600
Yes, he's bettered than the same cemetery as my sister

1520
01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:47.399
been bettered six years.

1521
01:29:50.319 --> 01:29:54.239
I had a feeling that Colors was lying when he

1522
01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:58.399
let me go a moment later, not proving my identity.

1523
01:29:58.439 --> 01:30:02.319
I could have sworn he wasn't the detective, but I

1524
01:30:02.359 --> 01:30:04.199
had to make sure, I had to catch him in

1525
01:30:04.239 --> 01:30:05.960
a lie.

1526
01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:08.399
I took a bus up to the cemetery.

1527
01:30:09.880 --> 01:30:12.199
It was dark by the.

1528
01:30:12.159 --> 01:30:16.439
Time I got there, but I had a flashlight, and

1529
01:30:16.560 --> 01:30:22.000
with it I saw the very thing I hoped I

1530
01:30:22.039 --> 01:30:26.159
wouldn't find, a tombstone.

1531
01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:28.319
With my name on it.

1532
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:33.439
The shop was like a blinding light in the darkness,

1533
01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:37.800
and for a moment I lost my senses. Insanely, I

1534
01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:39.760
dug into the earth with a piece of sharp stone,

1535
01:30:40.119 --> 01:30:44.800
determined to see the empty coffin or the bones of

1536
01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:48.399
the man who had been buried in my place.

1537
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:52.479
Charlie, you better come with me, mister.

1538
01:30:53.760 --> 01:30:54.279
What's wrong?

1539
01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:58.079
What have I to? He's the man? Maybe? Yeah?

1540
01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:04.960
The police secular? All right, murder, that's right. The picture

1541
01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:07.359
underneath those words is yours or your twin brothers.

1542
01:31:07.399 --> 01:31:12.359
No, I'm not this man. I may look like his picture,

1543
01:31:12.399 --> 01:31:13.279
but I'm not the man.

1544
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:16.279
Finger Princess said, lest they've got his on the circular,

1545
01:31:16.600 --> 01:31:17.920
and we've got to get yours.

1546
01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:20.439
The objections.

1547
01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:33.640
I won't call, will you don't try?

1548
01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:36.479
Now?

1549
01:31:36.680 --> 01:31:40.000
There's a case of being wanted for murder, dead or alive,

1550
01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:44.000
and this guy Keating seems to fit both conditions very well.

1551
01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:47.560
I'd hate to see him get killed, though, it'd be

1552
01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:49.680
like killing two birds with one stone.

1553
01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:53.439
I'm really sorry for that poor man. He's so confused,

1554
01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:54.439
I should.

1555
01:31:54.079 --> 01:31:57.159
Say so many imagine digging up a grave and finding

1556
01:31:57.159 --> 01:32:00.920
yourself in it. Well, let that proves that a man

1557
01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:02.680
can be two places at the same time.

1558
01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:06.560
Noncentse that's impossible. But you know, as far as killing

1559
01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:09.039
two birds with one stone is concerned.

1560
01:32:08.680 --> 01:32:10.760
That's easy. Any lady can.

1561
01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:12.960
Do that just by sending in for the Lipton Sterling

1562
01:32:13.000 --> 01:32:13.880
silver medallion.

1563
01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:15.760
Why yes, you see, this.

1564
01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:18.960
Sterling silver medallion is not only lovely, but it's a

1565
01:32:19.039 --> 01:32:21.720
very useful piece of jewelry as well. It's just the

1566
01:32:21.760 --> 01:32:23.960
thing to brighten up a simple silk dress or a

1567
01:32:24.039 --> 01:32:26.720
dressy suit. And it can be worn as a necklace

1568
01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:29.640
or a choker, or simply by removing the narrow black

1569
01:32:29.680 --> 01:32:31.840
ray on satin ribbon on which it's hung, you can

1570
01:32:31.880 --> 01:32:34.439
add it to your charm bracelet. And the medallion makes

1571
01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:38.159
such a smart appearance. It's made of real sterling silver,

1572
01:32:38.600 --> 01:32:41.439
and it's decorated with the Chinese characters that stand for

1573
01:32:41.560 --> 01:32:44.159
good luck, so you might say the medallion is a

1574
01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:47.960
Chinese good luck charm. And best of all, ladies, the

1575
01:32:48.039 --> 01:32:50.239
Lipton people are making it easy for you to own

1576
01:32:50.279 --> 01:32:53.000
one of these handsome medallions. All you have to do

1577
01:32:53.079 --> 01:32:55.720
is send twenty five cents and the box top from

1578
01:32:55.760 --> 01:32:58.800
a package of Lipton's the tea with the brisk flavor

1579
01:32:59.279 --> 01:33:04.600
to Lipton Box ninety two, that's box nine to New

1580
01:33:04.680 --> 01:33:05.199
York City.

1581
01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:08.680
Well, Mary, if the medallion really brings good luck, I

1582
01:33:08.680 --> 01:33:11.439
hope our friend Derrick Keating sends for one, because he's

1583
01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:14.039
going to need it. When we left him, he was

1584
01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:16.680
telling us how a detective named Connor's was about to

1585
01:33:16.760 --> 01:33:20.479
arrest him for murder. Eric resisted and they struggled at

1586
01:33:20.479 --> 01:33:23.279
the cemetery. Connor's fire shot.

1587
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:27.039
A bullet went through my left arm. Before I could

1588
01:33:27.079 --> 01:33:29.119
reach Connor's. With the stone I had in my hand,

1589
01:33:30.199 --> 01:33:35.800
I pouted it against his temple. He dropped to the ground, unconscious,

1590
01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:38.960
and I ran as fast as I could, holding one

1591
01:33:39.039 --> 01:33:43.520
arm with the other, losing blood all the time. Somehow

1592
01:33:44.079 --> 01:33:48.439
I got away. I was exhausted by the time I

1593
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:49.720
staggered into the doctor.

1594
01:33:52.199 --> 01:33:54.800
Well, I guess you'll be all right now, i'ms Keating.

1595
01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:56.319
Thank you, doctor.

1596
01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:58.960
Tell me, how did you happen to get this wound?

1597
01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:05.319
I was carrying a jar and I felt you better

1598
01:34:05.399 --> 01:34:05.920
not lie to me.

1599
01:34:05.960 --> 01:34:06.560
Mister Keating.

1600
01:34:06.920 --> 01:34:10.760
The bullet was still in your arm.

1601
01:34:11.479 --> 01:34:12.600
I don't know his name.

1602
01:34:12.640 --> 01:34:14.800
I would have a great deal if you did. I

1603
01:34:14.960 --> 01:34:17.680
have to report this, you know, so you'd better tell

1604
01:34:17.760 --> 01:34:18.239
me the truth.

1605
01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:19.199
I will in a moment.

1606
01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:19.640
Doctor it.

1607
01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:22.920
First I'd like to ask you a favor.

1608
01:34:23.359 --> 01:34:23.960
What is it?

1609
01:34:24.960 --> 01:34:27.039
Do you know anything about fingerprints?

1610
01:34:27.680 --> 01:34:30.680
No, not a great deal or they must know something. Here,

1611
01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:33.560
take a look at the ones on the circular.

1612
01:34:34.439 --> 01:34:35.920
Why is the circular tournment?

1613
01:34:35.920 --> 01:34:39.159
I never mind about that. Just look at the fingerprints.

1614
01:34:39.560 --> 01:34:41.079
M hm hm.

1615
01:34:41.439 --> 01:34:44.359
Now look at the ones on my head.

1616
01:34:44.760 --> 01:34:44.920
You know.

1617
01:34:46.239 --> 01:34:49.279
Would you say that I belonged to the same man?

1618
01:34:51.000 --> 01:34:51.760
Unquestionably?

1619
01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:52.800
Of course.

1620
01:34:52.840 --> 01:34:54.520
I'm not an expert, no am I.

1621
01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:58.840
But I can say that those are my fingerprints.

1622
01:34:58.840 --> 01:34:59.239
All right.

1623
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:05.079
Somebody has done a perfect job of framing me either that.

1624
01:35:06.920 --> 01:35:08.960
I am a murderer, mister Keating.

1625
01:35:09.399 --> 01:35:12.680
I suppose I just report my work to the police.

1626
01:35:12.279 --> 01:35:13.079
And let it go that.

1627
01:35:13.239 --> 01:35:15.199
I can't let it go at that, don't you understand

1628
01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:17.239
I've been framed every possible way.

1629
01:35:17.880 --> 01:35:20.600
If I let it go out, it's enter the chair.

1630
01:35:20.680 --> 01:35:23.079
No, none of your innocent I can't take the chance. Well,

1631
01:35:23.119 --> 01:35:24.600
I'm very much afraid you'll have to.

1632
01:35:26.319 --> 01:35:29.920
I reached the paperweight on his desk. I crept a

1633
01:35:29.960 --> 01:35:37.720
little closer, and then keating. I struck him hard on

1634
01:35:37.800 --> 01:35:40.359
the side of the head. His body dropped to the floor,

1635
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.119
and I bent over him. My heart was pounding against

1636
01:35:43.159 --> 01:35:46.079
my chest. Something in the back of my mind kept

1637
01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:48.279
driving me on. A voice kept saying, kill him.

1638
01:35:48.399 --> 01:35:49.000
You're a murderer.

1639
01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:50.159
Kill him.

1640
01:35:50.479 --> 01:35:53.239
I don't know why, but I struck him again and

1641
01:35:53.319 --> 01:35:58.720
again and again until his lifeless body choked out its

1642
01:35:58.760 --> 01:36:05.760
last breath. And then I knew I was a murderer.

1643
01:36:09.640 --> 01:36:12.039
I hurried away in the darkness, took a bus to

1644
01:36:12.039 --> 01:36:15.399
a neighboring tower. I heard a room in a boarding house.

1645
01:36:16.359 --> 01:36:20.159
I stayed there three days, hiding, not going out on

1646
01:36:20.199 --> 01:36:25.359
the street. Then on the fourth day, the land lady

1647
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:26.359
paid me a visit.

1648
01:36:26.439 --> 01:36:28.399
You you don't have to get out of here.

1649
01:36:28.439 --> 01:36:30.760
I can't take a chance of having you around anymore.

1650
01:36:31.039 --> 01:36:32.079
Killing that doctor.

1651
01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:35.640
Weren't in enough trouble already. I gotta think you got

1652
01:36:35.680 --> 01:36:37.880
to get out of here. They'll be searching this place

1653
01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:40.760
before you know it, because you were here before. I

1654
01:36:40.800 --> 01:36:44.960
never should have let you come back. Come back now,

1655
01:36:45.039 --> 01:36:47.119
get your coat and beat it well like gold.

1656
01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:48.399
Take it easy.

1657
01:36:49.039 --> 01:36:51.520
I never let anybody down yet here.

1658
01:36:51.920 --> 01:36:53.920
This is the address of a shack iron over near

1659
01:36:53.960 --> 01:36:54.640
the waterfront.

1660
01:36:55.039 --> 01:36:55.920
You can hide out.

1661
01:36:55.760 --> 01:36:56.479
There for a while.

1662
01:36:57.239 --> 01:36:58.119
They food in that shack.

1663
01:36:58.279 --> 01:36:59.199
Never mind about that.

1664
01:36:59.239 --> 01:37:01.560
I'll get in touch with Ruse and tell away, Ruth.

1665
01:37:01.880 --> 01:37:03.760
Yes, go on, now get out of here.

1666
01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:04.560
Before it's too late.

1667
01:37:10.840 --> 01:37:13.560
I waited in the shack for two days before this

1668
01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:18.800
girl roof shut up. When she did get there, the

1669
01:37:18.800 --> 01:37:20.119
first thing she said was.

1670
01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:22.359
Gosh, you looked terrible.

1671
01:37:22.640 --> 01:37:23.960
I know I've been through a lot.

1672
01:37:24.239 --> 01:37:27.119
Well start working on these groceries. You must be starting.

1673
01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:28.279
Thanks, I am.

1674
01:37:28.840 --> 01:37:31.880
I never thought i'd see you again. Huh, why'd you

1675
01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:32.319
do it?

1676
01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:35.359
I couldn't help myself. He was going to turn me

1677
01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:36.119
over to the police.

1678
01:37:36.239 --> 01:37:38.199
I don't mean the doctor. I mean Richie.

1679
01:37:38.239 --> 01:37:41.560
Oh Richie, you looking.

1680
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:43.199
At me like that for bye.

1681
01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:49.000
I'm just trying to think you should have done something.

1682
01:37:49.039 --> 01:37:51.800
And before you buried his body where you did? They

1683
01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:52.920
found it the next.

1684
01:37:52.760 --> 01:37:58.439
Day, Richie rules straorry the landlady.

1685
01:37:59.039 --> 01:37:59.960
What is it going to stop?

1686
01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:00.319
Hey?

1687
01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:00.880
Take it.

1688
01:38:01.159 --> 01:38:02.680
I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out

1689
01:38:02.680 --> 01:38:03.199
of here right now.

1690
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:04.800
Don't be crazy. You'll get care.

1691
01:38:04.840 --> 01:38:05.479
Have you got a car?

1692
01:38:05.760 --> 01:38:05.960
Yeah?

1693
01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:10.840
But let me let's go. Y, Come on, where where

1694
01:38:10.840 --> 01:38:11.439
do you want to go?

1695
01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:16.319
Back to my house? I've got to find my wife

1696
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:20.239
in the dock.

1697
01:38:21.760 --> 01:38:25.600
We drove to my house on Te Street. Both waited

1698
01:38:25.600 --> 01:38:27.560
for me in the cars. I sneaked into the garage

1699
01:38:28.239 --> 01:38:31.760
and came up through the cellar entrance. The house was

1700
01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:35.479
dark except for a light in the study. My wife

1701
01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:38.720
was sitting there alone, reading a book.

1702
01:38:39.399 --> 01:38:44.880
I tried not to frighten her. Elena, Elena, that you joined. No, dear,

1703
01:38:45.840 --> 01:38:46.319
it's Eric.

1704
01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:49.920
Who are you?

1705
01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:52.079
What are you doing here?

1706
01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:53.920
Don't you recognize me?

1707
01:38:55.119 --> 01:38:55.840
Don't get out of the.

1708
01:38:57.520 --> 01:38:57.840
Darling.

1709
01:38:57.920 --> 01:39:00.039
I got to make you understand I'm your husband and

1710
01:39:00.760 --> 01:39:01.880
Eric you're insane.

1711
01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:03.239
Eric is dead.

1712
01:39:03.279 --> 01:39:08.079
No, you mustn't believe what they've been telling you. It's

1713
01:39:08.119 --> 01:39:12.119
all part of a scheme. I can't understand. But they're

1714
01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:15.159
against a celinder, trying to keep us apart.

1715
01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:16.159
Eric is dead.

1716
01:39:16.199 --> 01:39:17.199
I don't say that.

1717
01:39:17.359 --> 01:39:18.920
He died six years ago.

1718
01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:23.600
And you're in on it too. You want it this way?

1719
01:39:25.000 --> 01:39:25.520
What do you mean?

1720
01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:27.439
You and Drury want to be together. That's why you're

1721
01:39:27.439 --> 01:39:27.840
framed me.

1722
01:39:28.079 --> 01:39:29.319
You and Drury house.

1723
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:31.279
We been married for three years.

1724
01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:33.199
You can't get away with a celender. I won't let

1725
01:39:33.239 --> 01:39:33.439
you have.

1726
01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:37.159
I tied her to a chair and kagged so that

1727
01:39:37.159 --> 01:39:40.000
she couldn't scream or call the police, and I left

1728
01:39:40.000 --> 01:39:41.720
the house and got back into the car with Ruth.

1729
01:39:42.680 --> 01:39:46.800
We waited there about ten minutes, and then I saw

1730
01:39:46.880 --> 01:39:52.319
the man I'd been waiting for, George Drury was walking

1731
01:39:52.319 --> 01:39:52.640
down the.

1732
01:39:52.560 --> 01:39:54.680
Fire side of the street on the sidewalk.

1733
01:39:55.079 --> 01:39:56.960
And I knew he'd have to cross over to get

1734
01:39:56.960 --> 01:39:59.800
to the house, so I started the car.

1735
01:40:01.359 --> 01:40:05.039
What are you doing getting ready? He's got across the street,

1736
01:40:05.079 --> 01:40:06.279
he's got What.

1737
01:40:06.199 --> 01:40:06.840
Are you gonna do?

1738
01:40:08.000 --> 01:40:18.600
Now? What are you fool? Shot? Where are you going.

1739
01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:23.800
To pick up your body? Here? Where you are? I'll

1740
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:25.439
get back in a second.

1741
01:40:32.760 --> 01:40:37.399
The three of us had a long ride that night, Ruth,

1742
01:40:38.359 --> 01:40:40.199
George Strory's.

1743
01:40:39.680 --> 01:40:40.920
Body, and myself.

1744
01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:45.279
Automatically, I seem to know where I was heading, even

1745
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:48.840
though I had no destination in my mind. I made

1746
01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:52.960
one turn after another unconsciously, almost until last I came

1747
01:40:53.000 --> 01:40:55.039
to a dark stretch of road along the railroad track.

1748
01:40:56.439 --> 01:40:57.600
I stopped the cart.

1749
01:40:59.399 --> 01:41:00.600
Who are you think you do?

1750
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:04.159
I'll ask any questions. I'm burying the body here.

1751
01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:08.680
Are you crazy? Why don't this place look familiar to you?

1752
01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:16.319
Yes? I think it does. I can't remember why.

1753
01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:17.279
You lost your mind?

1754
01:41:17.359 --> 01:41:19.840
Complete You stop talking like that and tell me what's

1755
01:41:19.840 --> 01:41:20.640
wrong with this place?

1756
01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:23.479
Why can't I bury the body here?

1757
01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:27.439
Because it's the same place you're buried, Richie.

1758
01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:32.359
Richie, Richie, Richie Riche. Why am I wanted for his murder?

1759
01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:35.359
You're wanted because you killed him in cold blood, just

1760
01:41:35.399 --> 01:41:38.760
the way you killed Druli. Only Richie was your partner.

1761
01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:40.319
You pulled all your jobs together.

1762
01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:46.399
It couldn't have been me, Rude, not me. I didn't

1763
01:41:46.439 --> 01:41:49.439
know Ritchie, I'm Eric Keating.

1764
01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:51.399
Is that your real name?

1765
01:41:52.520 --> 01:41:53.920
You never told me the real one?

1766
01:41:54.000 --> 01:42:00.399
All right, But I say what I got to get

1767
01:42:00.399 --> 01:42:00.800
out of here.

1768
01:42:07.159 --> 01:42:10.640
We left Jury's body near the railroad track and drove

1769
01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:12.640
back to the height out on the waterfront.

1770
01:42:12.800 --> 01:42:14.520
My route had let me earlier in the evening.

1771
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:19.439
There I began to sew the threads of a horrible

1772
01:42:19.479 --> 01:42:22.840
story which had been my life for the past six years.

1773
01:42:23.079 --> 01:42:26.079
The first time I saw it was about five years ago.

1774
01:42:26.479 --> 01:42:28.319
And I looked as I looked now.

1775
01:42:28.560 --> 01:42:31.399
Yeah, more or less, you just had a plastic surgery

1776
01:42:31.439 --> 01:42:33.279
job done. You told me it was because your face

1777
01:42:33.359 --> 01:42:37.399
was burned. Only I didn't believe you that was true.

1778
01:42:37.760 --> 01:42:40.000
My face was burned badly.

1779
01:42:40.399 --> 01:42:47.279
How YESHI, I'm beginning to remember a railroad accident just

1780
01:42:47.319 --> 01:42:50.159
about six years ago. The car I was in caught fire.

1781
01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:53.560
I struck my head trying to climb out of a window.

1782
01:42:54.039 --> 01:42:56.199
You mean you lost your memory from that blood?

1783
01:42:56.239 --> 01:42:56.960
I lost her.

1784
01:42:57.840 --> 01:42:59.920
I must have wandered away from the scene of the wreck,

1785
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:02.359
not knowing who I was, and you began.

1786
01:43:02.119 --> 01:43:05.640
A new life of people like Richie.

1787
01:43:06.359 --> 01:43:07.239
I began to steal.

1788
01:43:07.760 --> 01:43:10.039
But your wife in the railroad company give you up

1789
01:43:10.079 --> 01:43:10.560
as dead.

1790
01:43:11.039 --> 01:43:14.479
So I can understand that there were charred bodies in

1791
01:43:14.520 --> 01:43:19.119
that wreck, charred beyond recognition. When I didn't show up,

1792
01:43:19.119 --> 01:43:20.760
they must have listed me as one of them and

1793
01:43:20.800 --> 01:43:22.600
buried another man's remains in my place.

1794
01:43:25.239 --> 01:43:26.239
I wish it had been me.

1795
01:43:27.479 --> 01:43:28.119
Very dead.

1796
01:43:29.640 --> 01:43:32.039
All the while you were suffering from ems, your wife

1797
01:43:32.039 --> 01:43:33.000
thought you were dead.

1798
01:43:33.600 --> 01:43:35.319
I didn't believe that when she said she'd married this

1799
01:43:35.399 --> 01:43:36.039
fellow Drury.

1800
01:43:37.319 --> 01:43:37.560
Ah.

1801
01:43:39.039 --> 01:43:41.239
Funny how I sat next to him on the train

1802
01:43:41.319 --> 01:43:47.279
that day. Joe sent my mind back six years, and

1803
01:43:47.359 --> 01:43:50.720
I thought I was Eric Keaty coming home from a.

1804
01:43:50.680 --> 01:43:53.159
Trip with word.

1805
01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:58.039
Was there the hands up pity Please, I got this

1806
01:43:58.159 --> 01:44:00.000
this and you better do what he said?

1807
01:44:00.399 --> 01:44:02.960
What for my prolongedly agony any more than I have to,

1808
01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:10.199
don't call me Eric. Eric Keating is dead. I'll let

1809
01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:12.039
this other man die the way he should have died.

1810
01:44:12.319 --> 01:44:14.079
Eric's gonna be a fool. You can't get up that

1811
01:44:14.159 --> 01:44:16.920
one of the.

1812
01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:25.560
All right, it's all right, I wanted it.

1813
01:44:27.199 --> 01:44:39.479
Just this way.

1814
01:44:40.159 --> 01:44:43.239
Well, they finally got him, and this time they'll give

1815
01:44:43.279 --> 01:44:46.079
him a grave he can call his own. I just

1816
01:44:46.119 --> 01:44:48.560
hope he stays put this time, instead of wandering as

1817
01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:51.520
a ghost. A guy like that might not remember where

1818
01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:52.159
he was buried.

1819
01:44:52.560 --> 01:44:54.079
I'm glad he's finally at rest.

1820
01:44:54.199 --> 01:44:57.079
Now he'll be so sure. Mary, that guy needs a

1821
01:44:57.079 --> 01:44:58.039
tag on him.

1822
01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:02.359
If you want to send him one of those silver medallions, yes,

1823
01:45:02.399 --> 01:45:04.720
and we'll get all these aliases engraved on it too,

1824
01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:07.119
so the other ghosts will know who he is.

1825
01:45:07.199 --> 01:45:10.840
You don't be silly. There aren't any ghosts. And besides,

1826
01:45:10.880 --> 01:45:14.640
that sterling silver medallion has just one purpose. It's simply

1827
01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.119
a lovely piece of jewelry that the ladies will enjoy

1828
01:45:17.199 --> 01:45:20.399
wearing and ladies. To get the medallion, all you have

1829
01:45:20.479 --> 01:45:22.680
to do is send twenty five cents and the box

1830
01:45:22.760 --> 01:45:25.279
top from a package of Lipton's the Tea with the

1831
01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:31.560
Brisk Flavor to Lipton Tea Box ninety two, New York City.

1832
01:45:35.199 --> 01:45:39.600
Well, it's time now to button up my shroud and

1833
01:45:39.760 --> 01:45:44.199
start combing the catacomb. If you insist on a morral

1834
01:45:44.319 --> 01:45:48.079
for tonight's story, try this. The evil that men do

1835
01:45:48.079 --> 01:45:52.119
doesn't always live after them. Sometimes it catches up with.

1836
01:45:52.279 --> 01:46:01.239
Her when it comes to gifts and how cheer. Well,

1837
01:46:02.199 --> 01:46:05.560
I feel like I may be a bit out of practice,

1838
01:46:05.640 --> 01:46:10.239
but I am trying to learn and remember, Oh to

1839
01:46:10.359 --> 01:46:16.880
remember what a simple thought, a simple concept, something you

1840
01:46:17.079 --> 01:46:21.279
truly don't appreciate until you no longer can do it.

1841
01:46:22.279 --> 01:46:25.960
As they say, you don't know what you've got until

1842
01:46:26.000 --> 01:46:29.840
it's gone, But of course you don't know what you've

1843
01:46:29.880 --> 01:46:34.159
got until your gone is probably a better way of

1844
01:46:34.199 --> 01:46:37.960
putting it. Oh what's that? Oh no, no, no, another

1845
01:46:38.039 --> 01:46:41.720
log on the fire. We'll stay warm and merry. You

1846
01:46:41.800 --> 01:46:45.239
don't worry one bit about that. Now, I think it's

1847
01:46:45.359 --> 01:46:49.399
time for a simple, happy holiday story.

1848
01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:55.520
In just a moment, Auto Light presents suspense with Herbert

1849
01:46:55.600 --> 01:47:00.479
Marshall was the night before Christmas, and in Santa Claus sleigh.

1850
01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:04.000
The electrical system was plenty okay, the ignition was perfect,

1851
01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:06.800
worked like a dream, and the sleigh ran so smooth

1852
01:47:06.840 --> 01:47:09.880
it made Santa be What was Santa's secret of them?

1853
01:47:09.960 --> 01:47:12.159
I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight.

1854
01:47:12.359 --> 01:47:15.439
It's no secret at all. It's just auto light. Now

1855
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:17.600
you see half with all the kids in the world

1856
01:47:17.640 --> 01:47:21.199
depending on old Saint Nick Christmas Eve, he plays safe

1857
01:47:21.199 --> 01:47:23.880
by replacing old or worn out parts in his auto

1858
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:28.119
light equipped car sleigh with auto light original factory parts, resistance,

1859
01:47:28.119 --> 01:47:31.720
spark plugs, state full batteries, distributors, starting motors.

1860
01:47:31.359 --> 01:47:33.840
Coils, generators, wire and cable.

1861
01:47:33.920 --> 01:47:37.800
All famous for their auto light ignition, engineer dependability.

1862
01:47:38.199 --> 01:47:41.039
Santa does it. Why don't you, Hallo Horllo. Let's switch

1863
01:47:41.039 --> 01:47:42.520
from Santa to suspense.

1864
01:47:54.640 --> 01:48:04.439
Suspense auto light and it's sixty thousand dealers and service

1865
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:10.159
stations bring you radios. Outstanding theater of thrills, starring tonight

1866
01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:15.560
mister Herbert Marshall in Anton Leader's production of John Collier's

1867
01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:21.800
Holiday Story, A Tale Well calculated to keep you in suspend.

1868
01:48:29.000 --> 01:48:31.800
Jingle bells, jingle all the way.

1869
01:48:33.279 --> 01:48:34.159
Oh what fun?

1870
01:48:35.279 --> 01:48:43.640
Just right, you'll run horsilp and set jingle bells.

1871
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:48.680
Here's what on are you doing down here as seller?

1872
01:48:48.880 --> 01:48:51.159
Why just do a little digging?

1873
01:48:51.640 --> 01:48:53.920
And why may I ask if you chosen this day

1874
01:48:53.920 --> 01:48:55.920
of all days to dig up the cellar flow?

1875
01:48:56.199 --> 01:48:59.600
Well, I thought the weather's been so damp, this would

1876
01:48:59.640 --> 01:49:02.319
be a good time to plant that little devil's garden.

1877
01:49:02.359 --> 01:49:04.039
I told you about devil's garden.

1878
01:49:04.079 --> 01:49:06.479
What if a nonsense is that?

1879
01:49:06.479 --> 01:49:08.279
That was my little joke about it. You see, I've

1880
01:49:08.359 --> 01:49:10.600
I've managed to get hold of the spores of several

1881
01:49:11.000 --> 01:49:15.720
unclassified wild orchids. In their wild state, they brew under

1882
01:49:15.800 --> 01:49:19.439
damp masses of leaf mold. The Urucanian Indians call them

1883
01:49:19.479 --> 01:49:22.319
devil flowers because they appear to broom under the ground.

1884
01:49:22.399 --> 01:49:25.479
Well, I'm sure the Orucanian Indians will be very interested

1885
01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:28.239
if you would succeed in growing these ridiculous flowers under

1886
01:49:28.239 --> 01:49:32.439
the cellar floor. Whom else it will interest? I can't imagine. Ooh,

1887
01:49:32.960 --> 01:49:34.079
what's that terrible smell?

1888
01:49:34.199 --> 01:49:37.920
That's the leaf mold, chemically identical with the earth blankets

1889
01:49:37.920 --> 01:49:40.800
they grow under in the wild state. I suppose I

1890
01:49:40.800 --> 01:49:42.880
should line the pit with concrete. So it's to prevent

1891
01:49:43.000 --> 01:49:45.399
seepage from this foreign soil. But I don't suppose there'll

1892
01:49:45.399 --> 01:49:48.239
be much time for it now, and I do want

1893
01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:50.119
to get these started before we close the house.

1894
01:49:50.279 --> 01:49:52.520
There certainly will not be time for it. Do you

1895
01:49:52.640 --> 01:49:55.439
realize that we're sailing for America a week from today

1896
01:49:55.840 --> 01:49:59.439
and you've made no arrangements whatever? Unless you call digging

1897
01:49:59.479 --> 01:50:04.159
a hole in this making arrangements, I certainly don't Devil's garden. Indeed,

1898
01:50:05.119 --> 01:50:07.960
sometimes I think you're going soft in the head, Wilfrid.

1899
01:50:08.479 --> 01:50:10.560
I suppose it is inconsiderate of me. You see, I've

1900
01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:12.720
been wanting to try this experiment for a long time.

1901
01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:16.479
But what with my lectures and seminars at the university

1902
01:50:16.479 --> 01:50:17.560
I have, there never seemed to tie.

1903
01:50:17.680 --> 01:50:17.800
Well.

1904
01:50:17.840 --> 01:50:20.800
There certainly isn't any time for it now. I suppose

1905
01:50:20.800 --> 01:50:22.560
you've forgotten I made an appointment for you at the

1906
01:50:22.600 --> 01:50:23.520
barbers this afternoon.

1907
01:50:23.560 --> 01:50:27.560
Oh no, no, no, no, But uh must I shave

1908
01:50:27.640 --> 01:50:29.439
off my beard, Hermione, I thought.

1909
01:50:29.239 --> 01:50:32.079
We'd been through all that. Of course you must. They

1910
01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:34.640
don't wear beards in America. Go get your jacket on

1911
01:50:34.640 --> 01:50:37.079
and do as I tell you. Yes, Harmiam, and don't

1912
01:50:37.119 --> 01:50:39.000
forget to take your umbrella looks like rain.

1913
01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:40.840
Yes, hamyam, Oh, don't look so put.

1914
01:50:40.720 --> 01:50:43.039
Upon, Wilfrid. No, someone has to plan things in this

1915
01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:44.840
house or you'd never even get to the university and

1916
01:50:44.920 --> 01:50:47.159
time for your lectures, much less make arrangements for a

1917
01:50:47.199 --> 01:50:48.079
trip to America.

1918
01:50:48.079 --> 01:50:50.640
Well, I know, I know, but what about my specimens.

1919
01:50:50.640 --> 01:50:53.479
There'll be plenty of time to plant your precious devil's

1920
01:50:53.560 --> 01:50:56.399
garden when we get home from America. We're not going

1921
01:50:56.439 --> 01:50:58.680
to be gone forever, you know, we'll be back here

1922
01:50:58.680 --> 01:50:59.439
for the holidays.

1923
01:51:00.119 --> 01:51:02.319
Yes, of course, back for the holidays I've forgotten.

1924
01:51:02.399 --> 01:51:04.920
We'll try to remember it. And if you can't do that,

1925
01:51:05.199 --> 01:51:07.560
just do as I tell you. I've been making the

1926
01:51:07.600 --> 01:51:10.079
plans in this house for twenty years, and if there's

1927
01:51:10.119 --> 01:51:12.399
any digging to be done, I'll manage that as well,

1928
01:51:12.840 --> 01:51:13.880
you understand, Wilfrid.

1929
01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:14.880
Yes, hermione.

1930
01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:17.920
Good. You have just twenty minutes to clean up this

1931
01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.039
mess down here and keep your appointment at the barbers.

1932
01:51:20.119 --> 01:51:22.159
And when you finish there, I want you to come

1933
01:51:22.199 --> 01:51:22.880
straight home.

1934
01:51:23.239 --> 01:51:25.119
Oh I wanted to stop and pick up some books

1935
01:51:25.119 --> 01:51:25.840
I ordered.

1936
01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:28.720
Well, all right, but don't loiter the whole afternoon browsing

1937
01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:31.199
over those old books the way you usually do. Now,

1938
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:33.279
hurry and clear up this rubbish, get rid of that

1939
01:51:33.439 --> 01:51:35.840
smelly stuff, and no more digging, mind you.

1940
01:51:36.760 --> 01:51:43.960
Yes, hermione, yes, hermione. How many years have been since

1941
01:51:44.000 --> 01:51:47.239
I've been saying that? Ten years? Fifteen, twenty? Clear up

1942
01:51:47.279 --> 01:51:51.760
the rubbish, yes, hermione, don't forget your I'm prevent yes, hermione.

1943
01:51:52.119 --> 01:51:52.960
Do this? Do that?

1944
01:51:53.199 --> 01:51:57.880
Yes, hermione, yes, yes, much longer? Can I stand this?

1945
01:52:05.920 --> 01:52:09.800
Good evening, sir, good evening, Miss Malcolm.

1946
01:52:08.920 --> 01:52:12.479
Why it is, Professor Carpenter, isn't it?

1947
01:52:13.319 --> 01:52:13.960
Oh?

1948
01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:14.399
You were?

1949
01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:16.159
You like me better this way?

1950
01:52:16.399 --> 01:52:19.079
Oh you look ever so much younger without the beard.

1951
01:52:19.560 --> 01:52:23.439
Twenty years, at least twenty years. You'll be glad to

1952
01:52:23.479 --> 01:52:27.359
know those books you ordered a finally arrived books. If

1953
01:52:27.439 --> 01:52:30.880
I toold me of falloid gamatophytes and coniferous shrubs of

1954
01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.960
North America, those are the ones you ordered, aren't they?

1955
01:52:34.520 --> 01:52:34.800
Yes?

1956
01:52:35.000 --> 01:52:40.159
Thank you you're very kind, Miss Malcolm, My kind, Professor Carpenter.

1957
01:52:40.319 --> 01:52:42.319
Not many young ladies in bookshops would go out of

1958
01:52:42.319 --> 01:52:44.199
their way to look up rare books for an old

1959
01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:45.720
professor of botany.

1960
01:52:45.800 --> 01:52:48.199
Well you're not, old professor carpenter.

1961
01:52:48.520 --> 01:52:49.680
Really you look.

1962
01:52:51.079 --> 01:52:54.960
And besides, I adore botany. It's my particular hobby.

1963
01:52:55.199 --> 01:52:58.880
Oh really, you never told me that before, Miss Malcolm.

1964
01:52:58.920 --> 01:53:01.800
I was afraid to you were so imposing with the

1965
01:53:01.960 --> 01:53:02.880
beard and all.

1966
01:53:04.239 --> 01:53:07.600
Miss Malkolm. Yes, forgive me of this sounds foolish.

1967
01:53:07.600 --> 01:53:07.840
Better.

1968
01:53:09.199 --> 01:53:11.199
I feel that shaving off my beard is the most

1969
01:53:11.239 --> 01:53:15.039
important thing I've done for for twenty years.

1970
01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:18.079
Oh it is, I'm sure it is. I'm ashamed that

1971
01:53:18.119 --> 01:53:20.439
I've been so distant with you all this time. Oh

1972
01:53:20.439 --> 01:53:23.399
there were times when I almost spoke up. Times when

1973
01:53:23.439 --> 01:53:25.399
you came in here tired after a day with your

1974
01:53:25.399 --> 01:53:29.479
students at the university. You seem so alone, the way

1975
01:53:29.560 --> 01:53:32.239
I'm alone in the world. I'd like to have asked

1976
01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:34.680
you to stay a while and talk with me, But

1977
01:53:34.920 --> 01:53:37.520
some way or other I wound up by giving you

1978
01:53:37.520 --> 01:53:39.680
your change, in letting you go on your way.

1979
01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:42.239
You say you're all alone in.

1980
01:53:42.199 --> 01:53:43.960
The world since my father died.

1981
01:53:44.199 --> 01:53:45.840
Did you never think of marrying?

1982
01:53:46.119 --> 01:53:49.000
My father was a very remarkable man. I never found

1983
01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:50.920
any one who seemed to measure up to what he

1984
01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:52.479
led me to expect of men.

1985
01:53:53.239 --> 01:53:54.680
Miss Markholm, It's been.

1986
01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:57.000
So long since anyone called me by my first name.

1987
01:53:57.600 --> 01:53:59.520
I'd like you too, if you.

1988
01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:06.720
It's Marian, Marian, and yours Wilfred. How long have you

1989
01:54:06.800 --> 01:54:08.199
been alone, Wilfrid?

1990
01:54:08.880 --> 01:54:09.439
Alone?

1991
01:54:09.760 --> 01:54:09.960
Oh?

1992
01:54:10.039 --> 01:54:12.239
I knew you were a widower, of course, the first

1993
01:54:12.239 --> 01:54:13.159
time I saw you.

1994
01:54:14.439 --> 01:54:15.039
A widower.

1995
01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:17.960
I can always tell. There's a certain sadness in a

1996
01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:21.199
man's eyes, a sweet sadness, I think, when he's been

1997
01:54:21.239 --> 01:54:23.079
married and then a widower.

1998
01:54:24.359 --> 01:54:26.359
I never thought of it in quite that way.

1999
01:54:27.079 --> 01:54:30.000
Perhaps I shouldn't be talking like this, but I've often

2000
01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.640
wondered what she must have been like your wife.

2001
01:54:32.720 --> 01:54:36.359
I mean Harmione was that her name? Yes, Harmione. Not

2002
01:54:36.439 --> 01:54:39.560
an easy woman to forget, very strong, always managing things,

2003
01:54:40.159 --> 01:54:44.359
the house, my wardrobe, my friends. When we dined at

2004
01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:47.720
a restaurant, she even ordered my food. She was always

2005
01:54:47.760 --> 01:54:52.600
managing things, you might say she yes, she managed herself

2006
01:54:52.640 --> 01:54:53.079
to death.

2007
01:54:56.880 --> 01:54:57.479
Poor woman.

2008
01:54:58.000 --> 01:55:00.800
She must have loved you very much, but she needn't

2009
01:55:00.840 --> 01:55:03.640
have put herself out. So it's plain to see you

2010
01:55:03.720 --> 01:55:08.159
don't need things managed for you. That you need companionship.

2011
01:55:08.239 --> 01:55:11.720
I think someone's sympathetic with your work. But the last

2012
01:55:11.720 --> 01:55:14.840
thing on earth you need is a manager.

2013
01:55:15.720 --> 01:55:19.079
How well you put it, The last thing on earth?

2014
01:55:33.239 --> 01:55:35.680
Well, at last. You certainly took long enough about it.

2015
01:55:36.399 --> 01:55:37.760
What do you look he so pleased about?

2016
01:55:39.239 --> 01:55:42.439
I don't know. For myone, getting rid of the beard, Pats,

2017
01:55:43.279 --> 01:55:44.439
I feel twenty years younger.

2018
01:55:44.600 --> 01:55:49.039
Oh, look even smaller. Your face looks triangular or something.

2019
01:55:49.920 --> 01:55:53.079
I'd forgotten. Your chin was so weak. But never mind

2020
01:55:53.079 --> 01:55:55.760
that you can grow it back soon enough after the holidays.

2021
01:55:56.199 --> 01:55:58.760
Where are you going down on, Marcella? Oh, I just

2022
01:55:58.840 --> 01:56:01.199
bought this electric lantern. I thought it. I'd put it

2023
01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:02.079
away down there now.

2024
01:56:02.159 --> 01:56:03.840
Whatever possessed you to buy a thing.

2025
01:56:03.720 --> 01:56:05.560
Like that, I don't know. I rather like this lantern

2026
01:56:06.119 --> 01:56:06.880
might come in handy.

2027
01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:10.199
Who knows, now, gilfriend, don't start digging down there again.

2028
01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:12.000
I have a hundred things to do put in the

2029
01:56:12.000 --> 01:56:13.720
house in order before we leave. I want you to

2030
01:56:13.760 --> 01:56:14.920
carry these boxes.

2031
01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:16.039
Upstairs for you, yes, Hermione.

2032
01:56:16.520 --> 01:56:18.640
And if you are going down to the cellar, take

2033
01:56:18.680 --> 01:56:20.319
this along and stuff it into the furnace.

2034
01:56:20.600 --> 01:56:22.560
Well, this is my old bath robe I made need it.

2035
01:56:22.600 --> 01:56:24.760
Nonsense, I brought you a new one. Get rid of it,

2036
01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:29.079
and don't start parttering down there with that devil's garden

2037
01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:30.359
or whatever you call it.

2038
01:56:31.279 --> 01:56:34.319
I'm through digging, my dear, I think the pit is

2039
01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:47.800
quite deep enough now from my devil's garden. It would

2040
01:56:47.800 --> 01:56:51.319
all have to be carefully planned, of course, just as

2041
01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:53.960
carefully planned as Amona as planning the trip to America.

2042
01:56:55.680 --> 01:56:58.039
We both went about our arrangements as the days past.

2043
01:56:59.359 --> 01:57:01.199
I spend all the time I could with Mariam, and

2044
01:57:01.279 --> 01:57:05.520
finally she consented. And then it was the last day

2045
01:57:05.520 --> 01:57:08.560
of the big day, the day we were to sail

2046
01:57:08.600 --> 01:57:10.159
for America.

2047
01:57:11.199 --> 01:57:15.039
Operator operator, Are you there? I'm still waiting on that

2048
01:57:15.039 --> 01:57:20.640
call to Salisbury. Well, put them on quickly. Hello. Is

2049
01:57:20.680 --> 01:57:25.199
this Paul Holton Sons. It's missus Wilfrid Carpenter. Did you

2050
01:57:25.239 --> 01:57:26.039
receive my letter?

2051
01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:27.600
Good?

2052
01:57:28.479 --> 01:57:30.800
Now, Remember we'll be back for the holidays and I

2053
01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:35.199
want the job done with that failed what's that? Oh no,

2054
01:57:35.399 --> 01:57:38.479
I'll be sure he doesn't suspect anything. Send the bill

2055
01:57:38.520 --> 01:57:40.479
to me in New York, as I instructed you, addressed

2056
01:57:40.479 --> 01:57:43.680
in my name of course. Ohlies, I've already put them

2057
01:57:43.680 --> 01:57:47.399
in the mail. You get them tomorrow. Thank you, thank

2058
01:57:47.439 --> 01:57:51.640
you so much. Oh here you are, Wilfrid.

2059
01:57:52.239 --> 01:57:56.000
Where have you been backstairs? I dismissed the servants.

2060
01:57:56.880 --> 01:58:00.359
Dismiss the servants. But I've asked some friends of mine

2061
01:58:00.399 --> 01:58:02.840
into a farewell tea. Go and tell them it's mistake.

2062
01:58:02.960 --> 01:58:05.159
I'm fait it's too late now they've packed and gone.

2063
01:58:05.239 --> 01:58:08.039
You have missed things up properly. How many times have

2064
01:58:08.119 --> 01:58:09.239
I told you to leave things to me?

2065
01:58:09.399 --> 01:58:09.960
I make the.

2066
01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:12.680
Plans around here, Yes, hermione, You'll have to do better

2067
01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:14.279
than this when I plan the trip home, or we'll

2068
01:58:14.279 --> 01:58:16.720
never in the world be back here for the holidays, back.

2069
01:58:16.560 --> 01:58:18.199
Here for the holidays, back here for the holidays.

2070
01:58:18.239 --> 01:58:20.880
Must keep saying that, why not, we are coming back

2071
01:58:20.920 --> 01:58:21.880
for the holidays, aren't we?

2072
01:58:21.960 --> 01:58:24.279
I supposing I've offered a professorship in one of those

2073
01:58:24.319 --> 01:58:25.720
wealthy American universities.

2074
01:58:25.800 --> 01:58:28.640
Nonsense. Americans care nothing for botany.

2075
01:58:29.319 --> 01:58:30.760
Luther Burbank was an American.

2076
01:58:30.880 --> 01:58:34.319
That's different. What have you ever done except knock around

2077
01:58:34.319 --> 01:58:36.359
in the dirt with a lot of roots and tubers.

2078
01:58:36.640 --> 01:58:39.920
They asked me to lecture. That means something, of course.

2079
01:58:39.640 --> 01:58:42.439
They ask you to lecture. Americans will pay to here

2080
01:58:42.479 --> 01:58:46.319
any foreigner deliver a lecture once. Now, there's no use

2081
01:58:46.319 --> 01:58:48.920
getting yourself in a state about this, wilfriend. No doubt

2082
01:58:49.000 --> 01:58:51.640
this extra money will come in very handy when we arrived.

2083
01:58:51.399 --> 01:58:52.800
Back for the holidays.

2084
01:58:53.520 --> 01:58:57.079
Decisely, and it's no good you are making a joke

2085
01:58:57.119 --> 01:59:00.239
of it. Heaven knows where you'd be today if I

2086
01:59:00.279 --> 01:59:01.800
hadn't got a sense of time.

2087
01:59:02.399 --> 01:59:04.079
Yes, my dear Hermione, And as.

2088
01:59:03.960 --> 01:59:06.840
You've been so foolishus and dismiss the servants, you may

2089
01:59:06.840 --> 01:59:08.840
empty the ashtrays and straighten up this room. How we're

2090
01:59:08.880 --> 01:59:11.399
waiting for the guests to arrive. I'm going upstairs to

2091
01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:13.479
change only when they get here.

2092
01:59:13.680 --> 01:59:27.720
Yes, Miami, Mariam, it's wilfred No, my Donny, nothing's wrong.

2093
01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:31.199
My plans are the same, and less you've changed. No,

2094
01:59:33.359 --> 01:59:36.159
we'll meet in New York and get married there. I'll

2095
01:59:36.159 --> 01:59:39.880
explain why later. You'll have to trust me. Yes, yes,

2096
01:59:39.920 --> 01:59:43.960
my Donny. Sorry I can't talk no longer. Yes, I'll

2097
01:59:44.000 --> 01:59:46.279
meet to New York without fail until they might.

2098
01:59:46.359 --> 01:59:49.319
Donny, were you talking on.

2099
01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:50.199
The phone just now?

2100
01:59:50.560 --> 01:59:51.159
Yes, Miami.

2101
01:59:51.520 --> 01:59:55.600
Whoever was it Phy Sinclair?

2102
01:59:55.920 --> 01:59:58.239
Didn't I hear you say something about meeting somebody.

2103
01:59:57.920 --> 01:59:58.359
In New York?

2104
01:59:58.680 --> 02:00:02.079
Yes, Old Freddy said he might possibly get over there

2105
02:00:02.079 --> 02:00:04.800
before we leave. I should, of course we meet him there.

2106
02:00:04.800 --> 02:00:06.000
If he did decide to go.

2107
02:00:06.079 --> 02:00:08.359
It seems very peculiar, But then all of your friends

2108
02:00:08.359 --> 02:00:10.600
are peculiar, yes, Hawaianne. I just look at your jacket.

2109
02:00:10.640 --> 02:00:12.039
Have you been digging in that cellar again?

2110
02:00:12.159 --> 02:00:12.399
Yes?

2111
02:00:12.520 --> 02:00:15.920
Man, well there's no need for it. You can't possibly

2112
02:00:15.960 --> 02:00:19.079
get that Devil's garden thing finished. Go and change your

2113
02:00:19.079 --> 02:00:21.680
clothes before the guests arrive. Yes, oh, never mind, I

2114
02:00:21.720 --> 02:00:22.840
see somebody coming up the walk.

2115
02:00:22.880 --> 02:00:26.640
Now go and let them in, Yesmione, Wilfred, Yes, my dear.

2116
02:00:26.800 --> 02:00:29.520
Look out the window. There's Professor and missus. Goodenough, But

2117
02:00:29.520 --> 02:00:35.640
who's that with him? Precisely Freddison Claire Hulu. You should

2118
02:00:35.640 --> 02:00:36.960
have been talking to him on the phone not three

2119
02:00:36.960 --> 02:00:39.800
minutes ago, and now here he is.

2120
02:00:38.960 --> 02:00:39.359
Isn't it.

2121
02:00:40.760 --> 02:00:44.359
But then, as you say, Hamie, all my friends are peculiar.

2122
02:00:44.319 --> 02:00:47.159
Not half so peculiar as you digging in the cellar

2123
02:00:47.199 --> 02:00:50.039
an hour before we leave for America. Just look at yourself,

2124
02:00:50.760 --> 02:00:53.680
and now that I think of it, yes, Hamionny, Oh

2125
02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:54.800
never mind, go and let them in.

2126
02:00:55.439 --> 02:00:58.399
No, you're going to ask me something the whole I'm

2127
02:00:58.399 --> 02:00:59.159
digging in the cellar.

2128
02:00:59.439 --> 02:01:02.319
Oh good heaven, stop rolling your eyes about that way.

2129
02:01:02.359 --> 02:01:04.359
One would think you were digging a grave down there

2130
02:01:04.399 --> 02:01:05.640
instead of a storage bin.

2131
02:01:06.159 --> 02:01:08.399
Yes, Hamione, what's that?

2132
02:01:09.479 --> 02:01:09.800
I said?

2133
02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:10.520
Yes, o'mione.

2134
02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:14.359
Oh bar the open the door and stop saying yes o'mione.

2135
02:01:16.680 --> 02:01:20.319
I think, my dear, I've said it for the last time.

2136
02:01:30.640 --> 02:01:34.119
For suspense. Auto light is bringing you, mister Herbert Marshall

2137
02:01:34.560 --> 02:01:38.399
in radio's outstanding Theater of thrills suspense.

2138
02:01:45.159 --> 02:01:47.600
Well, halp, what kind of presents are you giving your

2139
02:01:47.680 --> 02:01:48.640
car this Christmas?

2140
02:01:48.800 --> 02:01:50.640
My car would now be sensible.

2141
02:01:50.920 --> 02:01:53.520
I am being sensible have because the most sensible thing

2142
02:01:53.560 --> 02:01:55.560
every car owner can do is treat his car to

2143
02:01:55.640 --> 02:01:58.760
auto light preventive service and auto light factory parts. Now

2144
02:01:59.119 --> 02:02:02.119
right now it does for with an auto light check up.

2145
02:02:02.159 --> 02:02:04.520
Now your car won't let you down later. Here we go.

2146
02:02:04.680 --> 02:02:07.960
Look look half auto light parts our original factory parts

2147
02:02:08.000 --> 02:02:10.479
on many makes of our finest cars, the same as

2148
02:02:10.479 --> 02:02:12.680
those put in the car the day it was made. Resistor,

2149
02:02:12.720 --> 02:02:16.800
spark plug, stay full, batteries, generators, distributors, starting motors, coils,

2150
02:02:16.800 --> 02:02:20.239
wire and cable. Your car uses them all. Auto light

2151
02:02:20.359 --> 02:02:22.960
makes them all. You know, auto light parts and your

2152
02:02:22.960 --> 02:02:26.079
auto light equipped car go together. Like Damon and pitheis

2153
02:02:26.119 --> 02:02:28.720
like Duncan and Fife, Like Chip and Dale. What's one

2154
02:02:28.760 --> 02:02:29.319
without the other?

2155
02:02:29.439 --> 02:02:30.199
Chip and Dale?

2156
02:02:30.279 --> 02:02:32.720
So don't accept parts that are supposed to be as

2157
02:02:32.760 --> 02:02:35.760
good get auto light parts for auto light parts are

2158
02:02:35.800 --> 02:02:38.760
built for your car, Sata's car, everybody's car.

2159
02:02:38.920 --> 02:02:42.439
Hello, you're wonderful. Why you've got send and everybody switching

2160
02:02:42.439 --> 02:02:43.079
to autoline.

2161
02:02:43.119 --> 02:02:46.239
So friends, follow the footsteps of Dasher, Dancer, Dunder and

2162
02:02:46.279 --> 02:02:49.039
Blitzen and whip on down to your nearest autolite service

2163
02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:51.279
station or the dealer who sells your make of car

2164
02:02:51.560 --> 02:02:54.439
and ask for original factory parts and service.

2165
02:02:54.479 --> 02:02:59.920
Okay, Harlow right, now here suspends, and now auto Light

2166
02:03:00.079 --> 02:03:03.920
brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, mister Herbert Marshall,

2167
02:03:04.239 --> 02:03:08.399
starring in a gripping tale well calculated to keep you

2168
02:03:08.520 --> 02:03:09.920
in suspense.

2169
02:03:21.560 --> 02:03:25.640
Back for the holidays. Hermione was so positive, and we'll

2170
02:03:25.680 --> 02:03:29.079
be back for the holidays. That last afternoon, pouring tea

2171
02:03:29.119 --> 02:03:30.760
for a few friends who'll come in to say last

2172
02:03:30.760 --> 02:03:32.680
minute farewell, She kept reiterating it.

2173
02:03:32.800 --> 02:03:35.199
Now, mind you were man, you don't get those Americans

2174
02:03:35.279 --> 02:03:38.119
law your husband with one of their fat university jobs.

2175
02:03:38.359 --> 02:03:40.680
We absolutely must have you with us for the holidays.

2176
02:03:40.720 --> 02:03:42.119
He will be back. I promise.

2177
02:03:42.319 --> 02:03:44.600
It's not absolutely certain, of course, wil What.

2178
02:03:44.560 --> 02:03:46.720
Do you mean it's not certain? Of course, it's certain.

2179
02:03:46.800 --> 02:03:49.760
After all, Wilfred, our boy, you've contracted to lecture for

2180
02:03:49.800 --> 02:03:51.000
only two months, that's right.

2181
02:03:51.079 --> 02:03:52.399
But then, of course anything may happen.

2182
02:03:52.439 --> 02:03:56.960
Oh Wilfrid adores being unpredictable. Now what other men would

2183
02:03:56.960 --> 02:04:01.079
decide the very day, mind you, before leaving for America

2184
02:04:01.199 --> 02:04:03.960
to dig a great hole in the floor of the cellar.

2185
02:04:04.000 --> 02:04:07.479
In the cellar, Yes, he's going to put some unclassified

2186
02:04:07.680 --> 02:04:11.720
wild orchids down there, a devil's garden, if you please. Oh,

2187
02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:16.079
my son, so mysterious. That's Wilfrid. Though it's really quite

2188
02:04:16.159 --> 02:04:18.880
simple once you find out what he's up to. Now

2189
02:04:18.920 --> 02:04:20.560
take that telephone call he put through to you a

2190
02:04:20.640 --> 02:04:23.720
few minutes before you arrive, Freddy to me, of course,

2191
02:04:24.079 --> 02:04:26.560
Wilfred wanted to surprise me about your plan to meet

2192
02:04:26.600 --> 02:04:28.680
us in New York next month. Wasn't that why he

2193
02:04:28.760 --> 02:04:30.520
called to ask you not to mention it?

2194
02:04:30.800 --> 02:04:31.920
My dear Hermiami.

2195
02:04:32.119 --> 02:04:35.119
Wilfrid couldn't possibly have telephoned me within the past star,

2196
02:04:35.520 --> 02:04:37.439
I've been walking in the park since three.

2197
02:04:37.920 --> 02:04:39.479
He didn't telephone you, How could he?

2198
02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:42.119
And there's her my going to America. No, I not comforted.

2199
02:04:42.159 --> 02:04:44.319
You may as well own up Hermione. Has found me

2200
02:04:44.319 --> 02:04:46.079
out again. But Wilfred ol' chap.

2201
02:04:46.199 --> 02:04:49.600
I really don't you see what a poor liar Wilfrid makes.

2202
02:04:49.680 --> 02:04:52.600
He's as red as a beach. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Professor,

2203
02:04:52.840 --> 02:04:55.840
stringing poor Hermione along like that it has for you, Freddy,

2204
02:04:55.920 --> 02:04:59.039
I'm furious you said nothing to us about going to America.

2205
02:04:59.119 --> 02:05:02.359
Look here, old girl, I've been trying to tell everyone.

2206
02:05:02.039 --> 02:05:06.279
Here, Oh, stuff and nonsense. The game's gone on long enough. Besides,

2207
02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:09.479
we must start getting ready. It was marvelous of all

2208
02:05:09.479 --> 02:05:12.039
of you to come in to say goodbye, and don't

2209
02:05:12.079 --> 02:05:15.640
worry about Wilfrid's little jokes. I will bring him back

2210
02:05:15.680 --> 02:05:18.439
for the holidays. You may rely on it.

2211
02:05:21.239 --> 02:05:24.239
They all believed her for Yeah, she'd been promising me

2212
02:05:24.279 --> 02:05:27.640
for dinner parties, garden parties, committees, and the promises had

2213
02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:30.920
always been kept. This time they wouldn't be. I'd seem

2214
02:05:30.960 --> 02:05:34.520
to that the servants were gone for good. The farewells

2215
02:05:34.520 --> 02:05:37.000
all said. I had time to the minute. How long

2216
02:05:37.000 --> 02:05:38.119
it would take to fit in the hole in the

2217
02:05:38.199 --> 02:05:43.079
cellar my devil's garden upstairs in the bedroom, my unbreast

2218
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:46.720
folded my clothes over a chair, put on my old bathrobe.

2219
02:05:46.760 --> 02:05:50.920
Then I opened the door into her min his room. Hermione,

2220
02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:51.960
have you a moment to spare?

2221
02:05:52.600 --> 02:05:54.359
Of course here, I'm just finished.

2222
02:05:54.359 --> 02:05:56.079
Then come in here for a moment. There's something rather

2223
02:05:56.119 --> 02:05:57.000
extraordinary here.

2224
02:05:57.600 --> 02:06:00.359
Oh, good heavens, Wilfrid. What are you lounging it that

2225
02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:02.720
fills the old bathroom for? I told you to put

2226
02:06:02.760 --> 02:06:03.479
it into the furnace.

2227
02:06:03.520 --> 02:06:05.359
I'll do it today, Yes, I very will, I promise.

2228
02:06:05.520 --> 02:06:08.359
Well, high time. Now what is it you want to show?

2229
02:06:08.520 --> 02:06:09.920
This is in the bathroom here?

2230
02:06:10.319 --> 02:06:10.800
Just look?

2231
02:06:11.840 --> 02:06:14.079
Who in the world is supposed dropt the gold chain

2232
02:06:14.199 --> 02:06:15.279
down the bathtub grain?

2233
02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:18.039
Nobody has, of course, nobody wears such a thing.

2234
02:06:18.479 --> 02:06:19.680
Then what's it doing in the then?

2235
02:06:20.560 --> 02:06:22.159
Well, I don't see anything here.

2236
02:06:23.159 --> 02:06:26.039
I don't hold this flash lad for you. If you've

2237
02:06:26.000 --> 02:06:27.960
been right over, you can see it shining deep down.

2238
02:06:28.079 --> 02:06:32.159
Such a lot of nonsense. Just as well, I don't

2239
02:06:32.199 --> 02:06:33.000
see it, Wilfred.

2240
02:06:33.119 --> 02:06:34.079
Go I'm looking Hermione.

2241
02:06:35.119 --> 02:06:38.800
In just the moment, Wilfred, I absolutely refuse, Wilfred, what.

2242
02:06:38.760 --> 02:06:39.239
Are you doing?

2243
02:06:39.840 --> 02:06:41.039
Take your hands off my neck?

2244
02:06:41.119 --> 02:06:42.800
I will Harmione. Just as soon as I finished the

2245
02:06:42.880 --> 02:06:45.119
arrangements for my trip to America, what are you talking

2246
02:06:45.119 --> 02:06:46.920
about You thought we were the only one who could

2247
02:06:46.920 --> 02:06:49.920
plan things into Hermione. Well, I've been making some plans

2248
02:06:49.920 --> 02:06:52.199
of my owness past week. In exactly one minute and

2249
02:06:52.239 --> 02:06:54.880
forty five seconds. Who we did, you see? I've planned

2250
02:06:54.920 --> 02:06:55.720
it very accurately.

2251
02:06:56.279 --> 02:06:57.600
You'll never get away with it.

2252
02:06:57.920 --> 02:07:00.199
I thought you'd say that, Hermione. But I will get

2253
02:07:00.199 --> 02:07:02.560
away with it. You won't mind the smell of the

2254
02:07:02.640 --> 02:07:03.920
leaf bowl down on the cellar when.

2255
02:07:03.840 --> 02:07:04.960
I take you down there today.

2256
02:07:05.560 --> 02:07:08.680
Yes, that's why you're going, Hamione, into my devil's garden.

2257
02:07:08.720 --> 02:07:09.840
That annoyed you so much.

2258
02:07:10.359 --> 02:07:13.520
My friends they all expect me back for the holidays,

2259
02:07:13.760 --> 02:07:16.119
and if I don't come back, they'll start asking questions.

2260
02:07:16.119 --> 02:07:19.119
Now they want no, because you'll write them letters, HAMIONI

2261
02:07:19.159 --> 02:07:22.479
I'm the typewriters you always do. They'll be signed H

2262
02:07:22.520 --> 02:07:24.960
in that need cryptic way you always sign your notes

2263
02:07:25.000 --> 02:07:25.520
to your friends.

2264
02:07:25.560 --> 02:07:27.279
Oh, let me up.

2265
02:07:27.359 --> 02:07:31.720
Now, it won't work, Wilfred. You are never any good

2266
02:07:31.720 --> 02:07:32.199
at planning.

2267
02:07:32.520 --> 02:07:35.479
But I've changed. I've learned from watching you all these years.

2268
02:07:35.600 --> 02:07:39.159
Selective people in America. They'll be expecting you to travel

2269
02:07:39.159 --> 02:07:39.720
with your wife.

2270
02:07:39.720 --> 02:07:42.119
I will be traveling with my wife, but not my

2271
02:07:42.199 --> 02:07:46.840
present wife Comione. Fortunately they've never met you. I'll write

2272
02:07:46.840 --> 02:07:49.800
a few letters home for you. Then fewer and fewer.

2273
02:07:50.960 --> 02:07:52.600
I might even come back alone in your Europe to

2274
02:07:52.680 --> 02:07:56.199
and sell the place. Say you died in America. Nobody

2275
02:07:56.199 --> 02:07:58.319
will ever suspect that you're lying under the floor of

2276
02:07:58.399 --> 02:07:59.760
the cellar in this buddy house.

2277
02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:03.279
Well, frigid won't work. I tell you that pit you dug.

2278
02:08:03.039 --> 02:08:04.920
In the cellar, I can assure you, my dear Harmiona,

2279
02:08:04.960 --> 02:08:08.399
it will serve its purpose. Well you must, sorry, dear,

2280
02:08:08.520 --> 02:08:11.239
I've got to get this done. According to pen you

2281
02:08:11.279 --> 02:08:14.159
have just five seconds to say your prayers.

2282
02:08:13.680 --> 02:08:34.000
Where Fred You must listen the seller, don't you, oh Stewart,

2283
02:08:34.439 --> 02:08:36.079
Yes her, my wife is in dispose.

2284
02:08:36.119 --> 02:08:38.600
You'll be taking her meals in hostage frum by the

2285
02:08:38.760 --> 02:08:41.199
whole voyage, Yes, for the whole voyage.

2286
02:08:45.239 --> 02:08:47.279
Well, I trust your wife is feeling better this morning,

2287
02:08:47.279 --> 02:08:48.439
Professor Kavanick.

2288
02:08:48.279 --> 02:08:50.439
A little, yes, thin, not yet well enough to leave

2289
02:08:50.479 --> 02:08:50.880
her cabin.

2290
02:08:51.119 --> 02:08:51.800
I'm sorry.

2291
02:08:52.520 --> 02:08:54.760
Oh, by the way, here's a copy of the radiogram

2292
02:08:54.760 --> 02:08:55.960
you sent for your wife last year.

2293
02:08:56.000 --> 02:09:00.319
All you think you, I'll just check it over, but

2294
02:09:00.439 --> 02:09:05.880
look here, what is it? Did the typists make a mistake? No, No,

2295
02:09:05.960 --> 02:09:13.880
nothing important. She can correct it later. For a moment,

2296
02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:15.720
I had a feeling that Hamiah had been leaning over

2297
02:09:15.760 --> 02:09:19.159
my shoulder again correcting what I had written. She always did.

2298
02:09:21.079 --> 02:09:23.279
I had written a radio brand Professor Goodenough and his

2299
02:09:23.319 --> 02:09:28.760
wife have not been out of cabin the whole beasted trip, Wilfred, Well,

2300
02:09:29.279 --> 02:09:32.159
doubt will be back for the holidays. The copy read

2301
02:09:33.159 --> 02:09:36.079
no doubt will be back for the holidays, exactly what

2302
02:09:36.119 --> 02:09:37.119
Harmione would have written.

2303
02:09:38.800 --> 02:09:39.039
Well.

2304
02:09:40.399 --> 02:09:43.159
The rest of the voyde was uneventful, and Marian and

2305
02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:45.039
I met in New York just as I had planned.

2306
02:09:46.359 --> 02:10:08.560
Just as I had planned, Professor and Missus Carpenter, we

2307
02:10:08.640 --> 02:10:11.279
have reservations, I believe. Oh, yes, we've been expecting you,

2308
02:10:11.399 --> 02:10:12.439
sir boy.

2309
02:10:12.680 --> 02:10:15.680
Yes, sir, thank Professor and Missus Carpenter's luggage up to

2310
02:10:15.720 --> 02:10:16.119
this week.

2311
02:10:17.359 --> 02:10:20.880
You know, Missus Carpenter, you're quite a surprise. A letter

2312
02:10:20.920 --> 02:10:26.000
reserving the rooms was so thorough. I was expecting an older,

2313
02:10:26.039 --> 02:10:27.279
more forbidding sort of person.

2314
02:10:27.319 --> 02:10:30.600
Frankly, ma'am no, as a matter of fact, we are

2315
02:10:30.680 --> 02:10:33.960
just married. But my letter reserving the.

2316
02:10:33.960 --> 02:10:37.159
Room, I wrote the letter my dear and signed Missus

2317
02:10:37.159 --> 02:10:38.720
Wilfred Carpenter, just as a joke.

2318
02:10:39.199 --> 02:10:41.640
What a cunning old fox you are, Wilfrid.

2319
02:10:42.479 --> 02:10:42.920
I am round.

2320
02:10:43.239 --> 02:10:46.479
Oh, I almost forgot a letter for you, missus Carpenter.

2321
02:10:46.880 --> 02:10:47.840
That's peculiar.

2322
02:10:48.199 --> 02:10:49.119
I wonder who wonders.

2323
02:10:49.159 --> 02:10:51.359
Well, we'll find out in good time. No, you come along.

2324
02:10:51.880 --> 02:11:11.199
We're keeping the boy waiting. M like a cold brisk charge.

2325
02:11:11.279 --> 02:11:17.760
But a man writes mm hmmmmmm mm hmmmm hmm mmmm.

2326
02:11:19.359 --> 02:11:20.079
This letter.

2327
02:11:20.239 --> 02:11:24.199
Oh, yes, yes letter, don dye my hair, will you?

2328
02:11:24.560 --> 02:11:25.079
Yes? Dear.

2329
02:11:25.520 --> 02:11:28.000
It seems to be a bill of some sort from

2330
02:11:28.039 --> 02:11:30.600
a building contractor in Sulisbury.

2331
02:11:33.199 --> 02:11:34.720
Oh, buzzard, not your own.

2332
02:11:37.239 --> 02:11:39.720
Let's see this, sir, see this bill or whatever it is.

2333
02:11:40.159 --> 02:11:43.880
It's very puzzling. Wilfred, you were a widower, weren't you.

2334
02:11:44.000 --> 02:11:46.239
I mean Hermione isn't still alive.

2335
02:11:46.279 --> 02:11:53.159
Hope heavens now. Let's have that. Yeah, dear madam, that's

2336
02:11:53.199 --> 02:11:56.680
a good one. This is to acknowledge your order together

2337
02:11:56.760 --> 02:12:01.000
with the keys to your house in lonstant place. Amen,

2338
02:12:01.439 --> 02:12:04.439
have no difficulty in finding the place where your husband

2339
02:12:04.439 --> 02:12:09.039
has begun the excavation in the cellar. But apparently he

2340
02:12:09.159 --> 02:12:11.600
changed his mind at the last moment and filled it

2341
02:12:11.640 --> 02:12:12.000
in again.

2342
02:12:12.399 --> 02:12:12.960
What is it? Wi?

2343
02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:16.359
Our men will begin digging tomorrow. You may rest assured

2344
02:12:16.399 --> 02:12:18.479
that it will be a professional job and will be

2345
02:12:18.600 --> 02:12:21.680
completed in ample time for your surprise Christmas present to

2346
02:12:21.720 --> 02:12:24.960
your husband. We are happy to be conspirators with you

2347
02:12:25.079 --> 02:12:28.399
in this thoughtful gesture and hope that Professor Carpenter will

2348
02:12:28.399 --> 02:12:30.520
be pleased at the results of our work that he

2349
02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:35.520
so quaintly calls his devil's gardener. Read it through to yours,

2350
02:12:36.439 --> 02:12:38.239
Paul Holton's sons compractice.

2351
02:12:42.039 --> 02:12:43.239
What does it mean, Wilfrid.

2352
02:12:43.479 --> 02:12:46.039
It means that a mile it was right.

2353
02:12:47.399 --> 02:12:52.399
I will be back for the holidays, back for the holidays,

2354
02:12:53.319 --> 02:12:57.039
Back for the holidays, Back for the holidays, back for

2355
02:12:57.159 --> 02:12:57.760
the holidays.

2356
02:13:24.000 --> 02:13:28.520
Thank you Herbert Marshall for a splendid performance. Mister Marshall

2357
02:13:28.520 --> 02:13:30.000
will return in just a moment.

2358
02:13:31.439 --> 02:13:34.920
Jingle bells, jingle bell, jingle through the snow.

2359
02:13:35.359 --> 02:13:38.520
Your car's all have bits full of with all all right,

2360
02:13:38.680 --> 02:13:42.920
you know right you are and by Cornelia's electrical problems,

2361
02:13:42.960 --> 02:13:45.560
won't keep your car down when you stop at the

2362
02:13:45.600 --> 02:13:48.760
shop that features auto light parts and service. Sure as

2363
02:13:48.840 --> 02:13:52.239
Chris Kringle means Christmas auto light original factory parts and

2364
02:13:52.399 --> 02:13:56.359
service top the town, So friends stop in tomorrow at

2365
02:13:56.439 --> 02:13:59.279
your friendly auto light service station or the dealer who

2366
02:13:59.359 --> 02:14:02.800
sells your make of car, and ask for original factory

2367
02:14:02.960 --> 02:14:04.439
parts and service.

2368
02:14:06.319 --> 02:14:06.800
Auto light.

2369
02:14:07.319 --> 02:14:10.479
You'll find auto light service stations listed in your classified

2370
02:14:10.520 --> 02:14:15.399
telephone directory under Automotive electrical Equipment. And remember your auto

2371
02:14:15.439 --> 02:14:18.079
light ignition system is the lifeline of your car.

2372
02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:22.479
Yes, friends, and remember too, auto light means spark plugs,

2373
02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:25.039
ignition engineered resistor, spark plug.

2374
02:14:25.319 --> 02:14:28.319
Auto light means batteries, say full batteries.

2375
02:14:28.680 --> 02:14:32.520
Auto light means ignition systems the lifeline of your car.

2376
02:14:41.560 --> 02:14:44.560
Well, my dear, I know it's getting a bit late,

2377
02:14:44.680 --> 02:14:48.960
but you seems about as chipper as I did. Well,

2378
02:14:49.119 --> 02:14:52.199
it might be ironic to refer to myself as full

2379
02:14:52.239 --> 02:14:54.680
of life. I'll extend that to you.

2380
02:14:56.039 --> 02:14:56.359
What's that?

2381
02:14:56.800 --> 02:14:56.960
Oh?

2382
02:14:57.159 --> 02:15:00.239
Of course, of course, another log on the fire. I

2383
02:15:00.399 --> 02:15:04.880
lose track of time so easily these days. Well, I

2384
02:15:05.000 --> 02:15:08.479
believe we have time for one more. And let's make

2385
02:15:08.560 --> 02:15:12.680
it a real doozy, as they say, something to really

2386
02:15:12.960 --> 02:15:17.880
sink your teeth into something that encapsulates so much about

2387
02:15:17.920 --> 02:15:22.199
the season of giving and good cheers. The kettle is

2388
02:15:22.239 --> 02:15:27.840
on the stoves, hot cocoa is eminent. And now for

2389
02:15:27.960 --> 02:15:30.079
the Terrifying Gift.

2390
02:15:41.359 --> 02:15:41.720
Come in.

2391
02:15:44.479 --> 02:15:46.079
Welcome. I'm e. G.

2392
02:15:46.319 --> 02:15:51.800
Marshall mention the second sight, forecasting the future, fortune telling

2393
02:15:52.640 --> 02:15:57.600
and what springs to mind the gypsy gets. Strangely enough,

2394
02:15:58.079 --> 02:16:02.000
the gypsy himself or herself would tell you that fortune

2395
02:16:02.039 --> 02:16:05.600
telling is a gimmick, not an any talent or a gift.

2396
02:16:06.319 --> 02:16:08.760
For the truth here, if there is such a thing,

2397
02:16:09.560 --> 02:16:11.439
it could only be a curse.

2398
02:16:12.720 --> 02:16:20.520
You can escape your faith. It is not terminated your

2399
02:16:20.840 --> 02:16:27.239
don or ruse your life. You have to continue to

2400
02:16:27.560 --> 02:16:35.079
service it as long as you. You cannot die till

2401
02:16:35.200 --> 02:16:39.360
you pass it on to your daughter, and to your

2402
02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:44.520
daughter's daughter, and to have daughter.

2403
02:16:53.479 --> 02:16:57.559
Our mystery drama The Terrifying Gift was written especially for

2404
02:16:57.680 --> 02:17:00.879
the Mystery theater by Ian Martin stars ROBERTA.

2405
02:17:00.959 --> 02:17:01.399
Maxwell.

2406
02:17:01.920 --> 02:17:03.719
I'll be back shortly with that one.

2407
02:17:19.159 --> 02:17:23.079
Most of us live relatively on eventful lives. Would you,

2408
02:17:23.479 --> 02:17:26.440
if you had a free choice, exchange the safety of

2409
02:17:26.520 --> 02:17:29.399
your day to day life for a magic gift that

2410
02:17:29.479 --> 02:17:33.360
would make you someone incredibly special like no one else

2411
02:17:33.440 --> 02:17:33.879
in the world.

2412
02:17:34.440 --> 02:17:37.440
Before you answer that, let's have a look at Marca.

2413
02:17:37.200 --> 02:17:41.079
Harriet, who never asked to be special, but was selected

2414
02:17:41.120 --> 02:17:43.760
by fate to be granted a boon. Most of us

2415
02:17:43.840 --> 02:17:47.159
would give our eye teeth to possess, or would we

2416
02:17:47.959 --> 02:17:50.799
if we could put ourselves in her shoes?

2417
02:17:54.159 --> 02:17:57.920
Hello, honey, where have you been?

2418
02:17:58.319 --> 02:17:59.479
That's a long story.

2419
02:18:00.000 --> 02:18:01.879
I hope it's a good one. Do you know I've

2420
02:18:01.920 --> 02:18:02.680
been waiting for you.

2421
02:18:03.719 --> 02:18:05.639
At don Something happened.

2422
02:18:05.719 --> 02:18:07.760
Oh I'm not mad for me, just for Sheila.

2423
02:18:08.120 --> 02:18:08.520
Sheila.

2424
02:18:08.840 --> 02:18:09.399
Yeah, you know.

2425
02:18:09.600 --> 02:18:12.000
We promised to be home early tonight to take her

2426
02:18:12.040 --> 02:18:13.600
to the Girl Scout family dinner.

2427
02:18:13.680 --> 02:18:13.799
Oh.

2428
02:18:13.879 --> 02:18:15.319
I know, but I couldn't help.

2429
02:18:15.360 --> 02:18:16.000
What happened?

2430
02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:18.319
What did Are you all right?

2431
02:18:18.600 --> 02:18:18.799
Yes?

2432
02:18:18.959 --> 02:18:19.639
I'm fine.

2433
02:18:19.840 --> 02:18:23.479
Where are you at the station house Precinct eighteen.

2434
02:18:23.319 --> 02:18:25.520
The police station? Martha?

2435
02:18:25.639 --> 02:18:27.600
For hadn don't get excited.

2436
02:18:27.799 --> 02:18:28.440
I'm all right.

2437
02:18:28.639 --> 02:18:29.719
I haven't done anything.

2438
02:18:29.760 --> 02:18:31.399
Well, then, what are you doing at a police station?

2439
02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:33.920
I had to sign more papers, good papers.

2440
02:18:34.239 --> 02:18:36.000
There's nothing to worry about, deary.

2441
02:18:36.600 --> 02:18:38.120
They just had to do with the corpse.

2442
02:18:38.920 --> 02:18:40.280
The corpse, Martha.

2443
02:18:40.360 --> 02:18:41.959
I shouldn't have said it that way.

2444
02:18:42.600 --> 02:18:44.920
She was quite a sweet old lady, even if she.

2445
02:18:45.120 --> 02:18:49.040
Was well strange in the head. Martha, what are you

2446
02:18:49.280 --> 02:18:50.319
talking about.

2447
02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:52.639
About the old lady who died.

2448
02:18:52.520 --> 02:18:53.440
In my arm?

2449
02:18:53.840 --> 02:18:55.639
What old lady who did Oh?

2450
02:18:55.799 --> 02:18:59.760
Just a minute time. What did you say, Lieutenant, Oh, yes,

2451
02:19:00.040 --> 02:19:01.879
of course, then I can go.

2452
02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.000
Oh that's fine, Lieutenant Leo said, I can go.

2453
02:19:07.239 --> 02:19:07.360
Now.

2454
02:19:07.799 --> 02:19:10.079
You hop a cab then, and get right down here.

2455
02:19:10.479 --> 02:19:11.000
Some whale.

2456
02:19:11.079 --> 02:19:12.719
Get me there in twenty minutes.

2457
02:19:12.959 --> 02:19:16.799
Okay, meet me at the garage. It's closer. It'll save time.

2458
02:19:23.799 --> 02:19:24.719
Which where are you going?

2459
02:19:25.079 --> 02:19:25.200
Uh?

2460
02:19:25.399 --> 02:19:28.040
Tunnel and under the belt. With any luck, we'll just

2461
02:19:28.159 --> 02:19:28.840
miss the crush.

2462
02:19:29.000 --> 02:19:31.559
I'm sorry I kept it so late. Never mind that

2463
02:19:31.799 --> 02:19:35.559
what happened to you, it's all so crazy that, looking

2464
02:19:35.639 --> 02:19:38.719
back on it, I can't really believe it did. The

2465
02:19:38.840 --> 02:19:41.479
whole thing is so silly, except for that poor old lady.

2466
02:19:43.479 --> 02:19:45.360
I guess I might as well begin at the beginning.

2467
02:19:45.840 --> 02:19:48.159
Fine, now this time, go right on to the end.

2468
02:19:48.440 --> 02:19:49.319
Please, yes.

2469
02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:52.920
Well, when I left you, I did some shopping.

2470
02:19:53.479 --> 02:19:55.959
Then I got to my lunch and appointment with Julie Sands,

2471
02:19:56.360 --> 02:19:58.440
and she brought a niece of hers along. Who's going

2472
02:19:58.479 --> 02:19:59.440
to Duke University?

2473
02:20:00.120 --> 02:20:02.479
Can we do without all the irrelevant details?

2474
02:20:02.559 --> 02:20:03.319
Ah, but they're not.

2475
02:20:04.520 --> 02:20:08.760
This niece was a very peculiar sort of girl, but fascinating.

2476
02:20:09.159 --> 02:20:10.879
First of all, I was a bit miffed that she

2477
02:20:11.000 --> 02:20:14.399
dominated the conversation. But then it got sort of interesting.

2478
02:20:14.879 --> 02:20:15.559
What was it about?

2479
02:20:16.159 --> 02:20:20.799
Oh, it was about esp ESP you.

2480
02:20:20.920 --> 02:20:25.959
Know, extra sensory perception, mind reading, clairvoyants, that sort of thing.

2481
02:20:26.600 --> 02:20:29.239
This girl is a serious student on a scholarship.

2482
02:20:29.319 --> 02:20:31.399
Grand So how did you get arrested?

2483
02:20:31.680 --> 02:20:33.040
I didn't get arrested.

2484
02:20:33.200 --> 02:20:34.639
He ended up at the police station.

2485
02:20:34.799 --> 02:20:41.239
If you just listen, i'd explain. Well, after lunch, it

2486
02:20:41.360 --> 02:20:44.319
was still too early to meet you. So I started

2487
02:20:44.360 --> 02:20:47.079
wandering window shopping, thinking of all the things that kid

2488
02:20:47.120 --> 02:20:49.559
had said. When all of a sudden, I spotted this

2489
02:20:49.680 --> 02:20:53.479
little shop with signora buonafortuna written across the top of

2490
02:20:53.559 --> 02:20:59.719
the window. Know your future private readings, reasonable prices come in.

2491
02:21:00.280 --> 02:21:03.239
You went to a fortune time for crying out loud?

2492
02:21:03.440 --> 02:21:06.000
Well, I had some time to kill and it was

2493
02:21:06.079 --> 02:21:08.239
the kind of thing we've been talking about at lunch,

2494
02:21:08.440 --> 02:21:17.920
and I was curious, and so h yes, I couldn't

2495
02:21:18.000 --> 02:21:23.680
help myself. I was drawn to it. I opened the door.

2496
02:21:26.879 --> 02:21:31.440
There was a little old lady sitting the oldest person

2497
02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:37.600
I've ever seen. You wish a reading? I don't know.

2498
02:21:37.760 --> 02:21:42.000
I was just curious, for who is not curious about

2499
02:21:42.159 --> 02:21:49.200
what the future? Holes come closer, child, I'm not really sure.

2500
02:21:49.239 --> 02:21:59.319
I want to all you're very pretty, yay, Reilana. Let

2501
02:21:59.559 --> 02:22:01.479
me see the hands please, and.

2502
02:22:01.760 --> 02:22:09.639
Maybe I'll change my mind. I don't really know, Madam Senora.

2503
02:22:10.079 --> 02:22:14.920
Are you all right? I should have long.

2504
02:22:16.479 --> 02:22:21.680
He would send you at last, he who would send

2505
02:22:21.799 --> 02:22:32.479
the good Lord who watches over us auld Louisa, welcome home.

2506
02:22:33.639 --> 02:22:38.440
Look, please let me go. My name isn't Louisa. It's

2507
02:22:38.639 --> 02:22:50.440
Martha Harriet. Or your name is Louisa Alberni Bona Fortua. No, please,

2508
02:22:51.239 --> 02:22:53.959
my husband is waiting for me, and so you took

2509
02:22:54.120 --> 02:22:57.680
the name of your husband. But before that, before that,

2510
02:22:57.920 --> 02:23:02.520
my name was Martha Banks, and before that it was

2511
02:23:03.079 --> 02:23:10.639
Louisa Bonafortola. Now you listen to me. I tell you

2512
02:23:10.879 --> 02:23:16.360
the truth. There is only proof for all year. I'm

2513
02:23:16.479 --> 02:23:21.840
not this Louisa, whoever she was, she was my granddaughter

2514
02:23:22.920 --> 02:23:29.239
that I have not seen in thirty years. Now, I'm sorry.

2515
02:23:29.559 --> 02:23:30.200
Did she die?

2516
02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:31.760
I never knew?

2517
02:23:32.319 --> 02:23:32.680
Please?

2518
02:23:33.399 --> 02:23:38.360
Please, you must not be afraid. I am an old woman,

2519
02:23:39.360 --> 02:23:47.079
sick and dying, and I have a gift for you.

2520
02:23:47.680 --> 02:23:48.520
No, not for me.

2521
02:23:48.760 --> 02:23:55.559
I'm now I can die in the peace. I never

2522
02:23:55.799 --> 02:23:56.959
thought to find.

2523
02:24:02.280 --> 02:24:03.200
Your mother.

2524
02:24:04.760 --> 02:24:12.360
Was Sophia Theresa, My daughter. You never knew her, just

2525
02:24:12.600 --> 02:24:18.319
as no one ever knew your father. So he was wild,

2526
02:24:19.399 --> 02:24:23.479
head strong. When she found that she was carrying you,

2527
02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:29.360
she waited to bring you into the world, but she

2528
02:24:29.559 --> 02:24:36.000
never wanted you. So when you were six months old,

2529
02:24:36.280 --> 02:24:43.440
without my knowing, she told you so. There are always

2530
02:24:44.200 --> 02:24:48.559
people who want to adopt a baby who know. Avocato

2531
02:24:48.680 --> 02:24:53.239
arranged it for her, and she went back to the

2532
02:24:53.440 --> 02:24:57.840
old life. You couldn't stop her. I didn't, not till

2533
02:24:58.719 --> 02:25:04.959
too late. My husband, he was very sick. I had

2534
02:25:05.040 --> 02:25:10.840
to take care of him. He died just after what

2535
02:25:11.440 --> 02:25:19.399
happened to your daughter. God burnished her. She was killed

2536
02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:26.079
by the car in a crash. The same night my

2537
02:25:26.559 --> 02:25:31.200
Powerloh died. I buried them both together.

2538
02:25:31.760 --> 02:25:35.120
How tragic you've been all along this year.

2539
02:25:36.120 --> 02:25:43.079
I had my work. Ill don't know that keep me alive.

2540
02:25:43.959 --> 02:25:50.399
Ill don't know the gift the second sight. But surely

2541
02:25:50.440 --> 02:25:54.920
if you can see into the future, you, I mean,

2542
02:25:55.040 --> 02:25:57.840
couldn't you have tried to stop these things from happening.

2543
02:25:58.040 --> 02:26:02.120
It is not permitted for the one no will don't

2544
02:26:02.239 --> 02:26:07.479
know to know what is to come to her or

2545
02:26:07.559 --> 02:26:10.079
to those of her blood.

2546
02:26:10.760 --> 02:26:17.879
Oh, I see, it's been a long lonely time, Louisa,

2547
02:26:19.040 --> 02:26:20.799
But now you are bad.

2548
02:26:22.399 --> 02:26:27.799
I can die in peace, yes, but I'm not, Louisa,

2549
02:26:28.399 --> 02:26:31.159
And if you forgive me, I really must leave. No,

2550
02:26:32.559 --> 02:26:37.600
not until I pass on. Ill don't. No, it is

2551
02:26:37.879 --> 02:26:38.879
yours now.

2552
02:26:39.760 --> 02:26:41.159
I know I can't accept that.

2553
02:26:41.280 --> 02:26:47.200
I know you must. Since the ancientse it has been

2554
02:26:47.479 --> 02:26:52.319
fast on from mother to daughter to the last remaining

2555
02:26:52.680 --> 02:26:58.799
girl child. The chain cannot be broken. The holder of

2556
02:26:59.079 --> 02:27:06.600
this gift can never die until she can bestowed on

2557
02:27:07.040 --> 02:27:09.840
the follow up. But it wouldn't be any good to give.

2558
02:27:09.760 --> 02:27:10.120
It to me.

2559
02:27:10.520 --> 02:27:13.000
I'm not the person you think I am, and I

2560
02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:13.719
don't want it.

2561
02:27:13.799 --> 02:27:21.639
You cannot refuse. You must carry the burden now, Louisa,

2562
02:27:22.799 --> 02:27:26.920
how Darney bornow for fooa.

2563
02:27:27.879 --> 02:27:28.360
To you?

2564
02:27:29.079 --> 02:27:30.079
I gave.

2565
02:27:31.399 --> 02:27:33.840
A dove, okay.

2566
02:27:34.639 --> 02:27:38.680
Senora, Senora, Oh dear lord.

2567
02:27:39.959 --> 02:27:40.680
Now what do I do?

2568
02:27:42.680 --> 02:27:43.959
What am I going to do?

2569
02:27:46.239 --> 02:27:50.079
That's quite a story, honey, What did you do? Well?

2570
02:27:50.120 --> 02:27:53.000
I just couldn't leave her. She was dead, I thought so,

2571
02:27:53.799 --> 02:27:54.799
but I couldn't be certain.

2572
02:27:55.399 --> 02:27:58.719
I called that emergency police number and the police came

2573
02:27:58.799 --> 02:28:02.000
and they, well, you know this nice lieutenant asked if

2574
02:28:02.000 --> 02:28:03.760
I could come over to the police station and just

2575
02:28:03.840 --> 02:28:05.239
make a statement of what happened.

2576
02:28:05.520 --> 02:28:07.840
You didn't tell him to kock an Amy's story about

2577
02:28:07.840 --> 02:28:08.479
her thinking you.

2578
02:28:08.520 --> 02:28:10.319
Were her blong lost grandchild.

2579
02:28:10.520 --> 02:28:13.639
No, I just said I was a customer, and that

2580
02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:18.280
while we were talking she had this seizure and she died.

2581
02:28:19.479 --> 02:28:20.959
I can't get her out of my mind.

2582
02:28:21.559 --> 02:28:23.879
I hope you don't believe all that malachey she fad

2583
02:28:23.920 --> 02:28:27.920
you about the gift. Of course I don't, even though

2584
02:28:28.000 --> 02:28:30.920
your lunch companion have convinced you there is.

2585
02:28:31.040 --> 02:28:32.319
That's a thing your second size.

2586
02:28:32.879 --> 02:28:34.600
Even if there is, she couldn't have passed it on

2587
02:28:34.719 --> 02:28:35.399
to me, since.

2588
02:28:35.200 --> 02:28:38.799
I'm not her granddaughter, Sir, pity in a way might

2589
02:28:38.879 --> 02:28:39.520
come in handy.

2590
02:28:40.360 --> 02:28:44.079
I mean, you wouldn't like to try to close your eyes.

2591
02:28:44.680 --> 02:28:48.399
See if you could project to a poor but honest stockbroker.

2592
02:28:47.840 --> 02:28:50.559
What's going to happen in the market tomorrow, Like say

2593
02:28:50.879 --> 02:28:51.760
kennebuck Cole.

2594
02:28:52.200 --> 02:28:55.440
You know I don't know anything about the market. Now,

2595
02:28:55.559 --> 02:28:58.000
come on, oh, let's drop this whole subject.

2596
02:28:58.120 --> 02:28:58.600
Get home.

2597
02:28:59.079 --> 02:29:01.799
Sheila will be chewing her nails, thinking we're going to

2598
02:29:01.879 --> 02:29:02.680
disappoint her.

2599
02:29:12.239 --> 02:29:17.079
Do you want anything before I turn out the light? No, darling, Ah,

2600
02:29:18.559 --> 02:29:21.440
it was a nice night, huh, Sheila was happy. Yes,

2601
02:29:21.639 --> 02:29:27.040
she's growing up so fast. I wish what Martha.

2602
02:29:28.639 --> 02:29:30.920
I wish we could have more children one or so?

2603
02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:34.840
Oh so fragile. An extension of us of what we are.

2604
02:29:35.239 --> 02:29:38.159
Yeah, we've been down this road too often before, Darling.

2605
02:29:39.319 --> 02:29:40.319
We can always adopt.

2606
02:29:40.479 --> 02:29:41.200
Is that what you want?

2607
02:29:41.399 --> 02:29:41.440
No?

2608
02:29:41.639 --> 02:29:41.799
Why?

2609
02:29:43.000 --> 02:29:45.879
I just want to protect ro Oh.

2610
02:29:47.559 --> 02:29:47.920
What is it?

2611
02:29:48.040 --> 02:29:48.200
Dear?

2612
02:29:49.799 --> 02:29:51.319
H Okay.

2613
02:29:51.680 --> 02:29:53.479
Stennett wanted to.

2614
02:29:53.479 --> 02:29:56.239
Pick up Sheila with Penny tomorrow afternoon and drive them

2615
02:29:56.319 --> 02:29:58.319
to ride to the amusement party.

2616
02:29:59.440 --> 02:29:59.799
Why not.

2617
02:30:02.079 --> 02:30:05.159
Sounds like fun? I don't know.

2618
02:30:06.319 --> 02:30:09.520
Sheila has an exam coming up. I think I'm going

2619
02:30:09.600 --> 02:30:10.360
to lower the boom.

2620
02:30:11.239 --> 02:30:12.600
You know whatever you said? Done?

2621
02:30:12.680 --> 02:30:13.040
You are?

2622
02:30:14.639 --> 02:30:15.319
You run the home?

2623
02:30:15.440 --> 02:30:15.680
Shit?

2624
02:30:16.520 --> 02:30:19.639
You don't think I'm being too mm hmm.

2625
02:30:22.200 --> 02:30:23.000
Okay for you.

2626
02:30:24.600 --> 02:30:28.120
Or whatever anyone else thinks. I'm not going to let

2627
02:30:28.239 --> 02:30:41.520
she look go with k Hello, Oh, Amelia, this is

2628
02:30:41.600 --> 02:30:45.799
missus Harriet. Could I speak to missus Stennett? Please? What

2629
02:30:48.200 --> 02:30:51.280
when on the way back from play land?

2630
02:30:52.879 --> 02:30:53.079
Oh?

2631
02:30:54.360 --> 02:30:58.680
Well, how how serious? They were sideswiped by a truck?

2632
02:31:00.079 --> 02:31:01.920
Kay is all right, but.

2633
02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:03.600
Kenny is.

2634
02:31:05.239 --> 02:31:11.719
Did Oh how awful? Oh yes, yes, I'll contact the

2635
02:31:11.799 --> 02:31:17.079
hospital myself. I saw the whole accident in my mind.

2636
02:31:19.040 --> 02:31:21.639
Oh Lord, I didn't let my little Sheila go along?

2637
02:31:23.520 --> 02:31:25.079
But could I have stopped it?

2638
02:31:26.680 --> 02:31:30.280
Did I really know it was going to happen?

2639
02:31:37.399 --> 02:31:41.000
Now here is an intriguing circumstance. Is the death of

2640
02:31:41.079 --> 02:31:45.360
her daughter's playmate a quite natural coincidence? Or did Martha

2641
02:31:45.799 --> 02:31:48.879
really have a prescient knowledge that disaster hovered over the

2642
02:31:48.920 --> 02:31:52.000
trick to play lud? Was it just a lucky hunch

2643
02:31:52.479 --> 02:31:55.399
that saved her daughter? Or has she really been given

2644
02:31:55.440 --> 02:32:00.719
the gift? Can she now read the future? Returned shortly

2645
02:32:00.799 --> 02:32:18.440
with that too? If you were offered the privilege of

2646
02:32:18.559 --> 02:32:21.559
looking down the long tunnel of the future, would you

2647
02:32:21.680 --> 02:32:25.719
accept it? There are obvious advantages. You could put every

2648
02:32:25.799 --> 02:32:28.319
cent you owned on the long shot that would make

2649
02:32:28.360 --> 02:32:31.959
you a millionaire. But one of the obverse side of

2650
02:32:32.000 --> 02:32:34.879
the coin a vision of the obituary column in the

2651
02:32:34.959 --> 02:32:38.399
next day's edition of the paper or next month's listing,

2652
02:32:38.920 --> 02:32:42.319
your husband, your child, or even yourself.

2653
02:32:43.239 --> 02:32:44.840
Would you really want this knowledge?

2654
02:32:47.079 --> 02:32:47.680
Hi, Martha?

2655
02:32:49.520 --> 02:32:50.159
How was your day?

2656
02:32:50.520 --> 02:32:50.879
Rugged?

2657
02:32:51.239 --> 02:32:51.959
Oh what happened?

2658
02:32:52.040 --> 02:32:54.239
Let's get out of this rat race before we talk.

2659
02:32:55.040 --> 02:32:56.079
Oh you got me worried?

2660
02:32:56.360 --> 02:33:00.479
N that's nothing compared to the stew i'men how was

2661
02:33:00.520 --> 02:33:01.479
your day breadwinning?

2662
02:33:01.600 --> 02:33:04.440
Hey, super one of the best days of my life,

2663
02:33:04.799 --> 02:33:08.120
thanks to you, thanks to me, well, sort of obliquely.

2664
02:33:08.680 --> 02:33:11.239
Remember I was kidding about Kennebuck coal.

2665
02:33:12.840 --> 02:33:13.159
Stock.

2666
02:33:13.239 --> 02:33:15.440
I oh, yes, well guess what.

2667
02:33:15.840 --> 02:33:18.680
I followed my hunch and sold it short this afternoon

2668
02:33:18.799 --> 02:33:21.639
it went south, went south, you have the bottom fell

2669
02:33:21.680 --> 02:33:23.479
out of it, went down ten points.

2670
02:33:23.200 --> 02:33:28.239
By closing, by tomorrow, hit the floor. We are very lucky, honey.

2671
02:33:28.280 --> 02:33:29.399
We stand and make a bundle.

2672
02:33:30.239 --> 02:33:34.159
Oh no, mmm, do you say something?

2673
02:33:35.479 --> 02:33:40.280
I just don't feel very well. Would you mind driving?

2674
02:33:40.520 --> 02:33:40.719
Hum?

2675
02:33:40.879 --> 02:33:43.120
Of course not. But what is it?

2676
02:33:44.079 --> 02:33:45.479
I'll tell you when I get home.

2677
02:33:51.280 --> 02:33:52.760
You saw the accident.

2678
02:33:52.840 --> 02:33:55.479
I don't know how else to say it. Don It

2679
02:33:55.680 --> 02:33:58.559
was last night when we were going to sleep, and

2680
02:33:58.680 --> 02:34:03.120
I closed my eyes and suddenly it was all there,

2681
02:34:03.959 --> 02:34:07.520
the truck cutting in on Kay's car, spinning out of control,

2682
02:34:08.159 --> 02:34:09.600
and then the crash and Penny.

2683
02:34:10.200 --> 02:34:11.760
Yes, what about Penny.

2684
02:34:12.719 --> 02:34:16.840
I knew she was dead, don't you understand. I knew

2685
02:34:16.959 --> 02:34:20.040
Kay was all right, but the Penny was dead, just

2686
02:34:20.159 --> 02:34:22.520
as Sheila might have been if I'd let her go along.

2687
02:34:22.920 --> 02:34:23.479
I saw it.

2688
02:34:23.959 --> 02:34:27.040
I knew, honey. What's the matter. Don't get so upset?

2689
02:34:27.159 --> 02:34:27.920
You look scared.

2690
02:34:28.040 --> 02:34:31.440
I am scared, Dohn of what of what happened yesterday?

2691
02:34:31.719 --> 02:34:34.639
You mean you think that old gypsy fortune teller or

2692
02:34:34.639 --> 02:34:36.680
whatever she was put some kind of whammy on you.

2693
02:34:36.959 --> 02:34:38.680
Come on, honey, that's silly.

2694
02:34:40.280 --> 02:34:44.000
Is it dawn after my seeing Kay's accident before it happened?

2695
02:34:44.159 --> 02:34:44.639
Sure it is.

2696
02:34:44.799 --> 02:34:47.479
You were dead, tired and rattled last night after a

2697
02:34:47.559 --> 02:34:52.399
pretty harrowing experience at poor old dame dying practically in

2698
02:34:52.440 --> 02:34:55.120
your arms like that made the rest of the nonsense

2699
02:34:55.200 --> 02:34:55.600
haunt you.

2700
02:34:55.760 --> 02:34:58.159
But I knew there was going to be an accident.

2701
02:34:58.280 --> 02:35:00.879
Oh, you just had a hunch like I did about

2702
02:35:00.920 --> 02:35:04.360
the stock. Come on, you can't read the future. You

2703
02:35:04.440 --> 02:35:06.520
don't have second sight any more than I do.

2704
02:35:06.840 --> 02:35:07.959
I hope you're right.

2705
02:35:09.200 --> 02:35:12.360
Well, Uh, how's she La taking the accident?

2706
02:35:12.440 --> 02:35:15.000
She's devastated? Kenny was her best friend.

2707
02:35:15.319 --> 02:35:16.959
Where is she in her room?

2708
02:35:17.399 --> 02:35:20.239
Resting? Doctor Schultz told me to give her a sedative?

2709
02:35:20.680 --> 02:35:21.799
Maybe I'll look in on her.

2710
02:35:21.959 --> 02:35:26.319
That would be nice, that old lady making me out

2711
02:35:26.360 --> 02:35:29.360
to be somebody else, giving me all that mumbo jumble

2712
02:35:29.440 --> 02:35:36.520
about being her granddaughter and the gift and ah don mmm,

2713
02:35:37.520 --> 02:35:39.760
would you mind if I booked a flight to Cleveland

2714
02:35:39.840 --> 02:35:42.319
tomorrow and flew out to see my mother for for

2715
02:35:43.559 --> 02:35:46.159
I think, for my sanity. I've got to find out

2716
02:35:46.200 --> 02:35:48.920
from her who I really am.

2717
02:35:55.120 --> 02:35:58.280
Oh, my darling, I thought you'd never get here.

2718
02:35:58.399 --> 02:36:01.920
Hello, mother, Oh are you all right? We'll come in,

2719
02:36:02.239 --> 02:36:05.200
Come on in. Oh haven't you got any bags? No,

2720
02:36:05.680 --> 02:36:09.200
I just brought myself. I've been on pins and needles

2721
02:36:09.239 --> 02:36:11.440
all morning waiting for you to get here. I told

2722
02:36:11.479 --> 02:36:14.079
you the plane wouldn't get in till nearly eleven. I know,

2723
02:36:14.959 --> 02:36:17.600
but it just seemed to take you forever to get

2724
02:36:17.639 --> 02:36:20.840
here from the airport. Oh, frankly, darling, Since you called

2725
02:36:20.879 --> 02:36:23.639
me yesterday, I've really been out of my head worrying

2726
02:36:23.680 --> 02:36:27.200
what this trip is all about. Oh it's not trouble

2727
02:36:27.280 --> 02:36:32.479
between you and Dawn. No, mother, There's just something rather

2728
02:36:33.520 --> 02:36:36.920
serious I have to talk to you about. Oh, of course, dear,

2729
02:36:37.280 --> 02:36:41.920
anything anything you sit down? Oh you do look so tired.

2730
02:36:42.360 --> 02:36:45.840
You want something to your tea of coffee? Nothing, but

2731
02:36:46.000 --> 02:36:50.200
I will sit down sit here on the couch with me, mom.

2732
02:36:50.440 --> 02:36:55.120
Of course, What what is it, darling? I'll try to

2733
02:36:55.280 --> 02:37:02.840
help you always have. Some very strange happened to me

2734
02:37:02.920 --> 02:37:07.600
the day before yesterday, an experience that's really shaken me

2735
02:37:07.719 --> 02:37:08.399
up terribly.

2736
02:37:09.440 --> 02:37:10.239
Well, that happened.

2737
02:37:11.479 --> 02:37:17.760
I went to a fortune teller's place. You are You

2738
02:37:18.000 --> 02:37:20.879
never believed in such trash. I was shopping in New

2739
02:37:21.000 --> 02:37:22.719
York and it was too early for down to be

2740
02:37:22.760 --> 02:37:24.799
able to leave the office, so I wanted to kill

2741
02:37:24.879 --> 02:37:29.200
some time. There was another reason, but if it doesn't

2742
02:37:29.239 --> 02:37:34.799
matter anymore. The point is I went and this charlatan

2743
02:37:35.239 --> 02:37:39.280
person prophesied that something dire was going to happen to you. No,

2744
02:37:40.559 --> 02:37:44.159
it wasn't about my future at all. What I learned

2745
02:37:44.159 --> 02:37:50.040
about was my past. Your past. Yes, there was a

2746
02:37:50.280 --> 02:37:53.879
very old lady there who looked at my palm and

2747
02:37:54.239 --> 02:37:59.719
insisted that I was her granddaughter, her granddaughter, Yes, that

2748
02:37:59.840 --> 02:38:03.040
her daughter had had me illegitimately and put me out

2749
02:38:03.079 --> 02:38:10.040
for adoption. That my name was Louisa Alberny Bonafortuna. And

2750
02:38:10.239 --> 02:38:11.639
you believe that.

2751
02:38:12.079 --> 02:38:15.840
I don't know, but it has become the most important

2752
02:38:15.879 --> 02:38:17.440
thing in my life that I know.

2753
02:38:19.520 --> 02:38:25.719
Am I this Louisa? It's a very pretty name. You

2754
02:38:26.079 --> 02:38:33.799
haven't answered me, mother, Darling. I suppose I've always known

2755
02:38:33.959 --> 02:38:39.360
that this moment was inevitable. I've prayed all your life

2756
02:38:39.440 --> 02:38:41.920
that it wouldn't be and I have dreaded that it might.

2757
02:38:42.600 --> 02:38:49.399
I'm not your real daughter, No, darling, No you're not.

2758
02:38:51.040 --> 02:38:55.120
We adopted you when you were six months old, and

2759
02:38:55.280 --> 02:38:58.840
you never told me. There were so many times when

2760
02:38:58.879 --> 02:39:03.280
I thought we should, but I didn't want to lose

2761
02:39:03.559 --> 02:39:05.920
the way we were, Martha. The two of you were

2762
02:39:06.000 --> 02:39:12.440
my life, you especially mom. Oh Martha, I'm so ashamed.

2763
02:39:14.360 --> 02:39:16.719
Am I really Louisa Bonafortuna?

2764
02:39:17.040 --> 02:39:22.879
I honestly don't know. You See, a lawyer made all

2765
02:39:22.920 --> 02:39:26.879
the arrangements for a sweet We never knew your real name,

2766
02:39:27.200 --> 02:39:33.479
but I could have been she. Yes, darling, is that

2767
02:39:33.760 --> 02:39:37.600
really so important? I haven't told you all about my

2768
02:39:37.719 --> 02:39:40.479
meeting with the lady who claimed to be my grandmother.

2769
02:39:41.799 --> 02:39:45.319
I haven't told you she died in my arms, or

2770
02:39:45.440 --> 02:39:50.159
that she left me an inheritance. What the gift of

2771
02:39:50.319 --> 02:39:54.159
second sight, the ability to read the future, to read

2772
02:39:54.239 --> 02:39:56.319
what it holds for everyone about me?

2773
02:39:57.000 --> 02:39:57.959
How could she do that?

2774
02:39:58.360 --> 02:40:04.040
Superstition magic handed down from generation to generation on the

2775
02:40:04.120 --> 02:40:09.360
female side, as long as time shall last? Oh, it

2776
02:40:09.639 --> 02:40:12.600
sounds like so much nonsense. You haven't had to live

2777
02:40:12.639 --> 02:40:16.239
through the last days with me. I suddenly do know

2778
02:40:16.360 --> 02:40:18.799
what's going to happen to people? On the plane. Here

2779
02:40:19.600 --> 02:40:23.040
I had my heart in my mouth, A young girl

2780
02:40:23.159 --> 02:40:24.920
on the way to the West coast to join her

2781
02:40:25.040 --> 02:40:27.600
husband who was a pilot in the Air Force, and

2782
02:40:27.760 --> 02:40:33.719
I knew I could see her husband crashing on a

2783
02:40:34.159 --> 02:40:39.399
training landing. I think, my darling, what can I say

2784
02:40:39.559 --> 02:40:45.000
to you? I am just appalled. I never dreamed a

2785
02:40:45.120 --> 02:40:46.399
disaster like this could.

2786
02:40:46.239 --> 02:40:50.600
Happen to us, just because I ached for and because I.

2787
02:40:50.760 --> 02:40:53.479
Wanted a child so much. That part of it is

2788
02:40:53.559 --> 02:40:57.520
all right, mother, Nothing will change that. It doesn't matter

2789
02:40:57.680 --> 02:41:00.879
who I was. The real part of my life is

2790
02:41:01.000 --> 02:41:05.079
with Dawn. But now that the past has caught up,

2791
02:41:05.360 --> 02:41:10.399
I just have to try to adjust. One thing I

2792
02:41:10.520 --> 02:41:13.440
have to know is about myself. Who am I or

2793
02:41:13.520 --> 02:41:17.600
who was I? To begin with? The terrible thing that

2794
02:41:17.719 --> 02:41:19.799
I have to say to you, Martha, Dear, is that

2795
02:41:20.959 --> 02:41:24.840
I can't answer that question. Then who can The lawyer

2796
02:41:24.959 --> 02:41:27.559
who arranged with us for your adoption to begin with,

2797
02:41:28.399 --> 02:41:37.680
if he's still alive, his name is Denton Skyler. I

2798
02:41:37.920 --> 02:41:40.600
just hope you'll forgive me for invading your privacy like this,

2799
02:41:40.719 --> 02:41:41.879
mister Skyler.

2800
02:41:41.639 --> 02:41:45.719
My good Joe, my dear, and a break in them,

2801
02:41:45.799 --> 02:41:51.520
and not have my monastic life in the sanctuary for

2802
02:41:51.639 --> 02:41:57.760
their senile is welcome, welcome in particular when it brings

2803
02:41:57.840 --> 02:41:58.799
so pretty a girl.

2804
02:41:59.360 --> 02:42:02.600
You're very kind, but can you help me?

2805
02:42:03.479 --> 02:42:04.239
I'm not sure.

2806
02:42:05.280 --> 02:42:08.200
All I want to find out is the name of

2807
02:42:08.319 --> 02:42:09.399
my real mother.

2808
02:42:09.799 --> 02:42:10.040
Why?

2809
02:42:10.959 --> 02:42:14.360
Well, I couldn't explain that. It's really too complicated, but

2810
02:42:14.479 --> 02:42:16.360
it's desperately important to me.

2811
02:42:16.600 --> 02:42:21.000
Well, you're a woman grown? Were you not happy with

2812
02:42:21.120 --> 02:42:23.680
your Sarah? Good mother? Missus bang?

2813
02:42:23.879 --> 02:42:26.600
I couldn't have asked for a better mother. I never

2814
02:42:26.760 --> 02:42:28.280
wanted another, and why.

2815
02:42:28.159 --> 02:42:29.000
I look for one?

2816
02:42:29.159 --> 02:42:31.639
Now? What could she give you?

2817
02:42:31.799 --> 02:42:34.719
That's the woman who brought you up, didn't nothing?

2818
02:42:35.559 --> 02:42:39.879
She's long ago dead, but her mother, perhaps my grandmother

2819
02:42:40.200 --> 02:42:43.639
left me a legacy. All I ask you is to

2820
02:42:43.760 --> 02:42:47.799
remember my mother's name, the woman who brought me as

2821
02:42:47.840 --> 02:42:50.000
a baby for you to place for adoption.

2822
02:42:50.399 --> 02:42:57.719
You say she's dead, yes, and a grandmother, yes, and

2823
02:42:57.920 --> 02:43:03.239
nobody could be hurt the name? How could anyone forget

2824
02:43:03.319 --> 02:43:10.239
that name? Bona fortunea? She was your natural mother. So

2825
02:43:10.479 --> 02:43:17.120
it's all true, now, you muschool child, I'm sleepy.

2826
02:43:17.360 --> 02:43:21.799
I can't remember what you came for.

2827
02:43:23.000 --> 02:43:25.760
Did I tell you what you wanted to hear?

2828
02:43:27.000 --> 02:43:27.040
No?

2829
02:43:28.760 --> 02:43:37.959
But you told me what I had to know. But now,

2830
02:43:38.239 --> 02:43:39.399
Martha Darling.

2831
02:43:39.760 --> 02:43:41.959
Oh, just take me to the airport. Mother, I've got

2832
02:43:42.040 --> 02:43:44.479
to get home. But I'll worry about you. I'd rather

2833
02:43:44.559 --> 02:43:45.600
you pray for me.

2834
02:43:45.879 --> 02:43:49.719
Why this legacy from my family, now that I know

2835
02:43:49.879 --> 02:43:53.159
it's mine, It's no gift, It's a curse.

2836
02:43:54.520 --> 02:43:55.959
I'll just have to try to learn to.

2837
02:43:56.000 --> 02:43:56.399
Live with it.

2838
02:43:57.360 --> 02:44:01.319
If you really can foretell the future, there must be

2839
02:44:01.520 --> 02:44:05.520
some good things about it. Yes, at least I can

2840
02:44:05.719 --> 02:44:08.239
reassure you that the plane I'm going to fly and

2841
02:44:08.399 --> 02:44:09.239
won't go down.

2842
02:44:15.680 --> 02:44:19.520
But as I take off, I have this deep foreboding

2843
02:44:20.479 --> 02:44:22.239
and a secret wish in my heart that.

2844
02:44:22.319 --> 02:44:25.399
The plane would crash and there would be no future

2845
02:44:25.479 --> 02:44:29.879
for me. But I can't wish that. I can't hurt

2846
02:44:29.920 --> 02:44:34.680
other people. But beyond doubt, I know that the only.

2847
02:44:34.559 --> 02:44:37.520
Way to neutralize what I feel is so strongly an

2848
02:44:37.559 --> 02:44:41.200
evil power is to sacrifice myself.

2849
02:44:42.040 --> 02:44:45.319
You cannot escape your pain.

2850
02:44:46.559 --> 02:44:51.360
It even there eli or.

2851
02:44:51.559 --> 02:44:52.920
Rules your life.

2852
02:44:54.040 --> 02:44:57.959
You've gonna die until you pass out.

2853
02:44:58.280 --> 02:45:02.920
To your daughter, I'll do your pa first daughter, and

2854
02:45:03.120 --> 02:45:04.559
to her daughter.

2855
02:45:05.959 --> 02:45:13.159
Lord, Now not shea she can't be asked to bear

2856
02:45:13.280 --> 02:45:14.319
this burden too.

2857
02:45:18.719 --> 02:45:23.600
An obscure English classical scholar the seventeenth century left us

2858
02:45:23.680 --> 02:45:27.840
with an enduring quotation, whom the gods would destroy they

2859
02:45:27.920 --> 02:45:32.440
first make mad? Is that what destiny holds in store

2860
02:45:32.479 --> 02:45:35.959
for Martha Harriet? Is she condemned for the rest of

2861
02:45:36.000 --> 02:45:38.280
her life to bear the sorrows of the world on

2862
02:45:38.399 --> 02:45:43.079
her shoulder, and worse still, to pass this albatross of fate.

2863
02:45:43.520 --> 02:45:47.399
On to her innocent daughter. I shall return shortly with

2864
02:45:47.559 --> 02:45:48.000
Act three.

2865
02:46:04.959 --> 02:46:09.159
Martha's future is as dark and speculative as all of ours.

2866
02:46:09.920 --> 02:46:12.000
It's only other people's she can read.

2867
02:46:12.879 --> 02:46:14.760
And what use is it to tell someone who's going

2868
02:46:14.799 --> 02:46:17.440
to be lucky let him enjoy it when it comes,

2869
02:46:18.360 --> 02:46:21.600
or to warn him of future mishaps which the inexorable

2870
02:46:21.680 --> 02:46:22.879
law of fate will.

2871
02:46:22.799 --> 02:46:24.040
Not permit him to escape.

2872
02:46:24.840 --> 02:46:28.079
Marthy, He's right, Ildno is no blessing.

2873
02:46:29.040 --> 02:46:29.760
It is a curse.

2874
02:46:30.760 --> 02:46:32.520
Be reasonable, Martha.

2875
02:46:32.440 --> 02:46:36.520
Lost the capacity to be reasonable. Don It can't help us.

2876
02:46:36.760 --> 02:46:40.319
I can't read our stars. That's a closed book to me.

2877
02:46:40.959 --> 02:46:43.680
That's part of ill Donoh, come on, what.

2878
02:46:43.799 --> 02:46:44.920
About kennebuck Cole?

2879
02:46:45.040 --> 02:46:45.559
What about it?

2880
02:46:46.239 --> 02:46:47.920
Why do you think I had the guests to sell

2881
02:46:48.040 --> 02:46:49.399
short You said it.

2882
02:46:49.440 --> 02:46:50.079
Was on a hunch.

2883
02:46:50.559 --> 02:46:52.600
You were hunts but it was a hunch i'd never

2884
02:46:52.680 --> 02:46:54.680
have had if I hadn't known you could somehow see

2885
02:46:54.719 --> 02:46:57.079
I was right. And let me tell you something you

2886
02:46:57.159 --> 02:46:59.520
can thank Heaven we climbed out of it. You must

2887
02:46:59.639 --> 02:47:02.319
know how extended I am, how near we are to

2888
02:47:02.399 --> 02:47:03.159
the ragged edge.

2889
02:47:03.520 --> 02:47:04.760
No, don I don't.

2890
02:47:04.959 --> 02:47:07.079
Yes, start broker's a chancy business.

2891
02:47:07.159 --> 02:47:07.239
Now.

2892
02:47:07.280 --> 02:47:10.079
If I can't swing something big soon, the firm may

2893
02:47:10.159 --> 02:47:13.319
be in serious trouble. I'm asking you to help me,

2894
02:47:13.440 --> 02:47:14.200
to help us.

2895
02:47:14.440 --> 02:47:17.440
I'm trying to explain to you that I can't, can't

2896
02:47:18.399 --> 02:47:25.239
or won't. Don Please, darling, don't press that I have to.

2897
02:47:25.559 --> 02:47:29.680
I have to make you understand. Now, how much is

2898
02:47:29.719 --> 02:47:30.959
it going to drop tomorrow?

2899
02:47:31.079 --> 02:47:31.760
I won't tell you.

2900
02:47:31.959 --> 02:47:33.319
Oh this time, it's won't.

2901
02:47:33.399 --> 02:47:35.920
That means you do no right, don for pity's sake,

2902
02:47:36.479 --> 02:47:40.639
help me. Don't fight me. It can't be used for

2903
02:47:40.879 --> 02:47:42.559
me or anyone close to me.

2904
02:47:42.760 --> 02:47:44.360
Well you knew that Kay and Penny were going to

2905
02:47:44.399 --> 02:47:45.040
have the accident.

2906
02:47:45.079 --> 02:47:49.239
Well don't remind me of that. Yes, I knew about them.

2907
02:47:49.319 --> 02:47:51.600
I didn't see Sheila in it. If she'd been a

2908
02:47:51.680 --> 02:47:56.079
victim too, don't you understand I wouldn't have That's the

2909
02:47:56.280 --> 02:47:57.239
blind spot.

2910
02:47:57.440 --> 02:48:00.760
But you can shut your eyes and see tomorrow's stock reports.

2911
02:48:00.840 --> 02:48:03.319
You can tell me about the hole. No, even if

2912
02:48:03.360 --> 02:48:04.639
I could, I wouldn't Dohn.

2913
02:48:04.760 --> 02:48:05.079
Please.

2914
02:48:05.239 --> 02:48:07.479
I don't want this power. I don't even want to

2915
02:48:07.559 --> 02:48:10.959
believe I have it. It's only destructive. Look what it's

2916
02:48:11.000 --> 02:48:14.319
doing to us. We're calling seriously, for the first time

2917
02:48:14.399 --> 02:48:18.319
in our marriage. You actually hate me right at this moment.

2918
02:48:18.520 --> 02:48:20.959
I think, as long as you've been struck by lightning

2919
02:48:21.000 --> 02:48:23.200
and you might as well use the gift you had.

2920
02:48:23.559 --> 02:48:25.920
All I want to do is to get rid of it,

2921
02:48:26.639 --> 02:48:29.159
or better still, to prove that it was all a delusion,

2922
02:48:29.600 --> 02:48:31.000
a sort of sickness.

2923
02:48:32.040 --> 02:48:33.600
And how do you propose to do that.

2924
02:48:34.920 --> 02:48:38.760
I've made an appointment with a psychiatrist. Let's see what

2925
02:48:38.920 --> 02:48:39.879
he can do for me.

2926
02:48:46.000 --> 02:48:48.319
Come in, missus Harriet, thank you, doctor Phillips.

2927
02:48:49.280 --> 02:48:50.920
Won't you sit down? Please?

2928
02:48:51.479 --> 02:48:53.200
Don't I ever get to lie on the couch.

2929
02:48:54.680 --> 02:48:55.079
Not here.

2930
02:48:55.200 --> 02:48:57.079
I'm afraid that's not your method.

2931
02:48:57.200 --> 02:48:59.600
What it is when I think if patient needs analysis,

2932
02:48:59.680 --> 02:49:05.680
but you don't see I'm I'm afraid there's no way

2933
02:49:05.719 --> 02:49:06.319
I can help you.

2934
02:49:07.280 --> 02:49:12.879
What I think I will sit down.

2935
02:49:13.840 --> 02:49:17.559
Let me explain when you first came to me last week.

2936
02:49:17.600 --> 02:49:19.680
I was confident that I would be able to help you.

2937
02:49:20.959 --> 02:49:24.399
During that visit and your two subsequent visits, I reviewed

2938
02:49:24.520 --> 02:49:27.959
in depth your medical history, your mental state, or a

2939
02:49:28.000 --> 02:49:33.200
psychiatric balance, and I found that you were an eminently healthy,

2940
02:49:33.440 --> 02:49:36.639
well balanced, intelligent young woman with one very.

2941
02:49:36.680 --> 02:49:38.399
Large problem that upsets all that.

2942
02:49:38.799 --> 02:49:42.879
Yes, and the most intriguing one. I must admit that

2943
02:49:43.079 --> 02:49:45.360
in my practice I had never encountered such a.

2944
02:49:45.399 --> 02:49:46.040
Strange and.

2945
02:49:47.719 --> 02:49:52.120
Persistent hallucination. But I found myself at a loss to

2946
02:49:52.280 --> 02:49:53.399
diagnose its cause.

2947
02:49:55.600 --> 02:49:58.680
For seeing this terrible accident in which my friend's little

2948
02:49:58.719 --> 02:50:03.200
girl was killed was just, oh, you know, over protectiveness

2949
02:50:03.280 --> 02:50:06.520
on my part because Sheila is an only child, And

2950
02:50:06.680 --> 02:50:09.760
for telling the stalk reports it could have been a

2951
02:50:10.440 --> 02:50:11.000
lucky gain.

2952
02:50:11.079 --> 02:50:13.159
And the things that you will see happening to everyone

2953
02:50:13.239 --> 02:50:16.159
you come in contact with that you can't shut out

2954
02:50:16.200 --> 02:50:16.760
of your mind.

2955
02:50:17.440 --> 02:50:20.559
I don't really know that they're going to happen. I

2956
02:50:20.639 --> 02:50:23.719
could just be guessing that old woman had such a

2957
02:50:23.799 --> 02:50:28.520
blazing intensity that perhaps he just mesmerized me into believing

2958
02:50:28.600 --> 02:50:33.719
that I have a power I don't have, but I

2959
02:50:33.840 --> 02:50:34.440
don't want.

2960
02:50:34.600 --> 02:50:39.719
Yes, I can understand that, but it isn't something you

2961
02:50:39.840 --> 02:50:41.360
can run away from.

2962
02:50:41.719 --> 02:50:44.120
I don't want to run. I want to face it

2963
02:50:44.680 --> 02:50:48.639
and get cured. Clear this obsession or whatever it is

2964
02:50:48.719 --> 02:50:49.479
out of my mind.

2965
02:50:49.520 --> 02:50:52.479
I'm afraid you can't do that. There must be some way,

2966
02:50:52.799 --> 02:50:58.600
I don't think so. Why not, because because my dear

2967
02:50:58.680 --> 02:51:02.799
you are a true clairvoyant. It isn't a disease or

2968
02:51:02.840 --> 02:51:08.719
a sickness or hallucination. It's a gift, a true gift,

2969
02:51:10.920 --> 02:51:11.559
Missus Harriot.

2970
02:51:11.760 --> 02:51:12.639
You remember on your.

2971
02:51:12.559 --> 02:51:15.879
Last visit I asked if you minded submitting to hypnosis.

2972
02:51:16.159 --> 02:51:16.879
Yes, of course.

2973
02:51:17.159 --> 02:51:18.920
While you were under I asked you a series of

2974
02:51:19.040 --> 02:51:23.159
questions about events that would happen between them and this visit.

2975
02:51:25.559 --> 02:51:28.840
I asked you to visualize a newspaper and read me

2976
02:51:28.920 --> 02:51:32.840
the headlines you saw on the makeup of the front page.

2977
02:51:34.399 --> 02:51:40.120
Here it is today's paper, just as you saw it,

2978
02:51:40.440 --> 02:51:42.879
and read to me word forward.

2979
02:51:44.120 --> 02:51:44.959
Three days ago.

2980
02:51:45.239 --> 02:51:50.280
No, no, oh, please, doctor Phillips. I couldn't stand going

2981
02:51:50.319 --> 02:51:51.040
through the rest of my.

2982
02:51:51.120 --> 02:51:51.680
Life like this.

2983
02:51:52.120 --> 02:51:54.680
I can't live with it. And when I think that

2984
02:51:54.799 --> 02:51:58.840
I I might past this on to my daughter, I

2985
02:51:58.959 --> 02:51:59.680
won't live with it.

2986
02:52:00.159 --> 02:52:03.280
Now, Missus Harriet, Now you are acting like a prospectivation,

2987
02:52:03.600 --> 02:52:04.319
that old.

2988
02:52:04.159 --> 02:52:06.760
Which casts some kind of spell on me. I have

2989
02:52:06.920 --> 02:52:11.760
to exercise her, cast her out. I shouldn't be here,

2990
02:52:12.760 --> 02:52:14.239
I should be talking to my minister.

2991
02:52:15.639 --> 02:52:17.440
Yes, he might be able to help you.

2992
02:52:18.520 --> 02:52:23.319
He'd better be, because if he can't, there's only one

2993
02:52:23.399 --> 02:52:28.520
thing left for me to do. What exorcise her myself.

2994
02:52:29.920 --> 02:52:32.000
If the only way to kill her influence is to

2995
02:52:32.200 --> 02:52:35.280
kill myself, I'll do it.

2996
02:52:45.079 --> 02:52:46.479
Why not end at all? Right now?

2997
02:52:48.000 --> 02:52:49.840
One turn of the wheel and the car goes through

2998
02:52:49.879 --> 02:52:51.799
the guard rail and down the mountain into the river.

2999
02:52:53.079 --> 02:52:55.040
Not for me, for Sheila?

3000
02:52:55.399 --> 02:52:55.760
Why not?

3001
02:52:57.639 --> 02:53:06.680
Because you can't, Senora, Grandma, please help me.

3002
02:53:07.440 --> 02:53:07.840
Free me.

3003
02:53:08.360 --> 02:53:10.120
I can't, Karaiah.

3004
02:53:11.239 --> 02:53:15.600
It is our fate, we who are chosen.

3005
02:53:16.680 --> 02:53:18.040
We must live with.

3006
02:53:18.200 --> 02:53:20.920
It, not my little daughter, not Sheila.

3007
02:53:21.399 --> 02:53:23.000
She cannot escape it.

3008
02:53:24.159 --> 02:53:27.520
You must pass it on your books.

3009
02:53:28.000 --> 02:53:29.280
You have no choice.

3010
02:53:29.879 --> 02:53:32.840
I could take my life. This evil thing would die

3011
02:53:32.920 --> 02:53:33.159
with me.

3012
02:53:33.239 --> 02:53:39.680
If it will not, and you cannot try to turn

3013
02:53:39.879 --> 02:53:41.360
the wheel, I.

3014
02:53:44.239 --> 02:53:44.799
I can't.

3015
02:53:45.120 --> 02:53:51.479
So you must live with it and your daughter and

3016
02:53:51.920 --> 02:53:58.360
hers through the end of time, as it is written

3017
02:53:59.239 --> 02:54:02.840
in the Oh God, what book the book?

3018
02:54:04.079 --> 02:54:04.319
Say?

3019
02:54:05.840 --> 02:54:08.239
The Book of the Devil?

3020
02:54:09.680 --> 02:54:19.760
Oh Lord, please help me. You don't have to walk

3021
02:54:19.799 --> 02:54:22.159
me too. My car it's going to ring.

3022
02:54:22.479 --> 02:54:26.000
Oh, jear me, it has clouded over, hasn't it? Really

3023
02:54:26.159 --> 02:54:29.479
and ugly like you have moved my shilds, and I

3024
02:54:29.600 --> 02:54:31.559
think I will see you to your car. I have

3025
02:54:31.680 --> 02:54:33.920
a few things left to say, but no.

3026
02:54:34.040 --> 02:54:36.280
Way to help me except tell me to pray.

3027
02:54:38.040 --> 02:54:41.040
There are only two who can hit you, my dear God,

3028
02:54:41.399 --> 02:54:44.760
I'm yourself. Come on, come on, let's go before the rain.

3029
02:54:45.360 --> 02:54:48.959
I've tried everything. There's no way I can help myself.

3030
02:54:49.280 --> 02:54:52.000
I can't live with her father, the pain of suffering.

3031
02:54:53.000 --> 02:54:54.079
You can't understand.

3032
02:54:55.079 --> 02:54:59.280
You knew when I was a young priest and I

3033
02:54:59.399 --> 02:55:02.879
first began to hear confessions, I thought too that I

3034
02:55:03.879 --> 02:55:06.440
couldn't live with all the burdens people brought to me,

3035
02:55:06.559 --> 02:55:09.559
bearing the souls of their hearts, till I was filled

3036
02:55:09.639 --> 02:55:14.280
to bursting with their guilts and the remorse and their anguish.

3037
02:55:16.079 --> 02:55:18.280
And for a wrong while I thought I would turn

3038
02:55:18.399 --> 02:55:22.040
my back class and run out into the world where

3039
02:55:22.040 --> 02:55:26.479
I could rid myself of the problems of others. And then,

3040
02:55:26.600 --> 02:55:29.760
you see, I remembered the other side of my mission,

3041
02:55:30.840 --> 02:55:35.440
the help I could bring, the long peace I could

3042
02:55:35.520 --> 02:55:40.360
bring to so many trouble souls, And it balanced out.

3043
02:55:42.319 --> 02:55:46.520
Can you not find an equation like this in your life.

3044
02:55:46.920 --> 02:55:52.000
This power I had, cheever I'm possessed, you were my

3045
02:55:52.159 --> 02:55:56.319
last hope. I still you couldn't offer me any assistance.

3046
02:55:56.639 --> 02:56:03.440
Oh something dramatic that I had. So eh, the Church

3047
02:56:03.520 --> 02:56:07.239
would not permit me, my child, without proof that you

3048
02:56:07.479 --> 02:56:10.040
are invested by your demon that I am.

3049
02:56:10.959 --> 02:56:14.760
This power is evil or a gift.

3050
02:56:15.120 --> 02:56:21.920
From God that only he can take away through prayer.

3051
02:56:22.239 --> 02:56:23.799
I need something stronger than that.

3052
02:56:24.159 --> 02:56:27.159
Now, what could be more powerful than prayer?

3053
02:56:27.840 --> 02:56:29.360
I don't think either of you.

3054
02:56:30.200 --> 02:56:31.399
Would like my prayer.

3055
02:56:31.799 --> 02:56:35.959
You don't have to satisfy me, my dear Holy the Lord.

3056
02:56:36.680 --> 02:56:45.680
Then I would say, please, Lord, free me from this curse. Or,

3057
02:56:45.760 --> 02:56:48.920
if you will not, since I cannot do it myself,

3058
02:56:50.520 --> 02:56:52.200
reach out and strike me.

3059
02:56:58.399 --> 02:57:05.600
Missus hurdtt Oh your poor lost shoe.

3060
02:57:13.799 --> 02:57:16.639
Hi, darling, John all ready to go home?

3061
02:57:16.719 --> 02:57:21.239
They tell me, Yes, darling, hold me just a moment, Oh,

3062
02:57:22.239 --> 02:57:23.319
just a lifetime.

3063
02:57:25.040 --> 02:57:28.799
Oh, my darling, it's a miracle. It's a miracle, all right.

3064
02:57:29.239 --> 02:57:31.280
The lightning didn't hit you directly. It was just a

3065
02:57:31.360 --> 02:57:34.600
sort of ricochet. There's no brain damage at all.

3066
02:57:34.760 --> 02:57:38.719
It did affect my brain in one way, how I

3067
02:57:38.840 --> 02:57:41.319
guess it's like a short circuit.

3068
02:57:41.879 --> 02:57:42.559
It burned out.

3069
02:57:42.600 --> 02:57:47.719
One fuse, what ask me what tomorrow's headlines are, or

3070
02:57:47.799 --> 02:57:50.520
the stock listings or anything in the future.

3071
02:57:51.520 --> 02:57:53.280
All right, I'm asking.

3072
02:57:54.200 --> 02:57:58.840
I don't know. I haven't even the faintest idea. I'm

3073
02:57:58.959 --> 02:58:04.520
back to myself again. That's the best miracle of all.

3074
02:58:11.559 --> 02:58:12.040
There it is.

3075
02:58:13.000 --> 02:58:15.959
Are you willing to accept our story without question? Or

3076
02:58:16.159 --> 02:58:17.399
must you rationalize?

3077
02:58:18.719 --> 02:58:19.479
Okay? Try this.

3078
02:58:20.319 --> 02:58:23.799
If a sensitive woman was mesmerized into truly believing she

3079
02:58:23.879 --> 02:58:27.600
could forecast the future, couldn't she just as easily believe

3080
02:58:28.159 --> 02:58:30.719
in the trauma after being struck by lightning, that a

3081
02:58:30.799 --> 02:58:34.000
gift she never wanted had been taken from her by

3082
02:58:34.120 --> 02:58:35.120
divine intervention.

3083
02:58:36.159 --> 02:58:36.680
It's up to you.

3084
02:58:37.719 --> 02:58:38.680
I'll be back shortly.

3085
02:58:53.120 --> 02:58:54.079
One final word.

3086
02:58:54.920 --> 02:58:57.120
Perhaps you read as I did a few weeks ago,

3087
02:58:57.399 --> 02:58:59.840
of a man, a deafmute, who was struck by like

3088
02:59:00.600 --> 02:59:04.920
and lived not only without damage, but with the miracle

3089
02:59:05.040 --> 02:59:07.879
of being able to speak and hear for the first

3090
02:59:07.920 --> 02:59:12.239
time in his life. Truth is stranger than fiction. All

3091
02:59:12.399 --> 02:59:17.360
things are possible. Our cast included ROBERTA. Maxwell, Russell Horton,

3092
02:59:17.440 --> 02:59:21.079
Carol Titel, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under

3093
02:59:21.120 --> 02:59:25.200
the direction of Hyman Brown, missus E. G. Marshall, inviting

3094
02:59:25.280 --> 02:59:29.319
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure

3095
02:59:29.479 --> 02:59:30.319
in the macabre.

3096
02:59:31.639 --> 02:59:35.879
Until next time, pleasant dreams.

3097
02:59:56.559 --> 03:00:00.479
Well, my dear, I suppose it's about time for you

3098
03:00:00.600 --> 03:00:05.440
to get back to your loved ones, your responsibilities, your life,

3099
03:00:06.120 --> 03:00:09.920
your hope. But I do appreciate you spending a little

3100
03:00:09.920 --> 03:00:12.840
bit of your time, or in this case, quite a

3101
03:00:12.920 --> 03:00:17.719
bit with a little old me. That's what the season's

3102
03:00:17.719 --> 03:00:22.040
all about, you know. Like the Cards says, the holiday

3103
03:00:22.840 --> 03:00:26.879
is family, just like the home is where you keep

3104
03:00:26.959 --> 03:00:30.879
your heart. And while I may not have a heart

3105
03:00:30.959 --> 03:00:34.719
to speak of, I certainly feel like I'm at home

3106
03:00:35.920 --> 03:00:40.479
with you. So remember that whether your holiday is filled

3107
03:00:40.559 --> 03:00:43.719
with cheer and laughter and relatives and loved ones, or

3108
03:00:44.680 --> 03:00:50.280
you're spending it alone, because you're never truly alone when

3109
03:00:50.319 --> 03:00:56.319
you're loved. Now, as we prepare to part ways, please

3110
03:00:56.440 --> 03:01:00.639
take a moment after you've gone through the river, past

3111
03:01:00.760 --> 03:01:04.959
the woods, across the bridge, ducking the one horse, open

3112
03:01:05.120 --> 03:01:09.040
sleighs as you go as you come home, and prepare

3113
03:01:09.159 --> 03:01:12.920
to lay your head on that soft, warm pillow and

3114
03:01:13.040 --> 03:01:17.079
allow sugar plums to dance in your head as your

3115
03:01:17.159 --> 03:01:21.799
eyes get heavy as jolly old Saint Nicholas prepares to

3116
03:01:22.719 --> 03:01:26.479
come and visit you with and bring you exactly what

3117
03:01:26.639 --> 03:01:34.239
you deserve, take one moment as you exhire, and please,

3118
03:01:34.440 --> 03:01:42.239
I implore you, be thankful for what you have. Merry Christmas,